Re: [arch-general] Does anybody still have kde3 runnin g? libpng problems preventing apps from running?

2010-03-05 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Friday 05 March 2010 12:46:04 Brendan Long wrote: > On 03/04/2010 05:22 PM, Baho Utot wrote: > > The only thing I really need from KDE is the Konqueror web browser. > > Wait.. someone who actually likes Konqueror? Why? because it a very good crap filter. If a website is developed against IE/

Re: [arch-general] Does anybody still have kde3 running? libpng problems preventing apps from running?

2010-03-05 Thread Baho Utot
Brendan Long wrote: On 03/04/2010 05:22 PM, Baho Utot wrote: The only thing I really need from KDE is the Konqueror web browser. Wait.. someone who actually likes Konqueror? Why? Because I can allow javascript per url. I can turn off javascript as a default and then turn it on fo

Re: [arch-general] Automounting internal devices in Gnome

2010-03-05 Thread Flavio Costa
Sure =) $ id uid=1000(flavio) gid=100(users) > groups=100(users),10(wheel),81(dbus),82(hal),90(network),91(video),92(audio),93(optical),95(storage),97(camera),98(power) On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:37 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Flavio Costa wrote: > > > Hi, >

Re: [arch-general] Automounting internal devices in Gnome

2010-03-05 Thread Samed Beyribey
> Sure =) > > $ id > > uid=1000(flavio) gid=100(users) > > groups=100(users),10(wheel),81(dbus),82(hal),90(network),91(video),92(audio),93(optical),95(storage),97(camera),98(power) Create the same file under /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d directory with .pkla extension. (not .conf) See

Re: [arch-general] top posting

2010-03-05 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Denis Kobozev wrote: > Bottom posting shows its downside only when you recently joined a > mailing list, for example - you start receiving emails from threads > that have been going for a long time and you have no idea what people > are discussing. But if you're rea

Re: [arch-general] Does anybody still have kde3 running? libpng problems preventing apps from running?

2010-03-05 Thread Laurie Clark-Michalek
On 5 March 2010 09:48, Baho Utot wrote: > Brendan Long wrote: >> >> On 03/04/2010 05:22 PM, Baho Utot wrote: >> >>> >>> The only thing I really need from KDE is the  Konqueror web browser. >>> >> >>  Wait.. someone who actually likes Konqueror? Why? >> > > Because I can allow javascript per url. >

[arch-general] Amavisd-new Only in AUR?

2010-03-05 Thread Carlos Mennens
I know I can download packages from AUR but I really could not believe that 'amavisd-new' is not in 'Community'. I would think this tool for email / virus scanning would be popular enough to be voted into 'Community' repo. Does anyone have any idea what is holding this software back from getting vo

Re: [arch-general] Amavisd-new Only in AUR?

2010-03-05 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:49, Carlos Mennens wrote: > Does anyone have any idea what is holding this > software back from getting votes / moved into the 'Community? Is it > considered buggy or just not widely used enough in the Arch community? Most likely there hasn't been a TU interested in tak

[arch-general] Fwd: Re: [arch-dev-public] monotone needs botan 1.8.x

2010-03-05 Thread Andrea Scarpino
forwarded to arch-general -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [arch-dev-public] monotone needs botan 1.8.x Date: Friday 05 March 2010, 17:48:28 From: Marq Schneider To: Allan McRae , Andrea Scarpino , Dan McGee I'm emailing you guys directly since i don't think i have acces

Re: [arch-general] top posting

2010-03-05 Thread Felipe Tanus
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Aaron Griffin wrote: > > Top posting doesn't solve this, unless you're implying top posting > with no previous messages trimmed. If this is what you're implying you > need to compare apples-to-apples and assume the bottom-posted emails > will have no previous messa

Re: [arch-general] top posting

2010-03-05 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2010/3/4, Juan Diego : > Hello listmates, > > is there any special reason of why top-posting is a bad thing? Is not the RFC1855 [1] a special reason for you? See 3.1.1 General Guidelines for mailing lists and NetNews [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855 -- Arch Linux Developer http://www.ar

Re: [arch-general] top posting

2010-03-05 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 05.03.2010 18:28, schrieb Giovanni Scafora: > 2010/3/4, Juan Diego : >> Hello listmates, >> >> is there any special reason of why top-posting is a bad thing? > > Is not the RFC1855 [1] a special reason for you? > See 3.1.1 General Guidelines for mailing lists and NetNews > > [1] http://tools.

[arch-general] [signoff] util-linux-ng-2.17.1-1

2010-03-05 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Hi major changes: - removed loop aes crypt support please signoff, both arches. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tp...@archlinux.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[arch-general] grub2 and xfs seems not to work :(

2010-03-05 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Hi guys, i'm just trying to get grub2 support in archboot's setup. Now i have found an irritating thing it seems it doesn't like xfs and the ususal xfs_freeze hack from grub1 is not working anymore. Does anyone already use grub2 with xfs and if yes how did you solve this issue. Many thanks for

Re: [arch-general] grub2 and xfs seems not to work :(

2010-03-05 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Am Freitag 05 März 2010 schrieb Tobias Powalowski: > Hi guys, i'm just trying to get grub2 support in archboot's setup. > > Now i have found an irritating thing it seems it doesn't like xfs and the > ususal xfs_freeze hack from grub1 is not working anymore. > > Does anyone already use grub2 with

Re: [arch-general] [patch] AIF, partition table compatibility with grub2.

2010-03-05 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:02:53 -0600 Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Dieter Plaetinck > wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:18:28 +0100 > > Jan de Groot wrote: > > > >> On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 23:21 +0100, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > >> > Just poked around with grub2 and kvm, >

[arch-general] Problems with mkinitcpio

2010-03-05 Thread Ihad
Hi, Maybe this is more suitable for arch-dev, but I hope that the devs also read here. Let me know if I should redirect this to arch-dev-public. I have some ancient hardware, specifically an AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ with a PCI IDE Controller: $ lspci | grep Mass 00:0a.0 Mass storage controller:

Re: [arch-general] Problems with mkinitcpio

2010-03-05 Thread Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
On 03/05/2010 07:12 PM, Ihad wrote: The autodetect hook from mkinitcpio thinks that pata_hpt366 is the module of choice. But it doesn't work. It crashes the kernel after some time, unfortunately not reproducible and without a log message. The box just stops responding to anything, including a p

Re: [arch-general] Problems with mkinitcpio

2010-03-05 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 05.03.2010 23:12, schrieb Ihad: > Hi, > > Maybe this is more suitable for arch-dev, but I hope that the devs also read > here. Let me know if I should redirect this to arch-dev-public. arch-dev-public is read-only for non-developers. > The rebuilding device has devices connected to the PCI c

Re: [arch-general] [patch] AIF, discover repos on iso.

2010-03-05 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:26:54 +0100 (CET) Mark Pustjens wrote: > Hi List, > > The attached patch fixes a TODO in lib-pacman of aif. > Instead of hardcoding that `core' is always available locally and > falling back to net for others, it now checks /src/ for repos. > > It assumes repos are stored

Re: [arch-general] Problems with mkinitcpio

2010-03-05 Thread Ihad
Hi, On Friday 05 March 2010 23:31:25 Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 05.03.2010 23:12, schrieb Ihad: > > Maybe this is more suitable for arch-dev, but I hope that the devs also > > read here. Let me know if I should redirect this to arch-dev-public. > > arch-dev-public is read-only for non-developers.

Re: [arch-general] Problems with mkinitcpio

2010-03-05 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 05.03.2010 23:45, schrieb Ihad: >> Some rules with respect to IDE devices were in fact removed in a >> previous udev version. In fact, almost nobody still uses the IDE >> subsystem, most(!) drivers work better with the ATA subsystem these days. >> >> However, these "standard" nodes should still

Re: [arch-general] Problems with mkinitcpio

2010-03-05 Thread Ihad
Hi, On Friday 05 March 2010 23:56:05 Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 05.03.2010 23:45, schrieb Ihad: > > The custom kernel has RAID autodetect compiled in, so I get my root fs, > > and I also have md0 and md1 but nothing more. No hd[a-f][0-2]. On top of > > the RAID is LVM, so after: > > # lvm > > > >

Re: [arch-general] Problems with mkinitcpio

2010-03-05 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 06.03.2010 00:15, schrieb Ihad: >> There is udevadm monitor - we could start that very early and redirect >> the output into a file inside rootfs. Then, we kill it and look at the >> file. Not sure if that will work well, haven't tried it. > > How early? Maybe keeping the ramdisk mounted helps.

Re: [arch-general] Problems with mkinitcpio

2010-03-05 Thread Ihad
Hi, On Saturday 06 March 2010 00:21:24 Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 06.03.2010 00:15, schrieb Ihad: > >> There is udevadm monitor - we could start that very early and redirect > >> the output into a file inside rootfs. Then, we kill it and look at the > >> file. Not sure if that will work well, have

Re: [arch-general] Problems with mkinitcpio

2010-03-05 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 06.03.2010 00:27, schrieb Ihad: >>> How early? Maybe keeping the ramdisk mounted helps. This way udevadm >>> monitor could write its results do /somewhere. I did that with images >>> having a defined size, creating a container with an ext2 fs and then >>> mount it rw. If it's big enough we can

Re: [arch-general] Problems with mkinitcpio

2010-03-05 Thread Ihad
Hi, On Saturday 06 March 2010 00:35:06 Thomas Bächler wrote: > > Ok, didn't know that. works with ext[23]-images though. They're rw and > > stay mounted after boot, if you do a pivot_root in initrd. > > You can always write a hook that creates a ramdisk, create a filesystem > on it, mount it and

Re: [arch-general] Does anybody still have kde3 running? libpng problems preventing apps from running?

2010-03-05 Thread Baho Utot
Laurie Clark-Michalek wrote: [putolin] Wait.. someone who actually likes Konqueror? Why? Because I can allow javascript per url. I can turn off javascript as a default and then turn it on for only online transactions ie buying stuff from newegg/banking. Firefox with NoScrip

Re: [arch-general] Does anybody still have kde3 running? libpng problems preventing apps from running?

2010-03-05 Thread Laurie Clark-Michalek
On 6 March 2010 00:22, Baho Utot wrote: > Laurie Clark-Michalek wrote: > > > [putolin] > >  Wait.. someone who actually likes Konqueror? Why? >>> >>> Because I can allow javascript per url. >>> I can turn off javascript as a default and then turn it on for only >>> online >>> transa

Re: [arch-general] Does anybody still have kde3 running? libpng problems preventing apps from running?

2010-03-05 Thread Baho Utot
Laurie Clark-Michalek wrote: On 6 March 2010 00:22, Baho Utot wrote: Laurie Clark-Michalek wrote: [putolin] Wait.. someone who actually likes Konqueror? Why? Because I can allow javascript per url. I can turn off javascript as a default and then turn it on for only o

Re: [arch-general] top posting

2010-03-05 Thread gt
People using gmail's web interface are not likely to notice any problem with top or bottom posting, since gmail collapses the quoted text. but when we use a mail client, then we see the difference. Source: Personal experience. After reading a lot about posting style on this mailing list, i decided

Re: [arch-general] can't register for Arch forums

2010-03-05 Thread Armando M. Baratti
On 04-03-2010 22:11, Allan McRae wrote: On 05/03/10 11:03, Andreas Wagner wrote: Hello, I am thoroughly enjoying using arch linux so I have tried to register for the Arch forums. I have tried several times but I get the message: "Bots are unwelcome here. The door is right over there, don't let

Re: [arch-general] top posting

2010-03-05 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 7:53 AM, gt wrote: > People using gmail's web interface are not likely to notice any problem > with > top or bottom posting, since gmail collapses the quoted text. but when we > use a mail client, then we see the difference. > > Source: Personal experience. After reading a