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Arch Linux: USB mouse fails after an hour of running
I have just installed Arch Linux with kernel version 3.9.5-1. While running xorg (in particular, XMonad), my Microsoft optical USB mouse fails (stops sending movements) after a length of time, every ...
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modprobe.d error on boot, ignoring bad
Hi I get this error at boot:
libkmod: kmod_config_parse: /etc/modprobe.d/acpi-call.conf line 2: ignoring bad
on my arch linux thinkpad. Here's the thing: I deleted that file about two weeks ago, my ...
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libreoffice writer renders dejavu font differently. Why?
Here is how it is rendered on Ubuntu :
Here is how it is rendered on Arch linux :
Why is it different?
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arch linux update - Binaries move to /usr/bin requiring update intervention
I just botched the latest update for arch linux. Here's what I did:
pacman -Syu --ignore filesystem,bash
reboot
So I logged out before running:
pacman -S bash
pacman -Su
Now I see this:
sh: ...
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Why is systemd not setting my system time?
I'm running Arch Linux. Recently, when I turn on my PC, the system time is set to 1:00 1 January 1970 - presumably the 1:00 o'clock is from the timezone shift.
Does anyone have any ideas why systemd ...
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Can't make an iso of burned DVD-R
I've got problem while trying to open burned DVD-R, I even can't to make an iso image of it within dd - after making iso image, I've tried to mount them:
mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt -o ...
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How can I run a command at successful ethernet connect in Arch?
I have a Raspberry Pi running ArchARM, and would like to make a reverse SSH tunnel as soon as it connects to the network via ethernet.
I made an executable (+x) shell script in /usr/bin, and would ...
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When I try to write to an NTFS partition in Arch Linux, it fails with “cannot open <file>: permission denied”. Why?
I'm running Arch Linux off a flash drive. /dev/sdb1 is mounted as /, /dev/sdb2 is mounted as /home.
/dev/sda3 is the main NTFS partition on the internal hard drive of my laptop. I have it mounted, ...
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Can I Install Arch Linux From Mint LiveCD?
I burned a DVD-R of Arch Linux and tried to install it, but the May image (what I was using) did not include the wifi libraries, so I couldn't connect to the repo to install. I burned a DVD-R of the ...
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Reconfigure line-in as analog-out
I am trying to reconfigure my "line in" as another "analog out" and use it alongside with the default analog out port.
I am using an onboard realtek sound card. It is very simple to do this in ...
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Two networks, one local, one internet
I am doing some development on a raspberry pi, running arch linux on both the pi and my desktop. After having horrible connection problems with using just wireless (I live in an apartment complex ...
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Arch Linux MBR installation
Pardon me for my ignorance, but as a new Linux user, I honestly know little to nothing about these things.
I'm trying to set up an MBR install for Arch alongside Windows 8, though it doesn't make much ...
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Save Linux aliases for later usage
After repeating an Arch Linux installation for several times I started to wonder whether I could make things easier for me in the future by taking some general commands that I am bound to use again ...
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How to use Arch Build System (abs) behind proxy?
I recently installed arch linux on my laptop and I want to install dwm on it. The arch linux installation guide recommends the use of abs for compiling dwm. However, abs does not seem to work on my ...
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Fix Overlapping Partitions
Today I went to resize one of my drivers partitions as I am currently switching from Ubuntu to ArchLinux as my main OS.
However when I go into Gparted I get the error "Cant have overlapping ...
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How to execute bash script without password?
I need to execute the script after system boot. For example:
(sleep 5 && (sudo dhcpcd wlp4s0))
What I need: Executing the script. What I have: [sudo] password for eugene: I has been edited ...
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ArchLinux's AUR
I'm trying to find more information on the individual AUR ArchLinux packages. When you install a package from the AUR and the package gets updated online, do you get the update when updating via the ...
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Shell doesn't appear when connecting to RasPi via SSH
I have a raspberry pi with Arch Linux ARM installed. I would like to run commands via my laptop. I configured SSH correctly and I can log in, but I can't do anything. There is no shell. ssh user@host ...
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XFCE/X11: Keyboard layout changes overnight, special symbols can not be entered
A very weird problem
After work, I lock my screen and go home
The morning after, my keyboard layout has changed from de_CH to en_US
At random times, my urxvt-tabbed windows don't accept special ...
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Trying to create a Symbolic link between Sublime Text 2 and Subl
As the title says, I'm trying to create a sym link for my Sublime_text launcher, I did:
sudo ln -s /path/to/sublime_text /usr/bin/subl
and when I ls /usr/bin the blue subl link is there. Then I ...
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Using a file in a USB as a encryption keyfile in archlinux-system encryption
Where do i specify the path to the keyfile stored in an external usb for archlinux-system encryption?
cryptkey=/dev/disk/by-id/..... doesn't seem to get the specific file in my usb...
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ArchLinux's Partition Suggestions
I'm trying to install ArchLinux and I've run into something extremely weird.
Its guide suggests that you should create 2 partitions:
~15gb root partition
Home partition [filling the rest of the ...
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Google Music Manager and Xomnad
How can I configure my Xmonad config that is displayed in the google music manager?
I cannot open the options window from the context menu, like the troubleshooter window is working.
Has anybody got ...
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yaourt asking “please run yaourt as a non-privileged user”
This is a newbie question: why does yaourt in Arch Linux always warn you to "please run yaourt as a non-privileged user"? I am running the following:
$ sudo yaourt <package-name>
... to ...
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My nvidia-settings /etc/X11/xorg.conf seems to not be saving or running?
I've got a fresh install of Arch-Linux, I'm running Gnome/GDM/Nvidia proprietary driver from pacman -S nvidia
I then went
sudo nvidia-xconfig and sudo nvidia-settings changed my monitor to ...
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Samba asking for password when it shouldn't
I just updated Samba on my Arch Linux machine to 4.0.5 and now it is asking for password even when it shouldn't, and didn't do before the update.
This is my smb.conf: ...
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Arch linux wont boot from the usb
well i mean it starts. but then i get an error saying:
ERROR: ' /dev/disk/by-label/' device did not show up after 30 seconds
falling back to interctive prompt
you can try to fix the problem manually, ...
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permanent powertop changes with systemctl
I have got a .sh-script, trying to make powertop changes permanent.
'auto' > '/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:02.1/power/control';
the commands in this .sh-script are all of this type.
I have a ...
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Booting ArchLinux image under VirtualBox with EFI mode issue
I've spend a bunch of time trying to boot ArchLinux image using VirtualBox (v.4.2.6) with EFI mode enabled under Windows 7. All I get is UEFI shell without any evidence of image successfully booted. ...
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Mounting +2.2 TiB Volumes on 32-bit ArchLinux
I've recently setup a 32-bit Arch Linux installation for home server usage. When attempting to connect and mount my 3 terabyte external USB harddrive, I am notified that volumes above 2TiB are not ...
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Booting an encrypted system from a flash drive without user interaction
I have an unused desktop that I'm planning on turning to a household server running (hopefully) Arch Linux. I know that I can fully encrypt the system and have to enter a password upon each boot but I ...
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Installing wireless Broadcom drivers on Arch Linux
So how do I accomplish this last step to this journey? I already installed Xfce even, thanks to Ethernet I was able to.
However I still need to figure out the wireless drivers. I've already tried ...
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Arch Linux Terminal is Garbled After Install (latest)
I've installed Arch Linux successfully on a Virtual Machine (VMWare) with no issues. However, when I installed Arch on an older physical box I'm getting a bit of weirdness (Old Gateway PIII, 766 Mhz ...
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Process hanging in disk sleep when installing archlinux
I'm trying to install from the latest archlinux iso, but when trying to configure my wireless card for the installation, the ip process goes into uninterruptible sleep (D).
My wireless interface is a ...
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How do I get a volume OSD just like the one in OSX?
I'm using a Dell Studio laptop which has volume up/down hotkeys. On pressing these, I want a volume OSD to popup to show my current volume status just like in OSX; that is, just like:
Anybody know ...
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glibc's --with-cpu option
I'm unable to compile glibc: configure exits with the following error:
configure: error: The [CPU] subspecies of x86_64 is not supported.
I'm sorry; this must be somewhere, but I haven't been able ...
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Set refind as default boot loaader on a mac. ( Having trouble saving bless settings )
I have done quite a bit net surfing and have not been able to find a solution to my problem.
Here is the background info:
The refind boot loader is installed to my EFI partition on the mac (sda1)
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Is it safe to disable ext4 journaling on root and home partitions?
On my ArchLinux laptop I have / and an ecryptfs encrypted /home partition formatted with ext4. Both contains importand (backuped) data.
Is it safe to disable ext4 journaling when partitions contains ...
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Get Ctrl+Arrow to work under tmux+urxvt
I have tmux command key as C-a. C-Left/C-Right to jump between words (or whatever it is called) works just fine in urxvt alone, but under urxvt/tmux it'll print '5D' and '5C' for Left/Right ...
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Reading CPU usage
I am building a Linux, web-based resource monitor.
For now I am looking forward to use:
df for reading HDD usage status
/proc/meminfo (through cat) for reading RAM status
mpstat (from sysstat ...
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How to fix a corrupted(too big) GPT?
So, I got a new SSD. I decided to use GPT instead of MBR on it, so I'm a bit lost. It ended up getting corrupted. I'm not for sure if the GPT just didn't take the host protected area into account, or ...
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No internet access on Arch Linux
Today I installed Arch Linux on my laptop. Everything seems to work okay, except Internet access.
I have tons of tutorials, nothing works. When I type ping google.com it returns
unknown host ...
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Random freezing caused by khugepaged?
I have a fairly beefy Arch Linux computer, kernel 3.7.7-1-ARCH. However, recently it's been having random freeze ups. Never common, but it'd freeze for a good 15 seconds where no program is ...
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Sandboxing of files without a new user
Is it possible to isolate certain folders from all programs except one, without creating a new user? A bit like a reverse sandbox.
Specifically I want to protect the .bitcoin folder from being ...
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The idle power changes after restarts
I have this odd behavior that the idle power is either high or low. E.g. sometimes it is 20 W and sometimes 10 W. It stays there until rebooted of suspend/rewake.
All parameters that I know of like ...
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Are there any Linux distributions which have Perl 6 as the default/only Perl version?
The title pretty much says it all.
In the same way that Arch Linux has Python 3 as the built-in/main version of Python, are there any Linux/Unixish distros that have done the same with Perl 6? I ...
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lazy prompt for ssh public key passphrase
I have ssh public keys set up on my computers. They have passphrases. Whenever I need to, e.g. push to github, I have to type in the passphrase. Each time. And I'd rather ssh remembered on subsequent ...
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KMS, linux kernel 3.7 and ati mobility radeon x1350
I got problem with booting new kernel. If I on bootloader pass nomodeset flag to the kernel linux boots up successfully but it doesnt load radeon module to kernel which is really frustrating cause I ...
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Arch Linux - dhcpcd messages at login screen
I have a fresh installation of Arch Linux, and I've enabled dhcpcd on eth0. However, the message output for dhcpcd startup appears after the OS is booted up and is at the login screen, so I get this:
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Open up firewall automatically to anybody who has successfully connected via SSH
I have a server which runs a few services. However, for security reasons, I configured the server so that nothing, except for SSH, is accessible from outside.
What I'd like to do instead, though, is ...
