Has something changed in the Arch Installation?

carzzz215 · 2008-02-12 21:51:16

I've seem to run across a few things when I install Arch now. I've installed Arch many times on the exact same computer with the exact same hardware but I'm experiencing some issues. I always use the FTP install.

First, I have no colors anymore when I edit anything in nano (after the installation). Why is that? All i have is a completely fresh install, but no colors. That never used to happen. I haven't changed anything.

Second, even though I select during the install which mirror i would like to keep as my 1st mirror, pacman -Syu will not work. I have to go into into the mirrorlist file and uncomment a mirror. Now that is not a problem at all, but why has that changed?

On top of those things, I have problems now getting GDM to load my xfce4 session, and even without GDM, I can only load xfce4 thru the root login, not my own, and when I install ttf-ms-fonts, i get a error that says the package has different permissions than the /tmp directory, which has never happened before. I think the GDM thing is also a permissions problem for some reason.

But why oh why has Arch changed on me?! Help!

ibendiben · 2008-02-12 22:41:48

+1

iggy · 2008-02-12 23:43:53

did a fresh ftp install on monday and had the same problems. wrong permissions on tmp directory and no uncommented mirror after installation...

carzzz215 · 2008-02-13 00:33:26

Well its good to know I'm not the only one Join the club guys!

bender02 · 2008-02-13 02:32:10

You guys should file a bug report at http://bugs.archlinux.org.

tigrmesh · 2008-02-13 02:41:20

Nano syntax highlighting is now stored in /usr/share/nano.

I added the following lines to /etc/nanorc:

## Arch PKGBUILD
include "/usr/share/nano/pkgbuild.nanorc"

## Syntax highlighting in xorg.conf
include "/usr/share/nano/xorg.nanorc"

## Generic conf/rc/sh file syntax highlighting
include "/usr/share/nano/conf.nanorc"

Here are the 3 Arch files I created:

cat /usr/share/nano/conf.nanorc
# Generic conf/rc/sh file syntax highlighting
#############################################
syntax "conf/rc/sh" "conf$|rc$|sh$"
color white ".+"
color green "^#.*"

cat /usr/share/nano/pkgbuild.nanorc
## Arch PKGBUILD files
##
syntax "pkgbuild" "^.*PKGBUILD$"
color green start="^" end="$"
color cyan "^.*(pkgname|pkgver|pkgrel|pkgdesc|force|url|license|install|source|md5sums|groups|backup|depends|makedepends|conflicts|provides|replaces).*=.*$"
color brightcyan "\<(pkgname|pkgver|pkgrel|pkgdesc|force|url|license|install|source|md5sums|groups|backup|depends|makedepends|conflicts|provides|replaces)\>"
color cyan "\.install"
color brightwhite "=" "'" "\(" "\)" "\"" "#.*$" "\," "\{" "\}"
color brightcyan "(\$|\$\{|\$\()(pkgname|pkgver|pkgrel|pkgdesc|force|url|license|install|source|md5sums|groups|backup|depends|makedepends|conflicts|provides|replaces|startdir)(|\}|\))"
color brightred "build\(\)"
color brightred "\<(configure|make)\>"
color red "\<(DESTDIR|PREFIX|prefix|sysconfdir|datadir|libdir|includedir|mandir)\>"

cat /usr/share/nano/xorg.nanorc
## syntax highlighting in xorg.conf
##
syntax "xorg" "xorg\.conf$"
color brightwhite "(Section|EndSection|Sub[sS]ection|EndSub[sS]ection)"
# keywords
color yellow "[^A-Za-z0-9](Identifier|Screen|InputDevice|Option|RightOf|LeftOf|Driver|RgbPath|FontPath|ModulePath|Load|VendorName|ModelName|BoardName|BusID|Device|Monitor|DefaultDepth|View[pP]ort|Depth|Virtual|Modes|Mode|DefaultColorDepth|Modeline|\+vsync|\+hsync|HorizSync|VertRefresh)[^A-Za-z0-9]"
# numbers
color magenta "[0-9]"
# strings
color green ""(\\.|[^\"])*""
# comments
color white "#.*"

ibendiben · 2008-02-13 09:20:30

bender02 wrote:

You guys should file a bug report at http://bugs.archlinux.org.

done!
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9560

brebs · 2008-02-13 10:05:08

For /tmp permissions, see http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=43492

Use the Search button.

Breakage · 2008-03-01 09:39:21

+1 http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 55#p336655

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#1 2008-02-12 21:51:16

Has something changed in the Arch Installation?

#2 2008-02-12 22:41:48

Re: Has something changed in the Arch Installation?

#3 2008-02-12 23:43:53

Re: Has something changed in the Arch Installation?

#4 2008-02-13 00:33:26

Re: Has something changed in the Arch Installation?

#5 2008-02-13 02:32:10

Re: Has something changed in the Arch Installation?

#6 2008-02-13 02:41:20

Re: Has something changed in the Arch Installation?

#7 2008-02-13 09:20:30

Re: Has something changed in the Arch Installation?

#8 2008-02-13 10:05:08

Re: Has something changed in the Arch Installation?

#9 2008-03-01 09:39:21

Re: Has something changed in the Arch Installation?

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