Re: [arch-general] VPS can't access after update filesystem?

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 05:43:52PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: > Did you follow the instructions in the news item? > > One thing to try would be "pacman -Syu --ignore filesystem", reboot Can't do that. Because 'kernel26-lts' needed to be replaced by 'linux- lts', if I don't update 'filesystem', the

Re: [arch-general] Shutdown and reboot not working after last weekend update

2012/6/12 Martti Kühne > On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 06:26:59PM -0300, Victor Silva wrote: > > So can I justremove it and check what happens? This makes sense as > nepomuk > > keeps indexing all the contents of the machine. I will try to remove it > and > > check what happens. Which part of the logs

Re: [arch-general] OT: DNS server help

Q: What's the most annoying thing in an e-mail? A: On Tuesday, June 12, 2012 at 3:27:49 PM, Somebody Nu wrote: > On Monday, June 11, 2012 at 7:28:46 AM, Yesterdays Child > wrote: > > - Original Message - > > From: Remember Me > > Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2012 at 11:37:15 PM > > > This is

Re: [arch-general] DNS server help

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Δημήτρης Ζέρβας <01tto...@gmail.com> wrote: > i didn't understand the "PS" It means you should not top post, because such practice is largely frowned upon in this and many other mailing lists for reasons that have been discussed a great number of times before.

Re: [arch-general] Shutdown and reboot not working after last weekend update

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 06:26:59PM -0300, Victor Silva wrote: > So can I justremove it and check what happens? This makes sense as nepomuk > keeps indexing all the contents of the machine. I will try to remove it and > check what happens. Which part of the logs gave you the hint about nepomuk? > >

Re: [arch-general] DNS server help

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/12/12 12:50, Mantas Mikulėnas wrote: > Some VPS hosts, such as Linode, also offer secondary NS for > customers. > Linode is nicer than that. They supply name services for all my domains quite regardless of how many IP addresses I have or how bi

Re: [arch-general] OT: DNS server help

scripting mail client! brilliant idea! i stop quoting from my android... why is mail server better?

Re: [arch-general] Mailing lists vs Forums

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/12/12 01:40, Mateusz Loskot wrote: > > The site: trick [1] has worked for me quite well for long time: > > "T400 site:http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/"; > > Jeremiah's pointed on two front-ends to the same data, best optio

Re: [arch-general] OT: DNS server help

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:49 PM, Δημήτρης Ζέρβας <01tto...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jun 13, 2012 12:46 AM, "Δημήτρης Ζέρβας" <01tto...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> i just understood... >> >> On Jun 13, 2012 12:38 AM, "David J. Haines" wrote: >> > >> > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:35:00AM +0300, Δημήτρης Ζ

Re: [arch-general] OT: DNS server help

On Jun 13, 2012 12:46 AM, "Δημήτρης Ζέρβας" <01tto...@gmail.com> wrote: > > i just understood... > > On Jun 13, 2012 12:38 AM, "David J. Haines" wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:35:00AM +0300, Δημήτρης Ζέρβας wrote: > > > so you want an email like: > > > Q > > > A > > > ??? sorry, next ti

Re: [arch-general] OT: DNS server help

i just understood... On Jun 13, 2012 12:38 AM, "David J. Haines" wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:35:00AM +0300, Δημήτρης Ζέρβας wrote: > > so you want an email like: > > Q > > A > > ??? sorry, next time i will ask questions and wait for an answer... > > i can' correct the signature right now

Re: [arch-general] OT: DNS server help

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:35:00AM +0300, Δημήτρης Ζέρβας wrote: > so you want an email like: > Q > A > ??? sorry, next time i will ask questions and wait for an answer... > i can' correct the signature right now... > On Jun 13, 2012 12:29 AM, "Ralf Mardorf" wrote: > > > On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 00:

Re: [arch-general] Shutdown and reboot not working after last weekend update

Sorry for double posting but just sat and though and I realized nopomuk isprobably unrelated since the problem also happens if I'm on tty and never start the x server. 2012/6/12 Victor Silva > So can I justremove it and check what happens? This makes sense as nepomuk > keeps indexing all the con

Re: [arch-general] OT: DNS server help

so you want an email like: Q A ??? sorry, next time i will ask questions and wait for an answer... i can' correct the signature right now... On Jun 13, 2012 12:29 AM, "Ralf Mardorf" wrote: > On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 00:20 +0300, Δημήτρης Ζέρβας wrote: > > i didn't understand the "PS" > > Irony? > >

[arch-general] OT: DNS server help

On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 00:20 +0300, Δημήτρης Ζέρβας wrote: > i didn't understand the "PS" Irony? Question: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? Answer: Top-posting. Question: Why is it such a bad thing? Answer: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.

Re: [arch-general] Shutdown and reboot not working after last weekend update

So can I justremove it and check what happens? This makes sense as nepomuk keeps indexing all the contents of the machine. I will try to remove it and check what happens. Which part of the logs gave you the hint about nepomuk? Regards, Victor 2012/6/12 Martti Kühne > On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 05:

Re: [arch-general] DNS server help

thank you! does it take ages to read? On Jun 13, 2012 12:22 AM, "Squall Lionheart" wrote: > > > > > do you have any resource that explains the zones in detail and so that > i > > > can actually understand and learn them? > > > also guide for setting up mydns? or it works out of the box? > > > > I

Re: [arch-general] DNS server help

> > > do you have any resource that explains the zones in detail and so that i > > can actually understand and learn them? > > also guide for setting up mydns? or it works out of the box? > I recently setup some name servers using BIND and found this to be a must have resource. http://www.amazon.

Re: [arch-general] DNS server help

i didn't understand the "PS" as explained above, google didn't help me... try not to flame... -- (\_ /) copy the bunny to your profile (0.o ) to help him achieve world domination. (> <) come join the dark side. /_|_\ (we have cookies.) On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:08 AM, Leonidas Spyropoulos wrote

Re: [arch-general] DNS server help

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:00 PM, Δημήτρης Ζέρβας <01tto...@gmail.com> wrote: > wow... > do you have any resource that explains the zones in detail and so that i > can actually understand and learn them? > also guide for setting up mydns? or it works out of the box? > Hello Dimitri, A simple googl

Re: [arch-general] Shutdown and reboot not working after last weekend update

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 05:53:36PM -0300, Victor Silva wrote: > Logs here: > http://pastebin.com/0BMzruNJ > Nothing happens, this is the point. I can still use the system normally > after the shutdown command. It does not turn X off. It does not shutdown > just after the broadcast. This is what I c

Re: [arch-general] can not login after upgrade

i can't think of anything that arch isn't capable of doing... but i think that i'm just "stuck" with arch... you may be right! (\_ /) copy the bunny to your profile (0.o ) to help him achieve world domination. (> <) come join the dark side. /_|_\ (we have cookies.) On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:01

Re: [arch-general] can not login after upgrade

On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 23:25 +0300, Δημήτρης Ζέρβας wrote: > i would advise you to have only Arch and just "deal with it" I would advice to use different distros, that fit best to different usages/needs, if there should be different usages/needs. ;) Ralf

Re: [arch-general] DNS server help

wow... do you have any resource that explains the zones in detail and so that i can actually understand and learn them? also guide for setting up mydns? or it works out of the box? (\_ /) copy the bunny to your profile (0.o ) to help him achieve world domination. (> <) come join the dark side. /_|

Re: [arch-general] Shutdown and reboot not working after last weekend update

Logs here: http://pastebin.com/0BMzruNJ Nothing happens, this is the point. I can still use the system normally after the shutdown command. It does not turn X off. It does not shutdown just after the broadcast. This is what I consider extremelly strange. AS you pointed out I could have something wa

Re: [arch-general] DNS server help

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:45 PM, Δημήτρης Ζέρβας <01tto...@gmail.com> wrote: > hmm, that's good... no mydns? MyDNS appears to be unmaintained, but it fits your requirements. Still, I would recommend learning basic DNS first, without the additional complexity of SQL. Host your domain for a while

[arch-general] Virtualbox USB issues after upgrade

Hi, I'm running XP SP2 on Vbox, to handle an iPad2 by iTunes via USB cable. I already had issues in the past, but after an Arch update today sync, recovery, any similar operation doesn't work anymore, regarding to USB issues. I didn't update Arch and sync an iPad by Vbox/iTunes for a long time.

Re: [arch-general] DNS server help

hmm, that's good... no mydns? (\_ /) copy the bunny to your profile (0.o ) to help him achieve world domination. (> <) come join the dark side. /_|_\ (we have cookies.) On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:43 PM, Mantas Mikulėnas wrote: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Δημήτρης Ζέρβας <01tto...@gmail.

Re: [arch-general] DNS server help

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Δημήτρης Ζέρβας <01tto...@gmail.com> wrote: > what are forwaders? A feature where you configure a DNS server to forward certain queries to another server instead of replying by itself. (Like a proxy.) -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] can not login after upgrade

Le 12. 06. 12 22:25, Δημήτρης Ζέρβας a écrit : i would advise you to have only Arch and just "deal with it" (hours and hours was eaten to just make something "the arch way") ... but it's out of the subject did you find any solutions? (\_ /) copy the bunny to your profile (0.o ) to help him achie

Re: [arch-general] Shutdown and reboot not working after last weekend update

Well, in general shutdown itself will *not* be the halted process; that would be rather strange. But hey, it could have happened. Usually, shutdown and reboot hang because they are coded to wait until all other processes reported having quit, and the process in question hasn't quit yet (because i

Re: [arch-general] Shutdown and reboot not working after last weekend update

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 04:06:27PM -0300, Victor Silva wrote: > > Dmesg output is here > > http://pastebin.com/HjwGvDsp > umm that just is kde crashing. what exactly is the error when trying to shut down or reboot, or where is the hang? before or after shutting down X, are there error messages

Re: [arch-general] Shutdown and reboot not working after last weekend update

I do have this exact error messega as I've posted before. I will check htop and post the output here. So now some questions which come out are: is it somehow related to bad sectors? Shutdown is the locked process with the message: > INFO: task [shutdown] blocked for more than 120 seconds. Still

Re: [arch-general] Shutdown and reboot not working after last weekend update

It sounds like you might have had a process in uninterpretable sleep. This happens sometimes when a process is in a system call and stops working. You can check for this by launching htop and seeing if any processes are permanently in the 'D' state (in the column labeled 'S'). Alternatively, look

Re: [arch-general] Shutdown and reboot not working after last weekend update

three emails for the same subject... :S (\_ /) copy the bunny to your profile (0.o ) to help him achieve world domination. (> <) come join the dark side. /_|_\ (we have cookies.) On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Victor Silva wrote: > I got a ubuntu livecd with gparted lets see what happens. A

Re: [arch-general] can not login after upgrade

i would advise you to have only Arch and just "deal with it" (hours and hours was eaten to just make something "the arch way") ... but it's out of the subject did you find any solutions? (\_ /) copy the bunny to your profile (0.o ) to help him achieve world domination. (> <) come join the dark sid

Re: [arch-general] DNS server help

ok, but i need only A,MX,NS records, master server and MySQL what are forwaders? (\_ /) copy the bunny to your profile (0.o ) to help him achieve world domination. (> <) come join the dark side. /_|_\ (we have cookies.) On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:19 PM, Mantas Mikulėnas wrote: > On Tue, Jun 12,

Re: [arch-general] Shutdown and reboot not working after last weekend update

I got a ubuntu livecd with gparted lets see what happens. About using thesystem as root. I only run pacman related commands as root have a user I use for mostly day tasks. This user is *NOT* on sudo, basically cause I like to enforce my self to login as root and think about what I'm doing. Also su

Re: [arch-general] can not login after upgrade

Le 12. 06. 12 21:57, Δημήτρης Ζέρβας a écrit : oh yes, it's not mounted at all, that's why you can't see it from ubuntu (arch& ubuntu? how could you? :P) it's not a problem, just mount the boot partition to //boot and the /boot partition CAN'T be empty, because you can't login, but you actually

Re: [arch-general] DNS server help

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Δημήτρης Ζέρβας <01tto...@gmail.com> wrote: > no, not web UI... ncurses UI :) Ah, better. > lack of features? > what features? a DNS is a Domain Name Server! it can't serve domains? xD > i can't imagine any feature apart from connectivity (mysql, zones etc.) and

Re: [arch-general] can not login after upgrade

W dniu 12.06.2012 21:59, Arno Gaboury pisze: After some reading across the forum, I see I am not the only one with this issue. my /usr and /boot are both on a separate partition from /. It seems this cause the issue. As far as I can understand, the solution seems to add the Hook back and rebuilt

Re: [arch-general] can not login after upgrade

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Arno Gaboury wrote: > After some reading across the forum, I see I am not the only one with this > issue. my /usr and /boot are both on a separate partition from /. It seems > this cause the issue. > As far as I can understand, the solution seems to add the Hook ba

Re: [arch-general] Shutdown and reboot not working after last weekend update

Hi, I am not familiar with the problem, but I think the easiest way (if you are not against graphical tools) is to grab a live cd (or "live usb dongle") containing gparted (it's not a bad thing to have, anyway), but I am not an expert at this. What really surprises me is that you use your system a

Re: [arch-general] DNS server help

no, not web UI... ncurses UI :) lack of features? what features? a DNS is a Domain Name Server! it can't serve domains? xD i can't imagine any feature apart from connectivity (mysql, zones etc.) and performance (\_ /) copy the bunny to your profile (0.o ) to help him achieve world domination. (> <

Re: [arch-general] can not login after upgrade

"add the Hook back and rebuilt the image." O_o (\_ /) copy the bunny to your profile (0.o ) to help him achieve world domination. (> <) come join the dark side. /_|_\ (we have cookies.) On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Arno Gaboury wrote: > Le 12. 06. 12 21:47, Arno Gaboury a écrit : > > Hi a

Re: [arch-general] DNS server help

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Δημήτρης Ζέρβας <01tto...@gmail.com> wrote: > can you help me with the zones? Sure. > i heared that you can manage BIND from a MySQL DB, is it true? There's a BIND driver for that, , but I never got around to trying it. There

Re: [arch-general] can not login after upgrade

Le 12. 06. 12 21:47, Arno Gaboury a écrit : Hi all, I am running a fresh update X86_64 Archlinux on BTRFS. I left my box unused for near one month (15/05-12/06). I did a system update today, following all latest news: -first updated pacman - moved to systemd and libusbx, did all the updates. Ev

Re: [arch-general] can not login after upgrade

oh yes, it's not mounted at all, that's why you can't see it from ubuntu (arch & ubuntu? how could you? :P) it's not a problem, just mount the boot partition to //boot and the /boot partition CAN'T be empty, because you can't login, but you actually boot! (\_ /) copy the bunny to your profile (0.o

Re: [arch-general] DNS server help

the main reason that i want to have my own primary DNS is that i want to have an "ISP Panel" that i'm building from scratch in python. thank you for your help! can you help me with the zones? i heared that you can manage BIND from a MySQL DB, is it true? archwiki page? (\_ /) copy the bunny to you

Re: [arch-general] can not login after upgrade

On 12 June 2012 20:50, Δημήτρης Ζέρβας <01tto...@gmail.com> wrote: > another guy had problems with his VPS... > when he updated he lost any connection with the VPS > do you have /boot on a separate partition? Indeed, and if it is on separate partition it's probably not getting mounted properly. Ma

Re: [arch-general] DNS server help

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Δημήτρης Ζέρβας <01tto...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a VPS and i want to set up a DNS server. > first of all do i need a secondary NS? why? no money for second VPS... It's not necessary from the technical point of view, but almost all registrars require at least t

Re: [arch-general] can not login after upgrade

another guy had problems with his VPS... when he updated he lost any connection with the VPS do you have /boot on a separate partition? (\_ /) copy the bunny to your profile (0.o ) to help him achieve world domination. (> <) come join the dark side. /_|_\ (we have cookies.) On Tue, Jun 12, 2012

[arch-general] can not login after upgrade

Hi all, I am running a fresh update X86_64 Archlinux on BTRFS. I left my box unused for near one month (15/05-12/06). I did a system update today, following all latest news: -first updated pacman - moved to systemd and libusbx, did all the updates. Everything went OK. -upgraded the filesystem

[arch-general] DNS server help

I have a VPS and i want to set up a DNS server. first of all do i need a secondary NS? why? no money for second VPS... ideas? also can ANYONE explain me the zones in detail? i've read the wiki a lot of times... thank you! (\_ /) copy the bunny to your profile (0.o ) to help him achieve world domin

Re: [arch-general] VPS can't access after update filesystem?

another format maybe? but make sure that you have serial access before upgrading! provider: edis.at cheapest VPS ever (i just love their support) id you have money to go for a dedi, then go for it and don't even think about VPS PS: i think that KVM (my host has) is better than XEN. Also you have VN

Re: [arch-general] VPS can't access after update filesystem?

On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 21:22:43 +0300 Δημήτρης Ζέρβας wrote: > so? why don't you access it my serial? > PS: serial console? WTF? 50 years ago??? And still demanded by many on servers. With suns you can access bios over serial. You need networked KVM for that on PCs. You can set screen output from

[arch-general] Shutdown and reboot not working after last weekend update

Folks sorry for cross posting this at forum and mailing lists but so far no solution came there. Folks after the last upgrade I can no longer shutdown nor reboot my machine (I'm using it as root). The command simply hangs and nothing happens. I've done some research and found https://bbs.archlinux

Re: [arch-general] VPS can't access after update filesystem?

so? why don't you access it my serial? PS: serial console? WTF? 50 years ago??? (\_ /) copy the bunny to your profile (0.o ) to help him achieve world domination. (> <) come join the dark side. /_|_\ (we have cookies.) On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Szu-Han Chen wrote: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2012

Re: [arch-general] VPS can't access after update filesystem?

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 06:53:43PM +0300, Δημήτρης Ζέρβας wrote: > yes like VNC? don't you have any other access than SSH? > > (\_ /) copy the bunny to your profile > (0.o ) to help him achieve world domination. > (> <) come join the dark side. > /_|_\ (we have cookies.) > > > On Tue, Jun 12, 20

Re: [arch-general] VPS can't access after update filesystem?

yes like VNC? don't you have any other access than SSH? (\_ /) copy the bunny to your profile (0.o ) to help him achieve world domination. (> <) come join the dark side. /_|_\ (we have cookies.) On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 23:34:01 +0800 > Bill S

Re: [arch-general] VPS can't access after update filesystem?

On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 23:34:01 +0800 Bill Sun wrote: > VPS provider info Sometimes they will have or attach upon request a KVM that you can connect to usually via crappy JAVA? arpnetworks.com have serial over ssh etc.. too

Re: [arch-general] VPS can't access after update filesystem?

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Bill Sun wrote: > I rent a VPS from a not-so-famous provider, and they use XEN. After I > updated my system on Jun 10 (I update my system every Sundays), My VPS > seems dead. I can't ssh to it, I can't ping to it, I can't do anything > to it. I don't get any error

Re: [arch-general] VPS can't access after update filesystem?

hmmm... the second time you updated, did you have any packages installed? (\_ /) copy the bunny to your profile (0.o ) to help him achieve world domination. (> <) come join the dark side. /_|_\ (we have cookies.) On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Bill Sun wrote: > Hi, > > I rent a VPS from a no

[arch-general] VPS can't access after update filesystem?

Hi, I rent a VPS from a not-so-famous provider, and they use XEN. After I updated my system on Jun 10 (I update my system every Sundays), My VPS seems dead. I can't ssh to it, I can't ping to it, I can't do anything to it. I don't get any error message from the SolusVM control panel---it says: 'on

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] linux-3.4.0-1 enters [testing]

El 22/05/12 11:31, Tom Gundersen escribió: Please report this upstream or to the AUR page, as it might be specific to your kernel configuration. If you can reproduce the problem with the kernel from testing, let us know. Tom On May 22, 2012 4:54 PM, "Sébastien le Preste de Vauban" < ulpianoso..

Re: [arch-general] Mailing lists vs Forums

On 12 June 2012 08:05, David Benfell wrote: > On 06/10/12 11:14, Mateusz Loskot wrote: >> >> Personally, I prefer mailing lists, but I noticed the Forums >> traffic is order of magnitude larger than the traffic on the >> lists. > > In principle, I prefer mailing lists. They are not so nice, howeve

Re: [arch-general] Mailing lists vs Forums

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/10/12 11:14, Mateusz Loskot wrote: > > Personally, I prefer mailing lists, but I noticed the Forums > traffic is order of magnitude larger than the traffic on the > lists. > In principle, I prefer mailing lists. They are not so nice, however, w