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[HELP] I can't login nor elevate permissions in dm/de

I came from Arch to Void just today and after installing KDE and enabling dbus, I enabled SDDM, I type in my password and it says login failed, I tried lightdm, I couldn’t login neither in my user account nor root, I setup plasma to run with xinit, plasma did launch successfully, but sudo NEVER worked inside plasma, it always...

notTheCat OP ,

Yes everything in TTY works as intended, I can login as my user account and sudo works as it should

notTheCat OP ,

Yes I do

notTheCat OP ,

Yes I have polkit installed

Executing startplasma-wayland returns the following:

startplasmacompositor: Could not start D-Bus, Can you call qdbus?

I don’t have an excutable/command named qdbus

notTheCat OP ,

I’m starting to suspect my HDD failing at this point, so many weird bugs lately

notTheCat ,

I have my YouTube history off and before they disabled shorts feed for people with no history this is how it looked like, creepy af

notTheCat ,

Maybe it’s some marketing thing? Like their feature MUST start with Windows™ regardless of getting confusing as hell, it may also help not techie people who make decisions and want to still use a Windows™ solution suggested by a techie

notTheCat ,

better development machine

By developing on a GNU/Linux VM instead? fuck MS for not finding a suitable solution for developing on their OS for years and shoving an entire another OS inside instead

notTheCat ,

I believe Retroarch still ships multiple Snes9x cores, and Retroarch is still in the megathread, so you can go for that

notTheCat ,

It got pretty bloated in recent years with reactions and animated stickers to name a few

notTheCat ,

Don’t forget we also had 6.6.6

What does getting "delisted" off Steam means for games I already own?

Recently I’ve seen news about adult swim games going delisted probably off steam, one of my fav games is published by adult swim games and I want to know what will happen to it, will steam strike it off my list even if I have it installed? Will I still be able to back it up and restore its backups? Will I still be able to...

notTheCat ,

I had Fedora and Arch on a 2012 Intel MacBook pro, it’s running well, I think macos manages power consumption better, either way I believe if you have no dGPU you should be good to go, also you probably must check the Arch wiki Mac page (regardless of what disro you choose)

Is there a unified scanner (the hardware) driver like what we have for printers?

I’m building a sw that should be able to read the papers read from a scanner and process them with a minimal user interaction, basically I don’t want the user to jump into another sw, output an image or doc, and insert that into my sw, this kind of problem seems to be fixed when it comes to printers printing, but I...

notTheCat OP ,

Is that Apple-specific?

notTheCat OP ,

Yes that’s what I’ve been looking for, thanks a lot

notTheCat OP ,

Yeah that seems like it, thanks

notTheCat OP ,

Found it, thx

notTheCat ,

I think Arch really makes sure stuff are compatible before rolling, my 32bit Void laptop has had Python 3.12 for months, and I get all kind of weird warnings when installing Python packages, while Arch is still on 3.11 (maybe testing is on 3.12 idk)

notTheCat OP ,

It was only the root of the partitions that I messed up, and I guess the bugs were caused because the Mint live boot only gave the user read permissions (no group or others can read) so I believe shit is fine, plus it’s a fresh installation so there’s that too

notTheCat OP ,

Why? I chowned and chmod the mount points only (not recursively) and now the system is functioning correctly

notTheCat OP ,

Seriously nobody gave me an answer, I looked it up from my 2nd machine running Arch and shit is working now

notTheCat OP ,

Things weren’t working because of the owner+permission being set by Mint instead of the Arch installer, it prevented non-root from reading anything off the system, now that I chmod the mount points, things are functioning well

notTheCat OP ,

I can’t see a reason for it to fail since the root user was functioning just fine, shit got buggy as soon as other users tried to read from the fs

notTheCat OP ,

I’m surprised it installed just normally

notTheCat OP ,

i didn’t change permissions recursivly, only for the mountpoints root

notTheCat OP ,

Yes it was only / and /boot, I changed the owner and permissions without recursively doing so and now the bugs I encountered are gone

Freshly installed Arch DBus service fail to start

Two days ago, I did a fresh Arch install, everything went fine, then I changed my mind about my HDD partitioning and reformatted it, and installed Arch again, the install boots okay and all, but NetworkManager was down, when I investigated it, I found out that dbus service fails to start here is what systemctl status dbus...

notTheCat OP , (edited )

Yes I only created / and /boot from the Mint live boot

Do I need to run another chown for the boot partition? If so is chown root:root /boot the correct command?

Update: chowning didn’t fix dbus failing

Update 2: the warnings did go away though

Update 3: the dbus errors did change

Update 4: I think my / and /boot permissions are messed up to, they are drwx-----

notTheCat OP ,

you can chown it all

The permissions inside the partition were set correctly, it was only the “root” of the partition that went off, I only created the partition using Mint, while Arch did the whole installation and wrote all the files

Either way I chown both / and /boot to root:root and chmod both / and /boot to 0755 (looked these up from my other Arch machine) and the bugs are gone

Questions about Linux-Linux dualboot

So I’ve had enough from partitioning my HDD between Linux and Windows, and I want to go full Linux, my laptop is low end and I tend to keep some development services alive when I work on stuff (like MariaDB’s) so I decided to split my HDD into three partitions, a distro (Arch) for my dev stuff, a distro (Pop OS) for gaming,...

notTheCat OP ,

How are you implementing shared data? Soft sym links between homes? Or like a separate folder with a group full access?

notTheCat OP ,

I see, but FAT32 is pretty limiting for file sizes no?

notTheCat ,

Is it clean of trojans and shit? I want to try the port out and my PC is not powerful enough to run a game in a VM

notTheCat ,

Time to config a formatter to insert a newline whenever the syntax is still correct

Taylor Swift AI images prompt US bill to tackle nonconsensual, sexual deepfakes (www.theguardian.com)

A bipartisan group of US senators introduced a bill Tuesday that would criminalize the spread of nonconsensual, sexualized images generated by artificial intelligence. The measure comes in direct response to the proliferation of pornographic AI-made images of Taylor Swift on X, formerly Twitter, in recent days....

notTheCat ,

Don’t post it anywhere then?

notTheCat ,

If my guesses are correct, the major version number of Ubuntu marks the release year

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