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Re: [arch-general] Advice need on upgrading
by Sherry Howell 07 Sep '09

07 Sep '09

They've simply changed the way the system is packaged. Wait a day or so, and your mirror should catch up, and the dependencies won't be a problem any more. I did the upgrade this morning (without any dependency issues), and everything works great, and a couple bug fixes were very evident. On Monday 07 September 2009 14:05:26 arch-general-request(a)archlinux.org wrote: > Hi List, > > Just did a Syu and got presented with this below, so I baulked at the > upgrade as some of the names seem different and I don't know what's > happening. > > Is it ok to upgrade, and waht about the unresolvable messages. > > Regards >

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Re: [arch-general] Stuff in /etc/cron.d/ won't work?
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 07 Sep '09

07 Sep '09

On 07.09.2009 04:30, Jozsef wrote: > On Mon, 07 Sep 2009, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: > > >> On 26.08.2009 05:37, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: >> >>> On 26.08.2009 05:10, Aaron Griffin wrote: >>> >>> >>>> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Sven-Hendrik Haase<sh(a)lutzhaase.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> On 25.08.2009 22:21, Nicolas Bigaouette wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Would your script needs a shebang? >>>>>> >>>>>> 2009/8/25 Sven-Hendrik Haase <sh(a)lutzhaase.com> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> On 25.08.2009 12:51, solsTiCe d'Hiver wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> the crond log tells me that cron actually runs this command every >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> minute without a problem >>>>>>>> i think you mis-read your log. and it should tell you that cron is >>>>>>>> looking for changes in /etc/cron.d every minute. >>>>>>>> may be, if you change you first * * * in your lol then may be it will >>>>>>>> work. >>>>>>>> assuming you're using the good cron. because fcron does not >>>>>>>> support /etc/cron.d but there is other ways to achieve the same thing. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> check crond man page or its documentation >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> I'm using dcron and also I didn't misread. Also, dcron doesn't look for >>>>>>> changes in said directory without restarting from what I have found out. >>>>>>> It actually tells me what it is going to execute and that is my >>>>>>> /etc/cron.d/lol file. It would report and error otherwise. The thing >>>>>>> that strikes me is that the command doesn't actually do anything. echo >>>>>>> is a shell built-in of sh, bash, any shell really so env vars shouldn't >>>>>>> be an issue. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Any ideas? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> No, stuff in /etc/cron.d/ looks just like stuff in your crontab and gets >>>>> executed by the shell mentioned in $SHELL. Still, it wouldn't matter >>>>> because I'm using a built-in here. I'm really baffled by this. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> For the record, I've always had issues with this myself. I remedied it >>>> by simply putting things in root's crontab, but that's not a proper >>>> solution. If you can figure out how to get /etc/cron.d/ working as it >>>> should, I will love you forever >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >From web searches, it appears that dcron's support for /etc/cron.d is >>> somewhat wacky and not guaranteed to work. I think having a look at >>> bcron might be worth it. Find it here: http://untroubled.org/bcron/ and >>> find the AUR package here: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=6841. >>> A somewhat old assessment of available cron daemons by bcron's author >>> can be found here: http://untroubled.org/bcron/old/bcron_1.html. >>> Out of interest, I just looked up what other distros use for their cron >>> system and surprise! Ubuntu and Debian both use bcron and /etc/cron.d >>> works alright. >>> I shall hereby request changing Arch's default cron daemon to bcron in >>> order to fix the /etc/cron.d issues, to make Arch seem more modern and >>> to make Aaron love me forever (whatever it is that will subsequently >>> happen from that). >>> >>> >>> >> I'd like to bring this up again. Changing the cron daemon to a more >> modern one seems like a good idea to me. >> > > What is the more modern one? > > bcron is more modern crond as I mentioned before in the previous mail. Find it at: http://untroubled.org/bcron/

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[arch-general] Advice need on upgrading
by richard terry 07 Sep '09

07 Sep '09

Hi List, Just did a Syu and got presented with this below, so I baulked at the upgrade as some of the names seem different and I don't know what's happening. Is it ok to upgrade, and waht about the unresolvable messages. Regards Richard Starting full system upgrade... :: Replace kdebase-keditbookmarks with extra/kdebase-konqueror? [Y/n] y :: Replace kdebase-nsplugins with extra/kdebase-konqueror? [Y/n] y :: Replace kdegraphics-ksaneplugin with extra/kdegraphics-libs? [Y/n] y :: Replace kdegraphics-strigi-analyzer with extra/kdegraphics-libs? [Y/n] y :: Replace kdegraphics-svgpart with extra/kdegraphics-libs? [Y/n] y :: Replace kdegraphics-thumbnailers with extra/kdegraphics-libs? [Y/n] y :: Replace kdemultimedia-libkcddb with extra/kdemultimedia-kioslave? [Y/n] y :: Replace kdemultimedia-libkcompactdisc with extra/kdemultimedia-kioslave? [Y/n] y :: Replace kdepim-icons with extra/kdepim-libkdepim? [Y/n] y :: Replace kdepim-kmailcvt with extra/kdepim-kmail? [Y/n] y :: Replace kdepim-kontactinterfaces with extra/kdepim-kontact? [Y/n] y :: Replace kdepim-ksendemail with extra/kdepim-kmail? [Y/n] y :: Replace kdepim-libkleo with extra/kdepim-libkdepim? [Y/n] y :: Replace kdepim-libkpgp with extra/kdepim-libkdepim? [Y/n] y :: Replace kdepim-libksieve with extra/kdepim-kmail? [Y/n] y :: Replace kdepim-mimelib with extra/kdepim-kmail? [Y/n] y :: Replace kdepim-plugins with extra/kdepim-kmail? [Y/n] y :: Replace kdepim-strigi-analyzer with extra/kdepim-libkdepim? [Y/n] y :: Replace system-config-printer with extra/system-config-printer-common? [Y/n] y resolving dependencies... warning: cannot resolve "system-config-printer>=1.1.7-3", a dependency of "kdeadmin-system-config-printer-kde" warning: cannot resolve "system-config-printer>=1.1.7-3", a dependency of "kdeutils-printer-applet" :: the following package(s) cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies: kdeadmin-system-config-printer-kde kdeutils-printer-applet Do you want to skip the above package(s) for this upgrade? [Y/n]

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[arch-general] Cannot upgrade system-config-printer.
by Frederic Bezies 06 Sep '09

06 Sep '09

Hello. This morning (Paris Time), I wanted to upgrade my archlinux. So, I launched a little sudo pacman -Syu and here is what is happening : fred ~ $ sudo pacman -Syu Mot de passe : :: Synchronisation des bases de données de paquets... testing est à jour; core est à jour; extra est à jour; community est à jour; archlinuxfr est à jour; :: Début de la mise à jour complète du système... :: Remplacer system-config-printer par extra/system-config-printer-common ? [O/n] o Résolution des dépendances... Recherche des conflits possibles entre paquets... Erreur: la préparation de la transaction a échoué (la satisfaction des dépendances a échoué) :: kdeadmin-system-config-printer-kde: requiert system-config-printer>=1.1.7-3 :: kdeutils-printer-applet: requiert system-config-printer>=1.1.7-3 For english speaker / reader : 1) I'm using an homemade pysmbc package for my archlinux 64 bits. 2) Because of kdeadmin-system-config-printer-kde and kdeutils-printer-applet, system-config-printer-common cannot be installed. Do I have to open a bug ? Or is it already known ? -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies(a)gmail.com

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[arch-general] fish-style prompt for bash
by b4283 06 Sep '09

06 Sep '09

Hi, I just finished writing a fancier prompt for bash, which showing directories in an abbreviated form just like the fish shell does. function _prompt { _dir_abbr=$(temp=$(echo "${PWD/$HOME/~}" |sed -r 's/(\/.)[^/]*/\1/g'); echo ${temp:0:$(( ${#temp} - 1 ))}) _ps1="$(basename "${PWD/$HOME/~}")" if [ ${#_ps1} -gt 25 ]; then _ps1="${_ps1:0:7}...${_ps1: -7}" fi echo -n "$_dir_abbr$_ps1" } just quote the function in the $PS1 like this (e.g.): PS1='$(_prompt)] ' enjoy!

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[arch-general] split packages documentation
by Damjan Georgievski 06 Sep '09

06 Sep '09

I've been looking for documentation about split packages in the usual places (man PKGBUILD, the wiki) but couldn't find any.. am I missing something or this is a feature-not-implemented? -- damjan

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[arch-general] Conflict with Mesa
by Dario 05 Sep '09

05 Sep '09

Hi! Sorry if this has already been asked or if its solution is trivial. I got this conflict error from pacman -Syu: mesa: /usr/include/GL/glew.h è già presente nel filesystem mesa: /usr/include/GL/glxew.h è già presente nel filesystem mesa: /usr/include/GL/wglew.h è già presente nel filesystem è già presente nel filesystem = "already present in filesystem" Should I happily force the update, or should I do something different? I'm using Nvidia binary drivers, if that matters (since it has to do with GL:)) thanks in advance! Carotinho Chiacchiera con i tuoi amici in tempo reale! http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/*http://it.messenger.yahoo.com

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[arch-general] Request for hpacucli output from people running HP Smart Array controllers
by RedShift 05 Sep '09

05 Sep '09

Hello all I'm gathering the output of the hpacucli program from as much configurations as possible. If you can find some free time for me, can you send me the output of: hpacucli ctrl all show detail hpacucli ctrl slot=1 show config hpacucli ctrl slot=1 array all show hpacucli ctrl slot=1 array A show hpacucli ctrl slot=1 physicaldrive all show hpacucli ctrl slot=1 physicaldrive 2I:1:1 show hpacucli ctrl slot=1 logicaldrive all show hpacucli ctrl slot=1 logicaldrive 1 show Replace the slot=, array, physicaldrive and logicaldrive entries with what matches your specific setups (if possible, for all slots, arrays, physical and logical drives). I need as much as possible, normal working configurations and exotic setups like failed drives, arrays in rebuilding or failed state, hot-spares, etc... Much appreciated! Thanks, Best regards, Glenn

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[arch-general] LDIF to abook
by Jozsef 04 Sep '09

04 Sep '09

I have my contacts from Thunderbird in .ldif format and my abook doesn't want to import from that file. Same with .csv This is the message I'm getting: Error occured while opening the file Any idea? I had some names written in cyrilic but I edited them with vim to latin and still no difference. -- Best, Jozsef Kurucity | Web & Graphic Designer +971 50 6783113 | jozefk(a)gmx.com

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[arch-general] offlineimap went crazy
by Jozsef 04 Sep '09

04 Sep '09

Everything worked fine until I changed the .offlineimaprc to fetch mails from multiple accounts. Here is my .offlineimaprc : http://pastie.org/private/mlskz0tkpf6jgytj9d5q I comment out some lines because I thought they cause the problem. But now I see they don't. And this is what's happening after I run offlineimap in console : http://pastie.org/private/uaedovqzmbglgzlthnj4zg It works for a while and then crashing. What can be a problem then? Any suggestion? My .muttrc : http://pastie.org/private/aeke8sfcezwzfq0i1yrmg Google didn't help me. I tried. Thanks for all replies in advance! -- Best, Jozsef Kurucuty | Web & Graphic Designer +971 50 6783113 | jozefk(a)gmx.com

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