[arch-general] Need help understanding meta-PKGBUILDs

2011-02-01 Thread David C. Rankin
trying to digest PKGBUILDs and how to apply them to a large project like Trinity. I don't claim to be an expert on them, so I know there are places where they need improving. Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

Re: [arch-general] Need help understanding meta-PKGBUILDs

2011-02-01 Thread David C. Rankin
On 02/01/2011 10:41 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: (3) Lastly, if anybody has interest, please look over the PKGBUILDs and let me know where I'm doing something stupid. I have done quite a bit of reading trying to digest PKGBUILDs and how to apply them to a large project like Trinity. I

Re: [arch-general] wiki page for Building Trinity on Arch - You want it here or on the trinity site?

2011-01-31 Thread David C. Rankin
Ray, Thomas and Anke. While I figure out what the structure for all the PKGBUILD will look like, I'll just provide links to them on my server from the wiki and once we a working set we'll look at moving them to AUR. I have updated the wiki to provide functional links. -- David C. Rankin

Re: [arch-general] wiki page for Building Trinity on Arch - You want it here or on the trinity site?

2011-01-29 Thread David C. Rankin
On 01/29/2011 12:09 AM, Thomas S Hatch wrote: 2011/1/28 David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com On 01/28/2011 11:30 PM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: So what say the powers that be? Do the wiki page here or at Trinity? The wiki is for Arch-related documentation, so why not? Yes! wiki

Re: [arch-general] PKGBUILD - howto handle 'src' when svn source is already in PKGBUILD dir?

2011-01-28 Thread David C. Rankin
dependencies PKGBUILD kdeaccessibility PKGBUILD snip Is it just a 'whatever makes the PKGBUILD' setup work best? Or are there some fast and hard rules like a 'one subdirectory limit' that I need to know? Thanks Again. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

[arch-general] wiki page for Building Trinity on Arch - You want it here or on the trinity site?

2011-01-28 Thread David C. Rankin
the powers that be? Do the wiki page here or at Trinity? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

Re: [arch-general] wiki page for Building Trinity on Arch - You want it here or on the trinity site?

2011-01-28 Thread David C. Rankin
to mediawiki :) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-2.6.37-4

2011-01-28 Thread David C. Rankin
latest snapshot - added crypto headers - added xen headers greetings tpowa Signoff - even on the whacky MSI box - boot fine, Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

[arch-general] PKGBUILD depends - howto specify alternate packages that can satisfy? possible?

2011-01-27 Thread David C. Rankin
the gurus? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

Re: [arch-general] PKGBUILD depends - howto specify alternate packages that can satisfy? possible?

2011-01-27 Thread David C. Rankin
' ...) will work. Thank you. One last question. I'm using a patched qt3 for tqtinterface (Trinity qtinterface) which bumps qt3 to 3.3.8c. Can I rebuild qt3 and make the provides: provides=('qt3=3.3.8c' 'qt-enhanced=3.3.8c') or is adding the lowercase 'c' to the provides line wrong? -- David C

[arch-general] PKGBUILD - howto handle 'src' when svn source is already in PKGBUILD dir?

2011-01-27 Thread David C. Rankin
while creating a link from src - ./, but that just seems screwy. Anybody got a trick for doing this? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel-2.6.36.3-2

2011-01-26 Thread David C. Rankin
we'll just shoot this mobo/chipset in the head. Let me know if you want any logs to look at. Otherwise, same old problem with the one MSI box, all others are perfect :) Great job! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715

[arch-general] python2-qt dependency typo

2011-01-21 Thread David C. Rankin
: QScintilla API -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] python2-qt dependency typo

2011-01-21 Thread David C. Rankin
.html Blind in one eye and can't see out of the other I guess :p -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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

2011-01-20 Thread David C. Rankin
other way to narrow it down? pacman.log didn't add anything further. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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

2011-01-20 Thread David C. Rankin
On 01/20/2011 03:29 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, In upgrading several boxes (both i686 and x86_64) on first attempt, I get: :: File pyqt-4.8.2-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz is corrupted. Do you want to delete it? [Y/n] Choosing Y and restarting the update works fine. If it were only on one box, I'd

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

2011-01-20 Thread David C. Rankin
is getting corrected. Oh well, glad to know I'm not the only one that saw it :) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] fetchmail/spamassassin error after update

2011-01-20 Thread David C. Rankin
On 01/19/2011 03:55 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: On 01/19/2011 02:54 PM, Thaddeus Nielsen wrote: A quick google search on sa-learn will show you this is a spamassassin issue and has nothing to do with fetchmail. T. A quick workaround is: ln -s $(which sa-learn) /usr/bin/perlbin/vendor

[arch-general] fetchmail/spamassassin error after update

2011-01-19 Thread David C. Rankin
somewhere or is this something that got overlooked in the spamassassin update? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] fetchmail/spamassassin error after update

2011-01-19 Thread David C. Rankin
?id=100206 However, there seem to be multiple patches and it is unclear what is referenced by patch3 at the end. I'll play with it and see if I can get it working... Since it is upstream, I won't file a bug here unless somebody wants me to. Any need? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law

Re: [arch-general] When will Arch switch to Upstart

2011-01-19 Thread David C. Rankin
trickle down to get you there. Good to have you here my friend :) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] kde4 Okular + Hp Laserjet PCL 4/5 driver - prints greyscale inversed

2011-01-18 Thread David C. Rankin
it. Looks like what I'm seeing was FS#21524 which is merged in the bug you referenced. I added a note on what I'm seeing with the HP Laserjet driver there. Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333

[arch-general] kde4 Okular + Hp Laserjet PCL 4/5 driver - prints greyscale inversed

2011-01-14 Thread David C. Rankin
checked the driver settings and regardless of whether you specify greyscale or color, the inverse printing is the same. Prints fine from windows. Where to file the bug? Print drivers or kde? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone

Re: [arch-general] (now 4.5.5-1) Re: kde-4.5.4 loads kde3 kicker and background (even with ~/.kde ~/.kde4 removed)

2011-01-12 Thread David C. Rankin
On 01/12/2011 12:17 AM, Ray Rashif wrote: 2011/1/12 Ng Oon-Ee ngoo...@gmail.com: On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 20:37 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote: On 01/11/2011 05:27 PM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: snip if kde3 is left installed on the system. This is a bug. kde4 shouldn't generate a 'k'de 'sys'tem

[arch-general] repo-add repo-remove -- great pacman tools for your custom repo

2011-01-12 Thread David C. Rankin
://. Then just add the entry to your pacman.conf and you have your custom repo done. Details at the link above or through 'repo-add --help' -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339

Re: [arch-general] Package coordination with archlinuxfr repo?

2011-01-12 Thread David C. Rankin
would not install due to the gcc-gcj gcc 4.5.1 depends. pdftk depended on gcc-gcj. So both gcc-gcj and pdftk had to be uninstalled before gcc 4.5.2 would install (without any forcing or ignoring dependencies) Both removed, then gcc 4.5.2 installed and then rebuilt both from AUR :p -- David C. Rankin

Re: [arch-general] Package coordination with archlinuxfr repo?

2011-01-12 Thread David C. Rankin
of unused resources laying around to experiment with. Great question. I'd also be interested in what other ideas there are about positive and realistic improvement can be made to the current system. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961

Re: [arch-general] (now 4.5.5-1) Re: kde-4.5.4 loads kde3 kicker and background (even with ~/.kde ~/.kde4 removed)

2011-01-11 Thread David C. Rankin
tweaking. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] (now 4.5.5-1) Re: kde-4.5.4 loads kde3 kicker and background (even with ~/.kde ~/.kde4 removed)

2011-01-11 Thread David C. Rankin
. This is a bug. kde4 shouldn't generate a 'k'de 'sys'tem 'co'nfiguration 'ca'che for kde3 -- period. Removing kde3 does indeed solve the problem, but I notice no requirement to do so on the wiki. Do we want to drop a note there? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street

[arch-general] Package coordination with archlinuxfr repo?

2011-01-11 Thread David C. Rankin
fine, but it just seems strange that archlinuxfr still has packages dependent on gcc 4.5.1. I know the gcc-gcj and pdftk PKGBUILDS are updated for 4.5.2 -- I did it. Do we need to send an email to the maintainer? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches

Re: [arch-general] (now 4.5.5-1) Re: kde-4.5.4 loads kde3 kicker and background (even with ~/.kde ~/.kde4 removed)

2011-01-09 Thread David C. Rankin
: 13:41 nirvana:~ l ~/.kde4/share/config/kicker* ls: cannot access /home/david/.kde4/share/config/kicker*: No such file or directory So something is not correct with the i686 k4 packaging that causes a kde4 kickerrc to be created. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel-2.6.36.3-1

2011-01-09 Thread David C. Rankin
the whacky MSI box with multiple dmraid arrays booted fine with grub :) Great job tpowa! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

[arch-general] (now 4.5.5-1) Re: kde-4.5.4 loads kde3 kicker and background (even with ~/.kde ~/.kde4 removed)

2011-01-08 Thread David C. Rankin
or default config that may be loading the kdemod3 kicker and background? As with other boxes, I deleted ~/.kde4 before launching 4.5.5-1. Thanks again. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339

Re: [arch-general] kde-4.5.4 loads kde3 kicker and background (even with ~/.kde ~/.kde4 removed)

2011-01-07 Thread David C. Rankin
On 01/06/2011 03:44 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, I need to know if this is an arch packaging issue or a kde.org issue. On my arch box with all kde4 updates through today, I launch kde4 and my kde3 kicker and the kde4 plasma panel are both present: snip Let me know if you

[arch-general] kde-4.5.4 loads kde3 kicker and background (even with ~/.kde ~/.kde4 removed)

2011-01-06 Thread David C. Rankin
a kickerrc containing kde3 entries? Let me know if you think this is an Arch packaging issue or a kde.org issue so I know where to file the bug. Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339

Re: [arch-general] Updated /var/cache/pacman/pkg old package version removal scripts

2011-01-03 Thread David C. Rankin
On 01/02/2011 06:07 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, I have updated the script that I use to scan /var/cache/pacman/pkg and move old package versions to /home/backup/pkg-1 (next older version in: pkg-2, then pkg-3 and finally pkg-del). Bug fixed in the create md5sum function

[arch-general] Updated /var/cache/pacman/pkg old package version removal scripts

2011-01-02 Thread David C. Rankin
scripting, the scripts are reasonably commented and cover a broad spectrum of what bash can do. Enjoy. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

[arch-general] dhcpd fails to start when using TSIG key created with hmac-sha256 encryption

2010-12-18 Thread David C. Rankin
hesitant to use an older key version when apparently ISC want you to use sha256. But obviously I need to get dhpcd going and providing updates to bind. Are there better alternatives to hmac-md5? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone

Re: [arch-general] dhcpd fails to start when using TSIG key created with hmac-sha256 encryption

2010-12-18 Thread David C. Rankin
On 12/18/2010 04:44 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, I have run into a problem with the dhcpd daemon refusing to start when using the default hmac-sha256 algorithm for key encryption. A good description of the problem is here: http://www.pubbs.net/201009/dhcp/8256-cant-start-isc

[arch-general] postfix/procmail unable to write to /var/spool/mail/$USER

2010-12-18 Thread David C. Rankin
don't think that would be the issue here. Anybody have any idea why postfix/procmail can't write to /var/spool/mail? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] postfix/procmail unable to write to /var/spool/mail/$USER

2010-12-18 Thread David C. Rankin
thread). Look at http://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/ see if the package in question uses any patches and if not report upstream, not downstream! Please stop spamming the list. Thank you for your help Matt. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510

Re: [arch-general] postfix/procmail unable to write to /var/spool/mail/$USER

2010-12-18 Thread David C. Rankin
, Your response is offensive. If you cannot contribute in a positive manner, then please resist the temptation to pick up the keyboard and show your ignorance. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936

Re: [arch-general] new dmraid install - grub installed fine - boot fails to find root filesystem - dropped to [ramfs /]# ?

2010-12-16 Thread David C. Rankin
On 12/15/2010 08:53 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: On 12/15/2010 08:47 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: On 12/15/2010 08:30 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: Let me know if I can provide anything else to help. I'm sort of dead in the water until I get this sorted. Also, the install was from the i686

Re: [arch-general] new dmraid install - grub installed fine - boot fails to find root filesystem - dropped to [ramfs /]# ?

2010-12-16 Thread David C. Rankin
On 12/16/2010 11:42 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 16.12.2010 03:30, schrieb David C. Rankin: Waiting 10 seconds for device /dev/mapper/nvidia_haheegdbp6 ... Root device '/dev/mapper/nvidia_haheegdbp6' doesn't exist. Attempting to create it. ERROR: Unable to determine major/minor number

Re: [arch-general] dmraid install failure (new thread)

2010-12-16 Thread David C. Rankin
On 12/16/2010 01:30 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: I'll go back and chroot the environment and see what happened to dmraid and report back. I'll bet that fixes it. Then the question becomes Why wasn't dmraid installed to begin with? Only 2 possible answers: (1) stupidity (never ruled out); or (2

[arch-general] howto tease and install of kdemod3 from the old packages?

2010-12-16 Thread David C. Rankin
? Worst case, I guess I could cannibalize a kdemod3 install from one of my other boxes, but I would like to find a way to do a proper install since I have 3 more boxes to install. So, what says the brain trust? Possible? Not Possible? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510

[arch-general] [SOLVED] Re: howto tease and install of kdemod3 from the old packages?

2010-12-16 Thread David C. Rankin
On 12/17/2010 12:42 AM, Allan McRae wrote: On 17/12/10 16:32, David C. Rankin wrote: So, what says the brain trust? Possible? Not Possible? The only sane way to do this is to find the original PKGBUILDs, updated their dependencies to what is currently in Arch (or provide packages

[arch-general] new dmraid install - grub installed fine - boot fails to find root filesystem - dropped to [ramfs /]# ?

2010-12-15 Thread David C. Rankin
' everything seemed the same, so I'm not sure where things are mucked up. Let me know if I can provide anything else to help. I'm sort of dead in the water until I get this sorted. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone

Re: [arch-general] new dmraid install - grub installed fine - boot fails to find root filesystem - dropped to [ramfs /]# ?

2010-12-15 Thread David C. Rankin
On 12/15/2010 08:30 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: Let me know if I can provide anything else to help. I'm sort of dead in the water until I get this sorted. Also, the install was from the i686 2010.05 net install media. But since the net install complete all base packages and the kernel

Re: [arch-general] Patent protection

2010-12-13 Thread David C. Rankin
. The only way to stay safe is to stay out of striking distance... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26-lts 2.6.32.27-1

2010-12-13 Thread David C. Rankin
On 12/13/2010 07:44 AM, Jan de Root wrote: On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 07:42 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote: [31.342] drmOpenByBusid: Interface 1.4 failed, trying 1.1 The radeon driver segfaults when KMS is disabled, so yes, that's normal. Can I enable KMS on LTS? I know I have used X on LTS

[arch-general] Minor type in Create-Archboot-Allinone-Howto.txt

2010-12-13 Thread David C. Rankin
tpowa There is a minor typo in Create-Archboot-Allinone-Howto.txt Install archboot and update to latest packages: # configure pacman.conf and mirrorlost to your needs above 'mirrorlost' should be mirrorlist Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree

Re: [arch-general] Howto Preserve Current Kernel through Update?

2010-12-12 Thread David C. Rankin
On 12/12/2010 02:51 AM, wrote: On 12 December 2010 11:39, David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com wrote: On 12/11/2010 09:34 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: mkinitcpio -k 2.6.35-dcr \ -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf \ -g /boot/kernel26-dcr.img mkinitcpio -k 2.6.35-dcr \ -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf

Re: [arch-general] Fluxbox broken when launched via qingy

2010-12-12 Thread David C. Rankin
it does :-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

[arch-general] Howto Preserve Current Kernel through Update?

2010-12-11 Thread David C. Rankin
this out to the list and see if (or what) I'm missing. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] Howto Preserve Current Kernel through Update?

2010-12-11 Thread David C. Rankin
On 12/11/2010 09:34 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: mkinitcpio -k 2.6.35-dcr \ -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf \ -g /boot/kernel26-dcr.img mkinitcpio -k 2.6.35-dcr \ -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf \ -g /boot/kernel26-dcr-fallback.img \ -S autodetect Of course that should be 2.6.36-dcr -- David C. Rankin

Re: [arch-general] VirtualBox_bin 3.12 - slow system freeze on i686, OK on x86_64

2010-12-11 Thread David C. Rankin
. I'll let you know what I turn up. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

[arch-general] Bizarre grub drive number switch from (hd1, 5) to (hd2, 5) but no hd2 defined???

2010-12-11 Thread David C. Rankin
this could have happened? Thanks for any insight you can give. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

[arch-general] VirtualBox_bin 3.12 - slow system freeze on i686, OK on x86_64

2010-12-08 Thread David C. Rankin
upgrade on a x86_64 box (XP guest as well), and all is working well. So it looks like it may be some issue or memory leak that is killing the i686 package. I (and others) have dropped notes with the AUR package. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches

Re: [arch-general] Fluxbox broken when launched via qingy

2010-12-08 Thread David C. Rankin
but not least we start fluxbox. # Because it is the last app you have to run it with ''exec'' before it. exec fluxbox -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

[arch-general] script idea - update single arch box - updates all on local net

2010-12-02 Thread David C. Rankin
original work and are gpl, so use, reuse, tear apart at will. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] script idea - update single arch box - updates all on local net

2010-12-02 Thread David C. Rankin
:) The documentation is so tempting, with that big blue graph... (nerd pr0n at its best...) [1]http://xyne.archlinux.ca/projects/pkgd/ Completely overlooked :p Thanks. I will have fun with this... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961

[arch-general] what happened to nut (network-ups-tools)?

2010-11-29 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, Where did nut go? I just checked and network-ups-tools is no longer available. Did it change names? I must have missed it. Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339

Re: [arch-general] what happened to nut (network-ups-tools)?

2010-11-29 Thread David C. Rankin
On 11/29/2010 08:08 PM, Lukas Fleischer wrote: It has been moved to the AUR [1] on 2010-09-21. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=5379 Thank you Lukas! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333

Re: [arch-general] what happened to nut (network-ups-tools)?

2010-11-29 Thread David C. Rankin
to look in AUR. I found it, I'll follow up with Arjen on the nut-devel list. There is still something funky with the 2.4.3 package... I guess that's why it got the boot. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333

Re: [arch-general] what happened to nut (network-ups-tools)?

2010-11-29 Thread David C. Rankin
diplomacy Loui, and in the future, should another package disappear, I will search AUR to see if it ended up there. Cheers. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel 2.6.36.1-3

2010-11-25 Thread David C. Rankin
-- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] python3 thoughts

2010-11-24 Thread David C. Rankin
that I can hose myself with python in more ways than one all at the same time :p Thanks, I'll hunt check. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] python3 thoughts

2010-11-23 Thread David C. Rankin
to make the find them again :( -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] mirror.rit.edu/kdemod/archive/ -- dropped, does it exist anywhere else?

2010-11-16 Thread David C. Rankin
On 11/15/2010 10:28 PM, Allan McRae wrote: - kdemod3 has been dead for ages Gone -- but not forgotten :p [157k] http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/Archlinux/compiz/arch+kde3+compiz.jpg -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone

[arch-general] mirror.rit.edu/kdemod/archive/ -- dropped, does it exist anywhere else?

2010-11-15 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys Just noticed that /mirror.right.edu/kdemod/archive/ went away. Will the kdemod3 files exist anywhere else? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

[arch-general] Testing - fusion-icon, ATI drv, xorg - compiz splash corrupt

2010-11-13 Thread David C. Rankin
should be. I grabbed a screenshot so you could see what is happening. The blur from the eyes of the girl in the desktop is the compiz splash [54k] http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/Archlinux/bugs/compiz-splash.jpg -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street

Re: [arch-general] Could python2 be breaking genpkgmetadata.py?

2010-11-12 Thread David C. Rankin
\/python/bin\/python2/' on? I should learn more python, but there are only so many hours in the day, and I can usually do what I need in BASH, c or perl anyway :) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile

Re: [arch-general] Could python2 be breaking genpkgmetadata.py?

2010-11-12 Thread David C. Rankin
On 11/12/2010 11:44 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: But on how many packages? Just the ones that are breaking or is there some set of base packages I should backup and the do a 'perl -p -i -e s/bin\/python/bin\/python2/' on? Err.. It doesn't seem to be that simple. After changed the executable

Re: [arch-general] Could python2 be breaking genpkgmetadata.py?

2010-11-12 Thread David C. Rankin
) was going to see if somebody else could pick them up. I guess there were no takers. I'll see how far I get and let you know. Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339

[arch-general] dmraid boot fail (grub errors 5 24) - follow up

2010-11-09 Thread David C. Rankin
with additional info as it becomes available (hopefully a solution). If anyone else has a stroke of genius, please let me know. Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339

Re: [arch-general] dmraid boot fail (grub errors 5 24) - follow up

2010-11-09 Thread David C. Rankin
On 11/09/2010 12:45 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 09.11.2010 19:25, schrieb David C. Rankin: Guys, As a follow up, the post to kernel.org did not elicit any response. The folks at dm-devel suggested it may be a grub bug. So that leave me with two more avenues to try (1) the grub list

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel 2.6.36-3

2010-11-08 Thread David C. Rankin
) with compiz, etc.. with 2.6.35-8 and the radeon driver. (never thought I would say that) So it's with a bit of trepidation, I update :p -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339

[arch-general] FYI - kernel26-2.6.36-3 dmraid fail to boot - same Error 24:

2010-11-03 Thread David C. Rankin
along. Back to 2.6.35.7-1. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel 2.6.36-3

2010-11-03 Thread David C. Rankin
the libata.ignore_hpa setting and let you know. If you can think of anything else, any other diagnostics, on the Arch side to try, please let me know and I'll be happy to try it. Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel 2.6.36-3

2010-11-03 Thread David C. Rankin
) and libata.ignore_hpa=1 (ignore limits, using full disk), but there is no change. I still get grub Error 24: (this is with the 2.6.36-3 kernel). So I'm stumped again. If you have any other ideas, please let me know. I'm happy to test on this end. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel 2.6.36-3

2010-11-03 Thread David C. Rankin
to using the kernels that work on it and quit reporting the ones that work and ones that fail. I know that I don't know enough to debug it further, so we will leave it here. If the dm-devel guys come up with something, I'll pass that along. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel 2.6.36-3

2010-11-03 Thread David C. Rankin
be able to start with 2.6.35-7 (working), upgrade to 2.6.35-8 (expect failure), then upgrade directly to 2.6.36-3 and (expect success) -- even though a direct update from 2.6.35-7 to 2.6.36-3 originally resulted in failure. If this works I'll -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel 2.6.36-3

2010-11-03 Thread David C. Rankin
On 11/03/2010 10:03 PM, Heiko Baums wrote: Am Wed, 03 Nov 2010 20:57:35 -0500 schrieb David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com: I think that is exactly the understanding I got from Thomas, and it makes an uncanny amount of sense. Though it doesn't have a 100% correlation, it does

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.35.8-1 (BUG - x86_64 Fails to Boot - see closed bug 20918)

2010-11-01 Thread David C. Rankin
controller based box. The other boxes seem OK. So maybe it's a firware dmraid error that gets tripped depending the way the kernel loads the dmraid module?? Who knows... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.35.8-1 (BUG - x86_64 Fails to Boot - see closed bug 20918)

2010-11-01 Thread David C. Rankin
On 11/01/2010 03:22 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: We'll see what the dmraid devs have to say. This seems to only effect my jmicron controller based box. The other boxes seem OK. So maybe it's a firware dmraid error that gets tripped depending the way the kernel loads the dmraid module?? Who

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.35.8-1 (BUG - x86_64 Fails to Boot - see closed bug 20918)

2010-11-01 Thread David C. Rankin
-roulette oddity in the kernel builds -- dunno?? I'll report back if/when I get an answer from the redhat guys. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.35.8-1 (BUG - x86_64 Fails to Boot - see closed bug 20918)

2010-11-01 Thread David C. Rankin
think the board/chipset/bios design is weak. I've got the June 2010 bios installed, but it has not been consistent with kernel changes. Hopefully the redhat guys will be able to find out why the controller is having init issues. Thanks for your help and I'll report what I find. -- David C. Rankin

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.35.8-1 (BUG - x86_64 Fails to Boot - see closed bug 20918)

2010-10-31 Thread David C. Rankin
and if you want me to reopen the bug report. Thanks. P.S. kernel26-lts-2.6.32.25-2-x86_64 boots just fine as does suse 11. Downgrading to kernel26-2.6.35.7-1-x86_64 fixes the problem, so the issue is with 2.6.35.8-1. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-lts 2.6.32.25-2

2010-10-31 Thread David C. Rankin
please signoff for both arches. greetings tpowa signoff x86_64 +1 -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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

2010-10-29 Thread David C. Rankin
list in rc.conf and see whether this fixes your problem. Of course, I'm just guessing here. That's OK, I'll take those to :) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339

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

2010-10-29 Thread David C. Rankin
/nouveau_blacklist.conf /etc/modprobe.d/nouveau_blacklist.conf is owned by nvidia 260.19.12-1 You are correct, Sir! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

[arch-general] New ghostscript segfaults with hylafax?

2010-10-29 Thread David C. Rankin
than everything.log?) Any tests you can think of to run? I know very little about the interplay between ghostscript and hylafax other than it either works or it doesn't. So if anybody has any ideas on how to diagnose, I welcome your thoughts. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm

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

2010-10-29 Thread David C. Rankin
. Dunno if it is worth chasing. Arch-dev thoughts? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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

2010-10-28 Thread David C. Rankin
boot with vga= and get the error, somehow after the timeout, I get the right framebuffer. I'm stumped. Any idea on what could have changed? that could be causing the mode error? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone

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

2010-10-27 Thread David C. Rankin
? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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

2010-10-27 Thread David C. Rankin
mode error? Is it a kernel process, nvidia driver process. (I suspect a driver process since it is setting the framebuffer, but I could be totally wrong) I'm open to all suggestions. I'll give the downgrade a try tomorrow or Friday when I get a chance. Thanks for the suggestions. -- David C

[arch-general] Strange Xorg issue - no init of NV 8800GT - reboot - late init?

2010-10-25 Thread David C. Rankin
and fix itself, but the display/card is working fine now. Anybody have any thoughts on this? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

Re: [arch-general] system time stucks in a loop

2010-10-25 Thread David C. Rankin
. Just download the tarball and untar/ungzip with: tar -xzf virtualbox_bin.tar.gz cd virtualbox_bin/ makepkg -s sudo pacman -U virtualbox_bin-3.2.10-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz Then test again. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961

Re: [arch-general] system time stucks in a loop

2010-10-22 Thread David C. Rankin
acpi_pm Is for me: 19:24 nirvana:/sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0 cat available_clocksource acpi_pm 19:24 nirvana:/sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0 cat current_clocksource acpi_pm -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches

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