[arch] Arch Leadership

2007-10-01 Thread Judd Vinet
Hello everyone, It's been awhile since I poked my head out to say hi, and now that I have, it with an air of finality. I plan to step down as leader of Arch Linux and pass the torch. The reason for this is that I do not have the time to devote towards a leadership role in a project the size of A

Re: [arch] Bugs with Arch's website ?

2006-09-21 Thread Judd Vinet
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 07:05:54PM +0300, Roman Kyrylych wrote: > This is known bug. It has beed reported in bugtracker few times. > http://cvs.archlinux.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/kernels/kernel26/?cvsroot=Testing&only_with_tag=CURRENT > should be changed to > http://cvs.archlinux.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs

[arch] Goodbye Rob (lilo)

2006-09-17 Thread Judd Vinet
As many have heard, lilo (Rob Levin), the father of the Freenode IRC network, passed away[1] on September 16th. He was hit by a car on September 12th while riding his bike and subsequently died from head trauma in the ICU. We extend our heartfelt sympathies to his friends and family. He was a boon

Re: [arch] Where is french documentation ?

2006-07-17 Thread Judd Vinet
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 01:59:52PM +0200, Benoit Chesneau wrote: > There was a translation before on the website. So we, at archlinuxfr > point to the translation, since the author put it on official site. > And if you see my email, you will see I'm quite aware about existence > of a french

Re: [arch] Domains for archlinux-communities

2006-06-27 Thread Judd Vinet
Hi Pierre, On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 02:00:18PM +0200, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > our German community grows and it time to switch to better domain. Currently > we are using a subdomain: archlinux.laber-land.de > > I tried to contact Judd several times about archlinux.de which is a alias for > archl

Re: [arch] cryptsetup problem in 0.7.2 CD!

2006-06-10 Thread Judd Vinet
On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 03:08:19PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 2) cryptsetup does NOT work. It complains about libnsl.so.1 not found. > > How can I install Arch (encrypted) if cryptsetup is not working? > Aw, hell. My bad. You can fix this manually by grabbing the missing file with sn

[arch] Arch CDs for sale

2006-06-01 Thread Judd Vinet
Hey everyone, Though Arch CDs have long been available for purchase from third-party linux vendors, this is the first time that Arch has actually teamed up with a vendor to sell CDs. >From now on, if you buy an Arch CD from OSDisc.com, the Arch Linux project will receive a cut. Go here[1] to pur

Re: [arch] Arch 0.7.2 (Gimmick) Released

2006-05-23 Thread Judd Vinet
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 06:44:06PM +, Urs Wolfer wrote: > Why not update the mirror page? > See this bugreport: > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/4631 > > I would be a volunteer to work on this! ;) Sure, please do! You can grab the HTML from http://www.archlinux.org/download.php and update th

[arch] Arch 0.7.2 (Gimmick) Released

2006-05-23 Thread Judd Vinet
Hi all, Arch Linux 0.7.2 (Gimmick) is now available for download. This time, we've provided three different ISO images for you to use: an FTP-only image (13mb), a Base-only image (145mb), and our full image that contains the entire Current repository (519mb). As always, please use a mirror or a t

Re: [arch] mysql security bug

2006-05-17 Thread Judd Vinet
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 10:09:18PM +0300, Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: > I came across this today > http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1516 > It says all versions up to 5.0.20 as vulnerable. > Is archlinux's mysql affected? Probably not, then. We're on mysql 5.0.20a. > If ye

Re: [arch] when will 0.7.2 be out?

2006-05-16 Thread Judd Vinet
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 10:00:29AM -0400, Martin Lefebvre wrote: > Judd! where was the week-long argument for a new name? > > A few of us sure are disappointed that we couldn't give our > "unacceptable-yet-funny" name ideas :P Awww, you can still get them in for 0.8! I have an idea for a 0.8 ta

Re: [arch] when will 0.7.2 be out?

2006-05-15 Thread Judd Vinet
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 12:02:38AM +0300, Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: > It already says 0.7.2 when I turn on my computer so I was just wondering, Is > there a specified date fro 0.7.2? There are ISOs available for testing now. If not critical bugs are found, they'll be officially announced very soon.

Re: [arch] /tmp

2006-05-15 Thread Judd Vinet
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 10:50:03AM -0400, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > Hmmm. I thought I remembered reading somewhere that the way tmpfs > worked was that if it didn't have sufficient space in RAM, then it would > use swap space for the rest. So if I specify 1GB, I will have access to > that am

Re: [arch] /tmp

2006-05-14 Thread Judd Vinet
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 11:10:52AM -0400, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > What restriction are you referring to? I've always had my /tmp set to > 1GB and have never had a prob. That works well enough if you have the RAM. IIRC, tmpfs will only use up to half your RAM, so unless you have 2GB or you f

Re: [arch] Latest Crond not working

2006-05-05 Thread Judd Vinet
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 08:55:14PM +0300, Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: > On Friday 05 May 2006 8:50 pm, Aaron Griffin wrote: > > On 5/5/06, Hussam Al-Tayeb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > initgroups failed: hussam Operation not permitted > > > unable to create /var/spool/cron/hussam.new: Permission deni

Re: [arch] Large File Support (apache and pure-ftpd)

2006-05-04 Thread Judd Vinet
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 11:31:36PM +0530, Vinay S Shastry wrote: > Hi! > > I've been trying to download a dvd iso from a custom server, and noticed that > i couldnt download files greater than 2Gigs. Upon further investigation, I > discovered that for apache, you need 2.2 > (https://www.redhat.

Re: [arch] CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y

2006-04-27 Thread Judd Vinet
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 08:57:39AM -0700, Ryan Ply wrote: > No responses to this? I was really interested in what people had to say. > I'm > gonna upgrade from 1gig to 3 this summer, 4 if I'm lucky and would like to be > able to use all of it. I remember reading that with my motherboard Windo

Re: [arch] I cannot see /dev/hda13

2006-04-23 Thread Judd Vinet
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 09:36:23PM +, JúlioMaranhão wrote: > I am evaluating ArchLinux 0.7.1 CD. I use KUbuntu in hda, actually hda1 to > hda9. I successfully installed Arch in these logical partitions: > > hda10 -> /boot (ext3) > hda11 -> swap > hda12 -> / (ext3) > > Now I want to add hda13

Re: [arch] Hedilinux - flattery or rip-off?

2006-03-29 Thread Judd Vinet
On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 08:15:47AM -0800, Aaron Griffin wrote: > I didn't write this description. Actually it was a great archlinux > contributor who contributed to the hedinux project and who wrote it. He > created the hedinux project on gna.org, and I've copy-paste the > description into the wiki

Re: [arch] LANG hard-coded in /etc/profile?

2006-03-27 Thread Judd Vinet
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 06:24:22PM +1100, Alec Thomas wrote: > Hi, > > Should this be hard-coded to en_US? > > I've set LOCALE=en_AU in /etc/rc.conf and uncommented > "en_AU ISO-8859-1" in /etc/locale.gen (and ran locale-gen) but due to > the hard-coding of en_US it is mostly ignored. The hard-

Re: [arch] What is Wrong with Repos

2006-03-26 Thread Judd Vinet
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 11:29:58PM -0700, Joe Giles wrote: > Interestingly enough, on my other Arch box, libelf is NOT needed for > ntpdate to work. > > xmms is still no where to be found on the repos, however. Looks like it had been placed in Extra by accident. I've moved it to Current now. -

Re: [arch] Kernel 2.6.16 - modularized capability

2006-03-22 Thread Judd Vinet
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 03:12:33PM +0100, Jaroslaw Swierczynski wrote: > I've just installed the new kernel from [testing] and in my opinion > the capability module should be loaded by default, no matter what. I > think there are very few people who need something else instead and > just having it

Re: [arch] Weird cron emails

2006-03-22 Thread Judd Vinet
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 09:55:32AM -0500, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > I've been getting some weird cron messages emailed to me nightly for about > a week now. Anyone know what's triggering them and/or how to eliminate > them? > > From: "root" > Subject: cron: /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/

[arch] Kernel 2.6.16 - modularized capability

2006-03-20 Thread Judd Vinet
Hey all, Some people have requested[1] that we move the default linux capability support to a module so that it can be replaced with other capability models. There's a catch though -- now that the capability stuff is modularized, it needs to be loaded before some daemons can be used (eg, vsftpd).

[arch] Server Migration Complete

2006-03-20 Thread Judd Vinet
Thanks to everyone's generous donations, Dale was able to purchase a nice shiny Dell server, which archlinux.org is now running on! I've migrated all our services over, but may have missed a thing or two If you notice any weirdness, please let me know ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Thanks! - J _

[arch] Server Migration

2006-03-19 Thread Judd Vinet
Hey everyone, Dale has received and new server and it's been waiting patiently for me to start migrating everything over. Today is the day! So just a warning: You may notice weird outages or inconsistencies over the next day or two as I move things over. Ne'er fear, it's normal -- things will

Re: [arch] pacman -Syu: interesting behaviour

2006-03-12 Thread Judd Vinet
Please tar up your /var/lib/pacman/local directory and send it to me. I'll see if I can reproduce it. - J ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch

Re: [arch] pacman -Syu: interesting behaviour

2006-03-12 Thread Judd Vinet
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 08:22:51PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Any idea what could cause this: > That's a weird one. What does "pacman -Q avahi" tell you? Perhaps something is funky with your local pacman db. - J ___ arch mailing list arch

Re: [arch] The password for mounting an encrypted root partition is asked twice.

2006-03-07 Thread Judd Vinet
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 11:04:50PM +0100, Paolo wrote: > I have fixed that thing on my own system by changing the mkinird script > and, obviously, by creating the initrd again. The change to do is > trivial: when mkinitrd calls the cryptsetup utility, it passes to it the > options -y, which makes i

Re: [arch] Kudos! and question re: root on RAID (not md0)

2006-03-07 Thread Judd Vinet
On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 05:35:48PM -0500, Greg Nyce wrote: > First, just upgraded my home machine to Xorg7. Was expecting to have some > issues to work through, esp. as this runs MythTV and LTSP, but it all "just > worked". Very impressive, and kudos to the developers! Will feel more > confid

Re: [arch] terrorized by libgl-dri - pacman question

2006-02-26 Thread Judd Vinet
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 12:00:38PM +0100, waldek wrote: > Again apologies for wasting your time - as a penalty I'm going to send > another Server Donation :-) Haha. You're too kind. :) - J ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlin

Re: [arch] terrorized by libgl-dri - pacman question

2006-02-24 Thread Judd Vinet
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 09:40:14PM +0100, waldek wrote: > I'm sorry but I have to use the opportunity :-) - is it ok that package x > have so high priority that it is not possible to upgrade anything else > (like in my case)? If somebody issued a critical security patch for package > y and I did no

Re: [arch] Server Donation Drive!

2006-02-24 Thread Judd Vinet
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 10:29:03AM -0600, Philip Dillon-Thiselton wrote: > Er, yeah, 191% now. So what WILL happen to the extra money? I'm sure no > decision has yet been made but I hope we will get an update about where > our cash went! No plans yet. Dale has spec'ed out a beefier machine than

Re: [arch] terrorized by libgl-dri - pacman question

2006-02-24 Thread Judd Vinet
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 09:14:42PM +0100, waldek wrote: > don't get me wrong - I don't want to loose your time on fixing my problems > until the information is rellevant for pacman. Would it be possible to get > something like "--dry-run" known from patch with pacman? > I'm gonna update xorg to 7

Re: [arch] terrorized by libgl-dri - pacman question

2006-02-24 Thread Judd Vinet
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 10:25:52AM -0800, Judd Vinet wrote: > It looks as though you already have nvidia installed, but something is > explicitly depending on libgl-dri directly, instead of the libgl > provisio that both nvidia and libgl-dri provide. I think the libtiff > package is

Re: [arch] terrorized by libgl-dri - pacman question

2006-02-24 Thread Judd Vinet
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 07:15:07PM +0100, waldek wrote: > $ sudo pacman -Suy > :: Synchronizing package databases... > current [] 100% 65K69.2K/s > 00:00:00 > extra[] 100% 232K 136.8K/s > 00:00:01 > :: Replace g

Re: [arch] Xorg 7 issue

2006-02-24 Thread Judd Vinet
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 10:02:29AM -, luki wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sudo pacman -S udev > :: udev conflicts with hotplug. Remove hotplug? [Y/n] > > Remove: hotplug > > Targets: udev-084-4 > > Total Package Size: 0.1 MB > > Proceed with upgrade? [Y/n] > > checking package integrity

Re: [arch] Server Donation Drive!

2006-02-22 Thread Judd Vinet
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 09:26:15PM -0600, oz aroo wrote: > Okay, just sent money by PayPal. > > Hope it helps... Oh man, does it ever. A huge thank-you to everyone! The response has been music to my eyes. It's a very warming feeling to see the community step up in such a short time to support u

[arch] Server Donation Drive!

2006-02-22 Thread Judd Vinet
Hey all, I'm sure you all already know this, but we've kinda hit a brick wall, growth-wise, and that wall is dragon -- our ailing, underpowered server. There's nothing more frustrating than trying to get a bugfix package uploaded when the server is unresponsive. And I'm sure it's equally (if not

Re: [arch] Search engine in the forum

2006-02-13 Thread Judd Vinet
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 08:55:24AM -0500, Michel Di Croci wrote: > I wanted to search for pacbuild this morning in the search engine of the forum > and I obtained this: Fixed now. Thanks. - J ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archl

Re: [arch] mawk, gawk & awk

2006-02-06 Thread Judd Vinet
Hi Nicolas, On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 06:27:08PM -0500, Nicolas Dufour wrote: > I have a question to the developers of arch : > > Why the base use mawk instead of awk or gawk ? Is it working better ? a > bug was found somewhere ? The reason we use mawk is because it's what we started with in the

Re: [arch] Samba bug?

2006-01-19 Thread Judd Vinet
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 03:14:38PM -, Rosenstrauch, David wrote: > I just did a pacman update, and it upgraded samba to 3.0.21a-2. > > However, when I tried to restart the samba service, I got the following error: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sudo /etc/rc.d/samba start > :: Starting Samba Server

Re: [arch] kernel26archck wants to replace kernel26

2006-01-17 Thread Judd Vinet
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 10:18:52PM +0100, Attila wrote: > I have [community] in my pacman.conf active and so i recognize at the last > sync with pacman and abs that the new PKBUILD have judd as maintainer and a > replaces line for the currnet kernel26. So my question is will arch switch to > the ar

Re: [arch] abs on other ports?

2006-01-14 Thread Judd Vinet
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 10:03:04AM +, Magnus Therning wrote: > At work I'm behind a firewall that controls outgoing connections. I can > get out on ports 80 and 443. This means that I can't use abs (which uses > cvsup) to get the ABS tree. > > Are there any other supported ways of getting it?

Re: [arch] Arch Linux 0.7.1 (Noodle) Released

2006-01-11 Thread Judd Vinet
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 09:41:48AM +0200, Mircea Bardac wrote: > Reading the docs (again), I was wondering if it would be possible to put in > some MBR rescue instructions for Grub. Yea, that'd be a useful addition to the install docs. For now, you can find the rescue instructions here: http://

Re: [arch] iso 0.7.1 and ReiserFS

2006-01-10 Thread Judd Vinet
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 08:35:19PM +0100, Michal Eibl wrote: > There is no option "reiserfs" during instalation of Arch. I saw in > /arch/setup that this option is enabled only in case of result of 'which > mkreiserfs', but there isn't such file... You may have jumped the gun and got an earlier re

[arch] Arch Linux 0.7.1 (Noodle) Released

2006-01-05 Thread Judd Vinet
...and it only took a year. :) Here it is, folks. All the Arch goodness you know and love, only half the fat. We've added some better hardware detection, stock initrd support for neat things like encrypted root filesystems, network profiles, and more little goodies here n' there. Thanks for the

[arch] Udev Reminder

2006-01-04 Thread Judd Vinet
Hey all, Just a quick note to remind you that the latest udev will be removing hotplug from your system, as it is deprecated now. See this news post: http://www.archlinux.org/news.php#189 NOTE: If you were using hotplug in your DAEMONS array to auto-load your modules, you should replace it with

Re: [arch] xorg didn't work..

2006-01-03 Thread Judd Vinet
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 11:02:06AM +0800, wd wrote: > I install xorg-server from testing just now,and I can't enter x now. > > Here is the error Xorg.0.log > > ... > (II) LoadModule: "keyboard" > (WW) Warning, couldn't open module keyboard > (II) UnloadModule: "keyboard" > (EE) Failed to load

Re: [arch] lvm and mkinitrd

2006-01-03 Thread Judd Vinet
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 12:39:55PM -0500, Rosenstrauch, David wrote: > This seems odd, since you really don't need to have the DM modules in > the initrd in order to boot, and should just be able to load them > later, when you load all your other modules. However, Arch's boot > process activates L

Re: [arch] Swap not being used

2006-01-02 Thread Judd Vinet
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 12:27:01AM +0100, Carl-Adam Brengesjö wrote: > On both machines, any swap space allocated for linux isn't used at all. > The RAM usage goes up to about 95-98% and can stay there for a couple of > days. What does /proc/swaps say? /proc/meminfo? /proc/sys/vm/swappiness?

Re: [arch] a bit more trouble with the new xorg and paths

2006-01-02 Thread Judd Vinet
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 08:32:54PM -0500, Scott wrote: > Perhaps there should be a post-install message to > that effect? (Of course, there's the strong possibility that this > solution has been all over the mailing lists and forums and I've simply > not had a chance to catch up.). I've listed t

Re: [arch] a bit more trouble with the new xorg and paths

2006-01-02 Thread Judd Vinet
Hi Scott, On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 07:11:33PM -0500, Scott wrote: > When it came out, around the 20th or so, I'd run into an issue with some > xterms, specifically mrxvt and mlterm. It turned out that both were > apparently looking for a file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt > > At the time, I did a sy

[arch] KERNEL CHANGES

2005-12-16 Thread Judd Vinet
Hey everyone, NOTE: This stuff only applies to people using the stock Arch 2.6 kernel. Custom kernel users can ignore it. The 2.6.14.3 kernel will be moving into Current real soon now, and there are some changes in it. Most of you are already aware of this, but for those that aren't: Arch has mo

Re: [arch] Installation on mb with RAID but not using it

2005-12-08 Thread Judd Vinet
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 01:00:28AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am sorry to be unclear, my laptop died, so I am using a box left over > by my son. It has a mb with a HPT 370 rom BIOS with RAID - which is not > in use!! > Kubuntu identifies the first hd as hdc, in Grub I use: > root (

Re: [arch] Installation on mb with RAID but not using it

2005-12-07 Thread Judd Vinet
On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 11:17:15AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a problem to install 0.7.1 on a mb that has RAID, > which I don't use. > So when I try to start Arch after installation, Arch happily > installs my drives as RAID and then can't find the root > partition and puts me

Re: [arch] About v0.7.1pre1 ISO

2005-12-01 Thread Judd Vinet
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 11:37:00AM +0100, Rafal Szczepaniak wrote: > Maybe it's not a bug in the installer but a "feature" of grub ? > > When I was moving one of my systems to a new hard disk I found this: > http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Installing-GRUB-using-grub_002dinstall.h

Re: [arch] Will there be a v0.7.1pre2 ISO ?

2005-11-30 Thread Judd Vinet
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 07:38:33PM -0500, Paul Hoy wrote: > Does anyone know whether there will be a beta 2 release for Noodle? > > Unfortunately, Arch 0.7.1 is virtually unusable for me. Didn't plan on it, actually. It doesn't bode well that the one and only person to report an unusable Arch rel

Re: [arch] Annoying initscripts updates!

2005-11-27 Thread Judd Vinet
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 10:56:10PM +, Philip Dillon-Thiselton wrote: > Touche. You know, you could have just said, "Shut up, Phil." and saved > yourself some typing. Hehe, I didn't want to insult, Phil. You're just frustated and that's cool - I understand that. Just be nice to others and t

Re: [arch] Annoying initscripts updates!

2005-11-27 Thread Judd Vinet
Dear Customer, Thank you for your kind words and suggestions. We are obligated to fulfill your every need, and will dutifully change our course to match your expectations. Your tireless constructive criticism is a greater boon to this project than anyone else, and we will continue to strive towa

Re: [arch] pcmcia problem

2005-11-24 Thread Judd Vinet
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 07:46:28PM +0200, Kazimieras Aliulis wrote: > Hello, > > I am quite new at linux. But I have installed Arch on my laptop and want > to configure internet using my GC85 pcmcia card. I have installed latest >stable packages (about a week ago, when I had an ethernet conn

Re: [arch] updated initscripts

2005-11-16 Thread Judd Vinet
Hi Eric, On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 07:49:57AM -0800, Eric Dan wrote: > yours didn't work. i don't know what i needed to change in it to make it > work for me. i really didn't have much time to go thru it all. anyways > after using that script i couldn't boot anymore. i booted with the live > cd moun

Re: [arch] updated initscripts

2005-11-15 Thread Judd Vinet
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 12:55:12AM +0100, Jaroslaw Swierczynski wrote: > 2005/11/16, Judd Vinet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I'm not sure why you need LC_ALL unless you are explicitly setting other > > LC_ variables to different values. The LANG variable will cover all LC_

Re: [arch] updated initscripts

2005-11-15 Thread Judd Vinet
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 12:16:39AM +0100, Jaroslaw Swierczynski wrote: > Yes, I want to and I always do that. So perhaps rc.conf should allow > this. The present LOCALE variable is confusing as it sets only a > language. I suggest to make the LOCALE variable set LC_ALL and create > a LANGUAGE varia

Re: [arch] updated initscripts

2005-11-15 Thread Judd Vinet
Hi Eric, Please try booting with this rc.sysinit and let me know if it fixes the problem. http://www.archlinux.org/~judd/fixes/rc.sysinit Thanks. - J ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch

[arch] Initrd Changes / Hardware Detection

2005-11-10 Thread Judd Vinet
Just a heads-up to everyone to keep an eye on the Dev Blog we host here at Arch, as it has some good information about recent changes in Arch Linux. http://www.archlinux.org/blog/ There are some recent initrd changes that RAID users need to be aware of, as well as a new hardware detection script

Re: [arch] pacman segfault

2005-10-21 Thread Judd Vinet
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 08:41:54PM +0200, Mark Rosenstand wrote: > I'd like to send you my package db again, but I'm not sure exactly what > stage you want it at. On a newly installed system, at what step would > you like the package db snapshot to be taken: Thank you, Mark. I've clobbered this s

Re: [arch] pacman segfault

2005-10-21 Thread Judd Vinet
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 10:40:42AM +0100, Philip Dillon-Thiselton wrote: > Yeah, it's definitely to do with the remove and install part (i.e. the > replace) - When I switched from acl to xfsacl it segfaulted, as it did > in the original report, and it just segfaulted again when I switched back :)

Re: [arch] And we're back...

2005-10-19 Thread Judd Vinet
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 12:23:03AM +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Just found that: > > http://www.archlinux.org/blog/category/general/ > Fatal error: Only variables can be passed by reference in > /home/sites/archlinux/htdocs/blog/wp-includes/classes.php on line 629 > > HTH Fixed. Thanks. -

Re: [arch] Wiki Broken ?

2005-10-18 Thread Judd Vinet
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 07:40:48AM +0200, Benoit Chesneau wrote: > Wiki link broken : > > there are problem with current wiki, links are not good. For example : > > http://wiki.archlinux.org/mediawiki-1.5.0/index.php/ArchLinux > > to access to ArchLinux page. "mediawiki-1.5.0" has been added to

Re: [arch] pacman segfault

2005-10-18 Thread Judd Vinet
If it's reproduceable every time, please tar up your pacman database and send it to me. $ tar cz /var/lib/pacman/local >pacmandb.tar.gz Is this with pacman 2.9.7? - J ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [arch] random pacman idea

2005-10-18 Thread Judd Vinet
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 06:06:17PM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote: > Enter the idea: > Let's make up a file, called /etc/pacman.d/install-actions - this file > would contain a series of file patterns to match along with commands > to call when they are matched. Hi Aaron, Interesting, this is a simila

[arch] And we're back...

2005-10-18 Thread Judd Vinet
I'm sure most of you noticed that archlinux.org was down for most of the day yesterday. What started as a routine kernel upgrade turned into about 10 hours of downtime. The problem turned out to be an ACPI bug in the recent kernel. Simply disabling it from the boot prompt was all that was required

Re: [arch] Problem with the forums

2005-10-18 Thread Judd Vinet
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 10:02:29PM +0200, Richard Golier wrote: > Here are the problems I noticed: > * wiki diffs aren't working > * flyspray is not working Flyspray should be fixed now. - J ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlin

Re: [arch] Problem with the forums

2005-10-18 Thread Judd Vinet
Yea, we're in the process of trying to fix all the PHP-based services on archlinux.org. Apparently php 5.0.5 comes with a nice little change. This is now illegal: $a = func1(func2($b)); Instead, it has to be written like so: $c = func2($b); $a = func1($c); Or: $a = func1($c=func2($b)); The

Re: [arch] Problem with kdelibs 3.4.92

2005-10-17 Thread Judd Vinet
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 05:41:43PM +0200, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > judd updated yesterday acl package to xfsacl name, so please install this > instead until this is fixed, i informed judd about the problem. Yup, my fault -- sorry guys. New xfs{acl,attr} packages are going up now, and these one

Re: [arch] large file support for bzip2 by default

2005-10-12 Thread Judd Vinet
On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 11:09:58PM -0400, ctmlinux wrote: > I was wondering if there has been any discussion on having large file > size support (over 2gb) for bzip2 at all. > I don't see any drawbacks to *not* having it. There is a package on the > aur that works fine on the AUR that was original

Re: [arch] Multilingual web site for Arch Linux

2005-10-12 Thread Judd Vinet
Hi Benoit, On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 04:35:03PM +0200, Benoit Chesneau wrote: > This website is currently distinct from archlinux.org in design,and > in software used : for example we use a wiki engine that is different > from the official website, dokuwiki, and the CMS used is Mambo. But > I'

Re: [arch] initscripts: which version where and since when?

2005-10-06 Thread Judd Vinet
Hi James, On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 07:47:35PM +1000, James Rayner wrote: > And just quickly asking whether my patch will be merged? > > http://iphitus.loudas.com/arch/network/network-improved.patch Sorry, I must have missed this one. I've already implemented a change similar to the first part of

Re: [arch] xfsprogs & xfsdump

2005-10-02 Thread Judd Vinet
On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 11:37:23PM +0200, Khashayar Naderehvandi wrote: > There's been a couple of discussion on the forums about the lack of > xfsdump in the arch repos. I've also posted a feature request at > flyspray about it. I'd like to upload the necessary packages to the AUR, > but one of th

Re: [arch] Libtool has been slain

2005-10-01 Thread Judd Vinet
On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 11:35:19PM +0100, Philip Dillon-Thiselton wrote: > But none of the server and none of the mirrors show the changes - are we > being teased now? It's October 1st, not April! :) Be patient, young grasshopper. archlinux.org is now being assaulted by rsync requests. rsync is

Re: [arch] Public pacman CVS repository

2005-10-01 Thread Judd Vinet
On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 04:15:52PM +0200, Mark Rosenstand wrote: > Is there a public CVS repository for pacman hidden somewhere? Not yet. It's hosted elsewhere. The plan is to make pacman's CVS public when libpacman sees the light of day. - J ___ a

[arch] Libtool has been slain

2005-10-01 Thread Judd Vinet
So the big package move from Testing into Current/Extra is complete. Big thanks to Tpowa, JGC, Blaasvis and neri for orchestrating it. Incidentally, tomorrow is bug-squashing day, so it'd be a big help if people would pop into #arch-bugs on irc.freenode.net and help us identify/squash the bugs tha

[arch] Update Time...

2005-09-30 Thread Judd Vinet
Hello All, I've been receiving a few constructive complaints about the apparent lack of progress within the official areas of Arch development. Now, we revisit this subject about once every six months, and anyone that relies heavily on open-source has probably been faced with similar frustrations

Re: [arch] servers down?

2005-09-20 Thread Judd Vinet
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 08:16:00PM +0200, RedShift wrote: > Problems here too, started working again about a quarter of an hour ago. > Belgium. I wonder what is causing the outages, high load? Yup. All's well again now, though. We'll probably have to chuck some more RAM into that box (or get an

Re: [arch] Codename for the upcoming Arch Linux 0.8

2005-09-09 Thread Judd Vinet
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 08:29:52AM -0400, Andrew Conkling wrote: > Come on... after Wombat for 0.7?! Noodly isn't bad, even if no one > gets it (how many people know what Vega is?), but why not nounify it > and make it Noodle? That'd be more in line with previous versions. > Noodl[y|e] has conno

Re: [arch] Customizing Installer

2005-09-08 Thread Judd Vinet
Hi Essien On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 04:21:20PM +0100, Essien ita Essien wrote: > My question is, is there anything I should be aware of, in terms of Licensing, > restrictions, etc. For instance, I've already started tweaking the CD > installer > ISO, what am I allowed to do/not do. The installer i

Re: [arch] Codename for the upcoming Arch Linux 0.8

2005-09-08 Thread Judd Vinet
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 10:26:51AM -0500, Aaron Malone wrote: > > Arch 0.8: Noodly > My unofficial favourite has been "Omni" so far, but "Noodly" is good too - J ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [arch] Exim 4.52-3 Broken?

2005-09-07 Thread Judd Vinet
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 01:37:08AM -0700, Casey McGinty wrote: > Wrong log output, should have been: > > 2731 LOG: connection_reject MAIN REJECT > 2731 refused connection from test.dnsstuff.com [66.36.241.109] (tcp > wrappers) > > It looks like PAM and TCP Wrapper support was added. I put in

Re: [arch] New Arch mirror (heanet - Ireland)

2005-08-31 Thread Judd Vinet
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 06:31:48PM +0100, Philip Dillon-Thiselton wrote: > Did you see the feature request or the post, Judd? :) Both. Post first, though. - J ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch

Re: [arch] problem compiling 2.6.13 in testing

2005-08-31 Thread Judd Vinet
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 01:18:10PM -0400, JP Fielding wrote: > the acpi-dsdt-initrd patch seems to fail on the new kernel testing for > me. anybody else seeing this? Yea, tpowa had to fix it up a little so it would patch cleanly. A 2.6.13-2 will be released soon. - J _

Re: [arch] New Arch mirror (heanet - Ireland)

2005-08-31 Thread Judd Vinet
Hi John, On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 08:18:10AM +0100, John Britton wrote: > Hi All, > > Just to inform you that ftp.archlinux.org is now being mirrored at > > http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/ftp.archlinux.org/ > ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/ftp.archlinux.org/ Thank you very much. I've added your mi

Re: [arch] Pronnounciation of our beloved distribution's name

2005-08-24 Thread Judd Vinet
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 01:34:22AM +0300, Bozhidar Batsov wrote: > I guess we're really lost now and only Judd can help... But from the > responses up to now I feel arch as in archie:) and not as in archangel > is most commonly used in our community... I think everyone's in the know now, but I'l

Re: [arch] pacman handling NoUpgrade differently?

2005-08-19 Thread Judd Vinet
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 05:32:08PM +0100, Rosenstrauch, David wrote: > Has the behavior in pacman changed for handling NoUpgrade entries? > > I thought I recalled that if a file was listed in NoUpgrade that pacman would > extract it as filename.pacnew. I found this nice, as it would allow you to

Re: [arch] Why does pacman suck? (was: Arch Politics)

2005-08-11 Thread Judd Vinet
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 08:54:34PM -0400, Jason Chu wrote: > Judd develops pacman. He accepts patches from people when he sees fit. > He'll solicit some questions from the developers now and again, but that's > about it. > > It would be nice if pacman was more open, but Judd doesn't want to do th

Re: [arch] Wiki Migration is done

2005-07-27 Thread Judd Vinet
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 02:57:53PM -0500, Christopher Rice wrote: > The really "non manly" flower at the top is easily replaced let me know > if you need instructions on how to get an arch logo there. cactus? We could put up the one you had on the test wiki, sans "Testing". - J _

Re: [arch] News

2005-07-25 Thread Judd Vinet
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 11:55:12AM -0600, Dusty Phillips wrote: > I see the wiki link's been updated to the newly migrated mediwiki... > should this be front page news? Give me time, my eager little Archer. I just changed those links. :) - J ___ ar

Re: [arch] Roaming Network Profiles (another attempt)

2005-07-25 Thread Judd Vinet
On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 11:13:21PM +0100, Philip Dillon-Thiselton wrote: > Are these new scripts going to replace the support in the wireless tools > conf.d file or are they integrated with it? I have tried them and they > work great but I wasn't sure about that. Not sure yet. They do co-exist

Re: [arch] Wiki Migration is done

2005-07-24 Thread Judd Vinet
On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 12:56:18PM -0700, cactus wrote: > Special thanks again to all those who helped with the wiki migration. It > is done! Wow, smooth and quick. Thanks a lot, cactus. You have no idea how glad I am to be able to leave phpwiki behind. So can I redirect wiki.archlinux.org to

Re: [arch] CONFIG_SECURITY_CAPABILITIES

2005-07-20 Thread Judd Vinet
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 03:17:07PM -0400, Rosenstrauch, David wrote: > Will I need to continue using the "capabilities" module from here on forward > in order for my vsftpd not to break? Or will a subsequent kernel release > make it so that I will no longer need to do that. kernel26 2.6.12.3-1

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