On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 3:37 PM, Donald Allen <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 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. > Interesting. I will take a closer look at that one. > 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. > Thanks for the detailed investigation. We'll look into fixing this one for the next release. > >> >>> 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. > Sure, no worries. Thanks for your feedback. Best regards, Lucas
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