Re: [arch-general] Clearing __pycache__ folders

2012-05-08 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Tuesday 08 May 2012 23:13:54 martin kalcher wrote: > > Hey, > > > > these pycache folders *should* be created with a python setup script > > [0], which *should* be called in the PKGBUILD during buildtime, so they > > *should* be part of the package. If not, python creates them during > > runtim

[arch-general] wallpaper for 1920x1080 screens.

2012-05-08 Thread Boris Le Ninivin
Hi everyone. I've made this wallpaper http://borisln.deviantart.com/art/Archlinux-Wallpaper-1-300929958 since I didn't find any red wallpaper which pleased me, big enough for my screen in the official package, nor on Google images. It's licensed under creative commons BY-SA, so if one wants

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Dropping squirrelmail

2012-05-08 Thread Armando M. Baratti
On 07-05-2012 20:58, Eric Bélanger wrote: pkgstats only shows packages with more than 1% usage. Squirrelmail might have users but it's less than 1%, i.e. not enough to keep it in repo. Or, maybe, only 1% of Arch users use pkgstats and it's dangerous to take decisions based on it :)

Re: [arch-general] net-auto-wired in systemd - ifplugd failed with exit code 3

2012-05-08 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 9:11 AM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 9:34 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote: >> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: >>> I do in fact get exit code 3 when running the ExecStart line by hand, >>> and removing -w seems to take care of it. -w seems to wait for

Re: [arch-general] net-auto-wired in systemd - ifplugd failed with exit code 3

2012-05-08 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 9:34 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: >> I do in fact get exit code 3 when running the ExecStart line by hand, >> and removing -w seems to take care of it. -w seems to wait for link >> detection, but it seems anything it returns (i

Re: [arch-general] Clearing __pycache__ folders

2012-05-08 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 5:13 AM, martin kalcher wrote: > Am 08.05.2012 23:07, schrieb martin kalcher: > >> Am 08.05.2012 22:21, schrieb Jayesh Badwaik: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am using some packages in python3.2 which create a __pycache__ >>> folder. These >>> folders is routinely blocking my updates

Re: [arch-general] view command

2012-05-08 Thread G. Schlisio
Am 08.05.2012 19:24, schrieb Taylor Hedberg: G. Schlisio, Tue 2012-05-08 @ 17:31:49+0200: i stumbled over view being a link to ex, and not to vim, as i am used to with several other distros (opensuse, debian). is there any particular reason for that behaviour? FYI, you can use `vim -R` to expli

[arch-general] dos emulation programs error out

2012-05-08 Thread Jude DaShiell
I just tried dosbox and it errors out on sdl since sdl can't open mouse. I have a logitech inc. iFeel mouse attached to this machine too and so far as I know it does work. The only reason I attached the mouse is since dosbox appears to require it for operation. I'll have to temporarily insta

Re: [arch-general] RFC: OpenRC as init system for Arch

2012-05-08 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote: > (by no means take this as authorative, there is plenty > of writing on this both by the upstart guys and the systemd guys who > know it better than me). This was just published, which probably describes the concepts better than my simple exam

Re: [arch-general] Clearing __pycache__ folders

2012-05-08 Thread martin kalcher
Am 08.05.2012 23:07, schrieb martin kalcher: Am 08.05.2012 22:21, schrieb Jayesh Badwaik: Hi, I am using some packages in python3.2 which create a __pycache__ folder. These folders is routinely blocking my updates and I have to remove the folders manually. Are any other among you facing the sam

Re: [arch-general] Clearing __pycache__ folders

2012-05-08 Thread martin kalcher
Am 08.05.2012 22:21, schrieb Jayesh Badwaik: Hi, I am using some packages in python3.2 which create a __pycache__ folder. These folders is routinely blocking my updates and I have to remove the folders manually. Are any other among you facing the same problem? If yes, can I automatize it someho

[arch-general] Clearing __pycache__ folders

2012-05-08 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
Hi, I am using some packages in python3.2 which create a __pycache__ folder. These folders is routinely blocking my updates and I have to remove the folders manually. Are any other among you facing the same problem? If yes, can I automatize it somehow? Thanks -- Regards Jayesh Badwaik stop

Re: [arch-general] drop slim in favor of lightdm

2012-05-08 Thread Don deJuan
On 05/08/2012 06:28 AM, Nicholas MIller wrote: On May 8, 2012 7:27 AM, "Stephen E. Baker" wrote: On 08/05/2012 5:14 AM, Allan McRae wrote: On 08/05/12 18:35, Christian Hesse wrote: Hello everybody, slim has some known security weaknesses (for example it has no separate greeter process thus

Re: [arch-general] view command

2012-05-08 Thread Taylor Hedberg
G. Schlisio, Tue 2012-05-08 @ 17:31:49+0200: > i stumbled over view being a link to ex, and not to vim, as i am used > to with several other distros (opensuse, debian). is there any > particular reason for that behaviour? FYI, you can use `vim -R` to explicity invoke Vim in read-only mode. Or even

Re: [arch-general] FS#29803 - Kernel 3.3.4-2 panic

2012-05-08 Thread Fabiano Furtado Pessoa Coelho
Yes! The /boot partiton has enought free space. Details: $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs 400G 7.2G 373G 2% / /dev997M 0 997M 0% /dev run1004M 112K 1004M 1% /run /dev/sda2 400G 7.2G 373G 2% / shm100

Re: [arch-general] view command

2012-05-08 Thread Guillaume Alaux
On 8 May 2012 18:27, Tiago Sousa wrote: > Hey. > I don't have that behavior here but i guess if you set the environment > EDITOR variable to vim it should work. > > On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:31 PM, G. Schlisio wrote: > >> hi all, >> i stumbled over view being a link to ex, and not to vim, as i am

Re: [arch-general] Akonadi LDAP

2012-05-08 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Tuesday 08 May 2012 18:37:22 Dan Vratil wrote: > Hi, > > It's in the "KDE Address Book (traditional)" resource. It supports various > backends including LDAP. Ah! Thanks Dan, I see it now. I didn't think to check there. I guess Akonadi doesn't have a native LDAP resource yet. Paul

Re: [arch-general] drop slim in favor of lightdm

2012-05-08 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 05/08/2012 09:53 AM, Seblu wrote: > On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Christian Hesse wrote: >> Any thoughts on that? > > I was interested by your suggestion as slim user since 2 years. > Consolekit integration (and my ugly workaround) is my only issue with > it. > > So i took the time to test

Re: [arch-general] Akonadi LDAP

2012-05-08 Thread Dan Vratil
On Tuesday 08 of May 2012 17:31:39 Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > Hi guys, > > I've been reading up on LDAP, in the hope of getting Kontact set up to read > in addresses from my work's Exchange server. However, it seems that LDAP > is missing from the "New Address Book" dialogue. It's also missing fr

[arch-general] Akonadi LDAP

2012-05-08 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
Hi guys, I've been reading up on LDAP, in the hope of getting Kontact set up to read in addresses from my work's Exchange server. However, it seems that LDAP is missing from the "New Address Book" dialogue. It's also missing from the Akonadi configuration. I know it's supposed to be there.

Re: [arch-general] view command

2012-05-08 Thread Tiago Sousa
Hey. I don't have that behavior here but i guess if you set the environment EDITOR variable to vim it should work. On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:31 PM, G. Schlisio wrote: > hi all, > i stumbled over view being a link to ex, and not to vim, as i am used to > with several other distros (opensuse, debia

Re: [arch-general] drop slim in favor of lightdm

2012-05-08 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Am 08.05.2012 17:53, schrieb Seblu: > On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Christian Hesse wrote: >> Any thoughts on that? > I was interested by your suggestion as slim user since 2 years. > Consolekit integration (and my ugly workaround) is my only issue with > it. > > So i took the time to test this

Re: [arch-general] drop slim in favor of lightdm

2012-05-08 Thread Alessio 'Blaster' Biancalana
2012/5/8 Gaetan Bisson > [2012-05-08 11:37:06 +0200] Alessio 'Blaster' Biancalana: > > Maintaining slim doen't seem a big effort; > > Great. Then you can do just that in the AUR. I'd like to have a pre-compiled package, as I'm very lazy :D It's a nice software, maybe moving it to [community] is

Re: [arch-general] drop slim in favor of lightdm

2012-05-08 Thread Seblu
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Christian Hesse wrote: > Any thoughts on that? I was interested by your suggestion as slim user since 2 years. Consolekit integration (and my ugly workaround) is my only issue with it. So i took the time to test this light login manager, and my conclusion is : It

[arch-general] view command

2012-05-08 Thread G. Schlisio
hi all, i stumbled over view being a link to ex, and not to vim, as i am used to with several other distros (opensuse, debian). is there any particular reason for that behaviour? thanks georg

Re: [arch-general] FS#29803 - Kernel 3.3.4-2 panic

2012-05-08 Thread Rodrigo Rivas
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Fabiano Furtado Pessoa Coelho < fusc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Following Dave's comment (https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/29803), I've > generated my initramfs, reinstalling the linux package: pacman -S > linux > > What can I do to fix this problem? > You said

Re: [arch-general] FS#29803 - Kernel 3.3.4-2 panic

2012-05-08 Thread Denis A . Altoé Falqueto
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Fabiano Furtado Pessoa Coelho wrote: > Nope... :( > > I only did "pacman -S linux" > > Is "pacman -S linux" = "mkinitcpio -p linux"? It's not equal, but mkinitcpio should definetively be called automatcaly. This is very weird. -- A: Because it obfuscates the rea

Re: [arch-general] FS#29803 - Kernel 3.3.4-2 panic

2012-05-08 Thread Fabiano Furtado Pessoa Coelho
Nope... :( I only did "pacman -S linux" Is "pacman -S linux" = "mkinitcpio -p linux"? Thanks. On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Rodrigo Rivas wrote: > On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Fabiano Furtado Pessoa Coelho wrote: > >> What can I do to fix this problem? >> >> Did you try forcing a rebuild

Re: [arch-general] FS#29803 - Kernel 3.3.4-2 panic

2012-05-08 Thread Rodrigo Rivas
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Fabiano Furtado Pessoa Coelho < fusc...@gmail.com> wrote: > What can I do to fix this problem? > > Did you try forcing a rebuild of your initramfs with # mkinitcpio -p linux ? -- Rodrigo

Re: [arch-general] net-auto-wired in systemd - ifplugd failed with exit code 3

2012-05-08 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > I do in fact get exit code 3 when running the ExecStart line by hand, > and removing -w seems to take care of it. -w seems to wait for link > detection, but it seems anything it returns (in the above case I got 3 > because I'm currently on wireles

Re: [arch-general] drop slim in favor of lightdm

2012-05-08 Thread Nicholas MIller
On May 8, 2012 7:27 AM, "Stephen E. Baker" wrote: > > On 08/05/2012 5:14 AM, Allan McRae wrote: >> >> On 08/05/12 18:35, Christian Hesse wrote: >>> >>> Hello everybody, >>> >>> slim has some known security weaknesses (for example it has no separate >>> greeter process thus the graphical interface

[arch-general] net-auto-wired in systemd - ifplugd failed with exit code 3

2012-05-08 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
% systemctl status net-auto-wired.service net-auto-wired.service - Provides automatic netcfg wired connection Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/net-auto-wired.service; enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue, 08 May 2012 21:19:30 +0800; 8s ago Proces

[arch-general] FS#29803 - Kernel 3.3.4-2 panic

2012-05-08 Thread Fabiano Furtado Pessoa Coelho
Hi, Following Dave's comment (https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/29803), I've generated my initramfs, reinstalling the linux package: pacman -S linux What can I do to fix this problem? Thank you!!!

Re: [arch-general] drop slim in favor of lightdm

2012-05-08 Thread Stephen E. Baker
On 08/05/2012 5:14 AM, Allan McRae wrote: On 08/05/12 18:35, Christian Hesse wrote: Hello everybody, slim has some known security weaknesses (for example it has no separate greeter process thus the graphical interface is running with super user privileges) and a lot of open bugs. Additionally i

Re: [arch-general] drop slim in favor of lightdm

2012-05-08 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2012-05-08 11:37:06 +0200] Alessio 'Blaster' Biancalana: > Maintaining slim doen't seem a big effort; Great. Then you can do just that in the AUR. -- Gaetan

Re: [arch-general] drop slim in favor of lightdm

2012-05-08 Thread Christian Hesse
Allan McRae on Tue, 2012/05/08 19:14: > On 08/05/12 18:35, Christian Hesse wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > > > slim has some known security weaknesses (for example it has no separate > > greeter process thus the graphical interface is running with super user > > privileges) and a lot of open bugs

Re: [arch-general] drop slim in favor of lightdm

2012-05-08 Thread Alessio 'Blaster' Biancalana
Maintaining slim doen't seem a big effort; I'd stay with lightdm *and* slim in [extra]. 2012/5/8 Christian Hesse > John Hutchison on Tue, 2012/05/08 03:53: > > Am 08.05.2012 03:35, schrieb Christian Hesse: > > > I propose to drop slim from [extra] and replace it with lightdm and > > > lightdm-g

Re: [arch-general] drop slim in favor of lightdm

2012-05-08 Thread Gour
On Tue, 8 May 2012 10:35:50 +0200 Christian Hesse wrote: > This is a very active project with responsive upstream developer. > Security is a key feature and it integrates with latest desktop > techniques really well. The AUR package for lightdm has 259 votes at > the time of writing. > > Any tho

Re: [arch-general] drop slim in favor of lightdm

2012-05-08 Thread Allan McRae
On 08/05/12 18:35, Christian Hesse wrote: > Hello everybody, > > slim has some known security weaknesses (for example it has no separate > greeter process thus the graphical interface is running with super user > privileges) and a lot of open bugs. Additionally it does not support latest > package

Re: [arch-general] drop slim in favor of lightdm

2012-05-08 Thread Christian Hesse
John Hutchison on Tue, 2012/05/08 03:53: > Am 08.05.2012 03:35, schrieb Christian Hesse: > > I propose to drop slim from [extra] and replace it with lightdm and > > lightdm-gtk-greeter. > > Why not just provide both? I would be just fine with that. ;) Though it is not a good idea to ship packa

Re: [arch-general] drop slim in favor of lightdm

2012-05-08 Thread John Hutchison
Am 08.05.2012 03:35, schrieb Christian Hesse: > I propose to drop slim from [extra] and replace it with lightdm and lightdm-gtk-greeter. Why not just provide both?

[arch-general] drop slim in favor of lightdm

2012-05-08 Thread Christian Hesse
Hello everybody, slim has some known security weaknesses (for example it has no separate greeter process thus the graphical interface is running with super user privileges) and a lot of open bugs. Additionally it does not support latest packages (consolekit and friends) out of the box. Though late