Just installed arch, openbox questions.

Hi,
I just installed arch, I'm ready to install openbox. I've used both kde and gnome before. I use programs for instance like pidgin, etc. How does this work, I install openbox through "pacman -S openbox" but like, do I have to install gnome/gtk or kde libaries, I see in the howto's just telling how to install openbox, but what happens if I install a gnome based program or kde based program? Is there an instant messaging client/web browser specifically for openbox. Thanks for all the help. Much appreciated.
-kenny

celthias wrote:
SomeGuyDude wrote:is a DE really anything other than a bunch of software?
Nope, not really. A Desktop Environment is just that, a suite of applications that all fit together, each serving a different purpose (Email Client, Web Browser, File Manager, Music Player, etc) that come together to create a functional desktop. Because of this cohesion, DEs tend to have branding (Gnome, KDE for example) and technically speaking usually share libs to provide better integration. Other than that..they really are just a bundle o' programs..
Exactly. And if you're still using all the same programs you did when you used Gnome, in a sense you're still using Gnome, but without its usual "face" of Metacity, Gnome-panel, etc. If you run gconf-editor from a terminal window, you'll find the whole GConf system works just as it did under "real" Gnome. (Assuming you knew that it did, of course. That's one of the things - a unified preferences system for the "bunch of software" - that makes a DE.)

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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

Just installed arch, lots of cryptic errors

1. logitech mx5000 bluetooth mouse. when i type 'hidd --connect' and the address, i get:
Can't get device information: Connection timed out
how can i connect it?
2. midori errors. when i load midori, i get several 'gtk-warning' errors in the terminal window, e.g., 'error loading theme icon'. how do i fix these errors?
also, i don't like the default keyboard shortcuts. is there any way i change these, maybe globally? e.g., i'd rather use ctrl + tab and ctrl + shift + tab to change tabs.
3. wireless setup. i've installed the driver and wicd, but when i type 'wicd-client -n' to load it, i get a whole bunch of lines:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/wicd/wicd-client.py", line 50, in <module>
import wicd.gui as gui
dbus.exception.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.wicd.daemon was not provided by any .service files
how can i set up my wireless simply and quickly with a gui?
4. when i load pcmanfm, i get an error:
GTK+ icon theme is not properly set
what is an xsettings manager?
i still have other questions, but i thought i should try to get these resolved first.
5. also, is there a 'control panel' like in windows where i can edit all the system settings, e.g., touchpad, user accounts, etc.?
Last edited by anti-destin (2009-05-23 21:26:59)

1) i don't use bluetooth, so can't help you with that
2 / 4) it seems you have no default icon theme installed yet, for instance
pacman -S hicolor-icon-theme
then you need to set it as default theme, see point 5
3) wicd is a client-server model which needs a running daemon:
sudo /etc/rc.d/wicd start
be aware that you also need to have hal and dbus installed + running to use wicd
5) that depends on which desktop environment you are using:
considering you seem to be just starting out with linux/arch, it would recommend installing either gnome or xfce4, which will make these tasks a lot easier for your. gnome is the most newbie-friendly, xfce4 is a bit more minimal and will require more work from your side. if you do decide to go for a more 'hardcore' setup right away (i.e. windowmanager-only), be prepared to get your hands dirty and spend a lot of time trying and figuring things out. most of the questions you ask are quite basic, and would be easy to find out yourself by digging through the wiki and the forums.

Just installed Arch - what now?

I just finished successfully installing archlinux - What now?
I had a quick peek at the wiki but it wasn't very helpful.
Playing around I couldn't get a single package to install - no x.org or kde. pacman kept coughing up a load of errors - for instance when I tried to do pacman -Syu it told me that it couldn't sync with the belnet mirrors for core, extra and community packages. 'failed to synchronize ... transient resolver error '
This can't be a repo problem because I installed it using internet files.
The fact that I can't even start to use it is frustrating - even grub didn't seem to pick up my windows partition even though the grub list looked fine and I installed it to the right harddrive afaik.
Any help? (especially for getting x.org and kde running! (or any packages installable for that matter!))
Last edited by faermi (2007-11-09 23:48:31)

Doehni wrote:
First: Welcome to Arch!!
The best point to start is the Beginners Guide in the Wiki: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners_Guide
By the way: a lot of questions can be answered by searching the wiki.
Regarding your grub problem: Add this to your /boot/grub/menu.lst file:
# Windows
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
The string (hd0,0) points to my windows partition, which is the first partition on the first hard drive (counting starts with 0)
You see i'm sure those lines were in the grub boot list, but I will double check.
EDIT: Ah. They were commented out. Fixed this problem
I tried changing the mirrors for pacman to use, but it still made errors:
Warning current locale is invalid; Using default "C" locale
:: synchronising package databases...
error : failed retrieving file 'core.db.tar.gz' from ftp.parrswood.manchester.sch.uk : transcient resolver failure
It says this for all of them, and did for the belnet mirror as well.
When I try to ping google it says unknown host - does that mean that my network isn't set up properly?
Last edited by faermi (2007-11-10 11:10:09)

Just installed Arch, can't perform tasks like useradd/pacman [Solved]

Followed the Beginner's Guide step by step. I'm now on the 'Extra'. However I'm running into problems doing anything. The first thing I tried to do was change user password. I got 'Authentication token lock busy'. Tried to add user and got 'cannot lock /etc/passwd/'
I figured out that I could go back into the initial setup, remount the drives, and chroot and then change password/add user. Then - as the guide says- I unmounted them and rebooted.
Now I can't install sudo. I get 'failed to innit transaction: unable to lock database' 'could not lock database: read only file system'
my /etc/fstab says sda1 rw which I thought meant that it was write-able
I can't do pacman -Syy for the same reasons, however I can do it when I chroot and mount from the setup
I followed the Beginners' Guide line by line I believe. But somewhere after unmount and reboot, it quits working.
Last edited by mmat (2012-10-18 06:19:52)

DSpider wrote:
Hi, and welcome to the forum.
The title is a bit misleading. Is the root read-only, or is useradd/pacman the problem (which both are in the "Install" section, not "Extra") ?
I'm sorry. This is my very first time ever using linux, so I don't fully get what you're saying about read only root.. I'm not sure what the problem is. I can and did useradd/pacman when I was installing. I finished the install section. I cannot now do the first step on extra.
DSpider wrote:You didn't remove "ro" from syslinux.cfg, did you? Or do you use GRUB?
I used GRUB because the guide made it sound better.
DSpider wrote:Post your fstab.
I installed it in VirtualBox. Not sure if that matters.
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Last edited by jasonwryan (2012-10-18 06:03:05)

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

Installing Arch encrypted using LVM on top of LUKS

I just installed Arch following this this wiki page and this guide .
While booting, it gets to the point when it asks for the password. Once I provide the password, the whole process halts. No messages, nothing.
# fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x66c02a9c
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1953327285 1953520064 96390 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 1952540100 1953327284 393592+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 63 1952540099 976270018+ 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
/dev/sda2 contains information unrelated to my arch installation and is not to be mounted by the system
/dev/sda3 is the encrypted partition used as a physical volume and contains my volume group and all my logical volumes.
# pvscan
PV /dev/mapper/abierto VG grupito lvm2 [931.04 GiB / 867.04 GiB free]
Total: 1 [931.04 GiB] / in use: 1 [931.04 GiB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ]
# lvscan
ACTIVE '/dev/grupito/swap' [4.00 GiB] contiguous
ACTIVE '/dev/grupito/casa' [40.00 GiB] inherit
ACTIVE '/dev/grupito/raiz' [20.00 GiB] inherit
mkinitcpio.conf
mkinitcpio.conf wrote:
# vim:set ft=sh
# MODULES
# The following modules are loaded before any boot hooks are
# run. Advanced users may wish to specify all system modules
# in this array. For instance:
# MODULES="piix ide_disk reiserfs"
MODULES="dm-snapshot ext4"
# BINARIES
# This setting includes, into the CPIO image, and additional
# binaries a given user may wish. This is run first, so may
# be used to override the actual binaries used in a given hook.
# (Existing files are NOT overwritten is already added)
# BINARIES are dependancy parsed, so you may safely ignore libraries
BINARIES=""
# FILES
# This setting is similar to BINARIES above, however, files are added
# as-is and are not parsed in anyway. This is useful for config files.
# Some users may wish to include modprobe.conf for custom module options,
# like so:
# FILES="/etc/modprobe.conf"
FILES=""
# HOOKS
# This is the most important setting in this file. The HOOKS control the
# modules and scripts added to the image, and what happens at boot time.
# Order is important, and it is recommended that you do not change the
# order in which HOOKS are added. Run 'mkinitcpio -H <hook name>' for
# help on a given hook.
# 'base' is _required_ unless you know precisely what you are doing.
# 'udev' is _required_ in order to automatically load modules
# 'filesystems' is _required_ unless you specify your fs modules in MODULES
# Examples:
# This setup specifies all modules in the MODULES setting above.
# No raid, lvm2, or encrypted root is needed.
# HOOKS="base"
# This setup will autodetect all modules for your system and should
# work as a sane default
# HOOKS="base udev autodetect pata scsi sata filesystems"
# This is identical to the above, except the old ide subsystem is
# used for IDE devices instead of the new pata subsystem.
# HOOKS="base udev autodetect ide scsi sata filesystems"
# This setup will generate a 'full' image which supports most systems.
# No autodetection is done.
# HOOKS="base udev pata scsi sata usb filesystems"
# This setup assembles an pata raid array with an encrypted root FS.
# Note: See 'mkinitcpio -H raid' for more information on raid devices.
# HOOKS="base udev pata raid encrypt filesystems"
# This setup loads an lvm2 volume group on a usb device.
# HOOKS="base udev usb lvm2 filesystems"
HOOKS="base udev autodetect pata scsi sata usb encrypt lvm2 filesystems"
# COMPRESSION
# Use this to compress the initramfs image. With kernels earlier than
# 2.6.30, only gzip is supported, which is also the default. Newer kernels
# support gzip, bzip2 and lzma. Kernels 2.6.38 and later support xz
# compression.
#COMPRESSION="gzip"
#COMPRESSION="bzip2"
#COMPRESSION="lzma"
#COMPRESSION="xz"
# COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
# Additional options for the compressor
#COMPRESSION_OPTIONS=""
menu.lst
menu.lst wrote:
# Config file for GRUB - The GNU GRand Unified Bootloader
# /boot/grub/menu.lst
# DEVICE NAME CONVERSIONS
# Linux Grub
# /dev/fd0 (fd0)
# /dev/sda (hd0)
# /dev/sdb2 (hd1,1)
# /dev/sda3 (hd0,2)
# FRAMEBUFFER RESOLUTION SETTINGS
# +-------------------------------------------------+
# | 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024
# ----+--------------------------------------------
# 256 | 0x301=769 0x303=771 0x305=773 0x307=775
# 32K | 0x310=784 0x313=787 0x316=790 0x319=793
# 64K | 0x311=785 0x314=788 0x317=791 0x31A=794
# 16M | 0x312=786 0x315=789 0x318=792 0x31B=795
# +-------------------------------------------------+
# for more details and different resolutions see
# http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRU … Resolution
# general configuration:
timeout 5
default 0
color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue
# boot sections follow
# each is implicitly numbered from 0 in the order of appearance below
# TIP: If you want a 1024x768 framebuffer, add "vga=773" to your kernel line.
# (0) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/mapper/grupito-raiz cryptdevice=/dev/sda3:grupito ro
initrd /kernel26.img
# (1) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux Fallback
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/mapper/grupito-raiz cryptdevice=/dev/sda3:grupito ro
initrd /kernel26-fallback.img
I would appreciate some hint here (where to look and what to try?).
Thanks.

Okay, so I don't understand though how containing fragmentation to a certain partition will lead to a benefit. What you are really trying to avoid are seek times, right? So if /var/log is on the same disk as everything else, you are still going to have those seeks occuring and therefore slowing everything else on that disk down, no? I think that this technique is beneficial if you actually have the fragmented filesystem on a separate disk. But the same disk will have the same problems.
I don't understand the question at the end... "wouldn't be the same, now with /"? What does that mean?
Also, if you want to defragment something, you can simply "cp -a" it from one place to another, or yu can use something like rsync. Linux is really neat in that it has everything as a file. So you can literally just copy all the relevant files from one place to another and have a working bootable system. No magic boot code or anything like that that is hidden from the user.
In reality though, it is not the /var/log that i think is acusing the problems. I was simply explaining to you why your logs show those errors. I think the real problem is having /usr on a separate partition. Though this is somewhat "supported" in Arch Linux, and I have used this in the past, it is not something I feel as though I could count on. So...
Me wrote:Is there a reason why you need to have a separate /usr? It would make your life far simpler if you just integrated it into your rootfs.

Just installed, minimal config, ethernet not recognized (or something)

I just installed Arch, but although ifconfig recognizes my ethernet card, pacman consistently (across reboots) returns a "cannot connect" type error for every host. Please help!

!! don't use the ftp.archlinux.org mirror as it's being throttled as of late.
1) You can use the rankmirrors script to sort your mirrors based on speed.. search for it in the forums. It's going to be included in pacman 3!
2) you can use the aria2 methods mentioned in the Improve Pacman Performance wiki. I recommend not using the 2 connection per server as it seems kind of abusive. I just started using the pacget script myself and it distributes the load amongst all the servers. Seems to speed things up greatly and is supposed to support resuming.

Just installed, performance issue

I just installed Arch on my laptop to try and get some experience with a more DIY type distro, and I'm having performance issues. Compiling my wireless driver from source took over an hour, and it only took about 10 minutes in ubuntu. I noticed that there was very little activity shown on the HD indicator LED. In ubuntu the LED would be lit up constantly when compiling anything. I think it might have something to do with my HD. I saw that having conflicting host names in the configuration files could be an issue so I checked that, but they were the same. I'm really new to this type of distro, so I'm probably missing something really obvious.

Oh maybe my etc/hosts is wrong. I was looking on the arch wiki and set it up in the format suggested there.
localhost.localdomain localhost hostname
^
I didn't know I was supposed to put anything here.
I'll have to try setting it up that way when I get home.
would my local domain just be the broadcast IP?
No there are no errors, it just sits there saying "retrieving packages from core/extras" and then I interrupt it and start it over and it works fine. I'm hoping that the /etc/hosts change will resolve things.
Also my GNOME crashes when I try to install a new icon theme package. I drag and drop the package onto the appearance window and it crashes. I know this is a valid theme file as I've used it successfully on other distros. I'm worried it could be instability caused by the 2.6.28 kernel, as that is what killed my ubuntu install. Also the reason I started using arch. I need to use that kernel to resolve the ACPI problems my laptop was having with previous kernels.
Last edited by geckoguykc (2009-03-16 19:10:47)

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

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.

IPhoto 6: Just installed and have many questions!

I have just installed iLife 06, and my life seems to be much more difficult. Am I missing something here? Hope someone can help me.
1) When I installed iPhoto 6, I was asked to upgrade my Library so that iPhoto 6 can read it, so I did. What I noticed it did, was to replace the files that were originally sorted out by Date folders in iLife 05 to 2 main folders Originals and Modified, then sub folders by year then by Roll. I like the old way of organizing by date, because that way I am able to find my photos in the hard drive quite easily. How should I find my photos now in the hard drive? Why did Apple decide to organize the photos by Roll instead of by date?
2) When the library is updated to Version 6, I understand that the library will not be opened in iPhoto 5 anymore. But for some logistic reasons, I need to be operating using iLife 05 in my iBook for the next 1 year. What should I do now? Do I have to re-import the jpg files into my iPhoto 5 and retag all my keywords to the photos and lose all my previous organization?
3) There are a few photos that have lost the link to the original photos: i.e. I can see the thumbnails in iPhoto Library, but when I tried to see in edit view, it shows no photos. How can I correct that? How can I locate all photos that have broken link?
4) There are at least 20 photos in my Library that when I try to open them in Edit view, iPhoto would crash. Why is that so? Are the photos corrupted?
Hope someone can enlighten me. It seems that iLife 06 gives me more problem than iLife 05. Can I reinstall iLife 05 back? If yes, how?
Susan

Susan
How should I find my photos now in the hard drive?
This new system comes in with iPhoto 6, and is expected behaviour. If you wish, you can set up your own file structure and still work with iPhoto 6, but in the meantime to find your files you can
1: Right (or Control) -Click on a pic and select 'Show File'. A new Finder window will open with the file selected.
or
2. Export the files to the Desktop (File -> Export)
or
3. Drag and Drop the pics to the desktop (or indeed any folder where you want them)
Of course, exporting and dragging and dropping will create a copy of the pic at the destination.
iPhoto is designed so that everything you need to do can be done via the iPhoto WIndow. It is strongly advised that you do not move, change or in anyway alter things in the iPhoto Library Folder as this can cause the application to fail and even lead to data loss
Do I have to re-import the jpg files into my iPhoto 5 and retag all my keywords to the photos and lose all my previous organization?
Unfortunately, yes. iPhoto 5 cannot read the v6 library.
There are a few photos that have lost the link to the original photo
Try rebuilding the thumbnail and Library database - hold down the apple and option key when you launch the app and the resulting dialogue box will give you the maintenance options.
There are at least 20 photos in my Library that when I try to open them in Edit view, iPhoto would crash. Why is that so? Are the photos corrupted?
They may be, though I don't know why. Do you have Graphic Convertor? Try export them or drag and drop them to the desktop, open them in GC and use Save As to save them as jpegs again. Then re-import them. This sometimes works.
It seems that iLife 06 gives me more problem than iLife 05. Can I reinstall iLife 05 back?
Yes you can. Simply drag the app to the trash, then go to HD/Library/Receipts and trash any file there with iPhoto in the title. Then re-install 5 from your original disk. However, while there may be a learning curve, in my experience 6 is superior in every way to 5, faster, more features, more stable.
If you have any more questions, feel free to ask
Regards
TD

Arch linux install and setup questions

Personally it seems a bit to cumbersome to have to setup xorg etc and is proving to be difficult in getting it to work right. Do they have any arch forks that just auto detect the xorg settings like some of the other distros?
I can't see myself having to setup several of these boxes and doing these install steps one at a time for each one.
It would seem arch could just run a script once installed that would auto sync, download xorg, and setup xorg at the same time.
it would be no different that following each step in the wiki by hand, just via script

itsmeh wrote:Yup it was just an idea , sure people can still do it manual but maybe have something built in to at least take care of the first few steps that most users are going to use
That's the whole point with arch. It's all up to you. Arch doesn't suggest anything for you (exept what you need to get a working linux enviroment).
This is the reason i installed arch. I wanted control over my inviromet and learn more about what's under the hood.

Hey, I just installed ML on my OCZ Octane SSD, everything went ok, However, it got stuck while rebooting and now I can only see flashing question mark icon and ML won't boot at all. Only in safe mode...

Hey, I just installed ML on my OCZ Octane SSD, everything went ok, However, it got stuck while rebooting and now I can only see flashing question mark icon and ML won't boot at all. Only in safe mode...

It looks like ocz is aware of the issue and trying to address it via firmware:
http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?103700-Mountain-Lion-and- OCZ-Octane-Petrol-and-Octane-S2-SSD-s
It's a shame because apple is clearly the party that changed something.

Questions before I install Arch

Hi everyone. I decide to try Arch after using Ubuntu for almost a year. After reading the installing guide, I find the wireless network is the big problem. I am using wireless, and I can easily get connected with it by wicd. But installing Arch needs a wireless under command line, so I try that in terminal:
# ifconfig wlan0 up
# iwlist wlan0 scan ( and I see my target wireless network is there)
# iwconfig wlan0 essid "My_Network" key 0123456789
# dhclient wlan0
But it did not work. What I was sure was I managed to connect to this network with this key in Ubuntu Network Manager, or wicd, if using GUI. I later searched for this problem and it seemed that iwconfig recognized the key as hex by default. If using ascii, it should be:
# iwconfig wlan0 essid "My_Network" key s:0123456789
But even that I failed too. So I am just wondering how to get a hex key out of it? Is there any algorithm for this...?
I have downloaded the core version of Arch. But I am wondering if I need the internet by installing X windows and fluxbox, using pacman... If not, I can go directly with it and grab a GUI network manage like wicd and I will have no problems.
Thank you very much.
Last edited by shva (2009-04-25 15:51:59)

Does it post the same error? Try messing about with the different combinations of quotation marks taking them off both the key and network name, and then try with them on both the key and the network name.
iwconfig wlan0 essid "My_Network" key "0123456789"
iwconfig wlan0 essid My_Network key 0123456789
Last edited by jack.mitchell (2009-04-25 17:25:30)

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