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#1 2009-09-08 05:46:54

FilledVoid
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[SOLVED]Multiple Problems after a new install on Arch Linux

Hello all,
I just finished installing Arch Linux from the core ISO which I downloaded from the site. The install went smoothly and booted up fine. Also I was able to install gnome and its extras fine as well. On the first boot after installing gnome I managed to get my resolution correct also. However later on after I installed compiz fusion everything with the resolution seems to be going wrong sad. My computer specs are shown below :

AMD 64 3200
Asus M2N MX-SE
2 GB Ram
Geforce 8600 GT
Viewsonic VA1918wm (Native resolution is 1440x900)

At the moment I can only manage to get upto 1024x768 and it looks quite bad at that resolution. I have attached the xorg.conf I have at the moment.

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load  "dbe"
    Load  "record"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "glx"
    Load  "dri2"
    Load  "dri"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse0"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option        "Protocol" "auto"
    Option        "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "Monitor0"
    VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
    ModelName    "Monitor Model"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Card0"
    Driver      "nvidia"
    VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
    BoardName   "G84 [GeForce 8600 GT]"
    BusID       "PCI:2:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Card0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     1
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     4
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     8
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     15
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     16
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

While I was trying to fix this I noticed I was encountering other problems also. For one I found that sometimes dhcpcd times out on booting up and I cant seemt o connect to the Internet on booting. Although I just thought of trying a static IP and I'll post if that helped later on.

Another problem is I found that I seem to get the following error randomly. Pressing ctrl + D after this just restarts the machine.

The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
e2fsck -b 8193 <device>

Finally, while I boot up I noticed that it says "Mounting root partition as read only   [DONE]"  Is the root partition supposed ot be mounted as read only ? Attached my fstab just in case it is needed.

# 
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
none                   /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
none                   /dev/shm      tmpfs     defaults            0      0

#/dev/cdrom             /media/cd   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
#/dev/dvd               /media/dvd  auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
#/dev/fd0               /media/fl   auto    user,noauto             0      0

/dev/sda3 /boot ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sdb1  / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sdb2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb3 /home ext3 defaults 0 1

As you can see I'm quite new to Arch Linux so any help would be deeply appreciated.

Last edited by FilledVoid (2009-09-11 16:28:28)

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#2 2009-09-08 05:59:20

Runiq
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Re: [SOLVED]Multiple Problems after a new install on Arch Linux

FilledVoid wrote:

Another problem is I found that I seem to get the following error randomly. Pressing ctrl + D after this just restarts the machine.

The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
e2fsck -b 8193 <device>

Finally, while I boot up I noticed that it says "Mounting root partition as read only   [DONE]"  Is the root partition supposed ot be mounted as read only ? Attached my fstab just in case it is needed.

# 
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
none                   /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
none                   /dev/shm      tmpfs     defaults            0      0

#/dev/cdrom             /media/cd   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
#/dev/dvd               /media/dvd  auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
#/dev/fd0               /media/fl   auto    user,noauto             0      0

/dev/sda3 /boot ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sdb1  / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sdb2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb3 /home ext3 defaults 0 1

As you can see I'm quite new to Arch Linux so any help would be deeply appreciated.

Your /boot is on a different drive than the rest of your mountpoints. Is that normal?

And yes, the root partition is supposed to be mounted as read-only at first.

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#3 2009-09-08 06:04:06

FilledVoid
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Re: [SOLVED]Multiple Problems after a new install on Arch Linux

Your /boot is on a different drive than the rest of your mountpoints. Is that normal?

And yes, the root partition is supposed to be mounted as read-only at first.

I have two hard disks one has Windows on it. The boot partition is on the Windows disks. It worked previously so I naturally assumed it was the right way to do it big_smile .

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#4 2009-09-08 06:11:13

aelfie
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Re: [SOLVED]Multiple Problems after a new install on Arch Linux

try this:

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Card0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Modes    "1440x900"    
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Last edited by aelfie (2009-09-08 06:39:37)

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#5 2009-09-08 06:30:19

Seleucius
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Re: [SOLVED]Multiple Problems after a new install on Arch Linux

aelfie wrote:

try this:

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    <snip>

His .conf calls his card Card0, not Device0.

I didn't have the problem you describe, so merely guessing, but I remember reading that there's a problem with the nvidia driver and dri, so try commenting out those entries in the "Modules" section.

Also, you could try renaming your .conf and seeing if X/compiz will be able to figure things out. Don't have much experience with Compiz myself, so YMMV. "X -configure" and "nvidia-xconfig" are both good starting points, and since you can get into the gui, "nvidia-settings" will rewrite your .conf as well.

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#6 2009-09-08 06:31:18

FilledVoid
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Re: [SOLVED]Multiple Problems after a new install on Arch Linux

aelfie wrote:

try this:

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Modes    "1440x900"    
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Removed the Screen section and replaced it with the above but its still doign the same. Its even showing the same resolutions as before which are 1024x768, 800x600, 640x480, 512x384 , 400x300, 320x240 .

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#7 2009-09-08 06:40:47

aelfie
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Re: [SOLVED]Multiple Problems after a new install on Arch Linux

Whoops, try Card0 instead like Seleucius said.  I edited the post.

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#8 2009-09-08 07:09:02

xd-0
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Re: [SOLVED]Multiple Problems after a new install on Arch Linux

Also, try using nvidia-setting to se what resolutions it detects.

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#9 2009-09-08 09:04:25

FilledVoid
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Re: [SOLVED]Multiple Problems after a new install on Arch Linux

Thank you for all your suggestions . I tried replacing the ID to Card0 but it didnt seem to fix it . However on the bright side I checked more threads on the forum and found some that helped out . :)

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=75070&p=2
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=72788
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=76938

I copied the xorg.conf file from the third link and just made minor changes to it like removing all the resolutions I didn't need and now its working fine :).

Now Im just stuck with two problems. One is the following message which appears randomly.

The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
    e2fsck -b 8193 <device>

******************* FILESYSTEM CHECK FAILED *************
* Please repair manually and reboot. Note that the root *
* filesystem is currently mounted read-only. To remount *
* it read-write type: mount -n -o remount,rw /          *
* When you exit the mantenance shel the system will     *
* reboot automatically.                                 *
*********************************************************

A thread about the same can be found http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=295384 but there isn't a solution on it. 

The second is the intermittent problems with the Network being setup. Sometimes when I boot up it just says dhcpcd timedout and I won't be able to connect . However I can connect on another machine at the same time.

Took a look at the drive in question with gparted and it shows the below information:
/dev/sdb1 ext3   /   32.59 GB    4.92 GB   27.68 GB  boot

By any chance is any of the above information relevant :x ?

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#10 2009-09-08 10:09:42

Chrysalis
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Re: [SOLVED]Multiple Problems after a new install on Arch Linux

So are all partitions ext3? The error is talking about ext2... so my guess is your /boot is ext2 and you are mounting as ext3? Paste output of 'fdisk -l' 'df -T' and 'mount'

Last edited by Chrysalis (2009-09-08 10:23:16)

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#11 2009-09-08 16:59:07

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Re: [SOLVED]Multiple Problems after a new install on Arch Linux

Sorry for the delay Ill paste in the output of the above once I get home .

Last edited by FilledVoid (2009-09-09 04:27:55)

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#12 2009-09-09 04:28:05

FilledVoid
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Re: [SOLVED]Multiple Problems after a new install on Arch Linux

fdisk -l

[filledvoid@TheVoid ~]$ sudo fdisk -l
Password: 

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xfae7fae7

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        4462    35840983+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2            4463        9728    42299145    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda3   *        9562        9729     1349460   83  Linux
/dev/sda5            4463        9561    40957686    7  HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x3eb33eb2

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1        4255    34178256   83  Linux
/dev/sdb2            4256        4741     3903795   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb3            4742        9729    40066110   83  Linux

df -T

[filledvoid@TheVoid ~]$ df -T
Filesystem    Type   1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1     ext3    33641448   4613320  27319216  15% /
none         tmpfs     1029244       144   1029100   1% /dev
none         tmpfs     1029244         0   1029244   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda3     ext3     1328204     44620   1216112   4% /boot
/dev/sdb3     ext3    39436780    449796  36983680   2% /home
/dev/sr0       udf     7608672   7608672         0 100% /media/BULLET
[filledvoid@TheVoid ~]$

mount

[filledvoid@TheVoid ~]$ mount
/dev/sdb1 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /dev type tmpfs (rw,relatime,mode=755)
none on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/sda3 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sdb3 on /home type ext3 (rw)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/filledvoid/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=filledvoid)
/dev/sr0 on /media/BULLET type udf (ro,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,uid=1000)

By any chance does anyone know if this has somethignt o do with not having UUID's entered for the disks in the fstab ?

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#13 2009-09-09 09:33:48

Chrysalis
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Re: [SOLVED]Multiple Problems after a new install on Arch Linux

Well, its just different symlinks that point to the same device (ls -lR /dev/disk/), but I've heard of it fixing problems before so i guess give UUID's a try if you want. If its a fresh install i would probably just reformat and reinstall again though while its still early... if you dont like the arch cd partitioner you can use something else to set up your partitions and then just mount when running the installer. Also, use the net install... youll be downloading the same pkgs 5min later after you reboot anyway - saves you from having to upgrade and deal with .pacnews (btw, the problem could also be .pacnews you havent taken care of).

Last edited by Chrysalis (2009-09-09 09:41:22)

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#14 2009-09-09 16:23:03

lestoil
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Re: [SOLVED]Multiple Problems after a new install on Arch Linux

If you have Win. on sda drive you could consider putting Arch's grub in mbr and boot Win and Arch from there.  That way  there is no  need for /boot partition which you have as ext3(sda3) --which doesn't work. I've been doing it this way for years with no problem. That way you make a root  and swap partition for Arch.  Some create a separate /home partition too.  Depending on your needs and experience try the  simpler method I  suggest. Have fun with Arch:)

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#15 2009-09-10 08:14:40

Chrysalis
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Re: [SOLVED]Multiple Problems after a new install on Arch Linux

Maybe he put /boot on the first drive so grub can see it? I dont know... Ive never put an OS on a second drive.

Last edited by Chrysalis (2009-09-10 08:45:08)

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#16 2009-09-11 16:28:01

FilledVoid
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Re: [SOLVED]Multiple Problems after a new install on Arch Linux

Sorry for the late reply. I put the boot partition there cause to be frank its the only way Ive been able to get Arch and WIndows to work without need of changing the boot sequence in the BIOS hmm. Although there might be a way I guess I dont really know better at this point lol.

On the birght side suddenly my dhcp issues and disk issues seem to be fine after changing the fstab to use UUID's . Not sure why that would fix anything . if anyhting else could have changed it would be the increased boot time I get now after installing a ton of software I need .

Not sure I should mark this as solved at the moment but Im going to anyway just in case someone gets the same resolution problem. Ill post a new thread if the issue persists. Thank you all for the help smile

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