Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] package signoffs

2010-02-10 Thread Gergely Imreh
On 10 February 2010 15:35, Gaurish Sharma cont...@gaurishsharma.com wrote: maybe give the status of testers to some active arch members who use testing (if any users are interested at all..) +1 to the idea. this work can be delegated to active users who have enabled [testing] repo. a

Re: [arch-general] policykit vs polkit

2010-02-10 Thread Lukáš Jirkovský
On 10 February 2010 01:25, Damjan Georgievski gdam...@gmail.com wrote: I just checked upstream and Fedora: either the pulseaudio package in community is outdated, or it contains a bullshit dependency. it's a wrong dependency (together with some other) I've already submited a bug report.

Re: [arch-general] [Fwd: [LAU] A sound decision]

2010-02-10 Thread Uli Armbruster
* Ng Oon-Ee ngoo...@gmail.com [09.02.2010 23:46]: Forwarding the below, for those interested. fons, you'd maybe like this? Forwarded Message To: linux-audio-u...@lists.linuxaudio.org Subject: [LAU] A sound decision Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 18:26:36 -0200

Re: [arch-general] [Fwd: [LAU] A sound decision]

2010-02-10 Thread hollunder
Excerpts from Uli Armbruster's message of 2010-02-10 09:28:12 +0100: * Ng Oon-Ee ngoo...@gmail.com [09.02.2010 23:46]: Forwarding the below, for those interested. fons, you'd maybe like this? Forwarded Message To: linux-audio-u...@lists.linuxaudio.org Subject: [LAU]

[arch-general] [Device Auto-mounting] HAL, KDE4.4 and tight default permissions

2010-02-10 Thread Gaurish Sharma
Hello, I have a small problem with default permissions of Automounted Removable Devices. Whenever I mount it via KDE4.4's Auto-mounter. it sets all files to be owned by root. $ ls -la /media/Backup/ total 24 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 10 16:07 . drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Feb 10 17:30 ..

Re: [arch-general] [Fwd: [LAU] A sound decision]

2010-02-10 Thread Uli Armbruster
* hollunder hollun...@lavabit.com [10.02.2010 12:45]: Well, there are also lots of people who have complaints about macs and pt, but pt sure has good marketing. I doubt a networked setup such as his would be possible with pt. Well, I don't know if it's possible to set up a comparable networked

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] New Developer: Dan Griffiths

2010-02-10 Thread Angel Velásquez
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Ray Rashif schivmeis...@gmail.com wrote: One thing I know for sure, he's a fast worker! Oh yeah! Daniel is very fast, congratulations! -- Angel Velásquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Arch Linux Trusted User Linux Counter: #359909 http://www.angvp.com

[arch-general] pacman too slow on reboot

2010-02-10 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
Hi, Recently I'm facing a funny problem. pacman (and even packer) is t slow to search -Ss (db+aur) or -Qs (db). I see a lot of HDD activity going on. But when I run pacman-optimize, it gets fixed. This happens at every boot. Any ideas ? -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site Server Adminstrator

Re: [arch-general] udev and/or device-mapper problem

2010-02-10 Thread karolina . lindqvist
Thursday 28 January 2010 skrev Hussam Al-Tayeb: I updated to udev, cryptsetup and device mapper from testing the installed kernel 2.6.32.6 and rebooted. Something similar, or the same thing, happened to me. I updated my system, and then on reboot it could not find the disk /dev/sda anymore.

Re: [arch-general] pacman too slow on reboot

2010-02-10 Thread Denis A . Altoé Falqueto
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan li...@itech7.com wrote: Hi, Recently I'm facing a funny problem. pacman (and even packer) is t slow to search -Ss (db+aur) or -Qs (db). I see a lot of HDD activity going on. But when I run pacman-optimize, it gets fixed. This happens

Re: [arch-general] pacman too slow on reboot

2010-02-10 Thread Evangelos Foutras
On 10/02/2010 04:49 μμ, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: Hi, Recently I'm facing a funny problem. pacman (and even packer) is t slow to search -Ss (db+aur) or -Qs (db). I see a lot of HDD activity going on. But when I run pacman-optimize, it gets fixed. This happens at every boot. Any ideas ?

Re: [arch-general] pacman too slow on reboot

2010-02-10 Thread Alexander Lam
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan li...@itech7.com wrote: Hi, Recently I'm facing a funny problem. pacman (and even packer) is t slow to search -Ss (db+aur) or -Qs (db). I see a lot of HDD activity going on. But when I run pacman-optimize, it gets fixed. This happens

Re: [arch-general] udev and/or device-mapper problem

2010-02-10 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 10.02.2010 16:00, schrieb karolina.lindqv...@kramnet.se: I updated my system, and then on reboot it could not find the disk /dev/sda anymore. A pity, since it hold the boot and root file systems. I have a custom kernel, for various reasons, but now I could not get my custom kernel, of

Re: [arch-general] pacman too slow on reboot

2010-02-10 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
@all, thanks for the tip. I used ext4 for the loop's format. But anybody knows the reason behind this ? -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site Server Adminstrator www.itech7.com

Re: [arch-general] [Fwd: [LAU] A sound decision]

2010-02-10 Thread hollunder
Excerpts from Uli Armbruster's message of 2010-02-10 13:11:50 +0100: * hollunder hollun...@lavabit.com [10.02.2010 12:45]: Well, there are also lots of people who have complaints about macs and pt, but pt sure has good marketing. I doubt a networked setup such as his would be possible with

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] WARNING: mkinitcpio 0.5.99.3 (kill-klibc) live in testing!

2010-02-10 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 07.02.2010 12:03, schrieb Thomas Bächler: Okay, this is it. The busybox-based mkinitcpio is entering testing now. BACK UP YOUR OLD (WORKING) INITRAMFS (kernel26.img) FILE! Also, do NOT use this if you have root on NFS, it is NOT IMPLEMENTED yet. Known issues: If you use 2.6.33 and enable

[arch-general] pacman overwriting files (was Re: dcron 4.2)

2010-02-10 Thread Dimitrios Apostolou
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Aaron Griffin wrote: On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org wrote: Am 13.01.2010 00:34, schrieb Dimitrios Apostolou: Since I've been bitten by this, how can I know if the file I modified is goint to be overwritten or not, *before* it actually

Re: [arch-general] pacman overwriting files (was Re: dcron 4.2)

2010-02-10 Thread dave reisner
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Dimitrios Apostolou ji...@gmx.net wrote: Guys that thing bit me again: During the big libpng upgrade initscripts package got upgraded too and /etc/rc.{sysinit,shutdown} got overwritten without notifying me. Because of special changes I've made to mount /var as

Re: [arch-general] pacman overwriting files (was Re: dcron 4.2)

2010-02-10 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Dimitrios Apostolou ji...@gmx.net wrote: On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Aaron Griffin wrote: On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org wrote: Am 13.01.2010 00:34, schrieb Dimitrios Apostolou: Since I've been bitten by this, how can I know

Re: [arch-general] pacman overwriting files (was Re: dcron 4.2)

2010-02-10 Thread Dimitrios Apostolou
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, dave reisner wrote: On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Dimitrios Apostolou ji...@gmx.net wrote: Guys that thing bit me again: During the big libpng upgrade initscripts package got upgraded too and /etc/rc.{sysinit,shutdown} got overwritten without notifying me. Because of

Re: [arch-general] pacman overwriting files (was Re: dcron 4.2)

2010-02-10 Thread Dimitrios Apostolou
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Aaron Griffin wrote: On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Dimitrios Apostolou ji...@gmx.net wrote: On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Aaron Griffin wrote: On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org wrote: Am 13.01.2010 00:34, schrieb Dimitrios Apostolou: Since

Re: [arch-general] pacman overwriting files (was Re: dcron 4.2)

2010-02-10 Thread Ray Rashif
On 11 February 2010 05:03, Dimitrios Apostolou ji...@gmx.net wrote: On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Aaron Griffin wrote: On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Dimitrios Apostolou ji...@gmx.net wrote: On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Aaron Griffin wrote: On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Thomas Bächler

Re: [arch-general] pacman overwriting files (was Re: dcron 4.2)

2010-02-10 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 10.02.2010 21:30, schrieb Dimitrios Apostolou: Guys that thing bit me again: During the big libpng upgrade initscripts package got upgraded too and /etc/rc.{sysinit,shutdown} got overwritten without notifying me. Because of special changes I've made to mount /var as tmpfs, and because I

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] WARNING: mkinitcpio 0.5.99.3 (kill-klibc) live in testing!

2010-02-10 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 10.02.2010 18:46, schrieb Thomas Bächler: I am still looking for someone to implement NFS root with this, please contact me if you are interested. This will not be the final version, there is still some work to do, but for now this requires more testing. Okay, version 0.5.99.5 is up. This

[arch-general] Full update, kde44 and virtualbox is working again - excellent

2010-02-10 Thread David C. Rankin
Listmates, After full update to kde44 and all packages from testing/community-testing, virtualbox is working again. Cool! So far so good. Thanks for the quick work getting all the packages together. All anyone with the other distros sees is the little notice at kde.org KDE 4.4 Has

Re: [arch-general] pacman too slow on reboot

2010-02-10 Thread Hamo
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:39 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan li...@itech7.com wrote: @all, thanks for the tip. I used ext4 for the loop's format. But anybody knows the reason behind this ? -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site Server Adminstrator www.itech7.com Can I mount /var/lib/pacman/sync as tmpfs

Re: [arch-general] wkhtmltopdf

2010-02-10 Thread andrew james
On 02/06/2010 09:57 AM, Evangelos Foutras wrote: On 06/02/2010 01:58 μμ, richard terry wrote: Hi List/Evangelos: This is a really useful utility, I'd like to use it to join documents. It dosn't seem to be built against a 'patched version' of qt whatever that may mean.: This version of

[arch-general] mail client

2010-02-10 Thread andrew james
i think I am soon tired of thunderbird 3.. I could revert to vers 2 but why is the newer vers slow, laggy, semi-stallish? has anyone else a funky thunderbird vers 3? any switch values to cause it to work quicker? alternatively, what is your favoured mail news client for POP3, IMAP,

Re: [arch-general] mail client

2010-02-10 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On 02/11/2010 11:54 AM, andrew james wrote: i think I am soon tired of thunderbird 3.. I could revert to vers 2 but why is the newer vers slow, laggy, semi-stallish? has anyone else a funky thunderbird vers 3? any switch values to cause it to work quicker? alternatively, what is your

Re: [arch-general] mail client

2010-02-10 Thread Allan McRae
On 11/02/10 16:54, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: On 02/11/2010 11:54 AM, andrew james wrote: i think I am soon tired of thunderbird 3.. I could revert to vers 2 but why is the newer vers slow, laggy, semi-stallish? has anyone else a funky thunderbird vers 3? any switch values to cause it to work

Re: [arch-general] mail client

2010-02-10 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:24:08 +0530 Nilesh Govindarajan li...@itech7.com wrote: On 02/11/2010 11:54 AM, andrew james wrote: i think I am soon tired of thunderbird 3.. I could revert to vers 2 but why is the newer vers slow, laggy, semi-stallish? has anyone else a funky thunderbird vers

Re: [arch-general] mail client

2010-02-10 Thread Smith Dhumbumroong
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 01:24:30AM -0500, andrew james wrote: i think I am soon tired of thunderbird 3.. I could revert to vers 2 but why is the newer vers slow, laggy, semi-stallish? has anyone else a funky thunderbird vers 3? any switch values to cause it to work quicker?

Re: [arch-general] mail client

2010-02-10 Thread Brendan Long
On 02/10/2010 11:24 PM, andrew james wrote: i think I am soon tired of thunderbird 3.. I could revert to vers 2 but why is the newer vers slow, laggy, semi-stallish? has anyone else a funky thunderbird vers 3? any switch values to cause it to work quicker? alternatively, what is your