Re: [arch-general] Polluted login prompt

2012-11-21 Thread Ray Kohler
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Sudaraka Wijesinghe wrote: > On 11/22/12 03:05, Karol Blazewicz wrote: >> Have you tried adding 'quiet' to the kernel boot line? > > This doesn't help because the messages in question are generated by the > systemd unit loading process, not the Kernel. Have you te

Re: [arch-general] Can not assign static IP address with net-auto-wired.service

2012-11-15 Thread Ray Kohler
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Mikhail Strizhov wrote: > ROUTES=('129.82.44.0/22 via 129.82.44.1') You don't need this - it's for extra static routes. netcfg will set up the default route for you. You do need to add "NETMASK=22" to your config, otherwise netcfg assumes it to be a /24 network

Re: [arch-general] Restarting at-spi2?

2012-11-11 Thread Ray Kohler
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 3:37 PM, kendell clark wrote: > hi all > I am currently using orca v3.6.1 on xfce 4.10. Occasionally orca will crash > causing me to have to restart it. This will sometimes also crash the at-spi2 > bridge, causing orca to restart but then refuse to read anything on the > sc

Re: [arch-general] Systemd and inactive sessions

2012-11-01 Thread Ray Kohler
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 5:43 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] Exiting wpa_supplicant

2012-10-22 Thread Ray Kohler
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Nelson Marambio wrote: > Dear list, > > I try to write a small shellscript that (dis-)connects me with / from the > WLAN of my university. > > I use wpa_supplicant in combination with the -B switch to establish the > connection. After a pause of 10 seconds I pull

[arch-general] packages creating users and groups without explicit UID / GID?

2012-09-05 Thread Ray Kohler
Recently I've noticed a couple of packages (git and util-linux) that are creating system users and groups ("git" and "uuidd") without explicitly choosing a UID or GID. These are then assigned IDs near the top of the SYS_UID_MAX / SYS_GID_MAX range. Previously, such post_install scripts were hard-co

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-07 Thread Ray Kohler
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Martin Zecher wrote: >> Yes, please! Putting it in testing may solve my issues with >> networkmanagement applet. > > I didn't put it in testing as I guess it needs some discussion. > However, I committed what

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-02 Thread Ray Kohler
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Jan Steffens wrote: > On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 2:01 AM, Ray Kohler wrote: >> As it's been marked out-of-date for a while, and I'm interested in it, >> I've done the work to upgrade the polkit package to 0.107. I've tested >>

[arch-general] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-02 Thread Ray Kohler
As it's been marked out-of-date for a while, and I'm interested in it, I've done the work to upgrade the polkit package to 0.107. I've tested this package locally. The main value of this upgrade (for me at least) is systemd integration, including proper systemd-style bus activation. This now wants

Re: [arch-general] chromium crash when print dialog is invoked

2012-08-02 Thread Ray Kohler
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 3:43 AM, Scott Weisman wrote: > I should have added more details. I am using OpenBox on an X86_64 install. > > Two different systems (desktop and notebook) but otherwise largely similar > setups. I'm also using Chromium in a pure Openbox environment on x86_64, and I don't s

Re: [arch-general] incorrect sort order in thunar

2012-07-31 Thread Ray Kohler
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 6:18 PM, wrote: > Hello, folks, once again. > > Maybe somebody of you encountered with that problem in thunar. > ...especially if you use cyrillic letters in file and directory names. > > So, I have installed the latest version of thunar (1.4.0), and it > incorrectly sorts

Re: [arch-general] usbmuxd with systemd

2012-07-29 Thread Ray Kohler
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Zhengyu Xu wrote: > Hello to All, > > I have a question relating to the new usbmuxd in the testing repo. > > Actually I have been bothered for months by the fact that udev failed to > start usbmuxd automatically after plugging my iphone into lattop since I > switch

Re: [arch-general] ConsoleKit replaced by systemd

2012-07-10 Thread Ray Kohler
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Karol Babioch wrote: > Hi, > > I'm about to set up a new machine and want to make use of systemd. > Currently I'm reading up on the topic as systemd changes quite a lot of > things. > > Just recently I've realized that ConsoleKit is not maintained actively > anymor

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

2012-06-22 Thread Ray Kohler
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 3:58 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'

Re: [arch-general] x86_64 kernel 3.4.3-1 fail to boot - initramfs unpacking failed: uncompression error

2012-06-19 Thread Ray Kohler
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 4:58 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, > >  Updating an x86_64 box, I ran into an error I've never seen before with the > 3.4.3-1 kernel. It hard-locks at the very start of boot with the keyboard > lights > flashing. Basically the first line of the boot says: > > Decompre

Re: [arch-general] Muting internal speakers

2012-06-18 Thread Ray Kohler
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Stephen E. Baker wrote: > On 18/06/2012 9:48 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> >> On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 15:41 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 08:34 -0400, Stephen E. Baker wrote: it involves being able to identify which device your usb

Re: [arch-general] [kernel/update] Found hardware: "HDA-Intel: "Conexant CX20561 (Hermosa)"

2012-06-15 Thread Ray Kohler
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Mateusz Loskot wrote: > On 15 June 2012 19:49, Karol Babioch wrote: >> Am 15.06.2012 20:35, schrieb Mateusz Loskot: >>> It doesn't really bother me, but I wonder where the sudden change from? >> >> Noticed this also. In my case two pieces of hardware get found and

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] time to drop openjdk6 ?

2012-06-13 Thread Ray Kohler
On 13.06.2012 21:32, Andreas Radke wrote: > Oracle has declared JRE/JDK7 the preferred one over JRE/JDK6. So it Upstream only yesterday fixed a bug which affects me (http://icedtea.classpath.org//hg/icedtea-web?cmd=changeset;node=40776f2e940f). So I'd be grateful if you would wait until that commi

Re: [arch-general] non-login bash

2011-10-08 Thread Ray Kohler
On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Jorge Almeida wrote: > Please help me to understand how bash does its initialization when > started as a non-login shell. The manual says it sources ~/.bashrc and > that's it. The Arch Wiki says it sources /etc/bash.bashrc and then > ~/.bashrc. Sure enough, it does

Re: [arch-general] remove grub from base group?

2011-10-01 Thread Ray Kohler
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 6:31 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 01.10.2011 05:35, schrieb Ray Kohler: >> Since aif now supports syslinux and grub equally, does it make sense >> that grub no longer needs to be in the base group? syslinux isn't in >> base. >> >> I&#

[arch-general] remove grub from base group?

2011-09-30 Thread Ray Kohler
Since aif now supports syslinux and grub equally, does it make sense that grub no longer needs to be in the base group? syslinux isn't in base. I'll open an FS for this if that's wanted.

Re: [arch-general] bash variable PS1 confuses the terminal somehow

2011-09-28 Thread Ray Kohler
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 9:22 AM, wrote: > 13 PROMPT_COMMAND=' > 14         if (($?)); then > 15                 warn="^[[31mWARNING^[[m" > 16         else > 17                 warn= > 18         fi > 19         date=`date` > 20         > PS1="^[[s^[[$(($COLUMNS-28))C^[[0;33m$date^[[u^[[0;31m$war

Re: [arch-general] imagemagick and calibre have problems with libtool in testing

2011-09-13 Thread Ray Kohler
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Myra Nelson wrote: > On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 18:51, Gaetan Bisson wrote: >> [2011-09-09 17:24:54 -0500] Myra Nelson: >>> I'm not complaining, bitching, griping, x >> >> I only asked for more information (in a tone I believe was neutral) to >> try and diagnose t

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] krb5

2011-05-10 Thread Ray Kohler
On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Stéphane Gaudreault wrote: > * Replace heimdal by the MIT Kerberos implementation, krb5 > * Rebuilded [core] packages : >  - librpcsecgss >  - libtirpc >  - nfs-utils >  - openssh > > Please signoff both. > Thanks > > Stéphane Sorry for the late response, but I ju

Re: [arch-general] Drop non-free ?! (Was: Commit in ffmpeg/trunk)

2011-05-07 Thread Ray Kohler
On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Ionut Biru wrote: > On 05/07/2011 06:28 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: >> >> Ionut Biru wrote: >>> >>> drop nonfree stuff, fix headers >>> >>> Modified: PKGBUILD >>> === >>> --- PKGBUILD    2011-05-07 1

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] krb5

2011-05-07 Thread Ray Kohler
On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Stéphane Gaudreault wrote: > * Replace heimdal by the MIT Kerberos implementation, krb5 > * Rebuilded [core] packages : >  - librpcsecgss >  - libtirpc >  - nfs-utils >  - openssh > > Please signoff both. > Thanks > > Stéphane I see a regression versus heimdal her

Re: [arch-general] Why are financial contributions not accepted?

2011-04-30 Thread Ray Kohler
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 10:07 PM, Bill Day wrote: > It's not that I really have money to give away, but I was struck by the > notice on the Arch web site that financial contributions are not currently > accepted, although they have been in the past.  Given that there has > apparently been some dis

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] cronie-1.4.7-4

2011-04-27 Thread Ray Kohler
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Kwpolska wrote: >> Possibly it should have some comments in it explaining why it has no >> content, instead of a literally empty file. > > I suggest > >    #m hh dd mo dw command > > It will help people read and write their crontabs. Well, if we want to do this,

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] cronie-1.4.7-4

2011-04-27 Thread Ray Kohler
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > [2011-04-26 22:24:31 +0200] Gaetan Bisson: >> The cronie package in [testing] aims at seamlessly replacing dcron. > > Version 1.4.7-5 features several packaging improvements: > - use anacron for daily/weekly/monthly jobs > - use run-parts rat

Re: [arch-general] libre office java support

2011-04-12 Thread Ray Kohler
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Dennis Beekman wrote: > Libre Office seems to depend on the openjdk6 package but this package > doesn't support applets in firefox and therefore i use the jre & jdk > packages instead. > > When i installed the latest updates wich included Libre Office it removed >

[arch-general] firefox 4 in staging?

2011-03-14 Thread Ray Kohler
I noticed that firefox 4.0rc1 and xulrunner 2.0rc1 went into [staging] yesterday. Does that mean we can expect to get these upgrades before Mozilla moves them out of release candidate status? What's up with these packages?

Re: [arch-general] makepkg creates symlink to the package file

2010-06-29 Thread Ray Kohler
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 1:20 PM, C Anthony Risinger wrote: > On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 2:29 AM, Attila wrote: >> At Samstag, 26. Juni 2010 07:38 Ray Rashif wrote: >> >>> [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/pacman-...@archlinux.org/msg03794.html >> >> Thanks for this information. It seems that at no poi

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] dropping flashplugin x86_64

2010-06-15 Thread Ray Kohler
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Gaurish Sharma wrote: > Hi, > since 64bit plugin is out, what are the Alternatives for Users? - keep it and use Flashblock addon (firefox) - use Gnash or other open-source version (not very useful) - use 32-bit plugin with nspluginwrapper - use 32-bit plugin with

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] device-mapper/lvm2 2.02.66 and cryptsetup 1.1.1

2010-05-27 Thread Ray Kohler
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > I put updated device-mapper/lvm2 2.02.66 and cryptsetup 1.1.1 > packages to testing. > > These packages enable udev synchronization to finally get rid of all > race conditions related to udev rules. I also cleaned up the PKGBUILDs > massivel

Re: [arch-general] dualboot?

2010-05-27 Thread Ray Kohler
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 4:42 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > On 05/27/2010 04:21 PM, Stefan Husmann wrote: >> >> python is no requirement for Arch Linux itself. If you do not like it, >> just do not install it. > > Isn't pacman written in python?  That would make python a requirement for > Arch th

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] pkg-config-0.24-1

2010-05-27 Thread Ray Kohler
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Allan McRae wrote: > Upstream update.   Renamved from pkgconfig to pkg-config as has been done > upstream for some time now. This looks funny to me: $ pacman -Qi pkg-config | grep '^Provides' Provides : pkgconfig=${pkgver} Isn't it supposed to be expanded?

Re: [arch-general] A mirror question

2010-05-20 Thread Ray Kohler
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Keith Hinton wrote: > Hi, > I was wondering what the best mirror would be for someone living ni Ohio? > I'm curious if there are better mirrors than what I'm currently using? > The present mirror I'm using is the esanews mirror, and I frequently get > this while pe

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Redefining [testing] and a new [staging] repo

2010-05-07 Thread Ray Kohler
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > On Fri, 7 May 2010 12:13:33 -0500, Aaron Griffin > wrote: >> So in effect, it seems we're saying the same things, except I am using >> REPO_NAME="foo-rebuild" for each rebuild "foo", and you are using >> REPO_NAME="staging" for *all* rebuild

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Redefining [testing] and a new [staging] repo

2010-05-07 Thread Ray Kohler
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Hi all, > > here is another crazy idea I was thinking about for some days. This should > improve our overall package quality and simplify our work flow. The > problem > with out current [testing] repository are these: > * it is only used by

Re: [arch-general] Err... Why is gvim now conflicting with vim?

2010-05-07 Thread Ray Kohler
2010/5/7 Angel Velásquez : > On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 11:57 AM, David C. Rankin > wrote: >> On 05/07/2010 09:48 AM, Burlynn Corlew Jr wrote: >>> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 4:04 AM, Johannes Held wrote: >>> http://www.archlinux.org/news/495/ * If you have gvim installed, the update will i

Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] xorg18 repository moves to testing

2010-04-27 Thread Ray Kohler
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Jan de Groot wrote: > Jan de Groot wrote: > > The xorg18 repository has been cleared out, all packages have been moved to > testing. A lot of users have been testing this xorg18 repository with success, > so it's time to move it to

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.33.3-1

2010-04-27 Thread Ray Kohler
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 26.04.2010 23:08, schrieb Ray Kohler: >> The existing nouveau-drm module does not load into this kernel: >> >> 2010-04-26T16:51:01-04:00 amaranth kernel: BUG: unable to >> handle kernel NULL pointer dere

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.33.3-1

2010-04-26 Thread Ray Kohler
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > This is an upstream kernel release, including security fixes. Packages > will enter testing within the next hour. > > We had a gcc 4.4 -> 4.5 version bump, so the external modules are still > compiled with 4.4, while the kernel is compiled w

Re: [arch-general] X server gets shifted to Ctrl+Alt+F8

2010-04-24 Thread Ray Kohler
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Karol Babioch wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not quite sure how to call this issue, maybe that's the reason, why > I couldn't find anything on google nor in the bugtracker :(. > > I'm using the X server with GDM (Gnome), which is attached to Ctrl+Alt > +F7 (btw: How do you c

Re: [arch-general] stability from pm-suspend ?

2010-04-20 Thread Ray Kohler
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Ian-Xue Li wrote: > I really like to hear some experiences whether that you have been using > ACPI S3 kernel suspension for quite some time now, and feels it is > really stable and safe to use, or that, you had ran into troubles using > them. One thing you must a

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] ed-1.4-2

2010-04-18 Thread Ray Kohler
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 12:17 AM, Allan McRae wrote: > Add "sh" dep to ensure availability for install script, compress info pages. > > Signoff both, > Allan How about handling http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/18718 (remove ed and bin86 from base-devel)?

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] xorg-server 1.8 repository

2010-04-17 Thread Ray Kohler
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Jan de Groot wrote: > Things todo before this merges to extra: > - Fix xf86-video-siliconmotion, xf86-video-unichrome, xf86-video-nouveau I'm curious as to what this means. In particular, what's broken with nouveau? Does it not compile, or not work properly? And is

Re: [arch-general] package search shows duplicate ca-certificates package in [testing]

2010-04-16 Thread Ray Kohler
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Dan McGee wrote: > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Ray Kohler wrote: >> Ever since the openssl rebuilds moved out of testing, the package >> search webapp shows an extra copy of ca-certificates in [testing] at >> the same version of the on

[arch-general] package search shows duplicate ca-certificates package in [testing]

2010-04-16 Thread Ray Kohler
Ever since the openssl rebuilds moved out of testing, the package search webapp shows an extra copy of ca-certificates in [testing] at the same version of the one in [core] now. This package doesn't really exist in the [testing] DB and there isn't an SVN entry for it in testing-any either. What's g

[arch-general] libao (and other Xiph package) rebuild schedule?

2010-04-06 Thread Ray Kohler
A little while back I mentioned here that there were several xiph.org releases coming up. These did happen, and I flagged those packages out of date. Now that the openssl, heimdal, and icu updates are done, I'd like to know where these stand. Normally I'd not write such a "nag mail", but the only p

[arch-general] upcoming Xiph releases

2010-03-24 Thread Ray Kohler
ate: Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:18 PM Subject: Re: [Vorbis-dev] upcoming releases (was: adding directory contents to ogg123 playing in sorted order?) To: Ray Kohler On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Ray Kohler wrote: > > Can I take it that the releases of libao and vorbis-tools are > immine

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux security is still poor....

2010-03-16 Thread Ray Kohler
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > I would love to jump into pacman-dev team. But I don't know C or C++ > whatever pacman is written in. :( :( :( > I can contribute in PHP. You might then want to look into helping out the devs of the AUR webapp, if you care about it. T

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux security is still poor....

2010-03-16 Thread Ray Kohler
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Jared Casper wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Aaron Griffin >> wrote: >>> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:32 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan >>> wrote: I don't think we need any security team for

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] i686 pkg built in chroot on x86_64 doesn't work

2010-03-09 Thread Ray Kohler
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 12:23 AM, Paul Mattal wrote: > > So this is a weird one, but I think I just made some headway. > > Apparently, this seems to be related to the ACTUAL CPU of the box I build > on. When building on an i686 Arch box running on an AMD 64 CPU, the build > generates the broken bin

Re: [arch-general] Daemon No Longer Writes To Logs

2010-03-03 Thread Ray Kohler
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Carlos Williams wrote: > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Ray Kohler wrote: >> I don't think Postfix writes its own log files, but uses syslog to do >> it. You should probably be debugging syslog-ng instead. A simple >> SIGHUP might f

Re: [arch-general] Daemon No Longer Writes To Logs

2010-03-03 Thread Ray Kohler
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Carlos Williams wrote: > I was looking at '/var/log/mail.log' which is the default location > Postfix MTA writes everything it does to. I was sadly in that file > using Vim and deleted the last line. I didn't restore the removed line > and simply saved the file. I n

Re: [arch-general] Tired of being asked for a password for "su"? Arch has the solution

2010-03-03 Thread Ray Kohler
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Mauro Santos wrote: >> Yes, same answer, you get owned. In fact, even with a password >> required, the "5 minute grace window" for sudo does you in - some bad >> guy just keeps trying to sudo, until you do it legitimately, thereby >> allowing it freely for 5 minutes

Re: [arch-general] Tired of being asked for a password for "su"? Arch has the solution

2010-03-02 Thread Ray Kohler
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:24 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > On 03/01/2010 05:03 PM, Ray Kohler wrote: >> What would worry me is things like JavaScript exploits and worms - >> things that you download and then run as yourself, whether >> intentionally or not. A password prompt wi

Re: [arch-general] Tired of being asked for a password for "su"? Arch has the solution

2010-03-01 Thread Ray Kohler
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 5:58 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > On 03/01/2010 01:14 PM, Florian Pritz wrote: >> On 03/01/2010 07:58 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: >>>      As the comment says, the entry causes pam to implicitly trust members >>> of the >>> wheel group. Eliminating the need to type a 14 char

Re: [arch-general] kernel 2.6.33-1

2010-02-27 Thread Ray Kohler
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Hi guys, > kernel 2.6.33 first test run ... > > Upstream changes: > http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges > > Arch Linux bugfixes/feature requests: > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/18249 # added HPET > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17970

Re: [arch-general] How to obtain development headers for package

2010-02-23 Thread Ray Kohler
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Michishige Kaito wrote: > Hey, > > Maybe I'm just not understanding how Arch works, so please forgive my > ignorance. I come from ubuntu, and there you get development headers for > most packages by following the naming convention, which is package-dev. A > quick a

Re: [arch-general] Was the kernel suspend to disk feature removed on 2.6.32.8-1

2010-02-19 Thread Ray Kohler
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Javier Vasquez wrote: > Hi all, > > Previously I was having the following settings: > > /etc/default/grub > -- > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT='resume=/dev/sda5' > > grub.cfg > --- > linux   /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda7 ro  resume=/dev/sda5 >

Re: [arch-general] new libdrm breaks nouveau

2010-02-18 Thread Ray Kohler
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Ray Kohler wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Xavier Chantry > wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Ray Kohler wrote: >>> >>> Downgrading libdrm makes X work again. Is this already being worked >>> on, or sh

Re: [arch-general] pacman.conf: can I use wildcards?

2010-02-17 Thread Ray Kohler
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Dan McGee wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 3:51 PM, clemens fischer > wrote: >> I could not find any decisive answer in either the man page or on the >> web.  Here's my question:  in etc/pacman.conf, can I use entries such >> as: >> >>  NoExtract = usr/share/man/m

Re: [arch-general] new libdrm breaks nouveau

2010-02-17 Thread Ray Kohler
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Xavier Chantry wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Ray Kohler wrote: >> >> Downgrading libdrm makes X work again. Is this already being worked >> on, or should I open a bug? If so, against which package, libdrm or >> xf86-video-

[arch-general] new libdrm breaks nouveau

2010-02-17 Thread Ray Kohler
After upgrading to the just-released libdrm 2.4.18-1 (and the new xorg-server), I can no longer start X: drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is 8, (OK) drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci::01:00.0 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: o

Re: [arch-general] Error message on mkinitcpio

2010-02-14 Thread Ray Kohler
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 3:02 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 12.02.2010 03:26, schrieb Tomás Acauan Schertel: >> I still got error message after using packages from [testing]. >> Am I doing something wrong?? > > Is the line number still 17? I was surprised to still see this autodetect error after

Re: [arch-general] Error message on mkinitcpio

2010-02-11 Thread Ray Kohler
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Tomás Acauan Schertel wrote: > This is the second time it happens. > When upgrading kernel, I got this message: > > :: Parsing hook [autodetect] > /lib/initcpio/install/autodetect: line 17: other:swap:2: command not found > :: Parsing hook [pata] > > Am I the only

Re: [arch-general] A suggestion for the devs regarding rebuilds

2010-02-08 Thread Ray Kohler
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:04 PM, wrote: > If I notice that a new app or an update of an existing one > has included a new major version of a library, I will in time > probably update or recompile everything to use the new library > as well. It would typically be a matter of some days. > > Just do

Re: [arch-general] A suggestion for the devs regarding rebuilds

2010-02-08 Thread Ray Kohler
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Xavier Chantry wrote: > With every big rebuilds we get new breakage stories. It seems like > it's the norm nowadays rather than the exception. > > I am wondering if it's really only the users that are to blame.. or if > Arch is also to blame. Or if Arch was supposed

Re: [arch-general] Syncing the mirrors

2010-02-01 Thread Ray Kohler
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Steve Holmes wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > I'm also having major problems upgrading my system.  Pacman errors out > and it tells me I have 77 packages to update and I was current two > days ago.  I believe it is 77 and counting.  

Re: [arch-general] Multiple Kernels

2010-02-01 Thread Ray Kohler
2010/2/1 Nilesh Govindarajan : > Agreed. But recently a USB problem (possibly a bug) was being discussed > heavily on the forums. What about it ? Didn't the developers test the kernel > properly before releasing it to the community ? Can you point me to this thread? Forum search and google aren't

Re: [arch-general] Gnome is Working But Missing Apps

2010-02-01 Thread Ray Kohler
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Carlos Williams wrote: > I have Gnome Desktop Environment up and running perfect on my Arch > x86_64 system but I elected to not install "gnome-extra" packages > because it installs too much junk I don't want and or need. My > question is I am missing two applicati

Re: [arch-general] An old, tiresome discussion: cdrtools vs cdrkit

2010-01-27 Thread Ray Kohler
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Jan de Groot wrote: >> On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 15:45 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: >>> Just to make it clear: >>> >>> There is not a single claim from a lawyer that confirms the claims >>> from >>> the hostile

Re: [arch-general] An old, tiresome discussion: cdrtools vs cdrkit

2010-01-25 Thread Ray Kohler
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Kitty wrote: > FWIW, I'm in favor of #3, and practically, the other bigger distros > that have switched back to cdrtools are fatter targets for any legal > action. Furthermore, who exactly would be doing the suing? If it's the > GNU, then their goal would be to fi

Re: [arch-general] initramfs: execute own script

2010-01-22 Thread Ray Kohler
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:39 AM, AlannY wrote: > Hi there. I'm newbie in Archlinux's boot process. > > I need to run my own script in early userspace (initramfs). > It must be after mounting root file system, but before switch root. > > I've opened default initramfs (kernel26.img) and reviewed it

Re: [arch-general] Virtualbox with upgraded kernel

2010-01-08 Thread Ray Kohler
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 5:10 PM, richard terry wrote: > On Saturday 09 January 2010 08:56:13 Ray Kohler wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 4:47 PM, richard terry wrote: >> > hi List, >> > >> > I've upgraded to kernel  2.6.32 and virtual box dosn't work.

Re: [arch-general] Virtualbox with upgraded kernel

2010-01-08 Thread Ray Kohler
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 4:47 PM, richard terry wrote: > hi List, > > I've upgraded to kernel  2.6.32 and virtual box dosn't work. Install kernel26-headers (a new package) as well.

[arch-general] Fwd: [Vorbis] vorbis-tools release soon?

2010-01-07 Thread Ray Kohler
: Re: [Vorbis] vorbis-tools release soon? To: Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves Cc: Ray Kohler , vor...@xiph.org 2010/1/4 Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves : > On 1/4/10, Ray Kohler wrote: >> Since it's been almost 2 years since vorbis-tools 1.2.0 was released, >> would it be reasonable to see 1.3.0 so

Re: [arch-general] ArchLinux AntiDesktop (was: Another rant on arch way abuse and false promises)

2009-12-07 Thread Ray Kohler
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Christos Nouskas wrote: > Arvid Picciani wrote: >> http://heresy.asgaartech.com/ >> >> Let me know if this solution works for everyone >> and/or if anyone is offended by anything on that >>         site or the fact that it exists >> and/or if anything should be add

Re: [arch-general] conclusion: Another rant on arch way abuse and false promises

2009-12-02 Thread Ray Kohler
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:40 PM, André Ramaciotti da Silva wrote: > On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 01:54:10AM +0530, Raghavendra Prabhu wrote: >> One thing I don't understand here is - why people crib that package B should >> not have feature X. If you don't want that, ABS is for that. There are >> plenty

Re: [arch-general] Unable to Install Arch on Server

2009-12-02 Thread Ray Kohler
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Carlos Williams wrote: > On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Daenyth Blank wrote: >> I think that usually means that your grub+initrd combo is broken >> somewhere. Post your configs? > > There are no configs. I am trying to do a fresh install. There are no > Grub confi

Re: [arch-general] Another rant on arch way abuse and false promises

2009-12-01 Thread Ray Kohler
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Arvid Picciani wrote: > Ray Kohler wrote: >> >> 2009/12/1 Ng Oon-Ee : >>> >>> When I started on here the mantra was "Arch is what you make it". >>> Packagers strive to make packages which are as vanilla as pos

Re: [arch-general] Another rant on arch way abuse and false promises

2009-12-01 Thread Ray Kohler
2009/12/1 Ng Oon-Ee : > When I started on here the mantra was "Arch is what you make it". > Packagers strive to make packages which are as vanilla as possible > (without breaking) and provide the utility expected of such packages. Of > course, if you want a system without hal/dbus, there's ABS and

Re: [arch-general] stability of pbzip2 ?

2009-11-19 Thread Ray Kohler
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 4:34 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Ian-Xue Li schrieb: >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm quote fond of pbzip2's ability to multitask the compression, which >> comes really handy when backuping large archives of server files. >> >> But just heard from my friend: pbzip2 has stability issues,

Re: [arch-general] Nouveau doesn't get loaded without config file?

2009-11-02 Thread Ray Kohler
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Magnus Therning wrote: > I had some problems with my Xorg nv driver this morning, and people > suggested I switch to the nouveau driver instead.  When trying it X > didn't seem to notice that it's available.  Do I really need to have > an X configuration file in or

Re: [arch-general] ssh broken?

2009-10-29 Thread Ray Kohler
The upgrade to openntpd removed it. The idea was to avoid sharing this directory between the two of them so neither could break the other, but unfortunately it created a painful upgrade path. There is a forum thread and (I think) a bug report on this. On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Tobias Kie

Re: [arch-general] We have lost the desktop war. The reason? Windows 7.

2009-10-26 Thread Ray Kohler
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 6:57 AM, RedShift wrote: > This thread will probably erupt in a massive flamewar, yet I decided to post > my > story anyway. I am talking about the desktop experience in general, not the > technical details behind it. Keep that in mind. > > > I've been working these past fe

Re: [arch-general] vi problems

2009-10-14 Thread Ray Kohler
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:59 PM, richard terry wrote: > Hi List, > > I upgraded a couple of days ago not having done so for a number of weeks and > now vi dosn't work properly in a konsole - the key allocations seem all wrong > (eg up/down arrows, insert, delete > all print A', B' etc. > > Clueles

Re: [arch-general] Overly large fonts in X11 after rebooting

2009-10-10 Thread Ray Kohler
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Samuel Baldwin wrote: > 2009/10/10 Ray Kohler : >> Check the DPI of your display (with xdpyinfo). Probably the lack of >> the external monitor made it come up differently. >> >> I dealt with this by fixing the XFT DPI value to 96, whic

Re: [arch-general] Overly large fonts in X11 after rebooting

2009-10-10 Thread Ray Kohler
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Samuel Baldwin wrote: > For some reason when I turned my laptop on today and started X, all my > fonts were larger than normal. The only one that seems to have the > stayed has been my console font, but even that feels a bit "off" > (however, I'm not too worried ab

Re: [arch-general] New PKGBUILD for libtorrent-rasterbar

2009-10-08 Thread Ray Kohler
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Jeff Horelick wrote: > Quick thing to change that i just noticed. The libtorrent-rasterbar.so > version was bumped (from libtorrent-rasterbar.so.4 to > libtorrent-rasterbar.so.5) and that confuses at the very least Deluge and > possibly other clients as well that us

[arch-general] updated PKGBUILD for openswan

2009-10-04 Thread Ray Kohler
The openswan package in core is rather old. I've updated the PKGBUILD for the latest version, 2.6.23. This includes rather a lot of build changes - some are cleanup that could have happened before, some are new for upstream changes. I built this to investigate whether I could use it instead of str

[arch-general] ABS version of postgresql-libs does not match repo?

2009-09-21 Thread Ray Kohler
The PKGBUILD at /var/abs/extra/postgresql-libs has version 8.4.0-1 (a version that was in testing a little while back), while the version in extra is still 8.3.7-2. This seems very dangerous since it would be easy for a non-testing user to give themselves an unintended soname bump. I'm guessing th

[arch-general] lots of stale mirrors?

2009-09-21 Thread Ray Kohler
Following the community-deleting accident, a bunch of mirrors that are usually up to date have only synced once, and are now 30+ hours out of date. A bunch of other mirrors still haven't synced at all since community was repaired, and are now 3+ days stale. Is there something else going on now? Wha

Re: [arch-general] mpc upgrade?

2009-08-29 Thread Ray Kohler
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > Ray Kohler wrote: >> >> I hate to beg for favors from people who are already doing plenty for >> me for free, but could some kind dev update the mpc package? It's now >> two major versions (or what passes for &q

[arch-general] mpc upgrade?

2009-08-29 Thread Ray Kohler
I hate to beg for favors from people who are already doing plenty for me for free, but could some kind dev update the mpc package? It's now two major versions (or what passes for "major" at musicpd) out of date, and only a simple pkgver / md5sum change. I'd ask its maintainer (pizzapunk) directly,

Re: [arch-general] The vsftpd only starts at the second attempt

2009-07-31 Thread Ray Kohler
Yes, this happened to me several times. I didn't solve it. On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 2:53 AM, Lucas Salies Brum wrote: > (r...@abraham ~):# ps -A | grep vsftpd > (r...@abraham ~):# /etc/rc.d/vsftpd start > :: Starting vsftpd FTP Daemon >                         [FAIL] > (r...@abraham ~):# /etc/rc.d

Re: [arch-general] Cisco VPN config

2009-07-27 Thread Ray Kohler
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Ray Kohler schrieb: >> >> I usually recommend strongSwan (which is in AUR) for interoperability >> with Cisco concentrators. It works quite well, but it's not simple to >> set up initially. I still bel

Re: [arch-general] Cisco VPN config

2009-07-27 Thread Ray Kohler
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Rafa Griman wrote: > Hi :) > > On Sunday 26 July 2009 18:57:07 Thomas Bächler wrote: >> Rafa Griman schrieb: >> > Got a Cisco VPN connection with my office, but can't manage to get it >> > running. I've seen that there's a: >> > >> >     - vpnc package: installed it

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