Re: [arch-general] SystemD poll

2012-08-23 Thread Norbert Zeh
Felipe Contreras [2012.08.23 2214 +0200]: On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:02 PM, Andrew Hills hills...@gmail.com wrote: Felipe--if I may address you by your first name--in case you're confused about why no one will listen to your arguments, let me try to explain; it may reduce your frustration.

Re: [arch-general] Systemd screen brightness

2012-08-15 Thread Norbert Zeh
Aurko Roy [2012.08.15 1140 +0530]: On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Michael Nawrocki zaedr...@gmail.comwrote: Hey everyone, I'm trying to get my laptop backlight keys (fn+f6/f7) to adjust the brightness of my toshiba laptop backlight. Previously, I had entered the following in my

Re: [arch-general] Systemd screen brightness

2012-08-15 Thread Norbert Zeh
Aurko Roy [2012.08.15 2040 +0530]: On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Norbert Zeh n...@cs.dal.ca wrote: You can achieve the same by adding the instructions to write to /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness to an appropriate file in tmpfiles.d. Read the section on temporary files

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Norbert Zeh
David Benfell [2012.08.14 1535 -0700]: What I think is unfortunate about the discussion of systemd here has been that it has been conflated with the discussion of pulseaudio. I think it is possible to like one and not the other. Indeed. The heated discussion about systemd actually had the

Re: [arch-general] chromium crash when print dialog is invoked

2012-08-03 Thread Norbert Zeh
gt [2012.08.03 1526 +0530]: On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 10:15:33AM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote: On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 7:34 AM, Oon-Ee Ng ngoonee.t...@gmail.com wrote: Probably the only people running Linux systems without cups are the DIY distro groups (Arch, gentoo etc.) as I don't think

Re: [arch-general] chromium crash when print dialog is invoked

2012-08-03 Thread Norbert Zeh
Norbert Zeh [2012.08.03 1943 -0300]: gt [2012.08.03 1526 +0530]: On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 10:15:33AM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote: On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 7:34 AM, Oon-Ee Ng ngoonee.t...@gmail.com wrote: Probably the only people running Linux systems without cups are the DIY distro

Re: [arch-general] Still Glibc problems

2012-07-20 Thread Norbert Zeh
D. R. Evans [2012.07.20 0827 -0600]: Norbert Zeh said the following at 07/19/2012 06:08 PM : Well, the filesystem instructions are older and applied at the time the glibc upgrade was not an issue yet. Combining the two instructions, I would guess the following should work

Re: [arch-general] Still Glibc problems

2012-07-20 Thread Norbert Zeh
D. R. Evans [2012.07.20 1541 -0600]: Norbert Zeh said the following at 07/19/2012 06:08 PM : Well, the filesystem instructions are older and applied at the time the glibc upgrade was not an issue yet. Combining the two instructions, I would guess the following should work

Re: [arch-general] Still Glibc problems

2012-07-19 Thread Norbert Zeh
D. R. Evans [2012.07.19 1742 -0600]: Alex Belanger said the following at 07/18/2012 05:27 AM : pacman -Syu --ignore glibc pacman -Su I had the same problem, went to archlinux website and they say exactly what you need to do and why. You shouldn't toy with it yourself, nor use the

Re: [arch-general] Complete mess after having attempted to install Nvidia drivers‏

2012-06-22 Thread Norbert Zeh
nelsonmaram...@gmx.de [2012.06.22 1217 +0200]: Hm ... but is this not just a second possibility ? Original-Nachricht Datum: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:13:38 +0300 Von: Jesse Juhani Jaara jesse.ja...@gmail.com An: General Discussion about Arch Linux arch-general@archlinux.org

[arch-general] PKGBUILD provides not handled correctly?

2012-05-01 Thread Norbert Zeh
Hi folks, I have just run into a weird problem. I have a machine that isn't too happy with the 3.3.x kernel series. So I'm running linux-lts on it, but that one is meant for servers, so isn't as responsive as one would like on a desktop system. So I've decided to throw a little PKGBUILD

Re: [arch-general] PKGBUILD provides not handled correctly?

2012-05-01 Thread Norbert Zeh
of responses are very rare in the arch community. Again, thanks for your help. Cheers, Norbert Jan Steffens [2012.05.01 2134 +0200]: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:08 PM, Norbert Zeh n...@cs.dal.ca wrote: Hi folks, I have just run into a weird problem.  I have a machine that isn't too happy with the 3.3

Re: [arch-general] Cannot boot since latest -Syu

2012-04-19 Thread Norbert Zeh
Jérôme M. Berger [2012.04.19 0757 +0200]: Same again, since the latest -Syu the normal image fails to mount my RAID arrays but the fallback image works. This is even with raid456 in MODULES... This is just a shot in the dark, but which MODULES line are you referring to, the one in

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 3.2.1 woes

2012-02-06 Thread Norbert Zeh
Chris Cooper [2012.01.27 1649 +]: Have you figured this out? I have an issue that is similar, that may be related. When using an external display, my laptop screen is no longer usable since upgrading to 3.2.x from 3.1.x. I've tried using xrandr to turn it on with no luck, the mouse

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 3.2.1 woes

2012-02-06 Thread Norbert Zeh
Norbert Zeh [2012.02.06 1138 -0400]: Chris Cooper [2012.01.27 1649 +]: Have you figured this out? I have an issue that is similar, that may be related. When using an external display, my laptop screen is no longer usable since upgrading to 3.2.x from 3.1.x. I've tried using

Re: [arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

2012-01-29 Thread Norbert Zeh
Heiko Baums [2012.01.29 1446 +0100]: Am Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:58:31 +0100 schrieb Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no: Sounds like possibly valid concerns. But this is not something to discuss here. Please contact gnome and/or pulseaudio if you have issues. This has already been tried at least

Re: [arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

2012-01-29 Thread Norbert Zeh
Fons Adriaensen [2012.01.29 1442 +]: On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 02:46:37PM +0100, Heiko Baums wrote: This has already been tried at least with pulseaudio. Their reactions are known. Blame ALSA for PA's faults while ALSA supports those card perfectly since years, and crippling those

Re: [arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

2012-01-29 Thread Norbert Zeh
Tom Gundersen [2012.01.29 2241 +0100]: On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Norbert Zeh n...@cs.dal.ca wrote: Things I observed (on Ubuntu, Mint, openSUSE, Arch...so it's not distro-specific) were way too low input (mic) and output volumes even when setting the volume controls to 100%.  I

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 3.2.1 woes

2012-01-25 Thread Norbert Zeh
Peter Lewis [2012.01.25 0919 +]: On Monday 23 Jan 2012 21:53:25 Norbert Zeh wrote: Laptop/intel graphics: Boots/reboots/halts all fine, as long as I don't suspend to RAM. After suspend to RAM, screen backlight is on, but screen remains black until turning the machine off. Apart from

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 3.2.1 woes

2012-01-23 Thread Norbert Zeh
fredbezies [2012.01.23 0736 +0100]: 2012/1/23 Norbert Zeh n...@cs.dal.ca Hi folks, just a heads up (and maybe request for feedback whether anybody has seen similar issues with this kernel upgrade). The recent upgrade from kernel 3.1.9 to 3.2.1 produced two graphics-related issues

[arch-general] netcfg inconsistency

2012-01-23 Thread Norbert Zeh
Hi folks, I'm using netcfg heavily on my laptop, both for the wireless and wired adapters. Particularly, I use the net-auto-wirelss and net-auto-wired scripts to enable auto-configuration of these adapters. The net-auto-wireless script of the most recent netcfg package sources

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 3.2.1 woes

2012-01-23 Thread Norbert Zeh
Michael Holmes [2012.01.23 1352 +]: I can't reproduce either bug on 3.2.1, latest NVIDIA drivers, GTX 460 1 GB. Are you sure the binary NVIDIA driver got rebuilt? I'm not sure, and this is something I should certainly try. However, along with the upgrade from 3.1.9 to 3.2.1 came an nvidia

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 3.2.1 woes

2012-01-23 Thread Norbert Zeh
Don Juan [2012.01.23 1521 -0800]: @Norbert Do you have any shutdown or reboot issues? I have a similar setup to you only laptop, but if I run the nvidia driver X either gives a red screen when I try and shutdown or reboot, or just hangs with a cursor blinking. Just curious. No, I don't have

[arch-general] Kernel 3.2.1 woes

2012-01-22 Thread Norbert Zeh
Hi folks, just a heads up (and maybe request for feedback whether anybody has seen similar issues with this kernel upgrade). The recent upgrade from kernel 3.1.9 to 3.2.1 produced two graphics-related issues: On my dual-Opteron Asus board with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460, the X server fails to

Re: [arch-general] pacman -Syu fails due to conflict with mtab?

2011-12-22 Thread Norbert Zeh
Jonathan Vasquez [2011.12.22 1128 -0500]: It's posted on the main page :) On Dec 22, 2011 11:27 AM, David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com wrote: Guys, Just a quick question. Upgrade failed due to conflict with mtab: snip (67/67) checking for file conflicts

Re: [arch-general] Haskell Support Was: [arch-haskell] Xmonad version?

2011-12-18 Thread Norbert Zeh
Magnus Therning [2011.12.18 1148 +0100]: On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 11:31:09AM +0100, Jelle van der Waa wrote: [...] Btw adopted xmonad,xmonad-contrib, these packages will be updated today. Excellent, then I can stop building these for myself. Are you considering adding xmonad-extras too,

Re: [arch-general] Accented characters in X terminal?

2011-12-14 Thread Norbert Zeh
Vitor Eiji Justus Sakaguti [2011.12.14 1450 -0200]: On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Mauro Santos registo.maill...@gmail.com wrote: On 14-12-2011 12:48, Magnus Therning wrote: I just noticed that I no longer get accented characters in my terminals (I've tested lxterminal and

Re: [arch-general] No consoles with NVIDIA

2011-11-28 Thread Norbert Zeh
Karol Babioch [2011.11.28 1612 +0100]: Hi, Am 28.11.2011 13:17, schrieb Geoff: The recent upgrade to 290.10.1 has given me the same problem that you have - plus several others. Thanks, as my hardware seems to be problematic anyway (Sony Vaio VPCS12C5E), so I wasn't entirely sure

Re: [arch-general] pacman new generation

2011-11-22 Thread Norbert Zeh
Taylor Hedberg [2011.11.22 1036 -0500]: Nicolas Sebrecht, Tue 2011-11-22 @ 16:24:02+0100: I don't think, so. IMHO, the pool of contributors is bigger with a high-level language than for C, simply because the learning curve of a good high-level language is much shorter. You can't

[arch-general] xdm, who and X sessions

2011-10-11 Thread Norbert Zeh
Hi folks, wanting to go lightweight, I just switched back from kdm to xdm, but I ran into a little snag, which I reported as bug FS#26395 on the bug tracker. I'm no longer sure this is actually a bug, at least not of who. The problem: After loggin in via xdm, who does not show any logged in

Re: [arch-general] xdm, who and X sessions

2011-10-11 Thread Norbert Zeh
Rodrigo Amorim Bahiense [2011.10.11 1149 -0300]: On 10/11/2011 11:42 AM, Norbert Zeh wrote: Hi folks, wanting to go lightweight, I just switched back from kdm to xdm, but I ran into a little snag, which I reported as bug FS#26395 on the bug tracker. I'm no longer sure this is actually

[arch-general] CD eject as non-root user

2011-08-18 Thread Norbert Zeh
Hi folks, I have a strange problem with ejecting CDs from my CD drive. As root: eject and eject -t work flawlessly eject -T gives ioctl: Input/output error As non-root user: eject -t closes the tray as expected eject gives eject: unable to eject, last error: Inappropriate ioctl for

Re: [arch-general] CD eject as non-root user

2011-08-18 Thread Norbert Zeh
Karol Blazewicz [2011.08.18 1916 +0200]: On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de wrote: Am Thu, 18 Aug 2011 18:55:08 +0200 schrieb Karol Blazewicz karol.blazew...@gmail.com: I've noticed that I have problems after I mount the CD: the button on the CD-ROM

Re: [arch-general] CD eject as non-root user

2011-08-18 Thread Norbert Zeh
Philipp Überbacher [2011.08.18 1919 +0200]: Excerpts from Heiko Baums's message of 2011-08-18 19:03:19 +0200: Am Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:44:23 -0300 schrieb Norbert Zeh n...@cs.dal.ca: I have a strange problem with ejecting CDs from my CD drive. As root: eject and eject -t

Re: [arch-general] CD eject as non-root user

2011-08-18 Thread Norbert Zeh
Heiko Baums [2011.08.18 2033 +0200]: Am Thu, 18 Aug 2011 20:08:47 +0200 schrieb Karol Blazewicz karol.blazew...@gmail.com: I put the data CD, close the tray, try to mount it, but [karol@white ~]$ sudo mount /dev/sr0 /media/cd/ mount: /dev/sr0 already mounted or /media/cd/ busy

Re: [arch-general] CD eject as non-root user

2011-08-18 Thread Norbert Zeh
Heiko Baums [2011.08.18 2033 +0200]: Am Thu, 18 Aug 2011 20:08:47 +0200 schrieb Karol Blazewicz karol.blazew...@gmail.com: I put the data CD, close the tray, try to mount it, but [karol@white ~]$ sudo mount /dev/sr0 /media/cd/ mount: /dev/sr0 already mounted or /media/cd/ busy

Re: [arch-general] CD eject as non-root user

2011-08-18 Thread Norbert Zeh
Karol Blazewicz [2011.08.18 2122 +0200]: On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de wrote: Am Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:44:23 -0300 schrieb Norbert Zeh n...@cs.dal.ca: I have a strange problem with ejecting CDs from my CD drive. As root: eject and eject -t work

Re: [arch-general] CD eject as non-root user

2011-08-18 Thread Norbert Zeh
Tom Gundersen [2011.08.19 0011 +0200]: On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Norbert Zeh n...@cs.dal.ca wrote: Hi folks, I have a strange problem with ejecting CDs from my CD drive. As root: eject and eject -t work flawlessly eject -T gives    ioctl: Input/output error As non

Re: [arch-general] cups not starting on boot after last 2 kernel updates? -- where to put it in the DAEMONS line?

2011-08-09 Thread Norbert Zeh
Karol Blazewicz [2011.08.09 1744 +0200]: On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook jtw...@ttlc.net wrote: It would appear that on Aug 8, Peter Bui did say: You have @cups in DAEMONS ... probably need @cupsd? It would appear that on Aug 8, J. W. Birdsong did say: You

Re: [arch-general] Anybody else have problems with the new Nvidia drivers (275.09.07-1)

2011-06-17 Thread Norbert Zeh
Yaro Kasear [2011.06.17 1709 -0500]: On Friday, June 17, 2011 04:10:01 PM Richard Schütz wrote: The new driver really seems to have a major problem. I figured out that you just need an image with 2047px width to screw up the driver. ATTENTION: This can crash your X server and corrupt

Re: [arch-general] whitebox on bootup after KMS kicks in

2011-05-28 Thread Norbert Zeh
C Anthony Risinger [2011.05.28 0002 -0500]: does anyone else experience title? i've been getting this for sometime -- on intel, nouveau, and radeon KMS drivers -- and it looks terrible. after the module loads within initramfs, the space *within* the old resolution is pure white, surrounded

Re: [arch-general] Battery status files created on the fly?

2011-05-18 Thread Norbert Zeh
Wim Van Deun [2011.05.18 0823 +0200]: Hi Norbert, I have the exact same issue on a dell latitude e5510 running the x86_64 kernel. And on a dell latitude 1220 running the i686 kernel. Didn't know about the hack, thanks. Great, my hack actually helps someone else. In case you also have the

[arch-general] Battery status files created on the fly?

2011-05-17 Thread Norbert Zeh
Hi folks, I've run into a weird problem with monitoring the status of my laptop battery. Since I assume I'm doing something wrong, I thought I'd ask for feedback here first before going and filing a bug report. Here goes: When my machine boots, /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0 and all the files in

Re: [arch-general] Change Arch's default crond

2011-04-21 Thread Norbert Zeh
Dimitrios Apostolou [2011.04.22 0126 +0300]: On Thu, 21 Apr 2011, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: Because of these: https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?string=dcronproject=1 Mostly https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/18681 The run many times per day bug hasn't bitten me since months ago. And I used

Re: [arch-general] mdadm segfaults with kernel 2.6.38.2

2011-04-12 Thread Norbert Zeh
Erik Johnson [2011.04.12 1730 -0500]: You can also look for it in the Arch Rollback Machine ( http://arm.konnichi.com). For instance, you can find mdadm for x86_64 here: http://arm.konnichi.com/core/os/x86_64/ That's a very useful pointer, which may come in handy in similar situations in the

[arch-general] mdadm segfaults with kernel 2.6.38.2

2011-04-11 Thread Norbert Zeh
Hi folks, I just upgraded to the latest kernel. The /etc/rc.d/mdadm script, which starts mdadm in monitor mode, reports a segmentation fault in mdadm --monitor --oneshot --scan. I also tried to manually start, e.g., mdadm --monitor /dev/md0, and get a segmentation fault there, too. Since this

Re: [arch-general] mdadm segfaults with kernel 2.6.38.2

2011-04-11 Thread Norbert Zeh
Divan Santana [2011.04.11 2132 +0200]: On Monday 11 April 2011 20:58:40 Norbert Zeh wrote: I just upgraded to the latest kernel. The /etc/rc.d/mdadm script, which starts mdadm in monitor mode, reports a segmentation fault in mdadm --monitor --oneshot --scan. I also tried to manually

Re: [arch-general] mdadm segfaults with kernel 2.6.38.2

2011-04-11 Thread Norbert Zeh
Norbert Zeh [2011.04.11 2102 -0300]: Divan Santana [2011.04.11 2132 +0200]: On Monday 11 April 2011 20:58:40 Norbert Zeh wrote: I just upgraded to the latest kernel. The /etc/rc.d/mdadm script, which starts mdadm in monitor mode, reports a segmentation fault in mdadm --monitor

Re: [arch-general] mdadm segfaults with kernel 2.6.38.2

2011-04-11 Thread Norbert Zeh
Ionuț Bîru [2011.04.12 0318 +0300]: [...] And things got even stranger just now, with a silver lining. The version of mdadm found in [core] is 3.2.1. ABS, on the other hand, still has the old version (3.1.5). Isn't ABS supposed to be the official source tree for the official repos? Maybe

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel 2.6.36-3

2010-11-03 Thread Norbert Zeh
Thomas Bächler [2010.11.04 0028 +0100]: Am 03.11.2010 23:23, schrieb David C. Rankin: As mentioned, I have the same boot failure with 2.6.36-3 (grub Error 24:) However, I have received the first bit of feedback from the dm-devel list. You don't seem to understand at all. There is

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel 2.6.36-3

2010-11-03 Thread Norbert Zeh
Norbert Zeh [2010.11.03 2043 -0300]: Thomas Bächler [2010.11.04 0028 +0100]: Am 03.11.2010 23:23, schrieb David C. Rankin: As mentioned, I have the same boot failure with 2.6.36-3 (grub Error 24:) However, I have received the first bit of feedback from the dm-devel list. You

Re: [arch-general] New nvidia driver - video mode not recognized - remove vga= from kernel line?

2010-10-28 Thread Norbert Zeh
I do have the /etc/modprobe.d/nouveau_blacklist.conf file on my machine, too, but I remember that the nouveau kernel driver did get loaded until I added !nouveau to the MODULES list in my rc.conf. So 1) Can you do an lsmod | grep nouveau to see whether nouveau maybe still gets loaded. (If

[arch-general] makepkg not working in chrooted environment

2010-10-21 Thread Norbert Zeh
Hi folks, I am running a 32-bit chroot on my 64-bit system, and I'm trying to build a few packages from AUR inside the 32-bit chroot. When I run makepkg inside the chroot, it complains about dependencies not being satisfied, even though the dependencies are installed inside the chroot (and in

Re: [arch-general] makepkg not working in chrooted environment

2010-10-21 Thread Norbert Zeh
Ionuț Bîru [2010.10.22 0017 +0300]: On 10/22/2010 12:07 AM, Norbert Zeh wrote: Hi folks, I am running a 32-bit chroot on my 64-bit system, and I'm trying to build a few packages from AUR inside the 32-bit chroot. When I run makepkg inside the chroot, it complains about dependencies

Re: [arch-general] makepkg not working in chrooted environment

2010-10-21 Thread Norbert Zeh
Norbert Zeh [2010.10.21 1857 -0300]: Ionuț Bîru [2010.10.22 0017 +0300]: On 10/22/2010 12:07 AM, Norbert Zeh wrote: Hi folks, I am running a 32-bit chroot on my 64-bit system, and I'm trying to build a few packages from AUR inside the 32-bit chroot. When I run makepkg inside

Re: [arch-general] makepkg not working in chrooted environment

2010-10-21 Thread Norbert Zeh
Norbert Zeh [2010.10.21 1946 -0300]: Norbert Zeh [2010.10.21 1857 -0300]: Ionuț Bîru [2010.10.22 0017 +0300]: On 10/22/2010 12:07 AM, Norbert Zeh wrote: Hi folks, I am running a 32-bit chroot on my 64-bit system, and I'm trying to build a few packages from AUR inside the 32-bit

Re: [arch-general] makepkg not working in chrooted environment

2010-10-21 Thread Norbert Zeh
Allan McRae [2010.10.22 1028 +1000]: makepkg uses pacman with the -T flag to test whether a package installed. That is supposed to be dead quiet. Of course if you used the --debug flag you would see the message you are after... Fair enough. In particular, I can see why printing an error

Re: [arch-general] Python 3 Rationale?

2010-10-19 Thread Norbert Zeh
Andrea Scarpino [2010.10.20 0201 +0200]: On Wednesday 20 October 2010 01:47:20 Max Countryman wrote: I'm curious what the rationale is behind changing the default to Python 3? My understanding is that many libraries are not yet available on Python 3. As a developer, this could make life

[arch-general] Xterm urgency hint

2010-10-08 Thread Norbert Zeh
Hi folks, I've just run into a strange problem. In order to highlight terminal windows that require my attention, I make the application running in the window beep, and I have set xterm*bellIsUrgent:true. The problem: xterm seems to simply ignore this setting. I can also go into the xterm menu

Re: [arch-general] Xterm urgency hint

2010-10-08 Thread Norbert Zeh
Nick Jones [2010.10.08 1359 +0100]: On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 at 09:42:04 -0300, Norbert Zeh wrote: I've just run into a strange problem. In order to highlight terminal windows that require my attention, I make the application running in the window beep, and I have set xterm*bellIsUrgent:true

Re: [arch-general] Xterm urgency hint

2010-10-08 Thread Norbert Zeh
Norbert Zeh [2010.10.08 0942 -0300]: Hi folks, I've just run into a strange problem. In order to highlight terminal windows that require my attention, I make the application running in the window beep, and I have set xterm*bellIsUrgent:true. The problem: xterm seems to simply ignore

[arch-general] Dovecot: bug or user error?

2010-10-07 Thread Norbert Zeh
Hi archers, I've just made one of my machines an arch box, and one thing that gave me headaches no end was setting up dovecot on it. In my setup I'm using PAM authentication with a passwd userdb. So no reliance on mysql or postgreql. When installing dovecot, pacman informs me that I may want

Re: [arch-general] Dovecot: bug or user error?

2010-10-07 Thread Norbert Zeh
Jan de Groot [2010.10.07 1926 +0200]: On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 13:16 -0300, Norbert Zeh wrote: After some long debugging sessions, I realized that my failure to connect to my freshly setup dovecot server was because dovecot-auth failed. It was looking for the mysql and postgreql shared

Re: [arch-general] Chroot 32bit under 64bit; Problems with kernel package

2010-07-25 Thread Norbert Zeh
PT M. [2010.07.25 1606 +0800]: There's the line Architecture = auto in the new pacman.conf, maybe you can specify i686 here. This is exactly what resolved the problem for me. Found this advice by googling a bit. - Norbert -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\

Re: [arch-general] We have lost the desktop war. The reason? Windows 7.

2009-10-27 Thread Norbert Zeh
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:31:06PM +, dennisjperk...@comcast.net wrote: Well, I guess they try to 'integrate' again, all config in one place, but again only for their bubble. Isn't there already an OS with such a terrible, bloated and cryptical all config in one place database

Re: [arch-general] We have lost the desktop war. The reason? Windows 7.

2009-10-26 Thread Norbert Zeh
I just had a look at the Windows 7 features and didn't see anything that suggests the Linux world has lost the UI war. It is probably true that the eye candy looks more polished on OS X/Vista/7 than on anything the Linux world has to offer. (In fact, this is what lured me into the Mac world for