several issues in linpus -mounting devices,resolution,shutdo

Hey hey,

first of all big compliments for this forum - steps are well-explained and understandable even for gringos.

I am a complete newbie to linux, so I first gave my aao into the hands of different informatic engineers during my travel... Now I'm out of reach, and was proud to have my initial prob to not be able to install any programs with addremove software.
Once this worked, the background screen was gone, so I used the 'ten easy steps' by rjm to put up a screen.

Now there are the following, possibly interconnected issues:
- the system wouldn't shut down anymore
- the automount of external harddisc and sd cards doesn't work anymore (Failed to 'SD/MMC Drive' org.freedesktop.halstorage.mount-removable no <-- (action, result).
- the resolution seems to have changed for the icon bar, the font size in firefox suddenly is bigger (in the toolbars)
- many programs don't wanna open any more (eg thunar, gthumb pic viewer)

Any twists out of this?? I appreciate your help!

Mart

 

Can you try this:

Press alt+f2, enter 'xterm' and click 'run' to open a terminal emulator.

Type

Code:

sudo poweroff

and press enter. Is the system shutting down now? Does it ask for a password? Do you get an error message?

Do you get an error message when you enter

Code:

thunar

on the terminal?

Johan

 

For fixing Automount see viewtopic.php?f=39&t=4931

What HowTo's have you applied?
In which order?
Do you have updated via yum/pirut ?

greetz,
Tybor

 

Thanks for your replies.

Johan,
I have to run xterm4, for xterm there's no result.
It does shut down, but sending a warning saying it can't find the 'runlevel' but does a soft turnoff instead.

 

it does mount thunar, too, but i can't find my desktop, my documents, my pictures anymore

 

thanks for the quick good link, tybor,
didn't work right away, though.

at the end in the mousepad it said
done
#Set system time now,Rain @ 08/04/09.
#[ -x /sbin/hwclock ] && /sbin/hwclock --hctosys

not just done...

gruesse nach oesterreich,
mart

 

Re fonts:
Font size depends upon what the xserver believes your screen size (take a look at what's in /etc/X11/xorg.conf) and the dpi (run dxpyinfo) to be. Not on my AA1 right now, so can't tell you exactly what I've done in Linpus, but in GNOME I went to the control center and explicitly told it to use 96dpi just to be consistent with my other machines. This way, 9pt characters on the AA1 are the same size as 9pt characters on my desktop pc.

 

Strange. Maybe you can try this in a terminal:

Code:

groups `whoami`

Check weather 'wheel' shows up. If yes, enter the following:

Code:

sudo bash
EDITOR=mousepad /usr/sbin/visudo

Your sudo configuration opens in an editor. Add the following line

Code:

%wheel ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/xfsm-shutdown-helper

(if there was no 'wheel' in the result of the groups command, use something else instead of wheel)

Save the file, and try if you can shutdown now.

I found this over here: http://www.spencerstirling.com/computer ... tdown.html
I didn't try this myself, because I don't seem to need it. But maybe you need it because of some change on your system.