A little info-
distro- arch linux
environment - originally installed xfce4 but moved to niri
problem - obs studio isn't showing the screen capture as a source, i have tried both pacman and flatpak version, none of them are working. installed xdg desktop portals and configured it to use xdg dp wlr instead of gtk but still no sign of screen capture. any fixes to this?
#[SOLVED]Obs-studio isn't showing screen capture as a source
calm comet
hallow moss
@calm comet sudo pacman -S pipewire pipewire-audio pipewire-pulse wireplumber pipewire-v4l2
install xdg-desktop-portal-gtk and xdg-desktop-portal-wlr
add [preferred] default=gtk org.freedesktop.impl.portal.Screenshot=wlr org.freedesktop.impl.portal.ScreenCast=wlrthis to ~/.config/xdg-desktop-portal/portals.conf
calm comet
@hallow moss i kinda got myself into another situation 👉👈
After messing around with the portal services i decided to reboot
And it failed to boot, i checked journalctl and it says unable to locate executable 'plymouth' : no such file or directory
On a scale of 1 to 10 how cooked am i
hallow moss
@calm comet do you have the usb with arch into it?
calm comet
Not rn, I'm at the library. I can repair it after i go home. Could you still let me know what I should do?
hallow moss
@calm comet https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Chroot then pacman -Syu in the chroot and photo of that please
calm comet
Will do.
calm comet
@hallow moss should I reinstall arch bruh
it keeps giving me that can't mount /boot error
radiant ivy
No need to reinstall.
radiant ivy
Run lsblk
calm comet
@radiant ivy
The sda 1 and 2 are my arch
1 is efi and 2 is /
Sda3 and 4 are windows
Sdb is my usb
radiant ivy
Did you format the partition correctly? if you did you can mount them : mount /dev/sda2 /mnt and mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot
calm comet
I did i can mount and chroot into them too
That's not the main problem
The main problem is it still fails to mount boot
radiant ivy
I did i can mount and chroot into them too
Just mount them don't chroot yet.
calm comet
Okay
radiant ivy
Can you show?
radiant ivy
The output of lsblk
calm comet
radiant ivy
Now gen the fstab with genfstab -U /mnt > /mnt/etc/fstab
After that you can Chroot.
Did you run pacstrap before?
calm comet
Did you run `pacstrap` before?
I didn't
calm comet
Now gen the fstab with `genfstab -U /mnt > /mnt/etc/fstab`
I ran this
radiant ivy
I didn't
Okay that is fine just run pacstrap /mnt linux base base-devel before you chroot.
calm comet
Okayy doing it right now
radiant ivy
After that you can Rerun the genfstab command genfstab -U /mnt > /mnt/etc/fstab
You don't have any data on your system?
calm comet
Sorry my internet went out and was giving me errors on the pacstrap command
calm comet
After that you can Rerun the genfstab command `genfstab -U /mnt > /mnt/etc/fstab...
Okay i ran this
Now i chroot?
radiant ivy
There are files
I mean do you have anything personal that you want to back up?
calm comet
Run `lsblk -f`
Failed to access sysfs ditectory: /sys/dev/block : no such file or directory
calm comet
I mean do you have anything personal that you want to back up?
Yeah I don't have a lot but I do have some books on there which i wanted to move. I mean i can ask my friends later on if I do end up losing them
radiant ivy
Yeah I don't have a lot but I do have some books on there which i wanted to move...
You can copy them to some other place there are cd home/yourusername/
radiant ivy
But what do I do about it now?
If you want to copy them you can do so by copying them to the usb like mkdir books mount /dev/sdb1 books and just cp home/yourusername/yourbooks books/
radiant ivy
Should I reinstall arch now
Right, just reboot and boot from the usb.
calm comet
Alright thanks!