Just a couple of problems...

Izobalax · 2008-06-28 16:24:35

OK, I've tried looking all over the net for the solutions to these problems and I've not found anything yet; even Arch's famous wiki can't save me. Can YOU?

1. When I'm choosing a destination to save a download in Firefox (the pop-up box to locate where to save a file) Firefox crashes instantly. Other programs (like Brasero) also exhibit the same behaviour when attempting to open up the pop-up box and browse through my system. Running Firefox from the terminal, as soon as it crashes the terminal reports a Segmentation Fault.

This obviously is quite annoying as I can't download or upload anything in Firefox or access my directories from inside a program.

HALP?

2. MPD fails to load when Arch is booting the daemons. Investigation shows that it's because the mpd.pid file in /var/run/mpd/ is missing. This happens every time I boot up the machine. This means that whenever I boot up the machine and want to listen to music via mpd and sonata, I have to:

$ touch /var/run/mpd/mpd.pid
$ chown izo:users /var/run/mpd/*

MPD then works fine after doing, but I shouldn't have to do this every time I boot up and want to listen to music.

3. PekWM 0.16: the CmdDialog function fails to run any command I enter. It also can't delete any characters I type in.

If anyone can help in these that's be awesome.

/izo\

unixguru · 2008-06-28 17:10:57

For fixing firefox and brasero, reinstalling gtk might do the trick.

Last edited by unixguru (2008-06-28 17:12:02)

tigrmesh · 2008-06-28 17:49:57

Maybe there's a problem with the permissions on the /tmp directory. If it isn't already, try changing it via "chmod -R 1777 /tmp"

Factory · 2008-06-29 05:14:47

I've always had a problem with starting mpd from the daemons line. You could try to just change the location of the pid file to a file in your home directory instead. Make sure you post here again if this solves your mpd problem (because I'd like to know ).

As far as your segfaulting programs, you should see what those programs have in common as far as runtime dependencies. There's a good chance whatever utility is being used to browse your directory structure is damaged in someway.

zenj · 2008-06-29 05:21:53

I found that the wiki's MPD instructions did not work for me out of the box. I set the ownership of the mpd related directories to my account, rather than (all files *) as stated in the wiki. The daemon part didnt work either so i just have a shell script as my Sonata shortcut which first runs mpd, then sonata. I guess I could add mpd to my sessions list so it loads when I first boot into Gnome as an alternative to clicking an icon.... but the former method suits me fine.

Izobalax · 2008-06-29 17:30:54

Hi all! Thanks for the help thus far...

unixguru wrote:

For fixing firefox and brasero, reinstalling gtk might do the trick.

I tried this and unfortunately the problem remains.

tigrmesh wrote:

Maybe there's a problem with the permissions on the /tmp directory. If it isn't already, try changing it via "chmod -R 1777 /tmp"

Sorry, which problem is this in relation to?

Factory wrote:

I've always had a problem with starting mpd from the daemons line. You could try to just change the location of the pid file to a file in your home directory instead. Make sure you post here again if this solves your mpd problem (because I'd like to know smile ).
As far as your segfaulting programs, you should see what those programs have in common as far as runtime dependencies. There's a good chance whatever utility is being used to browse your directory structure is damaged in someway.

Moving the pid file location to my ~/.mpd/ folder did the trick and the daemon successfully loads during bootup. Thanks for that! Consider this particular problem solved.

How would I check runtime dependancies?

/izo\

Izobalax · 2008-06-29 18:36:03

Oh, I've just across a real strange one: there's no xorg.conf file in my /etc/X11/ folder.

Where the hell has that gone? How can I find it?

/izo\

Izobalax · 2008-06-29 20:12:37

Izobalax wrote:

Oh, I've just across a real strange one: there's no xorg.conf file in my /etc/X11/ folder.
Where the hell has that gone? How can I find it?
/izo\

OK, solved this one. I found a xorg.conf.new file in the /root folder. I just copied it, renamed the copied version to xorg.conf and placed it in /etc/X11/, as well as enabling 2D acceleration for my Intel video driver.

Compiz Fusion in xfce now functions satisfactorily.

The only problem I seem to have left, then, is PekWM's CmdDialog problem.

/izo\

Factory · 2008-07-01 00:11:56

Perhaps your PekWM's problem has something to do with not having the correct config file in your home directory much like your xorg.conf problem? It's a silly suggestion, but perhaps this is the case. Also have you googled to search for any problems with whatever PekWM version your using? Arch Linux uses the _very_ latest versions of programs, and sometimes all of the bugs haven't been ironed out of programs yet. Perhaps other people are having the same problem.

Izobalax · 2008-07-01 00:35:26

Factory wrote:

Perhaps your PekWM's problem has something to do with not having the correct config file in your home directory much like your xorg.conf problem? It's a silly suggestion, but perhaps this is the case. Also have you googled to search for any problems with whatever PekWM version your using? Arch Linux uses the _very_ latest versions of programs, and sometimes all of the bugs haven't been ironed out of programs yet. Perhaps other people are having the same problem.

Google is surprisingly sparse, or at least, I'm not using it properly.

/izo\

Factory · 2008-07-01 03:57:08

Looks like it's something isolated to your install. Try installing an older version. See if this changes anything.

tankmcp · 2008-08-19 15:55:16

Maybe there's a problem with the permissions on the /tmp directory. If it isn't already, try changing it via "chmod -R 1777 /tmp"

thanks tigrmesh. I had a similar problem saving files from firefox links and this fixed it.

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