[solved] wallpaper and directory links not persisting on reboot

[Member entropyfoe]

I am back to my antix 17 final install. I did the MX-17 beta1 test, and now am back on antix testing for long term stability.

One problem (minor) is when I reboot into antix 17, my wall paler is missing, “failed to open /path to /wallpaper image/spectrum.jpg”.
This will be easy for the experts here !

The image is on my data drive. I have set up the little files icon on the desktop to link to my data drive and a bunch of directories (music, pictures, documents etc). ANd these do not work after a reboot. The link to sda (the 1TB data drive), but not the directories short cuts I have created with links.

So to fix, delete one of the shortcuts (say documents), and open another files icon from the desktop, open the data drive, and drag a documents folder onto the files window now open. It asks if I want relative or absolute links. I pick absolute, (relative gives the same behaviour). Then that shortcut link works opening up the documents directory on the data drive. And surprisingly, now all the other linked folders work now also ! Then I can use the control center to reselect my existing wall paler.

I am good until I have a reboot.

So, I think somehow the data drive or links are not being remounted correctly. How can I check this and make the data links permanent and the wall paper come up automatically?

Having the linked subdirectories to all my data in that Files icon makes for a very clean and useful desktop.

System:    Host: Ryzen Kernel: 4.10.5-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64
           Desktop: IceWM 1.3.12+mod+20170325.1
           Distro: antiX-17.b1_x64-full keerfa 29 June 2017
Machine:   Device: desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: PRIME X370-PRO v: Rev X.0x serial: N/A
           UEFI [Legacy]: American Megatrends v: 0902 date: 09/08/2017
CPU:       Hexa core AMD Ryzen 5 1600X Six-Core (-HT-MCP-) cache: 3072 KB
           clock speeds: max: 3600 MHz 1: 3200 MHz 2: 2200 MHz 3: 2200 MHz 4: 2200 MHz
           5: 2200 MHz 6: 2200 MHz 7: 2200 MHz 8: 2200 MHz 9: 2200 MHz 10: 2200 MHz
           11: 2200 MHz 12: 2200 MHz
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GK208 [GeForce GT 710B]
           Display Server: X.Org 1.19.2
           drivers: nouveau (unloaded: modesetting,fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz
           OpenGL: renderer: Gallium 0.4 on NV106 version: 4.3 Mesa 13.0.6
Audio:     Card-1 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device 1457 driver: snd_hda_intel
           Card-2 NVIDIA GK208 HDMI/DP Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.10.5-antix.1-amd64-smp
Network:   Card: Intel I211 Gigabit Network Connection driver: igb
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: 
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 2250.5GB (29.4% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD2002FAEX size: 2000.4GB
           ID-2: /dev/nvme0n1 model: Samsung_SSD_960_EVO_250GB size: 250.1GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 101G used: 3.6G (4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 17.83GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: N/A mobo: N/A gpu: 41.0
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 0
Info:      Processes: 232 Uptime: 2:00 Memory: 809.5/16048.3MB
           Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.40

• This topic was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by entropyfoe.

Asus Prime 370X-Pro
AMD Ryzen 1600X (6 cores @ 3.6 GHz)
16 Gig DDR4 3200 (G Skill)
Nvidia -MSI GeForce GT 710 fanless
Samsung 960 NVMe SSD nvme0n1 P1,P2, and P3=MX-18, P4=antiX-19 beta
2TB WD sda1= data
on-board ethernet &and sound

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Fixed !

I checked fstab. sda1, the data drive was set to noauto, so I edited as root, deleting the no leaving auto.

A reboot, now all works correctly.

Asus Prime 370X-Pro
AMD Ryzen 1600X (6 cores @ 3.6 GHz)
16 Gig DDR4 3200 (G Skill)
Nvidia -MSI GeForce GT 710 fanless
Samsung 960 NVMe SSD nvme0n1 P1,P2, and P3=MX-18, P4=antiX-19 beta
2TB WD sda1= data
on-board ethernet &and sound

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