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Re: Fienix - New PowerPC Distro
Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2019 4:11 am
by caseycullen
Roland wrote:There was available in the Fienix depot this update: "rdnssd 1.0.4-1". But installing it would have removed network-manager and network-manager-gnome!? Why that...? Did not run the update, of course!-)
rdnssd is not a dependency of any package in Fienix, only a suggested package for ifupdown, and is only used if you are on an IPv6 network. Most home networks are IPv4 and this rdnssd doesn't need to be installed, which is why I didn't catch this dependency issue. If your home network gives you a local IP address like 195.168.1.1 then you use IPv4 and don't need rdnssd installed. If your home network gives you a IP address like 2001
85a3:0000:0000:8a2e
7334 then you need rdnssd installed and should wait on upgrading it.
Re: Fienix - New PowerPC Distro
Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2019 11:28 am
by Roland
caseycullen wrote: That's odd; I'm not able to reproduce this.. it works as it should for me. How long have you noticed this? Are you able to run a fresh install off a usb to see if it still happens?
I have a Fienix backup made about a couple of weeks ago, and it has already this issue. There are over 200MB of updates available for it, so it is not quite up-to-date, but Mate packages are v. 1.22.1-1. I already tested a complete removal of 'Mate control centre' and then reinstallation, but it did not solve the problem. Anything else to try...?
I also checked a non-updated partition originating from 'Fienix-033019-net.img', and it did not show the issue. So, at least this cannot be a direct hardware-problem! But I cannot do any updates to that installation as it already has the network issue, and installing network-manager 'by hand' would need much more files than those four Christian provided earlier (a lot of missing dependencies).
Do you have any plans to publish a new Fienix base image, with the network issue fixed and www-browsers (Fienix, Spiderweb etc.) preinstalled and configured?
Re: Fienix - New PowerPC Distro
Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2019 11:33 am
by Roland
caseycullen wrote: rdnssd is not a dependency of any package in Fienix, only a suggested package for ifupdown, and is only used if you are on an IPv6 network. Most home networks are IPv4 and this rdnssd doesn't need to be installed, which is why I didn't catch this dependency issue. If your home network gives you a local IP address like 195.168.1.1 then you use IPv4 and don't need rdnssd installed. If your home network gives you a IP address like 2001
85a3:0000:0000:8a2e
7334 then you need rdnssd installed and should wait on upgrading it.
Ok, then I do not need it... My Sagemcom is configured as a router, so there is no problem. If I would use it in 'bridge' mode, then I would probably need rdnssd. Thanks for the info!
Re: Fienix - New PowerPC Distro
Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2019 11:34 pm
by kilaueabart
xeno74 wrote:Please try
After that please post the output of
Here it is, with a bunch of UNKNOWNs and weird numbers:
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root@Fienix:/home/fienix# /sbin/dhclient enP4096p4s4
root@Fienix:/home/fienix# ip a
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: dummy0: <BROADCAST,NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether e2:25:40:fb:8d:4c brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet6 fe80::e025:40ff:fefb:8d4c/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: enP4096p4s4: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether 38:83:45:ee:f9:f3 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.1.192/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global dynamic enP4096p4s4
valid_lft 86394sec preferred_lft 86394sec
inet6 fe80::3a83:45ff:feee:f9f3/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
4: tunl0@NONE: <NOARP> mtu 1480 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ipip 0.0.0.0 brd 0.0.0.0
5: ip_vti0@NONE: <NOARP> mtu 1480 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ipip 0.0.0.0 brd 0.0.0.0
6: ip6_vti0@NONE: <NOARP> mtu 1364 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000
link/tunnel6 :: brd ::
7: sit0@NONE: <NOARP> mtu 1480 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000
link/sit 0.0.0.0 brd 0.0.0.0
8: ip6tnl0@NONE: <NOARP> mtu 1452 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000
link/tunnel6 :: brd ::
9: wlx00e04c8192f7: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:e0:4c:81:92:f7 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
root@Fienix:/home/fienix#
Re: Fienix - New PowerPC Distro
Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2019 9:09 am
by xeno74
kilaueabart wrote:
3: enP4096p4s4: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether 38:83:45:ee:f9:f3 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.1.192/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global dynamic enP4096p4s4
valid_lft 86394sec preferred_lft 86394sec
inet6 fe80:
45ff:feee:f9f3/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
Your X5000 has an IP address.
Please test the network connection.
— Christian
Re: Fienix - New PowerPC Distro
Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2019 11:52 am
by Roland
Roland wrote:Noticed a bug in the Power Management preferences of Fienix... The delay set to 'Display' does not work at all as it should. If it is set e.g. to '1h', screen goes off after 20 min, and if it is set to 'never', the delay is only 10 min! But if it is set to 1 min, the delay is much longer than that. .
I did some further testing... The issue is not present when I login as 'root', only with other accounts (the original 'fienix' account which is 'custom' type, and my personal account which is 'admin' type). But changing the delay from 'root' does not affect the behaviour of other accounts.
In which file is this "Power Mangement/Display" setting stored? I could try to delete it, if I can first locate it.
Re: Fienix - New PowerPC Distro
Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2019 1:24 am
by kilaueabart
xeno74 wrote:
Your X5000 has an IP address.
Please test the network connection.
— Christian
How can you tell my X5000 has an IP address? Does "inet" mean that?
Curiously (to me, anyway) my IP address according to Google on Ubuntu NewMoon: "Your IP address is 135.180.49.216 in Berkeley, California, United States (94705 [Wrong! It's 94608 in Oakland])," has a totally different number. But Ubuntu Connection Information claims my IP Address is 192.168.1.192 under IPv4, like the inet number in Fienix but missing "/24." (For IPv6 it has fe80:86dc
aeb7:a6/64, 20% the same as the "inet6" ip a got me.)
Unfortunately Googling hasn't helped me with how to "test the network connection." Presumably it is something I have to do from Fienix, because the connection is obviously good in Ubuntu.
Re: Fienix - New PowerPC Distro
Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2019 5:17 am
by xeno74
kilaueabart wrote:How can you tell my X5000 has an IP address? Does "inet" mean that?
I see it in your
ip a output. Yes, "inet" mean that.
kilaueabart wrote:
Unfortunately Googling hasn't helped me with how to "test the network connection." Presumably it is something I have to do from Fienix, because the connection is obviously good in Ubuntu.
I meant open a website.
Re: Fienix - New PowerPC Distro
Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2019 1:51 am
by kilaueabart
xeno74 wrote:I meant open a website.
That is what I am trying to find out how to do. But I can't open a website as long as "enP4096p4s4 is down." Browsers come up OK, but attempts to go to a website result in "[chosen browser] can't find server at [site]."
The trouble began with my first reboot after a major upgrade of Fienix on 23 Sep. I did get some disturbing messages with that update. Perhaps they will tell you more than they told me:
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E: Unable to correct missing packages
W: Failed to fetch http://ppcutopia.ddns.net/repos/apt/debian/pool/main/m/mate-screensaver/mate-screensaver-common_1.22.1-3_all.deb
Could not connect to ppcutopia.ddns.net:80 (75.134.17.247). - connect (111: Connection refused) [IP: 75.134.17.247 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://ppcutopia.ddns.net/repos/apt/debian/pool/main/m/mate-screensaver/mate-screensaver_1.22.1-3_powerpc.deb
Unable to connect to ppcutopia.ddns.net:http: [IP: 75.134.17.247 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://ppcutopia.ddns.net/repos/apt/debian/pool/main/m/mozo/mozo_1.22.1-2_all.deb
W: Failed to fetch http://ppcutopia.ddns.net/repos/apt/debian/pool/main/m/mate-menu/mate-menu_19.10.1-1_all.deb
W: Failed to fetch http://ppcutopia.ddns.net/repos/apt/debian/pool/main/m/mate-menus/libmate-menu2_1.22.0-1_powerpc.deb
W: Failed to fetch http://ppcutopia.ddns.net/repos/apt/debian/pool/main/m/mate-menus/mate-menus_1.22.0-1_all.deb
W: Failed to fetch http://ppcutopia.ddns.net/repos/apt/debian/pool/main/m/mate-control-center/mate-control-center-common_1.22.1-1_all.deb
W: Failed to fetch http://ppcutopia.ddns.net/repos/apt/debian/pool/main/m/mate-control-center/libmate-window-settings1_1.22.1-1_powerpc.deb
W: Failed to fetch http://ppcutopia.ddns.net/repos/apt/debian/pool/main/m/mate-control-center/mate-control-center_1.22.1-1_powerpc.deb
I have condensed the message. Each of the above lines was followed by "Unable to connect to ppcutopia.ddns.net:http: [IP: 75.134.17.247 80]" plus a blank line. I suspect I really needed something from ppcutopia.ddns.net.
By the way, for what it's worth I just downloaded mate-screensaver-common_1.22.1-3_all.deb to Ubuntu Downloads. If not getting that was the problem, maybe there is some way I could download to Ubuntu and then copy them where they are needed in Fienix?
I took a look at some log files. The following excerpt from syslog may relate to the problem.
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Sep 29 16:29:50 Fienix systemd[1]: systemd-fsckd.service: Succeeded.
Sep 29 16:29:55 Fienix dhclient[4302]: DHCPDISCOVER on dummy0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interva>
Sep 29 16:29:55 Fienix ifup[4251]: DHCPDISCOVER on dummy0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
Sep 29 16:30:00 Fienix systemd[1]: systemd-hostnamed.service: Succeeded.
Sep 29 16:30:01 Fienix CRON[4391]: (root) CMD ([ -x /etc/init.d/anacron ] && if [ ! -d /run/syst>
Sep 29 16:30:07 Fienix dhclient[4302]: DHCPDISCOVER on dummy0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interva>
Sep 29 16:30:07 Fienix ifup[4251]: DHCPDISCOVER on dummy0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 19
Sep 29 16:30:26 Fienix dhclient[4302]: DHCPDISCOVER on dummy0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interva>
Sep 29 16:30:26 Fienix ifup[4251]: DHCPDISCOVER on dummy0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
Sep 29 16:30:31 Fienix dhclient[4302]: No DHCPOFFERS received.
Sep 29 16:30:31 Fienix ifup[4251]: No DHCPOFFERS received.
Sep 29 16:30:31 Fienix ifup[4251]: No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
Sep 29 16:30:31 Fienix dhclient[4302]: No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
Sep 29 16:30:31 Fienix systemd[1]: Started Raise network interfaces.
Sep 29 16:30:31 Fienix systemd[1]: Reached target Network.
Sep 29 16:30:31 Fienix systemd[1]: Starting Permit User Sessions...
Sep 29 16:30:31 Fienix systemd[1]: Reached target Network is Online.
Re: Fienix - New PowerPC Distro
Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2019 4:20 am
by xeno74
Please try
And after that please open a website.
85a3:0000:0000:8a2e
7334 then you need rdnssd installed and should wait on upgrading it.
45ff:feee:f9f3/64 scope link 
aeb7:a6/64, 20% the same as the "inet6" ip a got me.)