Arch Linux

[dedanna1029]

Have fun!

[viking60]

Grr That fubared the system!

[dedanna1029]

Oops! Ouch!

[viking60]

Reinstalling the whole enchilada now

[viking60]

This will take care of your problem:

Yaourt asking for password twice

If you disable the sudo password timeout by adding
Defaults timestamp_timeout=0
to /etc/sudoers, then yaourt will ask for your password twice each time you try to perform an operation that requires root. To prevent this, add:
SUDONOVERIF=1
to /etc/yaourtrc or to $HOME/.yaourtrc

[dedanna1029]

Oooooooooohhh,,, hadn't seen that. Thank you!!!

[viking60]

De nada. I am in deep shite because I have to install Arch from scratch. Didi that and got a hrrible dbus error so I'll start over again -grrrr

[dedanna1029]

What was the error? It's working fine here, other than having to reset the ~/.dbus folder once in a while?

[viking60]

I do no't remember some files missing fubaring X, So I reformated and repartitioned - Now it works fine with Gnome. The lamp server is not finished and neither is cups.
Networkmanager works fine so does ssh, MS fonts are installed and look and feel is good. Long way to gp before I am where I were. I liked slim so I guess I will reinstall that.
Fbsplah can wait etc etc.....
Oh I forgot to mention The My book backup disk was probably the reason for the dbus error. It was so fubared I barely managed to rescue it in Win. And that is where my backup was.
My Book is not good for linux due to the Windows software.

[dedanna1029]

Yeah, I have a My Book also. What I did was format it reiserfs - it still didn't get rid of the Windows software. So, now every time I mount that thing, I get two partitions mount. I just eject the one with the Windows software right off the bat. They've got those damn My Books so locked in with their software, it's pathetic.

[viking60]

I decided to format it back to NTFS I think that is ok for a backup and maybe NTFS writes less than a journaling system.
Anyway Cups is working fine now. My HP Photosmart is now the network printer for the entire house. I had to create the lpadmin group and add the users to it.

Then I altered some lines in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
from

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SystemGroup sys root

to

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SystemGroup sys root lpadmin

I also had to do some Allow from <ip> to get the network connections to work.
Cups comes with a restriction to only work on localhost so I had to change:

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localhost:631

to

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Port 631

Under #Allow remote access

After that the gnome-administration-printers menu found it immediately and picked it as a default printer on every box in the house.

So now everyone has the network printer as their default printer again
This actually works better than before, probably due to some gained experience in installing

[dedanna1029]

Nice. That should go into tips 'n tricks too!