Re: [arch-general] mail client

2010-02-11 Thread Jeroen Op 't Eynde
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:24:30 +0100, andrew james and...@systemssingular.com 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] wkhtmltopdf

2010-02-11 Thread Evangelos Foutras
On 11/02/2010 07:57 πμ, andrew james wrote: 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

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

2010-02-11 Thread Karolina Lindqvist
Wednesday 10 February 2010 skrev Thomas Bächler: Your custom kernel is misconfigured, the most likely candidate being: $ zgrep CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED /proc/config.gz # CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 is not set If this option is set to yes, udev will fail to create devices properly. If the

Re: [arch-general] mail client

2010-02-11 Thread gt
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Jeroen Op 't Eynde jer...@xprsyrslf.bewrote: I've been using Opera's Mail client. It is a no nonsense mail client with support for all above and it integrates with Opera itself obviously. It is closed source and not in the official repo's but you can find it in

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

2010-02-11 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 11.02.2010 11:56, schrieb Karolina Lindqvist: Your custom kernel is misconfigured, the most likely candidate being: $ zgrep CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED /proc/config.gz # CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 is not set If this option is set to yes, udev will fail to create devices properly. If the

[arch-general] xf86-video-intel and KMS

2010-02-11 Thread Pierre Chapuis
I saw on arch-announce that xf86-video-intel now only supports KMS, and I wanted to ask: is there still a way to specify the resolution of virtual consoles, like we used to do with vga=XXX in kernel options? -- catwell

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

2010-02-11 Thread Vincent Van Houtte
On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 12:50 +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 11.02.2010 11:56, schrieb Karolina Lindqvist: Your custom kernel is misconfigured, the most likely candidate being: $ zgrep CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED /proc/config.gz # CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 is not set If this option is set

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

2010-02-11 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 11.02.2010 02:28, schrieb Hamo: Can I mount /var/lib/pacman/sync as tmpfs to gain a speed up? Definitely, just make sure you don't do the same with local. You have to pacman -Sy after every boot, but that shouldn't be a problem. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] xf86-video-intel and KMS

2010-02-11 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 11.02.2010 14:28, schrieb Damien Churchill: I think you can use video=...@refreshrate http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Intel_GMA#Kernel_Modesetting This is not documented in ArchWiki yet, and I think it has been a new feature in .31 or .32. For laptop displays, the right resolution should be

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

2010-02-11 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
if you use pt-pacman-cage (from pactools package on AUR), you can use this tiny optimisation: * mount /var/lib/pacman with noatime option. it will speed up read and write on the loop file.

[arch-general] Error message on mkinitcpio

2010-02-11 Thread Tomás Acauan Schertel
This is the second time it happens. When upgrading kernel, I got this message: :: Parsing hook [autodetect] /lib/initcpio/install/autodetect: line 17: other:swap:2: command not found :: Parsing hook [pata] Am I the only one seeing this? Cheers. -- Tomás A. Schertel

Re: [arch-general] Error message on mkinitcpio

2010-02-11 Thread Ray Kohler
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Tomás Acauan Schertel tscher...@gmail.com wrote: This is the second time it happens. When upgrading kernel, I got this message: :: Parsing hook [autodetect] /lib/initcpio/install/autodetect: line 17: other:swap:2: command not found :: Parsing hook [pata] Am

Re: [arch-general] Error message on mkinitcpio

2010-02-11 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 11.02.2010 15:32, schrieb Tomás Acauan Schertel: This is the second time it happens. When upgrading kernel, I got this message: :: Parsing hook [autodetect] /lib/initcpio/install/autodetect: line 17: other:swap:2: command not found :: Parsing hook [pata] Am I the only one seeing this?

[arch-general] When asked to test from [testing]...

2010-02-11 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 16:25 +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 11.02.2010 15:32, schrieb Tomás Acauan Schertel: This is the second time it happens. When upgrading kernel, I got this message: :: Parsing hook [autodetect] /lib/initcpio/install/autodetect: line 17: other:swap:2: command not

Re: [arch-general] When asked to test from [testing]...

2010-02-11 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 11.02.2010 16:35, schrieb Ng Oon-Ee: I've seen that advise come up sometimes from a package maintainer. Can this be assumed to mean (as I'm sure some will assume it to mean) that its safe to cherry-pick just mkinitcpio from testing? Or does the tester need to 'know' to -Syu from testing

Re: [arch-general] mail client

2010-02-11 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 02/11/2010 01:24 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

[arch-general] Firefox 3.6 window size issue on nvidia TwinView

2010-02-11 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Having a weird problem in the latest firefox, and was wondering if anyone is seeing anything similar. (And/or know cause/workaround.) When I shut down FF and start it again, the new FF window is a smaller size than the old one. But it's not just that it's not remembering the correct

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

2010-02-11 Thread Dimitrios Apostolou
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Thomas Bächler wrote: 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

Re: [arch-general] xf86-video-intel and KMS

2010-02-11 Thread Alexander Lam
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Pierre Chapuis catw...@archlinux.us wrote: I saw on arch-announce that xf86-video-intel now only supports KMS, and I wanted to ask: is there still a way to specify the resolution of virtual consoles, like we used to do with vga=XXX in kernel options? --

[arch-general] Unable to upgrade

2010-02-11 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
See this guys - http://dpaste.com/157512/ All of you're facing the same ? If not, what's the fix ? -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site Server Adminstrator www.itech7.com

Re: [arch-general] Unable to upgrade

2010-02-11 Thread Ionut Biru
On 02/11/2010 07:47 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: See this guys - http://dpaste.com/157512/ All of you're facing the same ? If not, what's the fix ? fire up a browser and read the news related to KDE 4.4. -- Ionut

Re: [arch-general] Unable to upgrade

2010-02-11 Thread Andrea Scarpino
On Thursday 11 February 2010 18:47:43 Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: See this guys - http://dpaste.com/157512/ All of you're facing the same ? If not, what's the fix ? http://www.archlinux.org/news/483/ -- Andrea `bash` Scarpino Arch Linux Developer

Re: [arch-general] Unable to upgrade

2010-02-11 Thread Dan Vratil
This is related to recent update of KDE. You have to update system in two steps: pacman -Sy --asdeps qt pacman -Su (http://www.archlinux.org/news/483/) On Thursday 11 February 2010 18:47:43 Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: See this guys - http://dpaste.com/157512/ All of you're facing the same

Re: [arch-general] Unable to upgrade

2010-02-11 Thread Andrea Scarpino
On Thursday 11 February 2010 18:50:46 Ionut Biru wrote: fire up a browser and read the news related to KDE 4.4. or subscribe to arch-announce ;) -- Andrea `bash` Scarpino Arch Linux Developer

Re: [arch-general] Unable to upgrade

2010-02-11 Thread Guilherme M. Nogueira
It is wise to subscribe to all possible arch lists. That's what I do!

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

2010-02-11 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Dimitrios Apostolou ji...@gmx.net wrote: On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Thomas Bächler wrote: 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

Re: [arch-general] mail client

2010-02-11 Thread Arvid Picciani
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:24:30 -0500, andrew james and...@systemssingular.com wrote: has anyone else a funky thunderbird vers 3? yes, see some older thread on the ML. any switch values to cause it to work quicker? enabling offline reading seems to fix some of my issues alternatively,

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

2010-02-11 Thread Guus Snijders
On 10-02-10 13:10, Gaurish Sharma wrote: 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 .

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] mkinitcpio 0.6-1 and friends

2010-02-11 Thread Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
On 02/11/2010 04:06 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: Please sign off these packages: mkinitcpio 0.6-1 - Remove klibc dependency - Rewrite many hooks to be better, have less bugs and work with busybox - Random other fixes mkinitcpio-busybox 1.15.3-5 - Core component of mkinitcpio 0.6: Busybox

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] mkinitcpio 0.6-1 and friends

2010-02-11 Thread Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
On 02/11/2010 05:02 PM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: On 02/11/2010 04:06 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: Please sign off these packages: mkinitcpio 0.6-1 - Remove klibc dependency - Rewrite many hooks to be better, have less bugs and work with busybox - Random other fixes

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] mkinitcpio 0.6-1 and friends

2010-02-11 Thread Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
On 02/11/2010 05:12 PM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: On 02/11/2010 05:02 PM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: On 02/11/2010 04:06 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: Please sign off these packages: mkinitcpio 0.6-1 - Remove klibc dependency - Rewrite many hooks to be better, have less bugs and work

Re: [arch-general] xf86-video-intel and KMS

2010-02-11 Thread Pierre Chapuis
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:28:53 -0500, Alexander Lam lambchop...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Pierre Chapuis catw...@archlinux.us wrote: I saw on arch-announce that xf86-video-intel now only supports KMS, and I wanted to ask: is there still a way to specify the resolution of

[arch-general] new mkinitcpio / harmless error message at boot

2010-02-11 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
After doing a pacman -Syu and installed the mkinitcpio 0.6 , I'm getting an error insmoding padlock-sha just after I enter the root device luks encryption passphrase. I'm assuming there is an easy solution to this. Any idea?

Re: [arch-general] xf86-video-intel and KMS

2010-02-11 Thread Pierre Chapuis
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:52:37 +0100, Pierre Chapuis catw...@archlinux.us wrote: on a 16:10 strip? Of course I meant a 16:10 screen... -- catwell

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] mkinitcpio 0.6-1 and friends

2010-02-11 Thread Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
On 02/11/2010 05:02 PM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: On 02/11/2010 04:06 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: Please sign off these packages: mkinitcpio 0.6-1 - Remove klibc dependency - Rewrite many hooks to be better, have less bugs and work with busybox - Random other fixes

[arch-general] encrypt hook

2010-02-11 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
Why does /lib/initcpio/hooks/encrypt say /sbin/cryptsetup but the actual installed file is /sbin/cryptsetup.static?

Re: [arch-general] Error message on mkinitcpio

2010-02-11 Thread Dan McGee
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org wrote: Am 11.02.2010 18:47, schrieb Tomás Acauan Schertel: # pacman -S testing/mkinitcpio resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... Targets (2): mkinitcpio-busybox-1.15.3-4  mkinitcpio-0.5.99.5-1 Total

Re: [arch-general] new mkinitcpio / harmless error message at boot

2010-02-11 Thread kludge
On 02/11/2010 02:52 PM, Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: After doing a pacman -Syu and installed the mkinitcpio 0.6 , I'm getting an error insmoding padlock-sha just after I enter the root device luks encryption passphrase. I'm assuming there is an easy solution to this. Any idea? harmless. i've been

Re: [arch-general] xf86-video-intel and KMS

2010-02-11 Thread Damjan Georgievski
 - Is there a way to change the mode on the fly without rebooting? I haven't tested it but you can try fbset - Is there a way to enforce an aspect ratio, eg. to have a 4:3 mode with black stripes on the sides on a 16:10 strip? I'm not sure about this, maybe if you set a lower 4:3

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

2010-02-11 Thread Gaurish Sharma
Hi, Idea was for quick and dirty data sharing. example, my friend brings portable hdd I need to copy project files into that removable volume. I can't do that without being root, since the removeable device changes everything(I have lot of friends), putting entry in fstab is also not a

Re: [arch-general] Unable to upgrade

2010-02-11 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 18:54 +0100, Andrea Scarpino wrote: On Thursday 11 February 2010 18:50:46 Ionut Biru wrote: fire up a browser and read the news related to KDE 4.4. or subscribe to arch-announce ;) Isn't [arch-announce] dead for the longest time? I remember getting 1 month worth of

Re: [arch-general] Unable to upgrade

2010-02-11 Thread Burlynn Corlew Jr
2010/2/11 Ng Oon-Ee ngoo...@gmail.com On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 18:54 +0100, Andrea Scarpino wrote: On Thursday 11 February 2010 18:50:46 Ionut Biru wrote: fire up a browser and read the news related to KDE 4.4. or subscribe to arch-announce ;) Isn't [arch-announce] dead for the longest

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] mkinitcpio 0.6-1 and friends

2010-02-11 Thread Brendan Long
On 02/11/2010 12:06 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: Please sign off these packages: mkinitcpio 0.6-1 - Remove klibc dependency - Rewrite many hooks to be better, have less bugs and work with busybox - Random other fixes mkinitcpio-busybox 1.15.3-5 - Core component of mkinitcpio 0.6: Busybox

Re: [arch-general] new mkinitcpio / harmless error message at boot

2010-02-11 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 11.02.2010 21:52, schrieb Hussam Al-Tayeb: After doing a pacman -Syu and installed the mkinitcpio 0.6 , I'm getting an error insmoding padlock-sha just after I enter the root device luks encryption passphrase. I'm assuming there is an easy solution to this. Any idea? I think I added the

Re: [arch-general] encrypt hook

2010-02-11 Thread Adrian C.
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: Why does /lib/initcpio/hooks/encrypt say /sbin/cryptsetup but the actual installed file is /sbin/cryptsetup.static? But you did not read /lib/initcpio/install/encrypt which explains it. -- Adrian C. (anrxc) | anrxc..sysphere.org | PGP ID: D20A0618

Re: [arch-general] Error message on mkinitcpio

2010-02-11 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:27 PM, Dan McGee dpmc...@gmail.com wrote: I think we may have this fixed in pacman-git, but Nagy or Xavier would know for sure... That documentation from man PKGBUILD still applies, I don't think we ever considered it as a bug/problem : replaces (array)

Re: [arch-general] Error message on mkinitcpio

2010-02-11 Thread Tomás Acauan Schertel
I still got error message after using packages from [testing]. Am I doing something wrong?? -- Tomás A. Schertel -- Linux Registered User #304838 Arch Linux User http://www.archlinux-br.org/ -- On Thu, Feb

Re: [arch-general] Error message on mkinitcpio

2010-02-11 Thread Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
On 02/11/2010 11:26 PM, Tomás Acauan Schertel wrote: I still got error message after using packages from [testing]. Am I doing something wrong?? what of error message? conflicts files in pacman? or when mkinitcpio generates the image? PS: Please avoid top-response. -- Gerardo Exequiel

Re: [arch-general] mail client

2010-02-11 Thread andrew james
thank you for all the perspectives. fs, filesystem is raid10, ext4 for documents, mail. filesystem of system/programs is raid 1, ext4 it may try more switches to quicken the program. David, thank you for the reminder of userChrome.css. nobody wrote of the worst problem, inconsistent view

Re: [arch-general] Error message on mkinitcpio

2010-02-11 Thread Tomás Acauan Schertel
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 00:57, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi vmlinuz...@yahoo.com.ar wrote: On 02/11/2010 11:26 PM, Tomás Acauan Schertel wrote: I still got error message after using packages from [testing]. Am I doing something wrong?? what of error message? conflicts files in pacman? or when

Re: [arch-general] Error message on mkinitcpio

2010-02-11 Thread Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
On 02/12/2010 01:03 AM, Tomás Acauan Schertel wrote: On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 00:57, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi vmlinuz...@yahoo.com.ar wrote: On 02/11/2010 11:26 PM, Tomás Acauan Schertel wrote: I still got error message after using packages from [testing]. Am I doing something

[arch-general] VIM history

2010-02-11 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
Hi, while I was on Fedora, whenever I opened a file using vim, the next time I open it, it used to open at the same line where I closed it. What is the setting to enable this feature ? Its a big pain in the a$$ to scroll through the file every time I want to find the line. -- Nilesh

Re: [arch-general] VIM history

2010-02-11 Thread gt
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan li...@itech7.comwrote: Hi, while I was on Fedora, whenever I opened a file using vim, the next time I open it, it used to open at the same line where I closed it. What is the setting to enable this feature ? Its a big pain in the a$$ to

Re: [arch-general] VIM history

2010-02-11 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On 02/12/2010 12:08 PM, gt wrote: On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Nilesh Govindarajanli...@itech7.comwrote: Hi, while I was on Fedora, whenever I opened a file using vim, the next time I open it, it used to open at the same line where I closed it. What is the setting to enable this feature

Re: [arch-general] encrypt hook

2010-02-11 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 01:17 +0100, Adrian C. wrote: On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: Why does /lib/initcpio/hooks/encrypt say /sbin/cryptsetup but the actual installed file is /sbin/cryptsetup.static? But you did not read /lib/initcpio/install/encrypt which explains it.

[arch-general] resume from suspend no longer works after new mkinitcpio 0.6

2010-02-11 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
At boot, it no longer does the check for the resume image or data and directly boots from new.