Re: [arch-general] Systemd and inactive sessions

2012-11-05 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 11/01/2012 06:47 PM, Leonid Isaev wrote: On Thu, 01 Nov 2012 22:57:41 +0100 Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org wrote: The session doesn't get removed completely until all processes belonging to it's cgroup have closed on their own. See man logind.conf, search for 'KillUserProcesses'.

Re: [arch-general] Nothing written to log files in 3 days

2012-10-25 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 10/25/2012 08:03 AM, Guus Snijders wrote: It can really help to pay attention to the output of pacman during updates ;-). (it's also in pacman's log,btw). mvg, Guus I usually do. Not always easy to spot, though, when you upgrade a whole bunch of packages at once. DR

[arch-general] Nothing written to log files in 3 days

2012-10-24 Thread David Rosenstrauch
It looks like some recent package update broke logging on my machine, and nothing has been written to my system logs since 10/21: [darose@daroselin log]$ ls -l messages.log* syslog.log* daemon.log* everything.log* -rw-r- 1 root log 0 Oct 22 11:39 daemon.log -rw-r- 1 root log 612714

Re: [arch-general] Nothing written to log files in 3 days

2012-10-24 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 10/24/2012 11:39 AM, Karol Blazewicz wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 5:34 PM, David Rosenstrauch dar...@darose.net wrote: It looks like some recent package update broke logging on my machine, and nothing has been written to my system logs since 10/21: Anyone have any idea what broke / how

[arch-general] fan/sensors problem in recent kernel update

2012-10-19 Thread David Rosenstrauch
It seems like a recent update to the kernel has changed the behaviour of the system sensors module. My laptop now constantly shows as being 10 degrees or so hotter than usual, which is causing the fan to run nearly constantly. However, when I boot into the lts kernel this behaviour magically

Re: [arch-general] fan/sensors problem in recent kernel update

2012-10-19 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 10/19/2012 03:18 AM, Gaetan Bisson wrote: [2012-10-19 07:10:39 -] David Rosenstrauch: It seems like a recent update to the kernel has changed the behaviour of the system sensors module. My laptop now constantly shows as being 10 degrees or so hotter than usual, which is causing the fan

[arch-general] Porque systemd? :-)

2012-10-16 Thread David Rosenstrauch
I haven't been diligently following the mailing list, so perhaps I missed this. But given the recent systemd is now the default on new installations announcement, I'm wondering: what's the reasons for Arch making systemd the default going forward? The systemd wiki page gives a lot of

Re: [arch-general] Porque systemd? :-)

2012-10-16 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 10/16/2012 11:40 AM, Gaetan Bisson wrote: [2012-10-16 11:16:04 -0400] David Rosenstrauch: I haven't been diligently following the mailing list, so perhaps I missed this. But given the recent systemd is now the default on new installations announcement, I'm wondering: what's the reasons

Re: [arch-general] Porque systemd? :-)

2012-10-16 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 10/16/2012 05:28 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 16.10.2012 17:40, schrieb Gaetan Bisson: [2012-10-16 11:16:04 -0400] David Rosenstrauch: I haven't been diligently following the mailing list, so perhaps I missed this. But given the recent systemd is now the default on new installations

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

2012-10-11 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 10/11/2012 07:23 AM, Menachem Moystoviz wrote: Also, I've seen many users with email addresses issued by their own domain, which leads me to believe some of you may have gone through this before. The alternatives I'm aware of are: 1) Do what most people do, and just sign up for webmail,

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

2012-10-11 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 10/11/2012 11:50 AM, Menachem Moystoviz wrote: Aye, but I have the following concerns regarding hosting the server myself: - Only have one server - no redundancy or reliability This was a big concern for me. It's nice that when my server is down emails just collect over at Dreamhost until

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

2012-10-11 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 10/11/2012 07:35 PM, Menachem Moystoviz wrote: Therefore, I think I should go with the first route, possibly searching for ways to ensure end-to-end encryption and to make the email address's domain my own. Both are easy to do. Fetchmail supports SSL encryption on your connection to the

Re: [arch-general] glibc issues during first update in several months

2012-10-01 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 10/02/2012 01:30 AM, Erik Johnson wrote: After several months of not updating my home server, I decided to run updates tonight. I still hadn't done the /usr/lib symlink move, so I followed the guide on the wiki like I did for my other boxes and still ended up borking my system. Think this is

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Dropping squirrelmail

2012-05-07 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 05/05/2012 11:27 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: On 05/05/2012 10:32 AM, Pierre Schmitz wrote: Hi all, FYI: I plan to drop squirrelmail from [extra]. It is orphaned and it wont work with PHP 5.4. (According to pkgstats it has no users anyway) Greetings, Pierre pkgstats is wrong. I use it,

[arch-general] Recent bug in Kalarm?

2012-03-14 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Seems like a recent upgrade of Kalarm (or something else in the bowels of KDE) has broken some key pieces of functionality: the abilities to edit the time of an alarm, or to delete one. Can some other KDE/kalarm user please confirm this issue? (https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28891) I'd

[arch-general] virtualbox-modules-lts?

2012-03-10 Thread David Rosenstrauch
I see there's a virtualbox-modules package, but that's for the mainline (3.2 series) kernel. I don't see a similar package for the LTS (3.0 series) kernel. Does one exist somewhere that I'm missing it? If not, how does one use virtualbox on Arch with the LTS kernel? Do we need to build the

[arch-general] Weird Konqueror quirk

2012-03-09 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Been seeing a weird quirk with KDE's konqueror recently. Was wondering if this is something unique to my personal configuration, or if it's an upstream bug that needs to be filed. Can some KDE user confirm? 1) Launch konqueror in file manager mode. e.g.: [darose@daroselin ~]$ konqueror

Re: [arch-general] Weird Konqueror quirk

2012-03-09 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 03/09/2012 01:30 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 12:49 -0500, David Rosenstrauch wrote: Been seeing a weird quirk with KDE's konqueror recently. Was wondering if this is something unique to my personal configuration, or if it's an upstream bug that needs to be filed. Can some

Re: [arch-general] Weird Konqueror quirk

2012-03-09 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 03/09/2012 02:15 PM, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote: On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 2:49 PM, David Rosenstrauchdar...@darose.net wrote: Been seeing a weird quirk with KDE's konqueror recently. Was wondering if this is something unique to my personal configuration, or if it's an upstream bug that

Re: [arch-general] Weird Konqueror quirk

2012-03-09 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 03/09/2012 02:51 PM, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote: On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 4:35 PM, David Rosenstrauchdar...@darose.net wrote: Hmmm ... interesting. So maybe it is something specific to my config after all. Are you using the latest version of konqueror? (4.8.1) Not quite... I'm still

Re: [arch-general] Weird Konqueror quirk

2012-03-09 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 03/09/2012 03:02 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: On 03/09/2012 02:51 PM, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote: On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 4:35 PM, David Rosenstrauchdar...@darose.net wrote: Hmmm ... interesting. So maybe it is something specific to my config after all. Are you using the latest version

Re: [arch-general] GTK app appearance

2012-01-26 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 01/26/2012 04:53 AM, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: 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

[arch-general] Brightness keys no longer working

2012-01-25 Thread David Rosenstrauch
The screen brightness increase and decrease keys on my laptop seem to be no longer working. They were definitely working a week or so ago, so I'm thinking some recent upgrade is responsible. It's not that the keypress is registering and the app just doesn't brighten the screen. But rather,

Re: [arch-general] Brightness keys no longer working

2012-01-25 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 01/25/2012 11:18 AM, Tom Gundersen wrote: On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 5:13 PM, David Rosenstrauchdar...@darose.net wrote: The screen brightness increase and decrease keys on my laptop seem to be no longer working. This is udev's fault, udev-179 in testing should have fixed it. I'll move it to

Re: [arch-general] Question regarding the default file manager in XFCE

2011-12-19 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 12/19/2011 10:42 AM, Vladimir Nikšić wrote: I'm using xfce wm. I rarely even use a file manager, I do things through the console almost all the time, but sometimes I need a file manager, makes some things easier. Thunar as a file manager is OK, but nautilus is a lot more powerful, has decent

Re: [arch-general] a plea for python 2

2011-12-14 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 12/14/2011 05:24 PM, Evan Martin wrote: 1) Is it intentional that I am unable to use software from upstream like Django unmodified? Am I expected to only install software from the Arch repositories, where it has been patched by Arch devs to work on Arch? (See below for more on

Re: [arch-general] end of the war! Mate has come to archlinux...

2011-12-09 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 12/09/2011 07:45 AM, Alessio 'Blaster' Biancalana wrote: But IMHO XFCE misses some neat features like a decent power manager. Just curious - what's your issue with the XFCE power manager? It's fairly minimal (which is not a bad thing, IMO) and always worked fine for me. DR

Re: [arch-general] end of the war! Mate has come to archlinux...

2011-12-09 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 12/08/2011 05:23 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: KDE3 had no comeback Actually, it did. (http://www.trinitydesktop.org/about.php) It just hasn't really gained too much critical mass. (Yet?) DR

Re: [arch-general] pacman/libalpm/libfetch do not honor TMPDIR

2011-11-28 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 11/25/2011 11:55 AM, Leonid Isaev wrote: Actually, what is stupid is keeping /tmp in RAM. It is an important dir, where you might have an valuable info in case of a system crash. I could never understand the logic behind this choice. Actually, I think it makes a lot of sense. It lets you

[arch-general] No more display settings dialog when open/close laptop lid

2011-11-28 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Used to be (up until about a few weeks ago) that when I close or open my laptop lid, xfce executes xfce4-display-settings --minimal. That seems to have stopped recently, though. Anyone have any idea what might have changed? Thanks, DR

Re: [arch-general] Daylight Saving Time canceled in Ukraine, will Arch know?

2011-09-21 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 09/21/2011 12:29 PM, Barton wrote: Beginning this year, Ukraine is switching to year-round DST and will permanently reside in UTC+3 timezone (where it is now). Normally, the switch to UTC+2 would have occurred some time in October, but no longer. How would Arch Linux handle it for the users

Re: [arch-general] New GTK update make LibreOffice 'save' document type unreadable

2011-09-01 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 09/01/2011 11:15 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: On 08/31/2011 11:07 AM, Ángel Velásquez wrote: [107k] http://phoenix/dl/img/newGTK-bug.jpg Can't see the screenshot. oops! sorry: http://phoenix.rlfpllc.com/dl/img/newGTK-bug.jpg Wow - I'm not seeing anything like that:

Re: [arch-general] Alsa/Pulse not using sound cards?

2011-08-09 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 08/09/2011 02:58 PM, Nikhil Bysani wrote: Hi, My system's sound is no longer is working. No, it's not muted, the sound modules are loaded, and there are pcm's in /dev/snd but no /dev/dsp. Also, while alsamixer does show the sound cards, it is only using the null device, and pulse audo

Re: [arch-general] Alsa/Pulse not using sound cards?

2011-08-09 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 08/09/2011 04:30 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: On 08/09/2011 02:58 PM, Nikhil Bysani wrote: Hi, My system's sound is no longer is working. No, it's not muted, the sound modules are loaded, and there are pcm's in /dev/snd but no /dev/dsp. Also, while alsamixer does show the sound cards

Re: [arch-general] shh SOCKS proxy

2011-07-20 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 07/20/2011 07:41 AM, Daniel Hilst Selli wrote: I trying to set a ssh proxy.. For tests matter I'm using my local desktop, as I can change sshd configurations all in one place I do this: http://pastebin.com/g26A9imj Then set my firefox proxy to localhost on port 8080 (all protocols) and

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

2011-07-14 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 07/14/2011 06:19 AM, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: 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

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

2011-07-13 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 07/13/2011 05:00 PM, Squall Lionheart wrote: 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

Re: [arch-general] X cursor problem on new install

2011-07-12 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 07/11/2011 11:27 PM, D. R. Evans wrote: David Rosenstrauch said the following at 07/11/2011 03:43 PM : Hmmm ... your Xorg loading definitely seems to be happening differently from mine. (See: http://www.darose.net/Xorg.0.log) I'm not sure why yet. Perhaps with more info we can figure

Re: [arch-general] X cursor problem on new install

2011-07-11 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 07/11/2011 05:11 PM, D. R. Evans wrote: David Rosenstrauch said the following at 07/06/2011 01:19 PM : Also, not sure if this matters, but it looks like you don't have any Xorg fonts installed. Try installing xorg-fonts-100dpi and xorg-fonts-75dpi and see if that helps. DR One other

Re: [arch-general] X cursor problem on new install

2011-07-06 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 07/06/2011 02:00 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: On 07/06/2011 01:46 PM, D. R. Evans wrote: Guillaume Brunerie said the following at 07/04/2011 11:01 AM : It seems you have an Intel graphics card and that the driver does not want to start. Have you read the page https://wiki.archlinux.org

Re: [arch-general] X cursor problem on new install

2011-07-06 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 07/06/2011 03:12 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: On 07/06/2011 02:00 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: On 07/06/2011 01:46 PM, D. R. Evans wrote: Guillaume Brunerie said the following at 07/04/2011 11:01 AM : It seems you have an Intel graphics card and that the driver does not want to start

Re: [arch-general] Display Manager rc.d scripts

2011-05-09 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 05/08/2011 01:19 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: Hello, can anyone think of a reason the rc.d scripts are added to kdm, gdm and slim? They are not recommended by anyone they are to be blame for occasional weird problems. The standard and IMO only way is to start them from inittab. They dont

Re: [arch-general] Display Manager rc.d scripts

2011-05-09 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 05/08/2011 02:15 PM, Heiko Baums wrote: With the rc scripts it's only possible to having started xorg at boot time if the script is in the DAEMONS array. So if xorg fails for a reason and doesn't allow you to switch to console you need a LiveCD to first remove it from the DAEMONS to be able

Re: [arch-general] qtcurve for gtk3/GNOME3?

2011-05-04 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 05/04/2011 10:10 AM, Ray Rashif wrote: On 3 May 2011 08:19, David Rosenstrauchdar...@darose.net wrote: I'm not loving this GNOME3 upgrade. Latest irritation is that all the gtk apps are no longer picking up the qtcurve theme that I use on all my apps to make a uniform desktop. Is there

Re: [arch-general] /sbin/rc bug?

2011-05-03 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 05/03/2011 04:58 PM, D. Can Celasun wrote: I might have discovered a bug with this new /sbin/rc thing. If I run /etc/rc.d/httpd start, Apache starts just fine. Yet if I do rc start httpd it fails with: :: Starting Apache Web Server [BUSY] (13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to

[arch-general] What broke?!?!?!?

2011-05-02 Thread David Rosenstrauch
OK, performed a pacman -Syu today, and all sorts of things broke. Can anyone please help point me to fixes? * My USB (wireless) keyboard no longer works under X. (Although it still works fine from consoles 1-6.) * Internal trackpad no longer works under X. * Connecting to an openvpn no

Re: [arch-general] What broke?!?!?!?

2011-05-02 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 05/02/2011 11:12 AM, Rafa Griman wrote: Are you using xorg-server-catalyst-maximize-fix? I was and the latest update left my kbd and mouse unuseable under X. Solution was to uninstall it and install normal xorg: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI_Catalyst#Catalyst.27s_repositories #

[arch-general] qtcurve for gtk3/GNOME3?

2011-05-02 Thread David Rosenstrauch
I'm not loving this GNOME3 upgrade. Latest irritation is that all the gtk apps are no longer picking up the qtcurve theme that I use on all my apps to make a uniform desktop. Is there any way to enable this? Thanks, DR

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts-2011.04.1-2

2011-04-29 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 04/28/2011 11:22 PM, C Anthony Risinger wrote: setting the hardware clock to localtime is 100% broken and the links provided in the original announcement explain the ramifications clearly ... at least i thought there were links somewhere ... wtf, where did i see them? it was an arch-related

Re: [arch-general] Touchpad not recognized

2011-04-26 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 04/18/2011 01:26 PM, Xianwen Chen wrote: Hi Archers, I'm runnig Arch X64 on a Dell Latitude E5410. The touchpad is not recognized as xinput list only shows following: ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ PS/2 Generic

[arch-general] How often kernel26-lts updated?

2011-03-25 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Just wondering: what's the general policy about how often (and why) kernel26-lts gets updated? I know it's supposed to be a long-term supported kernel, making it more appropriate for servers and such. But it seems like it gets updated almost as often as the main kernel26 package. Also, I saw

Re: [arch-general] How often kernel26-lts updated?

2011-03-25 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 03/25/2011 11:42 AM, Thomas S Hatch wrote: 2011/3/25 Cédric Girardgirard.ced...@gmail.com On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 4:22 PM, David Rosenstrauchdar...@darose.net wrote: Just wondering: what's the general policy about how often (and why) kernel26-lts gets updated? I know it's supposed to

Re: [arch-general] Trinity Running on Arch Linux!

2011-02-16 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 02/16/2011 12:32 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, It works! After building kdebase (and fighting with other modules), I just decided to start trinity and see if it would work. Nice job, David! Kudos on sticking with it. Sounds like it was a rather hard slog. It must feel nice to

Re: [arch-general] (now 4.5.5-1) Re: kde-4.5.4 loads kde3 kicker and background (even with ~/.kde ~/.kde4 removed)

2011-01-10 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 01/09/2011 02:45 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: On 01/08/2011 04:21 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: Seriously David, I think it's time for you to give up on kde3 already. You can't expect the people on the Arch list to help support old, unsupported, and out of date software. The more you bring

Re: [arch-general] Fluxbox broken when launched via qingy

2010-12-12 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 12/11/2010 10:11 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: On 12/09/2010 09:09 AM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: On 12/09/2010 01:48 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: On 12/08/2010 09:58 AM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: Anyone else seeing this and/or have ideas on how to fix? Sorry DR, I still use kdm to launch

Re: [arch-general] Fluxbox broken when launched via qingy

2010-12-09 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 12/09/2010 01:48 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: On 12/08/2010 09:58 AM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: Anyone else seeing this and/or have ideas on how to fix? Sorry DR, I still use kdm to launch flux. Hey, while we are on flux, shoot me a copy of your startup file so I can see how you are doing

[arch-general] Fluxbox broken when launched via qingy

2010-12-08 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Not sure what happened, but fluxbox seems to be broken when launched via qingy. This used to work fine, and I haven't changed anything in my fb or qingy setups that could account for this. I'm able to launch other WM's via qingy, and am also able to launch FB via other desktop managers

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] away Nov. 15-23 (to NYC)

2010-11-02 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 11/01/2010 06:59 PM, Matthew Monaco wrote: On 10/27/2010 04:55 PM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: Nov. 15-23 I'll be away (I'll be in NY city) If any Arch dev/user is in the area during that time, let me know, we could hook up. Dieter I work in Rockefeller Center (49th and 6th). Anyone else?

[arch-general] Odd message on boot

2010-10-20 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Been seeing a strange message recently on boot. Seems to have only appeared in the last few weeks. 'Unknown group netdev in message bus configuration file' Anyone know what's causing it and/or how to get rid of it? Thanks, DR

Re: [arch-general] Odd message on boot

2010-10-20 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 10/20/2010 01:08 PM, Aljosha Papsch wrote: It means, D-BUS (or any message bus) is missing a group specified in its configuration file. A solution might be to just create the group. No, I'm not going to go and blindly create the group. I want to understand what in my configuration is

Re: [arch-general] pacman -Syu -- then tons of kio and kbuildsycoca warnings. Bug or coincidence?

2010-10-13 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 10/09/2010 12:57 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, just updated and got a slew of warning dumped back to konsole: Targets (14): glibc-2.12.1-2 binutils-2.20.1-4 blas-3.2.2-2 feh-1.10-1 lapack-3.2.2-2 libmysqlclient-5.1.51-1 libva-1.0.5-1 logrotate-3.7.9-1

Re: [arch-general] version control system for normal user

2010-08-26 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 08/26/2010 10:56 AM, jewelshaw wrote: Hi, I'm a normal user on a workstation, without root privilege. Usually, I have to test and revise the source code, while after lots of revisions, I get confused about what's new and what's old. I tried subversion, but a svn server with root

Re: [arch-general] did kdemod-legacy repo go away?

2010-08-17 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 08/17/2010 09:45 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, I must have missed a note advising that the kdemod-legacy repo was removed from the pacman repos. Every time I update I get the following error: error: failed retrieving file 'kdemod-legacy.db.tar.gz' from chakra-project.org : Not Found

Re: [arch-general] [OT] sight-saver colours

2010-08-06 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 08/06/2010 07:10 AM, F. Gr. wrote: Hi, in your opinion, what is the best combination of text and background colour so as not to tire our eyes? I think we spend many hours in front of a monitor. I've been using the following one: text - #00 background - #F6F6FF (in the past also

Re: [arch-general] No updates in a while - Is this the 'untiered mirror' thing?

2010-08-02 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 08/02/2010 06:44 PM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: Notices did go out on one of the lists (forgot which one) that the new tiered mirror scheme was coming into effect. Link? I don't recall seeing anything about that either here or on the Arch announcements list. Thanks, DR

Re: [arch-general] how to listen to internet radio?

2010-07-29 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 07/29/2010 12:20 PM, Madhurya Kakati wrote: Is there any good native linux app for streaming online radio? I prefer shoutcast. Thanks I use the audacious player. DR

Re: [arch-general] Firefox Opera Plugins on the fritz?

2010-07-21 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 07/21/2010 07:16 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, My weather page has stopped working in both Firefox and Opera. I think it is a plugin issue. Can anyone else view this weather loop from the National Weather Service?

Re: [arch-general] Apache: hide real dir structure

2010-06-15 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 06/15/2010 02:13 PM, Gaurish Sharma wrote: Hi, On the Arch Server running Apache. I have Control Panel for which I want to hide real directory name. Don't want to disclose the real location it. Can I display domain.com/foo1/foo2/foo3/ as subdomain(foo.domain.com) where foo.domain.com

Re: [arch-general] dualboot?

2010-05-27 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 05/27/2010 04:21 PM, Stefan Husmann wrote: python is no requirement for Arch Linux itself. If you do not like it, just do not install it. Isn't pacman written in python? That would make python a requirement for Arch then, right? DR

Re: [arch-general] new pc; keep arch installation?

2010-05-25 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 05/25/2010 09:46 AM, Vincent Schut wrote: Hi, I'm going to get a new pc, replacing my now more than 5 years old pc. I would like to keep my current arch installation, and hope to prevent the need to do a full reinstall. I like the software I have, and I like the configuration I have...

Re: [arch-general] Off-topic: Good laptop to run Arch on?

2010-05-24 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 05/22/2010 11:33 AM, Magnus Therning wrote: What laptops should I have a look at? Is there some brand (Dell, HP, ...) that is more Linux friendly than others? My work laptop, a Dell Precision M4400, runs Arch fine. Had to install a few extra kernel modules (e.g., broadcom-wl), but

Re: [arch-general] A mirror question

2010-05-24 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 05/20/2010 07:38 PM, Keith Hinton wrote: Hi, I was wondering what the best mirror would be for someone living ni Ohio? The rit.edu mirror is in Western NY - probably not too far from you. I've used that one for a number of years and found it to generally be a reliable mirror. HTH, DR

Re: [arch-general] Err... Why is gvim now conflicting with vim?

2010-05-07 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 05/07/2010 11:27 AM, Ray Kohler wrote: At the very least, I wish you would post your tech-support questions on the forums, which are designed for that kind of content (and are sadly already a bit overrun). This list, as I understand it, is intended as the primary means for users to

Re: [arch-general] Fresh Install - kde4 filling up .xsession-errors 300M + in 48 hours - Invalid iterator.

2010-04-27 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 04/27/2010 12:14 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, This is a new one. I replaced one of my last suse boxes with arch at work a couple of days ago. I ssh'ed into the box tonight to get a few files and noticed my .xsession-errors file well over 300M - huh? -rw--- 1 david david

Re: [arch-general] stability from pm-suspend ?

2010-04-21 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 04/20/2010 11:27 PM, Ian-Xue Li wrote: Security is indeed one problem I'm looking to resolve, because with suspend, it goes back directly into the system, without having to enter login/password... I don't think you mentioned which WM/DE you're using. If you're using XFCE (or would

Re: [arch-general] ImportError: libssl.so.0.9.8: -- do I just rebuild the AUR packages?

2010-04-15 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 04/15/2010 12:02 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, After the latest openssl updates, the AUR packages for createrepo and repoview are failing. I know it must be the result of the openssl changes. ImportError: libssl.so.0.9.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory seems

Re: [arch-general] keyboard not working in Xorg after package updates

2010-04-09 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 04/09/2010 06:11 AM, Xavier Chantry wrote: On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 5:05 AM, David Rosenstrauchdar...@darose.net wrote: On Thu, April 8, 2010 9:51 pm, David Rosenstrauch wrote: So WTF?!?!?!? Hal sees the keyboard. And xev running inside the x session sees the keyboard. SO WHY

[arch-general] AUR comments gone?

2010-04-09 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Just noticed today that all the comments are gone from the AUR pages. Is that intentional? Or if not, is there any way to get them restored? Thanks, DR

Re: [arch-general] keyboard not working in Xorg after package updates

2010-04-09 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 04/09/2010 09:54 AM, bardo wrote: 2010/4/9 David Rosenstrauchdar...@darose.net: * I'm getting a load of errors in the slim.log file that look like this: expected keysym, got XF86_Switch_VT_1 line 8 of xfree86 W T F ? ! ? Not sure it's the same problem, but I experienced something

Re: [arch-general] keyboard not working in Xorg after package updates

2010-04-08 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On Wed, April 7, 2010 2:11 pm, Xavier Chantry wrote: On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:59 PM, David Rosenstrauch dar...@darose.net wrote: Anybody have any ideas on this?  GUI is completely unusable on the server until I solve this!  :-( I really have zero idea what's going on.  And it's a difficult

Re: [arch-general] keyboard not working in Xorg after package updates

2010-04-08 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On Thu, April 8, 2010 9:51 pm, David Rosenstrauch wrote: So WTF?!?!?!? Hal sees the keyboard. And xev running inside the x session sees the keyboard. SO WHY ON EARTH IS MY KEYBOARD STILL DEAD IN MY X SESSIONS?!?!? AHH Wee hee! It gets weirder! * Bizarrely enough

[arch-general] keyboard not working in Xorg after package updates

2010-04-07 Thread David Rosenstrauch
I upgraded my extremely not-up-to-date server last night (523 packages upgraded). The upgrade generally went well, except for one significant issue: the keyboard is no longer working under Xorg. It works fine in a command line tty though (i.e., ctrl-alt-F1). Not sure what the problem is,

Re: [arch-general] keyboard not working in Xorg after package updates

2010-04-07 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 04/07/2010 10:46 AM, Xavier Chantry wrote: Can you attach full Xorg log and config ? I'm not using any xorg config. Log is at: http://www.darose.net/Xorg.0.log And does it work with xf86-input-keyboard driver ? I have xf86-input-keyboard installed. I assumed X was just automatically

Re: [arch-general] keyboard not working in Xorg after package updates

2010-04-07 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 04/07/2010 10:55 AM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: On 04/07/2010 10:46 AM, Xavier Chantry wrote: Can you attach full Xorg log and config ? I'm not using any xorg config. Log is at: http://www.darose.net/Xorg.0.log And does it work with xf86-input-keyboard driver ? I have xf86-input

Re: [arch-general] kaffeine [sigh] is there an alternative that:...

2010-03-30 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 03/30/2010 01:39 PM, Heiko Baums wrote: Am Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:46:10 -0400 schrieb David Rosenstrauchdar...@darose.net: I still use audacious. It's definitely able to be highly keyboard drive. Not sure about the add music dir recursively functionality though. This works in audacious,

Re: [arch-general] New Using AUR

2010-03-24 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 03/24/2010 09:34 AM, Carlos Mennens wrote: 2. Once a package is installed from the AUR, when I do a system upgrade via Pacman, will outdated packages I installed via AUR get automatically upgraded or do I have to do all my AUR packages manually? Pacman does not upgrade AUR packages. Only

Re: [arch-general] libpng12 and libjpeg6 from AUR fix kdemod3 100%

2010-03-23 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 03/23/2010 04:17 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, Just dropping a note on the build and install of libpng12 and libjpeg6 from AUR to fix the problem I had with the kdemod3 install on my new arch box. After installing the two packages, kde3 seems to be 100% healthy. Immediately, all

Re: [arch-general] libpng12 and libjpeg6 from AUR fix kdemod3 100%

2010-03-23 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 03/23/2010 02:52 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: On 03/23/2010 11:57 AM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: I already emailed you about this earlier: Guys, In Arch, how do I make kde3 appear as a choice in the kdm greeter? I thought I just had to add a kde.desktop launching /opt/kde/bin/startkde

Re: [arch-general] Thunderbird 3 annoyance

2010-03-18 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 03/17/2010 10:37 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: Likewise, I have 2 imaps configured with ~ 60 folders total. I just use the inboxes for the imap itself and then use the normal threaded view and/or sort by sender and move messages into their respective folders. I haven't worked with seive

Re: [arch-general] Does anybody still have kde3 running? libpng problems preventing apps from running?

2010-03-18 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 03/17/2010 10:44 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: fish, sftp, kdiff3 integration It is the most bleeding fantastic file manager going +1 Konqueror is an awesome filemanager - and the fish/sftp/etc. kioslaves are the reason why. It gives me a unified file management system that I

Re: [arch-general] Does anybody still have kde3 running? libpng problems preventing apps from running?

2010-03-18 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 03/17/2010 10:51 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: Hopefull back on topic... I have gotten kde3 working on my new server (mostly). Currently, I simply soft-linked libjpeg.so.62 and libpng12.so and libpng12.so.0 to the current libs which was enough to get kde3 going. There are still major

Re: [arch-general] howto get kde3 to appear as a session in kdm greeter?

2010-03-18 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 03/18/2010 11:13 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, In Arch, how do I make kde3 appear as a choice in the kdm greeter? I thought I just had to add a kde.desktop launching /opt/kde/bin/startkde in /usr/share/xsessions, but that didn't do it. What's the trick? Try putting it in

Re: [arch-general] howto get kde3 to appear as a session in kdm greeter?

2010-03-18 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 03/18/2010 04:42 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: On 03/18/2010 11:13 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, In Arch, how do I make kde3 appear as a choice in the kdm greeter? I thought I just had to add a kde.desktop launching /opt/kde/bin/startkde in /usr/share/xsessions, but that didn't do

[arch-general] Thunderbird 3 annoyance

2010-03-17 Thread David Rosenstrauch
I'm having a little annoyance with TBird 3, and was wondering if anyone was experiencing the same thing and/or had a workaround. I have a large tree of folders in TBird, from 2 different IMAP accounts. So I use the Unread Folders view, in conjunction with the

Re: [arch-general] Thunderbird 3 annoyance

2010-03-17 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 03/17/2010 10:46 AM, Ionut Biru wrote: maybe is not a matter of configs. maybe this is really a bug and should be submitted upstream. Could be. If so, though, I'd like to get some more info on the problem first. Anyone else experiencing this issue with TBird automagically selecting a

Re: [arch-general] Thunderbird 3 annoyance

2010-03-17 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 03/17/2010 10:46 AM, Ionut Biru wrote: On 03/17/2010 04:41 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: I'm having a little annoyance with TBird 3, and was wondering if anyone was experiencing the same thing and/or had a workaround. I have a large tree of folders in TBird, from 2 different IMAP accounts

Re: [arch-general] Arch is ummnn different: my 1st installation: tried to install xfce...OOPS!

2010-03-16 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 03/16/2010 01:58 PM, Thayer Williams wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 1:22 AM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrookjtw...@ttlc.net wrote: It does look like getting Arch Linux configured the way I need it is going to take a bit more work than I'm used to. But if the rolling release part of what I've read

Re: [arch-general] Security

2010-03-12 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 03/12/2010 05:22 AM, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: If you run one of the fat desktops (KDE, Gnome) they will have a GUI tool to configure iptables. FYI - I've found firestarter to be a good, simple one for small home network use. DR

Re: [arch-general] encfs boost and openssl

2010-03-09 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 03/09/2010 04:00 AM, Manne Merak wrote: On 03/09/2010 10:31 AM, Bram Schoenmakers wrote: 2010/3/9 Manne Merakmanneme...@gmail.com: Hi Manne, I have problems with the latest update and EncFS. Did check out the bug reports at Arch and EncFS and after downgrading Boost to 1.41 I now do not

Re: [arch-general] Bad Idea?

2010-03-09 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 03/09/2010 05:23 PM, Carlos Mennens wrote: Is it a bad idea to install nVidia display drivers manually by downloading them from nvidia.com and installing it by hand...or should I use 'Pacman'? I read that I could mess up my system by manually installing packages and should always use Pacman.

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