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[teapot]

I made a big error while working to get slingplayer to function for streaming TV from home -- I managed to erase my /etc/x11/xorg.conf file.  Now, I can't boot up into the Ubuntu interface.  Any way to fix short of a (sigh) complete reinstall of everything on my SD card?  Thanks.  JCR

You can extract that file from the tarball.

[jrobbins]

Teapot -- actually, I think I'm missing the whole x11 folder, but I assume I can also extract that.  Can I do this on my windows PC, copy to my USB stick and then to my SD card -- or what would be the proper way to extract, and not reinstall, the tarball?  A good holiday to all.  Thanks.  JCR

[mavrothal]

With the OFW q2e24 in place, Ubuntu Intrepid on a 8GB PNY class 6 card failed to boot, with the following error:

   SDHCI :  Error : ISR=8000 ESR=1 Command Timeout,
   Stopping
   <buffer@ffb66ee0>:12:
   Cant open boot device
   OK

Any other thoughts?

Not really :-(
You may want to try deep cleaning of the card (a had some luck with  that in the past) and reinstall. Is a long process (few hours just for the cleaning) and is likely that will not make a difference particularly if we are talking about a new card that has not been through several reformattings and installations. If you want to go for it umount the card and issue
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mmcblk0 conv=notrunc
in the terminal.

[rustensa]

OK, so I'm really eager to jump into all this. I tried and failed about 6 months ago and never jumped back in but I want to make use of this anchor. So here's where I'm at. I have my developer key. It's where it needs to me, I have an SD card 4 GB SDHC, USB thumb drive. I have the tarbell on the USB, and my SD card is nice and clean. I'm currently stuck at extracting the tarbell, the exact error is something along the lines of mkefs: command not found. Earlier while doing the sfdisk I noticed that the pipe was unrecognized and gave me an error. I left it out and it ran. Mistake? Please help, thanks.

[teapot]

OK, so I'm really eager to jump into all this. I tried and failed about 6 months ago and never jumped back in but I want to make use of this anchor. So here's where I'm at. I have my developer key. It's where it needs to me, I have an SD card 4 GB SDHC, USB thumb drive. I have the tarbell on the USB, and my SD card is nice and clean. I'm currently stuck at extracting the tarbell, the exact error is something along the lines of mkefs: command not found.

It's because it's called mke2fs, you should run su -s before doing anything, and mke2fs supposed to be called before doing anything with a tarball.

Earlier while doing the sfdisk I noticed that the pipe was unrecognized and gave me an error. I left it out and it ran. Mistake?

Yes. Don't ever do that. You can't replace a program with some misspelling or creative interpretation of it, and expect it to work.

If nothing else, you can run a browser and cut/paste those lines.

[BruceM]

Thanks again to teapot; he is a true XO hero!  I have an 8GB SDHC card on order, from which I intend to run Intrepid, but to practice the installation I used a 2GB card that I had on hand.  The installation went smoothly and without a hitch (took about 1 hr.).  I can see that running Ubuntu off an SD card is going to make a quantum improvement in my XO experience!

I have encountered one (temporary) problem. I used Synaptic to install the OpenOffice suite, which seemed to complete but filled the 2GB card (<1% available, whereas there had been >30% available).  Since I had so little maneuvering room, I deleted one OO directory manually and then used Synaptic to completely remove everything with OpenOffice in the name. However, my SD card is still 92% full, so obviously OO pulled in a lot of other stuff (I saw hundreds of obscure fonts being installed!).  Can anyone suggest anything else that I can safely delete to free up some more space?

Of course this problem will fix itself when my 8GB card arrives.  But my knowledge of linux system maintenance is limited, and it bothers me that I don't know how to get back to the pre-OpenOffice-install state.

Thanks for any suggestions,
Bruce

[teapot]

Teapot -- actually, I think I'm missing the whole x11 folder, but I assume I can also extract that.

If you don't know what is missing, I recommend reinstalling.

Otherwise it should be

sudo -s
cd /media/OLPCRoot
tar xvjf /media/USB/OLPCFiles-intrepid-20081130.tar.bz2 ./etc/X11

(assuming you use either Terminal in the original XO configuration, SD card is mounted as /media/OLPCRoot and the drive with tarball is mounted as /media/USB)

[teapot]

I have encountered one (temporary) problem. I used Synaptic to install the OpenOffice suite, which seemed to complete but filled the 2GB card (<1% available, whereas there had been >30% available).  Since I had so little maneuvering room, I deleted one OO directory manually and then used Synaptic to completely remove everything with OpenOffice in the name. However, my SD card is still 92% full, so obviously OO pulled in a lot of other stuff (I saw hundreds of obscure fonts being installed!).  Can anyone suggest anything else that I can safely delete to free up some more space?

sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get clean

[guidojack]

Once I figured out the developer key thing, installation went very well. I haven't had this much fun since I installed Ubuntu on an old clunker PC so I could have a computer in the garage.

Now I seem to have a minor glitch: I set up a link to Nautilus (/usr/bin/nautilus) on my desktop so I could easily check my wireless network and my NAS. However, when I click on the link, the background window changes to one with only a Nautilus icon, and I cannot seem to get back to the initial window without rebooting. Any suggestions as to what I did wrong, or how I can fix this?

[teapot]

Now I seem to have a minor glitch: I set up a link to Nautilus (/usr/bin/nautilus) on my desktop so I could easily check my wireless network and my NAS. However, when I click on the link, the background window changes to one with only a Nautilus icon, and I cannot seem to get back to the initial window without rebooting. Any suggestions as to what I did wrong, or how I can fix this?

Make a launcher/desktop file that runs /usr/bin/nautilus --no-desktop

[BruceM]

I have encountered one (temporary) problem. I used Synaptic to install the OpenOffice suite, ....  Can anyone suggest anything else that I can safely delete to free up some more space?

sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get clean

Worked like a charm! Thanks!

[mavrothal]

Should be more than 10 years since I last used Lynx, but when I tried to open it in Intrepid it gave me the following message
Can't Access `file://localhost/usr/share/ubuntu-artwork/home/index.html'
Alert!: Unable to access document.

and quited.
Any ideas before I go through  the painfully long lynx.cfg file?

[wkuhle]

I am a ubuntu/linux/terminal noob. I installed Teapot's Ubuntu package, flashplugin nonfree, java v6, ect. and it all works okay with 2GB Sandisk Ultra II SD card. I had some initial difficulties with audio via the built-in speaker but it resolved itself. However, along the way, the battery status icon at the lower right hand side of the screen somehow disappeared. How can I restore it?

Also, when I try to enlarge the arrow icon of the mouse cursor, via the Settings Manager, the arrow does not enlarge.

Thank you for making my XO much more useful to me.

Regards

[mavrothal]

However, along the way, the battery status icon at the lower right hand side of the screen somehow disappeared. How can I restore it?

First make sure that the "bat_mon.sh" script is in the /usr/bin folder in the terminal type:
ls /usr/bin/bat*. Then right click on the lower task bar next to the time and from the pop-up select "+ Add New Item" and from the window that opens select "Generic Monitor". In the command field of the generic monitor window that opens type

Code:

bat_mon.sh -p -a -s 1

for "Label" add "Battery Monitor" if you want but leave the check-box unchecked. For "Period (s)" type "30" and select fonts "DejaVu Sans Bold Semi-Condensed 11". This should do it.

Also, when I try to enlarge the arrow icon of the mouse cursor, via the Settings Manager, the arrow does not enlarge.

You have to restart XFCE, logout-login, or reboot for the change to take effect

[wkuhle]

First make sure that the "bat_mon.sh" script is in the /usr/bin folder in the terminal type:
ls /usr/bin/bat*. Then right click on the lower task bar next to the time and from the pop-up select "+ Add New Item" and from the window that opens select "Generic Monitor". In the command field of the generic monitor window that opens type

Code:

bat_mon.sh -p -a -s 1

for "Label" add "Battery Monitor" if you want but leave the check-box unchecked. For "Period (s)" type "30" and select fonts "DejaVu Sans Bold Semi-Condensed 11". This should do it.

Thank you. Back to normal again.