Re: [arch-general] how to migrate installs between hard drives?

2009-07-29 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
Why, out of curiosity? dd copy the data of the raw device. i.e the files but also the filesystem data and metadata. which you don't really need or wish to copy to another partition/disk. i said it's the worst, not that it does not work. but you have to take extra step after you have used dd (to

[arch-general] Bind 9.6.1-1 patched against dynamic update ddos?

2009-07-29 Thread Fredrik Eriksson
Hi, I've seen that there's a dynamic update ddos attack that is widely available on the net and after looking for the solution it seems that bind's latest patch (9.6.1-P1) solves this problem. So my question is more like this, is extra/bind 9.6.1-1 in the repository the same as bind

Re: [arch-general] Bind 9.6.1-1 patched against dynamic update ddos?

2009-07-29 Thread Damien Churchill
2009/7/29 Fredrik Eriksson fredrik.eriks...@gigabit.nu: Hi, I've seen that there's a dynamic update ddos attack that is widely available on the net and after looking for the solution it seems that bind's latest patch (9.6.1-P1) solves this problem. So my question is more like this, is

Re: [arch-general] Bind 9.6.1-1 patched against dynamic update ddos?

2009-07-29 Thread Fredrik Eriksson
Damien Churchill skrev: 2009/7/29 Fredrik Eriksson fredrik.eriks...@gigabit.nu: Hi, I've seen that there's a dynamic update ddos attack that is widely available on the net and after looking for the solution it seems that bind's latest patch (9.6.1-P1) solves this problem. So my question is

Re: [arch-general] Latest updates messed up kdemod3 libjpeg.so.62?

2009-07-29 Thread David Rosenstrauch
David C. Rankin wrote: Listmates, Up until this past week kdemod3 and kde4-unstable had lived side-by-side quite harmoniously. However, now kcontol in kdemod3 will not run until the following link is created: ln -s /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.7 /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 Don't do that. Fix it by

Re: [arch-general] Latest updates messed up kdemod3 libjpeg.so.62?

2009-07-29 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Thomas Bächler wrote: Eric Bélanger schrieb: report that to Chakra. Looks like kdemod3 needs to be rebuilt against libjpeg 7. Reports about libjpeg+kdemod breakage have been coming in for a while. The SONAME bump was announced on arch-dev-public, then packages went to testing a week

Re: [arch-general] Latest updates messed up kdemod3 libjpeg.so.62?

2009-07-29 Thread David Rosenstrauch
José M. Prieto wrote: 2009/7/28 David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com: Up until this past week kdemod3 and kde4-unstable had lived side-by-side quite harmoniously. However, now kcontol in kdemod3 will not run until the following link is created: ln -s /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.7

Re: [arch-general] Bind 9.6.1-1 patched against dynamic update ddos?

2009-07-29 Thread RedShift
Fredrik Eriksson wrote: Hi, I've seen that there's a dynamic update ddos attack that is widely available on the net and after looking for the solution it seems that bind's latest patch (9.6.1-P1) solves this problem. So my question is more like this, is extra/bind 9.6.1-1 in the repository

Re: [arch-general] Latest updates messed up kdemod3 libjpeg.so.62?

2009-07-29 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:48, David Rosenstrauchdar...@darose.net wrote: Better to install libjpeg6 from aur.  It's generally a bad idea to manually install system files.  You should let pacman do that. DR And best to actually _fix_ the issue: recompile the software against libjpeg7

Re: [arch-general] Latest updates messed up kdemod3 libjpeg.so.62?

2009-07-29 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Daenyth Blank wrote: On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:48, David Rosenstrauchdar...@darose.net wrote: Better to install libjpeg6 from aur. It's generally a bad idea to manually install system files. You should let pacman do that. DR And best to actually _fix_ the issue: recompile the software

[arch-general] VirtualBox keeps crashing

2009-07-29 Thread Tim Gelter
Hello listmates, I'm having semi-frequent virtualbox crashes with existing and newly created virtual machines. Here is a snippet from /var/log/kernel.log : Jul 29 08:24:17 guapArch kernel: VirtualBox[5142] trap int3 ip:7f7dde81dd9a sp:7f7dd003bf00 error:0 Jul 29 11:38:43 guapArch kernel:

Re: [arch-general] VirtualBox keeps crashing

2009-07-29 Thread Roman Kyrylych
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 23:14, Tim Geltertgel...@gurulabs.com wrote: Hello listmates, I'm having semi-frequent virtualbox crashes with existing and newly created virtual machines. Here is a snippet from /var/log/kernel.log : Jul 29 08:24:17 guapArch kernel: VirtualBox[5142] trap int3

Re: [arch-general] VirtualBox keeps crashing

2009-07-29 Thread Tim Gelter
Roman Kyrylych wrote: On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 23:14, Tim Geltertgel...@gurulabs.com wrote: Hello listmates, I'm having semi-frequent virtualbox crashes with existing and newly created virtual machines. Here is a snippet from /var/log/kernel.log : Jul 29 08:24:17 guapArch kernel:

Re: [arch-general] Latest updates messed up kdemod3 libjpeg.so.62?

2009-07-29 Thread Attila
On Dienstag, 28. Juli 2009 23:08 Thomas Bächler wrote: Given the popularity of kdemod, it is sad that they can't seem to keep up with Arch's development. I think the problem is more kdemod3 because the packages were built with the older gcc and if they really want to rebuilt them than this

[arch-general] Run commands as user once network is up (NetworkManager)

2009-07-29 Thread Magnus Therning
I'm currently using NetworkManager's ability to run scripts once the network is up[1], but that seems to only be on a system level. Is there some way of also running scripts/programs as the logged in user once network is up? Especially I want to start dropbox only when the network is available.

Re: [arch-general] how to migrate installs between hard drives?

2009-07-29 Thread Will Siddall
Here's another update. Using Mike's advice and I tried a simple 'cp -av' on my home directory. After everything was completed, I do a 'ls -al' and find that everything is set to root / root. Modes are intact, but that's it. I've tried this from the Ubuntu livecd and running from my original

[arch-general] Archlinux added a choice for OS selection at bugs.kde.org

2009-07-29 Thread David C. Rankin
Listmates, You should now be able to choose Archlinux as the OS when filing bugs at bugs.kde.org. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

[arch-general] pppoe-start resets eth0 MTU

2009-07-29 Thread b4283
Hi, I usually set my eth0 adapter's MTU value to 7200 to get reach of Jumbo Frame function of my hub. But after I run pppoe-start (comes from rp-pppoe), it seems that the program will automatically reset the MTU value of eth0 to 1500, which is a big bugger. Does anyone know how to prevant this

[arch-general] vim syntax file broken??

2009-07-29 Thread David C. Rankin
Listmates, Attempting to enable syntax in vim, I received the following: Error detected while processing /usr/share/vim/vim72/syntax/syntax.vim: line 42: E216: No such group or event: filetypedetect BufRead Press ENTER or type command to continue It has always worked before,

Re: [arch-general] vim syntax file broken??

2009-07-29 Thread Patrick Brisbin
this was the same error i got and fixed with sudo ln -s /usr/share/vim/vim72 /usr/share/vim/vimcurrent but i'm told this vimcurrent stuff will go away soon, and another user on bbs has a line one could put in ~/.vimrc to fix this as well... cant remember it now though. up to you how to

Re: [arch-general] how to migrate installs between hard drives?

2009-07-29 Thread Jonathan Brown
Yes I would dd (or ddrescue or dd_rescue - the rescues give you progress output) the whole drive, not the individual partitions. Then just use Parted Magic Live CD or GParted Live CD and expand the partitions. I've done this many many times without issue.. and usually you don't even have to

[arch-general] where is xorgversion.m4

2009-07-29 Thread David C. Rankin
Listmates, I can't build the radeonhd driver any longer due to a missing xorgversion.m4. I have both m4 1.4.13-1 xorg-util-macros 1.2.2-1 installed but I can't find the xorgversion file. Any ideas? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street