Re: [arch-general] Dell latitude and keyboard problem

2014-09-12 Thread Hyacinthe Cartiaux
Hi, Le mardi 09 septembre 2014, 23:02:18 Sławek Kapłoński a écrit : Yes, few minutes ago I was downgrade bios to A08 (previous version from dell.com for this model) and I will see what will happend. Thanks for your feedback. I reported it to dell support now and I got new keyboard from dell

[arch-general] Cannot boot from gnome-shell

2014-09-12 Thread Maykel Franco
Hi, I have installed archlinux + gnome shell. When I run systemctl start gdm.service , I get this error in screen: Oh, no! Somethings has gone wrong... I see the log journalctl -b | tail -n 100: Sep 12 12:23:23 arch-gnome3 gdm-Xorg-:1[27273]: The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:

Re: [arch-general] Check for update in script

2014-09-12 Thread Yamakaky
pacman provides a `checkupdates` script, see /usr/bin/checkupdates for how it works. Wow, I didn't know this one, thanks !

Re: [arch-general] Check for update in script

2014-09-12 Thread Yamakaky
It can certainly be done. You can always do a pacman -Su later, if you want. The problem is that I want to check for updates in a script. 'pacman -Sy' without upgrade can cause problems. In your use case, you can probably specify an alternative db path using the --dbpath switch in pacman.

Re: [arch-general] Check for update in script

2014-09-12 Thread Savyasachee Jha
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 1:36 AM, Yamakaky yamak...@yamaworld.fr wrote: In your use case, you can probably specify an alternative db path using the --dbpath switch in pacman. That's what I wanted to do, but dbpath countains the local and upstream databases, so I thought it might cause

Re: [arch-general] Dell latitude and keyboard problem

2014-09-12 Thread Sławek Kapłoński
Hello, Ok, thanks for info and help. If I will have other issue I will downgrade it to A05 but now it looks ok on A08 :) I'm really happy that I don't need windows and can normally work on Arch linux :) --- Pozdrawiam Sławek Kapłoński sla...@kaplonski.pl Dnia piątek, 12 września 2014 11:36:54

Re: [arch-general] Check for update in script

2014-09-12 Thread Jason Ryan
On 11/09/14 at 10:06pm, Yamakaky wrote: pacman provides a `checkupdates` script, see /usr/bin/checkupdates for how it works. Wow, I didn't know this one, thanks ! pacman -Ql pacman | awk -F/ '/bin/ {print $4}' /J -- http://jasonwryan.com/ [GnuPG Key: B1BD4E40] pgpuT2uicQOda.pgp

Re: [arch-general] Check for update in script

2014-09-12 Thread Yamakaky
Le 12/09/2014 20:15, Jason Ryan a écrit : On 11/09/14 at 10:06pm, Yamakaky wrote: pacman provides a `checkupdates` script, see /usr/bin/checkupdates for how it works. Wow, I didn't know this one, thanks ! pacman -Ql pacman | awk -F/ '/bin/ {print $4}' /J Yes, I know, but I never used

[arch-general] Virtualbox 4.3.16 vs Windows 7 VM crash

2014-09-12 Thread Genes Lists
My Win 7 VM (64bit on 64bit host) crashes under 4.3.16. It works again after rolling back to 4.3.14. Ifound some noise on the net with others having similar issues (e.g. https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7t=63607) For now I am back to 4.3.14. gene

Re: [arch-general] linux kernel 3.17 and virtualbox

2014-09-12 Thread Genes Lists
On 09/02/2014 06:29 PM, Genes Lists wrote: Quick heads up - virtualbox needs couple fixes which are not yet in upstream 4.3.14 in order to compile against 3.17. Good news - The fixes are in 4.3.16 Bad news - Win 7 VM crashes under 4.3.16 ... (see my other post) gene