On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 9:10 AM, Lucas C. Villa Real <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 1:47 PM, Donald Allen <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Some more comments: >> >> 1. The hostname I specified to the installer didn't make it into >> /System/Settings/hosts either. The hostname used there was NewMachine. >> > > Hi Don -- sorry for the late response! I haven't been able to reproduce > this problem. Is there any chance that you had your target partition > mounted at the time you launched the installer, or that you installed it > over an existing 016 setup without formatting the partition again? > I don't think so. But despite the fact that I've decided not to proceed with this distribution because of the many problems (I mentioned this in a message to the recent thread started by William Dudley, "giving up, with some bug reports"), I decided to try to help by sticking an old disk into a machine I use for experimenting and redid the install with a fresh download of the Gobo iso file. In this case, the disk had an MSDOS partition table with four primary partitions, three Linux and one Linux-swap. I pre-formatted the three Linux partitions and mkswap-ed, swapon-ed the swap partition, by booting an Arch install medium. When I did the Gobo install, I did NOT request formatting. I installed Gobo in the largest of the partitions (I usually use three Linux partitions for /boot, /home and /root; your installer doesn't support that). When I brought the system up, the hostname was correct. But I recalled that when I did the original Gobo installs, about which I reported this problem, I DID request formatting. So I re-did the install into the same partition as today's earlier install, but the with the format box checked. This time the system came up with the NewMachine hostname. You have a bug in the installer. Furthermore, in both cases, the time reported by the installed system is still wrong. I in the first install, I specified that the hardware clock was set to GMT and specified America/New_York as the timezone. In the installed system, the date command gave me GMT time, with a an EST timezone designation. The timezone correction isn't happening. Suspicious that you might have the sense of a test reversed (Dragonfly BSD had a bug like that some years ago), in the second install, I specified that the clock was set to localtime, timezone America/New_York. The time is still displayed as GMT/UTC, timezone EST. This is actually correct in this case, since no timezone correction is needed if the system is told the clock is set to local time. But it disproves my backwards-test theory. The bug is that when it is told the clock is GMT/UTC, it fails to do the timezone correction. > > >> 2. The release notes page for version 16 (http://gobolinux.org/?page=re >> lease_notes_016) says "Here is the complete list of programs you will >> find included in the GoboLinux *015* ISO image:". The version number is >> wrong. >> > > That's been fixed now, thanks. > > >> I am continuing to try to use this system experimentally. I worked around >> the need for a static IP address by using the address-assignment feature in >> my wifi base station's dhcp server to assign the address I need to the >> machine running. >> >> Where is the documentation for how to enable/disable services, e.g., >> sshd? Is there an ntp daemon? I can't find it. >> > > We have recipes for the NTP package. Just type "Compile NTP" and then look > for the daemon under /Programs/NTP/Current/bin. You can browse the list of > recipes at http://recipes.gobolinux.org/r/ > > As for system services, we call them "Tasks". The list of available tasks > is under /System/Tasks, and you start/stop them with "StartTask <taskname>" > and "StopTask <taskname>". > > By the way, please feel free to edit the wiki anytime you spot some typo! > :) > Thanks for the additional info and for the belated message, but I haven't changed my mind about Gobo. Despite thinking you have good ideas and have done some nice work, the system is clearly not far enough along for me to use for serious work. I will keep an eye on it and check in from time to time. /Don > > Cheers, > Lucas > > > _______________________________________________ > gobolinux-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-users > >
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