Re: [arch-general] HAL dependencies

2010-04-20 Thread Gaurish Sharma
Hi, On my system. HAL is requried by gnome-vfs, gstreamer0.10-good-plugins, handbrake, kdelibs, picasa-beta, vlc, xbmc It seems Migration would take a long time Gaurish

Re: [arch-general] HAL dependencies

2010-04-20 Thread Muhammed Uluyol
> > You didn't even mention WHAT is a design fault. But frankly, I don't > care, as this is neither the topic here, nor is it the right place to > complain about design faults in Linux or HAL. > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2008-May/011560.html

Re: [arch-general] Serial To USB Adapter

2010-04-20 Thread Samuel Tardieu
> "Snarkout" == Snarkout writes: Snarkout> My experience has been that minicom is the best emulator for Snarkout> interfacing with serial devices. I have tried as many as I Snarkout> could get my hands on, too, FWIW ($DAYJOB = noc monkey). IME, Snarkout> If you ever have a large config you

Re: [arch-general] [*] Java and/or MySQL geeks required

2010-04-20 Thread Linas
Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > Please note that you will need an Google Account to contribute. There > have been two contributors till I think. Any more ? Come on guys its > an Open Source project. > It won't have much visibility there. Have you considered creating it on http://en.wikibooks.org/ or

Re: [arch-general] stability from pm-suspend ?

2010-04-20 Thread Isaac Dupree
On 04/20/10 10:37, Ian-Xue Li wrote: I've been using pm-suspend for temporarily shutting down the computer for later use, but now I raised the question whether it is safe or stable to do so at a constant basis. That is, seldom real reboots and often just suspend. me too, sometimes As you know

Re: [arch-general] stability from pm-suspend ?

2010-04-20 Thread Isaac Dupree
On 04/20/10 10:51, Ray Kohler wrote: One thing you must avoid is to boot on one kernel version, install a kernel upgrade, then suspend and resume on the newer kernel. That will cause problems, so if you upgrade the kernel, you need to do a real reboot next time. Other than that, it seems to work

Re: [arch-general] [*] Java and/or MySQL geeks required

2010-04-20 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On 04/20/10 21:54, Piyush P Kurur wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 05:32:44PM +0530, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: Hi, Please do not consider this another spam message because it is not. I am not sending this as an advertisement. The project page is located at http://cbse065.eduvid.in/ This

Re: [arch-general] [*] Java and/or MySQL geeks required

2010-04-20 Thread Piyush P Kurur
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 05:32:44PM +0530, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > Hi, > > Please do not consider this another spam message because it is not. > I am not sending this as an advertisement. > > > The project page is located at http://cbse065.eduvid.in/ This is great Nilesh. Being an Indian

Re: [arch-general] gstreamer0.10-good-plugins need a whole load of GNOME stuff?

2010-04-20 Thread Ananda Samaddar
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:40:27 +0200 Thomas Haider wrote: > Am Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:34:21 +0100 > schrieb Ananda Samaddar : > > > Is there some reason that the gstreamer good plugins set needs a > > whole load of GNOME crap? > > > > http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/gstreamer0.10-good

Re: [arch-general] Java and/or MySQL geeks required

2010-04-20 Thread Loui Chang
On Tue 20 Apr 2010 17:32 +0530, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > Me and my friend are doing a project to write a simplified ebook for > students of high school in India. The syllabus has been changed a lot > and the students have been introduced to the world of FOSS. The > current physical book authors

Re: [arch-general] stability from pm-suspend ?

2010-04-20 Thread Ray Kohler
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Ian-Xue Li wrote: > I really like to hear some experiences whether that you have been using > ACPI S3 kernel suspension for quite some time now, and feels it is > really stable and safe to use, or that, you had ran into troubles using > them. One thing you must a

Re: [arch-general] stability from pm-suspend ?

2010-04-20 Thread Aren Olson
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 09:37, Ian-Xue Li wrote: > I really like to hear some experiences whether that you have been using > ACPI S3 kernel suspension for quite some time now, and feels it is > really stable and safe to use, or that, you had ran into troubles using > them. I put my laptop in S3 s

Re: [arch-general] gstreamer0.10-good-plugins need a whole load of GNOME stuff?

2010-04-20 Thread Thomas Haider
Am Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:34:21 +0100 schrieb Ananda Samaddar : > Is there some reason that the gstreamer good plugins set needs a whole > load of GNOME crap? > > http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/gstreamer0.10-good-plugins/ > > I've recently switched to XFCE and I'd like to avoid GNOM

[arch-general] stability from pm-suspend ?

2010-04-20 Thread Ian-Xue Li
I've been using pm-suspend for temporarily shutting down the computer for later use, but now I raised the question whether it is safe or stable to do so at a constant basis. That is, seldom real reboots and often just suspend. For me the ratio of reboot and suspend is like 1:5. As you know that s

[arch-general] gstreamer0.10-good-plugins need a whole load of GNOME stuff?

2010-04-20 Thread Ananda Samaddar
Is there some reason that the gstreamer good plugins set needs a whole load of GNOME crap? http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/gstreamer0.10-good-plugins/ I've recently switched to XFCE and I'd like to avoid GNOME dependencies. Is it possible to recompile from abs without all these de

Re: [arch-general] Ssl no more :(

2010-04-20 Thread Andrea Crotti
Evangelos Foutras writes: > > How did you produce that output? :) lsof | grep libcrypt a great tool ;) Restarting the services made the trick, thanks everyone

[arch-general] Java and/or MySQL geeks required

2010-04-20 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
Hi, Please do not consider this another spam message because it is not. I am not sending this as an advertisement. Me and my friend are doing a project to write a simplified ebook for students of high school in India. The syllabus has been changed a lot and the students have been introduced

Re: [arch-general] HAL dependencies

2010-04-20 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 20.04.2010 13:22, schrieb Thomas Bächler: > Again, I have no idea what particular problem exists in Linux that > doesn't in Solaris, as you didn't even mention that. But again, this is > not the place to discuss about Solaris or Linux design. Especially not > about Solaris, as it is entirely on

Re: [arch-general] Ssl no more :(

2010-04-20 Thread Evangelos Foutras
On 20/04/10 13:19, Andrea Crotti wrote: --8<---cut here---start->8--- syslog-ng 1751root DEL REG 253,625250370 /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 syslog-ng 1752root DEL REG 253,625250370 /usr/

Re: [arch-general] HAL dependencies

2010-04-20 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 20.04.2010 13:01, schrieb Joerg Schilling: > "Laurie Clark-Michalek" wrote: > >>> The important question is: by what will hal replaced? >> >> UDev > > Note that people have been talking about Xorg which is a highly portable > project. So this is most likely not correct as e.g. Solaris has no

Re: [arch-general] Ssl no more :(

2010-04-20 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 20.04.2010 12:19, schrieb Andrea Crotti: > Thanks to some symlinking and reinstalling it works again, but I see > that some are still using the old lib. > In general reinstalling them solve the problem right? > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > syslog-ng 175

Re: [arch-general] HAL dependencies

2010-04-20 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Laurie Clark-Michalek" wrote: > > The important question is: by what will hal replaced? > > UDev Note that people have been talking about Xorg which is a highly portable project. So this is most likely not correct as e.g. Solaris has no udev and will never introduce udev. There is the /device

Re: [arch-general] Ssl no more :(

2010-04-20 Thread Andrea Crotti
Pierre Schmitz writes: > Not for me. Looks more like pacman was interrupted during the transaction. > At least libfetch and libarchive are missing. (and I guess a lot of other > stuff like openssh) Could you add more of the log before and after what you > already posted. Andy what is about the sy

Re: [arch-general] Ssl no more :(

2010-04-20 Thread Pierre Schmitz
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:59:32 +0200, Andrea Crotti wrote: > Here it is > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > [2010-04-16 13:12] synchronizing package lists > [2010-04-16 13:13] upgraded pacman (3.3.3-1 -> 3.3.3-5) > [2010-04-16 13:13] synchronizing package lists > [2

Re: [arch-general] Ssl no more :(

2010-04-20 Thread Andrea Crotti
Thomas Bächler writes: > Am 20.04.2010 11:35, schrieb Andrea Crotti: >> I don't know how it could have happened, last thing I did was a "pacman >> -Suy" which normally doesn't have such disastrous effects... > > If you had -Syu'd and your pacman database was clean, you would have > pulled updates

Re: [arch-general] Ssl no more :(

2010-04-20 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 20.04.2010 11:35, schrieb Andrea Crotti: > I don't know how it could have happened, last thing I did was a "pacman > -Suy" which normally doesn't have such disastrous effects... If you had -Syu'd and your pacman database was clean, you would have pulled updates to libfetch and openssh which wou

[arch-general] Ssl no more :(

2010-04-20 Thread Andrea Crotti
I was wondering why I was not able to login to a remote arch server. Openvpn is still working and luckily also webmin, so I logged in and I saw this: --8<---cut here---start->8--- > /etc/rc.d/sshd restart :: Stopping Secure Shell Daemon[BUSY][FAIL] ::