Re: [arch-general] KDE 4.8

2012-01-26 Thread Jelle van der Waa
On 26/01/12 01:14, G. Schlisio wrote: > Am 26.01.2012 00:01, schrieb Paulo Roberto P. Evangelista: >> Hi, >> >> When kde 4.8 will be available in extra repossitories?? >> > hey, dont put pressure on the great people compiling, testing and > packing for us. i think, we arch users really cant complai

[arch-general] GTK app appearance

2012-01-26 Thread Peter G Nikolic
Hi . I have been unhappy with the way a few GTK based programes i use looked Firefox Gftp and Bluefish , So i installed gtk-qt-engine-1.1-3 and whilst some of the problems have gone away i now have silly things like no highlighting of the bookmarjs when the mouse is over them no visable

Re: [arch-general] GTK app appearance

2012-01-26 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Thursday 26 Jan 2012 09:23:41 Peter G Nikolic wrote: > I have been unhappy with the way a few GTK based programes i use looked > Firefox Gftp and Bluefish , So i installed gtk-qt-engine-1.1-3 and > whilst some of the problems have gone away i now have silly things like no > highlighting of

Re: [arch-general] GTK app appearance

2012-01-26 Thread Peter G Nikolic
On Thursday 26 Jan 2012 09:53:39 Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > On Thursday 26 Jan 2012 09:23:41 Peter G Nikolic wrote: > > I have been unhappy with the way a few GTK based programes i use looked > > Firefox Gftp and Bluefish , So i installed gtk-qt-engine-1.1-3 and > > whilst some of the problems

[arch-general] User actions following system package upgrades?

2012-01-26 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
I've looked everywhere, but I can't find any reference to what the accepted wisdom is: I know that due to the way the kernel is upgraded, it is best to save kernel upgrade until the system can be rebooted, since the running kernel will be unable to load modules because the modules directory (/l

Re: [arch-general] User actions following system package upgrades?

2012-01-26 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > I've looked everywhere, but I can't find any reference to what the accepted > wisdom is: > > I know that due to the way the kernel is upgraded, it is best to save kernel > upgrade until the system can be rebooted, since the running kernel

Re: [arch-general] User actions following system package upgrades?

2012-01-26 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:11:41 + Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > I know that due to the way the kernel is upgraded, it is best to save kernel > upgrade until the system can be rebooted, Surely there is no point upgrading the kernel unless you are going to reboot thereby loading in the new kernel and

Re: [arch-general] GTK app appearance

2012-01-26 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Quoting Peter G Nikolic (2012-01-26 10:23:41) >Hi . > >I have been unhappy with the way a few GTK based programes i use looked >Firefox Gftp and Bluefish , So i installed gtk-qt-engine-1.1-3 and whilst >some of the problems have gone away i now have silly things like no >highlighting of t

Re: [arch-general] root not remounted rw

2012-01-26 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Quoting (2012-01-24 21:53:55) >Le mardi 24 jan 2012 à 21:32:11 (+0100), Philipp Überbacher a écrit : >> >> Hi there, >> on one of my laptops, the one that runs Arch since 2+ years now, root >> isn't remounted rw for some reason. Manually remounting ("sudo remount >> -r remount,rw /dev/sda3/ /") a

Re: [arch-general] root not remounted rw

2012-01-26 Thread Vic Demuzere
On 26 January 2012 12:43, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > Anyway, what's the explanation for this behavior? Is / only mounted (and > remounted) ro by default? I guess it's the 'defaults' entry, which > includes rw, that leads to the remount as rw. Is it normal that it is > necessary? > This has chang

Re: [arch-general] root not remounted rw

2012-01-26 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Vic Demuzere wrote: > On 26 January 2012 12:43, Philipp Überbacher wrote: >> Anyway, what's the explanation for this behavior? Is / only mounted (and >> remounted) ro by default? I guess it's the 'defaults' entry, which >> includes rw, that leads to the remount a

Re: [arch-general] KDE 4.8

2012-01-26 Thread Matthew Gyurgyik
On 01/26/2012 03:27 AM, Jelle van der Waa wrote: On 26/01/12 01:14, G. Schlisio wrote: Am 26.01.2012 00:01, schrieb Paulo Roberto P. Evangelista: Hi, When kde 4.8 will be available in extra repossitories?? hey, dont put pressure on the great people compiling, testing and packing for us. i th

Re: [arch-general] Linux Local Privilege Escalation via SUID /proc/pid/mem Write

2012-01-26 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 4:52 AM, Martti Kühne wrote: > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:41:10AM +0530, Jayesh Badwaik wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have just discovered this kernel exploit which allows a local user >> to obtain root priviliges. The detailed explanation is given at [1]. >> The patch has been app

Re: [arch-general] Linux Local Privilege Escalation via SUID /proc/pid/mem Write

2012-01-26 Thread Martti Kühne
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 08:14:52PM +0530, Jayesh Badwaik wrote: > > Sorry, if I misquoted before, I did not *discover*, rather I stumbled > upon on the internet. I realized my flaw, but later I thought the > issue is too widespread for me to be misunderstood. So maybe, you'd be > better off contac

Re: [arch-general] User actions following system package upgrades?

2012-01-26 Thread Squall Lionheart
I always restart applications such as Firefox, Thunderbird, KDE, and xorg after an update otherwise they act like they have ghosts in them. I would imagine the major components you mentioned would have the same affect. -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why

Re: [arch-general] Upgrade of bluez breaks A2DP?

2012-01-26 Thread Karol Babioch
Hi, I've managed to get some attention at the linux-bluetooth mailing list and it seems that this is a bug in Arch, see [1]. More specifically the provided PulseAudio package doesn't work as it should. Basically the default configuration was changed, so with 4.97 and higher no sockets are used an

Re: [arch-general] GTK app appearance

2012-01-26 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 01/26/2012 04:53 AM, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: On Thursday 26 Jan 2012 09:23:41 Peter G Nikolic wrote: I have been unhappy with the way a few GTK based programes i use looked Firefox Gftp and Bluefish , So i installed gtk-qt-engine-1.1-3 and whilst some of the problems have gone away i no

Re: [arch-general] User actions following system package upgrades?

2012-01-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 09:18 -0700, Squall Lionheart wrote: > I always restart applications such as Firefox, Thunderbird, KDE, and xorg > after an update otherwise they act like they have ghosts in them. I would > imagine the major components you mentioned would have the same affect. It's better t

[arch-general] Printer config problem

2012-01-26 Thread Peter G Nikolic
Hi . one more slight problem with the printer this time trying to get my printer working across all software i went into the kde system settings ---> Printer Configuration a i get the following The service 'Printer Configuration' does not provide an interface 'KCModule' with keyword 'syst

[arch-general] bug? Close the notebook‘s lid,that will cause the system reboot

2012-01-26 Thread 大熊
My nb is Asus a50af, Ath.64 M320 + ATI Mobility Radeon HD5145 $ uname -a Linux bearhouse 3.2.1-2-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jan 23 12:40:01 UTC 2012 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) II Dual-Core M320 AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux After I upgrade to kernel 3.2, meet a strange problem: I set the desktop to close scre