(X)(L)ubuntu (MATE) 16.10 Yakkety Yak

[xeno74]

Hi All,

I rebuilt the kernel 4.1.29 including SECCOMP support yesterday but unfortunately it doesn't work with the systemd on ubuntu MATE 16.10.

Cheers,

Christian

[kilaueabart]

Hi Kilaueabart,

I compiled the final kernel 4.7 with SECCOMP support today and it solved the systemd problem on ubuntu MATE 16.10. Please use the new kernel 4.7-2.

Download: vmlinux-4.7-2-AmigaONE_X1000.tar.gz

I am happy that I am again able to launch Yakety Yak, although with a couple of oddities. First, there is a Timberwolf icon on my desktop, something I never had before. Clicking on it just brings up an error message.

The second odd thing is, there is nothing in the upper right corner to allow switching among English, Japanese, and Korean. It had been there the last time I successfully booted Yakety Yak. I don't imagine it will be hard to get it back.

"Welcome" still comes up blank. Is that the current status quo for Yakety Yak?

[xeno74]

Is that the current status quo for Yakety Yak?

Yes, it is.

[kilaueabart]

Is that the current status quo for Yakety Yak?

Yes, it is.

Thanks. Follow-up question: Is that what "In Release" means, like in

Hit:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mate-dev/welcome/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:2 http://gb.ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports yakkety InRelease [247 kB]
Hit:3 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports yakkety-security InRelease
Hit:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mate-dev/welcome/ubuntu yakkety InRelease
Hit:5 http://gb.ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports yakkety-updates InRelease
Get:6 http://gb.ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports yakkety/main powerpc Packages [1,144 kB]

Well, probably not. I now see that the real difference seems to be between "Hit:" and "Get:". And whether a size is given.

By the way, another weird thing. I looked at the interloping timberwolf icon's Properties. They include: "Command: /home/bart/sudoku.odt"!

[xeno74]

Hi All,

Great news! The developers fixed the problem with systemd. It is no longer necessary to compile a kernel with SECCOMP support. I was able to boot ubuntu MATE 16.10 PowerPC with the stable longterm kernel 4.1.30 today. 



Cheers,

Christian

[xeno74]

I successfully updated my Lubuntu 16.04.1 LTS PowerPC to 16.10 Yakkety Yak PowerPC on my USB flash drive today. The reason is, that the Lubuntu developers are looking for testers for the PowerPC platform. I'd like to help them.


Update instructions for Lubuntu:

1. You have to figure out the partition where is Lubuntu 16.04.1 LTS installed. My Lubuntu is installed on /dev/sdd2.
2. Boot Lubuntu 16.04.1 with the following commands from the USB flash drive:

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   setenv bootargs "root=/dev/sdd2 quiet ro splash rootdelay=5"

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   boot -elf -noints -fatfs cf0:vmlinux-4.8

3. CTRL+ALT+F1 to change to the console login on Lubuntu 16.04.1 LTS.
4. Login as user
5. Change your user to the root user with

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   sudo su

6. Stop X11 with

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   service lightdm stop

7. Update the package index of your old Lubuntu 16.04.1 LTS system:

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   apt-get update

8. Upgrade your packages to the latest packages on your old Lubuntu 16.04.1 LTS system:

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   apt-get upgrade

9. Remove those dependencies that were installed with applications and that are no longer used by anything else on the system:

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   apt-get autoremove

10. Remove .deb files for packages that are no longer installed on your system:

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    apt-get autoclean

11. Update your repositories to the new Lubuntu 16.10 repositories

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    sed -i 's/xenial/yakkety/g' /etc/apt/sources.list

12. Update the package index of the new Lubuntu 16.10 system:

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    apt-get update

13. Upgrade your Lubuntu 16.04.1 LTS system to version Lubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak:

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    apt-get dist-upgrade

14. Reboot your AmigaONE X1000 with

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    reboot

15. Login in your new Lubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak system.

Screenshot:



PLEASE test the new Lubuntu 16.10.

[kilaueabart]

You're tempting me, and I like to help out with testing from time to time anyway. I have printed out your instructions, just in case.

But let me ask: What is the best way to get 16.04.1 onto a flash drive? How should the drive be prepared, and can I copy this 16.04.1 that I am using to it, or must I install a new copy from scratch?

I guess you're used to my rather dumb questions.

[xeno74]

You're tempting me, and I like to help out with testing from time to time anyway. I have printed out your instructions, just in case.

But let me ask: What is the best way to get 16.04.1 onto a flash drive? How should the drive be prepared, and can I copy this 16.04.1 that I am using to it, or must I install a new copy from scratch?

I guess you're used to my rather dumb questions.

Hi Kilaueabart,

You can copy Julian's latest 16.04 image with dd to a USB2 flash drive and update it to 16.04.1.

Downloads:

Ubuntu-Mate_16.04-X1000-SI-3.img.7z

Ubuntu-Mate_16.04-X1000-NI-3.img.7z

Cheers,

Christian

[kilaueabart]

I half remember that I should use either SI or NI, perhaps because of my Radeon HD 5000 series graphics card, but googling and using the Search on this page didn't bring up any useful info. I went with SI.

In any event, no success so far. It conks out with

F2FS-fs (sde1): Can't find valid F2FS filesystem in 1th superblock
F2FS-fs (sde1): Can't find valid F2FS filesystem in 2th superblock

and after repeating those two lines it complains

Kernel panic -- not syncing: unable to mount root fs on unknown block(8,65)

What do I need to fix?

Meanwhile, I'll see if I can get the NI version on the same drive, and see if that might be the problem.

UPDATE!

After writing the above I went to GParted to try to set up a second partition on the 15GB drive. But although my original dd'ing of the image file looked like this 25 minutes after starting:
[quote}bart@Amigaone:~/Desktop$ sudo dd if=Ubuntu-Mate_16.04-X1000-SI.img of=/dev/sde1
[sudo] password for bart:
9814016+0 records in
9814016+0 records out
5024776192 bytes (5.0 GB, 4.7 GiB) copied, 1765.26 s, 2.8 MB/s
bart@Amigaone:~/Desktop$[/quote]But apparently I failed to notice that GParted said that none of the 14.12 GiB was being used!

!Warning:
Unable to detect file system! Possible reasons are:
- The file system is damaged
- The file system is unknown to GParted
- There is no file system available (unformatted)
- The device entry /dev/sde1 is missing

Maybe there's a good clue there about what I'm doing wrong?

[xeno74]

Maybe there's a good clue there about what I'm doing wrong?

You have to copy the image to the whole USB flash drive (/dev/sde).

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sudo dd if=Ubuntu-Mate_16.04-X1000-SI.img of=/dev/sde