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Chromium OS Universal Chroot Environment
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Sana appears to require the crouton extension to be installed #2418

Closed szbergeron closed 2 years ago

szbergeron commented 8 years ago

Even though it probably isn't in line with the consensus of most users I find using a windowed interface a little disjointed/disorienting so I prefer to use Crouton as a separate desktop and switch between them with CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+forward/backward. What I'm finding is that a Sana Chroot seems to require the use of the crouton extension, and running it as a separate desktop is impossible. I tried installing it a few times, with the only targets being kde-desktop+audio+keyboard+chrome, but upon running sudo startkde -n sana I run into a problem where it keeps trying to connect to the extension which just isn't there. I didn't see on any of those targets an extension requirement so I really don't know what's going on. Any help is greatly appreciated.

DennisLfromGA commented 8 years ago

@dreamwavedev,

There is a crouton extension target that provides:

You specify it as a target when you install or update a chroot. If you install the xiwi target/xmethod, then the extension target is automatically installed along with it.

There is also the 'crouton integration' extension for use with the xiwi target/xmethod that needs to be installed from the 'Chrome Web Store'. This app states that it is:

So, if you install the xiwi target/xmethod, you'll need the 'crouton integration' web app too.

If you have both installed, you're xiwi session should connect and work just fine.

szbergeron commented 8 years ago

Sorry, I guess I meant Xiwi. I know it's useful to a great many people but I would vastly prefer to be able to use my chroot without crouton integration/xiwi and just with the CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+forward/backward keys. I didn't specify the Xiwi target but it appears it was installed anyway.

DennisLfromGA commented 8 years ago

I run into a problem where it keeps trying to connect to the extension which just isn't there.

Installing the 'crouton integration' extension for use with the xiwi target/xmethod from the 'Chrome Web Store' will take care of your problem with the failed connection attempts I believe.

However, if you just have 'xiwi' installed, you can add/install 'xorg' with a crouton update:

sudo sh ~/Downloads/crouton -n sana -t xorg -u

That will also make 'xorg' the default xmethod. And, if 'xorg' was previously installed along with 'xiwi' and 'xiwi' was the default, the update will make 'xorg' the default.

If you have both 'xorg' and 'xiwi' installed and want to switch xmethods for a session, just use the '-X' option when invoking your start script, similar to:

sudo startkde -n sana -X xorg

lauos commented 8 years ago

It seems that crouton regards xiwi as the default target when we install sana with the target xfce, kde, x11 or others.My xiwi works fine, but i also want a separate desktop. when i run sudo sh ~/Downloads/tools/crouton -u -n sana -t xorg , there is something wrong:

Package 'xserver-xorg-video-all' is not installed, so not removed xorg is already the newest version. Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: xserver-xorg-core : Conflicts: xserver-xorg-video-modesetting xserver-xorg-video-modesetting : Depends: xorg-video-abi-18 but it is not installable E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages. Failed to complete chroot setup.

Is this a bug or something else?

DennisLfromGA commented 8 years ago

@heloword - Please show us what's displayed when you enter: sudo edit-chroot -all

lauos commented 8 years ago

@DennisLfromGA

name: sana encrypted: no Entering /mnt/stateful_partition/crouton/chroots/sana... crouton: version 1-20160206234800~master:daa872a0 release: sana architecture: amd64 targets: xorg,cli-extra host: version 7834.60.0 (Official Build) stable-channel peppy kernel: Linux localhost 3.8.11 #1 SMP Thu Mar 10 03:33:26 PST 2016 x86_64 GNU/Linux freon: yes Unmounting /mnt/stateful_partition/crouton/chroots/sana...

DennisLfromGA commented 8 years ago

@heloword,

It seems since no X-windowed desktop target was specified in your installation, the 'xorg' xmethod was not set. If you're not going to use any graphics desktop, this shouldn't pose a problem.

xserver-xorg-core : Conflicts: xserver-xorg-video-modesetting xserver-xorg-video-modesetting : Depends: xorg-video-abi-18 but it is not installable E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

I'm not sure why you're getting those errors and I'm afraid I'm not very good at solving package discrepancies. :( I like to install 'aptitude' since it seems to do a better job with broken installations and packages in general. With it installed, you could do: sudo aptitude -f install and see what it recommends.

You may be able to install the 'xfce' target, even though you don't plan to use it, and see if that 'fixes' those 'xserver-xorg*' errors.

Sorry I couldn't give you more expert advice, -DennisL

lauos commented 8 years ago

@DennisLfromGA Thank you all the same! By the way, i find the source code with x11 target

https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton/blob/master/targets/x11

It seems that sana can only choose xiwi when i install the x11 target.