Linux Lite 7.0 RC1 Released

[Şerban S.]

Keeping an eye on this thread. Really hope I don't have to leave it out of 7x

Free chocolate to the person that resolves this

Hi!

Things get messy...

This is what I got at the last attempt:

Code:

Monday 13 May 2024, 09:36:46 [UTC+3]
Memory Usage: 819/1853MB (44.20%)
Disk Usage: 9/30GB (34%)
serban  ~  sudo apt upgrade
[...] The following NEW packages will be installed:
  snapd
The following packages have been kept back:
  inxi zenity zenity-common
The following packages will be upgraded:
  gir1.2-glib-2.0 gir1.2-glib-2.0-dev google-chrome-stable
  libgirepository-2.0-0 libglib2.0-0t64 libglib2.0-bin libglib2.0-data
  libglib2.0-dev libglib2.0-dev-bin thunderbird
10 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
[...]

First ugly thing:
"The following NEW packages will be installed:
  snapd"
Never asked for that!
Sad thing is that they pushed Thunderbird through this channel.
I'll have to craft it through the Mozilla PPA.

Kept:

inxi zenity zenity-common

It's difficult to know if those packages are missing, what else gets broken, beside the Lite scripts.
Anyway, at least there is a possible explanation for the repeated crashes, different than some code error.
Worst thing is that there may be changes in those packages that might reduce backward compatibility with the previous versions' code depending on the old version.
Since there is only a short time window from the last update, it's difficult to know when the next update will work and what else will be included in the list, except for the three packages listed above.

Although it was intuitive enough that nothing changed, I ran again the script that catches the output of Lite Tweaks. Nothing changed.
Maybe if the zenity update will be operational, it will work again.
At 15:23 UTC+3, still nothing.
I hoped for a moment that those somehow depended on the previous update. Seems it's otherwise...

I'll get back if something changes into "good news".

[sqwuade]

Are we talking Violet Crumble Jerry?  https://www.violetcrumble.com/

My latest find on the "Lite Tweaks" bugger is that in LL7 the value of the "${PIPESTATUS[0]}" variable always comes out to be 127.  It's supposed to come out to be 0 (And it does in LL6.6).  The PIPESTATUS is filled with the exit codes of the functions in the array where 0 = true and 1 = false.  So I'm guessing that it's gathering all false outputs for some reason.  Maybe the newer version of bash does things a little differently that's incompatible with the code in the lite-tweaks script?  There are other scripts like lite-software that also use the PIPESTATUS variable that don't seem to be affected though.

[Valtam]

Inxi and zenity are held in 7x Zenity because of webkit and inxi so that it keeps working with our Hardware Database.

Thunderbird and Firefox are now via PPA in 7x No snap required.

[sqwuade]

I got it!  I had to sacrifice the zram option to make it work but it works!

The problem was that the zram tweak has some code that isn't recognized by the new bash version 5.2.21 (I think...) anyway the PIPESTATUS(0) array was being populated with the error code 127 (Apparently that's a pretty common error/exit code) when it was expecting an output of 0.  Once I started hacking through the code and eliminating the different options one by one - the error code of 127 kept reoccurring until I eliminated the zram option.  Once I commented out those lines PIPESTATUS(0) received the expected output of 0 and the rest of the routine could then continue and complete normally.

Rock-n-Roll!

Here's the version that works:

https://digitalhemi.com/files/apps/Linux...ite-tweaks

You may need to set permissions appropriately (755?) after moving it to /usr/bin

I'm still experimenting around with the zram statement to see if I can figure out why it's not working.  I suspect there is something different in the latest version of bash that doesn't like the code.  I'm pretty sure it's this line that is the issue and bash can't process it so kicks out the 127 exit/error code:

if [ -z  "$(dpkg -l | grep -G '^ii' | grep zram-config)" ]; then

I'll update if I make any progress on getting the zram tweak working.

Cheers,  Scott

I also fixed a small text error that I found:



changed to:

[Valtam]

Nice one [member=50208]sqwuade[/member] my initial tests show promise )

Typo fixed too. Someone buy this man a beer! Thanks to everyone else too for their contributions. I LOVE linux. Can't do this stuff with MS.

[Valtam]

Can someone please test Lite Updates after a fresh install? Weird things happening there too, hope it's just in my VM.

[sqwuade]

Thanks Jerry!  Glad to be able to help out.

I did make one more slight change, that I initially forgot to do, which was to comment out these two lines so that the zram doesn't get entered into the array.

# echo "$selection" | grep "ZRAM" > /dev/null
# if [ $? = 0 ]; then ARRAYB+=('ZRAM'); fi

More bugs..?
I've been running LL7RC1 in "Live" mode and am having difficulty getting Chrome to open.  Has anyone else had any problems with it?  There is an issue installing the ssh server as well.  I've always installed with "sudo apt install ssh" but doesn't seem to be working for me on LL7RC1.  Trinidad did say it worked for him though.  I've tried it quiet a few times with no luck.  I get the message "ssh is already the newest version (1:9.6p1-3ubuntu13)".  It's not working for me...  I've installed and run ssh servers many times before.  Usually I just run "apt install ssh" to install the server and "service ssh status" etc. to check on it.  Now, when I run "service ssh status" I get:

Job for ssh.service failed because the control process exited with error code.  See "systemctl status ssh.service" and "journalctl -xeu ssh.service" for details.

Thanks,  Scott

[Valtam]

No problem with ssh here on 7x, installed fine, status normal.
I use scp mostly.

Try https://www.liberiangeek.net/2024/04/ins...ntu-24-04/

Edit: ssh is installed but get Failed to start with systemctl status ssh. Possibly a very new bug with Ubuntu. If someone paid me for a year, I'd switch us over to a Debian base

[Valtam]

Fixed ssh by running:

Code:

/usr/bin/ssh-keygen -A

Code:

systemctl start ssh

Code:

systemctl status ssh

[sqwuade]

That worked Jerry:
/usr/bin/ssh-keygen -A
Thanks.
I shouldn't have to fix it on a brand new install though!  I also tried running "/usr/bin/ssh-keygen -A" to generate new keys before running "apt install ssh" on a newly booted Live LL7 system and the server component did install successfully and work afterwards.

I'm still having issues running Google Chrome in Live mode.  It doesn't want to open and basically nothing happens.

I got an "Update Sources Has Failed" "185.125.188.12:80 not found" or similar error when trying to update sources in Live mode.

Yes!  Debian 12.5 is very nice!  I've got a Debian/Xfce system on one of my boxes.  I kind of copied the Xfce desktop settings over from LL6.6.