Re: [arch-general] Cannot recover pacman upgrade fails problem

2014-03-10 Thread Temlin Olivér
On Mar 10, 2014 4:51 AM, Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student) rc...@mail.missouri.edu wrote: Hi, all: I really have no idea for the pacman upgrading fails issue, so I summarize the problem I meet, and the things I try, if any one can give me suggestions of what I miss something or I do something

Re: [arch-general] doubts about rolling release

2014-03-10 Thread Dennis Herbrich
On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 10:40:27AM -0600, Stephen Martin wrote: If you want to use arch in a server environment, you should probably use your own repo to be safe. Have a testing machine be on rolling release. When that machine is stable, push its packages to a private repo and update your

Re: [arch-general] doubts about rolling release

2014-03-10 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Friday 07 Mar 2014 15:09:27 Ary Kleinerman wrote: Hi, I'm a new Archer and I'm planning to install arch linux in a production server environment, but I have doubts because Arch is a rolling release. My question is: what does it happen when there are big changes? e.g. changes in the

Re: [arch-general] Cannot recover pacman upgrade fails problem

2014-03-10 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Monday 10 Mar 2014 03:51:04 Cao, Renzhi wrote: Hi, all: I really have no idea for the pacman upgrading fails issue, so I summarize the problem I meet, and the things I try, if any one can give me suggestions of what I miss something or I do something wrong, I really appreciate, if

Re: [arch-general] Cannot recover pacman upgrade fails problem

2014-03-10 Thread Guus Snijders
Op 10 mrt. 2014 11:20 schreef Paul Gideon Dann pdgid...@gmail.com het volgende: On Monday 10 Mar 2014 03:51:04 Cao, Renzhi wrote: Hi, all: I really have no idea for the pacman upgrading fails issue, so I summarize the problem I meet, and the things I try, if any one can give me

Re: [arch-general] Problems of using pacman and updating the filesystem

2014-03-10 Thread David J. Haines
On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 06:08:32PM +, Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student) wrote: I see, so I can continue upgrading the system. This time, I only want to upgrade the system, and rebuild the kernel. When I need other operations, I will backup all data first. I will continue posting, thank you!

Re: [arch-general] Cannot recover pacman upgrade fails problem

2014-03-10 Thread Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student)
Hi, Thank you for giving suggestions, I have tried the one you suggest, and here is the result: #ls /mnt/sda2 boot/,grub/,home/,initramfs-fallback.img,,initramfs.img,lost+fount/,memtest86+/,syslinux/,vmlinuz-linux #ls /mnt/sda3

Re: [arch-general] doubts about rolling release

2014-03-10 Thread yaro
On Monday, March 10, 2014 10:13:39 AM Paul Gideon Dann wrote: On Friday 07 Mar 2014 15:09:27 Ary Kleinerman wrote: Hi, I'm a new Archer and I'm planning to install arch linux in a production server environment, but I have doubts because Arch is a rolling release. My question is: what

Re: [arch-general] Cannot recover pacman upgrade fails problem

2014-03-10 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Monday 10 Mar 2014 14:52:23 Cao, Renzhi wrote: Hi, Thank you for giving suggestions, I have tried the one you suggest, and here is the result: #ls /mnt/sda2 boot/,grub/,home/,initramfs-fallback.img,,initramfs.img,lost+fount/,memtest8 6+/,syslinux/,vmlinuz-linux #ls /mnt/sda3

Re: [arch-general] Cannot recover pacman upgrade fails problem

2014-03-10 Thread Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student)
Hi, I use this system for almost one year, and don't update the system. I have tried mount /dev/sda3 as the root directory. And I try one thing before chroot: #mkdir /mnt/bin #cp /bin/* /mnt/bin #arch-chroot /mnt Now I can go to the chroot jail. And surprised to me, I run the following

Re: [arch-general] doubts about rolling release

2014-03-10 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Monday 10 Mar 2014 10:08:06 y...@marupa.net wrote: I love Arch, but not for servers. I prefer Debian on my server. Despite all the dire warnings given to keep an eye on Arch's web site about certain upgrades, its still all too frequent user intervention is necessary where nothing is stated

Re: [arch-general] Cannot recover pacman upgrade fails problem

2014-03-10 Thread Temlin Olivér
On Mar 10, 2014 4:18 PM, Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student) rc...@mail.missouri.edu wrote: Hi, I use this system for almost one year, and don't update the system. I have tried mount /dev/sda3 as the root directory. And I try one thing before chroot: #mkdir /mnt/bin #cp /bin/* /mnt/bin

Re: [arch-general] doubts about rolling release

2014-03-10 Thread John WH Smith
On 07/03/14 18:09, Ary Kleinerman wrote: Hi, I'm a new Archer and I'm planning to install arch linux in a production server environment, but I have doubts because Arch is a rolling release. My question is: what does it happen when there are big changes? e.g. changes in the filesystem or when

Re: [arch-general] Cannot recover pacman upgrade fails problem

2014-03-10 Thread Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student)
Hi, Oliver Temlin: Thank you, it seems my system is working now! Thank you very much!!! From: arch-general arch-general-boun...@archlinux.org on behalf of Temlin Olivér tem...@gmail.com Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 9:27 AM To: General Discussion

[arch-general] The pacman upgrading error has been solved

2014-03-10 Thread Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student)
Hi all: I really appreciate Emil Lundberg, Paul Gideon Dann, Temlin Oliv?r, , Guus Snijders' great suggestion, you are right, that's my fault to use /dev/mapper/arch_root_image as the root partition, now I can login the system,it seems my system is working now. There are two things I do

Re: [arch-general] The pacman upgrading error has been solved

2014-03-10 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Monday 10 Mar 2014 15:48:15 Cao, Renzhi wrote: I really appreciate Emil Lundberg, Paul Gideon Dann, Temlin Oliv?r, , Guus Snijders' great suggestion, you are right, that's my fault to use /dev/mapper/arch_root_image as the root partition, now I can login the system,it seems my system

Re: [arch-general] doubts about rolling release

2014-03-10 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Monday 10 Mar 2014 15:40:13 John WH Smith wrote: By the way, I strongly believe you will fix things faster if you like your environment (I assume it is Arch here, of course). Being used to your system is much more important than its stability when it comes to your sysadmin speed of

Re: [arch-general] The pacman upgrading error has been solved

2014-03-10 Thread Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student)
Thanks Paul! The reason why I copy /bin/* to /mnt/bin is my/mnt/bin is not exists. I don't know what happens, it seems this is deleted when I try to fix my problem. I will see if my system works well, if not, I will be back again :) Indeed, I learn a lot and now becomes more

Re: [arch-general] The pacman upgrading error has been solved

2014-03-10 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Monday 10 Mar 2014 16:20:25 Cao, Renzhi wrote: Thanks Paul! The reason why I copy /bin/* to /mnt/bin is my/mnt/bin is not exists. I don't know what happens, it seems this is deleted when I try to fix my problem. I will see if my system works well, if not, I will be back again :)

Re: [arch-general] The pacman upgrading error has been solved

2014-03-10 Thread Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student)
Hi, Paul: I have run ls -la /, and I do see /bin-usr/bin, ..., it seems that's a good news, cheers! Thank you so much! Renzhi Cao Email : rc...@mail.missouri.edu http://web.missouri.edu/~rcrg4/ From: arch-general

Re: [arch-general] doubts about rolling release

2014-03-10 Thread Paul Dann
On 10 March 2014 16:14:07 GMT, Paul Gideon Dann pdgid...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 10 Mar 2014 15:40:13 John WH Smith wrote: By the way, I strongly believe you will fix things faster if you like your environment (I assume it is Arch here, of course). Being used to your system is much more

[arch-general] tap device

2014-03-10 Thread arnaud gaboury
Hi, I am setting up a network for a container. I have a bridge br0 with a eth adapter enp7s0 and a tap device tap0 *** /etc/netctl/bridge Description=Bridge connection Interface=br0 Connection=bridge BindsToInterfaces=(enp7s0 tap0) IP=static

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Upgrading Apache to 2.4

2014-03-10 Thread Anatol Pomozov
Hi On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 1:10 AM, Sebastiaan Lokhorst sebastiaanlokho...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for taking the effort to finally update Apache! When trying to start Apache with PHP, I get the same error as Rene. Just to be clear, what is the recommended way to run Apache+PHP now? Will

Re: [arch-general] Cannot recover pacman upgrade fails problem

2014-03-10 Thread Emil Lundberg
Good to hear you got it working! As for some of your earlier questions... Thank you for giving suggestions, I have tried the one you suggest, and here is the result: [...] #ls /mnt/sda3 /boot,dev/,etc/,home/,opt/,lost+found/,proc/,root/,run/,srv/,usr/,var/,sys/. [...] #mount

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Upgrading Apache to 2.4

2014-03-10 Thread ger...@gmail.com
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 7:21 PM, Anatol Pomozov anatol.pomo...@gmail.comwrote: Hi On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 1:10 AM, Sebastiaan Lokhorst sebastiaanlokho...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for taking the effort to finally update Apache! When trying to start Apache with PHP, I get the same error as

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Upgrading Apache to 2.4

2014-03-10 Thread Anatol Pomozov
Hi On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 11:41 AM, ger...@gmail.com ger...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 7:21 PM, Anatol Pomozov anatol.pomo...@gmail.comwrote: Hi On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 1:10 AM, Sebastiaan Lokhorst sebastiaanlokho...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for taking the effort to finally

Re: [arch-general] The pacman upgrading error has been solved

2014-03-10 Thread Emil Lundberg
I don't know how to appreciate all of you, the community. I am so glad to fix this problem now. During the process, I have learned a lot of things, and become more familiar with arch linux, and also love it more (I always love the things more when I get more familiar with). The feeling is

[arch-general] netctl hangs after last update

2014-03-10 Thread Robert Knauer
Hello, after the update yesterday (see pacman log at the end of the e-mail), netctl hangs when I try to start my network connection with the error message: A dependency job for netctl@conn1.service failed. See 'journalctl -xn' for details. The hanging sub-process of netctl seems to be

Re: [arch-general] netctl hangs after last update

2014-03-10 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 19:54:56 +0100 Robert Knauer rob...@capsaicin-dev.de wrote: Hello, after the update yesterday (see pacman log at the end of the e-mail), netctl hangs when I try to start my network connection with the error message: A dependency job for netctl@conn1.service failed. See

Re: [arch-general] The pacman upgrading error has been solved

2014-03-10 Thread Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student)
Indeed! I like arch linux, now I am more confident about solving the problems. Thank you all! Renzhi Cao Cell: 573-825-8874 Email : rc...@mail.missouri.edu http://web.missouri.edu/~rcrg4/ From: arch-general arch-general-boun...@archlinux.org on behalf

[arch-general] [contribution] Pages from Arch Wiki optimized for offline browsing

2014-03-10 Thread Jakub Lahwaacz Klinkovský
Hello all, I would like to present my most recent work: arch-wiki-docs-clean [1]. The package provides pages from the Arch Wiki, optimized for offline browsing, meaning they contain only the content, all MediaWiki navigation components are removed. While I was at it, I have also fixed another

Re: [arch-general] tap device

2014-03-10 Thread Damjan Georgievski
3: tap0: NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,PROMISC,UP mtu 1500 qdisc ... I do not understand why the tap0 profile is listed as DOWN. (# ip link set dev tap0 up does nothing more) it's not down. it's UP, only NO-CARRIER. but for a tap device you also need a user-space program to handle it.

Re: [arch-general] tap device

2014-03-10 Thread Jakub Klinkovský
On 10.03.14 at 23:30, Damjan Georgievski wrote: 3: tap0: NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,PROMISC,UP mtu 1500 qdisc ... I do not understand why the tap0 profile is listed as DOWN. (# ip link set dev tap0 up does nothing more) it's not down. it's UP, only NO-CARRIER. but for a tap