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darweth · 2007-04-07 05:36:25

Hello. Thank God for this forum. I have a lot of trouble right now as a new member, the first issue probably being the most serious...

1) When booting Arch --- I get a FAILED message under the Hardware Abstraction layer when everything loads. It scrolls way too fast to read but it says something about "failed to start message bus." I was having this issue on Ubuntu tonight too just recently... urgh. Is there anyway to slow the boot up screen down so I can see what is actually says? How do I fix this? I installed GNOME so DBUS and HAL and all that stuff is there. Funny that my external USB was working at first, but now it won't show up. (The failed abstraction layer or bus thing was always there)

2) When GDM pops up I get a system beep. Like the pc speaker noise. It is annoying. Is it because I have yet to enable mp3 and so on? How do I do so? Will it go away then?

3) I added a user and put additional groups DISK WHEEL FTP DBUS HAL NETWORK VIDEO AUDIO OPTICAL STORAGE POWER USERS but I cannot use su in GNOME or anywhere. Why not??? Wheel is enabled. What do I have to do to use su? Also, like I said... HAL/DBUS are now getting me problems related to #1. They are in the conf btw. My external USB worked for a bit, but now does not show. I did not change anything.

4) I cannot start beryl-settings.... beryl is installed and works fine, but not beryl-settings. Here is the msg

~]$ beryl-settings
(beryl-settings:4976): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
Using the fallback 'C' locale.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/beryl-settings", line 35, in <module>
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/locale.py", line 476, in setlocale
return _setlocale(category, locale)
locale.Error: unsupported locale setting

Thank you for assistance.

mucknert · 2007-04-07 05:46:57

1) You have to start them in the right order. For example, dbus must be already running to start hal. For Gnome, it should be something like this:

DAEMONS=(... portmap fam dbus hal)

2) This is a setting in GDM. You can turn it off with its config-tool.

3) HOW did you do that? gpasswd is the right way to do and if you have, a reboot is most likely the best way to resolve those issues.

4) You have to generate your locales first. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Locale for pointers.

Last edited by mucknert (2007-04-07 05:47:49)

darweth · 2007-04-07 08:02:17

Much appreciated!! Everything worked!!!

2 more questions now...

1) When I install a new app... it does not automatically go into the menus. I just log out of GNOME and back in. The dumb hard way. What are the proper commands to kill and restore the menus/panels with the new info?

2) I installed Xarchiver (w/ zip unzip unrar etc), but it is not in the right-click context menu in Nautilus, etc. The menu option like "Create archive..." How do I set it up so I can create an archive direct from Nautilus?

I RESOLVED #2. I just installed file-roller and the context menu was there. Junked Xarchiver. The question I have is I HAD to log out of GNOME and back in to get the context menu to show up. Why? Thanks.

Last edited by darweth (2007-04-07 09:12:12)

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#1 2007-04-07 05:36:25

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