Re: [arch-general] Thoughts

2018-08-15 Thread Wilson
ending the text file? -wilson

Re: [arch-general] Bad md5sum or bad download for archlinux-2015.02.01-dual.iso

2015-02-20 Thread Drake Wilson
David C. Rankin wrote: Is there anything other than hardware that could account for this? The drive in the laptop is [etc.] Bad RAM is a common source of data corruption along those lines. Try booting a memtest disc? --- Drake Wilson

Re: [arch-general] gnupg 2.1 not stable

2014-12-17 Thread Drake Wilson
be relegated to a more-experimental package, but there's potential follow-on problems surrounding how many users test the rest of the system with a newer GnuPG. Has upstream actually been contacted about this to ask what they think? --- Drake Wilson

Re: [arch-general] don't casually do things in /tmp directly (was: Strange issue)

2014-12-09 Thread Drake Wilson
. --- Drake Wilson

Re: [arch-general] A good time to switch to dash as /bin/sh?

2014-09-26 Thread Drake Wilson
reasonably can (I assume some things may break, in the current state; I'm willing to deal with that on my own for now). --- Drake Wilson

Re: [arch-general] A good time to switch to dash as /bin/sh?

2014-09-26 Thread Drake Wilson
On 26/09/14 07:30, Drake Wilson wrote: There is a _lot_ of magic behavior in bash. Debian bug #762839 mentions how bash still imports shell functions from environment variables with magic names, even when called as sh. The --posix option seems something of a joke. Sorry, I mistyped; I meant

Re: [arch-general] A good time to switch to dash as /bin/sh?

2014-09-26 Thread Drake Wilson
further development. I admit feeling a bit insulted having my mail quoted as a witch hunt. The recent events were only a trigger to reëxamine something I'd considered doing ever since the first install a long while back. --- Drake Wilson

[arch-general] Out-of-date sbcl has fairly serious ASDF bug

2014-09-21 Thread Drake Wilson
is such a prominent implementation, but I didn't find any obvious discussion about any of this previously... --- Drake Wilson

[arch-general] GDM and/or PulseAudio mute my sound

2012-09-08 Thread Frank Wilson
According to Kyle: Apparently, Google is not my friend this time, as I can find no information about this problem, and I appear to be the only one experiencing it, and only on this machine. Correction: I actually did find [1], and that appears to be my exact problem, but it is also unsolved.

[arch-general] Read permissions on /var/log/auth.log being reverted

2010-09-05 Thread E Wilson
? This is Arch running in a hosted VM environment. Thanks E Wilson (New Linux and Arch User)

Re: [arch-general] Read permissions on /var/log/auth.log being reverted

2010-09-05 Thread E Wilson
Wow, didn't know syslog did all that. I won't be changing the permissions though, but now have more to learn. Thanks a bunch. E Wilson On 6 September 2010 15:46, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi vmlinuz...@yahoo.com.ar wrote:  On 09/06/2010 02:37 AM, E Wilson wrote: Hi group When I make my auth.log

[arch-general] Acer Aspire One Instalation Issues

2009-02-13 Thread Chris Wilson
Hey all I'm having a major issue with the installation on my Aspire One. I've used unetbootin to create the USB startup disk and I've succesfully booted from it, but a few seconds into the startup process, I get the following: /sbin/hwdetect: line 336: 506 Segmentation fault modprobe $i