Re: [arch-general] Booting archlinux .iso to take a look

2012-06-22 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 12:10:05AM EDT, Chris Jones wrote: [..] > Downloading.. thanks.. Duplicated the grub entry for the Arch iso: | menuentry "bridge-gnome-2012.5-x86_64.iso" { | set isofile="/iso/bridge-gnome-2012.5-x86_64.iso" | loopback loop (hd0,7)$isofile | linux (loop)/arch

Re: [arch-general] Booting archlinux .iso to take a look

2012-06-22 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 12:09:41AM EDT, David Benfell wrote: > On 06/22/12 20:48, Chris Jones wrote > > > > > I never bork my existing system(s).. ;-) > > > > s/never/have not yet/ > hehe.. Actually, I once did end up with an unbootable system on a couple of occasions.. one time it was cau

Re: [arch-general] Booting archlinux .iso to take a look

2012-06-22 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 07:16:17PM EDT, C Anthony Risinger wrote: [..] > Or yet-another-option -- my personal favorite thanks to unusual levels > of utility and awesome -- you can "dynamic netboot" Arch from a 1/2 > MiB PXE image: > > http://releng.archlinux.org/pxeboot/ > > ... as linked on th

Re: [arch-general] Booting archlinux .iso to take a look

2012-06-22 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 06:55:22PM EDT, David Benfell wrote: > > You could try archboot[1]. tpowa has been doing a great job at > > providing unofficial up-to-date install/live images. They provide > > the same as the official install images (but up-to-date :p) so don't > > expect any fancy guis.

Re: [arch-general] Booting archlinux .iso to take a look

2012-06-22 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/22/12 20:48, Chris Jones wrote > > I never bork my existing system(s).. ;-) > s/never/have not yet/ - -- David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with M

Re: [arch-general] Help with gnupg saving password for given time

2012-06-22 Thread Randy
On 06/22/2012 04:22 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: I get nothing with this command. Your programs will likely ignore the agent and use gpg directly using the password once without an environment variable. You should have the GPG_AGENT_INFO environment variable already setup as the third box in th

Re: [arch-general] Booting archlinux .iso to take a look

2012-06-22 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 03:30:13PM EDT, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: [..] > Also, I'd highly suggest rolling out VirtualBox and playing with an > installation. This will 1) mean you won't bork your existing system, I never bork my existing system(s).. ;-) CJ -- Focus follow mouse users will bur

Re: [arch-general] Booting archlinux .iso to take a look

2012-06-22 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 02:38:48PM EDT, Alexandre Ferrando wrote: > On 22 June 2012 20:34, Chris Jones wrote: > > I am a long-time debian user. [..] > You're not missing a thing, archlinux doesn't have that kind of > liveCDs, just the installer. At least officially. Can't remember right > now a

[arch-general] Campaign against Secure Boot

2012-06-22 Thread Manolo Martínez
Is Arch going to sign [this petition](http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot/statement)? I, for one humble user, would like it (us, whatever) to. Manolo --

Re: [arch-general] Booting archlinux .iso to take a look

2012-06-22 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Jun 22, 2012 5:55 PM, "David Benfell" wrote: > On 06/22/12 15:10, Mauro Santos wrote: > > > > You could try archboot[1]. tpowa has been doing a great job at > > providing unofficial up-to-date install/live images. They provide > > the same as the official install images (but up-to-date :p) so >

Re: [arch-general] Booting archlinux .iso to take a look

2012-06-22 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/22/12 15:10, Mauro Santos wrote: > > You could try archboot[1]. tpowa has been doing a great job at > providing unofficial up-to-date install/live images. They provide > the same as the official install images (but up-to-date :p) so > don't expe

Re: [arch-general] Booting archlinux .iso to take a look

2012-06-22 Thread Mauro Santos
On 22-06-2012 19:34, Chris Jones wrote: > I am a long-time debian user. > > Is there an Archlinux live environment available anywhere so I can take > a look round without installing AL to my hard drive..? > > I created a grub menu entry for ‘archlinux-2011.08.19-core-dual.iso’ and > booted succes

Re: [arch-general] Help with gnupg saving password for given time

2012-06-22 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> I get nothing with this command. Your programs will likely ignore the agent and use gpg directly using the password once without an environment variable. You should have the GPG_AGENT_INFO environment variable already setup as the third box in this link does. You can fix it quite easily but w

Re: [arch-general] glib: #error "Only can be included directly." (howto report packages)

2012-06-22 Thread Laurent Carlier
Le vendredi 22 juin 2012 14:49:26 David C. Rankin a écrit : > Guys, > > We have run into several new build failures with trinity related to a glib > header inclusion change in the last update or two. The trinity package are > a relatively simple fix changing the header inclusions from '#include >

Re: [arch-general] glib: #error "Only can be included directly." (howto report packages)

2012-06-22 Thread rafael ff1
2012/6/22 David C. Rankin : > Guys, > >  We have run into several new build failures with trinity related to a glib > header inclusion change in the last update or two. The trinity package are a > relatively simple fix changing the header inclusions from '#include > ' to '#include '. > >  However,

[arch-general] glib: #error "Only can be included directly." (howto report packages)

2012-06-22 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, We have run into several new build failures with trinity related to a glib header inclusion change in the last update or two. The trinity package are a relatively simple fix changing the header inclusions from '#include ' to '#include '. However, some of the build failures experienced a

Re: [arch-general] Booting archlinux .iso to take a look

2012-06-22 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Friday 22 Jun 2012 21:43:06 Jesse Juhani Jaara wrote: > Just login as root and start bagging in sed and awk clauses to the > console ^_^ should work. Also, I'd highly suggest rolling out VirtualBox and playing with an installation. This will 1) mean you won't bork your existing system, and 2)

Re: [arch-general] Help with gnupg saving password for given time

2012-06-22 Thread Randy
On 06/22/2012 02:32 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: On 06/22/2012 02:09 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: I have to enter my password every time I open KmyMoney First check if gpg-agent is running /bin/ps -aux | /usr/bin/grep gpg sighup will make it forget a password which any program may send and how long

Re: [arch-general] Booting archlinux .iso to take a look

2012-06-22 Thread Martti Kühne
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 02:34:06PM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: > I am a long-time debian user. > > Is there an Archlinux live environment available anywhere so I can take > a look round without installing AL to my hard drive..? > > I created a grub menu entry for ‘archlinux-2011.08.19-core-dual.iso

Re: [arch-general] Booting archlinux .iso to take a look

2012-06-22 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 23 June 2012 02:34, Chris Jones wrote: > I am a long-time debian user. > > Is there an Archlinux live environment available anywhere so I can take > a look round without installing AL to my hard drive..? You are already in a "live" environment. It is console-based and provides only a minimal s

Re: [arch-general] Help with gnupg saving password for given time

2012-06-22 Thread Randy
On 06/22/2012 02:32 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: On 06/22/2012 02:09 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: I have to enter my password every time I open KmyMoney First check if gpg-agent is running /bin/ps -aux | /usr/bin/grep gpg sighup will make it forget a password which any program may send and how long

Re: [arch-general] Booting archlinux .iso to take a look

2012-06-22 Thread Jesse Juhani Jaara
pe, 2012-06-22 kello 14:34 -0400, Chris Jones kirjoitti: > I created a grub menu entry for ‘archlinux-2011.08.19-core-dual.iso’ and > booted successfully.. but afaict.. it only lets me run the installer. What do you mean it only lets you run the installer? Our isos are full livecds. Once you boot

Re: [arch-general] Booting archlinux .iso to take a look

2012-06-22 Thread Alexandre Ferrando
On 22 June 2012 20:34, Chris Jones wrote: > I am a long-time debian user. > > Is there an Archlinux live environment available anywhere so I can take > a look round without installing AL to my hard drive..? > > I created a grub menu entry for ‘archlinux-2011.08.19-core-dual.iso’ and > booted succe

Re: [arch-general] Help with gnupg saving password for given time

2012-06-22 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> On 06/22/2012 02:09 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > >> I have to enter my password every > >> time I open KmyMoney > > First check if gpg-agent is running > > > > /bin/ps -aux | /usr/bin/grep gpg > > > > sighup will make it forget a password which any program may send and how > > long it remembers is

[arch-general] Booting archlinux .iso to take a look

2012-06-22 Thread Chris Jones
I am a long-time debian user. Is there an Archlinux live environment available anywhere so I can take a look round without installing AL to my hard drive..? I created a grub menu entry for ‘archlinux-2011.08.19-core-dual.iso’ and booted successfully.. but afaict.. it only lets me run the installe

Re: [arch-general] Help with gnupg saving password for given time

2012-06-22 Thread Randy
On 06/22/2012 02:09 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: I have to enter my password every time I open KmyMoney First check if gpg-agent is running /bin/ps -aux | /usr/bin/grep gpg sighup will make it forget a password which any program may send and how long it remembers is configurable. ___

Re: [arch-general] Help with gnupg saving password for given time

2012-06-22 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> I have to enter my password every > time I open KmyMoney First check if gpg-agent is running /bin/ps -aux | /usr/bin/grep gpg sighup will make it forget a password which any program may send and how long it remembers is configurable.

[arch-general] Help with gnupg saving password for given time

2012-06-22 Thread Randy
Hello all, I'm running KmyMoney and saving the file with GPG encryption. In order to open this file I need to enter my password in the pin entry window that comes up. This all works fine. The issue that I'm having is that in the past (previous installation of Arch and Aptosid) I was able to

Re: [arch-general] Complete mess after having attempted to install Nvidia drivers

2012-06-22 Thread Ray Kohler
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 3:58 AM, m a wrote: > Hello, > > I was trying to remove the proprietary drivers for my nvidia, to install > the open source ones. > I read in the wiki that I also had to remove the /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but > only found an /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d, so I removed that one. > I don'

Re: [arch-general] Complete mess after having attempted to install Nvidia drivers‏‏

2012-06-22 Thread m a
Ok, I got my keyboard and mouse back! I suppose it wasn't really wise of me to follow the instructions given on the Archbang wiki, everything worked perfectly with the Arch wiki on chroot. I wrote down the alternative method suggested here though, I'm sure I'll find it useful some time soon. Anyway

Re: [arch-general] Complete mess after having attempted to install Nvidia drivers‏

2012-06-22 Thread Norbert Zeh
nelsonmaram...@gmx.de [2012.06.22 1217 +0200]: > Hm ... but is this not just a second possibility ? > > Original-Nachricht > > Datum: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:13:38 +0300 > > Von: Jesse Juhani Jaara > > An: General Discussion about Arch Linux > > Betreff: Re: [arch-general] Complete

Re: [arch-general] Complete mess after having attempted to install Nvidia drivers‏‏

2012-06-22 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> > Boot from the LiveCD and chroot to your system > > I have already done that (having followed the relevant Archbang wiki) > but, once I attempt to install anything, I get this: > error: GPGME error: Bad file descriptor > error: xorg-server: missing required signature > error: failed to commit

Re: [arch-general] Complete mess after having attempted to install Nvidia drivers‏

2012-06-22 Thread nelsonmarambio
Hm ... but is this not just a second possibility ? Original-Nachricht > Datum: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:13:38 +0300 > Von: Jesse Juhani Jaara > An: General Discussion about Arch Linux > Betreff: Re: [arch-general] Complete mess after having attempted to install > Nvidia drivers‏ >

Re: [arch-general] Complete mess after having attempted to install Nvidia drivers‏‏

2012-06-22 Thread m a
> Boot from the LiveCD and chroot to your system I have already done that (having followed the relevant Archbang wiki) but, once I attempt to install anything, I get this: error: GPGME error: Bad file descriptor error: xorg-server: missing required signature error: failed to commit transaction (in

Re: [arch-general] Complete mess after having attempted to install Nvidia drivers‏

2012-06-22 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Friday 22 Jun 2012 05:57:43 m a wrote: > > Do not know of a quick fix off the top of my head but yes deleting the > > entire folder xorg.conf.d deletes other needed files. I would maybe try > > booting a LiveCD chroot in and copy the files over you deleted then > > reboot. > > > > Why would you

Re: [arch-general] Complete mess after having attempted to install Nvidia drivers‏

2012-06-22 Thread Jesse Juhani Jaara
pe, 2012-06-22 kello 06:05 -0400, m a kirjoitti: > > You could try to reinstall xorg-server: > > # pacman -S xorg-server > > How am I going to do this? > In normal boot, I can't use my keyboard and, when booting from a > LiveCD, I can't install anything on the system. No you don't boot into LiveCD

Re: [arch-general] Complete mess after having attempted to install Nvidia drivers‏

2012-06-22 Thread nelsonmarambio
Original-Nachricht > Datum: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 06:05:06 -0400 > Von: m a > An: arch-general@archlinux.org > Betreff: Re: [arch-general] Complete mess after having attempted to install > Nvidia drivers‏ > > You could try to reinstall xorg-server: > > # pacman -S xorg-server >

Re: [arch-general] Complete mess after having attempted to install Nvidia drivers‏

2012-06-22 Thread A Rojas
m a wrote: >> You could try to reinstall xorg-server: >> # pacman -S xorg-server > > How am I going to do this? > In normal boot, I can't use my keyboard and, when booting from a > LiveCD, I can't install anything on the system. > Boot from the LiveCD and chroot to your system

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

2012-06-22 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> I'm really not sure what you are asking here, so bear with me... > > The tmpfiles.d fragment is documented in the tmpfiles.d(5)[0] and the > tmpfiles utility is documented in systemd-tmpfiles(8)[1]. > > Both in systemd and initscripts we call "/usr/bin/systemd-tmpfiles > --clean" to clean up ol

Re: [arch-general] Complete mess after having attempted to install Nvidia drivers‏

2012-06-22 Thread m a
> You could try to reinstall xorg-server: > # pacman -S xorg-server How am I going to do this? In normal boot, I can't use my keyboard and, when booting from a LiveCD, I can't install anything on the system. > You mentioned intel graphics driver, is there any possibilty that you > have Intel +

Re: [arch-general] Complete mess after having attempted to install Nvidia drivers‏

2012-06-22 Thread m a
> Do not know of a quick fix off the top of my head but yes deleting the > entire folder xorg.conf.d deletes other needed files. I would maybe try > booting a LiveCD chroot in and copy the files over you deleted then reboot. > Why would you blindly delete an entire folder? > HTH Cause I'm an idi

Re: [arch-general] Complete mess after having attempted to install Nvidia drivers

2012-06-22 Thread Nelson Marambio
AFAIK there are several video drivers installed as dependency when you install the xorg package, e.g. xfree-video-ati, xfree-video-intel etc. that are not related to the real hardware configuration but do not cause a conflict otherwise. So there the Intel driver might have been being installed

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

2012-06-22 Thread Kazó Csaba
2012/6/21 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

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

2012-06-22 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 8:53 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

Re: [arch-general] Complete mess after having attempted to install Nvidia drivers

2012-06-22 Thread Łukasz Redynk
Hi, 1) "I don't know if this is the reason why I can no longer use either the keyboard or the mouse when reaching the login screen." Yes, it is. Xorg not only handles grapfic, but also input devices and in xorg.conf.d there's needed conf files. You could try to reinstall xorg-server: # pacman

Re: [arch-general] Complete mess after having attempted to install Nvidia drivers

2012-06-22 Thread Don deJuan
On 06/22/2012 12:58 AM, m a wrote: Hello, I was trying to remove the proprietary drivers for my nvidia, to install the open source ones. I read in the wiki that I also had to remove the /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but only found an /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d, so I removed that one. I don't know if this is the

[arch-general] Complete mess after having attempted to install Nvidia drivers

2012-06-22 Thread m a
Hello, I was trying to remove the proprietary drivers for my nvidia, to install the open source ones. I read in the wiki that I also had to remove the /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but only found an /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d, so I removed that one. I don't know if this is the reason why I can no longer use eithe