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farkus888

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Registered: 2007-10-31

Posts: 31

questions after my first x86-64 install

I have been using arch for about a year and I just did my first x86-64 install of arch last night. I have a few questions about some things that didn't work automatically like they do in 32 bit arch.

First of all I used the useradd script to create my user account, after creating the account I had to manually

chown -R farkus888:user /home/farkus888

because the ownership was still root:root after the account was added. I also had to manually

chmod -R 777 /tmp

because only root had rw permissions on that directory. I don't know if any other permissions were wrong but those are the ones I have come across so far.

once I stopped getting permissions errors from my attempted X sessions I found I had to manually add the openssh package before I could successfully get xfce running [using the startxfce4 command]. I didn't report or search for any sort of bug for this because I am not sure which of the packages I had installed so far should have had that listed as a dependency.

both of those issues are resolved but I wanted to get some insight from someone who has done a 64 bit install to see if they are normal or if I messed up somewhere during my install. I have 2 unresolved issues as well but I will post them in separate threads asking for help.

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,742

Re: questions after my first x86-64 install

See /tmp permissions problem. Make sure it shows:

$ ls -l -d /tmp
drwxrwxrwt ... /tmp

You might need:

chmod +t /tmp

Last edited by brebs (2008-02-06 16:31:29)

farkus888

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Registered: 2007-10-31

Posts: 31

Re: questions after my first x86-64 install

thanks brebs, I will check to make sure the sticky bit is set on that when I get home.

still looking for insight on why useradd did not change permissions on my home directory and why openssh wasn't caught as a dependency even though it was needed to get into xfce.

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

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Re: questions after my first x86-64 install

Who sez useradd will change the permissions of directories that already exist? That would be far too helpful for an OS like Linux

farkus888

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Registered: 2007-10-31

Posts: 31

Re: questions after my first x86-64 install

well I don't get any results for "ssh" in flyspray and "xfce" doesn't return anything for xfce failing to start because of ssh. has anyone else needed to grab openssh manually to get xfce running?