Re: [arch-general] Problem mounting shares with latest smbclient-3.5.0-2

2010-03-31 Thread Nigel Henry
On Tuesday 30 March 2010 07:35, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Am Montag 29 März 2010 schrieb Nigel Henry: > > I have smbclient-3.5.0-2, and did the suggested chmod +s on > > /sbin/mount.cifs, and /sbin/umount.cifs. The UID, and GID bits are now > > set on both, but I still ca

[arch-general] Problem mounting shares with latest smbclient-3.5.0-2

2010-03-29 Thread Nigel Henry
I have smbclient-3.5.0-2, and did the suggested chmod +s on /sbin/mount.cifs, and /sbin/umount.cifs. The UID, and GID bits are now set on both, but I still can't mount shares from KDEmod3's smb4k (version 0.9.9). The error message says "/sbin/mount.cifs: permission denied: no match found for /h

[arch-general] LTS kernel still boots but MPPC patched one does not after manual updates

2010-03-12 Thread Nigel Henry
Big problemo. Wanting to get access to my sons MS vpn server which needs MPPC, I found and installed an MPPC patched kernel26, and MPPC patched ppp. No problems so far, and both the LTS, and the MPPC patched kernels booted with no problems. My Arch install hadn't been updated since 20090928, an

Re: [arch-general] Pacman problem. "error writing to file" "bad address"

2009-09-30 Thread Nigel Henry
Update below. On Tuesday 29 September 2009 22:06, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Tuesday 29 September 2009 21:19, Xavier wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Nigel Henry > > > > wrote: > > > Thanks for the link to the bug. > > > > > > Just afte

Re: [arch-general] Pacman problem. "error writing to file" "bad address"

2009-09-29 Thread Nigel Henry
On Tuesday 29 September 2009 21:19, Xavier wrote: > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Nigel Henry > > wrote: > > Thanks for the link to the bug. > > > > Just after I posted the problem, I tried reverting to the earlier pacman > > package "pacman-3.3.0-3-

Re: [arch-general] Pacman problem. "error writing to file" "bad address"

2009-09-29 Thread Nigel Henry
On Tuesday 29 September 2009 19:26, Xavier wrote: > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Nigel Henry > > wrote: > > I had problems with ocaml yesterday. After the machine locked up during > > the updates, I did a hard reset, and ran pacman -Su again. It continued > > down

[arch-general] Pacman problem. "error writing to file" "bad address"

2009-09-29 Thread Nigel Henry
I had problems with ocaml yesterday. After the machine locked up during the updates, I did a hard reset, and ran pacman -Su again. It continued downloading ocaml, but when all the updates were downloaded, it failed to install them, claiming that ocaml was corrupted. I removed the corrupted ocam

Re: [arch-general] How to specify configure options with makepkg

2009-09-10 Thread Nigel Henry
On Thursday 10 September 2009 12:25, Nigel Henry wrote: > I'm trying to install psychosynth from AUR. Ogre is one of the deps, but > the comments on the psychosynth page say to compile Ogre with devIL, not > freeimage, which is the default image loader. Configure says that I can s

[arch-general] How to specify configure options with makepkg

2009-09-10 Thread Nigel Henry
I'm trying to install psychosynth from AUR. Ogre is one of the deps, but the comments on the psychosynth page say to compile Ogre with devIL, not freeimage, which is the default image loader. Configure says that I can set an option, --disable-freeimage, but where do I set this option when using

Re: [arch-general] A good CPU Load/Memory/Network Activity Monitor in KDE

2008-12-28 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 28 December 2008 17:46, Leonid Grinberg wrote: > Hi Nigel, > > > Unless you particularly want a KDE app, you could always install gkrellm. > > I've used it for a long time, and it's very user configerable. > > Thanks a lot! That is very close to what I'm looking for, but is there > any wa

Re: [arch-general] A good CPU Load/Memory/Network Activity Monitor in KDE

2008-12-28 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 28 December 2008 17:16, Leonid Grinberg wrote: > Hi all, > > Thanks for your replies. > > > Maybe this would be alright? > > http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/Oxygen+System+Monitor?content=86 > >664 > > The download link seems to be broken (the .skz file is missing most of > the so

Re: [arch-general] problem updating klibc with kdemod3 on "Dont Panic"

2008-10-11 Thread Nigel Henry
On Saturday 11 October 2008 22:35, Samed Beyribey wrote: > Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:29:08 +0200 tarihinde > Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> şunu yazmıştınız: > > Please visit: http://www.archlinux.org/news/411/ > > > Running pacman -Sy this evening, then pacman -Su, a

[arch-general] problem updating klibc with kdemod3 on "Dont Panic"

2008-10-11 Thread Nigel Henry
Running pacman -Sy this evening, then pacman -Su, a bunch of packages were downloaded, but failed to install. It appears to be a problem with klibc (I'm using kdemod3, currently 3.5.10). I installed all the other packages using pacman -S, but am left with the following ones which fail to install

Re: [arch-general] arch-general Digest, Vol 48, Issue 10

2008-10-11 Thread Nigel Henry
On Saturday 11 October 2008 15:36, Wiegand Sergej wrote: > Hey, I am new on the mailing-lists, but i try to behave! > > Well since i've upgraded to the next kernel, i am having some issues > with modules, and since i wanted to try out the mailinglists, this seems > to be the perfect opportunity for

Re: [arch-general] Anyway to revert back to KDE 3.5.9? (Don't Panic)

2008-08-14 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 13 August 2008 00:07, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > Nigel Henry wrote: > > Any help on getting access to kscd would be welcome, as it's nice to be > > able to play some tunes. > > Try pacman -S kdemod3-vanilla. That's pretty much the equivalent of the &

Re: [arch-general] Anyway to revert back to KDE 3.5.9? (Don't Panic)

2008-08-12 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 13 August 2008 00:07, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > Nigel Henry wrote: > > Any help on getting access to kscd would be welcome, as it's nice to be > > able to play some tunes. > > Try pacman -S kdemod3-vanilla. That's pretty much the equivalent of the &

Re: [arch-general] Anyway to revert back to KDE 3.5.9? (Don't Panic)

2008-08-12 Thread Nigel Henry
On Tuesday 12 August 2008 17:18, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > Attila wrote: > > On Montag, 11. August 2008 20:38 David Rosenstrauch wrote: > > > > I have had the same feeling as you and take first a look at it in my > > arch64 test partition. If you have such a possibility too or a virtual > > machi

Re: [arch-general] Anyway to revert back to KDE 3.5.9? (Don't Panic)

2008-08-11 Thread Nigel Henry
On Monday 11 August 2008 19:09, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > Attila wrote: > > On Montag, 11. August 2008 18:07 David Rosenstrauch wrote: > >> I'm more than open to hearing counter-arguments as to why someone thinks > >> it's worth the switch > > > > I'm frustated as you but i must say that there wa

[arch-general] Anyway to revert back to KDE 3.5.9? (Don't Panic)

2008-08-08 Thread Nigel Henry
Some days ago I ran the updates for my Don't Panic install, which said that KDE 3.5.9 was being upgraded to KDE4. I let this go ahead having asked on the list if there were likely to be any problems with KDE4. I also have recently installed Fedora 9 which comes with KDE4 as default, so this is

Re: [arch-general] ? regarding latest Dont Panic updates, and KDE4

2008-07-30 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 30 July 2008 22:14, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > David Rosenstrauch wrote: > > If you want to stay with KDE3 short term, this forum thread tells you > > how. (i.e., add a bunch of Ignore's to your pacman.conf.) > > Whoop! Forgot to paste the thread URL: > > http://bbs.archlinux.org/vi

[arch-general] ? regarding latest Dont Panic updates, and KDE4

2008-07-30 Thread Nigel Henry
I've been downloading iso's on dialup for some days, so havn't updated much on my OS's. Last time I updated Dont Panic on my new machine was 20080709. A pacman -Sy, followed by pacman -Su rung some alarm bells when it said arts was going to be replaced "yes, or no?". Well ages back I'd read that

[arch-general] Firefox 3 on latest update of Don't Panic question

2008-06-23 Thread Nigel Henry
I'm just about to update one of my 2 instances of Don't Panic. Firefox 3 is going to be installed. I'd had problems playing a radio stream from a radio station in the Channel Islands using Bon Echo, so downloaded and installed another instance of Firefox from the Mozilla site, and installed it

Re: [arch-general] gdm not found when booting into runlevel 5

2008-06-19 Thread Nigel Henry
On Thursday 19 June 2008 21:48, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 2:39 PM, David Rosenstrauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Aaron Griffin wrote: > >> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Nigel Henry > >> > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[arch-general] gdm not found when booting into runlevel 5

2008-06-19 Thread Nigel Henry
I already have one instance of Archlinux installed that has xorg, and KDE installed, and from looking at /var/cache/pacman/pkg, I also have gdm installed. Now this instance of Archlinux works fine, and I can login to KDE with no problems. The graphics driver is trident, and according to /etc/X1

Re: [arch-general] Problem starting vsftpd service. (Don't Panic)

2008-06-19 Thread Nigel Henry
On Thursday 19 June 2008 17:02, Pierre CHAPUIS wrote: > If you start vsftpd as a daemon you have to : > > - Have listen=YES and background=YES in vsftpd.conf > - Change line 11 from /etc/rc.d/vsftpd from /usr/sbin/vsftpd & to > /usr/sbin/vsftpd Bonjour Pierre. Thanks for the help. listen=YES wa

[arch-general] Problem starting vsftpd service. (Don't Panic)

2008-06-19 Thread Nigel Henry
On the new instance of Archlinux, that I've installed on my new machine, I wanted to avoid downloading all the updates again on my dialup connection, so thought I'd just FTP the pkg directory from the first install to the new install. For some reason I cannot start the vsftp daemon, just giving

Re: [arch-general] Problem with Transient resolver failure with pacman (Don't Panic)

2008-06-19 Thread Nigel Henry
On Thursday 19 June 2008 08:10, 甘露(Lu Gan) wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Abhishek Dasgupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:53 PM, Nigel Henry > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have Archlinux runnin

[arch-general] Problem with Transient resolver failure with pacman (Don't Panic)

2008-06-18 Thread Nigel Henry
I have Archlinux running on one machine with no problems, but the install was done a while back. I've just installed it on a new machine that I've built, but am having problems running pacman -Sy. The network setup is ok. I use static IP addresses, and everything is correctly set. /etc/resolv.c

Re: [arch-general] Kernel upgrades question, as can't revert to earlier kernel

2008-05-30 Thread Nigel Henry
Update on the updated kernel below. On Thursday 29 May 2008 01:08, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Wednesday 28 May 2008 23:47, Aaron Griffin wrote: > > On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Nigel Henry > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've noticed for some tim

Re: [arch-general] Kernel upgrades question, as can't revert to earlier kernel

2008-05-28 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 28 May 2008 23:47, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Nigel Henry > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've noticed for some time now that some distros are upgrading the > > current running kernel, rather than installing a new kernel

[arch-general] Kernel upgrades question, as can't revert to earlier kernel

2008-05-28 Thread Nigel Henry
I've noticed for some time now that some distros are upgrading the current running kernel, rather than installing a new kernel version, which if there are problems with the new kernel, you could boot the earlier kernel, which you know was working ok. I'm currently updating my Don't Panic instal

Re: [arch-general] Tool to stop and start services? (Don't Panic)

2008-05-23 Thread Nigel Henry
On Friday 23 May 2008 01:23, ndlarsen wrote: > Nigel Henry wrote: > > On my Fedora installs there is a GUI for stopping and starting services, > > and also the option of using chkconfig on the CLI. On my Debian installs, > > I installed sysv-rc-conf, which runs on the CLI, a

Re: [arch-general] Tool to stop and start services? (Don't Panic)

2008-05-22 Thread Nigel Henry
On Thursday 22 May 2008 17:09, Travis Willard wrote: > On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Nigel Henry > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On my Fedora installs there is a GUI for stopping and starting services, > > and also the option of using chkconfig on the CLI. O

[arch-general] Tool to stop and start services? (Don't Panic)

2008-05-22 Thread Nigel Henry
On my Fedora installs there is a GUI for stopping and starting services, and also the option of using chkconfig on the CLI. On my Debian installs, I installed sysv-rc-conf, which runs on the CLI, and allows you to stop and start services. Is there anything similar that I could use on my Archlin

[arch-general] libSoundTouch.a but no libSoundTouch.so

2008-04-20 Thread Nigel Henry
I'm trying to build Psychosynth on "Don't Panic". There are are a few deps, some of which I need to build from source (OIS, Ogre, and CEGUI). Soundtouch is also a dep, and is available from the Archlinux repos, but running ./configure on Psychosynth, it failed to find the libsoundtouch lib. Loo

Re: [arch-general] Qsynth crashes when clicking on buttons (Don't Panic)

2008-03-06 Thread Nigel Henry
On Thursday 06 March 2008 13:46, charly wrote: > If it works with qt-mod and not arch-provided qt, let us know cause maybe > there's a problem with our binary Hi Charly. Looked at the kde-mod site, but as you have do remove all the current KDE packages, before installing kde-mod, I passed on that

Re: [arch-general] Qsynth crashes when clicking on buttons (Don't Panic)

2008-03-05 Thread Nigel Henry
ly. Have you got a link as to where I get this patched version of qt? I'm downloading a load of KDE updates at the mo (on dialup), so will have to go for this tomorrow, and see if it works. Thanks for the feedback. Nigel. > > On Wednesday 05 March 2008 20:06:13 Nigel Henry wrote: &

[arch-general] Qsynth crashes when clicking on buttons (Don't Panic)

2008-03-05 Thread Nigel Henry
Hi Folks. When I open Qsynth, I can rotate the various controls, but clicking on any of the buttons causes it to crash. For example I click on the "Options" button, the options window opens momentarily, but is blank, then Qsynth goes out to lunch. When Qsynth is opened without messing with the

Re: [arch-general] Tk707. Problems getting sounds out of it (Don't Panic)

2008-02-27 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 27 February 2008 18:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > >>As you can see, I created a couple of symlinks, and then starting > > tk707 again, > > >>opened the ports selection window. So far so good. > > Instead of symlinking to much I like to suggest that you try to rebuild > the

[arch-general] Tk707. Problems getting sounds out of it (Don't Panic)

2008-02-27 Thread Nigel Henry
Looking for available audio apps, I installed tk707. There were some problems when starting it from the CLI (couldn't find shared libraries) as below. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ tk707 /usr/bin/tk707bin: error while loading shared libraries: libtk8.4.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or

Re: [arch-general] SSH. Can't open Xapps when su'ed to root

2008-02-10 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 10 February 2008 20:06, Michael Towers wrote: > Nigel Henry wrote: > > I'm still looking at the jacman problem, and have sometimes found that > > apps that won't work on the machine they are installed on, will work if I > > ssh into the machine, and run

[arch-general] SSH. Can't open Xapps when su'ed to root

2008-02-10 Thread Nigel Henry
I'm still looking at the jacman problem, and have sometimes found that apps that won't work on the machine they are installed on, will work if I ssh into the machine, and run them on another. IIRC I had problems initially using ssh when I installed Archlinux (don't panic), but found some info s

Re: [arch-general] Jacman. Problem installing packages (don't panic)

2008-02-07 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 06 February 2008 20:24, Xavier wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hey Nigel and the gang; > > > > Well, I *think* that unless someone wants to re-write and maintain > > jacman, you would be best advised to not use it. > > > > I would suggest 'yaourt' as a replacement. It works very

[arch-general] Jacman. Problem installing packages (don't panic)

2008-02-06 Thread Nigel Henry
Jacman hasn't worked properly, as regards installing packages since I installed don't panic. Saying that I have been able to install the odd single package, that has no deps, but as of today, even installing single packages (alsaplayer as an example) fails. Jacman opens ok, and I click on "Inst

Re: [arch-general] Qjackctl won't open since latest updates

2008-01-29 Thread Nigel Henry
On Tuesday 29 January 2008 20:37, bardo wrote: > 2008/1/29, Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ qjackctl > > qjackctl: error while loading shared libraries: libaudio.so.2: cannot > > open shared object file: No such file or directory > > [EMA

[arch-general] Qjackctl won't open since latest updates

2008-01-29 Thread Nigel Henry
I've had Archlinux "Don't Panic" installed for a while. I installed it because someone on another list was having problems with their hda intel soundcard, and I wanted to see what was required to upgrade the Alsa driver on Archlinux. It seems to be a nice stable distro, pacman, which I havn't us