Re: [arch-general] dash as default shell?

2020-06-18 Thread Simon Brand
Also I think some people here wrote, that they used dash as /bin/sh for years without problems. I personally also prefer dash as /bin/sh, but I dont think the pacman-trigger approach described in the wiki is a clean way of doing it. I dont know the arch packaging a lot, but I think a package

Re: [arch-general] Package Jami is out of date

2020-02-27 Thread Simon Brand
On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 21:16:09 -0500 Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: > Here's a tip to make this easier. Look at the field: > Great hint thank you! I will do this in the future. :) pgpQ45TVlkfKi.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Package Jami is out of date

2020-02-26 Thread Simon Brand
On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 20:57:30 -0500 Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: > This, however, is not. Why do you think that Bruno is "not active > anymore"? Why do you think that asking someone else to take over his > package due to him being Missing In Action is the correct solution? Thank you for

[arch-general] Package Jami is out of date

2020-02-26 Thread Simon Brand
Hello, the package Jami is out of date: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/jami-gnome/ The last packager seams to be not active anymore. Can anybody please take over the package? Best, Simon

Re: [arch-general] [draft] xorg-server 1.16 is now available (v2)

2014-07-29 Thread Simon Brand
Am 29.07.2014 um 19:46 schrieb Mauro Santos: QT_GRAPHICSSYSTEM=native Oh nice, thank you. It fixes the problem running skype in xephyr too. (Grey window) This worked before an update of lib32-qt4, so I'd guess it is a libqt problem and not a X problem.

Re: [arch-general] Is ATI more... compatible?

2014-05-03 Thread Simon Brand
Am 03.05.2014 22:09, schrieb Nowaker: I am speaking about GPU passthrough. Is ATi better supported by Xen or KVM passthrough than nvidia. I do not think it makes a difference, if nvidia or amd/ati is passed through, but dont know it for sure. There is a thread in the forum:

Re: [arch-general] /var lost, how reinstal Archlinux?

2014-04-04 Thread Simon Brand
Am 04.04.2014 23:24, schrieb Rodrigo Rivas: On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 9:12 PM, Lukas Jirkovsky l.jirkov...@gmail.com wrote: If you have enough time, I would try using pkgfile to recover the installed packages. I thing something like this should suffice: # update the pkgfile database pkgfile -u

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Trimming down our default kernel configuration

2014-03-27 Thread Simon Brand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Am 27.03.2014 13:46, schrieb Thomas Bächler: Do you even know what that means? If I see this right, every time the kernel needs to do some permission check, it needs to ask are we using LSM xyz?. In any case, it's more code and thus more room

Re: [arch-general] talkingarch problems formatting partitions

2014-03-12 Thread Simon Brand
Am 12.03.2014 19:38, schrieb Don Raikes: Hi Ary, I tried using: # mkfs -t ext2 /dev/sda1 And got the same results. After a reboot, I tried: # mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sda3 And got a lot of messages about how there is a problem with the disk, so I am now suspecting that my hdd has gone

Re: [arch-general] Problems of using pacman and updating the filesystem

2014-03-06 Thread Simon Brand
Am 07.03.2014 07:49, schrieb Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student): Now, for my problem, is there any way to repair that? Or you think I should reinstall my arch linux system? I am not a fan of reinstalling only to fix the system, but you should update more frequently ;) Chroot into your system, then look

Re: [arch-general] Problems of using pacman and updating the filesystem

2014-03-06 Thread Simon Brand
, Simon Brand simon.br...@postadigitale.de wrote: Am 07.03.2014 07:49, schrieb Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student): Now, for my problem, is there any way to repair that? Or you think I should reinstall my arch linux system? I am not a fan of reinstalling only to fix the system, but you should update

Re: [arch-general] Open Source ati driver can't load GLX extension

2014-03-05 Thread Simon Brand
Am 05.03.2014 16:04, schrieb Felix Yan: On Wednesday, March 05, 2014 13:18:02 Heiko Becker wrote: OpenGL GLX extension not supported by displayAssert( Assertion Failed: Fatal Error: OpenGL GLX extension not supported by display You need (lib32-)ati-dri besides xf86-video-ati, for OpenGL GLX

Re: [arch-general] Open Source ati driver can't load GLX extension

2014-03-05 Thread Simon Brand
Am 05.03.2014 18:49, schrieb Heiko Becker: What should I look for? Kind regards, Heiko Kernel, mesa, lib-ati, lib32-ati, steam, xorg* What video card do you have? Did you try a clean /home directory?

Re: [arch-general] Open Source ati driver can't load GLX extension

2014-03-05 Thread Simon Brand
Am 05.03.2014 19:13, schrieb Heiko Becker: Short Update: Clean /home/ gives me: Running Steam on arch 64-bit STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1393366296_client) Installing breakpad exception handler for

Re: [arch-general] Updating the archlinux-keyring package

2014-02-14 Thread simon . brand
Am 2014-02-14 12:00, schrieb Plonky Duby: I do agree with that, i switched on a laptop which was off since september 2013 and i had some issue with some key. I had to update key, before having a sucessfull update. A cronjob does not help you, when you're laptop is off.