Re: [arch-general] rEFInd 0.6.4 + linux 3.7.2-1 fail to boot
On 25 Feb 2013 at 18:13:14 -0300, André Vitor de Lima Matos wrote: I can't boot with 3.8-2 again!! linux 3.8-1 is working fine For me it stopped to boot after 3.7.7. Linux-3.7.7 is the last version that boot, each version after it don't. Gummiboot stopped to boot in v22, only v17 boots for me. When I choose the arch entry in the boot loader and it become freeze at the boot loader screen. The interaction of bootable and kernel/gummiboot versions is a mess on my system. The versions I cannot boot from form a dense set! I always bring an arch livecd with me (my UEFI mobo wont boot from USB). Currently I'm busy so I don't have time to debug it. As I don't see anyone talking about boot problems I'm blaming my Samsung laptop. I hope to have some time to debug and put the blame in someone else... Regards, Kazuo Teramoto signature.asc Description: signature
Re: [arch-general] rEFInd 0.6.4 + linux 3.7.2-1 fail to boot
On 15 Jan 2013 at 18:35:19 -0200, Kazuo Teramoto wrote: I'm having this issue with linux 3.7.2-1 too. I use gummiboot-efi and file from core (5.11-1). Linux 3.7.1-2 boots ok. Linux 3.7.3-1 is booting for me. Regards, Kazuo Teramoto signature.asc Description: signature
Re: [arch-general] rEFInd 0.6.4 + linux 3.7.2-1 fail to boot
On 14 Jan 2013 at 12:10:31 -0200, André Vitor de Lima Matos wrote: After a upgraded to refind-efi 0.6.4-1 and linux 3.7.2-1, my system stopped to boot. I'm having this issue with linux 3.7.2-1 too. I use gummiboot-efi and file from core (5.11-1). Linux 3.7.1-2 boots ok. The image of linux 3.7.2-1 builds and is copied to the correct paths. I tried to remove i915 from MODULES and change the compression back to the default gzip, but I still can't boot from 3.7.2-1. My MODULES only has i915, and the HOOKS array is ~~ HOOKS=base udev autodetect plymouth modconf block plymouth-encrypt filesystems consolefont usbinput fsck ~~ Regards, Kazuo Teramoto signature.asc Description: signature
Re: [arch-general] offlineimap + gmail : don't sync anymore
On 08 Aug 2012 at 06:54:33 -0300, arnaud gaboury wrote: can you be more precised please? I know how to remove the crontab. But shall I add the second variable in muttrc? To `offlineimap.conf`. Take a look at `/usr/share/offlineimap/offlineimap.conf`. Kazuo Teramoto signature.asc Description: signature
Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Xorg 1.12 moves soon to testing for stabilization phase
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 07:10:45PM +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: 1) Circular scrolling direction is reversed. This can't be a feature, really. 2) Speed/acceleration behaviour changed, my touchpad is now much faster than it should be (I could reconfigure that, but I shouldn't have to). 3) The cursor keeps coasting when I keep the finger on the touchpad but stop moving. Coasting is disabled in the settings as far as I can see (and it should only be coasting if I move towards an edge of the pad). [...] My touchpad: AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad I have the same issues. My touchpad: AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint So, can this be a Alps only issue? pgp4UYF6HtQIx.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [arch-general] Top Posting Revisited
On 2011-12-16T01:21:22, Calvin Morrison wrote: Yeah lets all just spam fuck gmail devs because they won't add a automatic bottom posting feature. I don't think this is a solution. Part of the whole 'bottom posting' thing is about *reading* and *thinking* about the reply and not *automatic* replying to a message.
Re: [arch-general] offlineimap
On 2011-12-12T22:29:56, Ralf Madorf wrote: I suspect that offlineimap isn't what I need for the wanted task: - to download emails from my providers server - to delete them from the server when the download is finished - to keep them on my computer, to get access to the emails from different Linux installs I think that for 1 and 2 (download and delete) you can use getmail with pop3 and 'delete = true' option. I never used like this but from the documentation [1] I think this do the intended. For 3 is different Linux installs on same computer? If so, you can simple use the same maildir. If not you can share the maildir via imap. [1]: http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/configuration.html
Re: [arch-general] replacement for clyde
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Vitor Eiji Justus Sakaguti
vitorei...@gmail.com wrote:
# Better yaourt
yaourt () {
if [[ $# == 0 ]]
then
/usr/bin/yaourt -Sayu
else
/usr/bin/yaourt $@
fi
}
For something more terse:
yaourt () { yaourt ${@:--Sayu}; }
--
“The journey is more important than the destination—that’s part of
life, if you only live for getting to the end, you’re almost always
disappointed.”
Donald E. Knuth
Re: [arch-general] TeXLive 2011 pretest
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Bernardo Barros bernardobarr...@gmail.com wrote: anyone got problems with texlive 2011 usage so far? I'm getting a problem with synctex, its don't work with tl 2011 for me, e.g.: ---2011-- % pdflatex -synctex=1 sample2e This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-1.40.12 (TeX Live 2011/Arch Linux) [...] SyncTeX written on sample2e.synctex.gz. Transcript written on sample2e.log. % synctex view -i 42:1:/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/sample2e.tex -o sample2e.pdf This is SyncTeX command line utility, version 1.2 SyncTeX ERROR: SyncTeX Error: Bad preamble ---2011-- But with 2010 I get: ---2010-- % pdflatex -synctex=1 sample2e This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.11 (TeX Live 2010/Arch Linux) [...] SyncTeX written on sample2e.synctex.gz. Transcript written on sample2e.log. % synctex view -i 42:1:/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/sample2e.tex -o sample2e.pdf This is SyncTeX command line utility, version 1.2 SyncTeX result begin Output:sample2e.pdf Page:1 x:386.784882 y:380.216461 h:133.768356 v:382.153625 W:343.711060 H:8.855677 before: offset:0 middle: after: Output:sample2e.pdf Page:1 x:179.069794 y:392.171631 h:133.768356 v:394.316345 W:343.711060 H:9.063227 before: offset:0 middle: after: SyncTeX result end ---2010-- I read (don't remember where) that synctex have a bug with gziped files that give the Bad preamble error, so if I gunzip the synctex file I get: ---2011-- % gunzip sample2e.synctex.gz % synctex view -i 42:1:/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/sample2e.tex -o sample2e.pdf This is SyncTeX command line utility, version 1.2 % ---2011-- i.e. no error but no output. Don't know if this is a packaging or upstream bug (or user bug =]), what you think? Thanks, Kazuo -- “The journey is more important than the destination—that’s part of life, if you only live for getting to the end, you’re almost always disappointed.” Donald E. Knuth
Re: [arch-general] When will Arch switch to Upstart
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Laurent Carlier lordhea...@gmail.com wrote: And ubuntu use it is not enough as an argument :-) For me its is an unfavorable one. =] If ubuntu did, think two times before doing it. @OP If you look at the forum you will find a lot of arguments showing how bad upstart is. It can be fast but at the cost of being PITA. Regards, Kazuo -- “The journey is more important than the destination—that’s part of life, if you only live for getting to the end, you’re almost always disappointed.” Donald E. Knuth
Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] TeXLive packages
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Rémy Oudompheng remyoudomph...@gmail.com wrote: These install scripts are giving headaches: I'll change it to simply replace updmap.cfg by the concatenation of /usr/share/texmf/web2c/updmap-hdr.cfg, /var/lib/texmf/arch/installedpkgs/texlive-*.maps and /etc/texmf/web2c/updmap-local.cfg as recommended upstream. Thanks for the update! But I'm doing something wrong... I put the custom Map entries in the /etc/texmf/web2c/updmap-local.cfg and run texhash (my custom map files are at /usr/local/share/texmf/.../) But running updmap-sys dont include the Map entries from updmap-local.cfg only from updmap.cfg In the header of updmap.cfg we have: == # 2) add your local map entries to the file # TEXMFLOCAL/web2c/updmap-local.cfg #and then call # tlmgr generate updmap #which will concatenate updmap-local.cfg to the end of the final #updmap.cfg. (You can override the local.cfg file location with the #--localcfg option; see tlmgr --help.) == I tried to put the file at TEXMFLOCAL/web2c/updmap-local.cfg but it dont work, and the tlmgr is not included in the arch distro (iirc all thing that tlmgr do are implemented or not needed by the packaging for Arch). For now I'm manually concatening the -local.cfg to the updmap.cfg. But I like to know if a more correctly way exist. If not, I think that changing the update msg so its says that a manually concatening of the -local files are needed can be useful. Thanks, Kazuo. -- “The journey is more important than the destination—that’s part of life, if you only live for getting to the end, you’re almost always disappointed.” Donald E. Knuth
Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] TeXLive packages
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 1:00 AM, Kazuo Teramoto kaz@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Rémy Oudompheng remyoudomph...@gmail.com wrote: These install scripts are giving headaches: I'll change it to simply replace updmap.cfg by the concatenation of /usr/share/texmf/web2c/updmap-hdr.cfg, /var/lib/texmf/arch/installedpkgs/texlive-*.maps and /etc/texmf/web2c/updmap-local.cfg as recommended upstream. Ohh, ok I get what you mean now. The updmap-local.cfg is concatened by the install script, but as I dont had the file when I updated (created after I see the post update msg) its are not included. Sorry for the noise, Kazuo. -- “The journey is more important than the destination—that’s part of life, if you only live for getting to the end, you’re almost always disappointed.” Donald E. Knuth
Re: [arch-general] State of the Repositories
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:16 PM, keenerd keen...@gmail.com wrote: Let's make a graph to show how bad it continues to be. expac -S -t '%Y-%m' '%b' $(cat return_one) | sort | uniq -c | sed 's/^ *//' return_one_releases http://kmkeen.com/tmp/return-one-releases.png If packages were actually cleaned up when updated, the red line would be flat on zero. Instead, 50-100 packages with 'return 1' are released every month. (And yes, the oldest surviving package is almost three years old. Happy birthday perl-passwd-md5, if you make it another month.) Uhh... I see myself in you, somewhat. People that make graphs, and estimation of everything... In my last work I made a Monte Carlo simulation for estimating the probabilities of the winner of soccer championship (Brasileirão 2010, I'm Brazilian) (note: I hate soccer...). And worked! I get the first 3 places correct six rounds before the end (from a total of 38 rounds)... Regards, Kazuo -- “The journey is more important than the destination—that’s part of life, if you only live for getting to the end, you’re almost always disappointed.” Donald E. Knuth
Re: [arch-general] Postgresql-docs is Broken
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Steve Holmes steve.holme...@gmail.com wrote: I will take a look at the links shortly but in the meantime, I tried to look in the /var/abs/extra for postgresql-docs and there is no directory with PKGBUILD or anything for postresql-docs nor postgresql-lib. I thought abs was supposed to contain the PKGBUILDs and related files for all packages in the Arch repos. What am I missing here? Looking harder =] /var/abs/extra/postgresql/PKGBUILD Its is a split package. -- «Dans la vie, rien n'est à craindre, tout est à comprendre» Marie Sklodowska Curie.
Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] hdparm-9.33-1
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 3:50 AM, Tobias Powalowski t.p...@gmx.de wrote: Am Sonntag 10 Oktober 2010 schrieb Tobias Powalowski: Hi guys, please signoff both arches [...] bump If an user signoff help something... signoff x86_64 Regards, Kazuo -- «Dans la vie, rien n'est à craindre, tout est à comprendre» Marie Sklodowska Curie.
Re: [arch-general] Need help with compilation
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Christian christia...@runbox.com wrote: Hi all, I am trying to compile a package from source called BRLTTY. The current version that is in the repository is v4.1 so I looked in the PKGBUILD script and I installed the dependencies, but most of them were already installed when I installed the version that was in the repository. But I am getting an error 2 when I run make after some time. Would anyone be interested in eventually trying compiling it? Post the error. Someone can give you a solution without needing to download and try to compile it. -- «Dans la vie, rien n'est à craindre, tout est à comprendre» Marie Sklodowska Curie.
Re: [arch-general] Xorg 1.9 - This traing is going to hell.
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Paulo Santos paulo.r.san...@sapo.pt wrote: 3)2d\3d slowdown. Epic slowdown. No erros, both ati drivers(catalyst | xf86-video-ati). RADEON HD4570, .35 stock kernel from repos. I don't know about 3d, but scrolling and resizing windows became very very slow. [...] kernel 2.6.35.7-1, xorg-server 1.9.0-1, nvidia 256.53 (x86_64) The slowdown of nvidia and xorg-server 1.9.0 is know and solved in the last beta. http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=154563 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=103716 This is the only problem I had with 1.9 (x86_64 user, synaptics). I dont got any crash or other regression except the nvidia+text rendering I linked. Regards, Kazuo -- «Dans la vie, rien n'est à craindre, tout est à comprendre» Marie Sklodowska Curie.
Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] make-3.82-2
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org wrote: Try this: http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1008.2/00080.html As I said, any remaining issues are more than likely the fault of the software being built... Allan, this patch is already included in the 2.6.35.y http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.35.y.git;a=commit;h=ca3d0a0f66312d45e876ece90c04fc9225bdd3ab I successful finished compiling a 2.6.35.6 (with the pf patchset) with the make 3.82-2,this failed to compile withe the 3.82-1. Regards, Kazuo -- «Dans la vie, rien n'est à craindre, tout est à comprendre» Marie Sklodowska Curie.
Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] pkgstats: second try
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Pierre Schmitz pie...@archlinux.de wrote: I did some improvements. The client now submits the mirror used by pacman. On the server side statistics about the country (looked up by geoip) are stored and more important all data are stored with a timestamp. This way we should be able to see usage trends etc.. It would also be possible to have users submit data regularly without messing up all stats. Thanks for the work Pierre. So I can send it regularly, like put it in a cron job to send it every month? In the last time I submitted once, and never submitted again. Regards, Kazuo. PS. I love statistics XD -- «Dans la vie, rien n'est à craindre, tout est à comprendre» Marie Sklodowska Curie.
Re: [arch-general] No updates in a while - Is this the 'untiered mirror' thing?
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 4:33 AM, Peter Lewis p...@muddygoat.org wrote: thread just prompted me to check and yeah I hadn't had anything for at least a few days. I just did a sort of Monte-Carlo test, by switching mirrors in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist and suddenly got a whole load of updates. Well... we dont have so much mirrors so a monte carlo sampling is needed, we can do it in a deterministic way I use reflector for this, its choose mirrors by updatedness, and can sort using rankmirrors Kazuo -- «Dans la vie, rien n'est à craindre, tout est à comprendre» Marie Sklodowska Curie.
Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] cryptsetup 1.1.3-1
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org wrote: Am 11.07.2010 12:46, schrieb Thomas Bächler: Upstream update, please sign off (tested already for x86_64). Can anyone confirm that this is working? signoff x86_64 I can successfully open my luks devices (created before). And I created a new one with 1.1.3, looks ok. Regards, Kazuo -- «Dans la vie, rien n'est à craindre, tout est à comprendre» Marie Sklodowska Curie.
Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [PATCH] Check all checksum types
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 2:33 AM, Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org wrote: Check every checksum that makepkg supports rather than only md5sums. Fixes FS#17168. Signed-off-by: Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org --- I am sure there has to be some way to loop through all that duplication, but the how escapes me... getattr? What about the attached implementation of checksums.py? Note: I dont tested it! -- «Dans la vie, rien n'est à craindre, tout est à comprendre» Marie Sklodowska Curie.
Re: [arch-general] Help me with OpenVPN
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 1:15 AM, Benjamin Campbell benji.campb...@gmail.com wrote: Port 1194 is the official IANAhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Assigned_Numbers_Authorityassigned port number for OpenVPN. Newer versions of the program now default to that port. -- Wikipediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVPN#Networking Cant you pass --port and --proto to force client using the default port and udp? (I dont use openvpn, only read the manual to try to help, so sorry if this dont make sense) Regards, Kazuo -- «Dans la vie, rien n'est à craindre, tout est à comprendre» Marie Sklodowska Curie.
Re: [arch-general] manage starting and stopping processes with less typing
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 4:22 PM, David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com wrote: Guys, One thing I miss with Arch are init-script shortcuts for starting and stopping processes. rc-commands really help cut down on typing. For example, all suse did was to create links to the files in /etc/rc.d/... with a naming convention of rcinit script name. So, for example, instead of having to type: /etc/rc.d/postfix the shortcut was simply rcpostfix Uhh, I dont use rc.d too much to this be usefull to me but... I'm thinking about it, creating sym links looks *ugly* to me, because you need to updated it after you remove or add new rc.d. I think that a much cleaner solution is to create a rename filesystem using FUSE to rename files from /etc/rc.d on the fly. (FUSE is so cool ^_^) Bye, Kazuo -- «Dans la vie, rien n'est à craindre, tout est à comprendre» Marie Sklodowska Curie.
Re: [arch-general] usable browser?
You can try dillo (but really the IE Is the best option after you removed all the other, IE run very well in wine) -- «Dans la vie, rien n'est à craindre, tout est à comprendre» Marie Sklodowska Curie.
