Re: [arch-general] GDM + Xfce

2009-10-14 Thread ludovic coues
You can give a try to slim, as a login manager. Very simple, it does the job. -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

Re: [arch-general] packages deleted from db but still on repos

2009-10-14 Thread Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
Andrea Scarpino wrote: > On 14/10/2009, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: > >> ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/extra/os/any/autopano-sift-2.4-4-any.pkg.tar.gz >> ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/extra/os/i686/autopano-sift-2.4-4-any.pkg.tar.gz >> ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/extra/os/x86_64/autopano-sift-2.4-4-any.pkg.t

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux installation only with pacman

2009-10-14 Thread Thomas Bächler
Ciprian Dorin, Craciun schrieb: Thank you all for your feedback! I'm more confident now that I can just ignore those errors. One observation though: having dev, proc, and sys mounted in the new chroot, wouldn't it misslead the scriptlets? Because these special files would be from the liv

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux installation only with pacman

2009-10-14 Thread Ciprian Dorin, Craciun
Thank you all for your feedback! I'm more confident now that I can just ignore those errors. One observation though: having dev, proc, and sys mounted in the new chroot, wouldn't it misslead the scriptlets? Because these special files would be from the live host machine, and not the guest

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux installation only with pacman

2009-10-14 Thread Thomas Bächler
Thomas Bächler schrieb: Install to /mnt as root (provided you have a working pacman.conf in .) # mkdir -p /mnt/var/lib/pacman/{local,sync} # ./pacman.static --root /mnt --config ./pacman.conf -Sy base That's it, all you need to do is configure the system (you need to know how) and install a bo

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux installation only with pacman

2009-10-14 Thread Thomas Bächler
Ciprian Dorin, Craciun schrieb: Hello all! I remember looking at the installation script about one year ago, and all it had done (to install the base packages), was to use pacman. Now if I try to use the same procedure now (or what I remember from it), I get a lot of errors from the inst

Re: [arch-general] pacman error: config file ../mirrorlist, line 193: directive 'Server' not recognized

2009-10-14 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:18 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > On Wednesday 14 October 2009 01:38:30 pm Aaron Griffin wrote: >> I have a feeling you uncommented something (testing?) in >> /etc/pacman.conf, but didn't uncomment the header for the repo: >> >> #[testing] >> Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorl

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux installation only with pacman

2009-10-14 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Ciprian Dorin, Craciun wrote: >    Hello all! > >    I remember looking at the installation script about one year ago, > and all it had done (to install the base packages), was to use pacman. > Now if I try to use the same procedure now (or what I remember from > i

Re: [arch-general] pacman error: config file ../mirrorlist, line 193: directive 'Server' not recognized

2009-10-14 Thread David C. Rankin
On Wednesday 14 October 2009 01:38:30 pm Aaron Griffin wrote: > I have a feeling you uncommented something (testing?) in > /etc/pacman.conf, but didn't uncomment the header for the repo: > > #[testing] > Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist > > This is wrong. The [testing] needs to be uncommented t

[arch-general] Arch Linux installation only with pacman

2009-10-14 Thread Ciprian Dorin, Craciun
Hello all! I remember looking at the installation script about one year ago, and all it had done (to install the base packages), was to use pacman. Now if I try to use the same procedure now (or what I remember from it), I get a lot of errors from the install hooks (script-lets). I've trie

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latest kernel update

2009-10-14 Thread David C. Rankin
On Sunday 11 October 2009 03:33:57 am Jan Spakula wrote: > Excerpts from David C. Rankin's message of So Okt 11 10:16:57 +0200 2009: > > On Sunday 11 October 2009 03:10:15 am David C. Rankin wrote: > > I'm back already. The wiki page must be out of date. It says to put the > > following in modprobe

Re: [arch-general] vi problems

2009-10-14 Thread Ray Kohler
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:59 PM, richard terry wrote: > Hi List, > > I upgraded a couple of days ago not having done so for a number of weeks and > now vi dosn't work properly in a konsole - the key allocations seem all wrong > (eg up/down arrows, insert, delete > all print A', B' etc. > > Clueles

[arch-general] vi problems

2009-10-14 Thread richard terry
Hi List, I upgraded a couple of days ago not having done so for a number of weeks and now vi dosn't work properly in a konsole - the key allocations seem all wrong (eg up/down arrows, insert, delete > all print A', B' etc. Clueless as to where to start. Any help appreciated. Richard

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latest kernel update

2009-10-14 Thread David C. Rankin
On Wednesday 14 October 2009 02:57:58 pm Loui Chang wrote: > > /etc/modprobe.conf is deprecated. > /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf is used instead. > Thanks Loui! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936)

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latest kernel update

2009-10-14 Thread Loui Chang
On Wed 14 Oct 2009 13:45 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > On Sunday 11 October 2009 03:33:57 am Jan Spakula wrote: > > Excerpts from David C. Rankin's message of So Okt 11 10:16:57 +0200 2009: > > > On Sunday 11 October 2009 03:10:15 am David C. Rankin wrote: > > > I'm back already. The wiki page mu

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latestkernel update

2009-10-14 Thread David C. Rankin
On Monday 12 October 2009 02:51:51 pm Dusty wrote: > Hey guys, > > I have managed to upgrade (pacman -Syu) grabbing the new kernel upgrade and > not killing my X using KMS. > > What I did to avoid the problems you guys are getting is the following: > > 1) Goto the ArchWiki and search for intel

[arch-general] GDM + Xfce

2009-10-14 Thread Lars Tennstedt
Hello, sorry that I have to annoy you again but you were always very helpful. I have a second Arch Linux install with GDM as login manager and Xfce as desktop environment. This installation is up-to-date. Since the version 2.28 of GDM or better GNOME was released, I noticed some little probl

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latestkernel update

2009-10-14 Thread David C. Rankin
On Monday 12 October 2009 11:47:59 am Dusty wrote: > Hey David, > > I am tracking this email thread as this issue has affected a couple of > colleagues of mine and I'm holding back upgrading my box until I know > there is a definite resolution as I have been reading too many horror > stories ar

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latest kernel update

2009-10-14 Thread David C. Rankin
On Sunday 11 October 2009 03:33:57 am Jan Spakula wrote: > Excerpts from David C. Rankin's message of So Okt 11 10:16:57 +0200 2009: > > On Sunday 11 October 2009 03:10:15 am David C. Rankin wrote: > > I'm back already. The wiki page must be out of date. It says to put the > > following in modprobe

Re: [arch-general] pacman error: config file ../mirrorlist, line 193: directive 'Server' not recognized

2009-10-14 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:30 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > Listmates, > > I did a fresh install of 2009.08 on a new box and I am getting a weird pacman > error where pacman doesn't recognize the first "Server" statement in > mirrorlist. (2009.08 installed perfectly) All 3 of my other arch boxes wor

[arch-general] pacman error: config file ../mirrorlist, line 193: directive 'Server' not recognized

2009-10-14 Thread David C. Rankin
Listmates, I did a fresh install of 2009.08 on a new box and I am getting a weird pacman error where pacman doesn't recognize the first "Server" statement in mirrorlist. (2009.08 installed perfectly) All 3 of my other arch boxes work fine with the mirrorlist file and do not give the error. I ha

Re: [arch-general] packages deleted from db but still on repos

2009-10-14 Thread Andrea Scarpino
On 14/10/2009, dick_turpin wrote: > Yes perl-test-pod is giving me grief, its not there so pacman -Syu fails This is another issue, already known (FS#16635) -- Andrea `bash` Scarpino Arch Linux Developer

Re: [arch-general] packages deleted from db but still on repos

2009-10-14 Thread dick_turpin
Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: > Hi > > Seem that are still an issue with this, similar to old issue with > "testing/os/any". [#1] > > Example of this (probably there are a some others, I didn't a "full scan > diff"): > > perl-test-pod?

Re: [arch-general] packages deleted from db but still on repos

2009-10-14 Thread dick_turpin
Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: > Hi > > Seem that are still an issue with this, similar to old issue with > "testing/os/any". [#1] > > Example of this (probably there are a some others, I didn't a "full scan > diff"): > Yes perl-test-pod is giving me grief, its not there so pacman -Syu fails

Re: [arch-general] packages deleted from db but still on repos

2009-10-14 Thread Andrea Scarpino
On 14/10/2009, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: > ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/extra/os/any/autopano-sift-2.4-4-any.pkg.tar.gz > ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/extra/os/i686/autopano-sift-2.4-4-any.pkg.tar.gz > ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/extra/os/x86_64/autopano-sift-2.4-4-any.pkg.tar.gz > > ftp://ftp.archlinux.org

[arch-general] packages deleted from db but still on repos

2009-10-14 Thread Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
Hi Seem that are still an issue with this, similar to old issue with "testing/os/any". [#1] Example of this (probably there are a some others, I didn't a "full scan diff"): ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/extra/os/any/autopano-sift-2.4-4-any.pkg.tar.gz ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/extra/os/i686/autopano-sift