Hi, after installing the Debian Package for the Webtop and some playing around with it I now no longer have the App Tray or any of the other system panels. It starts up with the mobile view and thats it.
Please help?
What exactly did you do to it?
Did you changed something on the startup file?
Did you installed the HDMI Mirror hacked files?
Please elaborate a bit more...
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Hi there,
Yes I made some modifications. After I got Debian on it I installed synaptic and from there the xfce4 desktop. From there i modified the start-oshwt2.sh file so it would load it up instead of the awm. That didnt work out as I wanted to.
Then I undid the modifcations to the startup file and rebooted and since then all is gone....
I am using a Dock and no HDMI hack. Also standard 2.2.2 software on a Int Atrix.
check to make sure phoneportal isn't broken.
Well, as you already discovered, it's not possible (as far as I know) to boot directly to Debian with that hack. For it to work, you have to use the webtop2sd method. Which I haven't been able to perform due to lack of microsd space.
Also, did you manage to fix apt dependencies? Did all go well with the apt dependency fix? (most people get in trouble on this step). There are some nice scripts already that do this. (sorry don't have the links handy at the moment).
Here's what I would do:
1. Check the start file to see if in fact changes where reverted to default.
2. Re-install Webtop through CWM (search Webtop-Joe.zip on the forums, that is the original Webtop) and start from scratch
3. If that fails too, then search and install through CWM webtop-mod_v1.zip
Good luck!
Rayan
Ok here is what happened:
1. I Checked the start file and it was all in default. But something was still holding back the load of the Webtop GUI.
2. I then found the post with the webtop-joe.zip and downloaded it and installed trough Tenfars CWM. When it was done I rebooted and now I am stuck with the following message:
Failed to boot 4
Starting RSD mode
I understand that this is some sort of soft brick but I have no clue what to do from here.
Related
Hello-
I am new to the boards as a poster, i've been reading for a while now and I must thank everyone especially in the development section of the forum for their incredible amount of help and expertise.
It has officially come time for my first noob question-
Can anyone help me out or lead me to a guide perhaps that will allow me to use OpenOffice on my webtop? This is really what I bought the lapdock for-it just came in yesterday.
I managed to get webtop2sd working on my own, lxterminal is functional. That's all I've got so far in fear of ruining anything else.
I'm not at all well-versed in any linux script or anything of the sort. I know windows like the back of my hand.. just so happens that my windows PC totally bit the dust(motherboard) last night and I'm forced into learning this stuff a little quicker. Why not, right?
I have done some searching, all of it leads me to a bunch of lingo and commands I don't understand yet. If anyone can point me in the direction of some help or provide me with a little one-on-one that would be awesome. I'm looking forward to helping others with these kinds of issues down the road.
Thank you!
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Also, I'm not sure if it's any help, but i'm running GB on Alien #4 with faux123's undefined 1.3ghz kernel.
See "EASY METHOD" in the original thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1093790
Assuming you have webtop2sd and the linux addon installed properly
(with the linux image on your external SD), do the following:
1) Click the Penguin. You will get a window that says it has found an image in you external SD card.
2) Simply press "okay" on that window.
3) Once it shows the Pdmenu, select DebianMenus>Applications>Shells>Bash. it will bring up an xterm script which reads "[email protected]:/#"
4) To get open office, you must type "apt-get install openoffice.org" without the quotes.
5) Agree to install/update, and it will read "[email protected]:/#" once it is done.
6) At this point, and from now on, you can do steps 1-3 and simply type "openoffice.org" into xterm. It will take a second, but it will load a fully functional OpenOffice.
Basically you just need to know the package names to use this same structure for other programs. I use "openoffice.org", "iceweasel" (a firefox alternative, since my firefox keeps breaking), and "geany" (a C++ IDE for my programming classes). These are installed using "apt-get install packagename" and run using "packagename" in the bash script as well.
Good luck, and PM me if you have any problems because I likely will forget to return to this thread. Hit that thanks button!
-omni
Follow the guide in Alex's thread in the dev forum. I just installed open office yesterday haha.
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+1 to both of you, I'll get started on that and hopefully that will open doors for the rest of the stuff. Thanks a ton
Hello again all-
I didn't want to be that guy posting 95823094820394 threads about the same thing so I just figured I'd bump the one i created with some explanation:
I have webtop2sd properly(i believe, anyway) installed. LXterminal is functional. I also have linuxdisk in sdcard(-ext)/WebTopMOD . I'm not sure what to do from here. the help given above gave instructions to click the penguin while in webtop and run certain commands, but the penguin only brings up the webtop configurator. i have no other icons to click.
My goal, again, is just to get open office running on my webtop, for now. That's really it, the rest i'm sure will come with time. Thank you again for any help.
I seem to have figured it out for the most part using Alex's guide. However, the installation threw a couple errors, couldn't really tell you what they were because they were epic and I'm clueless as far as linux for the time being. However, my educated guess and deduction points towards insufficient memory. I set up my webtop partition to be 1GB, because I'm using a 16GB sd card that's virtually full of music. Is 1GB skimping it if I want to install openoffice/other linux packages? What size partition is recommended?
Thank you!
4GB is recommended, though I would think based on the package sizes that openoffice.org would squeeze into a 1gb partition. With this phone I would definitely recommend an external SD. My 32GB holds my webtopmod, music, and every hack, mod, bootanimation, theme, kernel, radio, and zip I've ever flashed. Do it.
Also openoffice worked, But i think it dosent match the atrix ubuntu core perfectly.
An error name:"openoffice Writer2laterx dose not configured" happened again and again.
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4GB is recommended, though I would think based on the package sizes that openoffice.org would squeeze into a 1gb partition. With this phone I would definitely recommend an external SD. My 32GB holds my webtopmod, music, and every hack, mod, bootanimation, theme, kernel, radio, and zip I've ever flashed. Do it.
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i am using an external SD, a 16 GB one. i'm about to make a 4GB partition and start from scratch. eventually, i'm picking up a 32 no doubt.
After making a full re-installation of everything I can't get open office to install? I tried both via terminal and Synaptic both fail with error messages.
"dpkg error processing tzdata" Error code (1) error in package
Any ideas?
Cheers
pederb said:
After making a full re-installation of everything I can't get open office to install? I tried both via terminal and Synaptic both fail with error messages.
"dpkg error processing tzdata" Error code (1) error in package
Any ideas?
Cheers
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my guide links a fix for that, but I use a different method than the one previously posted
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1397583&highlight=guide+webtop
Thxs, I will check it out
Cheers
Cant open files from sdcard
Hello, I finally got openoffice installed, but I dont know how I can open files located in my sdcard. Can anyone please help me with this?
Below,I will list the steps I do to setup my webtop,I am using webtop2sd on a 32GB PNY Class 10 card, and used a 2GB Transcend (not sure on class,im sure its old) card to test with, same results with both pretty much,so I think something im doing is causing it to stop working.
What happends when it stops, is it just wont come up anymore. When I plug the phone into my lapdock, I either get a bluebox with an HDMI not found error (I'm assuming from the dock itself), or the red moto logo that just moves around. I would try resetting the phone, and reinstalling the executable through the webtop2sd app, and it still wont launch. This has happened about 5 times so far, I would get it setup how I would want it to be,then it stops working.
So here is what I would do (there is a phone reboot between each step pretty much)
1. Use my PC to partiton the SD card, ~22 GB FAT32 followed by an ~8GB ext3
2. Use webtop2sd to create the webtop, default settings, aside from the missing dock fix, which I only used 2-3 out of the 5 times I ran it
3. Once I am in the new webtop, I would install terminal and synaptic,then reboot.
4. Then I would run the webtop scripts, version 1.4, hitting yes to everything, then a reboot
5. I would check to see if synaptic is installed, the last time i did this, I had to use aptitude to install it.
6. Once I got synaptic up,I would use it to install the xfce4 package. Just about everytime I would go to install it,I would get an error on the "tzdata" package, the only way I could get past it,would be to uninstall tzdata, then most of the time,whatever I would go to install would reinstall it anyway. This does concern me, because when I remove tzdata, it appears to be tied to a critical package, which may be the source of my problem,but I am not sure.
7. Once I would get xfce4 installed,I would add xfdesktop and xfce-panel to the startup list (those may not be the exact package names,there is another thread I reference for that, can't remember atm, nor can I remember the exact name of that startup file, but its on this forum somewhere). I would also comment out the awmdock one and the webtop desktop one as well.
8. I would reboot,and it would actually boot up xfce4 just fine, the only gripe I have,is that I would usually get an error on the trash service needing thunar, when it is already installed. The one time,I was able to install open office, and test out some youtube videos.
9. At about this time, I would reboot my phone to see if it still works, then I would get the "bouncing moto logo of death" on my lapdock screen, and would have to start over.
One other unrelated note,about every other time I would reboot my phone, it would come up saying SIM card not installed, so I would reboot it again to fix the problem. So there were normally 2 reboots when a reboot is required.
So,I guess I would ask a few direct questions about my problem
1. Has anyone else had a problem with the tzdata package? Is there a way around it without uninstalling it?
2. Could the full xfce4 package be breaking the webtop? Do I only need certain packages out of it?
3. Even though I tested this on 2 different SD cards, could my problem be that the files are just getting corrupted on the card? Its pretty consistant though, I canpretty much say "Look,my awesome webtop is now setup how I want it to be, now watch me reboot my phone to see it not work anymore" everytime I go to set it up.
Info on my phone:
Stock firmware, unlocked bootloader, cwm installed (I thought I needed it,but not for webtop2sd) and rooted running latest webtop2sd. I havent messed with the stock webtop on the phone itself, i rather not since I like having it as a backup.
Btw, I am a bit of a linux n00b, I've pretty much just been reading what other people have been doing. Any help would be appreciated, thanx
You sure like to mod the webtop. Lol jk.
I have no issues and I have webtop with the Lapdock with the Ninja ROM. My phone is bootloader unlocked and rooted. I personally think you modded too much if that's possible. If I were you, I would start over and try webtop with stock firmware or a ROM with a fresh sd card. That way you can know if your phone has a hardware issue or if you modded too much. Hope this helps.
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I can assure you that your phone is more modded than mine is, since im running stock firmware. What I'm doing is really not that much modding, I'm just trying to get a better interface running on the webtop, which people have posted saying they have the same one working on theirs. Its also not that I can't get it working, its really not hard, just time consuming, I just need to know why it keeps breaking on phone reboots...
teeth_03 said:
I can assure you that your phone is more modded than mine is, since im running stock firmware. What I'm doing is really not that much modding, I'm just trying to get a better interface running on the webtop, which people have posted saying they have the same one working on theirs. Its also not that I can't get it working, its really not hard, just time consuming, I just need to know why it keeps breaking on phone reboots...
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I honestly think you should try some of my suggestions. I think starting fresh is your best option. When something doesn't wok right or something goes wrong. Starting fresh can fix your issues.
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I've formatted the SD card about 6-8 times nowsince I got my lapdock 3 days ago
teeth_03 said:
I've formatted the SD card about 6-8 times nowsince I got my lapdock 3 days ago
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Have you tried reflashing the phone yet with new firmwares or ROMS?
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why would I do that when the issue has something to do with the files on the SD card?
webtop2sd copies the webtop files from the phone, to the SD card,so the files on the phone are basically out of the equation at that point. So its not a problem with android,but with the other linux files from webtop on the SD card
Oh ok. Well have you tried an all new sd card yet?
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Below,I will list the steps I do to setup my webtop,I am using webtop2sd on a 32GB PNY Class 10 card, and used a 2GB Transcend (not sure on class,im sure its old) card to test with, same results with both pretty much,so I think something im doing is causing it to stop working.
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yeah......
I think I fixed it. by finding this little piece of info
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=18465066&postcount=3
I believe tzdata has been my problem for he past like 3 days I've been messing with this
It has been running great for the past day. XFCE4 is a large improvement over the standard webtop.
Of course, I ran into another snag, I need to access windows network shares, and Samba doesn't seem to be functioning, specifically, the samba-common package wont install correctly.
This user was able to fix it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19132707&postcount=19
But I have no idea how to fix the read/sym links. Can any linux gurus here explain how that is fixed? Thanx guys!
teeth_03 said:
It has been running great for the past day. XFCE4 is a large improvement over the standard webtop.
Of course, I ran into another snag, I need to access windows network shares, and Samba doesn't seem to be functioning, specifically, the samba-common package wont install correctly.
This user was able to fix it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19132707&postcount=19
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Yeah his post was kind of light on the details.
What it looks like is that when the /var/lib/dpkg/samba-common.postinst script is run by dpkg --configure -a it calls a program named ucf that in turn wants to run the symbolic link of "readlink" located in /usr/bin.
This is where i got stuck. I am by no means a linux guru.
I tried deleting the symlink to force ucf to use the "readlink" in the path, tried setting the symlink to point to the "readlink" located in /system/bin and in /system/xbin, and set the symlink to the busybox in /system/bin and to the custom busybox webtop2sd uses in /system/etc/webtop2sd but it did not help.
The output of dpkg changed slightly depending on which "readlink" ucf used but still the same error, "readlink: invalid option", and no samba-common.
Btw my busybox is 1.19.3
2.3.5 webtop on sdcard with fixed dependencies
A little help would be appreciated.
I was told on IRC that the actual problem is that the stock kernel does not include CIPs support, which is what is required for connectivity
but I still dont like the fact that samba package is still broken...
I'm using faux123's 0.2.3 kernel though, which might have CIPs support. Its hard to tell from the changelog and features listed in his kernel thread. Btw the 0.2.3 kernel fixes the broken top panel.
Hey, apparently I can't post in the dev forums yet so here is my question. I have after a week of experimentation gotten webtop2sd to work with a few different set ups on my Atrix with lapdock. However, here is the issue:
I have the latest and greatest Aura ROM Debloated version installed on my (obviously) rooted and unlocked Atrix. I have the webtopmod installed. I have busybox in the correct location. I have a working webtop with working configurator and lxterminal and all that goodness. Problem is when I run the webtop2sd program so I can move the image to the sdcard, the program does the partition part just fine, but consistently fails the file copy portion of the process and aborts. I have no idea what to do. Is it possible to manually copy the webtop image to the section of the sdcard set up for it and if so how?
Thanks ahead guys. Oh and Kudos to Sogarth for making this possible!
well the problem seems to have fixed itself. Though I have no idea why. I kept rebooting and trying and eventually the copying worked. Now have an unlocked jauntu desktop Thanks so much to everyone who posts in this forum regularly. now off to figure out the next part...
I recently bought a lapdock, and I've been fighting and moving through to try and get the mod to work, but now I've hit a dead end that I can't beat.
I'm on the latest "lite" version of the WetDream ROM and I'm using the webtop that was preinstalled with it. I've got a 2gb partition set up on webtop2sd. My problem is that I can't get LXterminal to launch. Webtop configurator successfully installed Synaptic; firefox and AWN manager work fine as well, but I am at a dead end without a terminal. I tried installing others from synaptic, but even the simplest one (xvt) had a single, unfulfilled dependency. I've tried everything that I know how to try, including multiple installs of the ROM and of Webtop2sd.
Can anyone lend a hand?
EDIT: I also tried flashing the webtop-mod from this thread: [WEBTOP] 2.3.4 webtop fixed image [CWM Install] V1 . It gives me the same problem with lxterminal.
(Note, I would have posted here but I don't have enough posts.)
Thanks.
Please excuse the double post; I'm not intentionally bumping my thread.
I have found a "solution." I'm in the process of repairing my webtop now. My situation seems to be very unique, but I'd like to document it in case anyone comes along and has it again.
The trick I used was completely external to my Atrix, though. Without a terminal, I couldn't access tar or bash, but I could run single commands by making a custom entry on the modified AWN. So, here we go.
For anyone who has tried repeatedly to use Webtop2sd but has always lacked terminal access, here's my method.
Requirements: Access to a linux system, rudimentary knowledge of the terminal, or any other method of mounting your webtop2sd partition on a system with access to tar and permission changing methods.
****WORKING Awn Manager in webtop
Download the Dependency fixing scripts.
Mount your Webtop2sd partition and manually extract the scripts to their location in /usr/share/WebTopScripts/
Boot your device to webtop and setup a custom entry in Awn Manager with the following command:
"sudo bash /usr/Share/WebTopScripts/fix-apt-get.sh" (This should work with most versions of the script; also, no quotes in the actual command.)
That was enough to get Lxterminal working and gives me access to all the other mod methods on the forum that assume you have access to a working terminal. It's not really very helpful for Windows or Mac users, but it's the only thing that I could manage.
Feel free to close the thread, mods.
You gotta make sure to install LXTerminal from the Webtop Configuration applet where you installed Synaptic.
Sometimes it refuses to install at first so you have to try several times until it budges.
Try closing and opening the configuration window until you see both synaptic and LXTerminal buttons greyed out.
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I'm almost certain that it was installed before (it was marked as present in synaptic), but just refusing to launch.
However, I broke my webtop just before getting it how I wanted it, so when I have time to give it another try, I'll see if being a little more persistent with it this time will work.
EDIT: Wow, the next 2 times that I had to install webtop, lxterminal worked just fine. Now I just have to get the scripts to actually fix all the dependencies and not end up with a broken webtop after installing software.
Hi
Sorry I maybe missing something basic.
I wanted to be able to use Linux Ubunto on my Atrix 4g webtop
I installed webtop2sd according to your post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=15109355#post15109355
I get my old webtop with the addition of 3 icons:
- Awn manager
- webtop configurator
- LXTerminal
I run the webtop configurator It says : Not implemented yet
I enter Administration and after I answer yes to update the APT sources list and a second question (that I don't remember exactly)
Then I successfully (I think) install LXTerminal (It runs a prompt : [email protected]:/data/home/adas$)
Then I install Synaptic , I can't tell if it works or not since I don't get any feedback.
As in your post [http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1119557] I can tell you that I am booted from the SD card
However I do not see any means to get the GUI of ubunto
The only side issue is that now the webtop file manager can't access the sdcard-ext . In fact under sources does not display nothing more than Phone Images Phone Music Phone Video and Downloads.
However the SD is mounted and I can access it trough ESfile manager on the Mobile view
What I am missing, or what I need to do in order to get Linox Ubunto GUI ?
Thanks
Eli
No response on full ubuntu
elijacob said:
Hi
Sorry I maybe missing something basic.
I wanted to be able to use Linux Ubunto on my Atrix 4g webtop
I installed webtop2sd according to your post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=15109355#post15109355
I get my old webtop with the addition of 3 icons:
- Awn manager
- webtop configurator
- LXTerminal
I run the webtop configurator It says : Not implemented yet
I enter Administration and after I answer yes to update the APT sources list and a second question (that I don't remember exactly)
Then I successfully (I think) install LXTerminal (It runs a prompt : [email protected]:/data/home/adas$)
Then I install Synaptic , I can't tell if it works or not since I don't get any feedback.
As in your post [http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1119557] I can tell you that I am booted from the SD card
However I do not see any means to get the GUI of ubunto
The only side issue is that now the webtop file manager can't access the sdcard-ext . In fact under sources does not display nothing more than Phone Images Phone Music Phone Video and Downloads.
However the SD is mounted and I can access it trough ESfile manager on the Mobile view
What I am missing, or what I need to do in order to get Linox Ubunto GUI ?
Thanks
Eli
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I found that I can run synaptic, but it warns me "without administrative privileges".
Also what I should do with the 24 broken packages?
If I mark them to re-install is needs to remove a lot (hundreds) of other packages. Should I agree?
Still no help
elijacob said:
I found that I can run synaptic, but it warns me "without administrative privileges".
Also what I should do with the 24 broken packages?
If I mark them to re-install is needs to remove a lot (hundreds) of other packages. Should I agree?
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I corrected 23 broken packages using WebTopScropts-1.7 and the remaining one manually after running
sudo synaptic
What I need to do/install in order to get the clasic full ubunto desktop instead of the default webtop screan?