Re: [arch-general] LVM Thin Provisioning

2012-11-20 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 19.11.2012 19:04, schrieb Squall Lionheart: 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

Re: [arch-general] Gentoo udev fork w/o systemd

2012-11-20 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 20.11.2012 01:07, schrieb Kevin Chadwick: Odd, my take was that the main goal was trying to bring back a separate /usr. They believe that the problem is that udev refuses to work with /usr not mounted. They also believe the problem to be solved by just removing the test. They do not even

Re: [arch-general] Pulseaudio update - mpd now refuses to play as same user

2012-11-20 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, Zeke Sulastin wrote: Earlier I couldn't get pulseaudio to stop blocking my audio for vlc and mplayer until I fixed this group membership problem. If you're logging in with systemd, your user should definitely not be in the 'audio' group and vlc/mplayer should be

Re: [arch-general] Pulseaudio update - mpd now refuses to play as same user

2012-11-20 Thread Florian Pritz
On 19.11.2012 08:08, Jan Steffens wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Oon-Ee Ng ngoonee.t...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Pulseaudio from [testing] just updated to 2.99.2-1, now mpd audio output (running mpd as my own user) fails with the following:- Nov 19 14:45 : output: Failed to enable MPD

Re: [arch-general] Gentoo udev fork w/o systemd

2012-11-20 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 20.11.2012 12:00, schrieb Felipe Contreras: Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 20.11.2012 01:07, schrieb Kevin Chadwick: Odd, my take was that the main goal was trying to bring back a separate /usr. They believe that the problem is that udev refuses to work with /usr not mounted. They also believe

Re: [arch-general] Gentoo udev fork w/o systemd

2012-11-20 Thread Thomas Bächler
I started replying, and then the post got way too long and I stopped. As you simply ignored most of what I said, I'll just quote most of this for reference and not reply to it (it is a funny read, after all). It is really pointless to keep arguing, because you won't see reason anyway (and frankly,

[arch-general] pacman optional package messages on update

2012-11-20 Thread mike cloaked
Recently there have been some (slightly) confusing output lines running pacman -Syu. This evening I see: New optional dependencies for logrotate cron: scheduled log rotation However: [root@lapmike3 ~]# pacman -Q cron error: package 'cron' was not found But of course: [root@lapmike3 ~]#

[arch-general] USB 3G Modem: no remote host reachable, while connection (seems to) establish correctly

2012-11-20 Thread Sebastian Lipp
Hey there! I've got a problem with my Huawei E220 (not entirely sure about this) 3G modem stick. It used to work for several days without any issues but someone closed my laptop's lid so that it slept away and since I can't reach any remote machine. Everything seems to be normal, even the

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] Virtualbox hosting qemu-kvm guests

2012-11-20 Thread Steve P.
Hi This is my first posting so bear with me. I am trying to get qemu-kvm to work inside Virtualbox, but when I try to #modprobe the kvm-intel or kvm_intel module, it errors stating that operation is not permitted. Is qemu known to run inside virtualbox? The host hardware is an i7 that supports

Re: [arch-general] pacman optional package messages on update

2012-11-20 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 20:00:28 + mike cloaked mike.cloa...@gmail.com wrote: Recently there have been some (slightly) confusing output lines running pacman -Syu. This evening I see: New optional dependencies for logrotate cron: scheduled log rotation However: [root@lapmike3 ~]#

Re: [arch-general] pacman optional package messages on update

2012-11-20 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Leonid Isaev lis...@umail.iu.edu wrote: Similarly, exim and postfix both provide smtp-server Seems the correct way is to use -Qs switch, not -Q $ pacman -Qs smtp-server local/exim 4.80.1-1 Message Transfer Agent $ pacman -Q smtp-server error: package

Re: [arch-general] qemu vs. qemu-kvm

2012-11-20 Thread Andrzej Giniewicz
I just happened to look for same information not so long ago. There will be no major differences when 1.3 will be out, for reference see: http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/1.3#KVM So it seems, that as long as you do not use PCI device assignment, 1.2 should work for you as well, but I haven't

Re: [arch-general] Unofficial Repository Guidelines

2012-11-20 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Tuesday 20 Nov 2012 20:48:42 Jesus Alvarez wrote: When I brought the topic up in #archlinux, there was some concern I was using a repo and not solely relying on AUR. Why do you not want to use AUR? -- Cheers Jayesh

Re: [arch-general] Unofficial Repository Guidelines

2012-11-20 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Tuesday 20 Nov 2012 22:32:13 Patrick Burroughs wrote: Who says he's not? All the packages he's mentioned are available on the AUR, maintained by him; he's offering unofficial repositories as a supplement to the AUR, for people like myself who don't want to kill their laptop compiling all of

Re: [arch-general] Unofficial Repository Guidelines

2012-11-20 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2012-11-20 20:48:42 -0800] Jesus Alvarez: The reason I ask this is because I created two signed repositories for some packages I maintain, zfs and netflix-desktop. They do have usage, and in my forum posts, people seem to really appreciate the availability of the repo. However, I am not a TU,

Re: [arch-general] Unofficial Repository Guidelines

2012-11-20 Thread Jesus Alvarez
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 04:39:53PM +1100, Gaetan Bisson wrote: Having your personal repository in open access is great! Does that mean not PGP signed? I would just additionally recommend putting a short banner at the root of your repository to act both as a short howto and legal statement;

Re: [arch-general] Unofficial Repository Guidelines

2012-11-20 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2012-11-20 23:07:28 -0800] Jesus Alvarez: On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 04:39:53PM +1100, Gaetan Bisson wrote: Having your personal repository in open access is great! Does that mean not PGP signed? No, it means making the repository publicly accessible, as opposed to keeping it on a private