Re: [arch-general] No user sound - only root has access alsamixer on virtualbox?

2014-02-01 Thread Armin K.
On 02/02/2014 05:23 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: > On 02/01/2014 08:54 PM, Armin K. wrote: >> Seems like you installed pulseaudio but you aren't running it. >> pulseaudio usually runs as normal user and not as root user - that's why >> root uses "raw alsa", and normal user uses "alsa through pulseaud

Re: [arch-general] No user sound - only root has access alsamixer on virtualbox?

2014-02-01 Thread David C. Rankin
On 02/01/2014 08:54 PM, Armin K. wrote: > Seems like you installed pulseaudio but you aren't running it. > pulseaudio usually runs as normal user and not as root user - that's why > root uses "raw alsa", and normal user uses "alsa through pulseaudio". Hmm.. You are correct. But installing pulseaud

Re: [arch-general] No user sound - only root has access alsamixer on virtualbox?

2014-02-01 Thread Armin K.
On 02/02/2014 03:14 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, > > I've run into a problem with sound on a new archlinux guest install on > virtualbox (v4.36). Only root can see/access the sound system. From the asla > page, I've tried 'alsactl init' and I've also tried adding user to the audio > group

Re: [arch-general] TDE binaries for pre-R14 testing are available (i686 & x86_64)

2014-02-01 Thread David C. Rankin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/31/2014 09:18 PM, Curtis Shimamoto wrote: > It is just never safe to do just a 'pacman -Sy' without the --upgrade, > as that has the potential to lead to partial upgrades.[0] > > [0] > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman#Partial_upgrade

[arch-general] No user sound - only root has access alsamixer on virtualbox?

2014-02-01 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, I've run into a problem with sound on a new archlinux guest install on virtualbox (v4.36). Only root can see/access the sound system. From the asla page, I've tried 'alsactl init' and I've also tried adding user to the audio group as mentioned in old forum pages, but still only root sees s

Re: [arch-general] Permanently allow root access

2014-02-01 Thread Maykel Franco
El 01/02/2014 13:14, "piruthiviraj natarajan" escribió: > > On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 5:31 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > > > All the methods in the wiki are inconvenient, this one is - on the > > contrary - extremely convenient. > > > > > sorry! my bad, I misread as 'inconvenient' in your first post.

[arch-general] rsync-Mirrors

2014-02-01 Thread Jens Arm
Hi ArchLinux-Team Since about 27.1 there is the following error shown when trying to sync with rsync. I get this error with all rsync-Servers I tried: [snip] receiving file list ... symlink has no referent: "/linux/archlinux/community/os/i686/python-xlib-0.15rc1-6-any.pkg.tar.xz.sig" (in pub

Re: [arch-general] Permanently allow root access

2014-02-01 Thread piruthiviraj natarajan
On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 5:31 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > All the methods in the wiki are inconvenient, this one is - on the > contrary - extremely convenient. > sorry! my bad, I misread as 'inconvenient' in your first post. Clearly my mistake. I have added your advice in the wiki. I hope it he

Re: [arch-general] Permanently allow root access

2014-02-01 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 01.02.2014 10:06, schrieb piruthiviraj natarajan: > On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > >> Again, the most convenient method of doing this is not included in the >> wiki. Add the line >> >> session optionalpam_xauth.so >> >> to /etc/pam.d/su and /etc/pam.d/s

Re: [arch-general] Permanently allow root access

2014-02-01 Thread piruthiviraj natarajan
On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Again, the most convenient method of doing this is not included in the > wiki. Add the line > > session optionalpam_xauth.so > > to /etc/pam.d/su and /etc/pam.d/su-l. Then switch to your root user > using 'su' or 'su -'. > H

Re: [arch-general] Permanently allow root access

2014-02-01 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 01.02.2014 04:55, schrieb piruthiviraj natarajan: > I want to run root X application in a terminal. > > [root@archbox ~]# smplayer > smplayer: cannot connect to X server > [root@archbox ~]# > > > I followed the wiki > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Running_X_apps_as_root Again, the mos