Moderator: BarryK
Up until version 6.5.6 of the Scarthgap-series, this has been the announcement and feedback thread:
However, as have now moved permanently to the 6.12.x Linux kernel, decided to start afresh with a new thread.
Scarthgap 6.6, January 29, 2025
Blog announcement:
https://bkhome.org/news/202501/easyos-s ... eased.html
If you are running Scarthgap 6.5.6, with the 6.12.10 kernel, there is a bug, a change that Caramel discovered was introduced with the 6.8 kernel. It causes Scarthgap 6.5.6 to think all drives support TRIM.
Running 'fstrim' on a drive that doesn't support TRIM will fail, but I have read that it could damage the drive -- but I'm not sure about that, would have to read more about it. What is the result of running 'fstrim' on a HDD?
Scarthgap 6.6 fixes TRIM support detection.
But does more than that; attempts to support running 'fstrim' on USB SSDs, which was not supported before.
Hi @BarryK
Frugal scarthgap here ,update went fine from 6.5.4.2 to 6.5.6 , could not find anything wrong with 6.5.6, until yesterday ,
checking packages in ppm , hmm , no ibiblio repo ;
# ppm
ls: impossible d'accéder à '/root/.packages/Packages-oe-scarthgap*': No such file or directory
Ok , saw you got 6.6 out , easy-update = no ibilio either !!?
mv: impossible d'évaluer '/tmp/easy_version/2025': No such file or directory;
fsync: can't open '/tmp/easy_version/scarthgap': No such file or directory
Sorry, there was an error probing the online repository, aborting script.
No access to https://distro.ibiblio.org ....
even link in bkhome.org to them wont work ?!? 404
edit ; only had success with https://ftp.nluug.nl to manualy download delta and upgrade to 6.6
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Now , 6.6 from a fresh new .session , repo all seems good + links in bkhome.org , dont ask what happend ,wont be able to tell
exactly , you might know .
Thumbs up BK ,
easyos is a trusty workhorse,
the beast limps? check his hoof,
just got to know how to be the farrier ,
if the need for a new horseshoe arises.
Vv
Thank you for new release. I continue to have same problem that started with 6.5.4.2.
#1 Network Manager issues
First, it does not start and has errors as follows.
Trying to enable NetworkManager has same errors.
bus-manager: cannot connect to D-Bus: Could not connect: No such file or directory
I used sns and could connect to the internet. The damn sns takes 20 seconds to conenct, while network manager used to do that in 2 seconds.
#2 No sound. Not sure, whats the problem, but errors are as follows.
I took a quick look at /usr/lib/firmware directory and apprently this version has more fiels than 6.5.4.2. So seems not the case of missing firmware files.
snd_soc_avs 0000:00:1f.3: Direct firmware load for intel/avs/tgl/dsp_basefw.bin failed with error -2
snd_soc_avs 0000:00:1f.3: request firmware failed -2
snd_soc_avs 0000:00:1f.3: firmware boot failed -2
No solution yet for me. I see blacklist.conf which I dont see in earlier version (6.5.4.2)
Trying to understand this problem.
Regards,
