Re: [arch-general] PKGBUILD parser

2010-05-09 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 05/09/2010 05:53 AM, Andre "Osku" Schmidt wrote: Well, my second rewrite seems also come to a dead-end, and before i rewrite this again, i was hoping someone here could give me tips on what would be the best method to parse a PKGBUILD file ? you can play with my latest fail here: http://osku

Re: [arch-general] Arch shutdown because of firefox

2010-05-11 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 05/10/2010 11:14 PM, Handsome Cheung wrote: hi all, I am a newbie for ArchLinux. My computer often shuts down suddenly when I browse web site. It brings me to TTY and said "The system is going down for system halt NOW!". I found that is because of the crash of flash plugin of firefox. And

Re: [arch-general] Question regarding the ArchLinux iso core image

2010-05-18 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 05/18/2010 03:34 AM, Jan de Groot wrote: On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 03:17 -0400, Keith Hinton wrote: Hi. I've recently seen threads on this list pertaining to interesting issues with the Arch Linux core isos. I haven't had that problem in my primary tests of those Isos in particular. Is there any

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] New core package: linux-firmware

2010-05-19 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 05/19/2010 05:39 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: As a followup to a discussion on [arch-general] in the Linux 2.6.34 thread ([1] and others), I think we should do the following: - Create a linux-firmware package from the linux-firmware.git tree. - Make that package conflict and replace all other fi

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] New core package: linux-firmware

2010-05-19 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 05/19/2010 06:40 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 20.05.2010 00:30, schrieb Matthew Monaco: Maybe this is a little premature, or altogether irrelevant, but now that we're reorganizing all of the firmware what can we expect in terms of its inclusion in the initcpio? Is there a d

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] New core package: linux-firmware

2010-05-19 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 05/19/2010 07:38 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 20.05.2010 00:49, schrieb Matthew Monaco: Does anyone know what the point of that radeon hook in the AUR is then? All it does is add the radeon module and include the "radeon" firmware files - which I see are listed by 'modinfo

[arch-general] Gnome - blank dialog when resuming from suspend

2010-05-21 Thread Matthew Monaco
I'm having trouble finding a bug report on this but I've experienced it on 4 different computers. When I suspend (pm-utils) though System -> Shut Down -> Suspend (button), the shut down dialog is still on the screen and blank, when I resume. Anyone know exactly what's responsible for this? gnom

Re: [arch-general] Gnome - blank dialog when resuming from suspend

2010-05-22 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 05/22/2010 12:40 AM, Flavio Costa wrote: On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Matthew Monacowrote: I'm having trouble finding a bug report on this but I've experienced it on 4 different computers. When I suspend (pm-utils) though System -> Shut Down -> Suspend (button), the shut down dialog is

Re: [arch-general] Gnome - blank dialog when resuming from suspend

2010-05-23 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 05/23/2010 05:16 AM, Philipp Ittershagen wrote: Hi, On Sat, 22 May 2010 00:03:39 -0400 Matthew Monaco wrote: I'm having trouble finding a bug report on this but I've experienced it on 4 different computers. When I suspend (pm-utils) though System -> Shut Down -> Suspe

Re: [arch-general] Gnome - blank dialog when resuming from suspend

2010-05-23 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 05/23/2010 02:22 PM, Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: On Sat, 2010-05-22 at 00:03 -0400, Matthew Monaco wrote: I'm having trouble finding a bug report on this but I've experienced it on 4 different computers. When I suspend (pm-utils) though System -> Shut Down -> Suspend (button

Re: [arch-general] Compiling Firefox

2010-05-30 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 05/30/2010 10:53 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: Hi, In order to improve firefox's reponse time, I'm thinking of compiling firefox with gcc's -O3 and -march settings from the ABS. Any tips on that matter, about updates, etc. ? Try firefox-pgo. You have to be careful with gcc options when co

[arch-general] getting fed up with gnome's fast-user-switching experience

2010-05-31 Thread Matthew Monaco
Maybe some of you have had similar problems, maybe some have fixed them, seen them vanish with updates, or are still dealing with them. On pretty much every computer I interact with that uses Gnome (Arch, et al.) there is always one problem or another trying to log out, switch users, or resume

Re: [arch-general] getting fed up with gnome's fast-user-switching experience

2010-06-01 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 06/01/2010 02:56 AM, Phil Garner wrote: On pretty much every computer I interact with that uses Gnome (Arch, et al.) there is always one problem or another trying to log out, switch users, or resume from suspend. The symptom is usually a blank screen (with or without the backlight), or a blank

Re: [arch-general] udev

2010-06-08 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 06/08/2010 02:41 AM, Jan de Groot wrote: On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 15:16 +0900, Juan Diego Tascón wrote: Good day, I'm getting an error every time I plug-in my webcam as a result the corresponding module is not being loaded automatically so I have to load it by myself. Any one knows a way to fix

Re: [arch-general] Do I need HAL?

2010-06-21 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 06/21/2010 06:35 AM, Guillermo Leira wrote: WOW nice. So HAL is not needed anymore ? Not for X. You may still need it for other things... Allan Most notabaly KDE and Thunar and in gnome with gnome-power-manager to have some special keys support Hi, How can I know if I still need HAL

[arch-general] where is vga_switcheroo?

2010-07-27 Thread Matthew Monaco
m...@office ~$ zcat /proc/config.gz | grep -i switch CONFIG_VGA_SWITCHEROO=y m...@office ~$ uname -a Linux office 2.6.34-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jul 5 22:12:11 CEST 2010 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux m...@office ~$ ls /sys/kernel/debug/ bdi dri hid mce

Re: [arch-general] where is vga_switcheroo?

2010-07-28 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 07/28/2010 09:43 AM, Raghavendra D Prabhu wrote: * On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 07:11:44AM -0400, Matthew Monaco wrote: m...@office ~$ zcat /proc/config.gz | grep -i switch CONFIG_VGA_SWITCHEROO=y m...@office ~$ uname -a Linux office 2.6.34-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jul 5 22:12:11 CEST 2010

Re: [arch-general] where is vga_switcheroo?

2010-07-28 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 07/28/2010 08:23 PM, Matthew Monaco wrote: On 07/28/2010 09:43 AM, Raghavendra D Prabhu wrote: * On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 07:11:44AM -0400, Matthew Monaco wrote: m...@office ~$ zcat /proc/config.gz | grep -i switch CONFIG_VGA_SWITCHEROO=y m...@office ~$ uname -a Linux office 2.6.34-ARCH #1

Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] Forum Update in Progress

2010-07-29 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 07/29/2010 09:01 PM, Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Allan McRae wrote: Allan McRae wrote: The update of our forum software to FluxBB 1.4 is currently in progress and may take a few more hours. In the meantime, enjoy this video of [funny cats][1]. [1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rb

Re: [arch-general] User list missing in gdm

2010-08-05 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 08/05/2010 02:06 PM, Guillermo Leira wrote: Hello! Some weeks ago, the gdm user list disappeared. I have been trying everything that I have found, but no luck. If I reboot the computer several times, it finishes working, or if I issue a /etc/rc.d/gdm restart. But this is my wife's computer

Re: [arch-general] /etc/profile PATH variable wrong

2010-08-16 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 08/16/2010 09:22 AM, Heiko Baums wrote: Am Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:18:58 +1000 schrieb Allan McRae: Can also haz bug report? --> http://bugs.archlinux.org/ FYI, there was one a while back... It was closed as won't fix. Why? Heiko http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12231

Re: [arch-general] /etc/profile PATH variable wrong

2010-08-16 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 08/16/2010 07:50 PM, Heiko Baums wrote: Am Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:42:55 -0400 schrieb Matthew Monaco: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12231 I requested to re-open this bug. Heiko I didn't give the link so you could reopen it. I think the short discussion makes it clear that local

Re: [arch-general] How to convert a 32-bit system to 64-bit?

2010-09-05 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 09/05/2010 01:03 AM, Lauri Niskanen wrote: I have a working 32-bit Arch Linux server. It's more like a testing playground than a production server. I decided to convert it to a 64-bit system. I could reinstall Arch, but is there any easier way to do the "upgrade"? I'd like to retain my list o

Re: [arch-general] sudoers file change - not much on dev list - reason for changes?

2010-09-07 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 09/07/2010 03:13 AM, Allan McRae wrote: On 07/09/10 16:22, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, Got the sudo update with the new sudoers file, Noticed new %sudo group designation along with the traditional %wheel: ## Uncomment to allow members of group sudo to execute any command # %sudo ALL=(ALL)

[arch-general] digital camera not showing as mass storage device

2010-09-07 Thread Matthew Monaco
I can get my digital camera to work with libgphoto stuff like shotwell, but for months now it simply won't show up as a mass storage device. Am I missing a kernel module or something? I loaded usb-storage. I downloaded the Ubuntu 10.10 beta live CD, plugged the camera in, and it popped up fine

Re: [arch-general] digital camera not showing as mass storage device

2010-09-08 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 09/08/2010 05:37 AM, Christoffer Hirth wrote: Matthew Monaco wrote: I can get my digital camera to work with libgphoto stuff like shotwell, but for months now it simply won't show up as a mass storage device. Am I missing a kernel module or something? I loaded usb-storage. I downloade

[arch-general] kernel compilation makeflags

2010-09-16 Thread Matthew Monaco
When I am compiling the kernel (in the chroot). My -j4 makeflag is getting lost. Is this expected?

Re: [arch-general] kernel compilation makeflags

2010-09-16 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 09/16/2010 10:27 PM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 21:25 -0400, Matthew Monaco wrote: When I am compiling the kernel (in the chroot). My -j4 makeflag is getting lost. Is this expected? Is it set in makepkg.conf within the chroot? Yes. I even threw it right in the PKGBUILD too

Re: [arch-general] Any special reason for /etc/shadow.pacnew, or just normal pacman behavior.

2010-09-21 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 09/21/2010 04:02 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, I always diff any new .pacnew files when they are created during an update. Today I got /etc/shadow.pacnew which was a little surprising given that replacing shadow would be bad. The diff showed that the .pacnew entries were already i

[arch-general] speeding up udev (from wiki)

2010-09-21 Thread Matthew Monaco
Are a lot of you using (or not using) the suggestions from the "Speeding up Udev" article? I just tried it by replacing all occurrences of load-modules.sh in /etc/udev/rules.d/*.rules and /lib/udev/rules.d/*.rules with modprobe itself, and implemented blacklisting by adding install MODNAME /bi

Re: [arch-general] Intel GMA 3150 Graphics Card driver

2010-09-23 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 09/23/2010 08:56 AM, Guillaume ALAUX wrote: 2010/9/23 Cédric Girard: On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Adamzyg wrote: thank you. if I max the glxgears window, it only ouput like below: *118 frames in 5.0 seconds = 23.560 FPS* *137 frames in 5.0 seconds = 27.220 FPS* *139 frames in 5.0 sec

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.35.6-1

2010-09-27 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 09/27/2010 08:49 AM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: Latest kernel is in testing, please signoff for both arches. greetings tpowa x86_64 working fine all day

Re: [arch-general] xorg 1.9 breaks

2010-09-30 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 09/30/2010 09:43 PM, kurrata wrote: On 10/01/10 01:27, Stefan Erik Wilkens wrote: 2010/9/30 kurrata: latest xorg update (1.9) breaks it with nvidia-173xx drivers (173.14.27-3). Easy fix, just install previouse xorg AFAIK, current nvidia xorg support is as such: 96.xx range -> up to xserver

[arch-general] scp bash-completion hangs

2010-09-30 Thread Matthew Monaco
Anyone experiencing any issues with bash-completion for scp? When attempting to scp a local file to a remote machine, and I try to tab complete the local filename, bash just hangs until I ctrl-c. Might be be trying to complete the file on a non-existent remote server or something like that?

[arch-general] nvidia and xorg-server 1.9

2010-10-07 Thread Matthew Monaco
I was following the discussion about holding back xorg 1.9 because of the nvidia driver, but I either missed the end of it, or it was left open. Do the nvidia and nvidia-173xx drivers in [extra] work with 1.9? If they do work, either or both, are they still plagued by this performance regressi

Re: [arch-general] nvidia and xorg-server 1.9

2010-10-08 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 10/08/2010 04:14 AM, Ionuț Bîru wrote: On 10/08/2010 03:32 AM, Matthew Monaco wrote: I was following the discussion about holding back xorg 1.9 because of the nvidia driver, but I either missed the end of it, or it was left open. Do the nvidia and nvidia-173xx drivers in [extra] work with

Re: [arch-general] How to do this

2010-10-24 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 10/24/2010 10:45 AM, Lukas Fleischer wrote: On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 05:38:35PM +0300, jesse jaara wrote: I think i miss understoid you, if you wang the output og make to file you can put>/file/path to end if iy ">" won't work since errors are printed to stderr (not stdout) in most cases. "2

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

2010-11-01 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 11/01/2010 02:47 PM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: Hi guys, please signoff 2.6.36 series for both arches and give feedback if real issues arise. I had a problem with .34 which was fixed in .35 and started reappearing in .36. When resuming from suspend, I would often not get video back, I have a

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

2010-11-01 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 10/27/2010 04:55 PM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: Nov. 15-23 I'll be away (I'll be in NY city) If any Arch dev/user is in the area during that time, let me know, we could hook up. Dieter I work in Rockefeller Center (49th and 6th). Anyone else?

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

2010-11-01 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 11/01/2010 10:37 PM, Jason Reardon wrote: On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Allan McRae wrote: On 02/11/10 12:19, Jason Reardon wrote: On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Gaetan Bisson wrote: [2010-11-01 19:26:31 +1000] Allan McRae: db-5.1.19-2 heimdal-1.3.3-2 iproute2-2.3.25-2 libsasl

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

2010-11-07 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 11/01/2010 02:47 PM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: Hi guys, please signoff 2.6.36 series for both arches and give feedback if real issues arise. Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges Features included: - Tomoyo support: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/21533 - Apparmor support:

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

2010-11-08 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 11/08/2010 03:14 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: On 11/07/2010 05:23 PM, Matthew Monaco wrote: Anyone have issues changing from Xorg to one of the tty's? I've got a radeon r600. Mathhew, I'll give it a go after install 2.6.36-3. (Which I'm somewhat scared to do.) This bo

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

2010-11-08 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 11/08/2010 07:34 PM, Matthew Monaco wrote: On 11/08/2010 03:14 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: On 11/07/2010 05:23 PM, Matthew Monaco wrote: Anyone have issues changing from Xorg to one of the tty's? I've got a radeon r600. Mathhew, I'll give it a go after install 2.6.3

Re: [arch-general] Radeon HD 5xxx

2010-11-08 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 11/08/2010 10:38 PM, Andrew Allen Barkley wrote: On 20:22 Mon 08 Nov, Andrew Allen Barkley wrote: I am now an owner of a Radeon HD 5870. I am running testing. The problem I'm having is something crashes after executing startx, crashing the system as well. To get back up and running I have t

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

2010-11-09 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 11/08/2010 07:49 PM, Matthew Monaco wrote: On 11/08/2010 07:34 PM, Matthew Monaco wrote: On 11/08/2010 03:14 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: On 11/07/2010 05:23 PM, Matthew Monaco wrote: Anyone have issues changing from Xorg to one of the tty's? I've got a radeon r600. Mathhew, I&

Re: [arch-general] Archlinux hypervisor

2010-11-22 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 11/22/2010 11:41 AM, C Anthony Risinger wrote: fellow patrons, i am moving my company's in house platforms off of a mix of deprecated soft virtualization solutions like openvz and bare metal installs -- i have decided on using libvirt + kvm (in conjunction with cgroups for qemu and possibly o

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] glibc and minimum kernel version

2010-12-11 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 12/11/2010 10:49 AM, Allan McRae wrote: Hi, I am in the progress of updating the toolchain and thought it time to review what our minimum required kernel version is for glibc. For those that do not know, assuming a newer kernel allows glibc to have less workarounds compiled in. So it may be

[arch-general] kernel 2.6.37 BKL

2011-01-05 Thread Matthew Monaco
Devs, Any plans about the BKL setting in .37? I've been running the rc's without it for a while now.

Re: [arch-general] kernel 2.6.37 BKL

2011-01-05 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 01/05/2011 07:23 PM, Jan Steffens wrote: On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 12:51 AM, Matthew Monaco wrote: Devs, Any plans about the BKL setting in .37? I've been running the rc's without it for a while now. Leave it enabled. It's important for compatibility with older drivers.

Re: [arch-general] Quick question about post-MBR gap?

2012-07-18 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 07/18/2012 12:46 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 7:40 PM, mike cloaked > wrote: >> I am planning a test install using the new arch-install-scripts via the >> latest netinstall images from releng (from today's date). >> >> I know that for a system where I blow away all previou

Re: [arch-general] Roadmap for user-intervention upgrades [was: Still Glibc problems]

2012-07-20 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 07/20/2012 12:41 PM, Manolo Martínez wrote: > It would also be nice to know a bit more of the rationale behind the > moves. I'm sure that they are all for the best, and I trust arch > decision-makers (and one can find out more about the changes by reading > blogs and forum discussions), but stil

Re: [arch-general] How do I should install and configure arch linux

2012-07-25 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 07/25/2012 01:49 PM, brainwor...@lavabit.com wrote: >>> And now the main question. If new plan of reorganization of >>> configuration >>> files can not manage without rc.conf, why there is so need to split it? >> >> rc.conf should now only contain what is necessary to configure the >> initscript

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] btrfs-progs

2012-07-27 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 07/27/2012 01:04 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote: > Hi guys, > > Seems not many of us yet use btrfs, I therefore would like to ask if > any users can signoff on the btrfs-progs in testing (i.e. verify that > the package appears to work). > > In particular, I'm interested to hear if someone who uses bt

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] KDE kdebase-runtime 4.9 dependency changes

2012-08-02 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 08/02/2012 08:27 AM, Dan McGee wrote: > Noticed this when upgrading yesterday. Suddenly got a lot more junk > installed on my system because of the new dep of kdebase-runtime on > kdepimlibs. > > Is this dependency really necessary? Can it not be optional with the > KDE programs that actually r

Re: [arch-general] New install media 2012.08.04 uses ZSH, if I may ask, why?

2012-08-05 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 08/05/2012 11:52 AM, Ricardo Catalinas Jiménez wrote: > I trust Arch devs, they always have good reasons behind their decisions. > So, I'm just curious for the election of Zsh[1] in the new install media. > > [1] http://www.archlinux.org/news/install-media-20120804-available/ > > Regards > h

Re: [arch-general] Screen Scaling Issues

2012-08-08 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 08/08/2012 07:36 AM, Alfredo Palhares wrote: > Hello, i am having some problems setting up Xorg correctly. > > I have a ATI Radeon 7750 codename "Cape Verde" > VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Cape Verde > PRO [Radeon HD 7700 Series] > > I have a problem when i

Re: [arch-general] Screen Scaling Issues

2012-08-08 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 08/08/2012 09:46 AM, Alfredo Palhares wrote: > Hello Mathew, > > Excerpts from Matthew Monaco's message of Wed Aug 08 16:21:43 +0200 2012: >> Sounds like an underscan/overscan issue. Try >> >> xrandr --output --set underscan off > > masterkorp ~ $ xrandr --output DFP5 --set underscan off > X

Re: [arch-general] old rc.sysinit?

2012-08-14 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 08/14/2012 02:31 PM, Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:22 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Jorge Almeida wrote: >>> I would like to know how Arch used to deal with some init stuff, like >>> configuring virtual consoles, initializing random seed, etc.

Re: [arch-general] /etc/modules-load.d | /etc/modprobe.d -- options determinative?

2012-08-17 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 08/17/2012 08:49 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, > > Reading the wiki pages regarding /etc/modules-load.d and /etc/modprobe.d, is > the only difference that makes /etc/modules-load.d to correct place for the > .conf file a lack of options required on module load? > > Or put another way,

Re: [arch-general] /etc/modules-load.d | /etc/modprobe.d -- options determinative?

2012-08-17 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 08/17/2012 09:10 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: > On 08/17/2012 10:49 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: >> Guys, >> >> Reading the wiki pages regarding /etc/modules-load.d and /etc/modprobe.d, >> is the only difference that makes /etc/modules-load.d to correct place for >> the .conf file a lack of option

Re: [arch-general] simple trick to make dealing with python 2/3 scripts easier

2012-08-17 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 08/17/2012 04:14 PM, Ben Booth wrote: > Ben Booth wrote: > >> >> Maybe I'll submit a feature request to the python package maintainer to >> see if they think it's a good idea. > > I submitted a feature request in case anyone's interested: > > https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?do=details&ac

Re: [arch-general] grub2 + luks + keyfile

2012-08-20 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 08/20/2012 04:47 PM, Adrian Pop wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to configure grub2 to read a keyfile from a usb flash drive > in order to decrypt the root partition. The grub2 wiki page specifies > that in order to decrypt the root partition, the following should be > added in /etc/default/grub

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib move, glibc and curl

2012-08-22 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 08/22/2012 03:54 PM, Damjan wrote: >>> pacman -Syud --ignore glibc >>> >>> and ended in a broken package manager. pacman is linked against libcurl, >>> which is compiled against glibc 2.16.0 and includes versioned symbols. >>> Luckily I had an old curl package around to temporarily fix the probl

Re: [arch-general] libsystemd to systemd

2012-08-30 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 08/30/2012 07:30 PM, baker.stephe...@gmail.com wrote: > On August 31, 2012 02:06:56 AM Mathieu R. wrote: >> Last update (10 minutes ago) asked me if y want switch from libsystemd >> to core/systemd. I agreed, and on next reboot, networkmanager was not >> started automaticly from rc.conf. it work

Re: [arch-general] HARDWARECLOCK and systemd

2012-09-17 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 09/17/2012 08:53 AM, Martín Cigorraga wrote: > I'm moving to systemd (finally!) and I'm stuck at the HARDWARECLOCK section > of rc.conf wiki. > How should be configured /etc/adjtime ? I can't find what should be inside > it. Also there say: " If this value is not set, then the value stored by >

Re: [arch-general] /etc/tmpfiles.d

2012-09-17 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 09/17/2012 09:40 AM, Martín Cigorraga wrote: > "[...]However, tmpfiles may also be used to write values into certain files > on boot. For example, if you use /etc/rc.local to disable wakeup from USB > devices with echo USBE > /proc/acpi/wakeup, you may use the following > tmpfile instead: > >

Re: [arch-general] /etc/tmpfiles.d

2012-09-17 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 09/17/2012 06:44 PM, Curtis Shimamoto wrote: > On 09/17/12 at 10:31am, Matthew Monaco wrote: >> On 09/17/2012 09:40 AM, Mart?n Cigorraga wrote: >>> "[...]However, tmpfiles may also be used to write values into certain files >>> on boot. For example, if you use

Re: [arch-general] want to try systemd but need some advice

2012-09-30 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 09/29/2012 03:29 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 10:59:45PM +0200, Rodrigo Rivas wrote: > >> Well, you can disable the registering of systemd-logind sessions by >> deleting the lines with "pam_systemd.so" from the files /etc/pam.d/*. Not >> sure if that will be enough, or

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] consolekit dependencies?

2012-10-13 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 10/13/2012 09:40 AM, Gerhard Brauer wrote: > Sorry for maybe double-posting, fist sent with wrong from-address > ;-) > > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 04:34:04PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: >> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Thomas Bächler >> wrote: >>> Most (all?) of our login manager still depe

Re: [arch-general] Modify installed package version

2012-10-22 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 10/22/2012 11:05 PM, gt wrote: > Hey guys > > is there a way to modify an installed package's version using pacman, > instead of upgrading the package. That is, only change the version in the > database, but don't actually upgrade a package. > > Alternatively can I rename the package directory

Re: [arch-general] Filesystem and /etc/shadow

2012-10-25 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 10/25/2012 02:36 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Manolo Martínez > wrote: >> The update to filesystem-2012.10-2 brings with it a new /etc/shadow. >> This is one of the cases in which inspecting the diff between what I >> have and the .pacnew doesn't give any insight

Re: [arch-general] help

2012-10-28 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 10/28/2012 12:18 AM, SMR wrote: > Hello.I'm a new users of Archlinux but using Ubuntu for 3 years. > > > I have installed all the system following the guide of beginner's guide. > and I found I could not ping to google after I reboot my computer however > just as 5 minutes before I had just u

Re: [arch-general] Systemd and inactive sessions

2012-11-01 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 11/01/2012 03:43 PM, Leonid Isaev wrote: > Hi, > > I have just noticed that systemd-logind doesn't terminate inactive > sessions. For example, when I login, do something, then relogin, there are 2 > sessions: > $ loginctl >SESSIONUID USER SEAT >

Re: [arch-general] Gotta be a stupid gnome-terminal problem

2013-03-02 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 03/02/2013 07:38 AM, David Benfell wrote: > > Hi all, > > All other terminal emulators work. I have checked--thanks to what little > I found on the web that seemed apropos--to be sure that /dev/pts is > mounted (it is). But when I run gnome-terminal, I get no prompt and > typing in commands do

Re: [arch-general] Gotta be a stupid gnome-terminal problem

2013-03-02 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 03/02/2013 07:17 PM, David Benfell wrote: > > On 03/02/2013 06:08 PM, Matthew Monaco wrote: > > >> You can see if anything is running under the terminal with ps -AHf when >> gnome-terminal is running. Check the preferences under the "Title and > Command&

Re: [arch-general] can't publish keys to network? What?

2013-03-12 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 03/11/2013 11:03 PM, David Benfell wrote: > Hi all, > > I wish I could ask this question intelligently. But I am clueless. > > I'm using the Cinnamon desktop manager. Whenever I log in, I get a > message in the upper left hand corner that claims it "can't publish > keys to the network." I have

[arch-general] downgrades when moving out of [testing]

2013-03-26 Thread Matthew Monaco
I typically upgrade with -uu, and use [*testing]. I've noticed lately that there is a window when a package moves out of [testing] that it will be downgraded. For example, this happened when openssh-6.2 recently moved. Are the packages being removed from [testing] before being added to e.g. [core

Re: [arch-general] downgrades when moving out of [testing]

2013-03-26 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 03/26/2013 07:32 AM, Florian Pritz wrote: > On 26.03.2013 14:22, Matthew Monaco wrote: >> I typically upgrade with -uu, > > Now why would you do that unless you explicitly want to downgrade? This > is only useful if you disable testing and want to downgrade all > packag

Re: [arch-general] NetworkManager from Commandline

2013-05-02 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 05/02/2013 09:53 AM, Alex Sla wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm moving from KDE to Fluxbox, I want to keep using the > NetworkManger. I have configured a lots of connection in it(WiFi / > Cisco VPN for example). But I can't access my secrets to it. > > nmcli con up uuid 7f29abd0-c0d5-4e55-8796 > Error

Re: [arch-general] Texlive 2013 packages releases to [testing] - breakages

2013-07-12 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 07/12/2013 09:11 AM, Genes Lists wrote: > > > ) Started testing texlive 2013 today - I have problems with bibliogrphy. I am > working on a document which worked perfectly under texlive 2012. > > > > A) I installed when it moved to testing >I moved all pacnew files over originals and ran

[arch-general] audio skipping frequently with vlc

2011-03-01 Thread Matthew Monaco
I recently noticed then when playing DVDs and other audio files through VLC that the audio skips frequently. It doesn't get out of sync, just goes mute for a split second. I tried the past few versions of VLC but it still happens, so I guess it's one of the dependencies, but I'm not sure which

Re: [arch-general] audio skipping frequently with vlc

2011-03-02 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 03/02/2011 12:37 PM, Divan Santana wrote: On Wednesday 02 March 2011 08:18:06 Matthew Monaco wrote: I recently noticed then when playing DVDs and other audio files through VLC that the audio skips frequently. It doesn't get out of sync, just goes mute for a split second. I tried the

Re: [arch-general] audio skipping frequently with vlc

2011-03-02 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 03/02/2011 11:24 PM, Isaac Dupree wrote: On 03/02/11 12:37, Divan Santana wrote: On Wednesday 02 March 2011 08:18:06 Matthew Monaco wrote: I recently noticed then when playing DVDs and other audio files through VLC that the audio skips frequently. It doesn't get out of sync, just goes

[arch-general] mysterious gnome webkit dependency, panel clock missing

2011-03-21 Thread Matthew Monaco
When starting gnome here is a delay before the panel shows up, and then the clock is missing. From .xsession-errors: ** (nautilus:3085): WARNING **: libwebkit-1.0.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Installing libwebkit makes this problem go away: The panel loads i

Re: [arch-general] mysterious gnome webkit dependency, panel clock missing

2011-03-22 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 03/22/2011 04:59 AM, Ionuț Bîru wrote: On 03/22/2011 06:13 AM, Matthew Monaco wrote: When starting gnome here is a delay before the panel shows up, and then the clock is missing. From .xsession-errors: ** (nautilus:3085): WARNING **: libwebkit-1.0.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No

Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] GNOME3 in [testing]

2011-04-07 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 04/07/2011 03:01 PM, Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Ionuț Mircea Bîru wrote: Ionuț Mircea Bîru wrote: GNOME 3.0.0 packages are now available in the [testing] repository. These bring with it an update to gtk2, as well as the new gtk3. This is a major update and you should take note of a co

Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] GNOME3 in [testing]

2011-04-08 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 04/08/2011 02:11 AM, Tom Gundersen wrote: On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Matthew Monaco wrote: I like having volume control for HDMI out. And I like that this mysterious starving audio, playing silence, glitch has disappeared. But I don't like that pulse uses so much CPU and i think

Re: [arch-general] - pulseaudio - GNOME3 in [testing]

2011-04-09 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 04/09/2011 04:46 AM, Mauro Santos wrote: On 09-04-2011 02:12, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: PA buffers better than ALSA, or is supposed to, in any case. Of course, if you're using its ALSA-emulation that's a moot point. AFAICR (haven't had this problem for ages), CPU usage from PA is basically caused by

Re: [arch-general] ARCH .y kernel releases do not match kernel.org's

2011-04-24 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 04/24/2011 03:07 AM, Emmanuel Benisty wrote: On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: Am Sonntag 24 April 2011 schrieb Emmanuel Benisty: Hi, I was having some sound issue with ARCH 2.6.38.3 stock kernel so I started to bisect it from Greg KH's 2.6.38.y stable tree. .38.2 w

Re: [arch-general] linux 3.0 kernel testing

2011-06-16 Thread Matthew Monaco
I know it's tempting, but keep in mind there's really nothing different about this kernel. So don't go out of your way unless you typically test the -rc kernels or there is a specific feature you're looking for. On 06/16/2011 01:08 AM, Madhurya Kakati wrote: Hi, I want to test the linux3.0 ker

[arch-general] Why are install functions not in PKGBUILD?

2011-06-16 Thread Matthew Monaco
It seems like the install functions pre/post_install/upgrade/remove could be defined right in the PKGBUILD. Any particular reason why this isn't or cannot be so?

Re: [arch-general] Why are install functions not in PKGBUILD?

2011-06-16 Thread Matthew Monaco
But a lot of the stuff in the PKGBUILD is copied into the package database, so why is the install stuff an exception? I don't think it'd be the only multi-line field. On 06/16/2011 04:29 PM, Daenyth Blank wrote: On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 16:27, Matthew Monaco wrote: It seems like t

[arch-general] howto properly disable sound device pulse/alsa?

2011-07-10 Thread Matthew Monaco
I think since Gnome 3 / pulseaudio, I've had an annoying system beep when shutting down. The pcspkr module is not loaded. I've found that I have the following device: $ dmesg | grep Beep [ 10.594164] input: HDA Digital PCBeep as /devices/pci:00/:00:1b.0/input/input7 And that the fo

Re: [arch-general] howto properly disable sound device pulse/alsa?

2011-07-10 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 07/10/2011 08:50 PM, jesse jaara wrote: Just enable the alsa daemon in rc.conf so that sound levels get reloaded on boot according to what they were at shutdown time. ^^ Yeah, I know about this, but is there a way to just put it in a config file without the alsa-utils package?

Re: [arch-general] howto properly disable sound device pulse/alsa?

2011-07-11 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 07/11/2011 12:30 AM, dmb...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/10/2011 07:44 PM, Matthew Monaco wrote: I think since Gnome 3 / pulseaudio, I've had an annoying system beep when shutting down. The pcspkr module is not loaded. Are you blacklisting this module through the old syntax in rc.conf

Re: [arch-general] howto properly disable sound device pulse/alsa?

2011-07-11 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 07/11/2011 07:50 AM, jesse jaara wrote: 2011/7/11 Matthew Monaco On 07/11/2011 12:30 AM, dmb...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/10/2011 07:44 PM, Matthew Monaco wrote: I think since Gnome 3 / pulseaudio, I've had an annoying system beep when shutting down. The pcspkr module is not loaded.

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] DNS and SSL Cert

2011-07-18 Thread Matthew Monaco
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Aaron Griffin wrote: > Two things are coming up here, and I just want to bring this > discussion up again. > > * DNS > > Our everydns account is going away. According to their site > (http://www.everydns.com/) we have 43-ish days to get everything moved > off. > >

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] DNS and SSL Cert

2011-07-18 Thread Matthew Monaco
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Matthew Monaco wrote: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Aaron Griffin > wrote: >> Two things are coming up here, and I just want to bring this >> discussion up again. >> >> * DNS >> >> Our everydns account is go

[arch-general] usb webcam no audio

2011-07-21 Thread Matthew Monaco
I haven't been able to get audio on my webcam for a while. My initial guess is that it has to do with all of the udev changes. I'm using gnome w/ pulseaudio. The audio properties show the device on the input tab, but it doesn't detect any activity. everything.log: Jul 21 23:54:08 newguy kerne

Re: [arch-general] usb webcam no audio

2011-07-22 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 07/22/2011 12:02 AM, C Anthony Risinger wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:57 PM, Matthew Monaco wrote: I haven't been able to get audio on my webcam for a while. My initial guess is that it has to do with all of the udev changes. I'm using gnome w/ pulseaudio. The audio propertie

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