EasyOS version 2.3.2, June 22, 2020

[FeodorF]

Found one problem.

You can not connect to the internet while running EasyOS in a container. I'll get a 'Network Time out' error.

[Sage]

2.2.9.1: more updates:
4th boot-up - speed OK but mouse & k/b temporarily locked up, needed a few CTRL-ALT-BcK&DEL semi-random keypresses before mouse cursor re-appeared and k/b functional again.
Sadly sound returned to zero again but wifi active.

[BarryK]

Re 2.2.9.1 urgent, when booting to run in ram & disable drives mode,
screen fills & ends in kernel panic.

The only way to reset laptop is to slide out the battery.

Otherwise booting in normal mode is ok.

Oh, not good. That is one thing I didn't test. Maybe it is because of the 4.19.97 kernel.

Right now I am compiling the 5.4.18 kernel. If it works ok, will probably bring out EasyOS 2.2.10 soon. And I will make sure that "run in ram & disable drives" works.

[BarryK]

2.2.9.1: more updates:
4th boot-up - speed OK but mouse & k/b temporarily locked up, needed a few CTRL-ALT-BcK&DEL semi-random keypresses before mouse cursor re-appeared and k/b functional again.
Sadly sound returned to zero again but wifi active.

These issues, and problem with bluetoothd daemon starting, seem to be all due to the change in udev, as posted here:

https://bkhome.org/news/202002/a-twiste ... iling.html

Yeah, getting faster bootup, but paying a price.

Note: I am running 2.2.9.1 right now on my laptop, and mouse, keyboard and bluetooth all working, no issues.

I hope to get it sorted for 2.2.10 release.

[Billtoo]

Installed 2.2.9.1 to a usb SSD:

Computer
Processor 4x Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU 540 @ 3.07GHz
Memory 6025MB (217MB used)
Machine Type Physical machine
Operating System Easy Buster64
Date/Time Tue Feb 11 07:19:09 2020

OpenGL
Vendor Intel Open Source Technology Center
Renderer Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ironlake Desktop
Version 2.1 Mesa 18.3.6
Direct Rendering Y_es

SCSI Disks
HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH70N
Monster Overdrive 3.0

Works okay so far,
Thanks

[Billtoo]

Installed 2.2.9.1 to a usb SSD:

Computer
Processor 2x Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz
Memory 4041MB (396MB used)
Machine Type Physical machine
Operating System Easy Buster64
Date/Time Tue Feb 11 08:06:44 2020

OpenGL
Vendor X.Org
Renderer AMD OLAND (DRM 2.50.0, 4.19.97, LLVM 7.0.1)
Version 4.5 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 18.3.6
Direct Rendering Y_es

SCSI Disks
HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GH40N
Monster Overdrive 3.0

Works okay so far,
Thanks
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Edit: If you go to the containerized desktop there's no getting back,alt-f6
does nothing so needed to hold down the power button to shut down the computer.,
Edit: Got too many keyboards in front of me, must have used the wrong one because alt-f6 does work.
Sorry for the bad report.

[Sage]

...and 2.2.9.iso doesn't run. Something about zram0???

[linux28]

Re 2.2.9.1 urgent, when booting to run in ram & disable drives mode,
screen fills & ends in kernel panic.

The only way to reset laptop is to slide out the battery.

Otherwise booting in normal mode is ok.

Oh, not good. That is one thing I didn't test. Maybe it is because of the 4.19.97 kernel.

Right now I am compiling the 5.4.18 kernel. If it works ok, will probably bring out EasyOS 2.2.10 soon. And I will make sure that "run in ram & disable drives" works.

5.4.18 kernel Can the read exFAT 64G?
5.4.12 Can only read 32G, not 64G

[scsijon]

Right now I am compiling the 5.4.18 kernel. If it works ok, will probably bring out EasyOS 2.2.10 soon. And I will make sure that "run in ram & disable drives" works.

Barry the kernel group is up to Kernel 5.4.19 which contains a couple of serious fixes, like a Fix for the global-out-of-bounds bug for Intel devices, ALSA fixes, meson code fixes, and fixes for the system clock when in 24hr mode, may be worth restarting.

Also 5.6-rcx has now started so it looks like the 5.5 line is coming to an end at 5.5.3.

[FeodorF]

Pup-SysInfo Report

LENOVO PC-7099H6G, BIOS-LENOVO 04/23/2010, 2x Intel Celeron CPU E3400 @ 2.60GHz, 1996 MB

4.19.97 (x86_64), Easy Buster64 2.2.9.1

Network Interface: eth0

Display 1280x1024 pixels

Xorg: modesetting, dbe evdev extmod fb fbdevhw glamoregl glx
nouveau, NV96, 3.3 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 18.3.6

NVIDIA Corporation G96 [GeForce 9500 GS] [10de:0644] (rev a1)
/lib/modules/4.19.97/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau.ko
Video RAM: 501M total, 256M prefetchable

Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller [8086:27d8] (rev 01)
/lib/modules/4.19.97/kernel/sound/pci/hda/snd-hda-intel.ko

VIA Technologies VL805 USB 3.0 Host Controller, SanDisk Ultra USB 3.0 – sda: 30.8GB

Brightness control works well via HDMI.

[rameshiyer]

Why internet is not availalbe on container browser. My connection is static wired LAN. However no such problem while using without container.

[BarryK]

Easy 2.2.10 is released, see blog post:

https://bkhome.org/news/202002/easyos-v ... eased.html

I have rushed this out, as wanted to get back to a 5.4.x kernel, and bluetooth is fixed.

@scsijon,
I just missed out on that kernel, have used 5.4.18.

@Rodney,
Haven't tested booting to ram & disable drives. Hope return to 5.4.x kernel has fixed it.

EDIT:
Note, if you downloaded 2.2.10 soon after this announcement, it has a bug with bluetooth. I re-uploaded it, same version number, several hours after the first upload.

@Rodney,
Copy to ram & disable drives works.

[Billtoo]

I installed 2.2.10 to my usb SSD to use on my Compaq Presario desktop:

Computer
Processor 2x Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E5200 @ 2.50GHz
Memory 4037MB (202MB used)
Machine Type Physical machine
Operating System Easy Buster64
Date/Time Wed Feb 12 12:52:30 2020

SCSI Disks
ATA Hitachi HDP72505
HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GH40L
Monster Overdrive 3.0

OpenGL
Vendor nouveau
Renderer NVC1
Version 4.3 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 18.3.6
Direct Rendering Y_es

Version
Kernel Linux 5.4.18 (x86_64)

Good so far, will test more later.
Thanks.

[L18L]

Running EasyOS-2.2.9-de.img from USB.

using momanager only the "fuzzy" items, (all of them !)

resulted in attached files
which should be merged in running systems and next version.


regards
Lutz

[Rodney Byne]

To Barry,
I'm having to type this in reliable Pyro read on...
ok you cured the kernel panic I reported earlier,
but your obsession with bluetooth which I don't
have or need in my house, has resulted in standard
cable ethernet not being detected in 2.2.10 presumably
by Network Manager.
I even unchecked bluetooth in the bootup
list and tried to left & right click everything
to force a connect to ethernet, but am left
with the annoying red cross which is reluctant
to go green.
Flaky, very disappointing for me, regards.

[Sage]

2.2.10re-upload: seems to work OK now, thanks.

[L18L]

Thanks for EasyOS

[Rodney Byne]

To Barry,

As before, no internet, no connection on hard cable ethernet.
Either this "thing" is deceiving you or you are deceiving yourself.
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At least the savefile expansion problem on EasyPup
is resolved.
Regards.

[FeodorF]

My BIOS boxes with HDMI nvidia and intel look good.
Booting from usb-2.0 into usb-3.0 looks good too.
Used easydd to write the image onto the usb flash stick.

[BarryK]

Re 2.2.9.1 urgent, when booting to run in ram & disable drives mode,
screen fills & ends in kernel panic.

The only way to reset laptop is to slide out the battery.

Otherwise booting in normal mode is ok.

Oh, not good. That is one thing I didn't test. Maybe it is because of the 4.19.97 kernel.

Right now I am compiling the 5.4.18 kernel. If it works ok, will probably bring out EasyOS 2.2.10 soon. And I will make sure that "run in ram & disable drives" works.

5.4.18 kernel Can the read exFAT 64G?
5.4.12 Can only read 32G, not 64G

I don't recall what was done with 5.4.12, but 5.4.18 is using the fuse exfat driver, not the new kernel driver.

They are Debian DEB packages:

Code: Select all

exfat-fuse_1.3.0-1|exfat-fuse|1.3.0-1||BuildingBlock|72K|pool/main/f/fuse-exfat|exfat-fuse_1.3.0-1_amd64.deb|+libc6&ge2.14,+libfuse2&ge2.6,+fuse|read and write exFAT driver for FUSE|debian|buster||
exfat-utils_1.3.0-1|exfat-utils|1.3.0-1||Filesystem|227K|pool/main/e/exfat-utils|exfat-utils_1.3.0-1_amd64.deb|+libc6&ge2.14|utilities to create check label and dump exFAT filesystem|debian|buster||

I did briefly try the new kernel exfat code, which came from Microsoft, but decided to go back to using the fuse driver. No reason really, I just don't like Microsoft, and anyway, I recall Linus commenting that it is crappy code.