Archlinux support by drinkcat · Pull Request #1201 · dnschneid/crouton

drinkcat · 2014-11-18T17:31:55Z

This adds support for Arch Linux/Arch Linux ARM. It has been around in my repo for a long time now, with a good number of users I believe, and rarely has issues.

First 3 commits are not directly related to arch, but necessary (especially the last 2).

Incorrect dd direction might be causing the test to fail occasionally (dnschneid#1101).

…add users with UID 1000. This guarantees that UID 1000 is available when post-common adds the main user at the end of the first run of crouton. Protect GID 1000 in the same way. Fixes a bug when xbmc is selected during the Arch install (the xmbc user created by the package steals UID 1000).

Workaround for bug in su/bash, where /etc/profile is not sourced, even though su is called with '-' (login shell). See: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/31831 This is necessary to get /usr/local/bin in the PATH, and setup the correct locale, among other things. This is not necessary in Ubuntu, as these are set by /etc/pam.d/su

Xorg >=1.16 needs special handling: Configure Xorg.wrap back to its former behaviour (<1.16) with respect to starting as normal user.

/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc has a different meaning in Arch, and is just a default xinit file.

ArchLinux removed it from filesystem package.

arch and alarm are actually synonyms.

c00w · 2014-11-26T08:12:05Z

Just FYI, I've been using this for a bit and it's working quite well.

ghost · 2014-11-27T08:29:03Z

Is it possible to resolve the above merge conflicts and have Arch Linux support in Crouton core please?

dnschneid · 2014-12-04T16:18:47Z

Probably after #1144 is merged.

dnschneid · 2014-12-05T06:28:04Z

how about just sed "s|^|$REPO:|"?

Argh. s|^$.*$/$|, note the slash before the end of the line...

Argh indeed...whoops.

mathuin · 2015-03-25T19:24:43Z

Today I checked out this branch and ran 'make all'. The binary croutonfreon failed to build, apparently because src/freon.c is missing a main() function. I'm insufficiently familiar with crouton to know what that really means. The crouton shell script built without errors.

I ran the script with the following command line: sudo sh -e ./Downloads/croagh_arch -r arch -t xiwi,cli-extra. It exited with the following error:

Patching Xorg dummy driver (xrandr 1.2 support)...
patching file src/dummy_driver.c
Compiling Xorg dummy driver...
Installing Xorg dummy driver...
/prepare.sh: line 5035: syntax error near unexpected token `<<<'
Failed to complete chroot setup.
Unmounting /usr/local/chroots/arch...
chronos@localhost ~ $

I tracked this down to targets/xiwi having an unresolved merge between HEAD and crouton/master, probably during a rebase. A quick git grep shows that this is the only merge conflict. I chose the HEAD version, rebuilt crouton, deleted my incomplete chroot, and started again. This time it ran through to completion.

The one thing I don't like is the removal of certain packages like binutils at the end of the build. I don't feel strongly enough to defend it at the moment, though, but if I do I'll submit a pull request.

At some point when HEAD was rebased or merged with crouton/master, one conflict went unresolved. I resolved the conflict and was able to use crouton to successfully generate an arch chroot.

dnschneid · 2015-03-26T02:34:09Z

@mathuin also pointed out that xterm isn't installed automatically on some targets.

Minor fix to broken merge.

EddieRingle · 2015-03-28T22:44:08Z

FWIW I have this PR and the i3xiwi branch applied and so far have been having a fairly good experience. Can even bring up Android Studio in a xiwi window, which is absolutely awesome.

@dnschneid I dug around earlier before doing this and noticed the xiwi-app branch had been killed and I couldn't find any explanation as to why. Are those changes now a part of the xiwif branch or something? Perhaps that's one more set of changes I should apply.

EDIT: I should note that the xf86-video-dummy patch in targets/xiwi failed to apply, so I ended up manually modifying the source and changing the xiwi target to pull a tarball that was already patched instead of the original 0.3.7 source.

dnschneid · 2015-03-29T05:58:39Z

@EddieRingle xiwi-app got merged into master. i3xiwi is likely to get merged next, and xiwif is a bit of a testing ground at the moment.

EddieRingle · 2015-03-29T16:31:32Z

@dnschneid Good to know! And yeah, the i3xiwi branch is running pretty smooth here.

I mismerged a reference to xserver-xorg-video-dummy and forgot to change it to xserver-xorg-video-dummy$ltspackages as per another update. This commit fixes that mistake.

Added ltspackages variable to dummy video.

Conflicts: (all minor nits) targets/audio targets/gtk-extra targets/xfce-desktop targets/xiwi

By support, I mean, no support... I don't think we need this kind of stuff on Arch. At least not for now...

We don't need i3status or i3lock.

drinkcat · 2015-05-16T09:26:45Z

Merged crouton/master back into this branch. Issues here still stand: #1201 (comment) .

And XMETHOD=xorg on freon is broken (you can start a server, but input devices do not to get grabbed, and you cannot switch back to Chrome OS).

MichaelMackus · 2015-10-05T18:23:07Z

Any chance for a rebase @drinkcat ?

Thanks for the work on this!

MattSturgeon · 2016-05-29T17:57:16Z

It looks like a lot of effort has gone into this, is it still being worked on?

salinasv · 2016-09-24T00:04:48Z

@drinkcat are you still working on this?
Can you point us out what is missing? maybe some of us can take this up to a merge ready state.

dnschneid · 2016-10-11T20:05:09Z

Lots of maintenance issues here. Maybe we can simplify things by using one of the pre-built bootstraps? I don't know how heavy they are; ARM would have to use something like a system image, but that would probably install too much.

dnschneid · 2016-10-11T20:43:08Z

Also, might want to consider not having separate arch/alarm releases

eyqs · 2017-09-16T17:39:54Z

What is the current status of this pull request? Are you still actively working on it, @drinkcat?

zhaofengli · 2017-10-31T02:09:04Z

@qntmpkts maintains a fork at https://github.com/qntmpkts/chroagh, and it works fine. To make it easier to keep up with upstream, I rebased all changes on that repo (except stuff no longer supported by upstream crouton) against crouton at zhaofengli/crouton. All commits there should cleanly apply.

carbonatedcaffeine · 2017-11-01T22:44:05Z

Drinkcat Have you Updated chrough Yet it's been since 2013 since a release has came out and it does not work anymore!!!

drinkcat and others added 15 commits November 14, 2014 11:28

tests/30-audio: Fix dd command, better pulseaudio test.

553d217

Incorrect dd direction might be causing the test to fail occasionally (dnschneid#1101).

post-common: Make sure groups actually exist

9cb3e28

arch: installer

9382d9f

arch: core/post-common.

6cdbacb

arch: x11/xephyr/x11-common

3511bd3

Xorg >=1.16 needs special handling: Configure Xorg.wrap back to its former behaviour (<1.16) with respect to starting as normal user.

arch: targets: Most DE and X11-related targets.

d6b6678

arch: chrome-common

3a534de

arch: kde

4554d36

arch: gnome

d5356bb

/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc has a different meaning in Arch, and is just a default xinit file.

arch: extension: Add desktop file so it can be set as default browser.

92fd393

arch: audio and tests/30-audio

eb6aef4

arch: Do not rely on /etc/os-release anymore

b6d026d

ArchLinux removed it from filesystem package.

arch: Do not test alarm

7172fa4

arch and alarm are actually synonyms.

drinkcat added partyinlinuxland enhancement labels Nov 19, 2014

dnschneid reviewed Dec 5, 2014
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'crouton/master' into croagh_arch

12b25f9

Minor fix to broken merge.

a4c40fe

At some point when HEAD was rebased or merged with crouton/master, one conflict went unresolved. I resolved the conflict and was able to use crouton to successfully generate an arch chroot.

Merge pull request #81 from mathuin/fix-xiwi-merge-issue

a720abb

Minor fix to broken merge.

mathuin and others added 5 commits March 29, 2015 20:14

Added ltspackages variable to dummy video.

4b8cf21

I mismerged a reference to xserver-xorg-video-dummy and forgot to change it to xserver-xorg-video-dummy$ltspackages as per another update. This commit fixes that mistake.

Merge pull request #84 from mathuin/bad-dummy-forgot-ltspackages

1c07007

Added ltspackages variable to dummy video.

Merge remote-tracking branch 'crouton/master' into croagh_arch

c247c4e

Conflicts: (all minor nits) targets/audio targets/gtk-extra targets/xfce-desktop targets/xiwi

arch: Add support install_dummy_dist

1f318b1

By support, I mean, no support... I don't think we need this kind of stuff on Arch. At least not for now...

arch: xiwi: install i3-wm instead of i3

ac35ae3

We don't need i3status or i3lock.

divx118 mentioned this pull request May 22, 2015

cannot update chroot or use xorg (startxfce4 defaults to xiwi) #1775

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dnschneid mentioned this pull request Sep 16, 2015

Unable to run arch after fresh install. Issues with hanging processes and attempting to update crouton #2037

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drinkcat mentioned this pull request Mar 8, 2016

Arch Linux support #2367

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HLFH mentioned this pull request Nov 21, 2016

LXC containers? #364

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dnschneid added the stale label Dec 31, 2021

dnschneid force-pushed the master branch 2 times, most recently from 455c029 to cebf84f Compare December 31, 2024 16:44

dnschneid force-pushed the master branch from cebf84f to 59e36db Compare March 30, 2025 01:55

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