Re: [arch-general] How to configure Qt 5 theme?

2013-03-04 Thread gt
On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 12:49:23PM +0100, Andrea Scarpino wrote: > On Monday 04 March 2013 19:22:04 GSC wrote: > > I want to configure qt5 apps (like qt creator) theme to use the same as > > qt4 apps (oxygen) in KDE. How can I do this? And is there an appmenu-qt5 > > port? > > There's no oxygen fo

Re: [arch-general] Arch handbook as PDF

2013-02-13 Thread gt
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:15:18AM +0100, Karol Blazewicz wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:29 PM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > > Hi :) > > > > is there an up to date handbook, beginner's guide or even better the > > Wiki available as PDF? I already found outdated PDFs. > > There may never be, becau

Re: [arch-general] Difference between mkarchroot and arch-chroot

2013-01-15 Thread gt
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 06:08:01PM +0100, Kwpolska wrote: > On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 9:38 AM, gt wrote: > > Can someone elaborate on the difference between mkarchroot and > > arch-chroot? > arch-chroot — chrooting into an existing environment, using on the > Arch install

Re: [arch-general] Difference between mkarchroot and arch-chroot

2013-01-15 Thread gt
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:13:58AM +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: > mkarchroot creates a new system root. If you want to test a program in > an isolated environment, I suggest you look into systemd-nspawn. If you > want more security, libvirt-lxc may be your friend (it seems lxc is > broken in many w

[arch-general] Difference between mkarchroot and arch-chroot

2013-01-15 Thread gt
Can someone elaborate on the difference between mkarchroot and arch-chroot? Basically, i want a chrooted environment for testing some program. Alternatively, is there any other better way to create an isolated environment, apart from chroot and VMs.

Re: [arch-general] alternative to pmount

2012-12-24 Thread gt
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 09:56:32PM -0500, Juan Diego Tascón wrote: > Last week pmount went from extra to aur. I used to use pmount to allow > users to mount external devices as simple as: > > pmount /dev/sdb1 > > Is there an alternative to pmount in core, extra or community that > allows users to

Re: [arch-general] Awesome 3.5

2012-12-23 Thread gt
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 09:26:49PM +0100, Sébastien Luttringer wrote: > Hello, > > as a Chritsmas gift, Awesome 3.5 was released yesterdaty and will be > available in few minutes in our community-testing repository. > > As you can expect, this update _will_ break your configuration. Please > take

Re: [arch-general] Prosody update

2012-12-12 Thread gt
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 10:11:26AM -0800, David Benfell wrote: > 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

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.6.10-1

2012-12-12 Thread gt
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 07:36:30PM +0100, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Hi guys, > please signoff 3.6.10 series for both arches. > package is not in testing, please grab it from here: > http://dev.archlinux.org/~tpowa/linux/ > > This will move to [core] directly, because 3.7 is in [testing]. signoff

Re: [arch-general] A systemd less Linux alternative to Arch is hard to find but exists

2012-11-01 Thread gt
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 05:14:22PM +, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > Forgot a change Tom requested, please reject previous if not too late! > > > I'm sure I will > > have to switch to systemd on all my systems eventually, but I don't > > give up that easily ;-) > > > For those looking for many of

Re: [arch-general] Modify installed package version

2012-10-23 Thread gt
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 01:08:28PM +0200, Giorgio Lando wrote: > On Tue 23/10/12, 12:14, gt wrote: > > Actually, it is related to IgnorePkg. > > > > I have a few packages locally compiled, for example mutt. I have stripped > > all unnecessary options from mutt, and adde

Re: [arch-general] Modify installed package version

2012-10-23 Thread gt
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 05:16:30PM +1100, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > [2012-10-23 10:35:56 +0530] gt: > > Alternatively can I rename the package directory inside > > /var/lib/pacman/local/ and %VERSION% string inside the desc file to > > achieve the same? > > Sure you can

[arch-general] Modify installed package version

2012-10-22 Thread gt
Hey guys is there a way to modify an installed package's version using pacman, instead of upgrading the package. That is, only change the version in the database, but don't actually upgrade a package. Alternatively can I rename the package directory inside /var/lib/pacman/local/ and %VERSION% str

Re: [arch-general] syslog-ng depends on systemd?

2012-10-21 Thread gt
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 07:24:28PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > Look in syslog-ng.conf: > > unix-dgram("/run/systemd/journal/syslog"); > > > That means, in its default configuration it requires systemd. So you had been modifying it to work with initscripts? I see in syslog-ng's changelog that

[arch-general] syslog-ng depends on systemd?

2012-10-21 Thread gt
Hi, with the recent update of syslog-ng (3.3.6-2), systemd has been added as a dependency. I though systemd providing its own logging and syslog-ng wasn't needed. Then why is systemd needed for syslog-ng to run? As far i can see from the diffs, nothing has changed apart from adding systemd as a

Re: [arch-general] "You have mail" message at login

2012-10-16 Thread gt
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 04:24:37PM +0200, Krzysztof Warzecha wrote: > 2012/10/16 gt : > > Any idea what's causing it to show up? > > Well, you could always try brute force method. Login and run this as root: > > strace -vft -p $TARGET_GETTY_PID -o /tmp/strace-getty

Re: [arch-general] "You have mail" message at login

2012-10-16 Thread gt
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 10:33:53AM -0400, Sébastien Leblanc wrote: > On 16 October 2012 01:42, gt wrote: > > Whenever I log in to a TTY, I get this message. I read my system mails > > through mutt, so i don't need this. > > Pam is taking care of showing whether you h

[arch-general] "You have mail" message at login

2012-10-16 Thread gt
Whenever I log in to a TTY, I get this message. I read my system mails through mutt, so i don't need this. I have unset MAILCHECK in .bashrc, but no effect. I set MAIL_CHECK_ENAB to no in login.defs, but still no effect. Lastly i tried creating a .hushlogin file in the user's home, but even that

Re: [arch-general] xf86-video ***

2012-10-14 Thread gt
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 02:41:23PM +0100, P .NIKOLIC wrote: > > Hi . > > What is the easiest way to stop pacman trying to update all the > xf86-video* drivers for cards i do not have the system uses the > xf86-video-nouveau driver perfectly well but tries to install sis ati > sirrus trident a

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

2012-10-12 Thread gt
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 02:13:54PM -0400, Dave Reisner wrote: > Google has no interest in singular people. Moreover, Googlers who take > an interest in data or logs belonging to singular people find themselves > no longer working at Google. I would believe that googlers who are "caught" peeking at

Re: [arch-general] testing/systemd 191-1 failed to boot

2012-09-30 Thread gt
On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 11:49:05AM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > On 01/10/12 11:21, Armando M. Baratti wrote: > > Authoritarian and despotic. > > > > My ban, please. > > > > Done... and for two weeks because I had to look up what despotic meant. lol, always keep a dictionary handy. May I suggest

Re: [arch-general] ABS and pacman

2012-09-25 Thread gt
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 02:09:59PM -0400, Manolo Martínez wrote: > Hello, > > I've just had a minor hiccup, because one of the packages updated in my > pacman -Syu this morning substituted a version I had tweaked the ABS > way. > > Nothing serious, as I say, and wholly my fault, but yet I was >

Re: [arch-general] Upgrading an old system

2012-09-24 Thread gt
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 08:35:01AM +0200, Guillermo Leira wrote: > :-) > > It was an arch system. A Laptop with a 700 MHz PIII and 256 MB RAM. It's not > very useful nowadays. > > And how would a pic prove it? I have the pacman log, but even that could be > forged. :-) Don't worry we were just

Re: [arch-general] Upgrading an old system

2012-09-23 Thread gt
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 10:21:04PM +0200, Guillermo Leira wrote: > Hi! > > I have just finished upgrading a system that was powered off (broken > battery) since February 2011. Just for the fun of doing so. > > I couldn't help saying it... I'm quite proud of this achievement. ;-) Pics or it didn'

Re: [arch-general] testing/systemd 191-1 failed to boot

2012-09-23 Thread gt
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 10:19:42AM +0200, Tom Rand wrote: > On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 11:18:52AM +0200, Heiko Baums wrote: > > Am Sat, 22 Sep 2012 11:11:12 +0200 > > schrieb fredbezies : > > > > > I was fed up by the crap of the original poster. So I said what need > > > to be written, even if it wa

Re: [arch-general] Help mounting Windows drive

2012-09-10 Thread gt
On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 09:57:06PM -0400, Randy wrote: > On 09/09/2012 09:36 PM, rafael ff1 wrote: > >2012/9/9 Randy : > >>In the past I have been able to mount my Windows computer using the > >>following command: > >> > >>"mount -t cifs -o username=USERNAME,password=PASSWORD > >>//192.168.1.107/Us

Re: [arch-general] libsystemd to systemd

2012-08-31 Thread gt
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 06:58:02PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Aug 31, 2012 6:32 PM, "Kevin Chadwick" wrote: > > Will this be an issue for him if he switches to full systemd as it has > > removed inittab > > Yes, inittab is ignored. It would be trivial to add support for it via a > generator

Re: [arch-general] libsystemd to systemd

2012-08-31 Thread gt
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 03:30:43PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2012-08-31 at 13:51 +0200, Damjan Georgievski wrote: > > And this is yet another example how initscripts are broken. > > I had a friend whose GDM was not coming up because it > > was starting too fast after dbus. As a last reso

Re: [arch-general] systemd pulseaudio

2012-08-29 Thread gt
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 10:10:22AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2012-08-29 at 10:07 +0200, Arno Gaboury wrote: > > Sorry for this second post, but I forgot [arch-general] in subject > > You don't need to add [arch-general] to the subject, it automatically is > add to the mails coming throu

Re: [arch-general] SystemD poll

2012-08-25 Thread gt
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 05:56:32AM -0600, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 11:24:31PM -0500, C Anthony Risinger wrote: > > so buck up, do something useful, or find > > another outlet ... puh-puh-please? > > I'm not sure exactly what you're asking for here. > > When

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Migration to systemd

2012-08-17 Thread gt
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 01:25:46PM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > I wouldn't touch Avahi with a barge pole either. Unfortunately I don't see any alternative to it. Can you point one out, if any? I use it for bonjour protocol support.

Re: [arch-general] Some funny bloke - 2

2012-08-16 Thread gt
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 09:29:26PM +, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > Just received a second bogus 'unsubscribe confirmation request'. > > This begins to look like stalking. The request was sent from > anonymouse.org, so whoever is doing this is a miserable coward > apart from whatever else. On Th

Re: [arch-general] SystemD poll

2012-08-16 Thread gt
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 05:23:37PM +, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 07:09:47PM +0200, Jelle van der Waa wrote: > > > Also you're poll doesn't give any arguments for or against the move, > > unedacted users should look into the benefits of moving to systemd. > > They should

Re: [arch-general] Arch-general is becoming a mess !

2012-08-16 Thread gt
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 05:28:03PM +0200, Heiko Baums wrote: > Am Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:08:53 +0200 > schrieb Thomas Bächler : > > > This is a technical mailing list. If you want to discuss technical > > topics about Arch, you're in the right place. If you want to state > > your _opinion_, get yours

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

2012-08-14 Thread gt
On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 02:05:10PM -0600, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia wrote: > On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 02:37:54PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > I suspect that BSD for artist that draw can be used, but for audio not. > > Am I mistaken? > > I'm not sure I understand the question. > > There's a

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

2012-08-13 Thread gt
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 03:50:16PM +0530, Jayesh Badwaik wrote: > Hi, > > Another flame may start here, but I would like to present the following > as a pure news, no opinions[1]. > > Of course, after reading all the discussions on the mailing lists, my > feeling after reading the link? Mwuhah

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.4.8-1

2012-08-10 Thread gt
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 08:22:47AM +0200, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Hi guys, > please signoff 3.4.8 series for both arches. > package is not in testing, please grab it from here: > http://dev.archlinux.org/~tpowa/linux/ > > This will move to [core] directly, because 3.5.1 is in [testing]. signof

Re: [arch-general] Something wrong with firefox/thunderbird driving X cpu usage -> 100%

2012-08-09 Thread gt
On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 04:14:20PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > On 08/09/2012 03:56 PM, Baho Utot wrote: > > > >Must keep up with the I need a new version because the old one is working too > >well. > >Must find something to break > > > >Aye, the microsoft culture has finally invaded linux. > >

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

2012-08-04 Thread gt
On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 08:46:05PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > All, > > After installing without AIF, I want to update the install wiki to drop a > note > about swap. It isn't addressed at all. What is the current Arch recommendation > regarding swap creation? I.E.: recommended for systems

Re: [arch-general] New dual install iso -- Where the heck is arch-setup??

2012-08-04 Thread gt
On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 01:17:37AM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, > > What happened to the arch setup autoinstaller script that guided you though > the install process?? It was minimal, and worked very well to guide you > through. > Even helpful with raid installs after your arrays were

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

2012-08-03 Thread gt
On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 10:15:33AM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote: > On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 7:34 AM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > > Probably the only people running Linux systems without cups are the > > DIY distro groups (Arch, gentoo etc.) as I don't think this would have > > been caught in the bigger distr

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.4.7-1

2012-07-30 Thread gt
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 08:22:53AM +0200, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Hi guys, > please signoff 3.4.7 series for both arches. > package is not in testing, please grab it from here: > http://dev.archlinux.org/~tpowa/linux/ > > This will move to [core] directly, because 3.5 is in [testing]. Signoff

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

2012-07-22 Thread gt
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 02:39:35PM +0200, Nelson Marambio wrote: > Am 22.07.2012 10:58, schrieb gt: > > >You can try aptosid, or linux mint debian edition. > > > > Really Mint ? I switched FROM Mint TO Arch because upgrading Mint > ended up in a re-installation of t

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

2012-07-22 Thread gt
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 09:18:50AM +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > I'm worried about all this too. I have an Atom at home, so moving back to > Gentoo is not an option. I have some programs made to be compiled against > dietlibc, which does not support *BSD, so this is not an option either. I took > a

Re: [arch-general] claws-mail is it possible to see own posts to mailinglist?

2012-07-19 Thread gt
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 01:07:40PM +0530, gt wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 09:16:57AM +0200, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a big problem with claws-mail, is it somehow possible to see own > > posts to mailinglists? > > I'm using gmail imap and so

Re: [arch-general] claws-mail is it possible to see own posts to mailinglist?

2012-07-19 Thread gt
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 09:16:57AM +0200, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Hi, > I have a big problem with claws-mail, is it somehow possible to see own > posts to mailinglists? > I'm using gmail imap and somehow my own posts are not shown. > Thunderbird does not have this issue. > > greetings > tpowa

Re: [arch-general] arch with a specific kernel version

2012-07-12 Thread gt
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 03:11:51PM +0100, andrea crotti wrote: > I would like to create multiple arch linux installations with a > specific (a quite old 2.6 version) kernel version. > Is that in theory possible/easy? > > I have a new one recently created but the downport doesn't seem so > easy, so

Re: [arch-general] mpd, ncmpcpp

2012-07-10 Thread gt
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 01:47:48PM +0200, Arno Gaboury wrote: > Dear list > > I am switching lots of my GUI apps to CLI ones. > Currently, I am moving from Clemetine music player to ncmpcpp. > [snip] So, when are you switching to mutt :P

Re: [arch-general] A question specifically about upgrading an existing arch system from grub legacy to grub without UEFI or GPT

2012-07-02 Thread gt
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 05:26:23PM +0100, mike cloaked wrote: > I have been following the discussions in various places including on > this list about the forthcoming change from grub to become grub-legacy > and the default bootloader becoming grub2. > > On all my arch systems I have grub with MBR

[arch-general] k3b/cdrecord problem burning dual layer disc

2012-06-26 Thread gt
Hey folks A few days ago i was trying to burn an iso to a dual layer dvd, but i got an i/o error. Thankfully though the burn failed, but it spared the disc :) I tried downgrading cdrtools but that didn't fix it either. I found out that the iso was about 4200 MB in size and apparently trying to bu

Re: [arch-general] Booting archlinux .iso to take a look

2012-06-25 Thread gt
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 11:24:26AM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 04:07:34AM EDT, Jelle van der Waa wrote: > > [..] > > > > Bit of a shame Archlinux does not provide a live environment that lets > > > you verify you can run X11.. connect to the network.. etc. > > > You can c

Re: [arch-general] merging files from pacnew

2012-06-24 Thread gt
On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 06:28:15PM +0200, Sébastien Luttringer wrote: > On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Arno Gaboury > wrote: > > Is there a simple command line I can use, appart sdiff and Vimdiff?? > > if use pacdiff from pacman-contrib AFAIK pacdiff uses vimdiff too. @ Arno If you are not

Re: [arch-general] locale variables

2012-06-24 Thread gt
On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 06:23:47PM +0200, nelsonmaram...@gmx.de wrote: > > TY for your answer. > > For now, I use *sdiff* to edit and merge with new *.pacnew* files. > > I was confused this time because Thunar explorer show me local.gen as a > > binary! But this is not the case, so I will merge th

Re: [arch-general] [Offtopic] back up /var/log before shutdown

2012-06-20 Thread gt
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 09:51:03PM +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 14:38:27 +0530, gt wrote: > > Hello Arno > > [snip] > > Please always start a new thread ;) > For the mutt users, just press "#" to decouple the message from the parent &

Re: [arch-general] [Offtopic] back up /var/log before shutdown

2012-06-20 Thread gt
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:36:17AM +0200, Arno Gaboury wrote: > Dear all, > [snip] > TY for advising. Hello Arno Sorry for the offtopic bit, but i have noticed that your threads tend to branch out from some other thread, many times. I believe that you use the reply button on an existing topic an

Re: [arch-general] create Arch based distro

2012-06-19 Thread gt
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:11:15AM +0300, Δημήτρης Ζέρβας wrote: > no, no, it was just an example... > On Jun 20, 2012 12:08 AM, "Ike Devolder" wrote: > > > Op woensdag 20 juni 2012 00:05:01 schreef Δημήτρης Ζέρβας: > > > chakra?? > > > > chakra project: kde-centric originally arch based distro >

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-19 Thread gt
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 12:08:02PM +0200, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: > On 06/19/2012 11:56 AM, Arno Gaboury wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I plan to settle in the comimg months a web server to deliver many > > services to the trading community (I am myself a trader). > > > > I daily use Arch as my syste

Re: [arch-general] nvidia 295.59-1 dmesg output

2012-06-18 Thread gt
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 12:25:07PM -0700, Don deJuan wrote: > On 06/18/2012 12:05 PM, Rodrigo Rivas wrote: > > > >GRUB2 documentation is notably difficult to read, but from > >http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Simple-configuration.html#Simple-configuration > >I > >guess that the rel

Re: [arch-general] nvidia 295.59-1 dmesg output

2012-06-17 Thread gt
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 10:16:55AM -0700, Don deJuan wrote: > Are you still seeing the output in the newest one that came after > this update push? I am still seeing it. Not sure I really get what > the issue even is. Just upgraded to the latest driver, and yes i am still seeing it as well. The is

Re: [arch-general] nvidia 295.59-1 dmesg output

2012-06-16 Thread gt
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 01:19:58PM +0300, Ionut Biru wrote: > On 06/16/2012 08:46 AM, gt wrote: > > Hey guys, after upgrading to 295.59 from 295.53, i am seeing the > > following in the dmesg output: > > > > NVRM: Your system is not currently configured to drive a V

Re: [arch-general] nvidia 295.59-1 dmesg output

2012-06-16 Thread gt
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 01:40:08AM -0700, Don deJuan wrote: > On 06/15/2012 11:33 PM, gt wrote: > >On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 06:55:10AM +0100, Jason Steadman wrote: > >>On 16 June 2012 06:46, gt wrote: > >> > >>>Hey guys, after upgrading to 295.59 from 295.53

Re: [arch-general] nvidia 295.59-1 dmesg output

2012-06-15 Thread gt
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 06:55:10AM +0100, Jason Steadman wrote: > On 16 June 2012 06:46, gt wrote: > > > Hey guys, after upgrading to 295.59 from 295.53, i am seeing the > > following in the dmesg output: > > > > NVRM: Your system is not currently configured to dr

[arch-general] nvidia 295.59-1 dmesg output

2012-06-15 Thread gt
Hey guys, after upgrading to 295.59 from 295.53, i am seeing the following in the dmesg output: NVRM: Your system is not currently configured to drive a VGA console NVRM: on the primary VGA device. The NVIDIA Linux graphics driver NVRM: requires the use of a text-mode VGA console. Use of other con

Re: [arch-general] Shutdown and reboot not working after last weekend update

2012-06-13 Thread gt
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 12:18:17AM -0300, Victor Silva wrote: > 2012/6/14 gt > > Since you have already reverted to the old kernel, you don't further > > need to downgrade it, as you have already downgraded it. > > > > (Assuming, you did a pacman -U ) > > >

Re: [arch-general] Shutdown and reboot not working after last weekend update

2012-06-13 Thread gt
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 11:14:06PM -0300, Victor Silva wrote: > Oki I reverted to the old kernel and I'm back to the old scenario how can I > properly downgrade a kernel? > > Regards and thx for the help so far guys. This community rocks. Since you have already reverted to the old kernel, you don

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.3.8-1

2012-06-07 Thread gt
On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 08:08:43PM +0530, Sudaraka Wijesinghe wrote: > On 06/07/12 19:52, gt wrote: > > > > I am getting the following error: > > > > linux-headers-3.3.8-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz: invalid or corrupted package (PGP > > signature) > > I believe

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.3.8-1

2012-06-07 Thread gt
On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 10:51:26AM +0200, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Am 06.06.2012 17:13, schrieb Sudaraka Wijesinghe: > > On 06/06/12 18:31, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > >> Hi guys, > >> please signoff 3.3.8 series for both arches. > >> package is not in testing, please grab it from here: > >> http:

Re: [arch-general] Mirrors

2012-05-31 Thread gt
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 10:34:05AM +0100, P .NIKOLIC wrote: > On Thu, 31 May 2012 08:33:46 +0100 > Leonidas Spyropoulos wrote: > > > On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 8:19 AM, P .NIKOLIC > > wrote: > > > > > > Hi .. > > > > > > I am getting lots of errors from the  mirror.lividpenguin.com > > > stating :

Re: [arch-general] broken zip after upgrade

2012-05-13 Thread gt
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 09:52:54AM +0200, Arno Gaboury wrote: > Dear list, > > after a whole bunch of fresh upgrades yesterday, 2012/05/12, I can > not unzip with File Roller (default app), with expanding tar.gz > still working. > > Here are the two error messages: > > */There is no command inst

Re: [arch-general] FS#29803 - Kernel 3.3.4-2 panic

2012-05-12 Thread gt
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 02:56:02PM +0200, Martti Kühne wrote: > Maybe pasting some output would help? [1] > > cheers! > mar77i > > [1] http://paste.pocoo.org/ Offtopic: lodgeit died a few days back :(

Re: [arch-general] wallpaper for 1920x1080 screens.

2012-05-09 Thread gt
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 08:06:12PM +0200, Boris Le Ninivin wrote: > I've uploaded a bunch of variations : > http://borisln.deviantart.com/gallery/ , feel free to distribute/use > them :) Nice, a color for everyone. Maybe, they should indeed be bundled into the archlinux-wallpaper package. > I've

Re: [arch-general] procps dependency

2012-05-09 Thread gt
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 05:59:04PM +0200, Arno Gaboury wrote: > I am trying to build and burn the archboot iso file on my x86_64 Arch. > > *|[gabx@magnolia Desktop]$ sudo pacman -S archboot > Password: > resolving dependencies... > warning: cannot resolve "procps>=3.2.8-4", a dependency of "archbo

Re: [arch-general] qt applications gone black

2012-05-09 Thread gt
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 11:31:08AM +0200, CodeVision wrote: > On Wed, 9 May 2012 14:34:27 +0530 > gt wrote: > > > I had removed libgnomeui a year back, and everything was working fine > > in the meantime. > > > > Unfortunately libgnomeui fetches a lot of

Re: [arch-general] qt applications gone black

2012-05-09 Thread gt
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 10:20:13AM +0100, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > On Wednesday 09 May 2012 14:34:27 gt wrote: > > Unfortunately libgnomeui fetches a lot of unnecessary gnome stuff, gvfs, > > udisks2 etc. Isn't there some other solution? > > Qt comes with qtconfig. H

Re: [arch-general] qt applications gone black

2012-05-09 Thread gt
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 03:28:42PM +0700, Diep Pham Van wrote: > I have same problem before, you must install libgnomeui and change GUI > style in qtconfig. I had removed libgnomeui a year back, and everything was working fine in the meantime. Unfortunately libgnomeui fetches a lot of unnecessary

[arch-general] qt applications gone black

2012-05-09 Thread gt
Hey guys I am facing a strange issue. All qt applications have become black, making them impossible to use. Here's an example showing vlc and avidemux-qt https://imgur.com/a/PR5vH Anyone else facing this issue? The closest i found someone with a similar problem is: https://www.linuxquestions.o

Re: [arch-general] wget

2012-05-02 Thread gt
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 12:55:59PM +0530, Debashish Saha wrote: > are the commands are different for archlinux and linuxmint? > i dont know, if it is so sorry for disturbing you.can u say what is > mailling list for linuxmint? It's not about commands. Archlinux is a different distribution than lin

Re: [arch-general] PKGBUILD "provides" not handled correctly?

2012-05-01 Thread gt
On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 05:01:16PM -0300, Norbert Zeh wrote: > Thanks for all your quick replies. Immediately after firing off this email, I > thought it would be something like this, but for some reason I didn't bother > to > read the manpage :( Some would have considered this reason enough for

Re: [arch-general] Screen locking problem in KDE

2012-04-21 Thread gt
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 10:52:54AM +0300, Dmitry Korzhevin wrote: > Hello guys, > > Please give me advice - how can i debug problem with screen locking in > KDE? I don't find any similar problems in arch forums/mailing lists. > This problem appeared after update. > > Standart Ctrl+Alt+L doesn't w

Re: [arch-general] findutils and locate

2012-04-16 Thread gt
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 08:22:03AM +0100, P .NIKOLIC wrote: > -rwxr-sr-x 1 root locate 39512 Mar 3 05:53 /usr/bin/locate > > it is running with the default as you can see this is getting a bit > strange to say the least think the next is going to be uninstall and > reinstall it see if that he

Re: [arch-general] findutils and locate

2012-04-15 Thread gt
On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 04:38:01PM +0100, P .NIKOLIC wrote: > Right my /etc/updatedb.conf is as follows > # directories to exclude from the slocate database: > PRUNEPATHS="/media /mnt /tmp /var/tmp /var/cache /var/lock /var/run > /var/spool /home/pete/nas /home/pete/Movies /home/pete/Music /home

Re: [arch-general] fake archlinux list message

2012-04-10 Thread gt
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 06:29:43PM +0300, George Nikolopoulos wrote: > hi all, > i received the attached message. > I don't know much about email headers but it seems to have all the > headers as if posted from arch linux servers. > > Furthermore the address gerolde.archlinux.org points to an irre

Re: [arch-general] elinks is unverifiable

2012-04-01 Thread gt
On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 10:43:20AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Script started on Sun Apr 1 10:40:14 2012 > [root@localhost ~]# exitpacman -Ss > soundsexitpacman -Sy elinks Apart from what Christoph said, never run pacman -Sy . This can cause trouble, as the dep

Re: [arch-general] mkisofs question

2012-03-31 Thread gt
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 06:18:33PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Can any options be used with mkisofs to tell it if an single image will > have a size larger than 1 dvd can hold, make as many additional images as > necessary so that everything will fit on more than a single dvd? >From the mkiso

Re: [arch-general] Funny issue with bash-completion and __git_ps1

2012-03-28 Thread gt
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 09:19:37AM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > On 03/28/2012 03:28 AM, gt wrote: > >What would you recommend instead? I too face problems time and again > >with bash-completion and would like to get rid of it. Do you have some > >special settings in your .

Re: [arch-general] Funny issue with bash-completion and __git_ps1

2012-03-28 Thread gt
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 08:49:15AM +0200, Martti Kühne wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 08:05:48AM +0200, martin kalcher wrote: > > Hey hey > > > > After the last bash-completion and git update there is a funny issue > > with the Git Prompt [1]: __git_ps1 is not defined > > > > The bash-completio

[arch-general] fsck on each boot?

2012-03-26 Thread gt
I recently added the fsck hook to mkinitcpio.conf after seeing it being recommended in the forums. I don't have a separate /usr though. Anyway, now after every boot i see: performing fsck on It shows up clean, and happens in a flash of a second. So my question is that is the hook supposed to p

Re: [arch-general] aria2c left a mess on system

2012-03-25 Thread gt
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 08:57:48AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I've now cleared it off, but what had happened was a download of an iso > with a torrent file and afterwards the iso had a unique inode it couldn't > be checked with md5sum because md5sum claimed it didn't exist. I didn't > even t

Re: [arch-general] wodim unuseable

2012-03-20 Thread gt
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 03:50:30PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > gt wrote: > > > I do have cdrtools installed, and k3b does detect cdrecord, mkisofs, > > readcd etc. > > > > But still k3b says this on startup: > > > > Unable to find growisofs executabl

Re: [arch-general] wodim unuseable

2012-03-20 Thread gt
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 10:33:38AM -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: > > On 03/20/2012 10:30 AM, gt wrote: > > perhaps you also need dvd+rw-tools? That's the whole discussion of the thread. I did have dvd+rw-tools installed, but after Joerg insisted that they are not necessary, i

Re: [arch-general] wodim unuseable

2012-03-20 Thread gt
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 01:01:35PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > gt wrote: > > Anyway, i just removed dvd+rw-tools, and k3b whines about not finding > > growisofs in the PATH. What should i do? > > If you install cdrtools, this message should disappear. I do have cdrtoo

Re: [arch-general] wodim unuseable

2012-03-20 Thread gt
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 12:01:08PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Thomas Bächler wrote: > > > That reminds me, I was going to re-add cdrtools to the repositories, but > > I forgot, because I never write CDs or DVDs anyway (and when I do, it > > works with what I have installed right now). > > I

Re: [arch-general] wodim unuseable

2012-03-19 Thread gt
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 11:54:20AM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > Track01 on dvd's always comes up with unknown length when trying to burn a > > dvd with wodim. That's out of two different containers of dvd's too. > > These dvd's are single-sided so no danger of bl

Re: [arch-general] partition mount, strange entry in log

2012-03-08 Thread gt
> - Original Message - > From: Jason Steadman > Sent: 03/08/12 02:40 PM > To: General Discussion about Arch Linux > Subject: Re: [arch-general] partition mount, strange entry in log > > On 8 March 2012 09:05, gt wrote: > > > > Is it something new in the

Re: [arch-general] partition mount, strange entry in log

2012-03-08 Thread gt
On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 07:31:57AM +, Jason Steadman wrote: > On 8 March 2012 07:28, gt wrote: > > > From the past few weeks, i get this in the log during boot: > > > > kernel: [8.165927] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounting ext3 file > > system using the ext4 subsy

[arch-general] partition mount, strange entry in log

2012-03-07 Thread gt
>From the past few weeks, i get this in the log during boot: kernel: [8.165927] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounting ext3 file system using the ext4 subsystem kernel: [8.194637] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) Here's the relevant part of the fstab: UUID=<---

Re: [arch-general] renaming files

2012-03-01 Thread gt
On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 11:13:03PM +, pete wrote: > Hi folks > > Bit sort of off topic but hopefully ok > > I have some 350 picture files with names along the lines of > "IMG_7127 EOS-1D Mark III copy.jpg"i would like to rename them all > to more like "IMG_7127.jpg" i have tried a fe

Re: [arch-general] Building taskjuggler 2.4.3 form AUR fails

2012-02-26 Thread gt
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:28:02AM +0100, Thorsten wrote: > > Hi List, > on a freshly updated arch with a freshly pulled AUR I can't install > taskjuggler (2.4). Taskjuggler3 can be installed, but I want to use > Emacs orgmode's taskjuggler export, thats geared towards taskjuggler > 2.4. > Anybo

Re: [arch-general] /var/log/btmp empty

2012-02-23 Thread gt
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 12:11:06PM -0600, Leonid Isaev wrote: > I think FTMP_FILE is obsolete. Logging of failed login attempts is handled by > pam. Try running faillog(8)... Also I am not sure if /var/log/btmp has to be > kept at all. Thanks, i didn't know about faillog. Unfortunately, it doesn't

[arch-general] /var/log/btmp empty

2012-02-21 Thread gt
Hello folks My failed login attempts aren't being recorded, and lastb shows no output. The permissions are correct: -rw--- 1 root root 0 Nov 15 06:39 /var/log/btmp Reading a previous message on the mailing list, i tried setting FTMP_FILE /var/log/btmp in /etc/login.defs. But this g

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