The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

[Dread First]

Am I the only person here who enjoys and prefers a manual install? pacstrap does most of the work for you anyway.

It's not that I hate doing a manual install for Arch... it's the fact that there's no comprehensive resource that explicitly outlines both how to do something and why you're doing it anymore, let alone how to get yourself out of a text console and why you need stuff like Mesa. I've bootstrapped FreeBSD to a graphical environment multiple times, but it ain't like the FreeBSD handbook leaves you high and dry.

Ironically, I would argue that pacstrap doing most of the work for me is, in itself, a bad thing because Arch is otherwise consistent and homogeneous enough with mainline Linux distros (re: anything with systemd) such that a true "full manual" install process would allow me to cultivate the skillset necessary to get Ubuntu, Debian, or even Fedora up and running from a minimal netinstall image.

 

[Akerman]

Seems like accountservices got Poettered in the newest update that was shat out yesterday. Whatever they did made it stricter so now you cant edit your user avatar on Plasma because of some permissions hell. Whenever I tried to do it via the GUI in SystemSettings or in the terminal I got this error:

org.freedesktop.Accounts.Error.Failed:
creating temporary icon file failed: Read-only file system

At first I thought my bullshitting around the system had messed up permissions of my folders, but nope. After some A/B testing I concluded it's a systemd issue. Something with the ProtectSystem being set to strict along with an issue with how Plasma passes along the avatar images, idk. I was only able to fix it by adding the /tmp directory explicitly with sudo systemctl edit accounts-daemon.service :

[Service]
ReadWritePaths=/tmp