Installing Archlinux with software raid1, encrypted filesystem and LVM2

By Yannick Loth, on August 1st, 2010%

On the web, you’ll find how to setup ArchLinux with LVM, or with RAID, or with encryption, but not with the combination of these three technologies.  This article explains the different steps I took to setup these three technologies with ArchLinux.

Required skills:

Sound understanding of Linux (ArchLinux specifics may be useful…) and raid, lvm2, partitioning, encryption.

The story

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Show icons in Fedora 12 / Gnome 2.28 menus

By Yannick Loth, on December 2nd, 2009%

gconftool-2 –type boolean –set /desktop/gnome/interface/buttons_have_icons true
gconftool-2 –type boolean –set /desktop/gnome/interface/menus_have_icons . . . → Read More: Show icons in Fedora 12 / Gnome 2.28 menus

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OpenOffice.org Fedora / CentOS

By Yannick Loth, on February 25th, 2008%

After having installed the OpenOffice.org RPMs from the http://www.openoffice.org/ site on Fedora or CentOS, no application starts in graphical mode because the SELinux security context is not set correctly.

To correct this, execute, as root, in the “program” directory of your openoffice installation, the following command:
# chcon -t textrel_shlib_t libvclplug_gen680li.so.1.1

Or simply set SELinux to permissive.

The error . . . → Read More: OpenOffice.org Fedora / CentOS

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