Re: [arch-general] kernel 3.7.2 - fails to boot - please help

2013-01-12 Thread Genes Lists
On 01/12/2013 11:28 PM, Dave Reisner wrote: ... Because mkinitcpio never created anything on upgrade or downgrade. The initramfs image in /boot remained consistent with your 3.7.1 kernel. Duh, that makes perfect sense ...

Re: [arch-general] kernel 3.7.2 - fails to boot - please help

2013-01-12 Thread Dave Reisner
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 11:19:17PM -0500, Genes Lists wrote: > On 01/12/2013 11:09 PM, Dave Reisner wrote: > > > > >mkinitcpio didn't generate a valid initramfs for the kernel... you can't > >boot an ARCH kernel without an initramfs. Nothing is wrong with 3.7.2. > > > > Was hoping you'd say that

Re: [arch-general] kernel 3.7.2 -- all is well

2013-01-12 Thread Genes Lists
On 01/12/2013 11:19 PM, Genes Lists wrote: ... I will re-install 3.7.2 and try again! Confirmed - 3.7.2 is booting and happily running .. Changed subject line for clarity thanks again for your help ... and sorry I missed the file-5.11 downgrade ...

Re: [arch-general] kernel 3.7.2 - fails to boot - please help

2013-01-12 Thread Genes Lists
On 01/12/2013 11:09 PM, Dave Reisner wrote: mkinitcpio didn't generate a valid initramfs for the kernel... you can't boot an ARCH kernel without an initramfs. Nothing is wrong with 3.7.2. Was hoping you'd say that :-) Tho now am a tiny bit puzzled that the initramfs created when I installe

Re: [arch-general] kernel 3.7.2 - fails to boot - please help

2013-01-12 Thread Dave Reisner
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 10:58:01PM -0500, Genes Lists wrote: > On 01/12/2013 10:50 PM, Dave Reisner wrote: > > > > > There's nothing wrong with the kernel. You've probably been ignoring the > > warnings from pacman about file being newer than what's in the repos. > > file-5.12 was removed from [t

Re: [arch-general] kernel 3.7.2 - fails to boot - please help

2013-01-12 Thread Genes Lists
On 01/12/2013 10:50 PM, Dave Reisner wrote: > > There's nothing wrong with the kernel. You've probably been ignoring the > warnings from pacman about file being newer than what's in the repos. > file-5.12 was removed from [testing] because it was misidentifying > kernel images, which broke mkinit

Re: [arch-general] kernel 3.7.2 - fails to boot - please help

2013-01-12 Thread Dave Reisner
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 10:47:09PM -0500, Genes Lists wrote: > On 01/12/2013 10:38 PM, Genes Lists wrote: > > Followup to my own post - > >(1) in spite of errors, 3.7.1 kernel seems to have been installed > and the laptop once again boots. > > > >(2) I still don't understand th

Re: [arch-general] kernel 3.7.2 - fails to boot - please help

2013-01-12 Thread Genes Lists
On 01/12/2013 10:38 PM, Genes Lists wrote: Followup to my own post - (1) in spite of errors, 3.7.1 kernel seems to have been installed and the laptop once again boots. (2) I still don't understand the errors from mkinitcpio that happened when installing linux in the chroot

[arch-general] kernel 3.7.2 - fails to boot - please help

2013-01-12 Thread Genes Lists
Using testing repos - was fully updated and all working fine. Then picked up the latest 3.7.2-1 kernel along with kdebase 4.9.5-2/ Rebooting after this latest update fails - it cannot find the root device and drops to "recovery shell". ls /dev/sdb1 (the usual root device)

Re: [arch-general] Systemd 196-2 new install 100%cpu usage

2013-01-12 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 20:35:42 + "P .NIKOLIC" wrote: > > Hi . > > Just had to completely rebuild the system using the latest ISO . > > I am now getting CPU usage of 100% on 1 core > > 143 root 20 0 721m 131m 22m R 00.0 2.1 16:30.31 systemd-journal is > the line from top > > systemd

Re: [arch-general] Incorporate udev rules in initrd

2013-01-12 Thread Christoph Vigano
On 31.12.2012 11:00, Rodrigo Rivas wrote: > On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Christoph Vigano wrote: > >> >> How can I tell mkinitcpio to include a custom udev rule? Do I need to >> write a hook for that? How can a hook for this look like? > > > AFAIK, using FILES="path-to-udev-rule-file" shoul

[arch-general] Systemd 196-2 new install 100%cpu usage

2013-01-12 Thread P .NIKOLIC
Hi . Just had to completely rebuild the system using the latest ISO . I am now getting CPU usage of 100% on 1 core 143 root 20 0 721m 131m 22m R 00.0 2.1 16:30.31 systemd-journal is the line from top systemd version 196-2 all the latest updates . Journal --verify reports file corrupt

Re: [arch-general] [RFC] New virtual provide (ttf-font) for TrueType fonts

2013-01-12 Thread Sebastian Schwarz
On 2013-01-12 at 08:35 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > On 12/01/13 08:16, Evangelos Foutras wrote: > > At least three bugs on our bug tracker can be solved by > > making relevant truetype font packages provide 'ttf-font': > > (...) > > Makes sense to me. If you are a bit on the pedantic side the name