Arch Linux PPC : Gnome 2.16.1 in Testing

Gnome 2.16.1, Evolution and beagle are in testing on Arch Linux PPC . Please test
- Benoît

nice, will try it out on my powerbook later on

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A VERY Easy Tutorial on doing a clean install of Arch Linux with Gnome

is there anyone who could help me test Arch Linux with Gnome DE?

The pacman bit is new, and has already been solved: [SOLVED] pacman update fails: gcc requires gcc-libs=4.7.0-3
Just press "N" and you'll see that pacman will be on the list.
Welcome to the forums.
Edit:
Shahe1993 wrote:is there anyone who cou...
Oh. Feeling a bit busy there, huh? Nevermind.
Last edited by DSpider (2012-04-12 17:28:18)

[SOLVED]CR-48/Arch Linux/Installing Gnome or e17

I'm all the way up to installing a Desktop Environment/Windows Manager. I have tried both Gnome and e17. Same issue occurs with both.
I get hundreds of lines, "error: failed retrieving file..."
Then:
warning: failed to retrieve some files from extra
error: failed to commit transaction (download library error)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
Where to next?
Last edited by killingthemonkey (2012-03-28 20:32:13)

Never mind. A quick run of netcfg to connect to the wifi again resolved it.

Arch linux - creation (wallpaper)

Creation:
from nothing comes substance, bulk, core, mass, phenomenon,
Arch Linux.
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/ … tent=98356

ArchGh0ul wrote:
hatten wrote:feel for making a 1280*1024? Then it would be even more awesome! (As if that would be possible)
It already is at 1280x1024...
Here it is without the logo
http://omploader.org/tMWYzZQ
i meant the one in the first post =P

Recommend Virtualization Software on Arch Linux 64-bit

I have my Arch Linux 64-bit workstation and need to test out some virtual guest machines and was wondering if anyone on Arch Linux has ever had any results between Oracle's 'VirtualBox' or 'VMware' suite. I heard good things about both. VMware has a crazy / confusing amount of options and different versions which appear to be more 'enterprise' geared but this could be the fact that it's just been around longer and more known commonly known.
Thanks for any feedback / suggestions on what I should use.

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VBox_vs_Others
Of course, take it with a grain of salt since it is from Virtualbox website.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6301 … virtualbox
Some slightly old benchmarks there. Vbox is in version 3 now, not 2. But probably somewhere out there you could google some benchmarks if that is what you are interested in.
As far as personal experience, I used to use Qemu, then VMware, and now been on Virtualbox for a couple years. I like having a little pet WinXP kept in its cage It works fine with me. I switched off of VMware because I liked the Seamless Mode in Vbox and Vbox has experimental D3D support

Backpac: A package state snapshot and restore tool for Arch Linux

backpac:
A package state snapshot and restore tool for Arch Linux with config file save/restore support.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=52957
https://github.com/altercation/backpac (see readme on the github repository for more information)
Summary & Features
It's a common method of setting up a single system: take some notes about what packages you've installed, what files you've modified.
Backpac creates those notes for you and helps back up important configuration files. Specifically, backpac does the following:
maintains a list of installed groups (based on 80% of group packages being installed)
maintains a list of packages (including official and aur packages, listed separately)
maintains a list of files (manually created)
backs up key config files as detailed in the files list you create
The package, group and files lists along with the snapshot config files allows system state to be easily committed to version control such as git.
Backpac can also use these lists to install packages and files. Essentially, then, backpac takes a snapshot of your system and can recreate that state from the files and lists it archives.
Use Cases
Ongoing system state backup to github
Quick install of new system from existing backpac config
Conform current system to given state in backpac config
Backpac is a very, very lightweight way of saving and restoring system state.
It's not intended for rolling out and maintaining multiple similar systems, it's designed to assist individual users in the maintainance of their own Arch Linux box.
Status
Alpha, release for testing among those interested. Passing all tests right now but will continue to rework and refine. Bug reports needed.
Why?
There are a lot of 'big-iron' solutions to maintaining, backing up and restoring system state. Setting these up for a single system or a handful of personal systems has always seemed like overkill.
There are also some existing pacman list making utilities around, but most of them seem to list either all packages or don't separate the official and aur packages the way I wanted. Some detect group install state, some don't. I wanted all these features in backpac.
Finally, whatever tool I use, I'd like it to be simple (c.f. the Arch Way). Lists that are produced should be human readable, human maintainable and not different from what I'm using in non-automated form. Backpac fulfills these requirements.
Regarding files, I wanted to be able to backup arbitrary system files to a git repository. Tools like etckeeper are interesting but non /etc files in that case aren't backed up (without some link trickery) and there isn't any automatic integration with pacman, so there is no current advantage to using a tool like that. I also like making an explicit list of files to snapshot.
Sample Output
This is the command line report. Additionally, backpac saves this information to the backpac groups, packages and files lists and the files snapshot directory.
$ backpac -Qf
backpac
(-b) Backups ON; Files will be saved in place with backup suffix.
-f Force mode ON; No prompts presented (CAUTION).
(-F) Full Force mode OFF; Prompt displayed before script runs.
(-g) Suppress group check OFF; Groups will be checked for currency.
(-h) Display option and usage summary.
(-p) Default backpac: /home/es/.config/backpac/tau.
-Q Simple Query ON; Report shown; no changes made to system.
(-R) Auto-Remove OFF; Remove/Uninstall action default to NO.
(-S) System update OFF; No system files will be updated.
(-U) backpac config update OFF; backpac files will not be updated.
Sourcing from backpac config directory: /home/es/.config/backpac/tau
Initializing.................Done
GROUPS
============================================================================
/home/es/.config/backpac/tau/groups
GROUPS UP TO DATE: group listed in backpac and >80% local install:
base base-devel xfce4 xorg xorg-apps xorg-drivers xorg-fonts
GROUP PACKAGES; MISSING?: group member packages not installed:
(base: nano)
(xfce4: thunar xfdesktop)
PACKAGES
============================================================================
/home/es/.config/backpac/tau/packages
PACKAGES UP TO DATE: packages listed in backpac also installed on system:
acpi acpid acpitool aif alsa-utils augeas cowsay cpufrequtils curl dialog
firefox gamin git ifplugd iw mesa mesa-demos mutt netcfg openssh rfkill
rsync rxvt-unicode sudo terminus-font vim wpa_actiond wpa_supplicant_gui
xmobar xorg-server-utils xorg-twm xorg-utils xorg-xclock xorg-xinit xterm
yacpi yajl youtube-dl zsh
AUR UP TO DATE: aur packages listed in backpac also installed on system:
flashplugin-beta freetype2-git-infinality git-annex haskell-json
package-query-git packer wpa_auto xmonad-contrib-darcs xmonad-darcs
AUR NOT IN backpac: installed aur packages not listed in backpac config:
yaourt-git
FILES
============================================================================
/home/es/.config/backpac/tau/files
MATCHES ON SYSTEM/CONFIG:
/boot/grub/menu.lst
/etc/acpi/handler.sh
/etc/rc.conf
/etc/rc.local

firecat53 wrote:I think your plan for handling an AUR_HELPER is good. If AUR_HELPER is defined by the user, then either you might need a list of major AUR helpers and their command line switches so you can pick the correct switch for what needs to be done (most use some variation of -S for installing, but not all), or have the user define the correct switch(es) somehow for their chosen AUR helper.
That's a good idea. I'll add that to my AUR refactoring todo.
I also found directory tracking to be a weakness in other dotfile managers that I tried. I think you would definitely have to recursively list out the contents of a tracked directory and deal with each file individually. Wildcard support would be nice...I just haven't personally found a use case for it yet.
I've been thinking that I could just add the directory and scan through it for any non-default attribute files. If those are found then they get automatically added to the files list. That's pretty close to what etckeeper does.
Edit: I just compiled the dev version and removed my comments for already fixed things...sorry!
The master branch should have those fixes as well, but I didn't update the version number in the package build. I'll have to do that.
1. Still apparently didn't handle the escaped space for this item: (the file does exist on my system)
Ok, good to know. This wildcard directory business will require some new code and refactoring so I'll also rework my filenames handling.
2. Suggestion: you should make that awesome README into a man page!
I was working on one (the pkgbuild has a commented out line for the man page) but I had to leave it for later. Definitely want a man page. Once this stabilizes and I'm sure there aren't any big structural changes, I'll convert it to man format.
3. Suggestion: add the word 'dotfile' into your description somewhere on this page, the github page, and in the package description so people looking for dotfile managers will find it. You could also consider modularizing the script into a dotfile manager and the package manager, so people on other distros could take advantage of your dotfile management scheme.
I actually have a different script for dotfile management that doesn't touch packages, but there is definitely overlap with this one. That script isn't released yet, though, and if people find this useful for dotfile management that's great. I'll add that in.
4. Suggestion: since -Q is a read-only operation, why not just make it run with -f automatically to avoid the prompt?
Originally, running backpac without any command line options produced the Query output. I was concerned that since it is a utility that can potentially overwrite system files, it is important to give users a clear statement prior to execution about what will be done. Since the Query output is essentially the same as the Update and System reports in format and content, I wanted to be explicit about the Query being a passive no-change operation. The current command line options aren't set in stone though. If you feel strongly about it being different, let me know.
Long answer to a short question
5. Another suggestion: any thought to providing some sort of 'scrub' function to remove private information from the stored files if desired? This would be cool for publishing public dotfiles to github. Perhaps a credentials file (I did this with python for my own configs). Probably detecting email addresses and passwords without a scrub file would be rather difficult because dotfiles come in so many flavors.
Yes, absolutely. In fact, if you look at the lib/local file (pretty sure it's in both master and dev branches in this state) you'll see some references to a sanitize function. The idea there is that the user will list out bash associative arrays like this:
SANITIZE_WPA_=(
[FILE]='/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf'
[CMD]='sed s/expungepattern/sanitizedoutput/g'
Question: am I missing an obvious option to remove a file from the files.d directory if I delete it from the files list? Or do I have to delete it manually? It might be helpful to add a section to the README on how to update and delete dotfiles from being tracked, and also a more detailed description of what the -b option does (and what is actually created when it's not used).
You are only missing the function I didn't finish. There should be either dummy code or a TODO in the backpac main script referencing garbage collection, which isn't difficult but I just haven't finished it. The idea being another loop of "hey I found these old files in your files.d, mind if I delete them?" It's on my list and I'll try to get it in asap.
And finally, just out of curiosity, why did you choose to actually copy the files instead of symlink like so many other dotfile managers do?
git not following symlinks, hardlinks also out for permissions issues (git wouldn't be able to read the files, change them, etc.)
I definitely would prefer to not make an entire copy of the file, but I haven't come up with a better option. Shout with ideas, though. Also, if there is a way around the link issues I noted above, let me know. I don't see one but that doesn't mean it's not there.
edit: I think a Seattle area Arch meetup would be cool! Perhaps coffee someplace? Bellevue? U-district? Anyone else? BYOPOL (bring your own pimped out laptop)
A general meetup sounds good. I was also thinking it would be fun to do a mini archcon with some demos.

Ubuntu look-alike gnome theme for arch linux

Is there any theme/gnome package(s) for arch linux that will give me gnome that looks kind of like the gnome package for ubuntu? I'm moving over from ubuntu to arch, and I'm hoping to ease the transition at first while I get used to the rest of the system. Thanks!
EDIT: Actually, how configurable is xfce? I've used gnome and kde for arch a bit, but they're just so vanilla, and I'm still looking for a relatively nice graphical interface on top of cli. Thanks!
Last edited by pythonscript (2009-07-27 23:29:40)

xfce4 is just about as configurable as GNOME at the level of gconf/ xfconf and way more configurable via the settings GUI.

[Solved]Arch Linux Gnome writing to usb disk destination is read only

Hi
i Have installed Arch Linux latest image 1-3-2015 not using Evolution Linux or any GUI installer
i installed Arch Linux using command line
i have gnome 3.14
each time i try to write movie to usb flash or usb external hard disk
the error says
the destination disk is read only
how to change this
Last edited by belal (2015-04-04 20:58:54)

I'm curious. Is the filesystem on the USB, ntfs ?
If yes, did you install NTFS-3G ? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NTFS-3G. Happened to me 8 days ago .
EDIT - Sorry for the repost using the same solution as my above post. Didn't see his link. Just surfed through the posts for the word "NTFS-3g" and it wasn't there.
Last edited by newguy (2015-03-31 07:51:48)

Gnome Shell - Arch linux RSS extension.

Ive been thinking about a Gnome Shell Arch Linux extension what would show the rss feeds/news in a simple way. (A icon in the upper right)
Anyone up to write one? i personally have not tried this gs-extension writeing, but anytips or links and i maybe able to start one

That's nice, But I'm finding about notification only.. no want ticker :\
Maybe you know how I can get this works in gnome-shell?
http://www.feednotifier.com/
That's really nice program. :\

[SOLVED]Arch Linux running inside GNOME Boxes.

Hello,
I wanted to create a vm using GNOME Boxes to run another Arch Linux installation (to test things and avoid to break my main system).
I did a normal install, then installed gnome-shell and gdm from testing repos. I enabled gdm and NetworkManager and after reboot my box.
The box don't boot. The main display only see early fsck lines (about /), I can see in the thubnail more lines but can't read messages.
What is wrong here ?
Regards,
Fabien
Last edited by fbourigault (2014-10-07 11:22:36)

I can't read it it only show in the thumbnail. I posted here to known if I missed some package installation or if someone already had the problem and solve it !.
EDIT:
I installed a new box, using gnome from stable repositories. I installed the same packages but didn't enable anything. I'm starting services by hand to allow me do configuration in the box
You can find the gdm log here : http://pastebin.com/R5ek3Xwy (full version with multiple failing runs :http://pastebin.com/fCsPxAvb)
EDIT 2 :
Problem solved by installing xf86-video-qxl from AUR ! This package should really be in official repos.
Last edited by fbourigault (2014-10-07 08:41:32)

Installed arch linux on windows 8 laptop and with GNOME

Hi all,
I am trying to learn more about linux and decided to go the Arch Linux way. I've battled through a bunch of issues before I got to this point so I might have fudged something along the way.
The current issue is that I install GNOME, and it boots up into GNOME, and I select my username and type my password, and then I see black screen with blinking cursor for 10 seconds after which I am returned to GNOME login screen. It doesn't do a system reboot before going back to the login screen.
The only way to stop this is to put in my livecd arch-linux usb drive and then delete GNOME, after which arch linux will boot back into terminal. (I wish I knew how to do this without using the usb drive)
What should I look at for hints? I don't see any output when this loop happens.
Thanks!

Ok that works and I can log in. However I don't see any familiar drives mounted. Anyway, I have the output from journalctl. Here it is
Mar 07 18:34:57 localhost systemd[1]: Started User Manager for UID 120.
Mar 07 18:34:57 localhost org.a11y.Bus[311]: Activating service name='org.a11y.atspi.Registry'
Mar 07 18:34:57 localhost org.a11y.Bus[311]: Successfully activated service 'org.a11y.atspi.Registry'
Mar 07 18:34:57 localhost org.a11y.atspi.Registry[318]: SpiRegistry daemon is running with well-known name - org.a11y.atspi.Registry
Mar 07 18:34:57 localhost gnome-session[307]: gnome-session[307]: WARNING: Could not parse desktop file orca-autostart.desktop or it references a not found TryExec binary
Mar 07 18:34:57 localhost gnome-session[307]: WARNING: Could not parse desktop file orca-autostart.desktop or it references a not found TryExec binary
Mar 07 18:34:57 localhost dbus[209]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.UPower' unit='upower.service'
Mar 07 18:34:57 localhost systemd[1]: Starting Daemon for power management...
Mar 07 18:34:57 localhost dbus[209]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.UPower'
Mar 07 18:34:57 localhost systemd[1]: Started Daemon for power management.
Mar 07 18:34:57 localhost upowerd[335]: (upowerd:335): UPower-Linux-WARNING **: energy 49.705840 bigger than full 49.698200
Mar 07 18:34:57 localhost systemd[1]: Mounting FUSE Control File System...
Mar 07 18:34:57 localhost kernel: fuse init (API version 7.23)
Mar 07 18:34:57 localhost systemd[1]: Mounted FUSE Control File System.
Mar 07 18:34:57 localhost dbus[209]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.ColorManager' unit='colord.service'
Mar 07 18:34:57 localhost systemd[1]: Starting Manage, Install and Generate Color Profiles...
Mar 07 18:34:57 localhost gnome-session[307]: Entering running state
Mar 07 18:34:57 localhost dbus[209]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.ColorManager'
Mar 07 18:34:57 localhost systemd[1]: Started Manage, Install and Generate Color Profiles.
Mar 07 18:34:57 localhost dbus[209]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.RealtimeKit1' unit='rtkit-daemon.service'
Mar 07 18:34:57 localhost systemd[1]: Starting RealtimeKit Scheduling Policy Service...
Mar 07 18:34:57 localhost dbus[209]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.RealtimeKit1'
Mar 07 18:34:57 localhost rtkit-daemon[382]: Successfully called chroot.
Mar 07 18:34:57 localhost rtkit-daemon[382]: Successfully dropped privileges.
Mar 07 18:34:57 localhost rtkit-daemon[382]: Successfully limited resources.
Mar 07 18:34:57 localhost rtkit-daemon[382]: Running.
Mar 07 18:34:57 localhost rtkit-daemon[382]: Canary thread running.
Mar 07 18:34:57 localhost rtkit-daemon[382]: Watchdog thread running.
Mar 07 18:34:57 localhost systemd[1]: Started RealtimeKit Scheduling Policy Service.
Mar 07 18:34:57 localhost gdm-Xorg-:0[241]: (II) intel(0): EDID vendor "SHP", prod id 5153
Mar 07 18:34:57 localhost gdm-Xorg-:0[241]: (II) intel(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines:
Mar 07 18:34:57 localhost gdm-Xorg-:0[241]: (II) intel(0): Modeline "3200x1800"x0.0 373.25 3200 3248 3280 3360 1800 1803 1808 1852 -hsync -vsync (111.1 kHz eP)
Mar 07 18:34:57 localhost rtkit-daemon[382]: Successfully made thread 381 of process 381 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '120' high priority at nice level -11.
Mar 07 18:34:57 localhost rtkit-daemon[382]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Mar 07 18:34:57 localhost colord[374]: /usr/lib/colord/colord-sane: error while loading shared libraries: libsane.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Mar 07 18:34:57 localhost rtkit-daemon[382]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Mar 07 18:34:57 localhost rtkit-daemon[382]: Successfully made thread 389 of process 381 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '120' RT at priority 5.
Mar 07 18:34:57 localhost rtkit-daemon[382]: Supervising 2 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Mar 07 18:34:57 localhost dbus[209]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.bluez' unit='dbus-org.bluez.service'
Mar 07 18:34:57 localhost dbus[209]: [system] Activation via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.bluez.service': Unit dbus-org.bluez.service failed to load: No such file or directory.
Mar 07 18:34:57 localhost pulseaudio[381]: [pulseaudio] module-gconf.c: Unable to read or parse data from client.
Mar 07 18:34:57 localhost pulseaudio[381]: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to load module "module-gconf" (argument: ""): initialization failed.
Mar 07 18:34:57 localhost pulseaudio[381]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Module load failed.
Mar 07 18:34:57 localhost pulseaudio[381]: [pulseaudio] bluez5-util.c: GetManagedObjects() failed: org.freedesktop.systemd1.LoadFailed: Unit dbus-org.bluez.service failed to load: No such file or directory.
Mar 07 18:34:58 localhost dbus[209]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.locale1' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.locale1.service'
Mar 07 18:34:58 localhost systemd[1]: Starting Locale Service...
Mar 07 18:34:58 localhost dbus[209]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.locale1'
Mar 07 18:34:58 localhost systemd[1]: Started Locale Service.
Mar 07 18:34:58 localhost gnome-session[307]: Gjs-Message: JS LOG: Failed to launch ibus-daemon: Failed to execute child process "ibus-daemon" (No such file or directory)
Mar 07 18:34:58 localhost dbus[209]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.GeoClue2' unit='geoclue.service'
Mar 07 18:34:58 localhost systemd[1]: Starting Location Lookup Service...
Mar 07 18:34:58 localhost dbus[209]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='fi.w1.wpa_supplicant1' unit='wpa_supplicant.service'
Mar 07 18:34:58 localhost systemd[1]: Starting WPA supplicant...
Mar 07 18:34:58 localhost dbus[209]: [system] Successfully activated service 'fi.w1.wpa_supplicant1'
Mar 07 18:34:58 localhost systemd[1]: Started WPA supplicant.
Mar 07 18:34:58 localhost dbus[209]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.GeoClue2'
Mar 07 18:34:58 localhost systemd[1]: Started Location Lookup Service.
Mar 07 18:34:58 localhost polkitd[247]: Registered Authentication Agent for unix-session:c1 (system bus name :1.15 [gnome-shell --mode=gdm], object path /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale C)
Mar 07 18:34:58 localhost gnome-session[307]: Gjs-Message: JS LOG: No permission to trigger offline updates: Polkit.Error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: Action org.freedesktop.packagekit.trigger-offline-update is not registered
Mar 07 18:34:58 localhost org.gnome.OnlineAccounts[311]: goa-daemon-Message: goa-daemon version 3.14.3 starting
Mar 07 18:34:58 localhost dbus[209]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.UDisks2' unit='udisks2.service'
Mar 07 18:34:58 localhost systemd[1]: Starting Disk Manager...
Mar 07 18:34:58 localhost udisksd[428]: udisks daemon version 2.1.4 starting
Mar 07 18:34:58 localhost dbus[209]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.UDisks2'
Mar 07 18:34:58 localhost udisksd[428]: Acquired the name org.freedesktop.UDisks2 on the system message bus
Mar 07 18:34:58 localhost systemd[1]: Started Disk Manager.
Mar 07 18:34:59 localhost gnome-session[307]: Gjs-Message: JS LOG: GNOME Shell started at Sat Mar 07 2015 18:34:58 GMT+0000 (UTC)
Mar 07 18:35:11 localhost gdm-password][441]: pam_unix(gdm-password:session): session opened for user asadali by (uid=0)
Mar 07 18:35:11 localhost systemd[1]: Starting user-1000.slice.
Mar 07 18:35:11 localhost systemd[1]: Created slice user-1000.slice.
Mar 07 18:35:11 localhost systemd[1]: Starting User Manager for UID 1000...
Mar 07 18:35:11 localhost systemd[445]: pam_unix(systemd-user:session): session opened for user asadali by (uid=0)
Mar 07 18:35:11 localhost systemd[1]: Starting Session c2 of user asadali.
Mar 07 18:35:11 localhost systemd-logind[207]: New session c2 of user asadali.
Mar 07 18:35:11 localhost systemd[1]: Started Session c2 of user asadali.
Mar 07 18:35:11 localhost systemd[445]: Starting Sockets.
Mar 07 18:35:11 localhost systemd[445]: Reached target Sockets.
Mar 07 18:35:11 localhost systemd[445]: Starting Paths.
Mar 07 18:35:11 localhost systemd[445]: Reached target Paths.
Mar 07 18:35:11 localhost systemd[445]: Starting Timers.
Mar 07 18:35:11 localhost systemd[445]: Reached target Timers.
Mar 07 18:35:11 localhost systemd[445]: Starting Basic System.
Mar 07 18:35:11 localhost systemd[445]: Reached target Basic System.
Mar 07 18:35:11 localhost systemd[445]: Starting Default.
Mar 07 18:35:11 localhost systemd[445]: Reached target Default.
Mar 07 18:35:11 localhost systemd[445]: Startup finished in 4ms.
Mar 07 18:35:11 localhost systemd[1]: Started User Manager for UID 1000.
Mar 07 18:35:11 localhost gdm-Xorg-:0[241]: (II) AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch
Mar 07 18:35:32 localhost gnome-session[453]: WARNING: IceLockAuthFile failed: Permission denied
Mar 07 18:35:32 localhost gdm-password][441]: pam_unix(gdm-password:session): session closed for user asadali
Mar 07 18:35:32 localhost gnome-session[453]: gnome-session[453]: WARNING: IceLockAuthFile failed: Permission denied
Mar 07 18:35:32 localhost gdm-Xorg-:0[241]: (II) AIGLX: Resuming AIGLX clients after VT switch
Mar 07 18:35:32 localhost gdm-Xorg-:0[241]: (II) intel(0): switch to mode [email protected] on eDP1 using pipe 0, position (0, 0), rotation normal, reflection none
Mar 07 18:35:32 localhost gdm-session-worker[441]: <3>GLib: Source ID 39 was not found when attempting to remove it
Mar 07 18:35:32 localhost gdm-Xorg-:0[241]: (--) synaptics: DLL0665:01 06CB:76AD UNKNOWN: touchpad found
Mar 07 18:37:09 localhost gdm-password][475]: pam_unix(gdm-password:session): session opened for user asadali by (uid=0)
Mar 07 18:37:09 localhost systemd[1]: Starting Session c3 of user asadali.
Mar 07 18:37:09 localhost systemd-logind[207]: New session c3 of user asadali.
Mar 07 18:37:09 localhost systemd[1]: Started Session c3 of user asadali.
Mar 07 18:37:09 localhost gdm[213]: GLib-GObject: g_object_set_data: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
Mar 07 18:37:09 localhost gdm[213]: GLib-GObject: g_object_get: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
Mar 07 18:37:09 localhost gdm[213]: GLib-GObject: g_object_set_data_full: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
Mar 07 18:37:09 localhost gdm[213]: gdm_display_get_timed_login_details: assertion 'GDM_IS_DISPLAY (display)' failed
Mar 07 18:37:10 localhost gdm-Xorg-:0[241]: (II) AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch
Mar 07 18:37:30 localhost gnome-session[484]: WARNING: IceLockAuthFile failed: Permission denied
Mar 07 18:37:30 localhost gnome-session[484]: gnome-session[484]: WARNING: IceLockAuthFile failed: Permission denied
Mar 07 18:37:30 localhost gdm-password][475]: pam_unix(gdm-password:session): session closed for user asadali
Mar 07 18:37:30 localhost gdm-Xorg-:0[241]: (II) AIGLX: Resuming AIGLX clients after VT switch
Mar 07 18:37:30 localhost gdm-Xorg-:0[241]: (II) intel(0): switch to mode [email protected] on eDP1 using pipe 0, position (0, 0), rotation normal, reflection none
Mar 07 18:37:30 localhost gdm-session-worker[475]: <3>GLib: Source ID 40 was not found when attempting to remove it
Mar 07 18:37:30 localhost gdm-Xorg-:0[241]: (--) synaptics: DLL0665:01 06CB:76AD UNKNOWN: touchpad found
Mar 07 18:37:34 localhost gdm-Xorg-:0[241]: (II) AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch
Mar 07 18:38:21 localhost systemd[1]: Starting Getty on tty4...
Mar 07 18:38:21 localhost systemd[1]: Started Getty on tty4.
Mar 07 18:38:27 localhost login[503]: pam_unix(login:session): session opened for user asadali by LOGIN(uid=0)
Mar 07 18:38:27 localhost systemd[1]: Starting Session c4 of user asadali.
Mar 07 18:38:27 localhost systemd-logind[207]: New session c4 of user asadali.
Mar 07 18:38:27 localhost systemd[1]: Started Session c4 of user asadali.
Mar 07 18:38:27 localhost login[503]: LOGIN ON tty4 BY asadali
Mar 07 18:40:43 localhost kernel: usb 1-2: USB disconnect, device number 2
Mar 07 18:40:43 localhost systemd-udevd[163]: error opening USB device 'descriptors' file
Mar 07 18:40:43 localhost colord[374]: /usr/lib/colord/colord-sane: error while loading shared libraries: libsane.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Mar 07 18:40:43 localhost kernel: usb 1-2: new high-speed USB device number 6 using xhci_hcd
Mar 07 18:40:43 localhost colord[374]: /usr/lib/colord/colord-sane: error while loading shared libraries: libsane.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Mar 07 18:40:43 localhost colord[374]: /usr/lib/colord/colord-sane: error while loading shared libraries: libsane.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Mar 07 18:40:43 localhost kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_ether
Mar 07 18:40:43 localhost kernel: rndis_host 1-2:1.0 usb0: register 'rndis_host' at usb-0000:00:14.0-2, RNDIS device, 02:56:06:5d:63:36
Mar 07 18:40:43 localhost kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver rndis_host
Mar 07 18:40:43 localhost colord[374]: /usr/lib/colord/colord-sane: error while loading shared libraries: libsane.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Mar 07 18:40:43 localhost kernel: rndis_host 1-2:1.0 enp0s20u2: renamed from usb0
Mar 07 18:40:49 localhost sudo[526]: asadali : TTY=tty4 ; PWD=/home/asadali ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/systemctl restart dhcpcd
I only posted a piece of it.
By the way, I got this file by using startX (becuase otherwise i didnt have permissions), used > to output it to a file, mounted a usb flash drive, copied it to flash drive, used a windows computer to copy the file to my ubuntu laptop (because the folder wouldn't show up in the ubuntu computer) and then posted it here. There has to be a better way to post a debug manage on here.

[SOLVED] VLC autoplay DVDs in Gnome/Arch Linux?

Hello everyone.
I am trying to figure out how to make VLC launch and start playing when I insert a DVD. I've done it in Ubuntu (where it's more a case of changing the player from totem to vlc) but there seem to be some things missing from the Arch version of Gnome.
I followed these instructions: http://ubuntumanual.org/posts/6/how-to- … sert-a-dvd
But reached a problem when I tried to access the Media tab in the nautilus preferences window and it wasn't there.
Last edited by powerpleb (2008-08-08 06:55:54)

I've been poking around in gconf-editor and found the part that seems relevant in Desktop >> Gnome >> Volume_manager
I set the autoplay_dvd_command variable to 'vlc' and ensured the box was ticked (it already was). Reset X and it's still not working.
The thing is that when I insert an audio CD rhythmbox automatically plays it, so I know it should be able to do it.
Last edited by powerpleb (2008-08-06 00:28:29)

Cannot install Pacman? (Arch Linux on PPC, Power Mac G4)

Hi
I'm trying to install PPC Arch on a Power Mac G4
Everything is fine until the point where I need to Install the packages.
It asks me to select another server (There's 3 available), because Pacman apparently cannot download? But the other two seems down.
The error the first one gives: "Error downloading pacman! Try another server."
There's:
1) ftp://ftp.archlinuxppc.org
2) ftp://xentac.net
3) ftp://ftp.archlinuxfr.org
When selecting 2, and 3 it says: "Error fetching package list from server".
Also "INIT: ld "c0" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes"
What do I do?
Thanks in advance
Last edited by Eax (2009-02-04 18:41:04)

Excuse me the question. Is it possible to run Arch on PPC ? I thought its optimized for I686 and 64bit Adressbus

[SOLVED]Multiple Problems after a new install on Arch Linux

Hello all,
I just finished installing Arch Linux from the core ISO which I downloaded from the site. The install went smoothly and booted up fine. Also I was able to install gnome and its extras fine as well. On the first boot after installing gnome I managed to get my resolution correct also. However later on after I installed compiz fusion everything with the resolution seems to be going wrong . My computer specs are shown below :
AMD 64 3200
Asus M2N MX-SE
2 GB Ram
Geforce 8600 GT
Viewsonic VA1918wm (Native resolution is 1440x900)
At the moment I can only manage to get upto 1024x768 and it looks quite bad at that resolution. I have attached the xorg.conf I have at the moment.
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "record"
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
Load "dri2"
Load "dri"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
BoardName "G84 [GeForce 8600 GT]"
BusID "PCI:2:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
While I was trying to fix this I noticed I was encountering other problems also. For one I found that sometimes dhcpcd times out on booting up and I cant seemt o connect to the Internet on booting. Although I just thought of trying a static IP and I'll post if that helped later on.
Another problem is I found that I seem to get the following error randomly. Pressing ctrl + D after this just restarts the machine.
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
Finally, while I boot up I noticed that it says "Mounting root partition as read only [DONE]" Is the root partition supposed ot be mounted as read only ? Attached my fstab just in case it is needed.
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
#/dev/cdrom /media/cd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
#/dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /media/fl auto user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sda3 /boot ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sdb1 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sdb2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb3 /home ext3 defaults 0 1
As you can see I'm quite new to Arch Linux so any help would be deeply appreciated.
Last edited by FilledVoid (2009-09-11 16:28:28)

Thank you for all your suggestions . I tried replacing the ID to Card0 but it didnt seem to fix it . However on the bright side I checked more threads on the forum and found some that helped out . :)
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=75070&p=2
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=72788
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=76938
I copied the xorg.conf file from the third link and just made minor changes to it like removing all the resolutions I didn't need and now its working fine :).
Now Im just stuck with two problems. One is the following message which appears randomly.
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
******************* FILESYSTEM CHECK FAILED *************
* Please repair manually and reboot. Note that the root *
* filesystem is currently mounted read-only. To remount *
* it read-write type: mount -n -o remount,rw / *
* When you exit the mantenance shel the system will *
* reboot automatically. *
A thread about the same can be found http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=295384 but there isn't a solution on it.
The second is the intermittent problems with the Network being setup. Sometimes when I boot up it just says dhcpcd timedout and I won't be able to connect . However I can connect on another machine at the same time.
Took a look at the drive in question with gparted and it shows the below information:
/dev/sdb1 ext3 / 32.59 GB 4.92 GB 27.68 GB boot
By any chance is any of the above information relevant :x ?

Progress on Unity under Arch Linux!

See here for information about the new GNOME 3.12-compatible packages: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 3#p1404683
I'm now on IRC! Come join us at #unityforarch on Freenode
To install Unity from my repos:
See the wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/un … mmended.29
To install Unity from source:
See the wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/unity#From_source
-- You probably don't want to read anything below --
The story
So...rather than wasting internet bandwith to download a new Ubuntu ISO to test out the new Unity features, I decided to try to make it work under Arch Linux. It took a whole lot longer than I expected to get it even partially working. So, here's my story:
Knowing that Unity isn't in the main repositories, I went the AUR's website and looked for a user created Unity package. That didn't go too well. The Unity package hasn't been updated for 6 months. D'oh! I decided to download the existing PKGBUILD and modify it to work with the Unity 4.xx series. After changing the version number, I tried to "makepkg" it, and was greeted with a message about installing Compiz 0.9.x. I thought it would be an easy install. It was quite the opposite. Compiz's install prefix was set to /opt/unity, but FindCompiz cmake build file expected Compiz to be in /usr, so none of the Compiz packages, except for compiz-core would compile. Then, I tried reinstalling compiz-core, but this time, changing the prefix to /usr. The compiled package ended up being only a few kilobytes big. I guess the mouse wheel was invented for a reason. I looked at the PKGBUILD again, only to find that there was a line at the very bottom that ran "rm -rf ${pkgdir}/usr". That explains a lot! I ended up adopting all the compiz*-git packages and fixing them so they would compile and install.
So, now that Compiz is working (restarted and tested just to make sure I didn't waste my time with something that didn't work), I went on to install the rest of the dependencies listed in the Unity PKGBUILD file. That went relatively well. I was so happy after seeing the progress counter go up after running "makepkg", but at about 8%, gcc spat out an error about an undeclared function (sorry, I forgot what the function was). Natually, I went to Google and searched the name of the function. 0 results! Exactly was I was looking for! I ended up downloading the Ubuntu 11.10 Alpha 3 ISO and running "find -type f /usr/lib | xargs objdump -T | grep the_function". The problem lied in the libindicator package. There was a newer version available which contained that function. I have no idea why a package that's only 0.02 versions ahead of the AUR package would contain new functions...
Next! Utouch...ugh...great memories! Not! I was so glad that I had fixed the utouch packages earlier (for touchegg to work). I was too frustrated from compiz and libindicator to try to compile more stuff.
Cmake. Whoever created the CMakeLists.txt file didn't list all the dependencies required. So after running "makepkg" 10 billion times, waiting for "somebodydidntputthisincmake.h not found" errors to appear, I finally got all the dependencies I needed installed...or so I thought. After installing and compiling all these dependencies, the cmake only continues 3% further before encountering another cryptic gcc error. This time, there no error about a file not being found. So not knowing what dependency was missing, I headed over to http://packages.ubuntu.com and downloaded the Unity DEB source to find the dependencies in then debian/control file. After install those few dependencies that I missed, I ran "makepkg" again, hoping that it would finally compile successfully. CMake went a little further--5% further to be exact--before running into another error. It complained about DndSourceDragBegin() having two return types. Sure, enough "./plugins/unityshell/src/ResultViewGrid.h" had the return type as boolean and "/usr/include/Nux-1.0/Nux/InputArea.h" had the return type as void. WTF? How the heck does this even compile under 11.10???
After changing void to bool in "/usr/include/Nux-1.0/Nux/InputArea.h", I ran "makepkg" once again anxiously waiting to the see the line "Finished making: unity 4.10.2". CMake compiled about 35% before running into error about an undeclared gtk function. Nooooooooooooo!!! I wasn't brave enough to install the git version of gtk3, so I created a chroot, installed the base packages, and installed all of those dependencies fairly quickly (it gets a lot easier after doing it so many times).
Moving on to gtk3. After cloning the ~200MB git repository, autotools spits out an error about cairo-gl missing. So, I proceeded to install the cairo-gl-git package, which failed to compile (it compiled successfully outside of the chroot...). GREAT. So, Unity fails to compile because GTK version is too old, and GTK failed to compile because cairo-gl is missing, and cairo-gl fails to compile because I'm in a chroot. GAHHH!!! While thinking about throwing the computer out of the window, I searched the AUR for other GTK3 packages. I just happened to find a package named "GTK3-UBUNTU"! That package was still at version 3.0, but it was pretty easy to get the patches and source code for 3.1 from the Ubuntu GTK source package.
So, FINALLY, Unity compiles. I was so darn happy, I didn't even care if it ran or not. I logged out and logged back into the GNOME 3 fallback mode, and entered the chroot. After running "xhost +SI:localuser:chenxiaolong" to run X11 apps in the chroot, I crossed my fingers and ran "DISPLAY=:0.0 unity --replace". It failed with python 3 complaining about missing modules. That's okay, since the Unity launch script is written in python 2. I changed the shebang line in "/usr/bin/unity" to point to python 2 and ran "DISPLAY=:0.0 unity --replace". It didn't necessarily fail, but it didn't succeed either. It didn't print out any error messages. Weird... I thought I'd try enabling Unity from the compiz settings manager then. I ran "DISPLAY=:0.0 compiz --replace" and "DISPLAY=:0.0 ccsm" and enabled the Unity plugin. Unity runs! Although nothing shows on the screen, it runs! It shows up in the process list! Woohoo!
And that's about how far I got. There were quite a few Vala errors during the compiling process (I forgot which package it was), which is probably why Unity won't appear. I'll try again later with the vala-devel or vala-git package and hopefully Unity will work then. Here are screenshots of what I've gotten working so far:
http://i.imgur.com/7F1fm.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/zGNJc.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/3mCgd.jpg
By then way, I love the simplicity of pacman and the AUR. I can't imagine how long this would have taken with other package managers.
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Last edited by chenxiaolong (2014-04-15 17:11:04)

City-busz: I'm getting a ton of Vala errors when I compile libunity (AUR version) with vala or vala-devel. libunity fails to compile with vala-git. I'll try your packages in a virtual machine and see how they work on 64 bit.
In the meantime, Unity still fails to show up: http://i.imgur.com/btPwo.png I'll try out your PKGBUILDS and see how that works. I'm glad there are people who want to port Unity to Arch Linux
EDIT: City-busz: Just to let you know, Unity will fail to compile at around 45% with GTK 3.0. Here's my source packaage for Ubuntu's GTK 3.1: http://ubuntuone.com/p/1EzX/ It contains all of the patches in the Ubuntu source package. I'm not sure if all the patches are needed, but GTK compiles fine with all of them.
EDIT2: Right now, I'm trying to compile Vala 0.10.4, then version used in Ubuntu 11.10. Hopefully that will eliminate some of the Vala errors.
EDIT3: Vala 0.10 is too old. 0.12 and 0.14 are also in the Ubuntu repository. Trying those...
EDIT4: 0.14 is actually 0.13.1. Gah... Vala takes longer to compile under VirtualBox than GTK3...
EDIT5: Okay...so VirtualBox "helpfully" became slow enough that I could read the error messages. The Vala error messages aren't actually error messages, but rather warnings about unused methods. I wonder what prevents Unity from running then...
Last edited by chenxiaolong (2011-08-30 02:30:29)

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