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by Peter Ryan
Tue Apr 07, 2020 7:11 pm
Forum: Troubleshooting
Topic: Booting from fresh Raspbian image with wpa_supplicant giving me 169.254/16 address
Replies: 15
Views: 505

Re: Booting from fresh Raspbian image with wpa_supplicant giving me 169.254/16 address

May be a red herring, but you called the file wpa_supplicant several times in this thread, when the correct name is wpa_supplicant.conf , so what is your file actually named? That was indeed me being a bit lazy and not including the extension in my posts - the file name is indeed wpa_supplicant.con...
by Peter Ryan
Sun Apr 05, 2020 11:08 pm
Forum: Troubleshooting
Topic: Booting from fresh Raspbian image with wpa_supplicant giving me 169.254/16 address
Replies: 15
Views: 505

Re: Booting from fresh Raspbian image with wpa_supplicant giving me 169.254/16 address

I use to avoid ch13 as my original (from 2005) HP WiFi printer wouldn't work on ch13 (as it had an American interface). The only thing that causes me any problems with channel 13 is an old Kindle 4. Amazon's helpful advice is, don't use channel 13! :roll: Re: The Problem - I shutdown the Pi4. Swapp...
by Peter Ryan
Sun Apr 05, 2020 8:04 pm
Forum: Troubleshooting
Topic: Booting from fresh Raspbian image with wpa_supplicant giving me 169.254/16 address
Replies: 15
Views: 505

Re: Booting from fresh Raspbian image with wpa_supplicant giving me 169.254/16 address

You should not be using channel 13 if operating 802.11n. Are you sure about that? ;) Either way, it has worked perfectly well until this problem I've got right now.... (me thinks for a bit).... okay, I just tried switching the router to channel 1, and then disabled/enabled WiFi on the Pi. Still the...
by Peter Ryan
Sun Apr 05, 2020 7:49 pm
Forum: Troubleshooting
Topic: Booting from fresh Raspbian image with wpa_supplicant giving me 169.254/16 address
Replies: 15
Views: 505

Re: Booting from fresh Raspbian image with wpa_supplicant giving me 169.254/16 address

If the Plusnet hub has the same firmware as its BT sibling but just different branding on its config pages, that 17 address is fishy. Setting a "static" IP address based on a MAC should "lock" an IP address to one given out from the router's DHCP pool. For BTHomeHubs that pool begins at 192.168.1.6...
by Peter Ryan
Sun Apr 05, 2020 7:37 pm
Forum: Troubleshooting
Topic: Booting from fresh Raspbian image with wpa_supplicant giving me 169.254/16 address
Replies: 15
Views: 505

Re: Booting from fresh Raspbian image with wpa_supplicant giving me 169.254/16 address

Wow your street is full of access points. Have you tried a power cycle of your router/AP? Have you made any changes to /etc/network/interfaces or /etc/dhcpcd.conf? Yeah, there's an insane number of them, that's part of why I'm hiding up on channel 13 to avoid them. :D No changes to dhcpcd or networ...
by Peter Ryan
Sun Apr 05, 2020 6:56 pm
Forum: Troubleshooting
Topic: Booting from fresh Raspbian image with wpa_supplicant giving me 169.254/16 address
Replies: 15
Views: 505

Re: Booting from fresh Raspbian image with wpa_supplicant giving me 169.254/16 address

iwlist scan says: wlan0 Scan completed : Cell 01 - Address: 50:0F:F5:B7:D5:41 Channel:1 Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1) Quality=53/70 Signal level=-57 dBm Encryption key:on ESSID:"TwnWifi" Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s Bit Rates:24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 48 Mb/...
by Peter Ryan
Sun Apr 05, 2020 6:12 pm
Forum: Troubleshooting
Topic: Booting from fresh Raspbian image with wpa_supplicant giving me 169.254/16 address
Replies: 15
Views: 505

Re: Booting from fresh Raspbian image with wpa_supplicant giving me 169.254/16 address

Well spotted! But, sadly, it's just a typo when I made the post here. :oops:
by Peter Ryan
Sun Apr 05, 2020 5:29 pm
Forum: Troubleshooting
Topic: Booting from fresh Raspbian image with wpa_supplicant giving me 169.254/16 address
Replies: 15
Views: 505

Booting from fresh Raspbian image with wpa_supplicant giving me 169.254/16 address

Hi all, I've imaged an SD-card using 2020-02-13-raspbian-buster-full.zip , and I created an "ssh" and "wpa_supplicant" file in the /boot partition. As I've done... a million times before! The wpa_supplicant is formatted as: ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev update_config=1 coun...
by Peter Ryan
Fri Aug 09, 2019 6:06 pm
Forum: Off topic discussion
Topic: Longest Raspberry Pi uptime
Replies: 99
Views: 82230

Re: Longest Raspberry Pi uptime

Pi 2B was " up 354 days, 21:35 " until the stupid national power outage and now I'm back to day ZERO!! I just wanted to make it past one year of uptime... is that too much to ask? (I'm looking up and waving my fist at the sky BTW) Still, up to date kernel. I might upgrade to Buster now, but I'll hav...
by Peter Ryan
Sat Nov 17, 2018 3:55 pm
Forum: Troubleshooting
Topic: Index.php doesn't auto launch with RPI/Apache
Replies: 4
Views: 1004

Re: Index.php doesn't auto launch with RPI/Apache

DocumentRoot should point to a directory and not a file, so you should probably put it back to what it was (or another directory). And then add a "DirectoryIndex" line which tells it to look first for "index.html" and if that's not found, use "index.php": DocumentRoot /var/www/html DirectoryIndex in...
by Peter Ryan
Fri Sep 14, 2018 2:04 pm
Forum: Troubleshooting
Topic: After last updates RPI 3+ hangs on shurdown/reboot if bluetooth off
Replies: 42
Views: 7393

Re: After last updates RPI 3+ hangs on shurdown/reboot if bluetooth off

Just a "me too" post here. I have a 3B+ booting from SD-card using an official PSU, a wired keyboard and wired mouse connected. Running Raspbian desktop. Oh, and I don't have bluetooth enabled. I only noticed the problem yesterday; the first time I shutdown, it hung with just the desktop wallpaper s...
by Peter Ryan
Sat Mar 17, 2018 6:35 pm
Forum: Raspberry Pi OS
Topic: New Raspbian Release 2018-03-13
Replies: 26
Views: 14012

Re: New Raspbian Release 2018-03-13

Now have nice 5G indicators on wifi scan, not sure why that Virgin Media is ghosted though ? https://i.imgur.com/O1wSo3Em.jpg I've got one of those (image attached) but for a "BTWifi-X"; a very quick search seems to indicate that this is the SSID that BT uses for sharing connections between their u...
by Peter Ryan
Sat Jun 17, 2017 7:42 pm
Forum: Advanced users
Topic: Get rid of rounded corners on windows?
Replies: 1
Views: 806

Re: Get rid of rounded corners on windows?

Not tried this myself, but you could edit (take a backup copy first) this file:

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~/.config/openbox/lxde-pi-rc.xml
...and change the line <roundCorners> to have the value "no" rather than "yes". You might need to logout/in again to see the changes. Or it might not work at all! :D
by Peter Ryan
Thu Sep 29, 2016 2:52 pm
Forum: Raspberry Pi OS
Topic: Font changes with PIXEL desktop
Replies: 2
Views: 1374

Re: Font changes with PIXEL desktop

Okay, so I've got around this (mostly) by creating a ~/.fonts.conf containing: <fontconfig> <match target="pattern"> <test qual="any" name="family"> <string>monospace</string> </test> <edit name="family" mode="assign"> <string>DejaVu Sans Mono</string> </edit> </match> </fontconfig> For some reason ...
by Peter Ryan
Thu Sep 29, 2016 12:29 am
Forum: Raspberry Pi OS
Topic: Font changes with PIXEL desktop
Replies: 2
Views: 1374

Font changes with PIXEL desktop

Since upgrading to "Pixel", I notice that some fonts have changed; the terminal says it's using "Monospace 10" as before, but it has changed. Manually selecting DejaVu Sans Mono appears visually to revert it. There's also been a change to the default "Sans serif" font... I think! It doesn't look the...
by Peter Ryan
Thu Sep 29, 2016 12:24 am
Forum: Raspberry Pi OS
Topic: PIXEL desktop: Large menu folders crash taskbar
Replies: 37
Views: 13613

Re: PIXEL desktop: Large menu folders crash taskbar

Another same here!

I also, otherwise like the new updates too! :D
by Peter Ryan
Sat Aug 20, 2016 9:04 pm
Forum: Advanced users
Topic: Raspberry Pi WebServer Multiple .local domains
Replies: 5
Views: 4222

Re: Raspberry Pi WebServer Multiple .local domains

Before I start, I'll just say that I don't have the answers for you - but hopefully I can help you better understand the problem! When you enter a URL into your browser, e.g. http://website1.raspberrypi.local/foo/bar.txt , the browser splits the URL up into protocol (http), hostname (website1.raspbe...
by Peter Ryan
Fri Jul 01, 2016 5:11 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: A command-line tool to install disc images easily
Replies: 12
Views: 2552

Re: A command-line tool to install disc images easily

kusti8 wrote:How is that really any improvement?
You get to learn about Github too? :D
by Peter Ryan
Sat Jun 04, 2016 9:51 pm
Forum: Off topic discussion
Topic: why on earth are USB keyboards still using scan codes
Replies: 37
Views: 8558

Re: why on earth are USB keyboards still using scan codes

Oh my .... http://www.keyboardco.com/product.asp?product=10113 I'm looking at "The Keyboard Company" logo and just imagining hundreds of managers at retail outlets telling their shelf-stackers, "Just remember guys, make absolutely sure you stack those keyboard boxes up the right way this time... ok...
by Peter Ryan
Wed May 25, 2016 11:05 pm
Forum: Raspberry Pi OS
Topic: Using an external drive with transmission on a pi
Replies: 10
Views: 3595

Re: Using an external drive with transmission on a pi

I've not moved my transmission download directory from the default (/var/lib/transmission-daemon/downloads/) and it's permissions are set as: drwsrwxr-x debian-transmission debian-transmission So perhaps the owner/group and setuid bit are important? If so, you need the following: $ sudo chown debian...
by Peter Ryan
Thu May 19, 2016 5:31 pm
Forum: Troubleshooting
Topic: How to open Epiphany (Web) browser incognito from CLI?
Replies: 2
Views: 2176

Re: How to open Epiphany (Web) browser incognito from CLI?

The man page isn't much use is it? I found the answer by opening an incognito window and then using ps -aux in a terminal to see the command used to launch it.

So the answer is... (drum-roll....)

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epiphany-browser --incognito-mode --profile ~/.config/epiphany
Hope that helps! :D
by Peter Ryan
Tue May 17, 2016 5:01 pm
Forum: Raspberry Pi OS
Topic: Permissions to logout/reboot (non pi user)
Replies: 26
Views: 8978

Re: Permissions to logout/reboot (non pi user)

I've been tied up for a few days so I'm a bit late, but a big thank you to everyone on this thread! :D
by Peter Ryan
Sun May 15, 2016 11:36 am
Forum: Raspberry Pi OS
Topic: Permissions to logout/reboot (non pi user)
Replies: 26
Views: 8978

Re: Permissions to logout/reboot (non pi user)

All of my Debian systems have a file /etc/polkit-1/localauthority.conf.d/51-debian-sudo.conf that says: [Configuration] AdminIdentities=unix-group:sudo ... Does creating the missing file help? I created the above file, but sadly, no change! Yeah... about that... I might have been mistaken there. :o...
by Peter Ryan
Sun May 15, 2016 11:24 am
Forum: Raspberry Pi OS
Topic: Permissions to logout/reboot (non pi user)
Replies: 26
Views: 8978

Re: Permissions to logout/reboot (non pi user)

Peter, it appears to already have been fixed. I did an update/upgrade today and it's working for me. It doesn't _seem_ to for me... but if the recent updates fixed the issue jojopi mentioned about missing the file "/etc/polkit-1/localauthority.conf.d/51-debian-sudo.conf" then it's possible I've re-...

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