Re: [arch-general] /etc/tmpfiles.d

2012-09-18 Thread Alexander Bashmakov
>> I am fairly certain that tmpfiles.d understands "*", so you could >> probably get away with one line for something like that. >> > > It doesn't for the 'w' type. Globbing is specified explicitly where it's > supported. I don't know if that was an explicit design decision though. You > might have

Re: [arch-general] / mounted ro after update

2012-09-18 Thread P .NIKOLIC
On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:01:26 -0500 "David C. Rankin" wrote: > On 09/15/2012 11:24 AM, P .NIKOLIC wrote: > > Of course noone else will offer any assistance will they EH! > > > > Pete . > > Pete, > >You know me, I'm never quite to the ire of many, but I haven't a > clue what you are dea

Re: [arch-general] / mounted ro after update

2012-09-18 Thread P .NIKOLIC
On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 17:18:50 -0500 German Cabarcas wrote: > I had a problem of this sort recently, due to my root partition being > full, so i went ahead and performed a: > > # pacman -Sc > > Before trying to update once again and things were rolling as normal > back again, hope it helps. > >

Re: [arch-general] / mounted ro after update

2012-09-18 Thread Jude DaShiell
Whenever does an install of archlinux, they also do a big update so it's safe to say I got nailed by this problem too. I'm not going to dismiss out of hand the probability that util-linux is at fault, but when I tried the installs this past weekend I suspected mkinitcpio or perhaps syslinux-in

Re: [arch-general] / mounted ro after update

2012-09-18 Thread P .NIKOLIC
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 03:47:26 -0400 (EDT) Jude DaShiell wrote: > Whenever does an install of archlinux, they also do a big update so > it's safe to say I got nailed by this problem too. I'm not going to > dismiss out of hand the probability that util-linux is at fault, but > when I tried the inst

[arch-general] Wanted: advice dual-booting Arch and Windows 7 on new laptop

2012-09-18 Thread Robbie Smith
Hi everyone TL;DR: I've just bought a new HP Pavilion g6-2103ax, and I'm having difficulties trying to figure out how I can dual-boot it with Windows 7 (which was preinstalled). Windows *still* defaults to using MBR partitions, and even though the system is UEFI, HP have used some trickery s

[arch-general] installation file format question

2012-09-18 Thread Jude DaShiell
What is the command to put xfs file formatting on partitions? I have arch on a separate disk so can try an installation with xfs probably tomorrow morning. --- jude Adobe fiend for failing to Flash

Re: [arch-general] installation file format question

2012-09-18 Thread Rodrigo Rivas
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > What is the command to put xfs file formatting on partitions? I have arch > on a separate disk so can try an installation with xfs probably tomorrow > morning. > "mkfs.xfs" as it is usual in the formatter commands. Regards. -- Rodrigo

[arch-general] Modifying archiso

2012-09-18 Thread Robbie Smith
The wiki gives instructions on modifying the ISO[1] and the last step is to recreate the actual ISO file. I've got my Arch installers on USB sticks, but is it absolutely necessary to do this? Couldn't I just copy the root-image.fs.sfs to the appropriate directory on my USB (/path/to/USB/device

Re: [arch-general] / mounted ro after update

2012-09-18 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> all disc ID's are correct so what has been screwed up this was perfect > until the update or am i going to be forced to re-install not an > option i look forward to A workaround rather than a fix but may help investigate or fix the odd machine. Have you tried switching out the UUID=a143910

[arch-general] rtirq

2012-09-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Not a serious issue. # pacman -Syu rtirq [snip] ==> This script works only in conjunction with a realtime kernel. [snip] It at least does work with full preempt kernels + threadirqs too. Regards, Ralf PS: Apologize, but I don't know if you're following arch general, that's why I "cc"ed it. #

Re: [arch-general] / mounted ro after update

2012-09-18 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> I have had too many problems with those stupid crappy designed sata > data cables , i have never seen such a pile of puke as the SATA > connection design and whoever designed and ratified needs to be hung > drawn and slaughtered. The same is true of almost all cables with more than a few wires a

Re: [arch-general] / mounted ro after update

2012-09-18 Thread P .NIKOLIC
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:07:55 +0100 Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > all disc ID's are correct so what has been screwed up this was > > perfect until the update or am i going to be forced to > > re-install not an option i look forward to > > A workaround rather than a fix but may help investigate o

[arch-general] Switching back from nouveau doesn't work - Was: Proprietary nvidia driver for different kernels

2012-09-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi :) I tried to switch back to nv for the kernel-rt, but it failed. GDM doesn't start anymore. [root@archlinux spinymouse]# pacman -Rss xf86-video-nouveau Targets (1): xf86-video-nouveau-1.0.2-1 [root@archlinux spinymouse]# rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf [root@archlinux spinymouse]# cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Re: [arch-general] Switching back from nouveau doesn't work - Was: Proprietary nvidia driver for different kernels

2012-09-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 16:58 +0200, I made some typos: > No Xruns! As long as peak is > 1ms, it's still > 0.2ms, everything > should be ok for my taste *chuckle* The ">" should be "<"

Re: [arch-general] Wanted: advice dual-booting Arch and Windows 7 on new laptop

2012-09-18 Thread Martín Cigorraga
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 6:14 AM, Robbie Smith wrote: > Hi everyone > > TL;DR: I've just bought a new HP Pavilion g6-2103ax, and I'm having > difficulties trying to figure out how I can dual-boot it with Windows 7 > (which was preinstalled). > > Windows *still* defaults to using MBR partitions, an

Re: [arch-general] Wanted: advice dual-booting Arch and Windows 7 on new laptop

2012-09-18 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 18 September 2012 17:14, Robbie Smith wrote: > Can anyone advise me on how I could overcome these issues? Has anyone had > any experience with new HP g6 models? My current laptop is not my own, and when I got it, I didn't want to mess with the partitioning. So I made some space using gparted r

[arch-general] Fwd: Munin and MySQL

2012-09-18 Thread Martín Cigorraga
-- Forwarded message -- From: Martín Cigorraga Date: Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 7:32 AM Subject: Re: [arch-general] Munin and MySQL To: General Discussion about Arch Linux On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 6:42 AM, Martín Cigorraga wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 5:58 AM, Krzysztof Warzecha

Re: [arch-general] [seemingly solved] Issue with Jack2, ALSA or current kernels

2012-09-18 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 17 September 2012 01:04, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Thank you Ray :) > > seemingly it's solved. I can't test it now, but the bad messages are gone > away [1]. > What was the culprit? Ralf, you're welcome. It was most probably related to a bug with GCC optimisation [1], which I was made aware of by

Re: [arch-general] / mounted ro after update

2012-09-18 Thread David C. Rankin
On 09/18/2012 03:53 AM, P .NIKOLIC wrote: On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 03:47:26 -0400 (EDT) Jude DaShiell wrote: >Whenever does an install of archlinux, they also do a big update so >it's safe to say I got nailed by this problem too. I'm not going to >dismiss out of hand the probability that util-linu

Re: [arch-general] [seemingly solved] Issue with Jack2, ALSA or current kernels

2012-09-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-09-19 at 02:47 +0800, Rashif Ray Rahman wrote: > On 17 September 2012 01:04, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Thank you Ray :) > > > > seemingly it's solved. I can't test it now, but the bad messages are gone > > away [1]. > > What was the culprit? > > Ralf, you're welcome. It was most proba

Re: [arch-general] Strange pacman problem with conflicting dependencies

2012-09-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Same here without testing. No information at http://www.archlinux.org/ and https://www.archlinux.de/ . Regards, Ralf

Re: [arch-general] Strange pacman problem with conflicting dependencies

2012-09-18 Thread Sébastien Luttringer
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 9:30 PM, Arthur Titeica wrote: > Hi > > On a machine with a less frequent updating schedule (~once a month) I receive > the following when doing pacman -Suy > > ->8- > # pacman -Suy > :: Synchronizing package databases... > testing is up to

Re: [arch-general] Switching back from nouveau doesn't work - Was: Proprietary nvidia driver for different kernels

2012-09-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi :) I set up CPU frequency scaling as needed and run the Jack MIDI latency tests again. I suspect the nouveau driver still is broken [1]. There are still Xruns and there's an absurd high peak. Now I need to get my nvidia/nv set up back, but this script https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDI

Re: [arch-general] Wanted: advice dual-booting Arch and Windows 7 on new laptop

2012-09-18 Thread Guus Snijders
2012/9/18 Robbie Smith : > Hi everyone > > TL;DR: I've just bought a new HP Pavilion g6-2103ax, and I'm having > difficulties trying to figure out how I can dual-boot it with Windows 7 > (which was preinstalled). > > Windows *still* defaults to using MBR partitions, and even though the system > is

Re: [arch-general] Wanted: advice dual-booting Arch and Windows 7 on new laptop

2012-09-18 Thread David Benfell
On 09/18/2012 02:14 AM, Robbie Smith wrote: Due to the arrangement of the partitions, I don't think creating an Extended partition will work (they need to be the last one in the table, don't they?) There are no extended partitions in UEFI. They're all primary partitions and you can have more

Re: [arch-general] sleep + lid events + kde => new problem

2012-09-18 Thread Martín Cigorraga
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > > > unplugging a/c and going to battery - laptop beeps - but screen no > longer dims - > > Again - I can dim screen by hand by doing something like this: > > echo '11' > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness > > This has been fla

[arch-general] Using Recoll to index tar.gz files

2012-09-18 Thread Randy
Hello, I'm trying to get Recoll to index either tar or tar.gz files without success. Per the instructions on Recoll's website I added the filter rcltar to the filters folder and modified my mimeconf file to include the following line: application/x-tar = execm rcltar Nothing works. It doesn

Re: [arch-general] Strange pacman problem with conflicting dependencies

2012-09-18 Thread Arthur Titeica
On Tuesday 18 September 2012 22:19:07 Sébastien Luttringer wrote: > Should be fixed at the next db sync. Thanks. I confirm the fix here. -- Arthur Titeica

[arch-general] Shutdown's SIGTERM [FAIL]

2012-09-18 Thread Martín Cigorraga
Hi, I noticed I'm getting a [FAIL] message for SIGTERM on system shutdown[0], how can I debug it? I already checked /var/log but found nothing :( [0] Some additional info: SIGKILL do the job (so the system shutdowns/reboot after a few seconds) and on the next boot everything is clean.