Re: [arch-general] How to configure Qt 5 theme?

2013-03-04 Thread gt
On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 12:49:23PM +0100, Andrea Scarpino wrote: On Monday 04 March 2013 19:22:04 GSC wrote: I want to configure qt5 apps (like qt creator) theme to use the same as qt4 apps (oxygen) in KDE. How can I do this? And is there an appmenu-qt5 port? There's no oxygen for Qt5

Re: [arch-general] Arch handbook as PDF

2013-02-13 Thread gt
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:15:18AM +0100, Karol Blazewicz wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:29 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Hi :) is there an up to date handbook, beginner's guide or even better the Wiki available as PDF? I already found outdated PDFs. There may

[arch-general] Difference between mkarchroot and arch-chroot

2013-01-15 Thread gt
Can someone elaborate on the difference between mkarchroot and arch-chroot? Basically, i want a chrooted environment for testing some program. Alternatively, is there any other better way to create an isolated environment, apart from chroot and VMs.

Re: [arch-general] Difference between mkarchroot and arch-chroot

2013-01-15 Thread gt
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:13:58AM +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: mkarchroot creates a new system root. If you want to test a program in an isolated environment, I suggest you look into systemd-nspawn. If you want more security, libvirt-lxc may be your friend (it seems lxc is broken in many ways

Re: [arch-general] Difference between mkarchroot and arch-chroot

2013-01-15 Thread gt
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 06:08:01PM +0100, Kwpolska wrote: On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 9:38 AM, gt static.vor...@gmx.com wrote: Can someone elaborate on the difference between mkarchroot and arch-chroot? arch-chroot — chrooting into an existing environment, using on the Arch install medium

Re: [arch-general] alternative to pmount

2012-12-24 Thread gt
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 09:56:32PM -0500, Juan Diego Tascón wrote: Last week pmount went from extra to aur. I used to use pmount to allow users to mount external devices as simple as: pmount /dev/sdb1 Is there an alternative to pmount in core, extra or community that allows users to mount

Re: [arch-general] Awesome 3.5

2012-12-23 Thread gt
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 09:26:49PM +0100, Sébastien Luttringer wrote: Hello, as a Chritsmas gift, Awesome 3.5 was released yesterdaty and will be available in few minutes in our community-testing repository. As you can expect, this update _will_ break your configuration. Please take time

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.6.10-1

2012-12-12 Thread gt
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 07:36:30PM +0100, Tobias Powalowski wrote: Hi guys, please signoff 3.6.10 series for both arches. package is not in testing, please grab it from here: http://dev.archlinux.org/~tpowa/linux/ This will move to [core] directly, because 3.7 is in [testing]. signoff for

Re: [arch-general] Prosody update

2012-12-12 Thread gt
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 10:11:26AM -0800, David Benfell wrote: Hi all, It appears that the prosody package dependencies have been updated, but not the program itself: atlanta# prosodyctl start ** Prosody was unable to find luasocket This package can be obtained

Re: [arch-general] A systemd less Linux alternative to Arch is hard to find but exists

2012-11-01 Thread gt
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 05:14:22PM +, Kevin Chadwick wrote: Forgot a change Tom requested, please reject previous if not too late! I'm sure I will have to switch to systemd on all my systems eventually, but I don't give up that easily ;-) For those looking for many of the

[arch-general] Modify installed package version

2012-10-23 Thread gt
Hey guys is there a way to modify an installed package's version using pacman, instead of upgrading the package. That is, only change the version in the database, but don't actually upgrade a package. Alternatively can I rename the package directory inside /var/lib/pacman/local/ and %VERSION%

Re: [arch-general] Modify installed package version

2012-10-23 Thread gt
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 05:16:30PM +1100, Gaetan Bisson wrote: [2012-10-23 10:35:56 +0530] gt: Alternatively can I rename the package directory inside /var/lib/pacman/local/ and %VERSION% string inside the desc file to achieve the same? Sure you can. But what exactly are you trying

Re: [arch-general] Modify installed package version

2012-10-23 Thread gt
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 01:08:28PM +0200, Giorgio Lando wrote: On Tue 23/10/12, 12:14, gt wrote: Actually, it is related to IgnorePkg. I have a few packages locally compiled, for example mutt. I have stripped all unnecessary options from mutt, and added it to IgnorePkg. Now when

[arch-general] syslog-ng depends on systemd?

2012-10-21 Thread gt
Hi, with the recent update of syslog-ng (3.3.6-2), systemd has been added as a dependency. I though systemd providing its own logging and syslog-ng wasn't needed. Then why is systemd needed for syslog-ng to run? As far i can see from the diffs, nothing has changed apart from adding systemd as a

Re: [arch-general] syslog-ng depends on systemd?

2012-10-21 Thread gt
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 07:24:28PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: Look in syslog-ng.conf: unix-dgram(/run/systemd/journal/syslog); That means, in its default configuration it requires systemd. So you had been modifying it to work with initscripts? I see in syslog-ng's changelog that it

[arch-general] You have mail message at login

2012-10-16 Thread gt
Whenever I log in to a TTY, I get this message. I read my system mails through mutt, so i don't need this. I have unset MAILCHECK in .bashrc, but no effect. I set MAIL_CHECK_ENAB to no in login.defs, but still no effect. Lastly i tried creating a .hushlogin file in the user's home, but even

Re: [arch-general] You have mail message at login

2012-10-16 Thread gt
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 10:33:53AM -0400, Sébastien Leblanc wrote: On 16 October 2012 01:42, gt static.vor...@gmx.com wrote: Whenever I log in to a TTY, I get this message. I read my system mails through mutt, so i don't need this. Pam is taking care of showing whether you have mail

Re: [arch-general] You have mail message at login

2012-10-16 Thread gt
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 04:24:37PM +0200, Krzysztof Warzecha wrote: 2012/10/16 gt static.vor...@gmx.com: Any idea what's causing it to show up? Well, you could always try brute force method. Login and run this as root: strace -vft -p $TARGET_GETTY_PID -o /tmp/strace-getty Now login

Re: [arch-general] xf86-video ***

2012-10-14 Thread gt
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 02:41:23PM +0100, P .NIKOLIC wrote: Hi . What is the easiest way to stop pacman trying to update all the xf86-video* drivers for cards i do not have the system uses the xf86-video-nouveau driver perfectly well but tries to install sis ati sirrus trident and

Re: [arch-general] Suggestions for email for a paranoid Archer

2012-10-12 Thread gt
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 02:13:54PM -0400, Dave Reisner wrote: Google has no interest in singular people. Moreover, Googlers who take an interest in data or logs belonging to singular people find themselves no longer working at Google. I would believe that googlers who are caught peeking at

Re: [arch-general] testing/systemd 191-1 failed to boot

2012-09-30 Thread gt
On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 11:49:05AM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: On 01/10/12 11:21, Armando M. Baratti wrote: Authoritarian and despotic. My ban, please. Done... and for two weeks because I had to look up what despotic meant. lol, always keep a dictionary handy. May I suggest sdcv.

Re: [arch-general] ABS and pacman

2012-09-25 Thread gt
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 02:09:59PM -0400, Manolo Martínez wrote: Hello, I've just had a minor hiccup, because one of the packages updated in my pacman -Syu this morning substituted a version I had tweaked the ABS way. Nothing serious, as I say, and wholly my fault, but yet I was

Re: [arch-general] Upgrading an old system

2012-09-24 Thread gt
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 08:35:01AM +0200, Guillermo Leira wrote: :-) It was an arch system. A Laptop with a 700 MHz PIII and 256 MB RAM. It's not very useful nowadays. And how would a pic prove it? I have the pacman log, but even that could be forged. :-) Don't worry we were just

Re: [arch-general] testing/systemd 191-1 failed to boot

2012-09-23 Thread gt
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 10:19:42AM +0200, Tom Rand wrote: On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 11:18:52AM +0200, Heiko Baums wrote: Am Sat, 22 Sep 2012 11:11:12 +0200 schrieb fredbezies fredbez...@gmail.com: I was fed up by the crap of the original poster. So I said what need to be written, even

Re: [arch-general] Upgrading an old system

2012-09-23 Thread gt
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 10:21:04PM +0200, Guillermo Leira wrote: Hi! I have just finished upgrading a system that was powered off (broken battery) since February 2011. Just for the fun of doing so. I couldn't help saying it... I'm quite proud of this achievement. ;-) Pics or it didn't

Re: [arch-general] Help mounting Windows drive

2012-09-10 Thread gt
On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 09:57:06PM -0400, Randy wrote: On 09/09/2012 09:36 PM, rafael ff1 wrote: 2012/9/9 Randy gumper1...@gmail.com: In the past I have been able to mount my Windows computer using the following command: mount -t cifs -o username=USERNAME,password=PASSWORD

Re: [arch-general] libsystemd to systemd

2012-08-31 Thread gt
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 03:30:43PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2012-08-31 at 13:51 +0200, Damjan Georgievski wrote: And this is yet another example how initscripts are broken. I had a friend whose GDM was not coming up because it was starting too fast after dbus. As a last resort we

Re: [arch-general] libsystemd to systemd

2012-08-31 Thread gt
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 06:58:02PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: On Aug 31, 2012 6:32 PM, Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Will this be an issue for him if he switches to full systemd as it has removed inittab Yes, inittab is ignored. It would be trivial to add support for it via

Re: [arch-general] systemd pulseaudio

2012-08-29 Thread gt
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 10:10:22AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Wed, 2012-08-29 at 10:07 +0200, Arno Gaboury wrote: Sorry for this second post, but I forgot [arch-general] in subject You don't need to add [arch-general] to the subject, it automatically is add to the mails coming through

Re: [arch-general] SystemD poll

2012-08-25 Thread gt
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 05:56:32AM -0600, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia wrote: On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 11:24:31PM -0500, C Anthony Risinger wrote: so buck up, do something useful, or find another outlet ... puh-puh-please? I'm not sure exactly what you're asking for here. When I have

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Migration to systemd

2012-08-17 Thread gt
offtopic On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 01:25:46PM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: I wouldn't touch Avahi with a barge pole either. Unfortunately I don't see any alternative to it. Can you point one out, if any? I use it for bonjour protocol support. /offtopic

Re: [arch-general] Arch-general is becoming a mess !

2012-08-16 Thread gt
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 05:28:03PM +0200, Heiko Baums wrote: Am Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:08:53 +0200 schrieb Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org: This is a technical mailing list. If you want to discuss technical topics about Arch, you're in the right place. If you want to state your

Re: [arch-general] SystemD poll

2012-08-16 Thread gt
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 05:23:37PM +, Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 07:09:47PM +0200, Jelle van der Waa wrote: Also you're poll doesn't give any arguments for or against the move, unedacted users should look into the benefits of moving to systemd. They should look at

Re: [arch-general] Some funny bloke - 2

2012-08-16 Thread gt
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 09:29:26PM +, Fons Adriaensen wrote: Just received a second bogus 'unsubscribe confirmation request'. This begins to look like stalking. The request was sent from anonymouse.org, so whoever is doing this is a miserable coward apart from whatever else. On Thu,

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

2012-08-14 Thread gt
On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 02:05:10PM -0600, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 02:37:54PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I suspect that BSD for artist that draw can be used, but for audio not. Am I mistaken? I'm not sure I understand the question. There's a lot of

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.4.8-1

2012-08-10 Thread gt
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 08:22:47AM +0200, Tobias Powalowski wrote: Hi guys, please signoff 3.4.8 series for both arches. package is not in testing, please grab it from here: http://dev.archlinux.org/~tpowa/linux/ This will move to [core] directly, because 3.5.1 is in [testing]. signoff

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

2012-08-09 Thread gt
On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 04:14:20PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: On 08/09/2012 03:56 PM, Baho Utot wrote: Must keep up with the I need a new version because the old one is working too well. Must find something to break Aye, the microsoft culture has finally invaded linux. No

Re: [arch-general] New dual install iso -- Where the heck is arch-setup??

2012-08-04 Thread gt
On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 01:17:37AM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, What happened to the arch setup autoinstaller script that guided you though the install process?? It was minimal, and worked very well to guide you through. Even helpful with raid installs after your arrays were

Re: [arch-general] Install wiki - recommendations regarding 'swap' ?

2012-08-04 Thread gt
On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 08:46:05PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: All, After installing without AIF, I want to update the install wiki to drop a note about swap. It isn't addressed at all. What is the current Arch recommendation regarding swap creation? I.E.: recommended for systems

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

2012-08-03 Thread gt
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 this would have been caught in

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.4.7-1

2012-07-30 Thread gt
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 08:22:53AM +0200, Tobias Powalowski wrote: Hi guys, please signoff 3.4.7 series for both arches. package is not in testing, please grab it from here: http://dev.archlinux.org/~tpowa/linux/ This will move to [core] directly, because 3.5 is in [testing]. Signoff i686.

Re: [arch-general] My end-user $0.02 on /etc/rc.conf splitting.

2012-07-22 Thread gt
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 09:18:50AM +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: I'm worried about all this too. I have an Atom at home, so moving back to Gentoo is not an option. I have some programs made to be compiled against dietlibc, which does not support *BSD, so this is not an option either. I took a

Re: [arch-general] My end-user $0.02 on /etc/rc.conf splitting.

2012-07-22 Thread gt
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 02:39:35PM +0200, Nelson Marambio wrote: Am 22.07.2012 10:58, schrieb gt: You can try aptosid, or linux mint debian edition. Really Mint ? I switched FROM Mint TO Arch because upgrading Mint ended up in a re-installation of the whole system :-( On Sun, Jul 22

Re: [arch-general] claws-mail is it possible to see own posts to mailinglist?

2012-07-19 Thread gt
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 09:16:57AM +0200, Tobias Powalowski wrote: Hi, I have a big problem with claws-mail, is it somehow possible to see own posts to mailinglists? I'm using gmail imap and somehow my own posts are not shown. Thunderbird does not have this issue. greetings tpowa You

Re: [arch-general] claws-mail is it possible to see own posts to mailinglist?

2012-07-19 Thread gt
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 01:07:40PM +0530, gt wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 09:16:57AM +0200, Tobias Powalowski wrote: Hi, I have a big problem with claws-mail, is it somehow possible to see own posts to mailinglists? I'm using gmail imap and somehow my own posts are not shown

Re: [arch-general] arch with a specific kernel version

2012-07-12 Thread gt
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 03:11:51PM +0100, andrea crotti wrote: I would like to create multiple arch linux installations with a specific (a quite old 2.6 version) kernel version. Is that in theory possible/easy? I have a new one recently created but the downport doesn't seem so easy, so

Re: [arch-general] mpd, ncmpcpp

2012-07-10 Thread gt
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 01:47:48PM +0200, Arno Gaboury wrote: Dear list I am switching lots of my GUI apps to CLI ones. Currently, I am moving from Clemetine music player to ncmpcpp. [snip] So, when are you switching to mutt :P

Re: [arch-general] A question specifically about upgrading an existing arch system from grub legacy to grub without UEFI or GPT

2012-07-02 Thread gt
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 05:26:23PM +0100, mike cloaked wrote: I have been following the discussions in various places including on this list about the forthcoming change from grub to become grub-legacy and the default bootloader becoming grub2. On all my arch systems I have grub with MBR

[arch-general] k3b/cdrecord problem burning dual layer disc

2012-06-26 Thread gt
Hey folks A few days ago i was trying to burn an iso to a dual layer dvd, but i got an i/o error. Thankfully though the burn failed, but it spared the disc :) I tried downgrading cdrtools but that didn't fix it either. I found out that the iso was about 4200 MB in size and apparently trying to

Re: [arch-general] Booting archlinux .iso to take a look

2012-06-25 Thread gt
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 11:24:26AM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 04:07:34AM EDT, Jelle van der Waa wrote: [..] Bit of a shame Archlinux does not provide a live environment that lets you verify you can run X11.. connect to the network.. etc. You can connect to

Re: [arch-general] locale variables

2012-06-24 Thread gt
On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 06:23:47PM +0200, nelsonmaram...@gmx.de wrote: TY for your answer. For now, I use *sdiff* to edit and merge with new *.pacnew* files. I was confused this time because Thunar explorer show me local.gen as a binary! But this is not the case, so I will merge the two

Re: [arch-general] [Offtopic] back up /var/log before shutdown

2012-06-20 Thread gt
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:36:17AM +0200, Arno Gaboury wrote: Dear all, [snip] TY for advising. Hello Arno Sorry for the offtopic bit, but i have noticed that your threads tend to branch out from some other thread, many times. I believe that you use the reply button on an existing topic and

Re: [arch-general] [Offtopic] back up /var/log before shutdown

2012-06-20 Thread gt
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 09:51:03PM +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote: On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 14:38:27 +0530, gt wrote: Hello Arno [snip] Please always start a new thread ;) For the mutt users, just press # to decouple the message from the parent thread. :-) /offtopic Thanks

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-19 Thread gt
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 12:08:02PM +0200, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: On 06/19/2012 11:56 AM, Arno Gaboury wrote: Hi all, I plan to settle in the comimg months a web server to deliver many services to the trading community (I am myself a trader). I daily use Arch as my system on my home

Re: [arch-general] create Arch based distro

2012-06-19 Thread gt
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:11:15AM +0300, Δημήτρης Ζέρβας wrote: no, no, it was just an example... On Jun 20, 2012 12:08 AM, Ike Devolder ike.devol...@gmail.com wrote: Op woensdag 20 juni 2012 00:05:01 schreef Δημήτρης Ζέρβας: chakra?? chakra project: kde-centric originally arch based

Re: [arch-general] nvidia 295.59-1 dmesg output

2012-06-18 Thread gt
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 12:25:07PM -0700, Don deJuan wrote: On 06/18/2012 12:05 PM, Rodrigo Rivas wrote: GRUB2 documentation is notably difficult to read, but from http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Simple-configuration.html#Simple-configuration I guess that the relevant

Re: [arch-general] nvidia 295.59-1 dmesg output

2012-06-17 Thread gt
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 10:16:55AM -0700, Don deJuan wrote: Are you still seeing the output in the newest one that came after this update push? I am still seeing it. Not sure I really get what the issue even is. Just upgraded to the latest driver, and yes i am still seeing it as well. The

Re: [arch-general] nvidia 295.59-1 dmesg output

2012-06-16 Thread gt
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 01:40:08AM -0700, Don deJuan wrote: On 06/15/2012 11:33 PM, gt wrote: On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 06:55:10AM +0100, Jason Steadman wrote: On 16 June 2012 06:46, gt static.vor...@gmx.com wrote: Hey guys, after upgrading to 295.59 from 295.53, i am seeing the following

Re: [arch-general] nvidia 295.59-1 dmesg output

2012-06-16 Thread gt
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 01:19:58PM +0300, Ionut Biru wrote: On 06/16/2012 08:46 AM, gt wrote: Hey guys, after upgrading to 295.59 from 295.53, i am seeing the following in the dmesg output: NVRM: Your system is not currently configured to drive a VGA console NVRM: on the primary VGA

[arch-general] nvidia 295.59-1 dmesg output

2012-06-15 Thread gt
Hey guys, after upgrading to 295.59 from 295.53, i am seeing the following in the dmesg output: NVRM: Your system is not currently configured to drive a VGA console NVRM: on the primary VGA device. The NVIDIA Linux graphics driver NVRM: requires the use of a text-mode VGA console. Use of other

Re: [arch-general] Shutdown and reboot not working after last weekend update

2012-06-14 Thread gt
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 12:18:17AM -0300, Victor Silva wrote: 2012/6/14 gt static.vor...@gmx.com Since you have already reverted to the old kernel, you don't further need to downgrade it, as you have already downgraded it. (Assuming, you did a pacman -U old-kernel) I did

Re: [arch-general] Shutdown and reboot not working after last weekend update

2012-06-13 Thread gt
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 11:14:06PM -0300, Victor Silva wrote: Oki I reverted to the old kernel and I'm back to the old scenario how can I properly downgrade a kernel? Regards and thx for the help so far guys. This community rocks. Since you have already reverted to the old kernel, you don't

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.3.8-1

2012-06-07 Thread gt
On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 10:51:26AM +0200, Tobias Powalowski wrote: Am 06.06.2012 17:13, schrieb Sudaraka Wijesinghe: On 06/06/12 18:31, Tobias Powalowski wrote: Hi guys, please signoff 3.3.8 series for both arches. package is not in testing, please grab it from here:

Re: [arch-general] broken zip after upgrade

2012-05-13 Thread gt
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 09:52:54AM +0200, Arno Gaboury wrote: Dear list, after a whole bunch of fresh upgrades yesterday, 2012/05/12, I can not unzip with File Roller (default app), with expanding tar.gz still working. Here are the two error messages: */There is no command installed

Re: [arch-general] FS#29803 - Kernel 3.3.4-2 panic

2012-05-12 Thread gt
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 02:56:02PM +0200, Martti Kühne wrote: Maybe pasting some output would help? [1] cheers! mar77i [1] http://paste.pocoo.org/ Offtopic: lodgeit died a few days back :(

Re: [arch-general] wallpaper for 1920x1080 screens.

2012-05-10 Thread gt
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 08:06:12PM +0200, Boris Le Ninivin wrote: I've uploaded a bunch of variations : http://borisln.deviantart.com/gallery/ , feel free to distribute/use them :) Nice, a color for everyone. Maybe, they should indeed be bundled into the archlinux-wallpaper package. I've

[arch-general] qt applications gone black

2012-05-09 Thread gt
Hey guys I am facing a strange issue. All qt applications have become black, making them impossible to use. Here's an example showing vlc and avidemux-qt https://imgur.com/a/PR5vH Anyone else facing this issue? The closest i found someone with a similar problem is:

Re: [arch-general] qt applications gone black

2012-05-09 Thread gt
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 03:28:42PM +0700, Diep Pham Van wrote: I have same problem before, you must install libgnomeui and change GUI style in qtconfig. I had removed libgnomeui a year back, and everything was working fine in the meantime. Unfortunately libgnomeui fetches a lot of unnecessary

Re: [arch-general] qt applications gone black

2012-05-09 Thread gt
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 11:31:08AM +0200, CodeVision wrote: On Wed, 9 May 2012 14:34:27 +0530 gt static.vor...@gmx.com wrote: I had removed libgnomeui a year back, and everything was working fine in the meantime. Unfortunately libgnomeui fetches a lot of unnecessary gnome stuff

Re: [arch-general] procps dependency

2012-05-09 Thread gt
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 05:59:04PM +0200, Arno Gaboury wrote: I am trying to build and burn the archboot iso file on my x86_64 Arch. *|[gabx@magnolia Desktop]$ sudo pacman -S archboot Password: resolving dependencies... warning: cannot resolve procps=3.2.8-4, a dependency of archboot ::

Re: [arch-general] wget

2012-05-02 Thread gt
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 12:55:59PM +0530, Debashish Saha wrote: are the commands are different for archlinux and linuxmint? i dont know, if it is so sorry for disturbing you.can u say what is mailling list for linuxmint? It's not about commands. Archlinux is a different distribution than linux

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

2012-05-01 Thread gt
On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 05:01:16PM -0300, Norbert Zeh wrote: Thanks for all your quick replies. Immediately after firing off this email, I thought it would be something like this, but for some reason I didn't bother to read the manpage :( Some would have considered this reason enough for a

Re: [arch-general] Screen locking problem in KDE

2012-04-21 Thread gt
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 10:52:54AM +0300, Dmitry Korzhevin wrote: Hello guys, Please give me advice - how can i debug problem with screen locking in KDE? I don't find any similar problems in arch forums/mailing lists. This problem appeared after update. Standart Ctrl+Alt+L doesn't work,

Re: [arch-general] findutils and locate

2012-04-16 Thread gt
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 08:22:03AM +0100, P .NIKOLIC wrote: -rwxr-sr-x 1 root locate 39512 Mar 3 05:53 /usr/bin/locate it is running with the default as you can see this is getting a bit strange to say the least think the next is going to be uninstall and reinstall it see if that helps

Re: [arch-general] findutils and locate

2012-04-15 Thread gt
On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 04:38:01PM +0100, P .NIKOLIC wrote: Right my /etc/updatedb.conf is as follows # directories to exclude from the slocate database: PRUNEPATHS=/media /mnt /tmp /var/tmp /var/cache /var/lock /var/run /var/spool /home/pete/nas /home/pete/Movies /home/pete/Music

Re: [arch-general] fake archlinux list message

2012-04-10 Thread gt
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 06:29:43PM +0300, George Nikolopoulos wrote: hi all, i received the attached message. I don't know much about email headers but it seems to have all the headers as if posted from arch linux servers. Furthermore the address gerolde.archlinux.org points to an

Re: [arch-general] elinks is unverifiable

2012-04-01 Thread gt
On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 10:43:20AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: Script started on Sun Apr 1 10:40:14 2012 [root@localhost ~]# exitpacman -Ss soundsexitpacman -Sy elinks Apart from what Christoph said, never run pacman -Sy pkg. This can cause trouble, as the

Re: [arch-general] mkisofs question

2012-03-31 Thread gt
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 06:18:33PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: Can any options be used with mkisofs to tell it if an single image will have a size larger than 1 dvd can hold, make as many additional images as necessary so that everything will fit on more than a single dvd? From the mkisofs

Re: [arch-general] Funny issue with bash-completion and __git_ps1

2012-03-28 Thread gt
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 08:49:15AM +0200, Martti Kühne wrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 08:05:48AM +0200, martin kalcher wrote: Hey hey After the last bash-completion and git update there is a funny issue with the Git Prompt [1]: __git_ps1 is not defined The bash-completion update

Re: [arch-general] Funny issue with bash-completion and __git_ps1

2012-03-28 Thread gt
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 09:19:37AM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: On 03/28/2012 03:28 AM, gt wrote: What would you recommend instead? I too face problems time and again with bash-completion and would like to get rid of it. Do you have some special settings in your .bashrc? No, just get rid

[arch-general] fsck on each boot?

2012-03-26 Thread gt
I recently added the fsck hook to mkinitcpio.conf after seeing it being recommended in the forums. I don't have a separate /usr though. Anyway, now after every boot i see: performing fsck on root-device It shows up clean, and happens in a flash of a second. So my question is that is the hook

Re: [arch-general] aria2c left a mess on system

2012-03-25 Thread gt
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 08:57:48AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: I've now cleared it off, but what had happened was a download of an iso with a torrent file and afterwards the iso had a unique inode it couldn't be checked with md5sum because md5sum claimed it didn't exist. I didn't even try

Re: [arch-general] wodim unuseable

2012-03-20 Thread gt
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 12:01:08PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org wrote: That reminds me, I was going to re-add cdrtools to the repositories, but I forgot, because I never write CDs or DVDs anyway (and when I do, it works with what I have installed right

Re: [arch-general] wodim unuseable

2012-03-20 Thread gt
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 01:01:35PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: gt static.vor...@gmx.com wrote: Anyway, i just removed dvd+rw-tools, and k3b whines about not finding growisofs in the PATH. What should i do? If you install cdrtools, this message should disappear. I do have cdrtools

Re: [arch-general] wodim unuseable

2012-03-20 Thread gt
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 10:33:38AM -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: On 03/20/2012 10:30 AM, gt wrote: perhaps you also need dvd+rw-tools? That's the whole discussion of the thread. I did have dvd+rw-tools installed, but after Joerg insisted that they are not necessary, i removed them

Re: [arch-general] wodim unuseable

2012-03-20 Thread gt
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 03:50:30PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: gt static.vor...@gmx.com wrote: I do have cdrtools installed, and k3b does detect cdrecord, mkisofs, readcd etc. But still k3b says this on startup: Unable to find growisofs executable K3b uses growisofs to actually

Re: [arch-general] wodim unuseable

2012-03-19 Thread gt
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 11:54:20AM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: Jude DaShiell jdash...@shellworld.net wrote: Track01 on dvd's always comes up with unknown length when trying to burn a dvd with wodim. That's out of two different containers of dvd's too. These dvd's are single-sided so

Re: [arch-general] partition mount, strange entry in log

2012-03-08 Thread gt
On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 07:31:57AM +, Jason Steadman wrote: On 8 March 2012 07:28, gt static.vor...@gmx.com wrote: From the past few weeks, i get this in the log during boot: kernel: [8.165927] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounting ext3 file system using the ext4 subsystem kernel

Re: [arch-general] partition mount, strange entry in log

2012-03-08 Thread gt
- Original Message - From: Jason Steadman Sent: 03/08/12 02:40 PM To: General Discussion about Arch Linux Subject: Re: [arch-general] partition mount, strange entry in log On 8 March 2012 09:05, gt static.vor...@gmx.com wrote: Is it something new in the kernel or something arch

[arch-general] partition mount, strange entry in log

2012-03-07 Thread gt
From the past few weeks, i get this in the log during boot: kernel: [8.165927] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounting ext3 file system using the ext4 subsystem kernel: [8.194637] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) Here's the relevant part of the fstab:

Re: [arch-general] renaming files

2012-03-01 Thread gt
On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 11:13:03PM +, pete wrote: Hi folks Bit sort of off topic but hopefully ok I have some 350 picture files with names along the lines of IMG_7127 EOS-1D Mark III copy.jpgi would like to rename them all to more like IMG_7127.jpg i have tried a few times

Re: [arch-general] Building taskjuggler 2.4.3 form AUR fails

2012-02-26 Thread gt
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:28:02AM +0100, Thorsten wrote: Hi List, on a freshly updated arch with a freshly pulled AUR I can't install taskjuggler (2.4). Taskjuggler3 can be installed, but I want to use Emacs orgmode's taskjuggler export, thats geared towards taskjuggler 2.4. Anybody

Re: [arch-general] /var/log/btmp empty

2012-02-23 Thread gt
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 12:11:06PM -0600, Leonid Isaev wrote: I think FTMP_FILE is obsolete. Logging of failed login attempts is handled by pam. Try running faillog(8)... Also I am not sure if /var/log/btmp has to be kept at all. Thanks, i didn't know about faillog. Unfortunately, it doesn't

[arch-general] /var/log/btmp empty

2012-02-21 Thread gt
Hello folks My failed login attempts aren't being recorded, and lastb shows no output. The permissions are correct: -rw--- 1 root root 0 Nov 15 06:39 /var/log/btmp Reading a previous message on the mailing list, i tried setting FTMP_FILE /var/log/btmp in /etc/login.defs. But this

[arch-general] Fw: Re: Waiting for UDev uevents to be processed [BUSY]

2012-02-15 Thread gt
Well it would seem he still found it useful. But forgot to cc the mailing list. - Forwarded message from Rob Lewis rrl...@gmail.com - Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:20:20 -0500 From: Rob Lewis rrl...@gmail.com To: gt codere...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [arch-general] Waiting for UDev uevents

Re: [arch-general] Cannot upgrade.

2012-02-15 Thread gt
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:48:57PM +0530, Madhurya Kakati wrote: On 02/14/12 at 11:49pm, Ralf Mardorf wrote: The pacman upgrade didn't cause trouble here. When I run pacman -Syu the first time, only pacman was shown. Directly after installing it I run pacman -Syu again and there where 5

Re: [arch-general] Waiting for UDev uevents to be processed [BUSY]

2012-02-14 Thread gt
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 07:45:54PM -0500, Rob Lewis wrote: I am running into an issue I have never really run into in the past with my current laptop. Upon installing arch linux I reboot and face the following issue which hangs forever during the bot process: Waiting for UDev uevents to be

Re: [arch-general] [mirrorlist] Remove ftp mirrors from the default list

2012-02-13 Thread gt
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:06:49AM +0800, Abdul Halim Mat Ali wrote: I don't find download small files is slow especially when the mirror is at your country. Furthermore, my country namely Singapore only have one mirror and that one mirror using FTP. Arch-devs. Kindly do not delete FTP from

Re: [arch-general] DPMS

2012-02-09 Thread gt
On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 09:59:44AM +, P Nikolic wrote: On Thursday 09 Feb 2012 10:54:15 Christoph Vigano wrote: On 02/09/2012 10:37 AM, P Nikolic wrote: snip So where can i put the xset command for it to work correctly every time you could always put settings like these into

Re: [arch-general] DPMS

2012-02-09 Thread gt
On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 02:13:57PM +, P Nikolic wrote: On Thursday 09 Feb 2012 16:11:05 gt wrote: How do you login? i.e., which login manager do you use? i use KDM I don't think that kdm uses xinitrc by default. You'll have to make it use xinitrc. It supports xsession i think. Maybe

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