Ahh ...Entering other partitions trough file-manager [SOLVED]

Hi, I have Ubuntu, Windows and now Arch installed on my pc.
Through Ubuntu I can detect all partitions and write to them. I just go to Computer in the Nautilus file manager and I see the other partitions.
In Arch however my file-manager is pcmanfm and I don't know where the other partitions are located and how I can access them.
Sorry for the silly question but I really don't understand this :s
Is there any special folder in linux for this (excluding /media since I only find my 2 drives (DVD and CD))?
Last edited by Alberto Ferreira (2009-04-24 15:32:24)

Alberto Ferreira wrote:
Ok, now I have it mounted. However I copied the whole blender directory to my partition and if I do `ls ...` the files all show up but when I execute it it says `no such file or directory`.
I had used this command:
sudo cp -R /media/ubuntu/home/a/blender ~
Correct me if I'm wrong here: you've copied a folder from your ubuntu $HOME into your Arch $HOME, and now you want to execute something in that folder. Are you using the full path to the command? Or have you added the blender folder to your path?
If you think Arch is crazy that's fine - you're entitled to your opinion. Just consider the fact that there are thousands of happy Arch users who disagree with you.

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Help with partitions and file systems [SOLVED]

Hi, i have been using Ubuntu for a while, and now i want to move to Arch. I've probed it in a PC and i like so i want to make que change.
But, before installing Arch, I have 2 doubts. I red the beginners guide and also the instalation guide. There it says that if better to have diferents partitions for /, /boot/, /home, /usr, /var, y /tmp
Usually, i alwayes used something like this:
* /boot (32megas)
* /swap (512 megas)
* /root (6 a 8 gigas)
* /home (80 gigas aprox)
It's really better to also have partitions for /var, /usr y /tmp? o some of them? and, in that case, wich size should i give them? because i don't want to make them too small, but i don't want to waste disk space neither.
Adn that takes me to my second question, wich filesystem is better for each partitionn? in many places, i read taht JFS its good for /var or that XFS if better for /home and big files
I thinked to use something like this:
* /boot (ext2)
* / (JFS)
* swap
* /home (XFS)
Is a good design? or should i use other filesystem like reiserfs, etc... and for /var, /usr and /tmp partition, wich one should i use?
Thank you
Ps: This Pc is gonna be a desktop pc
Ps2: sorry for my bad english. it is not my real lenguage
Reason of edit: added the swap partition. I forgot it
Last edited by Thalskarth (2008-12-21 20:11:00)

thanks everybody for the help,
kaola_linux wrote:@Thalskarth - it's better to have /var especially if you're using ext3 or other filesystems which was designed for larger files as your partition for /home and /. Having a seperate partition for /var would be nice (backup purposes and reinstalling without downloading the entire package whole over again). 5gb would be sufficient for your /var, anyway you can always resize it to your needs.
so, a 5gb partition in reiserfs would be OK for a /var
Inxsible wrote:
Lot of people also use XFS which is known to have better performance with huge files. I think EXT3 offers a good balance...because I am never sure whether my home partition will have all huge files or not..same with my external drive...so i just use EXT3
If you have a specific partition for movies or some video/audio editing that you do..you may wanna consider XFS too. I don't do all that...so I have never used XFS. I wouldn't know the exact performance difference between ext3 and XFS.
Yes, in many places i red that XFS is better for big files. But i couldn't fine wich is the meaning of "big file". Does it mean a 200 mg file? or a 4.4gb one??
the same applies to reiserFs, what is a small file? a 1mg one or a 4kb one?
I have alwayes used ext3, i thinked in XFS and JFS just to give them a try.
amranu wrote:I have no idea about better filesystems, all my partitions are ext3 (soon to be ext4)
Inxsible wrote:One thing that makes me wanna keep EXT3 is that EXT4 is coming out (soon?) and you can upgrade from 3 to 4 without having to reformat and having to make backups of your current data.
really is cominf soon? i didn't think in ext4 beacuse many places said that was in development for many years... meybe they were a bit out-of-date
Edit: i search in the wiki and it says that since 11 october 2008, ext4 is "stable" and is been included since kernel 2.6.28 as stable realase, is to early to prove it? or it better to wait a while??
thanks.
and, does anyone try the JFS one?
Last edited by Thalskarth (2008-12-03 00:14:56)

Searching for a good file manager

I'm searching for a good file manager. Konqueror 3.5 is quite good, dolphin 4.1 and konqueror 4.1 are not. Since konqueror 3.5 is going to die due to lack of support in the future, I kind of need to find a new good file manager...
Do there exist file managers with the following features?
Many of these features are things I thought were quite logical to be in a file manager, but seem to be missing in most "modern" ones...
-independent of any desktop (gnome or KDE), just a standalone program
-preferably not being both a web browser and file manager in once, at least not in an annoying way. Konqueror 3.5 shows that being that combination is possible without being annoying.
-ability to have a tree view of the folders on one side and list view showing the files and subfolders of the folder currently selected in the tree on the other side
-detailed list view showing at least filename, type, date and size, and the ability to sort according to any of these properties
-a non-detailed view showing image contents would also be nice, to browse folders of photos or other images
-ability to open files in certain programs if you doubleclick the file, NOT open it by singleclicking, singleclicking may only select it
-ability to select multiple files by dragging box around files or using keys like "ctrl" and "shift"
-ability to do "open terminal here" or type terminal commands in the current open directory
-must have ability to drag files from one folder to another, from list view to tree view and vica versa, to move or copy them
-and must have ability to use "ctrl+c" and "ctrl+v" to copy files and foldes from here to there
-multiple tabs is a huge plus
-favorites (to local folder paths) is also a huge plus
-preview of files when hovering the mouse over them is nice
-must have ability to zip and unzip (or other compression formats) folders by just right clicking them and choosing a zip/unzip command there
-in addition to that, must also have ability to browse through a zip file as you would through a normal directory, and drag files from the insides of the zip file to the tree view to automatically unzip those files there, and of course "ctrl+c"/"ctrl+v" should also work to copy a file from the inside of the zip file, to some other folder on your disk
-no horizontal autoscrolling in the tree view, that is an invention straight from the abyss...

I know exactly how you feel about KDE 4 vs. 3 -- Konqueror was the best part of KDE for me (pretty much the only part I ever used, actually; my window manager is a slightly modified version of WMII and I generally loathe "desktop environments"). KDE 4 ruined it, completely and utterly.
I submitted about 20 different bug reports about Konqeuror 4, mostly features that they'd deleted or mangled; some of them are starting to be addressed now. I don't think they'll ever fix the speed issues though, because those are dependent on the underlying KDE 4 libraries as far as I can tell -- it's as if KDE 4 were purposely and deliberately designed to be slower than KDE 3. Even if they fix all of its deficiencies, that'll probably keep me from using it...
Right now there's KDEmod, which will hopefully maintain its KDE 3 branch for a while longer. It's starting to show some problems, though; I haven't been able to get kdemod konqueror 3 to work fully out of the box (the settings pages are all blank). On my main machine, I somehow managed to hack together some of the KDEmod3 packages so that I have a functional konqueror 3 running alongside the Arch repository's version of KDE4. I'm afraid to pacman -Syu now, though, because it will probably break horribly :P
I don't remember exactly how I got konqueror 3 going like that, as I did it in my initial fit of rage after I did the pacman -Syu that got me KDE4 (a decision I have regretted ever since), but it was something like this:
1. move /opt to /opt.kde4
2. make a new /opt
3. download several KDE 3 packages from the KDEmod3 repositories manually
4. extract those packages into the new /opt with tar -xzf (NOT pacman!)
5. try /opt/kde/bin/konqueror
6. read reams of error messages about missing libraries, segfaults, etc.
7. try to supply the missing libraries by downloading other kdemod3 packages and manually extracting them
8. goto 5
Then, when everything worked (sort of), I renamed some stuff so that 'konqueror' is konqueror 4 (I think having it konqueror 3 broke something else, but I don't remember what), and konqueror 3 is called 'k3nqueror'.
If KDEmod3 ever goes away and there's no other good replacement file manager by then, I'll probably take the source code of KDE3 and try to make a standalone version of konqueror out of it. (Which will probably be quite a project because of how interdependent all the KDE components are.)
Some features I "need" in a file manager, besides the ones you mentioned:
- Konqueror's tree view (where you can expand folder branches in the file list)
- Infinite view splitting -- I frequently have my konqueror windows split into 4, sometimes as many as 6 or 7 view panes. Very useful for sorting out files.
- Selection rectangles are sensitive only over files -- I find full-row-select really annoying, because there are no guaranteed "blank" areas that you can click on to clear a selection. I also use this behaviour to grab long-named files that are interspersed with short ones, because they hilight first when the rectangle touches them (you wouldn't think this very useful, but surprisingly often you do want to do something to all the long-named files...)
- Right-clicking on a folder and clicking "Paste" pastes into that folder, not the current one -- you'd be amazed at how many file managers get this wrong. I shouldn't have to cd into a folder just to paste some files there.

Xfce4 not detecting other partitions[SOLVED]

I have installed arch linux with xfce4, wine, java, libreoffice, opera and some other packages. The system is working well. However, I am not able to solve following problem:
The file manager is not showing other partitions of the disk drive. I think they can be added in /etc/fstab file but is it possible for system to detect them and show them so that I can mount them if I need to (as I have seen in other desktop environments like gnome on ubuntu and kde on slackware)?
I have tried to check the arch wiki (which helped a lot while installing all of the above) but not able to find solution. Please guide me in the right direction. I am really impressed by Arch linux and all the experts must have worked very hard to produce this fine distribution.
Last edited by rnarch (2012-04-10 14:03:09)

exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch startxfce4
It worked well. I can now access all partitions.
However, if I open thunar directly, I can see all partitions on the left sided pane. Here, I have to click to mount the partitions. This mounts but gives a message that I do not have permission to open this partition. Then I have to give command 'sudo thunar' . This instance of thunar does not show any partitions on the left sided pane but if I can open the /media folder and access all mounted partitions. Why does 'sudo thunar' does not show any partitions on left sided pane?

(SOLVED) Firefox and Sublime calling Cervisia as file manager

I'm using KDE 4.13
Problem In Firefox :
When a download is completed, it shows up in Downloads window. When I ask "open containing folder", it will display a warning:
http://up.vbiran.ir/uploads/10587140621 … a-warn.png
"This is not a CVS folder.
If you did not intend to use Cervisia, you can switch view modes within Konqueror."
and then open `Cervisia` :
http://up.vbiran.ir/uploads/10584140621 … ivitia.png
Problem in Sublime Text Editor :
When I running Sublime and then `Pereferences > Browse Packages`
(Same as Firefox)
It will display :
"This is not a CVS folder.
If you did not intend to use Cervisia, you can switch view modes within Konqueror."
and then open `Cervisia`.
Any ideas?
-- mod edit: read the Forum Etiquette and only post thumbnails http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/For … s_and_Code [jwr] --
Last edited by kamrava (2014-07-25 07:02:14)

basica wrote:
xdg-mime default nautilus.desktop inode/directory
replace nautilis with whatever the default file manager is for KDE and you should be ok.
Solved Tnx
I'm using `Dolphin` and tried :
xdg-mime default dolphin.desktop inode/directory
Worked like a charm.

[SOLVED] Permissions [UNSOLVED] & File manager madness...

Hi guys,
[Solved bit]
Been googling in circles and tearing my hair own over this stuff for sufficient time to warrant actually asking for help (a place I rarely end up in due to the wonderful Wiki and Google-foo)
I'm having some really odd mounting issues with two external drives. Both are formatted ext4, permissions and ownerships are all correct, yet I cannot access the drives as a normal user.
They mount fine (I've tried mounting in multiple different ways as my user - from nautilus, dolphin and space filemanagers, and using pmount and udevil from the command line), but I cannot open any folders in any file managers (even ranger), I just get a pop-up saying "you don't have the correct permissions to view the contents of foo" - yet I'm the owner, the group is users and the permissions are 660 (and I can't chmod without sudo even though I'm the owner!).
Ok, so I just tried 777 and it does work and I have full access. But surely that's not right? I shouldn't need execute permissions to read and write to a drive - by definition! WTF?!
[Unsolved bit]
The other bizarre issue surrounding this, is that after I eject a device (either graphically or via sudo umount), and have verified via lsblk that it's no longer mounted) - it remains displayed in all my file managers and errors out when I click on it (duh!).
What on earth is going on here? I feel like I'm going mad! It's probably something absurdly obvious, but I'm going round in circles here...
I'd very much appreciate any insight anyone could provide, even if does result in a revealing me to total idiot! (it wouldn't be the first time!) :-)
Last edited by knowayhack (2013-02-25 06:52:15)

Ok, so I'm afraid the file manager thing is still not solved - obviously that was a separate issue...
Heres the message when I click on the drive that is no longer there:
Error mounting /dev/sdc1 at /run/media/toby/asus: Command-line `mount -t "ext4" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid" "/dev/sdc1" "/run/media/toby/asus"' exited with non-zero exit status 32: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc1,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
dmesg tail gives me:
[16765.967370] cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 08 02 00 00 02 00
[16765.967389] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 2050
[16765.967468] EXT4-fs (sdc1): unable to read superblock
[16879.565843] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code
[16879.565854] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc]
[16879.565858] Result: hostbyte=0x07 driverbyte=0x00
[16879.565863] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB:
[16879.565866] cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 08 02 00 00 02 00
[16879.565885] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 2050
[16879.565962] EXT4-fs (sdc1): unable to read superblock
Last edited by knowayhack (2013-02-25 06:24:34)

File Manager Pro.....Advice from other users please

I uploaded much of my music collection to Skydrive in anticipation of iPad ownership.
I planned to hold a small selection on the device and refresh/replace albums from Skydrive whilst on my travels using Hotel WiFi.
I have discovered that even using the "Skydrive App" one can only stream such media content, not download it.
Enter "File Manager Pro".
...This promised to be the answer to a maiden's prayer.
...alas, no.
Though I can now download music using the App, it remains imprisoned within the application, only being playable on the "One Shot" rudimentary in-built player.
Does anyone know of a way to transfer these music files to the iPad library where I could then access them from the iPad player?
Alternatively, is there some other way of downloading music from Skydrive directly to the iPad music library?

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If you are seeing Save to Remote Server, then your site is
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and RDS Server
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Firefox file type management [SOLVED]

I am having some trouble with Firefox handling file downloads. There are two parts to my problem.
First, when I click on a file type that I've never handled before, I get the standard download/save dialog. In the dialog I see no default applications, probably because I'm not using GNOME, so I select "Open with...", browse to the desired application, and click "automatically do this..." When I check Edit->Preferences->Content->Manage File Types, I see an entry for the file type I downloaded. However, the next time I encounter that file type, it does not automatically open it with the desired program nor does it even populate the "Open with..." field so I can just click OK. In short, the problem seems to be that Firefox ignores its own file type database. To try to solve the problem, I have deleted mimeTypes.rdf and I have created a completely new profile, but yet I still have this problem. Does anyone have any ideas on how to get Firefox to respect its file type management settings?
A second more general question involves how I might get the default application part working. I have tried installing libgnome and gnome-mime-types to get Firefox to pick something up, but with no success. The other option I've seen mentioned is having a mailcap file, but I can't find a good way to get a decent mailcap file set up in Arch. I also noticed the xdg-utils package, but I don't know if this can be integrated with Firefox.
Edit: OK, actually I noticed the libgnome partially seems to be working. After restarting my session, I noticed that now there are more MIME types in the file management setup. Unfortunately, it seems that trying to open one of the installed types still doesn't work.
Thanks for any suggestions,
j
Edit (6/1/2008): I updated to use Firefox 3 RC1 and it all magically works!
Last edited by jbromley (2008-06-02 06:35:44)

Well, I've been having the very same problem here as well, but with thunderbird (not in firefox)... In the past, but also now with kde 4.2.2 / kdemod.
The associations list is always empty and the default associations are definitely not KDE's ones (seem gnomish though gnome is not installed).
In firefox, I can see my kde apps in the list...
Last edited by mahen (2009-04-10 13:29:48)

[Solved] Do I need a swap partition /swap file?

Hello Arch Community.
I want to install Arch Linux on my Aspire V5-573G Notebook with 8GB RAM and a 120GB 840 Evo SSD from Samsung. So my question is, do I actually need a swap partition / swap file? I read the arch-wiki pages about swap and suspend-to-disk / suspend-to-ram, and the only thing thats obviously profiting from / needing a swap partition is suspend-to-disk, no other things are mentioned in this regard. Is a swap partition in any other way important?
Thanks in advance.
Last edited by Oedner (2013-12-21 12:41:19)

headkase wrote:Another question to ask is what will happen if you don't have a swap file and run out of memory? In that case the Linux kernel will randomly kill process' until there is enough memory again. Obviously that isn't very stable but that is what it will do.
No. The OOM killer is pretty darn tweaked these days and usually(!) kills the actual perpetrator. The alternative—disabling memory overcommitting and answering memory requests with an out-of-memory error—can result in unforeseen problems as well: What if it a system process is trying to allocate a few bytes for some random string, and what if said system process isn't equipped to handle ENOMEM gracefully and crashes, because the default policy on Linux is to overcommit and never answer with out-of-memory errors?
Just trying to play devil's advocate here. I'm not happy with the OOM killer either and I'd rather have a deterministic solution to out-of-memory situations, but I realize that it's probably not an easy problem to solve.

[SOLVED] PCManFM file manager not working for me

Hi, i'm having some troubles with PCManFM. Every time i want to open the file manager it just doesn't do anything, no errors and no feedback if i run it from a console. If i create a folder on my desktop and double click on it, file manager will pop up and i'm able to use it as it were no problems, but still when i close that window it won't open otherwise than clicking on the folder on the desktop. Any ideas?. It's a clean install, followed the wiki for lxde and i've been using linux for 10 years now, tried to figure it out but i couldn't. It's not my first time with arch but i took a break for the last 6 months, thanks in advance.
ibfm 0.1.14-2 (lxde)
pcmanfm 0.9.8-2 (lxde)
cat /etc/rc.conf | grep DAEMONS
# DAEMONS
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng dbus hal !network networkmanager dnsmasqd !netfs crond alsa)
cat .xinitrc | grep exec
exec ck-launch-session startlxde
As i said before, there are no error messages.
Update:
I've just found a lead (l think), if i kill pcmanfm process and rerun it the file manager works fine, the way it should, but desktop won't get managed.
Last edited by oTarUX (2011-01-08 10:00:18)

Please report or confirm this on the PCManFM bugtracker: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_i … tid=801864

[SOLVED]Iced Tea Fails to Launch Webmin File Manager

Last night I started receiving an exception error when trying to launch Webmin File Manager from my laptop. I googled combinations of Webmin File Manager and Java and found posts dating back to 2009, 2010 stating webmin didn't work well with Iced Tea but did work with Sun's Java. Fortunately the Arch Java wiki indicated jre existed in the AUR. So a simple,
sudo pacman -Rs icedtea-web-java7
followed by,
sudo packer -S jre
and Webmin File Manager is accessible again.
My thanks to AUR maintainer Det.
Edit: After converting to jre I was able to access webmin filemanager but unable to access webmin ssh2. I reverted back to icedtea and went to the security console. i added https://serverip:10000/ to the exceptions and now both ssh2 and filemenager work.
Last edited by czubek (2014-07-10 22:01:13)

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Tfman - text file manager, much different then others

Tfman - text file manager.
Performs operations on files through textual representation of file system.
Textual representation is in the form of plain text, editable with any text
editor and may contain multiple operations of every kind. Tfman can be
used from command-line or from within Vim as multi-window file manager.
It can be combined with tools like Sed or Awk.
. written in C fo Unix-like operating systems
. no dependencies (except gcc/clang and GNU Make for building)
Features in short:
- scan filesystem to create its textual representation
- parse textual representation and perform retrieved operations
- use favorite text editing tool to edit textual representation
- scan, edit and parse in one step
- use Tfman from command-line or from within Vim as multi-window file manager
- integration with other decent text editors should be easy
- available: brace expansion, globbing, entries grouping, whole directory operations and more
Project's homepage:
https://chiselapp.com/user/machel/repository/tfman/home
Installation procedure (AUR or sources tarball) - see Project's homepage
Documentation, sources, report issue - see Project's homepage
Warning:
Tfman is in an early state, it didn't receive sufficient testing yet. Please
be carefull when manipulating sensitive data with it.
Note:
I do not know any file manager that manipulates file system in similar way.
Therefore usefulness of this kind of approach is not proven.
Help me prove it.
Screenshots:
Screenshot1
New version pushed to AUR:
- changing entry ownership and permissions now associated under one action tag
- few other action tags changed
- Quick Start Guide now available, see Project's homepage
- bug fixes
Last edited by machel (2014-07-15 11:48:48)

machel wrote:I know it looks complex, but I believe it is not as complex as it seems to be although
not as simple as I want it to be. Any ideas how to make it simpler are highly appreciated.
Well, for start: Is there really a reason to use different character for directory and its subdirectories? As far as I can tell, you could just use '%' for all directories and decide what is top-level directory and what is subdirectory based on the indentation. Also, it would be nice to reserve '#' for comments, as it is common in many languages.
machel wrote:2) Use action tags to specify operations. They apply to single entries, groups of entries or whole directories
Here the complexity begins. There is 13 operations, if I counted it correctly in the man page. To be fair, some of them are just adding '*' enforce overwrites. Fine, that leaves us with about 9 operations to learn. I could probably do that But it would be better if it was less... Would it be possible to simplify operations that don't affect file location by allowing user to simply change the value in the text representation? It would probably require some kind of header (or some clever trickery), because the order of columns is not fixed, but it might be worth the trouble. You could also extend this to changing file times and perhaps other properties (those from '-F proper'). The linking and moving operators look good, with little exception of '))' - that just looks odd to me But that is definitely my personal taste... I'd prefer something like single '>'.
machel wrote:3) Entry names and action operands - I believe using them is quite intuitive:
Name relative to directory/subdirectory above:
'name'
If you want absolute name:
'/name'
If you want name relative to current working directory (where Tfman was invoked):
'./name'
No problem with this, I like that.
machel wrote:
dolik.rce wrote:ability to execute commands on the files/directories
What do you mean? Shell commands?
Shell commands would be best, but generally just ability to execute command with given file/directory as input or parameter. Example usage would be something like this:
# Dir
file1 ^ sed -i -e 'some sed script here' becomes: sed -i -e 'some sed script here' < file1
file2 ^% touch % becomes: touch file2
The syntax is just an example, but in this case ^ would feed the file into the standard input of the command, and '^%' would replace '%' in commandline with the actual file name. For globing, command gets executed for each matching file.
machel wrote:
dolik.rce wrote:execute some actions conditionally
Interesting idea. I must think about it.
Tfman already have tags to stop parsing file, stop parsing line and goto next,
disable whole dir/group or single entry, exclude entry from under directory/group,
perform action on previous action's target, ignore errors.
But it works unconditionally.
I can imagine wanting to do something based on the properties of file or even based on output of external command. E.g. 'move file only if it's older then N days', or 'ask remote server if it has file X, move the file to directory upload/ when the command returns non-zero exit status'
machel wrote:--- Tfm ---
Remember about 'tfm' utility which is simple Tfman wrapper scanning given directory,
opening it in editor defined in EDITOR shell variable (Vim is default) and parsing
result after you save and quit.
It just compress 3 steps into 1.
This is definitely handy, and probably only reasonable way to use tfman interactively. However, I'm not a vim-person - as I already said I'm lazy to remember anything, so you can imagine that learning enough vim commands to use it effectively would be a nightmare for me The same goes for tfmvi, I'm just not the target audience for that. But my EDITOR variable is usually set to nano, so I could easily use it with that, probably just with slightly more typing.

Failed to execute default file manager (Input /Output Error) [SOLVED]

I'm having an issue in XFCE where the default Terminal, Browser and File Manager launch correctly - but with this error:
Failed to execute default [file manager] [terminal emulator] [browser]
Input /Output Error
I have the requisite "Preferred Application" set as Chrome/Thunar/xfce4-terminal.
If I run
exo-open --launch FileManager
From terminal, it says:
[1] 4281 segmentation fault (core dumped) exo-open --launch FileManager
Remember, it launches the app successfully - and the apps themselves launch correctly, it's only exo-open that I have a problem with! Everything else works great on this system.
Last edited by yochaigal (2015-04-28 11:10:06)

demolitions wrote:
I got the same problem, I observed the problem appearing with those lines in "dmesg", the same library (libpthread-2.21.so) is also present in other software errors (critical and not) since my last update (friday 24th).
I'll try downgrading glibc, see if that works around the problem.
[ 587.042204] traps: xfce4-terminal[1022] general protection ip:7f6500100150 sp:7ffe14c978d8 error:0 in libpthread-2.21.so[7f65000ee000+18000]
[ 592.113288] traps: xfce4-terminal[1026] general protection ip:7fbf1c97a150 sp:7ffe2f916188 error:0 in libpthread-2.21.so[7fbf1c968000+18000]
[ 620.913826] traps: xfce4-notifyd[494] general protection ip:7fa4859a2150 sp:7fff84dd7708 error:0 in libpthread-2.21.so[7fa485990000+18000]
[ 974.008983] traps: xfce4-terminal[1384] general protection ip:7f519df84150 sp:7ffe3573e4f8 error:0 in libpthread-2.21.so[7f519df72000+18000]
[ 974.850083] traps: xfce4-terminal[1387] general protection ip:7f6ed57f8150 sp:7ffec58369c8 error:0 in libpthread-2.21.so[7f6ed57e6000+18000]
[ 975.521687] traps: xfce4-terminal[1390] general protection ip:7f5e91d00150 sp:7ffd70179d18 error:0 in libpthread-2.21.so[7f5e91cee000+18000]
[ 979.179030] traps: exo-open[1393] general protection ip:7fbdd2a24150 sp:7ffe9e0c5608 error:0 in libpthread-2.21.so[7fbdd2a12000+18000]
[ 984.286944] traps: exo-helper-1[1395] general protection ip:7fd5d8473150 sp:7ffd53706a08 error:0 in libpthread-2.21.so[7fd5d8461000+18000]
[ 1012.318773] traps: xfce4-terminal[1502] general protection ip:7ffb62b1b150 sp:7fffd5c986f8 error:0 in libpthread-2.21.so[7ffb62b09000+18000]
[ 1101.456187] traps: xfce4-terminal[1521] general protection ip:7f3285cf2150 sp:7fff3c6df158 error:0 in libpthread-2.21.so[7f3285ce0000+18000]
[ 1102.120447] traps: xfce4-terminal[1525] general protection ip:7fdd50c3a150 sp:7ffe96656ce8 error:0 in libpthread-2.21.so[7fdd50c28000+18000]
[ 1103.246180] traps: xfce4-terminal[1529] general protection ip:7f93f2b49150 sp:7ffc539d34e8 error:0 in libpthread-2.21.so[7f93f2b37000+18000]
[ 1103.976302] traps: xfce4-terminal[1532] general protection ip:7f6a55204150 sp:7ffd13eb77f8 error:0 in libpthread-2.21.so[7f6a551f2000+18000]
[ 1118.718286] traps: xfce4-terminal[1953] general protection ip:7efc94fb9150 sp:7ffd6f5fbed8 error:0 in libpthread-2.21.so[7efc94fa7000+18000]
[ 1160.851856] traps: xfce4-terminal[1992] general protection ip:7f39aaddb150 sp:7ffdb4478aa8 error:0 in libpthread-2.21.so[7f39aadc9000+18000]
[ 1165.279367] traps: xfce4-terminal[2004] general protection ip:7f3a50756150 sp:7ffd743c07b8 error:0 in libpthread-2.21.so[7f3a50744000+18000]
[ 1173.696850] traps: xfce4-terminal[2008] general protection ip:7f0930b98150 sp:7ffc5cd54e78 error:0 in libpthread-2.21.so[7f0930b86000+18000]
[ 1177.567234] traps: xfce4-terminal[2011] general protection ip:7f5ea2222150 sp:7ffd81d4e898 error:0 in libpthread-2.21.so[7f5ea2210000+18000]
Tried downgrading glibc from 2.21-3 to 2.21-2 as this is the package which contains libpthread.so, and on my other arch workstations I don't have the issue, but to no avail, same error box pops up when using exo-open, and my IDEs are not starting.
I'll try comparing installed packages versions on both workstations.

[Solved] Auto-open a file manager after mounting with udev rules

Hellooooo,
I followed the udev Wiki for auto mounting USBs and it now works great.
The only problem is: how can I automatically open a file manager of the mounted directory? I tried putting this at the end of the "ACTION=="add"," section in "/etc/udev/rules.d/11-media-by-label-auto-mount.rules" but for some reason nothing happens:
, RUN+="/usr/bin/dolphin /media/%E{dir_name}"
Even if I just try to open dolphin with the "ACTION=="add"," section nothing happens either way.
So what am I doing wrong?
Last edited by algorythm (2011-05-05 12:35:56)

In that case, the best choice in my opinion is to use Automounting UDisks Wrappers :
devmon is a script developed by IgnorantGuru. He left Arch Linux, but the package in AUR is still there and is the last version. For a future new release, it should be available at his blog site. The script is distro independent.
My udisksvm script, in its default state, doesn't launch a file manager after automounting, but it is not a big thing to let the automounting be done and then manually open a file manager (a new entry in the traydevice right-click menu can also be added for that).
If you can do without automounting, there is also the bashmount script from jnguyen.
All these scripts don't require writing any udev rules, they use udisks instead.
I hope you could find something you like and which will suit your wishes.

[solved] dolphin file manager losing all custom places entries

Hi all,
I am getting phantom problem with dolphin file manager, i added custom place entries there but suddenly they diappear from dolphin.
There is no any pattern in disappearance. They appear for few days without any problem, even after shutdown/reboot. But suddenly some day they disappear and i have to add them again.
I want to find cause of this problem then fix it.
Or at least find config file where dolphin store configuration about custom places that i can backup and restore to get back entries.
I checked ~/.kde4/share/config/dolphinrc but couldn't find there anything about custom places.
I am using KDE 4.14.5 and Dolphin 14.11.97
Last edited by samtech09 (2015-02-16 13:02:09)

Hi samtech09,
dolphin stores the configuration of the custom places in ~/.local/share/user-places.xbel.
The problem you described has already been reported upstream: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343735
Last edited by mauritiusdadd (2015-02-16 11:30:50)

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