XenialDog (Ubuntu 16.04 'Xenial Xerus' LTS, 32-bit)

[backi]

Hi Fred !

Me once again .....

Yes, you must save the session and after reboot you can uninstall the older kernel if you want.

How to? Removing the old one ?Is this correct ?:

apt-get purge linux-image-4.4.0-112-generic linux-image-extra-4.4.0-59-generic

Can it be done also with Bleachbit ?

Thanks rcrsn51 for the Advice !

[fredx181]

You should check that /var/tmp has 777 permissions. Some printer drivers use it and CUPS can be fussy about permissions.

Ah, thanks, correct me if I'm wrong, so permissions should be this:

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root@live:~# ls -l /var | grep tmp
drwxrwxrwt  2 root root    60 jan 24 16:44 tmp

Removing:

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rm -fr /var/tmp

Then recreate with the 777 permissions

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mkdir -m 1777 /var/tmp

And:

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root@live:~# ls -l /var | grep tmp
drwxrwxrwt  2 root root    60 jan 24 16:46 tmp

@backi edited my post above adding the correct mkdir command (-m 1777)

How to? Removing the old one ?Is this correct ?:

apt-get purge linux-image-4.4.0-112-generic linux-image-extra-4.4.0-59-generic

No, both should be 4.4.0-59 to be removed, so (after reboot check conky or "uname -a" if the new kernel 4.4.0-112 is in use)

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apt-get purge linux-image-4.4.0-59-generic linux-image-extra-4.4.0-59-generic

EDIT: Not sure, but I don't think bleachbit can do it.

Fred

[keniv]

Hi Fred,
I tried your code

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ls -l  /mnt/sdb1//17xendog/

Then I thought there was an extra back-slash(/) so I tried this

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ls -l  /mnt/sdb1/17xendog/

When that did not work I used the path to casper I get if I click through to it from sdb1 ie

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ls -1 /mnt/live/mnt/sdb1/17xendog/casper

The output from them all is shown below

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root@xenial:~# ls -l  /mnt/sdb1//17xendog/
ls: cannot access '/mnt/sdb1//17xendog/': No such file or directory
root@xenial:~# ls -l  /mnt/sdb1/17xendog/
ls: cannot access '/mnt/sdb1/17xendog/': No such file or directory
root@xenial:~# ls -1 /mnt/live/mnt/sdb1/17xendog/casper
01-filesystem.squashfs
base
changes.dat
initrd1.xz
modules
optional
rootcopy
vmlinuz
xenial-i486.sgn
root@xenial:~# 

Can I use the last path to upgrade the kernel?

Regards,

Ken.

[fredx181]

Hi Ken.

ls -1 /mnt/live/mnt/sdb1/17xendog/casper

That explains it, it happens in some cases that the mountpoint of the frugal install folder changes to that.
Thanks for the info, this is a bug, I'll work on new version of upgrade-kernel to make it work somehow with /mnt/live/mnt/....., will get back later about it.

Fred

[backi]

Hi Fred !
Hope i do not become to annoying .

But there is some strange Effect .The mystery of the non existing /var/temp Folder in my Xenial Dog System......becomes even more mysterious .

mkdir -m 1777 /var/tmp during Session did create such a Folder.
But ......saving Session .....after Reboot .....looked into /var.....but no such Folder
/var/tmp to find . Did several Trials .
Despite creating /var/tmp and saving Session it did not survive after Reboot .
What about this ?????

[backi]

Tried to change Permissions of Folder /var with PcmanFm .
Could not change all Permission to Anyone .

Pcmanfm on Folder var >Properties>Access Control>Permissions>change content to Anyone .

The files operation was completed with errors

Changing attributes of files : var

Errors occured :
lectured: Cannot set permissions on symlinks
run: Cannot set permissions on symlinks
rsyslog: Cannot set permissions on symlinks
icons: Cannot set permissions on symlinks

So this is probably why i am not being able to create /var/tmp permanently .

[fredx181]

Hi backi, no problem

I see that /var/tmp is excluded from saving (for save-on-exit, in /usr/bin/snapmergepuppy, as well as other tmp folders are also excluded)
Maybe you did a remaster earlier ? and something weird happened (as I said, /var/tmp should be part of the base filesystem).
Can you look in /mnt/live/memory/images/01-filesystem.squashfs/var/ if you find tmp folder or maybe a .wh.tmp file, or in some other directory (mounted SFS maybe ? in /mnt/live/memory/images/..../var/
Just guessing though, I never experienced something like that.
Depends on what you find to think for me about how to fix the problem.

@Ken, can you try new version of upgrade-kernel ? Should be fixed now.
Install v1.0.2 from Synaptic or with apt-get:

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apt-get update
apt-get install upgrade-kernel  # will install 1.0.2

EDIT: @backi, another shot in the dark, also look in /mnt/live/memory/images/changes-exit/var/ if there's a .wh.tmp file, if there is, delete it and do anyway (this may fix the problem):

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mkdir -m 1777 /mnt/live/memory/images/changes-exit/var/tmp

Reboot and check if /var/tmp exists

Fred

[keniv]

OK Fred, thanks for that.

Ken.

[fredx181]

(added some new features and upgraded all packages)
*** BionicDog Preview (Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver development) ***

Hi Everyone,

New Alpha version , "Bionic Beaver" development stage.
Changes: Added "Desktop Manager" (similar as in Xenialdog) with choices:
- Openbox with rox-pinboard Desktop (bottom panel: tint2)
- Openbox with tint2 panels
- Openbox with pcmanfm providing the Desktop and LxPanel (bottom panel)

Fixed: loading encrypted savefile (previously didn't work)
Added: package: firefox-apulse, custom firefox package included, using apulse for support playing audio.

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root@live:~# cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu Bionic Beaver (development branch) \n \l

Login details:
root with password root (default automatic login)
puppy with password puppy

Specifications:
Built from an absolute minimal Ubuntu by using debootstrap.
Kernel: 4.14
Choice of Boot Methods: porteus-boot only , see options at the XenialDog Wiki Porteus-Boot
Default WM - OpenBox with Desktop choices (see above)
Default File Manager - pcmanfm with option to use rox.
Default Internet Browser - Firefox. (there is launcher for "firefox" running apulse, so audio works without pulseaudio installed)
Applications included: gnome-mplayer, mpv, abiword, pburn, pfind, gparted, synaptic, leafpad, quick-remaster, dogradio, peasywifi, wex and much more (almost as full featured as XenialDog)
TODO's: Testing.... testing..., upgrade packages (there will be many available during next months), and add more packages to custom repos (e.g. apps that rcrsn51 made for StretchDog (need to test first) )

Download:
32-bit ISO: https://github.com/fredx181/bionicdog/r ... -02-13.iso Size: 295 MB
Md5sum: https://github.com/fredx181/bionicdog/r ... -02-13.md5

64-bit ISO: https://github.com/fredx181/bionicdog/r ... -02-13.iso Size: 303 MB
Md5sum: https://github.com/fredx181/bionicdog/r ... -02-13.md5

Firmware .squashfs module: https://github.com/fredx181/bionicdog/r ... e.squashfs

Fred

[rockedge]

After having so much success using XenialDog as the basis for a ZoneMinder CCTV NVR system... I am downloading and preparing to give this BionicDog a test run by using a zoneminder install script that works without error on XenialDog and see if with small modification it will give the same good results with this new OS......

test will be with the BionicDog32-alpha-2018-02-13.iso to begin with... LAMP and ZoneMinder with some bells and whistles will be installed.

[rockedge]

UPDATE:
BionicDog32-alpha-2018-02-13 booted and runs so far very well
Dell Inspiron E1505
dual core 4gigs RAM

[keniv]

Hello Fred,
I too have installed bionic dog. I thought it would overcome the problem I had of not being able to update the kernel in xenial dog. All seems to be working that I've tried so far. As you might remember I was trying to run gqrx a sdr program. I had trouble last time installing whats shown bellow except for the last line.

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sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:bladerf/bladerf
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ettusresearch/uhd
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:myriadrf/drivers
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:myriadrf/gnuradio
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:gqrx/gqrx-sdr
sudo apt-get update

Your suggestion was to miss out the -y as shown in the reply you gave here.

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 046#979046

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bladerf/bladerf
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ettusresearch/uhd
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:myriadrf/drivers
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:myriadrf/gnuradio
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gqrx/gqrx-sdr
sudo apt-get update

This worked the last time but does not seem to work now.

For info, to install the official add-apt-repository, do in terminal:

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apt-get install software-properties-common

But then you need to remove the included to make the official have prority:
rm -f /usr/local/bin/add-apt-repository

Have you any other suggestions as to how I could install these add-apt repositories other than the above?

Regards,

Ken.

[fredx181]

Hi Ken, the ppa's are not supporting bionic yet, (see for example Here and pic below) and besides that, without need for adding ppa's you can install gqrx-sdr
(gqrx-sdr is included in standard bionic repositories)

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root@live:~# apt-get install gqrx-sdr
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libairspy0 libairspyhf0 libasound2-plugins libbladerf1 libboost-date-time1.65.1
  libboost-program-options1.65.1 libboost-regex1.65.1 libboost-serialization1.65.1
  libdouble-conversion1 libfreesrp0 libgnuradio-analog3.7.11 libgnuradio-audio3.7.11
  libgnuradio-blocks3.7.11 libgnuradio-digital3.7.11 libgnuradio-fcd3.7.11
  libgnuradio-fcdproplus3.7.11 libgnuradio-fft3.7.11 libgnuradio-filter3.7.11
  libgnuradio-iqbalance3.7.11 libgnuradio-osmosdr0.1.4 libgnuradio-pmt3.7.11
  libgnuradio-runtime3.7.11 libgnuradio-uhd3.7.11 libhackrf0 libhidapi-libusb0
  liblog4cpp5v5 libmirisdr0 liborc-0.4-0 libosmosdr0 libportaudio2 libpulsedsp libqt5core5a
  libqt5dbus5 libqt5gui5 libqt5network5 libqt5svg5 libqt5widgets5 librtlsdr0 libsoapysdr0.6
  libtdb1 libuhd003.010.003 libvolk1.3 libwebrtc-audio-processing1 libxcb-icccm4
  libxcb-image0 libxcb-keysyms1 libxcb-render-util0 libxcb-xinerama0 libxcb-xkb1
  libxkbcommon-x11-0 pulseaudio pulseaudio-utils
Suggested packages:
  bladerf bladerf-firmware bladerf-fpga qt5-image-formats-plugins qtwayland5 gnuradio
  libvolk1-dev pavumeter pavucontrol paman paprefs ubuntu-sounds avahi-daemon
Recommended packages:
  gr-fcdproplus gr-iqbal qttranslations5-l10n qt5-gtk-platformtheme soapysdr0.6-module-all
  | soapysdr0.6-module libvolk1-bin rtkit
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gqrx-sdr libairspy0 libairspyhf0 libasound2-plugins libbladerf1 libboost-date-time1.65.1
  libboost-program-options1.65.1 libboost-regex1.65.1 libboost-serialization1.65.1
  libdouble-conversion1 libfreesrp0 libgnuradio-analog3.7.11 libgnuradio-audio3.7.11
  libgnuradio-blocks3.7.11 libgnuradio-digital3.7.11 libgnuradio-fcd3.7.11
  libgnuradio-fcdproplus3.7.11 libgnuradio-fft3.7.11 libgnuradio-filter3.7.11
  libgnuradio-iqbalance3.7.11 libgnuradio-osmosdr0.1.4 libgnuradio-pmt3.7.11
  libgnuradio-runtime3.7.11 libgnuradio-uhd3.7.11 libhackrf0 libhidapi-libusb0
  liblog4cpp5v5 libmirisdr0 liborc-0.4-0 libosmosdr0 libportaudio2 libpulsedsp libqt5core5a
  libqt5dbus5 libqt5gui5 libqt5network5 libqt5svg5 libqt5widgets5 librtlsdr0 libsoapysdr0.6
  libtdb1 libuhd003.010.003 libvolk1.3 libwebrtc-audio-processing1 libxcb-icccm4
  libxcb-image0 libxcb-keysyms1 libxcb-render-util0 libxcb-xinerama0 libxcb-xkb1
  libxkbcommon-x11-0 pulseaudio pulseaudio-utils
0 upgraded, 53 newly installed, 0 to remove and 26 not upgraded.
Need to get 18.3 MB of archives.
After this operation, 75.7 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 

EDIT: The add-apt-repository script included in BionicDog needed a small fix, see attached, extract and replace in /usr/local/bin/.
The default is bionic now, but as I said, some ppa's are not supporting bionic yet.
To add repo for e.g. artful (I wouldn't recommend though), just add it to the command, e.g:

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add-apt-repository ppa:user/ppa-name artful

To find the webpage for a ppa, just google for example "ppa:rvm/smplayer"
(to check if it supports bionic, the smplayer ppa does, btw)
EDIT2: Forgot almost to mention, to make add-apt-repository work it's required to have package "dirmngr" installed:

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apt-get install dirmngr

Fred

[keniv]

Hi Fred,
Thanks again for the information and the explanation. I have got gqrx installed and it is working but the site recommends the installation of the repositories I listed. I'll try your suggestions and report back. I hope to migrate from xenial to bionic. I'll try and do some general testing as well. First thing to report is I think peasy wifi is an improvement. Easy to use and worked first time (though I've got some previous experience of using it).

Regards,

Ken.

[fredx181]

it is working but the site recommends the installation of the repositories I listed

Could be that the ppa repo's had the latest version packages at the time of recommendation, anyway, I think now the standard bionic repo has the latest packages.

[Max Headroom]

G'day Fred, While Updating This XenialDog via Both apt-get & Synaptic, I got a small maroon colored window, Warning: Less than 30MB Free Space on RootFS, Strongly Recommend...

This is a Frugal install, Dual Booting w/ M$ Virus Bait on a NTFS Partition, so I'm using a .dat Container File, that was 5 GB, so I Resized it to 8 GB & ReBooted, But it's Still there!... Furthermore According 2 Conky, Home it says 3.23GiB/3.38GiB 95%, Yet when I Check the Properties of My .dat Save File it Confirms that it's 8000MB!

I'm Confused!

How can I tell how much Free space I Actually have? inside the Save / Container File, Please

& whY is there a Difference w/ Conky?

Thanx!

:)K

[backi]

Hi Max !
Ran into similar Problems while trying to update Xenial Dog .Not enough Save Space .
I don`t know if it makes a Difference using changes.dat or changes Folder .
I am using changes Folder Porteus boot .

When in my case booting with default menu.lst Entry (means changes saved only on Demand ):

title XENIALDOG4 - porteus-boot - save on EXIT/DEMAND changes=/XENIALDOG4/changes folder
find --set-root /XENIALDOG4/casper/vmlinuz
kernel /XENIALDOG4/casper/vmlinuz from=/XENIALDOG4 noauto changes=EXIT:/XENIALDOG4/casper/ ramsize=80%
initrd /XENIALDOG4/casper/initrd1.xz

I ran out of Space (Red Warning ....not enough Space ....bla...bla... )

Solved it when booting with the following menu.lst Entry (does save changes automatically/immediately...... not on Demand/Exit ) :

title XENIALDOG4- porteus-boot - save direct changes=/XENIALDOG4/changes folder
find --set-root /XENIALDOG4/casper/vmlinuz
kernel /XENIALDOG4/casper/vmlinuz from=/XENIALDOG4 noauto changes=/XENIALDOG4/casper/ ramsize=80%
initrd /XENIALDOG4/casper/initrd1.xz

So with the second Boot Option did not encounter Problems with running out of Save Space .....because of....
In First Boot Option changes are still running in Ram til saved .......

In the second...... changes are directly written to changes Folder not using Ram Space .So in the second Method ,it is acting a bit like a Full Install ...although it is not .You are not running out of Save Space .

Not quite sure if it will work for you ,since i dont know the Boot-Method you are using .

Regards !

[fredx181]

Hi Max,
(thanks backi !)
To add: indeed you are probably booting with the EXIT:/... parameter, which has the disadvantage of limited space. (the advantage is that the changes are in RAM, which makes the system run very fast)
It depends on your amount of RAM and by default the space you have is 60%
(you can increase by adding e.g. ramsize=90% to your kernel command line)
I have 2GB RAM, 1,2G (=60%) shows as size by df -h :

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# df -h
....
aufs               1,2G      21M  1,2G   2% /
....

Similar conky shows at ROOT: .... (see pic below)
So, as backi said, boot without the EXIT: if you plan to use a lot of space.

Fred

[Max Headroom]

Thanx Guys 4 your Help, of course it's My Understanding that I can't do the Save Directory unless I'm using a Linux File System, which I'm not by having a Frugal install Dual Booting w/ M$ Virus Bait!

it's My Preference 2 Keep the saveme.dat Container File small or under 5 GB Hopefully, by Keeping Most of My Files Outside of Home / Root, so that they're Accessible by M$ Virus Bait! My Plan is 2 Only Use the saveme.dat File 4 Applications installed Locally... Any Further Advice Welcome!

Here is Me menu.lst

# menu.lst produced by grub4dosconfig-v1.8.0
color white/blue black/cyan white/black cyan/black
#splashimage=/splash.xpm
timeout 5
default 4

# Frugal installed Puppy

title Angel Student Eco E-17 XXdog KloneOS PC - porteus-boot Always Fresh
uuid 2EF0FB98F0FB650D
kernel /casper/vmlinuz forcepae from=/ nomagic base_only norootcopy
initrd /casper/initrd1.xz

title Angel Student Eco E-17 XXdog KloneOS PC - porteus-boot in RAM (no save)
uuid 2EF0FB98F0FB650D
kernel /casper/vmlinuz forcepae from=/ copy2ram
initrd /casper/initrd1.xz

title Angel Student Eco E-17 XXdog KloneOS PC - porteus-boot - save on EXIT changes to /casper/changes folder
uuid 2EF0FB98F0FB650D
kernel /casper/vmlinuz forcepae from=/ noauto changes=EXIT:/casper/
initrd /casper/initrd1.xz

title Angel Student Eco E-17 XXdog KloneOS PC - porteus-boot - in RAM save on EXIT changes=/mnt/sda1/casper/saveme.dat file
uuid 2EF0FB98F0FB650D
kernel /casper/vmlinuz forcepae from=/ noauto copy2ram changes=EXIT:/mnt/sda1/casper/saveme.dat
initrd /casper/initrd1.xz

title Angel Student Eco E-17 XXdog KloneOS PC - porteus-boot - changes=/mnt/sda1/casper/saveme.dat file
uuid 2EF0FB98F0FB650D
kernel /casper/vmlinuz forcepae noauto from=/ changes=/mnt/sda1/casper/saveme.dat
initrd /casper/initrd1.xz

title Angel Student Eco E-17 XXdog KloneOS PC - porteus-boot in RAM - changes to /casper/changes folder
uuid 2EF0FB98F0FB650D
kernel /casper/vmlinuz forcepae noauto from=/ copy2ram changes=/casper/
initrd /casper/initrd1.xz

title Angel Student Eco E-17 XXdog KloneOS PC porteus-boot save on EXIT in /mnt/sda1/casper/saveme.dat file (sda1)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /casper/vmlinuz forcepae noauto from=/ changes=EXIT:/mnt/sda1/casper/saveme.dat
initrd /casper/initrd1.xz

title XenialDog - casper-boot no-persistent
uuid 2EF0FB98F0FB650D
kernel /casper/vmlinuz boot=casper ignore_uuid cdrom-detect/try-usb=true showmounts union=aufs
initrd /casper/initrd.lz

title XenialDog - casper-boot persistent (in casper-rw file or partition)
uuid 2EF0FB98F0FB650D
kernel /casper/vmlinuz boot=casper ignore_uuid cdrom-detect/try-usb=true showmounts union=aufs persistent
initrd /casper/initrd.lz

title Pup 431 (sda1/Angel-Student-Dingo-4.31)
uuid 2EF0FB98F0FB650D
kernel /Angel-Student-Dingo-4.31/vmlinuz psubdir=Angel-Student-Dingo-4.31 pmedia=atahd pfix=fsck
initrd /Angel-Student-Dingo-4.31/initrd.gz

title Puppy slacko 5.6 (sda1/Slacko-5.6-4G-Non-PAE)

:)K

[backi]

Hi Max !
Do not quite understand what you are looking for .
That much is clear :

it's My Preference 2 Keep the saveme.dat Container File small or under 5 GB Hopefully, by Keeping Most of My Files Outside of Home / Root, so that they're Accessible by M$ Virus Bait! My Plan is 2 Only Use the saveme.dat File 4 Applications installed Locally.

Did you accomplish this ?Should be possible .

Why so many Boot-Options in your menu.lst ?.....and which ones you are using ?I suppose you do not use them all .......
Why not just only keep the ones you are using to make things more clear/clean/simple ?
So many Questions left.........one of them ......did you succeed updating your Xenial Dog via Method mentioned above ?

Regards !