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Re: Arch Linux

Postby viking60 » 11 Mar 2011, 23:58

Yeah well it is a kind of sloppy description. But I guess it could be useful.
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Re: Arch Linux

Postby viking60 » 12 Mar 2011, 17:55

OK got most of it working as before skiped conky and used gkrellm with the invisible theme. That works better when I switch to KDE.
Going to install Slim now. I like that better than gdm......
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Re: Arch Linux

Postby dedanna1029 » 12 Mar 2011, 23:15

Yes, I do too. The only single gripe I have with it, is that it doesn't do timed login. Glad you're making progress. Hope it turns out well.
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Re: Arch Linux

Postby viking60 » 13 Mar 2011, 13:01

I have direct login working. How should timed login work :?:
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Re: Arch Linux

Postby dedanna1029 » 13 Mar 2011, 17:00

Timed login is when it logs in the user of your choice after so many seconds (also of your choice). Slim doesn't do it - I asked b1o about it earlier in this thread. Have also asked in other various areas of the internet.
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Re: Arch Linux

Postby viking60 » 13 Mar 2011, 17:14

And what do you need the delay for?
Anyway.... Got the lamp server working Apache PHP and Mysql is configured and running. Webmin too. Now I will install phpmyadmin....
And done :coffee_smile:
Now I am almost back to the good old status. I am amazed how much I had done with that thing that I had forgotten all about. I guess the backup script will be used now :-D
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Re: Arch Linux

Postby dedanna1029 » 14 Mar 2011, 07:20

Very nice. :)

I use timed login so it will log me in with my main user, but if my son or someone uses this computer, they have time to switch to their user, or, if I want to login to one of my own alternate users, I can. I only give it some 5-10 seconds, so not a big deal here.
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Re: Arch Linux

Postby viking60 » 14 Mar 2011, 17:19

Aha makes sense. Ok have reinstalled fbsplash with theme arch-black. I kind of like that one. Normally I say I don't like splash screens, but this one gives nice messages if something is not started or shut down correctly.
I installed fbsplash from AUR. And the arch-black theme.
Basically i added this to my kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst:

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logo.nologo quiet nomodeset vga=795 console=tty1 splash=silent,fadein,fadeout,theme:arch-black

To start the splash early in the initcpio I added it to the hooks in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf:

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HOOKS="base udev autodetect pata scsi sata filesystems fbsplash"

I tried to put the fbsplash at the begining of the list but there was no difference so I figure it is safest to put it at the end.
Then I rebuilt my initcpio via

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mkinitcpio

Looks good! :tux5:
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Re: Arch Linux

Postby dedanna1029 » 14 Mar 2011, 22:13

Very 8-)
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Re: Arch Linux

Postby dedanna1029 » 22 Mar 2011, 07:08

Kinda have a weird one with updates tonight. Wondering if it's anything to worry about?

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Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
checking package integrity...
(11/11) checking for file conflicts                                                            [#######################################################] 100%
( 1/11) upgrading acroread                                                                     [#######################################################] 100%
( 2/11) upgrading elfutils                                                                     [#######################################################] 100%
/tmp/alpm_DuZhCb/.INSTALL: line 17: gconfpkg: command not found
error: command failed to execute correctly
( 3/11) upgrading yelp                                                                         [#######################################################] 100%
/tmp/alpm_Rh5WLa/.INSTALL: line 4: gconfpkg: command not found
( 4/11) upgrading gnome2-user-docs                                                             [#######################################################] 100%
( 5/11) upgrading hydrogen                                                                     [#######################################################] 100%
( 6/11) upgrading libproxy                                                                     [#######################################################] 100%
( 7/11) upgrading libxi                                                                        [#######################################################] 100%
( 8/11) upgrading licenses                                                                     [#######################################################] 100%
( 9/11) upgrading shorewall                                                                    [#######################################################] 100%
(10/11) upgrading shorewall6                                                                   [#######################################################] 100%
(11/11) upgrading xlockmore                                                                    [#######################################################] 100%
[root@dedanna ~]# pacman -Ss gconfpkg
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Re: Arch Linux

Postby viking60 » 22 Mar 2011, 09:51

No problemo here:

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sjekker pakkens integritet ...
(4/4) leter etter filkonflikter                                                                                                                [#######################################################################################] 100%
(1/4) oppgraderer elfutils                                                                                                                     [#######################################################################################] 100%
(2/4) oppgraderer yelp                                                                                                                         [#######################################################################################] 100%
(3/4) oppgraderer gnome2-user-docs                                                                                                             [#######################################################################################] 100%
(4/4) oppgraderer libproxy                                                                                                                     [#######################################################################################] 100%
.:[ thomas@viking60-server : 09:49:59 : ~ ]:.
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What is the output of cat /etc/profile ?

There have been examples of gconfpkg not working because it was not in the PATH.
gkonfpkg is in /usr/sbin/gconfpkg ;

I added /usr/sbin to the PATH definition in /etc/profile. Rebooted and all was working as it should

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Re: Arch Linux

Postby dedanna1029 » 22 Mar 2011, 19:19

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cat /etc/profile
# /etc/profile

#Set our umask
umask 022

# Set our default path
PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:----->/usr/sbin:/sbin"
export PATH

# Load profiles from /etc/profile.d
if test -d /etc/profile.d/; then
   for profile in /etc/profile.d/*.sh; do
      test -r $profile && . $profile
   done
   unset profile
fi

# Source global bash config
if test "$PS1" && test "$BASH" && test -r /etc/bash.bashrc; then
   . /etc/bash.bashrc
fi

# Termcap is outdated, old, and crusty, kill it.
unset TERMCAP

# Man is much better than us at figuring this out
unset MANPATH

Added it ages ago 'cause I had several other packages that require it.

Edit: To add to that:

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ls /usr/sbin | grep gconf
gconfpkg
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