General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. I broke my Arch Install - Hardware & Software

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/9wL7QJo.png[/IMG] [h2]Welcome to the GNU/Linux thread, where you can talk about Linux and other Linux related stuff.[/h2] [B]What is Linux?[/B] Linux is an operating system, a large piece of software that manages a computer. It is similar to Microsoft Windows, but it is entirely free. The accurate name is GNU/Linux but "Linux" is used more often. Linux is not one company's product, but a number of companies and groups of people contribute to it. In fact, the GNU/Linux system is a core component, which is branched off into many different products. They are called distributions. Distributions change the appearance and function of Linux completely. They range from large, fully supported complete systems (endorsed by companies) to lightweight ones that fit on a USB memory stick or run on old computers (often developed by volunteers). A prominent, complete and friendly distribution to step into GNU/Linux is Ubuntu. [B]How do I get Linux?[/B] You can download a Linux distribution from the list below. Simply download the .ISO file, and burn it to a CD/USB Stick. To install the Linux live medium onto an USB stick, you can use the following Program:[URL="http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/"]Link[/URL] After you have installed the medium onto the USB Stick, you reboot your computer, and boot off the USB Stick. The rest is self explanatory. [B]Distributions:[/B] there are many flavors of Linux to choose from. Below are some of the most popular ones. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/DhSHFHS.png[/IMG][B]Ubuntu[/B] Ubuntu is the most well known Linux distribution, and the entry point of most people who like to check out linux. Ubuntu is a Debian based linux distribution, but aims to provide more recent packages and Updates than Debian. Website: [URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/"]Link[/URL] Download: [URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop"]Link[/URL] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Lbvlk37.png[/IMG][B]Linux Mint[/B] Linux Mint is an Ubuntu-based distribution whose goal is to provide a more complete out-of-the-box experience by including media codecs, java, flash and other stuff, to make the overall user expierience better. Website: [URL="http://www.linuxmint.com/"]Link[/URL] Download: [URL="http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php"]Link[/URL] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/wBmGEwP.png[/IMG][B]Debian[/B] Debian is the mother of many Linux distributions, like Ubuntu. Debian can be considered as Rock Stable, but doesn't provide as Up-to date Packages as other Linux distributions-. Website: [URL="http://www.debian.org/"]Link[/URL] Download: [URL="http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst"]Link[/URL] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/7IUBETJ.png[/IMG][B]Fedora[/B] Fedora is the Opensource version of the enterprise Linux distribution Red Hat. Fedora can be considered a Bleeding edge Distribution, and is shipping with the Gnome Shell by default. Website: [URL="http://fedoraproject.org/"]Link[/URL] Download: [URL="http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora"]Link[/URL] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/QlyV4qS.png[/IMG] [B]Archlinux[/B] Either love it or hate it. Archlinux is a Bleeding edge rolling release distro, which means, shit will break. Website: [URL="https://www.archlinux.org/"]Link[/URL] Download: [URL="https://www.archlinux.org/download/"]Link[/URL] Wiki: [URL="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Main_Page"]Link[/URL] Installation guide: [URL="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_Guide"]Link[/URL] Beginner Guide: [URL="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners'_Guide"]Linux[/URL] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/5HybG3S.png[/IMG][B]Gentoo[/B] Gentoo Linux is a versatile and fast, completely free Linux distribution geared towards developers and network professionals. Unlike other distros, Gentoo Linux has an advanced package management system called Portage, which compiles and installs packages from source. Website: [URL="http://www.gentoo.org/"]Link[/URL] Download: [URL="http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/where.xml"]Link[/URL] Wiki: [URL="http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Main_Page"]Link[/URL] Installation guide: [URL="http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-quickinstall.xml"]Link[/URL] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/qhBMofe.png[/IMG][B]CentOS[/B] CentOS is an enterprise-class Linux Distribution based off the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Distribution and mainly used for servers. CentOS doesen't provide up-to-date packages, but its packages are considered Rock-Solid. Website: [URL="http://centos.org/"]Link[/URL] Download: [URL="http://centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=15"]Link[/URL] Wiki: [URL="http://wiki.centos.org/"]Link[/URL] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Dgcb5D8.png[/IMG][B]openSUSE[/B] openSUSE Linux is the open source version of the SUSE Linux enterprise edition. One of its famous features is the YaST Control Center, a tool to manage and administrate the whole OS, and is the main package manager on openSUSE. Website: [URL="http://www.opensuse.org/en/"]Link[/URL] Download: [URL="http://software.opensuse.org/123/en"]Link[/URL] Wiki: [URL="http://en.opensuse.org/Main_Page"]Link[/URL] [b]Other useful Links and Resources:[/b] [b]Distrowatch:[/b] [URL="http://distrowatch.com/"]Link[/URL] Provides News about new releases of Linux/*BSD/*NIX distros. [b]Gnome-Looks:[/b] [URL="http://gnome-look.org/"]Link[/URL] Provides Themes/Resources for Gnome/GTK based environments. [b]KDE-Looks:[/b] [URL="http://kde-look.org/"]Link[/URL] Provides Themes/Resources for KDE based environments. [b]Archlinux Wiki[/b] [URL="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Main_Page"]Link[/URL] The Arch wiki contains many informations about many programs for Linux. If you ever have a problem creating configfiles/troubleshooting a program, you should check out the Archwiki first. [b]4bit Terminal Designer[/b] [URL="http://ciembor.github.com/4bit/"]Link[/URL] Very useful tool to generate a color-theme for your terminal. [b]GNU/Linux Distro chart[/b] [URL=http://futurist.se/gldt/wp-content/uploads/12.10/gldt1210.svg]Link[/URL] A chart about the many GNU/Linux Distributions

Retoast: [QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;41655]http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/u...al-nvidia.html Also, Lubuntu is (IMO) superior to Xubuntu. Same concept, but done better and supported officially by Canonical.[/QUOTE] I'm liking Lubuntu so far, however I think the source of my problem is the fact my laptop uses switchable graphics, as I have seen some people with similiar setups reporting the same issue, I can now install the driver it just now says: You do not appear to be using the NVIDIA X driver. Please edit your X configuration file (just run 'nvidia-xconfig' as root), and restart the X server. After doing this I am now stuck in 640 x 480 mode, I'll keep searching for a result as I'm not going to give up yet. Hopefully once I get this gpu related issue out of the way I can start using my laptop primarily in linux.

[QUOTE=Sgt Pringles;39736091]Retoast: I'm liking Lubuntu so far, however I think the source of my problem is the fact my laptop uses switchable graphics, as I have seen some people with similiar setups reporting the same issue, I can now install the driver it just now says: You do not appear to be using the NVIDIA X driver. Please edit your X configuration file (just run 'nvidia-xconfig' as root), and restart the X server. After doing this I am now stuck in 640 x 480 mode, I'll keep searching for a result as I'm not going to give up yet. Hopefully once I get this gpu related issue out of the way I can start using my laptop primarily in linux.[/QUOTE] Run the following command in a terminal: "sudo nvidia-xconfig" it should replace the xorg config file, which stores informations like the current video driver and monitor resolutions, and then reboot.

Damn why is the gentoo website so ugly.

[QUOTE=alien_guy;39736976]Damn why is the gentoo website so ugly.[/QUOTE] Eh, it works.

[QUOTE=kaukassus;39736650]Run the following command in a terminal: "sudo nvidia-xconfig" it should replace the xorg config file, which stores informations like the current video driver and monitor resolutions, and then reboot.[/QUOTE] I tried it to no avail, I've found some documentation on bumblebee which is the fix for dual gpu laptops (intel intergrated/nvidia 540m) so I am just going to run a quick reinstall of lubuntu, start off clean and see where I end up (17th times a charm eh?)

More testing for my router problem: Only packets larger than 1468 bytes sent from LAN -> Wireless are dropped. Smaller packets are accepted and larger packets sent elsewhere are accepted. WUT.

[QUOTE=IpHa;39739313]More testing for my router problem: Only packets larger than 1468 bytes sent from LAN -> Wireless are dropped. Smaller packets are accepted and larger packets sent elsewhere are accepted. WUT.[/QUOTE] What is the MTU on both those interfaces? Any other special configurations on the router?

[QUOTE=HarryHy;39741511]What is the MTU on both those interfaces? Any other special configurations on the router?[/QUOTE] 1500 on everything and all settings default. It works under dd-wrt, so I'm guessing it's a bug somewhere in openwrt. [editline]27th February 2013[/editline] And I've tried it with 3 different wireless drivers(wl, b43, and brcmsmac) and it behaves the same on all of them. [editline]27th February 2013[/editline] Has to be a problem with the lan/wlan bridge [code]br-lan Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:26:F2:BB:7D:8E inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:27993 errors:0 [b]dropped:29[/b] overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:35120 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:5450216 (5.1 MiB) TX bytes:32409623 (30.9 MiB)[/code] [editline]27th February 2013[/editline] Is there any way I can turn on extra logging for a bridge?

Not to self: Don't drink and firmware. Good thing I have a usb serial cable and soldering iron.

Got a Lenovo X1 since my System76 Starling died [t]http://filesmelt.com/dl/2013-02-28-000534_1600x900_scrot.png[/t] I've been trying to figure out how to make a PKGBUILD that replaces my wicd icons. All of the AUR packages for wicd icons don't work (they complain about the icons already existing) and I think they've all copied each other's broken PKBGUILDS, so no help there. The wiki seems really scant on info as well.

You would have to make a new icon theme to replace icons.

Hmm... I think my drunken soldering fried something usb related.AUTO MERGE: Why won't you merge?

The productive webserver which I took over at work, just got its harddrive filled. FUCK Its a VM with a total volume of 2GB. a fucking 2GB linux server, which includes OS, database, and the whole fucking website. and it just reached its limit. shut it down, to resize the VHD, and now i'm here, waiting for it to be finished. FUCK IM SCARED. if this fucks up, I'm dead. [editline]28th February 2013[/editline] Its a really fucking important server, which is currently down. every minute of downtime hurts my heart.

It's probably not smart on a VM, but I would have set up the VM with LVM when making it, and then just add a second virtual disk and then vgextend. I'm fairly sure that's some massive drawbacks when doing that, but hell, it's easy.

I didn't make the server. I'm just the one who took it over, and now I'm responsible for this mess. [editline]28th February 2013[/editline] Hell it was dumb from the guy to allocate 2GB for THE WHOLE FUCKING SERVER!

[QUOTE=kaukassus;39747451]if this fucks up, I'm dead. [editline]28th February 2013[/editline] Its a really fucking important server, which is currently down.[/QUOTE] If it was a really important server, then why wasn't it backed up? Whoever you took it over from is an idiot. Also, after you resize the hard disk image, there's a good chance you'll have to resize the partition on the hard disk unless virtualbox performs magic.

I am having a tiny bit of a problem, ever since I updated from Xubuntu 12.04 to 12.10, the bootsplash simply does not show up. I am trying to create my own plymouth theme, but running plymouthd and plymouth --show-splash won't even let me preview the bootsplash like it should. What should I do to make it work again?

[QUOTE=gparent;39747916]If it was a really important server, then why wasn't it backed up? Whoever you took it over from is an idiot. Also, after you resize the hard disk image, there's a good chance you'll have to resize the partition on the hard disk unless virtualbox performs magic.[/QUOTE] The only thing that got backed up before I took it over, were the database files. because the server only had about 40mb hdd space left, I couldn't really perform a good backup solution, and I was too scared of shutting it down, because of the downtime and because the server is being used almost always. I managed to fix most problems. powered it off. merged snapshots. resized vmdk (ESXi Server) created new partition (for /var) migrated /var into new partition. edited fstab and corrected some permission errors. and now it works like a charm, except for postfix not sending any mails. but I'll do that tomorrow. [editline]28th February 2013[/editline] Also, I'm an idiot for not preserving file permissions when migrating /var into the new partition. [editline]28th February 2013[/editline] Question: are the ubuntu kernels that are listed here compatible with linuxmint? [url]http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/[/url] because I installed one, but then my installation almost crapped itself.

[QUOTE=IpHa;39744744]You would have to make a new icon theme to replace icons.[/QUOTE] I made my own icons and have just been overwriting the wicd ones with them. But I need to recopy them every time wicd updates. I was hoping making a package out of them and installing it would help.

Success! Fixed postfix, and now my Server is now fully running again. That was a close one.

LOL I'm running x11vnc on my PC and I used my phone to connect to it I've now got a Intel i3 dual-core 3.2 GHz LG Optimus Net phone :v: Holy crap I love this

I got fed up with ubuntu. What OS should I really test out?

[QUOTE=digigamer17;39760072]I got fed up with ubuntu. What OS should I really test out?[/QUOTE] Check out Fedora or Linux mint. The only downside of fedora IMO is the package manager.

[QUOTE=kaukassus;39760083]Check out Fedora or Linux mint. The only downside of fedora IMO is the package manager.[/QUOTE] Fedora is advanced distro more for "do it yourself" people. Id go with Mint.

[QUOTE=kaukassus;39758233]Success! Fixed postfix, and now my Server is now fully running again. That was a close one.[/QUOTE] Please tell me you made a full backup already.

[QUOTE=gparent;39761340]Please tell me you made a full backup already.[/QUOTE] i did. While the VM was offline, I did copy everything onto 2 external Harddisks. Also, there is now a system in place, which will backup HTTP files, databases, every important configuration file, and logs. [editline]1st March 2013[/editline] Now there is atleast a backup of a working version of my serve with a resized VHD.

I was wondering how to get the browser PDF viewer working? Accesing my bank online and it says I need Adobe Reader via the browser but that is not n option, neither is there a download so I can upload it via a client. Xubuntu 11.10 - What do I install?

What browser are you using?

[QUOTE=Moofy;39770170]I was wondering how to get the browser PDF viewer working? Accesing my bank online and it says I need Adobe Reader via the browser but that is not n option, neither is there a download so I can upload it via a client. Xubuntu 11.10 - What do I install?[/QUOTE] Firefox 19. It has integrated PDF functionality