Re: [arch-general] Thunderbird 78

2020-11-09 Thread Jens John
> Can this at least be built and placed to "testing"? This would offer at > least some way to easily get pending security updates installed without > manual compiling. Just don't bother with Arch's release cycle and use Mozilla's build, either directly (with auto updates) or through https://au

Re: [arch-general] locked out

2020-11-06 Thread Jens John
Just boot into the faulty environment, try the log in a couple of times (perhaps even on a TTY), reboot into recovery, inspect the journald and/or syslog records of the events, if any. Optionally enable debug logging on libpam. The answers should present themselves.

Re: [arch-general] Any arch-general changes since 9/24 -- I get no messages (but I see my messages in the archive)?

2020-10-14 Thread Jens John
On Wed, 14 Oct 2020, at 00:41, David C. Rankin wrote: > I see other messages in https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/ > as well as the pacman suggestion I sent, but I get nothing on my end. > Suddenlink ISP issue? If your messages are accepted by the mailing list's SMTP server, whi

Re: [arch-general] [off-topic] Korganizer: get ics webcals periodically sync (can be read only)

2020-09-11 Thread Jens John
If this is a limitation, it's a limitation of Akonadi that it doesn't monitor remote single files for changes. A workaround could be to use the local file source, let korganizer monitor it for changes, and sync the local file using wget/curl and a systemd --user timer. This should work flawlessl

Re: [arch-general] arch-general list down?

2020-09-06 Thread Jens John
On Sun, 6 Sep 2020, at 07:54, David C. Rankin wrote: > All, > > I have no posts from arch-general since 8/30. I have tried to post related to > a pacman update issue, but the posts are not getting though?? There are posts from you in the archive on a pacman issue. If you aren't receiving new lis

Re: [arch-general] texlive-core is missing dependencies

2020-05-06 Thread John Shena via arch-general
Also, I'm very sorry for not being clear. I should've said it's the most voted bug for texlive-core. On 2020-05-06 4:58 p.m., John Shena wrote: I did, and I also tried talking about it on the #archlinux-bugs IRC, however I didn't get a response. This is why I'm turn

Re: [arch-general] texlive-core is missing dependencies

2020-05-06 Thread John Shena via arch-general
I did, and I also tried talking about it on the #archlinux-bugs IRC, however I didn't get a response. This is why I'm turning to this mailing-list now. On 2020-05-06 4:30 p.m., Archange wrote: Le 06/05/2020 à 22:19, John Shena via arch-general a écrit : The bug rep

[arch-general] texlive-core is missing dependencies

2020-05-06 Thread John Shena via arch-general
very grateful if the maintainer of this package is willing to fix this simple bug, which have bothered me and others a lot. Thanks, John

Re: [arch-general] Doubts with 'apulse'

2020-04-09 Thread Jens John
On Thu, 9 Apr 2020, at 17:59, Ralf Mardorf via arch-general wrote: > I stopped using firefox with apulse a long time ago, since firefox > support for ALSA and Jack works, it's just a PITA to use firefox for > audio and video. > > As for ALSA support, it often happens, that you need to close all ta

Re: [arch-general] Chromium in a systemd-nspawn container?

2020-02-22 Thread Jens John
On Sat, 22 Feb 2020, at 11:13, Christian Rebischke via arch-general wrote: > > you need to disable a few flags: > > --disable-software-rasterizer, --disable-dev-shm-usage and > --disable-web-security If you have to go so far as to --disable-web-security, then this must be a point where replacin

[arch-general] openVDB

2020-02-14 Thread John Briggs
Just recently rebuilt my system and after rebuild I noticed "doc" directory directly under /usr directory. Further investigation reveals it belongs to the OpenVDB package. Should not this directory be /usr/share/doc/OpenVDB? Regards John

Re: [arch-general] `base` group replaced by mandatory `base`, package - manual intervention required

2019-10-11 Thread John Crist via arch-general
st to proceed in the future. So again, thank you. On Thu, Oct 10, 2019, 8:28 PM Giancarlo Razzolini wrote: > Em outubro 10, 2019 17:06 John Crist via arch-general escreveu: > > I've submitted `base-extras` to the AUR at > > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/base-extras/ that

[arch-general] `base` group replaced by mandatory `base`, package - manual intervention required

2019-10-10 Thread John Crist via arch-general
I've submitted `base-extras` to the AUR at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/base-extras/ that contains the missing packages from `base` if someone REALLY wants it.

Re: [arch-general] `base` group replaced by mandatory `base` package - manual intervention required

2019-10-09 Thread John Crist via arch-general
Sounds good to me - do you have a suggested list of packages for base-extras or at least the list of what was pulled from the old base. Here's a diff of what was in the `base` group vs what is now in the `base` metapackage: $ comm -23 <(pacman -Sgq base | sort) <(expac -S "%D" base | tr -s

Re: [arch-general] Ubunto to Arch complete data migration

2019-08-12 Thread Jens John
On Mon, 12 Aug 2019, at 21:02, Matt Zand via arch-general wrote: > 1- what is the easiest way to do this? rsync -aAXv --progress --human-readable $source $destination > 2- do I need to partition hard-drive of new PC exactly as old one? No. > 3- will root and other user credentials stay the sam

Re: [arch-general] Opening a document with unicode in path

2019-08-03 Thread John Z.
> A good command to use for these situations is locale(1). > Note, the double quotes in the output are significant, as the fine man > page explains. Hi Ralph, thanks for the tip! I wasn't aware of this command previously, and I'm reading through the man right now. -- "That gum you like i

Re: [arch-general] Opening a document with unicode in path

2019-08-02 Thread John Z.
> "I forgot to generate the locales" will cause this issue. Try running > `localedef --list-archive` and checking that en_CA.UTF-8 actually exists. > If not, uncomment it in /etc/locale.gen and run `sudo locale-gen`. Right on the mark, Mr. Celti, I discovered this mere minutes before your mail. P

Re: [arch-general] Opening a document with unicode in path

2019-08-02 Thread John Z.
> The ls command will by default escape the character into its numeric > code if it thinks the character is invalid in your locale. I can get ls > to print the same thing as you (using shell-escaped $'\303\251') *iff* I > first export LC_ALL=C (which is not a UTF-8 locale and therefore cannot > pri

Re: [arch-general] Opening a document with unicode in path

2019-08-02 Thread John Z.
> What happens if you run the following? > > $ echo $'\303\251' > > I get the character printing correctly. Same here, it prints out fine. Terminal is Konsole. I tried touching new file with é, and ls again prints the escape sequence, however - trying to `cat` the file by hitting Tab to get aut

Re: [arch-general] Opening a document with unicode in path

2019-08-02 Thread John Z.
> There might also be a difference between libreoffice-fresh and > libreoffice-still which is quite a bit behind fresh. Hi Gene, also a good idea, I wasn't even aware of the `libreoffice-still` package. I tried replacing `libreoffice-fresh` with it, and I still get the same error,

Re: [arch-general] Opening a document with unicode in path

2019-08-02 Thread John Z.
> Can you determine some steps that exactly reproduce the problem? > Assuming that the problem should manifest when opening the file using > /usr/bin/loffice /path/to/file, I tried creating a test file and opening > it, and it worked: Hi Eli, good idea, I tried following your sequence as well.

Re: [arch-general] Opening a document with unicode in path

2019-08-02 Thread John Z.
item.decode('utf8') > except UnicodeDecodeError: > print(item, "is not valid UTF8") > raise > > On Fri, Aug 2, 2019 at 12:48 PM Eli Schwartz via arch-general < > arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > > > On 8/2/19 8:59 AM, J

Re: [arch-general] Opening a document with unicode in path

2019-08-02 Thread John Z.
> Good jump on the research. I try to do what I can, before asking other people to spend their time on me :-) > I don't have a direct answer, but check the version(s) of LibreOffice, > Dropbox, and possibly some of the other packages you've already > mentioed. Perhaps your issue is something tha

[arch-general] Opening a document with unicode in path

2019-08-02 Thread John Z.
Hi everyone, there's a document on Dropbox, that has unicode character in its path (french character). Trying to open this document with libre office (Plasma is running) fails with 'file not found', and the path shown with error clearly presents the path with that unicode charac

Re: [arch-general] External monitors are no longer detected (Intel graphics)

2019-07-02 Thread Jens John
Regarding kernel versions: I also had noticed instabilities (more errors than usual in dmesg from drm and i915, weird GL/compositing glitches) on my HD4400 Intel with one external monitor and laptop display starting with 5.1.x. I've so far remained on 5.0.3 and have not debugged in depth due to

Re: [arch-general] maria update to 10.4.6 breaks akonadi's db

2019-06-27 Thread Jens John
On Fri, 28 Jun 2019, at 07:41, Oliver Jaksch via arch-general wrote: > Updated three of my KDE clients by terminal (not logged in by display > manager/DM) and ran > > # systemctl restart mariadb.service && mariadb-upgrade -u root -p This doesn't affect akonadi's data since it is located somepla

Re: [arch-general] journalctl - configure date output persistent to short-iso

2019-06-23 Thread Jens John
On Sun, 23 Jun 2019, at 00:22, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote: > Anyone around who knows or did this already? >From casually scimming the journalctl source code, unless I've overlooked >something, it seems like only journalctl handles the presentation of the >data in the specified OutputMode which

Re: [arch-general] pambase update now requires explicit service files in /etc/pam.d/ - dovecot affected

2019-02-12 Thread Jens John
On Tue, 12 Feb 2019, at 12:02, Leonid Isaev via arch-general wrote: > I am sorry to ask this so late in the discussion, but why Arch default of the > "other" module was insecure (and hence why the change)? Is there something > wrong with pam_unix? Not inherently. They implemented a suggestion from

Re: [arch-general] syslinux: out of date - or not?

2018-12-22 Thread Jens John
On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 12:27:25PM +0100, Bjoern Franke wrote: But in MBR-land it seems to be the only alternative to grub? LILO is similarly dead but still exists and tends to work more or less without issues. Still using it on a number of servers with current kernels and hardware (* the Debia

Re: [arch-general] Add MIT Licence to /usr/share/licences/common

2018-11-03 Thread John Ramsden via arch-general
It states MIT/BSD are special cases, just out of curiousity, what makes them special that they cannot be added? -- John Ramsden On Sat, Nov 3, 2018, at 1:22 AM, Bruno Pagani via arch-general wrote: > Hi, > > Le 03/11/2018 à 08:46, Stephen Gregoratto via arch-general a écrit : >

Re: [arch-general] Thoughts

2018-08-15 Thread John Ramsden via arch-general
I wouldn't mind taking a look as well. -- John Ramsden On Wed, Aug 15, 2018, at 2:44 PM, Robin Broda via arch-general wrote: > On 8/15/18 5:18 PM, Yury Grebenkin via arch-general wrote: > > please let me know and I will send you a copy as a plain text file > > Instead of

Re: [arch-general] do i need to match bind and bind-tools versions ?

2018-08-05 Thread Jens John
On Sun, Aug 05, 2018 at 02:23:10PM +0100, niya via arch-general wrote: hi everyone i need to install bind version 9.11 for a samba dc, do i have to match bind-tools to the same version or can i install the latest version of bind-tools version 9.13. shadrock * On Arch bind-tools has no dependen

Re: [arch-general] Kernel source URL change

2018-08-02 Thread Jens John
On Thu, 2 Aug 2018, at 09:11, Joan Aymà via arch-general wrote: > The size problem can be solved using hollow clone. Not in a well-formed PKGBUILD. There's ample discussion on this topic available. Of course you're welcome to hack together whatever you want.

Re: [arch-general] Which MTA to use to store mails?

2018-07-03 Thread Jens John
On Tue, 3 Jul 2018, at 15:52, Peter Nabbefeld wrote: > topic is probably not so precise. What I want is the following: > - I've got some Email/IMAP account. > - My mail is hosted on a server by GMX. > - I've got too many Emails on the host. > - I don't want to loose any of the emails. > - So I will

Re: [arch-general] How to access mythes or other thesaurus from the commandline?

2018-05-19 Thread Jens John
On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 11:39:05PM +0200, Jeanette C. via arch-general wrote: May 18 2018, Ralph Corderoy has written: ... dict -d moby-thesaurus thesaurus You may want to use something like tell () { dict "$@" | colorit | less -R } to get a coloured output, which is much more p

Re: [arch-general] deluge post-install

2018-03-20 Thread John Ramsden via arch-general
As the wiki mentions [1], you may need to install python2-service-identity. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Deluge#No_module_named_service_identity On 03/20/2018 02:55 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: A warning about a missing service_identity module comes up when deluge-console is used and

Re: [arch-general] Re-install of Arch on a larger drive

2018-03-19 Thread Jens John
On Mon, 19 Mar 2018, at 14:46, Carsten Mattner via arch-general wrote: > On 3/19/18, Paul Gideon Dann via arch-general > wrote: > > I've moved or cloned my general-use Arch system between disks more times > > than I can count. This is what LVM is for. If you're not using LVM (or > > BTRFS), I reco

Re: [arch-general] Re-install of Arch on a larger drive

2018-03-17 Thread Jens John
On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 05:25:36PM -0400, Trey Sizemore via arch-general wrote: anything else I could do to make the process fast and as close to the current install as possible? Yes. Do not reinstall but migrate your file system contents 1:1 to the new disk using rsync. The advantage is that

Re: [arch-general] Update to 4.15.8 on dual quad-core box locked on ( 3/16) Install DKMS modules, need help resurecting

2018-03-12 Thread John Ramsden via arch-general
Actually, you can easily create an arch ISO with ZFS embedded into it. It's what I do, and it takes about five minutes to create. https://ramsdenj.com/2016/06/23/arch-linux-on-zfs-part-1-embed-zfs-in-archiso.html -- John Ramsden On Mon, Mar 12, 2018, at 8:33 PM, Eli Schwartz via

Re: [arch-general] Update to 4.15.8 on dual quad-core box locked on ( 3/16) Install DKMS modules, need help resurecting

2018-03-12 Thread John Ramsden via arch-general
've been using it for a few years now with no problems. [1] https://github.com/archzfs/archzfs -- John Ramsden

Re: [arch-general] Cinnamon desktop and keybindings

2017-08-29 Thread John Briggs
key bindings look at its docs for the key bindings you want. I am not familiar with the cinnamon desktop so I can not nelp you with its the key bindings HTH John

Re: [arch-general] Browsers crashing

2016-10-28 Thread John Briggs
> This is your problem. From my experience sites that have illformed javascript do not work well with Intel graphics controllers. Check out the Forums and the Wiki for clues on how to overcome these problems. Regards John

[arch-general] pc speaker keep silence on boot.

2015-07-18 Thread John Doe
Until "kernel: snd_hda_intel :00:1b.0: IRQ timing workaround is activated for card #1. Suggest a bigger bdl_pos_adj." 4.1.2-2-ARCH

[arch-general] rtkit-daemon

2015-05-24 Thread John Doe
On startx command I got a lot of such messages: "rtkit-daemon[2123]: Failed to make ourselves RT: Operation not permitted". What is going wrong?

Re: [arch-general] update error(?)

2015-04-22 Thread john
iki and the man pages and the HOWTOs to gain information but when all else fails ask on the lists. Also don't forget the forums, these can be heavy but there are gems of informationin ther as well. Always remember the only stupid question is the one that remains unasked. Regards John

Re: [arch-general] LXDE on boot

2014-12-17 Thread John Dey
nd install lxde and report any problems I have--Hopefully I'll have none. Thanks for your consideration and comment. John > O.n Dec 17, 2014, at 3:29 AM, Johannes Altmanninger wrote: > > John Dey writes: > >> Hi, >> >> I have installed openbox

[arch-general] LXDE on boot

2014-12-16 Thread John Dey
such as xterm but others libreoffice don't. I don't know where the log files are? Is there anyone that can give me a helping hand. Thanks. John

[arch-general] Please help, after i686 install screen is unreadable blocky white squares.

2014-12-09 Thread John Doe
Please help, after i686 install screen is unreadable blocky white squares.

Re: [arch-general] wsgi_mod

2014-09-16 Thread John Dey
instructions could be modified to indicate this change if using python 3.X. Thanks again. John On Sep 16, 2014, at 1:07 PM, Anatol Pomozov wrote: > Hi > > On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 8:50 AM, John Dey wrote: >> I have installed wsgi_mod and followed the instructio

[arch-general] wsgi_mod

2014-09-16 Thread John Dey
there was an error in a CGI script. If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster. Error 500 jsdey.com Apache/2.4.10 (Unix) mod_wsgi/4.2.8 Python/3.4.1 *** Can anyone give me some guidance re resolving error. Thanks. John

Re: [arch-general] Migrating /var to a different partition

2014-09-04 Thread John Shier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I followed essentially the same process as suggested by Jeff a while back and it worked for me. On 09/04/2014 07:44 AM, Jeff Daniel Rollin-Jones wrote: > I'd say copy everything in /var to /mnt. > > cp -a /var/* /mnt > > or > > cp -dpR /var/* /mnt

Re: [arch-general] yaourt - tmpfs error: No space left on device

2014-07-18 Thread John Briggs
best way to overcome this error is to allocate the space you need in fstab as per the instructions on the fstab page on ArchWiki. John

Re: [arch-general] Trust This Computer?

2014-06-30 Thread John WH Smith
On 01/07/14 00:12, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2014-06-30 at 18:22 -0400, Hunter Jozwiak wrote: >> Hi all. I've got an iPod touch fifth generation, iOS 7.1, and I am >> trying to mount it to my Arch Linux box so I can get all the music off >> it. However, when I connect the cable, I get an alert

Re: [arch-general] Package for "gsmartcontrol" is out of date: upstream moved

2014-06-18 Thread John Lane
I have attached a patch. sorry just noticed the patch was backwards. Here it is again, corrected :)

[arch-general] Package for "gsmartcontrol" is out of date: upstream moved

2014-06-18 Thread John Lane
h the new upstream details and it works fine. I have attached a patch. best wishes, John

Re: [arch-general] doubts about rolling release

2014-03-10 Thread John WH Smith
On 07/03/14 18:09, Ary Kleinerman wrote: Hi, I'm a new Archer and I'm planning to install arch linux in a production server environment, but I have doubts because Arch is a rolling release. My question is: what does it happen when there are big changes? e.g. changes in the filesystem or when Arch

[arch-general] Arch Linux wiki unavailable ?

2014-02-17 Thread John WH Smith
Hello everyone, Sorry to bother you, but is it me, or is Alderaan no longer providing HTTP/HTTPs service ? I cannot access the Arch Linux wiki anymore, and it doesn't seem to be related to my network configuration (http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/wiki.archlinux.org). Have I missed som

Re: [arch-general] Thank you

2014-01-06 Thread John WH Smith
From my UNIX user point of view, there is no distribution closer to the UNIX philosophy than Arch Linux. Lightweight, simple and yet powerful, this distribution serves the UNIX and GNU/Linux purposes better than any other. No frills all around the kernel, no shiny and useless packages upon inst

Re: [arch-general] [BUG]terminus-font

2013-12-03 Thread John Davis
Hello Gaetan, Thank you. That was the fix. John -- John F. Davis 6 Kandes Court Durham, NC 27713 919-888-8358 独树一帜

Re: [arch-general] [BUG]terminus-font

2013-12-03 Thread John Davis
I wonder if this is why I have a problem with ncurses output in xterms.? Ie. gdb -tui or alsamixer. When I use programs in a virtual terminal/console that use ncurses to draw "gui" they have crisp drawn lines. However if I use the same programs in an xterm all the boxes and lines making the ui ar

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Dropping bluez4

2013-11-13 Thread John Davis
Doesn't xen require bluez4? -- John F. Davis 6 Kandes Court Durham, NC 27713 919-888-8358 独树一帜

Re: [arch-general] systemd --test

2013-11-04 Thread John Davis
Hello Folks, I believe you want to run systemctl instead of systemd. The archwiki entry on systemd is very well written. The parameters to systemctl are given with examples. -- John F. Davis 6 Kandes Court Durham, NC 27713 919-888-8358 独树一帜

[arch-general] truecrypt, loop and /etc/modules-load.d/truecrypt.conf

2013-10-14 Thread John Davis
dited to the wiki page regarding truecrypt.conf? It does not seem to work, and it seems that manually loading the module is required. -- John F. Davis 6 Kandes Court Durham, NC 27713 919-888-8358 独树一帜

Re: [arch-general] How to show (kernel) messages by journalctl?

2013-10-12 Thread John Davis
journactl -b or journalctl -xb -- John F. Davis 6 Kandes Court Durham, NC 27713 919-888-8358 独树一帜

Re: [arch-general] ArchLinux-Arwork dropped to Aur, I adopt it and I have an idea

2013-10-12 Thread John Davis
; I really like Archlinux. I have a friend who is a graphics artist. Maybe I can learn to make some new artwork with her help. I would really like to make a replacement for the linux kernel penguin icon on boot. Perhaps a penguin with an archway in the background. -- John F. Davis 6 Kandes Court Durham, NC 27713 919-888-8358 独树一帜

[arch-general] arch wiki xen installation questions

2013-10-08 Thread John Davis
istinfo/systemd-devel -- Documentation: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/catalog/be02cf6855d2428ba40df7e9d022f03d -- -- Unit netctl@xenbridge\x2ddhcp.service has failed. -- -- The result is failed. Any advice is appreciated. -- John F. Davis 6 Kandes Court Durham, NC 27713 919-888-8358 独树一帜

Re: [arch-general] Issue with systemd --user services

2013-09-25 Thread John Davis
Can you show us the unitfile for the service as well. ie. mpd.service I assume. It would be in /lib/systemd/system or /etc/systemd/system sub dirs or one of the ones beneath these two dirs.

[arch-general] Issue with systemd --user services

2013-09-25 Thread John Smith
Hello, I'm having problems with starting 'mpd' as a user service: $ systemctl --user status mpd mpd.service - Music Player Daemon Loaded: loaded (/home/me/.config/systemd/user/mpd.service; enabled) Active: inactive (dead) However it works without any problems when started manually: $ syst

[arch-general] amixer usage

2013-09-22 Thread John Davis
ter Playback Volume' ; type=INTEGER,access=rw---R--,values=1,min=0,max=74,step=0 : values=2 | dBscale-min=-74.00dB,step=1.00dB,mute=0 It appears the parser is ignoring dB and or +/- and only recognizing %. -- John F. Davis 6 Kandes Court Durham, NC 27713 919-888-8358 独树一帜

Re: [arch-general] How to safe configs to another path than ~

2013-07-26 Thread John Briggs
er configuration profile even for e.g. xfce4-terminal for audio > sessions. > > Regards, > Ralf > I am unaware of what applications you are using but most applications have the option to specify different configuration files than the default $HOME directory so it should be a simple matter of using this option to specify your configuration path. Regards John

Re: [arch-general] [aur-general] /bin/false exited with status 1

2013-06-10 Thread John Briggs
t; > > It is my intention to help you. Please bear with us. > FYI I recently installed mpd according to the ArchWiki page. I initially had problems with starting systemd --user similar to what you are describing but after a reboot everything worked OK. John

[arch-general] ntp-signd support for Samba4

2013-04-23 Thread John Lane
Now that Samba 4 is the deault, I think the ntp package needs to be configured with '--enable-ntp-signd' because this is needed for Active Directory clients to be able to synchronize time via the Active Directory component of Samba 4. As far as I know this is necessary but the wiki makes no men

Re: [arch-general] rEFInd 0.6.4 + linux 3.7.2-1 fail to boot

2013-02-27 Thread John Briggs
cd, you could install a second > kernel, like from repo-ck and have it as an altrenative bootoption > (I also have problems with some kernels here, there is allready a > thread on that topic). The only problems I have experienced with rEFInd occurred when the new system files weren't being copied correctly to EFI/arch directory. Once I overcame that problem it has worked fine. John

Re: [arch-general] Arch on SSD!

2012-10-21 Thread John Hutchison
at in mind. This is just from my cursory research - -- John Hutchison Programmieren und Informatik-Abteilung Feiern Sie 20 Jahre Linux! gplus.to/athetius -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJQhLSuAAoJEHBEiaRYYPoW/aQH/3VQOXTFVj5MFcJKterDOgJ4 /t7izpQ

Re: [arch-general] Upgrading an old system

2012-09-23 Thread John Hutchison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 10:21:04PM +0200, Guillermo Leira wrote: > I couldn't help saying it... I'm quite proud of this achievement. ;-) It is fun, you've done well. - -- John Hutchison Programmieren und Informatik-Abteilung F

Re: [arch-general] Need to meet a tech guy

2012-09-13 Thread John K Pate
> > Thank you. > > > > Hey, I'm not really a tech guy and don't speak French, but I use R pretty > much every day. If you want any help you can ask me. Same here :) -- John K Pate http://jkpate.net -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

Re: [arch-general] amd64 systems and archlinux

2012-09-10 Thread John Hutchison
s said before: the first 512 bytes of the _hard drive device_ is the bootloader. (Assuming MBR) Perhaps you could go a little more in depth on your install process, maybe tell us what exactly you are trying to do. -- John Hutchison Programmieren und Informatik-Abteilung Feiern Sie 21 Jahre Linux! gp

Re: [arch-general] Pacman and Systemd's automount

2012-09-05 Thread John K Pate
default being hang forever? I would imagine the reason is to avoid making assumptions about how long it takes every device to come up. See also: halting problem. You could argue that some long default is sensible, but this is not the systemd development list... -- John K Pate http://jkpate.n

Re: [arch-general] [Bulk] Re: systemd pulseaudio

2012-08-29 Thread John K Pate
;t need sudo or su to sign a package with your own key, just import your own (public) key into the pacman keyring as normal and trust it. -- John K Pate http://jkpate.net/ The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

Re: [arch-general] systemd pulseaudio

2012-08-29 Thread John K Pate
> > > > $ lscpi > bash: lscpi: command not found !!! > > I guess something must be wrong in my systemd settings. The "p" comes before the "c": lspci lspci is unrelated to systemd. -- John K Pate http://jkpate.net/ The University of Edinburgh is

Re: [arch-general] Stapler-git not working

2012-08-25 Thread John
oin whenever I want to merge two or more pdf files with a lot of success. Regards John

Re: [arch-general] systemd-readahead

2012-08-22 Thread John K Pate
ystemd-readahead-collect.service # systemctl enable systemd-readahead-replay.service I didn't do anything special, and it works fine: $ ls -l /.readahead -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17377 Aug 22 09:30 /.readahead -- John K Pate http://jkpate.net/ The University of Edinburgh is a charitab

Re: [arch-general] SystemD poll

2012-08-18 Thread John Briggs
software. At this time we as Arch users do not have to make this decision but we will shortly. Please no flame wars Regards John

Re: [arch-general] SystemD poll

2012-08-16 Thread John K Pate
representative random sample. -- John K Pate http://jkpate.net/ The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

Re: [arch-general] Think twice before moving to systemd

2012-08-16 Thread John K Pate
problem, there must be some other underlying cause. A constructive response would work towards finding and addressing the other underlying cause. > No. You clearly don't understand how epistemology works, and I'm not > going to explain it to you. irony of ironies... -- John K Pate h

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Migration to systemd

2012-08-15 Thread John K Pate
not simple. The basic idea behind systemd, as I understand it, *is* simple: specify only what needs to be specified about the boot process and daemon start-up and management. -- John K Pate http://jkpate.net/ The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

Re: [arch-general] Polkit and systemd

2012-08-14 Thread John K Pate
? I start fluxbox that way, and switching to: startx -- vt01 prevents a different virtual terminal from being started, and everything works fine. -- John K Pate http://jkpate.net/ The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

Re: [arch-general] Wayland and Archlinux

2012-08-02 Thread John Hutchison
stuff or include support for both. At least until Wayland is or is almost ubiquitous. -- John Hutchison Programmieren und Informatik-Abteilung Feiern Sie 20 Jahre Linux! gplus.to/athetius

Re: [arch-general] Still Glibc problems

2012-07-22 Thread John Briggs
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 02:11:00PM -0700, David Benfell wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 07/20/12 15:34, John Briggs wrote: > > General Discussion about Arch Linux > > > > > > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 03:41:08PM -0600,

Re: [arch-general] Still Glibc problems

2012-07-21 Thread John Briggs
pacman -Sfu Ignore errors use a live CD/USB and boot Linux. # mkdir /archroot # mount /dev/ /archroot : where is the root partition # cd /archroot /archroot]# rm -r lib /archroot]# ln -s usr/lib ./lib system reboot HTH John PS: I have not read the complete thread so I do not know if someone else has already offered these solutions. JEB

Re: [arch-general] Glibc problems still failing

2012-07-16 Thread John K Pate
om the aur) will move the offending file to /usr/lib/. -- John K Pate http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/s0930006/ The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

Re: [arch-general] Why Multiple Forums for different issues? Arch Linux/ARM?

2012-07-10 Thread John K Pate
> Now, what's the confusion here? People seem to think that you are part > of the main Arch Linux project and are thus confused as to why you have > separate forums. I've only seen one person express confusion on this point... is this really a problem? -

Re: [arch-general] Request of printing warnings at the end of pacman upgrade

2012-07-01 Thread John K Pate
stem, no one will > check the log. Isn't this taken care of by just checking the news before upgrading, which you should do anyway? -- John K Pate http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/s0930006/ The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

Re: [arch-general] locale variables

2012-06-24 Thread John K Pate
//wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacnew_and_Pacsave_Files So you should merge /etc/locale.gen with /etc/locale.gen.pacnew, make sure the relevant locales are uncommented, run locale-gen, and then delete your .pacnew file. -- John K Pate http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/s0930006/ The University of E

Re: [arch-general] Switching betweenX and TTY freezes WM

2012-06-10 Thread John Briggs
Ctl Alt F8 cursor only To return to X Alt F2 system 64bit systemd with kernel 3.3.7-1-ARCH Regards John

Re: [arch-general] Switching betweenX and TTY freezes WM

2012-06-10 Thread John Briggs
his issue. Thanks! > > > > Best regards, > > -- > > Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net > > > What bug? The TTY running X is busy running the xinit/xsession process, until you kill that process you shouldn't be able to get the command line prompt to run another program. The only way to overcome this shortcoming would be to run xinit in the background, which I wouldn't reccomend. Regards John

Re: [arch-general] UEFI secure boot

2012-06-06 Thread John Briggs
ows mailing list so why are we discussing this?? MS Windows needs secure boot because it is subject to so many malware attacks, Arch Linux does not. Arch Linux is a miminalist distribution and each user adds his/her own customizations to their own setup. Do we want to lose this option because M$ is too lazy or does not want to do its job correctly. This is typical M$ BUMF make the user pay and screw them for all they can. Each certificate will have to be privately signed because there is no standard Arch Boot Procedure. BTW I read and understood the discussions referred to in the links to this thread. John

Re: [arch-general] drop slim in favor of lightdm

2012-05-08 Thread John Hutchison
Am 08.05.2012 03:35, schrieb Christian Hesse: > I propose to drop slim from [extra] and replace it with lightdm and lightdm-gtk-greeter. Why not just provide both?

Re: [arch-general] Lock at shutdown with some kernels

2012-04-01 Thread John Hutchison
On Mar 30, 2012 10:14 AM, "XeCycle" wrote: > > > Thanks for the hint, but shouldn't make sense for me. I don't > have this piece of hardware, therefore this module isn't likely > to get loaded. > > The problem is I don't know what's happening when it hangs. > Otherwise I could have debugged it my

Re: [arch-general] a bit more script

2012-03-20 Thread John K Pate
> Thanks to John K Pate but i dont at the moment have time to sit and > digest heaps of variables i just need to solve this one problem . > You want to be able to change "img_0004.jpg" to "img_0004_s.jpg", right? You can use the built-in string replace function

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