I just installed Gnome on Arch, and launched it with startx.
I wasn't able to figure out how to cleanly close the Gnome session even after searching for an answer online.
Ctrl Alt Backspace didn't work since it's usually disabled by default.
I had to log into another text terminal (Ctrl Alt F2) and issue sudo killall Xorg.
How can I cleanly close the graphic session and get back to my terminal?
imac 5,1 core 2 duo
i have only been able to install ubuntu 11.4 which means that my wireless network doesnt work, it says device not ready, firmware missing.
how do i install ubuntu latest version using the terminal because the apple bios???? wont allow me to mount the iso file. what script do i need to get it installed via the terminal ?
ive managed 11.4 but its not support4d anymore. imac core duo has notorius problems with linux
Hi guys/gals.
I installed Debian Jessie with LXDE as my default desktop environment, no problems, except I can't play most games. So installed the Meta Package of the Gnome Desktop environment. Everything appeared to be ok, but when I went to reboot, all I get is a black screen.
I went to the Grub and typed in "nomodeset" to get me back to a desktop.
I uninstalled Gnome (not full removal), but still have the same problem.
When I restarted in safety mode, Gnome was still a desktop option that I could load, which I did. I'm confused. Do I need to do a complete removal?
I tried installing the nvidia graphic card driver as per the Debian manual, and that left me with only a root terminal and no GUI.
I've got about 2Gigs of ram and a 2.4 GHz Pentium 3 processor with an ASUS motherboard. (yes, it's a 12 year old computer, but not used for the past few years)
Any help would be great.
Thanks in advance,
Joe
I am reading a gnuplot pdf FAQ. In section 3.13 it says: "This requires you to write contours into a temporary file using the table terminal." Then I google and all I get is terminal-table. It says: install terminal-table by applying this command:
Quote:
$ sudo gem install terminal-table
What is it all about? What is a table terminal? What is a terminal-table? It looks like terminal table is to print tables in a terminal, right?
Thanks, - A.
OK so I bought a dell precision workstation m3800 that came installed with Ubuntu. I want to switch out the hdd with a ssd and put Arch OS on there. It has no optical drive to install with a CD, so my question is if I can use a usb external optical device to install arch, and what problems might I run into?
Hello, I have just started using linux and I installed linux mint with the i3 window manager on my laptop. I am wondering how can I "theme" it so that it looks good. Right now everyhting in the terminal when I open something such as MOC is ugly and old looking... SO is firefox. How can I chnage the theme to make it more modern looking?? terminal and everything?
I have setup a dual boot system with Fedora 21 and Arch Linux. The problem is that Fedora doesn't see my encrypted Arch installation. The installations are on separate partitions and do not share anything apart from hard disk space. I have run the following commands as root in Fedora:
Code:
grub2-install /dev/sda
Code:
os-prober
Code:
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
When I rebooted, Fedora was the only OS entry showing in the GRUB menu.
There was a suggestion from one of the members of the Arch forums that I should write the entry myself into /etc/grub.d/40_custom and then re-build the grub configuration or take the Arch entry from Arch's /boot/grub/grub.cfg and just paste it into the 40_custom in Fedora and rebuild.
How do I boot from a live Arch USB stick into the installed Arch and do as stated above? How would it work? Thanks in advance for your replies.
Hi! I have a failing disk and the kernel messages are the following:
Code:
Απρ 01 15:07:02 Arch kernel: ata1: lost interrupt (Status 0x50)
Απρ 01 15:07:03 Arch kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
Απρ 01 15:07:03 Arch kernel: ata1.00: failed command: WRITE DMA
Απρ 01 15:07:03 Arch kernel: ata1.00: cmd ca/00:08:20:32:6a/00:00:00:00:00/e4 tag 0 dma 4096 out
res 40/00:00:4b:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
Απρ 01 15:07:03 Arch kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
Απρ 01 15:07:03 Arch kernel: ata1: soft resetting link
Απρ 01 15:07:03 Arch kernel: ata1.00: LPM support broken, forcing max_power
Απρ 01 15:07:03 Arch kernel: ata1.00: LPM support broken, forcing max_power
Απρ 01 15:07:03 Arch kernel: ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
Απρ 01 15:07:03 Arch kernel: ata1.01: configured for UDMA/133
Απρ 01 15:07:03 Arch kernel: ata1: EH complete
Απρ 01 15:09:19 Arch kernel: ata1: lost interrupt (Status 0x50)
Απρ 01 15:09:20 Arch kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
Απρ 01 15:09:20 Arch kernel: ata1.00: failed command: READ DMA EXT
Απρ 01 15:09:20 Arch kernel: ata1.00: cmd 25/00:20:e8:b2:fd/00:00:18:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 16384 in
res 40/00:00:4b:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
Απρ 01 15:09:20 Arch kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
Απρ 01 15:09:20 Arch kernel: ata1: soft resetting link
Απρ 01 15:09:20 Arch kernel: ata1.00: LPM support broken, forcing max_power
Απρ 01 15:09:20 Arch kernel: ata1.00: LPM support broken, forcing max_power
Απρ 01 15:09:20 Arch kernel: ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
Απρ 01 15:09:20 Arch kernel: ata1.01: configured for UDMA/133
Απρ 01 15:09:20 Arch kernel: ata1: EH complete
I have 2 disks: sda, sdb. Which disk is it referring to?
Thanks a lot
i m running file following tcl script but terminal shows nothing no error no nam file nothing
whats wrong with this script??????
set ns [new Simulator]
set nf [open out.nam w]
$ns namtrace-all $nf
proc finish {} {
global ns nf
$ns flush-trace
close $nf
exec nam out.nam &
exit 0
}
for {set i 0} {$i < 7} {incr $i} {
set n($i) [$ns node]
}
for {set i 0} {$i < 7} {incr $i} {
$ns duplex-link n($i) n([expr ($i+1)%7]) 1mb 10ms dropTail
$ns at 5.0 "finish"
$ns run
i write ns example3.tcl on terminal but terminal shows nothing even after waiting for long. when choose to close terminal it shows msg something running want to kill terminal
There are so many Linux distros, and they all look good, but which one is right for me?
That is a question that almost all new Linux users ask. Really, it just depends on you. What do you want to use it for? I’ll go through a brief rundown of some mainstream Linux distros, and maybe from there you can make up your mind. I’ll sort by the most popular ones.
Ubuntu
I don’t particularly care for Ubuntu for a few reasons: It is ad supported because they lack support from users, It comes with spyware pre-installed, and they try to act like they’re the best despite all that. A lot of people who have been using Ubuntu for a while don’t care for the new UI that they’ve installed, which is the defacto option for Ubuntu. Not only that, but they, unlike any other distro, have a very distinct security hole: a guest session that can be accessed without a password. NOT the best for use...in really any environment.
But, to their credit, they’ve got the largest software repository second only to Debian, even though there’s a lot of applications that do the same exact thing. Their UI is very polished considering that they released it just in 2011. And their forums have a ton of helpful Ubuntu users.
Linux Mint
LM is pretty much just like Ubuntu, only instead of everything being either purple or orange, it’s green or white. Much like Ubuntu, they have their own UI, and their own Software Center.. But, because they are rooted in Ubuntu (http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mint) they may inherit some of Ubuntu’s problems. You guess which ones.
Fedora
Of them all, Fedora is probably the most user friendly, except for the fact that they use cutting edge packages that may/may not be 100% stable, and Fedora is making a change as of 21 to focus more on stability. (Personally, I’ve had very few issues with stability, and the issues I come accross seem to apply to most distors) Other than that, it’s a great distro, asthetically pleasing, Fedora comes standard with GNOME Boxes (lets you run another OS within Fedora, like Windows), an app store like thingy, and many nice GNOME applications.. Fedora is suitable for most any machine, including tablets and hybrids like the Lenovo Yoga, thanks to GNOME.
Debian
Debian is really in a world of their own. In an effort to focus on stability, they sacrifice reasonably up-to-date software. If you have old hardware that was supported, but is not now, Debian is for you.
Debian also has a lot of software, but I’ve had trouble with broken packages, dependencies completely missing, and whatnot.
openSUSE
Like Linux Mint, everything in openSUSE is green. Unlike Linux Mint, openSUSE is rock stable, mature, and has great avenues for customizing it to your specific needs, using the GUI. Most everything configurable is made much easier with YAST, rather than using the command line. openSUSE features something no other distro has: a one-click install for applications. Ubuntu is trying to copy it...good luck with that. And, like Debian, they've got most every package under the sun...which can be good and bad at the same time. The packages in openSUSE are complete, no missing dependencies from what I can see. The only problem I can see with it is that WiFi drivers and nonfree codecs can be a pain.
Now the reason you're reading this is to get an idea of what's out there as far as Linux goes. But maybe you haven't thought about Unix as a viable option.
Solaris
If you have an i386 arch processor, you can forget trying to boot up with Solaris 11. But once you get it running on an x86_64 machine, it's pretty decent, considering that it is an enterprise OS. It's stable. It's fast. And it has some proprietary Oracle tools to help administrate it, much like YAST on openSUSE. Solaris is targeted at being a workstation OS, so you won’t find things like games in abundance in it. Considering what it is, Solaris rocks.