Arch linux, finding it hard to get motivated lol

craptakular · 4 Mar 2009 at 14:03

hiya!!!

Now doing my latest install of arch, but this time with openbox! whoop whoop!

Had a few issues with this install but overcame them, but now hit another wall.... hal storage says no

i.e. cant access my cd-rom, usb stick. I havent had this problem with previous installs of Arch with gnome.

Anyway should I persevere? or admit defeat and go download crunchbang? At least it will work out of the box lol

[Insert jesus.jpeg here]

rsatd · 4 Mar 2009 at 14:05

Hmm, haven't had that issue, is the process responsible for hal running?

craptakular · 4 Mar 2009 at 14:10

rsatd said:
Hmm, haven't had that issue, is the process responsible for hal running?

oh yeh its running fine, i just need to edit the policykit.conf, but it still doesnt work.

loads of google posts point to different areas where the policy.conf resides.

gonna try crashbang lite edition. Just really finding it hard to get motivated to continue with arch

mortals · 4 Mar 2009 at 19:42

do you get any errors in the filemanager?

I had a wierd problem where thunar wouldn't mount drives when I first installed and I just needed to edit policy.conf to allow thunar rights to mount the drives

I also then put a usb drive in and thought I had bad problems but then realised I hadn't setup ntfs support (altho I thought the usb drive was fat32)

craptakular · 4 Mar 2009 at 20:12

mortals said:
do you get any errors in the filemanager?

I had a wierd problem where thunar wouldn't mount drives when I first installed and I just needed to edit policy.conf to allow thunar rights to mount the drives

I also then put a usb drive in and thought I had bad problems but then realised I hadn't setup ntfs support (altho I thought the usb drive was fat32)

yay im happy again now.

it was issues with policy.conf. The bloody thing had not written anything inbetween <config></config> lol. The issue was documented on the arch wiki so I copy and pasted the config in and now all is well.

Installed ntfs-3g and then installed yaught (never can remember how to spell it) got yoghurt to install ntf2-config, now my NTFS media HDD is mounted and accessible. yay!!!

Still got loads of work to do on the system

UK|AL · 5 Mar 2009 at 01:42

Isn't the correct way to do this is to add your user to storage and optical groups? Using gpasswd. That way any program running under your username can access them.

It's something like
gpasswd usernamehere storage
gpasswd username optical

And hal should be run as a daemon in rc.conf.

eXor · 5 Mar 2009 at 11:34

Oxy said:
admit defeat and go download Debian?

You know you want to.

craptakular · 5 Mar 2009 at 12:16

UK|AL said:
Isn't the correct way to do this is to add your user to storage and optical groups? Using gpasswd. That way any program running under your username can access them.

It's something like
gpasswd usernamehere storage
gpasswd username optical

And hal should be run as a daemon in rc.conf.

yeh done all that on initial install. the error was in HAL config, fixed it now, DVD drives and usb sticks are accessable now!

eXor said:
You know you want to.

lol i tried debian 5 a few weeks back, wasn't impressed at all tbh. Didn't even include ESD sound lol, I couldn't work out how to enable the stupid testing repo to get ooo 3.0.1. I basically gave up as i cba to fiddle with it.

The documentation for debian is confusing & all over the place. Doesnt hold a candle to ubuntu docs, let alone Arch's great wiki pages.

yashiro · 6 Mar 2009 at 04:35

Arch forum and Wiki are very clean and well thought out. Makes the forums linked from the Debian site look a complete joke.