General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. Install Arch
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[QUOTE=Moofy;38240414]I'm unsure on how to install themes......[b]GTK2 is gnome 2 or MATE right?[/b][/QUOTE]
[b]DAFUQ[/b]
Install the Equinox GTK (GIMP ToolKit, this makes your themes look fancy without any jagged shits) engine - [url]http://gnome-look.org/content/download.php?content=121881&id=1&tan=24383862[/url]
And then themes based on it - [url]http://gnome-look.org/content/download.php?content=121881&id=2&tan=18548464[/url]
Off topic, but I don't like how Valve is trying to underestimate Windows 8 with the Steam in Linux thing. I don't get why everyone must be fighting for a platform always.
Genuinely stuck as a bit of a noob here
Had a powercut earlier, and after booting in to mint from GRUB it promps me with a busybox screen and <initramfs>
wat do D:
[editline]30th October 2012[/editline]
It's definitely not the disk because it reads and performs as it always has under windows, and it still shows me all of my root files etc.
How much space should I allocate to system files of Crunchbang Linux? I would need ample room to install programs as well.
I was thinking 5gb, should that be enough?
my / on Fedora is taking up 8gb.
I don't have all that much installed either.
Maybe 10-15gb would be more comfortable than 5gb.
[QUOTE=Chezhead;38242469]How much space should I allocate to system files of Crunchbang Linux? I would need ample room to install programs as well.
I was thinking 5gb, should that be enough?[/QUOTE]
If you're very good at cleaning up packages and not installing a whole lot, 5 will be enough. I'd say give it 10, just to avoid running out of space just like that.
My sabayon root filesystem is 30GB, and I've got Cinnamon,GNOME,XFCE,Mate,awesome installed, and a shitload of strange software too. I haven't really cleaned up after myself, leaving my filesystem bloated as hell and taking up almost 30GB, so I'm probably no good reference on this :v:
[editline]30th October 2012[/editline]
Removed libvirt and unused images, and mongodb and I'm now down to 12GB. Wow.
[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;38242255]Genuinely stuck as a bit of a noob here
Had a powercut earlier, and after booting in to mint from GRUB it promps me with a busybox screen and <initramfs>
wat do D:
[editline]30th October 2012[/editline]
It's definitely not the disk because it reads and performs as it always has under windows, and it still shows me all of my root files etc.[/QUOTE]
you're in initramfs. what was the error?
[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;38242255]Genuinely stuck as a bit of a noob here
Had a powercut earlier, and after booting in to mint from GRUB it promps me with a busybox screen and <initramfs>
wat do D:
[editline]30th October 2012[/editline]
It's definitely not the disk because it reads and performs as it always has under windows, and it still shows me all of my root files etc.[/QUOTE]
The Linux filesystem is borked
[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;38242255]wat do D:[/QUOTE]
You back your shit up as fast as you can.
[QUOTE=Van-man;38246077]The Linux filesystem is borked[/QUOTE]
And you know what does it mean?
[b]fsck /dev/sda1[/b]
I'm going to switch to Linux full-time some time this year. I have no problem with most stuff in Linux.
One thing I have a problem with, though, is getting my desktop environment/window manager and all related stuff look nice. I was thinking of using openbox or dwm and go for a minimalist look. I'm not sure at all where I should start looking if I want to make stuff transparent for example.
Another issue I have is the text editors for Linux. I have used vim before, and it's not bad at all, but the thing is that it requires so much configuration and plugins for stuff. Let's say I want indentation, syntax highlighting, and maybe live recompiling for Clojure and Haskell. Where should I start looking?
Aiming for this kind of setup:
[img_thumb]http://images.4chan.org/g/src/1351599535202.png[/img_thumb]
[QUOTE=TheEyes;38245852]you're in initramfs. what was the error?[/QUOTE]
There isn't [I]any[/I] error. Just shows me that prompt, unlike any other occurrence I've seen.
[editline]30th October 2012[/editline]
Some results from HDTune
[quote]HD Tune Pro: Maxtor 6Y160P0 Health
ID Current Worst ThresholdData Status
(03) Spin Up Time 213 201 63 12986 ok
(04) Start/Stop Count 250 250 0 6129 ok
[B](05) Reallocated Sector Count 253 234 63 10 warning
[/B](06) Read Channel Margin 253 253 100 0 ok
(07) Seek Error Rate 253 252 0 0 ok
(08) Seek Time Performance 253 235 187 47074 ok
(09) Power On Hours Count 194 194 0 57585 ok
(0A) Spin Retry Count 253 252 157 0 ok
(0B) Calibration Retry Count 253 252 223 0 ok
(0C) Power Cycle Count 239 239 0 5714 ok
(C0) Unsafe Shutdown Count 253 253 0 0 ok
(C1) Load Cycle Count 253 253 0 0 ok
(C2) Temperature 253 253 0 16 ok
(C3) Hardware ECC Recovered 253 252 0 1503 ok
(C4) Reallocated Event Count 253 253 0 0 ok
[B](C5) Current Pending Sector 253 235 0 3 warning
[/B](C6) Offline Uncorrectable 251 251 0 2 ok
(C7) Ultra DMA CRC Error Count 199 199 0 0 ok
(C8) Write Error Rate 253 252 0 0 ok
(C9) Soft Read Error Rate 253 252 0 2 ok
(CA) Data Address Marker errors 253 246 0 0 ok
(CB) Run Out Cancel 253 251 180 8 ok
(CC) Soft ECC Correction 253 249 0 0 ok
(CD) Thermal Asperity Rate 253 252 0 0 ok
(CF) Spin High Current 253 252 0 0 ok
(D0) Spin Buzz 253 252 0 0 ok
(D1) Offline Seek Performance 152 149 0 0 ok
(63) (unknown attribute) 253 253 0 0 ok
(64) (unknown attribute) 253 253 0 0 ok
(65) (unknown attribute) 253 253 0 0 ok
Health Status : warning
[/quote]
D:
[editline]30th October 2012[/editline]
Guess it's time to pack up and reinstall.
Good thing I kept my /home on a separate HDD!
[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;38247607]There isn't [I]any[/I] error. Just shows me that prompt, unlike any other occurrence I've seen.
[editline]30th October 2012[/editline]
Some results from HDTune
D:
[editline]30th October 2012[/editline]
Guess it's time to pack up and reinstall.
Good thing I kept my /home on a separate HDD![/QUOTE]
In initramfs, what does ctrl+D do?
[code](initramfs) /init line 352: can't open /root/dev/console: no such file
[ 46.111532] Kernel Panic - Not Syncing: Attempted to Kill init!
[ 46.111606] Pid: 1, com: init not tainted 3.2.0-32-generic #51-Ubuntu
[ 46.111680] Call Trace:
[ 46.111.741] [<ffffffff81642197>] panic+0x91/0x1a4[/code]
[editline]30th October 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=Foxconn;38246269]And you know what does it mean?
[B]fsck /dev/sda1[/B][/QUOTE]
I completely ignored this post for some reason
fsck fixed my problem :v:
although I am still weary of this 8 year old IDE HDD.
[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;38248881][code](initramfs) /init line 352: can't open /root/dev/console: no such file
[ 46.111532] Kernel Panic - Not Syncing: Attempted to Kill init!
[ 46.111606] Pid: 1, com: init not tainted 3.2.0-32-generic #51-[B]Ubuntu[/B]
[ 46.111680] Call Trace:
[ 46.111.741] [<ffffffff81642197>] panic+0x91/0x1a4[/code]
[/QUOTE]
There's your problem
Welp, not exactly fixed.
Now it gets to the LM loading screen, but seems to stay there for a very long time. (No more busybox)
[editline]30th October 2012[/editline]
Well, at least it mounts now :v
[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;38249351]Welp, not exactly fixed.
Now it gets to the LM loading screen, but seems to stay there for a very long time. (No more busybox)
[editline]30th October 2012[/editline]
Well, at least it mounts now :v[/QUOTE]
Back up now.
Didn't need to backup, formatted the drive and installed mint again.
The drive itself is in perfect condition, and I had kept my /home encrypted on another HDD :s
[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;38250965]Didn't need to backup, formatted the drive and installed mint again.
The drive itself is in perfect condition, and I had kept my /home encrypted on another HDD :s[/QUOTE]
I feel like making a "mint condition" joke but that'd be silly
[QUOTE=esalaka;38251316]I feel like making a "mint condition" joke but that'd be silly[/QUOTE]
In Mint condition with cinnamon in original packaging
Is it just me or does flashplugin have issues with alsa devices? I use pianobar to listen to pandora, and if I start pianobar before a flashplugin video (i.e. youtube), the video has no sound. If I turn off pianobar and retry it works fine. If I start the video first, then start pianobar, pianobar gripes about surround playback being unavailable and reverts to default sound device. Is flashplugin grabbing something and freezing it? And when pianobar does this flashplugin doesn't even try to do something else? I'm not sure it's an issue, and it very well could be pianobar's problem, but it's just odd.
[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;38248881][code](initramfs) /init line 352: can't open /root/dev/console: no such file[/QUOTE]
fuck, the Gentoo stage3 tarballs have had that problem for a while, what the hell was the fix for that...?
Oh god, guys, Fish
Fish
Use this fucking shell. Better than sex and zsh COMBINED.
is grub like a way of switching between diff distros
[QUOTE=fuck50sdiners;38252725]is grub like a way of switching between diff distros[/QUOTE]
Grub is like a way to select what system you want to boot when you start your computer. That includes different Linux distros, yes.
[QUOTE=fuck50sdiners;38252725]is grub like a way of switching between diff distros[/QUOTE]
GRUB is a bootloader
so i've been wanting to learn the ways of linux and all of the various distros and terminal cmds and shit like that.
would it make sense to just install unbuntu or fedora linux alongside my windows 7, then install grub on ubuntu to switch between furtuer distros? i've got this book my old man gave me that teaches about fedora linux, but i don't hear much about that. i've been trying to self teach myself some shit before hand but it hasn't gone well.
i'm trying to create a partition but after i select shrink volume and try to press ok after i type in the amount of space i want to shrink it wont let me click it :(
[QUOTE=esalaka;38253024]GRUB is a bootloader[/QUOTE]
To quote the omniscient Arch IRC bot:
[quote]
phrik: [GrUB2] a fantastic operating system lacking only in a decent bootloader.
[/quote]
[QUOTE=Rayjingstorm;38253588]To quote the omniscient Arch IRC bot:[/QUOTE]
That is, of course, a reference to the great text editor schism (sometimes even known as a war) from which originates the statement that emacs is a good operating system that lacks a decent text editor.
(Unlike the GRUB instance, however, the emacs case can be allayed with viper or evil, or by running vi[m]? under emacs)
[editline]31st October 2012[/editline]
I wonder if there are people who seriously run emacs as their shell
Have anyone tried League Of Legends on Linux? - Sometimes i play it with my friends, so I wan't to know how good it can run!
[editline]lasd[/editline]
Also looking around for some Photoshop alternatives (or as close as it can be) for Linux, all I am hearing is GIMP but really. Is this the only option? bah.
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