[arch-general] openntpd creating /usr/var/run/ntpd.sock

2015-03-05 Thread Squall Lionheart
Hello, I am running openntpd on several machines, one of which has /usr mounted as read only. Openntpd wants to create it's socket file in /usr/var/run and can't, thus it fails to start. I was unable to find a configuration option to change this location to /run, where it seems like it should

Re: [arch-general] postgresql 9.3 - 9.4

2015-01-28 Thread Squall Lionheart
Next time reading pacman -Syu output before hitting Y would be even nicer. ;-) You know what, sometimes their is just so much on the screen to catch all the messages for things like this. I was hit with the same problem and had a server down for almost a day. This should have been posted on

Re: [arch-general] Dropbox requires setup each time I boot

2014-09-23 Thread Squall Lionheart
-22 20:46 GMT+02:00 Squall Lionheart headmastersqu...@gmail.com: I use the dropbox client as provided on their web site. Everything works as expected however, when I reboot my machine it requires me to setup my local folder each time. I also run a Fedora 20 system with a similar setup

[arch-general] Dropbox requires setup each time I boot

2014-09-22 Thread Squall Lionheart
Hello, I use the dropbox client as provided on their web site. Everything works as expected however, when I reboot my machine it requires me to setup my local folder each time. I also run a Fedora 20 system with a similar setup and I only had to set up my local folder once. Anyone know what

[arch-general] No longer able to print

2014-06-10 Thread Squall Lionheart
Hello, Since about three weeks ago after an update, I have no longer been able to print using CUPS. When I send a job to the print queue, it generates this message: stopped *The PPD version (5.2.9) is not compatible with Gutenprint 5.2.10.* I was unable to find anything helpful through the

Re: [arch-general] No longer able to print

2014-06-10 Thread Squall Lionheart
if you run pacman -S gutenprint you will see this in the output: please run /usr/bin/cups-genppdupdate and restart cups deamon Run the command as root. This fixed the problem, thank you for your quick reply. In Archlinux it pays off to update in a terminal and to read the spam, it's

Re: [arch-general] What's with F# and mono?

2014-03-31 Thread Squall Lionheart
I found out that the F# Language Binding is available in the monodevelop add-ins repository, but not for the version of Mono Develop that is in the Arch Repos. If you manually search for the F# language bindings here [1], you will find it but are unable to download it. I installed Xamarin Studio

Re: [arch-general] What's with F# and mono?

2014-03-28 Thread Squall Lionheart
Great, there is hope then :) Do you happen to remember where you found that add-on for MonoDevelop? I can't seem to find one that can be downloaded AND plugged into MD. I'm pretty sure that when I first set it up, I installed it from the Add-in manager -- Language Bindings, but it's no

Re: [arch-general] What's with F# and mono?

2014-03-26 Thread Squall Lionheart
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 4:55 PM, Magnus Therning mag...@therning.orgwrote: I'm just starting to dip my toes in the mono waters. Slightly prompted by my current situation at work. In particular I'm interested in F#, but I'm finding the whole situation around mono/monodevelop + F# a bit

Re: [arch-general] Revisit official SELinux support

2013-10-29 Thread Squall Lionheart
The first answer that i can think is the patches needed on many packages to support selinux. In the CentOS world, SELinux is a standard feature and there are a lot of command line tools that contain extra command options to access and modify SELinux contexts. For example, here is a snippet

Re: [arch-general] Pip2 commands throw error [Solved]

2013-08-27 Thread Squall Lionheart
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Squall Lionheart headmastersqu...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 3:01 AM, Felix Yan felixonm...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, August 16, 2013 14:49:49 Squall Lionheart wrote: Hello, Since upgrading to version 1.4.1 in July of python2-pip, I have

Re: [arch-general] Pip2 commands throw error

2013-08-21 Thread Squall Lionheart
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 3:01 AM, Felix Yan felixonm...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, August 16, 2013 14:49:49 Squall Lionheart wrote: Hello, Since upgrading to version 1.4.1 in July of python2-pip, I have been receiving this Exception on the commands I execute. Received an update

[arch-general] Pip2 commands throw error

2013-08-17 Thread Squall Lionheart
Hello, Since upgrading to version 1.4.1 in July of python2-pip, I have been receiving this Exception on the commands I execute. Received an update to version 1.4.1-1 today and the error persists. This is a desktop machine and I get the same error on a server running Parabola. I tried a manual

[arch-general] Pip2 commands throw error

2013-08-15 Thread Squall Lionheart
Hello, Since upgrading to version 1.4.1 in July of python2-pip, I have been receiving this Exception on the commands I execute. Received an update to version 1.4.1-1 today and the error persists. This is a desktop machine and I get the same error on a server running Parabola that gets the same

Re: [arch-general] Permission Denied cifs mount

2013-04-01 Thread Squall Lionheart
Try adding sec=ntlm Linux has recently switched the default to ntlm3 and afaik guests don't work with that. Might also be a samba issue, no idea. This fixed the problem for me. Mounts work again. Thanks Squall

[arch-general] Permission Denied cifs mount

2013-03-30 Thread Squall Lionheart
Hello, I perform pacman -Suy updates each Monday on my system and ever since the 25th, I have not been able to mount shares from a local Samba server. My mount.cifs binary has the setuid bit and the mountpoint I am trying to mount to has permissions of 770 with owner and group set to my users.

Re: [arch-general] LVM Thin Provisioning

2012-11-20 Thread Squall Lionheart
This should work $ modinfo dm-thin-pool filename: /lib/modules/3.6.6-1-ARCH/kernel/drivers/md/dm-thin-pool.ko.gz license:GPL author: Joe Thornber dm-de...@redhat.com description:device-mapper thin provisioning target depends:dm-persistent-data,dm-mod intree:

[arch-general] LVM Thin Provisioning

2012-11-19 Thread Squall Lionheart
Hello, I have been reading about Thin Provisioning in LVM and wanted to play with it however, when I try to create a thin pool it shows an error saying: # lvcreate --thinpool -L 1G vg/pool WARNING: Unrecognised segment type thin Unable to create LV with unknown segment type thin. Run

Re: [arch-general] USB Flash drive problems

2012-11-05 Thread Squall Lionheart
I guess running systemctl should tell you? If you are using systemd it will list a lot of running services. Otherwise I assume it will return a dbus error (but I haven't tried that myself, so only a guess). FYI, I haven't updated to systemd yet and the error when running systemctl reads:

Re: [arch-general] Init script hidden output (careless /dev/null redirection)

2012-09-14 Thread Squall Lionheart
Do others have any thoughts on this matter? I like to know whats going on. Output in some form is always welcome, although errors should stand out and be obvious. -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present. Headmaster Squall :: The

Re: [arch-general] Mime backup program

2012-09-11 Thread Squall Lionheart
I tried installing the caatinga in a custom directory and fails. Please see issue: https://github.com/headmastersquall/caatinga/issues/1 This is fixed now. Go ahead and pull and update and try again. -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called

Re: [arch-general] Mime backup program

2012-09-10 Thread Squall Lionheart
I have renamed and moved this project to github for those interested. Thank you for all your help and I have applied most of the suggestions so far as well as made further improvements. https://github.com/headmastersquall/caatinga -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a

Re: [arch-general] Mime backup program

2012-08-10 Thread Squall Lionheart
You are the project maintainer, so you decide! On a side note, I think you don’t have many users, so a version change would work nicely. Thanks again. I have been in software development for nearly a decade and am new to open source software so I'm just trying to learn whats best. I will

Re: [arch-general] Something wrong with firefox/thunderbird driving X cpu usage - 100%

2012-08-10 Thread Squall Lionheart
I don't see an option related to GLODA in edit-prefs-advanced-general, is it the same as Enable Global Search and Indexer? Thanks Squall On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 9:57 AM, mike cloaked mike.cloa...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Genes MailLists li...@sapience.com wrote: On

Re: [arch-general] Something wrong with firefox/thunderbird driving X cpu usage - 100%

2012-08-09 Thread Squall Lionheart
My opinion is that they are trying to keep up with the version number of chromium. So many in the past have plaid with version numbers to make them selfs look better and more mature. M$ has done it, Slackware did it, Mozilla is doing it... $ pacman -Ss chromium extra/chromium 21.0.1180.75-1

Re: [arch-general] my Arch box randomly becomes irresponsible

2012-08-09 Thread Squall Lionheart
Not sure if it's any help, but it looks like your using virtualbox. I am also using it to run XP and ever since I started using the multiple monitor option in the XP virtual machine, it hasn't been as stable. I also use the Seamless mode, which causes some random graphics glitches. My system

Re: [arch-general] Mime backup program

2012-08-08 Thread Squall Lionheart
1. A better name would be a great idea. When I saw “mime backup program”, I immediately thought of mimetypes, when I shouldn’t. This has been my biggest fear and I have always felt uncomfortable with the name because of that. Unfortunately, I have been trying to come up with something better

Re: [arch-general] Mime backup program

2012-08-08 Thread Squall Lionheart
Following Kwpolska remarks, I suggest waiting a little bit before writing the PKGBUILD. Btw, this will only need you 15-30 minutes to write and check integrity. But as already proposed, I can do it for you if you run out of time. I agree, lets come back to this after a rename. --

Re: [arch-general] Mime backup program

2012-08-08 Thread Squall Lionheart
Does Google Code have support for pull requests or anything like that? Not sure if they do, I have been using my own local svn repo. Perhaps with the name change I'll also move the project. Been working on slowly moving away from Google products anyways so this will be good. -- Yesterday is

Re: [arch-general] Mime backup program

2012-08-07 Thread Squall Lionheart
Arno and Ashkan, Is there any issue if I install it from your tarball, or shall I create first a PKGBUILD. which is normally the safest way. Their is no issue with just following the instructions and using the Python installer, except that if you want to remove the package you have to do it

[arch-general] Mime backup program

2012-08-03 Thread Squall Lionheart
Hello, A few weeks ago there was a thread regarding the best Arch way of backing up /etc and I mentioned that I wrote a backup program that works very well for that. I promised I would let everyone know when my new version became available, and today is that day. I don't have an AUR package

Re: [arch-general] Mime backup program

2012-08-03 Thread Squall Lionheart
A very misleading name :) I have been concerned about the confusion because of mime types. I was going for something like mimic because the backups resemble the primary file system. I might change it in the future, just haven't found a good name yet. Thanks for the input. -- Yesterday

Re: [arch-general] glibc 2.16 -- just what is supposed to be in /lib now ??

2012-07-11 Thread Squall Lionheart
Tom is right. You're thinking of *hard* links, which I think don't work for directories anyway (though I saw some discussion about changing that). You are correct. Hard links must link to another item within the current partition/volume and cannot cross over, however soft/symbolic links can.

Re: [arch-general] glibc 2.16 -- just what is supposed to be in /lib now ??

2012-07-11 Thread Squall Lionheart
(...but cannot hardlink files in a sane way.) ext4 supports hardlinked directories, can be done using `debugfs` – Linux just disallows that in link() currently. Thank you Mantas for the info. I'm having a hard time finding information on how to create a hard link on a directory, if you have

Re: [arch-general] CUPS not recognizing the printer

2012-07-02 Thread Squall Lionheart
Greetings all, I have an HP LaserJet M1132 hooked via a USB port. It worked quite fine until my recent -Syu, where it suddenly stopped working. Since I had hplip upgraded, I assumed I have to reinstall the printer, so I removed it via the CUPS webinterface and right now I can't seem to get

Re: [arch-general] Source control on /etc

2012-06-20 Thread Squall Lionheart
I wrote a system backup program called mime that works similar to Apple's Time Machine on the back end. Basically each time you backup your system, another copy of your file system is available. Another program is installed with it called lsmime which is used to list, restore and view

Re: [arch-general] Source control on /etc

2012-06-20 Thread Squall Lionheart
Squall, very nice work going to give this a shot later today on a test box. Thanks for pointing this out. I tried a few things in suggestions to my OP but this seems to be the best so far. Thanks for bringing this back up Your welcome. I will post a message to everyone when I roll out my next

Re: [arch-general] Source control on /etc

2012-06-20 Thread Squall Lionheart
It'd be nice if you added it to the AUR. M After I roll out this update, that's on my list of stuff to figure out :). I have never created an AUR package, doesn't sound to difficult. Squall -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present.

Re: [arch-general] DNS server help

2012-06-13 Thread Squall Lionheart
thank you! does it take ages to read? It's a big book but you only need chapter 4 and 5 to get setup. It's worth checking out. -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present. Headmaster Squall :: The Wired/Section-9 Close the world txen

Re: [arch-general] DNS server help

2012-06-12 Thread Squall Lionheart
do you have any resource that explains the zones in detail and so that i can actually understand and learn them? also guide for setting up mydns? or it works out of the box? I recently setup some name servers using BIND and found this to be a must have resource.

Re: [arch-general] User actions following system package upgrades?

2012-01-26 Thread Squall Lionheart
I always restart applications such as Firefox, Thunderbird, KDE, and xorg after an update otherwise they act like they have ghosts in them. I would imagine the major components you mentioned would have the same affect. -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's

[arch-general] What package owns shread

2012-01-06 Thread Squall Lionheart
Hello, I have been trying to figure out what package installs the gnu shread program and have had no luck. Pacman doesn't seem to know either and I was hoping someone here might know. If their is another way of looking this up, I would be interested to know as well. $ pacman -Qo shread error:

Re: [arch-general] What package owns shread

2012-01-06 Thread Squall Lionheart
Do you mean shred? Never heard of shread.. Yes I did, I found that I was just typing it wrong and the shread that I have on my system is something I wrote a long time ago and it confused me. Sorry for the noise and thanks for your help.

Re: [arch-general] Programs Not Closing

2011-10-27 Thread Squall Lionheart
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 5:11 AM, Simon Stoakley sausageande...@archlinux.us wrote: The day was 26/10/11 19:10 when , Squall Lionheart had this to say..: Do you think Desktop Search, Nepomnk or akonadi would have anything to do with this? I had them disabled for a long time then enabled

Re: [arch-general] Programs Not Closing

2011-10-27 Thread Squall Lionheart
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Squall Lionheart headmastersqu...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 5:11 AM, Simon Stoakley sausageande...@archlinux.us wrote: The day was 26/10/11 19:10 when , Squall Lionheart had this to say..: Do you think Desktop Search, Nepomnk

[arch-general] Programs Not Closing

2011-10-26 Thread Squall Lionheart
Hello, 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 crash when I shutdown. Unfortunately, the crash message

Re: [arch-general] Programs Not Closing

2011-10-26 Thread Squall Lionheart
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Roman V.Leon. roman...@meta.ua wrote: 26.10.2011 20:53, Squall Lionheart пишет: Hello, 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

Re: [arch-general] Programs Not Closing

2011-10-26 Thread Squall Lionheart
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Roman V.Leon. roman...@meta.ua wrote: 26.10.2011 22:10, Squall Lionheart пишет: On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Roman V.Leon.roman...@meta.ua wrote: 26.10.2011 20:53, Squall Lionheart пишет: Hello, Ever since the upgrade to KDE 4.7 several weeks

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] samba-3.6.0-3

2011-08-26 Thread Squall Lionheart
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Tobias Powalowski tobias.powalow...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi guys. - using the waf building system - reduced package size 80Mb - changed to gamin depend instead of fam Due to the big changes, please signoff both arches, greetings tpowa -- Tobias

Re: [arch-general] Content of new text file

2011-07-14 Thread Squall Lionheart
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 4:19 AM, Paul Gideon Dann pdgid...@gmail.comwrote: 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

[arch-general] Content of new text file

2011-07-13 Thread Squall Lionheart
Hello, 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 have looked for some kind of setting or template file that controls this default and have not been successful. I was wondering if anyone knows how to modify

Re: [arch-general] Content of new text file

2011-07-13 Thread Squall Lionheart
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de wrote: Am Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:00:37 -0600 schrieb Squall Lionheart headmastersqu...@gmail.com: When using Dolphin in KDE4 to *Create New Text File...* the new file is not empty, it contains a space and a newline character

Re: [arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice

2011-03-07 Thread Squall Lionheart
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Andreas Radke a.ra...@arcor.de wrote: LibreOffice has recently proved to be a solid replacement for Oracle OpenOffice. I'm about to drop all Oracle OOo packages from our repos. First my time is limited. I've asked so many times for help in the Office