[arch-general] Logind Timing out?

2014-01-11 Thread Steve Holmes
After updating my 64 bigt Arch system to latest stable releases, I began to have problems with logind services timing out and allowing me to have only one console available to work with. it seems that when I have ntpdate running and use netctl to auto start my wireless profile, these problems

Re: [arch-general] Emacs is Broken!

2012-04-13 Thread Steve Holmes
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 09:12:12PM +1000, Mike Sampson wrote: I switched to emacs-nox from community which works fine. I may even keep using it as it obviously has significantly less dependencies than emacs compiled with X support. Well, it seems that it is fixed now. I see we have

Re: [arch-general] Emacs is Broken!

2012-04-11 Thread Steve Holmes
at all. Just amazes me that the GNU devs would close the emacs-23 branch and then release 23.4 some time later without the patch. On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 09:48:35PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: Steve, if you're using speakup, is your cursor parked? On Mon, 9 Apr 2012, Steve Holmes wrote

Re: [arch-general] Emacs is Broken!

2012-04-09 Thread Steve Holmes
No answere here. All I see is quoted text from my original message. Try again? On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 01:20:11AM -0400, Jeremy Allard wrote: Le 9 avril 2012 00:10, Steve Holmes steve.holme...@gmail.com a écrit : I don't know what happened lately, but I notice that emacs totally locks up

[arch-general] Emacs is Broken!

2012-04-08 Thread Steve Holmes
I don't know what happened lately, but I notice that emacs totally locks up on me now. It was working find yesterday before I did a major pacman -Syu this morning. Even if I move my .emacs out of the way and start up emacs, I get the welcome screen but then no cursor key movement. The only

Re: [arch-general] Is there a clean solution to get completely rid of Pulseaudio?

2011-12-28 Thread Steve Holmes
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 11:18:33AM +, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: Seriously? It's comments like this that make me wonder if subscribing to this list is really worth it. At least you did go on to provide some useful information, albeit in a if I MUST stoop down to your level kind of tone.

[arch-general] Evolution Missing from Testing

2011-11-14 Thread Steve Holmes
When I do a 'pacman -Syu', I'm getting an error that evolution-3.2.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz cannot be found though the testing list file shows that file. It sounds to me that the repo is not in sync or something.

Re: [arch-general] Quiet Updates Lately

2011-10-25 Thread Steve Holmes
in the current mirrorlist. assuming you mean ibiblieo, that last synced 10 days ago Could it be that your mirrorlist [1] is outdated? Perhaps check for /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.pacnew [1] http://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/any/pacman-mirrorlist/ 2011/10/24 Steve Holmes steve.holme...@gmail.com

Re: [arch-general] Pacman makepkg and signatures

2011-10-25 Thread Steve Holmes
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, what if I want to tighten up the sig tests in the future. How does

Re: [arch-general] Pacman makepkg and signatures

2011-10-25 Thread Steve Holmes
On 10/25/11, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto denisfalqu...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't understand what you mean by correct the errors and signature verification stuff doesn't work. Would you mind to elaborate on that? I meant that when I did the first updates this morning, I got an eror on every

Re: [arch-general] Pacman makepkg and signatures

2011-10-25 Thread Steve Holmes
On 10/25/11, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto denisfalqu...@gmail.com wrote: The trust problem is complex, indeed, but we can at least mitigate it doing the following (it's what I do): 1. set TrustedOnly, instead of TrustAll 2. import the keys when pacman asks 3. # pacman-key --edit-key email or id

[arch-general] Quiet Updates Lately

2011-10-24 Thread Steve Holmes
I've been doing 'pacman -Syu' for several days in a row lately to see no updates. Is bibleo.org still a good repo in the US? Is aArch all that quiet lately or am I missing something?

Re: [arch-general] Something Broken with Perl!

2011-07-06 Thread Steve Holmes
On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 08:33:32PM +0200, Florian Pritz wrote: Well, perl guys tend to loose the dots so 5.14.1 would be 5.014001. You can test that using `perl -v` or `perl -e 'print $^V'` and `perl -e 'print $]'`. $] and $^V contain the perl version you're running in different formats. I

Re: [arch-general] Something Broken with Perl!

2011-07-03 Thread Steve Holmes
Well, I've been messing with cpanplus and the distarch part of it. I have some questions now. Where does cpanp get the information to generate a properly configured PKGBUILD for a module? Right now, I cannot use cpanp to build Params::Util because it keeps sticking a bad dependency in the

Re: [arch-general] Something Broken with Perl!

2011-07-02 Thread Steve Holmes
On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 03:20:31PM +0200, Florian Pritz wrote: `cpanp i Moose` works fine here. It doesn't for me. I'll describe below. IMHO you should install perl-cpanpplus-dist-arch (run setupdistarch as your user afterwards) and use cpanp to generate and install pacman perl packages.

Re: [arch-general] Something Broken with Perl!

2011-07-01 Thread Steve Holmes
On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 09:40:22AM +0530, gt wrote: Did you try rebuilding perl-scalar-list-utils? I did again just now and re-installed. automake still works but I still can't compile perl-moose but I get another lookup error so I rebuilt the package that owns the library causing the error but

Re: [arch-general] Something Broken with Perl!

2011-07-01 Thread Steve Holmes
On 7/1/11, Florian Pritz bluew...@xinu.at wrote: On 01.07.2011 14:38, Steve Holmes wrote: I still can't compile perl-moose but I get another lookup error so I rebuilt the package that owns the library causing the error but still no go. At least automake works so I can build other packages. I

Re: [arch-general] Something Broken with Perl!

2011-06-30 Thread Steve Holmes
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 02:23:23PM +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 30.06.2011 13:25, schrieb Casey Peter: On 06/30/2011 05:08 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 30.06.2011 12:59, schrieb Jelle van der Waa: This discussion needs more info: pacman -Q perl mod_perl those two provide XSLoader.pm.

Re: [arch-general] Something Broken with Perl!

2011-06-30 Thread Steve Holmes
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 09:13:31AM +0300, Ionut Biru wrote: On 06/30/2011 03:35 AM, Steve Holmes wrote: I think when perl was upgraded to 5.14, something broke with one of its libraries. Whenever I type 'automake' or attempt to recompile several perl packages from AUR, I get the following

Re: [arch-general] Something Broken with Perl!

2011-06-30 Thread Steve Holmes
On 6/30/11, gt codere...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 05:42:47AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: After plowing through this thread, I am replying to say that the library in question belongs to perl-scalar-list-utils which can be found in AUr. It is required by other packages like perl

[arch-general] Something Broken with Perl!

2011-06-29 Thread Steve Holmes
I think when perl was upgraded to 5.14, something broke with one of its libraries. Whenever I type 'automake' or attempt to recompile several perl packages from AUR, I get the following error message: /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/List/Util/Util.so: undefined

Re: [arch-general] Something Broken with Perl!

2011-06-29 Thread Steve Holmes
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 06:36:37AM +0530, gt wrote: Did you look at the post installation message, when you upgraded perl. It should have something like this: - The directories /usr/lib/perl5/current,

[arch-general] Cannot Find Desktop in GNOME3

2011-05-09 Thread Steve Holmes
After upgrading my box to GNOME 3 last week, I can't seem to find the desktop anywhere on my gnome setup. I use the keyboard exclusively for navigating around so I would normally use Ctrl+Alt+d to open the desktop for keyboard focus. Alas I cannot do that any more. Also, with prior versions of

Re: [arch-general] Cannot Find Desktop in GNOME3

2011-05-09 Thread Steve Holmes
Thanks for telling me about the desktop being gone. I really wondered and am a bit surprised as I thought most people valued and used a desktop area quite a bit. Yes, I opened up my home directory from the places and then opened the desktop folder from there. Actually, I think my desktop was

Re: [arch-general] Cannot Find Desktop in GNOME3

2011-05-09 Thread Steve Holmes
On 5/9/11, Jan Steffens jan.steff...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 10:58 PM, C Anthony Risinger anth...@extof.me wrote: sooo, how can you have two directories open then? i see that it works by clicking on the desktop directories twice; couldn't the icon be made to launch nautilus

Re: [arch-general] Gnome 3, a bug?

2011-05-06 Thread Steve Holmes
Hey, I also just installed / upgraded to gnome3 and have run into some strange problems with keyboard navigation. First off, I cannot get into the desktop; also I can't find a reliable way to get into the system menu. Keep in mind here, I'm totally blind and do not use the mouse. I rely

Re: [arch-general] Robson Peixoto invited you to Dropbox

2011-01-24 Thread Steve Holmes
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:32:16AM +, Mauro Santos wrote: I guess they do (or they should, never tried it myself) and I also believe that they ask for the email's password before they can spam mail everyone. To add insult to injury some sites require (or used to require) an email address

[arch-general] Gnome Sound Events and Settings

2011-01-22 Thread Steve Holmes
What tools are needed in Arch to configure the login and logout sounds for GNOME? When I go into the Volume control, I can only change the alert sounds and that, I can do OK but right now, I cannot get any sounds to work for Login, Logout, e-mail, etc. I've seen references in google for other

Re: [arch-general] Gnome Sound Events and Settings

2011-01-22 Thread Steve Holmes
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 08:01:05PM +0200, Ionuț Bîru wrote: lets not start a rant about this. This is what gnome decided long time ago and we actually patched (and is not the arch way) that out to provided gstreamer support over pulse. Oh, so one could install the gnome-pulse stuff and just

Re: [arch-general] Gnome Sound Events and Settings

2011-01-22 Thread Steve Holmes
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 06:38:08PM +0200, Ionuț Bîru wrote: ... Sound preferences exists only if you install pulseaudio and corresponding pulse package for gnome (pacman -S pulseaudio-gnome) I cannot find pulseaudio-gnome in standard repos. Or I should say, pacman doesn't find such a package.

Re: [arch-general] Python 3 Rationale?

2010-12-06 Thread Steve Holmes
Scroll CLEAR down to the bottom for my response. On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:02:27PM -0400, Matthew Gyurgyik wrote: On 10/20/2010 11:45 AM, maxc wrote: There is an excellent post by Guido here, Hilton: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2008-February/011910.html Guido seems to

[arch-general] Open Office-dev is Broken

2010-11-05 Thread Steve Holmes
Since db was upgraded to version 5, openoffice-dev no longer works. It is looking for shared library libdb-4.8. Shouldn't the OOo package be rebuilt?

Re: [arch-general] Open Office-dev is Broken

2010-11-05 Thread Steve Holmes
On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 07:10:25PM +0100, Andreas Radke wrote: the devel pkg is of low priority and so no rebuild was planned. today I updated it to the next snapshot and built it will be working again. Thanks for fixing this. It works again. I like using the dev version because many of the

Re: [arch-general] Postgresql-docs is Broken

2010-10-30 Thread Steve Holmes
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 10:44:41AM -0500, Dan McGee wrote: It is a bug, but this isn't the place for reporting it... https://bugs.archlinux.org/?project=1 It is pretty easy to confirm yourself, note the difference in size and the files list:

Re: [arch-general] Postgresql-docs is Broken

2010-10-30 Thread Steve Holmes
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 02:58:12PM -0200, Kazuo Teramoto wrote: What am I missing here? Looking harder =] /var/abs/extra/postgresql/PKGBUILD Its is a split package. Interesting. I've never seen a split package like that before. In fact, the previous version of the postgresql

[arch-general] Postgresql-docs is Broken

2010-10-29 Thread Steve Holmes
I just downloaded the latest 9.01 version of postgresql-docs which supposedly should contain the html documentation for postgresql. Alas, the package size is less than 1 K and when installed, a pacman -Qql only reveals some man directories under /usr/share. There are no files present. Is anyone

Re: [arch-general] How do AUR packages get new maintainers?

2010-09-22 Thread Steve Holmes
Yeah, when I got started into learning package maintenance in Arch, I recall reading the wiki pages for AUR and ABS (the Arch Build System). Sorry, I forget the exact links but the ABS stuff explains PKGBUILDs really well and when I combined that with the AUR material, I felt I was pretty will

Re: [arch-general] 'Local mirror' page was removed from wiki

2010-09-19 Thread Steve Holmes
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 10:46:13PM -0400, Matthew Gyurgyik wrote: There is nothing preventing you from creating a local mirror. If you can't figure out how to create a local mirror using the resource available, you probably shouldn't be using arch. Now, there's a supportive answer if I ever

Re: [arch-general] 'Local mirror' page was removed from wiki

2010-09-19 Thread Steve Holmes
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 03:22:27PM -0400, Matthew Gyurgyik wrote: If you don't like the attitude don't use arch. Arch isn't here to babysit you and hold your hand. This is truly what sets arch apart. The users who have been here for 4-5+ years know exactly what I'm talking about. Not quite

Re: [arch-general] Spell Checking in Emacs

2010-09-17 Thread Steve Holmes
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 05:02:24AM +0530, Ashish SHUKLA wrote: Steve Holmes writes: Do I have to set up anything in advance in order to use ispell in emacs with the aspell program? See the message below for the full story. I can't get past this read-only problem. (setq ispell-program

Re: [arch-general] $startdir/src, $startdir/pkg and || return 1 in official packages

2010-09-17 Thread Steve Holmes
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 12:43:25AM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: makepkg automatically exits on any error in the build() or package() functions. This is interesting to know; I had no idea. I learn to build my PKGBUILDs from other live examples as well as the .proto versions in the shared pacman

Re: [arch-general] Spell Checking in Emacs

2010-09-16 Thread Steve Holmes
I found some more information concerning the ispell problem with emacs. It seems that if I do ispell-buffer, region, or word on clean data (correctly spelled), I don't get any errors in the mini buffer and in fact, ispell-word even tells me the word is correct. Fine - that works as it should.

[arch-general] Spell Checking in Emacs

2010-09-14 Thread Steve Holmes
I have emacs 23.2 running in a normal text console and am trying to spell check using the ispell.el facility in the emacs lisp libraries. I also installed aspell and espell-en packages to resolve the binary program to be used by the emacs ispell function. When I do any of the emacs commands like

Re: [arch-general] Spell Checking in Emacs

2010-09-14 Thread Steve Holmes
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 06:24:11PM +0200, Mathias Huber wrote: Hi Steve, When I do any of the emacs commands like ispell-buffer or ispell-region and the like, I keep getting a message in the prompt line of emacs saying Text is read-only That only concerns the contents auf the

[arch-general] Spell Checking in Emacs

2010-09-11 Thread Steve Holmes
I have emacs 23.2 running in a normal text console and am trying to spell check using the ispell.el facility in the emacs lisp libraries. I also installed aspell and espell-en packages to resolve the binary program to be used by the emacs ispell function. When I do any of the emacs commands like

Re: [arch-general] something is wrong/stoped in servers? commits but no packages on repos.

2010-02-13 Thread Steve Holmes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Yeah for the past 12 hours or more, I have about 6 packages that won't update/download. They are all the gstreamer packages and vim from extra. Because of those failed downloads, none of my other updates would occur automatically. I had to

Re: [arch-general] Syncing the mirrors

2010-02-01 Thread Steve Holmes
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 04:42:32AM +0200, Ionut Biru wrote: mirrors.kernel.org in fact is not a single mirror. is an alias to a geolocation subdomain and from there is serving from closer geographically position(in theory). for you maybe you hit in an up to date server. I don't know but I've

Re: [arch-general] Quoting of E-mails

2010-01-20 Thread Steve Holmes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 05:12:31PM +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: Probably because (in my experience at least) top-posting occurs much more frequently than me too posts at least, probably more frequently than improper quoting as well. And yet when I

[arch-general] Quoting of E-mails

2010-01-11 Thread Steve Holmes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 I've been seeing some very passionate pleeds in posts lately concerning top-posting of replies. I, for one, don't really mind seeing top-posted e-mails like that because I can see the reply quickly and if the thread is current in my mind, I

[arch-general] Video Resolution, Grub2 and Kernel 2.6.32

2010-01-02 Thread Steve Holmes
When I installed grub2 a short while back, I was using the kernel 2.6.31.6 and I enjoyed a full screen of 1024.768 32K color depth. I followed the steps outlined here http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB2#Setting_the_framebuffer_resolution to the letter and all was great. But when the

Re: [arch-general] Video Resolution, Grub2 and Kernel 2.6.32

2010-01-02 Thread Steve Holmes
On 01/02/2010 12:29 PM, a...@nezmer.info wrote: KMS conflicts with vga,video. What GPU do you have ? I have a generic mother boasrd with an AMD Athlon64 K8 1.6 Ghz processor and a Via Technologies VGA compatible controler. This info came to me courtesy of the lsmod command.:) But I

Re: [arch-general] Kernel panic with kernel26 2.6.32.2-2 from [core]

2010-01-01 Thread Steve Holmes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 I think I am in much better shape now. I managed to upgrade all kernel packages and speakup but had to modify my grub.cfg so all boots now with latest packages. What I have been using is kernel parameters to give me the 128x160 console but then

Re: [arch-general] Kernel panic with kernel26 2.6.32.2-2 from [core]

2010-01-01 Thread Steve Holmes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 05:26:38AM +0100, Heiko Baums wrote: This has nothing to do with my kernel panics which were fixed by just upgrading to [testing] and didn't came back when downgrading back to [core]. I don't know what vbe is for but

[arch-general] Kernel 2.6.32 Broken

2009-12-30 Thread Steve Holmes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hey, has anyone been experiencing any problems with the newest kernel26 package from Arch? this would be 2.6.32.2. After upgrading to it, my machine starts to boot but then dies. When I downgrade to kernel26-2.6.31.6, all works fine again. I'm

Re: [arch-general] Kernel panic with kernel26 2.6.32.2-2 from [core]

2009-12-30 Thread Steve Holmes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 08:29:01AM +0530, Partha Chowdhury wrote: i just updated my system yesterday to kernel 2.6.32.2-2. I faced no problem. It is running as usual.After reading your mail, i looked in the pacman update log and found that