Fienix 6.0.1

[xeno74]

@Casey

Got it running finally! But I had to use an external disk unit as an intermediary: create a huge 20 GB partition, copy the diskimage there, shrink the partition to a decent size and then copy it to my main HD. The original partition size was indeed left too high! You should really correct that in future disk images...

Hi All,

I had the same problem with the new Fienix noboot disk image. I figured out a fast and small solution. With increasing the disk image with qemu-img you can fix the issue.

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qemu-img resize fienix_6.0.1-noboot-r1.img +10G

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fsck.ext4 fienix_6.0.1-noboot-r1.img

Cheers,
Christian

Screenshot:

I tested the Fienix noboot disk image today and there is an entry with a bigger size than the disk image is in the superblock so it can’t boot from the disk image directly.

Solution:

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qemu-img resize fienix_6.0.1-noboot-r1.img +10G

[caseycullen]

Thanks! I tested greybird, but it caused the same issue with disappearing/reappearing desktop icons as Adwaita!?

Ah, I wasn't aware before, but after looking into it, it looks like greybird is rebased on Adwaita, which likely explains the reoccurring issue.
Thanks for testing!

Hey Roland - Sorry I didn't get back to you about this! Unfortunately this really seems like a mystery. I wasn't able to replicate your issues using a variety of themes or the Adwaita controls. If you haven't already, you might want to try installing the mate-themes package and see if BlueMenta works for you.

[xeno74]

Hi Casey,

It seems there is an issue with the Filezilla package.

Further information: X1000 Linux forum

Could you please check the Filezilla package?

Thanks,
Christian

[caseycullen]

Hi Casey,

It seems there is an issue with the Filezilla package.

Further information: X1000 Linux forum

Could you please check the Filezilla package?

Thanks,
Christian

A few packages in "evo-testing" were broken due to an interrupted repository update. I thought I had fixed everything but I must have missed this. I'll try to correct it tonight, but they can also install by temporarily disabling the "evo-testing" repositories.

[Hypex]

A few packages in "evo-testing" were broken due to an interrupted repository update. I thought I had fixed everything but I must have missed this. I'll try to correct it tonight, but they can also install by temporarily disabling the "evo-testing" repositories.

Is this fixed now? An apt-get update is very short. And according to my dpkg lists the additional repo is missing a list?

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fienix@fienix:~$ ls /var/lib/apt/lists/
auxfiles
fienix.servehttp.com_fienix_evo_dists_evo_InRelease
fienix.servehttp.com_fienix_evo_dists_evo_main_binary-powerpc_Packages
fienix.servehttp.com_fienix_evo_dists_evo_not-foss_binary-powerpc_Packages
fienix.servehttp.com_fienix_evo-testing_dists_evo-testing_InRelease
fienix.servehttp.com_fienix_evo-testing_dists_evo-testing_main_binary-powerpc_Packages
fienix.servehttp.com_fienix_evo-testing_dists_evo-testing_not-foss_binary-powerpc_Packages
lock
partial

[caseycullen]

What is the error you're getting about a missing list? The code snip you copied doesn't show anything is wrong.

A few packages in "evo-testing" were broken due to an interrupted repository update. I thought I had fixed everything but I must have missed this. I'll try to correct it tonight, but they can also install by temporarily disabling the "evo-testing" repositories.

Is this fixed now? An apt-get update is very short. And according to my dpkg lists the additional repo is missing a list?

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fienix@fienix:~$ ls /var/lib/apt/lists/
auxfiles
fienix.servehttp.com_fienix_evo_dists_evo_InRelease
fienix.servehttp.com_fienix_evo_dists_evo_main_binary-powerpc_Packages
fienix.servehttp.com_fienix_evo_dists_evo_not-foss_binary-powerpc_Packages
fienix.servehttp.com_fienix_evo-testing_dists_evo-testing_InRelease
fienix.servehttp.com_fienix_evo-testing_dists_evo-testing_main_binary-powerpc_Packages
fienix.servehttp.com_fienix_evo-testing_dists_evo-testing_not-foss_binary-powerpc_Packages
lock
partial

[Hypex]

What is the error you're getting about a missing list? The code snip you copied doesn't show anything is wrong.

I don't get any error from apt-get update. This completes without errors:

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$ sudo apt-get update 
Hit:1 http://fienix.servehttp.com/fienix/evo evo InRelease
Hit:2 http://fienix.servehttp.com/fienix/evo-testing evo-testing InRelease
Reading package lists... Done

It is rather quick to download and only has a couple of hits. However the sources.list contains this:

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$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
#Do not modify this file; add additional repositories to "sources.list.d".

# Fienix 6.0.1 "Evo"
deb http://fienix.servehttp.com/fienix/evo/ evo main 
deb http://fienix.servehttp.com/fienix/evo/ evo additional 
deb http://fienix.servehttp.com/fienix/evo/ evo not-foss 

# Fienix 6.0.1 Testing "Evo-Testing"
deb http://fienix.servehttp.com/fienix/evo-testing/ evo-testing main  
deb http://fienix.servehttp.com/fienix/evo-testing/ evo-testing additional  
deb http://fienix.servehttp.com/fienix/evo-testing/ evo-testing not-foss  

Which implies additional packages would be downloaded. I don't know how your setup is organized. But I expected these lists to be downloaded into /var/lib/apt/lists/ for additional packages and they aren't there:

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fienix.servehttp.com_fienix_evo_dists_evo_additional_binary-powerpc_Packages
fienix.servehttp.com_fienix_evo-testing_dists_evo-testing_additional_binary-powerpc_Packages

However I cannot update and I do get an error trying to update packages:

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$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  accountsservice acl alsa-utils appmenu-gtk2-module apt apt-utils aspell atril avahi-daemon avahi-utils blueman bsdextrautils caja caja-common cpp cpp-12 cups cups-client
  cups-core-drivers cups-daemon cups-filters cups-filters-core-drivers cups-ipp-utils dconf-cli dconf-gsettings-backend dconf-service device-tree-compiler dpkg-dev e2fsprogs fakeroot file
  fuse3 g++ g++-12 gcc-10-base gcc-12
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 36 not upgraded.

$ sudo apt-get install caja
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 caja : Depends: libcaja-extension1 (= 1.26.3-1) but 1.26.1-1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

[caseycullen]

What is the error you're getting about a missing list? The code snip you copied doesn't show anything is wrong.

I don't get any error from apt-get update. This completes without errors:

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$ sudo apt-get update 
Hit:1 http://fienix.servehttp.com/fienix/evo evo InRelease
Hit:2 http://fienix.servehttp.com/fienix/evo-testing evo-testing InRelease
Reading package lists... Done

It is rather quick to download and only has a couple of hits. However the sources.list contains this:

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$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
#Do not modify this file; add additional repositories to "sources.list.d".

# Fienix 6.0.1 "Evo"
deb http://fienix.servehttp.com/fienix/evo/ evo main 
deb http://fienix.servehttp.com/fienix/evo/ evo additional 
deb http://fienix.servehttp.com/fienix/evo/ evo not-foss 

# Fienix 6.0.1 Testing "Evo-Testing"
deb http://fienix.servehttp.com/fienix/evo-testing/ evo-testing main  
deb http://fienix.servehttp.com/fienix/evo-testing/ evo-testing additional  
deb http://fienix.servehttp.com/fienix/evo-testing/ evo-testing not-foss  

Which implies additional packages would be downloaded. I don't know how your setup is organized. But I expected these lists to be downloaded into /var/lib/apt/lists/ for additional packages and they aren't there:

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fienix.servehttp.com_fienix_evo_dists_evo_additional_binary-powerpc_Packages
fienix.servehttp.com_fienix_evo-testing_dists_evo-testing_additional_binary-powerpc_Packages

However I cannot update and I do get an error trying to update packages:

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$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  accountsservice acl alsa-utils appmenu-gtk2-module apt apt-utils aspell atril avahi-daemon avahi-utils blueman bsdextrautils caja caja-common cpp cpp-12 cups cups-client
  cups-core-drivers cups-daemon cups-filters cups-filters-core-drivers cups-ipp-utils dconf-cli dconf-gsettings-backend dconf-service device-tree-compiler dpkg-dev e2fsprogs fakeroot file
  fuse3 g++ g++-12 gcc-10-base gcc-12
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 36 not upgraded.

$ sudo apt-get install caja
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 caja : Depends: libcaja-extension1 (= 1.26.3-1) but 1.26.1-1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

hmm... your sources.list looks good, so I'm not sure what is causing this problem.

When you run apt-get update, you should see:

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root@fienix:~# apt-get update
Get:1 http://fienix.servehttp.com/fienix/evo evo InRelease [5,247 B]
Get:2 http://fienix.servehttp.com/fienix/evo-testing evo-testing InRelease [5,273 B]
Get:3 http://fienix.servehttp.com/fienix/evo evo/main powerpc Packages [2,849 kB]
Get:4 http://fienix.servehttp.com/fienix/evo evo/not-foss powerpc Packages [21.1 kB]
Get:5 http://fienix.servehttp.com/fienix/evo-testing evo-testing/main powerpc Packages [3,169 kB]
Get:6 http://fienix.servehttp.com/fienix/evo-testing evo-testing/not-foss powerpc Packages [23.7 kB]
Fetched 6,073 kB in 2s (2,459 kB/s)                        
Reading package lists... Done

In /var/lib/apt/lists, you should see:

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root@fienix:~# ls /var/lib/apt/lists
auxfiles
fienix.servehttp.com_fienix_evo_dists_evo_InRelease
fienix.servehttp.com_fienix_evo_dists_evo_main_binary-powerpc_Packages
fienix.servehttp.com_fienix_evo_dists_evo_not-foss_binary-powerpc_Packages
fienix.servehttp.com_fienix_evo-testing_dists_evo-testing_InRelease
fienix.servehttp.com_fienix_evo-testing_dists_evo-testing_main_binary-powerpc_Packages
fienix.servehttp.com_fienix_evo-testing_dists_evo-testing_not-foss_binary-powerpc_Packages
lock
partial

The server had an unexpected power outage when I was in the middle of updating evo-testing, which caused havoc with a lot of packages, but the issue you're experiencing seems to be more than just that. I'm 80% done with building the repository for 6.1, which is actually much easier than trying to dig through the mess that evo-testing is in right now. You can try to see if disabling the evo-testing repository entries in sources.list helps (by placing a # at the beginning of each evo-testing line).

[Hypex]

When you run apt-get update, you should see:

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root@fienix:~# apt-get update
Get:1 http://fienix.servehttp.com/fienix/evo evo InRelease [5,247 B]
Get:2 http://fienix.servehttp.com/fienix/evo-testing evo-testing InRelease [5,273 B]
Get:3 http://fienix.servehttp.com/fienix/evo evo/main powerpc Packages [2,849 kB]
Get:4 http://fienix.servehttp.com/fienix/evo evo/not-foss powerpc Packages [21.1 kB]
Get:5 http://fienix.servehttp.com/fienix/evo-testing evo-testing/main powerpc Packages [3,169 kB]
Get:6 http://fienix.servehttp.com/fienix/evo-testing evo-testing/not-foss powerpc Packages [23.7 kB]
Fetched 6,073 kB in 2s (2,459 kB/s)                        
Reading package lists... Done

I only get two hits. A Hit 1 and 2 with no Get.

The server had an unexpected power outage when I was in the middle of updating evo-testing, which caused havoc with a lot of packages, but the issue you're experiencing seems to be more than just that. I'm 80% done with building the repository for 6.1, which is actually much easier than trying to dig through the mess that evo-testing is in right now. You can try to see if disabling the evo-testing repository entries in sources.list helps (by placing a # at the beginning of each evo-testing line).

So I tried disabling testing. That gave me one Get and no Hit.

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fienix@fienix:~$ sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
fienix@fienix:~$ sudo apt update
Hit:1 http://fienix.servehttp.com/fienix/evo evo InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
fienix@fienix:~$ sudo apt upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
fienix@fienix:~$ sudo apt list --upgradable
Listing... Done

I then reversed it. Disabled main and kept testing! It looked better.

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fienix@fienix:~$ sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
fienix@fienix:~$ sudo apt update
Get:1 http://fienix.servehttp.com/fienix/evo-testing evo-testing InRelease [5,273 B]
Get:2 http://fienix.servehttp.com/fienix/evo-testing evo-testing/main powerpc Packages [3,169 kB]
Get:3 http://fienix.servehttp.com/fienix/evo-testing evo-testing/not-foss powerpc Packages [23.7 kB]
Fetched 3,198 kB in 6s (510 kB/s)                                                                                                         
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
36 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.

So then enabled all again:

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fienix@fienix:~$ sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
fienix@fienix:~$ sudo apt update
Get:1 http://fienix.servehttp.com/fienix/evo evo InRelease [5,247 B]
Hit:2 http://fienix.servehttp.com/fienix/evo-testing evo-testing InRelease
Get:3 http://fienix.servehttp.com/fienix/evo evo/main powerpc Packages [2,849 kB]
Get:4 http://fienix.servehttp.com/fienix/evo evo/not-foss powerpc Packages [21.1 kB]
Fetched 2,875 kB in 6s (464 kB/s)                                                                                                         
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
36 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
fienix@fienix:~$ ls /var/lib/apt/lists -l
total 21440
drwxr-xr-x 2 _apt root     4096 Feb 24  2023 auxfiles
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     5247 Apr  3  2024 fienix.servehttp.com_fienix_evo_dists_evo_InRelease
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10265707 Apr  3  2024 fienix.servehttp.com_fienix_evo_dists_evo_main_binary-powerpc_Packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    83344 Apr  3  2024 fienix.servehttp.com_fienix_evo_dists_evo_not-foss_binary-powerpc_Packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     5273 Oct 23 12:46 fienix.servehttp.com_fienix_evo-testing_dists_evo-testing_InRelease
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11479023 Oct 23 12:44 fienix.servehttp.com_fienix_evo-testing_dists_evo-testing_main_binary-powerpc_Packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    92560 Nov  4  2023 fienix.servehttp.com_fienix_evo-testing_dists_evo-testing_not-foss_binary-powerpc_Packages
-rw-r----- 1 root root        0 Feb 24  2023 lock
drwx------ 2 _apt root     4096 Dec 15 02:05 partial

Looks like I have all package lists but my packages are still held back. Held back from what? What is it not telling me?

[caseycullen]

When you run apt-get update, you should see:

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root@fienix:~# apt-get update
Get:1 http://fienix.servehttp.com/fienix/evo evo InRelease [5,247 B]
Get:2 http://fienix.servehttp.com/fienix/evo-testing evo-testing InRelease [5,273 B]
Get:3 http://fienix.servehttp.com/fienix/evo evo/main powerpc Packages [2,849 kB]
Get:4 http://fienix.servehttp.com/fienix/evo evo/not-foss powerpc Packages [21.1 kB]
Get:5 http://fienix.servehttp.com/fienix/evo-testing evo-testing/main powerpc Packages [3,169 kB]
Get:6 http://fienix.servehttp.com/fienix/evo-testing evo-testing/not-foss powerpc Packages [23.7 kB]
Fetched 6,073 kB in 2s (2,459 kB/s)                        
Reading package lists... Done

I only get two hits. A Hit 1 and 2 with no Get.

The server had an unexpected power outage when I was in the middle of updating evo-testing, which caused havoc with a lot of packages, but the issue you're experiencing seems to be more than just that. I'm 80% done with building the repository for 6.1, which is actually much easier than trying to dig through the mess that evo-testing is in right now. You can try to see if disabling the evo-testing repository entries in sources.list helps (by placing a # at the beginning of each evo-testing line).

So I tried disabling testing. That gave me one Get and no Hit.

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fienix@fienix:~$ sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
fienix@fienix:~$ sudo apt update
Hit:1 http://fienix.servehttp.com/fienix/evo evo InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
fienix@fienix:~$ sudo apt upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
fienix@fienix:~$ sudo apt list --upgradable
Listing... Done

I then reversed it. Disabled main and kept testing! It looked better.

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fienix@fienix:~$ sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
fienix@fienix:~$ sudo apt update
Get:1 http://fienix.servehttp.com/fienix/evo-testing evo-testing InRelease [5,273 B]
Get:2 http://fienix.servehttp.com/fienix/evo-testing evo-testing/main powerpc Packages [3,169 kB]
Get:3 http://fienix.servehttp.com/fienix/evo-testing evo-testing/not-foss powerpc Packages [23.7 kB]
Fetched 3,198 kB in 6s (510 kB/s)                                                                                                         
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
36 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.

So then enabled all again:

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fienix@fienix:~$ sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
fienix@fienix:~$ sudo apt update
Get:1 http://fienix.servehttp.com/fienix/evo evo InRelease [5,247 B]
Hit:2 http://fienix.servehttp.com/fienix/evo-testing evo-testing InRelease
Get:3 http://fienix.servehttp.com/fienix/evo evo/main powerpc Packages [2,849 kB]
Get:4 http://fienix.servehttp.com/fienix/evo evo/not-foss powerpc Packages [21.1 kB]
Fetched 2,875 kB in 6s (464 kB/s)                                                                                                         
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
36 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
fienix@fienix:~$ ls /var/lib/apt/lists -l
total 21440
drwxr-xr-x 2 _apt root     4096 Feb 24  2023 auxfiles
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     5247 Apr  3  2024 fienix.servehttp.com_fienix_evo_dists_evo_InRelease
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10265707 Apr  3  2024 fienix.servehttp.com_fienix_evo_dists_evo_main_binary-powerpc_Packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    83344 Apr  3  2024 fienix.servehttp.com_fienix_evo_dists_evo_not-foss_binary-powerpc_Packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     5273 Oct 23 12:46 fienix.servehttp.com_fienix_evo-testing_dists_evo-testing_InRelease
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11479023 Oct 23 12:44 fienix.servehttp.com_fienix_evo-testing_dists_evo-testing_main_binary-powerpc_Packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    92560 Nov  4  2023 fienix.servehttp.com_fienix_evo-testing_dists_evo-testing_not-foss_binary-powerpc_Packages
-rw-r----- 1 root root        0 Feb 24  2023 lock
drwx------ 2 _apt root     4096 Dec 15 02:05 partial

Looks like I have all package lists but my packages are still held back. Held back from what? What is it not telling me?

A held back package just means that a package installed on your system has a more recent version available, but it isn't being updated due to having unmet dependencies.