A new Arch Wallpaper

I've been re-learning photoshop for the past few weeks and decided to give an Arch wallpaper a shot.
It's 1920x1200 - CLICK THE IMAGE to get it.
Here is the source PSD: http://kpolicano.deviantart.com/art/arc … -140247662
EDIT: 1920x1080 and 1600x1200 have been added.
EDIT2: 1280x1024 added. Also a version with white text was added.
Last edited by testube_babies (2009-10-14 14:16:30)

SpeedVin wrote:
testube_babies wrote:
I've been re-learning photoshop for the past few weeks and decided to give an Arch wallpaper a shot.
It's 1920x1200 - click the image to get it.
EDIT: 1920x1080 and 1600x1200 have been added.
http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/5316/a … nosmal.jpg
Nice
Can you post 16:10 or 16:9 version?
Thanks
Uh, 1920x1200 is 16:10 and 1920x1080 is 16:9
BTW, thanks for the 16:9 version, this is a really nice wallpaper

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Hello Arch community,
I just spent the last 2-3 days installing, downloading, reading this forum and the wiki and configuring my new Arch installation on my Dell Studio 1557 and I now have a nice fast little gnome environment that fits my needs
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Last edited by zwoggel (2010-05-10 10:30:46)

manzdagratiano wrote:
onemyndseye wrote:
I was affected by this problem and wrote the follow bit of code as a workaround:
/usr/bin/dropboxd
#!/bin/sh
# Copyright 2008 Evenflow, Inc., 2010 Dropbox
# Environment script for the dropbox executable.
start_dropbox() {
PAR=$(dirname $(readlink -f $0))
OLD_LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PAR:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
kill -9 $(pidof dropbox) >/dev/null 2>&1
exec $PAR/dropbox $@ &
do_dropbox() {
start_dropbox >/dev/null 2>&1
while [ 1 ]; do
sleep 5
ERROR="$(net_test)"
if [ -n "$ERROR" ]; then
LAST_ERROR=1
else
if [ -n "$LAST_ERROR" ]; then
# Connection seems to be up but
# last cycle was down
LAST_ERROR=""
start_dropbox >/dev/null 2>&1
fi
fi
done
net_test() {
TMP1="$(ifconfig |grep "inet addr:" |grep -v "127.0.0.1")"
[ -z "$TMP1" ] && echo "error"
do_dropbox
Hope this helps someone
Woohoo!!! Many many thanks! I was plagued by this issue, and this worked superbly for me.... I just modified the script a little for error checking like you mentioned - with a `ps ax' to check for whether dropbox is running before trying to kill it. I love the fact that the script would restart dropbox in the event of a connection loss/reconnection. The modified script is as follows:
#!/bin/sh
# Copyright 2008 Evenflow, Inc., 2010 Dropbox
# Environment script for the dropbox executable.
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PAR=$(dirname $(readlink -f $0))
OLD_LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PAR:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
TMP1=`ps ax|grep dropbox|grep -v grep`
if [ -n "$TMP1" ]; then
kill -9 $(pidof dropbox) >/dev/null 2>&1
fi
exec $PAR/dropbox $@ &
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start_dropbox >/dev/null 2>&1
while [ 1 ]; do
sleep 5
ERROR="$(net_test)"
if [ -n "$ERROR" ]; then
LAST_ERROR=1
else
if [ -n "$LAST_ERROR" ]; then
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LAST_ERROR=""
start_dropbox >/dev/null 2>&1
fi
fi
done
net_test() {
TMP1="$(ifconfig |grep "inet addr:" |grep -v "127.0.0.1")"
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do_dropbox
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Different resolutions are available here (original logo) and here ("new" logo).

freigeist wrote:
stonecrest wrote:The top wallpaper is super sexy. Btw, clicking on the gnome-look download links gives a "Not found" error
Are you sure? I have just verified the links...
It must just be me, someone else said it worked fine too. I don't know why, but this is all I get.

New Arch Digital Wallpaper Set of 4

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--- Arch Colours (without Conky Space) -------------
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(Wallpaper Credit : http://wallpapers.free-review.net/21_~_ … abels.htm)
Thanks to fatality for the ideas.
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Howto to gensplash on Arch Linux
Silent:
Verbose:
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Hi guys,
so this is kinda my first post, not that I'm new to arch i just never had an issue i couldn't figure out on my own... But i love arch i have been using it for about a year now and have had no serious problems except for this. I have had arch running on an older dell vostro 200 desktop before i reinstalled with a vary similar issue except that the fix i came up with doesn't work anymore. I will tell you about the first issue first because i ALMOST posted on here about it originally but i figured out a way to make it work even though it was a hassle.
After cold/rebooting my computer the network card doesn't work at all. lspci reported that the kernel module e1000e was the correct one (i have verified this) and that the kernel has loaded it, i verified that with dmesg but still it wouldn't work. After much much anguish and hairpulling, I realized that it had to have something to do with the module so i tried forcing it to reload with rmmod e1000e and modprobe e1000e and it still wouldn't work until i physically unpluged the ethernet cord and pluged it back in until the light on the NIC turned on. After that everything works as normal i could even unplug and plug it back in with no problems. So eventually i wrote a script that did this for me (except for the uplugging and plugging part) and i used that when i cold/rebooted.
But now i have the exact same issue after reinstalling arch to the T except for the fact that the (crazy) fix i came up with doesn't work now. I used my "fix" after booting from the arch cd and it worked just like it always has. And now after rebooting into my fresh system the fix doesn't work anymore. So now i'm back where i was to begin with but i have no idea what to try next. I didn't do anything particularly different during installation except i added a udev rule for the e1000e module just to see if somehow that would fix the problem... it didnt and i have since deleted that (to see if it was the problem). The only other thing that is different is the root and home are now btrfs partitions instead of ext4.
I have booted several other live cds and dvds (diferent distros) including arch derivatives such as manjaro and they all worked just fine, using the same kernel module (e1000e). I'm not sure what that could mean but i know that it means there is a fix for this some way or another. I am going to hook up a wifi adapter and connect that computer to the internet to put some more information up if it's needed (asked for) but for now lspci -vnn | grep -i -A 10 net reports
00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82562V-2 10/100 Network Connection [8086:10c0] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Device 0238
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 42
Memory at fdfc0000 (32-bit non-prefetchable) [size=128k]
Memory at fdfff000 (32-bit non-prefetchable) [size=4k]
I/0 ports at ff00 [size=32]
Capabilities: [c8] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [d0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [e0] Vendor Specific Information: Len=06 <?>
Kernel driver in use: e1000e
Kernel modules: e1000e
ip a reports:
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: enp0s25: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:1d:09:8c:36:f6 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
4: wlp0s29f7u3: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether 64:66:b3:16:92:10 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 172.16.1.55/16 brd 172.16.255.255 scope global wlp0s29f7u3
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 fe80::6666:b3ff:fe16:9210/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
lsmod | grep e1000e
e1000e 215644 0
ptp 17692 1 e1000e
any help on what to do next would be greatly appreciated.
Last edited by mvheart/dev/null (2014-08-18 04:02:12)

Sorry I was thinking that it was say "state up" after that, I was looking in the wrong place... It's been a long time since I was playing around with this. So it is as i thought it was before?
[aaron@arch-box Arch-Linux]$ sudo systemctl start [email protected]
[sudo] password for aaron:
Job for [email protected] failed. See 'systemctl status [email protected]' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.
[aaron@arch-box Arch-Linux]$ systemctl status -l [email protected]
● [email protected] - dhcpcd on enp0s25
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]; disabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2014-08-18 11:20:29 EDT; 4min 11s ago
Process: 17650 ExecStart=/usr/bin/dhcpcd -q -w %I (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
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Aug 18 11:19:59 arch-box systemd[1]: Starting dhcpcd on enp0s25...
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Last edited by mvheart/dev/null (2014-08-18 15:50:10)

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I thought I'd post a log of how one gets boxee-source working as of version 0.9.23.15885-2.
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The only trouble I really had was with boxee --- usually available as a precompiled package, but (as is often the case) in either the AUR or an unofficial repo.
There wasn't very much useful (up-to-date) information in the boxee wiki page; I tried the repo listed but it required the python24 dependency to install, with which there are problems. See below.
There are a lot of problems with compiling boxee in arch at the moment, so I thought I'd list each one and what I did to get around them.
The three AUR packages in question:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24206
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=9898
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16355
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* Downloaded boxee-source package (not the depreciated boxee package) from AUR (I used yaourt).
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* I noticed that db4.5 is an older version; my installed version is 5.1 !!!!
* To get python24 to compile, I had to edit the PKGBUILD script in python24:
1) First, remove this line:
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2) Then, delete the "db4.5" dependency from "depends"
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fatal error linux/smbno.h no such file
Based on comments in the AUR, I downloaded: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5636456/smbno.h and put it in /usr/include/linux --- then the compilation would continue!
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I was able to fix this (again with the help of the AUR commentators) by editing the run-boxee-desktop file found in /opt/boxee/. I had to add this line:
export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libva.so
I had to add it in the same area the rest of the "exports" are in the file; which seemed odd to me. But after that, I was able to use boxee to maximum enjoyment.
Last edited by yochaigal (2011-03-17 06:52:04)

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boxee log says this:
23:10:45 T:2770783088 M:1705168896 ERROR: CFileCurl::CReadState::Open, didn't get any data from stream. HTTP CODE: 0
23:10:45 T:3047160688 M:1705181184 ERROR: CFileCurl::CReadState::Open, didn't get any data from stream. HTTP CODE: 0
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23:10:45 T:2830584688 M:1705181184 ERROR: CFileCurl::CReadState::Open, didn't get any data from stream. HTTP CODE: 0
23:10:45 T:2839542640 M:1705054208 ERROR: CFileCurl::CReadState::Open, didn't get any data from stream. HTTP CODE: 0
23:10:45 T:2804353904 M:1705054208 ERROR: CFileCurl::CReadState::Open, didn't get any data from stream. HTTP CODE: 0
23:10:45 T:2751892336 M:1705054208 ERROR: CFileCurl::CReadState::Open, didn't get any data from stream. HTTP CODE: 0
23:10:45 T:2960128880 M:1704927232 ERROR: CFileCurl::CReadState::Open, didn't get any data from stream. HTTP CODE: 0
23:10:45 T:2770783088 M:1705181184 ERROR: CreateThumbnailFromMemory: exception with fileType: .png
23:10:45 T:2837953392 M:1705054208 WARNING: CHttpCacheManager::UpdateRefMap negative reference count for url http://app.boxee.tv/titles/sources (hcm)
23:10:45 T:2830584688 M:1705054208 ERROR: CreateThumbnailFromMemory: exception with fileType: .png
23:10:45 T:3047160688 M:1705054208 ERROR: CreateThumbnailFromMemory: exception with fileType: .png
23:10:45 T:3047160688 M:1705054208 ERROR: CFileCurl::CReadState::Open, didn't get any data from stream. HTTP CODE: 0
23:10:45 T:2751892336 M:1705054208 ERROR: CreateThumbnailFromMemory: exception with fileType: .png
23:10:45 T:2839542640 M:1705054208 ERROR: CreateThumbnailFromMemory: exception with fileType: .png
23:10:45 T:2960128880 M:1705054208 ERROR: CreateThumbnailFromMemory: exception with fileType: .png
23:10:45 T:2839542640 M:1705054208 ERROR: CFileCurl::CReadState::Open, didn't get any data from stream. HTTP CODE: 0
23:10:45 T:2804353904 M:1705054208 ERROR: CreateThumbnailFromMemory: exception with fileType: .png
23:10:45 T:2804353904 M:1705054208 ERROR: CFileCurl::CReadState::Open, didn't get any data from stream. HTTP CODE: 0
23:10:45 T:2960128880 M:1705054208 ERROR: CFileCurl::CReadState::Open, didn't get any data from stream. HTTP CODE: 0
23:10:45 T:2770783088 M:1705054208 ERROR: CFileCurl::CReadState::Open, didn't get any data from stream. HTTP CODE: 0
23:10:45 T:3047160688 M:1705054208 ERROR: CreateThumbnailFromMemory: exception with fileType: .png
23:10:45 T:2839542640 M:1705054208 ERROR: CreateThumbnailFromMemory: exception with fileType: .png
23:10:45 T:2804353904 M:1705054208 ERROR: CreateThumbnailFromMemory: exception with fileType: .png
23:10:45 T:2804353904 M:1705054208 ERROR: Texture manager unable to load file:
23:10:45 T:2960128880 M:1705054208 ERROR: CreateThumbnailFromMemory: exception with fileType: .png
23:10:45 T:2770783088 M:1705054208 ERROR: CreateThumbnailFromMemory: exception with fileType: .png
23:10:45 T:2770783088 M:1705054208 ERROR: Texture manager unable to load file:
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[SOLVED] New arch install from Virtualbox cannot boot on real hardware

Hi,
I'm trying my luck with installing Arch on physical disk through Virtualbox. I followed Wiki and managed to install system on the disk. However, I am unable to boot it outside VM.
I have two physical disks - /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. I have installed Arch on /dev/sda1. It is there, I can see the files from my current OS and it does work in VM. /dev/sda1 is bootable.
However, when I boot my PC from /dev/sda rootfs fails to load kernel image - it says it can't be found. I tried specifing init path in Syslinux.cfg using /dev/sdxX and UUID and even PARTUUID but none worked. When in rootfs, I lsed /dev/disk/by-uuid and found that rootfs sees only one of my two disks, /dev/sdb. I find it really strange.
I followed below advise found on forums:
- Verify that mkinitcpio.conf lists "block" hook
- Create a new kernel image with mkinitcpio -p linux
- Refer to your partition by UUID
- If above doesn't work, try PARTUUID
None of these worked. I believe the reason for this is that the issue is not with how I reference the disk nor how the mkinitcpio works but with the disk not being available for rootfs at all. Alas, I have no experience with disks other than simple partitioning, so I'm not sure where to start.
Fdisk output:
Disk /dev/sda: 931,5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x99ea4d63
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 * 2048 314779647 314777600 150,1G 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 314779648 1153640447 838860800 400G 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 1153640448 1157834751 4194304 2G 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Disk /dev/sdb: 465,8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x75a6998e
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1 * 2048 616447 614400 300M 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 616448 210331647 209715200 100G 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3 210331648 241788927 31457280 15G 83 Linux
Any ideas? Suggestions and help will be appreciated!
Last edited by karm (2014-12-08 03:56:35)

Sleep is for the weak.
So I've read that article and found what the issue was.
Turns out I automatically followed previous advise without giving it some thought and run mkinitcpio from Virtualbox. Which does not make sense because the whole point of this is to prepare kernel image to run on other hardware than provided by VM. So what I did to fix this:
1. Installed arch-chroot on VM
2. Mounted /dev/sda1 on my host machine and chrooted into it using arch-chroot
3. Run mkinitpcio -p linux
4. Reinstalled boot loader just in case with syslinux-install_update -iam /dev/sda1
5. Adjusted /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg to work with new configuration:
5.1 set root=UUID=..... to be certain it picks the right partition
5.2 add proper systemd init path APPEND=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd
And it does work - I'm posting from my new shiny system. Thanks a lot ackt1c!

[SOLVED] Sluggish database update times since new Arch install

Hi guys, this time I write to ask something about pacman that i find unusual.
Happens that I decided to reinstall my Arch like 2 months ago, and since then pacman takes a real longer time that it used to just to sync the databases, to be more accurate this sluggishness presents not when the progress bar is downloading the new DB, but between DB downloads (e.g. it takes about minute from the time it finishes downloading the core DB to when it starts to download the extra DB.)...
Any ideas?
Thanks for the support.
Last edited by LTSmash (2008-03-27 03:08:53)

ibendiben wrote:
Try using rankmirrors to set up a good number of the fastest mirrors for your location, for me this changes everything!
I live in europe so I first delete every other mirror in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, then I enable all leftover mirrors and run:
rankmirrors -n10 /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist #-n10 to only output the 10 best, change this number to your likings
for several times and replace the resulting 'overall top-listed mirrors' list in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
Hope this does the trick for you too!
ps. You need python to use rankmirrors, I recommend you read the rankmirror man-page for further options
Well, it seems to me that this solved the problem. I had uncommented some lines at Czech Republic but live in Mexico, so that was lagging the pacman operations a lot. But now its fast as usual.
Thanks for your help

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