Major Issues after "OS Update" on Librem 5

[tracy]

Well glad I waited until today. I got an update too. But strangely it required two reboots in succession. Someone must have fixed something.

[ASwyD2]

@guru

phoc/byzantium-updates 0.29.0+ds-1pureos1~byz1 arm64 [upgradable from: 0.28.0+ds-1pureos1]

@wimdows

The Store now wants to upgrade to phosh 29. Is that save?

@dos

Is it really phosh, and not phoc?

@wimdows

It could be phoc. How can I check that?

phoc/byzantium-updates 0.29.0+ds-1pureos1~byz1 arm64 [upgradable from: 0.28.0+ds-1pureos1]

[Sarcasmo220]

@Nico1

’m then asked to ender my Purism login (I entered my encryption pass and then it asked for a password. And, came back with incorrect login details

You only need to enter your encryption password once to decrypt the partition

@Nico1

Can you please advise where or how I find my purism login and what password do I use?

When you get to the tty the login is the username, which by default is ‘purism’
The password should be whatever your password is to login to your phone.

[dos]

@Nico1

@dos

> 
> ```

However, the output of that command was:

E: Unable to locate package linux-image-6.3.0.1-librem5

Oh, BTW, you had a typo here. It’s -1, not .1:

@dos

In case it fails to resolve the dependencies (and only then!), do this instead:

sudo apt install librem5-gnome linux-image-librem5/byzantium linux-image-6.3.0-1-librem5-

[guru]

phosh is here now:

purism@pureos:~$ apt info phosh
Package: phosh
Version: 0.28.0-1pureos1
Priority: optional
Section: x11
Maintainer: PureOS Maintainers <pureos-project@puri.sm>
...

[guru]

Apart from all the messages and hassle, is there a short list of new features we’ve got with this OS update? Thanks

[Jim]

You can follow phosh changes here : https://phosh.mobi/releases/

[shopping4purism]

I’ve just update my L5 using Terminal.
It updates several packages, but wants to keep back 2 packages

sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  librem5-base-defaults linux-image-librem5
The following packages will be upgraded:
  firefox-esr
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 54.9 MB of archives.
After this operation, 203 kB of additional disk space will be used.

Why are those packages kept back and is it safe to install them anyway?

[Nico1]

Thanks @dos this . . .

@dos

That’s not a problem with dependencies. It can’t connect with the repository server, most likely because the date is set wrong on your phone (judging from “last login” message it thinks it’s Dec 2022).

Either set the clock manually with date , or make sure NTP time sync is enabled and performed ( sudo timedatectl set-ntp true , verify with sudo timedatectl ) and then retry.

along with this . . .

@dos

Once you have access to the phone’s shell, in order to recover your system to a fully working state do:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install librem5-gnome

has done the trick. My Librem5 is back in the land of the living, and working.

Thanks also for pointing out my typo in one of the package names. In the end, I didn’t need it though.

So, once again, I’m in love with technology (I really disliked it there yesterday) and my Librem 5 (also didn’t like it there most of yesterday )

Thanks so much for all your help. @dos I truly appreciate you.

[p-a-b]

Hello Everyone,

I’ve stepped into the same problem with this fatal update.
I’ve got access to the phone’s shell via a USB keyboard attached by an adapter.
“sudo apt update” worked, but after entering “sudo apt install librem5-gnome”
it says: “Paket librem5 kann nicht gefunden werden” (packet librem5 can not be found).
Does this mean that it fails to resolve the dependencies and that I should enter this other command? I’ m a little bit scary!

Thanks in advance for any bits of help!

[dos]

This means you haven’t typed it correctly. You can’t omit or add any additional spaces, you need to type it verbatim.

[p-a-b]

Hi,
I’m very sure that I have typed it correctly. But it is nearly impossible for me to read the screen, because the letters on the screen are extremely tiny. But I repeated it again just now, and the result is the same. But what I find peculiar is that it says “packet librem5 can not be found” instead of “packet librem5-gnome”

[amarok]

@p-a-b

the letters on the screen are extremely tiny

You can zoom the font from the menu in Terminal, or type Ctrl + or Ctrl - with squeekboard. (Don’t forget to disengage the Ctrl key when done.)

[dos]

@p-a-b

But what I find peculiar is that it says “packet librem5 can not be found” instead of “packet librem5-gnome”

Exactly, and this means you haven’t typed librem5-gnome correctly. Perhaps it’s a keymap issue and you end up with a different character than -? Maybe try to press the button where - would be on the US layout instead (the one next to 0, to its right).

[p-a-b]

I succeeded at last, maybe it really was a typo.
Thanks a lot for helping, dos!
Love my Librem5 even if it challenges me from time to time as a Linux “non-geek”.

[p-a-b]

Unfortunately this didn’t work. At this point this not a Terminal but simple bash, where there is no menu (At least I didn’t find a way to activate it), and there is no squeekboard either.
But anyway thanks for your help, I succeeded to “revive” my broken librem5.

[shopping4purism]

Maybe I need to add some more info to get a response.

After the update problems, I tried to upgrade by using Terminal.
Just to be clear, I did not encounter the problems of the OP.
My question is if the message I get (as described above about libraries being kept back) is related to this issue.

Can anyone tell me if it is OK to install those libraries despite the holding back state?

[dos]

What happens when you execute:

apt install --simulate librem5-base-defaults linux-image-librem5

?

[Captain_Morgan]

@dos

If you have neither SSH access nor USB keyboard, you can use Jumpdrive to access your phone’s system partition. Then edit the file usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/phosh.session and change sm.puri.OSK0 to sm.puri.Squeekboard (be careful not to change anything else, like the punctuation around). This should let your phone boot to graphical (although degraded) session and let you perform recovery steps in the regular terminal app.

Thanks so much that resolved it, the biggest problem is actually jumpdrive in this hole process and recognizing the phone, i had to plug and unplug it about 100 times and tried 6 different USB ports, cable orientations, USB hub etc, it finally for whatever reason worked! Option 2 did not work since i only had an apple full keyboard at hand and the Functions buttons might be a little differently mapped.

One question do you have to go back and change that phosh session file manually after update? Everything else seems fine!

[Tonyp]

I also made some update from terminal.

updating osk-sdl got a message
line 29:
setupcon: the keyboard model is unknown, assuming ‘pc-105’. Keyboard maybe configured incorrectly.

line 48:
generating boot script u-boot image…
done.
Taking backup of boot.scr.
Installing new boot.scr

https://dpaste.com/9P2MRYMRQ

Similar message appears after updating busybox
https://dpaste.com/2UK9ACHFD

it means probably the librem 5 won’t recognize squeekboard next boot up?