ok,
not a total noob, but pretty close, and I wasn’t sure where else this might go
I was looking at a few articles, and found some fun old console goodies to play with, cmatrix, xcowsay etc.
There’s a couple however that spit out errors when I try, most notable aafire.
Attempting to run aafire (or bb or a couple others) results with this error
[james@Kalevala-Linux ~]$ aafire
X Error of failed request: BadName (named color or font does not exist)
Major opcode of failed request: 45 (X_OpenFont)
Serial number of failed request: 7
Current serial number in output stream: 8
[james@Kalevala-Linux ~]$
I tried some basic google-fu, and from what I can tell it seems to be some sort of font issue, but I could not find a solution, a lot of info I found was VERY outdated (think 2002 on average).
I know it’s silly
I know it’s useless.
But I would love to get this working.
Tried looking, looks like some are installed, but to be sure I tried reinstalling, ran into a different problem:
[james@Kalevala-Linux ~]$ sudo pacman -S xorg-fonts-100dpi
warning: xorg-fonts-100dpi-1.0.3-7 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
Packages (1) xorg-fonts-100dpi-1.0.3-7
Total Download Size: 11.89 MiB
Total Installed Size: 12.18 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 0.00 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
:: Retrieving packages...
xorg-fonts-100dpi-1.0.3-7-any 11.9 MiB 15.2 MiB/s 00:01 [---------------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) checking keys in keyring [---------------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity [---------------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) loading package files [---------------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts [---------------------------------------] 100%
:: Running pre-transaction hooks...
(1/1) Creating Timeshift snapshot before upgrade...
E: ts: Failed to get partition list.
E: System disk not found!
Unable to run timeshift-autosnap! Please close Timeshift and try again. Script will now exit...
error: command failed to execute correctly
error: failed to commit transaction (failed to run transaction hooks)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
[james@Kalevala-Linux ~]$
Can’t install because timeshift is running?
trying to load timeshift, says it’s in live USB mode, and to select a BTRFS root volume, and now I’m all confused and very worried
ok trying to fix timeshift runs into the same problem of not being able to install/upgrade because timeshift is running,
only reason I have time shift is I followed the tutorial on here for BTRFS with LUX the whole copy & paste thing.
[james@Kalevala-Linux ~]$ yay timeshift
4 aur/autoupgrade 1.0.0-1 (+1 0.00)
Automatic snapshot and then upgrade the system. (When the system fails, run `sudo timeshift --restore` and remove this package until the problem is solved.)
3 aur/timeshift-bin 20.11.1-1 (+8 3.59)
A backup and restore utility
2 aur/timeshift-autosnap 0.9-1 (+20 2.27) (Installed)
Timeshift auto-snapshot script which runs before package upgrade using Pacman hook.
1 aur/timeshift 20.11.1+3+g08d0e59-4 (+181 12.32) (Installed: 20.11.1+3+g08d0e59-3)
A system restore utility for Linux
==> Packages to install (eg: 1 2 3, 1-3 or ^4)
==>
it’s starting to look like I might not be able to install/update anything until I get this fixed
First off, thank you SO SO much for all the help
uninstalled as directed,
then did yay -S timeshift
when it asked if I wanted to clean build files, I told it yes.
That seemed to work fine
did the same with autosnap, again telling tit to clean build, and again this seems to have worked just fine!
Ok made sure all of the above were (re)installed:
getting the same error as before
[james@Kalevala-Linux ~]$ aafire
X Error of failed request: BadName (named color or font does not exist)
Major opcode of failed request: 45 (X_OpenFont)
Serial number of failed request: 7
Current serial number in output stream: 8
[james@Kalevala-Linux ~]$
3rd one down BB it’s another little Ascii fun thing.
Obviously, if this doesn’t work, it doesn’t exactly ruin my life. but I am curious as to what’;s going on
BRB going for a smoke.