Re: [arch-general] How big really is the MBR?

2011-09-03 Thread Martti Kühne
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 12:09 AM, Eric Griffith wrote: > They had various numbers for bs=,  some 440, some 446, some 506, and > some 512. Normally I would've just shrugged and followed the wiki, but > notice on one said that if you zero out too far, you wipe out hte > partition table...which I wou

Re: [arch-general] Unreachable system and general ARP weirdness

2011-09-03 Thread swh
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Jeremiah Dodds wrote: > > Just to get prerequisites out of the way, have you done the > > for f in $(find /etc -type f -name '*pacnew'); do >  orig = ${f%.pacnew} >  diff -u $orig $f > /tmp/$orig.diff > done > > then review the config changes and make updates accord

Re: [arch-general] How big really is the MBR?

2011-09-03 Thread Aljosha Papsch
On Sat, 3 Sep 2011 18:09:10 -0400 Eric Griffith wrote: > Whats up guys, Was planning on re-install Arch on my laptop, started > writing a couple scripts to handle the usual things I do. One of the > NEW things im going to be trying is grub2. Now, the Grub2 wiki says to > run > > dd if=/dev/zero

Re: [arch-general] How big really is the MBR?

2011-09-03 Thread Mauro Santos
On 03-09-2011 23:09, Eric Griffith wrote: > So can anyone confirm that the command above, from the wiki, is > correct? And that it IS 440, and not something different. I'd hate to > pick the wrong one and zero out my partition table, or not completly > zero out grub-legacy and run into a whole diff

[arch-general] How big really is the MBR?

2011-09-03 Thread Eric Griffith
Whats up guys, Was planning on re-install Arch on my laptop, started writing a couple scripts to handle the usual things I do. One of the NEW things im going to be trying is grub2. Now, the Grub2 wiki says to run dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=440 count=1 to wipe out grub-legacy from the MBR. An

Re: [arch-general] pacman -Sl

2011-09-03 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 12:53, Karol Blazewicz wrote: > 2011/9/3 "Jérôme M. Berger" : >> Joker-jar wrote: >>> Hello! I just made `pacman -Ql ...` analogue for don't installed packages. >>> Enjoy ;) >>> >>> http://paste.org.ru/?h5cg9y >>> >>        You mean like “pkgfile -l” ? >> >>                J

Re: [arch-general] Unreachable system and general ARP weirdness

2011-09-03 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 4:39 PM, swh wrote: > Any help is appreciated. > Just to get prerequisites out of the way, have you done the for f in $(find /etc -type f -name '*pacnew'); do orig = ${f%.pacnew} diff -u $orig $f > /tmp/$orig.diff done then review the config changes and make updates

[arch-general] Unreachable system and general ARP weirdness

2011-09-03 Thread swh
Beginning a few months ago, two of the systems on my LAN, a desktop and a laptop, have periodically become mutually uncommunicative. I believe it started occurring when I did a massive -Syu on the laptop, installing six months worth of updates for the laptop at once and effectively upgrading 1/2 of

Re: [arch-general] pacman -Sl

2011-09-03 Thread Karol Blazewicz
2011/9/3 "Jérôme M. Berger" : > Joker-jar wrote: >> Hello! I just made `pacman -Ql ...` analogue for don't installed packages. >> Enjoy ;) >> >> http://paste.org.ru/?h5cg9y >> >        You mean like “pkgfile -l” ? > >                Jerome > -- > mailto:jeber...@free.fr > http://jeberger.free.fr >

Re: [arch-general] pacman -Sl

2011-09-03 Thread Jérôme M. Berger
Joker-jar wrote: > Hello! I just made `pacman -Ql ...` analogue for don't installed packages. > Enjoy ;) > > http://paste.org.ru/?h5cg9y > You mean like “pkgfile -l” ? Jerome -- mailto:jeber...@free.fr http://jeberger.free.fr Jabber: jeber...@jabber.fr signature.asc D

Re: [arch-general] Error updating related to pygobject, pygobject-devel, Python, and Python2

2011-09-03 Thread Myra Nelson
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 02:02, Morris wrote: > On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 6:47 AM, Myra Nelson wrote: > >> It would seem I have something misconfigured on my machine. I haven't >> noticed anything on the mailing list or on the Arch news about this, >> checked the bug tracker and followed the links to

Re: [arch-general] Error updating related to pygobject, pygobject-devel, Python, and Python2

2011-09-03 Thread Morris
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 6:47 AM, Myra Nelson wrote: > It would seem I have something misconfigured on my machine. I haven't > noticed anything on the mailing list or on the Arch news about this, > checked the bug tracker and followed the links to the Python mailing > list, and I'm still a little c