On 11/26/18 3:41 PM, King Beowulf wrote:
Hmmm... Firefox shouldn't try to sync or do anything on the network when
launching. The version installed is old. You should update to the
newest one via slackpkg.
I'm logged in as root.
I ran slackpkg search firefox.
It returned [ upgrade ] (something about firefox)
I ran slackpkg upgrade firefox
It listed a bunch of steps it was taking and finished.
I clicked on the Firefox icon in KDE and saw the little red firefox
bouncing on the screen. After about a minute or less, the bouncing
stopped, but Firefox was not loaded.
Looks like I broke something.
During install, if you selected network manager to control the network,
switching from wireless to wired can confuse it for some network
devices.
I don't recall selecting network manager, but I didn't write down what I
did say.
Also note, that if you set yo wireless with network manager
and used KDE wallet to store the passphrase, XFCE can't see it. when
switching DE or network interface, in the DE (you need to have teh
networkmanager applet running), as a normal user, open a terminal and run:
su -
<root password>
/etc/rc.d/rc.networkmanager restart
exit
(remember that Slackware does NOT use systemd or sudo). Network Manager
has some nice features but the GUI applet is easily confused and the CLI
version is cryptically brain dead.
I haven't tried wireless yet. But I'll keep this in mind when I get
that far.
When X hangs, it may just be X Windows not Firefox etc. KDE and XFCE
use different GUI widgets. To see if it is just X and not the whole
system. press ctrl-alt-backspace to kill X and drop to the command line
(this is why I never run a graphical login manager). You can then
"startx" to reload. Again, be sure to update as there have been a
number of important bug fixes to X.org, FF, etc.
I did the update thing during the initial install. I just did it again.
xwmconfig sets the user DE. setting for "root" will not set for your
normal user and vice versa. it copies '/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.<DE>' to
'$HOME/.xinitrc' and if that doesn't exist '/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc' is a
symlink to ''/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.kde' as the default.
During install, when asked about your system clock, did you pick local
or UTC?
Local.
If you set UTC but the BIOS clock is local time you then just
confused the heck out of it.
1. Set BIOS to correct local time
Did so. But I think I didn't exit correctly. I just re-did it, and the
clock now looks correct.
2. open command terminal
su -
<root password>
timeconfig
... set for loacl and timezone
nano /etc/ntp.conf
...uncomment one or more NTP servers
Uncommented 0.
..save
ntpd -gq
bash-4.3# ntpd -gq
26 Nov 03:22:31 ntpd[2089]: ntpd [email protected] Fri Jun 3 23:08:22 UTC
2016 (1): Starting
26 Nov 03:22:31 ntpd[2089]: Command line: ntpd -gq
26 Nov 03:22:31 ntpd[2089]: proto: precision = 1.047 usec (-20)
26 Nov 03:22:31 ntpd[2089]: restrict: 'monitor' cannot b disabled while
'limited' is enabled
26 Nov 03:22:31 ntpd[2089]: unable to bind to wildcard address :: -
another process may be running - EXITING
bash-4.3#
hwclock -w
A little pause, but didn't see anything else. Clock still shows
incorrect time. 03:28 AM (Before going back to the BIOS step again)
...
You should now be all time synchronized. Xfce does not autoupdate time.
KDE can but is a bit gimpy. To synchronize on each boot, and run the
ntpd daemon
chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.ntpd
(rc.ntpd can then be used for start|stop|restart|status)
Do I need to "tell" something to run it, or is that what rc.ntpd does,
now that it's executable?
see also "man ntpd"
Note that rc.ntpd will not update the hardware clock, use "hwclock -w"
Done.
--
Regards,
Dick Steffens
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