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

You're doing something wrong if your compiler flags aren't longer than all the contents of the Library of Alexandria together were.

[QUOTE=Lyokanthrope;45349838]I thought -march=native would automatically select the best optimization flags for your processor...I don't think setting, say, -march=core2 would yield any improvements over native then again I don't use gentoo so ignore me[/QUOTE] Nah, you're right, the default is "generic" and I got them mixed up. [editline]10th July 2014[/editline] unless they changed the default to native since i last installed from stage3 that could have happened

[QUOTE=lavacano;45350679]unless they changed the default to native since i last installed from stage3 that could have happened[/QUOTE] I installed gentoo a few weeks ago, I can't remember there being a -march flag at all

[QUOTE=PredGD;45341269]yet again, new issue in regards with UEFI and rEFInd, still need to learn my ways around UEFI. when I installed rEFInd, I assumed I'd need a fresh EFI partition so rEFInd could do its stuff. from my limited knowledge about it, the stuff required for rEFInd to know Windows is there used to be in the EFI partition before I wiped it, so as a result Windows isn't bootable from rEFInd and I'm not sure how to boot into it anymore. I learned that the partition I wiped during the install was indeed Windows' recovery partition. it had kept the label so was easy enough to identify. boot partition for Windows is still intact, which efibootmgr says as well [code]➜ boot efibootmgr BootCurrent: 0005 Timeout: 1 seconds BootOrder: 0005,0000,0001,0002 Boot0000* Windows Boot Manager Boot0001* Hard Drive Boot0002* UEFI: Built-in EFI Shell Boot0005* rEFInd Boot Manager [/code] a crude fix would be to change the boot order, but that leaves me unable to boot back into linux. could always mount the EFI partition later and change it yet again, but it's far from an ideal solution. yet again my google-fu is failing me so I'm not sure how to manually add an entry to rEFInd so I can select Windows[/QUOTE] fixing this was surprisingly easy :v: I started off with a windows USB stick, went into CMD and did some bootrec /fixstuff etc. this didn't work, so I figured why not give the automatic repair a try? I didn't have high hopes, but only seconds after starting, my PC rebooted into rEFInd with Windows added. I was expecting to at least have to reinstall rEFInd, but nope, it was added without any issues :v: [editline]11th July 2014[/editline] really miss gnome now that I'm back in windows. at first I wasn't a big fan of the activities screen, but after using it for a while it feels very natural. just bash the cursor into the corner of your screen and all of your windows pop up, easily accessible

[QUOTE=PredGD;45352439]I figured why not give the automatic repair a try? I didn't have high hopes, but only seconds after starting, my PC rebooted into rEFInd with Windows added.[/QUOTE] That is one of the big design features of UEFI: since all the bootloaders go on a partition (rather than the HDD's boot sector) there's no reason why different OSs' bootloaders would interfere with each other. Then again lots of UEFI implementations are utter shit, so it can be hard to appreciate the benefits.

Guys, i'm having a bit of a problem with linux mint. I've just installed it and i've installed CS 1.6, but i'm getting horrible lag spikes on it, like 1500 ms ping. I tried to ping google and the max i've got is 23 ms. What's wrong? It happens on all servers. I'm asking on this subforum since on Windows 7 didn't happen. I've checked the ping to the CS 1.6 server I usually play on, from a terminal, and it gives me 23 ms latency max.

What is the brand/model of your network card?

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;45370406]What is the brand/model of your network card?[/QUOTE] I fixed it already, thanks. I just killed and started pulseaudio.

I think I'm pretty much done setting up my jenkins server (dedicated). I set it up so that it polls [url=http://git.muhcloud.eu]my git server[/url] (not everything is public) for changes and then compiles the project if something changed. It pushes new builds to a [url=http://git.muhcloud.eu/azise-android-builds/]sepperate repo[/url] if the build succeeds and it runs tests etc on projects that have tests. I fucking love jenkins.

For God damn's fuck sake this is the third time I had to force shutdown my laptop today because it fucking froze to the point where I couldn't move my mouse or even switch tty. I'm on Manjaro with 3.14. All freezes were during a periodoof high cpu usage, either compiling wine-silverlight, creating a gmod listen server or listening to Spotify from Firefox. This is complete crap , what can I do about it? No weird errors in xorg log.

[QUOTE=FPtje;45378246]For God damn's fuck sake this is the third time I had to force shutdown my laptop today because it fucking froze to the point where I couldn't move my mouse or even switch tty. I'm on Manjaro with 3.14. All freezes were during a periodoof high cpu usage, either compiling wine-silverlight, creating a gmod listen server or listening to Spotify from Firefox. This is complete crap , what can I do about it? No weird errors in xorg log.[/QUOTE] What's in the journal?

<snip, journalctl DID output something, but it took ages.> Here's the end of the output for the last boot that end up in a freeze after a couple of hours of use [code]Jul 13 20:49:45 falco-laptop btsync[1336]: UPnP: Device error "http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:2869/upnphost/udhisapi.dll?content=uuid:xxxxxxxxx": (-2) Jul 13 20:49:47 falco-laptop btsync[1336]: UPnP: Unable to map port xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:24093 with UPnP. Jul 13 21:01:01 falco-laptop crond[26088]: pam_unix(crond:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0) Jul 13 21:01:01 falco-laptop CROND[26089]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly) Jul 13 21:01:02 falco-laptop CROND[26088]: pam_unix(crond:session): session closed for user root [/code] The messages above it are from btsync and wpa_supplicant, not too interesting This is how journalctd -b -3 ends: [code]Jul 13 13:00:36 falco-laptop login[303]: pam_unix(login:session): session opened for user falco by LOGIN(uid=0) Jul 13 13:01:02 falco-laptop crond[28517]: pam_unix(crond:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0) Jul 13 13:01:02 falco-laptop CROND[28518]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly) Jul 13 13:01:28 falco-laptop CROND[28517]: pam_unix(crond:session): session closed for user root Jul 13 13:02:03 falco-laptop systemd[1]: systemd-journald.service watchdog timeout! Jul 13 13:03:22 falco-laptop systemd-journal[147]: Journal stopped [/code] Even the init system couldn't handle it anymore.

[QUOTE=Ol' Pie;45368411]Guys, i'm having a bit of a problem with linux mint. I've just installed it and i've installed CS 1.6, but i'm getting horrible lag spikes on it, like 1500 ms ping. I tried to ping google and the max i've got is 23 ms. What's wrong? It happens on all servers. I'm asking on this subforum since on Windows 7 didn't happen. I've checked the ping to the CS 1.6 server I usually play on, from a terminal, and it gives me 23 ms latency max.[/QUOTE] It's happening again, i thought i fixed it but i didn't. It's only happening on CS 1.6, doesn't happen on CS:S or TF2... Anyone have a clue what's going on?

init was working fine, it was journald that timed out because of the computer just being fucking swamped. I'd say it's either scheduler-related, or a hardware problem. Check temps?

[QUOTE=Ol' Pie;45380099]It's happening again, i thought i fixed it but i didn't. It's only happening on CS 1.6, doesn't happen on CS:S or TF2... Anyone have a clue what's going on?[/QUOTE] Are you on wireless?

Booted up laptop to an Ubuntu 12.04 liveCD, running iperf now. It's been running for like over an hour, and wireless still works. WiFi would basically eat shit after 5-15 minutes in 14.04, and Arch Linux. Need to figure out if it's a kernel problem. Might have to install 12.04 and update to latest kernel, and test. If it's a kernel problem, it would at least be easy to fix, I just make a regression report and it'll probably be fixed by the next version.

Changed some module settings, left it stress-testing over the night, and now wireless works perfectly. Sigh.

[QUOTE=Naelstrom;45380822]Are you on wireless?[/QUOTE] Yup

[QUOTE=Ol' Pie;45385923]Yup[/QUOTE] Don't use wireless if you want a stable internet connection while hosting/playing online video games.

When does Plasma 5 (or Plasma 2 or Plasma Next or KDE 5 or whatever the fuck they want to call it) officially come out? [t]http://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.0-rc.png[/t] It looks like it won't be gaudy as 4.x.

[QUOTE=Naelstrom;45388076]Don't use wireless if you want a stable internet connection while hosting/playing online video games.[/QUOTE] The problem is, as i've stated in my previous post, it doesn't happen on CSS or TF2.

God, it only took me a week to completely muck up my Arch install. Decide to 'keep it light', install LXQT w/ Enlightenment...get sick of ugliness, say fuck it and try Gnome out, use it for a week, get bored, install KDE, and now my system's just a mess of mismatched apps and ugly Qt stuff :v: [editline]14th July 2014[/editline] I remember why I stopped using Linux. The urge to tinker and [B]explore[/B] is too great!

[QUOTE=Lyokanthrope;45389310]God, it only took me a week to completely muck up my Arch install. Decide to 'keep it light', install LXQT w/ Enlightenment...get sick of ugliness, say fuck it and try Gnome out, use it for a week, get bored, install KDE, and now my system's just a mess of mismatched apps and ugly Qt stuff :v: [editline]14th July 2014[/editline] I remember why I stopped using Linux. The urge to tinker and [B]explore[/B] is too great![/QUOTE] If you have the urge to tinker with linux then use a virtual machine.

[QUOTE=kaukassus;45389765]If you have the urge to tinker with linux then use a virtual machine.[/QUOTE] On a T61p? The performance overhead with a VM is a bit too high. I just need to force myself to get comfortable with a setup. It's so hard though.

[QUOTE=Lyokanthrope;45389811]On a T61p? The performance overhead with a VM is a bit too high. I just need to force myself to get comfortable with a setup. It's so hard though.[/QUOTE] I used VM's on worse hardware.

I've ran a VM on an AMD E450 with 4GB of RAM. A Windows VM. It wasn't pretty, but it worked well enough, long enough. Could also do filesystem snapshots, or a straight-up dd backup before you go ruining your system. This is Linux, after all, not Windows, we have tools for pretty much everything.

[QUOTE=Lyokanthrope;45389811]On a T61p? The performance overhead with a VM is a bit too high. I just need to force myself to get comfortable with a setup. It's so hard though.[/QUOTE] It's not that high. Up until now I was running VMs on a 2Ghz C2D T7200 and 3GB of RAM. That is about 8 year old laptop hardware used for school projects and my own independent ones. My biggest issue was the lack of hardware video acceleration in VMs and RAM, which is more of an issue with Windows VMs than Linux ones. For tinkering, a T61p should be just as capable.

[QUOTE=Lyokanthrope;45389164]When does Plasma 5 (or Plasma 2 or Plasma Next or KDE 5 or whatever the fuck they want to call it) officially come out? [t]http://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.0-rc.png[/t] It looks like it won't be gaudy as 4.x.[/QUOTE] Lets hope they wait until most shit is actually finished before releasing it this time.

[QUOTE=lavacano;45393126]Lets hope they wait until most shit is actually finished before releasing it this time.[/QUOTE] I was reading about it earlier today and it seems they're gonna release Plasma 5 this week, which is just the desktop component. The software compilation will come much later, due to the amount of work needed to move to Qt5.

Worst part is that fucking awful Oxygen icon pack they still use everywhere [editline]15th July 2014[/editline] Definitely a nice improvement, just looks unfinished/inconsistent