Re: [arch-general] Line Drawing Characters

2015-11-14 Thread Don deJuan
On 11/14/2015 08:10 AM, David N Murray wrote: > Hi all, > > I've built several machines by installing Arch from scratch. Recently, > I built a Linode VM using their Arch image, dated 2015-08. From > there, I did a normal `pacman -Syu` to update the system. My problem > is probably trivial, annoyi

Re: [arch-general] postgresql 9.3 -> 9.4

2015-01-29 Thread Don deJuan
On 01/29/2015 10:01 AM, Georg Altmann wrote: > On 29.01.2015 17:40, Don deJuan wrote: > > From someone who runs Arch in prod on a ton of servers. It was the > > admins fault. Not arch's not pacman's and not PGSQL's it was the > > admin. > > > Running a

Re: [arch-general] postgresql 9.3 -> 9.4

2015-01-29 Thread Don deJuan
On 01/29/2015 05:51 AM, Bardur Arantsson wrote: > On 01/29/2015 02:24 PM, Martti Kühne wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 2:22 PM, Bardur Arantsson >> wrote: >>> On 01/29/2015 01:00 PM, Martti Kühne wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 12:15 PM, Martti Kühne wrote: > You could also write a pac

Re: [arch-general] Updating the archlinux-keyring package

2014-02-14 Thread Don deJuan
On 02/14/2014 03:00 AM, Plonky Duby wrote: > I do agree with that, i switched on a laptop which was off since september > 2013 and i had some issue with some key. > > I had to update key, before having a sucessfull update. > > > > > 2014-02-13 20:21 GMT+01:00 Leonid Isaev : > >> Hi, >> >> R

Re: [arch-general] Forum registration requires INSANE captcha.

2014-02-11 Thread Don deJuan
On 02/11/2014 11:00 AM, Mauro Santos wrote: > On 11-02-2014 01:48, Don deJuan wrote: >> What is confusing about that? The devs have no desire to be popular or >> the coolest kid on the block or to be on every box in the world. >> > I'm not sure, I've seen a wor

Re: [arch-general] Forum registration requires INSANE captcha.

2014-02-10 Thread Don deJuan
On 02/10/2014 05:16 PM, Jeremy Nicoll - ml archlinux wrote: > WorMzy Tykashi wrote: > >> On 11 February 2014 00:00, Jeremy Nicoll - ml archlinux >> wrote: >>> I've been lurking on this maillist for maybe a year, after reading >>> somewhere that Arch might be a good solution for me as a linux newb

Re: [arch-general] Forum registration requires INSANE captcha.

2014-02-10 Thread Don deJuan
On 02/10/2014 05:16 PM, Jeremy Nicoll - ml archlinux wrote: > WorMzy Tykashi wrote: > >> On 11 February 2014 00:00, Jeremy Nicoll - ml archlinux >> wrote: >>> I've been lurking on this maillist for maybe a year, after reading >>> somewhere that Arch might be a good solution for me as a linux newb

Re: [arch-general] Thank you

2014-01-06 Thread Don deJuan
On 01/06/2014 03:07 PM, Alper Kanat wrote: > Hey Kyle, > > Yes, I'm aware of DigitalOcean. Since many years, I used to have my own > server running Arch on Hetzner and now on DigitalOcean. I used to host my > ex-company's servers on Hetzner which were again Arch boxes. I personally > think that Arc

Re: [arch-general] arch rollback machine

2013-12-02 Thread Don deJuan
On 12/02/2013 02:52 AM, Sébastien Luttringer wrote: > On 02/12/2013 11:12, archli...@jelmail.com wrote: >>> I added a new *packages* tree. That offer an easy access to all versions >>> of the same package in the ARM. >>> Documentation[1] has been updated. >>> >> Hello Sébastien, >> >> It's great th

Re: [arch-general] arch rollback machine

2013-08-23 Thread Don deJuan
On 08/23/2013 06:54 AM, Leonidas Spyropoulos wrote: > On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Chris Down wrote: >> On 2013-08-23 12:59, Joe Eaves wrote: >>> That's a shame, do we know why? >> Well, it is quite clearly explained in the link that was referenced earlier >> in >> this thread... > Reading th

Re: [arch-general] CLI diffing tool other than Vim?

2013-07-30 Thread Don deJuan
On 07/30/2013 01:09 PM, Daniel Micay wrote: > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 3:54 PM, P. A. wrote: >> On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 20:05 +0200, Lukas Jirkovsky wrote: >>> On 30 July 2013 16:33, Pedro Alejandro López-Valencia >>> wrote: IMnsHO, teach this person to use the tools already available: both nan

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux on servers?

2013-07-09 Thread Don deJuan
On 07/09/2013 10:27 AM, Florian Dejonckheere wrote: > On 9 July 2013 14:24, Florian Pritz wrote: >> On 09.07.2013 12:13, M Saunders wrote: >>> I'm still left wondering though: who uses it on production servers? I >>> mean, the distro's overall simplicity and trimmed-down base >>> installation are

Re: [arch-general] 'Check out-of-date packages' tool

2013-05-13 Thread Don deJuan
On 05/12/2013 03:21 PM, Anatol Pomozov wrote: > Hi > > > On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Don deJuan wrote: > >> On 05/11/2013 11:26 AM, Anatol Pomozov wrote: >>> Hi everyone >>> >>> Per discussion in 'pacman-dev' maillist [1] I imp

Re: [arch-general] 'Check out-of-date packages' tool

2013-05-12 Thread Don deJuan
On 05/11/2013 11:26 AM, Anatol Pomozov wrote: > Hi everyone > > Per discussion in 'pacman-dev' maillist [1] I implemented a tool that tries > to find Arch out-of-date packages. The tool scans PKGBUILD files is > /var/abs directory, extracts download url and then tries to probe download > urls for t

Re: [arch-general] vboxnetflt module broken in virtualbox-host-modules-lts?

2013-01-23 Thread Don deJuan
On 01/23/2013 12:46 AM, Maxime Gauduin wrote: On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:03 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: I'm running the LTS kernel, and VirtualBox has been working fine under it until recently. However sometime in the last few days (after a recent upgrade, I'm guessing), I can no longer laun

Re: [arch-general] Updating AUR package with pacman

2012-07-19 Thread Don deJuan
On 07/19/2012 09:52 AM, Christian Hesse wrote: Thorsten Jolitz on Thu, 2012/07/19 18:44: [...] So this would render my git-clone of the AUR repo superfluous, [...] Oh, wait! Is AUR accessible via git? That would be really great! From the wiki: Git Repo A Git Repo of the AUR is maintained

Re: [arch-general] Download wiki arch!

2012-07-14 Thread Don deJuan
On 07/14/2012 01:51 PM, Omar Basit wrote: Hello, I've begun to use arch instead of Ubuntu, and it seems great, especially the (wiki.archlinux.org); but it is only available online, and I am in need of an offline source with such rich information, I did some googling, but all I get is how to down

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

2012-06-27 Thread Don deJuan
On 06/27/2012 08:26 AM, Uroš Vampl wrote: Don deJuan gmail.com> writes: I do not see what I have mixed up, I never said anything about vesafb, only the VESA standard, also I have not talked about defining any modes, only another driver option to use instead of the proprietary. I think you

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

2012-06-27 Thread Don deJuan
On 06/27/2012 08:18 AM, Uroš Vampl wrote: Arno Gaboury gmail.com> writes: Actually no Nvidia never supported VESA, it just happened to work. http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=2561806&postcount=39 Are you so sure? http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/173.14.09/READ

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

2012-06-27 Thread Don deJuan
On 06/27/2012 08:07 AM, Arno Gaboury wrote: On 06/27/2012 05:00 PM, Don deJuan wrote: On 06/27/2012 07:42 AM, Arno Gaboury wrote: On 06/27/2012 04:18 PM, Don deJuan wrote: On 06/27/2012 06:55 AM, Uroš Vampl wrote: Arno Gaboury gmail.com> writes: After lots of reading, especially *Nvi

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

2012-06-27 Thread Don deJuan
On 06/27/2012 07:42 AM, Arno Gaboury wrote: On 06/27/2012 04:18 PM, Don deJuan wrote: On 06/27/2012 06:55 AM, Uroš Vampl wrote: Arno Gaboury gmail.com> writes: After lots of reading, especially *Nvidia* official readme, it seems this card SUPPORTS indded *Vesafb*. So I think this er

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

2012-06-27 Thread Don deJuan
On 06/27/2012 06:55 AM, Uroš Vampl wrote: Arno Gaboury gmail.com> writes: After lots of reading, especially *Nvidia* official readme, it seems this card SUPPORTS indded *Vesafb*. So I think this error message has nothing to do here, and I will keep my *grub* file as it was first. No, it supp

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

2012-06-27 Thread Don deJuan
On 06/27/2012 04:11 AM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: After lots of reading, especially *Nvidia* official readme, it seems this card SUPPORTS indded *Vesafb*. So I think this error message has nothing to do here, and I will keep my *grub* file as it was first. Vesafb is a standard that all cards are me

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

2012-06-26 Thread Don deJuan
On 06/26/2012 01:19 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: Putting GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=text in my default grub, then running a new grub.cfg. Reboot and the message went away, though in the console the text is huge. I have seen no actual "fix" for this and have read that Nvidia is not even sure how or why it

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

2012-06-26 Thread Don deJuan
On 06/26/2012 12:31 PM, Arno Gaboury wrote: dear list, After a few months of running Arch, I am now fine tuning everything (or at least trying). I discovered this error message in *kernel.log* file. NVRM: Your system is not currently configured to drive a VGA console NVRM: on the primary

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-26 Thread Don deJuan
On 06/26/2012 10:49 AM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: Have you considered flavours like mail, web. A recent thread showed atleast one person who probably would have liked an out of the box web arch? Sorry Kevin, I don't follow you. probably because it's completely off the radar and probably proj

Re: [arch-general] INSANELY OT: and nothing to do with the Campaign against Secure Boot

2012-06-25 Thread Don deJuan
On 06/25/2012 02:37 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 14:12 -0700, Don deJuan wrote: On 06/25/2012 01:51 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 22:05 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 21:44 +0200, Jelle van der Waa wrote: On 25/06/12 21:18, Ralf Mardorf

Re: [arch-general] Campaign against Secure Boot

2012-06-25 Thread Don deJuan
On 06/25/2012 01:51 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 22:05 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 21:44 +0200, Jelle van der Waa wrote: On 25/06/12 21:18, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 21:13 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 20:59 +0200, Ralf

Re: [arch-general] Campaign against Secure Boot

2012-06-25 Thread Don deJuan
On 06/25/2012 12:44 PM, Jelle van der Waa wrote: On 25/06/12 21:18, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 21:13 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 20:59 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 20:37 +0200, Arno Gaboury wrote: Once upon a time, I had a dream OSX woul

Re: [arch-general] Complete mess after having attempted to install Nvidia drivers

2012-06-22 Thread Don deJuan
On 06/22/2012 12:58 AM, m a wrote: Hello, I was trying to remove the proprietary drivers for my nvidia, to install the open source ones. I read in the wiki that I also had to remove the /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but only found an /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d, so I removed that one. I don't know if this is the

Re: [arch-general] Source control on /etc

2012-06-20 Thread Don deJuan
On 06/20/2012 07:46 AM, Squall Lionheart wrote: I wrote a system backup program called "mime" that works similar to Apple's Time Machine on the back end. Basically each time you backup your system, another copy of your file system is available. Another program is installed with it called "lsmim

Re: [arch-general] nvidia 295.59-1 dmesg output

2012-06-18 Thread Don deJuan
On 06/18/2012 12:05 PM, Rodrigo Rivas wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Don deJuan wrote: Maybe you are using GRUB2 with the GFX options this link talks about: https://wiki.archlinux.org/**index.php/GRUB2#Setting_the_** framebuffer_resolution<https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GR

Re: [arch-general] nvidia 295.59-1 dmesg output

2012-06-18 Thread Don deJuan
On 06/18/2012 03:57 AM, Rodrigo Rivas wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Don deJuan wrote: I do not seem to find any mention of VGA in the boot parameters. The only place I see it mentioned is in grub.cfg where it loads the modules before you even put your kernel info (insmod vga). But

Re: [arch-general] nvidia 295.59-1 dmesg output

2012-06-17 Thread Don deJuan
On 06/17/2012 09:10 PM, gt wrote: On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 10:16:55AM -0700, Don deJuan wrote: Are you still seeing the output in the newest one that came after this update push? I am still seeing it. Not sure I really get what the issue even is. Just upgraded to the latest driver, and yes i

Re: [arch-general] nvidia 295.59-1 dmesg output

2012-06-17 Thread Don deJuan
On 06/16/2012 05:45 AM, gt wrote: On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 01:40:08AM -0700, Don deJuan wrote: On 06/15/2012 11:33 PM, gt wrote: On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 06:55:10AM +0100, Jason Steadman wrote: On 16 June 2012 06:46, gt wrote: Hey guys, after upgrading to 295.59 from 295.53, i am seeing the

Re: [arch-general] gcc 4.7.1 - any estimate for Arch?

2012-06-16 Thread Don deJuan
On 06/16/2012 01:17 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/15/2012 06:49 PM, Ionut Biru wrote: OMFG. Arch is not rolling anymore. WTF? - -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Because you were asking basically right after that version released upstream. I ca

Re: [arch-general] nvidia 295.59-1 dmesg output

2012-06-16 Thread Don deJuan
On 06/15/2012 11:33 PM, gt wrote: On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 06:55:10AM +0100, Jason Steadman wrote: On 16 June 2012 06:46, gt wrote: Hey guys, after upgrading to 295.59 from 295.53, i am seeing the following in the dmesg output: NVRM: Your system is not currently configured to drive a VGA cons

Re: [arch-general] nvidia 295.59-1 dmesg output

2012-06-16 Thread Don deJuan
On 06/15/2012 11:33 PM, gt wrote: On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 06:55:10AM +0100, Jason Steadman wrote: On 16 June 2012 06:46, gt wrote: Hey guys, after upgrading to 295.59 from 295.53, i am seeing the following in the dmesg output: NVRM: Your system is not currently configured to drive a VGA cons

Re: [arch-general] Shutdown and reboot not working after last weekend update

2012-06-15 Thread Don deJuan
On 06/15/2012 02:48 PM, Victor Silva wrote: 2012/6/15 Don deJuan On 06/15/2012 08:29 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: On 06/14/2012 03:12 PM, Victor Silva wrote: I have no shares. Can I somehow try to umount everything in mtab? I'm not familiar with the internal workings of mtab. I will r

Re: [arch-general] Shutdown and reboot not working after last weekend update

2012-06-15 Thread Don deJuan
On 06/15/2012 08:29 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: On 06/14/2012 03:12 PM, Victor Silva wrote: I have no shares. Can I somehow try to umount everything in mtab? I'm not familiar with the internal workings of mtab. I will read a bit. Also the only thing I assume could be hanging is my external HD whi

Re: [arch-general] Shutdown and reboot not working after last weekend update

2012-06-15 Thread Don deJuan
On 06/15/2012 08:29 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: On 06/14/2012 03:12 PM, Victor Silva wrote: I have no shares. Can I somehow try to umount everything in mtab? I'm not familiar with the internal workings of mtab. I will read a bit. Also the only thing I assume could be hanging is my external HD whi

Re: [arch-general] Switching betweenX and TTY freezes WM

2012-06-10 Thread Don deJuan
On 06/10/2012 05:30 PM, Sébastien le Preste de Vauban wrote: El 10/06/12 20:18, John Briggs escribió: On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 07:35:45AM +0800, 逸冰欧阳 wrote: I also have the same problem. And remember that Ubuntu, Fedora work well, so I wonder whether it is a bug. On Jun 11, 2012 4:21 AM, "Mateu

Re: [arch-general] Switching betweenX and TTY freezes WM

2012-06-10 Thread Don deJuan
On 06/10/2012 01:21 PM, Mateusz Loskot wrote: On 10 June 2012 20:35, Sébastien le Preste de Vauban wrote: El 10/06/12 14:11, Mateusz Loskot escribió: On 10 June 2012 19:03, Javier Vasquez wrote: On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Mateusz Loskot wrote: I have been observing strange issues

Re: [arch-general] Powertop tunables and performance

2012-05-31 Thread Don deJuan
On 05/31/2012 08:15 AM, Calvin Morrison wrote: On 31 May 2012 11:11, Don deJuan wrote: On 05/31/2012 08:10 AM, Jesse Juhani Jaara wrote: to, 2012-05-31 kello 08:07 -0700, Don deJuan kirjoitti: put them in a script such as handler.sh so when you're on AC or BAT then the script takes ca

Re: [arch-general] Powertop tunables and performance

2012-05-31 Thread Don deJuan
On 05/31/2012 08:10 AM, Jesse Juhani Jaara wrote: to, 2012-05-31 kello 08:07 -0700, Don deJuan kirjoitti: put them in a script such as handler.sh so when you're on AC or BAT then the script takes care of handling all that? Seems way easier to me and is what I do. In AUR there is script c

Re: [arch-general] Powertop tunables and performance

2012-05-31 Thread Don deJuan
On 05/31/2012 07:59 AM, Calvin Morrison wrote: On 31 May 2012 04:47, Martin Cigorraga wrote: From my subjective own experience, it don't, the only thing I don't activate when my laptop is plugged is the mouse switch since it instructs the system to turnoff the USB port whenever there's no acti

Re: [arch-general] drop slim in favor of lightdm

2012-05-08 Thread Don deJuan
On 05/08/2012 06:28 AM, Nicholas MIller wrote: On May 8, 2012 7:27 AM, "Stephen E. Baker" wrote: On 08/05/2012 5:14 AM, Allan McRae wrote: On 08/05/12 18:35, Christian Hesse wrote: Hello everybody, slim has some known security weaknesses (for example it has no separate greeter process thus

Re: [arch-general] wget

2012-05-02 Thread Don deJuan
On 05/02/2012 12:44 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 15:28 -0400, Taylor Hedberg wrote: Jeremiah Dodds, Wed 2012-05-02 @ 15:18:03-0400: A poking, or an RTFM, sure. All I'm saying is that what you posted doesn't help the noob. RTFM helps the noob. Pointing out that this place has no

Re: [arch-general] wget

2012-05-02 Thread Don deJuan
On 05/02/2012 12:18 PM, Jeremiah Dodds wrote: Don deJuan writes: On 05/02/2012 11:35 AM, Jeremiah Dodds wrote: Don deJuan writes: Um, was a sarcastic joke LOL Yes, with no indication in reply to a genuine (and fairly reasonable, if you remember being a newbie to linux) question. LOL

Re: [arch-general] wget

2012-05-02 Thread Don deJuan
On 05/02/2012 11:47 AM, Calvin Morrison wrote: On 05/02/2012 02:42 PM, Don deJuan wrote: On 05/02/2012 11:35 AM, Jeremiah Dodds wrote: Don deJuan writes: Um, was a sarcastic joke LOL Yes, with no indication in reply to a genuine (and fairly reasonable, if you remember being a newbie to

Re: [arch-general] wget

2012-05-02 Thread Don deJuan
On 05/02/2012 11:35 AM, Jeremiah Dodds wrote: Don deJuan writes: Um, was a sarcastic joke LOL Yes, with no indication in reply to a genuine (and fairly reasonable, if you remember being a newbie to linux) question. LOL ok thanks for your educational reminder. Next time I will RTFM of

Re: [arch-general] wget

2012-05-02 Thread Don deJuan
On 05/02/2012 07:10 AM, Jeremiah Dodds wrote: Don deJuan writes: On 05/02/2012 12:25 AM, Debashish Saha wrote: are the commands are different for archlinux and linuxmint? i dont know, if it is so sorry for disturbing you.can u say what is mailling list for linuxmint? On Wed, May 2, 2012 at

Re: [arch-general] wget

2012-05-02 Thread Don deJuan
On 05/02/2012 12:25 AM, Debashish Saha wrote: are the commands are different for archlinux and linuxmint? i dont know, if it is so sorry for disturbing you.can u say what is mailling list for linuxmint? On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Diep Pham Van wrote: You go to Arch Linux mailing list to

Re: [arch-general] A couple of surprises

2012-04-12 Thread Don deJuan
On 04/12/2012 02:19 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote: On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:15 PM, Don deJuan wrote: On 04/12/2012 02:10 PM, Guillermo Leira wrote: Hello! Last upgrade of udev [2012-04-12 20:16] upgraded udev (182-1 ->181-9) Makes my gnome-shell start in "alternate" mode. And

Re: [arch-general] A couple of surprises

2012-04-12 Thread Don deJuan
On 04/12/2012 02:10 PM, Guillermo Leira wrote: Hello! Last upgrade of udev [2012-04-12 20:16] upgraded udev (182-1 -> 181-9) Makes my gnome-shell start in "alternate" mode. And last upgrade of consolekit [2012-04-12 20:26] upgraded consolekit (0.4.5-2 -> 0.4.6-1) makes that when I insert a

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.3.1-1

2012-04-12 Thread Don deJuan
On 04/11/2012 03:55 PM, Alessio 'Blaster' Biancalana wrote: I installed Linux 3.3.1 yesterday, wifi authentication over protected networks is definitely broken for ath9k. I can connect to open networks, but if I try to connect to a WPA/WPA2 net (didn't try with WEP), after this I can't connect to

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.3.1-1

2012-04-12 Thread Don deJuan
On 04/11/2012 03:55 PM, Alessio 'Blaster' Biancalana wrote: I installed Linux 3.3.1 yesterday, wifi authentication over protected networks is definitely broken for ath9k. I can connect to open networks, but if I try to connect to a WPA/WPA2 net (didn't try with WEP), after this I can't connect to

Re: [arch-general] unable to update system, pacman acting up (again!)

2012-04-11 Thread Don deJuan
On 04/11/2012 09:49 AM, Madhurya Kakati wrote: Hi, I am unable to update my system. I guess this problem has occurred to me before but unfortunately I forgot how to get around it. [papul@archlinux ~]$ sudo pacman -Su Password: :: The following packages should be upgraded first : pacman :: Do you

Re: [arch-general] Grub2

2012-03-28 Thread Don deJuan
On 03/28/2012 01:00 AM, Kirill Churin wrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Don deJuan wrote: ok well not obvious to me as they were there and working before grub2's most recent 2 updates that came through. Now no longer, sorry if its just noise You can try to regenerate them: mkini

Re: [arch-general] Grub2

2012-03-28 Thread Don deJuan
On 03/28/2012 12:49 AM, Kirill Churin wrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Don deJuan wrote: ls /boot grub lost+found initramfs-linux-fallback.img memtest86+ initramfs-linux.img root initramfs-linux-qosmio-fallback.img vmlinuz-linux

Re: [arch-general] Grub2

2012-03-28 Thread Don deJuan
On 03/28/2012 12:00 AM, Kirill Churin wrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Don deJuan wrote: On 03/28/2012 12:42 AM, Ronny Karrestad wrote: I had no issue installing grub2, I only noticed it was missing the fallback image when I needed it as both my kernel and arch paniced on boot so was

Re: [arch-general] Grub2

2012-03-27 Thread Don deJuan
On 03/28/2012 12:42 AM, Ronny Karrestad wrote: På Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:43:36 -, skrev Don deJuan : On 03/26/2012 03:08 AM, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: On Monday 26 Mar 2012 02:18:53 Saurav Modak wrote: Have you tried manually adding it in grub.cfg BTW? Editing grub.cfg is a naughty thing to

Re: [arch-general] Grub2

2012-03-27 Thread Don deJuan
On 03/26/2012 03:08 AM, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: On Monday 26 Mar 2012 02:18:53 Saurav Modak wrote: Have you tried manually adding it in grub.cfg BTW? Editing grub.cfg is a naughty thing to do with Grub2 :p The "correct" thing to do would be to add the fallback to /etc/grub.d/41_custom. Howev

Re: [arch-general] Package signing: database signatures?

2012-03-11 Thread Don deJuan
On 03/10/2012 08:12 AM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 10:42:15 +0100 Florian Pritz wrote: You should read pacman.conf(5) "PACKAGE AND DATABASE SIGNATURE CHECKING" and use "Optional PackageRequired" Quick question and I'm guessing the answer will be just to wait and that's fine. T

Re: [arch-general] Source control on /etc

2012-02-23 Thread Don deJuan
On 02/23/2012 08:43 AM, Dennis Börm wrote: On 02/23/2012 05:36 PM, Taylor Hedberg wrote: Alfredo Palhares, Thu 2012-02-23 @ 17:24:01+0100: Excerpts from Matthew Monaco's message of Thu Feb 23 17:08:46 +0100 2012: What about permissions and ownership? These are pretty important for /etc. What

Re: [arch-general] Source control on /etc

2012-02-23 Thread Don deJuan
On 02/23/2012 08:56 AM, Alfredo Palhares wrote: Excerpts from Taylor Hedberg's message of Thu Feb 23 17:36:00 +0100 2012: But that's problematic for files in /etc, many of which require specific ownership or mode bits set/unset. You don't want your VCS to elide the fact that /etc/shadow should o

Re: [arch-general] Source control on /etc

2012-02-23 Thread Don deJuan
On 02/22/2012 11:48 PM, Alfredo Palhares wrote: Hello Don, Excerpts from Don deJuan's message of Thu Feb 23 07:35:52 +0100 2012: What is considered the Arch way to have version control over the configs in /etc? I would like to be able to see at least a few changes back in my config history at t

[arch-general] Source control on /etc

2012-02-22 Thread Don deJuan
What is considered the Arch way to have version control over the configs in /etc? I would like to be able to see at least a few changes back in my config history at the minimum. I have seen the package etckeeper and it does not seem to really fully be setup to work with pacman. Both AUR packag

Re: [arch-general] How to set grub2 resolution to 1366x768

2012-02-20 Thread Don deJuan
On 02/20/2012 08:51 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 11:21 +0800, Bill Sun wrote: According to `vbeinfo` under grub2, the maximum resolution my laptop (or my laptop's BIOS, I have no idea about this) supports is 1024x768. However, in Linux, I got a 1366x768 console by default (witho

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia Driver issues

2012-02-07 Thread Don deJuan
On 02/04/2012 07:08 AM, Martti Kühne wrote: On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 07:08:34AM -0800, Don deJuan wrote: pgrep -P `pidof openbox` | xargs kill -s SIGTERM sleep 5 it throws an error in regards to pgrep, I believe but it goes by so quickly I can not read the whole thing. So not really sure whats

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia Driver issues

2012-02-02 Thread Don deJuan
On 01/30/2012 04:23 PM, Martti Kühne wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 02:19:05PM -0800, Don deJuan wrote: Well still nothing in the logs that even resemble any help for me which is becoming frustrating. Though with further testing what I thought helped does not appear to have. I was able to

Re: [arch-general] Old pkgbuilds need to be removed from abs tree

2012-02-01 Thread Don deJuan
On 02/01/2012 09:32 AM, sitquietly wrote: I've noticed that /var/abs/extra still contains kdeutils and kdeaccessibility, with PKGBUILDs for the old 4.7.4 version. Those have been replaced in kde 4.8.0 with a set of packages kdeutils-* and kdeaccessibility-* The obsolete directories should be re

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia Driver issues

2012-01-30 Thread Don deJuan
to a few couple of days until the official releases hit the repositories ;). Sure enough, the Arch package is up to date, so this shouldn't be a problem. As long as you don't run a custom kernel you don't have to worry about any kernel modules either. Am 30.01.2012 08:47, schrieb

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia Driver issues

2012-01-30 Thread Don deJuan
. I verified my card is still supported by the main blob. I normally do download the blob directly and install it on other OS's but its the same version through pacman as on the site right now. Am 30.01.2012 08:47, schrieb Don deJuan: If anyone has any other tips/suggestions I am open

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia Driver issues

2012-01-29 Thread Don deJuan
On 01/29/2012 11:28 AM, Karol Babioch wrote: Hi, do you have any log files? Because helping you just by reading about the issues is quite hard. I haven't experienced anything similar to your description so far. Am 29.01.2012 19:54, schrieb Don deJuan: but on arch forums and on here I re

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia Driver issues

2012-01-29 Thread Don deJuan
have. Nothing in Xorg logs, everything.log, nothing in Nvidia logs show there even was a hang/lock up. Its really bizarre Is there a way I can start things to possibly log this? Am 29.01.2012 19:54, schrieb Don deJuan: but on arch forums and on here I read of many people with no issue with curr

[arch-general] Nvidia Driver issues

2012-01-29 Thread Don deJuan
First off I just would like to start off by saying please do not tell me to use nouveau. They do not work and have not worked for me on multiple distros for well over a year now. I also need cuda support on my laptop. I am currently running the xorg-nv driver. I am at a complete loss as far as

Re: [arch-general] Hi from a new Arch user

2012-01-07 Thread Don deJuan
On 01/07/2012 01:05 AM, Ionut Biru wrote: On 01/07/2012 10:37 AM, Peter Nikolic wrote: Morning all well installed Arch still a few small glitches to solve but looking good Pete . Welcome, new Archer here as well Your soul is now ours. Congratulation. No kidding I have not felt this addi

Re: [arch-general] [solved] PKGBUILD question

2012-01-07 Thread Don deJuan
On 01/06/2012 10:57 PM, Magnus Therning wrote: On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 07:41:32PM -0800, Don Juan wrote: I am trying to update a AUR pkgbuild I found and the source file when I download it has a - in the file name name_2.0.1-beta1 I figure out using ${pkgver//_/-} converts it properly when lis