General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. I broke my Arch Install

[shodan]

[vid]http://nnmm.eu/distro.webm[/vid]

My distro (WIP). I still need to clean up the init scripts and pick a different remote desktop client because remmina is unstable as fuck.
Pretty much everything else works.

It's a Raspberry Pi thin client distro.

[editline]16th February 2014[/editline]

Also it runs a billion times faster on an actual raspberry pi

[tsar]

I finally got my new computer set up, and I want to install a 1 TB linux partition on my 3TB hard drive. Unfortunately, windows is preventing me from creating any partition that extends out of the 2TB mark. Is there any way to get around this, or is it too risky to create a TB partition after the windows 2 TB partition?

[Liam]

[QUOTE=Phycosymo;43936269]I finally got my new computer set up, and I want to install a 1 TB linux partition on my 3TB hard drive. Unfortunately, windows is preventing me from creating any partition that extends out of the 2TB mark. Is there any way to get around this, or is it too risky to create a TB partition after the windows 2 TB partition?[/QUOTE]

What do you mean by preventing? If the windows partition maker thingo is just being bitchy I guess you could try booting a live cd of some distro and using gparted instead.

[tsar]

[QUOTE=Little Donny;43936827]What do you mean by preventing? If the windows partition maker thingo is just being bitchy I guess you could try booting a live cd of some distro and using gparted instead.[/QUOTE]

When I tried to install Crunchbang it gave me an error message about how the ms-dos partition table apparently does not allow anything (partition size, partition start/end, etc) to go past the 2TB mark. I'd switch over to GPK but I'm worried about losing data on my windows partition.

[nikomo]

[QUOTE=kaukassus;43934791]I like tiling WM's, because they make the most use of your screen space.[/QUOTE]

It also doesn't make my low-end laptop to start eating shit, hard.
GNOME and KDE are unusable. The closed-source drivers could maybe help, but I'm not fucking touching those, and I'm liking i3.

[danharibo]

[QUOTE=nikomo;43938561]It also doesn't make my low-end laptop to start eating shit, hard.
GNOME and KDE are unusable. The closed-source drivers could maybe help, but I'm not fucking touching those, and I'm liking i3.[/QUOTE]

How low-end are you talking?

[hexpunK]

[QUOTE=nikomo;43938561]It also doesn't make my low-end laptop to start eating shit, hard.
GNOME and KDE are unusable. The closed-source drivers could maybe help, but I'm not fucking touching those, and I'm liking i3.[/QUOTE]

They do seem pretty useful for things like low-power devices to be honest. Just never particularly liked how most of them seem to look :v: They really don't seem the most configurable of things. And hell, if I have the computing power to run a floating WM nicely, might as well.

[vlad]

been trying to get SteamCMD to work on my VPS but for some reason it doesn't want to work. first issue was that I couldn't use the steamCMD, but after some investigating it was because I was missing 32 bits libraries or something. tried to install lib32gcc1 as the documentation for SteamCMD told me to, yet it refuses to install.

root@diglett:/home/zomboid# apt-get install lib32gcc1
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 lib32gcc1 : Depends: gcc-4.7-base (= 4.7.2-5) but it is not going to be installed
             Depends: libc6-i386 (>= 2.11) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

anyone has a clue whats up?

[nikomo]

[QUOTE=danharibo;43938613]How low-end are you talking?[/QUOTE]

AMD E450 (1.65GHz dual-core, no L3 cache, HD6320 with 80 shader cores), and 4GB of RAM, can't remember the specs for the ram, it's the stuff that came with the laptop.

[danharibo]

[QUOTE=nikomo;43939071]AMD E450 (1.65GHz dual-core, no L3 cache, HD6320 with 80 shader cores), and 4GB of RAM, can't remember the specs for the ram, it's the stuff that came with the laptop.[/QUOTE]

That certainly seems like something that would run noticeably better with a lighter environment.

I'm annoyed that kwin lost it's tiling mode, it's a pain to manually organize windows.

[stringy]

[QUOTE=PredGD;43938978]been trying to get SteamCMD to work on my VPS but for some reason it doesn't want to work. first issue was that I couldn't use the steamCMD, but after some investigating it was because I was missing 32 bits libraries or something. tried to install lib32gcc1 as the documentation for SteamCMD told me to, yet it refuses to install.

root@diglett:/home/zomboid# apt-get install lib32gcc1
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 lib32gcc1 : Depends: gcc-4.7-base (= 4.7.2-5) but it is not going to be installed
             Depends: libc6-i386 (>= 2.11) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

anyone has a clue whats up?[/QUOTE]

From what I can gather online, apt-get is confused about how to resolve the dependencies (namely gcc-4.7-base and libc6-i386).

Here's a run down of some things you can try to troubleshoot:

Try `apt-get update` before the install; any change in output?
Try to install the dependencies first (`apt-get install gcc-4.7-base` and `apt-get install libc6-i386`); if it works try to install again; if it doesn't you might get more detailed error messages about why the dependencies wont be intalled.
Try using aptitude (`apt-get install aptitude`, `aptitude install lib32gcc1`).

I've had very little luck with dpkg based installers; godspeed.

[nikomo]

Faster Than Light kept crashing X11 on starting.
Just found the problem: the game ships with a copy of libstdc++ that somehow magically breaks the game, when I deleted it, and the game loaded the library installed on my system instead of the one it ships with, it works fine.

[Stonecycle]

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;43935263]

It's a Raspberry Pi thin client distro.[/QUOTE]

Sold. I was thinking of buying an RΠ as a thin client (probably to remote desktop over LAN for running a personal game) just the other day. Do keep us updated on details.

Speaking of the devil, I probably asked this here before, but what's a good distro (or things to get) for a low-end server? Talking Pentium 4 w/ 1GB of RAM kind of server. I heard Ubuntu Server may be a good choice, but Ubuntu now with a PC like that makes me iffy. Trisquel?

[vlad]

trying apt-get update doesn't change anything.

trying to install libc6-i386 gives me this

root@diglett:/home/zomboid# apt-get install libc6-i386
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libc6-i386 : Depends: libc6 (= 2.13-38+deb7u1) but 2.17-97 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

and trying to install gcc-4.7-base gives me this

root@diglett:/home/zomboid# apt-get install gcc-4.7-base
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 apache2-mpm-prefork : Depends: apache2.2-bin (= 2.2.22-13+deb7u1) but it is not going to be installed
 apache2.2-common : Depends: apache2.2-bin (= 2.2.22-13+deb7u1) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: apache2-utils but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: procps
                    Depends: perl but it is not going to be installed
                    Recommends: ssl-cert but it is not going to be installed
 libbz2-1.0 : PreDepends: multiarch-support
 libc6 : Depends: libgcc1 but it is not going to be installed
 libcomerr2 : PreDepends: multiarch-support
 libdb5.1 : PreDepends: multiarch-support
 libgssapi-krb5-2 : Depends: libkeyutils1 but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libkrb5support0 (>= 1.7dfsg~beta2) but it is not going to be installed
                    PreDepends: multiarch-support
 libk5crypto3 : Depends: libkeyutils1 but it is not going to be installed
                Depends: libkrb5support0 (>= 1.7dfsg~beta2) but it is not going to be installed
                PreDepends: multiarch-support
 libkrb5-3 : Depends: libkeyutils1 but it is not going to be installed
             Depends: libkrb5support0 (= 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u1) but it is not going to be installed
             PreDepends: multiarch-support
 libmagic1 : PreDepends: multiarch-support
 libpcre3 : PreDepends: multiarch-support
 libssl1.0.0 : Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) but it is not going to be installed or
                        debconf-2.0
               PreDepends: multiarch-support
 libxml2 : Depends: liblzma5 (>= 5.1.1alpha+20120614) but it is not going to be installed
           PreDepends: multiarch-support
           Recommends: xml-core but it is not going to be installed
 php5-common : Depends: sed (>= 4.1.1-1) but it is not going to be installed
               Depends: psmisc (>= 22.15-1~) but it is not going to be installed
               PreDepends: dpkg (>= 1.15.7.2~)
 tzdata : Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) but it is not going to be installed or
                   debconf-2.0
 ucf : Depends: debconf (>= 1.5.19) but it is not going to be installed
       Depends: coreutils (>= 5.91)
 zlib1g : PreDepends: multiarch-support
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

using aptitude isn't helping either sadly. it gives me the solution to not install anything, and the next solution wants me to downgrade a bunch of stuff which returns me with a broken package somewhere, and it will still refuse to install lib64gcc1

[Liam]

[QUOTE=PredGD;43939212]
using aptitude isn't helping either sadly. it gives me the solution to not install anything, and the next solution wants me to downgrade a bunch of stuff which returns me with a broken package somewhere, and it will still refuse to install lib64gcc1[/QUOTE]

That's a bummer. I had to install the 32 bit versions of a bunch of packages on my centOS vps to get srcds working as well but luckily it worked out fine. Why can't Valve just get with the times and use the 64 bit versions of these packages?

[stringy]

[QUOTE=PredGD;43939212]trying apt-get update doesn't change anything.

trying to install libc6-i386 gives me this

root@diglett:/home/zomboid# apt-get install libc6-i386
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libc6-i386 : Depends: libc6 (= 2.13-38+deb7u1) but 2.17-97 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

and trying to install gcc-4.7-base gives me this

root@diglett:/home/zomboid# apt-get install gcc-4.7-base
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 apache2-mpm-prefork : Depends: apache2.2-bin (= 2.2.22-13+deb7u1) but it is not going to be installed
 apache2.2-common : Depends: apache2.2-bin (= 2.2.22-13+deb7u1) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: apache2-utils but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: procps
                    Depends: perl but it is not going to be installed
                    Recommends: ssl-cert but it is not going to be installed
 libbz2-1.0 : PreDepends: multiarch-support
 libc6 : Depends: libgcc1 but it is not going to be installed
 libcomerr2 : PreDepends: multiarch-support
 libdb5.1 : PreDepends: multiarch-support
 libgssapi-krb5-2 : Depends: libkeyutils1 but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libkrb5support0 (>= 1.7dfsg~beta2) but it is not going to be installed
                    PreDepends: multiarch-support
 libk5crypto3 : Depends: libkeyutils1 but it is not going to be installed
                Depends: libkrb5support0 (>= 1.7dfsg~beta2) but it is not going to be installed
                PreDepends: multiarch-support
 libkrb5-3 : Depends: libkeyutils1 but it is not going to be installed
             Depends: libkrb5support0 (= 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u1) but it is not going to be installed
             PreDepends: multiarch-support
 libmagic1 : PreDepends: multiarch-support
 libpcre3 : PreDepends: multiarch-support
 libssl1.0.0 : Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) but it is not going to be installed or
                        debconf-2.0
               PreDepends: multiarch-support
 libxml2 : Depends: liblzma5 (>= 5.1.1alpha+20120614) but it is not going to be installed
           PreDepends: multiarch-support
           Recommends: xml-core but it is not going to be installed
 php5-common : Depends: sed (>= 4.1.1-1) but it is not going to be installed
               Depends: psmisc (>= 22.15-1~) but it is not going to be installed
               PreDepends: dpkg (>= 1.15.7.2~)
 tzdata : Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) but it is not going to be installed or
                   debconf-2.0
 ucf : Depends: debconf (>= 1.5.19) but it is not going to be installed
       Depends: coreutils (>= 5.91)
 zlib1g : PreDepends: multiarch-support
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

using aptitude isn't helping either sadly. it gives me the solution to not install anything, and the next solution wants me to downgrade a bunch of stuff which returns me with a broken package somewhere, and it will still refuse to install lib64gcc1[/QUOTE]

Have you installed `ia32-libs`? It includes a bunch of 32bit compatibility libraries for 64bit installations, including `libc6-i386` and `lib32gcc1`.

[vlad]

yeah, tried earlier to no avail

root@diglett:/home/zomboid# apt-get install ia32-libs
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 ia32-libs : Depends: ia32-libs-i386
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

[nikomo]

I'm guessing that's Ubuntu, since multiarch isn't retarded on Debian, but is on Ubuntu.

[stringy]

[QUOTE=PredGD;43939558]yeah, tried earlier to no avail

root@diglett:/home/zomboid# apt-get install ia32-libs
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 ia32-libs : Depends: ia32-libs-i386
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

[/QUOTE]

I'm confused as to the reasoning for this, but [url=https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MultiArch]the ubuntu page on MultiArch[/url] indicates that "Starting with 12.04 (precise pangolin) this is a transitional package to the ia32-libs-multiarch package which depends on numerous Multi-arch versions of libraries that used to be in ia32-libs." So you might try installing `ia32-libs-multilib`?

I'm still confused as to why this must be so complicated.

[vlad]

just tried installing ia32-libs-multilib, but couldn't locate the package. VPS is running Debian 7 by the way

[Anderen2]

[QUOTE=nikomo;43939569]I'm guessing that's Ubuntu, since multiarch isn't retarded on Debian, but is on Ubuntu.[/QUOTE]

I've never had any problems with multiarch on Ubuntu until the latest edition (13.10), due to the removal of the ia32 packages. Seems like PredGD is using an older version, the LTS or some other Debian-based distro though.

[QUOTE=PredGD;43939558]yeah, tried earlier to no avail

root@diglett:/home/zomboid# apt-get install ia32-libs
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 ia32-libs : Depends: ia32-libs-i386
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

[/QUOTE]

Can you install anything at all with apt? It says you held broken packages, which means some of your dependancies are wrong due to an unsuccessful previous installation. What do you get if you try:

sudo apt-get install -f
sudo dpkg --configure -a

Also, whats the output for "dpkg --get-selections | grep hold" ?

[vlad]

output of apt-get install -f

root@diglett:/home/zomboid# apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

and dpkg --configure -a doesn't return any output.

[Anderen2]

[QUOTE=PredGD;43939732]output of apt-get install -f

root@diglett:/home/zomboid# apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

and dpkg --configure -a doesn't return any output.[/QUOTE]

What do you get if you try: dpkg --get-selections | grep hold

[vlad]

[QUOTE=Anderen2;43939746]What do you get if you try: dpkg --get-selections | grep hold[/QUOTE]

no output sadly.

[Anderen2]

You did this before trying to install ia32 right?

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update

[vlad]

[QUOTE=Anderen2;43939795]You did this before trying to install ia32 right?

 sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update•

[/QUOTE]

yup!

[nikomo]

[QUOTE=PredGD;43939657]VPS is running Debian 7 by the way[/QUOTE]

Should have said that sooner.

dpkg --add-architechture i686 && apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade

[vlad]

[QUOTE=nikomo;43939822]Should have said that sooner.

dpkg --add-architechture i686 && apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade[/QUOTE]

output of that again

root@diglett:/home/zomboid# dpkg --add-architecture i686 && apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net precise Release.gpg
Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org squeeze Release.gpg
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net precise Release
Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates Release.gpg
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net precise/main Sources
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net precise/main amd64 Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates Release
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net precise/main i386 Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/main amd64 Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/main i386 Packages
Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org squeeze Release
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy Release.gpg
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy Release
Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org squeeze/main amd64 Packages
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy/main amd64 Packages
Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org squeeze/contrib amd64 Packages
Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org squeeze/non-free amd64 Packages
Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org squeeze/main i386 Packages
Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org squeeze/contrib i386 Packages
Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org squeeze/non-free i386 Packages
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy/contrib amd64 Packages
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy/non-free amd64 Packages
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy/main i386 Packages
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy/contrib i386 Packages
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy/non-free i386 Packages
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu/dists/precise/Release  Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-i686/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)

W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/Release  Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-i686/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)

W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/wheezy/updates/Release  Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-i686/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)

W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/Release  Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-i686/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

[Anderen2]

[QUOTE=PredGD;43939859]output of that again

root@diglett:/home/zomboid# dpkg --add-architecture i686 && apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net precise Release.gpg
Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org squeeze Release.gpg
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net precise Release
Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates Release.gpg
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net precise/main Sources
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net precise/main amd64 Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates Release
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net precise/main i386 Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/main amd64 Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/main i386 Packages
Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org squeeze Release
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy Release.gpg
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy Release
Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org squeeze/main amd64 Packages
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy/main amd64 Packages
Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org squeeze/contrib amd64 Packages
Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org squeeze/non-free amd64 Packages
Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org squeeze/main i386 Packages
Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org squeeze/contrib i386 Packages
Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org squeeze/non-free i386 Packages
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy/contrib amd64 Packages
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy/non-free amd64 Packages
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy/main i386 Packages
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy/contrib i386 Packages
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy/non-free i386 Packages
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu/dists/precise/Release  Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-i686/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)

W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/Release  Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-i686/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)

W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/wheezy/updates/Release  Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-i686/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)

W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/Release  Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-i686/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

[/QUOTE]

I'm not that experienced with Debian, but why do you have both squeeze and wheezy repos enabled?

[vlad]

[QUOTE=Anderen2;43939894]I'm not that experienced with Debian, but why do you have both squeeze and wheezy repos enabled?[/QUOTE]

if I recall correctly, it's been to get some software which hasn't been in the repos enabled.