Re: [arch-general] Need to meet a tech guy

2012-09-13 Thread John K Pate
> > Thank you. > > > > Hey, I'm not really a tech guy and don't speak French, but I use R pretty > much every day. If you want any help you can ask me. Same here :) -- John K Pate http://jkpate.net -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

Re: [arch-general] Pacman and Systemd's automount

2012-09-05 Thread John K Pate
default being hang forever? I would imagine the reason is to avoid making assumptions about how long it takes every device to come up. See also: halting problem. You could argue that some long default is sensible, but this is not the systemd development list... -- John K Pate http://jkpate.n

Re: [arch-general] [Bulk] Re: systemd pulseaudio

2012-08-29 Thread John K Pate
;t need sudo or su to sign a package with your own key, just import your own (public) key into the pacman keyring as normal and trust it. -- John K Pate http://jkpate.net/ The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

Re: [arch-general] systemd pulseaudio

2012-08-29 Thread John K Pate
> > > > $ lscpi > bash: lscpi: command not found !!! > > I guess something must be wrong in my systemd settings. The "p" comes before the "c": lspci lspci is unrelated to systemd. -- John K Pate http://jkpate.net/ The University of Edinburgh is

Re: [arch-general] systemd-readahead

2012-08-22 Thread John K Pate
ystemd-readahead-collect.service # systemctl enable systemd-readahead-replay.service I didn't do anything special, and it works fine: $ ls -l /.readahead -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17377 Aug 22 09:30 /.readahead -- John K Pate http://jkpate.net/ The University of Edinburgh is a charitab

Re: [arch-general] SystemD poll

2012-08-16 Thread John K Pate
representative random sample. -- John K Pate http://jkpate.net/ The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

Re: [arch-general] Think twice before moving to systemd

2012-08-16 Thread John K Pate
problem, there must be some other underlying cause. A constructive response would work towards finding and addressing the other underlying cause. > No. You clearly don't understand how epistemology works, and I'm not > going to explain it to you. irony of ironies... -- John K Pate h

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Migration to systemd

2012-08-15 Thread John K Pate
not simple. The basic idea behind systemd, as I understand it, *is* simple: specify only what needs to be specified about the boot process and daemon start-up and management. -- John K Pate http://jkpate.net/ The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

Re: [arch-general] Polkit and systemd

2012-08-14 Thread John K Pate
? I start fluxbox that way, and switching to: startx -- vt01 prevents a different virtual terminal from being started, and everything works fine. -- John K Pate http://jkpate.net/ The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

Re: [arch-general] Glibc problems still failing

2012-07-16 Thread John K Pate
om the aur) will move the offending file to /usr/lib/. -- John K Pate http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/s0930006/ The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

Re: [arch-general] Why Multiple Forums for different issues? Arch Linux/ARM?

2012-07-10 Thread John K Pate
> Now, what's the confusion here? People seem to think that you are part > of the main Arch Linux project and are thus confused as to why you have > separate forums. I've only seen one person express confusion on this point... is this really a problem? -

Re: [arch-general] Request of printing warnings at the end of pacman upgrade

2012-07-01 Thread John K Pate
stem, no one will > check the log. Isn't this taken care of by just checking the news before upgrading, which you should do anyway? -- John K Pate http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/s0930006/ The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

Re: [arch-general] locale variables

2012-06-24 Thread John K Pate
//wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacnew_and_Pacsave_Files So you should merge /etc/locale.gen with /etc/locale.gen.pacnew, make sure the relevant locales are uncommented, run locale-gen, and then delete your .pacnew file. -- John K Pate http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/s0930006/ The University of E

Re: [arch-general] a bit more script

2012-03-20 Thread John K Pate
> Thanks to John K Pate but i dont at the moment have time to sit and > digest heaps of variables i just need to solve this one problem . > You want to be able to change "img_0004.jpg" to "img_0004_s.jpg", right? You can use the built-in string replace function

Re: [arch-general] a bit more script

2012-03-20 Thread John K Pate
s fact up that means > i have an edit job every time . help with mods please folks https://www.google.com/search?q=string+handling+bash == John K Pate http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/s0930006/ -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

Re: [arch-general] problem with pulseaudio when resuming from pm-suspend

2012-03-09 Thread John K Pate
y again to talk to > > it), e.g. start pavucontrol, everything is normal again. what does lsof /dev/snd/* say when you resme from pm-suspend? == John K Pate http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/s0930006/ -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

Re: [arch-general] Current PKGBUILD that pulls directly from git? [SOLVED]

2012-02-21 Thread John K Pate
ind /var/abs/ -name PKGBUILD -exec grep -l "git clone" {} \; are a bit more straightforward == John K Pate http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/s0930006/ -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

Re: [arch-general] Google earth

2012-01-28 Thread John K Pate
On Sat, 2012-01-28 at 13:14 +, Peter G Nikolic wrote: > Hi > > Does anyone have a method of getting google earth to work i HAVE tried the > stuff in AUR it fails completely the packages it complains about are all out > of > date and have so many deps that are also out of date it is like c

Re: [arch-general] PKGBUILD help

2012-01-28 Thread John K Pate
mation is available at: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR == John K Pate http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/s0930006/ -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

Re: [arch-general] tp_smapi - LENOVO g470

2012-01-18 Thread John K Pate
> [root@G470 tp_smapi]# did you actually install (pacman -U) the rebuilt version? == John K Pate http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/s0930006/ -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

Re: [arch-general] [Non-Bulk] Re: Top Posting Revisited

2011-12-16 Thread John K Pate
explain this person > that (s)he might should reconsider the style. If this person ignore your > inquiry simply use a spam filter. So, after today, anybody who top-posts will get flooded with private emails pointing it out? Maybe that would work... == John K Pate http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.

Re: [arch-general] How do I uncomment a locale?

2011-12-15 Thread John K Pate
> What is the difference between en_GB, en_US and en_AU ? Is the motd > updated to tell you "Good morning, Sir", "Hi guy" or "Good day, mate"? man 7 locale This affects stuff like spelling differences, dd/mm/ or mm/dd/ dates, 12 hour or

Re: [arch-general] Vim with X

2011-11-15 Thread John K Pate
On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 22:58 +0100, Manolo Martínez wrote: > On 11/15/11 at 11:57pm, Ray Rashif wrote: > > On 15 November 2011 22:00, Manolo Martínez wrote: > > The policy had already been revised when the split was made to have > > vim and gvim. Vim had to become lightweight as many people were >

Re: [arch-general] A question about installing Arch

2011-10-15 Thread John K Pate
On Sun, 2011-10-16 at 00:33 +0200, Christian wrote: > Hi all, > Thanks a lot for your replies. > I have the network installation CD of Arch here so then, what you are saying > is that it should download the old packages and then I just upgrade the > system with pacman after it has installed? Yes

Re: [arch-general] Can't install e4rat from AUR: pacman fails to install missing dependencies

2011-10-09 Thread John K Pate
> error: target not found: audit > ==> ERROR: 'pacman' failed to install missing dependencies. > > I performed a search with pacman -Ss, and audit seems not to be in the > repos. Has anyone encountered this problem yet? It's in the AUR. pacman -Ss searches only the official repositories. John

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Installation of libreoffice

2011-08-03 Thread John K Pate
On Wed, 2011-08-03 at 15:27 +0200, Heiko Baums wrote: > Am Wed, 3 Aug 2011 21:10:53 +0800 > schrieb Auguste Pop : > > > i thought there was a choosing phase before actually install a > > language pack when upgrading. the default choice is alphabetically the > > first, which may caused the problem

Re: [arch-general] Something Broken with Perl!

2011-06-30 Thread John K Pate
was due to recompiling or the new version, however. == John K Pate http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/s0930006/ -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

Re: [arch-general] Anybody else have problems with the new Nvidia drivers (275.09.07-1)

2011-06-17 Thread John K Pate
lications like Chromium > > alter the size, so they don't trigger it. > > > > > > [1] http://www.abload.de/img/nvbugy7cd.jpg > > Are we sure ths is a bug with the nVidia driver? Can someone load that image > who isn't using it? > Loads fine f

Re: [arch-general] pacman tries to install nvidia drivers?

2011-06-08 Thread John K Pate
> Probably this bug https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/24608 Oh yes, it's exactly that. I removed luxrender (which I've ended up not using) and the update goes through fine. Thanks, John K Pate http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/s0930006/ -- The University of Edinburgh is a ch

[arch-general] pacman tries to install nvidia drivers?

2011-06-08 Thread John K Pate
l-dri installed and my graphics work fine. I assume the dependency cycle is unrelated... Thanks, John K Pate http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/s0930006/ -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

Re: [arch-general] libre office java support

2011-04-13 Thread John K Pate
> > > > libreoffice depends on java-runtime, which is no real package. > > java-runtine is provided by the openjdk6 and jre package, so it does > > not matter which you use. > > > I suspected as much when both packages seemed to work :-) > but can we change the Libre Office packages to depend upo

Re: [arch-general] eigen version

2011-03-24 Thread John K Pate
gen-3.0.0-1 from another source? > > pacman -Qi eigen gives what's bellow. I can't find a way to tell me the > source of the package. try "grep ^Server /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist | head -n 1" ;) As noted above, you just need to pick a more up-to-date mirror. == Jo

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

2011-01-21 Thread John K Pate
> > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0&K=systemd&do_Search=Go > > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0&K=systemd-arch-units-git&do_Search=Go > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40419 They just didn't put "-git" on the end, but it is a git package JKP -- The University of

Re: [arch-general] wicd startup issues

2010-11-17 Thread John K Pate
wicd' expects python2, and `python' now calls `python3'. == John K Pate Student, PhD Informatics Informatics Forum 3.35 The University of Edinburgh http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/s0930006/ -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

Re: [arch-general] wicd startup issues

2010-11-17 Thread John K Pate
On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 13:50 -0500, Samuel Baldwin wrote: > After a fresh install of wicd (I pacman -Sy'd yesterday), it won't > seem to start; not really sure what to do here. Did you "pacman -Sy" or "pacman -Syu"? Probably has to do with the move to python3.

Re: [arch-general] dualboot?

2010-05-27 Thread John K Pate
7;, you should get used to working with a variety of programming languages. There's no single language which is perfect for every job. == John K Pate http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/s0930006/ -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.