MXFBPi Beta 2 testing

[Jerry3904]

There is something screwy going on with locale settings

That's not good. You used RPi Config to set them, I believe? What is the output of this command:

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locale

[Jerry3904]

About the time delay, this Arch paragraph seems relevant

systemd-timesyncd is a daemon that has been added for synchronizing the system clock across the network. It implements an SNTP client. In contrast to NTP implementations such as chrony or the NTP reference server this only implements a client side, and does not bother with the full NTP complexity, focusing only on querying time from one remote server and synchronizing the local clock to it. Unless you intend to serve NTP to networked clients or want to connect to local hardware clocks this simple NTP client should be more than appropriate for most installations. The daemon runs with minimal privileges, and has been hooked up with networkd to only operate when network connectivity is available. The daemon saves the current clock to disk every time a new NTP sync has been acquired, and uses this to possibly correct the system clock early at bootup, in order to accommodate for systems that lack an RTC such as the Raspberry Pi and embedded devices, and make sure that time monotonically progresses on these systems, even if it is not always correct. To make use of this daemon a new system user and group "systemd-timesync" needs to be created on installation of systemd.

[dolphin_oracle]

There is something screwy going on with locale settings

That's not good. You used RPi Config to set them, I believe? What is the output of this command:

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locale

on the locale issue, the only locale generated on the b2 img is the en_US.UTF8 locale. which means even if you choose a different locale, you ain't gonna get it because they aren't present.

which makes chris' LC_ALL error message make sense.

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sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

will allow you to select and generate locales. our system-locales-mx utility does the same, but I don't remember if that's on the PI img or not (part of mx-goodies).

[Jerry3904]

Aha! mx-goodies is installed, but that app produces a bunch of errors.

@chrispop99 Please run the code DO posts, accepting the default "All" option (unless there is some better way to proceed). Then see if things work better, starting with nitrogen. Thanks.

[chrispop99]

@chrispop99 Please run the code DO posts, accepting the default "All" option (unless there is some better way to proceed). Then see if things work better, starting with nitrogen. Thanks.

I generated all locales. That gets rid of the terminal message about locales. Nitrogen still doesn't run, giving this error:

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This is a 'mature' install, so I'm starting again with a fresh image.

Chris

[Jerry3904]

Jeesh, thanks. Well, we're not using it OOTB so it's just an annoyance but I'd like to get it to work b/c it seems to work for the rest of the world.

[chrispop99]

Jeesh, thanks. Well, we're not using it OOTB so it's just an annoyance but I'd like to get it to work b/c it seems to work for the rest of the world.

Are you able to make a fresh image, use the Raspi config to set locale to GB, and see if Nitrogen works please?

If it does, I'm giving up with that aspect of it! If it doesn't, somehow it needs fixing.

Chris

[chrispop99]

With a fresh install, I generated all locales (it takes a long time!), selecting GB to use. I rebooted, and Nitrogen worked. I then used the sections of the Raspi config to set the other localisation elements, other than locale. Nitrogen still worked OK.

It would seem, and this makes no sense, that using Raspi config to set locale breaks Nitrogen.

Chris

[Jerry3904]

Thanks for the testing. That makes no sense to me, either.

Since choosing nitrogen means cancelling fehbg in startup as well, I'm going to take it off the image.

[chrispop99]

Thanks for the testing. That makes no sense to me, either.

Since choosing nitrogen means cancelling fehbg in startup as well, I'm going to take it off the image.

OK, thanks for the heads up.

Chris