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newsQsync fixed on the Pi4 and FF compiled
The Raspberry Pi4 does not have a hardware battery-backed clock,
so relies on getting the date and time from an Internet time server. In
EasyOS, Qsync is the utility that does that.
At first bootup, QuickSetup has a checkbox to enable getting time
from the Internet, which will launch Qsync. At first bootup on the Pi4,
if you are going to connect to Internet via wifi, not ethernet, then
there won't be an immediate Internet access. No problem, Qsync will run
once the Internet connection is established.
Qsync will run just once at bootup and after Internet connection.
That's fine, but I couldn't understand why it would suddenly stop
working. Then discovered that /etc/init.d/qsync was getting its
executable-flag cleared.
Ah ha, then I knew where things were going wrong. I was adding the
'devx' SFS layer, and /sbin/fixlayers in the initrd does a lot of sanity
checking whenever layers change. What it does, amongst other things, is
check that the scripts in /etc/init.d are the same as those in easy.sfs
(the bottom layer).
Anyway, to cut the story short, /etc/init.d/qsync in the top
read-write layer was getting deleted, allowing the one in easy.sfs to
appear on top, and that one does not have the executable-flag set.
Fixed it. Won't try to explain the logic, an interested developer can
open up the initrd and examine the code in /sbin/fixlayers. That will
be the next release of Easy of course, expected to be version 2.6.1. Not
just for the Pi4, have to bring out a Dunfell-series 2.6.x for the
x86_64 PC also.
Very pleased how Easy is performing on the Pi4, now a very snappy
performer. Still can only play 1080p videos, but that is OK for now.
Today had a go at compiling SeaMonkey 2.53.6 on the Pi4. It objected to these lines in file 'mozconfig':
mk_add_options MOZ_CO_PROJECT=suite
ac_add_options --enable-application=suite
So took them out. And hey, guess what, it created Firefox. Yep, real
Firefox. Well it is the same Mozilla code-base. Firefox latest version
is, I think, 86. However, Wikipedia explains that SM is currently built
from the Firefox version 60 ESR (Extended Support Release):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaMonkey
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