[arch-general] [signoff] mdadm-3.1.3-1
This is a bugfix/stability release over 3.1.2 Significant changes are: - mapfile now lives in a fixed location which default to /dev/.mdadm/map but can be changed at compile time. This location is choses and most distros provide it during early boot and preserve it through. As long a /dev exists and is writable, /dev/.mdadm will be created. Other files file communication with mdmon live here too. This fixes a bug reported by Debian and Gentoo users where udev would spin in early-boot. -IMSM and DDF metadata will not be recognised on partitions as they should only be used on whole-disks. - Various overflows causes by 2G drives have been addressed. -A subarray of an IMSM contain can now be killed with --kill-subarray. Also subarrays can be renamed with --update-subarray --If (or --incremental --fail) can be used from udev to fail and remove from all arrays a device which has been unplugged from the system. i.e. hot-unplug-support. -"mdadm /dev/mdX --re-add missing" will look for any device that looks like it should be a member of /dev/mdX but isn't and will automatically --re-add it -Now compile with -Wextra to get extra warnings. -Lots of minor bug fixes, documentation improvements, etcc Please signoff both arches, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tp...@archlinux.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [arch-general] script to reformat 'pacman -Ss' output into 2 readable columns (prevents blindness)
On 08/06/2010 03:34 PM, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 05:11:27PM +0100, ni...@greenlemur.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 10:51:45PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/Archlinux/scripts/srch2list.sh I'm new to Arch and to the list but wanted to say thanks for posting this up. I've found pacman a great tool for getting what I need installed, but browsing and looking around it was tricky - this script is really useful for that. Nice. But why not read from stdin if no file is given, e.g. pacman -Ss ttf | srch2list.sh Actually I'm working on just passing the script the search term and calling pacman from within the script. The problem with piping the output into the script is it messed up my terminal size calcs (stty doesn't like the script taking input from stdin) and one of the primary goals I had for the script was for it to dynamically size the output based on (1) the longest filename returned (to set column 1 width) and (2) to size the description column using the remainder of the terminal width leaving the 1 char margin. So keeping the ability to grab the terminal size from stty was key. I'm working to learn the "why's" of stty seeing things as a file and not a tty when piping input from stdin, but I'm not there yet. I'll update the input routine for the script so it will be flexible enough to take a search term, a saved search file and/or have it prompt for the search term or filename using zenity or stdin. That will get the script to where I want it to be. But knowing my schedule (and distractions from 3 kids) I thought I would go ahead and post the reformatting part so some use could be made of it until I have an hour or two to work out the final input. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] Shouldn't pacman restart dovecot after update?
On 04-08-10 06:51, Attila wrote: At Dienstag, 3. August 2010 22:35 Heiko Baums wrote: [...] Before i saw this feature with the warning in zypper i would say here yes too but now i found this very useful because in the case of gui apps or the gui itself it is not even clear for me what for libs been used. I'm running opensuse on my laptop too and i'm often suprised after an update what for litte apps use what for libs. But no question, it would more say it is nice if it is there but not a thing what is absolutely necessary or that it is unacceptable that we users do this by ourselves. Well, you certainly do have a point; finding out which apps are using the updated libraries etc would be nice. After thinking about it for a moment, it seems one solution would be very simple. Just run "lsof | grep -i DEL". I'm pretty sure that this could be much optimized, but i hope the idea is clear. System administration is all about taking responsibility, IMHO. When it gets too hard for some users, they could always consider rebooting. HTH, HAND mvg, Guus
Re: [arch-general] script to reformat 'pacman -Ss' output into 2 readable columns (prevents blindness)
On 08/06/2010 04:40 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 08/06/2010 12:33 AM, Dave Reisner wrote:
Hi.
Let's see what we can do about cutting back a little on the verbosity,
and upping the utility...
Dave,
Thanks. It will take me a bit to decipher it, but I'm all for cutting down on
typing and upping the benefit received :p
I have a question. I was trying to figure the script out by passing in one of my
pacman -Ss save files as follows, but I keep getting an error:
16:36 alchemy:~/scr/arch> cat dev/font.pms | sh srchreisner.sh
srchreisner.sh: line 20: syntax error near unexpected token `<'
srchreisner.sh: line 20: ` IFS=$'\n' read -r -d'\0' -a blockdesc < <(fmt
-w$WIDTH <<< "${desc[i]}")'
Where in the black-magic or in my operation of it lies the problem?
Never mind, calling the script with sh was the issue (duh...)
--
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
Rankin Law Firm, PLLC
510 Ochiltree Street
Nacogdoches, Texas 75961
Telephone: (936) 715-9333
Facsimile: (936) 715-9339
www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] script to reformat 'pacman -Ss' output into 2 readable columns (prevents blindness)
On 08/06/2010 12:33 AM, Dave Reisner wrote:
Hi.
Let's see what we can do about cutting back a little on the verbosity,
and upping the utility...
Dave,
Thanks. It will take me a bit to decipher it, but I'm all for cutting down on
typing and upping the benefit received :p
I have a question. I was trying to figure the script out by passing in one of my
pacman -Ss save files as follows, but I keep getting an error:
16:36 alchemy:~/scr/arch> cat dev/font.pms | sh srchreisner.sh
srchreisner.sh: line 20: syntax error near unexpected token `<'
srchreisner.sh: line 20: ` IFS=$'\n' read -r -d'\0' -a blockdesc < <(fmt
-w$WIDTH <<< "${desc[i]}")'
Where in the black-magic or in my operation of it lies the problem?
--
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
Rankin Law Firm, PLLC
510 Ochiltree Street
Nacogdoches, Texas 75961
Telephone: (936) 715-9333
Facsimile: (936) 715-9339
www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] script to reformat 'pacman -Ss' output into 2 readable columns (prevents blindness)
On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 05:11:27PM +0100, ni...@greenlemur.com wrote: > On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 10:51:45PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > > >http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/Archlinux/scripts/srch2list.sh > > I'm new to Arch and to the list but wanted to say thanks for posting > this up. I've found pacman a great tool for getting what I need > installed, but browsing and looking around it was tricky - this script > is really useful for that. Nice. But why not read from stdin if no file is given, e.g. pacman -Ss ttf | srch2list.sh -- FA There are three of them, and Alleline.
Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel 2.6.35-2
On 08/07/2010 01:05 AM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: Hi guys, please signoff 2.6.35 series for both arches and give feedback if real issues arise. Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges greetings tpowa I have been using kernel26 package version 2.6.35-2 for about a day now. No problem so far. x86_64 user with Nvidia graphic card here.
Re: [arch-general] User list missing in gdm
On 08/06/2010 10:45 PM, Jan Steffens wrote: Apparently GDM screws up and never displays the userlist if ck-history takes too long to return. The sad thing is this issue if fixed in consolekit and gdm git master but we have to cherry pick a lot of commits for gdm and i don't want to. Because of that i chose to include a logrotate file in consolekit -- Ionuț
Re: [arch-general] script to reformat 'pacman -Ss' output into 2 readable columns (prevents blindness)
On 08/06/2010 12:09 AM, Jason Reardon wrote: "if which zenity&> /dev/null...", the former doesn't redirect error output. Thanks -> updated. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] User list missing in gdm
Apparently GDM screws up and never displays the userlist if ck-history takes too long to return. On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Guillermo Leira wrote: >> -Mensaje original- >> De: arch-general-boun...@archlinux.org [mailto:arch-general- >> boun...@archlinux.org] En nombre de Jan Steffens >> Enviado el: viernes, 06 de agosto de 2010 10:21 >> Para: General Discussion about Arch Linux >> Asunto: Re: [arch-general] User list missing in gdm >> >> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Guillermo Leira wrote: >> > I'm sorry, my english is not as good as it should... >> > >> > I see the greeting screen of GDM, but where it should be the user list, >> > there is not anything. Only the computer name. >> > >> > I'll check that files this afternoon, when I'm back at home. >> > >> > Thanks >> >> Try deleting the logfile /var/log/ConsoleKit/history >> >> Does that make the problem disappear? > > It worked!!! > > But... do you know why? :-) > > >
Re: [arch-general] User list missing in gdm
> -Mensaje original- > De: arch-general-boun...@archlinux.org [mailto:arch-general- > boun...@archlinux.org] En nombre de Jan Steffens > Enviado el: viernes, 06 de agosto de 2010 10:21 > Para: General Discussion about Arch Linux > Asunto: Re: [arch-general] User list missing in gdm > > On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Guillermo Leira wrote: > > I'm sorry, my english is not as good as it should... > > > > I see the greeting screen of GDM, but where it should be the user list, > > there is not anything. Only the computer name. > > > > I'll check that files this afternoon, when I'm back at home. > > > > Thanks > > Try deleting the logfile /var/log/ConsoleKit/history > > Does that make the problem disappear? It worked!!! But... do you know why? :-)
Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel 2.6.35-2
Am Freitag 06 August 2010 schrieb Sander Jansen: > On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > > Hi guys, > > please signoff 2.6.35 series for both arches > > and give feedback if > > real issues arise. > > > > Upstream > > changes: > > http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges > > > > greetings > > tpowa > > -- > > Tobias > > Powalowski > > Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer > > (tpowa) > > http://www.archlinux.org > > tp...@archlinux.org > > It would be nice if lirc would be put in Testing as well whenever a > new kernel is put into testing. > > Thanks, > > Sander already done an our ago, your mirror is not synced yet. -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tp...@archlinux.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel 2.6.35-2
On 08/06/2010 10:33 PM, Sander Jansen wrote: On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: Hi guys, please signoff 2.6.35 series for both arches and give feedback if real issues arise. Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer& Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tp...@archlinux.org It would be nice if lirc would be put in Testing as well whenever a new kernel is put into testing. its already on testing. -- Ionuț
Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel 2.6.35-2
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Hi guys, > please signoff 2.6.35 series for both arches > and give feedback if > real issues arise. > > Upstream > changes: > http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges > > greetings > tpowa > -- > Tobias > Powalowski > Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer > (tpowa) > http://www.archlinux.org > tp...@archlinux.org > > It would be nice if lirc would be put in Testing as well whenever a new kernel is put into testing. Thanks, Sander
Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel 2.6.35-2
> Hi guys, > please signoff 2.6.35 series for both arches > and give feedback if > real issues arise. > > Upstream > changes: > http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges Just installed it on my AMD64 Desktop, and seems to work fine for now My cpu is Athlon 5050e, the chipset is AMD RS780+SB700 with an onboard HD3200 - I run it with the free radeon driver and I haven't seen any regressions for now. I run KDE with opengl effects if it matters. I also run some KVM guests (32bit) they work still. Anything special to look for? -- damjan
Re: [arch-general] script to reformat 'pacman -Ss' output into 2 readable columns (prevents blindness)
On 06/08/10 06:33, Dave Reisner wrote:
Hi.
Let's see what we can do about cutting back a little on the verbosity,
and upping the utility...
-
#!/bin/bash
pkg=()
desc=()
count=-1
WIDTH=${WIDTH:-50}
while read line; do
if [[ $line =~ ^(testing|core|extra|community|community-testing)/* ]]; then
(( count++ ))
pkg[count]="$line"
continue
fi
desc[count]+="$line"
done
i=0
while (( i<= count )); do
IFS=$'\n' read -r -d'\0' -a blockdesc< <(fmt -w$WIDTH<<< "${desc[i]}")
paste -d' '<(printf "%-49s" "${pkg[i]}")<(echo "${blockdesc[0]}")
for line in "${blockde...@]:1}"; do
printf "%-50s%s\n" "" "$line"
done
(( ++i ))
[[ $1 == -d ]]&& echo
done
-
It takes STDIN, and accepts a -d option to add a space after each
package. Descriptions have a default width of 50 characters (meaning a
total width of 100 characters). You can alter this by specifying WIDTH
as an environment var, e.g.
$ pacman -Ss | WIDTH=30 ./foofilter -d
Personally I think pacman-color is a better solution that mangling the
output like this, but to each their own.
d
---
Thanks for this one, I've messed around with it a little and it's a
handy little function for searching.
[arch-general] [signoff] kernel 2.6.35-2
Hi guys, please signoff 2.6.35 series for both arches and give feedback if real issues arise. Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tp...@archlinux.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [arch-general] script to reformat 'pacman -Ss' output into 2 readable columns (prevents blindness)
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 10:51:45PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, I developed a script to help me read the output of pacman -Ss in 2 nicely formatted columns. The output of 'pacman -Ss srchterm' drives me nuts trying to read down the package names and descriptions with all the tab indented and wrapped text -- so I fixed it. Download the script here: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/Archlinux/scripts/srch2list.sh Hi, I'm new to Arch and to the list but wanted to say thanks for posting this up. I've found pacman a great tool for getting what I need installed, but browsing and looking around it was tricky - this script is really useful for that. Thanks, Nigel
Re: [arch-general] [OT] sight-saver colours
On 06-08-2010 12:27, Jan Steffens wrote: On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 1:10 PM, F. Gr. wrote: Hi, in your opinion, what is the best combination of text and background colour so as not to tire our eyes? I think we spend many hours in front of a monitor. I've been using the following one: text -> #00 background -> #F6F6FF (in the past also #F8F4FF, #EDE9E3, and others) Always depends on the monitor. You could reduce the backlight brightness instead of making the background gray. Precisely. I prefer to adjust the monitor. Assuming of course the monitor have good brightness adjustment controls. If I find they tend to blur more then they reduce brightness, then there's indeed no other option than set the term foreground color.
Re: [arch-general] [OT] sight-saver colours
On 08/06/2010 07:10 AM, F. Gr. wrote: Hi, in your opinion, what is the best combination of text and background colour so as not to tire our eyes? I think we spend many hours in front of a monitor. I've been using the following one: text -> #00 background -> #F6F6FF (in the past also #F8F4FF, #EDE9E3, and others) I find that lighter-colored (but not blindingly bright) text on a very dark background is easiest on the eyes. e.g. text: #C3C3C3 (light gray) background: #00 (black) or #1b (midnight blue) http://www.darose.net/DaroseDesktop2009-11.png HTH, DR
Re: [arch-general] [OT] sight-saver colours
Hi, I use light gray (rgb:be/be/be) on dark gray (rgb:1c/1c/1c). See also my .Xcolors (is sourced in .Xdefaults) http://github.com/lukasg/dotfiles/blob/master/xorg/Xcolors)) On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 01:10:14PM +0200, F. Gr. wrote: > Hi, > in your opinion, what is the best combination of text and background > colour so as not to tire our eyes? I think we spend many hours in > front of a monitor. > > I've been using the following one: > text -> #00 > background -> #F6F6FF (in the past also #F8F4FF, #EDE9E3, and others) > -- Lukas Grässlin Collax GmbH . Basler Str. 115a . 79115 Freiburg . Germany p: +49 (0) 89-990 157-23 Collax - Flexible IT. Geschäftsführer: Bernd Bönte, Boris Nalbach Amtsgericht München, HRB 173695 USt-ID: DE270819312
Re: [arch-general] [OT] sight-saver colours
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 1:10 PM, F. Gr. wrote: > Hi, > in your opinion, what is the best combination of text and background > colour so as not to tire our eyes? I think we spend many hours in > front of a monitor. > > I've been using the following one: > text -> #00 > background -> #F6F6FF (in the past also #F8F4FF, #EDE9E3, and others) Always depends on the monitor. You could reduce the backlight brightness instead of making the background gray.
[arch-general] [OT] sight-saver colours
Hi, in your opinion, what is the best combination of text and background colour so as not to tire our eyes? I think we spend many hours in front of a monitor. I've been using the following one: text -> #00 background -> #F6F6FF (in the past also #F8F4FF, #EDE9E3, and others)
Re: [arch-general] User list missing in gdm
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Guillermo Leira wrote: > I'm sorry, my english is not as good as it should... > > I see the greeting screen of GDM, but where it should be the user list, > there is not anything. Only the computer name. > > I'll check that files this afternoon, when I'm back at home. > > Thanks Try deleting the logfile /var/log/ConsoleKit/history Does that make the problem disappear?
Re: [arch-general] User list missing in gdm
to., 05.08.2010 kl. 20.06 +0200, skrev Guillermo Leira: > Hello! > > Some weeks ago, the gdm user list disappeared. I have been trying everything > that I have found, but no luck. > > If I reboot the computer several times, it finishes working, or if I issue a > /etc/rc.d/gdm restart. But this is my wife's computer, and I would like it to > work as it should... > > I have another six computers, and I don't know how many virtual machines, and > this is happening also in a virtual machine. > > Any ideas? > > Best Regards > > Guillermo Leira I think you have encountered this problem: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=100329 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20152 Christoffer
