Re: [arch-general] System Cron jobs not running

2011-10-24 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Friday 21 Oct 2011 20:05:18 R7h0re4 wrote: Just to be safe I added the full path to my script for the commands it is calling. I also looked at the wiki again and nothing mentions the use of Cronie, and system cron jobs. I also checked the file /var/spool and see anacron which has the sub

Re: [arch-general] Discussion on usage of [testing] repo - minimal requirements?

2011-10-24 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 5:41 AM, Oon-Ee Ng ngoonee.t...@gmail.com wrote: A user basically is using [testing] without fulfilling the above requirements. Should the user be advised not to use [testing] or is this counter-productive to the purpose of [testing]? It is very important that people

[arch-general] Proposal: Translate extension for the wiki

2011-10-24 Thread atilla ontas
Hi. I'm trying to translate some articles into Turkish. While looking to the net, i've found a wiki extension named Translate extension. Advantages of this extension as well as the contact information of authors can be found here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Translate Features

Re: [arch-general] Discussion on usage of [testing] repo - minimal requirements?

2011-10-24 Thread Martti Kühne
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no wrote: snip Maybe this requirement should be communicated more clearly (e.g. a comment in the standard pacman.conf)? Great idea. I mean, as a non-[testing] user I get that guinea pig feeling which comes naturally with linux often

Re: [arch-general] Discussion on usage of [testing] repo - minimal requirements?

2011-10-24 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Martti Kühne mysat...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no wrote: snip Maybe this requirement should be communicated more clearly (e.g. a comment in the standard pacman.conf)? Great idea. I mean, as a non-[testing]

Re: [arch-general] Discussion on usage of [testing] repo - minimal requirements?

2011-10-24 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:24:26 +0200 schrieb Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no: On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 5:41 AM, Oon-Ee Ng ngoonee.t...@gmail.com wrote: A user basically is using [testing] without fulfilling the above requirements. Should the user be advised not to use [testing] or is this

[arch-general] Quiet Updates Lately

2011-10-24 Thread Steve Holmes
I've been doing 'pacman -Syu' for several days in a row lately to see no updates. Is bibleo.org still a good repo in the US? Is aArch all that quiet lately or am I missing something?

Re: [arch-general] Quiet Updates Lately

2011-10-24 Thread Martti Kühne
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Steve Holmes steve.holme...@gmail.com wrote: I've been doing 'pacman -Syu' for several days in a row lately to see no updates.  Is bibleo.org still a good repo in the US? Is aArch all that quiet lately or am I missing something? there's an up-to-date list of

Re: [arch-general] Quiet Updates Lately

2011-10-24 Thread Cédric Girard
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Steve Holmes steve.holme...@gmail.comwrote: I've been doing 'pacman -Syu' for several days in a row lately to see no updates. Is bibleo.org still a good repo in the US? Is aArch all that quiet lately or am I missing something? Your mirror does not even

Re: [arch-general] Quiet Updates Lately

2011-10-24 Thread Calvin Morrison
2011/10/24 Cédric Girard girard.ced...@gmail.com: On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Steve Holmes steve.holme...@gmail.comwrote: I've been doing 'pacman -Syu' for several days in a row lately to see no updates.  Is bibleo.org still a good repo in the US? Is aArch all that quiet lately or am I

Re: [arch-general] Quiet Updates Lately

2011-10-24 Thread Cédric Girard
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Calvin Morrison mutanttur...@gmail.comwrote: I assume he meant ibiblieo, a giant internet archive/library. There is a mirror there: http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/ But it has not been updated for 10 days. -- Cédric Girard

Re: [arch-general] Quiet Updates Lately

2011-10-24 Thread Stefan Wilkens
bibleo.org doesn't appear in the current mirrorlist. assuming you mean ibiblieo, that last synced 10 days ago Could it be that your mirrorlist [1] is outdated? Perhaps check for /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.pacnew [1] http://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/any/pacman-mirrorlist/ 2011/10/24 Steve

[arch-general] Wiki forum down?

2011-10-24 Thread Taylor Hedberg
Apologies if I've missed something obvious, but both the wiki and forum seem to have been down for at least a few hours now (I think they are located on the same host). Does anyone know what the situation is?

Re: [arch-general] Wiki forum down?

2011-10-24 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Monday 24 Oct 2011 10:30:26 Taylor Hedberg wrote: Apologies if I've missed something obvious, but both the wiki and forum seem to have been down for at least a few hours now (I think they are located on the same host). Does anyone know what the situation is? They both look fine to me.

Re: [arch-general] Discussion on usage of [testing] repo - minimal requirements?

2011-10-24 Thread Myra Nelson
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 06:53, Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no wrote: On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Martti Kühne mysat...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no wrote: snip Maybe this requirement should be communicated more clearly (e.g. a comment in the

Re: [arch-general] Wiki forum down?

2011-10-24 Thread Dwight Schauer
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Paul Gideon Dann pdgid...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 24 Oct 2011 10:30:26 Taylor Hedberg wrote: Apologies if I've missed something obvious, but both the wiki and forum seem to have been down for at least a few hours now (I think they are located on the same

Re: [arch-general] Wiki forum down?

2011-10-24 Thread Nicolas Paris
Le Mon, 24 Oct 2011 09:38:19 -0500, Dwight Schauer dscha...@gmail.com a écrit : On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Paul Gideon Dann pdgid...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 24 Oct 2011 10:30:26 Taylor Hedberg wrote: Apologies if I've missed something obvious, but both the wiki and forum seem to

Re: [arch-general] Wiki forum down?

2011-10-24 Thread Jelle van der Waa
On 24/10/11 16:38, Dwight Schauer wrote: On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Paul Gideon Dannpdgid...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 24 Oct 2011 10:30:26 Taylor Hedberg wrote: Apologies if I've missed something obvious, but both the wiki and forum seem to have been down for at least a few hours now

Re: [arch-general] Wiki forum down?

2011-10-24 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Monday 24 Oct 2011 09:38:19 Dwight Schauer wrote: On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Paul Gideon Dann pdgid...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 24 Oct 2011 10:30:26 Taylor Hedberg wrote: Apologies if I've missed something obvious, but both the wiki and forum seem to have been down for at

[arch-general] /usr is not mounted. This is not supported.

2011-10-24 Thread Dwight Schauer
I've been using Arch Linux for about 4 years now. I have it on a few important systems at work and it has been doing very well. This morning I saw /usr is not mounted. This is not supported. in my boot up after a recent rc.sysinit update. What is this, bait and switch? I've been running Linux

Re: [arch-general] Wiki forum down?

2011-10-24 Thread Taylor Hedberg
Paul Gideon Dann, Mon 2011-10-24 @ 15:35:58+0100: They both look fine to me. Maybe an issue with your local DNS? Strange, I've tried it from multiple hosts, including remote hosts in other cities/on other ISPs, all with the same result, no response from the server. I haven't seen a problem with

Re: [arch-general] Wiki forum down?

2011-10-24 Thread Jesse Juhani Jaara
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 10:30:26AM -0400, Taylor Hedberg wrote: Apologies if I've missed something obvious, but both the wiki and forum seem to have been down for at least a few hours now (I think they are located on the same host). Does anyone know what the situation is? There has been a

Re: [arch-general] Wiki forum down?

2011-10-24 Thread Taylor Hedberg
Jelle van der Waa, Mon 2011-10-24 @ 16:41:53+0200: For now: Use google Cache, way back machine? Else pacman -Ss arch wiki (it's from 15 october so it should be fine) Thanks, I didn't know the wiki was available as a downloadable package. That will suffice for now.

Re: [arch-general] /usr is not mounted. This is not supported.

2011-10-24 Thread Sander Jansen
This is not a new thing, it has been broken for quite a while. http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken Sander On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Dwight Schauer dscha...@gmail.com wrote: I've been using Arch Linux for about 4 years now. I have it on a few important

Re: [arch-general] /usr is not mounted. This is not supported.

2011-10-24 Thread Mantas Mikulėnas
On 2011-10-24 17:42, Dwight Schauer wrote: This morning I saw /usr is not mounted. This is not supported. in my boot up after a recent rc.sysinit update. What is this, bait and switch? I've been running Linux and BSD systems since 1996 and typically always have /usr in a separate partition (as

Re: [arch-general] /usr is not mounted. This is not supported.

2011-10-24 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 24.10.2011 16:42, schrieb Dwight Schauer: I've been using Arch Linux for about 4 years now. I have it on a few important systems at work and it has been doing very well. This morning I saw /usr is not mounted. This is not supported. in my boot up after a recent rc.sysinit update.

Re: [arch-general] Wiki forum down?

2011-10-24 Thread Ionut Biru
On 10/24/2011 05:30 PM, Taylor Hedberg wrote: Apologies if I've missed something obvious, but both the wiki and forum seem to have been down for at least a few hours now (I think they are located on the same host). Does anyone know what the situation is? the services had come back online in

Re: [arch-general] Wiki forum down?

2011-10-24 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Ionut Biru ib...@archlinux.org wrote: On 10/24/2011 05:30 PM, Taylor Hedberg wrote: Apologies if I've missed something obvious, but both the wiki and forum seem to have been down for at least a few hours now (I think they are located on the same host). Does

Re: [arch-general] Wiki forum down?

2011-10-24 Thread Ionut Biru
On 10/24/2011 06:37 PM, Karol Blazewicz wrote: On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Ionut Biruib...@archlinux.org wrote: On 10/24/2011 05:30 PM, Taylor Hedberg wrote: Apologies if I've missed something obvious, but both the wiki and forum seem to have been down for at least a few hours now (I

Re: [arch-general] Discussion on usage of [testing] repo - minimal requirements?

2011-10-24 Thread Leonid Isaev
On (10/24/11 09:37), Myra Nelson wrote: -~ On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 06:53, Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no wrote: -~ On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Martti Kühne mysat...@gmail.com wrote: -~ On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no wrote: -~ snip -~ Maybe this requirement should

Re: [arch-general] Wiki forum down?

2011-10-24 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Ionut Biru ib...@archlinux.org wrote: On 10/24/2011 06:37 PM, Karol Blazewicz wrote: While we're at it, what it the preferred way to contact our Dear Arch Overlords if something is malfunctioning? Pierre said try to contact us immediately

Re: [arch-general] Discussion on usage of [testing] repo - minimal requirements?

2011-10-24 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Leonid Isaev lis...@umail.iu.edu wrote: Besides, one really doesn't have to enable testing in pacman.conf -- individual pacman -U will do, imho. I've read that [testing] is all or nothing and you shouldn't cherrypick packages because you might break something.

Re: [arch-general] Wiki forum down?

2011-10-24 Thread Ionut Biru
On 10/24/2011 06:58 PM, Karol Blazewicz wrote: On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Ionut Biruib...@archlinux.org wrote: On 10/24/2011 06:37 PM, Karol Blazewicz wrote: While we're at it, what it the preferred way to contact our Dear Arch Overlords if something is malfunctioning? Pierre said try

Re: [arch-general] Discussion on usage of [testing] repo - minimal requirements?

2011-10-24 Thread Leonid Isaev
On (10/24/11 18:00), Karol Blazewicz wrote: -~ On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Leonid Isaev lis...@umail.iu.edu wrote: -~ Besides, one really doesn't have to enable testing in pacman.conf -- individual -~ pacman -U will do, imho. -~ -~ I've read that [testing] is all or nothing and you

Re: [arch-general] /usr is not mounted. This is not supported.

2011-10-24 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Dwight Schauer dscha...@gmail.com wrote: I've been using Arch Linux for about 4 years now. I have it on a few important systems at work and it has been doing very well. This morning I saw /usr is not mounted. This is not supported. in my boot up after a recent

Re: [arch-general] /usr is not mounted. This is not supported.

2011-10-24 Thread Dwight Schauer
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no wrote: There are two ways to solve this: either merge your / and your /usr partitions, or make your initramfs mount /usr so init won't even know that /usr is separate. We are currently working on adding support for the second

Re: [arch-general] Discussion on usage of [testing] repo - minimal requirements?

2011-10-24 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Leonid Isaev lis...@umail.iu.edu wrote: On (10/24/11 18:00), Karol Blazewicz wrote: -~ On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Leonid Isaev lis...@umail.iu.edu wrote: -~ Besides, one really doesn't have to enable testing in pacman.conf -- individual -~ pacman -U

[arch-general] Forums down

2011-10-24 Thread Erwin José Lopez Pulgarin
Greetings Just to communicate that the archlinux forum pages are all down for the time being, I guess you already know that but just wanting to make sure in case you didn't.

Re: [arch-general] Forums down

2011-10-24 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 2:55 AM, Erwin José Lopez Pulgarin erwinke...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings Just to communicate that the archlinux forum pages are all down for the time being, I guess you already know that but just wanting to make sure in case you didn't. Yup, forums are down. I've

Re: [arch-general] Discussion on usage of [testing] repo - minimal requirements?

2011-10-24 Thread Myra Nelson
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 19:38, Oon-Ee Ng ngoonee.t...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Leonid Isaev lis...@umail.iu.edu wrote: On (10/24/11 18:00), Karol Blazewicz wrote: -~ On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Leonid Isaev lis...@umail.iu.edu wrote: -~ Besides, one really