Re: [arch-general] i3stats depends on wireless_tools, causing "firmware load for regulatory.db failed" w/o wireless-regdb

2018-08-12 Thread Dave M. via arch-general
On 8/12/18 2:54 PM, Damjan Georgievski via arch-general wrote: On 12 August 2018 at 01:48, David C. Rankin wrote: Archdevs,    There seems to be a funny depends (or missing depends) issue for *some* systems without wireless that have i3status installed.    This appears to be because i3stats

Re: [arch-general] What happened to the Beginner's Guide?

2016-09-21 Thread Dave via arch-general
On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 8:58 PM, Jason Ryan via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > On 21/09/16 at 08:36pm, Dave via arch-general wrote: > >> see below >> >> On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 8:12 PM, Francis Gerund via arch-general < >> arch-genera

Re: [arch-general] What happened to the Beginner's Guide?

2016-09-21 Thread Dave via arch-general
see below On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 8:12 PM, Francis Gerund via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > > IMHO, for new users, the "Installation Guide" is not, never has been, and > may never be a substitute for the Beginner's Guide. As a new Arch user, I completely agree. > > I bel

Re: [arch-general] Supermicro cd/dvd inst error: ARCH_201603 device did not show up after 30 seconds

2016-09-20 Thread Dave via arch-general
Did you check this? Installation problems: I/O erro: dev sr0 / Installation / Arch Linux Forums https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=195763 On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 11:24 PM, David C. Rankin < drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote: > All, > > First let me explain I have search through th

Re: [arch-general] Opinions on PowerShell?

2016-08-18 Thread Dave T via arch-general
> PowerShell, being an object-oriented language When we need an object oriented language for administering (or scripting) Arch , why not use Python (or one of our other OO options)? Is there any strong use case for PowerShell on Arch given the tools that are already available? I only see one use

Re: [arch-general] PKGBUILD ERROR

2015-09-11 Thread Dave
l >solutions. > - mudongliang Read the relevant docs and ensure you understanging what the process you are trying to follow is doing. -- Dave GPG/PGP ID: CDB94DA1

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 3.13

2014-01-26 Thread Dave
e you probably won't >have a working keyboard on reboot. > >-jh Do you subscribe to arch-dev-public? It's under discussion there and saved me. -- Dave GPG/PGP ID: CDB94DA1

[arch-general] Postfix and libsasl2.so.2 or libsasl2.so.3

2013-06-01 Thread Dave Ariens
Hi guys, Is there an issue with the current postfix package? # pacman -S postfix dovecot :: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] . /usr/lib/postfix/post-install: Error: no postconf command found. Re-run this command as /usr/lib/postfix/post-install command_directory=/some/where. [root@vps2 arien

Re: [arch-general] signature from "Thorsten Tpper " is unknown trust

2013-01-28 Thread Dave Reisner
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 04:09:54PM +0100, Kwpolska wrote: > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Thorsten Töpper > wrote: > > On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:56:37 +0100 > > Sébastien Luttringer wrote: > > > >> Have an archlinux-keyring updated before key expiration is an elegant > >> solution. > >> > >> Chee

Re: [arch-general] [systemd] udevd and udevadm not found in initramfs when using systemd-git

2013-01-24 Thread Dave Reisner
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 12:32:46PM -0600, William Giokas wrote: > All, > > I rebooted my computer today to test some boot flags only to be greeted > with an unbootable machine. Here is a transcript of the boot messages: > > > /init: line 9: systemd-timestamp: not found > :: running early hook [u

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Drop VI from [core] (was Re: Winter Cleanup of [community])

2013-01-24 Thread Dave Reisner
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > On Thursday 24 Jan 2013 11:05:22 Stéphane Gaudreault wrote: > > +1 to drop vi. I cannot imagine why someone would want to use this crap > ... > > > > We already have nano in [core], so I think that vim could stay in > > [extra] (do we rea

Re: [arch-general] mkinitcpio/fsck.btrfs

2013-01-18 Thread Dave Reisner
On Jan 18, 2013 4:52 PM, "Jameson" wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Leonardo Dagnino wrote: > > 2013/1/16 Arno Gaboury > > > >> On 16/01/13||11:22, Tom Gundersen wrote: > >> > Hi Arno, > >> > > >> > On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Arno Gaboury < arnaud.gabo...@gmail.com> > >> wrote:

Re: [arch-general] rEFInd 0.6.4 + linux 3.7.2-1 fail to boot

2013-01-14 Thread Dave Reisner
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 12:10:31PM -0200, André Vitor de Lima Matos wrote: > Hi, everyone. > I've a HP Pavilion g4 machine with UEFI, using rEFInd. After a upgraded > to refind-efi 0.6.4-1 and linux 3.7.2-1, my system stopped to boot. > rEFInd loads properly, and others boot options, like EFI Shell

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

2013-01-13 Thread Dave Reisner
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 02:21:01PM +, Rodrigo Rivas wrote: > On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 10:55 PM, Christoph Vigano wrote: > > > 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

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

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 th

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] [arch-dev-public] network interface naming with systemd 197

2013-01-07 Thread Dave Reisner
On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 09:35:45AM -0600, Leonid Isaev wrote: > On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 08:23:10 +0100 > Andrea Scarpino wrote: > > > On Monday 07 January 2013 07:51:30 Allan McRae wrote: > > > Upstream decision... vanilla packages should follow it. > > > > I agree with Allan. We don't use to chang

Re: [arch-general] How to suppress the list of variables that are output at shell login?

2013-01-07 Thread Dave Reisner
On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 05:51:39PM +0530, Jayesh Badwaik wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Rodrigo Rivas > wrote: > > You may also add a `echo $profile` command in the /etc/profile file, just > > after `for profile in /etc/profile.d/*.sh; do` to see the trace of sourced > > files.

Re: [arch-general] Pidgin voice/video support

2012-12-29 Thread Dave Reisner
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 11:36:28PM -0500, Scott Lawrence wrote: > Hey all, > > The pidgin package in extra appears to be compiled without > voice/video support (`--disable-vv`). Is this ommission intentional? It requires an older version of farstream we don't package https://bugs.archlinux.org/t

Re: [arch-general] Install problem

2012-12-28 Thread Dave Reisner
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 07:45:19PM +, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > Hello, > > today I did a fresh install using the december release of the > install media. Everything done 'to the book' (the install guide > wiki page). Bootloader is syslinux. > > When booting the freshly installed system, I get

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia Driver woes on Macbook 3,2

2012-12-20 Thread Dave Reisner
On Dec 20, 2012 6:27 AM, "Daniel Bryan" wrote: > > First of all, I'm sorry if the general discussion list isn't for questions > like this. I wasn't sure how to figure out what's appropriate. > > Per https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=154496, I've had a real > ordeal trying to get video wor

Re: [arch-general] Mounting /var early in systemd

2012-12-12 Thread Dave Reisner
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 11:10:24AM +, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > On Wednesday 12 Dec 2012 00:40:43 Tom Gundersen wrote: > > Sockets in /var should automatically be ordered After=var.mount, so > > this should in theory just work. How are you mounting /var? I assume > > an fstab entry would not do

Re: [arch-general] systemd and core dumps

2012-12-10 Thread Dave Reisner
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 11:24:17PM -0500, Olivier Langlois wrote: > Apparently core dumps (if enabled) are stored in the systemd journal. > > ~ $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern > |/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-coredump %p %u %g %s %t %e > > systemd-coredumpctl looks nice to use but I am not total

Re: [arch-general] crypttab support for non-root devices with systemd

2012-12-08 Thread Dave Reisner
On Dec 8, 2012 8:12 PM, "Karol Babioch" wrote: > > Hi, > > Am 08.12.2012 22:06, schrieb Dave Reisner: > > Without posting it, I have no idea. > > Basically it looks like this: > > raid /dev/sdb1"xxx" > > In this setup

Re: [arch-general] crypttab support for non-root devices with systemd

2012-12-08 Thread Dave Reisner
On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 09:52:34PM +0100, Karol Babioch wrote: > Hi, > > Am 08.12.2012 21:21, schrieb Dave Reisner: > > In core/lvm2 there's an lvm-on-crypt.service which you can enable. In > > testing/lvm2, you only need lvm-monitoring.service. > > Thanks for yo

Re: [arch-general] crypttab support for non-root devices with systemd

2012-12-08 Thread Dave Reisner
On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 09:08:28PM +0100, Karol Babioch wrote: > Hi, > > I've installed Arch on a system with a two "disk" setup, where the first > disk is a SSD, which I'm booting from. The second disk is an encrypted > software RAID with LVM on top. > > Now obviously I want the second "disk" to

Re: [arch-general] Escape sequences instead of colors in terminal

2012-12-05 Thread Dave Reisner
On Dec 5, 2012 6:11 PM, "Marcel Korpel" wrote: > > Hi all, > > I already asked this at the forums, but as no one has an answer there > I hope someone here knows a solution. On a Git cheat sheet I found > that I could add nice colors to Git's output, so I edited my > ~/.gitconfig by adding: > > [co

Re: [arch-general] rootfs remains in ro at boot on fresh install with new December ISO

2012-12-03 Thread Dave Reisner
On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 05:00:48PM +, LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT wrote: > Hi, > > I hope it is not caused by the shortcut that I have taken to update my usb > install key from november iso to december iso as described in the other > thread. > > The first symptom that I have observed is that

Re: [arch-general] systemd sessions, su -l, and access to /dev/

2012-11-25 Thread Dave Reisner
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 12:27:01PM -0500, Genes MailLists wrote: > > > > >Just to be clear, this isn't something the systemd developers came up with. > > > >ConsoleKit was responsible applying the same ACLs for local sessions before. > > > > > To give credit where it's due thoough I could me mi

Re: [arch-general] Gentoo udev fork w/o systemd

2012-11-19 Thread Dave Reisner
I normally wouldn't respond to trolls on this list and really I'd rather have seen this post be moderated straight to where it belongs -- /dev/null. However On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Jérôme Bartand wrote: > I want to bring to your attention that Gentoo is working on a udev fork > call

Re: [arch-general] Invalid signatures

2012-11-06 Thread Dave Reisner
On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 01:11:38PM -0600, Leonid Isaev wrote: > On Tue, 6 Nov 2012 14:02:23 -0500 > Dave Reisner wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 01:50:01PM -0500, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > > > Saw these errors from pacman today, which are preventing me from >

Re: [arch-general] Invalid signatures

2012-11-06 Thread Dave Reisner
On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 01:50:01PM -0500, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > Saw these errors from pacman today, which are preventing me from > upgrading some packages: > > error: directfb: signature from "Eric Belanger " > is invalid > error: xmms2: signature from "Sergej Pupykin " is invalid > error: f

Re: [arch-general] Forking daemons and systemd

2012-11-05 Thread Dave Reisner
On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 02:37:15PM -0600, Leonid Isaev wrote: > On Mon, 5 Nov 2012 11:18:48 -0500 > Dave Reisner wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 10:01:11AM -0600, Leonid Isaev wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I was wondering whether there is a gu

Re: [arch-general] USB Flash drive problems

2012-11-05 Thread Dave Reisner
On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 08:22:33PM +0100, coderkun wrote: > Am Montag, den 05.11.2012, 18:22 + schrieb P .NIKOLIC: > > How do i check to see if it is systemd or not > > $ printf "%d" `systemd-notify --booted` systemd-notify doesn't print anything. If you really want to print something: $ sys

Re: [arch-general] USB Flash drive problems

2012-11-05 Thread Dave Reisner
On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 03:23:25AM +0800, Rashif Ray Rahman wrote: > On 6 November 2012 02:50, Squall Lionheart wrote: > >> > >> I guess running "systemctl" should tell you? If you are using systemd > >> it will list a lot of running services. Otherwise I assume it will > >> return a dbus error (b

Re: [arch-general] Forking daemons and systemd

2012-11-05 Thread Dave Reisner
On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 10:01:11AM -0600, Leonid Isaev wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering whether there is a guideline regarding using > Type=forking daemons in systemd units. For instance, if a daemon supports a > cmdline switch to run in foreground isn't it better to use this argument in > E

Re: [arch-general] iptables/ip6tables unit error

2012-11-03 Thread Dave Reisner
On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 12:07:59AM -0300, Martín Cigorraga wrote: > Hi all, > > today I found this error with the iptables/ip6tables units, does anybody > know what is happening? > > ~ $ su root > /home/msx # systemctl enable iptables.service > ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/iptables.service' > '

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Big changes to LVM2 in testing

2012-11-02 Thread Dave Reisner
On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 10:59:41AM +0100, Christian Hesse wrote: > Thomas Bächler on Thu, 2012/11/01 15:34: > > Am 01.11.2012 15:22, schrieb Christian Hesse: > > > Thomas Bächler on Thu, 2012/11/01 02:05: > > >> I discovered some new awesomeness in LVM2 (okay, not THAT new, but > > >> still, so f

Re: [arch-general] SystemD: Is there a way to disable PrivateTmp globally?

2012-11-02 Thread Dave Reisner
On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 10:48:53AM +0100, Rodrigo Rivas wrote: > On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 7:11 PM, Jan Steffens wrote: > > > The files are in subdirectories. /tmp/systemd-private-XX is bound to > > /tmp, > > /var/tmp/systemd-private-XX is bound to /var/tmp. > > > > Also you can get which d

Re: [arch-general] systemd + crypttab

2012-11-01 Thread Dave Reisner
On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 03:42:42PM -0200, André Vitor de Lima Matos wrote: > Hi. > I've a system where there's a harddisk encrypted with luks and a lvm pv > over it, used for backup. This disk is never removed or inserted while > system is online, but not in every boot up it's present. > Setting th

Re: [arch-general] Moving CK-removal + GNOME 3.6? Announcement draft.

2012-10-29 Thread Dave Reisner
//blog.falconindy.com/articles/back-to-basics-with- > x-and-systemd.html > > My 2 cents > > Greg No, my blog post is a workaround for the current status quo. If "everyone" is going to need to do this, we may as well just modify our own shipped /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc as proprosed here: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/32206 dave

[arch-general] systemd and local group membership

2012-10-28 Thread Dave Morgan
ng systemd? -- Dave.

Re: [arch-general] [linux] ext4 data corruption bug

2012-10-24 Thread Dave Reisner
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 02:00:01PM +0200, Christian Hesse wrote: > Hello everybody, > > a thread has been started on lkml discussing a serious ext4 data corruption > bug in latest stable kernels. [0] > > Looks like the root cause is not really clear so far. Reverting the commit in > question shou

Re: [arch-general] Leafnode and Systemd

2012-10-22 Thread Dave Reisner
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 12:34:20AM +0100, Whiskers wrote: > On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 18:40:23 -0400 Dave Reisner wrote: > > >On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 11:19:37PM +0100, Whiskers wrote: > >> Thank you to all those who responded :)) > >> > >> I now have Leafnode

Re: [arch-general] Leafnode and Systemd

2012-10-22 Thread Dave Reisner
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 11:19:37PM +0100, Whiskers wrote: > Thank you to all those who responded :)) > > I now have Leafnode-2 up and running smoothly with systemd. > > I have created these files: > > $ cat /etc/systemd/system/leafnode.socket > [Unit] > Description=Leafnode NNTP Socket >

Re: [arch-general] Strange network problem

2012-10-22 Thread Dave Reisner
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 10:15:18PM +, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > Hello all, > > I've got a strange problem with a machine that had a fresh install > three weeks ago. Nothing new has been installed on it since then. > > About one time in four, after that machine has been booted, a ssh > to it (o

Re: [arch-general] syslog-ng depends on systemd?

2012-10-21 Thread Dave Reisner
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 07:24:28PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > On 21/10/12 17:28, gt wrote: > > Hi, > > > > with the recent update of syslog-ng (3.3.6-2), systemd has been added as > > a dependency. > > > > I though systemd providing its own logging and syslog-ng wasn't needed. > > Then why is s

Re: [arch-general] Leafnode and Systemd

2012-10-18 Thread Dave Reisner
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 08:26:16PM +0100, Whiskers wrote: > On Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:03:57 +0200 Thomas Bächler > wrote: > > >Am 17.10.2012 21:29, schrieb Whiskers: > >> Rather than install tcp-wrappers on my Arch system, I'd like to use > >> whatever the proper "server" is nowadays instead of /usr

Re: [arch-general] permissions mismatch error while upgrading the system

2012-10-18 Thread Dave Reisner
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 12:46:36PM +1100, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > [2012-10-17 15:42:56 -0300] Martín Cigorraga: > > warning: directory permissions differ on var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs/ > > filesystem: 555 package: 755 > > The difference between 555 and 755 is write permission for the owner... > So it

Re: [arch-general] devtools broken?

2012-10-17 Thread Dave Reisner
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 08:54:40AM +0200, Joakim Hernberg wrote: > This started happening to me a day or 2 ago. Any ideas why, what i > broke, how to fix it? > As we continue to build and push new packages, I'd say that devtools is working just fine for a good number of us. I suggest adding the

Re: [arch-general] Final step before changing to systemd

2012-10-16 Thread Dave Reisner
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 11:10:21AM +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 16.10.2012 03:56, schrieb Martín Cigorraga: > > On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > > > >> [2012-10-15 22:25:58 -0300] Martín Cigorraga: > >>> Basically I need to know how to handle these daemons: > >>> hwclo

Re: [arch-general] Suggestions for email for a paranoid Archer

2012-10-12 Thread Dave Reisner
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 07:49:00PM -0500, sung...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 02:13:54PM -0400, Dave Reisner wrote: > > > Really, just add two-factor auth to a gmail account and be done with > > it. Google has no interest in singular people. > > It should b

Re: [arch-general] Suggestions for email for a paranoid Archer

2012-10-11 Thread Dave Reisner
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 06:18:10PM +0200, Menachem Moystoviz wrote: > Basically, the suggestion I'm seeing here is: go, work, get a VPS - > can probably get one for cheap - and setup Arch on it. > Sounds good. Will only have to figure out how to get money... > > Gesh Yes, and then spend the rest

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Changes to postgresql

2012-10-11 Thread Dave Reisner
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 03:43:20PM +0300, Marti Raudsepp wrote: > On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > > 1) > > postgresql expects its configuration files in /usr/etc/postgresql/. It > > doesn't install any files there by default, so namcap doesn't notice - > > however, you can

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [draft] Install medium 2012.10.06 introduces systemd

2012-10-07 Thread Dave Reisner
On Oct 7, 2012 1:45 PM, "Martín Cigorraga" wrote: > > * The following new packages are available on the live system: ethtool, > fsarchiver, gummiboot-efi, mc, partclone, partimage, refind-efi, rfkill, > sudo, testdisk, wget, xl2tpd > > +1 fsarchiver! > Can I suggest to add tmux on an upcoming rel

[arch-general] mkinitcpio: mdadm_udev Hook

2012-10-03 Thread Dave Reisner
1:cryptrewt Of course, since there isn't a filesystem involved, UUID is the only one that makes sense for MBR disks. PARTUUID is also supported, and PARTLABEL support will be available in the next mkinitcpio release. Cheers, Dave

Re: [arch-general] Can't see all my memory

2012-09-21 Thread Dave Warren
"Waste half of your memory". Thanks to all. :-) Guillermo Leira This generally enables better x86 compatibility, at the cost of x64 memory availability. -- Dave Warren http://www.hireahit.com/ http://ca.linkedin.com/in/davejwarren

Re: [arch-general] Personal note

2012-08-15 Thread Dave Morgan
t dev (who e.g. wrote the news > item, etc.). > > -t Sadly this does not surprise me at all. I do appreciate your efforts. Mnay tnaks -- Dave.

Re: [arch-general] login fails after update

2012-07-15 Thread Dave Morgan
On 15/07/12 at 08:40pm, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 10:11:28AM +0100, Dave Morgan wrote: > > > Boot into single user mode and look at /var/log/auth.log. It should > > tell you what the problem is. > > Seemed some things were missing, one of them be

Re: [arch-general] login fails after update

2012-07-15 Thread Dave Morgan
#x27;s also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris > and hysterically inflated market opportunities. (Cory Doctorow) > Boot into single user mode and look at /var/log/auth.log. It should tell you what the problem is. -- Dave.

Re: [arch-general] [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] final leg of /lib removal

2012-07-03 Thread Dave Reisner
On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 06:42:09AM +0800, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > On Jul 4, 2012 3:38 AM, "Tom Gundersen" wrote: > > > We all know that no one reads the news items, nor dev-public, so I > > think adding an extra warning should save us a few hundred > > mails/forumposts/IRC conversations. > > > > -t >

Re: [arch-general] [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] final leg of /lib removal

2012-07-03 Thread Dave Reisner
On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 07:56:32PM +0200, Ike Devolder wrote: > Op dinsdag 3 juli 2012 11:41:08 schreef Dave Reisner: > > Hey all, > > > > *** If you use a custom kernel, this will affect you. Please read the > > big scary note at the end *** > > > &g

Re: [arch-general] Xfce issues after upgrading - Was: Can't upgrade due to gnupg vs gnupg2

2012-05-31 Thread Dave Morgan
aders in the overview are unreadable. > > Ciao! > Ralf > The change in the position of the Panel items is exected and covered in the Wiki. -- Dave.

[arch-general] [mkinitcpio] support for /usr on a separate partition

2012-01-13 Thread Dave Reisner
wn script is honored, and your root will not be re-fsck'd due to a tell-tale file dropped in /run/initramfs. Happy testing! dave pgpf0yuUEBHZz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-general] Happy new 2012 year!

2011-12-31 Thread Dave Morgan
On 31/12/11 at 06:27pm, Jonathan Ryan wrote: > Happy new year Arch :D > > jryan Happy New Year!! -- Dave.

[arch-general] [mkinitcpio] release 0.8.0

2011-11-25 Thread Dave Reisner
s, but nothing's better for finding bugs than real world testing. Thanks for Gerardo and Tom for their contributions to this release. The full shortlog is below. Dave Reisner (15): mkinitcpio: dereference symlinks when resolving kernver update bash completion Makefile: insta

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] vpnc 0.5.3-4

2011-08-15 Thread Dave Reisner
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 11:08:15AM +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Fix FS#25002 (add net-tools dep for now), FS#23452 (fix path, add > optdepend) and FS#25095 (add supplied patch). > > Please sign off. > > I also want to mention that I don't use vpnc anymore, and haven't done > so for years. I don

[arch-general] iniitcpio root device check

2011-07-31 Thread Dave Reisner
>Ok, I renamed "9p_mount_handler" to "ninep_mount_handler" and updated >mount_handler= accordingly, and rebuild the initcpio images. > >Still no joy... :) > >I went so far as to rename 9p to ninep in >/lib/initcpio/{install,hooks} and the HOOKS string, and rebuilt the >initcpio images, but that di

[arch-general] iniitcpio root device check

2011-07-31 Thread Dave Reisner
27;t start a function name with a number. $ 9p() { echo hi; } ash: syntax error: bad function name Parsing failed on sourcing the hook, and mount_handler was never declared. Rename the function to something that ash plays nicely with and you should get some joy. dave

[arch-general] iniitcpio root device check

2011-07-31 Thread Dave Reisner
er=9p_mount_handler This gets added to /lib/initcpio/hooks (call it 9p?) and then wrapped up in a build script which is added to /lib/initcpio/install. After that, add '9p' to your HOOKS in the config. Note that while the install scripts are interpreted by /bin/bash, hooks that run on the initcpio are interpreted by /bin/busybox ash. dave

Re: [arch-general] Where are kernel files cached now? Not in /var/cache/pacman/pkg? Renamed?

2011-06-12 Thread Dave Morgan
r.xz > kernel26-manpages-2.6.35.8-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz > kernel26-manpages-2.6.38-1-any.pkg.tar.xz > kernel26-xen-2.6.37-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz > > Where did kernel26-2.6.39.9-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz go? > > > -- > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- Dave. It's in the same pl

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26-2.6.38.3-1

2011-04-21 Thread dave reisner
ore the start of the packages repo)... > > Cheers, > > Tom the kconfig for PRINTK_TIME doesn't mention that its only setting a default behavior. The cmdline accepts printk.time= which can be set to 1/0 to appropriately disable or enable. Plus one to removing this as its really only good for debugging and making a mess of your logs. Dave

[arch-general] [systemd] v23 released, heads up

2011-04-04 Thread Dave Reisner
es in dmesg and syslog [2] without a kernel patch [3] to accompany it. Understand that this is mostly cosmetic, but for anyone micromanaging their syslogs, this may have an impact unless you backport the patch to your kernel. regards, dave [1] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/sys

Re: [arch-general] util-linux 2.19 release

2011-02-13 Thread Dave Reisner
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 08:42:30PM -0500, Dave Reisner wrote: > Attached is a changelog and a PKGBUILD for the recently released > util-linux 2.19. Changes I've made to the PKGBUILD: > > - name change: the project is once again called util-linux. I've updated > the c

[arch-general] util-linux 2.19 release

2011-02-13 Thread Dave Reisner
h now, and have had no problems with low level functionality e.g. booting or mounting. thanks, dave # $Id: PKGBUILD 108823 2011-02-03 20:52:35Z thomas $ # Maintainer: judd pkgname=util-linux pkgver=2.19 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="Miscellaneous system utilities for Linux" url="http://userw

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Fwd: [arch-dev] [signoff] ppp-2.4.5-2

2011-02-09 Thread Dave Reisner
to user signoffs. In case it comes down to that again, I can still connect to my VPN, so I'll sign off for x86_64. dave

Re: [arch-general] Bad pyqt 4.8.2-2 package -- on rit?

2011-01-20 Thread Dave Morgan
Street > Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 > Telephone: (936) 715-9333 > Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 > www.rankinlawfirm.com Refresh your mirrors "pacman -Syy" and it should be fine. It happened to me momentarily on some UK mirrors. A refresh fixed it. -- Dave.

Re: [arch-general] [core/filesystem 2010.10-1 -> 2010.12-1] breaks makepkg and firefox

2010-12-18 Thread Dave Reisner
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 05:14:45PM -0300, Martín Cigorraga wrote: > Dear devs, guys: > > I've been struggling for the past three days trying to find what was > breaking > makepkg [0] script and preventing Firefox to launch. Thanks I do weekly > backups of my system I found after trial & error -upd

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] filesystem 2010.12-1

2010-12-14 Thread Dave Reisner
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 07:25:11PM +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 14.12.2010 19:02, schrieb Jesse Young: > > Hopefully I'm not too late. But I think you should know that filesystem > > depends on iana-etc, which is not in the base group, nor is it on the > > core install CD. What I would do is t

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] nilfs-utils moving in core

2010-12-08 Thread Dave Reisner
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 11:18:20AM -0200, Armando M. Baratti wrote: > Em 08-12-2010 09:57, Heiko Baums escreveu: > >Am Tue, 7 Dec 2010 23:25:06 -0500 > >schrieb Loui Chang: > > > >So those packages are affected: > >e2fsprogs > >reiserfsprogs > >btrfs-progs(-unstable) > >nilfs-utils > >jfsutils > >x

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] udev-164-1

2010-11-24 Thread Dave Reisner
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 05:02:35PM +0100, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Am Mittwoch 24 November 2010 schrieb Dave Reisner: > > On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 04:16:55PM +0100, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > > > Hi guys, > > > udev 164 > > > > >

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] udev-164-1

2010-11-24 Thread Dave Reisner
gly (as I'm the maintainer of most things systemd in the AUR). The purist in me would rather see this not happen, as it's somewhat blurring the line between the official repos and the AUR... dave

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] pptpclient-1.7.2-3

2010-11-24 Thread Dave Reisner
good here too. > > Allan Works for me (tm). I can still connect to my VPN and do stuff. dave

Re: [arch-general] abs [WAS: arch-dev-public] Package maintainers wanted - heimdal, db, abs

2010-11-06 Thread Dave Reisner
On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 06:59:20PM +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > Wasn't there a successor or replacement to abs in the works? A git-based > one, I believe? (maybe I'm creating false memories?) > > On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 16:40 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: Perhaps you were thinking of: https://github.co

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] away Nov. 15-23 (to NYC)

2010-11-01 Thread Dave Reisner
nt St subway stop (and the > Brooklyn Museum of Art). > -- > David Campbell I live in NJ, but I'm at Columbus Circle (58th & 8th) every day for work. How many people whose first name starts with D can we amass? dave reisner

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] db-5.1 rebuild

2010-10-29 Thread Dave Reisner
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 11:27:48AM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > On 30/10/10 05:59, Andreas Radke wrote: > >Am Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:29:54 +1000 > >schrieb "Allan McRae": > > > > > >>We only have the various openoffice packages left to go: > >> > >>go-openoffice > >>openoffice-base > >>openoffice-base-

Re: [arch-general] New nvidia driver - video mode not recognized - remove vga= from kernel line?

2010-10-29 Thread Dave Reisner
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 07:47:29AM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > On 10/28/2010 08:57 PM, Dave Reisner wrote: > > Specify the mode as decimal instead of hex -- in this case it'd be 794. > > > > Dave, > > That worked! Thanks. But, G., what changed to

Re: [arch-general] New nvidia driver - video mode not recognized - remove vga= from kernel line?

2010-10-28 Thread Dave Reisner
g the (Invalid video mode, press enter to see list) > prompt > time-out, it all continues fine and the nvidia driver loads without issue. > What > say the experts? > > Specify the mode as decimal instead of hex -- in this case it'd be 794. dave reisner

Re: [arch-general] [PATCH] rc.sysinit: only call modprobe once

2010-09-20 Thread Dave Reisner
> > > >Your echo is redundant. Just quote the expansion and assign it. > > > NAK. Try this: > MODULES=( '!foo' '!bar' ) > modules="${modul...@]/#\!*}" > [[ $modules ]] && echo "'$modules' is not a null string" > ' ' is not a null string > > >modules="${modul...@]/#\!*}" > > > >I think we're a looo

Re: [arch-general] [PATCH] rc.sysinit: only call modprobe once

2010-09-20 Thread Dave Reisner
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 05:39:25PM +0200, Kurt J. Bosch wrote: > 2010-09-20 04:10, Dave Reisner: > >On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:57:06AM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > >>On 20/09/10 11:54, Dave Reisner wrote: > >>>Use modprobe -a and a bash PE to filter the MODULES array.

Re: [arch-general] [PATCH] rc.sysinit: only call modprobe once

2010-09-19 Thread Dave Reisner
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:57:06AM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > On 20/09/10 11:54, Dave Reisner wrote: > >Use modprobe -a and a bash PE to filter the MODULES array. > > > >Signed-off-by: Dave Reisner > >--- > > rc.sysinit | 12 > > 1 file

[arch-general] [PATCH] rc.sysinit: only call modprobe once

2010-09-19 Thread Dave Reisner
Use modprobe -a and a bash PE to filter the MODULES array. Signed-off-by: Dave Reisner --- rc.sysinit | 12 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/rc.sysinit b/rc.sysinit index 09d5e97..4b6e1e7 100755 --- a/rc.sysinit +++ b/rc.sysinit @@ -92,14 +92,10

Re: [arch-general] [PATCH] rc.sysinit: only call modprobe once

2010-09-19 Thread Dave Reisner
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 08:47:03PM -0400, Dave Reisner wrote: > Use modprobe -a and a bash PE to filter the MODULES array. > > Signed-off-by: Dave Reisner > --- > rc.sysinit |6 +- > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/rc.sysi

[arch-general] [PATCH] rc.sysinit: only call modprobe once

2010-09-19 Thread Dave Reisner
Use modprobe -a and a bash PE to filter the MODULES array. Signed-off-by: Dave Reisner --- rc.sysinit |6 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/rc.sysinit b/rc.sysinit index 09d5e97..07180d0 100755 --- a/rc.sysinit +++ b/rc.sysinit @@ -94,11 +94,7 @@ fi

Re: [arch-general] Adobe Releases New 64-bit Flash Plugin For Linux

2010-09-16 Thread Dave Reisner
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 09:14:22AM -0300, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote: > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Rafael Beraldo > wrote: > > You may have seen this, however it is interesting to spread the word: > > http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/09/16/0340226/Adobe-Releases-New-64-bit-Flash-Plugin-

Re: [arch-general] nfs4: access denied by server while mounting....

2010-09-13 Thread Dave Reisner
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 02:50:06PM +0100, Ananda Samaddar wrote: > I'm tearing my hair out over this one. I'm trying to export some > directories using nfs. I've read the Arch Wiki and even been on the > IRC channel but I can't fix this bloody problem. I have a desktop and > a laptop both runnin

Re: [arch-general] [PATCH] Ignore empty lines when grepping host's mirrorlist

2010-09-10 Thread Dave Reisner
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 02:55:40AM +0300, Evangelos Foutras wrote: > On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 1:59 AM, Dave Reisner wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 01:46:48AM +0300, Evangelos Foutras wrote: > >> --- > >>  mkarchroot |    2 +- > >>  1 files c

Re: [arch-general] [PATCH] Ignore empty lines when grepping host's mirrorlist

2010-09-10 Thread Dave Reisner
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 01:46:48AM +0300, Evangelos Foutras wrote: > --- > mkarchroot |2 +- > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/mkarchroot b/mkarchroot > index fe436f7..5cb9a0f 100755 > --- a/mkarchroot > +++ b/mkarchroot > @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ if [ -z "$cache_di

[arch-general] [PATCH] rc.sysinit: condense calls to mkdir and chmod

2010-09-08 Thread Dave Reisner
--- rc.sysinit |3 +-- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/rc.sysinit b/rc.sysinit index f7df48c..bee4efb 100755 --- a/rc.sysinit +++ b/rc.sysinit @@ -276,8 +276,7 @@ stat_busy "Removing Leftover Files" : >| /var/run/utmp /bin/chmod 0664 /var/run/utmp # Keep {x,k,

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