Re: [arch-general] gpg key gen failure

2012-04-15 Thread P .NIKOLIC
On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 22:28:24 -0400 Evan LeCompte evan...@gmail.com wrote: Can you tell us what command you tried to run to generate your key pair? On 15/03/12 at 10:29pm, pete wrote: On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:09:28 + pete p.nikol...@btinternet.com wrote: Hi . I have just

[arch-general] findutils and locate

2012-04-15 Thread P .NIKOLIC
Hi . How can i return full function to the findutils and locate , It was the best utility for the job and now has been eroded by the supposed replacements that are a complete failure . I want my old locate command back and working as it always used to never failed to find what i wanted Oh

Re: [arch-general] findutils and locate

2012-04-15 Thread Christoph Vigano
On 04/15/2012 10:15 AM, P .NIKOLIC wrote: Hi . How can i return full function to the findutils and locate , It was the best utility for the job and now has been eroded by the supposed replacements that are a complete failure . I want my old locate command back and working as it always

Re: [arch-general] findutils and locate

2012-04-15 Thread Allan McRae
On 15/04/12 18:15, P .NIKOLIC wrote: Hi . How can i return full function to the findutils and locate , It was the best utility for the job and now has been eroded by the supposed replacements that are a complete failure . I want my old locate command back and working as it always used to

Re: [arch-general] shebang for python scripts

2012-04-15 Thread Mantas M.
On 2012-04-15 07:03, Martti Kühne wrote: #!/usr/bin/env python2 and #!python2 in my experience have exactly the same effect, so all I can do is ask you what differences you found and then we could Nobody is talking about #!python2, but about #!/usr/bin/python2. The former, #!python2, is

Re: [arch-general] shebang for python scripts

2012-04-15 Thread Martti Kühne
On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 12:36:09PM +0300, Mantas M. wrote: On 2012-04-15 07:03, Martti Kühne wrote: #!/usr/bin/env python2 and #!python2 in my experience have exactly the same effect, so all I can do is ask you what differences you found and then we could [...] The difference between

[arch-general] long list of declare -x statements on shell login

2012-04-15 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
Hi, For the past few days, I am noticing that whenever I log into a shell terminal, I get a long list of declare statements at the login. Can anybody tell me what they are exactly? declare -x DISPLAY=:0 declare -x G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1 declare -x HOME=/root declare -x LOGNAME=root declare -x

Re: [arch-general] findutils and locate

2012-04-15 Thread Martti Kühne
On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 06:33:58PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: On 15/04/12 18:15, P .NIKOLIC wrote: How can i return full function to the findutils and locate , It was the best utility for the job and now has been eroded by the supposed replacements that are a complete failure . I want

Re: [arch-general] findutils and locate

2012-04-15 Thread Allan McRae
On 15/04/12 21:00, Martti Kühne wrote: On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 06:33:58PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: On 15/04/12 18:15, P .NIKOLIC wrote: How can i return full function to the findutils and locate , It was the best utility for the job and now has been eroded by the supposed replacements that

Re: [arch-general] findutils and locate

2012-04-15 Thread Martti Kühne
On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 09:09:11PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: It was not trolling but serious advise. If you can not do basic research, Arch is not the distribution for you. Allan Thanks for pointing it out another superfluous time. Don't you know pete by now? Obviously that's how he

Re: [arch-general] findutils and locate

2012-04-15 Thread Allan McRae
On 15/04/12 21:24, Martti Kühne wrote: On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 09:09:11PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: It was not trolling but serious advise. If you can not do basic research, Arch is not the distribution for you. Thanks for pointing it out another superfluous time. Don't you know pete by

Re: [arch-general] findutils and locate

2012-04-15 Thread P .NIKOLIC
On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:00:19 +0200 Martti Kühne mysat...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 06:33:58PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: On 15/04/12 18:15, P .NIKOLIC wrote: How can i return full function to the findutils and locate , It was the best utility for the job and now has been

Re: [arch-general] findutils and locate

2012-04-15 Thread P .NIKOLIC
On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 21:43:44 +1000 Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org wrote: On 15/04/12 21:24, Martti Kühne wrote: On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 09:09:11PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: It was not trolling but serious advise. If you can not do basic research, Arch is not the distribution for you.

Re: [arch-general] findutils and locate

2012-04-15 Thread Allan McRae
On 15/04/12 22:49, P .NIKOLIC wrote: On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:00:19 +0200 Martti Kühne mysat...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 06:33:58PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: On 15/04/12 18:15, P .NIKOLIC wrote: How can i return full function to the findutils and locate , It was the best

Re: [arch-general] Emacs is Broken!

2012-04-15 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
Stefan Husmann stefan-husm...@t-online.de writes: Why not using a PKGBUILD from AUR to do so? We have a fantastic package manager, we should use it. How do you deinstall such a self built emacs? https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7 emacs-bzr, pulls from trunk

Re: [arch-general] findutils and locate

2012-04-15 Thread Martti Kühne
On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 01:49:41PM +0100, P .NIKOLIC wrote: Right mlocate is installed updatedb takes no time it is instant it fails to read a thing .. it attempts to reads the NAS drive that i do NOT want read thats it nothing else now can we have some sensible replies please ..

Re: [arch-general] A couple of surprises

2012-04-15 Thread Guillermo Leira
-Mensaje original- De: arch-general-boun...@archlinux.org [mailto:arch-general- boun...@archlinux.org] En nombre de Tom Gundersen Enviado el: jueves, 12 de abril de 2012 23:20 Para: General Discussion about Arch Linux Asunto: Re: [arch-general] A couple of surprises On Thu, Apr

Re: [arch-general] Broken DBus

2012-04-15 Thread mlell08
Hello, I had a problem with dbus shortly. The error messagtes were of the kind file not found: /var/dbus/system_bus_socket However, I use systemd (an init replacement using parallel and on-demand loading of system services) and have no idea whether this is somehow related. The issue is that the

Re: [arch-general] Broken DBus

2012-04-15 Thread Alexandre Ferrando
On 15 April 2012 17:22, mlell08 mlel...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello, I had a problem with dbus shortly. The error messagtes were of the kind file not found: /var/dbus/system_bus_socket However, I use systemd (an init replacement using parallel and on-demand loading of system services) and

Re: [arch-general] findutils and locate

2012-04-15 Thread P .NIKOLIC
On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 15:41:55 +0200 Martti Kühne mysat...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 01:49:41PM +0100, P .NIKOLIC wrote: Right mlocate is installed updatedb takes no time it is instant it fails to read a thing .. it attempts to reads the NAS drive that i do NOT want

Re: [arch-general] findutils and locate

2012-04-15 Thread gt
On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 04:38:01PM +0100, P .NIKOLIC wrote: Right my /etc/updatedb.conf is as follows # directories to exclude from the slocate database: PRUNEPATHS=/media /mnt /tmp /var/tmp /var/cache /var/lock /var/run /var/spool /home/pete/nas /home/pete/Movies /home/pete/Music

Re: [arch-general] findutils and locate

2012-04-15 Thread P .NIKOLIC
On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 22:13:33 +0530 gt static.vor...@gmx.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 04:38:01PM +0100, P .NIKOLIC wrote: Right my /etc/updatedb.conf is as follows # directories to exclude from the slocate database: PRUNEPATHS=/media /mnt /tmp /var/tmp /var/cache /var/lock /var/run

Re: [arch-general] EFI-Support (Arch on a MacBook Pro)

2012-04-15 Thread Arvid Warnecke
On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 12:19:15AM +0530, Keshav P R wrote: What I have been wondering about now is, if it will be possible to install Arch without rEFIt and the Mac OS X at all? I read a lot in the wiki pages, but all I found was that if I install Arch only with EFI support I will have to

Re: [arch-general] EFI-Support (Arch on a MacBook Pro)

2012-04-15 Thread Arvid Warnecke
On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 04:19:13PM -0400, Scott Lawrence wrote: What I have been wondering about now is, if it will be possible to install Arch without rEFIt and the Mac OS X at all? I read a lot in the wiki pages, but all I found was that if I install Arch only with EFI support I will have to

Re: [arch-general] EFI-Support (Arch on a MacBook Pro)

2012-04-15 Thread Scott Lawrence
On Sun, 15 Apr 2012, Arvid Warnecke wrote: On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 04:19:13PM -0400, Scott Lawrence wrote: What I have been wondering about now is, if it will be possible to install Arch without rEFIt and the Mac OS X at all? I read a lot in the wiki pages, but all I found was that if I

Re: [arch-general] Broken DBus

2012-04-15 Thread mlell08
Von: Kacper Żuk Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:17:32 +0200 Hello, DBus broke for me after last upgrade [0]. I'm using testing repository and have: dbus 1.4.20-1 dbus-core 1.4.20-2 dbus-glib 0.98-1 dbus-python 1.0.0-1 but disabling it and downgrading (via pacman -Syuu) to: dbus 1.4.16-1 dbus-core

Re: [arch-general] shebang for python scripts

2012-04-15 Thread Ralf Schmitt
Martti Kühne mysat...@gmail.com writes: question to OP: what is it you have there in your home directory and would renaming the binary work for distinction? ~/bin/python2.6, ~/bin/python-frobtweaks I'm using virtualenv, so I have a copy of the system python in my user's home directory.

Re: [arch-general] Broken DBus

2012-04-15 Thread Kacper Żuk
W dniu 15.04.2012 17:22, mlell08 pisze: Hello, I had a problem with dbus shortly. The error messagtes were of the kind file not found: /var/dbus/system_bus_socket However, I use systemd (an init replacement using parallel and on-demand loading of system services) and have no idea whether this

Re: [arch-general] shebang for python scripts

2012-04-15 Thread Martti Kühne
On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 09:51:44PM +0200, Ralf Schmitt wrote: Renaming would work, but I do not see that as an acceptable solution. The problem is the shebang and that should be fixed. I really fail to see why I even have to explain that stuff. Users should be able to install custom

Re: [arch-general] findutils and locate

2012-04-15 Thread Martti Kühne
On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 05:51:36PM +0100, P .NIKOLIC wrote: Hi .. Yes it is there .. -rw-r- 1 root locate 7868436 Apr 15 13:48 mlocate.db Doing a strings on the file it contains the expected data but i still get no files show up when i try locate filename even if the file is

Re: [arch-general] findutils and locate

2012-04-15 Thread P .NIKOLIC
On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 23:49:45 +0200 Martti Kühne mysat...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 05:51:36PM +0100, P .NIKOLIC wrote: Hi .. Yes it is there .. -rw-r- 1 root locate 7868436 Apr 15 13:48 mlocate.db Doing a strings on the file it contains the expected data

Re: [arch-general] shebang for python scripts

2012-04-15 Thread Ralf Schmitt
Martti Kühne mysat...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 09:51:44PM +0200, Ralf Schmitt wrote: Renaming would work, but I do not see that as an acceptable solution. The problem is the shebang and that should be fixed. I really fail to see why I even have to explain that stuff. Users

Re: [arch-general] shebang for python scripts

2012-04-15 Thread Martti Kühne
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 12:25:39AM +0200, Ralf Schmitt wrote: that's what I think. upstream in this case is archlinux. no. [1] is upstream. distutils installs executable scripts with the full path to the python interpreter. no again. meld's source package is built with make, see [2]. not

Re: [arch-general] findutils and locate

2012-04-15 Thread Mauro Santos
On 15-04-2012 23:10, P .NIKOLIC wrote: On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 23:49:45 +0200 Martti Kühne mysat...@gmail.com wrote: something failing on my guess would be a changed permission somewhere althou i dont mess around with permissions outside of my user area . Are you using locate as your user? If

Re: [arch-general] findutils and locate

2012-04-15 Thread Martti Kühne
On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 11:53:21PM +0100, Mauro Santos wrote: Are you using locate as your user? If so, are you on the locate group? not needed here: -rwxr-sr-x 1 root locate 39512 Mar 3 06:53 /usr/bin/locate [martti@arch64-vm ~]$ groups wheel martti the s lets locate run with group locate