Re: [arch] Arch Kernels

2007-05-17 Thread Dale Blount
> Yes, I do agree. kernel-laptop -desktop -sever if you want my vote. BTW, > Since we haven't supported 2.4 for a long time, why not remove 26 from the > name? So when kernel 2.8 comes out, we don't have to rename it back to kernel26. Dale ___ arc

Re: [arch] Arch, uucp user/group, rxtx and /var/lock

2007-04-10 Thread Dale Blount
> Looking through the FHS I found this page: > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#VARLOCKLOCKFILES > It references uucp, even though it doesn't say it should be the > default GID, but to make it usable for apps like rxtx I think yes. UUCP is dead (and has been for years), so should the G

Re: [arch] openssh 4.6p1 sources gone?

2007-04-04 Thread Dale Blount
On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 10:33 -0400, Mister Dobalina wrote: > Trying to build openssh 4.6p1 from abs, but the > sources have disappeared from the openbsd master ftp > server ?? > > I was able to get it from another mirror, but could > this mean there was some problem with it? The sources > for the o

Re: [arch] BitTorrent server for arch ISOs

2007-04-04 Thread Dale Blount
On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 17:08 +0200, solsTiCe d'Hiver wrote: > with rtorrent for that particuliar torrent (and never with the others ) i > kept > having > 'tracking error 3' > > and upload at no more than 0,9kb Same here. Dale ___ arch mailing list

Re: [arch] [security] Warning on ClamAv

2007-03-02 Thread Dale Blount
> > I have not upgraded clamav yet because there have been numerous reports > > of 0.90 not working as well as 0.8x (higher cpu, crashing, etc). Are > > there patches available to the 0.8x branch that we can use until 0.9x is > > more stable? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Dale > > > Thanks for your feed

Re: [arch] [security] Warning on ClamAv

2007-02-15 Thread Dale Blount
> Problem Packages > === > - -- > Package | Repo| Group| Unsafe |Safe| > - -- >clamav extra system < 0

Re: [arch] Compaq Server Smart Array 5i.. No workie..

2007-02-02 Thread Dale Blount
> i used the Base image for 0.8... I installed just fine.. > > When i went to install the boot loader, the installer could not install > the MBR > on any of the disks found.. I had to use lilo instead of grub on my cciss device. Dale ___ arch mailin

Re: [arch] Compaq Server Smart Array 5i.. No workie..

2007-01-30 Thread Dale Blount
On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 17:33 -0500, joe henderson wrote: > All, > > I have a compaq prolient. with a smart array 5i raid card. > > I used both 0.7.1 and 0.7.2 cd's to detect the array.. > > 0.7.2 detected the array however did not create the drives. > Try the 0.8 Beta1 ISO: http://www.archlinux

Re: [arch] Pacman slow after upgrade?

2007-01-01 Thread Dale Blount
> Try running pacman-optimize. > > Dale > > I didn't know of that one until now. > Well, apparently solved my problem. Thanks. > BTW, is that supposed to happen in a newly installed system? It's ok > on a some-time-old system, that got many packages > installed/uninstall

Re: [arch] Pacman slow after upgrade?

2007-01-01 Thread Dale Blount
> > I think it might be related to the package db backend. > Searches (with -Ss) sometimes takes even more time. I've noticed that > delay mostly after pacman upgrade. > > Just in case, I have a Athon XP 64 3200+ with 512MB RAM, so I don't > think my hardware is the problem :-P Try running pa

Re: [arch] Pacman feature.

2006-11-29 Thread Dale Blount
> The thing is, I often put pacman to make very long installs and then > find out that I would like to use a little application I don't have > installed "right now", but the lock mechanisms in pacman wouldn't let > me do both at the same time. > > On the other hand, I don't know if there is anyth

Re: [arch] The ever lasting story: hard disk partitioning

2006-11-01 Thread Dale Blount
On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 15:23 -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On 11/1/06, RedShift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > /boot<- 25 mb > > swap<- 1 GB (server has 1 gb ram) > > /<- 2 GB > > /usr/local<- 500 MB > > /home<- The rest > > I know it's typical for people to sepa

Re: [arch] The ever lasting story: hard disk partitioning

2006-11-01 Thread Dale Blount
On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 22:05 +0100, RedShift wrote: > Ehlo > > Usually I don't really care about hard disk partitioning, because most > of my computers are just workstations. One big /, a swap partition and > sometimes a small /boot partition. However, now I want to install a > server and I'm no

Re: [arch] Weird logrotate messages

2006-04-10 Thread Dale Blount
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 09:24 -0400, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > Anyone else getting weird logrotate messages? > > error: error running postrotate script > error: error running postrotate script > error: error running postrotate script > error: error running postrotate script > error: error running

Re: [arch] kernel moved to current

2006-04-05 Thread Dale Blount
On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 19:40 +0200, Sjon wrote: > I am going to agree you have sort of a point here. This has indeed > happened multiple times now; my nvidia setup broke as well; no way of > fixing it (but fortunately it somehow worked after a major package > upgrade today). If we want to improve

Re: [arch] non-static linked grep causing problems during boot

2006-03-29 Thread Dale Blount
> since /usr isn't mounted, I'm getting an error about libpcre not being found, > which causes the grep command to fail and thus /sys to not be mounted. This > also > causes other errors for me like lvm not being mounted (where /usr is). So I > have > had to comment out the offending lines to get

Re: [arch] idees about mirror

2006-02-23 Thread Dale Blount
On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 03:34 +0100, Benoit Chesneau wrote: > Hi, > > Just a quick idee about mirror and distribution of packages on them. I > noticed that some users had some problems theses days when they updated > their system due to xorg update: some packages were not yet on their > mirrors so

Re: [arch] Server Donation Drive!

2006-02-23 Thread Dale Blount
> Could you post the paypal link here, since archlinux.org seems to be down > right now... It's actually an http POST to a Paypal page, so posting a link isn't easy (I won't say it's impossible...). But the server is back up again so you can use the button now. Thanks, Dale _

Re: [arch] csup

2006-02-19 Thread Dale Blount
How about bison? On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 11:27 -0500, matthew g wrote: > I do have flex installed... hmm > > On 2/19/06, Dale Blount <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 10:04 -0500, matthew g wrote: > > > config.o: In function `config_init

Re: [arch] csup

2006-02-19 Thread Dale Blount
On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 10:04 -0500, matthew g wrote: > config.o: In function `config_init': > /home/msg43/csup/src/csup/config.c:81: undefined reference to `yyin' > /home/msg43/csup/src/csup/config.c:89: undefined reference to `yyin' > parse.o: In function `yyparse': > /home/msg43/csup/src/csup/pars

Re: [arch] cpq array compiled in, instead of as module

2006-02-12 Thread Dale Blount
On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 18:04 +0100, RedShift wrote: > Actually it's for installing, when I boot the ArchLinux CD I can't > access these devices. > > Glenn You'll have to snarf the makedev pkg from the install iso. Then run: cd / tar zxvf /path/to/makedev-X.X.X-X.pkg.tar.gz MAKEDEV cciss modprob

Re: [arch] Cron makewhatis Failure ?

2006-02-02 Thread Dale Blount
On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 00:11 -0800, Casey McGinty wrote: > Is anyway seeing this output from /etc/cron.daily/whatis ?? :-( > > awk: line 74: syntax error at or near || > awk: line 75: extra ')' > awk: line 78: syntax error at or near else > awk: line 81: syntax er

Re: [arch] Moving /home

2005-12-12 Thread Dale Blount
On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 08:21 -0800, Pilgrim wrote: > I have all of Arch installed on a single partition right now. That happens to > be > /dev/hdb8 (10GB). I would like to move the /home directory to /dev/hdb7 > (17GB). Both > are > formatted ext3. As I understand it, "dd", isn't the right tool fo

Re: [arch] Latest testing udev conflicts with hotplug

2005-12-05 Thread Dale Blount
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 00:35 +1100, James Rayner wrote: > On 12/5/05, Jan de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yes, that's correct. Hotplug is obsolete with newer versions of udev. > > The only use for hotplug nowadays is the coldplugging at bootup, which > > we can use hwdetect or hwd for now

Re: [arch] Initrd still fails on SATA/RAID system

2005-11-25 Thread Dale Blount
On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 21:48 -0500, Paul Hoy wrote: > On Nov 24, 2005, at 9:40 PM, Dale Blount wrote: > > > On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 21:23 -0500, Paul Hoy wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I'm still unable to get the new kernel/initrd working on my m

Re: [arch] Initrd still fails on SATA/RAID system

2005-11-24 Thread Dale Blount
On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 21:23 -0500, Paul Hoy wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm still unable to get the new kernel/initrd working on my machine. > The newest errors is as follows: > > "hda<4>hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0xff" > and then followed by: > "hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0xff" >

Re: [arch] Re: sata harddrive module

2005-09-30 Thread Dale Blount
Fabian, I mean permission on the device file. Maybe udev broke it somehow. ls -l /dev/sda* ls -lR /dev/discs if you could. Thanks, Dale On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 16:24 +0200, Fabian Braennstroem wrote: > Hi Dale, > > what do you mean by permissions? Shouldn't I be able to > check the drive with

Re: [arch] Re: sata harddrive module

2005-09-30 Thread Dale Blount
Are the permissions OK on the part devices (and the paths leading to them)? If they are, I'm at a loss. Dale On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 08:02 +0200, Fabian Braennstroem wrote: > Hi, > > * Dale wrote 29 Sep 2005: > > > Udev or devfs? If devfs, is there anything in /dev/discs? > > Udev; but there a

Re: [arch] Re: sata harddrive module

2005-09-29 Thread Dale Blount
Udev or devfs? If devfs, is there anything in /dev/discs? Dale On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 21:37 +0200, Fabian Braennstroem wrote: > Hi, > > I tried 'cfdisk /dev/sda' which did not work: 'FATAL ERROR: > Cannot open disk drive' and 'fdisk -l /dev/sda' doesn't > print anything. Just using 'fdisk /dev/s

Re: [arch] Re: sata harddrive module

2005-09-29 Thread Dale Blount
What do you mean you don't get any access to /dev/sda? Try "fdisk -l /dev/sda" as root. Dale On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 21:16 +0200, Fabian Braennstroem wrote: > Hi Dale, > > * Dale wrote 29 Sep 2005: > > > /dev/sda should now be available to use, though. Is it a 200gb drive > > like is reported

Re: [arch] Re: sata harddrive module

2005-09-29 Thread Dale Blount
/dev/sda should now be available to use, though. Is it a 200gb drive like is reported? Dale On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 18:09 +0200, Fabian Braennstroem wrote: > Hi Dale, > > that is strange; I just installed the kernel26-scsi and get > no other result!? > The kernel log looks similar: > > Sep 29 17

Re: [arch] Re: sata harddrive module

2005-09-29 Thread Dale Blount
Fabian, ata_piix isn't libata. It might show up now as hdX but in order for you to have it show up as sdX, you'll need the kernel26-scsi kernel. Dale On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 16:42 +0200, Fabian Braennstroem wrote: > Hi Dale, > > thanks for the quick response, but doesn't the kernel log > say tha

Re: [arch] Re: sata harddrive module

2005-09-29 Thread Dale Blount
On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 15:45 +0200, Fabian Braennstroem wrote: > Hi, > > no I installed the default 'kernel26' from arch, but I am > not able to access (with mount or cfdisk /dev/sda) the sata drive. The kernel > log says: Try kernel26-scsi instead. SATA support is in the scsi kernel in Arch (si

Re: [arch] Reason for package updates

2005-05-06 Thread Dale Blount
Kevin, Replaces won't fix this as it's the same package, but force=y would. If you don't mind, could you release a -2 with force=y? Dale On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 09:12 -0400, K Piche wrote: > Version 1.99.1 (1999) is newer than 9708 (1997) except the version > number format changed. Perhaps a re

Re: [arch] small little pacman feature request - '-Qo' to include dirs as well

2005-03-30 Thread Dale Blount
> Especially so in /usr/local/'s case, as it is my understanding that > /usr/local/ should never be populated by the standard distro installed > stuff (but only locally installed packages). Luckily, Arch doesnt > break this rule (/usr/local/ is totally empty of files - it is just an > empty directo

Re: [arch] Headless Arch box: no shell?

2005-02-26 Thread Dale Blount
On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 11:38 -0800, darren kirby wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a headless box running Arch as a Print and File server (Cups, NFS). Up > until a few days ago everything was working fine. The only way I can get into > this box is through ssh. Now when I try to ssh to the box it acc