[arch] Weird cron emails

I've been getting some weird cron messages emailed to me nightly for about a week now. Anyone know what's triggering them and/or how to eliminate them? From: root Subject:cron: /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.daily Body: %G Any suggestions appreciated. TIA, DR

[arch] Locale question

I saw recently that rc.conf in the initscripts package was changed: Revision 1.34 / (view) - annotate - [select for diffs] , Mon Feb 20 05:33:27 2006 UTC (4 weeks, 2 days ago) by judd Branch: MAIN CVS Tags: HEAD, CURRENT Changes since 1.33: +3 -3 lines Diff to previous 1.33 default LOCALE is now

Re: [arch] Weird cron emails

On Wed, March 22, 2006 10:56 am, Vincent Fleuranceau wrote: I've been getting some weird cron messages emailed to me nightly for about a week now. Anyone know what's triggering them and/or how to eliminate them? From: root Subject:cron: /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.daily Body:

Re: [arch] Weird cron emails

On Wed, March 22, 2006 11:29 am, Vincent Fleuranceau wrote: I think David want to know wich entry is causing the mail. Yup. Exactly. I can only suggest to inspect every entry in /etc/crontab... + /etc/cron.daily and friends. OK, will do. Thanks Dani and Vincent. DR

Re: [arch] Weird cron emails

On Wed, March 22, 2006 11:43 am, Casey McGinty wrote: I can only suggest to inspect every entry in /etc/crontab... + /etc/cron.daily and friends. OK, will do. Thanks Dani and Vincent. DR I am getting the same e-mails. Please post which file is causing the error if you can. - Casey

Re: [arch] Locale question

On Wed, March 22, 2006 11:58 am, Scott wrote: Make sure you have the latest version of glibc, I think it's 2.6-2 (but I could be wrong.). Check the announcement on the main www.archlinux.org page, in the news section I think. Basically, the latest /etc/locale.gen file should have all the

[arch] Memory leak problem

I've been having a horrible memory leak problem lately. X winds up hogging more and more of the memory, eating all my RAM, then all my swap space, until finally my desktop (KDE) freezes up. I can recover by ssh'ing in and killing a few apps - enough to free up enough memory for me to cleanly

Re: [arch] Restart and Shutdown - do it faster?

Benjamin Andresen wrote: * James Rayner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Linux based filesystems, or ext3 at least, are/is much more durable than we give them credit, this same computer has run out of battery life plenty of times, with no problems. Well, this maybe holds true for file systems like

Re: [arch] Restart and Shutdown - do it faster?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually this is hardly a surprise and your experience hardly unique. Hans Reiser himself does not feel his filesystem is anything other than experimental and prone to failure. He has said this many times concerning both the filesystem itself and the toolset for

Re: [arch] Restart and Shutdown - do it faster?

Christopher Rice wrote: I've been running reiser3 for years and reiser4 for about a year. No problems on reiser3 and only minor issues on reiser4. Also many of my friends use reiserfs and I haven't heard very many reported problems. Sounds more like its on a user by user basis. Like I

Re: [arch] Restart and Shutdown - do it faster?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps I should have mentioned this earlier. I have recently (past several months) tried reiser4 and had a complete failure. This was while using the underground-desktop Linux distro: a derivative of arch-Linux. Anyways, I found it somewhat curious that the

Re: [arch] Kernel module options

Tom K wrote: Roberto Griso wrote: I need to pass an option for a kernel module that's loaded in rc.conf file. What can i do? Specify the option in /etc/modprobe.conf - something like this: install module_name modprobe -i module_name option Real-life example - for kqemu, I have this:

Re: [arch] Extensions discussion?

Johannes Held wrote: Benol wrote: But I can see, that I am the only one, who thinks, that 3 letter long extension is better than one which is longer than the filename itself (but indeed, it is VERY clear, that this package is a package and tar archive compressed with gzip at the same time).

Re: [arch] Extensions discussion?

Attila wrote: On Dienstag, 4. April 2006 05:50 David Rosenstrauch wrote: Bash tab completion rocks! It's one of the things I miss the most on the (rare) occasions when I have to use a Windows box. Since Windows 2000 the cmd shell have tab completion too. Not so powerfull as the bash

[arch] acpi issue

I can't seem to get correct ACPI info on 2 separate Arch boxes. Both are fairly recent Dell desktops, and I see ACPI info appear in dmesg, so I'm pretty certain that the systems are ACPI capable. But much of the /proc/acpi tree is empty. e.g. /proc/acpi/thermal_zone has nothing in it.

Re: [arch] acpi issue

Thomas Bächler wrote: David Rosenstrauch wrote: I can't seem to get correct ACPI info on 2 separate Arch boxes. Both are fairly recent Dell desktops, and I see ACPI info appear in dmesg, so I'm pretty certain that the systems are ACPI capable. But much of the /proc/acpi tree is empty

Re: [arch] a test-message with unicode chars

Scott wrote: some latin expressions: accents: éèàáâîô umlaute: öäü chinese: 你好! 谢谢! japanese: 出版 indic: अर्चः लिनुक्ष् I've got to hand it to sylpheed--it caught every one. Thunderbird too! DR ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org

Re: [arch] a test-message with unicode chars

Thomas Bächler wrote: David Rosenstrauch wrote: I've got to hand it to sylpheed--it caught every one. Thunderbird too! Mine did not. Can you give me a list of font packages installed on your system? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ pacman -Q | grep font fontcacheproto 0.1.2-1 fontconfig 2.3.2-5

Re: [arch] Question about pacman

Christian Galander wrote: Am Samstag, den 08.04.2006, 12:21 +0800 schrieb Low Kian Seong: Dear people, Sometimes when I do a pacman -Syu it complaints that there are file conflicts. Hello, i have a something similar problem. If i upgrade udev then pacman overwrite all my manually

[arch] Weird logrotate messages

Anyone else getting weird logrotate messages? error: error running postrotate script error: error running postrotate script error: error running postrotate script error: error running postrotate script error: error running shared postrotate script for /var/log/messages.log /var/log/auth.log

Re: [arch] Weird logrotate messages

Dale Blount wrote: You have /tmp mounted noexec, don't you? Yep - good diagnosis, Dr.! [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]$ mount ... tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,noexec,size=1G) ... Took me a while to track that one down as the old version of logrotate didn't care. The basic consensus during my

Re: [arch] CVS download failure

Perhaps there's a firewall or proxy server on your network that is blocking outgoing traffic on the CVS pserver port. DR Junzo TAMADA wrote: Hello, Please help how I can fix the problem. I just installed ArchLinux from CD and was able to update most of packages with pacman -S -u

Re: [arch] vga append

Roberto Griso wrote: on boot process, what kind of data i have to put in vga variable to get 1440x900x60 frame buffer resolution? If you take a look in /boot/grub/menu.lst (assuming that you use grub) there's a table included that tells you various framebuffer settings, and how to modify

Re: [arch] Arch Linux Security Team

Great idea, James! Thanks for taking the initiative on this! I'll try to participate as much as I'm able. Will read over the wiki page and email you offlist with feedback. Thanks again, DR James Fryman wrote: Hello All! I'm looking to start a new service for the members of the community

Re: [arch] network-profiles resolv.conf

I rely heavily on the network profiles on my laptop, although I've only ever used them with DHCP. Still, I might be able to help a bit here. First off, you are correct: DNS3 and 4 are not used. The script only uses DNS1 and 2. Second, I took a look at the script, and it looks like it

[arch] /tmp

Anyone know why the /tmp entry was removed from /etc/fstab? See: http://cvs.archlinux.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/base/filesystem/fstab.diff?r1=1.11r2=1.12cvsroot=Currentonly_with_tag=MAIN and

Re: [arch] /tmp

Rohan Dhruva wrote: On 5/13/06, David Rosenstrauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know why the /tmp entry was removed from /etc/fstab? I dont know the reason, but I agree that it was a good move .. many apps were complaining about /tmp being small, because of the restriction imposed

Re: [arch] /tmp

Judd Vinet wrote: On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 11:10:52AM -0400, David Rosenstrauch wrote: What restriction are you referring to? I've always had my /tmp set to 1GB and have never had a prob. That works well enough if you have the RAM. IIRC, tmpfs will only use up to half your RAM, so unless

Re: [arch] Codenames for Arch 0.8

A blatant rip from Intel's page book: Octium :-) DR ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch

[arch] Nice new Arch review at NewsForge

http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/05/05/2138228.shtml DR ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch

Re: [arch] openoffice.org 2

You can use ABS to build/re-build/tweak *ANY* Arch package. See: http://www.archlinux.org/docs/en/guide/install/arch-install-guide.html#abs for details. To find where all the open office packages are in the ABS tree, do this: find /var/abs -name openoffice* You can then go and rebuild any of

Re: [arch] openoffice.org 2

Rohan Dhruva wrote: David, did you really understand his question ? He wants to build OO.o from cvs or source tarballs, NOT from the prebuilt sun binaries. For that he needs a PKGBUILD. And ofcourse he cant use the arch/abs one since it uses the prebuilt sun binary. My apologies - I guess I

Re: [arch] Codenames for Arch 0.8

Jason Chu wrote: On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 07:40:21PM +0100, Philip Dillon-Thiselton wrote: Arch Linux 0.8 PointlessDebate (I'm not picking on you alone Philip, I just chose this one to reply to) I always wonder why people get worked up about these naming threads. They're fun, you learn

[arch] ping - please ignore

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Re: [arch] ping - please ignore

Leif Thande wrote: message ignored ;-) I always like to respond Destination host unreachable. :-) DR ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch

Re: [arch] Just a fanart

Damir Perisa wrote: see? already got an impact on your imagination! ... and it has 2 pacmans and an arch in it. H ... wouldn't the plural be pacmen? :-) DR ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch

Re: [arch] kdeutils and rar

Ondřej Kučera wrote: Hello, I'm not sure if this hasn't been discussed before, which brings me to another question - is there a way to search through older messages in this mailing list? http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.general DR ___

[arch] logcheck package?

Anyone know if there's an arch package for logcheck? (http://logcheck.org/) I didn't see one in either the main repository, or the AUR (or in any discussion on the forums), but it's a pretty popular app so I thought one might exist somewhere. If not, I'll put together a PKGBUILD for it when I

[arch] freenx package is corrupt

I've been trying to upgrade it to the latest version (0.5.0-3) but the package that gets downloaded (from ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/extra/os/i686) is corrupt. The problem is not that the copy in my pacman cache is corrupt; the copy at Arch's repository is the culprit. I know this because even

[arch] can't boot in single user mode using mkinitcpio

Like the subject says, I'm no longer able to boot into single-user mode after switching to use the mkinitcpio image (kernel26.img). It's definitely not an issue with the kernel, though, or with my grub settings, because switching back to initrd26.img fixes the problem. For whatever reason,

Re: [arch] freenx package is corrupt

Tobias Powalowski wrote: Hi [EMAIL PROTECTED] freenx]$ md5sum /var/cache/pacman/pkg/freenx-0.5.0-3.pkg.tar.gz fa979fa5e2316c722c95b5d369ce1423 /var/cache/pacman/pkg/freenx-0.5.0-3.pkg.tar.gz on main server it shows the same md5sum I'm seeing that sum here as well. so it should work.

Re: [arch] freenx package is corrupt

Tobias Powalowski wrote: Hi fixed now with -4 package. greetings tpowa O ... K ... I haven't seen that update hit extra yet, though. I guess I'll try again later. Thanks, DR ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org

Re: [arch] freenx package is corrupt

David Rosenstrauch wrote: Tobias Powalowski wrote: Hi fixed now with -4 package. greetings tpowa O ... K ... I haven't seen that update hit extra yet, though. I guess I'll try again later. Thanks, DR Whoops - it's there now. Never mind. DR

Re: [arch] can't boot in single user mode using mkinitcpio

Aaron Griffin wrote: On 7/6/06, David Rosenstrauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like the subject says, I'm no longer able to boot into single-user mode after switching to use the mkinitcpio image (kernel26.img). It's definitely not an issue with the kernel, though, or with my grub settings

[arch] gtk-qt-engine prob

I'm having a weird issue with the latest gtk-qt-engine (and/or other recent updates). I run KDE, with a custom theme (white text on dark blue window backgrounds), and using gtk-qt-engine (set to the Raleigh style). Up until recently, GTK-based apps would all inherit these color and style

Re: [arch] gtk-qt-engine prob

Tom K wrote: Any chance the two bogey machines are using the testing repo i.e. gtk 2.10 and all that? No, none of my machines run testing. Thanks for taking a stab at this though. DR ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org

Re: [arch] gtk-qt-engine prob

be considered much of a bug by the KDE devs. And even if it was, I wouldn't have the foggiest idea which part of KDE to file the bug on. Still if anyone has any additional thoughts about this issue, please chime in. Thanks, DR David Rosenstrauch wrote: I'm having a weird issue with the latest

Re: [arch] Please write me an iptables rules file

Just install firestarter - a GUI-based firewall configuration tool. That'll walk you through setting up a firewall that does whatever you need. DR Richard Maxwell Underwood wrote: I'm not a Linux newbie, but I haven't learned iptables or netfilter, and it would be _so nice_ if I didn't have

Re: [arch] j2sdk

Jason Chu wrote: On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 04:28:43 +0300 Hussam Al-Tayeb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible that we may get an update to j2sdk and j2re 1.5.0_07? Unless of course there is a problem with the new j2sdk. This is just a small request, it's not that important. Also is it

Re: [arch] .so dependencies

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Archers, I have had the same problem, and I have not yet solved it. I cannot upgrade my whole system because I'm on slow dialup. Best regards, Ben Shi Just my $0.02, but if you're running on dialup I wouldn't recommend Arch as a good choice of distro.

Re: [arch] .so dependencies

Sergej Pupykin wrote: I have had the same problem, and I have not yet solved it. I cannot upgrade my whole system because I'm on slow dialup. DR Just my $0.02, but if you're running on dialup I wouldn't recommend Arch DR as a good choice of distro. How other distros solve

Re: [arch] question for the masses

Paul Mattal wrote: So here's an interesting behavior I've noticed, and I've not found the right solution yet. Before I invest a lot of time figuring it out, I thought someone might know. When I install acroread and xpdf on a system, it appears that xpdf becomes the preferred one for

Re: [arch] Weird NX behavior

Giovanni Scafora wrote: I've run the NX server on my box in the past without any problems, but haven't looked at it in a while. Recently, though I tried using it again but have been experiencing a weird problem. I'm able to connect to the box fine using the NX client, but then if I idle for

Re: [arch] Weird NX behavior

David Rosenstrauch wrote: Thanks for the info, Giovanni. Much appreciated! Weird that this only happens on KDE, though. Would you know if there's a bug filed at kde.org for this? Thanks, DR Never mind - I think I found it. http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135926 Thanks, DR

Re: [arch] The ever lasting story: hard disk partitioning

Kurt B Cox wrote: I too have a server running with a LVM2 setup. My advice is put a 2G / on a real partition not an LVM2 partition. It makes maintenance and recovery much easier in case of trouble. I agree. I use a similar setup, and it works quite nicely. Only correction I'd offer though

Re: [arch] Weird NX behavior

Giovanni Scafora wrote: I have the same problem, nice to see a bug report has already been filed. In my case the screen just blanks, no X logo appears. New upgrade seems to solve this problem. Huh! So it does! Sweet! Thanks for pointing that out. DR

Re: [arch] Firefox 2.0 : why Bon Echo?

Jan de Groot wrote: Complain to the upstream developers about this. The Bon Echo name is what we get when building without branding. H I thought I saw in the referenced forum thread (http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=25541) that Arch had received permission to brand it. Is

Re: [arch] Firefox 2.0 : why Bon Echo?

Jan de Groot wrote: We have permission to use branding yes, but only on the releases they approve. I don't like to submit my PKGBUILDs and patches to mozilla for review for every $pkgrel++ or $pkgver++ I do. Fedora is always 2-3 weeks behind on new firefox releases because of this. Wow - what

Re: [arch] Firefox 2.0 : why Bon Echo?

Askadar wrote: Even if you would be willing to do this, it would still be wrong IMHO (as I'm not a dev that doesn't count for much, though). Just imagine if every FLOSS package out there would require this. Yup. I'm starting to realize that now. When this issue first came up, I was

Re: [arch] Kernel Panic with pacman -Syu

Fabiano Furtado Pessoa Coelho wrote: Hi... I'm new using Arch Linux. I've installed Arch 0.7.2 (at /dev/hda6 with ext3) from CD and everything works fine. I've created the root account with password and I updated the system with pacman -Syu. On the next boot, the system show me the

Re: [arch] Sun java 6.0

Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: At least for me, OpenOffice 2.1.0 won't compile with jdk 1.6 , it works with 1.5 Perhaps this is the problem: There are changes to the compiler's default, so make sure that you set -source and -target options explicitly. http://blogs.sun.com/ahe/entry/java_se_6 So

Re: [arch] Sun java 6.0

Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: On 12/12/06, David Rosenstrauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: At least for me, OpenOffice 2.1.0 won't compile with jdk 1.6 , it works with 1.5 Perhaps this is the problem: There are changes to the compiler's default, so make sure that you set -source

[arch] duplicate package?

claws-mail 2.6.1-1 http://www.archlinux.org/packages/12208/ sylpheed-claws 2.6.0-2 http://www.archlinux.org/packages/10463/ DR ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch

Re: [arch] Pacman's new feature

Dennis Herbrich wrote: 2.9 - Added compressed package size to sync DBs -- shows the total size of packages before downloading Now it should indeed be a small effort to add the size of the individual packages. The *compressed* size, that is. Unfortunately, what most people ask for is

Re: [arch] GKrellM and internet

Richard Gananathan wrote: So I have a bit of a problem, I am a laptop user and I recently went and took the network daemon off the bootup list, because it annoys me when it waits and trys to connect when I have no cable plugged in. But then GKrellM gives me problems. However if I boot up in

[arch] odd gtk drag drop bug under kde

I'm having a weird bug going on with drag drop in GTK apps running under KDE. The issue is similar to the following bug, but not quite identical: new gtk2 packages: unable to move mails to folders in thunderbird http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/6193 The symptom is the same - can do drag

Re: [arch] odd gtk drag drop bug under kde

David Rosenstrauch wrote: I'm having a weird bug going on with drag drop in GTK apps running under KDE. The issue is similar to the following bug, but not quite identical: new gtk2 packages: unable to move mails to folders in thunderbird http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/6193

Re: [arch] GZIP.. Value too large for defined data type..

joe henderson wrote: All, Is there a way to turn on gzips larger file size bit in the install? I have a few backup files that are 4+ GB.. I do not want to split the tars in multiple files to achieve this... Advise.. Joe ? Is this actually a restriction with gzipped archives?

Re: [arch] GZIP.. Value too large for defined data type..

Jürgen Hötzel wrote: On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 04:40:15PM -0500, joe henderson wrote: All, Is there a way to turn on gzips larger file size bit in the install? gzip needs to be patched to use O_LARGEFILE. Has anyone filed a bug for this yet? If not, please let me know and I'll file one.

Re: [arch] Request: archlinux email to the TUs

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm affraid that's not what he's asking for ;) He'd like to have an archlinux account. *small lightbulb appears over my head* oh. (In my best Emily Litella voice) Well, that's completely different. Never mind. (Taking off my old fogey hat for a second: You

[arch] Empty kernel log

Anyone have any idea why my kernel log might be empty? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ls -l /var/log/kernel.log* -rw-r- 1 root log 0 2007-02-11 00:02 /var/log/kernel.log -rw-r- 1 root log 44372 2007-02-10 15:03 /var/log/kernel.log.1 -rw-r- 1 root log 2812 2007-02-01 21:21

Re: [arch] Problem with encfs

Alberto Venturini wrote: Hello, I'm having some troubles with encfs. I don't use it often, about once every month, so I'm not sure of what could have caused this problem. When I try to mount an encrypted directory, I get this message: Error decoding volume key, password incorrect I'm

Re: [arch] Package cleaning

Aaron Griffin wrote: xmms + addins - should not be that heavily used anymore Isn't xmms dead anyway? It's been forked off several times - first as bmp, and then as audacious. Not sure what the activity/status is of the first 2. Audacious seems to get pretty frequent updates, though. DR

Re: [arch] Eclipse software updates broken?

Alper KANAT wrote: Well; I also want to ask a question about Eclipse in Arch.. As everyone know, Eclipse has a broad range of updates and plugins, and whenever I try to install them it can't do it because of the permissions of the Eclipse directories.. Is there an easier way of installing

Re: [arch] Package cleaning

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I confess to being a casual user, but I am also an Arch Linux advocate and competent with computers. Were some of these packages moved to the community or aur repos, I would certainly consider investing some time periodically to update or maintain them. +1 I already

Re: [arch] Package cleaning

David Rosenstrauch wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I confess to being a casual user, but I am also an Arch Linux advocate and competent with computers. Were some of these packages moved to the community or aur repos, I would certainly consider investing some time periodically to update

Re: [arch] Arch Kernels

waldek wrote: If possible please try to keep at least two kernels. I have two kernels installed and _never_ update both at the same time - really convenient way to fix things if something goes wrong. ? I don't see personally why you'd ever need that. If a kernel is borked, you've either

Re: [arch] Newcomer

Sujith Manoharan wrote: Hi, I am a brand new Arch Linux user. I have been exposed to a fair number of distributions and linux in general. But, recently, I was bitten by the minimalist bug and after a little googling, I hit Arch :) And I must say, I am _really_ impressed. I was with an up

Re: [arch] How fast could boot Arch?

Sergi Pons wrote: But I am not happy at all: I feel that my laptop is not booting fast enough. Of course, I am not blaming Arch. probably, it is my fault due to an overload of booting processes or some misconfiguration. You can trying starting many of your daemons in the background. That

[arch] Hibernate option missing in KDE laptop applet

Very strange. Some recent update has caused the Hibernate option to be missing from KDE's laptop applet. Hibernate was definitely there and working until recently, and Suspend and Standby are both still available (so this isn't a problem with either a) no ACPI, or b) helper app not set up

[arch] /tmp in /etc/fstab

Just wondering. In the past, the stock /etc/fstab used to including a line to explicitly mount /tmp, like this: (note: I've since modded that entry to bump it up to 1GB) ... none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults0 0 tmpfs /tmp tmpfs

Re: [arch] /tmp in /etc/fstab

Also, what's the use of the /dev/shm line? It looks like it's completely unused on my box: [EMAIL PROTECTED] kdeutils]$ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on ... none 1033160 0 1033160 0% /dev/shm ... DR David Rosenstrauch wrote

[arch] Arch reviews

FYI ... came upon some recent reviews of Arch which I don't think were mentioned here before: http://www.dvd-guides.com/content/view/212/104/ http://arun.wordpress.com/2007/09/17/proud-arch-er/ DR ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org

Re: [arch] fake email

Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 11:45 -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote: I ordered 3 bottles of this magic pill. i wonder when it will arrive. Hehe, I always thought ArchLinux users didn't need these performance enhancement pills. Maybe we should ask the spammer to direct his emails to

Re: [arch] Arch Leadership

Denis Alessandro Altoe Falqueto wrote: I thank you for your very well spent time on Arch. Arch has stopped my search for a distro after more then 5 years in this quest. +1 Kudos to you, Judd, on having launched a great distro. And I, for one, wellcome our new Phraktured Arch Overlord!! :)

Re: [arch] kdeinit error

Eli Heady wrote: Tuesday 16 October 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I am having an issue. I don't really use kde i use fluxbox but I | use kde apps sometimes. I was trying to run kate from my flux menu | and nothing happened, so I typed the kate from the command line | and it just sat

Re: [arch] kdeinit error

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just wanted to let everyone know that I am a complete idiot. That's pretty much what I figured. :-) Glad you got your problem solved, and happy I helped. DR On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:05:56 -0400, David Rosenstrauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would agree. I've

Re: [arch] How Can I get VirtualBox-Ose working on the new kernel?

David Jiménez wrote: Hello, I have a problem after upgrading to kernel 2.6.23, is that I can't execute de vboxdrv module, cause in the new kernel doesn't exist that module. Is there any way to get that module working? Greetings If anybody needs them, I built virtualbox-ose packages today

Re: [arch] Community PKGBUILD submission

Allan McRae wrote: I have noticed over the years that every so often a package in the main repos stagnates. This has happened with eclipse eclipse-cdt. Eclipse has not been updated to version 3.3 in the months since it was released. Going off on a tangent a bit here, but regarding the

Re: [arch] conservative/stable branch

Zhukov Pavel wrote: It's like a beryl developing way - increasing features without stabilization. After some time 30% of features unusable, other works unstable, upgrade breaks anything. Lastest 'pacman -Syu' breaks something _every_time_! Why we can't keep small, and usable distro,

Re: [arch] QT changes in testing

Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 12 November 2007, Aaron Griffin wrote: On Nov 12, 2007 5:57 PM, Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anything we need to know about the big change with QT in testing? Does this cover it?

Re: [arch-general] kde4 tip - quicklaunch in your panel -- convenience at your fingertips!

On 10/22/2009 04:56 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: Archers, For those that haven't used the quicklaunch widget, you need to take a look. I like the concept very much, but I think it's a poor implementation. Have a little bar like that a) takes too much space, b) looks very cluttered, and c)

Re: [arch-general] kde4 tip - quicklaunch in your panel -- convenience at your fingertips!

On 10/23/2009 03:25 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: Dave, I have had knock-down drag out fights with the KDE4 devs over the loss of the ability to add a subtree of your menu to the kicker in KDE4. The only problem I have with folderview to desktop files is you have lost the ability to expand into

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

On 10/26/2009 06:57 AM, RedShift wrote: I've been working these past few months with KDE 4.3 and it feels very sluggish and incomplete. I can't enable the desktop effects because that makes things even slower. I'm doing this on a fairly decent setup, an AMD Sempron 2 Ghz with an nVidia FX5500.

Re: [arch-general] kde4 tip - quicklaunch in your panel -- convenience at your fingertips!

On 10/26/2009 12:53 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: Honestly, I think it is KDE's programming framework that has caused most of the problems. I disagree. The problems (at least from my perspective) stems from the KDE devs' decision to start fresh with all their apps in order to simplify them

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

On 10/26/2009 01:30 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: I think the biggest problem that kde4 will have to overcome is the stain on kde's reputation caused when a few major distros pushed kde4 out the door as a New Desktop when it was barely beta (kde 4.04 was released by SuSE as the desktop for 11.0

Re: [arch-general] APM gets re-enabled after awake from suspend

On 11/03/2009 03:40 PM, Karol Babioch wrote: Hi, my hard drive suffers from the clicking problem, therefore I deactivated the APM (Advanced Power Management) totally. From what I've heard, clicking means that your drive is dying. Maybe time to buy a new one? HTH, DR

Re: [arch-general] kde3 sources available anymore missing garbage collector

On 11/08/2009 12:42 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, I don't know if the kde3 sources still live on a server some where, but I would be interested in finding them. I still have all the PKGBUILD files for the kde3 install, but I need a few sources. kpdf for starters, and there are a couple

Re: [arch-general] kde4 tip - quicklaunch in your panel -- convenience at your fingertips!

On 11/11/2009 08:41 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: On Monday 26 October 2009 13:34:43 and regarding: I disagree. The problems (at least from my perspective) stems from the KDE devs' decision to start fresh with all their apps in order to simplify them and/or apply their new philosophy/approach of

Re: [arch-general] Gnome - howto configure sound? Sound is silent, beep is loud (as heck)?

On 11/24/2009 04:00 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: the system beep is so loud it will scare the heck out of you when you backspace too far, etc... I need to reverse both. Solution for this is to either 1) lower the volume, by lowering the slider on the PC Beep channel in your mixer (e.g., kmix,

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