Re: [arch-general] pacman -Syu fails due to conflict with mtab?

2011-12-22 Thread Jonathan Vasquez
Angel, I completed understand what you are saying, since it's something that even I go through (Both ways, when is the right time to ask a question without being rejected by people and or elitists of Linux [Not calling you an elitist in any way though], and answering questions), but remember that w

Re: [arch-general] pacman -Syu fails due to conflict with mtab?

2011-12-22 Thread Lorenzo Bandieri
> Or maybe try using pacmatic: > http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/pacmatic/ +1 I strongly suggest to the OP the use of pacmatic [1]. It's really an useful tool, especially if you don't check regularly the news (as you should). [1] http://kmkeen.com/pacmatic/ Regards, Lorenzo --

Re: [arch-general] pacman -Syu fails due to conflict with mtab?

2011-12-22 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > >> > This is the correct workflow before you ask: >> > >> > 1) archlinux.org >> > 2) if !1 .. www.google.com >> > 3) if !2 bbs.archlinux.org or this list > > It's amasing how often I see this on all > medium volume lists. You have > to reply

Re: [arch-general] pacman -Syu fails due to conflict with mtab?

2011-12-22 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> > This is the correct workflow before you ask: > > > > 1) archlinux.org > > 2) if !1 .. www.google.com > > 3) if !2 bbs.archlinux.org or this list It's amasing how often I see this on all > medium volume lists. You have to reply to the reply of every message you send to the qmail list as an ant

Re: [arch-general] pacman -Syu fails due to conflict with mtab?

2011-12-22 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Alexander van den Berghe wrote: > +1 > And if you're to lazy  to check the site at least subscribe to the > arch-announce mailing list. Answers to questions like this are than send to > you completely free of charge wihtout you have to do any real effort for it. >

Re: [arch-general] pacman -Syu fails due to conflict with mtab?

2011-12-22 Thread Alexander van den Berghe
On 12/22/2011 07:23 PM, Vitor Eiji Justus Sakaguti wrote: 2011/12/22 Angel Velásquez: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/12/11 14:40, David C. Rankin wrote: On 12/22/2011 11:19 AM, Angel Velásquez wrote: The experts, normal people, and even noobs like me would say to you ..

Re: [arch-general] pacman -Syu fails due to conflict with mtab?

2011-12-22 Thread Vitor Eiji Justus Sakaguti
2011/12/22 Angel Velásquez : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 22/12/11 14:40, David C. Rankin wrote: >> On 12/22/2011 11:19 AM, Angel Velásquez wrote: >>> The experts, normal people, and even noobs like me would say to >>> you .. PLEASE READ THE NEWS DUDE, (its like the 5th

Re: [arch-general] pacman -Syu fails due to conflict with mtab?

2011-12-22 Thread Angel Velásquez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/12/11 14:40, David C. Rankin wrote: > On 12/22/2011 11:19 AM, Angel Velásquez wrote: >> The experts, normal people, and even noobs like me would say to >> you .. PLEASE READ THE NEWS DUDE, (its like the 5th time you >> write a mail asking questio

Re: [arch-general] pacman -Syu fails due to conflict with mtab?

2011-12-22 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:35:30 -0400 Norbert Zeh wrote: > > Slightly OT: Interestingly enough, I did exactly what the news item says not > to do: deleted the mtab file and then ran pacman -Suy. This didn't cause any > trouble at my end. > > N. > This is because you didn't have space checks enab

Re: [arch-general] pacman -Syu fails due to conflict with mtab?

2011-12-22 Thread David C. Rankin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/22/2011 11:19 AM, Angel Velásquez wrote: > The experts, normal people, and even noobs like me would say to you .. > PLEASE READ THE NEWS DUDE, (its like the 5th time you write a mail asking > questions, when the solution it's posted on the front

Re: [arch-general] pacman -Syu fails due to conflict with mtab?

2011-12-22 Thread Norbert Zeh
Jonathan Vasquez [2011.12.22 1128 -0500]: > It's posted on the main page :) > On Dec 22, 2011 11:27 AM, "David C. Rankin" > wrote: > > > Guys, > > > > Just a quick question. Upgrade failed due to conflict with mtab: > > > > > > (67/67) checking for file conflicts > > [##

Re: [arch-general] pacman -Syu fails due to conflict with mtab?

2011-12-22 Thread Angel Velásquez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/12/11 13:27, David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, > > Just a quick question. Upgrade failed due to conflict with mtab: > > (67/67) checking for file conflicts > [###] 100% error: failed to > commit transaction (c

Re: [arch-general] pacman -Syu fails due to conflict with mtab?

2011-12-22 Thread Jonathan Vasquez
It's posted on the main page :) On Dec 22, 2011 11:27 AM, "David C. Rankin" wrote: > Guys, > > Just a quick question. Upgrade failed due to conflict with mtab: > > > (67/67) checking for file conflicts > [###] 100% > error: failed to commit transaction (confl

[arch-general] pacman -Syu fails due to conflict with mtab?

2011-12-22 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, Just a quick question. Upgrade failed due to conflict with mtab: (67/67) checking for file conflicts [###] 100% error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) filesystem: /etc/mtab exists in filesystem Errors occurred, no packages were upgrade

Re: [arch-general] Top Posting Revisited

2011-12-22 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Dec 19, Raghavendra D Prabhu did say: > In mutt, you cannot limit the quote context I guess and I > don't want to limit the context by manually deleting the lines {snip} > For instance, while replying I make vim place cursor at the bottom > of quoted reply to ease in rep