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

[QUOTE=Anderen2;42555469]The joy of Catalyst on Linux.. Had to spend an half-hour of removing and installing an new Catalyst driver after the upgrade to Kubuntu 13.10 dumped me to low-graphics mode. And after upgrading to the new Catalyst driver (13.11 Beta) the game I'm working on keeps segfaulting with error 4 in fglrx_dri.so. Seems like they broke blendmaps/texture splatting in their latest drivers. Fun.[/QUOTE] I've decided to just stick with my 5000 series until AMD get their shit together.

So I'm at my Nans' and I've just upgraded to Windows 8 SP1. At her house I have a computer which is essentially mine for when I stay over when my parents go on holiday or something. Previously I had it set-up so I had mine and her accounts on a Windows 8 set-up and it's also dual booted with whatever Linux distro I like at the minute. Windows 8 does a poor job with multi-accounts in my opinion. All Windows OSes have done. Feel free to disagree. I'm looking for a really basic distro that essentially has just a web browser, printing facilities and maybe LibreOffice; and sort of resembles Windows in a sense. I'm looking at Lubuntu but is there anything even lighter? This is just so instead of my Nan having to deal with Windows 8 (Previously I had it set-up so it booted and then went into a desktop with Start8 enabled and auto loaded into Chrome with a nice 'Speed dial' type homepage). ZorinOS looks nice but it's a pretty huge download.

[QUOTE=benbb;42556531]So I'm at my Nans' and I've just upgraded to Windows 8 SP1. At her house I have a computer which is essentially mine for when I stay over when my parents go on holiday or something. Previously I had it set-up so I had mine and her accounts on a Windows 8 set-up and it's also dual booted with whatever Linux distro I like at the minute. Windows 8 does a poor job with multi-accounts in my opinion. All Windows OSes have done. Feel free to disagree. I'm looking for a really basic distro that essentially has just a web browser, printing facilities and maybe LibreOffice; and sort of resembles Windows in a sense. I'm looking at Lubuntu but is there anything even lighter? This is just so instead of my Nan having to deal with Windows 8 (Previously I had it set-up so it booted and then went into a desktop with Start8 enabled and auto loaded into Chrome with a nice 'Speed dial' type homepage). ZorinOS looks nice but it's a pretty huge download.[/QUOTE] After using Linux for awhile, I agree. I also don't like that you must have an enterprise level OS to have multiple users on one machine at once. My 1997 Debian system is capable of something that a modern Windows system, isn't.

For a few weeks now, wireless on Ubuntu has been quitting on me every five minutes or so on my university network. It works fine in Windows 8. I figured I'd use that until 13.10 was released; now that it's released it's still not working. Wireless connects, and works, and never indicates a problem (the indicator always shows a successful wifi connection) yet after a few minutes (or if I'm unlucky, a few seconds) it stops loading pages. ping 8.8.8.8 returns "<my IP address>: Destination host unreachable" when the problems begin (whereas it correctly goes through prior to that). My laptop is a lenovo G770. Atheros AR9285.

SO I found this and I thought it was cool [URL="http://nautil.us/issue/6/secret-codes/when-hackers-fight"]When Hackers fight.[/URL]

[QUOTE=Elecbullet;42559545]For a few weeks now, wireless on Ubuntu has been quitting on me every five minutes or so on my university network. It works fine in Windows 8. I figured I'd use that until 13.10 was released; now that it's released it's still not working. Wireless connects, and works, and never indicates a problem (the indicator always shows a successful wifi connection) yet after a few minutes (or if I'm unlucky, a few seconds) it stops loading pages. ping 8.8.8.8 returns "<my IP address>: Destination host unreachable" when the problems begin (whereas it correctly goes through prior to that). My laptop is a lenovo G770. Atheros AR9285.[/QUOTE] In my case, my non-Windows devices lose their IP address on my university's wireless network. Works, and randomly loses connection and according to Wireshark, just ends up repeating the DHCP IP address request process in an infinite loop with the DHCP server responding that the IP address isn't available. And it repeats every ten seconds for like 5-10 minutes until the server lets it use it again. Like so: [URL]https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3-C5QKIvY2zbFBmYmt5QUxOd0U/edit?usp=sharing[/URL] Install wireshark and let it run in the background and see what happens when the connection drops. It can sometimes be helpful for stuff like this. That is if you haven't already.

For the hell of it, I'm trying to get Xubuntu 13.10 on my Vaio Pro before I wipe it and just reinstall Windows 8. It will boot from the livecd and I can get Grub2 to show up if I manually mount the EFI partition and copy the grubx64.efi to EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi, though then it just sits at a black screen. So close, but so far away. EDIT: Ran boot-repair and it seems to drop me into busybox, saying that the /dev/disk/by-uuid/[insert the uuid of my drive here] does not exist.

[QUOTE=Venom Mk III;42551155]force install, ignore dependencies.[/QUOTE] For fucks sake, never do that. Only use force when a) a news post on archlinux.org says it's required or b) you already broke your system and it's the only way to fix something. [editline]18th October 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=PredGD;42551227]got it working by choosing the third provider. one problem though, fonts aren't really working for me.[/QUOTE] Have you tried reading the wiki page for Steam? It talks about corrupt/missing fonts a few times.

[QUOTE=Larikang;42563429]For fucks sake, never do that. Only use force when a) a news post on archlinux.org says it's required or b) you already broke your system and it's the only way to fix something.[/QUOTE] He asked how to do it without installing the drivers, I warned him that it might break steam.

[QUOTE=Larikang;42563429] Have you tried reading the wiki page for Steam? It talks about corrupt/missing fonts a few times.[/QUOTE] thanks! got it fixed by installing the steam fonts and putting them in ~/.fonts!

[URL="http://dev.novaember.com/s/13-10-18_16-57-04_571929250.webm"]I'm experimenting with netcat[/URL] [editline]18th October 2013[/editline] I also streamed raw PCM data from MPD over the internet to someone else with VLC [IMG]http://dev.novaember.com/s/13-10-18_17-28-43_131561823.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://dev.novaember.com/s/13-10-18_17-27-22_286576853.png[/IMG] which doesn't work great but it works :v: [editline]custom edito[/editline] [vid]http://dev.novaember.com/s/13-10-18_17-42-22_533325568.webm[/vid]

since the spotify client is being really mean to me and slowing down my entire system, I decided to move back to clementine (gonna miss you, radio). problem is, I'm unable to log in with my spotify account through clementine for whatever reason. I press the login button, but nothing at all happens. running clementine through terminal doesn't give me any errors either when trying to log in. need dire help, need my music!

So I got conky an for some reason I can't edit the .conf file. It gives me this error [code]Error opening file '/etc/conky/conky.conf': Permission denied The file on disk may now be truncated![/code]

Check its permissions (For example with ls -l), either you're not the owner or you have no r or w right on it

[code]/etc/conky# ls -l total 8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2549 Dec 14 2011 conky.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1830 Dec 14 2011 conky_no_x11.conf[/code] That's what I got.

Did you try sudo? :v:

[QUOTE=PredGD;42564372]since the spotify client is being really mean to me and slowing down my entire system, I decided to move back to clementine (gonna miss you, radio). problem is, I'm unable to log in with my spotify account through clementine for whatever reason. I press the login button, but nothing at all happens. running clementine through terminal doesn't give me any errors either when trying to log in. need dire help, need my music![/QUOTE] Google for mopidy

[QUOTE=Megaman1811;42565388]Did you try sudo? :v:[/QUOTE] logged in as root mate.

[QUOTE=XxThreedogxX;42565617]logged in as root mate.[/QUOTE] Are you 101% sure? [editline]18th October 2013[/editline] What if you do chmod +w on it?

[QUOTE=Darkwater124;42565627]Are you 101% sure? [editline]18th October 2013[/editline] What if you do chmod +w on it?[/QUOTE] I tried and it didn't work.

By the way, why are you editing the default config, why not just create ~/.conkyrc?

Could be a filesystem error. Might want to do a fsck.

I managed to get Xubuntu mostly working on my laptop, I needed to run boot-repair and add a line to my grub config to fix an issue with the pci-e SSD. I still need to get sound working and I hear there's a patch to fix the power states. Not looking forward to fixing the sound, I never have luck with that. Hopefully dual booting Windows 8 goes well.

[QUOTE=Darkwater124;42565831]By the way, why are you editing the default config, why not just create ~/.conkyrc?[/QUOTE] It might be because I'm absolutely retarded. [editline]18th October 2013[/editline] Now I can't get ncmpc to work. None of my music is showing up for some reason.

The upgrade to 13.10 went pretty smoothly, even though the installation took 3 times as long as the download. Fuck it, whatever. I got Ubuntu because I'm [i]lazy[/i]. Upgrading to 13.10 was as easy as going to Ubuntu Update and clicking OK on the message that said "heya there's a new version available". I am lazy at the expense of not having bleeding edge software. Such is life.

Eh I think I'mk gonna stay in mint 15, until mint 16 is out. Gonna be worth it.

Ubuntu 13.10 finally supports my HP, no need to turn the ACPI off and no more malfunctioning USBs.

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;42565517]Google for mopidy[/QUOTE] had to get a few other packages which is fine, but I can't install one of the first ones I need. [code][ragingvlad@RagingArch libspotify]$ makepkg ==> Making package: libspotify 12.1.51-1 (Sat Oct 19 00:54:18 CEST 2013) ==> Checking runtime dependencies... ==> Checking buildtime dependencies... ==> Retrieving sources... -> Downloading libspotify-12.1.51-Linux-x86_64-release.tar.gz... % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 178 100 178 0 0 859 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 864 100 178 100 178 0 0 398 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 398 100 1534k 100 1534k 0 0 1549k 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 5219k ==> Validating source files with md5sums... libspotify-12.1.51-Linux-x86_64-release.tar.gz ... Passed ==> Validating source files with sha256sums... libspotify-12.1.51-Linux-x86_64-release.tar.gz ... Passed ==> Extracting sources... -> Extracting libspotify-12.1.51-Linux-x86_64-release.tar.gz with bsdtar ==> Starting build()... -> Patching Makefile... ==> Entering fakeroot environment... ==> Starting package()... mkdir -p /home/ragingvlad/Downloads/builds/libspotify/pkg/libspotify/usr/include/libspotify install include/libspotify/api.h /home/ragingvlad/Downloads/builds/libspotify/pkg/libspotify/usr/include/libspotify mkdir -p /home/ragingvlad/Downloads/builds/libspotify/pkg/libspotify/usr/lib install -T lib/libspotify.so.12 /home/ragingvlad/Downloads/builds/libspotify/pkg/libspotify/usr/lib/libspotify.so.12.1.51 cd /home/ragingvlad/Downloads/builds/libspotify/pkg/libspotify/usr/lib && ln -sf libspotify.so.12.1.51 libspotify.so.12 && ln -sf libspotify.so.12.1.51 libspotify.so mkdir -p /home/ragingvlad/Downloads/builds/libspotify/pkg/libspotify/usr/lib/pkgconfig sed -e s:PKG_PREFIX:/home/ragingvlad/Downloads/builds/libspotify/pkg/libspotify/usr:g <lib/pkgconfig/libspotify.pc >/home/ragingvlad/Downloads/builds/libspotify/pkg/libspotify/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libspotify.pc ==> Tidying install... -> Purging unwanted files... -> Compressing man and info pages... -> Stripping unneeded symbols from binaries and libraries... ==> Creating package "libspotify"... -> Generating .PKGINFO file... -> Generating .MTREE file... -> Compressing package... ==> Leaving fakeroot environment. ==> Finished making: libspotify 12.1.51-1 (Sat Oct 19 00:54:23 CEST 2013) [ragingvlad@RagingArch libspotify]$ sudo pacman -U libspotify-12.1.51-Linux-x86_64-release.tar.gz loading packages... error: missing package metadata in libspotify-12.1.51-Linux-x86_64-release.tar.gz error: 'libspotify-12.1.51-Linux-x86_64-release.tar.gz': invalid or corrupted package [ragingvlad@RagingArch libspotify]$ [/code] what is wrong here? [editline]18th October 2013[/editline] holy shit I just realized I was trying to install the wrong archive when reading through that code, I'm dumb

Fucking fglrx. Fuck you AMD, go hump a beehive full of killer bees you fucking shit fuck cunt slut

[QUOTE=XxThreedogxX;42566029]It might be because I'm absolutely retarded. [editline]18th October 2013[/editline] Now I can't get ncmpc to work. None of my music is showing up for some reason.[/QUOTE] This is late but if you do lsattr and an i shows up that means the file is immutable and you can't edit it. (even if you're root) You can use chattr to change it.