Tom Yates wrote:
my freerunner has now collected a number of weirdnesses (shr_elm_softkey has to be restarted manually; screenlock keeps on being unlockable; settings icon is missing; terminal never gets keyboard focus; illume wants reconfiguring on every reboot). i've tried the fixes advertised for many of these, but most don't work, i assume because of legacy issues or cross-interactions.

Workaround for the terminal focus problem: switch between the apps. When
you get back to the terminal, it has focus. Silly but works for me.


so i want to reimage my freerunner from the latest rootfs and kernel images, and then retry the fixes.

You can try, but I am not sure it will help. Linux systems don't tend
to deteriorate with time, so a "fresh install" tend to be no
better than something old. And vice-versa.
(Unlike windows, I have heard that it
somehow "goes bad" with time - which seems strange to me.)

Deterioration in shr-unstable comes because the developers
upload new versions that sometimes are quite buggy.
This is not to be mean, it is a valid development model.
Users of shr-U are effectively the software testing team.

If you don't want that, reinstall shr-testing (or stable)
instead.

Another way is to install an older image, from a time
where the bugs you describe didn't exist. Of course,
you get the bugs for those days instead. :-/

Helge Hafting
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