Several problems under Arch

Apewall · 2007-08-21 07:10:45

New to using Arch64 and having several problems.

Hal seems to be mounting a random 100mb partition from one of my windows XP NTFS drives.

Anything I download using firefox is corrupt, and does not appear under firefox's "downloads" section. - 2.0.0.6 (Any file downloaded is labeled a "plain text document" that is unreadable with 0 byte size)

My understanding is that Wine now offers a 64bit version, but this still requires multilib which arch is not, yet I've found no helpful guide to arrive at a multilib arch to use wine.

Does pacman not have a method for globally uninstalling no longer needed dependencies, or is this handled at the "pacman -Rd" level.

shining · 2007-08-21 08:25:46

Apewall wrote:

Does pacman not have a method for globally uninstalling no longer needed dependencies, or is this handled at the "pacman -Rd" level.

-Rd won't handle dependencies, so that's the opposite of what you want
Rather use -Rs when removing packages, so that it removes no longer needed dependencies as well.

Otherwise "pacman -Qe" should also display no longer needed dependencies. But check the packages before removing them.

The -Q options changed in pacman 3.1 though because many users needed more flexibility :
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7343#comment17901

mcmillan · 2007-08-21 19:53:59

I've had the same issue with with Firefox though it only seems to be some files that it does this with. I haven't had a chance to track down any fixes yet however. My temporary workaround came from noticing I could download files fine if I'd tell firefox to open the file with some program, which puts the file in /tmp, so when I've actually wanted to save something I move it from there. Less than ideal but it's gotten the job done until I can figure this out (was actually thinking of making a go at it this weekend).

Apewall · 2007-08-22 04:00:22

I'm not too positive what the problem is with firefox, I tried compiling the package under abs and the same result was occuring, so it may be the package itself, or it could be one of the other packages is all I know.

NoOneImportant · 2007-08-22 05:07:58

The firefox problem has to do with permissions. It happens to me if I download to my FAT32 or Winblows partitions.

mcmillan · 2007-08-22 20:13:32

NoOneImportant wrote:

The firefox problem has to do with permissions. It happens to me if I download to my FAT32 or Winblows partitions.

Ah, that would explain it. I have firefox set to download things into a directory on my partition I share with windows. Not much of an issue if I want to just change it to my home instead.

[vEX] · 2007-08-22 20:27:46

Apewall wrote:

My understanding is that Wine now offers a 64bit version, but this still requires multilib which arch is not, yet I've found no helpful guide to arrive at a multilib arch to use wine.

Nope, it's still 32-bit, which is why it requires multilib. There are a bunch of lib32 packages in AUR, as well as bin32-wine which you would need to build and install. This would make your system multilib and wine should work, myself I use a 32-bit chroot for wine (it's documented in the wiki on how to set up).

Apewall · 2007-08-22 21:11:17

New problem is fglrx broke after a pacman -Syu (updated fglrx during it.)

# fglrxinfo
_X11TransSocketINETConnect() can't get address for localhost:6000: Name or service not known
Error: unable to open display :0

I was wrong on hal, after bringing the drive back i noticed the 100mb partition hal is mounting is "really" supposed to be my /boot partition. But when i boot up it uses the "boot" folder mounted on "/" named "boot" instead of "/dev/sdc1" which is supposed to be "/boot".

If I change it in fstab to mount /dev/sdc1 partition correctly as /boot, it boots from "/dev/sdc3"'s /boot instead, then loads /dev/sdc1 as "/boot" afterwards.

Any suggestions, it is hard to explain.

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Several problems under Arch

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