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[Q] chroot Ubuntu upgrading problems

Hi everyone!
It's my first post here, but I've been reading XDA-developers for a while. It's impressive the work that you do here guys!!
I have a B70 ASUS Transformer TF101, with SBKv2. I rooted it with RazorClaw and RecoveryInstall, and now I have Prime 2.1.1.
I want Ubuntu in my tablet but SBKv2 prevents me to install native Ubuntu. So, I installed the chroot Ubuntu from Jhinta post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1145601
But the problem is updating the disto. It get stuck removing libappindicator0.1-cil from mono, with a high CPU usage. The same problem as user gnagnone in this reply to the OP. Jintha replies indicating to run the chroot on desktop chroot:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=16444220&postcount=78
The question is, how? , Exists another way to solve this issue?.
I wanna update due the launching applications problem. I read this can be solved changing Gnome to Lxde.
EDIT:
The post for change the x-session-manager to LXDE: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1355202
I change Gnome by LXDE. Now, the apps starts but if I run Open Office Writer, Firefox, Keyboard and LXTerminal, I'm unable to run other applications. They doesn't start. Maybe is the 32MB restriction.

did you do the 2 commands listed here to switch to lxde?

livinsacrfice said:
did you do the 2 commands listed here to switch to lxde?
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Yes. OP edited.

install linux inside android

I installed ubuntu linux in my sl i9003 through complete linux installer and vnc viewer with terminal emulator.
It works fine but one problem is that the audio do not support.
is there any vnc viewer with audio support
if any one wants to install linux
refer post3

i am sure there gonna be butt load of lag !!

Try Linux inside android
If any one wants to try and run linux inside android
follow the steps below.
1. Install Terminal Emulator
2. Install android vnc viewer
3. Install Complete Linux installer
4. Open Complete Linux installer. There are six options Install guide,Build guides, Tips, FAQ, Change logs, Launch
5. Open install Guides and download ubuntu 10 or 12 lite, small, or large.on external sd card.
6. After download, open launch and menu (below back) and add the source where you have saved.
eg., name: ubuntu, image: /sdcard/external-sd/ubuntu/ubuntu.img
7.Press launch and at once it will lead you to terminal emulator
8. set permissions for terminal emulator
9. scripts will be loaded automatically
10. set dpi value to 800 x 480
11. open vnc viewer without closing terminal emulator
12 enter new connection ,
address : localhost
port 5900
colour format 24 bit colour (4bpp)
press connect
13. Linux desktop will be visible at once.
14. press menu and set input mode to touchpad
15. Run linux
​enjoy.
applications and
screen shot below
View attachment android.androidVNC-13-v0.5.0.apk
View attachment jackpal.androidterm-49-v1.0.48.apk
View attachment com.zpwebsites.linuxonandroid-14-v1.2.1.apk
Issues/Bugs
No audio support
No lags and runs fast aswell.
only problem is audio support.

Thanks for the info.. so how is it working .. is there too much of lag ...

ivAnash said:
Thanks for the info.. so how is it working .. is there too much of lag ...
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no lags
only audio support is missing
firefox working
image viewer
keypad
touch mouse
everything works.

wrishaba said:
no lags
only audio support is missing
firefox working
image viewer
keypad
touch mouse
everything works.
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I have placed the Ubuntu img in the external SD . Changed the folder location in the app (complete Linux installer).. when I click on start button it goes to terminal emulator app and this is what I get .. what am I supposed to do next .. screenshot attached.

ivAnash said:
I have placed the Ubuntu img in the external SD . Changed the folder location in the app (complete Linux installer).. when I click on start button it goes to terminal emulator app and this is what I get .. what am I supposed to do next .. screenshot attached.
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Dude this means that u are now in ubuntu
Now press hime button and open android vnc type
Username : Ubuntu
Password : Ubuntu
Localhost
Then click connect....
Sent from my GT-I9003

It worked .. booted into Ubuntu.. its real laggy though .. got to try a lighter distro ..

ivAnash said:
It worked .. booted into Ubuntu.. its real laggy though .. got to try a lighter distro ..
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Plz try ubuntu 10 instead of 12
there is no lag at my end.

Tried the Ubuntu 12 small version.. that's working pretty fine ....

Do i need a rooted galaxy SL
simratcs said:
i am sure there gonna be butt load of lag !!
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Do i need a rooted galaxy SL to do this?

Yes..

bigyanphobia said:
Do i need a rooted galaxy SL to do this?
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For linux you need rooted device
For windows 95 and 98 need't require rooted device.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1459153

Where should I put touchegg start command on Ubuntu system?

I've just installed Ubuntu on my tf101. I complied and installed touchegg for multitouch, but it wouldn't auto start on boot. Where should I put touchegg command to make it auto start? I've tried ~/.xinitrc and ~/.xsession, but both didn't work.

yebtodp said:
I've just installed Ubuntu on my tf101. I complied and installed touchegg for multitouch, but it wouldn't auto start on boot. Where should I put touchegg command to make it auto start? I've tried ~/.xinitrc and ~/.xsession, but both didn't work.
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If on Lxde, /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart, on lubuntu /etc/xdg/lxsession/lubuntu/autostart and in gnome there should be an app for that.

yebtodp said:
I've just installed Ubuntu on my tf101. I complied and installed touchegg for multitouch, but it wouldn't auto start on boot. Where should I put touchegg command to make it auto start? I've tried ~/.xinitrc and ~/.xsession, but both didn't work.
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Does the touchegg give multitouch?
Why do you not use touchegg from a ubuntu repository?

maksvlad said:
Does the touchegg give multitouch?
Why do you not use touchegg from a ubuntu repository?
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Touchegg is a project on sourceforge.net. I don't think it's had updates since 2011. When I use raring Ubuntu the touchegg didn't work well.
Sent from my SGH-T999 using Tapatalk 2

TomTcom said:
Touchegg is a project on sourceforge.net. I don't think it's had updates since 2011. When I use raring Ubuntu the touchegg didn't work well.
Sent from my SGH-T999 using Tapatalk 2
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I've installed touchegg for The Raring Ringtail from ppa, but it seems the prog doesn't give any effect for multitouch on tf101. But on my Tubuntu the touchpad doesn't support drag without left key

maksvlad said:
I've installed touchegg for The Raring Ringtail from ppa, but it seems the prog doesn't give any effect for multitouch on tf101. But on my Tubuntu the touchpad doesn't support drag without left key
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You have to execute it.
It doesnt affect the touchpad, but the screen, your problem is normal on 2.6.

did u fix it? cause i have the same problem

Can Atrix 2 run on Ubuntu

Are there anyone succeed run on Ubuntu?

zq6559636 said:
Are there anyone succeed run on Ubuntu?
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you mean ubuntu touch or the webtop ubuntu port........(without dock)

darth_nihar said:
you mean ubuntu touch or the webtop ubuntu port........(without dock)
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the webtop ubuntu,can use lapdock.

zq6559636 said:
the webtop ubuntu,can use lapdock.
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Only if you are running gingerbread. I wrote some scripts to hack a full Ubuntu webtop. Motorola however removed the Ubuntu portions from ICS on, and the removed all of the low level drivers and file system info needed to even try a new hack.
Instead moto gave us landscape mode of android on the dock/webtop.
I and others have tried to bring it back without success.

jimbridgman said:
Only if you are running gingerbread. I wrote some scripts to hack a full Ubuntu webtop. Motorola however removed the Ubuntu portions from ICS on, and the removed all of the low level drivers and file system info needed to even try a new hack.
Instead moto gave us landscape mode of android on the dock/webtop.
I and others have tried to bring it back without success.
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You can always run a x86 emulator and install it try using bochs....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1389700
just create the disk image on ur pc of ubuntu or even windows if you want just run the apk.........
but be careful to run it on a separate:good: clean rom new system coz it uses up alot of ram and cpu.....

darth_nihar said:
You can always run a x86 emulator and install it try using bochs....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1389700
just create the disk image on ur pc of ubuntu or even windows if you want just run the apk.........
but be careful to run it on a separate:good: clean rom new system coz it uses up alot of ram and cpu.....
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I am not sure that will work quite the way he intends to run it.
The real issue is the drivers for the lapdock/HD dock and using ubuntu with it.... that is why the old version that motorola gave with gingerbread was so nice, is because they had all of it running from the phones underlying android kernel with the drivers for both docks built in. This will be "emulating" a PC, and will have a self contained kernel and drivers that running in an x86 emulated env.
Yes it will technically run Ubuntu, but if you read the OPs request a little deeper (and post number 3), he mentioned the lapdock, so that will be the real issue. and the lapdock apks now only use the landscape mode, and even the old ones can't be redone with out the old kernel structure and underlying root filesystem that was a part of / (which even with root is still not writeable on this phone without an unlocked kernel). That was actually my first hack on this phone, was to open up the full ubuntu, so that it was not locked down, and you run any linux app that was compiled for the ARM kernel all from synaptic.
Jim

jimbridgman said:
I am not sure that will work quite the way he intends to run it.
The real issue is the drivers for the lapdock/HD dock and using ubuntu with it.... that is why the old version that motorola gave with gingerbread was so nice, is because they had all of it running from the phones underlying android kernel with the drivers for both docks built in. This will be "emulating" a PC, and will have a self contained kernel and drivers that running in an x86 emulated env.
Yes it will technically run Ubuntu, but if you read the OPs request a little deeper (and post number 3), he mentioned the lapdock, so that will be the real issue. and the lapdock apks now only use the landscape mode, and even the old ones can't be redone with out the old kernel structure and underlying root filesystem that was a part of / (which even with root is still not writeable on this phone without an unlocked kernel). That was actually my first hack on this phone, was to open up the full ubuntu, so that it was not locked down, and you run any linux app that was compiled for the ARM kernel all from synaptic.
Jim
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True but as you said they removed the ubuntu scripts after the 2.3.6 roms so integration into ics cant be done unless we actually sit and write the code for it or say port it from the earlier versions emulators work pretty fine but i was thinking why not make a standalone version which can be run on bmm as another rom that would make it better in the performance perspective as the base android rom would not be using the cpu resources.... give a thought on that concept or even porting ubuntu touch to atrix 2 would be gr8 but the locked bootloader could be a issue

jimbridgman said:
Only if you are running gingerbread. I wrote some scripts to hack a full Ubuntu webtop. Motorola however removed the Ubuntu portions from ICS on, and the removed all of the low level drivers and file system info needed to even try a new hack.
Instead moto gave us landscape mode of android on the dock/webtop.
I and others have tried to bring it back without success.
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Oh, i see.That is to say there is no way can. Run on ubuntu in ICS.

zq6559636 said:
Oh, i see.That is to say there is no way can. Run on ubuntu in ICS.
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With a dock or lapdock, no.
You can run Ubuntu on android and vnc into it, or run it in a chrooted env. If you do this it will not work like webtop did with the docks. It kind of is like running it in a virtual machine, sort of. If used in the vnc way, you could use a vnc app to get it to display on the lapdock/HD dock, but again it runs much like a VM an performance is similar to something like this. There are a number of how to's, if you Google "android Ubuntu vnc".

jimbridgman said:
With a dock or lapdock, no.
You can run Ubuntu on android and vnc into it, or run it in a chrooted env. If you do this it will not work like webtop did with the docks. It kind of is like running it in a virtual machine, sort of. If used in the vnc way, you could use a vnc app to get it to display on the lapdock/HD dock, but again it runs much like a VM an performance is similar to something like this. There are a number of how to's, if you Google "android Ubuntu vnc".
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Jim is there anyone trying to port the Ubuntu touch to the Atix 2
why not try to bring this new thing over .........

Because you need an unlocked bootloader. Ubuntu touch uses its own bootloader, just like the full Ubuntu desktop uses lilo. Besides it is still really alpha. Things still do not fully work. Music and video playback is still broken.
If you must give it a try you MUST have a phone with a fully unlocked bootloader. Any nexus phone or the sgs3/4 or one of the note phones, etc.
I wish we could port it, but without the bootloader it is impossible at this point. Kexec will not boot the kernel, yet.. I say yet, because I am sure we can crack that eventually.
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problem in installing ubuntu dekstop 14.0.4

i recently downloaded the ubuntu dekstop 14.0.4 LTS (32 bit) and everything was going well .......i burnt the iso file into a cd n even the ubuntu was working fine through the cd but after i installed it ....it said installation completed and the system need to restart and after pressing restart button ..it tells me to remove the cd and hit enter and i did it but after restart it says >>> " busy box v1.21.1 (ubuntu 1:1.21.0-1ubuntu1) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built in commands.
(initramfs) unable to find a medium containing a live file system."
does anyone have the solution to this ???? i've searched on google but no success!!!

Easiest way to solve it is probably just to do a reinstall. You did try that, right?

Raven-6 said:
Easiest way to solve it is probably just to do a reinstall. You did try that, right?
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yes i did thet several times but no success!!

omkar333 said:
yes i did thet several times but no success!!
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Strange, maybe 14.04 isn't compatible with your hardware somehow. Try 12.04 LTS

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Raven-6 said:
Strange, maybe 14.04 isn't compatible with your hardware somehow. Try 12.04 LTS
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a core 2 duo E4400 nad a 4gb ram isnt enough?? and it works like a charm through cd