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

man I want some decent wayland shells. it'd also be nice if using xwayland didn't require me to compile my entire graphics stack from git

[QUOTE=Darkwater124;41832995]My USB stick spaced while installing #! as well, try formatting it again, then retry.[/QUOTE] installed fedora again and everything worked, going to try install debian a second time

why do people do 'sudo su' instead of just 'su'? isn't that a bit redudant, execute a command to switch the current user to root using root

'sudo' uses your password, 'su' uses root's password. Some distros don't set a root password(ie ubuntu,) but if you're using sudo, 'sudo -i' is a better choice.

that's odd, almost every distribution i have used has you set the root password at install

[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;41836260]that's odd, almost every distribution i have used has you set the root password at install[/QUOTE] Ubuntu strives to be more difficult to mess up than other distros. It's what one might call being "user friendly" but what I personally call annoying. In this case it's probably just as well, considering how easily you can work around it with sudo.

Does anyone have a libnotify (or other) server recommendation? I'm using i3 with dunst right now and it doesn't work very well with screen locking (sometimes shows old notifications, sometimes doesn't, sometimes decides to crash and turn into a black box). I'm just using it for a few simple things like email and backup completion notifications.

[QUOTE=IpHa;41836224]'sudo' uses your password, 'su' uses root's password. Some distros don't set a root password(ie ubuntu,) but if you're using sudo, 'sudo -i' is a better choice.[/QUOTE] sudo su

Apparently GMod works with the open source radeon drivers. But it lags too much to be enjoyable. My theory is that GMod needs lib32-mesa-libgl or something, thing which I can't supply due to pacman spitting a conflict at me (libgl). I'm lost.

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[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;41838535]sudo su[/QUOTE] sudo -c does the same thing

uh, I've been trying to download cinnamon on my laptop for the past hour with no luck. running Arch, using the sudo pacman -S cinnamon command but it gets an error, 404, for every mirror it tries. why is this? [editline]15th August 2013[/editline] same shit happens with chromium package and the nemo package

[QUOTE=PredGD;41850752]uh, I've been trying to download cinnamon on my laptop for the past hour with no luck. running Arch, using the sudo pacman -S cinnamon command but it gets an error, 404, for every mirror it tries. why is this? [editline]15th August 2013[/editline] same shit happens with chromium package and the nemo package[/QUOTE] Your local database is out of sync with the mirrors you're downloading from. Run pacman -Syy

[QUOTE=awh;41850762]Your local database is out of sync with the mirrors you're downloading from. Run pacman -Syy[/QUOTE] ahh, thanks! been a while since I used my laptop so that explains.

This might sound like a really stupid question but why is security such a massive issue?

[QUOTE=Pepsi-cola;41850865]This might sound like a really stupid question but why is security such a massive issue?[/QUOTE] because security is...important? why else? people generally enjoy their privacy and system intactness/integrity

[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;41850890]because security is...important? why else? people generally enjoy their privacy and system intactness/integrity[/QUOTE] I mean when it comes to using root and sudo su. Some people would stab others for using them.

people would stab someone for being logged in as root because those people will eventually stab themselves (metaphorically)

Trying to see why my raspberry doesn't like my WiFi stick, does anyone know where raspbmc stores bootup logs?

Reinstalled fedora because I corrupted my partition table... I installed it as a dualboot this time because I need windows for college but whatever. I also finally took the time to configure ncmpcpp [img]http://i.imgur.com/mzOXTkO.png[/img] Do any of you guys know a way to enable the visualizer if you're using mopidy? [editline]16th August 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Killuah;41852857]Trying to see why my raspberry doesn't like my WiFi stick, does anyone know where raspbmc stores bootup logs?[/QUOTE] somewhere in /var/log ?

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;41852899]Reinstalled fedora because I corrupted my partition table... I installed it as a dualboot this time because I need windows for college but whatever. I also finally took the time to configure ncmpcpp [img]http://i.imgur.com/mzOXTkO.png[/img] Do any of you guys know a way to enable the visualizer if you're using mopidy? [editline]16th August 2013[/editline] somewhere in /var/log ?[/QUOTE] there is no way, i tried it [editline]15th August 2013[/editline] the devs say they might implement gstreamer visualization, but nothing about fifo support

[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;41852943]there is no way, i tried it [editline]15th August 2013[/editline] the devs say they might implement gstreamer visualization, but nothing about fifo support[/QUOTE] Yea I read the tweet about gstreamer support but I couldn't find anything else about it

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;41853152]Yea I read the tweet about gstreamer support but I couldn't find anything else about it[/QUOTE] he posted another update about it just a few days ago, i'd give it a while.

Found something that seems related to the USB stick [quote]Jan 1 01:02:42 raspbmc kernel: usb 1-1.2: Product: WLAN USB Device Jan 1 01:02:42 raspbmc kernel: usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: AVM GmbH Jan 1 01:02:42 raspbmc kernel: usb 1-1.2: SerialNumber: 001A4F9EE111 Jan 1 01:02:43 raspbmc kernel: bcm2708_i2c bcm2708_i2c.0: BSC0 Controller at 0x20205000 (irq 79) (baudrate 100k) Jan 1 01:02:43 raspbmc kernel: bcm2708_i2c bcm2708_i2c.1: BSC1 Controller at 0x20804000 (irq 79) (baudrate 100k) Jan 1 01:02:43 raspbmc kernel: bcm2708_spi bcm2708_spi.0: master is unqueued, this is deprecated Jan 1 01:02:43 raspbmc kernel: bcm2708_spi bcm2708_spi.0: SPI Controller at 0x20204000 (irq 80) Jan 1 01:02:49 raspbmc kernel: EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): re-mounted. Opts: (null) Jan 1 01:02:50 raspbmc kernel: Console: switching to colour dummy device 80x30 Jan 1 01:02:51 raspbmc kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 10 Jan 1 01:02:53 raspbmc kernel: IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready[/quote] Thing is, it seems to recognize that it's an AVM Fritz Wlan stick but nevertheless doesn't take it. The sticks manufacturer gave out drivers for linux, but Ubuntu v7 mind that. So i have a lib.o file, shall I put that into lib/modules?

[QUOTE=Pepsi-cola;41850900]I mean when it comes to using root and sudo su. Some people would stab others for using them.[/QUOTE] If you leave your screen open and unattended with a root shell open, someone who knows what they're doing could seriously wreck some shit.

i remember reading a thread on /g/ yesterday, the op was asking how he could make every single file permission right down to / belong to his standard, non super user account i cried

[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;41853414]i remember reading a thread on /g/ yesterday, the op was asking how he could make every single file permission right down to / belong to his standard, non super user account i cried[/QUOTE] I remember a guy asking how to chmod 777 all of his files down to /

[code]sudo find / -delete -exec chown 1000:100 {} \;[/code] =P And if they ask '-delete' removes the old user/group so you can change it.

Just installed debian squeeze on an old Compaq 5838 that was sitting on the side of the road :v: It only has 128MB of RAM, so I just put Openbox on it. I would like to use KDE but with such limited memory it's not worth it; anyone have a list of good minimal applications to run with openbox?

ncmpcpp for music player midori for browser tint2 for panel SMplayer or just mplayer for video player