Re: [arch-general] Campaign against Secure Boot

2012-06-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 22:29 -0400, Manolo Martínez wrote: On 06/26/12 at 12:55am, Karol Babioch wrote: I have only the following criticism: Given the relatively low cost of getting a signed certificate from Microsoft (to my knowledge it will cost about 100 USD), it might fail to achieve

Re: [arch-general] Campaign against Secure Boot

2012-06-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-06-26 at 10:28 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 22:29 -0400, Manolo Martínez wrote: On 06/26/12 at 12:55am, Karol Babioch wrote: I have only the following criticism: Given the relatively low cost of getting a signed certificate from Microsoft (to my knowledge

Re: [arch-general] Campaign against Secure Boot

2012-06-26 Thread Karol Babioch
Hi, Am 26.06.2012 04:29, schrieb Manolo Martínez: Just for clarification: you seem to be endorsing a model in which organizations (linux distros?) pay Microsoft for the right to install non-Microsoft software in PCs. Is that correct? Yeah, I see that this creeps the shit out of some of you.

Re: [arch-general] Campaign against Secure Boot

2012-06-26 Thread Lars Madson
Karol ... don't ever accept the unacceptable because it's shaped as the best proposition ever. Make your own. Microsoft should not ask people to pay anything for a technology they impose, the new economy is about giving what you produce, I guess we'll receive a lot and lower down the quantity of

Re: [arch-general] Campaign against Secure Boot

2012-06-26 Thread Lars Madson
And remember one day when the Disable Secure Boot button is not present. Well we have right to not allow that too. 2012/6/26 Lars Madson rwx...@gmail.com Karol ... don't ever accept the unacceptable because it's shaped as the best proposition ever. Make your own. Microsoft should not ask

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-26 Thread Martin Cigorraga
Hi guys, may be you'll find ArchServer an interesting project, you'll find more here: www.archserver.org. The idea behind this project is to create a rock-solid, server-oriented Arch flavor ready for mass deployment with all the pros we love about Arch -easy to maintain, lightweight,

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-26 Thread d4n1
I'm has used the archlinux in all. My servers are running firewall, web, bd, proxy, DNS, dhcp and others. I'm used politics of update/upgrade, and mark some packages to not update/upgrade. I'm used only the oficial mirror in the pacman. I'm removed compilers and run hardenings. On Jun 26, 2012

[arch-general] soft_irq_pending

2012-06-26 Thread Arno Gaboury
Dear list, I boot in runlevel 3, *Kernel 3.4.4-2*. When I am at the login prompt, I can see this: magnolia login [ here is a number] NOHZ= *local_softirq_pending 08*. Pressing Enter give me back the login prompt, and then I can log and startx. I find this message in my *var/log/kernel.log*

Re: [arch-general] Campaign against Secure Boot

2012-06-26 Thread Kevin Chadwick
I understand that given Microsoft's record in the past, some of you are worried, but when looking in the specifications (as Thomas already pointed out) it is quite clear that Microsoft wants to do the right thing here. Personally I couldn't come up with a better way/infrastructure than the

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-26 Thread Kevin Chadwick
idea of having a server edition of AL ready to deploy and forgot about it because Arch rocks Have you considered flavours like mail, web. A recent thread showed atleast one person who probably would have liked an out of the box web arch? --

[arch-general] update of chroot fails - error: cannot remove file '/sys/': Read-only file system

2012-06-26 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, Attempting to update an arch chroot (only a couple days old), I have run into the following error: sudo mkarchroot -u $CHROOT/root :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date local is up to date :: Starting full system

Re: [arch-general] INSANELY OT: and nothing to do with the Campaign against Secure Boot

2012-06-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 15:02 -0700, Don deJuan wrote: The border is the rules of the board you're posting to. If you don't like them, start your own board. But again this is an Arch board and your points and rambles do nothing to solve, help or further educate people about Secure Boot, let

Re: [arch-general] Campaign against Secure Boot

2012-06-26 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Having looked again at the fsfs campaign. We, the undersigned, urge all computer makers implementing UEFI's so-called Secure Boot to do it in a way that allows free software operating systems to be installed. To respect user freedom and truly protect user security, manufacturers must either

Re: [arch-general] Campaign against Secure Boot

2012-06-26 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Ensuring users can add keys and allowing multiboot and reasonably easy usage of livecds without disabling secureboot all together should be the current campaign. And openbios installation. I wonder if Dell will only allow Dell Windows? --

[arch-general] k3b/cdrecord problem burning dual layer disc

2012-06-26 Thread gt
Hey folks A few days ago i was trying to burn an iso to a dual layer dvd, but i got an i/o error. Thankfully though the burn failed, but it spared the disc :) I tried downgrading cdrtools but that didn't fix it either. I found out that the iso was about 4200 MB in size and apparently trying to

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-26 Thread Martin Cigorraga
Have you considered flavours like mail, web. A recent thread showed atleast one person who probably would have liked an out of the box web arch? Sorry Kevin, I don't follow you. -- -msx

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-26 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Have you considered flavours like mail, web. A recent thread showed atleast one person who probably would have liked an out of the box web arch? Sorry Kevin, I don't follow you. probably because it's completely off the radar and probably projects in themselves especially as

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-26 Thread Don deJuan
On 06/26/2012 10:49 AM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: Have you considered flavours like mail, web. A recent thread showed atleast one person who probably would have liked an out of the box web arch? Sorry Kevin, I don't follow you. probably because it's completely off the radar and probably

[arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

2012-06-26 Thread Arno Gaboury
dear list, After a few months of running Arch, I am now fine tuning everything (or at least trying). I discovered this error message in *kernel.log* file. NVRM: Your system is not currently configured to drive a VGA console NVRM: on the primary VGA device. The NVIDIA Linux graphics driver

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

2012-06-26 Thread Don deJuan
On 06/26/2012 12:31 PM, Arno Gaboury wrote: dear list, After a few months of running Arch, I am now fine tuning everything (or at least trying). I discovered this error message in *kernel.log* file. NVRM: Your system is not currently configured to drive a VGA console NVRM: on the primary

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

2012-06-26 Thread Arno Gaboury
On 06/26/2012 09:42 PM, Don deJuan wrote: On 06/26/2012 12:31 PM, Arno Gaboury wrote: dear list, After a few months of running Arch, I am now fine tuning everything (or at least trying). I discovered this error message in *kernel.log* file. NVRM: Your system is not currently configured to

[arch-general] TeXlive 2012 packages

2012-06-26 Thread Rémy Oudompheng
Hello, I am going to put Texlive 2012 packages in [testing]. Texlive 2012 is not yet released, but it is frozen, so I do not expect changes to these packages except to fix packaging errors. Please try them and complain on mailing lists. Don't hesitate to compile your own theses, memoirs or books.

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

2012-06-26 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Putting GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=text in my default grub, then running a new grub.cfg. Reboot and the message went away, though in the console the text is huge. I have seen no actual fix for this and have read that Nvidia is not even sure how or why it broke. If it wasn't huge before then you

[arch-general] icedtea-web should have provides (?)

2012-06-26 Thread Marek Otahal
Hi, for bloom-facebook package I need to ensure a dependency that runs java applets and WebStart. This is provided by icedtea-web-java7 (for openjdk7), icedtea-web (openjdk6) and probably part of JRE (Oracle/Sun Java). Could there be some provides say 'java-webstart' for these packages so I

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

2012-06-26 Thread Don deJuan
On 06/26/2012 01:19 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: Putting GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=text in my default grub, then running a new grub.cfg. Reboot and the message went away, though in the console the text is huge. I have seen no actual fix for this and have read that Nvidia is not even sure how or why it

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

2012-06-26 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 06/26/12 at 09:19pm, Kevin Chadwick wrote: If it wasn't huge before then you were either running nouveau or vesa framebuffer on the console and Nvidia in the desktop. This warning is likely due to the fact that running a framebuffer and Nvidia used to crash linux. It can probably? be

[arch-general] Server space to host Arch TDE binaries for testing?

2012-06-26 Thread David C. Rankin
All, (kaiting), Does anyone have server space available to host Trinity binaries for Arch for testing? Currently the size requirements for TDE binaries is ~270 Meg per architecture (~540 M for both i686 x86_64). The package list currently building on Arch is here:

Re: [arch-general] TeXlive 2012 packages

2012-06-26 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/26/2012 04:10 PM, Rémy Oudompheng wrote: ... Please try them and complain on mailing lists. Don't hesitate to compile your own theses, memoirs or books. Getting several errors some similar to others some different gene/ === recreating all formats...Error: `pdftex -ini

Re: [arch-general] TeXlive 2012 packages

2012-06-26 Thread Genes MailLists
Update: After installing and getting errors - I re-installed all the texlive 2012 packages again - this time there are no errors - and now I can use texlive (it was totally broken before the second install). gene

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] TeXlive 2012 packages

2012-06-26 Thread Vladimir Lomov
Hello, ** Rémy Oudompheng [2012-06-26 22:10:11 +0200]: [I don't have permission to post on arch-dev- ML, so I reply to general hoping that Rémy will see it] Hello, I am going to put Texlive 2012 packages in [testing]. Texlive 2012 is not yet released, but it is frozen, so I do not expect