Re: [arch-general] Proposal: add "--disable-modern-top" to procps-ng configure flags

2017-12-09 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Sat, 9 Dec 2017 15:39:46 + Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: > The "modern" default interface: > > * requires user configuration to make usable; Completely subjective > * uses low-contrast text; So? This is personal preference > * is not consistent with other distros; Nobody cares > * has

Re: [arch-general] Proposal: add "--disable-modern-top" to procps-ng configure flags

2017-12-09 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Sat, 9 Dec 2017 16:31:21 + Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: > If anyone is willing to help me contribute in a way that isn't viewed as > "complaining" please point me in the right direction. And now you're asking how to complain without it being viewed as complaining. The decision was made, mov

Re: [arch-general] Proposal: add "--disable-modern-top" to procps-ng configure flags

2017-12-09 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Sat, 9 Dec 2017 10:55:51 -0600 Doug Newgard via arch-general wrote: > On Sat, 9 Dec 2017 16:31:21 + > Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: > > > If anyone is willing to help me contribute in a way that isn't viewed as > > "complaining" please point me in the ri

Re: [arch-general] Proposal: add "--disable-modern-top" to procps-ng configure flags

2017-12-09 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 00:10:15 + Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: > I submitted, what I thought, was a reasonably structured and detailed > proposal to change one flag in a PKGBUILD file which would have few (if > any) side effects. > > The whole point of a proposal is to drive a discussion; there i

Re: [arch-general] libxfont: removing fontsproto breaks dependency 'fontsproto>=2.1.3'

2018-02-09 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Fri, 9 Feb 2018 20:53:01 -0600 "David C. Rankin" wrote: > All, > > Attempting to upgrade tonight I am met with a fontsproto breaks dependency > 'fontsproto>=2.1.3' error and pacman quits. Is this a repo-sync issue or is > this a bug? > It's neither. Why do you still have libxfont instal

Re: [arch-general] libxfont: removing fontsproto breaks dependency 'fontsproto>=2.1.3'

2018-02-09 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Fri, 9 Feb 2018 21:46:43 -0600 "David C. Rankin" wrote: > On 02/09/2018 09:17 PM, Doug Newgard via arch-general wrote: > > On Fri, 9 Feb 2018 20:53:01 -0600 > > "David C. Rankin" wrote: > > > >> All, > >> > >&g

Re: [arch-general] libxfont: removing fontsproto breaks dependency 'fontsproto>=2.1.3'

2018-02-09 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Fri, 9 Feb 2018 21:54:10 -0600 "David C. Rankin" wrote: > On 02/09/2018 09:49 PM, Doug Newgard via arch-general wrote: > > It no longer exists in the repos. You have nothing depending on it. It's > > causing you problems. The solution seems obvious. > >

Re: [arch-general] Corrupt Package (confirmed 2 servers) dovecot, jansson, python2-pillow

2018-02-11 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Sun, 11 Feb 2018 06:33:56 -0600 "David C. Rankin" wrote: > On 02/11/2018 04:42 AM, Simon Doppler wrote: > > The error means that your pacman keyring knows Eli's key but has no > > trustlevel > > associated to it (have you tried refreshing the keys or reinstalling the > > archlinux-keyring p

Re: [arch-general] Corrupt Package (confirmed 2 servers) dovecot, jansson, python2-pillow

2018-02-11 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Sun, 11 Feb 2018 16:22:04 -0600 "David C. Rankin" wrote: > On 02/11/2018 07:09 AM, Doug Newgard via arch-general wrote: > >> I refreshed the keylist with pacman-key no help, I finally just tagged > >> TrustAll at the end of the line in packman.conf and

Re: [arch-general] lftp bug

2018-02-12 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Mon, 12 Feb 2018 13:12:02 -0500 Jude DaShiell wrote: > I don't know which is responsible for what. > I put together an lftp script and tried running the script to download a > torrent and am getting strange output. > > Script started on 2018-02-07 10:35:38-0500 > [jude@taf ~]$ cat debian.lft

Re: [arch-general] Intel microcode - latest version not loading

2018-02-28 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 11:46:23 -0600 Dutch Ingraham wrote: > Hi all: > > I'm having an issue with Intel microcode loading. Specifically, the microcode > does not appear to be loading the latest version: > > ~ $ dmesg | grep microcode > [0.00] microcode: microcode updated early to revisio

Re: [arch-general] Intel microcode - latest version not loading

2018-02-28 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 12:43:26 -0600 Dutch Ingraham wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 11:50:09AM -0600, Doug Newgard via arch-general wrote: > > You're looking at the dates that the last *bundle* was released. That says > > nothing about what firmware is available for your proce

Re: [arch-general] OpenRA / Mono exceptions

2018-03-03 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Sat, 3 Mar 2018 17:56:52 +0100 Alajos Odoyle wrote: > On 2018-03-02 13:07, Levente Polyak via arch-general wrote: > > > > That's literally an incredibly stupid idea. Symlink /usr/lib/libtinfo.so.5 > > to /usr/lib/libtinfo.so.6 does not magically make it compatible for both, > > it is ABI in

Re: [arch-general] Re-install of Arch on a larger drive

2018-03-18 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 17:30:27 +0100 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 16:51:53 +0100, Ricardo Band via arch-general wrote: > >On Sat, 2018-03-17 at 17:25 -0400, Trey Sizemore wrote: > >> Hi all- > >> > >> I currently have Arch running on a 250GB drive, and I'm going to be > >> moving to

Re: [arch-general] Re-install of Arch on a larger drive

2018-03-18 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 17:46:21 +0100 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 11:33:19 -0500, Doug Newgard via arch-general wrote: > >On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 17:30:27 +0100 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> The "dd" command is inappropriate, a "cp -a" is the most reason

Re: [arch-general] deluge post-install

2018-03-24 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 09:29:07 -0400 Jude DaShiell wrote: > Interesting pip and pip3 found nothing. pypi though found a bunch of > packages. Now I need to learn how to use pypi since when I did a search > with the package I got into an unfamiliar interface and further with it > than had been t

Re: [arch-general] libsecret dependency error

2018-04-06 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Fri, 6 Apr 2018 20:43:48 +0200 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 6 Apr 2018 14:34:09 -0400, beest wrote: > >On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 02:11:44PM -0400, Trey Sizemore via > >arch-general wrote: > >> I've recently been getting the following errors for the libsecret > >> package, and I'm not sure how

Re: [arch-general] arch-general Digest, Vol 163, Issue 29

2018-05-31 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Thu, 31 May 2018 15:44:33 + Candy Adkins via arch-general wrote: > Please remove me from this list I didn't ask for your emails > > Candy > Somebody with access to your account did. This email won't do anything, either, follow the instructions provided in your original email below.

Re: [arch-general] nvidia-lts version

2018-06-05 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Tue, 5 Jun 2018 17:21:18 +0200 Hering wrote: > Hello, > is there a reason why the current nvidia-lts version is 396.24 but when > checking https://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html it says it should be > 390.67? > I am asking because the current nvidia-driver is causing problems with > Unity her

Re: [arch-general] Kernel modules not loaded after Linux update

2018-07-22 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Sun, 22 Jul 2018 11:27:04 +0200 Peter Nabbefeld wrote: > Hello, > > I've updated my installation yesterday, also doing an update of the > Linux kernel to 4.17.8. When starting this morning, kernel modules > rejected to load, so I even couldn't access the internet. > > I've downgraded Linux

Re: [arch-general] How can I delete my flyspray account?

2018-07-23 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
Done

Re: [arch-general] libjson-c.so.3 problem

2018-08-05 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Sun, 5 Aug 2018 16:33:37 +0100 niya via arch-general wrote: > hi everyone > > i have downloaded and installed bind and bind-tools version 9.11.2, > named.conf is configured, > when i enable and start named i get the following error > - > /usr/bin/named: error while loading shared librarie

Re: [arch-general] Antergoes problem.

2018-08-22 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 12:46:41 -0400 Matthew Dyer via arch-general wrote: > Hi all, > > > Just installed antergoes which is an arch diribitive distro.  Any how I > have yaourt  Enabled to install packages from the AUR.  When I attempted > to install or update packages with yaourt I get command

Re: [arch-general] How to have multiple JDKs parallel?

2018-09-17 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Mon, 17 Sep 2018 18:20:49 +0200 Guillaume ALAUX via arch-general wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 5:48 PM Carsten Mattner via arch-general > wrote: > > > > On 9/17/18, Eli Schwartz via arch-general > > wrote: > > > > > So essentially what you really want is a way for pacman to remember yo

Re: [arch-general] Can I prevent Pacman from running hooks?

2018-10-13 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 10:11:10 +0200 Tobias Hunger via arch-general wrote: > Hi Arch Community, > > I have scripts that will install a set of arch linux machines for me > with all the tweaks I want. These scripts run pacman a lot to install > bits and pieces. Usually the script will running pacman

Re: [arch-general] Can I prevent Pacman from running hooks?

2018-10-13 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 14:12:11 +0200 Tobias Hunger via arch-general wrote: > It would suffice to run all hooks in the leaves of the tree of systems > (just before writing the actual HDD image files) and skip them for all > others. Again, no, it wouldn't. The hooks would not run correctly.

Re: [arch-general] Can I prevent Pacman from running hooks?

2018-10-13 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 18:41:45 +0200 Tobias Hunger via arch-general wrote: > On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 5:15 PM Doug Newgard via arch-general > wrote: > > On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 14:12:11 +0200 > > Tobias Hunger via arch-general wrote: > > > > > It would suffice to r

Re: [arch-general] Can I prevent Pacman from running hooks?

2018-10-13 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 11:44:37 -0500 Doug Newgard via arch-general wrote: > On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 18:41:45 +0200 > Tobias Hunger via arch-general wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 5:15 PM Doug Newgard via arch-general > > wrote: > > > On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 14:1

Re: [arch-general] Add MIT Licence to /usr/share/licences/common

2018-11-03 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Sun, 4 Nov 2018 00:24:14 +0100 mpan wrote: > > It states MIT/BSD are special cases, just out of curiousity, what makes > > them special that they cannot be added? > Because there is no MIT or 1/2/3-clause BSD license. There are > hundreds of independent, barely related licenses that are q

Re: [arch-general] Problems with shadow service

2018-12-12 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 07:33:49 +0100 Andy Pieters wrote: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 10:28 PM Peter Nabbefeld > wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > because of a performance problem I've checked services and noticed this > > line: > > ● shadow.service > > loaded failed failedVe

Re: [arch-general] Problems with shadow service

2018-12-12 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 07:52:55 +0100 Ralf Mardorf via arch-general wrote: > On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 07:34:12 +0100, Peter Nabbefeld wrote: > >Probably I should create the folder to fix the problem. Which owner > >and access rights are needed? > > No, use /usr/lib/sysusers.d/ to declare the user. >

Re: [arch-general] pambase update now requires explicit service files in /etc/pam.d/ - dovecot affected

2019-02-11 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 18:42:01 -0800 frede...@ofb.net wrote: > I don't understand the need for that reaction... He posted that he's glad he broke the rules, implying that he'd gladly do it again in the future. A strong reaction is not only warranted, but necessary. Scimmia

Re: [arch-general] BrlTTY Hard Dependancy on eSpeak

2019-02-13 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Wed, 13 Feb 2019 15:25:19 -0500 "brent s." wrote: > On 2/13/19 3:16 PM, Storm Dragon via arch-general wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm having some issues with installing brltty. The problem is, it > > depends on espeak but I'm using the espeak-ng from community and it is > > giving me the unresolva

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux USB stick won't boot

2019-03-22 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 19:37:18 -0600 st...@vwebr.net wrote: > My apologies, but the instructions aren't clear at all. I don't know > where in the instructions the event I'm seeing is taking place. > > I'm seeing a prompt but it's not obvious what to put there even from the > instructions. I not co

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Mkinitcpio replacement with Dracut

2019-05-21 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Tue, 21 May 2019 17:21:31 +0200 Lone_Wolf wrote: > Seems like having dracut depending on bash may not be a good idea. > > Or is there a way to make sure dracut scripts & hooks will use bash in > POSIX-compliant mode ? > > LW Bash runs POSIX scripts just fine. No need to do anything.

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Mkinitcpio replacement with Dracut

2019-05-21 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Tue, 21 May 2019 12:24:09 -0400 Genes Lists via arch-general wrote: > 1) Feedback: > Tested one computer and it worked fine. > Used refind to boot - it has encrytped /home but not root. > Got text prompt for passphrase not graphical - think there is a way to > get graphical as well but need to

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Mkinitcpio replacement with Dracut

2019-05-21 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Tue, 21 May 2019 18:28:50 +0200 Damjan Georgievski via arch-general wrote: > > 2) Question: > >Arch typically has used unversioned initrd images which has the > >convenience that the boot standzas don't need updating on new kernel. > > > > This can (also) be fixed if Arch implements

Re: [arch-general] XFCE4 4.14 Missing Files?

2019-08-14 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Wed, 14 Aug 2019 09:07:04 -0400 Dan Sommers <2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > I tried to install XFCE4 4.14 (i.e., the xfce4 and xfce4-goodies > groups) this morning, and some of the packages can't be found. > > Relevant exerpts from pacman's output: > > error: fai

Re: [arch-general] `base` group replaced by mandatory `base` package - manual intervention required

2019-10-09 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 12:13:28 -0400 Jude DaShiell wrote: > One dependency that exists is netctl and dialog. You can't use wifi-menu > unless dialog is pre-installed and wifi-menu if I'm not much mistaken is a > part of netctl. > > > > -- Optional dependencies are a standard part of Arch.

Re: [arch-general] Package guidelines 📦

2019-10-14 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Mon, 14 Oct 2019 17:17:09 +0200 Alberto Salvia Novella via arch-general wrote: > Robin Broda: > > This is universally stupid. > abrasiveness = blockage > LOL, blocking a TU who's making valid points. This thread was going nowhere in the first place, so I guess it doesn't matter.

Re: [arch-general] about ecryptfs-utils, openssl supporting should be added ?

2019-11-27 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Wed, 27 Nov 2019 12:42:04 +0800 Yi Zheng via arch-general wrote: > why not add '--enable-openssl' into the configure options? > > Does it support OpenSSL now? If you want the functionality, how do you not know if it supports it? What's the actual issue here?

Re: [arch-general] changing nickname on arch infrastructure

2020-04-13 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 17:15:05 +0300 Alexander Epaneshnikov via arch-general wrote: > hello list, i need to change my nick on arch bug-tracker, forum and > wiki. where and to whom do I need to write? > You don't, changing usernames isn't something we do. pgpa9OfzVgI8I.pgp Description: OpenPGP d

Re: [arch-general] oops, 'sudo: pacman: command not found'

2020-06-07 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Sun, 07 Jun 2020 18:09:12 -0700 Greg Minshall wrote: > hi. a month ago i ran out of room on my root file system, so relocated > /var/cache/pacman to /home, and left behind a symlink. > > today, after a while, i did a 'pacman -Syu', which downloaded lots, and > ran through a lot new keys, upg

Re: [arch-general] pacman --assume-installed in a config file?

2020-06-18 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 15:30:24 +0200 Damjan Georgievski via arch-general wrote: > I often find myself using the `assume-installed`[1] option of pacman > when doing upgrades, since I want to avoid some (for me) nonsensical > dependencies to be installed. > > Is it possible to configure this in some

Re: [arch-general] Anyone having problems refreshing PGP keys lately?

2020-07-22 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 10:21:10 -0400 matthew dyer via arch-general wrote: > Good morning all, > > I am wondering if anyone is having problems refreshing PGP keys from the > default server? I can force it to use the ipv4 server, but using > mate-terminal with orca I am unable to edit the /etc/pa

Re: [arch-general] conflict on /usr/bin generated by tigervnc?

2020-09-09 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Wed, 9 Sep 2020 17:41:28 -0600 Javier via arch-general wrote: > Hi ! > > On Today's upgrade: > > % pacman -Syu > :: Synchronizing package databases... > ... > Packages (9) ... tigervnc-1.11.0-1 ... > ... > tigervnc-1.11.0-1-x86_64 131.3 MiB 3.51 MiB/s 00:37 > [##

Re: [arch-general] problem upgrading old installation

2020-10-09 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Fri, 9 Oct 2020 15:30:56 +0200 Łukasz Michalski wrote: > Hi, > > Any idea how can I overcome this problem: > > [root@nettest zork]# pacman -S -q --noconfirm archlinux-keyring > > downloading required keys... > > error: key "6D42BDD116E0068F" could not be looked up remotely > error: require

Re: [arch-general] Problems with upgrading arch system do to file conflicts.

2020-10-23 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Fri, 23 Oct 2020 20:12:39 -0400 matthew dyer via arch-general wrote: > Evening all, > > When trying to update my arch system, I get a message about files in > conflict with speech-dispatcher. Speech-dispatcher is not even listed as an > update. I have tried paceman overwrite with no luck

Re: [arch-general] pacman reset procedure

2020-11-27 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Fri, 27 Nov 2020 09:37:53 -0500 Jude DaShiell wrote: > Failed to synchronize all error failed to update each database and > finally error failed to synchronize all data bases. > > On Fri, 27 Nov 2020, Nate DeMare via arch-general wrote: > > > Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 09:23:55 > > From: Nate De