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Hello!
This is my first time that i'm trying to install Arch.
I have a Amd K7 700MHz with a Nvidia Geforce TI 4200, however i can't manage to run a graphical desktop.
When i run: startx; the system goes to - i think - fvwm - and freezes. No keyboard, no mouse, no nothing!
when i run: startxfce4 the system gives this error message: /usr/bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally without any error message!
I don't now what to do next! Maybe some package missing?
Thanx for your help!
EddY
Last edited by eddygrinder (2009-12-08 19:38:06)
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Which DE or WM did you install?
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I've tried Fluxbox and now i have xfce
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Based on the comment about not having keyboard and mouse working I was thinking not having hal running is probably the issue, in an earlier part of the guide than jasonwryan linked you to.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beg … otplugging
If you haven't been following the beginner's guide I recommend you take a look at it. It will help you with most of what you need to get everything up and running.
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Damn it!
I totally forgot to install dbus and ttf-*!
It's now working!
Thanx a lot!
P.S: Man... this damn fast! :-D
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Hello, again!
The system is working but i can't access my NTFS partition.
I have ntfs-3g installed and the message is something like this: "ntfs-3g fuse mount failed: device busy"
Thanx a lot!
EddY
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How did you try and mount your partition? Via fstab or via the command line? In either case could you please post what you did here?
The software required Windows XP or better, so I installed archlinux.
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Both...
ntfs-3g /dev/sda3 /media/<mount point>
and
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda3 /media/mount_point
fstab: /dev/sda1 /media/mount_point ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
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hmm try changing in fstab your ntfs partition details to be:
/dev/sda1 /media/<mount point> ntfs-3g
You do not need defaults, dump or pass values for ntfs partitions.
Then "mount -a" and you should be ready to go... *fingers crossed* as I am not 100% sure if that is your problem though.
Last edited by Tyriel (2009-12-08 12:58:58)
The software required Windows XP or better, so I installed archlinux.
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This one is a shot in the dark, but you can try
fuser -k /dev/sda3
-- careful though because this will kill any processing accessing /dev/sda3
you'll probably have to run as root.
At least if ntfs-3g still claims it's busy then you know there is something wrong with the ntfs-3g configuration because it most certainly will not be "busy" anymore.
ps, you can use fuser -m to see what's accessing the /dev before you kill the process. I'm not totally sure this is using fuser correctly, but it has saved me many headaches before when dealing with ntfs file systems
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What a dumb as* i am!! Please someone just shoot me!!!
So, i was trying to mount the ntfs partition using: ntfs-3g /dev/sda3 /media/<mount point>, sda3 is the swap partition!!!
Sorry!!!
now, when i'm trying to do swapon /dev/sda3 this give an error: swapon: /dev/sda3: read swap header failed: Invalid argument
Should i format this partiton?
Thanx and sorry for my mistake!!!
EddY
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Make sure(3 times over) that /dev/sda3 is infact your swap partition!! (Just do a 'fdisk /dev/sda' - and it should come up as type=82 which means it is swap). Then you a 'mkswap /dev/sda3 && swapon /dev/sda3')
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Okis... format complete... and swapon!
Thanks a lot!!!
the system is fully working!
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