Re: [arch-general] OT: DNS server help

2012-06-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 20:58 -0400, Kyle wrote: > I don't really have the time to scroll down one line at a time, and > most other people don't really have the time to scroll down 5 lines at > a time wading through tons upon tons of wrotes, original messages, > times and dates, angle brackets and me

Re: [arch-general] Mailing lists vs Forums

2012-06-13 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:04 AM, David Benfell wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 06/12/12 01:40, Mateusz Loskot wrote: >> >> The site: trick [1] has worked for me quite well for long time: >> >> "T400 site:http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/"; > > si

Re: [arch-general] Virtualbox USB issues after upgrade

2012-06-13 Thread Sébastien Luttringer
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running XP SP2 on Vbox, to handle an iPad2 by iTunes via USB cable. > > I already had issues in the past, but after an Arch update today sync, > recovery, any similar operation doesn't work anymore, regarding to USB > issues. > I

Re: [arch-general] OT: DNS server help

2012-06-13 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I like to encourage people not to use their Android, iThingy, MS web > thingy or wristwatch when writing to Linux home computer mailing lists, > as long as those things cause issues and the topic shouldn't be urgent. > If a MUA force you to CC

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

2012-06-13 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 13:42:01 -0700 pants wrote: > check the SMART status of the drives, I've recently found Pmagic livecd to be very cool for this. Simply click the disk health icon on the desktop.

Re: [arch-general] Virtualbox USB issues after upgrade

2012-06-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 10:07 +0200, Sébastien Luttringer wrote: > You can try to rmmod ipheth before plug your iphone/ipad to vbox. > > And also try to add vbox-ext-oracle (aur) to have better usb support. Thank you. I'll report what happened ASAP, perhaps today. - Ralf

Re: [arch-general] can not login after upgrade

2012-06-13 Thread Arno Gaboury
On 06/12/2012 10:19 PM, Kacper Żuk wrote: W dniu 12.06.2012 21:59, Arno Gaboury pisze: After some reading across the forum, I see I am not the only one with this issue. my /usr and /boot are both on a separate partition from /. It seems this cause the issue. As far as I can understand, the solut

Re: [arch-general] can not login after upgrade

2012-06-13 Thread Tasos Latsas
On 13/06/12 13:34, Arno Gaboury wrote: > On 06/12/2012 10:19 PM, Kacper Żuk wrote: [snip] > As I have /usr on a separate partition, following your instructions > solved my issue (the filesystem was not mounted at boot). > With a live CD, I edited /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and added usr shutdown to > the

Re: [arch-general] can not login after upgrade

2012-06-13 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 14:12:23 +0300 Tasos Latsas wrote: > > Maybe this workaround could be added to the Archlinux home page news : > > systemd-tools, as it could avoid this issue to all users with a separate > > /usr ? > > This is documented here [1] and I don't think it was introduced in the >

Re: [arch-general] Mailing lists vs Forums

2012-06-13 Thread Mateusz Loskot
On 12 June 2012 23:04, David Benfell wrote: > On 06/12/12 01:40, Mateusz Loskot wrote: >> >> The site: trick [1] has worked for me quite well for long time: >> >> "T400 site:http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/"; >> >> Jeremiah's pointed on two front-ends to the same data,  best op

Re: [arch-general] VPS can't access after update filesystem?

2012-06-13 Thread Bill Sun
I got the error message: ERROR: device '/dev/xvda1' not found. Skipping fsck. ERROR: Unable to find root device '/dev/xvda1'. You are being dropped to a recovery shell Type 'exit' to try and continue booting sh: can't access tty; job control turned off Regards

Re: [arch-general] Mailing lists vs Forums

2012-06-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 13:16 +0100, Mateusz Loskot wrote: > On 12 June 2012 23:04, David Benfell wrote: > > On 06/12/12 01:40, Mateusz Loskot wrote: > >> > >> The site: trick [1] has worked for me quite well for long time: > >> > >> "T400 site:http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/";

[arch-general] haskell updated on arch

2012-06-13 Thread Thomas Dziedzic
Ghc 7.4.2 was just moved to [extra]. There should be no problems since it was only a minor bump. haskell-binary was moved to the aur since ghc already provides it. Release notes: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.4.2/html/users_guide/release-7-4-2.html Happy hacking!

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

2012-06-13 Thread Victor Silva
2012/6/13 Kevin Chadwick > On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 13:42:01 -0700 > pants wrote: > > > check the SMART status of the drives, > > I've recently found Pmagic livecd to be very cool for this. Simply > click the disk health icon on the desktop. > Folks I've messed things even more I did a kernel downgr

Re: [arch-general] shutdown problems

2012-06-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 14:19 +0100, Bjørn Øivind Bjørnsen wrote: > Likewise, but since shutdown works from KDM, this has not bothered me > enough to debug it quite yet. You aren't confusing two different issues? When I upgraded Xfce I lost the options to restart and to shut down for the panel item.

Re: [arch-general] shutdown problems

2012-06-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 16:05 +0200, I wrote: > You aren't confusing two different issues? Sorry, I should have read the other replies first, instead of replying myself. - Ralf

Re: [arch-general] shutdown problems

2012-06-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
> On Thu, 2012-02-16 at [...] Aaaargh, sorry, seldom, but sometimes Evolution doesn't sort mails by date as wanted or also seldom, I sort mails by thread and forget to switch back to date, anyway, my mistake.

[arch-general] time to drop openjdk6 ?

2012-06-13 Thread Andreas Radke
Oracle has declared JRE/JDK7 the preferred one over JRE/JDK6. So it should be now stable enough to replace Java6 for everyone also in the OpenJDK community releases. I'm asking if there's somebody still in the need to use openjdk6 for certain apps that fail to run with openjdk7? If so please repor

Re: [arch-general] DNS server help

2012-06-13 Thread Squall Lionheart
> thank you! > does it take ages to read? It's a big book but you only "need" chapter 4 and 5 to get setup. It's worth checking out. -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present. Headmaster Squall :: The Wired/Section-9 Close the world tx

Re: [arch-general] DNS server help

2012-06-13 Thread Dimitris Zervas
thank you! i will check it out for sure -- Sent from my SGS II phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] time to drop openjdk6 ?

2012-06-13 Thread Sergej Pupykin
On 13.06.2012 21:32, Andreas Radke wrote: > Oracle has declared JRE/JDK7 the preferred one over JRE/JDK6. So it At least one of my packages can be built only with openjdk6. I did not research why. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] time to drop openjdk6 ?

2012-06-13 Thread Ray Kohler
On 13.06.2012 21:32, Andreas Radke wrote: > Oracle has declared JRE/JDK7 the preferred one over JRE/JDK6. So it Upstream only yesterday fixed a bug which affects me (http://icedtea.classpath.org//hg/icedtea-web?cmd=changeset;node=40776f2e940f). So I'd be grateful if you would wait until that commi

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] time to drop openjdk6 ?

2012-06-13 Thread Chris Sakalis
Hello, not a very important application, and there may be some workarounds, but with openjdk7 Minecraft [1] fails to load the correct bundled libraries on 64bit. From the exception, it appears that it actually tries to load the 32bit libs, but it fails. Again, this is only for the bundled lwjgl lib

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] time to drop openjdk6 ?

2012-06-13 Thread Leonidas Spyropoulos
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Chris Sakalis wrote: > Hello, > not a very important application, and there may be some workarounds, > but with openjdk7 Minecraft [1] fails to load the correct bundled > libraries on 64bit. From the exception, it appears that it actually > tries to load the 32bit

[arch-general] No sound (anymore)

2012-06-13 Thread angelinheavysyrup ‎
Hello, Shortly after I last upgraded the alsa-firmware package, I realized that my system could not produce sound anymore. I certainly don't know if this has something to do with the certain upgrade or if it's related to something else that I can't think of at the moment. Is there anything I can

Re: [arch-general] No sound (anymore)

2012-06-13 Thread Jesse Jaara
My creative sound card stopped working recently. Only 5.1 audio mode would work. My regular 7.1 was missing front and bass channels and 2.0 mode would not play any sound at all.

Re: [arch-general] No sound (anymore)

2012-06-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 23:09 +0300, angelinheavysyrup ‎ wrote: > Hello, > > Shortly after I last upgraded the alsa-firmware package, I realized that > my system could not produce sound anymore. > I certainly don't know if this has something to do with the certain > upgrade or if it's related to som

Re: [arch-general] No sound (anymore)

2012-06-13 Thread angelinheavysyrup ‎
First of all you could give information about your hardware and the version of ALSA that was ok and that is borked. I'm using ASUS p5kpl-am epu, no additional soundcards. This happened after I upgraded alsa-firmware to version 1.0.25-2 (from 1.0.25-1).

Re: [arch-general] No sound (anymore)

2012-06-13 Thread Wolfgang Mueller
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 00:09:15 +0300, angelinheavysyrup wrote: > This happened after I upgraded alsa-firmware to version 1.0.25-2 > (from 1.0.25-1). Did you try downgrading in order to confirm this being an issue with alsa-firmware? Was there anything else that got upgraded along with it? As for

Re: [arch-general] No sound (anymore)

2012-06-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 23:22 +0200, Wolfgang Mueller wrote: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 00:09:15 +0300, angelinheavysyrup wrote: > > This happened after I upgraded alsa-firmware to version 1.0.25-2 > > (from 1.0.25-1). > Did you try downgrading in order to confirm this being an issue with > alsa-firmw

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] time to drop openjdk6 ?

2012-06-13 Thread Guillaume ALAUX
On 13 June 2012 22:02, Leonidas Spyropoulos wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Chris Sakalis wrote: >> Hello, >> not a very important application, and there may be some workarounds, >> but with openjdk7 Minecraft [1] fails to load the correct bundled >> libraries on 64bit. From the excepti

Re: [arch-general] No sound (anymore)

2012-06-13 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Thursday 14 Jun 2012 00:09:15 angelinheavysyrup ‎ wrote: > I'm using ASUS p5kpl-am epu, no additional soundcards. > This happened after I upgraded alsa-firmware to version 1.0.25-2 (from > 1.0.25-1). For time being, you can downgrade the package. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Downgradin

Re: [arch-general] No sound (anymore)

2012-06-13 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:09:09 +0300 schrieb angelinheavysyrup ‎ : > Is there anything I can do about this? Do you get any messages from ALSA during boot? Have you tried to reset your ALSA settings in alsamixer? Sometimes it happens that ALSA changes some channel names or the like, which can be ea

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] time to drop openjdk6 ?

2012-06-13 Thread Armando M. Baratti
On 13-06-2012 18:43, Guillaume ALAUX wrote: On 13 June 2012 22:02, Leonidas Spyropoulos wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Chris Sakalis wrote: Hello, not a very important application, and there may be some workarounds, but with openjdk7 Minecraft [1] fails to load the correct bundled li

Re: [arch-general] No sound (anymore)

2012-06-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 23:55 +0200, Heiko Baums wrote: > Have you tried to reset your ALSA settings in alsamixer? Good point! I forget this, since I always need to load a mixer for my sound card, before I'm able to get sound. Fortunately the RME mixer I'm using has got a configuration file in /home

Re: [arch-general] VPS can't access after update filesystem?

2012-06-13 Thread Kevin Arthur
On 06/13/2012 06:04 AM, Bill Sun wrote: > I got the error message: > > ERROR: device '/dev/xvda1' not found. Skipping fsck. > ERROR: Unable to find root device '/dev/xvda1'. > You are being dropped to a recovery shell > Type 'exit' to try and continue booting > sh: can't access tty; job contro

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] time to drop openjdk6 ?

2012-06-13 Thread Armando M. Baratti
On 13-06-2012 19:08, Armando M. Baratti wrote: On 13-06-2012 18:43, Guillaume ALAUX wrote: On 13 June 2012 22:02, Leonidas Spyropoulos wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Chris Sakalis wrote: Hello, not a very important application, and there may be some workarounds, but with openjdk7 Mi

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

2012-06-13 Thread Victor Silva
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. 2012/6/13 Victor Silva > > > 2012/6/13 Kevin Chadwick > >> On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 13:42:01 -0700 >> pants wrote: >> >> > check th

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] Shutdown and reboot not working after last weekend update

2012-06-13 Thread Victor Silva
2012/6/14 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 revert

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

2012-06-13 Thread Martin Cigorraga
[OT] @Victor: Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Arch? What a combination! [/OT]

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 ) > > > I did it for the kenel which hangs, the