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The Saltening said:
How would I access the drives after mounting if they are not in dolphin? And what is a good mount point? Can I set anything? Or is there a best practice?
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It all stems from your fstab being fucked up, really. Both mount not working and Dolphin not seeing partitions. There's a section on the Install page of the Arch Wiki that talks about setting up your fstab file manually, that's what I'd do personally. Also, it's very useful to have a live system on a USB drive for times like this.

My random guess is that your use of yay and pacman simultaneously might have contributed to this, especially if yay pulls a bunch of packages from the AUR that might potentially conflict with native ones. After tidying up fstab, I'd start by clearing pacman's package cache (pacman -Scc) and checking which packages are orphaned (pacman -Qtdq). Run down that list and check their info (pacman -Qi). It's not really a solution, but more of a sanity check to see if the links between packages are still OK and you're not about to pull a Linus and nuke something very important. The command for removing orphaned packages is pacman -Rns $(pacman -Qtdq). Then try a full system upgrade with yay, force a refresh of the database to be safe - that is the double "y" in pacman -Syyu.

ToroidalBoat said:
Tried that and Terminal output was fatrace wasn't found. Is that a package I have to install?

bash: fatrace: command not found
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Of course. My post has a link to the AUR package. Someone has probably packaged it for your distro as well, unless it's niche.
 
The Saltening said:
bro i have it setup just how i want it. I have so much shit configured. I checked in fstab and it only lists my main drive partitions.

Something wiped over the update (it was a big one with kernal updates).

None of my drives have mount points. Partitions no longer show in dolphin at all. I do not understand.

I can't even mount a USB drive and access it. Guess I'm booting into windows.

Holy fuck I forgot how much I hated windows. I do not miss all these fucking popups telling me to enable features i do not give a single fuck about.
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This may be a dumb question, but have you a) not rebooted your computer between the time since you've added the drives until you ran this big update and b) had been using the mount command or just waiting for the drives to show up after being plugged in, and never actually had a persistent mount for those drives in the first place?
 

This guy knows how to tease an episode. The cold start clips include Brodie talking about programming socks. Arch turns you trans. And idk I literally just started watching. Once I get further it will probably be gay and boring. But who knows.

The Saltening said:
This whole time I thought /mnt was a placeholder for a mount location.... I didn't realize y'all were referring to an actual thing

After work ima see if I can get a drive mounted and working. If I can I will add the drives I want to my fstab
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That's usually what /mnt is used for. You don't have to. But it's usually just an empty directory you can mount drives on and it will be fairly safe to do it there.

Other places are /run/media , I'm pretty sure I've seen programs that make a /media directory to mount drives on. Or even /mnt/media in the end it doesn't matter where you pick to mount it much.

You can also instead of using sudo mount. Install udisks2 if it somehow isn't already installed. And run.

udiskctl mount -b /dev/whateverthenameis

Then that will just automatically put it in /run/media/user (I want to say) and if it's an internal drive ask you to authenticate with your password.

That's an easy way, that will let you get around messing with the actual mount command. (Seriously for temporarily mounting drives don't mess with your fstab)

And to explain why I'm saying that. If your fstab was messed up. Your system wouldn't boot at all. If you are able to log in, see dolphin. Obviously it's booting. That's all your fstab should really be used for these days. Unless you have some NFS thing. And I think you can still use something else most likely to take care of that.
 
prollyanotherlurker said:
That's usually what /mnt is used for. You don't have to. But it's usually just an empty directory you can mount drives on and it will be fairly safe to do it there.

Other places are /run/media , I'm pretty sure I've seen programs that make a /media directory to mount drives on. Or even /mnt/media in the end it doesn't matter where you pick to mount it much
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I used to use /data for a while but tbh it's easier to find all the drives if you just throw them all in /mnt. Heck I have all the docker config files and such in /mnt/docker so I know where they are and can move them to their own drive if needed
 
can someone explain to me what the fuck gpgme and gpgmepp are. because I tried to run updates today and those two packages are conflicting but also gpgmepp depends on gpgme....

What the fuck are these faggot packages and can i fucking nuke them from orbit?

These are the same packages that caused all my issues last night.
 
The Saltening said:
can someone explain to me what the fuck gpgme and gpgmepp are. because I tried to run updates today and those two packages are conflicting but also gpgmepp depends on gpgme....

What the fuck are these faggot packages and can i fucking nuke them from orbit?

These are the same packages that caused all my issues last night.
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GPGME
GnuPG Made Easy (GPGME) is a library designed to make access to GnuPG easier for applications. It provides a High-Level Crypto API for encryption, decryption, signing, signature verification and key management. Currently it uses GnuPG's OpenPGP backend as the default, but the API isn't restricted to this engine. We have, in fact, already developed a backend for CMS (S/MIME).

Because the direct use of GnuPG from an application can be a complicated programming task, it is suggested that all software should try to use GPGME instead. This way bug fixes or improvements can be done at a central place and every application benefits from this. Furthermore, there is no guarentee that any particular command line option will remain exactly the same at any given point
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I'm sure it's totally not a critical system file that will make everything shit the bed if deleted. Totally.
 
In Linux news, an active X11 developer has decided to fork the project and is insinuating that the project has been allowed to languish primarily because of interference by Red Hat/IBM. It seems a little optimistic to me, but it would be really funny if he was right and a single developer managed to fix X11 and Wayland dies on the vine because they couldn't make it feature complete with nearly 2 decades of development.
 
I got partitions mounting. I can mount my drives now.

I added some folders in /mnt and then added shortcuts to them in dolphin. Not as intuitive or easy as my previous setup because I have to mount drives with the konsole now but it works

I just need a way to update gpgmepp and gpgme now. I dont want to be perma stuck on current version
 
volatile puar said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=iwaaSatk0pIIn Linux news, an active X11 developer has decided to fork the project and is insinuating that the project has been allowed to languish primarily because of interference by Red Hat/IBM. It seems a little optimistic to me, but it would be really funny if he was right and a single developer managed to fix X11 and Wayland dies on the vine because they couldn't make it feature complete with nearly 2 decades of development.
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X11 actually has a history of this. Xorg is a fork of XFree86, which kicked core team member Keith Packard who did most of the job in XFree86 and Xorg. Because of this and licensing shit, XFree86 was forked into Xorg.
 
volatile puar said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=iwaaSatk0pIIn Linux news, an active X11 developer has decided to fork the project and is insinuating that the project has been allowed to languish primarily because of interference by Red Hat/IBM. It seems a little optimistic to me, but it would be really funny if he was right and a single developer managed to fix X11 and Wayland dies on the vine because they couldn't make it feature complete with nearly 2 decades of development.
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>try to find the link for the repository
>find it
>404'd
>check the profile of the dev
>"Blocked user" (meaning banned)
:story: FreeDesktop trannies never fail to entertain

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