Re: [arch-general] getting fed up with gnome's fast-user-switching experience

2010-06-01 Thread Vincent Van Houtte
On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 19:42 -0400, Matthew Monaco wrote: > On pretty much every computer I interact with that uses Gnome (Arch, et al.) > there is always one problem or another trying to log out, switch users, or > resume from suspend. The symptom is usually a blank screen (with or without > the

Re: [arch-general] [SOLVED] Network problem (router/gateway)

2010-05-31 Thread Vincent Van Houtte
On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 11:32 +0200, Vincent Van Houtte wrote: > On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 14:03 +0530, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > > IP Forwarding is probably disabled. > > > > # sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 > > Thank you. Unfortunately that is not it: > > # sysc

Re: [arch-general] Network problem (router/gateway)

2010-05-31 Thread Vincent Van Houtte
On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 14:03 +0530, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > IP Forwarding is probably disabled. > > # sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 Thank you. Unfortunately that is not it: # sysctl net.ipv4.ip_forward net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1 (this only applies to the server config of course - the clients

Re: [arch-general] Network problem (router/gateway)

2010-05-31 Thread Vincent Van Houtte
> Just to see if I've understood you correctly: > > - The box you upgraded is a NAT gateway/proxy for a set of internal boxes, >correct? Yes. > - Does the upgraded box have full access to both internet and the internal >network? Yes. > - Can the internal boxes communicate with the

Re: [arch-general] Network problem (router/gateway)

2010-05-31 Thread Vincent Van Houtte
Hi, Thank you for your quick reply! > 1) > > $ ping -c 5 google.com > $ ping -c 5 8.8.8.8 > see if you get a response Yep: works flawlessly. 0% packetloss and the timings are normal (~14ms) > 2) now try and initiate a connection manually > > $ telnet google.com 80 Works. after several minute

[arch-general] Network problem (router/gateway)

2010-05-31 Thread Vincent Van Houtte
Hi group, Sorry to bother you (normally I don't intervene in this group and restrict myself to the forums), but I'm in a pickle at the moment: I have a server set up to be everything for my soho: dovecot, nfs, calendar, ldap, krb5 and also bind9 / iptables. Since I upgraded to a new server last

Re: [arch-general] dual ISP: 1)cable broadband (DHCP) 2){shudder} dial-up (ppp?) Please help!

2010-04-28 Thread Vincent Van Houtte
> Do I need to worry about wvdial and/or other dial-up ppp connection messing > with the broadband Ethernet setup? > That should not be a problem. > Could someone point me at the URLs of the other 'dialup' related documents > that are supposed to be in the Arch Linux Wiki (since searching for >

Re: [arch-general] Getting X running on new install

2010-03-31 Thread Vincent Van Houtte
2010/3/30 Alain Muls > > Then I used lshw and the card is loisted as > G96 [GeForce 9600 GT] > both under Ubuntu and Arch Linux. > > I uninstalled the nvidia and installed > pacman -S nvidia-96xx > nvidia-config > > and again no luck. > nvidia-96xx is an older driver for older chipsets. You shou

Re: [arch-general] New Using AUR

2010-03-24 Thread Vincent Van Houtte
> >>> 2. Once a package is installed from the AUR, when I do a system > >>> upgrade via Pacman, will outdated packages I installed via AUR get > >>> automatically upgraded or do I have to do all my AUR packages > >>> manually? > >> > > You can always install yaourt and upgrade packages with yaourt

Re: [arch-general] udev and/or device-mapper problem

2010-02-11 Thread Vincent Van Houtte
On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 12:50 +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 11.02.2010 11:56, schrieb Karolina Lindqvist: > >> Your custom kernel is misconfigured, the most likely candidate being: > >> > >> $ zgrep CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED /proc/config.gz > >> # CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 is not set > >> > >> If

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux Law Office? (Was: Re: go-openoffice not opening templates - anybody else?)

2010-01-07 Thread Vincent Van Houtte
2010/1/7 David C. Rankin > Believe it or not, our Federal Government has done a good job with a Linux > backend for a good part of the CM/ECF electronic filing system for the > Federal District Court system. Wow - that's impressive from the viewpoint of a Belgian lawyer. We still live in the mi

Re: [arch-general] Tiny webserver to run as root

2010-01-05 Thread Vincent Van Houtte
2010/1/5 Sebastian Köhler > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 04:04:01PM +0100, RedShift wrote: > > Does anyone have a suggestion for some software, a tiny webserver that is > able to run as root and execute CGI scripts? It should be smaller than > apache

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux Law Office? (Was: Re: go-openoffice not opening templates - anybody else?)

2010-01-05 Thread Vincent Van Houtte
2009/12/13 Logan Rathbone > David, are you running (Arch) Linux in your law office? If so, could > you describe your experiences? What do you use for time and > billing > I'm also running an entire law office on linux. We chose Debian Linux, because the person who is responsible for our serve

Re: [arch-general] Last couple of updates Knocked my Wireless -- OUT (atheros/madwifi/ath_pci)

2009-09-22 Thread Vincent Van Houtte
2009/9/22 David C. Rankin >The network came right up on the next boot, but all isn't good. The > network > performance is about 1/20th of what it normally is. I had the same experience with the ath9k-driver since kernel 2.6.29 (ath9k-driver in kernel .28 worked perfectly and in .29 ndis

Re: [arch-general] libreadline.so issues

2009-07-14 Thread Vincent Van Houtte
2009/7/14 bardo > Firefox "a simple webbrowser"? You're joking, I hope... I was pointing at the discussion some years ago between MS and the EC that Internet Explorer could not be removed from the operating system :) I also didn't want to come here just to whine my system has to be fixed becau

Re: [arch-general] libreadline.so issues

2009-07-14 Thread Vincent Van Houtte
2009/7/14 Allan McRae > bardo wrote: > >> 2009/7/14 Vincent Van Houtte : >> >> >>> I had the same problem after installing firefox without updating the >>> whole >>> system. Only core, extra, community in use - no testing... >>>

Re: [arch-general] libreadline.so issues

2009-07-14 Thread Vincent Van Houtte
Hi, 2009/7/13 David Rosenstrauch > I.e., sounds like you've got some compatibility issues with packages in > testing. I had the same problem after installing firefox without updating the whole system. Only core, extra, community in use - no testing... This looks like a bug to me. It might not

Re: [arch-general] Arch artwork & compiz screenshot

2009-05-12 Thread Vincent Van Houtte
Op Wed, 13 May 2009 00:49:50 -0500 schreef "David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E." : > Listmates: > > Needing to spruce up the cube caps on cube rotation in compiz > (the old opensuse artwork just wouldn't do), I started messing around > with some of the archlinux-artwork. I found one that I like and

Re: [arch-general] First Problem with pacman - Need to understand why

2009-04-23 Thread Vincent Van Houtte
Op Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:45:10 -0500 schreef "David C. Rankin" : > no /usr/share/fonts/TTF directory. I had a /usr/share/fonts/truetype > directory so I just softlinked the missing TTF to truetype to get rid > to the error on startx. startx liked the solution. Softlinking is just patching the syste

Re: [arch-general] Problems with netcfg

2009-02-26 Thread Vincent Van Houtte
Op Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:47:55 -0500 schreef Cristopher Thomas : > I'm using the ath9k wireless driver, installed using the > compat-wireless package. I have posted my problems with this driver already on the Archlinux-forum. The only way for me to have a reliable connection is with the ndiswrapper

Re: [arch-general] libxxx.so.yy not found

2009-02-22 Thread Vincent Van Houtte
Op Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:24:49 +0300 schreef Alexey Ramodin : > Once i've upgraded some pkgs I have some errors that a program cannot > start because a lib is not found. For example I need libkrb5.so.22 > but: $ ls /usr/lib/libkrb5.so > > lrwxrwxrwx 2 root root 17 2009-01-08 02:40 /usr/lib/libk

Re: [arch-general] mpd 0.14 requires curl, glib && glib seems to be outdated

2009-02-16 Thread Vincent Van Houtte
Op Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:24:23 +0200 schreef Grigorios Bouzakis : > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 02:16:53PM -0500, Eric Bélanger wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 5:51 AM, Vincent Van Houtte > > wrote: > > > Op Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:35:24 +0100 > > > schreef Jan

Re: [arch-general] mpd 0.14 requires curl, glib && glib seems to be outdated

2009-02-16 Thread Vincent Van Houtte
Op Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:16:53 -0500 schreef Eric Bélanger : > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 5:51 AM, Vincent Van Houtte > wrote: > > Op Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:35:24 +0100 > > schreef Jan de Groot : > > > >> Try glib2 ;) > > > > Hmmm... nice one - and this for

Re: [arch-general] mpd 0.14 requires curl, glib && glib seems to be outdated

2009-02-16 Thread Vincent Van Houtte
Op Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:35:24 +0100 schreef Jan de Groot : > Try glib2 ;) Hmmm... nice one - and this for my first post to this ML... :) Anyhoo: mpd requires curl and glib2, so the list of dependencies should be updated. Vincent

[arch-general] mpd 0.14 requires curl, glib && glib seems to be outdated

2009-02-16 Thread Vincent Van Houtte
Dear ML, mpd has been flagged out-of-date, so I'm encouraged to post my problem here instead of on the bugtracker. Installing mpd on a bare system does not resolve all dependencies, since I had to install: - curl (libcurl-*.so missing) - glib (libgthread-*.2.0.0.so missing) Next problem: glib in