[arch-general] disable fourth mouse button

2013-08-28 Thread David Benfell
. And the Arch Wiki mouse articles seem to be leading in a different direction. Can someone point me in the right direction? I use both chromium and firefox on an ongoing basis. I'd rather just tell the driver to ignore the button. Thanks! - -- David Benfell / benf...@parts-unknown.org Please see

Re: [arch-general] disable fourth mouse button

2013-08-28 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/28/2013 09:09 PM, David Benfell wrote: I use both chromium and firefox on an ongoing basis. I'd rather just tell the driver to ignore the button. I found xev. It identifies the button as 8. But it seems like the intent in the wiki entry

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux on servers?

2013-07-09 Thread David Benfell
hours that I assume would have fixed the problem by itself had I waited just that length of time before doing the upgrade. So the one bit of advice I would offer probably won't be shocking: whenever an upgrade comes down that seems critical, it is probably prudent to just wait a day. - -- David

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] /usr move - update instructions

2013-06-02 Thread David Benfell
that bash is the shell in use (I happen to prefer zsh). Thanks! - -- David Benfell / benf...@parts-unknown.org Please see https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 for GnuPG information (or the attachment you don't understand) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] /usr move - update instructions

2013-06-02 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/02/2013 01:39 AM, Allan McRae wrote: On 02/06/13 18:21, David Benfell wrote: I'm wondering if this bit assumes that bash is the shell in use (I happen to prefer zsh). No. It is for install scripts that call things with /bin/sh

Re: [arch-general] about the removal of that systemd symlink...

2013-05-13 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/13/2013 12:26 AM, Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: On Sunday 12 May 2013 22:32:03 David Benfell wrote: Hi all, I was alarmed, I think unnecessarily, when I saw the message that a symlink for systemd was removed on an upgrade. As near as I can

Re: [arch-general] about the removal of that systemd symlink...

2013-05-13 Thread David Benfell
to keep better abreast of changes--and especially the thinking that goes into them--so I understand the pacman output when I see it. - -- David Benfell / benf...@parts-unknown.org Please see https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 for GnuPG information (or the attachment you don't understand) -BEGIN

Re: [arch-general] about the removal of that systemd symlink...

2013-05-13 Thread David Benfell
instructions, and I didn't see this. Is it the Arch recommendation to add this kernel option at boot time? Or will /sbin/init point to /usr/lib/systemd/systemd for the foreseeable future? - -- David Benfell / benf...@parts-unknown.org Please see https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 for GnuPG information

Re: [arch-general] about the removal of that systemd symlink...

2013-05-13 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/13/2013 02:32 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: In any case, booting a default installation without init= is supported and recommended, and we will make sure it keeps working. Good. That alleviates a lot of my concern. - -- David Benfell / benf

[arch-general] Something going awry with gdm's handoff

2013-05-08 Thread David Benfell
a graphical environment. (I don't know, these days, how to do the analog with cinnamon or gnome.) Does the log snippet above help at all? Thanks! - -- David Benfell / benf...@parts-unknown.org Please see https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 for GnuPG information (or the attachment you don't understand

Re: [arch-general] turn off notifications?

2013-05-06 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/05/2013 03:01 AM, Joan Rieu wrote: 2013/5/4 David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org Mostly they seem to originate from Thunderbird, but I'm assuming there are other sources as well. From what I remember, Thunderbird and other Mozilla

[arch-general] SOLVED (Hopefully): Re: turn off notifications?

2013-05-06 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/05/2013 04:35 AM, Mike Cloaked wrote: On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 11:10 AM, David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.orgwrote: So maybe thunderbird uses a separate mechanism for popping up notifications? In Thunderbird try going to Edit

Re: [arch-general] turn off notifications?

2013-05-05 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/04/2013 07:44 PM, XeCycle wrote: David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org writes: [...] I'll have to confess, I'm in way over my head. Am I doing this right? n4rky% gdbus introspect --session --dest org.freedesktop.Notifications

Re: [arch-general] turn off notifications?

2013-05-05 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/05/2013 01:09 AM, Josh Liberty wrote: I think you're going about this entirely the wrong way. Which desktop environment are you using? Cinnamon. Sometimes Gnome, but mostly Cinnamon. Thanks! - -- David Benfell / benf...@parts-unknown.org

Re: [arch-general] turn off notifications?

2013-05-05 Thread David Benfell
mechanism for popping up notifications? Thanks! - -- David Benfell / benf...@parts-unknown.org Please see https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 for GnuPG information (or the attachment you don't understand) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG

Re: [arch-general] turn off notifications?

2013-05-04 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/04/2013 04:18 AM, xecycle wrote: 在 2013-5-4,下午16:49,David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org 写道: The notification daemon listens on D-Bus session bus at service org.freedesktop.Notifications, object /org/freedesktop/Notifications. Find

[arch-general] turn off notifications?

2013-05-03 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I'm failing to find where to do this. The SettingsNotifications switch does not seem to control notifications--at least under the Cinnamon desktop environment. For me, they take up a huge amount of screen real estate, all too often right

Re: [arch-general] XFCE broken with Gnome 3.8?

2013-04-22 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/22/2013 11:54 AM, Alexandre Medeiros wrote: Have you tried starting xfce without a login manager (with startx and stuff)? If memory serves--and it's been a while--the command needed is something like startxfce4 -BEGIN PGP

Re: [arch-general] gummiboot kernel panic: unable to mount root fs

2013-04-17 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 4/16/2013 6:43 PM, Dennis Anderson wrote: Well gummiboot looks OK, default mkinitcpio seems OK, (you did run mkinitcpio -p linux after reinstalling right). Yup. I eventually poked around inside the shell that rEFInd was dropping me into. I

Re: [arch-general] gummiboot kernel panic: unable to mount root fs

2013-04-17 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 4/16/2013 6:43 PM, Dennis Anderson wrote: Well gummiboot looks OK, default mkinitcpio seems OK, (you did run mkinitcpio -p linux after reinstalling right). Yup. I eventually poked around inside the shell that rEFInd was dropping me into. I

[arch-general] Startup problems, was Re: gummiboot kernel panic: unable to mount root fs

2013-04-17 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 4/17/2013 2:27 PM, David Benfell wrote: On 4/16/2013 6:43 PM, Dennis Anderson wrote: Well gummiboot looks OK, default mkinitcpio seems OK, (you did run mkinitcpio -p linux after reinstalling right). It turns out I had misspelled initrd

Re: [arch-general] gummiboot kernel panic: unable to mount root fs

2013-04-15 Thread David Benfell
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 09:46:46PM +0200, Nelson Marambio wrote: Hi, Dennis, you didn't forget to replace 'sata pata scsi' etc. by 'block' ? That was my fault a few months ago shortly before an update of the kernel. In result, the bootimage couldn't find any harddisk installed. Maybe

Re: [arch-general] Another 'gotta be something idiotic': trying to create bootable USB thumb drive

2013-04-13 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/12/2013 12:32 AM, P .NIKOLIC wrote: Hi Those SanDisk drive are a real pain you can use them but you are going to have to fdisk it first there is stuff on there that stops Linux dead in it's tracks i have several of them the 4Gb ones

Re: [arch-general] Another 'gotta be something idiotic': trying to create bootable USB thumb drive

2013-04-13 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/13/2013 12:43 AM, Rashif Ray Rahman wrote: It looks like your thumbdrive wasn't as stubborn as was initially suspected. Recreating the partition table made it work. What you're facing now is an issue with configuration. My personal

[arch-general] gummiboot kernel panic: unable to mount root fs

2013-04-13 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I haven't seen this one for a while--a long while. I assume it still means what it used to mean, that is, that I haven't correctly specified the root partition. gummiboot is proving to be a bit of an adventure on this Asus X202E. The

[arch-general] and with rEFInd, was Re: gummiboot kernel panic: unable to mount root fs

2013-04-13 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/13/2013 12:11 PM, David Benfell wrote: I'm not quite sure what the best way to proceed is at this point. I think I'm awfully close to having it working, but it *is* EFI, and so far, that's always an adventure. I decided to try rEFInd

Re: [arch-general] Another 'gotta be something idiotic': trying to create bootable USB thumb drive

2013-04-12 Thread David Benfell
On 4/12/2013 11:23 AM, Ray Rashif wrote: Before you do that, did you try using the tool mentioned in the Ubuntu thread to remove unwanted firmware partitions, if any? If not, you may want to format the entire thing with an HP legacy formatting tool.¹ I've used it successfully in the past to

[arch-general] Another 'gotta be something idiotic': trying to create bootable USB thumb drive

2013-04-11 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I can't believe I'm having trouble with this. I'm trying to follow the directions at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/USB_Installation_Media Specifically: dd bs=4M if=/path/to/archlinux.iso of=/dev/sdx Which I translate to: sudo dd

Re: [arch-general] Another 'gotta be something idiotic': trying to create bootable USB thumb drive

2013-04-11 Thread David Benfell
nailed it. I guess I'll head back to Best Buy for a different brand. Thanks! - -- David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org dbenf...@saybrook.edu See https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 for GnuPG (the attachment you don't understand) information. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17

Re: [arch-general] spamd config: cannot create user preferences file

2013-04-06 Thread David Benfell
On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 06:15:29PM -0700, David Benfell wrote: Casting about on the web, I gather this is an ownership/permissions issue. That'd be fine and I might know what to do about it if I knew where spamd was trying to create it and, for that matter, under what user. I finally caught

[arch-general] spamd config: cannot create user preferences file

2013-04-05 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Casting about on the web, I gather this is an ownership/permissions issue. That'd be fine and I might know what to do about it if I knew where spamd was trying to create it and, for that matter, under what user. But I don't even know where

Re: [arch-general] SOLVED Re: Installing by remote control -- network trouble

2013-04-04 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/03/2013 07:24 AM, Chris Down wrote: On 2013-04-03 07:19, David Benfell wrote: Oh, how absolutely embarrassing. Whoever heard of a network device named enp3s2? Really. Here's the service file, complete with all the commented out stuff I also

[arch-general] SOLVED Re: Installing by remote control -- network trouble

2013-04-03 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 4/2/2013 8:31 PM, David Benfell wrote: Hi all, I've almost got this. My dedicated server appears to be willing to boot from the disk, but the network doesn't come up. Oh, how absolutely embarrassing. Whoever heard of a network device named

[arch-general] Installing by remote control -- network trouble

2013-04-02 Thread David Benfell
missing? Thanks! - -- David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org dbenf...@saybrook.edu See https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 for GnuPG (the attachment you don't understand) information. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http

[arch-general] upgrading mysql to mariadb

2013-03-29 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I had managed not to see this: https://www.archlinux.org/news/mariadb-replaces-mysql-in-repositories/ But it turned up on one of my feeds today, so I went to work. All went well until the final step, the upgrade: Phase 3/3: Running

[arch-general] Installing by remote control

2013-03-19 Thread David Benfell
of this e-mail. Only by this you make sure that your answer will not be out of context. Please direct all support issues directly to supp...@contabo.com . This will guarantee fastest processing possible. ___ 19.03.2013 04:30 - David Benfell

Re: [arch-general] Installing by remote control

2013-03-19 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/19/2013 03:13 PM, Christoph Vigano wrote: IIRC, by requesting KVMoIP you will get a serial console attached to your server onto which you can logon and thus have access to a serial console to your server, allowing you to view the boot

Re: [arch-general] Installing by remote control

2013-03-19 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/19/2013 03:43 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: That's exactly right. snip A KVMOIP is basically the same thing, but for systems that don't have this capability built natively into their BIOS. The data center operator hooks up the KVMOIP

Re: [arch-general] can't publish keys to network? What?

2013-03-13 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/12/2013 05:02 PM, Matthew Monaco wrote: Try running seahorse, go to Edit - Preferences. Make sure Automatically synchronize modified keys with key servers is not checked. It was *not* checked. But at least now I know what it is.

[arch-general] can't publish keys to network? What?

2013-03-11 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I wish I could ask this question intelligently. But I am clueless. I'm using the Cinnamon desktop manager. Whenever I log in, I get a message in the upper left hand corner that claims it can't publish keys to the network. I haven't seen this

Re: [arch-general] Gotta be a stupid gnome-terminal problem

2013-03-05 Thread David Benfell
On Sat, 02 Mar 2013 19:47:22 -0700 Matthew Monaco dgbale...@0x01b.net wrote: Sorry, I don't have definitive answer. You can check ~/.xession-errors and $ journalctl -bp warning for clues. (If you use GDM .xsession-errors might have been moved recently. I only have a ~/.xsession, not

Re: [arch-general] UEFI madness

2013-03-02 Thread David Benfell
On 03/02/2013 11:13 AM, Jan Steffens wrote: Make sure the EFI System Partition is mounted at /boot. Gummiboot expects this: The /vmlinuz-linux path is relative to the ESP. With the ESP at /boot, pacman automatically installs the kernels where they need to be, and no ugly copying hacks are

Re: [arch-general] UEFI madness

2013-03-02 Thread David Benfell
On 03/02/2013 10:32 AM, Mike Cloaked wrote: which works really beautifully and needs no manual intervention when new kernels arrive. However it did take me some time with a lot of help from Rod Smith to get it all set up correctly. Basic steps were: 1) Format disks with GPT instead of

[arch-general] Gotta be a stupid gnome-terminal problem

2013-03-02 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, All other terminal emulators work. I have checked--thanks to what little I found on the web that seemed apropos--to be sure that /dev/pts is mounted (it is). But when I run gnome-terminal, I get no prompt and typing in commands does not

Re: [arch-general] UEFI madness

2013-03-02 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/02/2013 03:31 AM, Mika Fischer wrote: On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Jan Steffens jan.steff...@gmail.com wrote: With the ESP at /boot, pacman automatically installs the kernels where they need to be, and no ugly copying hacks are

Re: [arch-general] Gotta be a stupid gnome-terminal problem

2013-03-02 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/02/2013 06:08 PM, Matthew Monaco wrote: You can see if anything is running under the terminal with ps -AHf when gnome-terminal is running. Check the preferences under the Title and Command tab to make sure you haven't overridden your

[arch-general] UEFI madness

2013-03-01 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, So far, my attempt to install Arch Linux on a UEFI system is a total facepalm moment. The problem is in booting post-install. So, first, does anyone have actual--and successful--experience installing Arch on a UEFI system? Yes, I went to

Re: [arch-general] UEFI experience - recommendations needed.

2013-01-05 Thread David Benfell
On 1/5/2013 12:23 PM, Mike Cloaked wrote: Does anyone have experience with such a UEFI system on this list? Apart from the info on the arch wiki and the install wiki info (which I have been reading), are systems like this reliable once installed? Does the routine pacman update process for

[arch-general] Prosody update

2012-12-12 Thread David Benfell
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 in the following ways: Source:

Re: [arch-general] Prosody update

2012-12-12 Thread David Benfell
Please report/followup there. By the way, it is still not working for me with prosody 0.8.2-7 I'm just going to have to remember http://bugs.archlinux.org/ Thanks! (And by the way, yes, it is working for me, now.)

Re: [arch-general] imagemagick problem

2012-10-28 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/28/2012 01:59 AM, Lukas Jirkovsky wrote: It's an AUR package php-imagick, that you need to recompile. Yes, you are right. I was an idiot for not remembering. Thanks! - -- David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [arch-general] imagemagick problem

2012-10-28 Thread David Benfell
packages are unsupported and it's your responsibility to rebuild them when a soname bump happens in some library. Yes, my bad. Thank you! - -- David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http

[arch-general] imagemagick problem

2012-10-27 Thread David Benfell
that this is a packaging bug, where should I be reporting it? And if I'm wrong and it is not a packaging bug, what should I do? Thanks! - -- David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

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

2012-10-11 Thread David Benfell
of date. -- David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org

Re: [arch-general] systemd transition on virtual server - help needed

2012-10-10 Thread David Benfell
-bit kernel. I know Linode does. I don't know about others. -- David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org

Re: [arch-general] Mailing list closed for 24 hours

2012-09-28 Thread David Benfell
On 09/27/2012 11:34 AM, Tobias Frilling wrote: The -discussion mailing list could serve as an outlet for this need, rendering the other list more productive via being moderated; The rule wouldn't be shut up or be banned, which shouldn't really be necessary for rational folks like us, but shut

Re: [arch-general] Wanted: advice dual-booting Arch and Windows 7 on new laptop

2012-09-18 Thread David Benfell
On 09/18/2012 02:14 AM, Robbie Smith wrote: Due to the arrangement of the partitions, I don't think creating an Extended partition will work (they need to be the last one in the table, don't they?) There are no extended partitions in UEFI. They're all primary partitions and you can have more

Re: [arch-general] pear/php/module api version mismatch

2012-09-11 Thread David Benfell
On 09/11/2012 06:15 PM, Simon Perry wrote: On 11/09/12, David Benfell wrote: | PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library | '/usr/lib/php/modules/json.so' - /usr/lib/php/modules/json.so: | cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown | on line 0 Take

Re: [arch-general] pear/php/module api version mismatch

2012-09-11 Thread David Benfell
On 09/11/2012 06:18 PM, Simon Perry wrote: I should have added for starters, I don't think it will fix the rest of your problems. Unfortunately, I don't use PEAR that much to offer any further advice. Our mails crossed. :-)

Re: [arch-general] pear/php/module api version mismatch

2012-09-11 Thread David Benfell
On 09/11/2012 06:23 PM, Simon Perry wrote: On 11/09/12, David Benfell wrote: | Okay, that gets rid of one problem. What about the others? Can you re-install the modules? Looks like they might need a re-compile against your current version of PHP? There is a 'pear uninstall' and a 'pear

[arch-general] SOLVED (sort of): Re: pear/php/module api version mismatch

2012-09-11 Thread David Benfell
On 09/11/2012 06:42 PM, Simon Perry wrote: FWIW, I picked one of your modules at random, and pear install told me to use pecl install uploadprogress, and it worked fine. An initial major problem was in the final line of that mess, the one that said, PHP Fatal error: Directive

Re: [arch-general] OT: Major distributions (WAS: Re: [arch-dev-public] Migration to systemd)

2012-08-18 Thread David Benfell
of not forking and can simply run without what I know from my old PDP-11 RSTS/e days as detaching, although systemd is better able to handle programs that do than daemontools is. -- David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org

[arch-general] systemd virtual terminals

2012-08-15 Thread David Benfell
not seeing why this should be problematic: d /run/lock 0755 root root - d /run/lock/subsys 0755 root root - d /run/lock/lockdev 0775 root lock - /run and /run/lock both exist I've tried rebooting; it didn't help. Now what? Thanks! -- David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org -- David Benfell

Re: [arch-general] DJB vs LP, was Re: Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-15 Thread David Benfell
with you. ;-) - -- David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJQK+p8AAoJELT202JKF+xpLmwP/1avch4kOwfWjGA8nPswKKws

Re: [arch-general] systemd virtual terminals

2012-08-15 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/15/2012 10:55 AM, Jameson wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 4:03 AM, David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org wrote: Also when I log in, the password is visible. The first place I would check for this would be your console font/keymap

Re: [arch-general] systemd virtual terminals

2012-08-15 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/15/2012 11:31 AM, David Benfell wrote: On 08/15/2012 10:55 AM, Jameson wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 4:03 AM, David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org wrote: Also when I log in, the password is visible. The first place I would check

Re: [arch-general] systemd virtual terminals

2012-08-15 Thread David Benfell
because it was my only functioning linux graphical environment, seems to have been unaffected (it, of course, has its own battery backup). I may be wrong here if there is a relevant difference between the 64-bit and 32-bit packages (the laptop is 32-bit). On 15 August 2012 21:36, David Benfell benf

Re: [arch-general] Personal note

2012-08-15 Thread David Benfell
community in general. - -- David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJQLAoXAAoJELT202JKF+xpsugP/376qgYAavGkC4CYcU2UVRHF PbsrnM4MxGvhFdR+RdiwzVOiAZdKlS21I5C

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

2012-08-14 Thread David Benfell
to like one and not the other. - -- David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJQKtKaAAoJELT202JKF+xpT7MP+wau7MW57XatlMx4QGlvW/tQ W1lFWDUIwMavInfk8

[arch-general] DJB vs LP, was Re: Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread David Benfell
is largely limited to one man's attention span. - -- David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJQKtbWAAoJELT202JKF+xpHTcP/2iP5dkAovLtx8fWgMRHqdqR

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

2012-08-14 Thread David Benfell
=100) - -- David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJQKteNAAoJELT202JKF+xpHlkQAIh1f9HuWwuNCVdAU/tMiCoW

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

2012-08-14 Thread David Benfell
mounts are present. - -- David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJQKuVlAAoJELT202JKF+xpkJEP/iX4Jf4WT9+Cac0gtjSeGxTc ZU/J

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

2012-08-14 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/14/2012 04:08 PM, Brandon Watkins wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Norbert Zeh n...@cs.dal.ca wrote: David Benfell [2012.08.14 1535 -0700]: What I think is unfortunate about the discussion of systemd here has been that it has been

Re: [arch-general] DJB vs LP, was Re: Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/14/2012 06:44 PM, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 03:53:10PM -0700, David Benfell wrote: I'd add that djb has started several projects that have been, I think, very, very good, but then dropped them. It is harder

Re: [arch-general] What can be deleted, when not using systemd - was: polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-12 Thread David Benfell
toolchain that is clearly problematic. Great discussion, by the way. I don't fully understand it either, but given the problems I've had with pulseaudio, I appreciate what seems to be confirmation that I'm losing nothing by leaving it out. - -- David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org -BEGIN PGP

Re: [arch-general] What can be deleted, when not using systemd - was: polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-11 Thread David Benfell
in, in this example, a complete gnome. Is that really the fault of upstream? - -- David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJQJuyjAAoJELT202JKF+xpMNkP

Re: [arch-general] systemd fsck

2012-08-11 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/11/2012 04:09 AM, Mantas Mikulėnas wrote: On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 6:27 AM, David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org wrote: 2) But I did notice an error that worried me--just because it looks worrying--as it came up: Aug 09 13:34:36 graton

Re: [arch-general] systemd fsck

2012-08-11 Thread David Benfell
I was focused on the system coming up for the first time under systemd. So I rebooted off a CD-ROM and ran e2fsck manually (with -fy), it ran cleanly, and when I rebooted off the hard drive, it came up cleanly. Thanks! - -- David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [arch-general] Brasero cannot create mp3 based cds ?

2012-08-10 Thread David Benfell
to the relevant lists. The response you received is one I would expect here, where part of the advantage of this environment is that when one software package doesn't meet your needs, there are alternatives available. - -- David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-10 Thread David Benfell
is that the topic appears even here on an Arch mailing list, since Arch--as far as I know--wouldn't foist PulseAudio on anybody unless they wanted it. - -- David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http

[arch-general] systemd fsck

2012-08-10 Thread David Benfell
blocks /dev/sda3 is the root partition. - -- David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJQJdEsAAoJELT202JKF+xpR8EP/RAqqrPz2pumaHET2XLI97UC

Re: [arch-general] New install media 2012.08.04 uses ZSH, if I may ask, why?

2012-08-06 Thread David Benfell
to be made in opposition. - -- David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJQIFFuAAoJELT202JKF+xp+QIQAJoEOJUXozvyDWmjs/spK6So Q0bmB4v6M8gyfhWzkUnPWRLGXV+/sbrG

Re: [arch-general] New install media 2012.08.04 uses ZSH, if I may ask, why?

2012-08-05 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/05/2012 07:57 PM, Sébastien Luttringer wrote: Maybe one day zsh will become the default shell on arch :) That'd get my vote, but I'd be amazed if any distribution ever did this. Doesn't zsh take more--a lot more--memory? - -- David Benfell

Re: [arch-general] New install media 2012.08.04 uses ZSH, if I may ask, why?

2012-08-05 Thread David Benfell
standard because the vast majority of scripts are crafted using Bash, a widespread de-facto standard for so long time. Indeed--those incompatibilities are precisely what I like about zsh. ;-) - -- David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU

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

2012-08-01 Thread David Benfell
, running xmonad. I get a total freeze of chromium (have to kill -9) if I hit C-p, or hit print from the menu. We could spend a lot of time trying to eliminate possible causes. I am not seeing this behavior and I am not running xmonad but I am running on x86_64. - -- David Benfell benf...@parts

Re: [arch-general] In the systemd scheme, where should startup/stop scripts for things systemd can't handle go?

2012-07-28 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/28/2012 02:28 AM, Mantas Mikulėnas wrote: Probably because it's KillSignal, not Kill-Signal. Thanks! I'm about to head out the door, but I've corrected the service files accordingly. - -- David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org -BEGIN

Re: [arch-general] systemd script at boot?

2012-07-28 Thread David Benfell
by enabling rc-local.service and rc-local-shutdown.service. The package is not recommended but it exists. - -- David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

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

2012-07-28 Thread David Benfell
this as we've seen on this list. - -- David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJQFMgoAAoJELT202JKF+xplvYQAI6DcviIC2y69t2uhXmadn9X 2XYX

Re: [arch-general] systemd network configuration

2012-07-27 Thread David Benfell
have encountered other difficulties, but these are potentially topics for new threads. It looks to me like C Anthony's approach is a correct approach for network setups that don't fit into the standard netcfg/network paradigm. Thanks! - -- David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org -BEGIN PGP

[arch-general] In the systemd scheme, where should startup/stop scripts for things systemd can't handle go?

2012-07-27 Thread David Benfell
definitely do not want to use /etc/rc.d for this (I had to back out and go back to init and /etc/rc.d is still in use for that). Is there some consensus on where such scripts should go? - -- David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux

Re: [arch-general] In the systemd scheme, where should startup/stop scripts for things systemd can't handle go?

2012-07-27 Thread David Benfell
} -- ${DICTD_EARGS} Restart=always [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target Is this making sense? Thanks! - -- David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: [arch-general] In the systemd scheme, where should startup/stop scripts for things systemd can't handle go?

2012-07-27 Thread David Benfell
that service. See man systemd.kill KillMode= It turns out I do need KillSignal= for my memcached jobs. But when I include it in the service file it complains: Unknown lvalue 'Kill-Signal' in section 'Service'. Ignoring. I'm not understanding, then, where you put this. Thanks! - -- David Benfell

Re: [arch-general] In the systemd scheme, where should startup/stop scripts for things systemd can't handle go?

2012-07-27 Thread David Benfell
has finished starting. I am indeed finding in many cases I have to use 'forking'. - -- David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJQEzBnAAoJELT202JKF

Re: [arch-general] systemd network configuration

2012-07-26 Thread David Benfell
[Install] Alias=sys-subsystem-net-devices-eth0.device.wants/net.static@eth0.service Even with all those dashes in front of every command, it exits with a code and is plainly unhappy. Which I find mystifying. Thanks! - -- David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [arch-general] systemd network configuration

2012-07-26 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/25/2012 11:34 PM, Guillaume Brunerie wrote: It’s /bin/zsh. Oh, this is an artifact from the fact I have so many scripts I copied over from whatever Debian-variant distribution I was using before. I have it sym-linked. - -- David Benfell

Re: [arch-general] systemd network configuration

2012-07-26 Thread David Benfell
is clear on this, I missed it. Thanks! - -- David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJQEVLrAAoJELT202JKF+xpxWkP/AqnPmWhtPUqvwZyE1oOAzg+ zEDX/SWT1qh4VgeBXfqs7COmF

Re: [arch-general] systemd network configuration

2012-07-26 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/26/2012 07:49 AM, C Anthony Risinger wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 9:13 AM, David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org wrote: Even with all those dashes in front of every command, it exits with a code and is plainly unhappy. Which I find

Re: [arch-general] systemd network configuration

2012-07-25 Thread David Benfell
that. :-/ - -- David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJQEFxvAAoJELT202JKF+xpPMYP+gOryJH4w5hIJ48kZbXDEm+6 ZuOTiJSXSTJrA8hJaAcNayrhd04uyXH2fJrpTcdDF789Bfd

Re: [arch-general] systemd network configuration

2012-07-25 Thread David Benfell
socket. Thanks! - -- David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJQEHUBAAoJELT202JKF+xpLBMP/2NquXXu8hsT/5tVs83KPt8P BkiyC+R4aFdmDA/5YbKjt6FLxJ4/JKiG3CLe

Re: [arch-general] systemd network configuration

2012-07-25 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, On 07/25/2012 01:52 PM, David Benfell wrote: On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:57:02AM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: Then create a service file in /etc/systemd/system/davids-network.service [unit] description= David's Network Setup Wants

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