yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Atrix 4G General] giozera:
I did ignored that and when I looked at the unpacked folders sizes did not match the ones are in tar file, at the end gen top did not work. so I restored phone and started all over again and I get stuck at:

tar xvzf /sdcard/GenTop2-20120509.tar.gz

it just throws invalid option --z. all steps before that went very smooth no problems. I don't know how to proceed last time I skipped "z" and got that unpack error discussed before. help pls

thanks
[Atrix 4G General] metk@:
@Gendol thanks for reply, I thought that teh rom is problem, but was hoping for easier and faster method. But thank you anyway :)
[Atrix 4G General] sip70:
Question One:

after tar xvzf /sdcard/GenTop2-20120509.tar.gz

tar: not found

why?
[Atrix 4G General] crnkoj:
I'll write you how to do it tomorrow morning, have sleep now.
[Atrix 4G General] aaron.a:
That'd be awesome! I tried rsync again using /media/xxxxxx and it ran fine. I think maybe ubuntu doesn't like using the /dev/block locations. But the symptoms are the same. I was thinking maybe its the data from my home directory disagreeing with the new setup but I dont know. Ill keep playing around for now while I wait.

so after rsync worked i again formatted and tar'd the original gentop, did everything the same except this time i didn't empty out osh/usr i just left it as is and mounted 1p3 there and it seems to be working. i had preinstalled my icons and themes in the usr folder mounted at 1p3 and they're working so i assume it's reading from that partition. so just for the record here's what i did..

1: install GenTop and make sure it works

2: create a 3rd partition on my sdcard-ext on the right. i used gparted in a virtual ubuntu environment via windows 7

3: i extracted the original GenTop tar ball in virtual ubuntu and used rsync -a usr/* /media/xxxx-xxxx-xxx-xxx (dev/block/xxx threw errors)

4: i edited ubuntu.sh to included /bin/mount /dev/block/mmcblk1p3 /osh/usr above the line that mounts /mnt/gentoo

at this point everything works as usual.. however my sd apparently sucks because there is a noticeable delay as icons load in menus and such. so, i'm going to try to emerge libreoffice now and see if it can finish without running out of space =D
[Atrix 4G General] eurosport360:
You did not put the tarball in the right location (/sdcard), so pointing to /sdcard will not work.

Put the tarball in /sdcard.

/sdcard is the flash memory of the phone. Just plug your phone into the computer and copy/paste tarball there.
[Atrix 4G General] sip70:
I put the tarball in /sdcard.

it shows the program rootexplorer

usbdrive also...

sorry my bad english
[Atrix 4G General] merril:
I'm unfortunately experiencing the same issue.

The archive is in "/sdcard/"
[Atrix 4G General] Bluemotion:
Are you guys sure? Don't forget the atrix has "2 " ...

One is internal, and the other is user replaceable.

Try

#ls /sdcard/

If its listed you have copied the tar to the correct place. I'm not sure what the problem is.

Try

#ls /sdcard-ext/

If its listed here its in the external SD... you can move it to the internalsd or...

amend the extract command with "-ext"--- just make sure your current directory is root-- "cd /"

Hope this helped.
[Atrix 4G General] crnkoj:
Ok, i see you got it working. I only use the command line, so i dont know how it works with file managers. Basically i did this:

You have to do all of this as root/superuser (do sudo su in ubuntu)

1. unpacked the tarball into a work directory on my linux pc - > it unpacks osh and data/osh into that directory

2. i opened up a second terminal and went into the data/usr directory and made ls -l in each of its subdirectories, so that i saw which files are there

3. in the first terminal i went into osh/usr and its directories and deleted the symlinks that were there to the files in data/usr and its subdirectories, but leave the symlink for usr/portage which goes to the /mnt/gentoo part (as gendol has it)

4. i went back to the work directory and wrote "rsync -a osh/usr/* data/osh/usr"

5. it copied all over without an error

6. i mounted the partiton of my sdcard that i wanted /usr to reside on to mnt/usb

7. from teh work dir i did "rsync -a data/osh/usr /mnt/usb"

8. it finished without an error

9. so now we have the following partitions on the sdcard when looking at it on the PHONE (on the pc its different name):

1. a fat32 /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 for android lets say,

2. an ext4 ( i use ext4) as /dev/block/mmcblk1p2 mounted to /mnt/gentoo and with the symlinks to it for /usr/portage (you must have the portage tarball extracted on this partition),

3. an ext4 formatted partition for /usr thats mounted like /dev/block/mmcblk1p3 on /osh/usr

4. a spare ext4 partition as /dev/block/mmcblk1p4 that i mount into my /home/adas/sd directory so that i have more space on my home dir.

10. you actually do NOT need the second and fourth partition, instead of the second partition just make the third one the second, make it bigger, remove the symlink in /usr for /usr/portage->/mnt/gentoo, extract the portage tarball to the "/usr" partition, remove the mount command in ubuntu.sh, for mounting the second partition to /mnt/gentoo and instead make it to mount to /osh/usr . As for teh 4th partition its just for my convenience, if you dont need more space for downloads for instance, you dont need to make it.

As another note, i have to check /preinstall, if it could be used this way, im not sure how big it is though, so depending on its size it might or might not be useful =/ if its lets say around 1GB, than one could use it for /usr instead (speed improvement) edit, just checked, its "only" 334MB, i dont see much use for it as such right now.

Btw after you test it that it works with /usr ont eh external card, you can turn off the phone, take out the sdcard, delete the /osh/usr dir (that way you get some space on /osh back), than turn off again and turn on again and it should be working fine from the sdcard.

meh, i think i need a 32GB card, 16 just seems poor now =/

btw anyone got distcc to start? :)
[Atrix 4G General] sip70:
Try

#ls /sdcard/

The archive is in "/sdcard/"
[Atrix 4G General] kisposi:
You need to disconnect the data connection with the PC. So set the USB connection to "none"
[Atrix 4G General] sip70:
This is the Terminal with phone usb not connected
[Atrix 4G General] CaelanT:
Got the Murrine engine and themes installed, but can't find the configurator under any settings. Anyone help with that? I can select Murrine themes through Appearance settings.

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Figured out why I couldn't write to package.keywords yesterday. I went into my phone through Root Explorer, changed permissions from RW/R/R to RW/RW/RW, added the required keywords, then changed permissions back to RW/R/R. Everything works like a charm after that. Also, --autounmask-write is working OK. Seems all my problems regarding all this were permission related.
[Atrix 4G General] djluis48:
I tried this, but im getting some errors about some files missing in /usr/data and some other place or something like that. I installed portage tree just fine, didn't get any errors on the install process. Any idea why??
[Atrix 4G General] merril:
[B]# df[/B]
df
Filesystem Size Used Free Blksize
/dev 408M 56K 408M 4096
/mnt/asec 408M 0K 408M 4096
/mnt/obb 408M 0K 408M 4096
/system 319M 315M 4M 1024
/data 1G 710M 1G 4096
/cache 629M 16M 613M 4096
/pds 1M 1M 846K 1024
/osh 755M 20M 735M 2048
/mnt/sdcard 10G 1G 8G 4096
/mnt/secure/asec 10G 1G 8G 4096
/mnt/sdcard/.android_secure 10G 1G 8G 4096
/mnt/sdcard 10G 1G 8G 4096

[B]# ls -l /sdcard/GenTop2-20120509.tar.gz[/B]
ls -l /sdcard/GenTop2-20120509.tar.gz
----rwxr-x system sdcard_rw 288920418 2012-05-12 01:43 GenTop2-20120509.tar.gz

[B]# tar xvzf /sdcard/GenTop2-20120509.tar.gz[/B]
tar xvzf /sdcard/GenTop2-20120509.tar.gz
tar: not found
[Atrix 4G General] Gendol:
Try /system/bin/tar xvzf ...

or /system/xbin/tar xvzf ...

or try to find tar in /system.

Gendol
[Atrix 4G General] sip70:
sorry

/system/bin/tar xvzf /sdcard/GenTop2-20120509.tar.gz

/system/bin/tar: not found

/system/xbin/tar xvzf /sdcard/GenTop2-20120509.tar.gz

/system/xbin/tar: not found

/system tar xvzf /sdcard/GenTop2-20120509.tar.gz

/system: permission denied

or

tar xvzf /system/bin/GenTop2-20120509.tar.gz
[Atrix 4G General] merril:
Thanks,

I'll take a look around for it.

Edit: I don't seem to have it installed, I got a copy I'll try later
[Atrix 4G General] djluis48:
Im getting this error when im trying to use #emerge -G1 orbit:

IOError: invalid Python installation: unable to open /usr/include/python2.7/pyconfig.h (No such file or directory)

Any idea why??
[Atrix 4G General] giozera:
Would extracting tar with Android or FX extractors do the same as doing it by adb command? I'm having problem extracting it by adb.
[Atrix 4G General] aaron.a:
still not sure about data/osh/usr... it seems like i remember seeing it the first time you mentioned this. has it changed in the newer version? either way thanks for your help =) i've got libre and pidgin and all sorts of good stuff now.

gentop2sd ftw
[Atrix 4G General] sip70:
Simple, this is a problem stock firmwares.Busybox need from play market(search busybox, author Jrummy) Install,run,click Install... smile

and now

tar xvzf /sdcard/GenTop2-20120... NO!!!

busybox tar xvzf /sdcard/GenTop2-20120... YES!!!

smile
[Atrix 4G General] crnkoj:
ye this applies to gendols version before using preinstall :) it should still have an aprils date :P otherwise for later tarballs i unfortunately cant help you with advice, since i did not use it :)

@gendol:

did you release the bin packages under an overlay, if so w hats its name, thanks.
[Atrix 4G General] aaron.a:
out of curiosity i figured i'd try out the faux 1.3ghz kernel in nottachtrix, as it turns out the gentoo i set up on my faux 1.0ghz refuses to work when i'm on that kernel =(

i might rebuild it some time for kicks, but potentially damaging the hardware and decreasing battery life just doesn't seem worth the effort

hmmm, did we catch gendol preparing the package for an sd install-able version in the future =O
[Atrix 4G General] crnkoj:
Don't know ;)

About the 1.3ghz kernel, I would say it's relatively safe to use it once you won't compile things anymore. That way stuff will be faster, but the sickening 100% load won't be there to heat up the cpu so much. Actually my phone is way colder when the screen is off and has a 100% load from gentoo compiling, as when I play a game for instance (both 1ghz faux).
[Atrix 4G General] USSRxAZ:
any ideas about video playback?

xine and vlc are ok with video but audio dont work, even if i set alsa in settings

vlc install eaten all osh space though :) coz of qt-core

mplayer supports only simple video driver which cant zoom using hardware ..

zoom option makes playback 2x-3x slower
[Atrix 4G General] sip70:
faux 1.3ghz(024) kernel with Gentop2works well.

only Atrix hot :-)

and the battery Webtop discharges quickly :-(

mobile view does not show the video on the screen Webtop, only sound

what's the problem?
[Atrix 4G General] sip70:
Mobile View open only ADAS!!!
[Atrix 4G General] aaron.a:
When I run nottachrix aroma installer and update no wipe to 1.3 gentop doesn't work at all tho. Like just motor screensaver. Restoring back up works. And if you pull the kernel off fauxs thread and use it not only does gentop not work but it kills wifi too xD back ups are good
[Atrix 4G General] djluis48:
Im still getting this error...anyone knows why? :/
[Atrix 4G General] Bluemotion:
Have you installed the portage tar?
[Atrix 4G General] djluis48:
Nevermind, i solved that issue. Thanks!

Now, i have another one, i can only use mobile view on ADAS, as some other guys above me, and on ADAS i don't have network access, neither wifi, or mobile data, but when im using root, i don't have this problem, data and wifi works like a charm. Any idea how to fix this??
[Atrix 4G General] CaelanT:
How did you solve other issue?
[Atrix 4G General] eurosport360:
So up to this point, can someone summarize how to install a clean new update when you already have the old gentop version? As in forget about all user data and install the update clean.

Also could someone include config steps too, like changing ubuntu.sh in /osh, portions, and terminal commands? Current problems and solutions would benefit everyone to.

As a n00b with gentoo, a noob guide at this version point with steps would be extremly helpful to not only me but people everywhere who are a little confused. Well at least I am.

I personally want to put the most recent posts together and make a comprehensive guide myself but I can't clearly understand how to update and configure this new version.

Right now I installed and I am still running the first version fine, and didnt have to mount anything or chang any scripts. It was a brand new clean install too.

Many thanks to anyone who can do this.
[Atrix 4G General] aaron.a:
i mean, but where do you start? once upon a time computers where nothing more than a blinking cursor on a flashing screen... =) i could try but that's a lot to do. honestly one of the more difficult parts is partitioning in ext on a windows box. commands are pretty straight forward

has anyone successfully compiled cairo-dock, awn, or docky? all three throw errors, i'm wondering if it's just not possible or if i missed something. unfortunately i didn't note the errors, but if i remember right they occur during emerging various libs.. not that that narrows it down any xD
[Atrix 4G General] crnkoj:
Does it error out on emerging dependencies or when it actually compiles the desired package? If so under /var/tmp/portage/name of_category/name_of_package/temp/build.log you can recheck the errors might even wgetpaste it and link it here.
[Atrix 4G General] aaron.a:
i'll check that out tomorrow, must sleep. i believe while compiling dependencies. awn emerges 25 individual packages so i was a little lazy when it errors at 18. sorta just screamed and gave up.
[Atrix 4G General] cctv35:
use emerge

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 554, in <module>
main()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 536, in main
known_paths = addusersitepackages(known_paths)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 268, in addusersitepackages
user_site = getusersitepackages()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 243, in getusersitepackages
user_base = getuserbase() # this will also set USER_BASE
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 233, in getuserbase
USER_BASE = get_config_var('userbase')
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/sysconfig.py", line 535, in get_config_var
return get_config_vars().get(name)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/sysconfig.py", line 434, in get_config_vars
_init_posix(_CONFIG_VARS)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/sysconfig.py", line 298, in _init_posix
raise IOError(msg)
IOError: invalid Python installation: unable to open /usr/include/python2.7/pyconfig.h (No such file or directory)
[Atrix 4G General] crnkoj:
Your python package seems to be broken. Try python-updater, or you might need to reinstall the tarball/python package manually. You could try emerge python but that will probably just error out.
[Atrix 4G General] cctv35:
How to updater?:confused:

-----------------------------

eselect python list

Output：

Available Python interpreters:

[1] python2.7 *

-----------------------------

python-updater

Output：

* Python 2 and Python 3 not installed
[Atrix 4G General] crnkoj:
yep, as i suspected, your installation somehow got broken and you are missing python now (since portage and the whole emerge process is based upon python and python scripts), so you need to either manually copy it from the tarball or reextract the tarball again.
[Atrix 4G General] cctv35:
Thank you for reminding, I did not partition to /dev/block/mmcblk1p2

so……
[Atrix 4G General] USSRxAZ:
got video playback (bit laggy though)

totem + xvid + gst-plugins-ffmpeg
[Atrix 4G General] djluis48:
Just reinstalled portage tar, in a bigger.partition. I was trying to install it in a 2gb partition.

Someone have the answer for this??
[Atrix 4G General] zomgno1:
wifi and data is not working because your resolv.conf is empty. fix it.
[Atrix 4G General] djluis48:
What do i need to put in there for it to work? Also, where is located that file? Sorry, totally noob @ linux.
[Atrix 4G General] crnkoj:
its a security measure, you should never log into an X server session as root...

edit, eh wanted to make a double quote lol... anyhow this is about the mobile view for adas/root
[Atrix 4G General] aaron.a:
Look back a few pages. I left a link to a site containing info about that file and what goes in it =D
[Atrix 4G General] aaron.a:
i think it's pygobject that causes the problem, maybe even for all three, not sure. if you can see a problem here i'd appreciate it. i think this is the important bit but i'm not sure. if necessary i'll pm the full log and emerge --info stuff. troubleshooting linux isn't something i'm good at. i'm not very familiar with the filesystem or what most of the files are for, but i'm trying to learn =)

[31;01m*[0m ERROR: dev-python/pygobject-2.28.6-r51 failed (install phase):
[31;01m*[0m install failed
[31;01m*[0m
[31;01m*[0m Call stack:
[31;01m*[0m ebuild.sh, line 85: Called src_install
[31;01m*[0m environment, line 5708: Called python_execute_function '-s' 'installation'
[31;01m*[0m environment, line 4010: Called installation
[31;01m*[0m environment, line 5704: Called gnome2_src_install
[31;01m*[0m environment, line 3044: Called die
[31;01m*[0m The specific snippet of code:
[31;01m*[0m emake DESTDIR="${D}" "scrollkeeper_localstate_dir=${ED}${sk_tmp_dir} " "$@" install || die "install failed";
[31;01m*[0m
[31;01m*[0m If you need support, post the output of 'emerge --info =dev-python/pygobject-2.28.6-r51',
[31;01m*[0m the complete build log and the output of 'emerge -pqv =dev-python/pygobject-2.28.6-r51'.
[31;01m*[0m The complete build log is located at '/mnt/gentoo/tmp/portage/dev-python/pygobject-2.28.6-r51/temp/build.log'.
[31;01m*[0m The ebuild environment file is located at '/mnt/gentoo/tmp/portage/dev-python/pygobject-2.28.6-r51/temp/environment'.
[31;01m*[0m S: '/mnt/gentoo/tmp/portage/dev-python/pygobject-2.28.6-r51/work/pygobject-2.28.6'
[33;01m * [39;49;00mQA Notice: Unrecognized configure options:
[33;01m * [39;49;00m
[33;01m * [39;49;00m	configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --disable-gtk-doc
[33;01m * [39;49;00m	configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --disable-gtk-doc
[Atrix 4G General] crnkoj:
Ah, just wgetpaste this file /mnt/gentoo/tmp/portage/dev-python/pygobject-2.28.6-r51/temp/build.log It says it failed installing, do you have enough space on /osh or on /usr

? Might try to run df -h and see if there space, or if there are eventually any files or symlinks remaining from some older instalation. But yeah wgetpaste the whole file mentioned above and it should be easy to find out why it fails.
[Atrix 4G General] troycarpenter:
I haven't used gentoo in a long time...a phone would seem to be the last place to use it, but I finally took the plunge here...everything seems to be working ok. I don't know if it was a mistake, but the first thing I did was "emerge --sync". Took a long time.

Just tried to emerge something and got the autorun-keep-masks issue. Going to go and fix that.

Looking good.
[Atrix 4G General] sip70:
How to set the clock and time zone?
[Atrix 4G General] crnkoj:
Timezone

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=1&chap=7

hwclock

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=1&chap=8

set date

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=1&chap=5

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Guys i really need some help now =/ i Just got me a HD dock (actually a motorola work and play combo - hd dock + bt mouse, kb, remote for 30e new lol) and i wanted to try gentop through it and now i permanently get that all the mouse and kb movement/doings are being registered on the phones lcd aswell and "do stuff" on android aswell, can anyone help me with this please, its quite a dealbreaker... =/
[Atrix 4G General] troycarpenter:
Ok, I have been using the lapdock until this morning. I connected to the HD Dock and now I understand what everyone is talking about related to the screen.

On the original webtop, there must have been a program or process that checked for webtop over HDMI. When connected without a keyboard and mouse, it provided an onscreen virtual keyboard and mouse pad. If you had an external mouse and keyboard, then the phone displayed a large clock. I'm actually thinking there was something in the original webtop that triggered that.

The phone will now mirror whatever is in the aiw window (is that redundant?), and will only be controlled from the aiw window.
[Atrix 4G General] crnkoj:
ye man this is driving me crazy and i have no idea how to disable it ...

eh guys, does anyone have a clue, how this is being handled by the normal webtop, as in how its blocking the android portion to not receive impulses?
[Atrix 4G General] troycarpenter:
What exactly is the issue with Thunderbird vs. Earlybird and Firefox vs. Aurora? I ask because some plugins are telling me they are not compatible with Earlybird or Aurora.

In particular, Lightning for Thunderbird won't install. It says it's incompatible with Earlybird 12.0.1.

Edit: I see that Lightning 1.4b1 is already installed. Any way to go to the released version (1.4)?
[Atrix 4G General] Foka002:
I use simple task manager called "Htop" to kill aiw process. I found it in synaptic Package manager.
[Atrix 4G General] crnkoj:
that is not what i meant
[Atrix 4G General] Jayarama:
Webtop of CM9

I got lapdock and looking for a solution to use it, my Atrix having CM9 ROM i can see mirrored screen but feels like i need to have webtop like environment. Is there any way to do that? And also is there any way to turn off the screen if i docked into lapdock.

Thanks,

Jay
[Atrix 4G General] CaelanT:
No way to do that on CM9. You need a blur based ROM. This is why most of us are using stock 2.3.6 or Nottachtrix.
[Atrix 4G General] starrwulfe:
Hello all.

I recently tried doing the Gentoo install myself, and everything ran normally (or so I think), but when I tried to emerge -G libreoffice, I get this at the end...

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 43, in <module>
retval = emerge_main()
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/main.py", line 1631, in emerge_main
_global_updates(trees, mtimedb["updates"], quiet=("--quiet" in myopts)):
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/_global_updates.py", line 50, in _global_updates
bindb.bintree.populate()
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/bintree.py", line 580, in populate
wantnewlockfile=1)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/locks.py", line 90, in lockfile
myfd = os.open(lockfilename, os.O_CREAT|os.O_RDWR, 0o660)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/__init__.py", line 230, in __call__
rval = self._func(*wrapped_args, **wrapped_kwargs)
OSError: [Errno 28] No space left on device: '/usr/portage/packages/.Packages.portage_lockfile'

When I df -h I get:

adas@atrix /data/home/adas $ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 408M 44K 408M 1% /dev
tmpfs 408M 0 408M 0% /mnt/asec
tmpfs 408M 0 408M 0% /mnt/obb
/dev/block/mmcblk0p12 310M 250M 45M 85% /system
/dev/block/mmcblk0p16 2,0G 1,2G 749M 61% /data
/dev/block/mmcblk0p15 630M 17M 582M 3% /cache
/dev/block/mmcblk0p3 2,0M 1,2M 846K 58% /pds
/dev/block/mmcblk0p13 756M 620M 137M 82% /osh
/dev/block/mmcblk0p17 324M 121M 203M 38% /preinstall
/dev/block/mmcblk1p2 3,9G 1,8G 2,1G 47% /mnt/gentoo
rc-svcdir 1,0M 60K 964K 6% /osh/lib/rc/init.d
cgroup_root 10M 0 10M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
shm 408M 0 408M 0% /dev/shm

What am I doing wrong? I don't see that I am out of space anywhere.... hmmm....

I'm not new to Gentoo-- I've been using it since 2003 on just about every device imaginable, but this is the first time I've done it on a phone...
[Atrix 4G General] genomorro:
Is it possible uninstall xfce and install something such as dwm without problems?