[arch-general] systemd and local group membership

2012-10-28 Thread Dave Morgan
Hi, The systemd wiki article says: Note: Adding your user to groups (optical, audio, scanner, ...) is not necessary with systemd. It might even break the wanted functionality if you do so. What are the the technical reasons for group membership breaking functionality when using systemd? --

Re: [arch-general] Personal note

2012-08-15 Thread Dave Morgan
On 15/08/12 at 09:43pm, Tom Gundersen wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Karol Blazewicz karol.blazew...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 7:27 PM, Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no wrote: Hi guys, As most devs have done already, I'm going to change my relationship with

Re: [arch-general] login fails after update

2012-07-15 Thread Dave Morgan
On 15/07/12 at 08:35P, Fons Adriaensen wrote: Hello all, I did a complete upgrade following the instructions w.r.t. the /lib symlink, and indeed ended up with pacman -Su saying 'nothing to do' and /lib being a symlink. On rebooting I get the login prompt on tty1..6, but after entering a

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 being login Which is *very

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

2012-05-31 Thread Dave Morgan
On 31/05/12 at 04:29pm, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 22:51 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: On 31/05/12 22:45, Ralf Mardorf wrote: :: Do you want to cancel the current operation :: and upgrade these packages now? [Y/n] Y Say N here. Thank you, the update is almost ok, but

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.

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

2011-06-12 Thread Dave Morgan
On 12/06/11 at 01:19pm, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, I tagged this to the kernel 2.6.39.1-1 sign-off message, but got no replies. Where are the kernel packages cached now? In /var/cache/pacman/pkg I only have: 13:16 nirvana:/var/cache/pacman/pkg ls -1 kernel26-*

Re: [arch-general] What should the Arch Security Team be called?

2010-06-17 Thread Dave Morgan
On 17/06/10 at 08:46pm, Ananda Samaddar wrote: On to the first order of business. As the subject says, what should security team be called. Hopefully we can get a few suggestions and then reach a consensus. Arch Linux Security Task Force just sounds like too much of a mouthful to me. I was

Re: [arch-general] Burning From Command Line

2010-05-20 Thread Dave Morgan
On 20 May 2010, at 17:26, Carlos Mennens carlosw...@gmail.com wrote: How do I create a bootable install disk from an .ISO image I downloaded from the Arch site? I would like to know how to do this via CLI only rather than using a front end GUI like Gnome Baker, K3B, or Brasero. Does anyone know

Re: [arch-general] Err... Why is gvim now conflicting with vim?

2010-05-07 Thread Dave Morgan
On 07/05/10 at 10:07pm, Philipp wrote: Excerpts from Robert Howard's message of 2010-05-07 18:46:24 +0200: Geez. I guess it's just hard for people like David and myself, in my case a loyal Arch user for the better part of a decade, to understand the how-dare-you post a question asshole

[arch-general] Laptop reboots instead of resume from suspend

2010-01-29 Thread Dave Morgan
I'm using an Inspiron 1720, GeForce 8600M GT, Arch i686. If I update to any kernel after 2.6.31.6-1 then the laptop reboots from suspend or hibernate. According to pm-suspend.log the suspend was fine and there are n problems in the other logs. It just reboots. Anyone else seen this, or any