FOCAL FOSSA! - Githubissues

saltedcoffii commented 4 years ago

I'm sure that all of us Linux enthusiasts are really excited about the release of Focal Foosa, Canonical's latest Ubuntu release, 20.04 LTS, scheduled to be released on April 23. I love and adore crouton, but as time passes, Xenial becomes more and more dated. Xenial repositories aren't just keeping up with everything new, like the latest versions of java, firefox, mono, gnome, gcc, et cetera. When (or if, I suppose,) will crouton be updating to a newer version of Ubuntu? What is in the works already? When will crouton -r help show focal* after eoan*?

justchen1369 commented 4 years ago

18.04 has been avaliable for a while now.

saltedcoffii commented 4 years ago

It has been available, but it's not officially supported by crouton, and it's much too buggy for productivity use with crouton.

dnschneid commented 4 years ago

I've added focal* to the list.

We have pretty limited time to go through and repair all the compatibility issues that appear in each release, so we've been sticking to every-other LTS as the default crouton one and try to make that work as well as we can. Focal would be the next on the list, but it'll come down to when @drinkcat and I can allocate a week to hash it out. Rest assured it'll be sometime before April 2021 :)

Patches welcome, as always.

jvschiavo commented 4 years ago

I've added focal* to the list.

We have pretty limited time to go through and repair all the compatibility issues that appear in each release, so we've been sticking to every-other LTS as the default crouton one and try to make that work as well as we can. Focal would be the next on the list, but it'll come down to when @drinkcat and I can allocate a week to hash it out. Rest assured it'll be sometime before April 2021 :)

Patches welcome, as always.

Why Bionic was never tagged as supported? The idea was always to skip 16.04 directly to 20.04?

Is 18.04 safe to install or upgrade on my chroot?

hacker1024 commented 4 years ago

I just tried installing Focal, but I was met with a sed error. Eoan works just fine.

$ sudo crouton -r focal -t xorg,extension,audio,touch,kde-desktop

WARNING: focal is an unsupported release.
You will likely run into issues, but things may work with some effort.
Press Ctrl-C to abort; installation will continue in 5 seconds.
WARNING: Your rootfs is writable. Signed boot verification cannot be enabled.
If this is a surprise to you, you should do a full system recovery via USB.
Installing focal-amd64 chroot to /usr/local/chroots/focal
sed: couldn't edit /tmp/crouton.kwG/scripts/focal: not a regular file

dnschneid commented 4 years ago

Looks like I forgot to update the builder with a version of debootstrap that supports focal. That's fixed now.

jvschiavo commented 4 years ago

I think this should be a pinned issue. It is the most hyped thing for crouton right now. There're lots of expectations about this.

dnschneid commented 4 years ago

Good idea.

neogeo71 commented 4 years ago

It has been available, but it's not officially supported by crouton, and it's much too buggy for productivity use with crouton. I disagree. 18.04 LTS It runs perfectly fine in Crouton, been using it for 2 years. never had a issue.

saltedcoffii commented 4 years ago

It has been available, but it's not officially supported by crouton, and it's much too buggy for productivity use with crouton. I disagree. 18.04 LTS It runs perfectly fine in Crouton, been using it for 2 years. never had a issue.

Oh it won't even launch xorg for me.

neogeo71 commented 4 years ago

I posted my process of installing on Reddit. I will find and list it here...

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It has been available, but it's not officially supported by crouton, and it's much too buggy for productivity use with crouton. I disagree. 18.04 LTS It runs perfectly fine in Crouton, been using it for 2 years. never had a issue.

Oh it won't even launch xorg for me.

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jvschiavo commented 4 years ago

Oh it won't even launch xorg for me.

I updated from xenial to bionic and it is working kind of okay for me. But Alt + Backspace is not resulting in Delete and I can't find a way to add that back. :/

neogeo71 commented 4 years ago

Used this successfully....

Download Crouton

cd ~/Downloads

wget "https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton/blob/master/installer/crouton"

Install Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic

sudo sh ~/Downloads/crouton -r bionic -t gnome

Fix Localization for things like gnome-terminal:

sudo enter-chroot

sudo locale-gen en_US en_US.UTF-8

export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

Fix mouse lag

sudo apt install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics

Fix UI lag

sudo enter-chroot

cd /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d

sudo ln -s /etc/crouton/xorg-intel-sna.conf 20-crouton-intel-sna.conf

Install a bunch of other shit:

sudo apt install gnome-terminal nano ttf-ubuntu-font-family gnome-calculator gnome-calendar gnome-clocks file-roller gedit bash-completion ubuntu-restricted-extras gnome-tweaks iptables darktable rawtherapee steam swell-foop eog

edit Step 2 is currently broken. I'm not sure if this fix will introduce errors, but I did get it to install:

sudo sh ~/Downloads/crouton -r bionic -t core

sudo enter-chroot

Sudo apt install xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-video-intel

exit

sudo sh ~/Downloads/crouton -r bionic -t gnome -u

then continue w/ the rest of the guide.

derpyegplant commented 4 years ago

Focal Fossa seems to only work with xfce. it wont open in gnome or any other desktop

neogeo71 commented 4 years ago

Focal Fossa seems to only work with xfce. it wont open in gnome or any other desktop It works! I am running it now. Gnome works. Follow directions above.

Miustone commented 4 years ago

I tried everything possible on My C340-15 to get 20.04 but no success (Running Bionic rn). Will try later again! Thank You very much for this! <3

Random Question. Will it be possible to compile Android Systems on 18.04 or 20.04? I'm not sure about this since i'm running a bit buggy with 18.04 and wonder if 20.04 will allow me to do this...

saltedcoffii commented 4 years ago

I tried everything possible on My C340-15 to get 20.04 but no success (Running Bionic rn). Will try later again! Thank You very much for this! <3

Random Question. Will it be possible to compile Android Systems on 18.04 or 20.04? I'm not sure about this since i'm running a bit buggy with 18.04 and wonder if 20.04 will allow me to do this...

@Miustone You could ask on the subreddit

Miustone commented 4 years ago

I tried everything possible on My C340-15 to get 20.04 but no success (Running Bionic rn). Will try later again! Thank You very much for this! <3 Random Question. Will it be possible to compile Android Systems on 18.04 or 20.04? I'm not sure about this since i'm running a bit buggy with 18.04 and wonder if 20.04 will allow me to do this...

@Miustone You could ask on the subreddit

I don't have a reddit Account but thanks...

TheRealFanjin commented 4 years ago

Hey guys I just wanted to let u guys know I got focal with xfce working perfectly. No bugs, nothing. It is perfect the first time I installed it. First step towards FOCAL FOOSA! focalfoosa

MisterTrash-77 commented 4 years ago

Hey, sorry for the question but is anyone able to run focal or eoan ? Focal just show a blackscreen when running "sudo startxfce4" and Eoan just ask me to reboot for dbus to install (When I do it just ask me once more to reboot for dbus). Thanks

pairwiserr commented 4 years ago

It works! I am running it now. Gnome works. Follow directions above.

@derpyegplant was referring to Focal Fossa, but your instructions are for bionic, @neogeo71 .

pairwiserr commented 4 years ago

Hey, sorry for the question but is anyone able to run focal or eoan ?

I've tried installing focal with gnome but it automatically unmounts.

TeaWolf commented 4 years ago

I'm running focal at the moment and everything works fine except sound and some performance issues. After trying the sound solution from here I can get sound from vlc, but still no sound from Firefox. Concerning performance I keep seeing chrome running at 20% cpu load on top. Is it increase it's niceness from -8 ? Or will this not help ?

TheRealFanjin commented 4 years ago

@TeaWolf Yes, I remember having the exact same audio problem. I think I solved it by doing pulseaudio -D or pulseaudio --start, I forgot which one it was. As for the Chrome issue, I just don't use Chrome in Linux. I mostly use Vivaldi and Firefox

satmandu commented 4 years ago

This let sudo startgnome work for me:

sudo enter-chroot
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:oibaf/graphics-drivers
sudo apt dist-upgrade -y
echo MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=i965 | sudo tee -a /etc/environment
cd /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d && sudo ln -s /etc/crouton/xorg-intel-sna.conf 20-crouton-intel-sna.conf

TeaWolf commented 4 years ago

@TeaWolf Yes, I remember having the exact same audio problem. I think I solved it by doing pulseaudio -D or pulseaudio --start, I forgot which one it was. As for the Chrome issue, I just don't use Chrome in Linux. I mostly use Vivaldi and Firefox

Thanks for the pulseaudio --start tip. that did the trick. As to the browser I also use only Firefox. I think the chrome is the one running in ChromeOS when I start the crosh shell to boot up my chroot. Is there a way to start the chroot without opening chrome?

TheRealFanjin commented 4 years ago

@TeaWolf The "Chrome" that is using a lot of CPU is not just the Chrome in ChromeOS, it's the whole ChromeOS system. If you close Chrome in ChromeOS, the "Chrome" in your task manager will keep running. If you're interested, there's a way to [https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton/wiki/Autostart-crouton-chroot-at-ChromeOS-startup](autostart a chroot), but it's a bit complicated and doesn't really resolve the chrome issue. Anyway, just don't open any tabs in Chrome to minimize cpu usage and definitely close android apps, they also use a lot of CPU.