Re: [arch-general] wi-fi interface had disappear after system

2015-10-01 Thread Simon Hanna
> > > I have use broadcom-wl-dkms driver from AUR. > > > > Did you rebuild the driver for the new kernel? If you're using DKMS, > check > Sure. > > > `systemctl status dkms` to see whether there's build failures or not. > > 4.1.5-1-ARCH. Output will be useles in this case. wi-fi interface is up. >

[arch-general] race condition when upgrading the new ncurses package

2015-09-19 Thread Simon Hanna
> > A pacman -Syu will do the same as a pacman -Syuw when it can't download > all packages ;). However, a user perhaps wants to update a few packages > that are important for development or regarding security issues and > might try to update other packages some days later, then Syu(w) isn't > an op

Re: [arch-general] Since last systemd update dhcpcd no longer updates resolv.conf

2015-08-03 Thread Simon Hanna
On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 4:25 PM, Manuel Reimer wrote: > Hello, > > since the last systemd update I have to "systemctl restart dhcpcd@..." > every time I boot my system. > > What do I have to do to get sure that dhcpcd updates /etc/resolv.conf on > the first time? > I don't know why systemd would

Re: [arch-general] journald configuration

2015-07-22 Thread Simon Hanna
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 4:06 PM, wrote: > This is my first system that uses systemd-journald for logging > Rsyslog and syslog-ng have facility and priority to control what gets > logged and how verbose > How is this done with journald > > Richard > Hi there, I assume this makes you new to archli

Re: [arch-general] pidgin facebook connection

2015-07-11 Thread Simon Hanna
On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Javier Vasquez wrote: > I just found out facebook no longer supports xmpp interface, and it's > using its own api [1]. > > However I found a plugin for pidgin on github [2]. It seems to be > working fine for me. > > If anyone interested, the following PKGBUILD is

Re: [arch-general] VTK package is outdated

2015-06-13 Thread Simon Hanna
On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 1:25 PM, Nicola Bizzoca wrote: > Hi, > The VTK package present in the community repository is not updated to the > last version 6.2.0 http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/858 > > Unfortunately I'm new to Arch and I don't know how to contact the package > maintainer > It i

Re: [arch-general] Open-sourced: OpenCL-based multiphysics simulation software package

2015-06-08 Thread Simon Hanna
If possible, please create an Archlinux package for ASL and send me an > URL where we could make our contributions to the packaging efforts. > > If you want an archlinux "package" why not just write a PKGBUILD and submit it to aur? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR#AUR_4 if a TU would like

Re: [arch-general] :D

2015-06-03 Thread Simon Hanna
just some "cool" stuff he just found. Some people could consider it to be spam... On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 1:04 PM, Carsten Mattner wrote: > Do I have to understand this? > > On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 4:28 AM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > > This adds Pacman to the progression thingy > > ([###

Re: [arch-general] "error: unknown encoding UTF8: using iso88591 as fallback"

2015-05-30 Thread Simon Hanna
try it with a new user. If it doesn't work there, it's a global thing. If it does, clean your home

Re: [arch-general] RAID-0 kernel bug

2015-05-23 Thread Simon Hanna
it says to run fsck On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 11:16 AM, David C. Rankin < drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote: > On 05/23/2015 02:55 AM, Florian Pritz wrote: > >> On 23.05.2015 03:12, Francis Gerund wrote: >> >>> Am I correct to assume that this would ONLY affect systems that include a >>> RA

Re: [arch-general] PyChess Audio

2015-05-08 Thread Simon Hanna
AFAIK gstreamer0.10-python is for gstreamer0.10 and not for gst, try installing the same plugins but for gstreamer0.10 And you might want to look at the output of running pychess in a shell On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 12:47 PM, Grady Martin wrote: > On 2015年05月08日 09時34分, Ben Oliver wrote: > > I can

Re: [arch-general] Add wpa_supplicant to the Group 'Base'

2015-04-25 Thread Simon Hanna
> > I strongly disagree. wpa_supplicant is pretty huge and unnecessary for > many people I for one have a couple of installations without wireless connections at all..

Re: [arch-general] pacman's "Depends On"

2015-04-23 Thread Simon Hanna
It's working fine for me... % pacman -Qs libvp local/libvpx 1.4.0-2 VP8 and VP9 codec % pacman -Qs firefox local/firefox 37.0.2-1 Standalone web browser from mozilla.org % pacman -Qs ffmpeg local/ffmpeg 1:2.6.2-1 Complete and free Internet live audio and video broadcasting solution ar

[arch-general] filesystem update

2015-02-24 Thread Simon Hanna
Hi, the latest filesystem package now owns /home my /home used to be a symlink to some other location, so the upgrade failed. I "fixed" it for now by just linking my home folder into /home (since I'm running a single user setup it's fine) However I'm curious whether the directory should be left a

Re: [arch-general] Fwd: Kernel panic - after upgrade

2015-01-30 Thread Simon Hanna
>> Your pacman log and journalctl might give some clues. > I guess he meant more or less complete logs. Give a journalctl log of a > boot where you had the issue together with a pacman log including your > latest updates (maybe since the problem began/ reappeared together with > exact dates) > >>

Re: [arch-general] Fwd: Kernel panic - after upgrade

2015-01-30 Thread Simon Hanna
> > > >> Your pacman log and journalctl might give some clues. > I guess he meant more or less complete logs. Give a journalctl log of a boot where you had the issue together with a pacman log including your latest updates (maybe since the problem began/ reappeared together with exact dates) > > I

Re: [arch-general] Dell latitude and keyboard problem

2014-09-09 Thread Simon Hanna
On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Sławek Kapłoński wrote: > So I'm almost sure that problem is somewhere in linux keyboard driver and > how it works with keyboard in this laptop model but I have no idea how to > fix this problem or how to get any details about it :/ > It's not the cleanest approa

Re: [arch-general] misleading pacman errors when upgrade fails

2014-06-08 Thread Simon Hanna
> > > Is any of this worth reporting as bugs or enhancements? > There actually is a bug report https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/33076 but it's quite old...

Re: [arch-general] Kernel updated to 3.14.5-1. Now my Lenovo IdeaPad hangs on boot...

2014-06-03 Thread Simon Hanna
On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Manuel Reimer wrote: > Does someone here successfully boot 3.14.5 via efistub? Bug in kernel? Or > maybe bug in kernel configuration? works for me, thinkpad x230, syslinux as boot manager

Re: [arch-general] display manager dvorak recognition failure

2014-03-29 Thread Simon Hanna
Am Samstag, 29. März 2014 schrieb message : > On 2014-03-17 22:59, arch-general-requ...@archlinux.org wrote: > >> -- >> >> Message: 2 >> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 18:39:58 + >> From: message >> Subject: [arch-general] display manager dvorak recognition failure >> >> R

Re: [arch-general] graphical display management

2014-03-24 Thread Simon Hanna
2014-03-25 0:15 GMT+01:00 Guus Snijders : > 2014-03-24 22:08 GMT+01:00 message : > > On 2014-03-23 18:13, arch-general-requ...@archlinux.org wrote: > >> > >> -- > >> > >> Message: 5 > >> Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 19:06:12 -0400 > >> From: Mark Lee > >> > >> Subject: Re: [

Re: [arch-general] installation using existing filesystem

2014-03-16 Thread Simon Hanna
2014-03-16 23:30 GMT+01:00 message : > On 2014-03-16 21:58, arch-general-requ...@archlinux.org wrote: > >> -- >> >> Message: 6 >> Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 22:58:03 +0100 >> From: Karol Blazewicz >> Subject: Re: [arch-general] installation using existing filesystem >> >>

Re: [arch-general] New Installation

2014-02-16 Thread Simon Hanna
On 02/16/14 13:42, Toyam Cox wrote: > >> Note to the powers that be: This was not mentioned in the official wiki >> when I was formatting. At least not that I saw. >> > You should say what wiki page you used, it's definitely mentioned in the beginners guide: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beg

Re: [arch-general] Is there a burning tool able to replace K3b?

2014-01-21 Thread Simon Hanna
you can check the list of applications in the wiki [1] No, you are not the only one who doesn't like GNOME, KDE, XFCE, ... have you tried i3? about replacement software: try using command line tools, just search the link below for all sorts of applications... cheers, simon [1]: https://wiki.archl

Re: [arch-general] Mirrors out of date

2014-01-15 Thread Simon Hanna
Hi, I don't think hashes are a good way to do that. The Repositories are quite large I'm not sure what value is the right one from this [1] statistics page. Either way, after every update the mirror would effectively block for the time the hash is computed, since everything has to be read. Anyway

Re: [arch-general] Ruby gem packages in Arch

2014-01-13 Thread Simon Hanna
Since ruby allready comes with a package manager (mentioned earlier), I never downloaded anything from the aur, but used rubygems instead. My question is, if we really need to have all these packages in the aur. Isn't it easier to manage everything with rubygems?? 2014/1/13 Alfredo Palhares > I

Re: [arch-general] Error install blink-darcs

2014-01-10 Thread Simon Hanna
The package you are trying to install is marked as outdated since November 15th 2013. darcs which is used to install your package is itself marked as outdated outdated. it looks like the program is written in python 2.6 (at least that's what the changelog on their website says, the changelog in the