Re: [arch-general] Fail to run startx

2012-11-27 Thread LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT
> -Original Message- > From: arch-general [mailto:arch-general-boun...@archlinux.org] On Behalf > Of Lu, Boying > Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 9:27 PM > To: arch-general@archlinux.org > Subject: [arch-general] Fail to run startx > > After installing the base system, I tried to configur

Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] December: time for a new install medium

2012-12-03 Thread LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT
Hi Robbie, > > I know it's not really necessary, but I always like to have the most > up-to-date > Arch live on my toolbox USB stick. Is there a recommended way to update an > existing USB install medium (without overwriting other files?), or should I > just > follow the steps at [1], and update

[arch-general] rootfs remains in ro at boot on fresh install with new December ISO

2012-12-03 Thread LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT
Hi, I hope it is not caused by the shortcut that I have taken to update my usb install key from november iso to december iso as described in the other thread. The first symptom that I have observed is that dhcpcd isn't able to update /etc/resolv.conf I am going to provide as much relevant info

Re: [arch-general] rootfs remains in ro at boot on fresh install with new December ISO

2012-12-04 Thread LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT
Dave, Tom, Thank you very much for your explanations. With your help, I have become a little bit less clueless about systemd and Arch initramfs system. by typing systemctl status /, the reported status was ok/mounted with some green on the output. Nothing special to report about that. I wish th

Re: [arch-general] rootfs remains in ro at boot on fresh install with new December ISO

2012-12-05 Thread LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT
Tom, As requested, here is my fstab file. As you'll see, there is nothing fancy in it. /dev/sda1 isn't mounted as it is just my 2MB grub partition. > > Since I didn't want a tmpfs mounted in /tmp, I did follow directives from > the Beginners guide: > > > > systemctl mask tmp.mount > > > > The re

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia Driver woes on Macbook 3,2

2012-12-20 Thread LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT
> > Daniel Bryan: > > > Here's what I've tried in EFI mode: > > > > - standard nouveau setup - X sort of starts up but there are weird > > artifacts, mouse doesn't work, and it freezes up pretty quickly. > > I had the same problem and found the following solution: > > - Install xf86-video-fbdev >

Re: [arch-general] UEFI experience - recommendations needed.

2013-01-07 Thread LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT
> -Original Message- > From: arch-general [mailto:arch-general-boun...@archlinux.org] On Behalf > Of Mike Cloaked > Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2013 3:24 PM > To: General Discussion about Arch Linux > Subject: [arch-general] UEFI experience - recommendations needed. > I would be interest

Re: [arch-general] Udisks2: auto-mounts as read-only device/with wrong permissions

2013-01-08 Thread LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT
> [ 85.036758] FAT-fs (sdc1): error, fat_get_cluster: invalid cluster > chain (i_pos 0) > [ 85.036765] FAT-fs (sdc1): Filesystem has been set read-only > \end{code} > The last 2 lines are not present when mounting the device via console (s. > above). The interesting thing is that they are also

Re: [arch-general] Udisks2: auto-mounts as read-only device/with wrong permissions

2013-01-08 Thread LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT
> [ 85.036758] FAT-fs (sdc1): error, fat_get_cluster: invalid cluster > chain (i_pos 0) > [ 85.036765] FAT-fs (sdc1): Filesystem has been set read-only > \end{code} > The last 2 lines are not present when mounting the device via console (s. > above). The interesting thing is that they are also

Re: [arch-general] Help with making a bootable usbkey from arch for ssd drive firmware update

2013-01-16 Thread LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT
> I did try using unetbootin to make a freedos usbkey using freedos from the > standard list in the available options within unetbootin but the key I > prepared > would not boot! I don't know if it is critical to put the partition table > into the > key in a particular way - but I tried using gp

Re: [arch-general] Request help with wired network config after initial install and reboot

2013-01-21 Thread LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT
> > It seems that the ifconfig command is not available once rebooted into the > install and I don't know how to proceed. > > Can anyone give my any advice on how to get the network up on the newly > installed system? > Because it hard to get rid of a good old habit: lano1106@hpmini ~ $ pkgfile if

Re: [arch-general] HDMI Alsa sound problem from flashplayer 64 bit

2013-02-07 Thread LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT
> > I was unsure what was meant by trying to set up without KDE in the > > way? I > presumed that I could only run the chrome browser within a D.E. in order to > test the problem of flashplayer running a video with sound output? It was > not clear to me how to do that unless I had a different D.E.

Re: [arch-general] libxml2 out of date

2013-05-07 Thread LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT
> > > > I believe the next question is "Hussam, Jan is there anything we can > > do to make libxml2 upgrade happen?" > > Let me put this statement other way: I have some time that I would like to > contribute it back to Linux Arch. Trying to resolve libxml2 upgrade issues > seems a useful task. Cou

Re: [arch-general] libxml2 out of date

2013-05-07 Thread LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT
> > Anatol, > > Here is a source package building libxml2 2.9.1. It took less than 5 minutes > to > modify the official repo PKGBUILD and build the new version. > > I haven't tested all software depending on libxml2 but I have installed it > myself and so far so good everything works perfectly for

[arch-general] gcc: loop do not terminate

2013-05-13 Thread LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT
I have just been hit by something: lano1106@hpmini ~/dev/gcc-test $ g++ --version g++ (GCC) 4.8.0 20130502 (prerelease) Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR

Re: [arch-general] gcc: loop do not terminate

2013-05-13 Thread LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT
> > The only time the switch makes a difference is when the program is already > incorrect. I really doubt Arch is going to enable a flag slowing down all > programs to make invalid programs behave > *differently* (not necessary as they were intended to behave, just > *differently*). > > GCC is cor

Re: [arch-general] gcc: loop do not terminate

2013-05-14 Thread LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT
> void testing(void) > { > #define NR_STRUCT_A (4) > struct B* ptr = malloc(sizeof(struct B) + NR_STRUCT_A*sizeof(struct > A)); > > ptr->numelem = NR_STRUCT_A; > ptr->item= (struct A*)(ptr+1); > > ptr->item[0].a = 0; > ptr->item[1].a = 1; > ptr->item[2].a

Re: [arch-general] Broken sound with Linux 3.9.2 on Acer laptop

2013-05-17 Thread LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT
Hello BlissSam, > After upgrading to 3.9.2 kernel, the sound did not work. > However, the system CAN recognize my sound card, and my sound card > appeared in `alsamixer` Downgrading the kernel can solve the problem. > > > Providing more info: > > Acer Aspire laptop, with Intel i5 CPU, 2nd generati

Re: [arch-general] Apache PID File not readable

2013-07-29 Thread LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT
> On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Stefan Tatschner > wrote: > > I always get this message after restarting apache via systemctl: PID > > file /run/httpd/httpd.pid not readable (yet?) after start. > > What does cat /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/apache.conf return? > > > =-Jameson Wow, this thread has just

[arch-general] glibc 2.18-5 question

2013-09-26 Thread LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT
Hi, I just checked what was the motivation for this 5th release and I have found: http://hmarco.org/bugs/CVE-2013-4788.html where it says: The vulnerability is caused due to the non initialization to a random value (it is always zero) of the "pointer guard" by the glibc only when generating st

Re: [arch-general] Way too much kworkers

2013-10-01 Thread LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT
> -Original Message- > From: arch-general [mailto:arch-general-boun...@archlinux.org] On Behalf > Of Karol Blazewicz > > On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Dimitris Zervas wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've googled a bit and saw that other people have this problem too, > > but without solution.

[arch-general] problem booting and using the installation media

2014-03-14 Thread LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT
Hi, I am trying to boot the installation media on a small embedded system already running linux. Everything boots fine until udev starts loading modules. Approximately when the install media reach the bash prompt, the display gets garbled. I suspect that this is when the graphic mode switch fro

Re: [arch-general] How to disable systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer

2014-05-08 Thread LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT
> -Original Message- > From: arch-general [mailto:arch-general-boun...@archlinux.org] On Behalf > Of Lukas Jirkovsky > Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2014 3:54 AM > > Please don't start another systemd flamewar. And BTW, automatic /tmp > cleaning was there since the beginning. I agree to not star