Artix Linux Forum

Hi,
I have quite a long experience in Linux but I am new to ARTIX - my main Linux distribution is Gentoo.

1) What do I need to do when I chroot from a different Linux system (e.g. Gentoo)
    Currently I do  (NROOT is the partition on which ARTIX is installed)

mount --bind  /proc /$NROOT/proc
mount --rbind /dev  /$NROOT/dev
mount --rbind /sys  /$NROOT/sys
mount --rbind /run  /$NROOT/run
cp /etc/resolv.conf /$NROOT/etc/resolv.conf
xhost +local:
echo $DISPLAY

chroot /$NROOT /bin/bash

source /etc/profile
source /etc/bash/bashrc.d/artix.bashrc
export DISPLAY=:0

2)
I have installed Balsa but starting 'balsa' I get
balsa: error while loading shared libraries: libicuuc.so.60: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

How to resolve that?

3) Similarly, starting Firefox I get
firefox

(firefox:10541): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
        Using the fallback 'C' locale.
process 10541: D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up; failed to read machine uuid: Failed to open "/etc/machine-id": No such file or directory
See the manual page for dbus-uuidgen to correct this issue.
  D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace
Redirecting call to abort() to mozalloc_abort

ExceptionHandler::GenerateDump cloned child 10572
ExceptionHandler::SendContinueSignalToChild sent continue signal to child
ExceptionHandler::WaitForContinueSignal waiting for continue signal...

4) where is 'startx' ?

5) How to find a package which contains a given command like  'locate'

Many thanks for your patience,
Helmut

Hello

• no idea, i never used Gentoo before
• This looks like you need to update library called "icu" to version 60 if you need older version you can install it from AUR, there might be more topics about this
• Do you have set right locale and is dbus installed and dbus service running?
• xorg-xinit
• You can run
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  pacman -Ss something

  or
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  pacman -Qo /usr/bin/locale

  or you can install utility
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  pkgfile

For chrooting I use the following:

cd /
for d in dev proc sys; do mount --bind $d /CHROOT/$d; done
xhost +SI:localuser:username
chroot /CHROOT

Your Artix is not fully updated, icu-60 is in [system] since days. Check you mirrorlist (https://wiki.artixlinux.org/Main/Troubleshooting#Updating_icu.2Fncurses.2Fwhatever_breaks_a_ton_of_packages).

Uncomment your locale in /etc/locale.gen and run locale-gen as root. I've never encountered problems concerning the systemd's /etc/machine-id tracking crap, you can put a random 'fucktheskullofsystemd' string inside for all I know. Or generate one with

dbus-uuidgen > /etc/machine-id

Might also be fun to regenerate it every hour with cron. Frakking tagging.

pacman -Sy xorg-xinit

pacman -Qo /path/to/file

You need to do pacman  -Syyu not pacman -Su or pacman -Syu to fully sync the repros, as a Gentoo user I already reminded you that research is your best friend read you other post concerning icu and how to do it correctly from the Arch wiki it works. i used it my self be fore anybody even posted here. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman