General Linux Chat and Small Questions

[faillord adam]

[QUOTE=mattfinch;28642234]I've always used Ubuntu, and was going to use it for this, but figured I'd ask.

I need a fairly lightweight distro to fit these specifics;

1. It needs a web browser.
2. I'll need an RDP Client.
3. Telnet & SSH - Safe to assume that comes as standard nowadays.
4. I need to be able to remote desktop somehow to it.

I've got 800MHz of processing power, 1GB of RAM, integrated graphics and a 20GB HDD.[/QUOTE]
Xubuntu?

[butre]

[QUOTE=8BitLord;28640532]Is there anything bad about Mint4Win? It seems easier than a regular install and the only reason I would use it is because it's been a while since I installed it and I have to leave in 10 minutes so I need something quick.[/QUOTE]

mint4win is terrible never use it

[nikomo]

[QUOTE=mattfinch;28642234]I've always used Ubuntu, and was going to use it for this, but figured I'd ask.

I need a fairly lightweight distro to fit these specifics;

1. It needs a web browser.
2. I'll need an RDP Client.
3. Telnet & SSH - Safe to assume that comes as standard nowadays.
4. I need to be able to remote desktop somehow to it.

I've got 800MHz of processing power, 1GB of RAM, integrated graphics and a 20GB HDD.[/QUOTE]
Crunchbang Linux, Openbox edition.

Uses 60mb of RAM after basic install, based on Ubuntu so you still get access to those same packages.
I don't know any RDP clients, but if you try to search for RDP clients on Ubuntu, you can use that.

[Lyokanthrope]

[QUOTE=nikomo;28656719]Crunchbang Linux, Openbox edition.

Uses 60mb of RAM after basic install, based on Ubuntu so you still get access to those same packages.
I don't know any RDP clients, but if you try to search for RDP clients on Ubuntu, you can use that.[/QUOTE]
It's based on Debian now actually :v:

[Baldr]

Debian master race :frogc00l:

[nikomo]

Linux 0.07 :frogc00l:

[EEvilMuffin]

Erm.....I can't compile anything from the AUR. It's not even giving me logs. make downloads the sources, then says

error: could not configure a c compiler!

I've been googling around for about two weeks now and I'm sure it's going to be a blatantly obvious solution. I've reinstalled gcc and base-devel about 20 times and the last time this happened I installed the package g++ and all was well, but that package is nowhere to be found and the gcc website says it's now included in gcc. :saddowns:

[ipha]

Try reinstalling base and base-devel and check your /etc/makepkg.conf file for anything weird.

EDIT: What package are you trying to install? Maybe it's just a problem with that package.

EDIT2: And look for old config files: find /etc -name "*.pacnew"

[PvtCupcakes]

[QUOTE=EEvilMuffin;28662178]Erm.....I can't compile anything from the AUR. It's not even giving me logs. make downloads the sources, then says

error: could not configure a c compiler!

I've been googling around for about two weeks now and I'm sure it's going to be a blatantly obvious solution. I've reinstalled gcc and base-devel about 20 times and the last time this happened I installed the package g++ and all was well, but that package is nowhere to be found and the gcc website says it's now included in gcc. :saddowns:[/QUOTE]

Post the next couple of lines up.
It'll say something like "Checking for GCC" or something like that.

[butre]

its probably just the package, trying to get you to use CC or TCC or the like

[PvtCupcakes]

[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;28666935]its probably just the package, trying to get you to use CC or TCC or the like[/QUOTE]

On a GNU system, CC is GCC. For some reason on my system, cc isn't a symlink to gcc, but cc --version outputs the standard GCC version information.
Why I have two separate binaries, I don't know.

[weltensturm]

My taskbar doesn't let me click buttons on it when I'm an the very edge of the screen, I figure this is because the theme uses panel controls that have a little margin. I'd like to open the menu or other windows without having to look out if I'm at the edge or not, is there any way to change that? I'd like to keep the current controls.

[Lyokanthrope]

[QUOTE=PelPix123;28670854]Hooray. I got E17 to compile in natty.[/QUOTE]
It's not all that hard, just time consuming.
E17 is the shit though. I hope more distros start using it. :v:
(Get back on Steamfff)

[Pery]

Apparently, Arch doesn't like my laptop - cpufreq settings are not accessible (modprobing for powernow-k8 and acpi-cpufreq don't help)

I'm using the 2.6.38 kernel ([url=https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=79509]especially for radeon[/url]). The reason I'm using it for is that Xorg fucks up badly in the older one.

The problem is, that kernel literally rapes my battery.
I can barely do an hour of work, while the xfce4 battery meter says 2 hours.
I have an AMD Athlon x2 @ 1.8GHz (powernow-k8).

Is there a way I can get back the cpufreq settings back?

[Polyethylene]

Wine or Playonlinux???

[EEvilMuffin]

[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;28663385]Post the next couple of lines up.
It'll say something like "Checking for GCC" or something like that.[/QUOTE]

Code from memory:

checking for gcc: yes
checking for ICC: no
checking for ICL: no
checking for cc: yes
checking that C compiler works: no

[editline]18th March 2011[/editline]

[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;28666935]its probably just the package, trying to get you to use CC or TCC or the like[/QUOTE]

Happens with over 15 packages.

[editline]18th March 2011[/editline]

[QUOTE=IpHa;28662645]Try reinstalling base and base-devel and check your /etc/makepkg.conf file for anything weird.

EDIT: What package are you trying to install? Maybe it's just a problem with that package.

EDIT2: And look for old config files: find /etc -name "*.pacnew"[/QUOTE]

Checking now.....also I've reinstalled base and base-devel by -S and -Sf.

[editline]18th March 2011[/editline]

Well I'm not sure what's being weird:

#
# /etc/makepkg.conf
#

#########################################################################
# SOURCE ACQUISITION
#########################################################################
#
#-- The download utilities that makepkg should use to acquire sources
#  Format: 'protocol::agent'
DLAGENTS=('ftp::/usr/bin/wget -c --passive-ftp -t 3 --waitretry=3 -O %o %u'
          'http::/usr/bin/wget -c -t 3 --waitretry=3 -O %o %u'
          'https::/usr/bin/wget -c -t 3 --waitretry=3 --no-check-certificate -O %o %u'
          'rsync::/usr/bin/rsync -z %u %o'
          'scp::/usr/bin/scp -C %u %o')

# Other common tools:
# /usr/bin/snarf
# /usr/bin/lftpget -c
# /usr/bin/curl

#########################################################################
# ARCHITECTURE, COMPILE FLAGS
#########################################################################
#
CARCH="i686"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"

#-- Exclusive: will only run on i686
# -march (or -mcpu) builds exclusively for an architecture
# -mtune optimizes for an architecture, but builds for whole processor family
CFLAGS="-march=i686 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="-march=i686 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,--hash-style=gnu -Wl,--as-needed"
#-- Make Flags: change this for DistCC/SMP systems
#MAKEFLAGS="-j2"

#########################################################################
# BUILD ENVIRONMENT
#########################################################################
#
# Defaults: BUILDENV=(fakeroot !distcc color !ccache)
#  A negated environment option will do the opposite of the comments below.
#
#-- fakeroot: Allow building packages as a non-root user
#-- distcc:   Use the Distributed C/C++/ObjC compiler
#-- color:    Colorize output messages
#-- ccache:   Use ccache to cache compilation
#
BUILDENV=(fakeroot !distcc color !ccache)
#
#-- If using DistCC, your MAKEFLAGS will also need modification. In addition,
#-- specify a space-delimited list of hosts running in the DistCC cluster.
#DISTCC_HOSTS=""

#########################################################################
# GLOBAL PACKAGE OPTIONS
#   These are default values for the options=() settings
#########################################################################
#
# Default: OPTIONS=(strip docs libtool emptydirs zipman purge)
#  A negated option will do the opposite of the comments below.
#
#-- strip:     Strip symbols from binaries/libraries in STRIP_DIRS
#-- docs:      Save doc directories specified by DOC_DIRS
#-- libtool:   Leave libtool (.la) files in packages
#-- emptydirs: Leave empty directories in packages
#-- zipman:    Compress manual (man and info) pages in MAN_DIRS with gzip
#-- purge:     Remove files specified by PURGE_TARGETS
#
OPTIONS=(strip docs libtool emptydirs zipman purge)

#-- File integrity checks to use. Valid: md5, sha1, sha256, sha384, sha512
INTEGRITY_CHECK=(md5)
#-- Options to be used when stripping binaries. See `man strip' for details.
STRIP_BINARIES="--strip-all"
#-- Options to be used when stripping shared libraries. See `man strip' for details.
STRIP_SHARED="--strip-unneeded"
#-- Options to be used when stripping static libraries. See `man strip' for details.
STRIP_STATIC="--strip-debug"
#-- Manual (man and info) directories to compress (if zipman is specified)
MAN_DIRS=({usr{,/local}{,/share},opt/*}/{man,info})
#-- Doc directories to remove (if !docs is specified)
DOC_DIRS=(usr/{,local/}{,share/}{doc,gtk-doc} opt/*/{doc,gtk-doc})
#-- Directories to be searched for the strip option (if strip is specified)
STRIP_DIRS=(bin lib sbin usr/{bin,lib,lib32,sbin,local/{bin,lib,sbin}} opt/*/{bin,lib,sbin})
#-- Files to be removed from all packages (if purge is specified)
PURGE_TARGETS=(usr/{,share}/info/dir .packlist *.pod)

#########################################################################
# PACKAGE OUTPUT
#########################################################################
#
# Default: put built package and cached source in build directory
#
#-- Destination: specify a fixed directory where all packages will be placed
#PKGDEST=/home/packages
#-- Source cache: specify a fixed directory where source files will be cached
#SRCDEST=/home/sources
#-- Source packages: specify a fixed directory where all src packages will be placed
#SRCPKGDEST=/home/srcpackages
#-- Packager: name/email of the person or organization building packages
#PACKAGER="John Doe <[e-mail]>"

#########################################################################
# EXTENSION DEFAULTS
#########################################################################
#
# WARNING: Do NOT modify these variables unless you know what you are
#          doing.
#
PKGEXT='.pkg.tar.xz'
SRCEXT='.src.tar.gz'

# vim: set ft=sh ts=2 sw=2 et:

[editline]18th March 2011[/editline]

And there is a locale.gen.pacnew file present.

[ipha]

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
	printf("Hello World!");
}

Put that in a file test.c and run

gcc test.c
./a.out

[Blade]

What bittorrent program is best for running on a server for seeding?

[CammieDee666]

[QUOTE=high;28676463]What bittorrent program is best for running on a server for seeding?[/QUOTE]

not sure if there's a better alternative but I use TorrentFlux

[EEvilMuffin]

[QUOTE=IpHa;28675113]

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
	printf("Hello World!");
}

Put that in a file test.c and run

gcc test.c
./a.out

[/QUOTE]

Already tried that and it works fine.

[bye]

[QUOTE=high;28676463]What bittorrent program is best for running on a server for seeding?[/QUOTE]

are you talking about a tracker?
or just seeding

[butre]

[QUOTE=high;28676463]What bittorrent program is best for running on a server for seeding?[/QUOTE]

rtorrent

[editline]19th March 2011[/editline]

[QUOTE=Roo-kie;28680082]are you talking about a tracker?
or just seeding[/QUOTE]

I think he's using a seedbox

[Blade]

Trying flux but it refuses to seed. I created a torrent and it seeds it for about 20 seconds and then stops. It is locating the files as I start to download from it.

[img]http://i52.tinypic.com/2dw4zgl.png[/img]

Is there a log with the reason it stops?

[ipha]

I've been having trouble with the wireless interface on my router(dd-wrt) dying every few days and I found these errors, about one per second, in the log when it happens:

Mar 18 23:08:53 DD-WRT user.warn kernel: [153069.590000] Resetting; Code: 01 
Mar 18 23:08:54 DD-WRT user.warn kernel: [153070.460000] Resetting; Code: 01 
Mar 18 23:08:55 DD-WRT user.warn kernel: [153071.320000] Resetting; Code: 01 
Mar 18 23:08:56 DD-WRT user.warn kernel: [153072.190000] Resetting; Code: 01 
Mar 18 23:08:57 DD-WRT user.warn kernel: [153073.060000] Resetting; Code: 01 
Mar 18 23:08:57 DD-WRT user.warn kernel: [153073.940000] Resetting; Code: 01 
Mar 18 23:08:58 DD-WRT user.warn kernel: [153074.810000] Resetting; Code: 01 
Mar 18 23:08:59 DD-WRT user.warn kernel: [153075.680000] Resetting; Code: 01 
Mar 18 23:09:00 DD-WRT user.warn kernel: [153076.550000] Resetting; Code: 01 
Mar 18 23:09:01 DD-WRT user.warn kernel: [153077.420000] Resetting; Code: 01 
Mar 18 23:09:02 DD-WRT user.warn kernel: [153078.300000] Resetting; Code: 01 
Mar 18 23:09:03 DD-WRT user.warn kernel: [153079.170000] Resetting; Code: 01 
Mar 18 23:09:04 DD-WRT user.warn kernel: [153080.040000] Resetting; Code: 01 
Mar 18 23:09:04 DD-WRT user.warn kernel: [153080.910000] Resetting; Code: 01 
Mar 18 23:09:05 DD-WRT user.warn kernel: [153081.780000] Resetting; Code: 01

What I'm thinking is that I can write a script that will run every X minutes, and check the log for more than 10 errors/ minute then restart the interface.

The cron job and restarting are the easy parts, but how would I count the number of errors per minute?

[faillord adam]

[QUOTE=Miskatonic;28673529]Wine or Playonlinux???[/QUOTE]
Wine.

[JumpingHungarian]

I have this strange "dead zone" whenever i'm playing Minecraft. I checked it with runescape (because it's the only other java game I can think of) and it happens there as well. I don't know how to explain it. It's this smallish rectangle towards the center of the screen that, whenever my mouse enters it, I can't click or do anything in the game, but if I move the mouse out, it's fine.
I can provide a picture if I have to, but does this sound familiar to anyone?

[Boris-B]

Are you running OpenJDK or Oracle's JDK? (well sun's)

[JumpingHungarian]

I'm pretty sure it's sun's. Got it from their site at least.

[snuwoods]

I use openjdk and it seems to work fine with minecraft.

[JumpingHungarian]

Everything seemed alright until recently, and the "dead zone" is only in a really small area. It's more of a nuisance than anything severe, although sometimes I can't place blocks in my inventory.