Installed Arch KDEmod, have 2 questions

I just installed arch and have a few questions. When I installed openbox and tried to login in as kde/openbox, it just takes me back to the login screen. I can login as KDE or Openbox, but not as KDE/Openbox.
Also, Im trying to get conky to run on KDE and it will not work for some odd reason I've searched and followed the wikis for both of these issues, but I cant get either of these two things to work. Any help?

With a little more searching, I solved teh conky issue. Still stuck with trying to login in as KDE/Openbox. I keep getting a "Fatal Server Error: Server Is Already Active For Display 0" when I try to run it from the Konsole

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[Solved] Installed Arch, I have a kernel problem.

Hi guys, I'm new here, but I use only linux since 2003. I have a problem at boot... When I choose arch from the bootloader I get this:
ERROR: Failed to parse block device name for '/dev/sda6'
ERROR: root fs cannot be detected. Try using the rootfstype= kernel parameter
Or something very very similar. I see that I'm not the only one experiencing this problem so I try solving by myself following hints I've found on this forum... but nothing changed.
I need help
This is what you have to know:
/etc/mkinitcpio.conf:
MODULES=""
HOOKS="base udev autodetect pata keymap filesystems"
I also tried with ide...
fstab
# /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 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/dvd /mnt/dvd udf ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/fd0 vfat user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda6 / ext3 defaults 0 1
grub entry:
#Archlinux
title ArchLinux (on /dev/sda6)
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda6
initrd /boot/kernel26.img
savedefault
boot
Last edited by Raffo (2007-07-14 16:34:42)

That's very curious. I'm just having this problem after installing the lowlatency kernel from this repo:
Server = http://arch.madfire.net/proaudio/i686
So I've just changed the initrd /boot/kernel26.img to /boot/kernel26rt.img and I'm getting exactly the same error. I've also tried changing sda with hda in the grub's menu.lst but nothing changed...

Archive & Install.. i have a question

Hi guys,
I had to perform an archive & install on my macbook pro as it was not booting (getting stuck on that grey screen with apple logo)...
It looks fine now as I am able to use it again... but the thing is... as it is called "archive"... and install... does that mean that somewhere in my HD there is a copy of my previous data etc...
Cause now I have only 93 GB remaining and I thought I had more. Is there a way I can see what applications/files are using my HD?
Thanks a lot

does that mean that somewhere in my HD there is a copy of my previous data etc...
Your files were moved to the newly installed operating system. The old OS was moved to a folder called Previous Systems which you can delete.

Ran Bootcamp / installed WinXP SP2 / Have some questions

I bought an iMAC for the stability and security of it. I, however use Embroidery and Quilting software that will run on WINDOWS only. So, I had to run bootcamp or lose the use of over $5,000 in software! Anyway... there are times I will need to update something, or download a file (embroidery or quilt, software related) from the internet and wondering, should I install Virus, Spyware, Adware, and Firewall, Protection to the windows side of my MAC? If my MAC is connected to the internet and I am not logged into windows can someone get into my computer?
I really need this software, and I do NOT want to buy a windows computer. Can someone with better knowledge on this help me. Thanks

Hi,
when running Windows on any kind of computer (Mac or not) it is very advisable to install at least a decent Anti-Virus software and enable the Windows internal Firewall (which by default is on).
Spy-/Adware-removal software is also a good idea, although personally I don't use it, but my own mind.
Meaning avoiding all kinds of suspicious websites.
If you are running OSX and connect to the internet, than your Windows partition is not in danger.
It can be in danger, when you download files from the internet while in OSX and later run them or use them in Windows and these files include kinds of Virus/Spyware.
Stefan

Trying to install arch but have a problem please help!

So I'm trying to install archlinux on my laptop but when I boot of of my flash drive it says
syslinux 4.07 EDD 2013-07-25 Copyright (C) 1994-2013 H. Peter Anvin et al
Unknown keyword in configuration file: PATH
boot/syslinux/whichsys.c32: not a COM32R image
boot:
Can someone PLEASE tell me what I'm doing wrong?

You're not telling us how you created that bootable flash drive. You're also not using a reasonable title for your thread. Please revise the title to give an indication on what the problem actually is.

[SOLVED]How to install Arch Linux UEFI to dual-boot?

Hey,
so I have a Lenovo G50-70 on which I want to have a Windows-Arch dualboot. I followed the Beginner's Guide, installed Arch but ended up with an inaccessible Windows. I could boot into Windows from the BIOS utility, but not from the gummiboot bootloader.
The guide said if I wanted to dual-boot, I must leave windows EFI partition alone, which I did. I have my Windows partitions set up the Windows way, with the system reserved and EFI and recovery partitions, and I have my Windows partition of course and a data partition. After that I have some unallocated space, on which I made the Arch partitions, /dev/sda6 as an ESP partition for the EFI files, /dev/sda7 as root, /dev/sda8 as swap and /dev/sda9 as /home. The install process went without any error, then I made some configurations and installed dosfstools & efibootmgr. After that, I installed gummiboot and ran "gummiboot --path=/boot install". After that I created the configuration files exactly like in the guide, unmounted the partitions, rebooted and saw that there's no (easy) way getting into Windows. So my question is: how can I install Arch to have a working dual-boot system?
Thanks for any help in advance!
Regards, Matteussz
Last edited by Matteussz (2015-02-11 20:41:37)

Hey,
Writing to you on my working dual-boot with ArchLinux (Windows 8.1 64-Bit, UEFI)
So first step I've done is creating free space of an existing partition in the windows disk management (windows button and r and then type diskmgmt.msc). At this step, you have to record which partition your efi partition is (just take a look at your efi partition and remember the mb of this partition for later)
Then go into the uefi settings (bios) and disable secure boot as well as fast boot, otherwise it could cause data crash.
Boot your Arch Live CD and follow the beginners guide all the way along till you reach the disk management.
If you want to have swap, you can create yours right now, should be a primary partition of about 4gigs.
Next partition is gonna be your home, system partition (I've didn't created two partitions for home and for the system but you could do this as well as just go with one partition) this partition gonna be formatted in ext4
Next step, you have to mount your windows-efi partition in /boot/efi but don't format it dont remeber if it asks you how to use the partition but if so, just use as fat32.
After the disk management go ahead with your arch installation and follow the beginners guide. (Make sure you're using the grub bootloader)
After finishing the installation, restart your system, hopefully you will recognize the opening grub menu. (but dont scare, windows wont show in the grub menu at this time so you have to boot your arch)
Arrived in arch linux type the command
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Reboot and your done with your Arch Linux, Windows 8 dual boot, hopefully

Just installed Arch again on my laptop, have some questions

Hi there.
After a few months of being linux-less, i decided to install it again (I corrupted my partition last time and have been too lazy to fix it =P). I'm also currently using KDEmod, which is great.
However, I have some questions.
1) It doesn't seem that the sound settings are being saved when I log out of KDE. It's always at 100%, and I always have to turn it down.
2) I have this little cell-phone looking icon in the systray, and when i mouse over it it tell me:
Network Management is changing!
it is highly unstable and will crash your desktop. Until further notice, please use KDE 4 knetworkmanager instead
Well, I looked an I've already got knetworkmanager installed:
yaourt -Ss knetworkmanager
kdemod-core/kdemod-networkmanagement-knetworkmanager-kde4 1030904-1 [installed] (kdemod kdemod-complete kdemod-networkmanagement kdemod-uninstall)
KNetworkManager for KDE4
kdemod-core/kdemod-networkmanagement-knetworkmanager-kde4-debug 1030904-1 (kdemod-debug kdemod-networkmanagement-debug kdemod-uninstall)
KNetworkManager for KDE4 (Debugging Symbols)
aur/knetworkmanager 0.2.2-4 (71)
A NetworkManager front-end for kde3 and kde4, based in version 0.2.2 stable
aur/knetworkmanager-unstable 737532-1 (Out of Date) (6)
A NetworkManager front-end for KDE
I remember when i had Arch before that I used ArchAssistant to manage my wired/wireless connections. Is that still around? Can anyone recommend anything else, cause I also remember getting ArchAssistant to work was a hell of a project.
3) When I first logged in, the Akonadi Server Self-report popped up. I rememebr this from before, and could never get it to work (I really don't even know what Akonadi is, tbh). It says that the control and server process is not register to D-Bus. How can I fix this? Would I have to start and configure the MySQL daemon?
Thanks for any help!

For the first one, set the volume to your desired startup level, open a terminal window and run "sudo aslactl store"
Then in your startup daemons add @alsa. That will restore your volume settings on boot, not sure about just logging in and out of KDE though. (I don't run KDE)
see:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ALS … at_startup

I'm going to install Arch this weekend but I have some questions

Currently I use Linux Mint on my primary PC, but I've installed Arch on my older PC at my parents house. I like it a lot and I think I want a distro that is rolling release and also that I build myself (as opposed to installing all of the bloat on Mint). However, I do have some questions; Linux is pretty new to me (been using it since about November) so I don't know exactly how everything works.
1) How do I know what packages I have to have installed for building C/C++ programs? I know in Ubuntu install gcc/g++ by itself doesn't get the job done, you need build-essential to get all of the libraries. Also, what packages do I need for OpenGL and SDL? I'm a CS major and I'm in an OpenGL class so I need to be able to compile OpenGL programs; SDL is for my own purposes, but I'd still like to have it.
2) I use Amarok to transfer songs to my iPod. Amarok 1.48 and libgpod 0.6.0 are in the repos and I know both of those are compatible with my 6th gen. However, I do have a question about transferring album art. On Mint, Amarok transfers the album art as I transfer the album, but someone told me that Amarok doesn't do that by default; there must have been a setting changed somewhere to do that. I looked through Amarok's options and didn't see anything like that... anyone know if I can do that in Arch, and how? There's no real information about Amarok in the wiki.
3) I'm going to use Gnome environment but some KDE apps (like Amarok). Will there be any problems with that that I should know about in advance?
I'll probably have some more questions once I actually install Arch, but that will do for now Those are the important ones.

1) You know by seeing its dependencies on pacman or by the developer documentation. Unlike other distros, you don't need to install dev packages. Example: You have gcc and all the basic gnu tools installed, and you want to compile a program that is not in a arch linux package yet (if theres a package, you can build it using abs / makepkg and pacman will handle the dependencies) and requires, for example, a library called "xyz", you only need to download "xyz" from pacman, and all the dev stuff will come together (like header and etc).
I hope it helps.

Slackware user - Arch install process and package management questions

I currently am using Slackware 12 with updates. It has become increasingly cumbersome to compile new software given the number of dependencies that also have to be compiled, and have their own dependencies compiled, etc and so on.
Other than the fact that the adoption of new packages is somewhat glacial, and that there is no automatic dependency resolution, I really like Slackware. Its fast, relatively easy to configure, and easy to use. I'm conversant in commandline-ese.
I've been led to understand based on the Arch wiki that Arch is very similar to Slackware in its layout, but with bleeding edge packages and dependency resolution, so I would think it would be about perfect.
However, I also understand that the install is more difficult that Slackware. How much more so is my question. Is it impossibly confusing and unhelpful like Debian installation was, or just slightly more difficult than Slackware or FreeBSD (both of which have very smooth installation scripts)
Also, for packages that have to be compiled from source, are dependancies easy to satisfy from the arch repository, or do dependencies for new software have to be compiled with their dependencies.
I'd probably just be trashing everything but /home, and doing a clean reinstall.
Is Arch the right distro for me, or am I better off staying with Slackware? Like I said, I really like Slackware except for the package management issues.

I've been led to understand based on the Arch wiki that Arch is very similar to Slackware in its layout, but with bleeding edge packages and dependency resolution, so I would think it would be about perfect.
You are right about that.
However, I also understand that the install is more difficult that Slackware. How much more so is my question. Is it impossibly confusing and unhelpful like Debian installation was, or just slightly more difficult than Slackware or FreeBSD (both of which have very smooth installation scripts)
They are quite similar, but Slackware provides more help when doing tasks like - how can I partition my harddisk and so on. But If you're comfortable with Slack's install procedure then installing Arch is much easier, just read the install guide.
I think Arch is good for you, because currently I have both - Slackware and Arch and both suit me fine for my needs.
Also remove all *. entries in your /home

Installing arch questions

My first official question on this forum is when I go to install arch it wants me to select the size of several partitons for swap, root, home, and boot. my question is how big do I make each one, Ubuntu just puts them all except swap on the same partition (I know Ubuntu has spoiled me ) So would anyone like to give me a run down on this, it would be much appreciated.

To give much advice we need to know more about what you want to setup. But to give you some perspective here's what I have:
/ 13 GB - with 7.3 being used, and I'm not particularly lean with what I have installed.
/boot - I have mine on the root partition. If you want it seperate it can be pretty small. My /boot is only ~7MB right now
/home - 6.8 GB with 3.2 being used, I also need to clean this up a little. It's pretty small for /home, but I keep all my personal data on another partion that I can mount from windows. If you won't be doing this you probably want /home big enough to hold all the personal data you might accumulate
swap - 1GB, what you need probably depends on your RAM. I rarely use much of this, but I kept it the same size as my memory so I can suspend to this space

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What would be the best way to install Arch, if I have Broadcom wifi?

I can boot into an Arch USB disk, but I can't connect to the Internet, since my laptop doesn't have ethernet and the wifi card is Broadcom, which requires the `broadcom-wl` package. What would be the easiest way of proceeding with this install? On IRC, I was advised to either: (1) boot into another distro, connect to the Internet there, then chroot into the Arch USB image, and download the additional packages from there, or (2) download the `broadcom-wl` package from the AUR, and a build environment, transfer these files to the USB system, and then compile and install the module there. Both of these solutions seems rather complicated to me. With (1), I was having difficulty mounting the arch .img as a drive using Ubuntu, since Ubuntu's `mount` command needs a filetype, and didn't seem to like any of the filetypes I tried. With (2), I have a feeling this would be fairly complicated--I'm not sure which binaries I can install for my system, or how to install packages that I downloaded offline.

I was having difficulty mounting the arch .img as a drive using Ubuntu, since Ubuntu's `mount` command needs a filetype
Not sure what you mean?
I too had issues with my internet, eventually I installed arch from Ubuntu. I used bootstrap image and it worked as advertized in the wiki.
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