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

[ben1066]

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;44571143]I still don't get why people go though the effort of installing it manually.[/QUOTE]

It doesn't actually take that long, I've done it twice and just made sure I had the wiki page up and it's been fine. It makes you a little more aware of what you've done too.

[Comfy]

[QUOTE=rilez;44570325]Yeah, this ISO is new. Did you run SYU before the script?

If i uodate, it updates the kernel which doesnt recognize the new file systems. I can get the script to install if I don't, but some things don't work. It doesn't recognize my boot partition, and doesn't install the bootloader correctly because of that. If I fix that and boot into the install, my wired connection doesn't work. Disabling/enabling dhcpcd.service doesn't work.

Ive also tried installing Arch manually, which still works, then running the AUI script afterwards. After certain steps it tries to "update packages" which sits and never actually does anything.

Can't tell if this is something I'm doing wrong or a bug or what[/QUOTE]

Yep, I Pacman -Syu'd before doing anything. But I did it in a Hyper-V VM.

[editline]17th April 2014[/editline]

[QUOTE=ben1066;44571170]It doesn't actually take that long, I've done it twice and just made sure I had the wiki page up and it's been fine. It makes you a little more aware of what you've done too.[/QUOTE]

I once did everything as said, but then it would not find the root partition. Also, effort.

And after doing the arch install for the 100'th time already, it gets a bit annoying when doing it by hand.

[nikomo]

[QUOTE=kaukassus;44571183]I once did everything as said, but then it would not find the root partition. Also, effort.[/QUOTE]

Did it boot into GRUB?
If it didn't, I think I know what your problem was - MBR partitioning, when the install guide uses GPT, which doesn't mention setting the partition as bootable.
I remember failing 3 install attempts in a row early last year because of that, but I've grown up a little since.

[ben1066]

[QUOTE=kaukassus;44571183]Yep, I Pacman -Syu'd before doing anything. But I did it in a Hyper-V VM.

[editline]17th April 2014[/editline]

I once did everything as said, but then it would not find the root partition. Also, effort.

And after doing the arch install for the 100'th time already, it gets a bit annoying when doing it by hand.[/QUOTE]

Yeah fair enough, I've only got 2 machines running it and neither has any particularly special setup.If you were using it in VMs or such then it'd make much more sense to automate it.

[Comfy]

[QUOTE=nikomo;44571223]Did it boot into GRUB?
If it didn't, I think I know what your problem was - MBR partitioning, when the install guide uses GPT, which doesn't mention setting the partition as bootable.
I remember failing 3 install attempts in a row early last year because of that, but I've grown up a little since.[/QUOTE]

I did it the same as always, partition, mount, install system, configure system, install bootloader, configure bootloader, post install shit -> reboot

yes, grub did boot, the config entry was there but after booting that fucker grub would freak the fuck about.

Only special thing was that btrfs was used.

[editline]17th April 2014[/editline]

Drive was MBR.

[rilez]

I'll have to try it again this afternoon. Maybe I'm missing something simple. I've been using btrfs, maybe that's the issue.

Also I've installed Arch manually a bunch of times now. I'm just using the script to see what useful packages they use that I might not. And to learn how to implement some of these processes into my own installer.

[Comfy]

I kinda want to write my own automated installer in python or something.

[Darkwater]

Aaaand installed arch on my desktop. I've now got it on my desktop, my laptop, and even on my raspberry pi. :v:

Also my terminal can't use the native resolution of my screen (1920x1080) after installing nvidia drivers (nvidia-304xx, GTX 560). Is there an easy fix for this?

[Shotz]

Install Xubuntu 14.04, feels very nice :)

Setting shit up is fun, drivers, blah blah blah.

Anyone got any useful "thing to do after installing Ubuntu" lists that I can use?

[ben1066]

[QUOTE=Darkwater124;44573966]Aaaand installed arch on my desktop. I've now got it on my desktop, my laptop, and even on my raspberry pi. :v:

Also my terminal can't use the native resolution of my screen (1920x1080) after installing nvidia drivers (nvidia-304xx, GTX 560). Is there an easy fix for this?[/QUOTE]

Closed source drivers have no good support for terminals. You can try and use either efifb or uvesafb I think. I tried efifb but even then I could only reach 1280x1024 because that's what could be achieved in EFI. Even they may fail as the nvidia driver doesn't guarantee compatibility.

[Darkwater]

[QUOTE=Shotz;44573999]Install Xubuntu 14.04, feels very nice :)

Setting shit up is fun, drivers, blah blah blah.

Anyone got any useful "thing to do after installing Ubuntu" lists that I can use?[/QUOTE]

Use terminals as much as possible. Learn how your system works. Try out other window managers (openbox, gnome, i3, etc). Do whatever you feel like doing. Eventually try out other distros (debian, fedora, arch, manjaro, to name a few).

[editline]18th April 2014[/editline]

One more problem; on my previous manjaro install, I had terminator set to use droid sans mono 8, and a cell would be 7x13 px. Now, with the exact same terminator settings, a cell is 8x13. What makes the difference?

[Shotz]

[QUOTE=Darkwater124;44574021]Use terminals as much as possible. Learn how your system works. Try out other window managers (openbox, gnome, i3, etc). Do whatever you feel like doing. Eventually try out other distros (debian, fedora, arch, manjaro, to name a few).

[/QUOTE]

Yo man I've used alot of other distros too, I just feel at home with Xubuntu, my netbook runs #! and I've got an old PC with Arch and Openbox on it, I isn't no noob to Loonix heh.

[Cittidel]

Don't install pipelight from the AUR unless you want to wait days for Wine to compile. I have so much time invested in waiting that I don't want to cancel it yet.

[Jookia]

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;44571143]I still don't get why people go though the effort of installing it manually.[/QUOTE]

Jeez how often do you install it? My install's from mid 2012 and it's even survived me migrating it to LVM and LUKS.

[FPtje]

[QUOTE=Shotz;44574327]Yo man I've used alot of other distros too, I just feel at home with Xubuntu, my netbook runs #! and I've got an old PC with Arch and Openbox on it, I isn't no noob to Loonix heh.[/QUOTE]

Check out this list, it has some useful tips:
[url]http://m.webupd8.org/2014/04/10-things-to-do-after-installing-ubuntu.html?m=1[/url]

I know exactly what you mean. You know enough about linux to figure stuff out by yourself, but a list of tips for things to do after installing ubuntu is just very useful.

[ben1066]

[QUOTE=Cittidel;44575205]Don't install pipelight from the AUR unless you want to wait days for Wine to compile. I have so much time invested in waiting that I don't want to cancel it yet.[/QUOTE]

There is a repo with pipelight packages, [url]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unofficial_user_repositories#pipelight[/url]

[deadeye536]

[QUOTE=Cittidel;44575205]Don't install pipelight from the AUR unless you want to wait days for Wine to compile. I have so much time invested in waiting that I don't want to cancel it yet.[/QUOTE]

==> Making package: wine-silverlight 1.7.16-1 (Thu Apr 17 21:51:59 EDT 2014)
==> Finished making: wine-silverlight 1.7.16-1 (Thu Apr 17 22:33:20 EDT 2014)

Takes some time, not exactly days.

[Demache]

[QUOTE=deadeye536;44581280]

==> Making package: wine-silverlight 1.7.16-1 (Thu Apr 17 21:51:59 EDT 2014)
==> Finished making: wine-silverlight 1.7.16-1 (Thu Apr 17 22:33:20 EDT 2014)

Takes some time, not exactly days.[/QUOTE]

....I just realized this after starting the compile. I wonder how long its going to take on a mobile Core 2 Duo at 2.0 Ghz. :v:

Eh, it only took an hour.

[rilez]

Couldn't get the AIS to work 100%, but after installing manually, the AUI seems to be working

Using -Syu with btrfs doesn't work if btrfs itself gets updated. ext4 works, but then the script doesn't add my boot partition to the fstab file. So I dunno.

[shodan]

Been thinking about switching distros but I'm not switching before I can find some kind of decent WM/DE. I've been using GNOME for ages now and I'd love to try something else. Can you guys show what your desktops look like?

[Darkwater]

Openbox, customizability rules.

[t]http://novaember.com/s/831223089.png[/t]

[shodan]

[QUOTE=Darkwater124;44595363]Openbox, customizability rules.

[t]http://novaember.com/s/831223089.png[/t][/QUOTE]

At least post your configs :/

[Darkwater]

[url=http://github.com/Darkwater124/dotfiles]Ah, sorry :v[/url]

[Anderen2]

Main desktop (KDE):
[img_thumb]http://greker.org/and/A2kde2.png[/img_thumb]

Laptop (E17):
[img_thumb]http://greker.org/and/A2e17.png[/img_thumb]

[MuThing]

[QUOTE=Darkwater124;44595674][url=http://github.com/Darkwater124/dotfiles]Ah, sorry :v[/url][/QUOTE]

What are the dependancies?

[Darkwater]

[QUOTE=MasterFen006;44595786]What are the dependancies?[/QUOTE]

I use tint2 version 652 as panel, dzen2 for [URL="http://github.com/Darkwater124/info-panel"]info-panel[/URL] and screentool, dock (included) to position windows, dmenu2 as application launcher, compton as compositor.
dock requires wmctrl, xprop, xwininfo, xrandr.
fish uses fortune for greeting, has get/search/show/update/upgrade/remove(/purge) aliases for yaourt (arch/manjaro) and apt-get (anything else (only works on debian/ubuntu obviously))
lock uses imagemagick, [URL="http://github.com/naelstrof/maim"]maim[/URL], i3lock and conky.
screentool uses maim, [URL="http://github.com/naelstrof/slop"]slop[/URL], ffmpeg and scp to upload.

[editline]20th April 2014[/editline]

[url=https://github.com/Darkwater124/dotfiles/blob/master/README.md]Updated readme while I was at it.[/url]

[lavacano]

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;44595227]Been thinking about switching distros but I'm not switching before I can find some kind of decent WM/DE. I've been using GNOME for ages now and I'd love to try something else. Can you guys show what your desktops look like?[/QUOTE]

Mine's not brilliant but it works (using KDE)

[t]http://jesusfuck.me/di/LQM2/desktop.png[/t]

~/.conkyrc

alignment tr
background no
border_width 1
cpu_avg_samples 2
default_color white
default_outline_color white
default_shade_color white
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders yes
draw_outline no
draw_shades no
use_xft yes
xftfont DejaVu Sans Mono:size=8
gap_x 70
gap_y 35
minimum_size 1200 1000
maximum_width 1600
max_text_width 0
text_buffer_size 4096
net_avg_samples 2
no_buffers yes
out_to_console no
out_to_stderr no
extra_newline no
own_window yes
own_window_class Conky
own_window_type desktop
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_argb_visual yes
stippled_borders 0
update_interval 1.0
uppercase no
use_spacer none
show_graph_scale no
show_graph_range no
mpd_host localhost
default_bar_size 125 5

TEXT
${if_match "$mpd_status" != "Stopped"}$alignr${color #888888}$mpd_artist ${color #444444}- ${color #990000}$mpd_title
$alignr${color #444444}on ${color #888888}$mpd_album$color
$endif
$alignr${execpi 1800 /home/nick/bin/conkywunderground Whatever_You_Search_On_Wunderground}

~/bin/conkywunderground (I was gonna stick this on github then I couldn't figure out how to make the conky output customizable)

#!/usr/bin/env python3
# vim: ft=python :

from sys import argv
import json
import http.client
import time

# Configuration
output_string = "${color #888888} %s ${color #444444}-${color #990000} %d F\n$alignr${color #444444} since %s"

# IMPORTANT: FILL IN YOUR OWN API KEY HERE.
# THE KEY ON GITHUB WILL *NOT* BE VALID.
API_KEY="SORRY_GET_YOUR_OWN"

try:
    conn = http.client.HTTPConnection("api.wunderground.com")
    conn.request("GET", "/api/" + API_KEY + "/conditions/q/" + argv[1] + "/format.json")
    response = conn.getresponse()

    if response.status == 200: # OK
        results = json.loads(response.read().decode("utf-8"))["current_observation"]
        print(output_string % (results["observation_location"]["full"], results["temp_f"], time.strftime("%H:%M")))
        #print(results)
    else: # Not OK, something went wrong
        print("API returned", response.status, response.reason)

    conn.close()
except IndexError: # likely with argv
    if len(argv) == 1:
        print("Usage: %s <wunderground_query>\nYou might try your zipcode or station ID for an argument" % argv[0])
    else: # but I could be wrong
        raise

[editline]20th April 2014[/editline]

Also while I'm here, if you're on a distro where you can't just install "wine-pipelight" through your package manager, [url=https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Netflix/Pipelight#Preconfiguring]the Gentoo wiki's guide on how to build it is fucking brilliant[/url]

[shodan]

So I'm installing arch linux at the moment and I though it would be a great time to label my disks.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/AJ8zcyn.jpg?1[/t]

[editline]20th April 2014[/editline]

can you guys guess which one of the disks has bad sectors that the os won't see so some data will corrupt

[editline]20th April 2014[/editline]

Also all mirrors seem to time out...

[nikomo]

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;44595227]Been thinking about switching distros but I'm not switching before I can find some kind of decent WM/DE. I've been using GNOME for ages now and I'd love to try something else. Can you guys show what your desktops look like?[/QUOTE]

[img]http://i.imgur.com/5s8IaoF.jpg[/img]
[url]https://github.com/TheNikomo/arch_install[/url]

[shodan]

I installed arch. Now I just need to figure out the following.

Why isn't audio working even though I installed ALSA and Pulseaudio
How the fuck do I set up my 2nd monitor!?
misc

Properitary drivers seem to work for my videocard and I just compiled wine for pipelight. It litterly took 2 hours to do that...

[editline]21st April 2014[/editline]

ls /home/shodan -a
.
..
.bash_history
.bashrc
.bzr.log
.cache
.config
Desktop
.dircolors
.dircolors_256
Documents
Downloads
.esd_auth
.gnupg
.gstreamer-0.10
.local
.mozilla
Music
.nanorc
Pictures
proc <- WTF is this doing here
Public
Templates
var <- WAIT WHAT
Videos
.wine-pipelight
.Xauthority
.xinitrc
.yaourtrc

:suicide: