Re: [arch-general] Surviving without X

2009-03-30 Thread Sentinel
saving the polar bears is another aspect :)) Less energy usage, less polution ... Tom Felipe Tanus wrote: Hi, Saving memory may be relative... you can also think that you aren't use 100% of your PC if you have 2GB memory and uses only 300k :) []'s 2009/3/30 ianux

Re: [arch-general] gnome some shortcuts gone ...

2009-03-21 Thread Sentinel
Christian Babeux wrote: Sentinel wrote: Hello, after a recent update (unfortunately I could not update the system for a while because of sickness) gnome-shortcuts do not work anymore. If I go to System->Preferences->Keyboard Shortcuts most of the shortcuts are entirely missing. Li

[arch-general] gnome some shortcuts gone ...

2009-03-19 Thread Sentinel
Hello, after a recent update (unfortunately I could not update the system for a while because of sickness) gnome-shortcuts do not work anymore. If I go to System->Preferences->Keyboard Shortcuts most of the shortcuts are entirely missing. Like the shortcuts for changing desktops(they are not

Re: [arch-general] bug in pacman? or something else?

2008-12-13 Thread Sentinel
Dan McGee wrote: On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Sentinel wrote: Hello, Is this a bug, or pacman can not correctly figure out the version of heimdal? Or maybe I am missing something...? I installed wireshark but with a workaround. I edited the PKGBUILD end deleted the heimdal dependency

[arch-general] bug in pacman? or something else?

2008-12-13 Thread Sentinel
successfully (that is why the output below wants to reinstall wireshark). Bud I don't think this workaround is realy KISS. r...@sentinel:/home/sentinel# pacman -S wireshark warning: wireshark-1.0.4-3 is up to date -- reinstalling resolving dependencies... error: cannot resolve "heimdal&

Re: [arch-general] pm-utils not working

2008-12-04 Thread Sentinel
Sentinel wrote: Jan de Groot wrote: On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 22:31 +0100, Sentinel wrote: Hellou, I tried to look for somebody with a similar problem on the arch forum, but with no success, that is why I'm writing here. After a recent upgrade when a click on the shutdown menu in gnome

Re: [arch-general] pm-utils not working

2008-12-04 Thread Sentinel
Jan de Groot wrote: On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 22:31 +0100, Sentinel wrote: Hellou, I tried to look for somebody with a similar problem on the arch forum, but with no success, that is why I'm writing here. After a recent upgrade when a click on the shutdown menu in gnome the hibernat

[arch-general] pm-utils not working

2008-12-04 Thread Sentinel
2008: Running hooks for hibernate. /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00auto-quirk hibernate hibernate: success. /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00logging hibernate hibernate: Linux sentinel 2.6.27-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Nov 28 10:56:24 UTC 2008 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T5500 @ 1.66GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux M

Re: [arch-general] system upgrade not working

2008-08-15 Thread Sentinel
thnx a lot I removed those packages. I'm not using virtualbox-ose any more, so I removed it with -Rs. Now it works! thnx again! Biru Ionut wrote: Sentinel wrote: Hellou, :: linux-uvc-svn: requires kernel26<2.6.26 :: virtualbox-ose-additions-modules: requires kernel26<2.6.26 li

[arch-general] system upgrade not working

2008-08-15 Thread Sentinel
Hellou, I ran pacman -Syu two days ago on my arch and got a message, that pacman has found a new version of it self. So I upgraded pacman. After issuing the command pacman -Syu again I get the folowing error. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/sentinel# pacman -Syu :: Starting full system upgrade

Re: [arch-general] whither man page for xorg.conf?

2008-03-07 Thread Sentinel
Hi, try unset MANPATH (all upper case). It worked for me. Tom David Rosenstrauch wrote: Michael Schaefer wrote: Anyone know where the man page for xorg.conf is located? For some reason, when I try "man xorg.conf" I get "No manual entry for xorg.conf". /usr/share/man/man5/xorg.conf.5.gz

Re: [arch-general] get pid of daemon in init script

2008-02-08 Thread Sentinel
yes you are right. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/sentinel# /etc/rc.d/proftpd stop :: Stopping ProFTPd Server [DONE] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/sentinel# PID=`pidof -o %PPID -x /usr/sbin/proftpd` [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/sentinel# echo $PID [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [arch-general] get pid of daemon in init script

2008-02-08 Thread Sentinel
Hi! It works perfectly (at least for me), just you have to ensure, that you call it with appropriate rights while testing: my testing: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ su Password: with power comes great responsibility [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/sentinel# PID=`pidof -o %PPID -x /usr/sbin/proftpd` [EMAIL

Re: [arch-general] makepkg running as root

2008-01-22 Thread Sentinel
Hi, 'rm -rf /' works on debian and debian like systems. I tried it in a virtual machine. I used Debian for 4 years before I moved to arch two weeks ago. I find the fakeroot a good security wall. A always use it. Tom Kanocz, Slovakia Colin Pitrat wrote: > You guys DO know that 'rm -rf /' is