Arch/truecrypt/vbox/WXP issue

Not sure where the problem lies with this one.
I have two directories in my home setup as shares in my vbox WXP VMs. Both work fine when navigating with Explorer in the guest. However, I would like to map drive letters to a few folders to speed up navigation, this is where I run into trouble.
One of the shares maps just fine, the other does not.
The one that won't map to a drive letter has a truecrypt volume mounted in it, I suspect this is the cause. When I try to map it to a drive letter it pops up a login window with user "guest" and is looking for a password. No idea what to enter here. I tried nothing, my root password, and my user password, no dice. I'm not sure where to start with this.
Like I said, the weird thing is that I can open Explorer and navigate to both shared folders just fine, so I wouldn't think it would be anything on the Arch/truecrypt side, but the truecrypt mount is the one difference I've identified between the shares.
Any ideas?
thanks,
-Brad

It's working now. Weird, I didn't do anything different, just browsing various folders on the share through Explorer and suddenly it worked. I'm going to check the "reconnect at logon" so hopefully it continues working.
I cannot map a drive to a sub folder of the share though, although that's true of either of my existing shares.
Cheers,
-Brad

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Maybe you guys could try this out as well? I'm most probably doing something wrong but for demonstrative purposes, I've found an issue with a VBox incorrectly stating its height value when it consists of grouped nodes.
Take the following for example, albeit simple and incomplete (it's more or less what I've got going on in my code):
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I've even tried to use the Stack feature to place the nodes in a stack formation and messed around with the X/Y translations and layout features but a no go.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the "bug" some people (PhiLHo ?) have encountered with using VBoxes and Scrollbars and getting incorrect Scroller max values possibly due to this incorrect height reading of the VBox? Check out PhiLHo's response to this thread to know what I'm talking about over here
I simply compensated the incorrect height difference in my code as it was more efficient for me, but I thought I'd bring this up for discussion and see if anyone else is having the same issue.
Essentially, put a few nodes together and group them, then add the group node to another sequence, and place that sequence of grouped nodes into a VBox. See what kind of height you're getting for the VBox.

For me, the VBox height comes out to 865, which I think is correct. You have 31 groups in the VBox, and each group has a rect that's 25 tall. Add to this the 30 inter-item spacings of 3 gives: 31 x 25 + 30 x 3 = 865. [Edited to avoid confusion between the arithmetic expression and forum markup.]
But if you look at the heights of each of the nodes, it's something of a puzzle. The height of each Label is 14, the height of each rect is 25, and the height of each nodeGroup (each contains a label and a rect) is 36. Huh??? How can this be if the label overlaps the rect? (I puzzled over this for a bit as well.)
At issue is how you're finding the height of each item. If you use boundsInLocal or boundsInParent, you get the heights I listed above. If you look at the actual boundsInParent of each label and rect, though, you'll notice something odd: the boundsInParent of Label are something like:
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You might ask why the bounds of the Label extend above the actual label text. Well, that might be a bug. I'll investigate it. If you look at the layoutBounds of a Label, it makes more sense.
Meanwhile, a great explanation of the various JavaFX bounds can be found on [Amy Fowler's blog|http://weblogs.java.net/blog/2009/07/09/javafx12-understanding-bounds].
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Newly installed Arch with gnome3 - Sound issue

Hello fellow archs!
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blargh wrote:
Hey guys, thanks for the help...
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wrong approach - if using gnome-shell it does need to be there.
I not only have an idea ~ but i do know how to fix your problem (i just need to read up, because off-hand i can't tell you how to do it).
i ALWAYS disable PA - because it is crap! i also think it is stupid that gnome -developers decided to make it a static dependency, when there are so many issues with it.
i'll get back to you in a little while, okay? (sometime later tonight, i just got home from work and need to relax / eat / etc..
cheerz

Install in vbox on arch in vbox

Hi,
ALL SOFWARE UPDATED:
I am using Vbox on a mac
Installed archlinux_64 as guest and all works ok. RAM : 2048MB
Installed vbox on the archlinux_64.
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ram :768MB
boot order : cd/dvd, hard disk
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[solved?!] Sound suddenly stopped working (arch in vbox vm)

Hi all,
I installed arch-i686 in a VirtualBox virtual machine a few days ago and at first, everything worked well, including audio. The guest additions are of course installed and running.
After making some updates with "pacman -Syu" the sound stopped working. There is no error message when I start e.g. vlc from a console and let it play an mp3-file. But there is no sound at all.
I already increased the volume of all the channels in kmix and alsamixer without success.
Can someone give me a hint?
Thanks in advance & kind regards,
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Last edited by jamesbond007 (2010-01-01 23:56:38)

Well, after a reboot of the host (not guest) os it now continues to work!
I don't understand why, but I'm happy about it nevertheless.

VirtualBox 1.6.4 Arch Guest do I STILL need to to use Ide_Legacy mode?

PROBLEMS:
[DO I HAVE to use ide_legacy to install arch? and would that mean I get to use old methods like drive naming conventions etc.????!!!]
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I CAN install ARCH in Vbox 1.6.4 on my server 2008 trial host laptop though even if I install the additions first doing
pacman -S xorg gnome gnome-extra hwd gdm
UPON reboot AFTER installing gnome (as a test) It all craps out with a really long list of stuff beginning with bracketed numbers I think.. and then at the end a bunch of numbers across the screen... is that kernel panic...???? hehehe dunno actually. Sorry I can't be more specific...
I just need to know WHAt the setting are for virtualbox... I USED the arch linux setting that vbox has... though I DID check SATA disks and did NOT use Ide_Legacy when installing Arch which seemed wrong If I was using SATA disks...
I guess there's no reason to use sata disks checkbox? I thought PERHAPS this might let me hook up a sata external drive... though I figure that's not really possible or even needed by me. SATA drive emulation would be cool?
hmmmmm..... PATA should be fine though I do believe I get the same prob. without checking that SATA box in box setting for the VM..... must be that I need ide_legacy.... which kinda seems old ?
And them wouldn't I have a bunch of pacages problems with pacman???????!!!!!!!!!!!!
This post.... very last entry say ide_legacy mode is need to install arch as a guest on a windows host with VirtualBox..
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=28863&p=3
Anyone know if this is STILL the case...
there's a SATA checkbox now with the latest vbox version 1.6.4
I'm having a really hard time getting arch installed as a guest using vbox 164 on a win server2008 system...
It's going to be nice and comfy when I do get a VM of Arch to use on the server 2008 partition though!
thanks!!!!!!!
Last edited by yvonney (2008-08-17 23:11:53)

Here's my answer...
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Guest_OSes
http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic. … light=arch
Which I kinda though WAS the case..
SO: Can anyone tell me.... WHAT is NOT modern about the legacy option stuff....
I REALLY wanna work with UDEV etc etc etc etc
LOVE to find out what's what with the ide_legacy option
I also considered QEMU though the windows port seems to be dying or not gonna work with server 2008 as my host for these experiments
Oh well.... I wouldn't be making the time for any of this had not my old PIII 1 gh z laptop died....
I was OS happy with a real install on there....
Then again.... I guess vox is kinda cool too
thanks!

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First of all, to get here I had to made some modifications:
Modify the line 5 on src/Makefile to:
ARCH=$(shell uname -m)
Link the asm-generic to the asm folder inside the source dir (I did a backup too, just to be safe):
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Then I got stuck. I also reported to the developer as It sounds its problem. What do you think?
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Hi SiRGadaBout,
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Gary
~~~~
   [Crash programs] fail because they are based on the theory that,
   with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month.
      -- Wernher von Braun

X doesn't start in Vbox with guest additions installed (Solved)

Hi all. I just installed Arch in Vbox and all went well until I installed the guest additions package with pacman. Now X won't start. I uninstalled the guest additions package and X starts normally.
Any ideas?
Last edited by pressman57 (2012-10-13 21:30:00)

Scimmia wrote:iodine, I'm guessing OpenGL doesn't work, though? Not a big deal, but something to be aware of.
Well, at least glxgears runs, although with some warnings:
[iodine@arch ~]$ glxgears
OpenGL Warning: glFlushVertexArrayRangeNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glVertexArrayRangeNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glCombinerInputNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glCombinerOutputNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glCombinerParameterfNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glCombinerParameterfvNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glCombinerParameteriNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glCombinerParameterivNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glFinalCombinerInputNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glGetCombinerInputParameterfvNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glGetCombinerInputParameterivNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glGetCombinerOutputParameterfvNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glGetCombinerOutputParameterivNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glGetFinalCombinerInputParameterfvNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glGetFinalCombinerInputParameterivNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glDeleteFencesNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glFinishFenceNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glGenFencesNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glGetFenceivNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glIsFenceNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glSetFenceNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glTestFenceNV not found in mesa table
5585 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1116.892 FPS
Not sure what that means, though.

Q : How to run debian inside of arch

Hi, I have a question
I really love arch, but the project i'm working on requires Debian (stable) meaning : old gcc(3.3.5), xfree86, debian tools, filesystem layout and so on.
I have a 2 (actually more) partitions one with debian, one with arch. Right now choose on boot one or another.
I'd like to run debian inside of arch, but not via VmWare or qemu or some other emulator because I need things to compile quick (this IS a big project) and run at native speed (really important)
Newer kernel in arch is not an issue(or at least shouldn't be) but versions of tools and libraries as well as file locations are critical.
Any ideas ?

Hi torindan2,
You should have a look to debootstrap. That way you would only need a chroot inside your debian tree, without the CPU and memory overhead of a virtual machine on top of your Archlinux.
Procedure (from what i remember) :
- go to packages.debian.org
- choose "debootstrap"
- download the source code of debootstrap (it is a shell script)
- call it with the right parameters (AFAIR it required to read the source, but it is quite readable)
- now debian is installed in the directory of your choice.
- chroot a shell inside that tree
- update the fstab for the proc and sys filesystems of the debian tree
and here you go, Debian inside Arch

Reinstall Arch, what files to keep?

I'm thinking about reinstalling arch due to some issues with my laptop's monitor that I think are base on a software issue.
What should I save as far as configuration files etc so that I don't have to start from scratch?
I"ll be reusing the home partition so I'm just throwing stuff there in a /reinstall directory with the same dir structure as the OS.
So far this is my list:
/etc/rc.conf
~.xinitrc
/etc/network.d/* (All my wireless profiles)
/etc/ssh/ssh*config* (ssh and sshd config)
/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
/etc/pacman.conf
I also think that I needed some tools for my wireless card in the past but research shows that my Broadcom card is now supported in the kernel.
Anything I'm missing?
I hope to turn this into a sort of topic that could be stickied if it proves useful enough to others.

You can have a look at some backup scripts that are floating around to see what other people have hardcoded in there.
If you're keeping your mirrorlist, you can keep other configs from /etc such as mkinitcpio.conf as well.
I'd keep my .vimrc, .bashrc and so on too.

[SOLVED :)]How do I record error messages to post to the forum?

My setup:
Win 7 running Arch on VBox
Arch networking is set up and working
Nothing installed except for vim, links, + many packages included at install
Issue:
Having trouble installing xorg-server (etc, stuff needed for GUI)
So I have all these error messages, and I would like to post them to the forum and they're too long to type. Supposing I didn't just want to summarize or tell you the gist of the message, how would I copy the whole thing and post it to these forums. I'm sure there are many ways, so let's hear some!
I can already redirect to file with:
pacman -S <package list> > errors.txt 2>&1
How would I grab that data from my VBox install and send it either from Arch or from Win7?
*Edit*: I /am/ able to install some things with pacman -S <package> (like vim).
Last edited by enjoysmath (2012-05-15 13:18:55)

ngoonee wrote:
enjoysmath wrote:To do a shared folder I had to install Guest Additions, and so on (an all day project for me).
You MAY want to consider whether you have enough time to play around with Arch Linux, in that case.
I have. I've tried other distros and each one of them had problems. So to solve my problems, I'm going to need to understand linux more. For that reason, I chose Arch. And it was recommended by an IRC friend who is doing similar code writing as me, and if we work on this project together we can help each other out with our computer issues. E.g. If I'm on win 7 and he's on Arch, I have some weird issue with Visual D, and all he can say is good luck! Once I've got my setup working, we can help each other since we'll both be running into the same bugs. Another reason is speed, basic linux with minimal crap pre-installed seems to run way faster in VBox. I'm in AZ, where the temperature really does affect CPU temp.
In learning linux, there is a healthy trade off between learning every detail about one thing and just skimming over and going back to it later. I am now doing more of the latter so that I can have just the basics up and running, X-windows, sound, networking, and so on... So when I see a sed command, I think 'yeah it would be worth it to learn how to use sed,' but if I did nothing but learning sed for the next week, I would not meet certain idealistic goals I have for myself. And if I take too long, on one thing, how do I know that what I am doing is the smart way to do it? I need the bigger picture for that. So I need to carefully manage what little time I have on Earth, and use all I know, all my intuition to make the right decision at each step, and sometimes that decision is either: try something else, get help from someone else, understand something more, sleep on it. I lost my point somewhere in there. But yeah, I am an able to learn, in my own way, what I want, and when I want to. When the time comes for me to teach, I will understand my pupils, and encourage them, knowing each one is relatively unique in their goals and plans for Arch or w/e I'm teaching them.

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