EasyOS version 2.3.2, June 22, 2020

[wdt]

>What that whiteout file is doing is blocking the 5.2.7 in the lower easy.sfs layer.
Err.. NO. It is indeed changing the dir name, persistantly,,
persistance is ONLY working in vbox (when on SAME key).
On bare metal, easyos-persistent-iso is not found IF it is on the SAME device,,
fair enough, usually an iso takes up the whole disk, there are NO partitions

This is a boot on bare metal, refind (sdc10), UEFI, only in memory, easyos-persistent-iso NOT FOUND
--------
# ls /lib/modules/
5.1.15
# cd /lib/modules/5.1.15/kernel/drivers/usb/misc/
<<a cd to a random modules directory>>
# ls -l |wc -l
17
<<2 extra, totals & directory, 15 *.ko>>
# grep 5\.2\.7 * |wc -l
grep: sisusbvga: Is a directory
0
# grep 5\.1\.15 * |wc -l
grep: sisusbvga: Is a directory
15
----------

[BarryK]

>What that whiteout file is doing is blocking the 5.2.7 in the lower easy.sfs layer.
Err.. NO. It is indeed changing the dir name, persistantly,,
persistance is ONLY working in vbox (when on SAME key).
On bare metal, easyos-persistent-iso is not found IF it is on the SAME device,,
fair enough, usually an iso takes up the whole disk, there are NO partitions

This is a boot on bare metal, refind (sdc10), UEFI, only in memory, easyos-persistent-iso NOT FOUND
--------
# ls /lib/modules/
5.1.15
# cd /lib/modules/5.1.15/kernel/drivers/usb/misc/
<<a cd to a random modules directory>>
# ls -l |wc -l
17
<<2 extra, totals & directory, 15 *.ko>>
# grep 5\.2\.7 * |wc -l
grep: sisusbvga: Is a directory
0
# grep 5\.1\.15 * |wc -l
grep: sisusbvga: Is a directory
15
----------

This is not making any sense. You are booting the 2.1 iso, yet somehow it is finding and using an older easy.sfs, or so it seems. Is the an older easy.sfs anywhere on the PC?

What should be happening, is the initrd searches for 'easyos-persistent-iso' and if not found then just boots into ram using the 'easy.sfs' that is in the iso -- and that definitely has /lib/modules/5.2.7

If there is an easy.sfs somewhere, rename it and try booting the iso again.

[wdt]

> and that definitely has /lib/modules/5.2.7
And you are right,, I extracted easy.sfs and unsquashed it,, the vermagic was right
Many hours later (and all of this is my own damn fault!)
I have never seen so much in lost+found, 100's of files
But that was not it, I had used isolabel on the copy of easy2.1 on the UFD, not realizing that was searched for /
So it found easy1.1, that had the "right" label, used it for the rootfs
I nuked that partition, rootfs not to be found until I renamed it (easy2.1) back to EASYOSOPTICAL
But now vbox does not work, no module vboxvideo, well I have cli
Have not tried on bare metal yet, rather tired
Is there a cli equivalent to apt?

[scsijon]

Came across xdg-open while reading an error 'treck' on github and wondered if it will do for our use.

xdg-open opens a file or URL in the user's preferred application as well as formatting. If a URL is provided the URL will be opened in the user's preferred web browser. If a file is provided the file will be opened in the preferred application for files of that type. xdg-open supports file, ftp, http and https URLs.

# xdg-open --help
Usage: ROX-Filer/AppRun [OPTION]... [FILE]...
Open each directory or file listed, or the current working
directory if no arguments are given.

-b, --border=PANEL open PANEL as a border panel
-B, --bottom=PANEL open PAN as a bottom-edge panel
-c, --client-id=ID used for session management
-d, --dir=DIR open DIR as directory (not application)
-D, --close=DIR close DIR and its subdirectories
-h, --help display this help and exit
-l, --left=PANEL open PAN as a left-edge panel
-m, --mime-type=FILE print MIME type of FILE and exit
-n, --new start new copy; for debugging the filer
-p, --pinboard=PIN use pinboard PIN as the pinboard
-r, --right=PANEL open PAN as a right-edge panel
-R, --RPC invoke method call read from stdin
-s, --show=FILE open a directory showing FILE
-S, --rox-session use default panel and pinboard options, and -n
-t, --top=PANEL open PANEL as a top-edge panel
-u, --user show user name in each window
-U, --url=URL open file or directory in URI form
-v, --version display the version information and exit
-x, --examine=FILE FILE has changed - re-examine it

Report bugs to <rox-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>.
Home page (including updated versions): http://rox.sourceforge.net/

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[BarryK]

Came across xdg-open while reading an error 'treck' on github and wondered if it will do for our use.

xdg-open opens a file or URL in the user's preferred application as well as formatting. If a URL is provided the URL will be opened in the user's preferred web browser. If a file is provided the file will be opened in the preferred application for files of that type. xdg-open supports file, ftp, http and https URLs.

# xdg-open --help
Usage: ROX-Filer/AppRun [OPTION]... [FILE]...
Open each directory or file listed, or the current working
directory if no arguments are given.

-b, --border=PANEL open PANEL as a border panel
-B, --bottom=PANEL open PAN as a bottom-edge panel
-c, --client-id=ID used for session management
-d, --dir=DIR open DIR as directory (not application)
-D, --close=DIR close DIR and its subdirectories
-h, --help display this help and exit
-l, --left=PANEL open PAN as a left-edge panel
-m, --mime-type=FILE print MIME type of FILE and exit
-n, --new start new copy; for debugging the filer
-p, --pinboard=PIN use pinboard PIN as the pinboard
-r, --right=PANEL open PAN as a right-edge panel
-R, --RPC invoke method call read from stdin
-s, --show=FILE open a directory showing FILE
-S, --rox-session use default panel and pinboard options, and -n
-t, --top=PANEL open PANEL as a top-edge panel
-u, --user show user name in each window
-U, --url=URL open file or directory in URI form
-v, --version display the version information and exit
-x, --examine=FILE FILE has changed - re-examine it

Report bugs to <rox-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>.
Home page (including updated versions): http://rox.sourceforge.net/

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[/quote]

EasyOS does have /usr/local/bin/xdg-open, this is from the Puppy days, it is a script, last edited in 2011. It is very simple, doesn't support any of those options.

[BarryK]

> and that definitely has /lib/modules/5.2.7
And you are right,, I extracted easy.sfs and unsquashed it,, the vermagic was right
Many hours later (and all of this is my own damn fault!)
I have never seen so much in lost+found, 100's of files
But that was not it, I had used isolabel on the copy of easy2.1 on the UFD, not realizing that was searched for /
So it found easy1.1, that had the "right" label, used it for the rootfs
I nuked that partition, rootfs not to be found until I renamed it (easy2.1) back to EASYOSOPTICAL
But now vbox does not work, no module vboxvideo, well I have cli
Have not tried on bare metal yet, rather tired
Is there a cli equivalent to apt?

Can't you get the *.img file to bootup in vbox? Uncompress it first, it is 1.2GB.

[wdt]

At first, on bare metal, dropped me to initrd cli. Because of other drives the UFD is sdd
ls /dev/sdd* shows only up to sdd8 (in the initrd?), so sdd10 & sdd15 will not be seen
A bit of work with gdisk (t on expert menu) and boots OK, with persistance
On the desktop shows sdd16, opens OK, that was why I didn't realize this was the problem
Modules load OK, wifi works, with right data entered didn't even have to "activate", just connected

While it would be a little more work, could the isolabel be specific to the release?
I mean,, instead of EASYOSOPTICAL,, something like EASY21OPTICAL or EASY11OPTICAL or EASY1092OPTICAL?

[scsijon]

Came across xdg-open while reading an error 'treck' on github and wondered if it will do for our use.

xdg-open opens a file or URL in the user's preferred application as well as formatting. If a URL is provided the URL will be opened in the user's preferred web browser. If a file is provided the file will be opened in the preferred application for files of that type. xdg-open supports file, ftp, http and https URLs.

# xdg-open --help
Usage: ROX-Filer/AppRun [OPTION]... [FILE]...
Open each directory or file listed, or the current working
directory if no arguments are given.

-b, --border=PANEL open PANEL as a border panel
-B, --bottom=PANEL open PAN as a bottom-edge panel
-c, --client-id=ID used for session management
-d, --dir=DIR open DIR as directory (not application)
-D, --close=DIR close DIR and its subdirectories
-h, --help display this help and exit
-l, --left=PANEL open PAN as a left-edge panel
-m, --mime-type=FILE print MIME type of FILE and exit
-n, --new start new copy; for debugging the filer
-p, --pinboard=PIN use pinboard PIN as the pinboard
-r, --right=PANEL open PAN as a right-edge panel
-R, --RPC invoke method call read from stdin
-s, --show=FILE open a directory showing FILE
-S, --rox-session use default panel and pinboard options, and -n
-t, --top=PANEL open PANEL as a top-edge panel
-u, --user show user name in each window
-U, --url=URL open file or directory in URI form
-v, --version display the version information and exit
-x, --examine=FILE FILE has changed - re-examine it

Report bugs to <rox-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>.
Home page (including updated versions): http://rox.sourceforge.net/

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EasyOS does have /usr/local/bin/xdg-open, this is from the Puppy days, it is a script, last edited in 2011. It is very simple, doesn't support any of those options.

Ok, I shall track the full package down, it seems worth having, Ubuntu and Arch seem to use it extensively and redhat seems to have had it for a long time. I'll move it to it's own topic when found.
EDIT: It's part of xdg-utils on freedesk and open on github with a currently maintained version. OK, i'll take it to it's own package thread incase anyone is interested.

[wdt]

some bugs,, this must be my mb, surely others would have said.
Nothing I can do will poweroff or reboot, 3 gui ways, nothing happens,,, reboot in term,freeze,,,CAbksp, nothing,,,reisub,nothing
So I sync, up arrow (4x), hard power off
Now that I think some more, why did I forget CAdelete; haven't tried yet
x11vnc does not seem to pass shift thru, only caps lock gives caps, hard to send <,> or| or: without shift
I have not figured out ssh, if I do, what is password?

[BarryK]

A quick visit to the forum, have heaps of other stuff to do.

Easy Buster 2.1.1 is out:

http://bkhome.org/news/201909/easy-bust ... eased.html

[Rodney Byne]

To Barry,

As before mentioned, pupradio gui STILL doesn't
launch.
Console shows this output;

# pupradio
/usr/local/pupradio/pupradio: line 117: /root/.pupradio/config: No such file or directory

Oh dear!

Regards.

[meddler]

Have had to use SD cards to run Easy since 0.4 on both my Dell Inspirons 1545 (2 and 3 gb respectively). That's been absolutely fine with both machines being pretty fast. Now since recent fix I can use usb sticks to run Buster 2.1.1 ! Magnificent - very many thanks.

[scsijon]

To Barry,

As before mentioned, pupradio gui STILL doesn't
launch.
Console shows this output;

# pupradio
/usr/local/pupradio/pupradio: line 117: /root/.pupradio/config: No such file or directory

Oh dear!

Regards.

Rodney, this should be created the first time you use it, it's not there beforehand. What is actually appearing please.

Firstly, in a console type in set and see where HOME is, check there for the .pupradio directory as pupradio seems to locate it there. Also check whats listed as WORKINGDIR (check if it's there while the error is appearing please).

Secondly, ?are you getting pupradio's gui appearing, ?are you getting xine (or whatever player is being used as it can be on eof a number) coming up or not. I'm not on that base at present so I can't check first hand, but I am working with an earlier version at present.

This may be a problem between the two as xine does use /root/.xine while pupradio uses HOME/.pupradio for configuration

Can I also sugest you have a look in /tmp/xerrs.log and see what's there as it may give you a hint.

OH, and .pupradio/config contains two lines

Code: Select all

PLAYER=xine

with a empty line following if that helps

[wdt]

An update,, for x11vnc -nomodtweak makes shift OK
Still no shutdown or reboot with gui, start, setup, right click desktop
CA delete does not work, however ,, reboot in term does work now
Somehow made sshd work, tried too many things to say how
There was no .ssh dir (and obviously the keys within)
This is on 2.1.1.iso

[BarryK]

To Barry,

As before mentioned, pupradio gui STILL doesn't
launch.
Console shows this output;

# pupradio
/usr/local/pupradio/pupradio: line 117: /root/.pupradio/config: No such file or directory

Oh dear!

Regards.

Rodney, this should be created the first time you use it, it's not there beforehand. What is actually appearing please.

Firstly, in a console type in set and see where HOME is, check there for the .pupradio directory as pupradio seems to locate it there. Also check whats listed as WORKINGDIR (check if it's there while the error is appearing please).

Secondly, ?are you getting pupradio's gui appearing, ?are you getting xine (or whatever player is being used as it can be on eof a number) coming up or not. I'm not on that base at present so I can't check first hand, but I am working with an earlier version at present.

This may be a problem between the two as xine does use /root/.xine while pupradio uses HOME/.pupradio for configuration

Can I also sugest you have a look in /tmp/xerrs.log and see what's there as it may give you a hint.

OH, and .pupradio/config contains two lines

Code: Select all

PLAYER=xine

with a empty line following if that helps

Note, 2.1 and 2.1.1 have Gnome-MPV and MPV, not xine.

[BarryK]

Added Chromium SFS:

http://bkhome.org/news/201909/chromium- ... oaded.html

The blog post also has some notes on how you can create your own SFSs.

[BarryK]

To Barry,

As before mentioned, pupradio gui STILL doesn't
launch.
Console shows this output;

# pupradio
/usr/local/pupradio/pupradio: line 117: /root/.pupradio/config: No such file or directory

Oh dear!

Regards.

@Rodney
Just received an email from Alfons, testing lots of things in 2.1.1. For pupradio, he reports this:

Test Pupradio (Workaround pupradio for radio stations)
- create file config in /root/.pupradio
config
PLAYER=mpv
(after the workaround, Test successfully)

@wdt
Alfons also reported this:

Test EasyOS 2.1.1 under VBOX (VirtualBox-5.2.32)
- Variant I (Test not successful)
with startup (input) from easy-2.1.1-en.iso
the system caming up, bat Start X failed

- Variant II (Test successful)
with startup (input) easy.sfs, initrd, vmlinuz from the VDI-Drive

[scsijon]

To Barry,

As before mentioned, pupradio gui STILL doesn't
launch.
Console shows this output;

# pupradio
/usr/local/pupradio/pupradio: line 117: /root/.pupradio/config: No such file or directory

Oh dear!

Regards.

@Rodney
Just received an email from Alfons, testing lots of things in 2.1.1. For pupradio, he reports this:

Test Pupradio (Workaround pupradio for radio stations)
- create file config in /root/.pupradio
config
PLAYER=mpv
(after the workaround, Test successfully)

@wdt
Alfons also reported this:

Test EasyOS 2.1.1 under VBOX (VirtualBox-5.2.32)
- Variant I (Test not successful)
with startup (input) from easy-2.1.1-en.iso
the system caming up, bat Start X failed

- Variant II (Test successful)
with startup (input) easy.sfs, initrd, vmlinuz from the VDI-Drive

I can't see gnome-mpv in pupradio. It's creating the /root/.pupradio directory when first used, but not the config file, so it can't be finding a suitable player for some reason (pupradio line 79+), ah! /usr/local/bin/defaultmediaplayer is set for gnomempvshell by default, and that's not in pupradio, change it to mpv via the application chooser and the config is created and pupradio is up and running, so it just seems that pupradio just needs an update. There's a few lines to add so i'll leave it to BarryK and not attempt it.

[scsijon]

By the way, i've noticed in /tmp/xerrs.log that the defaults-changer script is issuing an error each time it's run

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/usr/local/bin/defaults-changer: line55: shift: shift count out of range
default (****) changed to (****)... Bye xxx

each time it's run, not sure why though.
EDIT: btw the (****) lines are appearing for each of the default applications so it's doing it a number of times, not once.

[scsijon]

I'm getting the rox-filer dissapearing when changing windows without reason or message.

Something along the lines like>
I created a directory in the current window;
opened geany to create a file, saved file;
changed window to do something else in another window;
switched back to the first and geany is still there, but the rox-filer has dissapeared, it's not in a different window either, nore is there something in xerrs.log or any of the other log files either.

If it was once I would take it it's me, but it's repeating.

Only extra I have loaded is the devx too, so the system shouldn't be overloaded.

EDIT: It's only the rox-filer that's behaving like this for me and i've tried quite a few other apps