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Offline emninger

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need help - fluxbox not starting anymore but openbox
« on: November 07, 2015, 11:12:13 AM »
After i did some tweaking to the (gtk) themes (using lxappearance and obconf), now tinycore starts automatically into openbox although the system is set use fluxbox - and i see that tinycore starts fluxbox after having finished to load the extensions. I deleted openbox and now, i don't have any desktop anymore. On the login tinycore laments about openbox missing.

What could/should i do? (For the moment i booted from an usb-stick and put openbox.tcz to the ondemand on sda1

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Re: need help - fluxbox not starting anymore but openbox
« Reply #1 on: November 07, 2015, 03:51:24 PM »
You are running around here like a chicken with its head cut off.
Please study the book and spend some time in the wiki.
You should not be putting anything in ondemand.  Extensions go into optional, and you should be using the tools to manage tce-loading, onboot and ondemand.
Please show your onboot.lst file and the contents of your .filetool.lst.

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Re: need help - fluxbox not starting anymore but openbox
« Reply #2 on: November 07, 2015, 05:50:46 PM »

You are running around here like a chicken with its head cut off.
True, could be a good description of my feelings. May be it's too difficult for me ... :-(

Please study the book and spend some time in the wiki.
I did, although you might not believe it.

You should not be putting anything in ondemand.  Extensions go into optional, and you should be using the tools to manage tce-loading, onboot and ondemand.
Please show your onboot.lst file and the contents of your .filetool.lst.

Where are extensions going when i do APPS > Browse > Download & Load ?

onboot.lst
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Xlibs.tcz
Xprogs.tcz
aterm.tcz
freetype.tcz
imlib2.tcz
libICE.tcz
libSM.tcz
libX11.tcz
libXau.tcz
libXdmcp.tcz
libXext.tcz
libXfont.tcz
libXi.tcz
libXmu.tcz
libXpm.tcz
libXrandr.tcz
libXrender.tcz
libXt.tcz
libfontenc.tcz
libjpeg-turbo.tcz
libpng.tcz
libxcb.tcz
libXft.tcz
libXinerama.tcz
libXcursor.tcz
liblzma.tcz
libffi.tcz
gdk-pixbuf2.tcz
libtiff.tcz
glib2.tcz
imlib2-bin.tcz
fltk-1.3.tcz
wbar.tcz
wifi.tcz
wl-modules-3.16.6-tinycore.tcz
iw.tcz
pci-utils.tcz
firmware-broadcom_bcm43xx.tcz
firmware-openfwwf.tcz
firmware-intel_e100.tcz
firmware-intel.tcz
firmware-ralinkwifi.tcz
firmware.tcz
ezremaster.tcz
kmaps.tcz
wpa_supplicant.tcz
wpa_supplicant-dbus.tcz
wireless-3.16.6-tinycore.tcz
wireless_tools.tcz
liberation-fonts-ttf.tcz
dejavu-fonts-ttf.tcz
schumacher-clean-fonts.tcz
cantarell-fonts.tcz
conky.tcz
wv-dev.tcz
libffi5.tcz
xf86-video-vesa.tcz
xkeyboard-config.tcz
xcursor-themes.tcz
x264-dev.tcz
ncurses-dev.tcz
fluxbox.tcz
xarchiver.tcz
xvid-dev.tcz
zip-unzip.tcz
xf86-input-evdev.tcz
xf86-video-fbdev.tcz
Xorg-7.7-bin.tcz
Xorg-7.7-lib.tcz
Xorg-7.7.tcz
x264.tcz
Xorg-fonts.tcz
xorg-server.tcz
ttf-bitstream-vera.tcz
i2c-tools-dev.tcz
i2c-tools-doc.tcz
unrar.tcz
xf86-video-intel.tcz
flash11.tcz
lxrandr.tcz
lxrandr-doc.tcz
xf86-input-keyboard.tcz
xf86-input-keyboard-dev.tcz
xf86-input-mouse-dev.tcz
xf86-input-synaptics-dev.tcz
acpid.tcz
bluetooth-3.16.6-tinycore.tcz
bluez-dev.tcz
graphics-3.16.6-tinycore.tcz
nano.tcz
nano-doc.tcz
viewnior.tcz
viewnior-doc.tcz
fontconfig-doc.tcz
font-util.tcz
tor-docs.tcz
tor.tcz
getFlash11.tcz
htop.tcz
htop-doc.tcz
alsa-config.tcz
alsa-dev.tcz
alsaequal.tcz
mplayer-g45-alsa.tcz
getlocale.tcz
firefox-ESR.tcz
polipo.tcz
xscreensaver-base.tcz
galculator.tcz
tzdata.tcz
tzdata-doc.tcz
cfdisk.tcz
tce-md5check.tcz
xfe.tcz
volumeicon.tcz
compiletc.tcz
automake.tcz
automake-doc.tcz
gettext.tcz
gettext-dev.tcz
mylocale.tcz
mplayer.tcz
fluxbox-locale.tcz
lxrandr-locale.tcz
nano-locale.tcz
libstartup-notification-dev.tcz
libstartup-notification.tcz
xarchiver-locale.tcz
viewnior-locale.tcz
xfe-locale.tcz
gtk2-locale.tcz
gtk-engines-locale.tcz
iso-codes-locale.tcz
mplayer-docs-locale.tcz

.filetool.lst
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usr/local/share/
etc/

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tc@box:/mnt/sda1/tce/ondemand# ls
abiword         audacious       claws-mail.img  gimp2.png
abiword.img     audacious.img   gimp2           mplayer
abiword.png     claws-mail      gimp2.img       mplayer.img

Seems to me far from ANYTHING (?)
« Last Edit: November 07, 2015, 06:08:35 PM by emninger »

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Re: need help - fluxbox not starting anymore but openbox
« Reply #3 on: November 07, 2015, 07:11:09 PM »
Hi emninger
Why are you backing up  /etc  and  /usr/local/share? If you need certain files backed up, specify them.

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Re: need help - fluxbox not starting anymore but openbox
« Reply #4 on: November 07, 2015, 08:24:37 PM »
I did it - for the moment - to not loose configurations - i'm not able to have all in mind and set  them file by file to be permanent. Once i've a setup as i would like, that will change. Eg. i installed themes and cursor themes in /usr/local/share/icons respectively themes and, obviously, after a reboot they were gone  ;)

Thanks for your help. This fluxbox/openbox problem i figured out.

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Re: need help - fluxbox not starting anymore but openbox
« Reply #5 on: November 07, 2015, 08:48:51 PM »
Wipe out your onboot.lst and start over.  It is a complete pile of crap.
Just "tce-load -iw" those extensions you really need.

Remove etc from .filetool.lst.
This is the 4th or 5th time you have been told this.
It is overwriting boot time configurations with crap in you backup.

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Re: need help - fluxbox not starting anymore but openbox
« Reply #6 on: November 07, 2015, 08:51:07 PM »
Hi emninger
Blindly backing up system directories will cause you problems. I strongly recommend you figure out which files you
need to backup and only list them in your  filetool.lst  file.

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Re: need help - fluxbox not starting anymore but openbox
« Reply #7 on: November 07, 2015, 08:55:04 PM »
Ok, i'll try ... ;)