[arch-general] openntpd creating /usr/var/run/ntpd.sock
Hello, I am running openntpd on several machines, one of which has /usr mounted as read only. Openntpd wants to create it's socket file in /usr/var/run and can't, thus it fails to start. I was unable to find a configuration option to change this location to /run, where it seems like it should be. Is there a way to change this somewhere that I missed? Or is this a bug that needs to be filed? Thank you Squall -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present. Headmaster Squall :: The Wired/Section-9 Close the world txen eht nepo $3R14L 3XP3R1M3NT$ #L41N https://github.com/headmastersquall
Re: [arch-general] postgresql 9.3 - 9.4
Next time reading pacman -Syu output before hitting Y would be even nicer. ;-) You know what, sometimes their is just so much on the screen to catch all the messages for things like this. I was hit with the same problem and had a server down for almost a day. This should have been posted on the home page with a warning and a link to the Wiki or instructions on how to perform upgrade. Thank you Squall
Re: [arch-general] Dropbox requires setup each time I boot
I removed the dropbox files I downloaded from their site and used installed using the AUR package this time. So far so good, I hope it works better for me. Thank you for your responses. On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 12:53 AM, Lorenzo Bandieri lorenzo.bandi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Squall, 2014-09-22 20:46 GMT+02:00 Squall Lionheart headmastersqu...@gmail.com: I use the dropbox client as provided on their web site. Everything works as expected however, when I reboot my machine it requires me to setup my local folder each time. I also run a Fedora 20 system with a similar setup and I only had to set up my local folder once. Anyone know what would cause this behavior and how to correct it? Do you have a particular reason for not running the dropbox package in the AUR, as Joel suggested? I'm using it without problems. Anyway, the first thing I'd do would be to launch dropboxd from the command line to see if it outputs some useful error messages. Another thing I'd try would be to backup and then rm the .dropbox and .dropbox-dist folders (or, alternatively, setup dropbox in a clean environment, e.g. from a test user). FWIW, my permissions are the same as yours. Hope this helps, Lorenzo -- If you think the problem is bad now, just wait until we've solved it. -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present. Headmaster Squall :: The Wired/Section-9 Close the world txen eht nepo $3R14L 3XP3R1M3NT$ #L41N https://github.com/headmastersquall
[arch-general] Dropbox requires setup each time I boot
Hello, I use the dropbox client as provided on their web site. Everything works as expected however, when I reboot my machine it requires me to setup my local folder each time. I also run a Fedora 20 system with a similar setup and I only had to set up my local folder once. Anyone know what would cause this behavior and how to correct it? My permissions look like: drwx-- 5 squall squall 155 Sep 22 12:29 .dropbox drwxr-xr-x 3 squall squall 68 Jul 29 18:44 .dropbox-dist Thank you Squall -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present. Headmaster Squall :: The Wired/Section-9 Close the world txen eht nepo $3R14L 3XP3R1M3NT$ #L41N https://github.com/headmastersquall
[arch-general] No longer able to print
Hello, Since about three weeks ago after an update, I have no longer been able to print using CUPS. When I send a job to the print queue, it generates this message: stopped *The PPD version (5.2.9) is not compatible with Gutenprint 5.2.10.* I was unable to find anything helpful through the search engines. Was there a package split for older drivers, or perhaps something else I need to install to get this to work again? Running linux 3.14.6-1 and: $ pacman -Qs cups local/cups 1.7.3-3 local/cups-filters 1.0.54-1 local/libcups 1.7.3-3 $ pacman -Qs gutenprint local/gutenprint 5.2.10-1 $ pacman -Qs ppd local/foomatic-db 3:20140324-1 local/foomatic-db-engine 3:20140324-1 $ pacman -Qs hplip local/hplip 3.14.6-1 Thank you Squall -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present. Headmaster Squall :: The Wired/Section-9 Close the world txen eht nepo $3R14L 3XP3R1M3NT$ #L41N https://github.com/headmastersquall
Re: [arch-general] No longer able to print
if you run pacman -S gutenprint you will see this in the output: please run /usr/bin/cups-genppdupdate and restart cups deamon Run the command as root. This fixed the problem, thank you for your quick reply. In Archlinux it pays off to update in a terminal and to read the spam, it's also in /var/log/pacman.log. I always use the terminal to update, sometimes the amount of spam is so high that things get missed. I'll remember next time to check the pacman.log for such messages. -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present. Headmaster Squall :: The Wired/Section-9 Close the world txen eht nepo $3R14L 3XP3R1M3NT$ #L41N https://github.com/headmastersquall
Re: [arch-general] What's with F# and mono?
I found out that the F# Language Binding is available in the monodevelop add-ins repository, but not for the version of Mono Develop that is in the Arch Repos. If you manually search for the F# language bindings here [1], you will find it but are unable to download it. I installed Xamarin Studio on a Windows 7 machine and after hitting refresh on the Gallery tab, the language binding show up. I don't think this problem is the Arch package, but a bug in the monodevelop add-in repositories. [1] http://addins.monodevelop.com/ -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present. Headmaster Squall :: The Wired/Section-9 Close the world txen eht nepo $3R14L 3XP3R1M3NT$ #L41N https://github.com/headmastersquall
Re: [arch-general] What's with F# and mono?
Great, there is hope then :) Do you happen to remember where you found that add-on for MonoDevelop? I can't seem to find one that can be downloaded AND plugged into MD. I'm pretty sure that when I first set it up, I installed it from the Add-in manager -- Language Bindings, but it's no longer there. I did find this [1], but the compile fails when I try it. Let me know if you get it working. [1] https://github.com/fsharp/fsharpbinding -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present. Headmaster Squall :: The Wired/Section-9 Close the world txen eht nepo $3R14L 3XP3R1M3NT$ #L41N https://github.com/headmastersquall
Re: [arch-general] What's with F# and mono?
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 4:55 PM, Magnus Therning mag...@therning.orgwrote: I'm just starting to dip my toes in the mono waters. Slightly prompted by my current situation at work. In particular I'm interested in F#, but I'm finding the whole situation around mono/monodevelop + F# a bit confusing. 1. There are indications online that mono ships with F# [^1][^2]. But the mono package in Arch doesn't include F#. Looking at the sources used to build the mono package there is no F# in sight. Was it ever there? 2. The package on AUR[^3] for fsharp is rather outdated. Not such a big problem, the building received a lot of TLC so the package is extremely simple to bring up-to-date. 3. Is there an F# add-in for monodevelop? There seems to have been one back in 2010, but it's not distributed any more, [^4]. However, other places say there is an add-in available, [^5] (however, downloading fails). So, can anyone help me get a clearer picture of F# on mono (and ArchLinux)? /M [^1]: http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2010/Nov-11.html - talking of plans to include F# in mono. [^2]: http://is.gd/cNC5xb- - F# is included in the standard Mono release, but it's still missing from the MonoDevelop IDE. [^3]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/fsharp/ [^4]: http://is.gd/YndnsA- - bug on F# add-in missing, closed for MD 2.4, the last comment suggests it'd be re-opened [^5]: http://is.gd/YndnsA- which links to http://addins.monodevelop.com/Project/Index/48 -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: mag...@therning.org jabber: mag...@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus The results point out the fragility of programmer expertise: advanced programmers have strong expectations about what programs should look like, and when those expectations are violated--in seemingly innocuous ways--their performance drops drastically. -- Elliot Soloway and Kate Ehrlich I had this running in Arch using the packages from the standard repositories several months ago (new system since then). I had to compile and install F# manually from [1]. If memory serves, I had to install an add-on/plug-in in mono develop for F# support to work. [1] https://github.com/fsharp/fsharp Thanks Squall -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present. Headmaster Squall :: The Wired/Section-9 Close the world txen eht nepo $3R14L 3XP3R1M3NT$ #L41N https://github.com/headmastersquall
Re: [arch-general] Revisit official SELinux support
The first answer that i can think is the patches needed on many packages to support selinux. In the CentOS world, SELinux is a standard feature and there are a lot of command line tools that contain extra command options to access and modify SELinux contexts. For example, here is a snippet from the man pages for the added features found in the ls command: SELinux options: --lcontext Display security context. Enable -l. Lines will probably be too wide for most displays. -Z, --context Display security context so it fits on most displays. Displays only mode, user, group, security context and file name. --scontext Display only security context and file name. I don't know all the commands that have extra options, but I know find is one of them. Thanks Squall
Re: [arch-general] Pip2 commands throw error [Solved]
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Squall Lionheart headmastersqu...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 3:01 AM, Felix Yan felixonm...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, August 16, 2013 14:49:49 Squall Lionheart wrote: Hello, Since upgrading to version 1.4.1 in July of python2-pip, I have been receiving this Exception on the commands I execute. Received an update to version 1.4.1-1 today and the error persists. This is a desktop machine and I get the same error on a server running Parabola. I tried a manual install of pip-1.4.1 and distribute on Slackware and everything runs as it should. Have not tried the manual install on Arch yet since I would prefer to use the packaged versions. Please help. $ pip2 list caatinga (1.0.1) clojure-py (0.2.4) distribute (0.6.28) Fabric (1.7.0) git-remote-helpers (0.1.0) logilab-astng (0.24.3) logilab-common (0.60.0) netsnmp-python (1.0a1) paramiko (1.11.0) pep8 (1.4.6) pip (1.4.1) pycrypto (2.6) pylint (0.28.0) python-libtorrent (0.16.10) Exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/basecommand.py, line 134, in main status = self.run(options, args) File /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/commands/list.py, line 80, in run self.run_listing(options) File /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/commands/list.py, line 127, in run_listing self.output_package_listing(installed_packages) File /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/commands/list.py, line 136, in output_package_listing if dist_is_editable(dist): File /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/util.py, line 347, in dist_is_editable req = FrozenRequirement.from_dist(dist, []) File /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/__init__.py, line 194, in from_dist assert len(specs) == 1 and specs[0][0] == '==' AssertionError Storing complete log in /home/squall/.pip/pip.log The contents of pip.log are the same as the error output. Thank you Squall Same for me when using python2-distribute 0.6.45-1, but after upgrading to testing/python2-setuptools 0.9.8-1 the error was gone. Regards, Felix Yan Upgraded today to python2-setuptools 0.9.8-1 from extra and still get the same errors. Tried removing and reinstalling the python2-pip package and that had no affect. It appears that I had a version of distribute that was manually installed. After removing it, the pip2 commands work as expected.
Re: [arch-general] Pip2 commands throw error
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 3:01 AM, Felix Yan felixonm...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, August 16, 2013 14:49:49 Squall Lionheart wrote: Hello, Since upgrading to version 1.4.1 in July of python2-pip, I have been receiving this Exception on the commands I execute. Received an update to version 1.4.1-1 today and the error persists. This is a desktop machine and I get the same error on a server running Parabola. I tried a manual install of pip-1.4.1 and distribute on Slackware and everything runs as it should. Have not tried the manual install on Arch yet since I would prefer to use the packaged versions. Please help. $ pip2 list caatinga (1.0.1) clojure-py (0.2.4) distribute (0.6.28) Fabric (1.7.0) git-remote-helpers (0.1.0) logilab-astng (0.24.3) logilab-common (0.60.0) netsnmp-python (1.0a1) paramiko (1.11.0) pep8 (1.4.6) pip (1.4.1) pycrypto (2.6) pylint (0.28.0) python-libtorrent (0.16.10) Exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/basecommand.py, line 134, in main status = self.run(options, args) File /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/commands/list.py, line 80, in run self.run_listing(options) File /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/commands/list.py, line 127, in run_listing self.output_package_listing(installed_packages) File /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/commands/list.py, line 136, in output_package_listing if dist_is_editable(dist): File /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/util.py, line 347, in dist_is_editable req = FrozenRequirement.from_dist(dist, []) File /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/__init__.py, line 194, in from_dist assert len(specs) == 1 and specs[0][0] == '==' AssertionError Storing complete log in /home/squall/.pip/pip.log The contents of pip.log are the same as the error output. Thank you Squall Same for me when using python2-distribute 0.6.45-1, but after upgrading to testing/python2-setuptools 0.9.8-1 the error was gone. Regards, Felix Yan Upgraded today to python2-setuptools 0.9.8-1 from extra and still get the same errors. Tried removing and reinstalling the python2-pip package and that had no affect.
[arch-general] Pip2 commands throw error
Hello, Since upgrading to version 1.4.1 in July of python2-pip, I have been receiving this Exception on the commands I execute. Received an update to version 1.4.1-1 today and the error persists. This is a desktop machine and I get the same error on a server running Parabola. I tried a manual install of pip-1.4.1 and distribute on Slackware and everything runs as it should. Have not tried the manual install on Arch yet since I would prefer to use the packaged versions. Please help. $ pip2 list caatinga (1.0.1) clojure-py (0.2.4) distribute (0.6.28) Fabric (1.7.0) git-remote-helpers (0.1.0) logilab-astng (0.24.3) logilab-common (0.60.0) netsnmp-python (1.0a1) paramiko (1.11.0) pep8 (1.4.6) pip (1.4.1) pycrypto (2.6) pylint (0.28.0) python-libtorrent (0.16.10) Exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/basecommand.py, line 134, in main status = self.run(options, args) File /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/commands/list.py, line 80, in run self.run_listing(options) File /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/commands/list.py, line 127, in run_listing self.output_package_listing(installed_packages) File /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/commands/list.py, line 136, in output_package_listing if dist_is_editable(dist): File /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/util.py, line 347, in dist_is_editable req = FrozenRequirement.from_dist(dist, []) File /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/__init__.py, line 194, in from_dist assert len(specs) == 1 and specs[0][0] == '==' AssertionError Storing complete log in /home/squall/.pip/pip.log The contents of pip.log are the same as the error output. Thank you Squall -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present. Headmaster Squall :: The Wired/Section-9 Close the world txen eht nepo $3R14L 3XP3R1M3NT$ #L41N https://github.com/headmastersquall
[arch-general] Pip2 commands throw error
Hello, Since upgrading to version 1.4.1 in July of python2-pip, I have been receiving this Exception on the commands I execute. Received an update to version 1.4.1-1 today and the error persists. This is a desktop machine and I get the same error on a server running Parabola that gets the same error. I tried a manual install of pip-1.4.1 and distribute on Slackware and everything runs as it should. Please help. $ pip2 list caatinga (1.0.1) clojure-py (0.2.4) distribute (0.6.28) Fabric (1.7.0) git-remote-helpers (0.1.0) logilab-astng (0.24.3) logilab-common (0.60.0) netsnmp-python (1.0a1) paramiko (1.11.0) pep8 (1.4.6) pip (1.4.1) pycrypto (2.6) pylint (0.28.0) python-libtorrent (0.16.10) Exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/basecommand.py, line 134, in main status = self.run(options, args) File /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/commands/list.py, line 80, in run self.run_listing(options) File /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/commands/list.py, line 127, in run_listing self.output_package_listing(installed_packages) File /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/commands/list.py, line 136, in output_package_listing if dist_is_editable(dist): File /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/util.py, line 347, in dist_is_editable req = FrozenRequirement.from_dist(dist, []) File /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/__init__.py, line 194, in from_dist assert len(specs) == 1 and specs[0][0] == '==' AssertionError Storing complete log in /home/squall/.pip/pip.log The contents of pip.log are the same as the error output. Thank you Squall -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present. Headmaster Squall :: The Wired/Section-9 Close the world txen eht nepo $3R14L 3XP3R1M3NT$ #L41N https://github.com/headmastersquall
Re: [arch-general] Permission Denied cifs mount
Try adding sec=ntlm Linux has recently switched the default to ntlm3 and afaik guests don't work with that. Might also be a samba issue, no idea. This fixed the problem for me. Mounts work again. Thanks Squall
[arch-general] Permission Denied cifs mount
Hello, I perform pacman -Suy updates each Monday on my system and ever since the 25th, I have not been able to mount shares from a local Samba server. My mount.cifs binary has the setuid bit and the mountpoint I am trying to mount to has permissions of 770 with owner and group set to my users. I have tried mounting manually as both my user and root and get the same error. The response from attempting to mount is: # mount -t cifs //sambaserver/Music Music mount error(13): Permission denied Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs) The entries I have in /etc/fstab look like: //sambaserver/Music/mnt/sambaserver/Music cifs rw,users,guest,noauto,uid=1000,gid=100 0 0 I am able to see information regarding the shares using the smbclient -L option. The server is a Slackware server running samba-3.5.8. Local device mounting, such as usb drives and local HD devices mount fine. The samba and smbclient packages were updated from 3.6.12-2 to 3.6.13-1. Currently running Linux 3.8.4-1 and systemd 198-1. Any suggestions to get this working again would be greatly appreciated. Let me know if any additional information is needed. Thank you in advance Squall -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present. Headmaster Squall :: The Wired/Section-9 Close the world txen eht nepo $3R14L 3XP3R1M3NT$ #L41N https://github.com/headmastersquall
Re: [arch-general] LVM Thin Provisioning
This should work $ modinfo dm-thin-pool filename: /lib/modules/3.6.6-1-ARCH/kernel/drivers/md/dm-thin-pool.ko.gz license:GPL author: Joe Thornber dm-de...@redhat.com description:device-mapper thin provisioning target depends:dm-persistent-data,dm-mod intree: Y vermagic: 3.6.6-1-ARCH SMP preempt mod_unload modversions Thank you for your response. I loaded the module using modprobe dm_thin_pool and it can be seen using # lsmod | grep dm_ dm_thin_pool 39196 0 dm_persistent_data 37291 1 dm_thin_pool dm_bufio 14228 1 dm_persistent_data libcrc32c 1002 1 dm_persistent_data dm_snapshot28351 0 dm_zero 1247 0 dm_mod 72105 5 dm_zero,dm_bufio,dm_thin_pool,dm_snapshot and # dmsetup targets thin-poolv1.4.0 thin v1.4.0 snapshot-merge v1.1.0 snapshot-origin v1.7.1 snapshot v1.10.0 zero v1.0.0 striped v1.5.0 linear v1.1.0 errorv1.0.1 however, I still get the same error message when trying to create a thin volume/pool. I couldn't find any options in lvm.conf that needed to be set either. Is there something else I can try? -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present. Headmaster Squall :: The Wired/Section-9 Close the world txen eht nepo $3R14L 3XP3R1M3NT$ #L41N https://github.com/headmastersqual http://twitter.com/headmastersquall
[arch-general] LVM Thin Provisioning
Hello, I have been reading about Thin Provisioning in LVM and wanted to play with it however, when I try to create a thin pool it shows an error saying: # lvcreate --thinpool -L 1G vg/pool WARNING: Unrecognised segment type thin Unable to create LV with unknown segment type thin. Run `lvcreate --help' for more information. I am running version: # lvm version LVM version: 2.02.98(2) (2012-10-15) Library version: 1.02.77 (2012-10-15) Driver version: 4.23.0 and have the following targets for device mapper: # dmsetup targets snapshot-merge v1.1.0 snapshot-origin v1.7.1 snapshot v1.10.0 zero v1.0.0 striped v1.5.0 linear v1.1.0 errorv1.0.1 According to what I could find, this feature has been available since version 2.02.89 and is enabled with the compile time option of --with-thin=internal, but doesn't appear to be enabled in the Arch package. Am I correct or does something need to be configured on my machine? Thank you Squall -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present. Headmaster Squall :: The Wired/Section-9 Close the world txen eht nepo $3R14L 3XP3R1M3NT$ #L41N https://github.com/headmastersqual http://twitter.com/headmastersquall
Re: [arch-general] USB Flash drive problems
I guess running systemctl should tell you? If you are using systemd it will list a lot of running services. Otherwise I assume it will return a dbus error (but I haven't tried that myself, so only a guess). FYI, I haven't updated to systemd yet and the error when running systemctl reads: Failed to get D-Bus connection: No connection to service manager.
Re: [arch-general] Init script hidden output (careless /dev/null redirection)
Do others have any thoughts on this matter? I like to know whats going on. Output in some form is always welcome, although errors should stand out and be obvious. -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present. Headmaster Squall :: The Wired/Section-9 Close the world txen eht nepo $3R14L 3XP3R1M3NT$ #L41N http://twitter.com/headmastersqual
Re: [arch-general] Mime backup program
I tried installing the caatinga in a custom directory and fails. Please see issue: https://github.com/headmastersquall/caatinga/issues/1 This is fixed now. Go ahead and pull and update and try again. -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present. Headmaster Squall :: The Wired/Section-9 Close the world txen eht nepo $3R14L 3XP3R1M3NT$ #L41N http://twitter.com/headmastersqual
Re: [arch-general] Mime backup program
I have renamed and moved this project to github for those interested. Thank you for all your help and I have applied most of the suggestions so far as well as made further improvements. https://github.com/headmastersquall/caatinga -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present. Headmaster Squall :: The Wired/Section-9 Close the world txen eht nepo $3R14L 3XP3R1M3NT$ #L41N http://twitter.com/headmastersqual
Re: [arch-general] Mime backup program
You are the project maintainer, so you decide! On a side note, I think you don’t have many users, so a version change would work nicely. Thanks again. I have been in software development for nearly a decade and am new to open source software so I'm just trying to learn whats best. I will be resetting the version number on the move. Squall -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present. Headmaster Squall :: The Wired/Section-9 Close the world txen eht nepo $3R14L 3XP3R1M3NT$ #L41N http://twitter.com/headmastersqual
Re: [arch-general] Something wrong with firefox/thunderbird driving X cpu usage - 100%
I don't see an option related to GLODA in edit-prefs-advanced-general, is it the same as Enable Global Search and Indexer? Thanks Squall On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 9:57 AM, mike cloaked mike.cloa...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Genes MailLists li...@sapience.com wrote: On 08/10/2012 12:41 AM, gt wrote: Why don't you guys try something like claws or sylpheed, if you are having problem with thunderbird. I have used claws a couple of times and I can say that it consumes minimal resources (for a graphical client). Unless lots has changed recently, Claws is not really a great replacement for TB. In large part due to lack of html compose support (e.g. font control and tables can be pretty darn important for some). Evolution might be, tho it used to crash a lot - perhaps it has improved recently and is worth trying again. I use a local imap server for local storage - even on my laptop - so I can change email clients with zero dependence on any clients local storage quirks. I am running TB 17 - one thing worth checking is to ensure GLODA is turned off (edit-prefs-advanced-general). This has caused terrible cpu and io activity for me in the past. On my laptop, while roaming, if i lose connections - then sometimes TB re-checks and indexes things - which causes CPU spikes for a bit - but they go away. Gene, your comment above about GLODA is an important one and one which quite a few people seem not to be aware of - when TB first moved to GLODA it was automatically switched on when updating TB from the previous version - and caused me lots of CPU spikes at the time, and indeed when it was re-indexing long periods of huge CPU usage - at that time (way back from the current time) I switched off GLODA permanently, and all the CPU usage issues went away - and I have never had any problems since - and have never switched GLODA back on! It might be an idea to try switching off GLODA and see if the CPU high usage issues remain or not - if they go away then the likely culprit was GLODA. -- mike c -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present. Headmaster Squall :: The Wired/Section-9 Close the world txen eht nepo $3R14L 3XP3R1M3NT$ #L41N http://twitter.com/headmastersqual
Re: [arch-general] Something wrong with firefox/thunderbird driving X cpu usage - 100%
My opinion is that they are trying to keep up with the version number of chromium. So many in the past have plaid with version numbers to make them selfs look better and more mature. M$ has done it, Slackware did it, Mozilla is doing it... $ pacman -Ss chromium extra/chromium 21.0.1180.75-1 Squall -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present. Headmaster Squall :: The Wired/Section-9 Close the world txen eht nepo $3R14L 3XP3R1M3NT$ #L41N http://twitter.com/headmastersqual
Re: [arch-general] my Arch box randomly becomes irresponsible
Not sure if it's any help, but it looks like your using virtualbox. I am also using it to run XP and ever since I started using the multiple monitor option in the XP virtual machine, it hasn't been as stable. I also use the Seamless mode, which causes some random graphics glitches. My system became un-responsive earlier today however, I was still able to CTRL+F1 to a virtual console and from their I had to init 3 and then init 5 to get my desktop back. I think this is a virtualbox issue. Squall -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present. Headmaster Squall :: The Wired/Section-9 Close the world txen eht nepo $3R14L 3XP3R1M3NT$ #L41N http://twitter.com/headmastersqual
Re: [arch-general] Mime backup program
1. A better name would be a great idea. When I saw “mime backup program”, I immediately thought of mimetypes, when I shouldn’t. This has been my biggest fear and I have always felt uncomfortable with the name because of that. Unfortunately, I have been trying to come up with something better since I started writing this program and can't seem to come up with anything that fits. I'll give it another go since this is a big deal. 2. lsmime doesn’t use -- in front of arguments, although mime does. See (5). This came about because I wanted lsmime to use more of an svn or human like syntax that is much easier to read and remember. Both programs used to use the - or -- syntax, but it made lsmime very confusing and required constant references to -h. Old lsmime -r -id 5 rc.conf New lsmime restore rc.conf from backup 5 3. Mind switching to version control systems and to GitHub? It’s much nicer and a billion times easier for people to contribute. I'm currently using google code and they have a source control option, I'll set that up after a rename. 4. PyPI — http://wiki.python.org/moin/CheeseShopTutorial 5. argparse should be used instead of your methods of parsing arguments. It’s much cleaner and easier. 6. Use setuptools (distribute) instead of distutils. 7. Compliance with PEP 8 is a good idea. Package “pep8” from the AUR should help you. Thank you for the great resources, I will definitely take the time to make these changes. 8. If you want to have more users, rewrite it in python2. Both programs are fully compatible with versions 2.6, 2.7 and 3.x 9. Unit tests, http://kennethreitz.com/repository-structure-and-python.html and other stuff would be great to see. I have unit tests, I just didn't distribute them. I know I should and will in the future. Your information and feedback is greatly appreciated. Seems like once you think you know enough, you learn their is a whole new world to explore. Thank you Squall -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present. Headmaster Squall :: The Wired/Section-9 Close the world txen eht nepo $3R14L 3XP3R1M3NT$ #L41N http://twitter.com/headmastersqual
Re: [arch-general] Mime backup program
Following Kwpolska remarks, I suggest waiting a little bit before writing the PKGBUILD. Btw, this will only need you 15-30 minutes to write and check integrity. But as already proposed, I can do it for you if you run out of time. I agree, lets come back to this after a rename. -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present. Headmaster Squall :: The Wired/Section-9 Close the world txen eht nepo $3R14L 3XP3R1M3NT$ #L41N http://twitter.com/headmastersqual
Re: [arch-general] Mime backup program
Does Google Code have support for pull requests or anything like that? Not sure if they do, I have been using my own local svn repo. Perhaps with the name change I'll also move the project. Been working on slowly moving away from Google products anyways so this will be good. -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present. Headmaster Squall :: The Wired/Section-9 Close the world txen eht nepo $3R14L 3XP3R1M3NT$ #L41N http://twitter.com/headmastersqual
Re: [arch-general] Mime backup program
Arno and Ashkan, Is there any issue if I install it from your tarball, or shall I create first a PKGBUILD. which is normally the safest way. Their is no issue with just following the instructions and using the Python installer, except that if you want to remove the package you have to do it manually. That being said, you should always create a native package for your distro of choice, simply to have better package organization and house keeping. If you create a PKGBUILD, would you share it with me, I have not had the time to research writing one? i'm very interesting to use this app. but i usually use svn to backup /etc on my linux boxes. SVN is a great tool and I use it as well for backing up certain items, such as our DNS zone files (which is also backed using mime). After you start using mime to backup your system, it give the feel of having your entire file system under source control. This is because each backup that is made creates a new copy of your file system which builds a history of your files. The lsmime tool that installs with it also provides the ability to do a diff on a file and compare it to a version from your backups, and their is a lsmime changes command that works similarly to svn status. Thank you Squall -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present. Headmaster Squall :: The Wired/Section-9 Close the world txen eht nepo $3R14L 3XP3R1M3NT$ #L41N http://twitter.com/headmastersqual
[arch-general] Mime backup program
Hello, A few weeks ago there was a thread regarding the best Arch way of backing up /etc and I mentioned that I wrote a backup program that works very well for that. I promised I would let everyone know when my new version became available, and today is that day. I don't have an AUR package yet, however an installer is provided and a Quick Setup can be found in the README. The package contains full documentation and I am willing to answer questions via email. This is a very powerful and fully featured program and I welcome any feedback. http://code.google.com/p/mime-backup/ Thank you Squall -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present. Headmaster Squall :: The Wired/Section-9 Close the world txen eht nepo $3R14L 3XP3R1M3NT$ #L41N http://twitter.com/headmastersqual
Re: [arch-general] Mime backup program
A very misleading name :) I have been concerned about the confusion because of mime types. I was going for something like mimic because the backups resemble the primary file system. I might change it in the future, just haven't found a good name yet. Thanks for the input. -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present. Headmaster Squall :: The Wired/Section-9 Close the world txen eht nepo $3R14L 3XP3R1M3NT$ #L41N http://twitter.com/headmastersqual
Re: [arch-general] glibc 2.16 -- just what is supposed to be in /lib now ??
Tom is right. You're thinking of *hard* links, which I think don't work for directories anyway (though I saw some discussion about changing that). You are correct. Hard links must link to another item within the current partition/volume and cannot cross over, however soft/symbolic links can. Last time I checked, Apple's file system is the only one that can Hard Link a directory.
Re: [arch-general] glibc 2.16 -- just what is supposed to be in /lib now ??
(...but cannot hardlink files in a sane way.) ext4 supports hardlinked directories, can be done using `debugfs` – Linux just disallows that in link() currently. Thank you Mantas for the info. I'm having a hard time finding information on how to create a hard link on a directory, if you have any resources you can provide that would be very helpful.
Re: [arch-general] CUPS not recognizing the printer
Greetings all, I have an HP LaserJet M1132 hooked via a USB port. It worked quite fine until my recent -Syu, where it suddenly stopped working. Since I had hplip upgraded, I assumed I have to reinstall the printer, so I removed it via the CUPS webinterface and right now I can't seem to get it installed again! Both CUPS and hp-setup fail to see it, however lsusb, dmesg and usb-devices clearly show it's there. The device node permissions are fine too. usblp is blacklisted, but I tried the installation after probing it, which didn't help. lpinfo -v stopped showing anything about USB. It doesn't seem that -Syu has something to do with it, since downgrading all the packages I've upgraded didn't help, I'm thinking this has something to do with the libusb - libusbx transition earlier. Also tried the suggested solution to the same problem from here with no luck: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1119424#p1119424 Anyone can help? -- Serge Hooge () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments Not sure if this is related, but after my update this morning I am getting this message in my CUPS configuration. Searched the web and only found bug report entry on the Ubuntu forms. Not sure of a solution yet. *The PPD version (5.2.7) is not compatible with Gutenprint 5.2.8. * -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present. Headmaster Squall :: The Wired/Section-9 Close the world txen eht nepo $3R14L 3XP3R1M3NT$ #L41N http://twitter.com/headmastersqual
Re: [arch-general] Source control on /etc
I wrote a system backup program called mime that works similar to Apple's Time Machine on the back end. Basically each time you backup your system, another copy of your file system is available. Another program is installed with it called lsmime which is used to list, restore and view information about files that are backed up. The new version I am about to release even has the ability to view a diff on a particular file against any version that is in your backups. The features available give the feel of having your entire file system under version control. The version on the site is functional and we have been using it on our servers and work stations for years. I will have a new version available in a few weeks. The current version can be downloaded here from the link below. If you end up using it, I greatly appreciate any feedback you can provide. In regards to your original question, I don't know what is considered the Arch way of doing this, however I run Arch at work and at home and is backed up using mime on a daily or weekly frequency (this has saved my butt more than once). http://code.google.com/p/mime-backup/ Thank you Squall
Re: [arch-general] Source control on /etc
Squall, very nice work going to give this a shot later today on a test box. Thanks for pointing this out. I tried a few things in suggestions to my OP but this seems to be the best so far. Thanks for bringing this back up Your welcome. I will post a message to everyone when I roll out my next version since it's a huge improvement over the current one with a lot of very powerful and user friendly features, as well as efficiency improvements. Enjoy -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present. Headmaster Squall :: The Wired/Section-9 Close the world txen eht nepo $3R14L 3XP3R1M3NT$ #L41N http://twitter.com/headmastersqual
Re: [arch-general] Source control on /etc
It'd be nice if you added it to the AUR. M After I roll out this update, that's on my list of stuff to figure out :). I have never created an AUR package, doesn't sound to difficult. Squall -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present. Headmaster Squall :: The Wired/Section-9 Close the world txen eht nepo $3R14L 3XP3R1M3NT$ #L41N http://twitter.com/headmastersqual
Re: [arch-general] DNS server help
thank you! does it take ages to read? It's a big book but you only need chapter 4 and 5 to get setup. It's worth checking out. -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present. Headmaster Squall :: The Wired/Section-9 Close the world txen eht nepo $3R14L 3XP3R1M3NT$ #L41N http://twitter.com/headmastersqual
Re: [arch-general] DNS server help
do you have any resource that explains the zones in detail and so that i can actually understand and learn them? also guide for setting up mydns? or it works out of the box? I recently setup some name servers using BIND and found this to be a must have resource. http://www.amazon.com/DNS-BIND-5th-Edition-Cricket/dp/0596100574/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8qid=1339535864sr=8-1 Squall
Re: [arch-general] User actions following system package upgrades?
I always restart applications such as Firefox, Thunderbird, KDE, and xorg after an update otherwise they act like they have ghosts in them. I would imagine the major components you mentioned would have the same affect. -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present.
[arch-general] What package owns shread
Hello, I have been trying to figure out what package installs the gnu shread program and have had no luck. Pacman doesn't seem to know either and I was hoping someone here might know. If their is another way of looking this up, I would be interested to know as well. $ pacman -Qo shread error: No package owns /usr/local/bin/shread Thank you -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present. Headmaster Squall :: The Wired/Section-9 Close the world txen eht nepo $3R14L 3XP3R1M3NT$ #L41N http://twitter.com/headmastersqual
Re: [arch-general] What package owns shread
Do you mean shred? Never heard of shread.. Yes I did, I found that I was just typing it wrong and the shread that I have on my system is something I wrote a long time ago and it confused me. Sorry for the noise and thanks for your help.
Re: [arch-general] Programs Not Closing
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 5:11 AM, Simon Stoakley sausageande...@archlinux.us wrote: The day was 26/10/11 19:10 when , Squall Lionheart had this to say..: Do you think Desktop Search, Nepomnk or akonadi would have anything to do with this? I had them disabled for a long time then enabled them after the 4.7 update since I was constantly being nagged about them being disabled. Would rather not have them at all in my opinion. I've disabled them without any troubles so far [1] [2] , bear in mind though they'll automatically start if you open kmail etc and are needed by some things to work properly [3] [1] http://henryhermawan.blogspot.**com/2011/08/disable-nepomuk-** and-akonadi.htmlhttp://henryhermawan.blogspot.com/2011/08/disable-nepomuk-and-akonadi.html [2] http://ubuntuku.org/16/how-to-**disable-nepomuk-akonadi/http://ubuntuku.org/16/how-to-disable-nepomuk-akonadi/ [3] http://forum.kde.org/**viewtopic.php?f=154t=88771#**p162713http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=154t=88771#p162713 Simon Thank you for the links, they were very helpful. -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present. Headmaster Squall :: The Wired/Section-9 Close the world txen eht nepo $3R14L 3XP3R1M3NT$ #L41N http://twitter.com/headmastersqual
Re: [arch-general] Programs Not Closing
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Squall Lionheart headmastersqu...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 5:11 AM, Simon Stoakley sausageande...@archlinux.us wrote: The day was 26/10/11 19:10 when , Squall Lionheart had this to say..: Do you think Desktop Search, Nepomnk or akonadi would have anything to do with this? I had them disabled for a long time then enabled them after the 4.7 update since I was constantly being nagged about them being disabled. Would rather not have them at all in my opinion. I've disabled them without any troubles so far [1] [2] , bear in mind though they'll automatically start if you open kmail etc and are needed by some things to work properly [3] [1] http://henryhermawan.blogspot.**com/2011/08/disable-nepomuk-** and-akonadi.htmlhttp://henryhermawan.blogspot.com/2011/08/disable-nepomuk-and-akonadi.html [2] http://ubuntuku.org/16/how-to-**disable-nepomuk-akonadi/http://ubuntuku.org/16/how-to-disable-nepomuk-akonadi/ [3] http://forum.kde.org/**viewtopic.php?f=154t=88771#**p162713http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=154t=88771#p162713 Simon Thank you for the links, they were very helpful. -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present. Headmaster Squall :: The Wired/Section-9 Close the world txen eht nepo $3R14L 3XP3R1M3NT$ #L41N http://twitter.com/headmastersqual Found out that the the program that is crashing when I log out is plasma-desktop. Not sure if it's related or not.
[arch-general] Programs Not Closing
Hello, Ever since the upgrade to KDE 4.7 several weeks ago, a lot of programs seem to hang in the Task Manager after I close them. They will remain for a long time or until I open another application. I also have an occasional application crash when I shutdown. Unfortunately, the crash message tells me nothing of what program is crashing and I'm not sure if it's related. My question for everyone is regarding the programs hanging around since it's a regular thing and is most likely the cause of the latter. Is this a common thing or do I have some conflict somewhere, or a service that isn't happy? I run pacman -Suy almost daily and use Firefox, Thunderbird, Kopete, Yakuake, VirtualBox, Terminal, Kwrite, and BOINC on a regular bases. I put my system to sleep nightly and shutdown at the end of the week. DAEMONS=(syslog-ng dbus network !netfs crond alsa @cupsd @boinc @samba). I hope that's enough info. Thank you -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present. Headmaster Squall :: The Wired/Section-9 Close the world txen eht nepo $3R14L 3XP3R1M3NT$ #L41N http://twitter.com/headmastersqual
Re: [arch-general] Programs Not Closing
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Roman V.Leon. roman...@meta.ua wrote: 26.10.2011 20:53, Squall Lionheart пишет: Hello, Ever since the upgrade to KDE 4.7 several weeks ago, a lot of programs seem to hang in the Task Manager after I close them. They will remain for a long time or until I open another application. I also have an occasional application crash when I shutdown. Unfortunately, the crash message tells me nothing of what program is crashing and I'm not sure if it's related. My question for everyone is regarding the programs hanging around since it's a regular thing and is most likely the cause of the latter. Is this a common thing or do I have some conflict somewhere, or a service that isn't happy? I run pacman -Suy almost daily and use Firefox, Thunderbird, Kopete, Yakuake, VirtualBox, Terminal, Kwrite, and BOINC on a regular bases. I put my system to sleep nightly and shutdown at the end of the week. DAEMONS=(syslog-ng dbus network !netfs crond alsa @cupsd @boinc @samba). I hope that's enough info. Thank you What you mean under Task Manager ? The thing is i have similar problem after update to KDE 4.7 - some programs exist in task panel some time, after I closed them. For example after i closing firefox i can see it's shortcut in task panel. -- Cheers, Roman V.Leon. I am referring to the same thing. The Task panel is named Task Manager. After I close an application, the space it would take on the panel remains and the icon changes to the X no icon image (I think it's the xorg icon/logo). After this happens, the only way to get rid of it is to open and close another application or to wait a long time. Do you think Desktop Search, Nepomnk or akonadi would have anything to do with this? I had them disabled for a long time then enabled them after the 4.7 update since I was constantly being nagged about them being disabled. Would rather not have them at all in my opinion. -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present. Headmaster Squall :: The Wired/Section-9 Close the world txen eht nepo $3R14L 3XP3R1M3NT$ #L41N http://twitter.com/headmastersqual
Re: [arch-general] Programs Not Closing
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Roman V.Leon. roman...@meta.ua wrote: 26.10.2011 22:10, Squall Lionheart пишет: On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Roman V.Leon.roman...@meta.ua wrote: 26.10.2011 20:53, Squall Lionheart пишет: Hello, Ever since the upgrade to KDE 4.7 several weeks ago, a lot of programs seem to hang in the Task Manager after I close them. They will remain for a long time or until I open another application. I also have an occasional application crash when I shutdown. Unfortunately, the crash message tells me nothing of what program is crashing and I'm not sure if it's related. My question for everyone is regarding the programs hanging around since it's a regular thing and is most likely the cause of the latter. Is this a common thing or do I have some conflict somewhere, or a service that isn't happy? I run pacman -Suy almost daily and use Firefox, Thunderbird, Kopete, Yakuake, VirtualBox, Terminal, Kwrite, and BOINC on a regular bases. I put my system to sleep nightly and shutdown at the end of the week. DAEMONS=(syslog-ng dbus network !netfs crond alsa @cupsd @boinc @samba). I hope that's enough info. Thank you What you mean under Task Manager ? The thing is i have similar problem after update to KDE 4.7 - some programs exist in task panel some time, after I closed them. For example after i closing firefox i can see it's shortcut in task panel. -- Cheers, Roman V.Leon. I am referring to the same thing. The Task panel is named Task Manager. After I close an application, the space it would take on the panel remains and the icon changes to the X no icon image (I think it's the xorg icon/logo). After this happens, the only way to get rid of it is to open and close another application or to wait a long time. Do you think Desktop Search, Nepomnk or akonadi would have anything to do with this? I had them disabled for a long time then enabled them after the 4.7 update since I was constantly being nagged about them being disabled. Would rather not have them at all in my opinion. I don't think it's search systems behaviour, i had disabled them about a year ago(when system was installed) and never used them. I was under impression that i'm just the only one lucky with this issue, now it seems that it's a bug which became visible after update. -- Cheers, Roman V.Leon. I'm glad I'm not the only one with the problem. Do you suspect anything in particular, or does it feel like a KDE bug?
Re: [arch-general] [signoff] samba-3.6.0-3
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Tobias Powalowski tobias.powalow...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi guys. - using the waf building system - reduced package size 80Mb - changed to gamin depend instead of fam Due to the big changes, please signoff both arches, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tp...@archlinux.org Update installed fine and gamin replaced fam. Service started fine. I can mount remote Samba shares and I'm serving one share with no problems. Sign off x86_64 -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present. Headmaster Squall :: The Wired/Section-9 Close the world txen eht nepo $3R14L 3XP3R1M3NT$ #L41N http://twitter.com/headmastersqual
Re: [arch-general] Content of new text file
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 4:19 AM, Paul Gideon Dann pdgid...@gmail.comwrote: On Wednesday 13 Jul 2011 15:00:37 Squall Lionheart wrote: When using Dolphin in KDE4 to *Create New Text File...* the new file is not empty, it contains a space and a newline character. I wonder if that's to do with MIME types? With a space and a newline, the file is detected by file as ASCII text rather than empty. A single newline is detected as very short file (no magic), so probably the space-newline combo is the shortest file that can be automatically detected as text. It might be handy to have the option to Create New = Empty File though, although I don't think I've ever needed to do this outside a terminal myself. Paul I tried what Pete said and that fixed it. The template file is located at /usr/share/templates/.source/TextFile.txt and clearing the contents makes new files appear empty as expected. Thank you Squall
[arch-general] Content of new text file
Hello, When using Dolphin in KDE4 to *Create New Text File...* the new file is not empty, it contains a space and a newline character. I have looked for some kind of setting or template file that controls this default and have not been successful. I was wondering if anyone knows how to modify this behavior or can provide a link to a how to. My goal here is to simply create an empty file just like if you used *touch newfile.txt*. Thank you -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present. Headmaster Squall :: The Wired/Section-9 Close the world txen eht nepo $3R14L 3XP3R1M3NT$ #L41N http://twitter.com/headmastersqual
Re: [arch-general] Content of new text file
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de wrote: Am Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:00:37 -0600 schrieb Squall Lionheart headmastersqu...@gmail.com: When using Dolphin in KDE4 to *Create New Text File...* the new file is not empty, it contains a space and a newline character. I have looked for some kind of setting or template file that controls this default and have not been successful. I was wondering if anyone knows how to modify this behavior or can provide a link to a how to. My goal here is to simply create an empty file just like if you used *touch newfile.txt*. Looks like a case for https://bugs.kde.org. Heiko If it comes down to it being a bug, I'll file a report. Just want to make sure it's not just a template somewhere first.
Re: [arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Andreas Radke a.ra...@arcor.de wrote:
LibreOffice has recently proved to be a solid replacement for Oracle
OpenOffice. I'm about to drop all Oracle OOo packages from our repos.
First my time is limited. I've asked so many times for help in the
Office packaging area and nobody stepped in.
Then there's the poor distribution support Oracle spends on the
distributions. They almost do not care about custom distribution builds
and their interest. They break the build against system libs
every now and then and it takes ages to contact the relevant devs to
fix their bugs. Development is only driven by the profit interests of
Oracle... You can put in here all the arguments the Document foundation
has given at its birth.
So don't expect any efforts to fix bugs in Oracle packages anymore. As
soon as they will break due to a .so name bump or something like this
I'll remove all the packages from our repos if nobody else is willing
to maintain them.
Any objections to add
replaces=('openoffice-base') to the next LibO pkg?
-Andy
I am an OpenOffice user and as long as LibreOffice will provide the same (or
similar) experience, I'm game for the change. Not a big Oracle fan and if I
can avoid their software on my computer, it would be preferred.
