Question/Concern with my Arch Linux Linode

I typically login to my Linode Arch server daily with ssh, and I always use my domain name to do it like so:
ssh mydomain.com
I have root login disabled, and use the same username as my local Arch box, but with a different password. This means I have to supply the password while connecting.
Usually when I login the prompt in the terminal looks like this:
[[email protected] ~]
But when I logged in today it shows something like this: (changed slightly just to be safe)
[username@li563-7 ~]
I checked the rc.conf file, and the Hostname has not been changed.
Any ideas what might have happened?

Have you received an answer from linode?
I have exactly the same problem since I updated and rebooted yesterday and it messes up my configs.
I have submitted a ticket, but if you already know how to solve it, let me know.
Akael wrote:
Usually when I login the prompt in the terminal looks like this:
[[email protected] ~]
But when I logged in today it shows something like this: (changed slightly just to be safe)
[username@li563-7 ~]
I checked the rc.conf file, and the Hostname has not been changed.
Any ideas what might have happened?

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General questions concerning gaming in (arch)linux

Hi,
I've searched the forums, and I found a lot of howto's that sometimes worked, and sometimes didn't. I'm not a gamer, but have been a longtime linux-user.
I have talked a lot of people into using linux, and almost all of them are happy with there new OS, but my brother (my latest convert) is a gamer 'pure sang'. He's not to happy with the switch to Ubuntu:
* Enemy Territory works, but punkbuster keeps kicking him off the servers
* WoW: he was used to getting rocksolid 80+ FPS in windows, now he gets 50FPS with drops to below 20FPS
* Mumble: giving problems
Yesterday I have found a link to a solution for punkbuster - maybe I can solve that one myself. Is it normal that you have a significant amount lower FPS in linux than in windows? I thought the nvidia-blob was about 'on par' with the windows-driver? I have set WoW to OpenGL and applied several tweaks that I have found around the interwebs...
Should I give archlinux for him a try (I only chose Ubuntu to make it easier for him to update)? Since punkbuster is 32bit-only, should I install 32bit linux for him? Or should I advise him to buy a 'windows 7'-licence key?
PS: Is the Archlinux gaming repo still alive? It looks as if no updates have made since early 2010 and only 1 of the 3 mirrors mentioned in the wiki is still up...
THX!

I am a pretty much a gamer, less so in recent years but... I have found that Linux does not offer the same gaming possibilities as Windows. To this day, I am still dual-booting because of gaming, and I doubt that will change in the near future. I have ran things like Half-life2 and Stracraft 2 in Linux with statisfying results, but with generally fewer frame rates than Windows. As for gaming performance, recent test ran by Phoronix suggest that BSD is faster than Linux, but that's not your question. For myself, I doubt you would find a distro with a significant performance boost for gaming, as they all share the same drivers and all share Xorg to produce graphics. The only reserve is that other test ran by Phoronix suggest that "compositing" as used in Ubuntu's Unity or Gnome 3 has some negative effect on 3D gaming performance, so if you switch to Arch, you might want to consider the "less cute" desktops, like XFCE or LXDE and the like, without compositing. Also, I should mention that using 64 bit Linux to run 32 bit windows games tends to make things a little more difficult. If gaming under Linux with Wine is a must, consider staying under a 32 bit version of the distro of your choice.
As for Windows games, you might want to look at Crossover ( http://www.codeweavers.com/ ) which offers an interface to Wine and better support. There is a "gaming edition" of crossover which might help. Check their DB to see which games are supported, but there's a full-featured demo mode anyway, so try before you buy. Also, you might try playonlinux ( http://www.playonlinux.com/ ) wich offers an interfaces that manages Wine installations for you with "recepies" in the background that are known to offer the best results. If you want the "free" option, playonlinux is the way to go if you want the best chances at running your games, if supported.
Lastly, I would suggest looking at http://www.penguspy.com/ to find Linux native games. Of course, that might not satisfy your brother if he wants specific games.
Last edited by jpsimard (2011-09-27 14:50:16)

Linode with latest Arch Linux never brings networking online at boot?

Hello, I use Linode for my primary VPS related stuff. On it, I usually use Arch Linux. Recently however, I've faced a pretty big issue. If I spin up a new linode, do a pacman -Syu and then reboot it, it will not setup networking when it starts up.
I have to manually login with their Lish out-of-band access to login and start networking manually (ie, by doing dhcpcd eth0). I've filed a support ticket with them, but they said it was basically out of their control and pointed me here. I've never had this issue until recently.
I've already tried setting up netctl and such for defaults, but it still ends up with no DHCP lease upon boot, and I'm not sure why. Anyone know of this issue and/or how to fix it?

I had this same issue. I fixed it by (via Lish) systemctl enabling and starting dhcpcd.service, and (if that didn't fix ssh) restarting sshd.service.
I also found this interesting:
[root@sandbox ~]# cat /usr/lib/systemd/network/10-dhcp.network
[Match]
Name=eth0
[Network]
DHCP=yes
Is networkd supposed to be handling network configuration, and if so, shouldn't that be "ef*" rather than eth0?
Is there a better solution that should be put in place to fix this? How does Arch normally do DHCP on Ethernet right now?
Last edited by STUART (2014-08-05 12:23:04)

What's wrong with my Arch linux grub bootup/FSTAB? [Solved]

So ever since I did a fresh install of Arch Linux, every time it boots up and I select the Grub option it says "A start job is running for /dev/drive/" and shortly after it says timed out and continues onto the login screen as normal.
I have two drives, Windows is on the other one and on the Linux one I have just two partitions, root and swap.
I've tried to do a couple of things such as creating another grub option and setting the root to that ID however it still seems to be occurring. It seems to me that it keeps changing because sometimes when I boot it doesn't do it but it is very rare that it doesn't do the start job.
How can I permanently make the GRUB2 menu boot the correct drive and partitions, both root{ext4} and swap without it having to run a start job every time I boot it up?
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WorMzy wrote:
Note that sda,sdb,sdc... names are assigned on a first-come, first-served, per boot basis, so they are not ideal for use in your fstab. Instead, you should use UUIDs or labels.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pe … ice_naming
The problem is back, the drive names keep changing, how can I use UUID's for the fstab?
I saw something about UUID's above each drive name however, they were commented out. Do I replace the drive name part with the UUID for every drive, so for example:
/dev/sdb1 / ext4 rw,relatime,discard,data=ordered
to
UUID=b411dc99-f0a0-4c87-9e05-184977be8539 /home ext4 rw,relatime,discard,data=ordered
Or do I just uncomment the UUID part? which would leave me with something along the lines of:
UUID=b411dc99-f0a0-4c87-9e05-184977be8539
/dev/sdb1 / ext4 rw,relatime,discard,data=ordered

Quick question concerned with external HD space

just a quick question
if TM only backs up files that have changed since the last backup
why does every time it back up i end up with a folder in my external HD (that acts as a time machine) that is the same size of the hard drive?
(e.g im using up 70 gigs on my macbooks HD..every time i back up with TM i end up with 70 gigs less on the external..should i just lose the space of the changed folders? :S)

That's the "magic" (or "smoke and mirrors") of Time Machine.
It makes "hard links" (sort of like multiple aliases) to the backups of the items that didn't change. That makes each backup, in effect, a full one.
That's how when you go into the "Star Wars" display, it can show you a snapshot of your entire system at the time of any backup.
If you look at your backups via the Finder, each dated backup folder is counting all those items that didn't change; so each one appears to be a full copy of your Mac. The sum of all the backup folders will be far greater than the amount used on the whole backup disk.
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Grub GFX with new Arch Linux Logo

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root_tux_linux wrote:
I created that pic with cinema 4D on wine...
and now i change to blender or alias maya 7.0 ^^
Btw. Im a noobie in 3D world ^^
Well, I'm in a similiar situation atm. I used cinema4D a few years ago but stopped mainly because of my switch to linux.
I didn't want to use c4d under wine (and was unable to start it with recent wine version anyway..) and was kind of scared by blenders UI.
After reading a few tutorials my fear is gone and I start to enjoy using blender
Try it out! You'll like it...

Merging Arch Linux ARM with mainstream Arch Linux

I just came across a thread [1] in the forums that had discussed unifying support for other architectures into mainstream ArchLinux. Although the thread was a couple of years old, there seemed to be considerable interest even then to bring in ARM support into the mainstream ArchLinux. Is there any possiblity of it happening now?
[1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=157314

Trilby wrote:
note, this post is just from user Trilby, not moderator Trilby
hashken wrote:merging the projects would benefit everyone as a whole, as quality talent from both projects can now work on a unified project and reduce duplication of efforts.
This sounds nice - but on what basis is this actually true? If the criteria of unifying talent were sufficient to justify merging, then we should not only merge archlinux and archlinuxarm, but also ubuntu, mint, fedora, suse, and ever other distro out there. All the talent would be unified.
But all that talent would then be useless, as one who is familiar with fedora may not be helpful to someone using archlinux. Archlinuxarm is sufficiently different that one cannot assume that familiarity or proficiency in one will translate to the other.
There is a recurring case to have such a merger - and it may be well worth discussion. But what the discussion needs is a clear assessment of pros and cons. And a statement that merging unifies talents simply does not hold water as it simultaneously diffuses expertise.
Didn't Arch have an April Fool's joke one year about rebranding all the distros into one?

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My brower questions is in hebrew. Close? Save? copy? paste? everything like that is in hebrew. This rest is in English. How can I change this? Does anyone know how it happened?

Which part is in English?
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* Firefox 3.6.x: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-older.html
* Uninstall the current Firefox version, but make sure that you do not remove your personal data.
* Install the new Firefox version of the wanted language.
See also:
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* [[Backing up your information]]
Check the value of the pref "general.useragent.locale" on the about:config page and set that value to language code of the version that you have downloaded (e.g. "en-US" or "en-GB") if there is still a wrong locale set.

Arch Linux System Maintenance

I have a few questions regarding maintenance of Arch Linux.
I come from Gentoo where I typically execute the following:
emerge --sync
emerge -uDNv world
emerge --depclean
revdep-rebuild
I suppose emerge --sync && emerge -uDNv world is equivalent to pacman -Syu. But as for emerge --depclean, I have not seen what command could be used to find stray/obsoleted dependencies and have them removed. Should I be using pacman -Rs <package_name> every time I want to delete a package?
revdep-rebuild probably does not apply to Arch Linux as it is binary based.
Additionally, I was wondering if there are more things I should do to ensure that my installation is healthy. Any help/tips would be appreciated.

sitquietly wrote:
John5788 wrote:
I have a few questions regarding maintenance of Arch Linux.
I come from Gentoo where I typically execute the following:
emerge --sync
emerge -uDNv world
emerge --depclean
revdep-rebuild
.....revdep-rebuild probably does not apply to Arch Linux as it is binary based.....
For most users Archlinux is not a pure binary distro in practice. We need packages from AUR for a complete system. On my Arch system today I see that that there are 182 binary packages available in abs/core, 1957 packages in abs/extra, and 2340 packages in abs/community; so there are a total of 4479 binary packages available in Archlinux. By comparison my Gentoo system has 17348 packages available in portage, and more packages available in various overlays, and they are all updated properly by emerge -auDN @world.
There are 41182 source-based packages available in my copy of Archlinux's AUR. Unfortunately pacman -Syu does not know how to update AUR packages and they may be left with dangling references to libraries that got updated out from under them.
AUR packages tend to get broken by updates. So we do need something like revdep-rebuild but so far as I know we don't have any equivalent maintenance tool. I use my own script for checking my system for AUR packages that need to be rebuilt:
#!/bin/sh
# check all binaries in /usr/bin for any with "not found"
# library links
cd /usr/bin
for file in $(find . -type f -executable -readable)
do
ldd $file | grep "not found" >/dev/null && echo -n $file " links to an missing library " && \
echo "(rebuild `pacman -Qq --owns $file`)"
done
Good luck with your new Archlinux system.
Thanks very much, I added that script to my system! I am half surprised that something like this doesn't exist natively in pacman.
ewaller wrote:
John5788 wrote:
I come from Gentoo where I typically execute the following:
emerge --sync
emerge -uDNv world
emerge --depclean
revdep-rebuild
<tear forms in ewaller's eye>I miss those commands </tear>
Welcome from a fellow Gentoo refugee ! I miss that distribution sometimes, but I love Archlinux; mostly because it does not seem to suffer the sort of bit rot with age as does Gentoo. I recall that subtle changes in use flags could come back to bite weeks later when you update something seemingly unrelated (especially +doc) Spend some time around here and you will find that housekeeping is really not an issue. I do still build custom kernels and don't use initrd; one cannot completely break old habits
Good to see some former Gentoo users here. I still use Gentoo as my desktop OS, but my new Ultrabook will have to use Arch Linux. I'd rather not kill the life of the SSD by constantly compiling packages (not to mention that the emerge times for installing something trivial could get stupid on a laptop). I've been doing as much reading as I can to get familiarized with Arch Linux and I am liking everything so far. It is a nice change to go to a binary distro that isn't Ubuntu.

Arch Linux help - boot up, black screen

OK, i will try to explain to the best of my ability what happened when i was done installing arch and rebooted.
Well i booted into arch core-iso and set my time [UTC] and date.
and then i made for partitions as follows,
sda 1 - 20 gb - /root, boot, type 83
sda2 - 12 gb - /var type 83
sda 3 - 8.3 gb - type 82 - /swap
sda 4 - rest of memory - type 83 - /home
then wrote it
Then went onto install the Base, base-devel + sudo, wirelesstools, ndsiwrappers, wpa - supplicant, ssh, and net - cfg,
then installed it, then went on the config the system with nano
- click - /etc/rc.conf
edited the following
hostname = "baxxan"
eth0 = "dhcp"
gateway= "dhcp"
ctrl - x, y, enter
- clicked /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
then uncommented the [#] next to the url
"http://mirrorit.edu/archlinux/$repolos/1000"
and the ftp to
then set the root password
Then went onto install bootloader [ the hdd was empty so not much work there]
installed it on /dev/sda
then rebooted
upon reboot i preformed system update
[pacman -Syu] as the root user
then through pacman installed xorg, gnome, gnome-extra, and alsa-utils
then configed the /etc/rc.conf files [ nano /etc/rc.conf]
and added "hal" and "gdm" to the daemons
then typed "adduser"
and completed on the required asked for information for adding that user
then went onto /etc/sudoers [nano /etc/sudoers]
and under,
root ALL= (ALL) + ALL
wrote,
username ALL = (ALL) + ALL
THEN saved and rebooted. and was happy i was done with my arch linux install!
BUT WHEN I REBOOTED, and went into arch linux through the new bootloader, NOTHING but a BLACK SCREEN, comes up with two little white lines near the top! i even tried booting into the fallback option and its the same black screen with 2 little lines near the top!
WTF IS GOING ON!
Please help
Thank you,
P.S -
dont send me the dam link to the beginners cause i READ It, believe me.
Thanks!

litemotiv wrote:
please don't put text like URGENT or HELP! in your topic titles, it will only distract people from the actual problem
about your issue, it could be a problem with [wiki]KMS[/wiki]. first thing to try is to disable it (see the wiki page and search the forums for topics concerning your specific brand/type of card and bootup problems)
k r u sure this is the problem, also the KMS link you sent me, is that the wiki?

[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)
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grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
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Having difficulty installing arch linux

Okay, so currently I have Windows. Before I put in the CD and restart my computer, I went to the Windows disk manager, and created some partitions so I wouldn't have to do it from the installation (I fear I may mess up and erase all my data). I'm trying to get a dual boot so i created partitions like http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Win … _Dual_Boot suggested. All the new partitions I created were raw, I didn't give them a filesystem. When I start the installer with the Arch Linux Net CD, and get to the Hardware part, I select "Manually configure block devices, filesystems and mountpoints." It shows a list of partitions except they ALL appear to be raw. I think it had the correct number of partitions, but I had no idea which one's were supposed to be my Windows partitions (i.e. Windows and Recovery partition) and which one's were the new one's I created. Not wanting to screw anything up, I decided to restart and ask for help here. Why don't my Windows partitions show up as having an NTFS filesystem?
Also, that article I linked to said the boot partition should be in the first 8.5 GB of the disk. Is it possible to do this in the Window's disk manager?
Last edited by Kurushimi (2010-01-27 03:29:42)

Greetings,
Do you remember the order you made the partitions in? If not either Ctrl Alt F2 to open a new TTY and run cfdisk to get your partition info or reboot back into windows and open your partition manager tool and get the information and remember to write down, what is in first partition, what is in second partition, and so on... If using the cfdisk method you hit Ctrl Alt F1 to go back to your installation screen.
Please note that first partition = SDA1, second = SDA2, third = SDA3, and 4th = SDA6.
You said you already crated a arch /home partition? That is not so until you have mounted and created the file system so no worries there. Just make SDA6 (assuming that is the large arch partition) your root / partition. You don't have to create a /home partition. Which ever is the windows partition, just ignore it/them in this step. The installer itself doesn't recognize NTFS as a file system in this process so it won't show it listed as one, but it is there.
Hope this helps, and good luck to you!

Arch Linux Newsletter December 2009?

For those of you who didn't see my email on the Arch General mailing list, here's the situation with the Arch Linux Newsletter/Arch Linux Magazine. As many of you know, Kensai recently moved and got married and I recently moved and have been trying to find a job. My situation led to me having difficulty finding the time to dedicate to the Newsletter/Magazine that I have in the past. Combined with Kensai's absence (and as such, our inability to post anything even if we had a completed issue), this caused the lack of our great publication for the last few months. Thankfully, the situation has been rectified and we are now preparing for our next issue. Unfortunately, this solution has come at a cost. Our fearless leader has decided to step down from his position in order to dedicate more time to his new-found family and I can't say I blame him. As such, we wish Kensai the best and hope that once his life calms down him start contributing again, even if in just a small way.
After much deliberation (alright, so maybe I'm exaggerating a little bit), the Arch Linux development team has graciously decided that they want to keep me on as editor of our official publication. As such, I am preparing for the release of our next issue! I would like to see us make a comeback to where we left off and then some. I want to see more community contributions and writers, and I want to get the Schwag report back. I want more sections and special features and I even have a few surprises in store for you all down the road a bit.
This improvement is going to be a big project and I can't do it alone. If any of you, our loyal readers, are willing to contribute please step up and say so. Leave a message here, join me in #archlinux-magazine on freenode, or send me an email at [email protected]. You don't have to have a mass media background or immense technical knowledge, I can find a way for anyone to contribute. Help us make the new Arch Linux Newsletter/Arch Linux Magazine the best one yet!

kensai wrote:Is so hard to say good bye, guys thanks for all the support you have given me all this time, without this wonderful community I would have never done all I did. I hope one day I will come back, when things get more stable, cause you know, when starting something new the start is a mess most of the time until things settle down.
Don't think of it as a "good bye", but as a "See you soon". I'll bet you'll be back once you're settled in (which may or may not happen faster than you expect). Either way, best of luck for now and the future, and don't sweat the small things, chances are time will fix most of the small messes.
and to ghost: Do you have a rough estimate of when we might be getting started on the newsletter and such?

Arch Linux skin for xmms/bmp/audacious

This is a simple skin for xmms/bmp/audacious with an Arch Linux look (based on a skin for Debian).
You can get it from here. Untar it in the Skins subdir (for audacious this is ~/.local/share/audacious/Skins/).
F

Thanks
Just paste the .tar.gz to ~/.xmms/Skins
No root-permission needed
(show hidden files!:))

Tux, Tux linux, Arch Linux, T-shirt artwork.

He he sounds really easy till you realize you need 10" by about 11" inch prints with about 600px res resulting in huge files and load times. Anyways I am on a disability and run a small Tux Linux Artwork Swag shop and here is some of the artwork. I am working on a large tux logo with small Arch Linux writing on the side but still in the planning stages.
Concept proof.
This is a post about the swag shop on this forum
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=79807
Last edited by TomWitko (2010-06-11 03:15:58)

xc1024 wrote:Can I use the grafitti logo for a wallpaper? http://witko.ca/image-shack/tux/archlin … -shirt.png
The grafitti logo wallpaper is Streetart Arch Linux from kde-look.org the owner said I could use it for t-shirts but you would have to ask him.
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Ar … ent=102620
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