Re: [arch-general] Can I downgrade the nvidia driver w/o downgrading the kernel?

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 9:41 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: >        Before trying anything I would regret, I thought I would ask. Is it > possible? If so, how? Is "-d" OK here? Worst case, I just end up in runlevel > 3 reinstalling the current driver again, right? I would suggest the following: 1.

Re: [arch-general] Can I downgrade the nvidia driver w/o downgrading the kernel?

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:10 PM, wrote: > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 09:55:21PM -0300, Denis A. Alto? Falqueto wrote: >> 5. rebuild your copy to make your own package >> 6. uninstall the official nvidia package >> 7. install yours >> 8. cross your fingers... just kidding :) >> > I would suggest unin

Re: [arch-general] Audio cd ripper

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Lars Tennstedt wrote: > Thanks for your comments. > > I tried RubyRipper and it fits my needs. But my girl friend needs something > that is easier to configure. I mean she is not so good in lame's command > line options. I use asunder, from community. It is very ea

Re: [arch-general] conclusion: Another rant on arch way abuse and false promises

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Arvid Picciani wrote: > "gnomies"  "mouse users" > etc is all the same level of offensiveness. > I lack ideas here. No, I think you just are furious because you can have things working without losing 5 days of your life. Maybe you are just old and until they make a

[arch-general] [OT] What is wrong with DBus anyway?

Hi, fellow archers. I've created a new email with a new subject, so that who wants to ignore this completely, can do it easily. The recent past discussions about DBus got me thinking about an unanswered question: what is technically wrong with DBus? After some time researching about that, I can't

Re: [arch-general] [OT] What is wrong with DBus anyway?

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Felipe Tanus wrote: >       Aaron didn't give any tech reason in his answear, and i don't > think someone will do, except the one you already said at your first > e-mail(no network). People who don't like DBus find it just > unecessary. I like DBus because I belive

Re: [arch-general] [OT] What is wrong with DBus anyway?

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Arvid Picciani wrote: [...] Well, let's see: 1. DBus has an user space daemon I _think_ that this eases the transition of messages between the applications and the user space bus. This also happens with Jack Audio Connection Kit. Indeed, clients can't connect to

Re: [arch-general] [OT] What is wrong with DBus anyway?

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 4:53 PM, André Ramaciotti da Silva wrote: > I believe these aren't the 'other IPC mechanisms' they were talking about. > What about FIFOs and sockets? In fact, DBus is implemented over Unix sockets. FIFOs and sockets don't define the format that will be used over them, they

Re: [arch-general] [OT] What is wrong with DBus anyway?

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 5:11 PM, André Ramaciotti da Silva wrote: > I didn't know that. Thanks for clarification. :) Actually, I'm mistaken about DBus using unix sockets. In fact, I'm not sure if it's true. I'm searching about it right now. -- A: Because it obfuscates the reading. Q: Why is top

Re: [arch-general] [OT] What is wrong with DBus anyway?

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote: > Actually, I'm mistaken about DBus using unix sockets. In fact, I'm not > sure if it's true. I'm searching about it right now. Indeed, I was right [1]. The default transport channel are Unix domain sockets,

Re: [arch-general] [OT] What is wrong with DBus anyway?

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Arvid Picciani wrote: > Aaron Griffin wrote: > "Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly." – > Henry Spencer "And those who do understand it are doomed to implement it right, that's why there is Plan 9." - Me. :) (For those who don't kn

Re: [arch-general] peaceful suggestion to clarify "the arch way" to avoid this to happen AGAIN

2009/12/3 Ng Oon-Ee : > Arch is what you make it. I think you nailed it. I always thought the Arch Way as a principle, not a rule. We're not a religion, neither a nation. The few rules we have are for the well of the community, so that it can go forward without losing time with nitpicking. The Ar

Re: [arch-general] peaceful suggestion to clarify "the arch way" to avoid this to happen AGAIN

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 9:28 PM, wrote: > I'd suggest to tell those who want a bloated system with > lots of useless dependencies to move to Ubuntu or Fedora > so everybody can stop wasting his/her time. I wouldn't go that far. That kind of attitude is what derails the conversation. Again, simpli

Re: [arch-general] [OT] What is wrong with DBus anyway?

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 7:55 PM, wrote: > - It uses glib types instead of the plain C ones. >  So it smells GNOME from the start. Why should >  an app that has nothing to do with GNOME be >  forced to use its headers ? DBus as a protocol is language independent. It defines the format the types mu

Re: [arch-general] [OT] What is wrong with DBus anyway?

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:07 PM, wrote: >> (about XML) With time, you end up grasping it >> as you do with normal text. > > That's no reason to accept it. With time you would > adjust to being tortured each day at 6PM as well. :) > I don't agree. There's lots of blind belief, ignorance, >

Re: [arch-general] 2.6.29 config

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Caleb Cushing wrote: > where can I get find the configs for older kernels? specifically 2.6.29? http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/packages/kernel26/repos/core-i686/ If you click in View Log you can see all changes of the file. That is for the 32 bits repository. Ma

Re: [arch-general] [OT] What is wrong with DBus anyway?

2009/12/4 Arvid Picciani : > http://blogs.igalia.com/itoral/2006/03/30/adding-dbus-support-to-gedit/ > > priceless finding. > > let me sum up: > " > - There is feature X which works very well > - He discovered it doesn't use dbus. > - He starts work on a very complicated patch that makes it use dbu

Re: [arch-general] [OT] What is wrong with DBus anyway?

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 12:49 AM, Arvid Picciani wrote: > Correct me if i'm wrong, but i read that as: > > " > - THe argument is valid > - but irrelevant because the positive side is some feature no one needs. > " You're clearly putting words in my mouth. I didn't said your argument was valid, rat

Re: [arch-general] 2.6.29 config

2009/12/4 Ng Oon-Ee : > The config for a 64-bit kernel does have a few very important > differences right at the top, as I recall. Been a while since I looked > at the config files though. Ops, thanks for the correction! -- A: Because it obfuscates the reading. Q: Why is top posting so bad? ---

Re: [arch-general] [OT] What is wrong with DBus anyway?

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 2:40 AM, Brendan Long wrote: > >> Let me illustrate the problem here by construction an argument with a >> similar flaw: >> >> "The mouse is inflexible and should be deprecated, as a stylus has the >> advantage of being cordless. All modern pointing devices should be >> cord

[arch-general] Fwd: [arch-dev-public] Packaging Chromium for [extra]

>For some unknown reason the current package crashes with flash sometimes. Any >ideas? Or maybe it's just me? It's happening with me too... :( Youtube crashes in the pages that contains videos. But another page (a brazilian news site with flash videos too) works fine. -- A: Because it obfuscates

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Packaging Chromium for [extra]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > OK, just uploaded -2 to testing; let me know, if it does work or not. Now it is working with youtube. A local site with flash videos continues to work. -- A: Because it obfuscates the reading. Q: Why is top posting so bad? --

Re: [arch-general] kernel26 in [current] cries for love when new kernel version hits [testing]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Emmanuel Benisty wrote: > yes, that would solve the problem. but that's not the way the kernel > update process is designed in Arch. also there are still some blockers > ATM (lirc for example) And that is why the .32 kernel is not in [core] yet. As I understand it

Re: [arch-general] An old, tiresome discussion: cdrtools vs cdrkit

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Ray Kohler wrote: > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Kitty wrote: >> FWIW, I'm in favor of #3, and practically, the other bigger distros >> that have switched back to cdrtools are fatter targets for any legal >> action. Furthermore, who exactly would be doing the

Re: [arch-general] An old, tiresome discussion: cdrtools vs cdrkit

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Damjan Georgievski wrote: > There was a very simple suggestion some message ago, why not > dual-license the CDDL parts of cdrtools and be done with any and all > the FUD (from any side), all the anomisity, and trolling. Or the other way around: put mkisofs under C

Re: [arch-general] Vertical Quicklaunch on the Desktop in KDE4 - It's a Winner

On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 7:39 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > Man, your desktop theme is _slick_... What is its name? About the quickstart, I've used it some time, but now i use a taskbar called Fancy Task. It works as a quick launch and task manager. Very usefull. -- A: Because it obfuscates

Re: [arch-general] A suggestion for the devs regarding rebuilds

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > I actually do suggest not to use versioned dependencies...  that way when > someone did a "pacman -Sy breakingpkg", it would not pull in the new library > version and on the new package would be "broken" because of a missing > library.  Version

Re: [arch-general] A suggestion for the devs regarding rebuilds

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote: > Just one crazy idea that crossed my mind... > > It would be very nice if we could mark some files in a package so that > when updating the package, they would not be removed and, instead, > would be added to th

Re: [arch-general] A suggestion for the devs regarding rebuilds

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 11:20 PM, wrote: > But then: pacman knows that A is installed and > depends on libfoo.so.1. But still it removes > that library. Why ? I'd just say it fails to > do its job, part of which is being aware of > dependencies. In fact, pacman doesn't know that application A nee

Re: [arch-general] pacman too slow on reboot

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > Hi, > > Recently I'm facing a funny problem. pacman (and even packer) is t slow > to search -Ss (db+aur) or -Qs (db). I see a lot of HDD activity going on. > But when I run pacman-optimize, it gets fixed. > > This happens at every

Re: [arch-general] security

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Gordon Campbell wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for all your advice. So far I am enjoying my experience with Arch > Linux since I changed my Distro over from Fedora about a month ago. Just one more opinion, it can't hurt :) I myself don't need a firewall beyond my route

Re: [arch-general] manage starting and stopping processes with less typing

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Flavio Costa wrote: > What about that: for i in $(ls -1 /etc/rc.d); do alias rc-$i="/etc/rc,d/$i"; > done > That's simple and dynamic, just insert it on your .bashrc ou > /etc/bash.bashrc (global) That has a problem. It is evaluated when you log in (or when you so

Re: [arch-general] Package signing

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Allan McRae wrote: > On 28/04/10 23:32, Aleksis Jauntēvs wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> The idea is to implement package signing for Arch similar to rpm GPG >> package >> signing. > > Good to see someone interested in this.  I suggest you join the pacman-dev > list whe

Re: [arch-general] Package signing

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:18:02 -0300, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto > wrote: >> Hi, Allan and Aleksis. >> >> I was thinking about this problem for sometime and the more complex >> part is the key distribution and

Re: [arch-general] Package signing

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Florian Pritz wrote: > On 28.04.2010 19:18, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote: >> I'm thinking about a two way signing process. The dev signs the >> package and send it to the server. The server would have a script or a >> cron job to verify

Re: [arch-general] Package signing

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Linas wrote: > I wrote about this topic ~1 month ago. > You don't need PKCis or distribute the keyrings themselves. GPG supports > transitive trust. > The pacman keyring would be installed by default trusting on whatever keys > a pacman root signature has signed (t

Re: [arch-general] Package signing

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > Has anyone had a good look at the other implementations of package signing > (Debian, Fedora, ...) and made a summary of how they handle it? (Long email ahead, sorry...) Good idea, indeed. This is what I've found about Debian: http://www.de

Re: [arch-general] Time for an arch-security mailing list?

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Ananda Samaddar wrote: > Does anyone agree with this?  If so how do I go about requesting the > creation of such a list?  The list would be for discussion > around security in Arch, implementations and user/dev input etc.  It > seems like package signing has moved

Re: [arch-general] Package signing for the umpteenth time (was Re: unrealircd 3.2.8.1-2 contains backdoor)

mplemented and working :) > > You can also read the last thread : > http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2010-April/012897.html > And contact Denis A. Altoé Falqueto about pacman-key and all the rest, > and maybe Aleksis Jauntēvs too > > Basically there is no one leading and coordina

Re: [arch-general] Package signing for the umpteenth time (was Re: unrealircd 3.2.8.1-2 contains backdoor)

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jun 2010, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote: >> >> And keep in mind that package signing per se will not solve this kind >> of problems. Repository database signing is more important for that >> so

Re: [arch-general] Package signing for the umpteenth time (was Re: unrealircd 3.2.8.1-2 contains backdoor)

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Guillaume ALAUX wrote: >> I think that we should avoid signing files remotely. > Is there any precise reason? If it is because "that remote place could be > compromised" well any dev computer could be compromized too ! The main reason is that we would need to kee

Re: [arch-general] Package signing for the umpteenth time (was Re: unrealircd 3.2.8.1-2 contains backdoor)

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote: > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Guillaume ALAUX wrote: >>> I think that we should avoid signing files remotely. >> Is there any precise reason? If it is because "that remote place could be >> compr

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] dropping flashplugin x86_64

2010/6/15 Ng Oon-Ee : > On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 17:51 -0500, Muhammed Uluyol wrote: >> > HTML5 only works on Chrome/IE I think. Firefox devs decided they would >> > go with the Vorbis rather than x264 codecs, while youtube decided the >> > other way round. >> Youtube uses webm now, not h.264. >> >> F

Re: [arch-general] Finally found a solution to slow USB on HAL

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Pálffy András Gergely wrote: > Works here too. Great, thanks. > > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > >>  I have made a patch for /usr/share/hal/fdi/20-storage-methods.fdi to force >> async file transfer for vfat filesystems by commenting

Re: [arch-general] Finally found a solution to slow USB on HAL

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > Actually I was recently wondering a bit about the unmounting part, > especially with USB sticks. I do have udev rules, taken from the wiki, > in place that handle automatic mounting. There's also a unmounting part, > which afair removes

Re: [arch-general] Pacman makepkg and signatures

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Steve Holmes wrote: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 03:00:50PM +0200, fredbezies wrote: >> In /etc/pacman.conf, uncomment : >> >> SigLevel = Optional TrustAll > > Yeah, I saw that and understand that is appropriate for local > packages.  But now that I uncomment it, wha

Re: [arch-general] Pacman makepkg and signatures

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Leonid Isaev wrote: > OK, remarks here: > 1. Web of trust is something relevant when people actually know each other > either directly or indirectly (e.g. through mutual friends). When developers > are concerned, for any distro, this concept looses its meaning, bec

Re: [arch-general] Top Posting Revisited

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 12:17 AM, gt wrote: > Hello folks, i'll probably get flamed for reviving a very controversial, > yet consistently brought up topic. I think it is very pertinent. I'll start a similar post in archlinux-br. > I suggest all of the top-posting haters should including one of t

Re: [arch-general] Unable to upgrade community/rekonq (PGP signature issue)

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Keshav P R wrote: > Hi all, >         I am unable to upgrade community/rekonq from 0.8.0-1 to 0.8.1-1 > due to > > error: rekonq: key "22AD5874F39D989F" is unknown > error: key "22AD5874F39D989F" could not be looked up remotely > error: failed to commit transactio

Re: [arch-general] Pacman-key keyring and my own GPG key

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 04:38:31PM -0600, Leonid Isaev wrote: > >> Pacman keyring is for package verification. It is located in GPGDir >> = /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/ and contains packagers' public keys. Your sec. key is >> for your user ONLY. If

Re: [arch-general] Help needed to find a system/graphics related bug in my Music Notation Editor. (Little time and effort for you)

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Nils wrote: > You will see 5 lines and a symbol. The symbol must be perfectly alingned > within the five lines (one pixel above can be tolerated). It should look like > this: http://www.wargsang.de/pyqt-bug-report.jpg > Do you see that symbol shifted up or down o

Re: [arch-general] Help needed to find a system/graphics related bug in my Music Notation Editor. (Little time and effort for you)

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Nils wrote: >> You will see 5 lines and a symbol. The symbol must be perfectly alingned >> within the five lines (one pixel above can be tolerated). It should look >

Re: [arch-general] Solved! Re: Help needed to find a system/graphics related bug in my Music Notation Editor. (Little time and effort for you)

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Nils wrote: > With much help from the Archlinux Mailing List (they all have Python3) I > think I have found the problem and its solution. > Fontscaling in the graphic area for different dpi than 96x96 is now > forbidden. The fonts remain the same pixel size. > Y

Re: [arch-general] Upgrade of bluez breaks A2DP?

On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 10:04 PM, C Anthony Risinger wrote: > On Jan 22, 2012 4:53 PM, "Karol Babioch" wrote: >> >> However I wanted to make sure whether anyone has experienced something >> similar after the upgrades? I couldn't find any bug reports so far about >> this, so is there anything I co

Re: [arch-general] Upgrade of bluez breaks A2DP?

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Karol Babioch wrote: > As it has concerned both of you as well, maybe we should file a bug? > Because I'm not sure whether this is intentional or not, but the idea > that we have to change some configuration in order to get basic A2DP > working sucks. I agree, of

Re: [arch-general] pacman 4 logic error - what part of 'no' doesn't it understand?

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:07 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, > >  I have found a logic error in pacman (I think). I don't like replacing both > the kernel and kernel-lts in the same 'pacman -Syu' call. So I answered 'no' > when prompted to 'Replace kernel26-lts with core/linux-lts? [Y/n] n'. H

Re: [arch-general] Upgrade of bluez breaks A2DP?

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Karol Babioch wrote: > Hi, > > things got sorted out ;). As said they changed the way the bluetooth > subsystem talks to PulseAudio (using D-Bus instead of sockets). However > they forgotten to change some of the code. There is a fix, which can be > found under [1

Re: [arch-general] Upgrade of bluez breaks A2DP?

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote: >> Thanks for your replies, which reinforced my conception of this being a >> bug in the first place ;). And now just to confirm the fix works beautifully. Thanks again. -- A: Because it obfuscates the reading. Q

Re: [arch-general] iPad - FLOSS on the iPad - data transfer between an Arch PC and an iPad

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Rogutės Sparnuotos wrote: > Or am I the only one wondering why list is turning into a forum? Pretty much... I thought the words "General Discussion" in the list subject allowed for that kind of behavior :) -- A: Because it obfuscates the reading. Q: Why is top p

Re: [arch-general] PKGBUILD help

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Tim Stella wrote: > Seems to me like you'd like an aur tool like 'yaourt' -- then it'd be as > simple > as 'yaourt -S joe'. Their homepage has installation instructions you can copy > and paste as well. I should say that a AUR tool is only useful for those who un

Re: [arch-general] PKGBUILD help

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Peter G Nikolic wrote: >> Or run makepkg -i (or makepkg -si which will install dependencies too). >> >> I am pretty sure the wiki explains PKGBUILDs pretty good, take a look :) > > Did but could not find much   never mind   solved now thanks > now just to olve the

Re: [arch-general] Weird Konqueror quirk

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 2:49 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > Been seeing a weird quirk with KDE's konqueror recently.  Was wondering if > this is something unique to my personal configuration, or if it's an > upstream bug that needs to be filed.  Can some KDE user confirm? > > 1) Launch konqueror i

Re: [arch-general] Weird Konqueror quirk

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 4:35 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > Hmmm ... interesting.  So maybe it is something specific to my config after > all. > > Are you using the latest version of konqueror?  (4.8.1) Not quite... I'm still using 4.8.0. But I'm at my job right now. I'll test when I get home, in

Re: [arch-general] Weird Konqueror quirk

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 5:02 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > On 03/09/2012 02:51 PM, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote: >> >> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 4:35 PM, David Rosenstrauch >>  wrote: >>> >>> Hmmm ... interesting.  So maybe it is something specific to my co

Re: [arch-general] How to download .sigs into CacheDir with pacman

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Dennis 'Gyroplast' Herbrich wrote: > Greetings everyone! > > I am constructing a local, common repository of packages aggregated from > core, extra and community, named 'default' for discussion's sake. This > local repository shall be a "frozen" state of a (virtual

Re: [arch-general] FS#29803 - Kernel 3.3.4-2 panic

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Fabiano Furtado Pessoa Coelho wrote: > Nope... :( > > I only did "pacman -S linux" > > Is "pacman -S linux" = "mkinitcpio -p linux"? It's not equal, but mkinitcpio should definetively be called automatcaly. This is very weird. -- A: Because it obfuscates the rea

Re: [arch-general] wallpaper for 1920x1080 screens.

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 12:12 AM, Boris Le Ninivin wrote: > Hi everyone. > > I've made this wallpaper > http://borisln.deviantart.com/art/Archlinux-Wallpaper-1-300929958 since I > didn't find any red wallpaper which pleased me, big enough for my screen in > the official package, nor on Google image

Re: [arch-general] can not login after upgrade

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Arno Gaboury wrote: > After some reading across the forum, I see I am not the only one with this > issue. my /usr and /boot are both on a separate partition from /. It seems > this cause the issue. > As far as I can understand, the solution seems to add the Hook ba

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Szu-Han Chen wrote: > I'm not sure if these responses are really helping OP. He asked about > running Arch on a web server, not a thread of web hosting company ads. I'm not sure you really read the whole thread, but the OP explicitly asked for input on host provi

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Arno Gaboury wrote: >>> I'm not sure if these responses are really helping OP. He asked about >>> running Arch on a web server, not a thread of web hosting company ads. >> >> I'm not sure you really read the whole thread, but the OP explicitly >> asked for input o

Re: [arch-general] util-linux pacman error, file conflicts (safe to force?)

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 1:01 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > On 07/09/2012 10:52 AM, Mateusz Loskot wrote: >> >> Check the ArchLinux ARM forum: >> >> http://archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3036&p=18467 >> >> where filesystem upgrade is suggested: >> >> pacman -Syuf >> >> But, I'd wait until som

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] News item: /lib removal - Was: heads up: /lib removal

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 3:06 AM, Allan McRae wrote: > On 12/07/12 10:55, Allan McRae wrote: > For comments: > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:usrlib I took the liberty to edit that page to change the command to confirm if the update worked, from > ls -l / to > ls -ld /lib T

Re: [arch-general] My end-user $0.02 on /etc/rc.conf splitting.

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Christoph Vigano wrote: > Am 7/24/2012 4:51 PM, schrieb Mantas Mikulėnas: > >> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Heiko Baums >> wrote: >>> >>> Yes, I don't like those Windoze like ini files of systemd, too. >> >> >> I honestly don't know if this is serious. What i

Re: [arch-general] [Bulk] Re: My end-user $0.02 on /etc/rc.conf splitting.

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > And what has all that to do with /etc/rc.conf splitting? And some people wonder why Arch devs don't read arch-general... -- A: Because it obfuscates the reading. Q: Why is top posting so bad? For more information, please read: http://idalle

Re: [arch-general] [Bulk] Re: My end-user $0.02 on /etc/rc.conf splitting.

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 14:13 -0300, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Ralf Mardorf >> wrote: >> > And what has all that to do with /etc/rc.conf splitting? >> >> And some pe

Re: [arch-general] Cups 1.6 printer discovery

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 4:23 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > Now that cups 1.6 is in core - I have been struggling to get my laptop > to "see" a shared printer attached by usb to another machine on the > same network - previously if port 631 was open on all machines in the > network then cups seemed to

Re: [arch-general] Problemas con HP1020

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Mario Daniel Carugno wrote: > So, how can i prevent the loading of this module when i turn on the printer ? Put !usblp in the MODULES array of /etc/rc.conf. -- A: Because it obfuscates the reading. Q: Why is top posting so bad?

Re: [arch-general] kde 4.5.1 ati/intel workarounds

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Ray Rashif wrote: > On 1 September 2010 04:48, Caleb Cushing wrote: >> Does anyone know if the workarounds are still needed or if that was a >> fixed bug? I read the changelog but was unable to discern whether or >> not these were on the list of fixed kwin bugs. >

Re: [arch-general] kde 4.5.1 ati/intel workarounds

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Martín Cigorraga wrote: > Try this Denis: > > [...@paradise ~]$ cat /usr/share/autostart/plasma-desktop.desktop > [Desktop Entry] > Exec=plasma-desktop --graphicssystem raster > > Also you can add --graphicssystem raster to all KDE apps to boost > performance, spe

Re: [arch-general] kde 4.5.1 ati/intel workarounds

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Martín Cigorraga > wrote: >> Try this Denis: >> >> [...@paradise ~]$ cat /usr/share/autostart/plasma-desktop.desktop >> [Desktop Entry] >> Exec=plasma-deskto

Re: [arch-general] Adobe Releases New 64-bit Flash Plugin For Linux

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Rafael Beraldo wrote: > You may have seen this, however it is interesting to spread the word: > http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/09/16/0340226/Adobe-Releases-New-64-bit-Flash-Plugin-For-Linux > >

Re: [arch-general] script idea - update single arch box -> updates all on local net

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 5:36 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, > >        I've played with an idea to save time with updates and duplicate (old > version) > removal from /var/cache/pacman/pkg for all arch boxes on a local network. I > thought I would pass along the idea and the scripts as they ex

Re: [arch-general] how to perform selected gnome installation with pacman?

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 4:23 AM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> Best option RIGHT NOW is to pacman -Sg gnome and then manually pacman - >> -Suy pkgfoo pkgbar pkgyetanother of the ones you want from the list. >> > > Boy, what's an opportunity to exercise my typing. I'm working in tty > now.  :-( Accor

Re: [arch-general] how to perform selected gnome installation with pacman?

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Allan McRae wrote: >> According to my understanding of pacman's manpage, the option --ignore >> should be enough to filter out what you don't want. For example >> >> # pacman -S gnome --ignore abc,def,hgi,. >> >> I believe I've used it like that for a similar s

[arch-general] Overreactions. Was Re: When will Arch switch to Upstart

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 5:07 AM, Madhur Ahuja wrote: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Madhur Ahuja wrote: >> Ubuntu and Fedora has already embraced it. >> >> Any ideas when will Arch switch to upstart based booting system ? >> >> http://upstart.ubuntu.com/ >> >> Thanks, >> Madhur >> > > Ok, Som

Re: [arch-general] When will Arch switch to Systemd

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Yaro Kasear wrote: > If it isn't broken, don't fix it. We put grub2 in [extra], not [core], for the > same reason we really should put systemd in [extra] and not [core]. Don't get me wrong, but no one is putting anything anywhere. This is not a voting. The decisio

[arch-general] libusb-compat owns /usr/lb/libusb.so symlink

Hi guys. Is that the intended purpose? I was having a problem with the mouse module from KDE system settings and discovered that I didn't have libusb-compat. When I listed its contents just to check, I saw that it is the owner of /usr/lib/libusb.so and it is pointing to /usr/lib/libusb.so.0.1.so.4

Re: [arch-general] libusb-compat owns /usr/lb/libusb.so symlink

On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 4:32 PM, jesse jaara wrote: > Most of the apps will link to the lib specified in pkgconfig file of the > pkg. As the compat pkg contains only the library and no development files > the pkgconfig file of the libusb pkg will be used and it will tell to link > to the .so.some-

Re: [arch-general] "The Canterbury Distribution"

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 11:06 PM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Leandro Costa wrote: >> it's just www.gentoo.org left !! > > They're still compiling Sir, you own me a new keyboard, for my old is now covered with spit!!! LOL -- A: Because it obfuscates the reading. Q:

Re: [arch-general] "The Canterbury Distribution"

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto > wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 11:06 PM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: >>> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Leandro Costa >>> wrote: >>>> it's ju

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts-2011.04.1-2

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Heiko Baums wrote: >> [...] if localtime isn't >> supported anymore. > > Sorry to be repeating myself: we are not considering dropping support > for localtime. Yeah, you are right. At first sight (or maybe

Re: [arch-general] Java 7 is now in [community-testing] and needs testing.

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Thomas Dziedzic wrote: > Hi, > > Java 7 is getting released on July 28th so I thought it would be a good time > to let users test it out. > I have just pushed jre/jdk 7 build 147 into [community-testing] so that > users can have a month in advance to report bugs, a

Re: [arch-general] Java 7 is now in [community-testing] and needs testing.

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Thomas Dziedzic wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 2:45 AM, KESHAV P.R. wrote: > >> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 07:47, Thomas Dziedzic wrote: >> Sorry if this has been mentioned before, but is this about the binary >> jre/jdk releases or the open source openjdk. I cur

Re: [arch-general] Java 7 is now in [community-testing] and needs testing.

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Thomas Dziedzic wrote: >> But the reference implementation from Oracle will be based on OpenJDK >> >> http://blogs.oracle.com/henrik/entry/moving_to_openjdk_as_the >> >> -- >> A: Because it obfuscates the reading. >> Q: Why is top posting so bad? >> >>

Re: [arch-general] Kernel.org compromised. Are Arch users safe?

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Paulo Guedes wrote: > Then there isn't any need to worry and everything is safe, right? As long as the keys used to sign the tar balls arent't compromised, we shouldn't worry. They weren't, according to kernel.org admins. I don't know if Arch kernel maintainers ch

Re: [arch-general] In reply to [arch-dev-public] [signoff] pacman 4.0.0-2

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Karol Blazewicz wrote: > On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Pierre Schmitz wrote: >> I see my text was probably hard to read, but it was not about some >> packages not being updated for pacman 4.0 yet but a possible bug (or >> two) in pacman itself. >> >> -- >> Pie

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Baho Utot wrote: > On 08/09/2012 03:13 PM, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia wrote: >> >> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 08:58:41AM -0400, Baho Utot wrote: >>> >>> Yes looks like I will need to migrate to BSD >> >> I've already begun using FreeBSD. Only real complaint I ha

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Calvin Morrison wrote: > On 14 August 2012 09:52, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto > wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Baho Utot >> wrote: >>> On 08/09/2012 03:13 PM, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia wrote: >

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 10:55 -0400, Baho Utot wrote: >> On 08/14/2012 10:32 AM, Brandon Watkins wrote: >> > On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Jelle van der Waa wrote: >> > >> >> On 08/09/12 22:00, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia wrote: >> >>> I

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia wrote: > I know that nobody in arch has declared the switch is inevitable > but the way it looks, with upstream being eager enough to do so, > it seems incredibly likely unless we train everyone to use DJB's > daemontools instead. :P

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