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

2012-07-25 Thread Mike Smith
My 1.2 pence: I would prefer that rc.conf is kept as one file, or at least do it well. W dniu wtorek, 24 lipca 2012 użytkownik Gaetan Bisson napisał: [2012-07-24 16:07:50 +0200] Heiko Baums: Yes, I don't like those Windoze like ini files of systemd, too. Everything is and should stay a

Re: [arch-general] systemd network configuration

2012-07-25 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 7:44 PM, David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org wrote: Hi, Because it's summer, and I'd really rather not try to figure all this out during the school year, I'm trying to figure out systemd *now*, rather than waiting until rc.conf goes away. I actually had trouble

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

2012-07-25 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no wrote: On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I wonder if ArmArch will run systemd. ArchLinux ARM ships systemd, just like we do. On my ARM machine (a Raspberry Pi running ArchLinux ARM) I use

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

2012-07-25 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
The 24/07/12, Kevin Chadwick wrote: Did you read this before posting. It's obvious that reviewing the config files and getting the source and finding the bug in C is much easier of course and can be fixed immediately by anyone without another OS or machine. Did you read this

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

2012-07-25 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
The 25/07/12, Heiko Baums wrote: In Linux I have/had some simple text files with which I can/could configure the whole system, while I had a terrible, cryptic registry on Windoze. I can find anything in systemd which could make think of the registry on Windows. In Linux I just

Re: [arch-general] pacman and corrupt packages

2012-07-25 Thread Krzysztof Warzecha
2012/7/25 Ike Devolder ike.devol...@gmail.com: 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 bsdtar -tf $pkg /dev/null || echo $pkg is broken; done This

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

2012-07-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 07:51 +0200, okra...@arcor.de wrote: Bad programming is the most favorite answer, and totally nonsense. The registry just gets bigger and bigger and is totally cryptic. And the registry is one of the most frequent reasons for system crashes and instabilities. And it's

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

2012-07-25 Thread Mauro Santos
On 25-07-2012 09:44, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: then systemd creates some symlinks of files into another directory whose name is also totally cryptic, at least way to long. This is a total mess, if this is really true, and it's absolutely a step towards a second

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

2012-07-25 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Wed, 25 Jul 2012 07:22:28 +0200 schrieb Nelson Marambio nelsonmaram...@gmx.de: that is / was right for Win 98 or Win ME. Having an exception error which was caused by damaged registry files always meant a reset to state short after the OS-installation, so all the drivers and programs had

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

2012-07-25 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:44:34 +0200 schrieb Nicolas Sebrecht nsebre...@piing.fr: I can find anything in systemd which could make think of the registry on Windows. I didn't say that. You are mixing up two things: - adding/removing services on boot; - configuring the services. The first -

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

2012-07-25 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Wed, 25 Jul 2012 07:51:15 +0200 (CEST) schrieb okra...@arcor.de: this is simply not true. Sorry, but this is simply true. I know Windoze XP and I had to use it long enough, far too long. First of all, starting with Windows XP the stability of Windows (yes, Windows, not Windoze) got much

Re: [arch-general] systemd network configuration

2012-07-25 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Jul 25, 2012 2:45 AM, David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org wrote: rc.d start network #successfully gets some address and a route for i in 74.207.225.79/32 74.207.227.150/32 173.230.137.73/32 173.230.137.76/32 do ip addr add ${i} dev eth0 done ip -6 addr add

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

2012-07-25 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 3:44 AM, Nicolas Sebrecht nsebre...@piing.fr wrote: The 25/07/12, Heiko Baums wrote: systemd I have to run a special command to have a daemon started at boot time (which I additionally have to remember), I have to write such an ini file instead of just writing or

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

2012-07-25 Thread Krzysztof Warzecha
2012/7/24 Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no: It is based on the desktop-entry-spec: http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/, which in turn is (as far as I know) based on Window's .ini format. This is true: http://0pointer.de/public/systemd-man/systemd.unit.html. It could be worse;

Re: [arch-general] systemd network configuration

2012-07-25 Thread Baho Utot
On Wednesday, July 25, 2012 11:57:02 AM Tom Gundersen wrote: On Jul 25, 2012 2:45 AM, David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org wrote: rc.d start network #successfully gets some address and a route for i in 74.207.225.79/32 74.207.227.150/32 173.230.137.73/32 173.230.137.76/32 do

Re: [arch-general] systemd network configuration

2012-07-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 06:42 -0400, Baho Utot wrote: On Wednesday, July 25, 2012 11:57:02 AM Tom Gundersen wrote:or you could tell systemd to ruin your script. ^^^ This was worth a good laugh this morning Typing ungloved is better. Or using an alphabetically

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

2012-07-25 Thread Oliver Kraitschy
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:14:57AM +0200, Heiko Baums wrote: I used Windoze long enough. And I had to reinstall it every 3 months, and I know a lot of people who also had to do it this often. Since Windoze XP it was maybe not every 3 months anymore, but still often enough. I am realistic

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

2012-07-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 13:05 +0200, Oliver Kraitschy wrote: On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:14:57AM +0200, Heiko Baums wrote: I am realistic and professional, because I speak from experience, like I said before more than 25 years. If the next employer you'll make an application should read this,

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

2012-07-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 13:18 +0200, Oliver Kraitschy wrote: On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:20:57AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Is there the need to talk about Windows? XP is stable, just most XP users are unexperienced, so they break their XPs, but for such computer users a Linux won't work,

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

2012-07-25 Thread Manolo Martínez
On 07/25/12 at 01:47am, C Anthony Risinger wrote: to reiterate the above ... it works fantastic. the Pandaboard runs 9 custom unit files (1/2 of which are just mods to the shipped unit files): u.dhcpd4.service u.dnsmasq.service u.fwknopd.service u.hostapd.service iptables.service

Re: [arch-general] systemd network configuration

2012-07-25 Thread Jameson
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 6:59 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 06:42 -0400, Baho Utot wrote: On Wednesday, July 25, 2012 11:57:02 AM Tom Gundersen wrote:or you could tell systemd to ruin your script. ^^^ This was worth a good

Re: [arch-general] systemd network configuration

2012-07-25 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:57:02AM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: Then create a service file in /etc/systemd/system/davids-network.service [unit] description= David's Network Setup Wants= network.target Before= network.target [service] Type = oneshot

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

2012-07-25 Thread Stephen E. Baker
On 25/07/2012 5:54 AM, Heiko Baums wrote: [snip] Why do I have to tell systemd in all of those init scripts what service has to run before or after this service? In DAEMONS in rc.conf I just have a list of daemons I want to have started in one single line. And the order in which they have

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

2012-07-25 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 7:03 AM, Manolo Martínez man...@austrohungaro.com wrote: On 07/25/12 at 01:47am, C Anthony Risinger wrote: to reiterate the above ... it works fantastic. the Pandaboard runs 9 custom unit files (1/2 of which are just mods to the shipped unit files): u.dhcpd4.service

Re: [arch-general] systemd network configuration

2012-07-25 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.org wrote: On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:57:02AM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: Then create a service file in /etc/systemd/system/davids-network.service [unit] description= David's Network Setup Wants= network.target Before=

[arch-general] fluxbox + notification-daemon

2012-07-25 Thread Roberto Preziusi
Hi all, I've some problem with notification-daemon. Trying to start notification-daemon with my fluxbox at startup I get some errors. The problem is when the daemon receive a notification For example if I send something with notify-send: notify-send hi hello this is a notification I see

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

2012-07-25 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Why you would want to specify which services had to come before or after which other services is obvious when you consider that systemd boots services in parallel. There is no way in the current system, and no way without specifying, to boot several daemons at the same time and then boot

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

2012-07-25 Thread Kevin Chadwick
I am realistic and professional, because I speak from experience, like I said before more than 25 years. If the next employer you'll make an application should read this, you was an professional. Is that a joke because I don't get it? I'd hire him, if I could afford him!

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

2012-07-25 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Hello Heiko, this is simply not true. First of all, starting with Windows XP the stability of Windows (yes, Windows, not Windoze) got much better and there are very few crashes which are mostly related to driver issues, IMO. Incidentally, I installed a fresh XP a couple of weeks ago.

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

2012-07-25 Thread Kevin Chadwick
If a service is not provided: - with SysVinit you have to write the whole script usually relying on whatever library the distribution provides (which tend to be error-prone); - with systemd, you just write a configuration file. Well arch has some includes to make it prettier. On

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

2012-07-25 Thread Kevin Chadwick
The 24/07/12, Kevin Chadwick wrote: Did you read this before posting. It's obvious that reviewing the config files and getting the source and finding the bug in C is much easier of course and can be fixed immediately by anyone without another OS or machine. Did you read

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

2012-07-25 Thread Kevin Chadwick
The 24/07/12, Kevin Chadwick wrote: Did you read this before posting. It's obvious that reviewing the config files and getting the source and finding the bug in C is much easier of course and can be fixed immediately by anyone without another OS or machine. Did you read

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

2012-07-25 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Jul 25, 2012 6:14 PM, Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Why you would want to specify which services had to come before or after which other services is obvious when you consider that systemd boots services in parallel. There is no way in the current system, and no way

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

2012-07-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 16:12 +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: I am realistic and professional, because I speak from experience, like I said before more than 25 years. If the next employer you'll make an application should read this, you was an professional. Is that a joke because

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

2012-07-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
L. Poettering takes photos from himself in front of the mirror (google!) very often and publishes them by the Internet. I'm a pro-audio user. How many pro-audio cards are working with PA? L. Poettering, the boy with the same haircut as Bill Gates, blames the ALSA driver, but with jack and ALSA

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

2012-07-25 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Maybe you could be clearer because scripting is almost boundless. There is no way to specify in DAEMONS that syslog-ng and dbus should be started in parallel, and only when they are both up and running should network manager be started. Personally I don't care about shaving a second

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

2012-07-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 18:54 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: L. Poettering takes photos from himself in front of the mirror (google!) very often and publishes them by the Internet. I'm a pro-audio user. How many pro-audio cards are working with PA? L. Poettering, the boy with the same haircut as

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

2012-07-25 Thread Denis A . Altoé Falqueto
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: And what has all that to do with /etc/rc.conf splitting? And some people wonder why Arch devs don't read arch-general... -- A: Because it obfuscates the reading. Q: Why is top posting so bad? For more information,

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

2012-07-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 14:13 -0300, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote: On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: And what has all that to do with /etc/rc.conf splitting? And some people wonder why Arch devs don't read arch-general... I only can apologize

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

2012-07-25 Thread Denis A . Altoé Falqueto
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 14:13 -0300, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote: On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: And what has all that to do with /etc/rc.conf splitting? And some

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

2012-07-25 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:07:29 +0200 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 18:54 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: L. Poettering takes photos from himself in front of the mirror (google!) very often and publishes them by the Internet. I'm a pro-audio user. How many

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

2012-07-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 14:27 -0300, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote: On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 14:13 -0300, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote: On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net

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

2012-07-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 12:41 -0500, Leonid Isaev wrote: On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:07:29 +0200 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 18:54 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: L. Poettering takes photos from himself in front of the mirror (google!) very often and

[arch-general] Joining mp3's -- Floating point exceptionffmpeg

2012-07-25 Thread Nelson Marambio
Hi, folks, for joining audio dramas (d/l from Amazon) which come along in MP3-Format I use a short script #!/bin/bash mp3wrap tmp.mp3 *.mp3 ffmpeg -i tmp_MP3WRAP.mp3 -acodec copy all.mp3 rm tmp_MP3WRAP.mp3 It works for half of my books, processing the other half produces this error

Re: [arch-general] Joining mp3's -- Floating point exceptionffmpeg

2012-07-25 Thread pants
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 08:26:37PM +0200, Nelson Marambio wrote: Does anyone have an advice for me ? Have the suitable parameters for ffmpeg changed ? Or is the ffmpeg-call obsolete meanwhile (it seemed to be necessary for fixing the audio-header concering track length) ? Despite the chance

[arch-general] How do I should install and configure arch linux

2012-07-25 Thread brainworker
Hello, folks Due to recent changes in arch linux, I have some qustion about new process of installation and configuration of arch linux. I am really not computer geek, so I apologize if I express anything incorrectly. First. About absence of core images. When I just read about it, I thought why

Re: [arch-general] Joining mp3's -- Floating point exceptionffmpeg

2012-07-25 Thread Nelson Marambio
Am 25.07.2012 20:54, schrieb pants: On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 08:26:37PM +0200, Nelson Marambio wrote: Does anyone have an advice for me ? Have the suitable parameters for ffmpeg changed ? Or is the ffmpeg-call obsolete meanwhile (it seemed to be necessary for fixing the audio-header concering

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

2012-07-25 Thread Martin Cigorraga
Guys, relax, we are all in the same wagon, it's a nonsense to make anything personal nor to demonstrate who has the bigger dick, fuck off all that shit. As some _DEVS_ had actually stated, let's discuss everything from a TECHNICAL point of view, arguing and ranting because personal dislikes of

[arch-general] Systemd +1

2012-07-25 Thread Leonidas Spyropoulos
Hey all, I just wanted to share my experience with you. I follow closely the changes and discussion about systemd and I have to say that in the first I was worried also that taken away the basic configuration from rc.conf will be complicated and will cause more pain. I usually enjoy breaking my

Re: [arch-general] How do I should install and configure arch linux

2012-07-25 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Jul 25, 2012 9:22 PM, brainwor...@lavabit.com wrote: Hello, folks Due to recent changes in arch linux, I have some qustion about new process of installation and configuration of arch linux. I am really not computer geek, so I apologize if I express anything incorrectly. First. About

Re: [arch-general] How do I should install and configure arch linux

2012-07-25 Thread brainworker
And now the main question. If new plan of reorganization of configuration files can not manage without rc.conf, why there is so need to split it? rc.conf should now only contain what is necessary to configure the initscripts. See arch-dev-public for details. So systemd is instead of

Re: [arch-general] How do I should install and configure arch linux

2012-07-25 Thread Kacper Żuk
W dniu 25.07.2012 21:49, brainwor...@lavabit.com pisze: And now the main question. If new plan of reorganization of configuration files can not manage without rc.conf, why there is so need to split it? rc.conf should now only contain what is necessary to configure the initscripts. See

Re: [arch-general] How do I should install and configure arch linux

2012-07-25 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 07/25/2012 01:49 PM, brainwor...@lavabit.com wrote: And now the main question. If new plan of reorganization of configuration files can not manage without rc.conf, why there is so need to split it? rc.conf should now only contain what is necessary to configure the initscripts. See

Re: [arch-general] How do I should install and configure arch linux

2012-07-25 Thread Martin Cigorraga
Hi, I'm in a hurry to work so I will try to be the most clear but succint possible, forgive any typo then :) [...]So if I do not have installation guide previously printed on paper, I just become consused what to do next.[...] But for the present I would like at least to have installation guide

Re: [arch-general] systemd network configuration

2012-07-25 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:57:02AM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: Then create a service file in /etc/systemd/system/davids-network.service [unit] description= David's Network Setup Wants= network.target Before= network.target [service] Type =

Re: [arch-general] How do I should install and configure arch linux

2012-07-25 Thread Leonid Isaev
Welcome ;) On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 15:22:43 -0400 (EDT) brainwor...@lavabit.com wrote: Hello, folks Due to recent changes in arch linux, I have some qustion about new process of installation and configuration of arch linux. I am really not computer geek, so I apologize if I express anything

Re: [arch-general] systemd network configuration

2012-07-25 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Thanks! I will be testing this (and a few other things) just as soon as I work my courage up to try a reboot. I know you're supposed to test one thing at a time. This situation doesn't really allow that. :-/ Can you not find the space to create images or dumps, so that you can try again if

Re: [arch-general] Systemd +1

2012-07-25 Thread Aitor Pazos
Hi everyone! My experience with systemd is a +1 as well. I use it in my laptop and it provides a nice experience for a desktop user. Starting services on demand, suspend support and all other features gives a nice experience for an end user. Maybe it's just my idea but I think the system is

Re: [arch-general] systemd network configuration

2012-07-25 Thread Kevin Chadwick
check if root is /dev/sda in /etc/fstab and you may need /var, /usr too) /bin/dd if=/dev/sda bs=32k | /bin/gzip /home/dave/sda-backup.gz Oops, autopilot check if / is /dev/sda1 /dev/sda is whole disk which will likely take ages without clonezilla. --

Re: [arch-general] Skype locks up my system, not even sysrq keys work

2012-07-25 Thread SanskritFritz
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:25 AM, Mauro Santos registo.maill...@gmail.com wrote: There are reports that the uvcvideo module needs to be loaded with nodrop=1 in order to get things to work smoothly, do search in the forums, I believe I saw something about this there. I can't believe that I did

Re: [arch-general] Skype locks up my system, not even sysrq keys work

2012-07-25 Thread SanskritFritz
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:49 PM, SanskritFritz sanskritfr...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:25 AM, Mauro Santos registo.maill...@gmail.com wrote: There are reports that the uvcvideo module needs to be loaded with nodrop=1 in order to get things to work smoothly, do search in the

Re: [arch-general] Skype locks up my system, not even sysrq keys work

2012-07-25 Thread Mauro Santos
On 25-07-2012 23:20, SanskritFritz wrote: On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:49 PM, SanskritFritz sanskritfr...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:25 AM, Mauro Santos registo.maill...@gmail.com wrote: There are reports that the uvcvideo module needs to be loaded with nodrop=1 in order to

Re: [arch-general] systemd network configuration

2012-07-25 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/25/2012 03:47 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: Can you not find the space to create images or dumps, so that you can try again if need be. Or do you have a massive root partition. It's pretty big. And I'm a starving and unemployed (Ph.D.) student

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

2012-07-25 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:05:37 -0400 schrieb Stephen E. Baker baker.stephe...@gmail.com: This DAEMONS array is nice, one of the things I like about Arch, but it is specific to Arch not SysV. If you run Gentoo, or others you won't have something like that, you'll have a program that arranges

Re: [arch-general] lib - usr/lib

2012-07-25 Thread Ken CC
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 09:48:00PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I laugh away this trouble. Is there any information about the advantages of lib - usr/lib? anyone likes to answer this question? -ken

Re: [arch-general] lib - usr/lib

2012-07-25 Thread Daniel Wallace
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 09:19:59AM +0800, Ken CC wrote: On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 09:48:00PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I laugh away this trouble. Is there any information about the advantages of lib - usr/lib? anyone likes to answer this question? -ken this was the thread on

Re: [arch-general] lib - usr/lib

2012-07-25 Thread Ian Fleming
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 09:19:59AM +0800, Ken CC wrote: On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 09:48:00PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I laugh away this trouble. Is there any information about the advantages of lib - usr/lib? anyone likes to answer this question? -ken I beleive its a question of

Re: [arch-general] lib - usr/lib

2012-07-25 Thread Timothy Rice
I beleive its a question of How is the filesytem structure and its distributed nature/capabilities relevant today i.e the need for /bin or /lib even. If everything is to end up in /usr, then I'd argue that this makes /usr superfluous. If merging is to be done, then IMO things should be

Re: [arch-general] Systemd +1

2012-07-25 Thread Sander Jansen
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Aitor Pazos m...@aitorpazos.es wrote: Hi everyone! My experience with systemd is a +1 as well. I use it in my laptop and it provides a nice experience for a desktop user. Starting services on demand, suspend support and all other features gives a nice

Re: [arch-general] systemd network configuration

2012-07-25 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, On 07/25/2012 01:52 PM, David Benfell wrote: On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:57:02AM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: Then create a service file in /etc/systemd/system/davids-network.service [unit] description= David's Network Setup Wants=

Re: [arch-general] lib - usr/lib

2012-07-25 Thread Damjan
If everything is to end up in /usr, then I'd argue that this makes /usr superfluous. If merging is to be done, then IMO things should be moved out of /usr, not moved in. well no the point is to have a single top-level directory for a single purpose. so distribution provided files will go to

Re: [arch-general] lib - usr/lib

2012-07-25 Thread brainworker
If everything is to end up in /usr, then I'd argue that this makes /usr superfluous. If merging is to be done, then IMO things should be moved out of /usr, not moved in. well no the point is to have a single top-level directory for a single purpose. so distribution provided files will go

[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 ike.devol...@gmail.com: 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

[arch-general] Was Re: [arch-dev-public] [mkinitcpio][RFC] a better fallback image?

2012-07-25 Thread Myra Nelson
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 12:17 AM, Dave Reisner d...@falconindy.com wrote: As an alternative/addition, which has also been brought up before, why don't we build in the most basic of modules? I'll bet we can cover at least 50%

Re: [arch-general] lib - usr/lib

2012-07-25 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:30 AM, brainwor...@lavabit.com wrote: If everything is to end up in /usr, then I'd argue that this makes /usr superfluous. If merging is to be done, then IMO things should be moved out of /usr, not moved in. well no the point is to have a single top-level

Re: [arch-general] lib - usr/lib

2012-07-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 13:01 +0800, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:30 AM, brainwor...@lavabit.com wrote: If everything is to end up in /usr, then I'd argue that this makes /usr superfluous. If merging is to be done, then IMO things should be moved out of /usr, not moved in.

Re: [arch-general] lib - usr/lib

2012-07-25 Thread Menachem Moystoviz
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 8:01 AM, Oon-Ee Ng ngoonee.t...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:30 AM, brainwor...@lavabit.com wrote: If everything is to end up in /usr, then I'd argue that this makes /usr superfluous. If merging is to be done, then IMO things should be moved out of

Re: [arch-general] systemd network configuration

2012-07-25 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Regrettably, due to some overzealous spam filtering in my Thunderbird configuration and elsewhere, I'm just finding C. Anthony Risinger's suggestion: [Unit] Description=[u] Static Interface [%I] StopWhenUnneeded=true Wants=network.target

Re: [arch-general] Systemd +1

2012-07-25 Thread Aitor Pazos
Right, because /sbin/init isn't binary and none of the scripts relied on a interpreter that wasn't binary code? They are indeed, but it's a matter of size. The size of /sbin/init is 40.592B and /usr/lib/systemd/systemd 866.576B, which is a huge difference. Init responsabilities are much

Re: [arch-general] Systemd +1

2012-07-25 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 12:31 AM, Aitor Pazos m...@aitorpazos.es wrote: Right, because /sbin/init isn't binary and none of the scripts relied on a interpreter that wasn't binary code? They are indeed, but it's a matter of size. The size of /sbin/init is 40.592B and /usr/lib/systemd/systemd

Re: [arch-general] systemd network configuration

2012-07-25 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 12:18 AM, David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org wrote: [Install] Alias=sys-subsystem-net-devices-lan0.device.wants/u.net.static at lan0.service I see that %I is supposed to stand for eth0; how do I connect this with eth0? i modified it for you here: