GentooPlayer

[Miska]

1 minute ago, bodiebill said:

Thanks Miska, I already checked that out but did not get far, probably because I am using GP without a desktop/GUI.

 

It doesn't need any GUI, it is a text mode application. You can have the reports also exported in HTML.

 

[bodiebill]

Tried that, but got error messages. I will either try again, or use the amperometer to be sure 🙂

[antonellocaroli]

1 hour ago, Miska said:

 

There's "powertop" which can help dealing power consumption.

 

 

Hi Miska,

 

I intended to evaluate the current consumption (amperes required by the PC)...

otherwise there´s top, or htop,

 

@bodiebill powertop you should install it:

 

emerge --ask sys-power/powertop

 

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PowerTOP

[Miska]

3 hours ago, antonellocaroli said:

I intended to evaluate the current consumption (amperes required by the PC)...

otherwise there´s top, or htop,

 

Yeah, it doesn't give a total figure, but instead tells where the current is going and how to minimize it...

 

On some boards, some PMICs can give fairly detailed info.

 

[Volodymyr]

Following steps from 1st page manual, at step emerge-webrsync I get: snapshot was not found.    Any advise?

[antonellocaroli]

1 hour ago, Volodymyr said:

Following steps from 1st page manual, at step emerge-webrsync I get: snapshot was not found.    Any advise?

try to check the system date, with the date command.

if the date is wrong adjust it manually

date MMDDhhmmYYYYY
ex:
date 070618522019

date month-day-hour-year

 

And then you come back emerge-webrsync

 

anyway I'm updating all the images, I think I'll focus on the OpenRC images.

[bodiebill]

Any reason for the focus on OpenRC? Do you prefer it to systemd?

[antonellocaroli]

10 hours ago, bodiebill said:

Any reason for the focus on OpenRC? Do you prefer it to systemd?

I prefer it more because of its functioning logic.

But if I allow, I will try to carry on with the systemd version as well.

[bodiebill]

sounds good, thanks Filippo!

[Gordian]

Hi, 

 

I am using GentooPlayer on daily basis and very happy with it on my Raspi 3... but now Raspi 4 is borned.

Do you plan to release a next version on the new Raspi 4 ?

 

Cheers

[antonellocaroli]

30 minutes ago, Gordian said:

 

Do you plan to release a next version on the new Raspi 4 ?

 

Yes, of course. As soon as things get more stable with the kernel.

ex:

 

https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/commit/cdb78ce891f6c6367a69c0a46b5779a58164bd4b#diff-634f284364ba43ef69912111615b08ef

 

 

[Volodymyr]

19 hours ago, antonellocaroli said:

try to check the system date, with the date command.

if the date is wrong adjust it manually

date MMDDhhmmYYYYY
ex:
date 070618522019

date month-day-hour-year

 

And then you come back emerge-webrsync

 

anyway I'm updating all the images, I think I'll focus on the OpenRC images.

Yes, that was the reason

[Volodymyr]

is it normal that at shutdown I get GUI login page, with field to enter login?

 

When do ramsystem - no space (16g DDR)

alsa-up - invalid profile, etc/portage/make.profile is not a symlink bla-bla-bla///

change kernel (in console) - something is missing in grub

 

and so on and  so on.   Kinda already tired with gentoo.  Probably go back to AVLinux.

[antonellocaroli]

4 hours ago, Volodymyr said:

is it normal that at shutdown I get GUI login page, with field to enter login?

 

No, I have to check it out.

 

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When do ramsystem - no space (16g DDR)

 

I don't think it's the ram, but the space on the device...has the root partition been resized?

 

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alsa-up - invalid profile, etc/portage/make.profile is not a symlink bla-bla-bla///

 

alsa-up and alsa-dw no longer make sense, the latest versions of alsa are very good.
I will remove it in the next image.

 

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change kernel (in console) - something is missing in grub

I knew about it, I'll fix it in the next image.

This happens when the system disk is not sda.

 

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Kinda already tired with gentoo.  Probably go back to AVLinux.

 

if you're comfortable, why not.

[Volodymyr]

Anyway thank you so much for your engagement, and developing this distro.

 

yes, partition was resized...

[antonellocaroli]

1 hour ago, Volodymyr said:

Anyway thank you so much for your engagement, and developing this distro.

 

yes, partition was resized...

then it's weird...
the ram system should not occupy more than 6/8 GB 

you can post the result of the command df -h 

Do you have a roon database?

 

[Volodymyr]

I will, this evening.  No database, empty SSD 128G, just OS.

[bodiebill]

5 hours ago, Volodymyr said:

Kinda already tired with gentoo.  Probably go back to AVLinux.

 

If you are interested, please PM me: I could send you a clear step-for-step instruction for installing the systemd version.

I would not give up too soon, as I think GentooPlayer is worth it!

[Volodymyr]

thanks a lot,  for encouraging))

[antonellocaroli]

I updated the OpenRC images, I switched completely to a no-multilib system.

the images are in the usual place.

 

the system with XFCE in ram takes a little more than 4GB

 

 

 

 

the system without XFCE occupies in ram little more than 1 gb

 

 

For UEFI systems you have to resize the root with Gparted.

may give you an error, press ok first and then fix

 

 

[bodiebill]

On 7/6/2019 at 6:58 PM, antonellocaroli said:

try to check the system date, with the date command.

if the date is wrong adjust it manually

date MMDDhhmmYYYYY
ex:
date 070618522019

date month-day-hour-year

 

And then you come back emerge-webrsync

 

anyway I'm updating all the images, I think I'll focus on the OpenRC images.

 

Trying to install the new OpenRC GP.

 

gp-update gives:

Cloning into 'gentoo_overlay64'...
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/antonellocaroli/gentoo_overlay64.git/': Couldn't resolve host 'github.com'

 

emerge-webrsync gives a few "20190713 snapshot was not found" error messages, although I set the correct timezone and locale and the date command gives the right date and time.

[antonellocaroli]

8 hours ago, bodiebill said:

 

Trying to install the new OpenRC GP.

 

gp-update gives:

Cloning into 'gentoo_overlay64'...
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/antonellocaroli/gentoo_overlay64.git/': Couldn't resolve host 'github.com'

  

emerge-webrsync gives a few "20190713 snapshot was not found" error messages, although I set the correct timezone and locale and the date command gives the right date and time.

Do you have internet access?

ifconfig What does it say?

[Volodymyr]

so far, tried only with live flash, looks like smoother general functioning than previous image.  For sound have to wait a little bit, as my DAC is in process of caps and cables upgrade.

[bodiebill]

11 hours ago, antonellocaroli said:

Do you have internet access?

ifconfig What does it say?

 

thx, will try tonight...

 

9 hours ago, Volodymyr said:

so far, tried only with live flash, looks like smoother general functioning than previous image.  For sound have to wait a little bit, as my DAC is in process of caps and cables upgrade.

 

good to hear you got GP working...

[bodiebill]

12 hours ago, antonellocaroli said:

Do you have internet access?

ifconfig What does it say?

 

With the previous installation (systemd) I do have internet, but with the new one apparently not.

ping google.com gives:

ping: www.google.com: Temporary failure in name resolution

 

and ifconfig gives:
eth1: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.1.207  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.1.255
        inet6 fe80::92e2:baff:fe44:9c6  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
        ether 90:e2:ba:44:09:c6  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 112  bytes 11495 (11.2 KiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 73  bytes 13948 (13.6 KiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING>  mtu 65536
        inet 127.0.0.1  netmask 255.0.0.0
        inet6 ::1  prefixlen 128  scopeid 0x10<host>
        loop  txqueuelen 1000  (Local Loopback)
        RX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0