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

So, I try and install Fedora (which is meant to be easy to install via UEFI) and I get this: [t]http://josm.co.uk/p/img/i/7a003f5d868c36637bfead57d729474e.png[/t] Why? Even if I partition enough space it tells me that I have "No space for the 2GB installation", even though I just partitioned 400GB of my hard drive for it. I'm on the livecd right now, by the way.

Almost forgot how nice Crunchbang can be. The fans aren't whirring like turbines when browsing the Internet. A few tabs in Iceweasel still uses less memory than a freshly booted GNOME instance (~600MB). [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/wdqvIu3.png[/IMG] Okay, you win. I'll join the dark side your with fancy CLI gadgets and that jazz. Next stop: making it pretty.

[QUOTE=josm;44643526]So, I try and install Fedora (which is meant to be easy to install via UEFI) and I get this: [t]http://josm.co.uk/p/img/i/7a003f5d868c36637bfead57d729474e.png[/t] Why? Even if I partition enough space it tells me that I have "No space for the 2GB installation", even though I just partitioned 400GB of my hard drive for it. I'm on the livecd right now, by the way.[/QUOTE] Anaconda is fucking confusing. I had the same problem. I think you have to mount it in a certain way, and I could only get it to work with empty space, when I went in with pre-existing partitions it just complained that there wasn't enough space [editline]25th April 2014[/editline] Why does it say I'm posting from OSX. I'm on GNOME Web. Does webkit always show up as OSX...?

No, Chrome is webkit and it shows as Windows/Linux if appropriate. I guess Apple set the default useragent to Safari and GNOME Web didn't bother to change it.

[QUOTE=rilez;44643725]Anaconda is fucking confusing. I had the same problem. I think you have to mount it in a certain way, and I could only get it to work with empty space, when I went in with pre-existing partitions it just complained that there wasn't enough space [editline]25th April 2014[/editline] Why does it say I'm posting from OSX. I'm on GNOME Web. Does webkit always show up as OSX...?[/QUOTE] Confusing you say? I bloody agree. [t]http://josm.co.uk/p/img/i/044a303c6ce75b1e052234a5b1c4fa51.png[/t] I feel like I'm stupid, but I'm doing nothing wrong here.

[QUOTE=deadeye536;44638845]I can assure you now that it doesn't seem like an issue any more. I just ran pacman -Syu on my home server, and after updating both the kernel and systemd, I was able to fully use systemctl from starting/stopping jobs to a reboot.[/QUOTE] Back in the day somehow only my PC did it. After a while it stopped doing that by itself. I never found out why it happened.

[QUOTE=Stonecycle;44643638]Almost forgot how nice Crunchbang can be. The fans aren't whirring like turbines when browsing the Internet. A few tabs in Iceweasel still uses less memory than a freshly booted GNOME instance (~600MB). [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/wdqvIu3.png[/IMG] Okay, you win. I'll join the dark side your with fancy CLI gadgets and that jazz. Next stop: making it pretty.[/QUOTE] My window manager uses less RAM than my shell. I'm clocking in at 1.2-1.4GB in the middle of a kernel compile, with Chromium and Hexchat open. [t]http://i.imgur.com/tyL5TUd.jpg[/t]

[QUOTE=nikomo;44645082]My window manager uses less RAM than my shell. I'm clocking in at 1.2-1.4GB in the middle of a kernel compile, with Chromium and Hexchat open. [t]http://i.imgur.com/tyL5TUd.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] Is there any reason I should build my own kernel?

You can pick and choose options. A lot of kernels don't go full PREEMPT for various reasons, but if you want a low-latency desktop, you can switch that on. You can decide if you want fully dynamic interrupts, or some other model. You can decide a tickrate, with a lower tickrate helping on a server with high workloads, or a higher tickrate helping with latency. And you can apply patchsets that are not in the mainline kernel, like grsecurity (which is why I have a compile running now), or BFS, or whatever else you like.

[t]http://i.imgur.com/fC75gtv.jpg[/t] [t]http://i.imgur.com/e7RzAU5.jpg[/t] Edit: [url]http://nikomo.fi/linux-grsec-nikomo/[/url]

[QUOTE=josm;44643817]Confusing you say? I bloody agree. [t]http://josm.co.uk/p/img/i/044a303c6ce75b1e052234a5b1c4fa51.png[/t] I feel like I'm stupid, but I'm doing nothing wrong here.[/QUOTE] Yeah, that's basically what happened to me. I only got it to work with blank, unallocated space. You have to "format" it within Anaconda, or at least mark it to format.

[QUOTE=rilez;44646578]Yeah, that's basically what happened to me. I only got it to work with blank, unallocated space. You have to "format" it within Anaconda, or at least mark it to format.[/QUOTE] That is unallocated space. Do you mean I have to partition it within anaconda?

All my fonts just switched to xorg-fonts-*dpi. Huh.

Hey, just here to ask a question why my Linux Ubuntu isn't booting correctly. I have it set to boot to 'Removable', but that didn't seem to do anything. Any ideas on how to fix this?

I just installed Manjaro next to my Ubuntu quantumstate and Windows 8. It booted fine and then I ran a big update. Fuck me, it still boots. Welp, that's great news. It's also really nice with my optimus graphics card it seems, and it has a nice graphical pacman-manager. It's basically Arch but without the hassle to set it up. Time is the precise thing I don't have, so this is very convenient.

Grub2 is a strange beast. It has a configuration system more complicated than the most obtuse init system, and it will apparently fail and drop you into a recovery shell on the slightest error in its configuration (it complained about the terminal highlight color being undefined :v:). The joke about it being a great operating system without a decent bootloader is insanely accurate.

[QUOTE=Rayjingstorm;44658942]The joke about it being a great operating system without a decent bootloader is insanely accurate.[/QUOTE] There's a joke like that about most things deemed too complex. It usually is accurate as well, to some degree.

[QUOTE=Rayjingstorm;44658942]Grub2 is a strange beast. It has a configuration system more complicated than the most obtuse init system, and it will apparently fail and drop you into a recovery shell on the slightest error in its configuration (it complained about the terminal highlight color being undefined :v:). The joke about it being a great operating system without a decent bootloader is insanely accurate.[/QUOTE] Try to configure it with a ui tool as much as possible. There's less to go wrong with ui tools. [editline]27th April 2014[/editline] Commence the shitstorm of problems: [code]Building jre7... ==> Making package: jre7 7.55-1 (Sun Apr 27 20:03:26 CEST 2014) ==> Checking runtime dependencies... ==> Checking buildtime dependencies... ==> Retrieving sources... -> Found jre-7u55-linux-x64.tar.gz -> Found java-policy-settings.desktop -> Found javaws-launcher -> Found jre.csh -> Found jre.sh ==> Validating source files with md5sums... jre-7u55-linux-x64.tar.gz ... Passed java-policy-settings.desktop ... Passed javaws-launcher ... Passed jre.csh ... Passed jre.sh ... Passed ==> Extracting sources... -> Extracting jre-7u55-linux-x64.tar.gz with bsdtar ==> Entering fakeroot environment... ==> Starting package()... -> Creating required dirs -> Removing the redundancies -> Moving stuff in place -> Symlinking the binaries -> Symlinking the plugin -> Installing the scripts, confs and .desktops of our own -> Tweaking the javaws .desktop file ==> Tidying install... -> Purging unwanted files... -> Removing libtool files... -> Removing static library files... -> Compressing man and info pages... -> Stripping unneeded symbols from binaries and libraries... ==> Creating package "jre7"... -> Generating .PKGINFO file... -> Adding install file... -> Generating .MTREE file... -> Compressing package... ==> Leaving fakeroot environment. Build process failed.[/code] Well how did it fail? Edit: That's pamac-manager. Manual building does work. Also, my locales are fucked and uncommenting en_US UTF8 from the file and locale-gen doesn't do shit. Edit: My locales appear to have fixed themselves.

Don't expect Arch and Manjaro to play 100% well with each other. Manjaro is not exactly Arch. For one thing, they use their own (slow) repositories that actually hold back some packages. So you might encounter issues if one package is expecting a new package. Also, you can compile pamac for regular Arch, its on the AUR. The first thing I'm planning on building for my OS is a GTK3 based package manager, like Synaptic. When its done, I'll post it up on the AUR so you guys can try it.

The repositors and their versions of packages is the main reason why I dislike Manjaro. If I want "Stable" Packages, that are X versions behind, I'd use Ubuntu.

Defeats the whole point of Arch, and hardly makes it more "user friendly". I totally agree. The foundation of Arch is already simple. LFS with a nice, fast package manager. If the Manjaro devs were smart, they'd capitalize on the strengths of Arch, rather than fragment it even more. I can see their vision, as I also see huge potential in Arch, but I think they're going about it wrong. I want a user friendly OS that doesn't mess with upstream, so I'm making one. :v:

back with more restrictive firewall stuff, picking up the chapter where I left it last year been trying to torrent Lost Alpha today, which eventually worked. it's really hit and miss if it works. I run the proxy/SSH tunnel through my VPS, but worked until a certain point where it begun becoming really hit and miss. decided to sniff around, and saw that packets were being sent to local IPs. one belongs to me, the second one belongs to my stepdads phone, and the third one which is the most active one, not too sure. it's labeled as HOMESERVER and the manufacturer is Intel Orate. have a strong feeling that it's not related to the networking equipment, so it bothers me that traffic is routed there. thought that an SSH tunnel would keep stuff encrypted, yet somehow the firewall here knows that stuff which isn't supposed to happen, happens. so I'm curious, is there anything extra I should do serverside on my VPS to encrypt stuff properly, scramble packets, anything? or is SSH sufficient? as last time, I have a certificate which allows the firewall to sniff out secure connections, without it all secure connections are denied and since it's not my stuff, I can't do much about it. I'm not too experienced with the stuff, but by the sound of it, it sounds like SSH won't do as it's able to sniff out secure stuff anyway this got longer than I expected :v: straight forward, what can I do to properly secure my connection from VPS to me through a proxy/SSH tunnel?

Ah yes, that problem again. :v: SSH should be sufficient technically. That has some pretty stiff encryption. The certificate shouldn't matter for SSH since it doesn't use certificate based anything (AFAIK anyway), instead relying on private and public keys. But those are used for authentication, not encryption. The actual encryption key never leaves either the client or server, making the firewall unable to sniff the contents of SSH. However, that's assuming its not performing a man-in-the-middle attack with SSH acting as a middle-man between two SSH sessions. Only way to verify that your connected directly to the server is to make sure the server's RSA fingerprint matches the one you see when you connect. So I guess try to connect to the VPS from a known (secure) connection. Then compare it to the key when you try to login at home. The key should not change. Also, use public key authentication, rather than typing in your password. Its much more secure from these sorts of attacks. As the session ID will be different for both the client and server, the signature sent will not match and the server will reject the connection. Obviously, if I'm off base, somebody should correct me, for both of our sakes.

just checked the RSA key on VPS while tethered with phone, and it is the same as the one I have when connected on this network. I'm using public key auth, but I do have password enabled as a "pre-caution" if I lose either my password database or the key somehow, which could be a security risk but shouldn't be anything related to this I think? I'm 100% certain the problem doesn't lie on the VPS either, since it works when I remote desktop in there. obviously not the best solution as it's resource intensive to run a DE there :v:

[QUOTE=PredGD;44663748]just checked the RSA key on VPS while tethered with phone, and it is the same as the one I have when connected on this network. I'm using public key auth, but I do have password enabled as a "pre-caution" if I lose either my password database or the key somehow, which could be a security risk but shouldn't be anything related to this I think? I'm 100% certain the problem doesn't lie on the VPS either, since it works when I remote desktop in there. obviously not the best solution as it's resource intensive to run a DE there :v:[/QUOTE] Nah, you would still be verifying using the key, the password option wouldn't make a difference in this case. I'm going to be honest though, it doesn't look like the firewall is doing anything to directly affect it. Especially if just seems to be flaky, rather than outright not working. The problem appears to lie somewhere else IMO.

I really wonder what it could be. it must be something going on here as it's not as flaky when I'm in the remote desktop. [IMG]http://i.cubeupload.com/rYN0h3.png[/IMG] seems really weird that it pulls <500B from a lot of the seeders and only properly connects to some. before it even gets to find any peers, it'll be communicating with the device in the house that I'm not sure what is, but is labeled HOMESERVER and manufactured by Intel Oris, for as long as 10-15 mins before any peers are let through. decided to start the torrent for Lost Alpha directly via remote desktop, and it's able to find the peers at the pace you'd expect it to, and is much quicker to download while also connecting to most peers. it seems to point to something in the network. that something I'd expect to be the firewall, but the SSH connection should be secure, so how would it be able to tell, and why isn't it completely blocked? feels like I'm sniffing out some sort of master criminal

Intel Oris? What are the first three groups of hex numbers in the MAC address? I've never heard of that before, and the closest I can find is a 1300 page specification document for the Intel X540 Ethernet Controller. Although it does mention VPN specs, the document is way above my understanding, and its probably unrelated. Google corrected it to Intel [I]Iris[/I] and found information related to NAS servers, which may make sense in the context of the HOMESERVER host name. Of course, I imagine you would be aware of its existance unless your stepfather (I believe that's who you said set this whole thing up) is hiding it from you on purpose.

Intel Orate* got that wrong :v: first three groups of hex is 00:15:17

[QUOTE=PredGD;44664232]Intel Orate* got that wrong :v: first three groups of hex is 00:15:17[/QUOTE] Oh okay. So it just seems to cutting off Intel Corporate. So its not really anything special in that sense. Maybe run a port scan on it to see what services its running?

[QUOTE=rilez;44660146]Don't expect Arch and Manjaro to play 100% well with each other. Manjaro is not exactly Arch. For one thing, they use their own (slow) repositories that actually hold back some packages. So you might encounter issues if one package is expecting a new package. Also, you can compile pamac for regular Arch, its on the AUR. The first thing I'm planning on building for my OS is a GTK3 based package manager, like Synaptic. When its done, I'll post it up on the AUR so you guys can try it.[/QUOTE] That explains why the kernel was 3.10. Either way, the problem is caused by AwesomeWM not playing nice with systemd. Programs can't open gksu, all sorts of other problems occur etc. I've been googling and trying shit for hours with no real way to fix it. Everything works fine on xfce. Also, my locales are still fucked. I can either enable en_US ISO and have the strangest characters in my terminal or disable it, using en_US UTF-8 and have every application bitch about the locale not working.