Re: [arch-general] How to disable systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer

2014-05-08 Thread LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT
-Original Message- From: arch-general [mailto:arch-general-boun...@archlinux.org] On Behalf Of Lukas Jirkovsky Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2014 3:54 AM Please don't start another systemd flamewar. And BTW, automatic /tmp cleaning was there since the beginning. I agree to not start a

[arch-general] problem booting and using the installation media

2014-03-14 Thread LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT
Hi, I am trying to boot the installation media on a small embedded system already running linux. Everything boots fine until udev starts loading modules. Approximately when the install media reach the bash prompt, the display gets garbled. I suspect that this is when the graphic mode switch

Re: [arch-general] Way too much kworkers

2013-10-01 Thread LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT
-Original Message- From: arch-general [mailto:arch-general-boun...@archlinux.org] On Behalf Of 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

[arch-general] glibc 2.18-5 question

2013-09-26 Thread LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT
Hi, I just checked what was the motivation for this 5th release and I have found: http://hmarco.org/bugs/CVE-2013-4788.html where it says: The vulnerability is caused due to the non initialization to a random value (it is always zero) of the pointer guard by the glibc only when generating

Re: [arch-general] Apache PID File not readable

2013-07-29 Thread LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT
On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Stefan Tatschner stefan.tatsch...@gmail.com wrote: I always get this message after restarting apache via systemctl: PID file /run/httpd/httpd.pid not readable (yet?) after start. What does cat /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/apache.conf return? =-Jameson Wow, this

Re: [arch-general] Broken sound with Linux 3.9.2 on Acer laptop

2013-05-17 Thread LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT
Hello BlissSam, After upgrading to 3.9.2 kernel, the sound did not work. However, the system CAN recognize my sound card, and my sound card appeared in `alsamixer` Downgrading the kernel can solve the problem. Providing more info: Acer Aspire laptop, with Intel i5 CPU, 2nd generation

Re: [arch-general] gcc: loop do not terminate

2013-05-14 Thread LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT
void testing(void) { #define NR_STRUCT_A (4) struct B* ptr = malloc(sizeof(struct B) + NR_STRUCT_A*sizeof(struct A)); ptr-numelem = NR_STRUCT_A; ptr-item= (struct A*)(ptr+1); ptr-item[0].a = 0; ptr-item[1].a = 1; ptr-item[2].a = 2;

[arch-general] gcc: loop do not terminate

2013-05-13 Thread LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT
I have just been hit by something: lano1106@hpmini ~/dev/gcc-test $ g++ --version g++ (GCC) 4.8.0 20130502 (prerelease) Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS

Re: [arch-general] gcc: loop do not terminate

2013-05-13 Thread LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT
The only time the switch makes a difference is when the program is already incorrect. I really doubt Arch is going to enable a flag slowing down all programs to make invalid programs behave *differently* (not necessary as they were intended to behave, just *differently*). GCC is correctly

Re: [arch-general] libxml2 out of date

2013-05-07 Thread LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT
I believe the next question is Hussam, Jan is there anything we can do to make libxml2 upgrade happen? Let me put this statement other way: I have some time that I would like to contribute it back to Linux Arch. Trying to resolve libxml2 upgrade issues seems a useful task. Could anyone

Re: [arch-general] libxml2 out of date

2013-05-07 Thread LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT
Anatol, Here is a source package building libxml2 2.9.1. It took less than 5 minutes to modify the official repo PKGBUILD and build the new version. I haven't tested all software depending on libxml2 but I have installed it myself and so far so good everything works perfectly for me.

Re: [arch-general] HDMI Alsa sound problem from flashplayer 64 bit

2013-02-07 Thread LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT
I was unsure what was meant by trying to set up without KDE in the way? I presumed that I could only run the chrome browser within a D.E. in order to test the problem of flashplayer running a video with sound output? It was not clear to me how to do that unless I had a different D.E.

Re: [arch-general] Request help with wired network config after initial install and reboot

2013-01-21 Thread LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT
It seems that the ifconfig command is not available once rebooted into the install and I don't know how to proceed. Can anyone give my any advice on how to get the network up on the newly installed system? Because it hard to get rid of a good old habit: lano1106@hpmini ~ $ pkgfile ifconfig

Re: [arch-general] Help with making a bootable usbkey from arch for ssd drive firmware update

2013-01-16 Thread LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT
I did try using unetbootin to make a freedos usbkey using freedos from the standard list in the available options within unetbootin but the key I prepared would not boot! I don't know if it is critical to put the partition table into the key in a particular way - but I tried using gparted

Re: [arch-general] Udisks2: auto-mounts as read-only device/with wrong permissions

2013-01-08 Thread LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT
[ 85.036758] FAT-fs (sdc1): error, fat_get_cluster: invalid cluster chain (i_pos 0) [ 85.036765] FAT-fs (sdc1): Filesystem has been set read-only \end{code} The last 2 lines are not present when mounting the device via console (s. above). The interesting thing is that they are also

Re: [arch-general] Udisks2: auto-mounts as read-only device/with wrong permissions

2013-01-08 Thread LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT
[ 85.036758] FAT-fs (sdc1): error, fat_get_cluster: invalid cluster chain (i_pos 0) [ 85.036765] FAT-fs (sdc1): Filesystem has been set read-only \end{code} The last 2 lines are not present when mounting the device via console (s. above). The interesting thing is that they are also

Re: [arch-general] UEFI experience - recommendations needed.

2013-01-07 Thread LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT
-Original Message- From: arch-general [mailto:arch-general-boun...@archlinux.org] On Behalf Of Mike Cloaked Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2013 3:24 PM To: General Discussion about Arch Linux Subject: [arch-general] UEFI experience - recommendations needed. I would be interested to

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia Driver woes on Macbook 3,2

2012-12-20 Thread LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT
Daniel Bryan: Here's what I've tried in EFI mode: - standard nouveau setup - X sort of starts up but there are weird artifacts, mouse doesn't work, and it freezes up pretty quickly. I had the same problem and found the following solution: - Install xf86-video-fbdev This is very

Re: [arch-general] rootfs remains in ro at boot on fresh install with new December ISO

2012-12-05 Thread LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT
Tom, As requested, here is my fstab file. As you'll see, there is nothing fancy in it. /dev/sda1 isn't mounted as it is just my 2MB grub partition. Since I didn't want a tmpfs mounted in /tmp, I did follow directives from the Beginners guide: systemctl mask tmp.mount The result of

Re: [arch-general] rootfs remains in ro at boot on fresh install with new December ISO

2012-12-04 Thread LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT
Dave, Tom, Thank you very much for your explanations. With your help, I have become a little bit less clueless about systemd and Arch initramfs system. by typing systemctl status /, the reported status was ok/mounted with some green on the output. Nothing special to report about that. I wish

Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] December: time for a new install medium

2012-12-03 Thread LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT
Hi Robbie, I know it's not really necessary, but I always like to have the most up-to-date Arch live on my toolbox USB stick. Is there a recommended way to update an existing USB install medium (without overwriting other files?), or should I just follow the steps at [1], and update the

[arch-general] rootfs remains in ro at boot on fresh install with new December ISO

2012-12-03 Thread LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT
Hi, I hope it is not caused by the shortcut that I have taken to update my usb install key from november iso to december iso as described in the other thread. The first symptom that I have observed is that dhcpcd isn't able to update /etc/resolv.conf I am going to provide as much relevant