Search Results for 'ppa'

[Anonymous]

is it again just the USB stick in particular I’m using?

Naw, I’ve just led you down a bad path.
Back in 2014, the intended purpose xtra feature was to livepatch and test antiX liveboot ISOs during betatesting (inject select modified system files and immedietely test following reboot, rather than distribute a new ISO for each set of small incremental changes). As such, the mechanism apparently wasn’t intended to replace per-user files ( pathed under /home )

Have you tried tar-ing /home/demo stuff?

No, my experimentation involved only system files (pathed under /usr)
(a detail which I had forgotten when suggesting its use in 2019, and in this current, topic. Sigh, sorry.)

the init script overall has indeed undergone several changes, and including the copy_xtra() function

So (guessing) copy_xtra occurs too early in the init script ~~ later in the script, some other routine notices that /home/* exists and doesn’t attempt to (create and) repopulate it?

• This reply was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by Brian Masinick. Reason: From skidoo

[Member PPC]

@schproodle – I’m glad you managed to solve your problem, that apparently as due to having installed (and probably miss-configured) pulseaudio. You basically made sure that pulseaudio related packages were removed and that alsa (the default system used to process audio in antiX) related packages were purged (wiping out any previous existing config file) and then reinstalled.
If you can, please edit the thread’s title, adding Solved- , so users with a similar problem can know that you managed to solve this (and how).

P.

[Anonymous]

pasting a couple refs here to remove an apparent point of confusion.
The convention of using ~/.local/share/applications is not specific to zzzFM nor specific to antiX.

linuxconfig.org/how-to-create-custom-desktop-files-for-launchers-on-linux

The .desktop entries for your user account are stored at ~/.local/share/applications

help.gnome.org/admin/system-admin-guide/stable/mime-types-application-user.html.en

Individual users’ .desktop files can be stored in ~/.local/share/applications/

[Anonymous]

excerpt from

OkularBuildDiscussion.txt

There is a peculiarity apparent in the Stretch-derivative implementation
of Okular, which is based on 16.08.2 and 16.08.3, revealed in the attached
file, OkularBuildPkgs.txt. The 2 kde-runtime modules are version 16.08.3, but
okular is version 16.08.2. It seems then that okular may not take advantage
of the latest kde-runtime features and corrections.

Of the 4 distros tested, okular works fine anyway on 3 of them,
Debian Stretch, MX18.3, and Devuan 2.1 ascii.
Okular doesn’t run on AntiX-17.5.

The 16.08.3-2 version of kde-runtime (and kde-runtime-data) provided only a few only minor//unremarkable changes, none of which should be expected to “fix” your reported issue.
ref: metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/k/kde-runtime/kde-runtime_16.08.3-2_changelog

To solve this puzzle, I expect you would need to take note of the exact version of each of the (many! and chained) dependant packages found on one of your other working ( MX18.3? ) installs… and compare the version of each against same found in your antiX 17.5 install (or, you may discover that one of the chained dependencies is somehow missing from your antiX 17.5 install).

^–v
Another possible approach would be to use this utility to “capture, and repackage” the files found on your working (MX 18.3?) install:
packages.debian.org/bullseye/dpkg-repack

A generic (non-debian) make .. make install approach will probably not lead to success.
You would need to “git clone” the exact//specific correct tagged fileset from the source repository, then “git clone” the debian-specific files hosted on salsa.debian.org and merge those files into the fileset of the upstream source tree… and then create the debfile by using a debian utility such as dpkg-buildpackage (xref: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/build.en.html)

[Member marcelocripe]

I now feel as if this laptop is in perfect working order as the check routines I ran which completed ok, ran for long enough to suggest that the HD was being processed at block level, 64g is not large. The esp partition check which fails did so immediately, although 256mb is not many blocks to read.

Hello Roland.

I’ve been following your thread for some time now and I haven’t found any low-level formatting suggestions. I would refer you to the “Zero Fill” tool that is available in “Hiren’s BootCD”, with this tool I managed to solve some problems similar to what you are experiencing, which apparently are not solved with the high-level formatting that is performed by GParted. I know that antiX has this type of tool through the Terminal, because I found here on the forum a command that performs the same process as “Zero Fill”. I needed to format a hard drive recently and used the command, as I still don’t master Terminal commands, I was surprised when the screen went blank during the process. Then I tried restarting the “Live USB”, to my surprise even the “Live USB” had been formatted.
I’m sure other people will be able to tell you the correct command for you to format the MBR and perform the low-level format of your hard drive and possibly this action can somehow help you in the installation process.

marcelocripe
(Original text in Brazilian Portuguese)

– – – – –

I now feel as if this laptop is in perfect working order as the check routines I ran which completed ok, ran for long enough to suggest that the HD was being processed at block level, 64g is not large. The esp partition check which fails did so immediately, although 256mb is not many blocks to read.

Olá Roland.

Eu estou acompanhando o seu tópico há algum tempo e eu não encontrei nenhuma sugestão de formatação de baixo nível. Eu iria te indicar a ferramenta “Zero Fill” que está disponível no “Hiren’s BootCD”, com esta ferramenta eu consegui resolver alguns problemas semelhantes ao que estão ocorrendo com você, ao que parece não são resolvidos com a formatação de alto nível que é realizada pelo GParted. Eu sei que o antiX possui este tipo de ferramenta por meio do Terminal, porque eu encontrei aqui no fórum um comando que realiza o mesmo processo do “Zero Fill”. Eu precisei formatar um disco rígido recentemente e utilizei o comando, como eu não domino ainda os comandos do Terminal, eu fiquei supreso quando a tela apagou que durante o processo. Em seguida, eu tentei iniciar novamente o “Live USB”, para a minha supresa até o “Live USB” havia sido formatado.
Eu tenho certeza que as outras pessoas saberão te informar o comando correto para você formatar a MBR e realizar a formatação de baixo nível do seu disco rígido e possivelmente esta ação poderá de alguma forma te ajudar no processo de instalação.

marcelocripe
(Texto original em Português do Brasil)

[Member DaveW]

Thanks to everyone for your thoughts about Thinkpads and trustworthy models. I will keep my eyes open.

Moddit,
I don’t think it is a heat problem, because the issue seems to occur within the first few seconds or minutes after start-up. If it gets past the first 30 minutes, it will usually run all day.

I replaced the Bios battery a few months ago. But it didn’t make a difference. The old battery was a little low, but not dead.

I did try the 5.10.xxx kernel (with similar issues). I don’t remember whether I tried the 4.19.xxx kernel (but probably).

Edit: An important note, which was left out of original: I am running this unit without a main battery (directly from AC power supply/charger). It is being used as desktop, never portable.

Here is a portion of INXI info:

System:    Kernel: 4.9.0-294-antix.1-486-smp i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 6.3.0 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.9.0-294-antix.1-486-smp 
           root=UUID=396941a0-ff65-41e0-ae0e-82798778afea ro vga=791 quiet apparmor=1 
           security=apparmor 
           Desktop: IceWM 1.4.2 info: icewmtray dm: SLiM 1.3.4 
           Distro: antiX-17.1_386-base Heather Heyer 17 March 2018 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 
Machine:   Type: Portable System: Dell product: Latitude D620 v: N/A serial: <filter> Chassis: 
           type: 8 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Dell model: 0FT292 serial: <filter> BIOS: Dell v: A10 date: 05/16/2008 
Memory:    RAM: total: 1.96 GiB used: 951.6 MiB (47.5%) 
           RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
PCI Slots: Permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:       Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core2 T5600 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Core Merom family: 6 
           model-id: F (15) stepping: 2 microcode: 57 cache: L2: 2 MiB bogomips: 7323 
           Speed: 1000 MHz min/max: 1000/1833 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1000 2: 1333 
           Flags: acpi aperfmperf apic arch_perfmon bts clflush cmov constant_tsc cx16 cx8 de 
           ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts est fpu fxsr ht lahf_lm lm mca mce mmx monitor msr mtrr nx pae 
           pat pbe pdcm pebs pge pni pse pse36 sep ss sse sse2 ssse3 tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc vme vmx 
           xtpr 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: Vulnerable 
           Type: l1tf status: Vulnerable 
           Type: mds status: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode; SMT disabled 
           Type: meltdown status: Vulnerable 
           Type: spec_store_bypass status: Vulnerable 
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
           Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling 
           Type: srbds status: Not affected 
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel Mobile 945GM/GMS 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics vendor: Dell 
           driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:27a2 class-ID: 0300 
           Display: server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: loaded: intel unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
           display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1 
           Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1280x800 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 338x211mm (13.3x8.3") 
           s-diag: 398mm (15.7") 
           Monitor-1: LVDS1 res: 1280x800 hz: 60 dpi: 108 size: 300x190mm (11.8x7.5") 
           diag: 355mm (14") 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 945GM x86/MMX/SSE2 v: 2.1 Mesa 13.0.6 
           direct render: Yes 

A couple of years ago, I replaced the mainboard. The new one is:
Board: Dell Inc. 0FT292
Serial Number: .HM8TWC1.CN1296174ED994.

Processor info (lscpu):

Architecture:          i686
CPU op-mode(s):        32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order:            Little Endian
CPU(s):                2
On-line CPU(s) list:   0,1
Thread(s) per core:    1
Core(s) per socket:    2
Socket(s):             1
Vendor ID:             GenuineIntel
CPU family:            6
Model:                 15
Model name:            Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU         T5600  @ 1.83GHz
Stepping:              2
CPU MHz:               1833.000
CPU max MHz:           1833.0000
CPU min MHz:           1000.0000
BogoMIPS:              3661.65
Virtualization:        VT-x
L1d cache:             32K
L1i cache:             32K
L2 cache:              2048K
Flags:                 fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm tpr_shadow dtherm

Thank you.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by DaveW. Reason: a line of information was ommitted from original

[Member olsztyn]

blur13 wrote:

Its my dream to aquire a Thinkpad X220, its suposed to be the last model made with an excellent keyboard. Apparently build quility quickly declined after that model. However, the X220 is very hard to find where I live.

A few years ago I bought two X220 thinkpads on eBay for about $100 each (no drives), so one I gave to my daughter. I occasionally look at eBay for such and it seems the prices for Thinkpads in general still hold up, not coming down. I just looked again and see one for $107 with 8Gb RAM, as an example.
Yes, the keyboards for those earlier Thinkpads are excellent and another advantage is that they are easily replaceable. Keyboard for X220 is the same as for many other Thinkpad models, up to Thinkpad T410 and T520, Build quality declined afterwards, indeed.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by olsztyn.

Live antiX Boot Options (Previously posted by Xecure):
https://antixlinuxfan.miraheze.org/wiki/Table_of_antiX_Boot_Parameters

[Member blur13]

Its my dream to aquire a Thinkpad X220, its suposed to be the last model made with an excellent keyboard. Apparently build quility quickly declined after that model. However, the X220 is very hard to find where I live. The search goes on.

I’ve seen some really cool blogs posted on hacker news of ppl using models of thinkpads from circa 2012, refitting them, upgrading them, switching parts etc, to make them usable as daily drivers.

[Anonymous]

You are, apparently, employing a form of moral reasoning called “utilitarianism.” Stripped down to its essentials, utilitarianism is a moral principle that holds that the morally right course of action in any situation is the one that produces the greatest balance of benefits over harms for everyone affected. So long as a course of action produces maximum benefits for everyone, utilitarianism fails to take into account considerations of justice, and does not care whether the benefits are produced by lies, manipulation, or coercion.

http://www.scu.edu/ethics/privacy/loss-of-online-privacy-whats-the-harm/

By tracking your online searches and communications, companies do note, do make assumptions about, and sometimes do disclose more than just the preferences and interests that you openly express. If you search online for information about sexually transmitted diseases or laws that protect whistleblowers, for information about domestic violence or the Dalai Lama, for Occupy protests or for sites that allow you to download songs without paying for them, a variety of entities will know—and draw conclusions about you based on those searches. You may then find that ads appearing on pages that you visit will reflect those subjects that you searched for, or even subjects that you discussed in emails that you may have considered private.

. . .

Privacy is about much broader values than just “hiding things.” […] Ultimately the fullest retort to the “nothing to hide” impulse is a richer philosophical defense of privacy that articulates its importance to human life—the human need for a refuge from the eye of the community, and from the self-monitoring that living with others entails; the need for space in which to play and to try out new ideas, identities, and behaviors, without lasting consequences; and the importance of maintaining the balance of power between individuals and the state.

[Member roland]

After learning a little about the UEFI system browsing the www, I find that most laptops made during the past 10 years expect UEFI system to be catered for in their booting arrangements. It does not seem to have made much inroad into the PC market yet.

UEFI seems to be the product of a latter day ‘Gang of Nine’ attempt to regulate boot management when multiple operating systems are present, one wonders if the Windows fraternity or related manufacturers are behind it, as it seems to do nothing that Grub does not do. I am not sure if UEFI excludes Grub or if Grub can function within the UEFI envelope, as the antiX installer offers either MBR or EFI as Grub install locations. It looks as if Grub code is embedded in UEFI files at some point during install.

A partition table conforming to either MS-Dos or GTP standards is suggested but GTP is recommended because of the greater number of partitions available. MS-Dos is limited to 4 (I always thought it was 3, maybe the the EFI partition is not counted ?). The EFI partition used as /boot will need to store about 30mb of code for each installed system. The recommended total size varies from 200mb to 500mb however (seems a lot of excess ?). It must be formatted Fat32 with EFI and Boot flags set. I created one of 256mb which has to be adequate (?).

I have created the partitions I thought appropriate for an install on this laptop including an EFI partition as above. The install fails formatting /root. I also tried leaving the installer to create partitions to chosen % for /root and /home, fails with an endless hang, I gave it 10 minutes or more. Htop showed little or no cpu activity throughout. The log shows no new activity after the necessary cleanup, so it’s doing nothing it seems?

Therefore I have to conclude that either I have missed something fundamental (most likely) or the installer does not handle partition preparation adequately, or maybe something is missing.

I think (my opinion only) that the installer should not attempt formatting any partition marked Retain, and this marker should be available for all classes of partition including /root, giving the user more flexibility and getting the installer straight into copying the new system across.

How can I run a bad block HD check independently of a partition format, when there is no system installed?

The attached screenshots show a bespoke install using partition table gtp, Efi partition 256mb with boot + EFI flags, Swap, /root ext4 and /home ext4, which fails formatting /root.
Also a default install with 12% /root and the rest /home, which hangs endlessly with no apparent activity.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by roland.

Attachments:

1. 

   4_part_pt_gpt.jpg
   

2. 

   fail_format_root.jpg
   

3. 

   regular_install.jpg
   

4. 

   hangs_10_mins.jpg
   

[Member olsztyn]

roland wrote:

Meanwhile I intend to clone an existing full install I have on a PC and run it on this laptop from a usb, which seems quite an effective if interim solution.

As I understand from this thread:
– antiX Live runs well on your laptop. You planned for traditional installation and it failed, apparently due to internal storage.
– Now you plan to copy an already traditionally installed antiX to a USB and run from there as you assume it will run as well as antiX Live that you already have on USB.

If my above understanding is correct then I would just mention the following:
– Running antiX Live from USB and running antiX (in effect of your plan) installed on USB stick are quite different things:
– antiX Live you have now is designed to operate with very few Write I/O to media, if any. In result it is fast and does not degrade USB flash media over time. IMHO this is in general way superior to run antiX than traditionally installed in the first place.
– antiX (in effect) traditionally installed on USB flash media will incur lots of Write I/O operations to media, it is usually slower in operation than Live antiX.
– If you try to boot such ‘installed’ antiX on another machine then a possibility is it might not work too well due to installed system having been tailored to the original machine, where it was installed, while antiX Live adapts to any machine hardware configuration during boot time.

Just my opinion…

• This reply was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by olsztyn.
• This reply was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by olsztyn.
• This reply was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by olsztyn.

Live antiX Boot Options (Previously posted by Xecure):
https://antixlinuxfan.miraheze.org/wiki/Table_of_antiX_Boot_Parameters

[Member ModdIt]

I also deleted the Indian property salesman a couple of days ago. Second user who only registered to post trash in a couple of months.
Claimed to be selling resort property but would not international call back to discuss viewing options. Sad really. I could quickly have
offered to invest a few million. VND :-).

@anticapitalista, problem regarding a spam filter is lack of information on what is going on, please if you see the need for
those kind of actions keep all of the forum supporters openly informed, at least then we know what is going on, most important
where do we find relevant information on working with the system. The only information which came my way is the system is filter based.
Searching for clean talk filter was not exactly enlightening. And black and white listing is never ending pain.

If those filters activate on user IP adress changes then I will have constant issues depending on current exit point from my provider
network. That changes, I think depending on server loading many times a day. I have experienced massive issues with several sites when
my apparent IP changed while logged in.

The biggest problem I see in the forum is self opinionated thread hijacking/misplaced posts.

Confusing lack of structure and often misleading thread titles make finding answers to specific issues is not so easy.
Regarding thread titles, we are making progress lately, changing titles for better clarity and searcheability is becoming accepted practice
which is good.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by ModdIt.

[Member Robin]

ahoppin wrote:

With Firefox’s declining privacy reputation and increasing apparent disrespect for its users, I was somewhat surprised to discover that Firefox was the default browser in Antix.

I assumed that there had to be good reasons. Nevertheless I didn’t want to use it, so I installed Seamonkey from apt.

The main reason for using firefox is probably the user needs a browser which is accepted by the websites he has to visit. Try to login at a University site, or try to access local administrative sites of your city, where they expect you to go in days of Corona instead of comming into their offices, or try to access local library sites or even contact your bank. This listing to give only some important examples. Nothing of this works when not using the browser they tell you to use. And what they do accept is, you like it or not, firefox these days. And not any old firefox, they insist on most recent firefox version for security reasons.

This is the reason why I have to stick to firefox, at whatever cost. I still remember the days they insisted on Windows or Apple operating systems, but meanwhile they do accept linux at least.

So whatever they do severely wrong at mozilla concerning telemetry, we have to live with it, and block it best we can. Yes, you can use telemetry data for worthwile improvement of programs, but what mozilla gathers together doesn’t look to me like being meant for this purpose only.

So I will recommend — besides what was said about builtin telemetry in firefox by others above — three addons making it a bit more difficult to track you:
Decentraleyes
Ublock Origin
Noscript

Use firefox, but use it with care.

All this is not about having something to hide. It’s about the right of informational self determination.

Windows is like a submarine. Open a window and serious problems will start.

[Member seaken64]

I noticed when I use the Translate tool from the menu in SeaMonkey I get a banner across the top of the forum for Google Translate. This banner also shows on the MX forum when I click on the Translate button/drop down. The same banner shows when I use the http://www.ipvoid.com site.

Apparently this is type of plugin for the Google Translate site? So, while there does not seem to a built-in translate tool in Chrome the result is the same if I use either the ipvoid link or the button on the MX site. No such “button” is on the antiX site but I get the same result with a few more clicks.

Seaken64

Hi my antiX friends, I’m having a difficult time verifying the signature of my antiX download — even though the SHA-256 hash is correct!

First I imported the key from this source: https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/step-by-step-guide-to-install-antix-base/

And I got this result:

***@***:~/Downloads$ gpg –keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net –recv-keys 4A0C4F9C
gpg: keyserver receive failed: No name
***@***:~/Downloads$

Then I ran this command from this source: https://mxlinux.org/wiki/system/signed-iso-files/

***@***:~$ gpg –keyserver hkps://keys.openpgp.org –recv-keys 409C71B3BCFDED0A 70938C780679EE98 9B68A1E8B9B6375C 13C74A22892C32F1 A80582E000067FDD
gpg: key A80582E000067FDD: public key “anticapitalista (change of address) <anticapitalista@riseup.net>” imported
gpg: key 13C74A22892C32F1: public key “S*** * P*** <stevopusser@gmail.com>” imported
gpg: key 9B68A1E8B9B6375C: public key “D*** O*** (mxlinux) <dolphinoracle@gmail.com>” imported
gpg: key 70938C780679EE98: public key “A*** <adrian@mxlinux.org>” imported
gpg: key 409C71B3BCFDED0A: public key “M*** P*** <m_pav10-4@thepavs.net.nz>” imported
gpg: Total number processed: 5
gpg: imported: 5
***@***:~$

Finally, I got this response:

***@***:~/Downloads$ gpg –verify antiX-21_x64-full.iso.sig antiX-21_x64-full.iso.sig
gpg: Signature made Sun 31 Oct 2021 06:36:10 AM EDT
gpg: using RSA key 30AA418A0C723D937B50A986A80582E000067FDD
gpg: BAD signature from “anticapitalista (change of address) <anticapitalista@riseup.net>” [unknown]
***@***:~/Downloads$

Ladies and gentlemen, quite frankly, I’m stumped! Any insights concerning this issue would be appreciated. Remember now, the SHA-256 hash is correct.

Thank you,

perknh

P.S

I’ve modified contact names, because the algorithm apparently thinks this is spam — which I assure you it is not!

• This topic was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by perknh.
• This topic was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by perknh.
• This topic was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by perknh.