Re: [arch-general] I have to switch back to tty1 for systemd to shutdown the pc

2013-01-17 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
the second X server is running in tty2. but it is stopped during the shutdown procedure. It's when I get back in console that everything stops. 2013/1/18 Leonid Isaev : > On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:46:48 +0100 > "solsTiCe d'Hiver" wrote: > >> hi all, >> >

[arch-general] I have to switch back to tty1 for systemd to shutdown the pc

2013-01-17 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
hi all, Since latest update of gnome 3.4, I can't login through gdm because, then, I have no single glyph or font displayed on my desktop in menu or application (but not the qt ones) So, I found the work around to switch to tty2 and login and run startx and all is fine in my desktop. The fonts are

Re: [arch-general] Totem segfaulting on start on a fully up-to-date archlinux with testing enabled.

2012-06-16 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
I just tried the nvidia 173.xx version (nvidia-173xx from AUR). It's working fine (almost). I never tried it, thinking it was for old hardware. But it's not. I guess, just an old branch/version with no support for the latest/newest shiny hardware/cg

Re: [arch-general] Totem segfaulting on start on a fully up-to-date archlinux with testing enabled.

2012-06-16 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
Le samedi 16 juin 2012 à 19:03 +0200, Ralf Mardorf a écrit : > On Sat, 2012-06-16 at 18:33 +0200, solsTiCe d'Hiver wrote: > > I don't use systemd and nvidia not anymore > > You still use an NVIDIA graphics? If so, which graphics do you use and > do you use the nv or

Re: [arch-general] Totem segfaulting on start on a fully up-to-date archlinux with testing enabled.

2012-06-16 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
Le samedi 16 juin 2012 à 22:50 +0900, Vladimir Lomov a écrit : > on my desktop: Archlinux x86_64 (AMD), kernel 3.4.2-2, systemd; last > update brought nvidia 259.59 when I was running openbox. I installed > update, logout (exited Openbox) which should be bring me to KDM but > I got a terminal. I l

Re: [arch-general] Totem segfaulting on start on a fully up-to-date archlinux with testing enabled.

2012-06-16 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
Le samedi 16 juin 2012 à 19:36 +0900, Vladimir Lomov a écrit : > IMHO, the minimal steps to use new NVIDIA driver are > 1. shutdown X system; > 2. logout as usual user and login as root; > 3. unload nvidia (kernel) module; > 4. load new nvidia (kernel) module; > 5. start X system. > Are you sure

Re: [arch-general] Totem segfaulting on start on a fully up-to-date archlinux with testing enabled.

2012-06-16 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
Le samedi 16 juin 2012 à 09:57 +0200, fredbezies a écrit : > Hello. > > Got this error when I try to start totem today : > > [fred@fredo-arch ~]$ totem & > [1] 7902 > [fred@fredo-arch ~]$ > (totem:7902): Grilo-WARNING **: [plugin-registry] > grl-plugin-registry.c:623: Failed to open module: > '/u

Re: [arch-general] Arch box fine tuning

2012-06-14 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
Anyway, is a kernel configuration and (re)compilation really worth the pain and time ?? Is a custom kernel giving any benefit or speed-up apart from something marginal and more about the feeling than anything else ? I gave up trying to make one just by lazyness on archlinux. I did that many years

Re: [arch-general] about FS#30053 and systemd service/unit file in general

2012-06-11 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
@tom @rodrigo. Ok. Thank you to make it more clear for me. And I thought the gpm arg declared in /etc/conf.d/gpm was needed. It is not here. But others might need it. Hence the bug (feature request) not opened by me. Yes. The only needed part was the [Install] one So, configuration will be handl

[arch-general] about FS#30053 and systemd service/unit file in general

2012-06-11 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
hi. So I was playing with an archlinux guest in vbox to learn a bit about systemd. And I found out that the gpm.service was broken. systemctl enable or systemctl start does not work for gpm.service. I looked for bugs and found FS#30053 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/30053 I just copied and paste

Re: [arch-general] systemd

2012-06-02 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
Le samedi 02 juin 2012 à 01:06 +0200, Tom Gundersen a écrit : [...] Thanks Tom for the good advices/response. I'll try to improve the wiki page once I'll understand/master systemd too.

[arch-general] systemd

2012-06-01 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
hi. since the recent news, I have decided to give a try to systemd. I am following the wiki page about it https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd Sorry for the newbie question but, why are /etc/hostname, /etc/vconsole.conf, /etc/timezone, /etc/locale.conf not in the systemd package ? I know

Re: [arch-general] can alsa be adjusted to clear these logon errors?

2012-04-08 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
I think the next time you boot you shouldn't see them.

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.3.1-1

2012-04-06 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
hello, well this is a bit off-topic. But linux-ck switched already to 3.3 kernel and I just discovered that ndiswrapper does not compile. It seems there is a patch floating around to allow ndiswrapper to compile with a 3.3 kernel But I see no ndiswrapper package in [community-testing] yet ? Co

Re: [arch-general] Source control on /etc

2012-02-23 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
Le jeudi 23 février 2012 à 08:48 +0100, Alfredo Palhares a écrit : > Hello Don, > You create a bare repo: > $ mkdir etc.git > $ git init --bare > Now lets congigure it to chek the files elsewhere: > $ git config core.worktree /etc > And export these vars to you current session > $ export GIT_DIR

Re: [arch-general] Any suggestions on frequently rebuilding a git package?

2011-09-19 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
hi Nobody mentionned one quite easy solution: use ccache It's built-in in makepkg so you have only to remove the ! before ccache in BUILDENV variable in /etc/makepkg.conf and install also ccache of course. Then for any C or C++ program that you compile with makepkg, every file that has already b

Re: [arch-general] OK so HARDWARECLOCK="localtime" is "strongly discouraged" BUT???

2011-07-15 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
even though I have switch to HARDWARECLOCK="UTC", rtkit-daemon line date time in logs are still wrong. in UTC ?? what's the matter with it ?

Re: [arch-general] OK so HARDWARECLOCK="localtime" is "strongly discouraged" BUT???

2011-07-15 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
Le mardi 12 juillet 2011 à 20:41 +0200, Tom Gundersen a écrit : > No, we adjust the time as soon as possible to minimize the problems (though > we are not able to eliminate the gap when the time is wrong, so we simply > don't know what might go wrong, the more init is optimized, the more likely

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

2011-05-01 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
Le samedi 30 avril 2011 à 22:13 -0400, Ray Kohler a écrit : > The donations were done via PayPal and those in charge decided PayPal > wasn't trustworthy for use by non-profit organizations who don't have > official government non-profit status. The last time I donated was via Flattr. Not just a s

[arch-general] weird stuff: segfault in libc and other things

2011-04-09 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
hi. I switched to [testing] to get gnome 3. I found that it was a pretty bad timing because I saw that pacman updated the kernel to 2.6.38 too, and the glibc, and nvidia drivers ! and gnome 3 all in one go. Oh my..; with gnome 3, I got the gnome-shell segfaulting quite often when I hit the left to

Re: [arch-general] inefficient handling of bug reports?

2011-03-30 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
Le lundi 28 mars 2011 à 22:19 +0900, Angus a écrit : > I use that when reporting bugs, but it doesn't seem to get my reports > assigned to the relevant maintainer(s) any faster at all... You just forgot one thing: Assigning automatically a bug to a maintainer does not mean the bug will be fixed an

Re: [arch-general] flyspray mailing list

2011-03-12 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
> what about creating mailing list with all flyspray notifications? like this ? http://www.archlinux.org/feeds/

Re: [arch-general] a python rewrite of pkgfile

2011-01-16 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
Le dimanche 16 janvier 2011 à 11:02 -0500, Daenyth Blank a écrit : > Wow, was it really way back in August? Wow... I started it. That last time we talked about it must have been in december though

[arch-general] a python rewrite of pkgfile

2011-01-16 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
hi. I started in August a rewrite in python of pkgfile from pkgtools package. The idea was to speed it up and avoid the use of a tree of file and use a sqlite3 db instead. I wrote it quickly and proposed a merge (on github) to Daenyth. He seems to respond well, reviewing the code. But then nothin

Re: [arch-general] Ye Olde Package Manager

2011-01-16 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
Le dimanche 16 janvier 2011 à 20:52 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee a écrit : > For a database which is necessarily more complicated, the whole > database may be a write-off. Database are more complicated and also more sophisticated. With mechanism to prevent losing data if corruption of file. So I would say,

Re: [arch-general] python3 update

2010-10-20 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
Le mardi 19 octobre 2010 à 18:54 +0200, Clément Démoulins a écrit : > > And the dependencies must be updated from python to python2. > also I guess something like python>2.6.5 should become python2>2.6.5 which does not make any sense since python2 in archlinux is >= 2.7 and then could be shortene

Re: [arch-general] How do AUR packages get new maintainers?

2010-09-22 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
What about the aur-general mailing-list ?

Re: [arch-general] $BROWSER variable and Google Earth

2010-07-20 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
ooops in fact, it works if I run it from a command line in a terminal. but not from gnome menu.

Re: [arch-general] $BROWSER variable and Google Earth

2010-07-20 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
using bash and ~/.bashrc, I confirm the bug. google-earth does not honnor my export BROWSER='xd-open' that should run chromium but launches firefox. I guess you got an error because you don't have firefox installed.

Re: [arch-general] Bashification of initscripts for moderate speedup

2010-06-29 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
Le lundi 28 juin 2010 à 17:55 +0200, Lukáš Jirkovský a écrit : > Actually I see the point of doing this. Arch is a modern distribution > with the newest software around so why stuck with shell constructs > which are probably dozens of years old? > > Lukas Yes. I definitely agree. We have to pray

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

2010-05-08 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
I think the question "Err... Why is gvim now conflicting with vim?" reveals a problem of communication. Let me explain: The news/announce "Vim/GVim 7.2.411 Update" has been published the 2010-04-18 (when vim/gvim landed in [testing] ?). So it's over 19 days now. That's the problem. Even on the web

Re: [arch-general] Is preload really working ??

2010-05-06 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
preload works for what it is made. It is not made to speed up firefox startup time. Firefox loads a bunch of sqlite files in your /home. This and other things might explain your slow startup time of firefox. One of the ways to speed up firefox is to put your ~/.mozilla in a tmpfs (doing it the r

Re: [arch-general] pacman too slow on reboot

2010-02-11 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
if you use pt-pacman-cage (from pactools package on AUR), you can use this tiny optimisation: * mount /var/lib/pacman with noatime option. it will speed up read and write on the loop file.

Re: [arch-general] WARNING: mkinitcpio 0.5.99.3 (kill-klibc) live in testing!

2010-02-08 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
hi. i switched to [testing] for some other packages. but upon upgrading mkinitcpio, the initramfs (/boot/kernel26.img) has not been recreated ? is this normal ? expected ? or a bug ? will it be upgraded at the next kernel upgrade ? there is no .install file in the mkinitcpio package. by the way,

Re: [arch-general] Prelink/Preload

2010-02-02 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
> Well, I'm bumping this thread, but I have a doubt. When we run prelink, > prelinking is permanent or has to be done at every boot ? > prelink is not a daemon. prelink changes your file on disk permanently. So no need to run it at every boot. but as arch is a rolling release, you install new pac

Re: [arch-general] Prelink/Preload

2010-02-01 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
hi. preload and prelink are NOT the same thing. preload is a daemon that scan what file you load into memory the most (in learning mode). and later (in operating mode), it prefetches them. I can't say if there is a difference as it's been a long time I use it. a slight improvement may be at the st

Re: [arch-general] Quoting of E-mails

2010-01-12 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
Le mardi 12 janvier 2010 à 12:48 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee a écrit : > [...] and its > really tough to go through archives (for example, when googling about an > issue) when there's top-posting involved. That's actually my primary > reason for bottom-posting. > By the way, how do you search in the archive

Re: [arch-general] Encrypted ram disk?

2009-10-28 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
http://xkcd.com/538/

Re: [arch-general] can't unlock a luks encrypted partition. (urgent).

2009-10-13 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
it has been sometime ago # grep cryptsetup /var/log/pacman.log [2008-07-16 11:03] upgraded cryptsetup (1.0.6-1 -> 1.0.6-1) [2008-10-08 14:29] upgraded cryptsetup (1.0.6-1 -> 1.0.6-2) [2009-06-19 21:52] upgraded cryptsetup (1.0.6-2 -> 1.0.6-3) [2009-08-10 14:52] upgraded cryptsetup (1.0.6-3 -> 1.0

Re: [arch-general] can't unlock a luks encrypted partition. (urgent).

2009-10-13 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
i am beginning to think there really is a problem. i have a luks encrypted partition that i automatically mount at boot via /etc/crypttab with a *keyfile* so this has never failed and it can't fail except if the keyfile is damaged. and today the luks partition failed to be opened for the *first*

Re: [arch-general] Warning: dbmail is broken

2009-10-13 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
pan is broken too. and it can't be compiled with recent gmime yet. see http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16608

Re: [arch-general] can't unlock a luks encrypted partition. (urgent).

2009-10-10 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
or it could be a problem with your keyboard, but related to the kernel though...

Re: [arch-general] Why doesn't Arch show full kernel version in uname-r?

2009-09-26 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
'pacman -Q kernel26' will tell you the kernel version you are using

[arch-general] 404 on 'view svn entries' in package details on archlinux.rog

2009-08-28 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
hello, when you click on 'View svn entries' on quite a few package in details on archlinux.org, you end up on 404 page. is it a side effect of the massive package deletion reported some time ago ? is it another quirk or hiccup, or server migration ?

Re: [arch-general] Stuff in /etc/cron.d/ won't work?

2009-08-25 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
> the crond log tells me that cron actually runs this command every minute without a problem i think you mis-read your log. and it should tell you that cron is looking for changes in /etc/cron.d every minute. may be, if you change you first * * * in your lol then may be it will work. assuming you'

Re: [arch-general] Firefox Fullscreen Fix

2009-08-06 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
> export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so.1 that fix was working for me since i upgraded to firefox 3.5 but since the update of nvidia driver recently and firefox update too. this fix does not work ANYMORE. look at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=496831 and other duplicated bug reports

Re: [arch-general] how to migrate installs between hard drives?

2009-07-30 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
> I tried a simple 'cp -av' [...] and find that everything is set to > root / root if you want to preserve permission, you need to use -p too. Do you know that there exists something called the man pages (the manual pages) for each command on your system ? so if you run 'man cp', you get a list o

Re: [arch-general] how to migrate installs between hard drives?

2009-07-29 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
> Why, out of curiosity? dd copy the data of the raw device. i.e the files but also the filesystem data and metadata. which you don't really need or wish to copy to another partition/disk. i said it's the worst, not that it does not work. but you have to take extra step after you have used dd (to

Re: [arch-general] how to migrate installs between hard drives?

2009-07-27 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
if think dd is the worst way to copy data between disk or partition i used to copy data from one partition to another the "old" way by using tar and a pipe tar -C /myfirst partition -csSf -|tar -C /mysecondpartition -xSsp rsync is not bad too.

Re: [arch-general] reconfiguring vi to work like it did before the last update?

2009-07-13 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
i think you're using [testing] and then use vi-1.79 which is nvi. and not the vi you know which was a stripped down version of vim nvi behave like the original vi and not like vim. i think there's nothing you can do about this to the dev: why not rename vi package to nvi ?

Re: [arch-general] Keyboard repeat in KDE

2009-04-09 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
i can only confirm that this was happening to me too. i wonder if it did not begin when i was using kde 3.5.9 or previous version. i have no fix to offer. sorry. i currently do not use kde 4.x.x

Re: [arch-general] PKGBUILD: mkdir or install?

2009-04-06 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
if i am correct, makepkg reset umask to a sane default like 0022

Re: [arch-general] OpenOffice.org on Acer Aspire One

2009-03-09 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
> I'm trying to use OpenOffice.org on my Acer Aspire One. OpenOffice.org is known to behave badly on Acer hardware. bad luck for you. try it on another hardware.

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Can we trust our mirrors?

2008-11-30 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
i like the original idea of pierre. i had the same one ;-) because it's easier to implement and could be done quite quickly. it's quite time to shift to something a little more secure, even if it's not the *most* secure one. as soon the db is signed, we have a minimum security (not total i know,

Re: [arch-general] Problem with loading modules in 2.6.27

2008-10-30 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
Le jeudi 30 octobre 2008 à 07:20 +0530, Shridhar Daithankar a écrit : > I have noticed a strange pause after either loading modules or loading > standard ACPI modules. It started happening after I upgraded to 2.6.27. When > I > hit enter, the boot continues normally. It does not happen everytime

[arch-general] Plan for python upgrade [was in arch-dev-public]

2008-10-04 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
Eric Belanger wrote > IMO, Plan 1 is the way to go as this is how we managed the qt3/qt upgrade. there was a qt package and a qt4 during a certain amount of time before the switch to qt3/qt > Does anyone has an idea on how many packages in the repo currently works > with or need python3.0? If

Re: [arch-general] no local login prompt

2008-08-20 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
this happened to me one time when a command i had put in rc.local time out and did not complete. i did not have a prompt until that command terminate in rc.local. check /etc/rc.local

Re: [arch-general] usb keyboard and mouse

2008-06-30 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
> and I got the problem which problem ? have you simply tried to plug-in your mouse and use it ? did it work ? you should know that my usb mouse and my usb keyboard work here without any module . which one ? usbmouse and ... ?

Re: [arch-general] ClamAV should be update to 0.93

2008-05-04 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
when i try to use your PKGBUILD, i got this error /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I.. -I./nsis -I./lzma -march=i686 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -MT regerror.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/regerror.Tpo -c -o regerror.lo `test -f 'regex/regerror.c' || echo './'`re

Re: [arch-general] kde-18n-fr-3.5.9 - Broken tar archive

2008-03-04 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
an extraordinary coincidence happened: i got the same problem with kde-i18n-fr-3.5.9-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz the tar.gz is damaged but # md5sum /var/cache/pacman/pkg/kde-i18n-fr-3.5.9-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz 1161b195c5603b1f03505ab0404ef679 /var/cache/pacman/pkg/kde-i18n-fr-3.5.9-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz #

Re: [arch-general] where is kde 3.5.9 ?

2008-02-29 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
> Have you read the changelog? It's hardly worth being excited for... yes you're right. i was hoping a part of it was missing or hidden somewhere else on there site... but it does not seem so. is it this ? http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelogs/changelog3_5_8to3_5_9.php

[arch-general] where is kde 3.5.9 ?

2008-02-28 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
hi kde 3.5.9 is out since the 19th february i was used to have the latest kde release the day before the offical release on arch ! now we are almost 10 days after the official release and nothing. what's happening ? even if arch switch to kde 4 (too soon for me) i prefer to wait Kde 4.1 will

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

2008-02-07 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
hi. > IMHO, at the actually status of pacman, is a suicide go to programming a > GUI. what do you mean by that ? i wonder why after pacman is finally splitted into two with a library like libalpm, we do not see more GUI popping up... i have tried to use libalpm just to see; it's not easy but i

[arch-general] bizarre site

2007-12-19 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
hi. when i go to http://ftp.archlinux.org/, i got a site like the one showing up at http://www.response-o-matic.com/ should it be the ftp site of archlinux.org ?