Re: [arch-general] Apache Virtual Host Connection Refused Error

Also not sure if ServerName and ServerAlias should be in quotes - I've never seen them or used them in quotes; have you tried without? ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, March 31, 2020 2:09 PM, Matt Schwartz via arch-general wrote: > Hello list, > > I have a vexing problem with

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t all clear what is next. >> >> I never saw a menu before that prompt...there was no interaction at all >> before that. >> >> Please rewrite your instructions. I am always able to follow clear >> instructions with no help needed. >> >> Steve > > If you don't know what a command line is or what to do with it, you picked the > wrong distro. Don't waste any more of your time, move on to something else. > > Scimmia

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux USB stick won't boot

Not the right attitude, my friend! Kinda sucks actually. I'm very familiar with command lines and can always handle clear instructions. I'm going to say this again. The instructions I was pointed to were not clear. Steve On 2019-03-22 21:49, Doug Newgard via arch-general wrote:

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux USB stick won't boot

untu being virtually zero steps, so that gives you a better idea. Steve On 2019-03-22 20:50, Luke English wrote: > If you're just looking for an easy install, I could maybe recommend > ArchBang. It comes with a graphical interface and a relatively easy > installer that doesn't really

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux USB stick won't boot

If I can simply get to where the graphical interface starts with a clear list of things that have to be done before I get to that point, I can handle this. My goal is not to ask anymore questions after that point. For me it's like if I see a little bit of light, that is all I need to find my wa

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux USB stick won't boot

the password, it's not at all clear what is next. I never saw a menu before that prompt...there was no interaction at all before that. Please rewrite your instructions. I am always able to follow clear instructions with no help needed. Steve On 2019-03-22 17:41, Khorne wrote: > Hi Steve

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux USB stick won't boot

Whew! OK, thanks! All is well then. Steve On 2019-03-22 17:41, Khorne wrote: > Hi Steve, > > that *is* the booted Arch ISO. > There is no graphical installer (which you presumably expect). > > Follow https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/installation_guide to continue

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux USB stick won't boot

hope you have better stock of drivers once I get over this issue with booting from USB. Thanks, Steve On 2019-03-21 23:42, Robert Crawford via arch-general wrote: > On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 5:39 PM wrote: > OK, gotcha..."Write in DD Image mode". > > I see that and I'll

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux USB stick won't boot

ghtly less resource-intensive so it may be better anyway. I only have 1GB RAM in this thing. Intel loaded it to the breaking point with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64-bit...the 3 years of updates it had to catch up alone killed any use of it. Steve On 2019-03-21 23:42, Robert Crawford via arch-general wr

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux USB stick won't boot

OK, gotcha..."Write in DD Image mode". I see that and I'll try it. Thanks a bunch!!! Steve Sybesma On 2019-03-21 16:11, Tomasz Kramkowski via arch-general wrote: > On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 03:56:28PM -0600, st...@vwebr.net wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >>

[arch-general] Arch Linux USB stick won't boot

did which all booted fine): https://imgur.com/a/AB11PSP <-- See picture at this link Thanks for any help you can provide. Steve Sybesma Brighton, CO USA

Re: [arch-general] VirtualBox 6 on 4.20 - Anybody seeing guests become unresponsive after several hours?

it seems unresponsive. Trying to launch them in the foreground causes them to be marked "inaccessible". For anything critical I use KVM so this doesn't really concern me too much. Its an annoyance more than anything else -- Steve Ovens Consultant, RHCA DevOps Red Hat Canada Cell: 519-709-5775

Re: [arch-general] Antergoes problem.

command not found. For > example, when I type yaourt -S espeak-ng-git I get the responce, "bash > command not found." any ideas on this. has something changed that I am > unare of. I never had this problem with this before. Thanks all. > > > Matthew > -- Steve Ovens Consultant, RHCA DevOps Red Hat Canada Cell: 519-709-5775

Re: [arch-general] Arch branded ODP slide for presentation

s/tus. I would ask their permission though, before using any of > > > their slides > > > templates. > > > > > > Regards, > > > Giancarlo Razzolini > > > > Yes. Here[1] are the slides. I've pinged jelle at the IRC so he can > > have a look at this. > > I have a basic remarkjs theme on my Github [1] > > [1] https://github.com/jelly/arch-linux-remarkjs-theme > > -- > Jelle van der Waa > -- Steve Ovens Consultant, RHCA DevOps Red Hat Canada Cell: 519-709-5775

Re: [arch-general] Arch branded ODP slide for presentation

Nevermind, I missed this. Sharing the link for posterity https://www.archlinux.org/art/ On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 8:41 AM, Steve Ovens wrote: > Thank you for the reply Ashok. Does the community have some good high > quality vector or other graphics or does it suffice to just pull the

Re: [arch-general] Arch branded ODP slide for presentation

Thank you for the reply Ashok. Does the community have some good high quality vector or other graphics or does it suffice to just pull the images off of some general image search? Regards On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 8:35 AM, Ashok Arora wrote: > Hey Steve, > Arch Linux has a very _fri

[arch-general] Arch branded ODP slide for presentation

) Is there someone I need to seek permission from to use Arch branding? 2) Does anyone have any good slide templates they can share? I appreciate your time. Regards -- Steve Ovens Consultant, RHCA DevOps Red Hat Canada Cell: 519-709-5775

Re: [arch-general] problems on installing grub on a new system

to do but I'll research it now. Many thanks Steve > there are several possible reasons to get this error. One reason could > be installing grub, if you try it from a Linux running in a > systemd-nspawn container. IOW also mention from where you try to > install grub. > >

Re: [arch-general] problems on installing grub on a new system

other way. I can find no reason to believe I was writing to the usb & I was aware of the risk of doing that when I tried to write grub to sda1 Mant thanks for your help. Steve On Sun, Apr 02, 2017 at 03:20:09PM +0200, David Runge wrote: > Hey Steve, > > On 2017-04-02 13:06:19 (+00

Re: [arch-general] problems on installing grub on a new system

that covers it. Many thanks Steve On Sun, Apr 02, 2017 at 01:06:19PM +, Patrick Eigensatz via arch-general wrote: > Hello Steve > > Can you point out how you configured your system? (How many disks, how they > are partitioned) > > Do you install grub on an UEFI system? W

[arch-general] problems on installing grub on a new system

ing. Could use some guidance before I start again, or even better instead of starting again. Steve

Re: [arch-general] mc - why not alias mc-wrapper.sh as default

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2014-05-02 01:26, Kyle Bassett wrote: > I retract my smug remark, for some reason I recalled mc as a file editor. > I must be thinking of QBASIC (blue terminal interface). vim works just fine as a file browser :D -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Ve

[arch-general] Logind Timing out?

After updating my 64 bigt Arch system to latest stable releases, I began to have problems with logind services timing out and allowing me to have only one console available to work with. it seems that when I have ntpdate running and use netctl to auto start my wireless profile, these problems occur

[arch-general] Virtualbox hosting qemu-kvm guests

Hi This is my first posting so bear with me. I am trying to get qemu-kvm to work inside Virtualbox, but when I try to #modprobe the kvm-intel or kvm_intel module, it errors stating that operation is not permitted. Is qemu known to run inside virtualbox? The host hardware is an i7 that supports h

Re: [arch-general] Qingy on systemd

On Thu, 8 Nov 2012 16:35:56 -0800 Curtis Shimamoto wrote: > On 11/08/12 at 04:00pm, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > > Looks like it doesn't: > > > > [darose@daroselin ~]$ sudo systemctl enable qingy@tty6 > > ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/qingy@.service' > > '/etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/q

Re: [arch-general] Emacs is Broken!

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 09:12:12PM +1000, Mike Sampson wrote: I switched to emacs-nox from community which works fine. I may even > keep using it as it obviously has significantly less dependencies than > emacs compiled with X support. Well, it seems that it is fixed now. I see we have emacs-23.

Re: [arch-general] Emacs is Broken!

e issue here at all. Just amazes me that the GNU devs would close the emacs-23 branch and then release 23.4 some time later without the patch. On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 09:48:35PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Steve, > > if you're using speakup, is your cursor parked? > > On

Re: [arch-general] Emacs is Broken!

No answere here. All I see is quoted text from my original message. Try again? On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 01:20:11AM -0400, Jeremy Allard wrote: > Le 9 avril 2012 00:10, Steve Holmes a écrit : > > > I don't know what happened lately, but I notice that emacs totally locks > >

[arch-general] Emacs is Broken!

I don't know what happened lately, but I notice that emacs totally locks up on me now. It was working find yesterday before I did a major pacman -Syu this morning. Even if I move my .emacs out of the way and start up emacs, I get the welcome screen but then no cursor key movement. The only way

Re: [arch-general] Is there a clean solution to get completely rid of Pulseaudio?

On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 11:18:33AM +, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > Seriously? It's comments like this that make me wonder if subscribing to > this > list is really worth it. At least you did go on to provide some useful > information, albeit in a "if I MUST stoop down to your level" kind of t

[arch-general] Evolution Missing from Testing

When I do a 'pacman -Syu', I'm getting an error that evolution-3.2.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz cannot be found though the testing list file shows that file. It sounds to me that the repo is not in sync or something.

Re: [arch-general] Pacman makepkg and signatures

On 10/25/11, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote: > The trust problem is complex, indeed, but we can at least mitigate it > doing the following (it's what I do): > > 1. set TrustedOnly, instead of TrustAll > 2. import the keys when pacman asks > 3. # pacman-key --edit-key . That will open a gpg > sessio

Re: [arch-general] Pacman makepkg and signatures

On 10/25/11, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote: > > I didn't understand what you mean by "correct the errors" and > "signature verification stuff doesn't work". Would you mind to > elaborate on that? I meant that when I did the first updates this morning, I got an eror on every package because the ke

Re: [arch-general] Pacman makepkg and signatures

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 03:00:50PM +0200, fredbezies wrote: > In /etc/pacman.conf, uncomment : > > SigLevel = Optional TrustAll Yeah, I saw that and understand that is appropriate for local packages. But now that I uncomment it, what if I want to tighten up the sig tests in the future. How does

Re: [arch-general] Pacman makepkg and signatures

A slight variation here; I just upgraded to pacman 4 and did the 'pacman-key --init' as directed but now I get validation errors for all keys while doing a pacman -Syuw'. It looks like this. error: vim-runtime: signature from "Eric Belanger " is unknown trust I got this for every package I'm tryin

Re: [arch-general] Quiet Updates Lately

appear in the current mirrorlist. > assuming you mean ibiblieo, that last synced 10 days ago > > Could it be that your mirrorlist [1] is outdated? > Perhaps check for /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.pacnew > > [1] http://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/any/pacman-mirrorlist/ > > 20

[arch-general] Quiet Updates Lately

I've been doing 'pacman -Syu' for several days in a row lately to see no updates. Is bibleo.org still a good repo in the US? Is aArch all that quiet lately or am I missing something?

Re: [arch-general] Something Broken with Perl!

On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 08:33:32PM +0200, Florian Pritz wrote: > Well, perl guys tend to loose the dots so 5.14.1 would be 5.014001. You > can test that using `perl -v` or `perl -e 'print $^V'` and `perl -e > 'print $]'`. "$]" and "$^V" contain the perl version you're running in > different formats

Re: [arch-general] Something Broken with Perl!

Well, I've been messing with cpanplus and the distarch part of it. I have some questions now. Where does cpanp get the information to generate a properly configured PKGBUILD for a module? Right now, I cannot use cpanp to build Params::Util because it keeps sticking a bad dependency in the PKGB

Re: [arch-general] Something Broken with Perl!

On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 03:20:31PM +0200, Florian Pritz wrote: > `cpanp i Moose` works fine here. It doesn't for me. I'll describe below. > IMHO you should install perl-cpanpplus-dist-arch (run setupdistarch as > your user afterwards) and use cpanp to generate and install pacman perl > packages.

Re: [arch-general] Something Broken with Perl!

On 7/1/11, Florian Pritz wrote: > On 01.07.2011 14:38, Steve Holmes wrote: >> I still can't compile perl-moose but I get another lookup error so I >> rebuilt the package that owns the library causing the error but still >> no go. At least automake works so I can bui

Re: [arch-general] Something Broken with Perl!

On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 09:40:22AM +0530, gt wrote: > Did you try rebuilding perl-scalar-list-utils? I did again just now and re-installed. automake still works but I still can't compile perl-moose but I get another lookup error so I rebuilt the package that owns the library causing the error but

Re: [arch-general] Something Broken with Perl!

On 6/30/11, gt wrote: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 05:42:47AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: >> After plowing through this thread, I am replying to say that the >> library in question belongs to perl-scalar-list-utils which can be >> found in AUr. It is required by other packa

Re: [arch-general] Something Broken with Perl!

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 09:13:31AM +0300, Ionut Biru wrote: > On 06/30/2011 03:35 AM, Steve Holmes wrote: > >I think when perl was upgraded to 5.14, something broke with one of > >its libraries. Whenever I type 'automake' or attempt to recompile > >several pe

Re: [arch-general] Something Broken with Perl!

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 02:23:23PM +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 30.06.2011 13:25, schrieb Casey Peter: > > On 06/30/2011 05:08 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > >> Am 30.06.2011 12:59, schrieb Jelle van der Waa: > >>> This discussion needs more info: > >>> pacman -Q perl mod_perl those two provide

Re: [arch-general] Something Broken with Perl!

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 06:36:37AM +0530, gt wrote: > Did you look at the post installation message, when you upgraded perl. > > It should have something like this: > > - > > The directories /usr/lib/perl5/current, /usr/lib/

[arch-general] Something Broken with Perl!

I think when perl was upgraded to 5.14, something broke with one of its libraries. Whenever I type 'automake' or attempt to recompile several perl packages from AUR, I get the following error message: /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/List/Util/Util.so: undefined

Re: [arch-general] Cannot Find Desktop in GNOME3

On 5/9/11, Jan Steffens wrote: > On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 10:58 PM, C Anthony Risinger > wrote: >> sooo, how can you have two directories open then? i see that it works >> by clicking on the desktop directories twice; couldn't the icon be >> made to launch nautilus in the same way (however that is

Re: [arch-general] Cannot Find Desktop in GNOME3

Thanks for telling me about the desktop being gone. I really wondered and am a bit surprised as I thought most people valued and used a desktop area quite a bit. Yes, I opened up my home directory from the places and then opened the desktop folder from there. Actually, I think my desktop was act

[arch-general] Cannot Find Desktop in GNOME3

After upgrading my box to GNOME 3 last week, I can't seem to find the desktop anywhere on my gnome setup. I use the keyboard exclusively for navigating around so I would normally use Ctrl+Alt+d to open the desktop for keyboard focus. Alas I cannot do that any more. Also, with prior versions of G

Re: [arch-general] Gnome 3, a bug?

Hey, I also just installed / upgraded to gnome3 and have run into some strange problems with keyboard navigation. First off, I cannot get into the desktop; also I can't find a reliable way to get into the system menu. Keep in mind here, I'm totally blind and do not use the mouse. I rely strictly

Re: [arch-general] Robson Peixoto invited you to Dropbox

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:32:16AM +, Mauro Santos wrote: > I guess they do (or they should, never tried it myself) and I also > believe that they ask for the email's password before they can spam mail > everyone. > To add insult to injury some sites require (or used to require) an email > addr

Re: [arch-general] Gnome Sound Events and Settings

On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 06:38:08PM +0200, Ionuț Bîru wrote: > ... > Sound preferences exists only if you install pulseaudio and > corresponding pulse package for gnome (pacman -S pulseaudio-gnome) > I cannot find pulseaudio-gnome in standard repos. Or I should say, pacman doesn't find such a packa

Re: [arch-general] Gnome Sound Events and Settings

On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 08:01:05PM +0200, Ionuț Bîru wrote: > lets not start a rant about this. This is what gnome decided long > time ago and we actually patched (and is not the arch way) that out > to provided gstreamer support over pulse. Oh, so one could install the gnome-pulse stuff and just

Re: [arch-general] Gnome Sound Events and Settings

On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 06:38:08PM +0200, Ionuț Bîru wrote: > Sound preferences exists only if you install pulseaudio and > corresponding pulse package for gnome (pacman -S pulseaudio-gnome) Why pulse audio? I have heard so much bad press about it, I never installed it on my system. I have other

[arch-general] Gnome Sound Events and Settings

What tools are needed in Arch to configure the login and logout sounds for GNOME? When I go into the Volume control, I can only change the alert sounds and that, I can do OK but right now, I cannot get any sounds to work for Login, Logout, e-mail, etc. I've seen references in google for other di

Re: [arch-general] Python 3 Rationale?

Scroll CLEAR down to the bottom for my response. On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:02:27PM -0400, Matthew Gyurgyik wrote: > On 10/20/2010 11:45 AM, maxc wrote: > >There is an excellent post by Guido here, Hilton: > >http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2008-February/011910.html > > > >Guido see

Re: [arch-general] Open Office-dev is Broken

On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 07:10:25PM +0100, Andreas Radke wrote: > the devel pkg is of low priority and so no rebuild was planned. today I > updated it to the next snapshot and built it will be working again. Thanks for fixing this. It works again. I like using the dev version because many of the

Re: [arch-general] Open Office-dev is Broken

I should correct here in identifying the package as openoffice-base-devel and when looking at the PKGBUILD, I did not see a hard reference to the db library. So I'm not sure what needs fixing. On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 10:22:23AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > Since db was upgraded to v

[arch-general] Open Office-dev is Broken

Since db was upgraded to version 5, openoffice-dev no longer works. It is looking for shared library libdb-4.8. Shouldn't the OOo package be rebuilt?

Re: [arch-general] Postgresql-docs is Broken

On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 02:58:12PM -0200, Kazuo Teramoto wrote: > > What am I missing here? > > > > Looking harder =] > > /var/abs/extra/postgresql/PKGBUILD > > Its is a split package. Interesting. I've never seen a split package like that before. In fact, the previous version of the postgres

Re: [arch-general] Postgresql-docs is Broken

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 10:44:41AM -0500, Dan McGee wrote: > It is a bug, but this isn't the place for reporting it... > https://bugs.archlinux.org/?project=1 > > It is pretty easy to confirm yourself, note the difference in size and > the files list: > http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686

[arch-general] Postgresql-docs is Broken

I just downloaded the latest 9.01 version of postgresql-docs which supposedly should contain the html documentation for postgresql. Alas, the package size is less than 1 K and when installed, a pacman -Qql only reveals some man directories under /usr/share. There are no files present. Is anyone

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

Yeah, when I got started into learning package maintenance in Arch, I recall reading the wiki pages for AUR and ABS (the Arch Build System). Sorry, I forget the exact links but the ABS stuff explains PKGBUILDs really well and when I combined that with the AUR material, I felt I was pretty will inf

Re: [arch-general] 'Local mirror' page was removed from wiki

On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 03:22:27PM -0400, Matthew Gyurgyik wrote: > If you don't like the attitude don't use arch. Arch isn't here to > babysit you and hold your hand. This is truly what sets arch apart. > The users who have been here for 4-5+ years know exactly what I'm > talking about. Not quite

Re: [arch-general] 'Local mirror' page was removed from wiki

On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 10:46:13PM -0400, Matthew Gyurgyik wrote: > There is nothing preventing you from creating a local mirror. If you > can't figure out how to create a local mirror using the resource > available, you probably shouldn't be using arch. Now, there's a supportive answer if I ever

Re: [arch-general] "$startdir/src", "$startdir/pkg" and "|| return 1" in official packages

On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 12:43:25AM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > makepkg automatically exits on any error in the build() or package() > functions. This is interesting to know; I had no idea. I learn to build my PKGBUILDs from other live examples as well as the .proto versions in the shared pacman d

Re: [arch-general] "$startdir/src", "$startdir/pkg" and "|| return 1" in official packages

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 03:35:58PM +0200, Lukas Fleischer wrote: > Although this isn't really significant... I was just curious :) > > `grep '${\?startdir}\?/src' /var/abs/*/*/PKGBUILD | wc -l` - "648" > > `grep '${\?startdir}\?/pkg' /var/abs/*/*/PKGBUILD | wc -l` - "1385" > > `fgrep '|| return

Re: [arch-general] Spell Checking in Emacs

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 05:02:24AM +0530, Ashish SHUKLA wrote: > Steve Holmes writes: > > Do I have to set up anything in advance in order to use ispell in > > emacs with the aspell program? See the message below for the full > > story. I can't get past this read-only

Re: [arch-general] Spell Checking in Emacs

I found some more information concerning the ispell problem with emacs. It seems that if I do ispell-buffer, region, or word on clean data (correctly spelled), I don't get any errors in the mini buffer and in fact, ispell-word even tells me the word is correct. Fine - that works as it should. Ho

Re: [arch-general] 'Local mirror' page was removed from wiki

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 09:54:16PM +0200, Stefan Erik Wilkens wrote: > > On 16/09/10 19:39, Matthew Gyurgyik wrote: > > you don't get to tell anyone how to use their bandwidth. > > But can we at least say that grabbing packages without using them is > wasting mirror bandwidth, and thus not somethi

Re: [arch-general] Spell Checking in Emacs

Do I have to set up anything in advance in order to use ispell in emacs with the aspell program? See the message below for the full story. I can't get past this read-only problem. On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 09:50:22AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 06:24:11PM +0200,

Re: [arch-general] Spell Checking in Emacs

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 06:24:11PM +0200, Mathias Huber wrote: > Hi Steve, > > > When I do any of the emacs commands like ispell-buffer or > > ispell-region and the like, I keep getting a message in the prompt > > line of emacs saying > > "Text is read-only&qu

[arch-general] Spell Checking in Emacs

I have emacs 23.2 running in a normal text console and am trying to spell check using the ispell.el facility in the emacs lisp libraries. I also installed aspell and espell-en packages to resolve the binary program to be used by the emacs ispell function. When I do any of the emacs commands like i

[arch-general] Spell Checking in Emacs

I have emacs 23.2 running in a normal text console and am trying to spell check using the ispell.el facility in the emacs lisp libraries. I also installed aspell and espell-en packages to resolve the binary program to be used by the emacs ispell function. When I do any of the emacs commands like i

Re: [arch-general] something is wrong/stoped in servers? commits but no packages on repos.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Yeah for the past 12 hours or more, I have about 6 packages that won't update/download. They are all the gstreamer packages and vim from extra. Because of those failed downloads, none of my other updates would occur automatically. I had to appl

Re: [arch-general] Syncing the mirrors

On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 04:42:32AM +0200, Ionut Biru wrote: > mirrors.kernel.org in fact is not a single mirror. is an alias to a > geolocation subdomain and from there is serving from closer > geographically position(in theory). > for you maybe you hit in an up to date server. I don't know but I'

Re: [arch-general] Syncing the mirrors

-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. Last night it was 66. I'm using the kernel.org site for my pack

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

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 I don't know much about the licenses differences and all that crap but I experienced a problem with cdrecord several years ago where it would not work with my CD burner. I kept getting wiere I/O errors or some such. When I asked around,some peop

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

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 05:12:31PM +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > Probably because (in my experience at least) top-posting occurs much > more frequently than "me too" posts at least, probably more frequently > than improper quoting as well. And yet wh

[arch-general] Quoting of E-mails

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 I've been seeing some very passionate pleeds in posts lately concerning top-posting of replies. I, for one, don't really mind seeing top-posted e-mails like that because I can see the reply quickly and if the thread is current in my mind, I don't

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] dcron 4.2

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 I'm fairly new to the Arch Linux scene so am still learning a lot about package building and maintenance. Left over from my Slackware days gone by, Iknow well the importance of the rc.d scripts and how they work. For local stuff, there's rc.loca

Re: [arch-general] Video Resolution, Grub2 and Kernel 2.6.32

On 01/02/2010 12:29 PM, a...@nezmer.info wrote: KMS conflicts with vga,video. What GPU do you have ? I have a generic mother boasrd with an AMD Athlon64 K8 1.6 Ghz processor and a Via Technologies VGA compatible controler. This info came to me courtesy of the lsmod command.:) But I di

[arch-general] Video Resolution, Grub2 and Kernel 2.6.32

When I installed grub2 a short while back, I was using the kernel 2.6.31.6 and I enjoyed a full screen of 1024.768 32K color depth. I followed the steps outlined here to the letter and all was great. But when the

Re: [arch-general] Kernel panic with kernel26 2.6.32.2-2 from [core]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 05:26:38AM +0100, Heiko Baums wrote: > This has nothing to do with my kernel panics which were fixed by just > upgrading to [testing] and didn't came back when downgrading back to > [core]. > > I don't know what vbe is for

Re: [arch-general] Kernel panic with kernel26 2.6.32.2-2 from [core]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 I think I am in much better shape now. I managed to upgrade all kernel packages and speakup but had to modify my grub.cfg so all boots now with latest packages. What I have been using is kernel parameters to give me the 128x160 console but then

Re: [arch-general] Kernel panic with kernel26 2.6.32.2-2 from [core]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 08:29:01AM +0530, Partha Chowdhury wrote: > > > i just updated my system yesterday to kernel 2.6.32.2-2. I faced no > problem. It is running as usual.After reading your mail, i looked in the > pacman update log and found t

[arch-general] Kernel 2.6.32 Broken

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hey, has anyone been experiencing any problems with the newest kernel26 package from Arch? this would be 2.6.32.2. After upgrading to it, my machine starts to boot but then dies. When I downgrade to kernel26-2.6.31.6, all works fine again. I'm