Slackware!

BradDaBug · 2004-04-01T19:57:03

Well, I finally did it! I ditched Red Hat and installed Slackware! So far it seems great! Fast and stable! But there's some problems. I'll list them and update this post as I get them fixed, and I may add some more as I discover more quirks. Any help is appreciated. Here, in no particular order, is my TODO list. 4. I installed Flash and now want to uninstall it!! BADLY! 12. Mozilla doesn't work for regular users. It begins to start up then just exits before anything appears off screen. The console just has this: *** Registering -webcal handler. *** Registering text/calendar handler. *** Registering webcal protocol handler. As soon as it prints that Mozilla just exits. It works fine under root. Did a chmod -R 755 chrome/ and it worked! 13. poweroff doesn't power off, it just sits there with "power down" or whatever that last message is. I'd like to get it to go ahead and shut off. 15. I can't access the Windows partition as a regular user. Permission denied. I've fixed this problem many times before off other installs, but I can never remember what I did. Awesome! Thanks for the help! But now, one more: 16. Must be root to shutdown. I want to be able to shut down as a regular user. Game Development Wiki [edited by - BradDaBug on March 30, 2004 2:16:19 PM]

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Started by BradDaBug March 27, 2004 06:00 PM

18 comments, last by BradDaBug 20 years ago

George2

187

March 28, 2004 11:12 AM

quote:Original post by BradDaBug

3. The Gnome terminal doesn''t display the current path in the prompt like Red Hat did
4. I installed Flash and now want to uninstall it!! BADLY!
9. DHCP daemon isn''t running at startup, so I have to manually run it so that my machine gets an IP address for the network.
10. When Gnome starts up, the menu bar appears and disappears many times, then finally doesn''t come back. In the console there''s lots of messages over and over that say this:

3 :
Put this in ~/.bashrc and you get a nice prompt like this [user@host][working directory]$

export PS1=''[\u@\h][\w]$''

More info here

9 : run netconfig and select DHCP

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Strife

374

March 29, 2004 10:43 AM

Yeah, I was about to say just run netconfig. It can''t get any simpler than that.

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Doc

586

March 29, 2004 08:06 PM

quote:Original post by BradDaBug
13. poweroff doesn''t power off, it just sits there with "power down" or whatever that last message is. I''d like to get it to go ahead and shut off.

I believe you need to compile in (or have a loaded module of) APM or ACPI in the kernel. You might need to do a recompile if you compiled it yourself, or have your system load the apm or acpi module. One or the other.

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15. I can''t access the Windows partition as a regular user. Permission denied. I''ve fixed this problem many times before off other installs, but I can never remember what I did.

I think you can hack /etc/fstab for this. "man fstab"

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clum

217

March 29, 2004 08:44 PM

13. I had this problem once. The first answer I got here worked.

15. I also had this problem. Change your line in /etc/fstab to something like this (you may need to change it slightly for your drive):

/dev/hda1 /mnt/c ntfs ro,auto,users,umask=0000 1

I''m afraid I''ve never experienced your other problems still left.

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owl

376

March 29, 2004 10:36 PM

Nice distro. Is the one I use.

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Strife

374

March 30, 2004 04:48 PM

If I recall correctly, shutting down as a regular user is not a problem with Slack provided that you''re running in the runlevel that starts an XDM (usually KDM or GDM) by default. In that case, you just go to shutdown/reboot either in _DM or in KDE/GNOME/whatever. If this doesn''t work, I''d suggest setting up sudo if you don''t really want to edit very many config files. That way ANYTHING you need to run as root, you can just type ''sudo do_whatever'' and you don''t have to login as root ever again (or type the root password using su).

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sbennett

124

March 31, 2004 05:02 AM

16: Go root. chmod +s /sbin/halt; chmod +s /sbin/reboot

Doc

586

March 31, 2004 11:41 PM

Advice like that is asking for a security breach. Be very careful about what programs you set the sticky bit on.

[edited by - Doc on March 31, 2004 12:42:50 AM]

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Vixtro

122

April 01, 2004 11:41 AM

Debian = Slack + Real Package Manager + a large repository

Arch = Debian + extremely up to date packages + pacman which is better than apt-get + i686 optimization which makes it..FAST + allowing a simple base install which makes things easier to handle + being better

Um..

Doc

586

April 01, 2004 07:57 PM

Are you being paid to promote Arch or something?

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