On Saturday 27 June 2020 05:16:05 Stefan Krusche wrote:
Dear Gene,
it's not quite clear to me what the/your actual problem is…
Am Sonntag 21 Juni 2020 schrieb Gene Heskett:
Only when booted to single status. But It let me set it right now without asking for the old pw. But then xrandr got in the way, couldn't read a valid gamma setting. xrandr is not your problem though. Now I suppose I'll have to use it for everything. And thats a right pita too as its quite a few more characters. But now I can't run synaptic from the tde menu's, as root or gene. And gksudo, my only way to run synaptic, brought up a whole new default jessie config. Jessie ??? Supposed to be stretch, call me confused.
…but one thing comes to mind: in case you want to run an X-application (synaptic) as root, root needs to be allowed to access the user's X-session (I don't know how this is implemented by synaptic, there are probably different ways to achieve that by different apps). Maybe it's worth a try to allow root to your user's X-session with:
As user enter this command: $ xhost +si:localuser:root
From man xhost: "the server interpreted address "si:localuser:username" can be used to specify a single local user."
That got me back to stretch, but no new linucnc builds at master-rt.
So either the buildbots been down for a week or ?? And the first of my wheezy machines, the only other machine here that is running tde r14.0.x. just updated 62 packages including 3 from the linuxcnc buildbot, using the exact same "gksudo synaptic".
By the time I had updated all 4 of them, the three wheezy installs got an updated master-rt from the linuxcnc buildbot, but this stretch(amd64), and the buster (armhf) rpi4b didn't get any updates offered except the 6 that are locked, preempt-rt stuff.
Looks like the buildbot is having trouble with post-wheezy stuff.
I should do a git pull and try it myself as I am setup to do that. But I'm not touching that until I find out whats killing the jog dials on the rpi4b. I had it partially apart yesterday, installing a new z motor's driver alarm output into its linuxcnc config, but the jog dials are now dead, so I've no way to run 1500 lbs of 75 yo Sheldon lathe by hand. But I need to go to the machine to do that, I can't troubleshoot that with an ssh login. Machine safety yadda yadda.
So I'd better fix some breakfast and git to it.
Thanks Stefan.
HTH and kind regards, Stefan
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Cheers, Gene Heskett