[arch-general] iPod HOWTO?

2012-06-21 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, This is a facepalm moment. I'm utterly failing to find the correct way to do this. The Arch wiki entry is https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/IPod It's out of date because "HAL has been deprecated for a while now." Like an idiot, I managed to

[arch-general] Advice on opening the ".rm" files in ArchLinux

2012-06-21 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
Hi, I have just downloaded the following file [0]. It is an .rm file but I am not able to open it in either VLC or Mplayer. I have posted -the error messages below. Thanks in advance. -- Cheers and Regards Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.net

Re: [arch-general] iPod HOWTO?

2012-06-21 Thread Δημήτρης Ζέρβας
On Jun 21, 2012 10:31 AM, "David Benfell" wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > This is a facepalm moment. I'm utterly failing to find the correct way > to do this. > > The Arch wiki entry is https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/IPod > > It's out of date because "H

[arch-general] Advice on opening the ".rm" files in ArchLinux

2012-06-21 Thread Nelson Marambio
Have you tried the package realplay from the AUR yet ? http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=1590 (For it seems this is a RealAudio file). Best regards, Nelson. Original-Nachricht > Datum: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:43:27 +0530 > Von: Jayesh Badwaik > An: arch-general@archlinux.or

Re: [arch-general] iPod HOWTO?

2012-06-21 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/21/12 01:32, Δημήτρης Ζέρβας wrote: > On Jun 21, 2012 10:31 AM, "David Benfell" > wrote: >> >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> >> Hi, >> >> This is a facepalm moment. I'm utterly failing to find the >> correct way to do this.

Re: [arch-general] back up /var/log before shutdown

2012-06-21 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> OK guys. When I bought my ssd, I read too that this story of short > lifetime is a myth. As it is now clear to me that writing /var/log into > RAM is a totally fullish idea in case of crash, I am back to my original > fstab, with no entry for /var/log. > I will then take my time to understand

Re: [arch-general] tmp files no longer removed

2012-06-21 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> I believe this is correct. However, I would point out that I had to > disable tmpfs on my Linode because it was taking too much memory. What are you doing that uses so much memory? I enable a small memory filesystem that doesn't grow for /tmp on my web servers. You just have to configure the cle

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] x264 and ffmpeg rebuild

2012-06-21 Thread Sergej Pupykin
At Thu, 21 Jun 2012 02:52:18 +0300, Ionut Biru wrote: > why did you bother to ask us for opinions if you don't even wait to see > what we have to say. Because of I can remove it. Putting package into staging is not too fatal action)

Re: [arch-general] tmp files no longer removed

2012-06-21 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/21/12 02:11, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > The ability I would certainly agree with but has it been removed? > Is the question, Where is the best place to add /bin/rm to init > nowadays? > Elsewhere in this thread, someone mentions tmpfiles.d. T

Re: [arch-general] iPod HOWTO?

2012-06-21 Thread Mantas Mikulėnas
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:30 AM, David Benfell wrote: > This is a facepalm moment. I'm utterly failing to find the correct way > to do this. > > The Arch wiki entry is https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/IPod > > It's out of date because "HAL has been deprecated for a while now." > > Like an idi

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] x264 and ffmpeg rebuild

2012-06-21 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 21.06.2012 11:17, schrieb Sergej Pupykin: > > At Thu, 21 Jun 2012 02:52:18 +0300, > Ionut Biru wrote: >> why did you bother to ask us for opinions if you don't even wait to see >> what we have to say. > > Because of I can remove it. Putting package into staging is not too > fatal action) Agre

Re: [arch-general] Installing to RAID .. cannot reboot

2012-06-21 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Wednesday 20 Jun 2012 11:27:54 D. R. Evans wrote: > When I try to reboot, I receive the error message: > ERROR: device /dev/md0 not found > ERROR: unable to find root device /dev/md0 To me, this sounds like the RAID array is being given the wrong name, or the mdadm hook isn't being added t

Re: [arch-general] SOLVED: iPod HOWTO?

2012-06-21 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/21/12 02:24, Mantas Mikulėnas wrote: > > > Start by uninstalling HAL. > > In the archwiki article, hal is mentioned purely for its > auto-mount functionality, which has been moved to udisks||udisks2 > in all current desktop environments. Even

Re: [arch-general] Advice on opening the ".rm" files in ArchLinux

2012-06-21 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Thursday 21 Jun 2012 10:48:02 Nelson Marambio wrote: > Have you tried the package realplay from the AUR yet ? > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=1590 > > (For it seems this is a RealAudio file). Yes, I tried it right now. It only plays audio though. My friend is telling me on windows

[arch-general] FCoE support in archlinux

2012-06-21 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
Hi, I plan to use FCoE on archlinux servers but I couldn't find any package of the utils to get it working. The modules looks compiled in the kernel. Does Arch support FCoE? If so, which utils do you use (I'm aware of the http://www.open-fcoe.org/ utils only)? Thanks, -- Nicolas Sebrecht

Re: [arch-general] KDE Dolphin crashes on click

2012-06-21 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Monday 11 Jun 2012 14:22:57 you wrote: > On Monday 11 Jun 2012 09:42:30 Martin Cigorraga wrote: > > I have Strigi disabled and yet until yesterday's night I was receiving > > segfaults when clicking on any type of fire; finally after trial and error > > an before going insane and start ripping m

Re: [arch-general] tmp files no longer removed

2012-06-21 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> There is a configuration file in /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d named tmp.conf > which can be copied to /etc/conf.d and modified as needed. > I meant a place for any shell incarnation though not a rigid?? pre-ordained facility. > - From what I've been able to piece together, one can then run > "systemd-t

Re: [arch-general] Installing to RAID .. cannot reboot

2012-06-21 Thread D. R. Evans
Paul Gideon Dann said the following at 06/21/2012 03:41 AM : > On Wednesday 20 Jun 2012 11:27:54 D. R. Evans wrote: >> When I try to reboot, I receive the error message: >> ERROR: device /dev/md0 not found >> ERROR: unable to find root device /dev/md0 > > To me, this sounds like the RAID array

Re: [arch-general] Installing to RAID .. cannot reboot

2012-06-21 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Thursday 21 Jun 2012 09:44:03 D. R. Evans wrote: > Extract from /etc/mkinitcpio.conf (sorry about any possible wrapping issue): > > MODULES="dm_mod" > ... > HOOKS="base udev mdadm_udev lvm2 autodetect pata scsi sata filesystems > usbinput fsck" I have two RAID setups that work well for me. On

Re: [arch-general] Installing to RAID .. cannot reboot

2012-06-21 Thread Jérôme M. Berger
D. R. Evans wrote: > Paul Gideon Dann said the following at 06/21/2012 03:41 AM : >> On Wednesday 20 Jun 2012 11:27:54 D. R. Evans wrote: >>> When I try to reboot, I receive the error message: >>> ERROR: device /dev/md0 not found >>> ERROR: unable to find root device /dev/md0 >> To me, this sou

Re: [arch-general] Installing to RAID .. cannot reboot

2012-06-21 Thread Jason Ryan
On 21/06/12 at 06:13pm, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > On Thursday 21 Jun 2012 09:44:03 D. R. Evans wrote: > > Extract from /etc/mkinitcpio.conf (sorry about any possible wrapping issue): > > > > MODULES="dm_mod" > > ... > > HOOKS="base udev mdadm_udev lvm2 autodetect pata scsi sata filesystems > > usb

Re: [arch-general] Installing to RAID .. cannot reboot

2012-06-21 Thread D. R. Evans
"Jérôme M. Berger" said the following at 06/21/2012 11:13 AM : > D. R. Evans wrote: >> Paul Gideon Dann said the following at 06/21/2012 03:41 AM : >>> On Wednesday 20 Jun 2012 11:27:54 D. R. Evans wrote: When I try to reboot, I receive the error message: ERROR: device /dev/md0 not foun

Re: [arch-general] Installing to RAID .. cannot reboot

2012-06-21 Thread Chris Sakalis
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 9:21 PM, D. R. Evans wrote: > "Jérôme M. Berger" said the following at 06/21/2012 11:13 AM : >> D. R. Evans wrote: >>> Paul Gideon Dann said the following at 06/21/2012 03:41 AM : On Wednesday 20 Jun 2012 11:27:54 D. R. Evans wrote: > When I try to reboot, I receiv

Re: [arch-general] Installing to RAID .. cannot reboot

2012-06-21 Thread D. R. Evans
Chris Sakalis said the following at 06/21/2012 01:15 PM : > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 9:21 PM, D. R. Evans wrote: >> "Jérôme M. Berger" said the following at 06/21/2012 11:13 AM : >>> D. R. Evans wrote: Paul Gideon Dann said the following at 06/21/2012 03:41 AM : > On Wednesday 20 Jun 2012

[arch-general] [aur-general]pipe log msg on conky window

2012-06-21 Thread Arno Gaboury
Dear all, as I was configuring a conky window on my desktop, I decided to add some precisions and tips for configuring the *.conkyrc* file in the Arch WIKI. Reading any /var/log file needs to be root, thus making difficult to run any home config file with read access to log files. My turnarou

Re: [arch-general] Installing to RAID .. cannot reboot

2012-06-21 Thread Chris Sakalis
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:39 PM, D. R. Evans wrote: >> >> Sorry for the stupid question, but do you rebuild the init ram image >> after changing your mkinitcpio.conf ? > > I don't understand the question, so it's not at all stupid. I'm just following > the instructions on the wiki. The wiki says

Re: [arch-general] [aur-general]pipe log msg on conky window

2012-06-21 Thread Arno Gaboury
On 06/21/2012 09:53 PM, Arno Gaboury wrote: Dear all, as I was configuring a conky window on my desktop, I decided to add some precisions and tips for configuring the *.conkyrc* file in the Arch WIKI. Reading any /var/log file needs to be root, thus making difficult to run any home config f

Re: [arch-general] Installing to RAID .. cannot reboot

2012-06-21 Thread D. R. Evans
Chris Sakalis said the following at 06/21/2012 01:57 PM : > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:39 PM, D. R. Evans wrote: >>> >>> Sorry for the stupid question, but do you rebuild the init ram image >>> after changing your mkinitcpio.conf ? >> >> I don't understand the question, so it's not at all stupid.

Re: [arch-general] Installing to RAID .. cannot reboot

2012-06-21 Thread Chris Sakalis
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:19 PM, D. R. Evans wrote: > > My turn to ask a stupid question, because I'm sure your explanation makes > perfect sense to someone who understands this stuff, but I don't: my previous > experience with installing Linux on RAID was with Ubuntu, for which I didn't > need t

Re: [arch-general] Installing to RAID .. cannot reboot

2012-06-21 Thread D. R. Evans
Chris Sakalis said the following at 06/21/2012 02:39 PM : > > Note that, the arch installer automatically generates the image after > the configuration is done (the penultimate step of the installer - > "Configure System"). I guess that's why it is not explicitly mentioned > in the wiki. > > If

Re: [arch-general] Installing to RAID .. cannot reboot

2012-06-21 Thread David C. Rankin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/21/2012 03:57 PM, D. R. Evans wrote: > Chris Sakalis said the following at 06/21/2012 02:39 PM : > >> >> Note that, the arch installer automatically generates the image after >> the configuration is done (the penultimate step of the installer -

Re: [arch-general] x86_64 kernel 3.4.3-1 fail to boot - initramfs unpacking failed: uncompression error

2012-06-21 Thread David C. Rankin
On 06/19/2012 04:53 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > On 06/19/2012 04:49 PM, Ray Kohler wrote: >> Looks like a bad ramdisk. Get it booted somehow (fallback image might >> even work) and run mkinitcpio -p linux by hand. > > Thanks Ray, will do and report back. > Ray, thank you -- that worked -- but i

Re: [arch-general] tmp files no longer removed

2012-06-21 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Jun 21, 2012 1:16 PM, "Kevin Chadwick" wrote: > > There is a configuration file in /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d named tmp.conf > > which can be copied to /etc/conf.d and modified as needed. > > I meant a place for any shell incarnation though not a rigid?? > pre-ordained facility. Nothing has changed i

Re: [arch-general] tmp files no longer removed

2012-06-21 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Jun 21, 2012 11:12 AM, "Kevin Chadwick" wrote: > > The > > ability to clean /tmp at boot should probably be preserved. > > The ability I would certainly agree with but has it been removed? It has not been removed. The standard behavior changed slightly, but as mentioned this can be configured

Re: [arch-general] tmp files no longer removed

2012-06-21 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/21/12 16:20, Tom Gundersen wrote: > It has not been removed. The standard behavior changed slightly, > but as mentioned this can be configured to revert to the default. > Yes, my bad, as you've probably already discovered. :-) - -- David Be

Re: [arch-general] tmp files no longer removed

2012-06-21 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> > > There is a configuration file in /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d named tmp.conf > > > which can be copied to /etc/conf.d and modified as needed. > > > > I meant a place for any shell incarnation though not a rigid?? > > pre-ordained facility. > > Nothing has changed in this respect. If you want to a

Re: [arch-general] tmp files no longer removed

2012-06-21 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 1:32 AM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > I figured that, atleast the rc.local bit. There's no exec line that can > be used in the tmpfiles.d either in arch or full systemd then running it > at the same stage of init, just out of interest. I know there is one > for getty I'm just no

Re: [arch-general] tmp files no longer removed

2012-06-21 Thread Lukáš Jirkovský
On 22 June 2012 01:42, Tom Gundersen wrote: > The tmpfiles.d fragment is documented in the tmpfiles.d(5)[0] and the > tmpfiles utility is documented in systemd-tmpfiles(8)[1]. > So there actually is man page for the systemd-tmpfiles. It is missing from the systemd-tools, instead it is in systemd