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taylorkh

By the username Pi I suspect you are using Raspbian(?) Are you using openvpn as a service for incoming connections or to connect to a vpn server out on the Internet (provided by a commercial vpn provider)? I have used openvpn in the second way but not in the first - and not on Raspbian. Ubuntu Mate ...

taylorkh

secure/ encrypted location I wonder if that is the issue? If /home/pi/ is encrypted that would seem to imply that user pi would have to unlock his/her encrypted storage at some point. Depending on how/when this is done, it might still be locked when root is trying to write the log file. At least th...

taylorkh

Does openvpn do the vpn tasks which you need it to do? If it does, and going back to your earlier post... is using sudo to read the log in /var/log an insurmountable obstacle? Just wondering?

Ken

taylorkh

I decided to ignore the window size issue for the moment and to go ahead with my project. I connected the Pi to an ANCIENT 15" LCD monitor and to my surprise the windows maintain their proper placement. I don't know how or why. My new "jukebox" is now in place an working great. Thanks again for the ...

taylorkh

It has been a long day... I did a search on configuring sound on the Pi and found the instructions https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/audio-config.md which reminded me I needed to run raspi-config. I did that an am now listening to Metal Queen by Lee Aaron :mrgreen: This issue i...

taylorkh

I just tried a fresh install of Raspbian Stretch - same thing. I installed audacious and played an mp3 file. No sound output.

taylorkh

My first Pi 3B with Ubuntu Mate 16.04 played sound out of the audio jack with no issues that I can remember. I have a 3B+ also with Ubuntu Mate both 16.04 and 18.04 installs (different SD cards) and neither one of them will play sound. I have seen a lot of posts re. playing sound via HDMI but I am s...

taylorkh

Good point pcmanbob !

taylorkh

Thanks klricks, I will have a mouse attached to the Pi so I can resize the windows after boot. I will look at xdotool. Perhaps I can launch the two applications and put them in their places from a script. Ken p.s. I just looked at xdotool on my other monitor. If the resize example works on the Pi I ...

taylorkh

Are you (your account where you wish to write the log files) a member of the openvpn group or have you granted the openvpn user access to the desired location? That might do the trick. If you sudo su openvpn you can then try creating a file in the desired location as if you were that user.

Ken

taylorkh

There are a couple of approaches to remote computing - philosophically speaking. "Share my Desktop" i.e. see what you would see when you logon locally to the remote computer with a physical monitor etc. and "Connect to a session on the host "- like a REAL (mainframe) computer :D I have generally tak...

taylorkh

I am running, and have been for years, Ubuntu Mate on an old Intel Atom processor mini-laptop which has been re-purposed as juke box for my shop. A low privilege user automatically logs on when the computer boots and starts Audacious and caja (pointing to the subdirectory containing my mp3 files). A...

taylorkh

Do we need to start a thread to compose the words to Bye Bye Raspberry Pi? They would of course have to represent "computer" things and events rather that to the U2 (spy plane, not rock group), Buddy Holly etc.

Ken

taylorkh

Do you have a User=root line in the [Service] stanza of your .service file? I was setting up a service to connect to ProtonVPN. It did not work until I added that line. I think it had more to do with finding the ProtonVPN configuration files than "who" was running the process. Might be worth trying....

taylorkh

If the IP address has changed and you try to ssh to the old address you will get a message like "no route to host" not connection refused. Can you ping the Pi? What OS are you using on the Pi? What are you connecting FROM? Are you specifying your password or using public/private keys to authenticate...

taylorkh

Thanks mfa298, Good point about sorting in the top display. free also indicates that not a lot of memory is in use (excepting disk cache.) The issue I was seeing - when swap was close to "full" was that RAM usage would also fill up and Firefox, for example, would become unresponsive. Even though swa...

taylorkh

Thanks gkreidl,

Other than the Pis I have not used swap in many years. Everything else I have has at least 4 GB of RAM. Still it seems strange that would fill up with "data" from programs which are no longer active in RAM.

Ken

taylorkh

I have a Pi 3B+ running Ubuntu Mate 18.04 setup as a dedicated Bit Torrent machine. It runs headless and I access it with ssh and vnc (vnc4server on the Pi). It runs a VPN using openvpn, Firefox and Transmission. I discovered early on that a modern web browser is a memory hog - at least in terms of ...

taylorkh

By using do-release-upgrade I have upgraded 2 Pi 3B+ and one Pi 3B to Ubuntu Mate 18.04. The seem to be working just fine except... Today I discovered that man seems to be broken :o Here is the message I receive ken@taylor24:~/Desktop$ man grep man: nroff: Bad system call man: preconv: Bad system ca...

taylorkh

Thank YOU both for helping to motivate me to figure this out. I was not planning on using WiFi on my Pi computers but at least now I have it available should I decide to do so. And with 18.04 I should be good for support until 2023

Ken

taylorkh

Thanks MaxVMH , There appear to be ONLY three files which need to be added to Ubuntu to get the WiFi card running on the 3B+. Those are: brcmfmac43455-sdio.bin brcmfmac43455-sdio.clm_blob brcmfmac43455-sdio.txt I have copied them from a new Raspbian install. They are also described in this wiki http...

taylorkh

Hello mrdone, I do not think that WiFi works in Ubuntu on the Pi3B+. I have read that WiFi works in Raspbian on the 3B+ but I have not tried it. I have also read, I think, that some wireless related files could be copied from a Raspbian install to Ubuntu to fix the problem. I have not tried this eit...

taylorkh

I started with the "official" Ubuntu Mate 16.04 image and installed it on a Pi 3B. I then did the "sudo BRANCH=stable rpi-update" trick. This allowed the image to run on the Pi 3B+. I had run that for a few weeks, added a few packages etc. I then upgraded that working image to 18.04. The only progra...

taylorkh

It gets better and better. I fired up the Pi 3B+ on my upgraded to 18.04 SD card. Just like magic the time sync is now working :D A little searching provided a fix for the notification - or lack thereof - issue. Basically change the Panel in Mate-Tweak from "Familiar" to something else and then back...

taylorkh

Thanks fruitoftheloom,

So far I have found that the Network Manager Applet is missing (networking works OK) and, more importantly, the time sync with an NTP server does NOT work. This is sort of a killer as the Pi has no battery backup clock.

Ken

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