Re: [arch-general] Add "phonon-xine" to KDE deps?

2009-08-10 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Tuesday 11 August 2009 11:56:13 Manne Merak wrote: > Edgar Kalkowski wrote: > > Am oder ungefähr am Montag, 10. August 2009, um 20:19:24 schrieb Sven- Hendrik Haase: > >> Hey, > >> > >> I've found that I hardly get any sound at all in KDE without the > >> phonon-xine package installed since KDE

Re: [arch-general] Add "phonon-xine" to KDE deps?

2009-08-11 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Tuesday 11 August 2009 12:22:34 Allan McRae wrote: > > Thirded :) I am still missing notification sounds from kopete though. And > > now I don't have any default device in system settings -> multimedia -> > > audio output -> * > > Did you all install the needed gstreamer plugins for the files yo

Re: [arch-general] Painful installation of 4.3 - some general advice needed.

2009-08-17 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
> > 2) Dolphin - I really liked konqueror - can one still install this as a > > > file browser. I note there is a kdebase-konqueror package, using this > > > multiple 'file exists in the filesystem' messages I could use a force but > > god knows what this will trash. Any alternatives. > > I'm usin

Re: [arch-general] btrfs supported on archlinux

2009-09-07 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hi, On Tuesday 08 September 2009 08:58:21 Laszlo Papp wrote: > I'm just interested in when will btrfs filesystem be supported in archlinux > in the official repository and on livecd ? > It's available now from AUR some related packages, the stable releases can > be seen here: > http://btrfs.wiki.k

Re: [arch-general] Opinion: What do you think about Lenovo IdeaPad Y450?

2009-09-28 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Tuesday 29 September 2009 03:01:54 Guilherme M. Nogueira wrote: > So I was wondering if any of you has one, or has another Lenovo laptop > and your opinions about it. I plan on using it with arch only. I use a compaq F733 laptop(I think that model does not ship anymore. Bought last april). It

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

2009-10-26 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Monday 26 October 2009 19:25:09 Lars Tennstedt wrote: > I suggest the opposite in the facts of speed. My work's computer runs > with Windows XP and the hardware is faster than mine at home. But > Windows XP often stands still without a reason and takes ages to do > something. KDE 4.3 on my Arch

[arch-general] file system capabilities

2009-11-04 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hi, I was reading thr. /. commentary on the latest linux kernel bug, got drifted into file system capabilities. and got this, (from http://lwn.net/Articles/313838/) [r...@presario shridhar]# ls -la /bin/ping -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 33360 2008-10-04 17:48 /bin/ping [r...@presario shridhar]# chmod

Re: [arch-general] MUA

2009-11-17 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Tuesday 17 November 2009 22:37:08 Arvid Picciani wrote: > Mutt grows old and still doesn't do threads the way i want. > i've tried sup, but find it too early in development. Especcially it is > unusable slow. > > Can somone recommend another MUA? kmail. Using for last 5+ years with no real com

Re: [arch-general] usable browser?

2009-11-26 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Friday 27 November 2009 09:59:55 Ian-Xue Li wrote: > On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:51:36 +0100 Arvid Picciani wrote: > > - no webkit ( i need to visit non w3c compliant sites ) > > - no gecko ( i don't have a raid11 in my laptop ) > > - no opera ( i hate popups ) > > - no chrome ( unusable buggy )

[arch-general] Problem updating system

2009-12-01 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hello All, I am having trouble doing a system upgrade. --- r...@presario pacman.d]# pacman -Sy :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date [r...@presario pacman.d]# pacman -Su :: Sta

Re: [arch-general] Problem updating system

2009-12-02 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday 02 December 2009 14:46:58 Ty John wrote: > On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 10:41:05 +0530 > > Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > > Any ideas? > > If 'pacman -Syyu' doesn't work, then try changing the mirror. While I go on trying, could you please post your work

Re: [arch-general] [OT] What is wrong with DBus anyway?

2009-12-03 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Friday 04 December 2009 08:08:03 Arvid Picciani wrote: > Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > > What does upstream have to say about this dependency? Does not seem > > 'necessary' to me > > http://blogs.igalia.com/itoral/2006/03/30/adding-dbus-support-to-gedit/ > > priceless finding. > > let me sum up: > " >

[arch-general] Low volume for kopete notifications

2009-12-07 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hello All, I got a new computer and installed arch on it. I have restored my home directory from other machine, which has lived thr. kde3 -> kde4 transition and isn't exactly prestine. This is core2duo machine and the soundcard is 82801G HDA, as reported by lspci. I don't have pulseaudio insta

Re: [arch-general] gmail and mailing list

2010-01-12 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday 13 January 2010 01:55:40 Patrick Brisbin wrote: > I've mine set to yes as well but I still don't get my own posts. Oh well, > mutt to the rescue again: > > # cc myself when replying to an ML > # note: with this, you can't :q! mid-compose to abort > # instead, just :wq and abort

Re: [arch-general] Adding new partition to system from unpartitioned space - any reason to not use ext4??

2010-01-13 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday 13 January 2010 21:57:04 Christos Nouskas wrote: > Kind of late response, but I strongly agree with Thomas. I've had my > share of truncated files after unclean shutdowns (every single time), some > kernel modules being among the victims. If you decide to decide to use > ext4, then it

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel 2.6.32.4-1 [ Possible Problems... ]

2010-01-20 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday 20 January 2010 22:21:19 David C. Rankin wrote: > On 01/19/2010 04:43 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > After further testing with kernel 2.6.32.4-1, I have found two bugs: > > (1) the kernel upgrade kills WindowMaker > (2) the kernel upgrade kills VirtualBox even with 2.6.32.3, I had to

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel 2.6.32.4 -1 [ Possible Problems... ]

2010-01-20 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Thursday 21 January 2010 00:50:22 David C. Rankin wrote: > On 01/20/2010 11:28 AM, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > > On Wednesday 20 January 2010 22:21:19 David C. Rankin wrote: > >> On 01/19/2010 04:43 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > >> After further testing with kernel 2

Re: [arch-general] how to Map shortcut keys in KDE4.3 to lunch custom Applications?

2010-01-26 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Tuesday 26 January 2010 14:46:03 Gaurish Sharma wrote: > How to map Custom Keyboard Shortcuts to launch custom Application on > KDE4.3? Add custom input actions from system settings. First add a new group and then new actions under it. Special keys should not conflict with existing shortcut

Re: [arch-general] how to Map shortcut keys in KDE4.3 to lunch custom Applications?

2010-01-26 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Tuesday 26 January 2010 19:57:26 Gaurish Sharma wrote: > Hi, > A Rojas and Shridhar Daithankar, > I tried your suggest and mapped the shortcut key to launch speedcrunch > but it does not work :) > > * Screenshots: > http://www.imagebam.com/image/29bf3765418046 > http:

Re: [arch-general] how to Map shortcut keys in KDE4.3 to lunch custom Applications?

2010-01-27 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Thursday 28 January 2010 03:42:27 Gaurish Sharma wrote: > I was able to launch Amarok via the extra media key present on my > keyboard. been using the exact same method for speedcrunch, it does > not work :( Pl. follow these steps and tell us if it worked. - Go to system settings -> input acti

Re: [arch-general] Prelink/Preload

2010-02-01 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Monday 01 February 2010 16:09:08 solsTiCe d'Hiver wrote: > prelink modifies binary and library to ... prelink ;-) them. during the > days of kde 3 I noticed a significant improvement in loading time of > applications. I have dropped its use (prelink ... and kde3) because some > recent binutils(o

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux and security - it needs some work

2010-02-03 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday 03 February 2010 12:56:57 Robert Howard wrote: > suppose my problem with all the Arch security/insecurity talk is that it > assumes that Arch users are not more than capable of reading lists and > discovering bug and holes in software that we use daily. I don't think > there has ever

Re: [arch-general] Server Space for Arch Downloads / AUR / ABS for small X additions the Arch Community might enjoy?

2010-02-03 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday 03 February 2010 12:31:13 David C. Rankin wrote: > I have several good collections of miscellaneous kde themes, kdm/gdm > themes, metacity, gtk-2, xcursors, etc.. that I would like to find how > best to contribute them to the community. The color-schemes, gnome and kde > layou

Re: [arch-general] kde44beta - 'virtuoso -t' grabbing ~80% of the CPU every few minutes

2010-02-05 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Friday 05 February 2010 14:08:11 David C. Rankin wrote: > Looking at the processes, it is 'virtuoso -t' that is to blame. Can > anyone > else confirm this behavior ... and .. does anyone know of a workaround? Disble nepomuk? -- Regards Shridhar

Re: [arch-general] kde44beta - 'virtuoso -t' grabbing ~80% of the CPU every few minutes

2010-02-05 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Friday 05 February 2010 18:48:15 David C. Rankin wrote: > Thanks Shridhar, > > I know how to do that. Nepomuk has been working fine in the past > versions > of 4.3.4, but now it seems that virtuoso isn't behaving properly. Are you > seeing this problem as well? I haven't upgraded yet.

[arch-general] Keeping multiple machines in sync. and updated [Re: A suggestion for the devs regarding rebuilds]

2010-02-08 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Tuesday 09 February 2010 08:35:14 Mauro Santos wrote: > Currently for my personal use I don't want anything else other than Arch > but for machines that have more users and _need_ to keep working I'm > using centos (devs I'm sorry to hinder your world domination plans but I > think I'm not compe

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

2010-02-08 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Tuesday 09 February 2010 08:32:04 Brendan Long wrote: > On 02/08/2010 07:50 PM, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: > > One very simple solution would be to never delete anything > > named /usr/lib/*.so* unless you really have to. That requires > > one regexp match. A hack, not perfect but it would help

Re: [arch-general] Kde upgrade ?phonon/qt?

2010-02-17 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday 17 February 2010 14:39:53 richard terry wrote: > > # pacman -Sy --asdeps qt > :: qtscriptgenerator: requires phonon How about removing qtscriptgenerator before doing this? You can install it after your upgrade is complete. HTH -- Regards Shridhar

Re: [arch-general] Unable to upgrade

2010-02-20 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Sunday 21 February 2010 04:35:51 Heiko Baums wrote: > Btw., I don't see any good reasons why developers of proprietary > software couldn't build x86_64 packages. They should only need to > compile their software a second time. Assuming the software is 64 bit clean. Thats a lot to assume! -- Re

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] A good twitter client

2010-03-07 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Sunday 07 March 2010 13:08:42 christopher floess wrote: > On 03/07/2010 03:15 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > > Hi, > > Does anyone know a good twitter client for KDE apart from Firefox's > > echofon, Chromed Bird (I don't use GChrome), and KDE μblog ? > > Twitgin sucks if you have to many twee

Re: [arch-general] A good twitter client

2010-03-07 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Sunday 07 March 2010 14:21:48 Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > What happened to kde twitter widget? I cannot find it anymore in the list > of widgets. Following claims that it is still available with 4.4. It is > not available online either. > > http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplan

Re: [arch-general] Something is seriously wrong with FlashPlugin; makes chrome & firefox crash like crazy

2010-03-07 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Sunday 07 March 2010 20:54:24 Gaurish Sharma wrote: > Hi, > My CPU is Intel E5300.AKAIK, lahf only applies to AMD athlon 64 line of > chips. Plus, flash earlier used to work but this crashing has started > about 2-3weeks back. > > anyone else having similar issues> I am running a E7400 with fl

[arch-general] attempting to build firefox-qt

2010-03-09 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Subject: attempting to build firefox-qt Date: Tuesday 09 March 2010, 15:40:55 From: Shridhar Daithankar To: arch-dev-pub...@archlinux.org Hello, I am interested in building firefox with Qt. Following directions from https://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Pjohnsen/MozillaQtBuild, I updated the pkgbuild

Re: [arch-general] Security

2010-03-12 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Friday 12 March 2010 19:26:13 Heiko Baums wrote: > Am Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:49:17 - > > schrieb "Gordon Campbell" : > > I am new to this list and fairly new to Arch Linux. My Question is do > > I need to install a firewall? if so which one? ufw is a good iptables frontend. Pretty easy to se

[arch-general] Btrfs more than twice as fast compared to ext4

2010-03-12 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hi, Just wanted to share an interesting experience I had today. Check http://ghodechhap.net/btrfs.performance.txt -- Regards Shridhar

Re: [arch-general] Btrfs more than twice as fast compared to ext4

2010-03-15 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Monday 15 March 2010 15:44:35 Nathan Wayde wrote: > On 13/03/10 03:05, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Just wanted to share an interesting experience I had today. > > > > Check http://ghodechhap.net/btrfs.performance.txt > > Maybe you'r

Re: [arch-general] Btrfs more than twice as fast compared to ext4

2010-03-16 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Tuesday 16 March 2010 14:41:41 Nathan Wayde wrote: > On 16/03/10 00:48, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > > [...] > > But as far as file system performance goes, the overhead should be > > identical for both the runs, no? > > I'm not too sure about that. I'm gu

Re: [arch-general] Open Konsole Here ???

2010-03-19 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Friday 19 March 2010 11:59:06 Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > KDE used to have an "Open Konsole Here" option as it appears in Nautilus > when you install nautilus-open-terminal. Where's it vanished ? Or I'm > missing some addon ? Hit F4 in dolphin :). Although it will open konsole part and not a f

[arch-general] pacman error

2010-03-30 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hello, I got this error when I ran pacman -Syu. [r...@bheem horo]# pacman -Syu :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date :: Starting full system upgrade... resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... ... Total Download Si

Re: [arch-general] pacman error

2010-03-30 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday 31 March 2010 06:58:44 Andrea Scarpino wrote: > On Wednesday 31 March 2010 02:11:09 Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > > Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y > > checking package integrity... > > error: error while reading package /var/cache/pacman/pkg/kdebindings- >

[arch-general] upgrade problems

2010-04-09 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hi, I got this pacman error just now, when I wanted to upgrade to 2.6.33. # pacman -Su :: Starting full system upgrade... resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: kqemu: requires kernel26<2.6.33 :: madwifi: r

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.33.3-2 (and aufs2)

2010-05-09 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Sunday 09 May 2010 23:22:19 Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 09.05.2010 19:37, schrieb Thomas Bächler: > > Am 09.05.2010 19:23, schrieb Pierre Schmitz: > >> I noticed the same. But this is caused by the mkinitcpio update and not > >> the kernel. In my case "logo.nologo" in the kernel parameter line wa

Re: [arch-general] Compiling Firefox

2010-05-30 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Monday 31 May 2010 09:03:08 Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Allan McRae wrote: > > On 31/05/10 13:23, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > >> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Jeffrey Lynn Parke Jr. > >>> that's a firefox port for the qt toolkit, as opposed to the regular g

[arch-general] firefox addon [Re: Compiling Firefox]

2010-05-30 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Monday 31 May 2010 09:48:51 Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > Nope. I have 24 addons in Firefox. Just cannot leave firefox. I loved > the chrome UI, so installed chromifox extreme (with chromifox > companion) which makes firefox look and behave like chrome :D > Firefox QT's screenshots are impressive

Re: [arch-general] Open Letter (Plea for Medical/Help Assistance) to World Leaders

2010-06-25 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Friday 25 June 2010 19:24:14 Ionuț Bîru wrote: > did you got the blue or the red pill? obligatory http://xkcd.com/566/ -- Regards Shridhar

[arch-general] Why no phonon in Qt

2010-06-27 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hello, I have removed flash after the latest problem with x86_64 release and I want to get youtube working ASAP. To that end, I downloaded nightly sources of webkit(not wanting to download the entire svn checkout) and built the qt port. However the video element is still missing, as tested on

Re: [arch-general] Why no phonon in Qt

2010-06-28 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Monday 28 June 2010 19:11:09 Peter Lewis wrote: > Or alternatively, can you tell webkit to look for the separate phonon > that's not provided with Qt when it builds? Thats not possible. The webkit build system for qt port, looks for qt config only. There is no way to provide it. OK, this can

Re: [arch-general] Why no phonon in Qt

2010-06-28 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Tuesday 29 June 2010 00:08:15 Damjan Georgievski wrote: > > I have removed flash after the latest problem with x86_64 release and I > > want to get youtube working ASAP. > > > > To that end, I downloaded nightly sources of webkit(not wanting to > > download the entire svn checkout) and built th

Re: [arch-general] Why no phonon in Qt

2010-06-28 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Tuesday 29 June 2010 01:55:39 Caleb Cushing wrote: > On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Shridhar Daithankar > > wrote: > > I have removed flash after the latest problem with x86_64 release and I > > want to get youtube working ASAP. > > chromium 5 suppport h264 and

Re: [arch-general] Why no phonon in Qt

2010-06-29 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Monday 28 June 2010 19:11:09 Peter Lewis wrote: > > if memory serves correct from gentoo days it has to do with qt phonon > > an kde phonon stepping on each others toes... however it might be for > > different reasons in arch. > > No idea really, but a quick query tells me that phonon is provid

[arch-general] qtwebkit and html5 video

2012-02-01 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hello All, this has been bothering me for some time, so just posting for wider audience. Facts, all applicable to rekonq and konqueror with webkit part - I have qtwebkit,kwebkitpart and rekonq installed - I am on youtube html5 demo trial. youtube.com/html5 reports support for webm and h.264 su

Re: [arch-general] qtwebkit and html5 video

2012-02-01 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday, February 01, 2012 12:40:05 PM Tim Stella wrote: > > Does anybody else experience this too? > > Do videos on the youtube site itself work? I don't think that embedded > videos will work with html5. Nope. tried the following(a trailor from a upcoming hindi movie), same symptoms. htt

Re: [arch-general] qtwebkit and html5 video

2012-02-01 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday, February 01, 2012 11:17:48 PM Peter Lewis wrote: > On Thursday 02 Feb 2012 01:55:47 Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > > - youtube html5 video does not work. I get a progress bar but no video > > frames. > > > > Does anybody else experience this too? > &

Re: [arch-general] qtwebkit and html5 video

2012-02-01 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday, February 01, 2012 09:57:10 PM Isaac Dupree wrote: > On 02/01/2012 03:40 PM, Tim Stella wrote: > > Do videos on the youtube site itself work? I don't think that embedded > > videos will work with html5. > > Embedded videos from youtube do work (sometimes; increasingly often as > Googl

Re: [arch-general] qtwebkit and html5 video

2012-02-02 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Thursday, February 02, 2012 02:32:47 AM Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > On Wednesday, February 01, 2012 12:40:05 PM Tim Stella wrote: > > > Does anybody else experience this too? > > > > Do videos on the youtube site itself work? I don't think that embedded &g

[arch-general] kopete and google talk

2012-03-08 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hello, I have configured a gmail account in kopete and google talk/libjingle is enabled. However if I right click on the contact properties, "Call google talk contact" is always disabled. What do I need to do to get it working? TIA. -- Regards Shridhar

Re: [arch-general] My end-user $0.02 on /etc/rc.conf splitting.

2012-07-22 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Sunday 22 Jul 2012 6:28:58 PM Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > I didn't mean the Arch devs, I meant Mr. Poettering & friends. > > Ah, I see. > > > I made clear > > that I think the Arch devs have a difficult task, trying to keep the Arch > > spi

[arch-general] pacman and corrupt packages

2012-07-24 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hello All, Last few days my net connection drops randomly or slows down to a crawl. As a result, there are several timeouts during package downloads. When a download timeout occurs, pacman aborts with "invalid or corrupted package". Is it possible to detect which package is corrupt and invalid,

Re: [arch-general] pacman and corrupt packages

2012-07-24 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Followup, On Wednesday 25 Jul 2012 9:03:42 AM Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > With pacman -sy --debug I get following error snippet > > - > debug: found cached pkg: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ati-dri-8.0.4-2- > x86_64.pkg.tar.xz > debug: sig data: > iQEcBAABAgAGBQJQC9Q

Re: [arch-general] pacman and corrupt packages

2012-07-24 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Tuesday 24 Jul 2012 11:58:14 PM Jeremiah Dodds wrote: > Oon-Ee Ng writes: > > On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Jeremiah Dodds > >> Does it continue after a "pacman -Scc"? > > > > Why are you recommending clearing his entire cache (which can be quite > > useful) when he's already specifically

[arch-general] [Solved] Re: pacman and corrupt packages

2012-07-25 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday 25 Jul 2012 11:15:48 AM Krzysztof Warzecha wrote: > 2012/7/25 Ike Devolder : > >> That is an option I have not yet tried but I just want to preserve the > >> reproduction and debug the problem if there is any. > > Maybe this will help: > > cd /var/lib/pacman/pkg > for pkg in *; do bs

[arch-general] systemd and btrfs

2012-07-29 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hello All, Just for the sake of archives, I had noted a few days ago, that systemd won't pick up my home partition after an unclean shutdown. The message is available at http://www.mail-archive.com/arch-general@archlinux.org/msg28445.html However, a later and unrelated discussion revealed the p

Re: [arch-general] kde 4.5.1-1 looks much better.

2010-09-01 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Thursday 02 September 2010 04:53:24 David C. Rankin wrote: > On 09/01/2010 01:46 PM, Ray Rashif wrote: > > KDE is fancy, but snappy it is not. > > Funny, the windows side of the world found out that gigabyte desktops > aren't that snappy either. Wonder if there is a common thread. IMO KDE part

Re: [arch-general] BTRFS, a good choice for /?

2010-09-22 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday 22 September 2010 18:37:56 Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > Hmm, after reading some responses, I don't think I'll use BTRFS on /, > because the power here is quite unreliable and my UPS can't guarantee > proper switching (it's nearly 12 yrs old!). > > So, what else would you guys recommen

Re: [arch-general] BTRFS, a good choice for /?

2010-09-24 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Friday 24 September 2010 18:52:30 Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > It seems btrfs is really worth a try after so many positive feedbacks. > Any ideas how can I format / with latest btrfs? I've the archiso on my > pen drive which was released months ago, I guess it doesn't have the > latest btrfs-pro

Re: [arch-general] The need for /lib64 - testing please

2011-07-01 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Friday 01 Jul 2011 10:18:42 AM Allan McRae wrote: > If you want to try it out, just remove the /lib64 folder (after making > sure it only has symlinks to ld-2.13.so and ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 in it. > Run your system as usual for a while and report any issues you come across. Never bothered to lo

[arch-general] liberoffice 3.4.2 strange behaviour with odt files

2011-08-03 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hello, I just faced a strange problem with libreoffice 3.4.2. An old odt file, created with libreoffice 3.4.1, around jul 20. Today when I went to open it with libreoffice 3.4.2, I was asked for filter selection, the available options being - Help Content - ODF chart - Openoffice.org 1.0 char

Re: [arch-general] liberoffice 3.4.2 strange behaviour with odt files

2011-08-04 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday 03 Aug 2011 9:31:57 PM Al wrote: > Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > > I just faced a strange problem with libreoffice 3.4.2. > > > > An old odt file, created with libreoffice 3.4.1, around jul 20. Today > > when I went to open it with libreoffice 3.

[arch-general] Fwd: [PLUG] The World's Easiest Arch Linux Manual

2011-08-06 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
-- Regards Shridhar--- Begin Message --- Hi, As we started publishing manuals on Muktware a few months ago. We just published a detailed Arch Linux manual. The manual is targetted at those users who want to try it but fail to do due to lack of easy manuals. ArchWiki is an excellent source,

Re: [arch-general] Writing my mother tongue in LibreOffice.

2011-08-12 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Friday 12 Aug 2011 6:35:59 PM Madhurya Kakati wrote: > So basically I can use my english qwerty keyboard to enter assamese > characters? That's great. So I just have to install ibus and then I > can write in Assamese in libreoffice writer? There are multiple ways to achieve the same thing. It

[arch-general] KDE and plasma-desktop CPU usage

2012-08-11 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hello, I recently formatted an acer netbook with intel atom processor, 32 bit, 1.66GHz/1GB RAM, with arch. I installed kde on it, everything went as expected. However when I log in with a normal user, the KDE start-up completes but the splash screen is stuck. plasma-desktop process is eating 1

Re: [arch-general] KDE and plasma-desktop CPU usage

2012-08-11 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Saturday 11 Aug 2012 5:59:58 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2012-08-11 at 19:40 +0530, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > > Google is not much of help. Any suggestions before I report the bug > > upstream? > "pacman -Rdd phonon-gstreamer > pacman -S phonon-vlc"

Re: [arch-general] Partition mounting in systemd [WAS: Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd]

2012-08-14 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday 15 Aug 2012 8:53:37 AM Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > Do I need to do something additional to get systemd to 'give up' > partitions totally? tell systemd not to use fsck on btrfs partition? Something like this?(pasted from my fstab) /dev/sda1 /data btrfs noatime,flushoncommit,defaults 0 0 Do

Re: [arch-general] Personal note

2012-08-15 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday 15 Aug 2012 7:27:29 PM Tom Gundersen wrote: > Hi guys, > > As most devs have done already, I'm going to change my relationship > with arch-general. This probably does not matter to most of you, so > sorry for the noise. Then again, it might be a useful reminder about > how most devs i

[arch-general] time zone problem with systemd

2012-08-17 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hello, I am having trouble with time on a machine when I boot with systemd. The clock is ahead of actual time by the value of time zone offset. Funny thing is when I boot with initscripts, time is reported correctly. I have this problem on one machine but other machine works correctly. The only

Re: [arch-general] time zone problem with systemd

2012-08-18 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Saturday 18 Aug 2012 8:04:58 PM Keshav P R wrote: > Your problem might be due to RTC (motherboard) clock being in local > time (generally the case if you dual-boot with Windows. Systemd > assumes that RTC is in UTC, but in case of initscripts it can be > configured to be localtime. Hence the tim

[arch-general] kde and systemd [was Re: [arch-dev-public] merging systemd back to a singular package]

2012-08-27 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Monday 27 Aug 2012 11:30:46 AM Joakim Hernberg wrote: > On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 10:48:32 +0200 > > Thomas Bächler wrote: > > But this only concerns the booting itself. As consolekit is > > unmaintained, polkit will soon depend on systemd. The next Gnome > > version will require systemd - more to c

[arch-general] linux 3.5 and resolution EDID problem

2012-08-30 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hello all, After upgrading to linux-3.5.2, my monitor lost its highest resolution of 1360x768 and went to 1024x768 instead. Downgrading to linux-3.4.9 fixed the issue for the moment. There are some problems reported with linux-3.5-rc4, such as http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/20

Re: [arch-general] linux 3.5 and resolution EDID problem

2012-08-30 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Friday 31 Aug 2012 1:58:23 AM rafael ff1 wrote: > 2012/8/31 Shridhar Daithankar : > Did you try linux 3.5.3 from [core] ? Sorry for the typo in the port, I was using 3.5.3 only shridhar@bheem ~$ ls /var/cache/pacman/pkg|grep linux|grep 3.5 linux-3.5.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz linux-api-h

Re: [arch-general] linux 3.5 and resolution EDID problem

2012-08-31 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Friday 31 Aug 2012 9:13:30 AM Alexandre Ferrando wrote: > It's an already reported bug, fix has landed in 3.6-rc3. See [ 0 ] for > more info on the bug and patches to fix it. It will solve the display > issue but you'll still see EDID reporting on dmesg > > PS: One of the patches will fail to a

[arch-general] strange behaviour of pacman, what did I do?

2013-03-26 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hi I was updating an archroot, created with mkarchroot to play with lxc. I thought following would work but it was doing something else altogether [root@bheem lxc]# pacman -Su -c /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ --root=$PWD/server1 Cache directory: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ Packages

Re: [arch-general] strange behaviour of pacman, what did I do?

2013-03-26 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Tuesday, March 26, 2013 10:20:08 AM Eric Bélanger wrote: > On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Shridhar Daithankar > > What did pacman do the first time? The man page does not have bare -c > > option and it wasn't -Sc where it started cleaning the packages(or was > >

[arch-general] problems while upgrading kdelibs

2013-05-12 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hello, While upgrading kdelibs-4.10.2-4 x86_64, I am getting errors such as these.. kdelibs: /etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.kde.auth.conf exists in filesystem kdelibs: /etc/xdg/menus/kde-applications.menu exists in filesystem kdelibs: /usr/bin/checkXML exists in filesystem kdelibs: /usr/bin/kbuildsycoc

Re: [arch-general] problems while upgrading kdelibs

2013-05-12 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Thursday, May 09, 2013 08:42:41 AM Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > Hello, > > While upgrading kdelibs-4.10.2-4 x86_64, I am getting errors such as these.. > > kdelibs: /etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.kde.auth.conf exists in filesystem > kdelibs: /etc/xdg/menus/kde-applications.menu ex

Re: [arch-general] Deploy Arch linux to many virtual machines

2014-01-23 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Friday, January 24, 2014 06:45:27 AM Кравец Роман wrote: > Dear Plonky, > > No. I have many virtual machines on VirtualBox virtualization. > I want, that on during first boot virtual machine will install arch > linux over PXE. wouldn't it be better to create and import an appliance? Achieves t

Re: [arch-general] Deploy Arch linux to many virtual machines

2014-01-23 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Friday, January 24, 2014 08:05:26 AM Кравец Роман wrote: > Dear Shridhar, > > I want set specified network setting and root password to each new machines. > My script get setting over HTTP JSON request and get setting from > master machine. create the appliance such that 1. it gets on network

Re: [arch-general] Deploy Arch linux to many virtual machines

2014-01-24 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Friday, January 24, 2014 02:17:01 AM Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > On Thursday 23 Jan 2014 21:59:06 Plonky Duby wrote: > > You can use docker. > > http://docs.docker.io/en/latest/installation/archlinux/ > > Thank you; I was not aware of Docker. It looks *awesome*. FYI, stock lxc works very well w

Re: [arch-general] ? regarding latest Dont Panic updates, and KDE4

2008-07-30 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Thursday 31 July 2008 01:40:20 David Rosenstrauch wrote: > Nigel Henry wrote: > > I suppose sooner or later I'll find > > some distro or other has KDE4 as default, and will have to go with it, > > but having seen many problems on the Fedora list, admittadly with > > kde-4.0, with promises that t

Re: [arch-general] Anyway to revert back to KDE 3.5.9? (Don't Panic)

2008-08-09 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Saturday 09 August 2008 20:38:27 Attila wrote: > Or to say it other words: The packages be so good as possible and there is > nothing what can be done more or better. But for me kde user and fan of the > kicker the actual panel is more a joke than something what i want to use. Could you please

Re: [arch-general] Anyway to revert back to KDE 3.5.9? (Don't Panic)

2008-08-10 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Monday 11 August 2008 03:27:56 richard terry wrote: > On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 02:52:30 pm Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > > Except for an applet for system activity monitor, I don't miss anything > > on panel. Although it took over couple of days to get back back to where >

Re: [arch-general] Anyway to revert back to KDE 3.5.9? (Don't Panic)

2008-08-11 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Monday 11 August 2008 22:18:13 Attila wrote: > P.S.: The problem with old settings is nothing new in kde and it seems that > the kde devs have no interest to offer a working solution for it. I think > everyone of us who use kde for a longer time have deleted more than one > time the ~/.kde direc

Re: [arch-general] Anyway to revert back to KDE 3.5.9? (Don't Panic)

2008-08-11 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Monday 11 August 2008 20:48:17 Attila wrote: > Thanks for the warning about printer management because if this doesn't > work i will get killed by my girlfriend.-) I hope in 4.2 there will be a > way to config konqueror instead of dolphin as the favorite file manager. See if this helps. Try the

[arch-general] Problem with loading modules in 2.6.27

2008-10-29 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hello, 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 but 1 in 3 boots, it "hangs". My rc.conf is configured to load foll

Re: [arch-general] problem with guidance power manager

2008-11-05 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday 05 November 2008 19:51:48 Allan McRae wrote: > guidance-power-manager and mercurial were rebuilt for the latest > python. Check you have got the latest version from the repos. If you > have file a bug report with all details (versions, arch, error message, > etc). True. pacman -Syu

[arch-general] problem with guidance power manager

2008-11-05 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hello , I don't know where to put this but since it has cause a concerning problem, I am putting up a mailing list post for archives. Desparately in search for KDE4 laptop suspend, today I landed with guidance- package-manager. It pulled python-2.6 along with dbus-python, sip and pyqt (which is

Re: [arch-general] problem with guidance power manager

2008-11-05 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday 05 November 2008 22:36:12 Giovanni Scafora wrote: > 2008/11/5, Shridhar Daithankar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Problem began when every other program including guidance-power-manager > > itself and mercurial(my bread-and-butter for development) started cry

Re: [arch-general] A good CPU Load/Memory/Network Activity Monitor in KDE

2008-12-28 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Sunday 28 December 2008 20:08:32 Charly Ghislain wrote: > plasma has a system monitor applet for some time now. > You should check kdeplasma-addons package, although it might still be in > playground, thus not packaged in standard repos. I have kdeplasma-addons 4.1.3-1 installed and there is no

[arch-general] hwdetect with kernel upgrade?

2009-02-02 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hello, A long time ago, I posted that with kernel upgrade, the module insertion hangs till I hit enter. I ran hwdetect and updated the modules array, sans the standard acpi modules and it now works reliably every time. It can boot unattended now. AFAIK, the module-names and functionality is pr

[arch-general] lxc containers in kernel

2009-02-10 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hello, lxc containers(krb5_get_init_creds_password) will be the first mainline containers to offer functionality similar to solaris zones. They aim to go mainline completely in 2.6.29 and lot of code is already is place. See http://lxc.sourceforge.net/lxc.html. Although lot of functionality is

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