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

[larikang]

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;43987387]My dad laughs at me every time he sees vim open on my laptop. He used to use vi back in the day and calls it outdated software.[/QUOTE]

That's because vi is godawful compared to vim.

[danharibo]

[QUOTE=rilez;43988903]Thinking of dropping GNOME for our project. It's a bit too constrictive in terms of customization (even with the great extensions I've found, I've been going through the shell .js and even then there's not much I can change) and Cinnamon might work better. The one thing I'd really miss is GNOME activities. Is there anything similar for Cinnamon, or Linux in general?

I know Synapse is sort of similar. GNOME Do might work, but I've never used it. What do you guys think?
[/QUOTE]

KDE/kwin has the present windows function.

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/IZ6swA8.png[/IMG]

It also has "activities" which are like meta-workspaces.

[naelstrof]

[QUOTE=Darkwater124;43988312][t]http://novaember.com/s/797960888.png[/t]

[editline]20th February 2014[/editline]

Is the stream really slow for everyone else?[/QUOTE]

Has a good 20 second delay. You've got a Charmander named Bad now, though.

[Demache]

The lag isn't all that bad right now.

[lavacano]

[QUOTE=Demache;43990021]The lag isn't all that bad right now.[/QUOTE]

Took a whole two minutes for me just now, but part of that could have been mplayer2 taking forever to figure out what kind of stream it is

[ipha]

[shameless plug]

My corner tiling xfwm4 patch now supports keybindings!

Get it fresh from the AUR: [url]https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xfwm4-tiling/[/url]

[shodan]

[QUOTE=Darkwater124;43988312][t]http://novaember.com/s/797960888.png[/t]

[editline]20th February 2014[/editline]

Is the stream really slow for everyone else?[/QUOTE]

What media player is that?

[editline]21st February 2014[/editline]

All the fun of pokemon with all the 40 second lagg

[diwako]

I guess I did something terrible, I forced ubuntu LTS to upgrade to latest ubuntu. Let's see if something breaks and if something breaks it shouldn't be that bad. Wanted to install another distro anyways.

[rilez]

Well, this is probably the most minimal Firefox yet.

[t]http://i.imgur.com/qVgkwb0.png[/t]

[t]http://i.imgur.com/lE7Zy1J.png[/t]

Only using Firefox extensions to do this. I would like to have all applications work this way, but I can't find any working extensions. This works as a maximized window, and you can use alt + left click to move it around in Cinnamon. Snapping works too.

[Darkwater]

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;43993242]What media player is that?

[editline]21st February 2014[/editline]

All the fun of pokemon with all the 40 second lagg[/QUOTE]

VLC

[shodan]

[QUOTE=rilez;43994172]Well, this is probably the most minimal Firefox yet.

Only using Firefox extensions to do this. I would like to have all applications work this way, but I can't find any working extensions. This works as a maximized window, and you can use alt + left click to move it around in Cinnamon. Snapping works too.[/QUOTE]

Install the omnibar extension

[rilez]

It's installed, I just have the icon/name turned off

[diwako]

Okay, so that forced update fucked my bootloader. Made a livestick and ran boot repair and it did nothing.
Grub rescue is still showing up. When changing the boot order ubuntu does show up but does not boot.

I guess it is time to ask for help.
Here the boot-repair log: [url]http://paste.ubuntu.com/6971410/[/url]

[Comfy]

[QUOTE=diwako;43995853]Okay, so that forced update fucked my bootloader. Made a livestick and ran boot repair and it did nothing.
Grub rescue is still showing up. When changing the boot order ubuntu does show up but does not boot.

I guess it is time to ask for help.
Here the boot-repair log: [url]http://paste.ubuntu.com/6971410/[/url][/QUOTE]

[quote]
=> No boot loader is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda.
[/quote]

Are you using BIOS or UEFI?

[diwako]

This Laptop has an UEFI Motherboard.

[hexpunK]

So what started off as me just trying to find ways to improve my boot time turned into me looking into installing systemd (largely to see if it would help much), and now I seem to be tinkering with a copy of the 3.13.4 kernel. Is this normal behaviour for Linux users or what?

I'm actually wondering how much installing 3.13.x on Linux Mint 13 is going to hurt, I assume I can quite easily roll back to 3.2.x through Grub? Everywhere I've looked at seems to tell me it's possible, but they don't really explain how. The new kernel won't just overwrite the old one right? Though I might be a while thanks to me dicking around in the config.

[Stonecycle]

gsettings is quite a pain. Can't configure lists in it via command line because GNOME Shell doesn't save enabled extensions on reboot and logging into "System Default" won't work.

gsettings set org.gnome.shell enabled-extensions ['[e-mail]', '[e-mail]', '[e-mail]', '[e-mail]', '[e-mail]', '[e-mail]']

...For example. It doesn't seem recognized by gsettings even if I use the exact values from the dconf Editor. It doesn't want to cooperate with a list.

[naelstrof]

Use gnome-tweak-tool to enable or disable extensions. If you have the chrome/firefox plugin you can also enable them here [url]https://extensions.gnome.org/[/url].

If they're not saved when you reboot, then they're probably not getting installed properly. I had a similar problem when the extension didn't support my Gnome version, to fix it I followed the instructions here: [url]https://github.com/mlutfy/hidetopbar[/url]

[FPtje]

[QUOTE=hexpunK;43996072]So what started off as me just trying to find ways to improve my boot time turned into me looking into installing systemd (largely to see if it would help much), and now I seem to be tinkering with a copy of the 3.13.4 kernel. Is this normal behaviour for Linux users or what?

I'm actually wondering how much installing 3.13.x on Linux Mint 13 is going to hurt, I assume I can quite easily roll back to 3.2.x through Grub? Everywhere I've looked at seems to tell me it's possible, but they don't really explain how. The new kernel won't just overwrite the old one right? Though I might be a while thanks to me dicking around in the config.[/QUOTE]

[url]http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/[/url]

The kernel will be installed besides the other kernel.
Grub will just start the new or old kernel depending on your choice. It's because Linux is Modular. The files of one kernel do not override the other.

[diwako]

Anyone has some better looking gnome3 themes? Currently running 3.10.2.1. And for some reason the icons of running programs are missing from the lower right corner..

[shodan]

numix+nitrux

[Stonecycle]

[QUOTE=Naelstrom;43997081]Use gnome-tweak-tool to enable or disable extensions. If you have the chrome/firefox plugin you can also enable them here [url]https://extensions.gnome.org/[/url].

If they're not saved when you reboot, then they're probably not getting installed properly. I had a similar problem when the extension didn't support my Gnome version, to fix it I followed the instructions here: [url]https://github.com/mlutfy/hidetopbar[/url][/QUOTE]

They're not being saved when rebooted. [url=https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1236749]Looked that up a while back and it's a shell bug.[/url] A fix would be at the log-in screen to set the session to "system default" instead of just "GNOME", but upgrading to GNOME 3.10 on Ubuntu 13.10, "system default" keeps me at a blank screen.

[editline]e[/editline]

Turns out my problem was that the list of extensions [url=http://askubuntu.com/a/367590]weren't in double-quotes[/url].

[larikang]

[QUOTE=diwako;43995974]This Laptop has an UEFI Motherboard.[/QUOTE]
Most UEFI motherboards still allow legacy BIOS booting. Do you have an EFI system partition?

[hexpunK]

[QUOTE=FPtje;43997906][url]http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/[/url]

The kernel will be installed besides the other kernel.
Grub will just start the new or old kernel depending on your choice. It's because Linux is Modular. The files of one kernel do not override the other.[/QUOTE]

Had fun compiling 3.13 anyway. Seems to be working. However I've managed to break sudo and su now annoyingly. I can log in to the root terminal, but can't use sudo or su any more. I've checked I'm using the right password, etc. But no luck. I've reset various things, reinstalled sudo itself (last resort), and nothing. Well fuck.

[editline][/editline]
Might have broken PAM. Hah, well this is fucked;

Feb 21 22:34:15 jordan-laptop sudo: PAM adding faulty module: pam_unix.so

Almost all the password failure errors in auth.log follow that error.
Would attempting to install systemd and fucking that up cause this? And does anyone have any idea what the hell I can do to fix it?

[diwako]

[QUOTE=Larikang;43998649]Most UEFI motherboards still allow legacy BIOS booting. Do you have an EFI system partition?[/QUOTE]

I actually fucked it up more, formated my linux partition like an idiot and was baffled that now the bootloader I could choose from was missing.

So far I installed a complete new linux install and have windows listed now aswell in the grub version I can select in boot order screen. When I now start my laptop and do not hammer f9 grub will just tell me there is no device and that's about it.

[Elecbullet]

ubuntu why you gotta be that way :(

i had a perfect three monitor setup on open source drivers and now it's starting in low graphics mode every time

[rilez]

[QUOTE=diwako;43995853]Okay, so that forced update fucked my bootloader. Made a livestick and ran boot repair and it did nothing.
Grub rescue is still showing up. When changing the boot order ubuntu does show up but does not boot.

I guess it is time to ask for help.
Here the boot-repair log: [URL]http://paste.ubuntu.com/6971410/[/URL][/QUOTE]

Your disk is formatted GPT for UEFI. That tool uses fdisk which is for MBR. So it won't work.

You don't have an EFI partition for Linux. I'm guessing Ubuntu wrote GRUB to your Windows EFI partition. Can you still boot into Windows? Or are you running from a VM or something.

Also don't use GRUB with UEFI if you can avoid it. Gummiboot is better.

It says you're posting from a Linux OS. Is it fixed, or are you using something else?

[diwako]

Well I can access both windows and linux now. but only when hammering f9 when I start the Laptop, otherwise grub tells me it found no device.

[rilez]

You're booting into Windows/Linux from the BIOS? What does it do when you press F9?

[diwako]

It asks me what bootloader I want to start I guess. I can choose from standart which is the broken grub, "Ubuntu", "ubuntu" again and Load UEFI file