[SOLVED] After Arch install, non-root wont boot into Gnome

First off I searched for around an hour but couldn't find an answer to this so somewhat gave up.
Coming from Ubuntu and very dissatisfied with performance I am very excited for Arch.
I followed the newb guide to a T, everything went smooth as butter.
after the guide was finished I installed Gnome3
pacman -S gnome gnome-shell gnome-extra
Went perfect. I try and login to the user I created while going thru the guide and instantly boot into the basic X environment?
So I thought perhaps I should try adduser after I installed Gnome3 and now when logging into that new user, the screen goes black for 2sec then
greets me with this message (still in command):
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Fri Aug 12 22:46:05 2011
(==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"
(EE) Failed to load module "vesa" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)
(II) [KMS] Kernel modesetting enabled.
(EE) Logitech Logitech Illuminated Keyboard: failed to initialize for relative axes.
(EE) Logitech G500: failed to initialize for relative axes.
xinit: connection to X server lost
Any ideas as to what's going on?
Last edited by PumpkinJack (2011-08-13 20:59:07)

Durden wrote:Did you install GDM? How are you launching X? What groups is the user in?
Thanks for the reply.
Yeah I installed GDM after gnome, everything works great for root.
im using startx to launch X
Just using the default group per newbie guide instructions which I believe is users

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[SOLVED] Advice for Arch install with rEFInd dual boot Lenovo laptop?

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Last edited by mcloaked (2014-02-22 10:06:03)

vipin wrote:I have recently bought the y510p , im planning to install Arch , this is my 4th laptop , i had installed Arch in all the other 3 with no problems, but im a bit worried with the installation as this is the first laptop which has EFI , im a linux user for the past 6 years , i started with fedora , now i like Arch , mike documentation is excellent, i just had one question when i had grub , it automatically finds the new kernel when i update (grub.conf/menu.lst gets updated), does rEFInd also do that.
When there is an update to the rEFInd package you need to copy the files across to your ESP from the files contained in /usr/share/refind/ usually you need to copy the refind_x64.efi binary as well as the icons, fonts, and drivers directories. Since there is flexibility in how you configure the kernel and initrd files in terms of where they are located whether you need to do anything else when a new kernel update arrives depends on how you set your system up. If you have the /boot directory as your ESP partition which will then have the kernel and initrd files updated by default then there no need to do anything else when there is a kernel update. If the ESP is then at /boot/EFI and within that is your refind/ directory then that is where the replacement files go if refind-efi gets a pacman update. So it is actually fairly straight forward. If you configure rEFInd to look for kernels in some other directory than /boot/ then you may need to copy the files there after a kernel update but there is more information in the arch wiki about this.
During a refind-efi package update there are helpful files in the pacman output (and log) reminding you of what you need to do. eg for the latest refind-efi update you get:
[2014-06-18 18:48] [PACMAN] upgraded radvd (1.12-1 -> 1.13-1)
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] rEFInd UEFI application has been installed at /usr/share/refind/refind_*.efi
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Other UEFI applications have been installed at /usr/share/refind/tools_*/
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] UEFI drivers have been installed at /usr/share/refind/drivers_*/
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Copy the efi application (according to your UEFI ARCH)
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] and /usr/share/refind/refind.conf-sample to a sub-directory of <EFISYS>/EFI/
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] as refind.conf and add an entry to firmware boot menu using efibootmgr
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] or mactel-boot (for Macs)
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] rEFInd Icons have been installed at /usr/share/refind/icons/
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] rEFInd Fonts have been installed at /usr/share/refind/fonts/
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] HTML Documentation is available at /usr/share/refind/docs/html/
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] More info: [url]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/UEFI_Bootloaders#Using_rEFInd[/url]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [PACMAN] upgraded refind-efi (0.8.1-1 -> 0.8.2-1)
I hope that helps.
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[solved] Cannot complete install, grub fails to boot the new install

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Last edited by Frantic (2009-11-05 18:35:15)

Rede wrote:
I was getting that error but after re-installing grub and making some changes to the menu.lst file it was fixed.
I was able to at one stage boot into arch but it gave problems with the root. Now it just seems to freeze while trying to load grub.
I am currently trying yet another install of grub. I have been noticing though that my menu.lst file has been rolling back or not updating when I chroot back into my install after changing it earlier.
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Last edited by lamdacore (2011-09-02 14:06:44)

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Decompressing Linux...Parsing ELF...done.
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:: Running Hook [resume]
ERROR: Unable to find root device '/dev/sda3'.
You are being dropped to a recovery shell
Type 'exit' to try and continue booting
sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
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I know what I need to do: either copy my files off my hard drive and reinstall, or chroot and downgrade my kernel, or chroot and reinstall udev, something like that.
Cool, so I need a liveCD. Unfortunately, my laptop lacks a CD drive (lenovo tablet). So I set out to make a USB bootable drive.
I tried it from Windows: my laptop didn't detect anything and kept kicking me back to the recovery shell. (Tried PartedMagic, Ubuntu, and Arch.)
I tried it from my school's Linux computers: Can't do *anything* without root. I tried sudo and for the first time in my life, the incident was reported and I got an email telling me not to try sudo again. Sweet.
I just tried it from my friend's Mac (the Arch x64 iso via Unetbootin): Now I get a blinking cursor when I boot from the USB.
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Last edited by tacostick (2012-02-15 23:33:13)

karol,
I can only change parameters from the grub menu, as far as I can tell, and I tried (hd0,{0,1,2,3,4}) and none of them worked. Only (hd0,0) gets me even as far as the recovery shell.
fsckd,
I'm using Unetbootin, which offers Core, Core_x64, Netinstall, and Netinstall_x64. Because I intend to chroot an x64 system, I tried core_x64.
willbprog127,
Yeah, you're right - sorry for being snarky. Thanks, please do let me know if you find that parameter.
I booted from the usb stick on one of my school's RHEL computers, and it says "no operating system detected". I'm...so...sad...why didn't unetbootin work...going to try to burn ubuntu again.

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Any help would be much appreciated.

Start off with having a look at this wiki article. If you can't resolve the issue with the info found there, it'll at least give you an idea of which info to provide in order for us to help you troubleshoot this (with the current level of detail provided your guess is as good as mine).
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[SOLVED]New Arch install, cannot run ip command to set up wireless

Hello all.
I'm new to Arch, but not to linux. I'm moving over from Ubuntu. I manually paritioned my hard drive and got an Arch dual boot with windows 7 working. Right now I'm trying to get my wireless set up, but when i run "ip link set wlan0 up" I got the error "Bash: command not found"
Using some things I found reseearching the problem, i rran "whereis ip" and got /usr/share/man/man7/ip.7.gz, so I made a symbolic link, /usr/bin/ip to this file, but now I get the error "Permission denied" when I run ip. (I am logged in as root by the way)
Apologies for the newbie question, and thank you for the help.
Last edited by okaylol (2011-07-22 01:32:28)

The only thing I can think of is that you don't have ip installed somehow.
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You'll eventually want netcfg for easier wireless setup, if you don't already have it.
That symlink you made was the wrong thing to do. You found the man page, which is not executable.
So when you try to run ip, your actually trying to run the manpage, which is why you get permission denied.
Even root can't run things that aren't programs.
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I installed Arch about a week ago, and since then, I have not had any sound output from my headphone jack in Windows. My speakers work perfectly fine. I have since reinstalled all sound drivers, and even ran a system restore to the time before I installed Arch, but nothing made a difference.
My sound is working perfectly fine in Arch.
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Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
Thanks in advance. I assume that the problem is specific to my machine's specs, since googling this issue didn't do much good.

I tested to see if shutting down the system would yeild the same results as removing the battery and it does. If I simply shut down before booting between operating systems, Windows' audio works correctly.
Still, this problem alludes me. Since I have all of gnome's packages cached in pkg, I decided to remove it completely from my system just to check if the problem is associated with gnome. However, the problem persists...unless there are other suggestions, I am going to keep gnome, and simply shut down everytime I want to switch between Arch and Windows, to assure audio functionality.

[SOLVED] Wireshark from a non root user

Hi,
Recently I've tried to install wireshark. I wanted to use it from my everyday user. However I encountered a problem during the installation
Failed to set capabilities on file `/usr/bin/dumpcap' (Operation not supported)
usage: setcap [-q] [-v] (-r|-|<caps>) <filename> [ ... (-r|-|<capsN>) <filenameN> ]
Note <filename> must be a regular (non-symlink) file.
After installation I added my user to wireshark group.
So first thing I did was checking if /usr/bin/dumpcap is not a symlink to something else but it isn't.
Then I went to the wireshark page which gave me this solution:
setcap 'CAP_NET_RAW+eip CAP_NET_ADMIN+eip' /usr/bin/dumpcap
But it gives the same error. I figured out a simple workaround. I gave dumpcap a +s bit.
But I'd like to know if it's secure or is there a better way of doing this?
Last edited by xartii (2012-09-07 11:01:47)

Oh, silly me. I forgot to compile the capabilities support for ext4 in my custom kernel. Topic may be closed.
And also if any mod feels it's in a wrong category it may be transferred.
Thanks,
xartii

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