On Friday 30 Mar 2012 07:26:17 pete wrote:
I need to generate them from the ground up although i know what the
usernames will be
I would be tempted to use pwgen. I'm a Ruby nut, so I'd probably use Ruby to
split the output and pop it into a CSV to combine with the usernames, and then
another
On Friday 30 Mar 2012 15:06:53 Hector Martinez-Seara wrote:
Hi,
I've been having the same issue in a dell precision M4300. It started
in some point of the kernel 3.1.x release. Since then from time to
time the system does not shutdown unless using the power button to
force a power off.
Any
On Wednesday 28 Mar 2012 13:49:15 Kirill Churin wrote:
Obviously, there are no fallback kernels, so grub-mkconfig doesn't find it.
There never were any fallback kernels. The term fallback has always
referred to the initramfs image, yet it used to detect them.
Paul
On Wednesday 28 Mar 2012 13:45:46 Keshav P R wrote:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/29037?getfile=8444
- Keshav
This looks like exactly what is needed; thank you.
Paul
On Monday 26 Mar 2012 02:18:53 Saurav Modak wrote:
Have you tried manually adding it in grub.cfg BTW?
Editing grub.cfg is a naughty thing to do with Grub2 :p The correct thing
to do would be to add the fallback to /etc/grub.d/41_custom. However, Grub
previously automatically detected the
With the latest Grub2 (grub2-efi-x86_64 1:2.00beta2-2), it seems that grub-
mkconfig is not picking up my fallback initramfs any more, so there's no
fallback option in the boot menu. Has anyone else experienced this? Is there
a way of fixing it?
Thanks,
Paul
On Monday 12 Mar 2012 13:17:11 F. Gr. wrote:
Hi,
I'm a new user of git software. I imported a mercurial repository to
a git repository. Now I want to remove some files from history and
the objects in my repository. Are these the right commands?
git filter-branch -d /dir1/subdir/
On Sunday 26 Feb 2012 17:44:51 Jan Steffens wrote:
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Thomas Dziedzic gos...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 4:40 AM, Paul Gideon Dann pdgid...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Saturday 25 Feb 2012 14:04:03 Thomas Dziedzic wrote:
If you run sudo gem install foo
On Saturday 25 Feb 2012 14:04:03 Thomas Dziedzic wrote:
If you run sudo gem install foo, it will install to /root/.gem/ruby
Are you sure? Won't it install to your normal user's home, but with root
privileges?
Paul
On Tuesday 14 Feb 2012 01:53:01 Peter Lewis wrote:
I think it's worth separating out the user and the admin in this
argument. To install a gem system-wide, you have to do something like sudo
gem install XXX, right? This is almost always a bad idea, IMO, and people
hopefully won't do it at
On Wednesday 15 Feb 2012 08:59:10 Thomas Dziedzic wrote:
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby - This directory is for user specific
installation and should never be touched by the package manager.
/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby - ruby packages installed with pacman which
aren't gems go here
Hi Mike,
I have a Latitude E5520, and I suspect we have the same touchpad.
This is the Kernel bug you'll be interested in:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14660
This is the patch I've been using to add support for my touchpad to the kernel
for the past few releases:
On Wednesday 01 Feb 2012 08:44:25 P Nikolic wrote:
I am getting the following error on mail check
Local Folders: Error opening:
This folder is missing .
I also get complaints about unable to delete (long number) on Kmail2 startup
not sure if it is related but i have also had big
On Wednesday 01 Feb 2012 15:30:15 P NIKOLIC wrote:
Sorry for the top posting back to web mail cus Kmail2 just eats everything
baring the junk .
No worries.
I am using pop3 i have at present that matter 7 pop3 accounts (bt do not
do imap) on those 7 accounts there are several mailing
On Wednesday 01 Feb 2012 15:51:57 P Nikolic wrote:
Well if this gets thru it may well be getting there i have completely
deleted all the accounts and re done them but getting used to that now so
does not take long (all in my head now even the dang passwords full of all
sorts) also the same
On Thursday 26 Jan 2012 11:26:11 Kevin Chadwick wrote:
Paul Gideon Dann wrote:
I know that due to the way the kernel is upgraded, it is best to save
kernel upgrade until the system can be rebooted,
Surely there is no point upgrading the kernel unless you are going to
reboot thereby
On Thursday 26 Jan 2012 09:23:41 Peter G Nikolic wrote:
I have been unhappy with the way a few GTK based programes i use looked
Firefox Gftp and Bluefish , So i installed gtk-qt-engine-1.1-3 and
whilst some of the problems have gone away i now have silly things like no
highlighting of
I've looked everywhere, but I can't find any reference to what the accepted
wisdom is:
I know that due to the way the kernel is upgraded, it is best to save kernel
upgrade until the system can be rebooted, since the running kernel will be
unable to load modules because the modules directory
On Sunday 22 Jan 2012 21:39:31 Norbert Zeh wrote:
On my Core i7 Dell Latitude 6510 laptop using the on-chip graphics chip and
the 1920x1080 laptop screen, everything is fine until I suspend the machine
to RAM. When resuming, I get a black screen and not even rebooting brings
the screen back to
On Sunday 08 Jan 2012 12:59:18 Peter Nikolic wrote:
I cant even get the new stuff to take my old data from KDE 4.6.5 (4.6.5)
release 7 .
Yeah, migrations are probably the trickiest area, because it's a one-time
thing. What exactly are you trying to migrate, and what happens now?
Paul
On Sunday 08 Jan 2012 08:25:59 Peter Nikolic wrote:
biggest problem now is this silly new email address book and organiser
think and the FAILED attempt to make them use a commom data source ,
Dunno what the KDE devs were day dreaming of when they came up with that
one it's a complete
On Saturday 07 Jan 2012 16:07:44 Andreas wrote:
Does someone know if cronie does support running missed jobs
automatically (asynchronous job processing)?
I think that's why Cronie ships with Anacron. The latter is supposed to deal
with those cases, I think. It's largely the split
On Sunday 08 Jan 2012 10:29:01 Heiko Baums wrote:
fcron runs missed jobs if bootrun is set at the beginning of the
line in fcrontab. fcron has cron and anacron features all in one and
works perfectly.
I've heard quite a few good things about fcron. Am I right in thinking it has
some slightly
On Saturday 07 Jan 2012 11:49:48 éæè¾ wrote:
Which cron utility should I use,cronie or dcron? Cronie in base group
seems has a separate anacrontab in /etc which is not kiss I think? If
anacron functionity has been included in dcron by default, May be dron
is a good choice?
I would
On Friday 23 Dec 2011 05:32:25 Jonathan Vasquez wrote:
I wanted to know what was he trying to say? Is he saying that Arch and
other Arch-like distros aren't serious distros that aren't meant for
production? I mean I understand that Arch is rolling release and all
that, but it's packages are
On Friday 23 Dec 2011 11:45:23 Ralf Madorf wrote:
I'll use jack, no desktop sound, no Skype etc., just pro and consumer
multimedia apps, flashplayer.
There hopefully is a way to fake that PA is installed.
Hi Ralph,
I have no idea if this will work for you but try this:
1) Create an empty
On Friday 23 Dec 2011 21:02:43 Allan McRae wrote:
I like GDM. I don't like login managers where I can't browse the users.
Good to see you did you research on other login managers...
I don't think this kind of sarcasm is going to help Ralph, and is likely to
make him more frustrated, which
On Friday 23 Dec 2011 12:06:37 Kwpolska wrote:
Dear idiot,
I'm kinda wondering why you aren't filtered from my mailbox yet.
[..]
I-M-P-O-S-S-I-B-L-E. Period.
Seriously? It's comments like this that make me wonder if subscribing to this
list is really worth it. At least you did go on to
On Friday 23 Dec 2011 14:34:21 Ralf Madorf wrote:
... OT: OTOH I don't really understand how it works or why it seemingly
won't solve some PA issues when it's running.
I think you need to use it to invoke other programs:
# pasuspender startx
or maybe inside .xinirc:
exec pasuspender
Hello all,
I've been having some trouble with USB drives in the last few months. When
copying files onto a device, the copy appears to be instantaneous, but is
clearly buffered by the kernel. If I unmount the drive, all appears well, but
then removing the device results in corruption.
In
On Friday 02 Dec 2011 11:54:45 Timothy Redaelli wrote:
Hi,
by default linux mounts the devices with the async option.
You can mount using the sync option, so you are sure that the I/O is
made synchronously.
Just remember: In case of media with limited number of write cycles
(e.g. some flash
On Friday 02 Dec 2011 12:03:52 Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
No. udev is basically for devices discovery and naming them in /dev.
Hehe; oh yeah, of course.
Before trying any sync mount option, try to manually sync disks with the
sync command to check if it fixes you issue.
Yeah, everything's fine
On Friday 02 Dec 2011 14:37:59 Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
How do you umount the USB device?
I've done it both from KDE and the command line, but I don't think that really
matters. It's the fact that large files appear to be copied instantly that is
frustrating.
Paul
On Friday 02 Dec 2011 12:09:59 Timothy Redaelli wrote:
You can try to edit the udev mount options:
# echo 'ACTION==add, ENV{mount_options}=sync'
/etc/udev.d/rules.d/99-mount-options.rules
Then you must reload udev rules:
# udevadm control --reload-rules
This seems like the right thing
On Friday 02 Dec 2011 16:31:47 Rogutės Sparnuotos wrote:
There can't be any corruption after a successful unmount.
1. Run sudo umount /path/to/mounted/dir; echo returncode=$?
2. If you see 'returncode=0' on the last line, continue with 3.
3. Remove your USB drive.
4. Attach your USB drive.
On Friday 02 Dec 2011 17:03:12 Rogutės Sparnuotos wrote:
Yes, copying with midnight commander or with cp returns immediately [*]. I
copy files from different directories, run umount and then wait for it
to return. Yet I mount my phone with 'sync', because transferring is very
slow and I want
On Tuesday 22 Nov 2011 12:20:25 Magnus Therning wrote:
- Many of these languages improve the ability to reason about the
behaviour of the program. This _can_ improve quality. HOWEVER, pacman
doesn't strike as a tool that suffers from bad quality, there seems to
be a development team that
On Monday 07 Nov 2011 11:25:08 Alessio 'Blaster' Biancalana wrote:
Hi archers and KDE users,
Can I have confirm of a strange behaviour in my KDE?
I can't open, in KControl (the control center), the shortcut and gestures
configuration dialog: when i double-click the item, KControl freezes.
On Monday 07 Nov 2011 12:40:44 Alessio 'Blaster' Biancalana wrote:
I'm sorry, now it seems to be ok for me too. A reboot, and all is over :)
Kmixer wasn't in its place, and I didn't manage to launch softwares with my
custom shortcuts; now I can.
I will inform you if it happens again, thanks
On Wednesday 26 Oct 2011 10:53:18 Squall Lionheart wrote:
Ever since the upgrade to KDE 4.7 several weeks ago, a lot of programs seem
to hang in the Task Manager after I close them. They will remain for a long
time or until I open another application. I also have an occasional
application
On Wednesday 26 Oct 2011 12:05:08 Thomas Bächler wrote:
This is the output of dmesg -l err:
[1.882959] [drm:ironlake_update_pch_refclk] *ERROR* enabling SSC on PCH
[ 10.336917] ACPI: Invalid _PSD:coord_type
[ 10.338144] ACPI: Invalid _PSD:coord_type
[ 10.338784] ACPI: Invalid
On Friday 21 Oct 2011 20:05:18 R7h0re4 wrote:
Just to be safe I added the full path to my script for the commands it
is calling.
I also looked at the wiki again and nothing mentions the use of Cronie,
and system cron jobs. I also checked the file /var/spool and see anacron
which has the sub
On Monday 24 Oct 2011 10:30:26 Taylor Hedberg wrote:
Apologies if I've missed something obvious, but both the wiki and forum
seem to have been down for at least a few hours now (I think they are
located on the same host). Does anyone know what the situation is?
They both look fine to me.
On Monday 24 Oct 2011 09:38:19 Dwight Schauer wrote:
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Paul Gideon Dann pdgid...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Monday 24 Oct 2011 10:30:26 Taylor Hedberg wrote:
Apologies if I've missed something obvious, but both the wiki and
forum
seem to have been down
On Thursday 08 Sep 2011 12:08:30 Clemens Fruhwirth wrote:
I propose to switch to start-stop-daemon and deprecate the method above.
http://clemens.endorphin.org/sshd-start-stop-daemon.diff is an example
of an rc.d script ported to start-stop-daemon. The paradigm -- to my
personal taste -- is
On Wednesday 13 Jul 2011 15:00:37 Squall Lionheart wrote:
When using Dolphin in KDE4 to *Create New Text File...* the new file is
not empty, it contains a space and a newline character.
I wonder if that's to do with MIME types? With a space and a newline, the file
is detected by file as
On Monday 13 June 2011 20:53:19 David Campbell wrote:
Excerpts from Timothy L.'s message of 2011-06-13 15:10:16 -0400:
...
I'm a novice when it comes to this kind of stuff, but adding
simple hooks doesn't seem to needlessly complicate a user's
system. It's something a user would never
On Friday 10 June 2011 20:44:16 Mauro Santos wrote:
Arch users have lived without the last good known kernel so far and
without an -lts kernel until recently. IMHO it is a lot more advisable
to have an install cd/usb, or even better, a custom install in some
external media that can be used to
On Saturday 04 June 2011 08:44:34 Jan de Groot wrote:
On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 03:06 -0400, Yclept Nemo wrote:
Perhaps openntpd does not set the hwclock. Therefore, should openntpd
be used in conjuction with the hwclock daemon?
That's true, and that's also the reason why Openntpd doesn't play
On Friday 10 June 2011 14:05:14 Yaro Kasear wrote:
Another agreement from me here. Also, may I also add that a great deal of
Arch users have /boot in a (tiny) partition to start with and can't really
KEEP that much stuff in there? Keeping old kernels would definitely screw
their systems up and
On Friday 10 June 2011 14:03:32 Yaro Kasear wrote:
On Friday, June 10, 2011 04:26:21 Robert Howard wrote:
Why not just copy the old kernel image, modules and initrd image
somewhere by hand before you upgrade kernels. If we try to make this
automated it isn't going to be kiss. I used to do
On Thursday 09 June 2011 00:04:09 Heiko Baums wrote:
schrieb Oon-Ee Ng ngoonee.t...@gmail.com:
Such a patch would also have to copy the modules (which aren't under
kernel26's 'purview'). For example, nvidia gets upgraded on a major
version kernel update, the old kernel which has been
On Thursday 09 June 2011 14:07:45 Yaro Kasear wrote:
On Thursday, June 09, 2011 05:31:06 Paul Gideon Dann wrote:
Well, it's happened to me, and it *could* happen to you. Better to
prevent the situation, don't you think?
Again: Purpose of fallback image and lts kernel. Jacking up /boot
I would really like to the kernel that is being replaced kept as a backup. If
the latest kernel breaks your hardware, or something else goes wrong, I'd like
to have the option of using the kernel that was just replaced, because it's
known to work.
I wouldn't want more than one old version of
On Wednesday 08 June 2011 15:45:21 Tom Gundersen wrote:
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Jelle van der Waa je...@vdwaa.nl wrote:
If you want this, implement it! I have seen some discussions about it and
it always tend to users wanting feature X or Y, but didn't commit to it.
protip: iirc
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