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

[QUOTE=Little Donny;45878797]steam is fucking with me again [img]http://i.gyazo.com/7e118a55854a3d3e94e8450ae0fec9ea.png[/img] [sp]it doesn't work[/sp][/QUOTE] It's being ported by Aspyr, it took a while for Civ V to become playable once it showed up though.

[QUOTE=Little Donny;45878797]steam is fucking with me again [img]http://i.gyazo.com/7e118a55854a3d3e94e8450ae0fec9ea.png[/img] [sp]it doesn't work[/sp][/QUOTE] [url]http://steamdb.info/app/49520/config/[/url] [code]3/config/oslist: linux 3/description: Launch 3/executable: ./Borderlands2[/code]

My first kernel panic in my 1 year of Linux experience: [t]http://i.imgur.com/ksPXy8g.jpg[/t] The caps lock and scroll lock lights are blinking rapidly sorry for the bad picture, it happens after my phone accidentally WoL started my computer and I need to go to school, so I took this photo in a hurry

[QUOTE=Lyokanthrope;45877428]--force should be removed from pacman, or at least need an obtuse command to do it, because it breaks an Arch system so damn easily[/QUOTE] I think that's a little drastic, but it would be reasonable if when you do -Syu --force it pops up a little "Hey! This is a command you should never run. Proceed? [yN]" prompt

I thought about it a bit, the package manager was already fucked before I ran -Syu --force, so it's the fault of --force, even. I mean, the passwd etc. shit was by --force, but I only ran --force because the package manager complained that it didn't own the files for the packages it claims to own right now.

The only time I ever had a Kernel Panic was when I broke my OpenSUSE install

So \fIthat's\fR what a man page is made of. Just wrote one up from scratch because their man page sucked. .BI In\ troff ... .PP Never again. [editline]Well that was just embarassing...[/editline] Forgot for a moment that I should've used BBcode here. :suicide: Been looking through too many references to troff. I'm probably sticking with something like ASCIIdoc next time.

[QUOTE=Adam.GameDev;45880826]The only time I ever had a Kernel Panic was when I broke my OpenSUSE install[/QUOTE] If you ever install Gentoo with rEFInd you'll probably at least once run into a situation where you forgot to write refind_linux.conf and the kernel panics because it can't find a root partition

[QUOTE=Abaddon-ext4;45880009]My first kernel panic in my 1 year of Linux experience: [t]http://i.imgur.com/ksPXy8g.jpg[/t] The caps lock and scroll lock lights are blinking rapidly sorry for the bad picture, it happens after my phone accidentally WoL started my computer and I need to go to school, so I took this photo in a hurry[/QUOTE] I tend to get kernel panics on fresh installs of Gentoo and Arch. Gentoo makes sense because I keep forgetting about NFS on root being on by default (seriously why). Arch's kernel is supposed to just work though so I have no idea.

[QUOTE=lavacano;45881690]I tend to get kernel panics on fresh installs of Gentoo and Arch. Gentoo makes sense because I keep forgetting about NFS on root being on by default (seriously why). Arch's kernel is supposed to just work though so I have no idea.[/QUOTE] Gentoo's a classic for me too, man. Ext4 on your root partition, but did you ever enable support for it? Guess not. It's an easy mistake to make for newcomers like me I guess.

[QUOTE=mastersrp;45881720]Gentoo's a classic for me too, man. Ext4 on your root partition, but did you ever enable support for it? Guess not. It's an easy mistake to make for newcomers like me I guess.[/QUOTE] Part of it is we're so used to having our .config already set up the way we need it to, all we think to do is flip a couple switches to match the new hardware or whatever while forgetting all the silly shit we haven't done yet.

I realize that no one wants a init system flame war, and PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DO NOT START ONE, but I did stumble upon this website while reading phoronix: [url]http://boycottsystemd.org/[/url] It seems to propose some well known actual issues with systemd, while also (possibly?) mocking some of it's potential flaws. However, it should be up to the reader to decide this. Personally, it suddently hit me that the distro I am currently using, SliTaz, uses the systemd-udev module, and so I quickly wrote a receipt that makes use of eudev from Gentoo and provides the same functionality as the otherwise currently-in-use systemd-udev module. I do believe that it should be a matter of choice for the user, which distro to run. And personally I couldn't care less if others use systemd, I am just happy to have the option of not doing that anymore, and that in itself is important I believe.

I like this comment: "Excellent points. IMHO, Systemd is just NSA trying to wiggle in their spy-backdoors."

most of those points can be boiled down or otherwise connected to the major point that turns me off from systemd: Lennart Poettering is a power-tripping egomaniac. He should have just stuck to PulseAudio. (Keep in mind it's not the users of systemd I have issues with, and last I used I had no problems that I could confidently blame on systemd itself, it's just Poettering I hate.)

Not sure if this would be the right place to ask but if any of you could help I'd appreciate it. I'm trying to create an Ubuntu LiveCD because getting a Mac to boot from USB is a pain in the ass and I have better things to do and I don't want to pay $25 for a stack of DVDs of which I'm only going to use one. So I've gone back to version 12.04.3 of Kubuntu, which is supposed to be small enough for a CD, except it's totally goddamn not. [t]http://puu.sh/bk6sV/f51c171c4f.png[/t] Literally 2 fucking megabytes. Do any of you happen to have a link for an iso that isn't only tantalizingly close to being the size I need? My search of the Ubuntu site has left me feeling alone and confused and everywhere I look on Google is either people thinking that they're talking about 12.10 or higher or just saying literally nothing helpful. Also if you're wondering why I'm using a Kubuntu iso instead of regular Ubuntu it's because the Ubuntu isos of the same version are even motherfucking bigger. Please help oh mighty Linux wizards.

If you just want to install without a live environment you could use the netboot images: [url]http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/netboot/trusty/[/url]

My screen is occasionally fixing and I'm suddenly seeing artifacts [img]http://novaember.com/s/842785943.png[/img] Anyone happen to know what could be causing this?

dying GPU.

[QUOTE=Darkwater124;45884542]My screen is occasionally fixing and I'm suddenly seeing artifacts [img]http://novaember.com/s/842785943.png[/img] Anyone happen to know what could be causing this?[/QUOTE] If it is happening to your RPi, make sure it isn't overclocked, and that it is cooled well.

[QUOTE=mastersrp;45888011]If it is happening to your RPi, make sure it isn't overclocked, and that it is cooled well.[/QUOTE] Nah, that's just an ssh session. Any tips on how to check the health of my gpu?

[QUOTE=MasterFen006;45884969]dying GPU.[/QUOTE] Not necessarily [b]dying[/b] yet unless the desktop starts coming down when you do something intense. But definitely a GPU issue of some sort, probably heat as mastersrp suggests.

[QUOTE=lavacano;45888032]Not necessarily [b]dying[/b] yet unless the desktop starts coming down when you do something intense. But definitely a GPU issue of some sort, probably heat as mastersrp suggests.[/QUOTE] Everything occasionally freezes (sometimes the mouse can still move) for about 10 seconds. Chromium also fails to display anything at all sometimes (have to kill it through htop or something else) which might be related because it uses OpenGL for pretty much everything nowadays? [editline]4th September 2014[/editline] This is during regular use (chromium, steam and a couple terminals) btw, I haven't tried gaming yet after this started happening. I'm at school right now so I won't be able to do anything for the next few hours.

Is there any desktop countdown timer that countdowns to a specified day?

Yeah, it looks like my GPU died. Temperatures were normal (30-40 idle), tried both newest and legacy drivers, problem also occurs on Windows. It was a ~3 year old GTX 560.

[QUOTE=Darkwater124;45888063]Everything occasionally freezes (sometimes the mouse can still move) for about 10 seconds. Chromium also fails to display anything at all sometimes (have to kill it through htop or something else) which might be related because it uses OpenGL for pretty much everything nowadays? [editline]4th September 2014[/editline] This is during regular use (chromium, steam and a couple terminals) btw, I haven't tried gaming yet after this started happening. I'm at school right now so I won't be able to do anything for the next few hours.[/QUOTE] I've actually been getting this too, it only recently started happening and I found it related to any kind of disk usage. Starting up steam is generally the direct cause of freezing up the entire desktop environment for nearly minutes at a time. It's so bad and annoying that I've stopped using Linux for a while. (Trying to fix the problem by killing Steam, or any misbehaving process causes the freeze to never end) I checked my harddrive S.M.A.R.T. data and write speed and they're both in acceptable ranges. One of them is even an SSD so I'm really confused why writing/reading data is causing such issues. My guess is that it's related to my LVM and btrfs filesystem, but I'm really only using btrfs compression and standard LVM...

[QUOTE=Naelstrom;45890710]I've actually been getting this too, it only recently started happening and I found it related to any kind of disk usage. Starting up steam is generally the direct cause of freezing up the entire desktop environment for nearly minutes at a time. It's so bad and annoying that I've stopped using Linux for a while. (Trying to fix the problem by killing Steam, or any misbehaving process causes the freeze to never end) I checked my harddrive S.M.A.R.T. data and write speed and they're both in acceptable ranges. One of them is even an SSD so I'm really confused why writing/reading data is causing such issues. My guess is that it's related to my LVM and btrfs filesystem, but I'm really only using btrfs compression and standard LVM...[/QUOTE] Did you get green pixel artifacts as well? In fact, 5 seconds of Minecraft resulted in about a tenth of all pixels turning green and the screen freezing long enough to make me force poweroff my PC.

Oh sorry no, I just meant the system freezes. My GPU is fine and I never get graphical artifacts.

Holy shit pacman corrupted an install [img]http://i.imgur.com/GOzI4M7.png[/img] Not a biggie, but I don't see this happen very often.

[QUOTE=FPtje;45896708]Holy shit pacman corrupted an install [img]http://i.imgur.com/GOzI4M7.png[/img] Not a biggie, but I don't see this happen very often.[/QUOTE] remove/rename/backup those files and run it again

--force it and then cat /dev/urandom > /dev/sda