[arch-general] gsl 2.1

2015-11-15 Thread Scott Lawrence
no problem with putting this on AUR myself, but I don't want to step on toes / waste time. -- Scott Lawrence

Re: [arch-general] gsl 2.1

2015-11-15 Thread Scott Lawrence
On Sun, 15 Nov 2015, Doug Newgard wrote: Putting it in the AUR would just get it deleted. Rule 1 of the AUR is that it can't duplicate packages in the official repos. Okay. I figured that sometimes v2 and v1 become separate packages, so it might not count as a "duplicate", but I'll sit back

Re: [arch-general] Why irrelevant updates?

2015-05-12 Thread Scott Lawrence
Hi, pacman will request to update all installed packages. If you think you don't need a certain package, -Rscn it. Not upgrading a package that you nevertheless keep installed is probably a Bad Idea (as you realize). That being said, there's no major disadvantage (disk space issues

Re: [arch-general] A symlink in /etc

2014-12-30 Thread Scott Lawrence
I report the bug. Does anyone know something about this? Symlinks will appear lrwxrwxrwx, but are not actually writable. (You can only delete and re-create, so it's the permissions of the directory that are relevant.) -- Scott Lawrence Linux baidar 3.17.6-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Dec 7 23

Re: [arch-general] Firefox showing flashplugin as outdated although it's not

2014-12-14 Thread Scott Lawrence
Flashswf application/futuresplashFutureSplash Playerspl Have any of you experienced a similar issue? Thanks. -- # Marcos -- Scott Lawrence Linux baidar 3.17.6-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Dec 7 23:43:32 UTC 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Re: [arch-general] Firefox showing flashplugin as outdated although it's not

2014-12-14 Thread Scott Lawrence
version (424--425) and restarted Firefox. All was well with the world. :) Mozilla's plugin check reported it as up-to-date even beforehand, for some odd reason. Make sure you restarted the browser. Otherwise it will still be using .424 -- Eli Schwartz -- Scott Lawrence Linux baidar 3.17.6-1

Re: [arch-general] Change installation from 64-bit to 32-bit

2014-07-10 Thread Scott Lawrence
-- Scott Lawrence Linux baidar 3.15.3-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jul 1 07:32:45 CEST 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Re: [arch-general] per error

2014-03-28 Thread Scott Lawrence
. line 58: use HTML::Entities; Tried re-installation of perl (518222 already installed) and failed. Any suggestions to solve please? -- Scott Lawrence Linux baidar 3.13.6-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Mar 7 22:47:48 CET 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Re: [arch-general] Incremental update for TeXLive 2013

2014-03-12 Thread Scott Lawrence
://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28514 Regards, Rémy. -- Scott Lawrence Linux baidar 3.13.5-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Feb 23 00:25:24 CET 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Re: [arch-general] aur-general post acknowledgement

2013-08-16 Thread Scott Lawrence
Your preferences: https://mailman.archlinux.org/mailman/options/aur-general/1007380%40gmail.com -- Scott Lawrence

Re: [arch-general] short hangs

2013-07-03 Thread Scott Lawrence
settings to make spin-downs more rare, or banish them altogether if you're willing to take a minor hit to power consumption. -- Scott Lawrence Linux baidar 3.9.7-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jun 20 22:45:32 CEST 2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[arch-general] /bin symlink breaking fetchmail

2013-06-06 Thread Scott Lawrence
` reveals that the execve(/bin/sh...) call returns EPERM. I'm well and truly stumped. I'm using courier-mta as my mda, but that shouldn't be relevant. Has anybody encountered this? Thanks, -- Scott Lawrence Linux baidar 3.9.4-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat May 25 16:14:55 CEST 2013 x86_64 GNU

Re: [arch-general] /bin symlink breaking fetchmail

2013-06-06 Thread Scott Lawrence
My assumption was that this was less an issue in packaging and more likely somehow my fault, so posting here made more sense than filing. https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/35684 On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 10:36 PM, Gaetan Bisson bis...@archlinux.org wrote: [2013-06-06 22:20:46 -0400] Scott Lawrence

Re: [arch-general] /bin symlink breaking fetchmail

2013-06-06 Thread Scott Lawrence
On Thu, 6 Jun 2013, Leonid Isaev wrote: On Thu, 6 Jun 2013 22:20:46 -0400 (EDT) Scott Lawrence byt...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, In short, the latest upgrade seems to have borked fetchmail: fetchmail: Error writing to MDA: Broken pipe Deleting the /bin symlink and creating a /bin

[arch-general] Pidgin voice/video support

2012-12-29 Thread Scott Lawrence
Hey all, The pidgin package in extra appears to be compiled without voice/video support (`--disable-vv`). Is this ommission intentional? -- Scott Lawrence Linux baidar 3.6.10-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Dec 11 09:40:17 CET 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Re: [arch-general] Pidgin voice/video support

2012-12-29 Thread Scott Lawrence
On Sat, 29 Dec 2012, Dave Reisner wrote: On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 11:36:28PM -0500, Scott Lawrence wrote: Hey all, The pidgin package in extra appears to be compiled without voice/video support (`--disable-vv`). Is this ommission intentional? It requires an older version of farstream we

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [RFC] dbus cleanup

2012-12-03 Thread Scott Lawrence
not an issue. That leaves dbus-launch. I don't see why you would want to remove the binary? Is something on your system trying to call it, even if we remove 30-dbus? Many programs run dbus-launch themselves if they don't see it already running, and then leave it up when they exit. -- Scott Lawrence

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

2012-10-11 Thread Scott Lawrence
volumes of email. -- Scott Lawrence Linux jagadai 3.5.4-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Sep 15 08:12:04 CEST 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[arch-general] Trouble with system bell

2012-08-06 Thread Scott Lawrence
played from terminal? I've tried xset b stuff, and I'm out of ideas. -- Scott Lawrence Linux jagadai 3.4.7-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jul 29 22:02:56 CEST 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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

2012-08-04 Thread Scott Lawrence
applicable. -- Scott Lawrence Linux jagadai 3.4.6-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jul 20 08:21:26 CEST 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[arch-general] Consolekit etc. stubs? (Was: My end-user $0.02 on /etc/rc.conf splitting.)

2012-07-22 Thread Scott Lawrence
those dependencies altogether), but I think it would be a pretty useful hack to back-port such software to cleaner systems. Is there a good technical reason why this is impossible or impractical? -- Scott Lawrence Linux jagadai 3.4.4-3-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jul 3 14:36:44 UTC 2012 x86_64

Re: [arch-general] Download wiki arch!

2012-07-14 Thread Scott Lawrence
, is there anyway I can download wiki.archlinux.org, or anything equivalent? Any advice would be appreciated! Best regards. -- Scott Lawrence Linux jagadai 3.4.4-2-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jun 24 18:59:47 CEST 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Re: [arch-general] installation failure

2012-06-18 Thread Scott Lawrence
). But in any case, I can't get past this point. How do I proceed? Doc Evans -- Web: http://www.sff.net/people/N7DR -- Scott Lawrence Linux jagadai 3.4.2-2-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jun 11 22:27:17 CEST 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Re: [arch-general] EFI-Support (Arch on a MacBook Pro)

2012-04-15 Thread Scott Lawrence
On Sun, 15 Apr 2012, Arvid Warnecke wrote: On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 04:19:13PM -0400, Scott Lawrence wrote: What I have been wondering about now is, if it will be possible to install Arch without rEFIt and the Mac OS X at all? I read a lot in the wiki pages, but all I found was that if I

Re: [arch-general] EFI-Support (Arch on a MacBook Pro)

2012-04-14 Thread Scott Lawrence
at 23:50, Arvid Warnecke ar...@nostalgix.org wrote: Hi Scott, On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 02:54:28PM -0400, Scott Lawrence wrote: What I have been wondering about now is, if it will be possible to install Arch without rEFIt and the Mac OS X at all? I read a lot in the wiki pages, but all I found

Re: [arch-general] EFI-Support (Arch on a MacBook Pro)

2012-04-13 Thread Scott Lawrence
let you know what happens (provided nobody else interjects with something more useful). -- Scott Lawrence Linux jagadai 3.3.1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Apr 3 06:46:17 UTC 2012 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8700 @ 2.53GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

Re: [arch-general] Some synaptics multitouch functionality lost on upgrade

2012-03-24 Thread Scott Lawrence
For the record: 'twas a bug in the driver, which the latest update fixed. ClickPad must also be set to 1. On Thu, 15 Mar 2012, Scott Lawrence wrote: On Thu, 15 Mar 2012, Jesse Juhani Jaara wrote: to, 2012-03-15 kello 15:44 -0400, Scott Lawrence kirjoitti: (There's no separate physical

[arch-general] Troubleshooting suspend

2012-03-22 Thread Scott Lawrence
of printing to logs. -- Scott Lawrence Linux jagadai 3.2.12-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Mar 19 17:50:01 CET 2012 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8700 @ 2.53GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

Re: [arch-general] Anyone willing to share experiences running Arch on a current-gen MacBook Pro?

2012-03-19 Thread Scott Lawrence
with wireless, and you have to wait for a patch to make it to AUR. Do the Apple Store employees try to wipe your Linux partition when you take your machine in for repairs? No personal experience - I've heard no, that the apple store employees are very cooperative with linux folk. -- Scott Lawrence

[arch-general] Some synaptics multitouch functionality lost on upgrade

2012-03-15 Thread Scott Lawrence
else to look? (I'm about to try enabling shmconfig and see what synclient -m gives.) (I'm not a fan of mtrack at all; I'd much rather get the input-synaptics stuff working properly again.) Thanks. -- Scott Lawrence Linux jagadai 3.2.9-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Mar 1 09:31:13 CET 2012 x86_64

Re: [arch-general] Some synaptics multitouch functionality lost on upgrade

2012-03-15 Thread Scott Lawrence
On Thu, 15 Mar 2012, Jesse Juhani Jaara wrote: to, 2012-03-15 kello 14:58 -0400, Scott Lawrence kirjoitti: I've lost the ability to right click by clicking with two fingers. Interestingly, I can still right-click by /tapping/ with two fingers, There has been some changes on the clickpad

Re: [arch-general] Some synaptics multitouch functionality lost on upgrade

2012-03-15 Thread Scott Lawrence
On Thu, 15 Mar 2012, Jesse Juhani Jaara wrote: to, 2012-03-15 kello 15:44 -0400, Scott Lawrence kirjoitti: (There's no separate physical button.) How is that different from what you describe? Is your trackpad like this? With or without those lines. http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com

Re: [arch-general] pacman 4 in [core]

2012-01-16 Thread Scott Lawrence
On 01/16/2012 05:59 PM, Giorgio Lando wrote: It is a secret which should not even be named in public Too late. They know. They're coming. -- Scott Lawrence signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] What package owns shread

2012-01-06 Thread Scott Lawrence
coreutils owns /bin/shread, but you seem to have your own local copy. -- Scott Lawrence signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Seemingly archlinux specific problem with logkeys

2012-01-04 Thread Scott Lawrence
that to be more normal fixes the problem for me. Attached is my patch for this. (I'll also stick it on the issue tracker.) -- Scott Lawrence signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] no ACPI estimate in powertop with latest kernels

2011-10-11 Thread Scott Lawrence
On a related note - I also get this no ACPI estimate error, but only when my laptop is not on battery power. When unplugged, it gives estimates as desired. Anyone know why this would be? -- Scott Lawrence

Re: [arch-general] no ACPI estimate in powertop with latest kernels

2011-10-11 Thread Scott Lawrence
On 10/11/11 08:39, Thomas Bächler wrote: Powertop measures the power requirement using the decharge rate of your battery. Ah, of course. Thanks. (For some reason, I assumed there was an actual hardware bit dedicated to providing this estimate.) -- Scott Lawrence

Re: [arch-general] Virtual box

2011-09-25 Thread Scott Lawrence
) and you must be in the 'vboxusers' group (gpasswd -a s vboxusers). After the latter step, you'll have to obtain a new session with the new permissions - restart, for example. -- Scott Lawrence signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature