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

[QUOTE=Little Donny;41581021] X shat itself or something. It likes to do that in fedora. Ctrl + Alt + F2 then login as root and go like this: Xorg It will probably spew a bunch of shit out at you and that may or may not inform you as to why it is not working.[/QUOTE] I reinstalled and created a sh file that reconfigures everything for me if it ever goes belly up again. I think it was a broken package or something.

I just spend a few hours trying to get a PPTP server running on a Raspberry Pi, and I couldn't figure out why I could connect just fine, but any attempt at accessing the rest of the network got redirected to the local web server. Turns out that I had a bad iptables rule that redirected ALL port 80 connections, in and out, to local port 8000. Oops, that supposed to be inbound 80 -> 8000 only...

I know these are kind of late news, but I wanted to let you guys know that the Parallella-16 platform is now available for pre-purchase on their site: [url]http://shop.adapteva.com/collections/parallella/products/parallella-16[/url]

[QUOTE=mastersrp;41587666]I know these are kind of late news, but I wanted to let you guys know that the Parallella-16 platform is now available for pre-purchase on their site: [url]http://shop.adapteva.com/collections/parallella/products/parallella-16[/url][/QUOTE] It's like a raspberry pi on steroids

My system was working fine before I did a reboot and now I cant get any X based GUI working at all. I am literarily stuck at the XBMCUbuntu GUI login screen. I have tried running openbox and XBMCUbuntu as my desktop enviorment but none of them launch. The screen just flashes and then it goes back to the login screen. I went into terminal by doing alt f2 and tried launching openbox and it said something about not being able to start gnome? I tried again and got this: Openbox-Message: Failed to open the display from the DISPLAY environment variable. I cant even get XBMC to start as I get this error: [url]http://pastebin.com/ZuDHwjm2[/url] It was working fine the last I used it. The last thing I did before this problem occured was trying to remotely (over ssh) launch openbox so I could get XBMC and advanced launcher to launch an application I wanted. Any ideas whats going on? I have a Nvidia GT218 (ION) with the latest Nvidia drivers which should be working fine.

[QUOTE=mastersrp;41587666]I know these are kind of late news, but I wanted to let you guys know that the Parallella-16 platform is now available for pre-purchase on their site: [url]http://shop.adapteva.com/collections/parallella/products/parallella-16[/url][/QUOTE] My wallet has being raped as of recently and I don't think it can take another beating like this. Any idea when they start to ship?

[QUOTE=TheCreeper;41588575]My wallet has being raped as of recently and I don't think it can take another beating like this. Any idea when they start to ship?[/QUOTE] Don't think mine can either.... October apparently

[QUOTE=Chizbang;41588334] I cant get any X based GUI working at all.[/QUOTE] So like, what happens when you try to launch X through the command line with startx or xinit? Have you tried deleting xorg.conf? I dunno that seems to work three out of ten times.

[QUOTE=Little Donny;41588992]So like, what happens when you try to launch X through the command line with startx or xinit? Have you tried deleting xorg.conf? I dunno that seems to work three out of ten times.[/QUOTE] initx says something about an x server already being present and startx spends ages witha flashing underscore and then makes my screen go completely blank with no control. When I check the console after the blankness I get loads of spammed No protocol specified. I deleted my xorg.conf before to get resolutions higher then 640 480 which worked but ever since xorg.conf is no where to be seen because I think the Nvidia drivers have taken over. AND! I just remembered. The thing I did before rebooting was killall to everything to do with X.... Stupid I know but I was trying to stop something that was running X which I couldnt get to stop by killall. :v: [editline]25th July 2013[/editline] Also: I just tried startx and I got an error about something to do with an xauth authentication file in my home folder?

[QUOTE=Chizbang;41589049]initx says something about an x server already being present and startx spends ages witha flashing underscore and then makes my screen go completely blank with no control. When I check the console after the blankness I get loads of spammed No protocol specified. I deleted my xorg.conf before to get resolutions higher then 640 480 which worked but ever since xorg.conf is no where to be seen because I think the Nvidia drivers have taken over. AND! I just remembered. The thing I did before rebooting was killall to everything to do with X.... Stupid I know but I was trying to stop something that was running X which I couldnt get to stop by killall. :v: [editline]25th July 2013[/editline] Also: I just tried startx and I got an error about something to do with an xauth authentication file in my home folder?[/QUOTE] Okay well that sounds scary and fun. If there is still an x server on the login screen I guess you could hard reset it with ctrl + alt +backspace. Also if you think it would help to have a new Nvidia-friendly xorg.conf you can run nvidia-xconfig. I do not have an Nvidia card but I am told it works in a similar way to aticonfig --initial -f. Here is a link that talks more about it: [url]http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/man1/alt-nvidia-96-xconfig.1.html[/url]

[QUOTE=Little Donny;41589154]Okay well that sounds scary and fun. If there is still an x server on the login screen I guess you could hard reset it with ctrl + alt +backspace. Also if you think it would help to have a new Nvidia-friendly xorg.conf you can run nvidia-xconfig. I do not have an Nvidia card but I am told it works in a similar way to aticonfig --initial -f. Here is a link that talks more about it: [url]http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/man1/alt-nvidia-96-xconfig.1.html[/url][/QUOTE] Tried all that and still no dice.. I buggered it up good and proper lol. Maybe a reinstall might be the only option? ._.

[QUOTE=Chizbang;41589049]initx says something about an x server already being present and startx spends ages witha flashing underscore and then makes my screen go completely blank with no control. When I check the console after the blankness I get loads of spammed No protocol specified. I deleted my xorg.conf before to get resolutions higher then 640 480 which worked but ever since xorg.conf is no where to be seen because I think the Nvidia drivers have taken over. AND! I just remembered. The thing I did before rebooting was killall to everything to do with X.... Stupid I know but I was trying to stop something that was running X which I couldnt get to stop by killall. :v: [editline]25th July 2013[/editline] Also: I just tried startx and I got an error about something to do with an xauth authentication file in my home folder?[/QUOTE] Try "sudo service lightdm stop", and then xinit EDIT: Change lightdm with the displaymanager you have. lightdm is the default on ubuntu, kdm on kubuntu and gdm on several others

[quote][drm:i915_hangcheck_hung] *ERROR* Hangcheck timer elapsed...GPU Hung[/quote] Seems like a [url=https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/946899]pretty bad bug[/url]. What exactly could I do to prevent freezing, crashing, and that crap because of this? Anything confirmed to possibly work?

[QUOTE=Anderen2;41591913]Try "sudo service lightdm stop", and then xinit EDIT: Change lightdm with the displaymanager you have. lightdm is the default on ubuntu, kdm on kubuntu and gdm on several others[/QUOTE] Aha! I stopped lightdm and was able to get into openbox and lxde! Now umm.... What exactly do I need to do to make this fix permanent? Thanks a lot!

[QUOTE=Chizbang;41593555]Aha! I stopped lightdm and was able to get into openbox and lxde! Now umm.... What exactly do I need to do to make this fix permanent? Thanks a lot![/QUOTE] Well, I'm not really sure what causes your issue with Lightdm. But you could try replacing it with ex. GDM, or any one on this list: [URL="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Display_Manager"]Arch Wiki - Display Manager[/URL] Just install one of them with apt-get (ex. sudo apt-get install gdm). If they do not appear on login/default, run "sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm". One other option may be to try [URL="http://www.ubuntugeek.com/purgeconfig-%E2%80%93-a-safer-way-to-reset-configuration-files.html"]purgeconfig[/URL] to reset lightdm's config files (Never tried this script myself, so it may not work) EDIT: Another solution that may work is to append "export DISPLAY=:0" to the file "/etc/environment". As your issue seems to be that lightdm does not pass the required enviroment variable (DISPLAY) to your DE. To append it to /etc/environment is quite a hacky solution though, but I cannot find a better place to put it where lightdm passes it along.

[QUOTE=Anderen2;41593994]Well, I'm not really sure what causes your issue with Lightdm. But you could try replacing it with ex. GDM, or any one on this list: [URL="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Display_Manager"]Arch Wiki - Display Manager[/URL] Just install one of them with apt-get (ex. sudo apt-get install gdm). If they do not appear on login/default, run "sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm". I just did what you said about uninstalling lightdm and replacing it with gdm and works like a charm now. Your an absolute life saver. thanks! One other option may be to try [URL="http://www.ubuntugeek.com/purgeconfig-%E2%80%93-a-safer-way-to-reset-configuration-files.html"]purgeconfig[/URL] to reset lightdm's config files (Never tried this script myself, so it may not work)[/QUOTE] Just uninstalled lighdm and replaced it with gdm and it works like a charm! Your a real life saver. Thanks!

The default OpenSUSE KDE theme is quite nice. [t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8664592/snapshot1_opensuse.png[/t] KDE is reeeealllly growing on me Probably sticking with Kubuntu though, just because of the huge package repos. :v:

[QUOTE=Lyoko774;41600495]The default OpenSUSE KDE theme is quite nice. [t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8664592/snapshot1_opensuse.png[/t] KDE is reeeealllly growing on me Probably sticking with Kubuntu though, just because of the huge package repos. :v:[/QUOTE] Havent used KDE since Kubuntu 10.04. Funny.. I have hated Gnome for yearrrssss and then when Unity released and everyone started to hate it, I started to really like it over KDE. Feels a little more polished for me. [editline]26th July 2013[/editline] Oh and also, If you guys could figure this out that would be great. I have an MBP with a bootcamp partition but I would like to install Crunchbang or Ubuntu along side my bootcamp and OSX partitions. I did a few days ago install Ubuntu after creating 2 partitions in OSX with Disk Utility and installing Reefit (a EFI bootloader ) the one partition was for the Ubuntu ISO and the other for the actual install of Ubuntu. I downloaded the latest Ubuntu and used Unetbootin to put the iso on the installer partition. I then rebooted and booted into my installer partition and installed Ubuntu onto my Ubuntu partition. It worked perfectly and grub was working fine.... Until I tried booting into Windows. I could boot into everything else just fine but not Windows. It would display this error: Windows failed to load -0x0000225 The only way I was actually able to gain access to Windows again was to remove both Linux partitions and rebuild and repair the BCD and MBR and marking the bootcamp partition as active. Is there any way of installing Linux without breaking Windows? This is my partition table: [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/us1FyDY.png[/IMG] E: is the OSX partition and the empty un used partition was the Linux partition. Thanks guys!

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[QUOTE=Lyoko774;41600495]The default OpenSUSE KDE theme is quite nice. [t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8664592/snapshot1_opensuse.png[/t] KDE is reeeealllly growing on me Probably sticking with Kubuntu though, just because of the huge package repos. :v:[/QUOTE] Never liked KDE. I've always used either GNOME or XFCE. Don't really remember why I didn't like it.

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;41604349]Never liked KDE. I've always used either GNOME or XFCE. Don't really remember why I didn't like it.[/QUOTE] Back in the ubuntu hardy days, I disliked KDE because of the performance problems. but now since those are void for me I really enjoy KDE.

[QUOTE=kaukassus;41604591]Back in the ubuntu hardy days, I disliked KDE because of the performance problems. but now since those are void for me I really enjoy KDE.[/QUOTE] KDE is pretty great performance wise but I think it's hard to make it look decent.

I just wish KDE's configuration was less annoying. I still can never remember if the Plasma theme settings are in Workspace Appearance or in Application Appearance...

[QUOTE=Lyoko774;41607802]I just wish KDE's configuration was less annoying. I still can never remember if the Plasma theme settings are in Workspace Appearance or in Application Appearance...[/QUOTE] The appearance split is kind of wonky, but generally I have no issue with KDE's configs, personally.

Oh, and fuck the wallet subsystem. I don't know why, but it loves to break.

[QUOTE=Lyoko774;41609491]Oh, and fuck the wallet subsystem. I don't know why, but it loves to break.[/QUOTE] Agh yeah the wallet system is total shit. Really annoying itd always break for me too.

So I have 10 or so shitty promotional USB sticks, 1GB each. They are partitioned to two drives, one being 89mb and having html pages. I want to get rid of the partition and the files and just have it as a single drive but the partition is read only. I've tried using gparted, hdparm and accessing permissions via right click but none work because it's write protected. any help?

[QUOTE=Leestons;41614687]So I have 10 or so shitty promotional USB sticks, 1GB each. They are partitioned to two drives, one being 89mb and having html pages. I want to get rid of the partition and the files and just have it as a single drive but the partition is read only. I've tried using gparted, hdparm and accessing permissions via right click but none work because it's write protected. any help?[/QUOTE] I had one of these years ago I think I had to flash the memory with a program. [url]http://www.myblog.bloggybloggy.com/usb-key-fix-mptools-11-05-2008/[/url] I'll keep looking for anything linux related.

Ubuntu has never really worked for me. Something about it does not play well with my WiFi and I cannot seem to figure out what it is exactly. The connection will basically drop after a few seconds of web browsing or even trying to update to a newer version. Has anyone heard of this issue?

What kind of card do you have?