Re: [arch-general] LTS Kernels

2015-08-22 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 10:30 AM, bildermej...@gmail.com wrote: The wiki sounds fairly straight forward, but I get lost where it says install kernel without saying how, and to edit the grub config file without an explanation, and to generate the main configuration file. What wiki article?

Re: [arch-general] Problems with Gnome or Xorg (?)

2015-08-11 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 9:11 PM, Marshall Neill ramie...@windstream.net wrote: You're welcome. I believe it is a reported bug. Please bottom-post. There's https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel_graphics#SNA_issues but it's pretty vague, so you can miss it.

Re: [arch-general] /etc/bash.bashrc not sourcing/setting HISTXXX environment

2015-04-07 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 2:20 PM, LoneVVolf lonew...@xs4all.nl wrote: On 07-04-15 03:41, David C. Rankin wrote: I generally create a system-wide /etc/bash.bashrc.local file to contain history defaults. E.g.: Verfiy your /etc/profile and are you sure you are running the command from an

Re: [arch-general] Firefox stopped working

2015-01-24 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 4:35 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: Somebody else seeing the following? [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ firefox (process:29590): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed I've been getting things like (process:20609):

Re: [arch-general] Firefox showing flashplugin as outdated although it's not

2014-12-14 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 12:02 AM, Marcos Sánchez marcosdsanc...@gmail.com wrote: For the last few days, firefox started showing the following message when trying to run flash content: Have any of you experienced a similar issue? See https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=190972

Re: [arch-general] mpv in [community] compiled against different version of ffmpeg than in [testing]

2014-12-05 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Florian Pritz bluew...@xinu.at wrote: On 05.12.2014 05:23, Savya wrote: I would request (if possible, of course), that mpv in community be compiled against the version of ffmpeg in [testing] and put in the [community-testing] repo whenever ffmpeg is in

Re: [arch-general] mpv in [community] compiled against different version of ffmpeg than in [testing]

2014-12-05 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 10:32 PM, Bigby James bigby.ja...@crepcran.com wrote: Isn't this something that would get fixed on release? That is, wouldn't the version of mpv in [community] be rebuilt upon the release of the new ffmpeg version to [extra]? [community] packages are just one small step

Re: [arch-general] mpv in [community] compiled against different version of ffmpeg than in [testing]

2014-12-05 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 11:57 PM, Karol Blazewicz karol.blazew...@gmail.com wrote: Since Florian Fritz is a dev It's Florian _P_ritz. Sorry for the typo and the noise.

Re: [arch-general] New version of top?

2014-11-19 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Michael Alt micha.develop...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Vladimir Nikšić vnik...@gmail.com wrote: I noticed that after a last $pacman -Syu that I got a pretty different version of the utility top in the package procps-ng. What exactly

Re: [arch-general] New version of top?

2014-11-19 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: On Wed, 19 Nov 2014 13:54:42 +0100 Michael Alt micha.develop...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Vladimir Nikšić vnik...@gmail.com wrote: I noticed that after a last $pacman -Syu that I got a

Re: [arch-general] ca-certificate-utils in testing gives error upon upgrade

2014-11-14 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Savya mailingli...@hawkradius.com wrote: This happens when I try upgrading, and pacman says that ca-certificates-java needs to be replaced with ca-certificate-utils Yup: :: Replace ca-certificates-java with testing/ca-certificates-utils? [Y/n] Writing

[arch-general] ncurses 5.9_20141101 no longer available

2014-11-14 Thread Karol Blazewicz
I've installed it via the usual 'pacman -Syu' https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/plain/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/ncursesid=2c435d5fb4683c3cd144fd5c68ace98458405ee9 now I get a warning warning: ncurses: local (5.9_20141101-1) is newer than core (5.9-6) and this version isn't

Re: [arch-general] ncurses 5.9_20141101 no longer available

2014-11-14 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 5:13 AM, ProgAndy ad...@progandy.de wrote: Am 15.11.2014 um 05:07 schrieb Savya: On Sat, Nov 15, 2014, at 01:05 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 15 Nov 2014 04:32:14 +0100 Karol Blazewicz karol.blazew...@gmail.com wrote: 5.9_20141101-1 This isn't the version from

Re: [arch-general] mkinitcpio hook systemd 217-2

2014-10-31 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 6:30 PM, Jonathan Hudson jh+a...@daria.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 16:34:18 +0100, Christian Hesse wrote: Hello everybdoy, just installed systemd 217-2, building a systemd-enabled initramfs I get: - Running build hook: [systemd] == ERROR: file not found: `/init'

Re: [arch-general] NV GeForce 7600, nvidia-304xx-lts, but Failed to load module nvidia

2014-10-24 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Csányi Pál csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: I just don't like that that the console fonts is too big when I get after (re)boot the console login prompt ( not X Window system ). I thought that that if I put the line MODULES=nvidia in the /etc/mkinitcpio.conf then

Re: [arch-general] New CVE - https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-7169

2014-09-25 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 9:26 AM, David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com wrote: It's like a game of Whack-a-Mole lately... Further reading: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1146319 -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Why not send it to arch-security ML?

[arch-general] archlinux.org down

2014-09-25 Thread Karol Blazewicz
At least for the last 15 minutes (since around 7 PM CEST) some of Arch Linux sites have been down: http://www.archlinux.org/ https://www.archlinux.org/packages/ https://bugs.archlinux.org/ https://www.archlinux.org/download/ The forum and wiki seem unaffected.

Re: [arch-general] kdeedu-kig Was: (no subject)

2014-09-08 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Eugenio M. Vigo emv...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-09-07 12:51 GMT+02:00 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com: [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ downgrade kdeedu-kig Available packages: 1) kdeedu-kig-4.14.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz (remote) 2)

Re: [arch-general] Installing texlive docs

2014-09-01 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 3:37 AM, Xandaros Yotanido mz.bremerha...@gmail.com wrote: I also looked through the manpage of wget to figure out what all these flags do, but I couldn't find any information on -nv. What does it do? I have no idea why you didn't find it: -nv --no-verbose

[arch-general] [draft] xorg-server 1.16 is now available (v2)

2014-07-27 Thread Karol Blazewicz
https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2014-July/026496.html The draft still doesn't say how can I launch more than one rootless X server at a time or if it's possible at all. Do I have to have KMS enabled? What if I'm using e.g. proprietary nvidia drivers i.e. no KMS?

[arch-general] [draft] xorg-server 1.16 is now available

2014-07-25 Thread Karol Blazewicz
I can start only one rootless X session at a time. If I want to start a second one while the first one is running, I have to use 'sudo startx'. I'm logging into tty and starting X as a user. Did I mis-configure something or is it a feature'? Can you start multiple X sessions simultaneously with

Re: [arch-general] Installing sage-mathemtics failed

2014-07-09 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Csányi Pál csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: I solve the problem by following the link: http://archlinuxarm.org/about/package-signing Our wiki has information about package signing too.

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] systemd 215 group names

2014-07-09 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Martti Kühne mysat...@gmail.com wrote: So, really, don't use sudo for /etc/{passwd,shadow,group,gshadow}. cheers! mar77i I don't understand what you mean. Should I log in as root then? What exactly went wrong and what exactly do you mean by 'moving'?

[arch-general] Forum intermittently off-line

2014-07-09 Thread Karol Blazewicz
For over an hour Arch Forum is intermittently unavailable. Anyone else experiencing this?

Re: [arch-general] Forum intermittently off-line

2014-07-09 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 7:21 PM, Florian Pritz bluew...@xinu.at wrote: On 09.07.2014 19:11, Karol Blazewicz wrote: For over an hour Arch Forum is intermittently unavailable. Anyone else experiencing this? Sorry about that. We got a new server for the bbs, wiki and aur and I just rsynced most

Re: [arch-general] OT: dash - looping through alphabet

2014-07-06 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 10:44 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: Hi! Sorry, it's OT for this list, but I didn't find an answer in the Internet. What's the syntax for a loop from a to z in dash? [rocketmouse@archlinux src]$ cat for-bash #!/bin/bash for str in {a..z} ; do

Re: [arch-general] libgit2 v0.21.0

2014-06-21 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 12:58 PM, ushi ushi+a...@honkgong.info wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey list, can somebody explain, why libgit2-0.21.0-1 was replaced by libgit2-1:0.20.0-1? See

Re: [arch-general] AUR, Unsupported package: Potentially dangerous

2014-06-16 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 7:52 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby mihamina.rakotomandi...@rktmb.org wrote: Hi all, Most of my AUR installs warn me about the installed package being unsupported and potentially dangerous. I guess this is normal, and it's the default behaviour to warn about community

Re: [arch-general] Bring back the old X11 values

2014-06-13 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 6:18 PM, Dimitris Zervas dzer...@dzervas.gr wrote: In the latest Xorg updates, there is a major change in the default of mouse mouvment and key repeating speed. How can I change these back? I am really used to the old ones and the new ones just slow down my workflow. I

Re: [arch-general] Why is it dangerous to run makepkg as root?

2014-05-17 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Roland Tapken m...@lalamuhkuh.de wrote: Hi, I'm using arch for about half a year on a few systems, but every time I install something from aur I'm asking myself one question: Why is it considered dangerous to run makepkg as root? My first guess was that the

[arch-general] couchdb still at 1.5.0-2 even though it has been updated to 1.5.1-1 two weeks ago.

2014-04-25 Thread Karol Blazewicz
couchdb is still at 1.5.0-2 even though it has been updated to 1.5.1-1 two weeks ago. https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/log/trunk?h=packages/couchdb https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/couchdb/ Is something stuck? Did I miss something?

Re: [arch-general] How to track packages dropped from the repos?

2014-04-20 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 9:33 PM, Maximilian Bräutigam m...@xbra.de wrote: Am 19.04.2014 12:39, schrieb Lorenzo Bandieri: Hi list, Sometimes packages are silently dropped from the repos. This happened for example in the last few days with mash 0.2.0-3, which apparently I installed as a

Re: [arch-general] How to track packages dropped from the repos?

2014-04-20 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 10:09 PM, Carl Schaefer schae...@trilug.org wrote: Sometimes packages are silently dropped from the repos. This happened for example in the last few days with mash 0.2.0-3, which apparently I installed as a dependency for gnome (I guess it is no longer required). I

Re: [arch-general] [wiki cleanup] Links to non-existent packages

2014-04-05 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 6:59 PM, Jakub Klinkovský j@gmx.com wrote: Hello all, as of today, there are exactly 714 invalid uses (413 unique) of Template:AUR [1] or Template:Pkg [2] on the wiki, spread across 398 pages. The complete list is on [3]. I will try to go through it and update

Re: [arch-general] Printable wiki pages not working

2014-03-29 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Jerome Leclanche adys...@gmail.com wrote: ?printable=yes on the wiki doesn't seem to have any effect. https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/30825

Re: [arch-general] Package conflicts

2014-03-25 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Doug Newgard scimmi...@outlook.com wrote: Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 10:03:59 -0400 From: jdarn...@buddydog.org To: arch-general@archlinux.org Subject: [arch-general] Package conflicts I'm having a problem with the

Re: [arch-general] browser and tty

2014-03-25 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 6:39 PM, Jakub Klinkovský j@gmx.com wrote: On 25.03.14 at 18:18, arnaud gaboury wrote: Dear list, I decided to get rid of my mate DE and go i3. Before I am testing my settings on tty2 (Ctrl+Alt+F2) with a modify .xinitrc (exec i3). I have a weird behavior as

Re: [arch-general] Error when I try update pacman -Syu

2014-03-24 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Maykel Franco maykeldeb...@gmail.com wrote: I have this error when I like update all system: root@arch-maykel /home/maykel/ # LANG=C pacman -Syu :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date

Re: [arch-general] Error when I try update pacman -Syu

2014-03-24 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 5:54 PM, Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org wrote: Am 24.03.2014 17:18, schrieb Karol Blazewicz: jre7 is in the AUR so pacman won't update it, but jre7-openjdk is in the repos and provides the same 'item' as jre7: java-runtime=7 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/jr

Re: [arch-general] SLOB Allocator Vulernability

2014-03-23 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Kyle Bassett kylebass...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Mark! Great read! I love real-world examples included with any type of lesson. On Sunday, March 23, 2014, Mark Lee m...@markelee.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Salutations, I

Re: [arch-general] Error continuous in log /var/log/messages

2014-03-18 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 7:18 PM, Maykel Franco maykeldeb...@gmail.com wrote: I have received this error constant: Mar 18 19:15:48 arch-maykel dbus[212]: [system] Activation via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.freedesktop.ModemManager1.service': Unit

Re: [arch-general] When change tty1 the locale change

2014-03-18 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 1:33 AM, Maykel Franco maykeldeb...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-03-19 1:31 GMT+01:00 Mark Lee m...@markelee.com: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 03/18/2014 08:30 PM, Maykel Franco wrote: Hi, I am spanish. I like arch linux, is my prefer for the fast it.

Re: [arch-general] installation using existing filesystem

2014-03-16 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 10:25 PM, message let...@openmailbox.org wrote: Readers, Tried: pacstrap /mnt base Which failed, due missing mountpoint. Similarly with '/' (/proc in use). Does the moutnpoint exist? If not, what happens if you create it and try again? What is the correct command

Re: [arch-general] installation using existing filesystem

2014-03-16 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 11:30 PM, message let...@openmailbox.org wrote: On 2014-03-16 21:58, arch-general-requ...@archlinux.org wrote: -- Message: 6 Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 22:58:03 +0100 From: Karol Blazewicz karol.blazew...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [arch-general

Re: [arch-general] installation using existing filesystem

2014-03-16 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 11:38 PM, Kyle k...@gmx.ca wrote: According to message: # No mountpoints are shown. What tool is available to determine if sda5 is # the /home directory of the previous (mandriva) installation? I want to # perform a base installation, leaving the /home directory

Re: [arch-general] Why is qtcreator updated to 3.0.1.git then 3.1.0beta1?

2014-03-14 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 6:14 AM, GSC xgd...@gmail.com wrote: I noticed recently that qtcreator is updated to such non-stable versions, and there is no critical bug related that require such updates on the bug tracker. What is the reason this package is updated to such versions so early? I

Re: [arch-general] Zramswap for /tmp

2014-03-13 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 12:28 PM, GSC xgd...@gmail.com wrote: On 2014年03月13日 19:26, Mark Lee wrote: Salutations, I wanted to float the idea of mounting /tmp on zram. We could still use the 50% ratio (or something less) but reduce the risk of running out of ram while using tmpfs. Regards,

Re: [arch-general] creating an archlinux usb key with persistence

2014-03-12 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 6:09 AM, Don Raikes don.rai...@oracle.com wrote: Hi, Are there instructions for creating an archlinux usb key with persistence somewhere? I want to use my archlinux usb key as a diagnostic tool, and sometimes it is helpful to save files to it for later review.

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Get involved with tracking security issues in Arch Linux packages

2014-03-09 Thread Karol Blazewicz
Please add some description etc. of the new ML https://mailman.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: [arch-general] Is it possible to update 3rd party repo index without updating all?

2014-02-28 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 7:44 PM, Buce dmb...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:45 AM, David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com wrote: All, I would like to update a 3rd party repo index WITHOUT updating any other index. Like adding a --repo option to 'Pacman -Sy'. e.g.

Re: [arch-general] Any way to change .PKGINFO post build w/o Rebuilding?

2014-02-26 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Emil Lundberg lundberg.e...@gmail.com wrote: I don't mean to be rude, but have you tried it? Pacman packages are tar.gz archives, so my guess is it's possible /Emil. On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 4:13 PM, David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com wrote: All,

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux wiki unavailable ?

2014-02-17 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 2:49 PM, John WH Smith jwhsm...@englandmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, Sorry to bother you, but is it me, or is Alderaan no longer providing HTTP/HTTPs service ? I cannot access the Arch Linux wiki anymore, and it doesn't seem to be related to my network configuration

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux wiki unavailable ?

2014-02-17 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Ary Kleinerman akleiner...@buinet.com.ar wrote: The IP 78.46.78.247 (alderaan.archlinux.org) is losing packages. On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Karol Blazewicz karol.blazew...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 2:49 PM, John WH Smith jwhsm

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux wiki unavailable ?

2014-02-17 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 10:22 PM, Toyam Cox csupercomputerg...@gmail.com wrote: Arch Announce said that they would be down for 2 hours. On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Karol Blazewicz karol.blazew...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Ary Kleinerman akleiner

Re: [arch-general] Forum registration requires INSANE captcha.

2014-02-10 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 1:00 AM, Jeremy Nicoll - ml archlinux jn.ml.alx@wingsandbeaks.org.uk wrote: Feliz Xett fez...@gmail.com wrote: I've been using arch for a couple of months now and I'm very happy with it. Today, I somewhat broke my box so I was excited to post my first question to

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 3.13

2014-01-26 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 9:01 PM, Jonathan Hudson jh+a...@daria.co.uk wrote: When you upgrade to kernel 3.13, pacman considerately informs you that you must have a keyboard hook in mkinitcpio.conf. What you're not told is that if you have an AT keyboard, you also need to ensure that the atkbd

Re: [arch-general] Mirrors out of date

2014-01-14 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 11:34 PM, Mark Lee m...@markelee.com wrote: Salutations, Pardon me but does anyone know how mirrors are synced and flagged out of date? Regards, Mark -- Mark Lee m...@markelee.com I don't understand your question. What do you mean by 'how'?

Re: [arch-general] Packages Verified with MD5

2014-01-12 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 9:40 PM, Taylor Hornby ha...@defuse.ca wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/12/2014 10:27 AM, Jelle van der Waa wrote: No, you don't rely on hashes for security, hashes are for integrity checks. Signatures are for the verification of a file or

Re: [arch-general] Error install blink-darcs

2014-01-10 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:19 PM, Maykel Franco maykeldeb...@gmail.com wrote: 2014/1/10 Karol Blazewicz karol.blazew...@gmail.com: On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:09 PM, Maykel Franco maykeldeb...@gmail.com wrote: thanks 2014/1/10 Mark Lee m...@markelee.com: On Fri, 2014-01-10 at 22:02 +0100

Re: [arch-general] Default value of j in makeflags of makepkg.conf

2014-01-03 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 9:55 PM, Isaac Dupree m...@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org wrote: On 01/03/2014 10:37 AM, Anatol Pomozov wrote: Using -j$(cpunum) is a sane default that saves a lot of time to users. I agree, but for the record, 'nice' and scheduling are no panacea in my experience. It's

Re: [arch-general] Default value of j in makeflags of makepkg.conf

2014-01-03 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 10:23 PM, Isaac Dupree m...@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org wrote: On 01/03/2014 04:10 PM, Karol Blazewicz wrote: On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 9:55 PM, Isaac Dupree m...@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org wrote: On 01/03/2014 10:37 AM, Anatol Pomozov wrote: Using -j$(cpunum

[arch-general] Sourcing /etc/rc.conf in configs and .install scripts

2013-11-12 Thread Karol Blazewicz
I noticed a few configs and .install scripts mention /etc/rc.conf (mostly it's just '. /etc/rc.conf'), even though initscripts are not supported anymore. For example locale.sh from filesystem package has elif [ -r /etc/rc.conf ]; then LANG=$(. /etc/rc.conf 2/dev/null; echo $LOCALE) fi Should

[arch-general] Should outdated changelogs be removed from the packages?

2013-11-12 Thread Karol Blazewicz
Should outdated changelogs be removed from the packages? I'm guessing that this was the reason for removing the changelog from parcelite: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/37105

Re: [arch-general] Sourcing /etc/rc.conf in configs and .install scripts

2013-11-12 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 10:25 PM, Leonid Isaev lis...@umail.iu.edu wrote: On Tue, 12 Nov 2013 22:05:12 +0100 Karol Blazewicz karol.blazew...@gmail.com wrote: I noticed a few configs and .install scripts mention /etc/rc.conf (mostly it's just '. /etc/rc.conf'), even though initscripts

Re: [arch-general] systemd --test

2013-11-04 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Wayne S li...@zuik.net wrote: my apologies for improperly sending email to list. My question is how to properly use systemd --test: From the website: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TipsAndTricks/ It suggests to run this to see what would

Re: [arch-general] mplayer2 deprecation

2013-10-31 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 10:55 AM, coffeekin...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 05:03:53PM +0800, Rashif Ray Rahman wrote: On 31 October 2013 06:38, kendell clark coffeekin...@gmail.com wrote: Since mplayer2 has been deprecated and moved to the aur, i've been trying to find

Re: [arch-general] mplayer2 deprecation

2013-10-31 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 8:48 PM, coffeekin...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 02:33:08AM +0800, Rashif Ray Rahman wrote: On 31 October 2013 17:55, coffeekin...@gmail.com wrote: hi Thanks for the help. That worked better than my attempts did, although now when I start mplayer

Re: [arch-general] mplayer2 deprecation

2013-10-30 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:38 PM, kendell clark coffeekin...@gmail.com wrote: hi all Since mplayer2 has been deprecated and moved to the aur, i've been trying to find another console video player that will play videos in full screen. I've tried mplayer and mpv, neither of which seem tow work.

Re: [arch-general] Audio distro

2013-10-18 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Jason Harrer jazzyeagl...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 18, 2013, at 12:04 AM, Oon-Ee Ng ngoonee.t...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 4:56 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Since Ubuntu for my taste made a big step in the wrong

Re: [arch-general] Audio distro

2013-10-17 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Hi, sometimes I'm thinking about an audio distro based on Arch. I'm uncertain, if I'm really willing to spend my time to contribute to such a distro and I've got no doubts, that I don't have the skills to do it

Re: [arch-general] Audio distro

2013-10-17 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Sander Jansen s.jan...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Karol Blazewicz karol.blazew...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Hi, sometimes I'm thinking about an audio distro

Re: [arch-general] Audio distro

2013-10-17 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 8:15 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Thu, 2013-10-17 at 19:47 +0200, Karol Blazewicz wrote: I'm not sure why a separate distro would be needed, there's e.g. http://archaudio.org/ Thank you, I'm uncertain, if an audio distro is useful You can

Re: [arch-general] ArchLinux-Arwork dropped to Aur, I adopt it and I have an idea

2013-10-12 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 9:28 PM, John Davis davi...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Martti Kühne mysat...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Pablo Lezaeta Reyes prfl...@gmail.com wrote: I addopted tha archlinux-artwork because I have a idea on how reviving a

Re: [arch-general] Way too much kworkers

2013-10-01 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Dimitris Zervas dzer...@dzervas.gr wrote: Hello, I've googled a bit and saw that other people have this problem too, but without solution. What do these processes do? Slow down you computer, eat up RAM ...? They had maybe 8 or 10 kworker processes. After 2

Re: [arch-general] Upgrade problem

2013-09-30 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Anatol Pomozov anatol.pomo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 4:43 AM, Phil Dobbin bukowskis...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, all. I'm a newcomer to Arch Linux so excuse my ignorance. I attempted to update yesterday (pacman -Syu) I got this message at

Re: [arch-general] Generate /etc/blkid.tab

2013-09-24 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Ricardo Catalinas Jiménez jimenezr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I need to update the content of this file because I modified my partition table, but I can't see how googling around. Is this file actually used? How is it generated originally when installing its

Re: [arch-general] sysctl.conf.pacsave messages of archlinux.org and archlinux.de are different

2013-09-18 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Hi, archlinux.org claims If you never customized /etc/sysctl.conf, you have nothing to do, while archlinux.de's claim is that only those settings # Protection from the SYN flood attack. net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies

Re: [arch-general] sysctl.conf.pacsave messages of archlinux.org and archlinux.de are different

2013-09-18 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Gaetan Bisson bis...@archlinux.org wrote: [2013-09-18 10:39:55 +0200] Ralf Mardorf: archlinux.org claims If you never customized /etc/sysctl.conf, you have nothing to do, while archlinux.de's claim is that only those settings # Protection from the SYN flood

Re: [arch-general] swap not always enabled?

2013-09-14 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 8:16 PM, phanisvara listm...@phanisvara.com wrote: normally conky tells me that i'm using 0% swap. just now i noticed it showing, no swap%, which looked strange. issuing swapon -a as root changed the display back to 0%. now i'm wondering if i missed something, systemd

Re: [arch-general] new arch installation: user login not possible on virtual console

2013-09-10 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Evgeniy Alekseev darkarca...@mail.ru wrote: On Tuesday 10 September 2013 13:54:18 Friedrich Strohmaier wrote: Hi all, this is the first time writing to this list so first: hello to all. I'm a quite happy user of arch-linux since december last year, and up to

[arch-general] Arch Linux Community on Gittip

2013-09-05 Thread Karol Blazewicz
I asked about this before: https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2013-May/033590.html but now Dusty wants to make it official (or official) https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=169356 Some people didn't like the Official Arch Linux Google+ page, so I want to make sure if the

Re: [arch-general] Downgrading packages with ABS tree svn/git repo

2013-08-24 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 4:59 AM, BlissSam m13...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello those who need help, It is unfortunate that Arch Rollback Machine (A.R.M.) has shut down. I just want to tell those who need to build old packages: There is a svn/git repo for ABS. You can fetch it for old PKGBUILDs.

[arch-general] Upstream urls and package descriptions

2013-08-01 Thread Karol Blazewicz
Intro: Below are some questions / ideas I came up with. I simply don't know if anyone cares about these issues, whether there are rules or at least suggestions how to best deal with them or is it up to the maintainer. I've heard there were some plans wrt a build server that would periodically

Re: [arch-general] Upstream urls and package descriptions

2013-08-01 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Rodrigo Rivas rodrigorivasco...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Karol Blazewicz karol.blazew...@gmail.comwrote: I also found https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/libreoffice-sid/ - ??? language pack for LibreOffice https

Re: [arch-general] Upstream urls and package descriptions

2013-08-01 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 12:28 AM, Alexander Rødseth rods...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, 2013/8/1 Karol Blazewicz karol.blazew...@gmail.com: Package descriptions: There was an attempt at improving the descriptions last year, but it didn't go so well https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit

Re: [arch-general] Upstream urls and package descriptions

2013-08-01 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 11:02 PM, Myra Nelson myra.nel...@hughes.net wrote: The best way might be to follow Allan's suggestions on how to contribute to Arch Linux. http://allanmcrae.com/2013/05/ways-to-contribute-to-arch-linux/ His suggestion about fixing bugs on the bug tracker also applies

Re: [arch-general] Why is netcfg again in [base]?

2013-07-16 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 12:12 PM, A Rojas nqn1976l...@gmail.com wrote: I thought it was deprecated in favour of netctl. Now it's impossible to install the base group, since netctl and netcfg are in conflict. https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-projects/2013-July/003809.html

Re: [arch-general] Why is netcfg again in [base]?

2013-07-16 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org wrote: On 16/07/13 21:59, Karol Blazewicz wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 12:12 PM, A Rojas nqn1976l...@gmail.com wrote: I thought it was deprecated in favour of netctl. Now it's impossible to install the base group, since netctl

Re: [arch-general] Why is netcfg again in [base]?

2013-07-16 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 22:03 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: it appears that netcfg is removed again Half-OT: Yes, earlier today there was an update available, now it isn't available anymore. Can I get it from somewhere

Re: [arch-general] distcc requires dbus

2013-07-14 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Iru Cai mytbk920...@gmail.com wrote: distccd needs libdbus-1.so.3, and `pactree distcc` does not have core/dbus. I think this should go in the bugtracker.

Re: [arch-general] xdelta3 not updated for i686

2013-07-13 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Karol Blazewicz karol.blazew...@gmail.com wrote: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/differences/ says that xdelta3 has not been updated for 32-bit - why? https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/xdelta3id

Re: [arch-general] xdelta3 not updated for i686

2013-07-13 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Gaetan Bisson bis...@archlinux.org wrote: [2013-07-13 14:09:18 +0200] Karol Blazewicz: snip Should I post this in the bugtracker? Yes. This way you are sure: - to get the maintainer's attention; - that your issue will be properly tracked and won't require

[arch-general] xdelta3 not updated for i686

2013-07-10 Thread Karol Blazewicz
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/differences/ says that xdelta3 has not been updated for 32-bit - why? https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/xdelta3id=2a27ff1daadfc44b00e10acd8f32dc9661a6e8a5 https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/xdelta3/

Re: [arch-general] patch for syslinux install script

2013-07-06 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Matthew Gyurgyik pyt...@pyther.net wrote: There is a slight change in behaviour. When preforming an update, all c32 modules in /usr/lib/syslinux/bios/ will get copied/symlinked. Previously we only updated/copied modules that were already in /boot/syslinux.

Re: [arch-general] reading messages during shutdown

2013-07-05 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 7:54 PM, F. Gr. frgroc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've noticed that there are some warning during the halt/reboot process. How can I read these messages? https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=164545

[arch-general] syslinux 6.01-1 issues

2013-07-05 Thread Karol Blazewicz
I'm using syslinux for my bootloader. I'm using BIOS, not UEFI, on a 32-bit system. After updating syslinux 5.10-3 - 6.01-1 the modules' symlinks in /boot/syslinux didn't get updated and still point to /usr/lib/syslinux/ instead of to /usr/lib/syslinux/bios e.g. menu.c32 -

Re: [arch-general] syslinux 6.01-1 issues

2013-07-05 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 8:26 PM, Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org wrote: Am 05.07.2013 20:24, schrieb Karol Blazewicz: I'm using syslinux for my bootloader. I'm using BIOS, not UEFI, on a 32-bit system. After updating syslinux 5.10-3 - 6.01-1 the modules' symlinks in /boot/syslinux didn't

[arch-general] /etc/shells should keep /bin/zsh

2013-07-01 Thread Karol Blazewicz
I know arch-general si not for reporting bugs and I'm not trying to rush anyone, but it's been already a month of confusion wrt https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/zshid=c84d9770988fdc0f2e6c7bd5fa748d5a18580fb4 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/35724

Re: [arch-general] Grub 2.00.5043-1 locales missing

2013-06-27 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 8:42 AM, Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org wrote: On 27/06/13 15:54, Star Brilliant wrote: After I upgraded to grub 2.00.5043-1, I found that grub switched back to English interface because the locale files are missing. Those locale files used to be in /usr/share/locale

Re: [arch-general] interference of the recent /usr symlinking with the mkinitcpio 'usr' hook?

2013-06-25 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Martti Kühne mysat...@gmail.com wrote: Error: Root device mounted successfully, but /sbin/init does not exist. Bailing out, you are on your own. Good Luck Of course. /sbin is a symlink now. You'll have to adjust your disk setup and unite /usr and / for

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