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[Scott-M]

@sdetweil

On the plus side… It worked after answering Yes and MagicMirror started.

It did take an unusually long time intalling dependencies and again fixing sandbox permissions. I almost gave up but it did finish, and works

[sdetweil]

@Scott-M yes, how to avoid the prompt and handle it some other time

searching leads to adding this in front of the apt full-upgrade command
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=‘noninteractive’

like this

DEBIAN_FRONTEND=‘noninteractive’ apt full-upgrade -y

[Scott-M]

@sdetweil said in MMM-CalendarExt3 and MMM-MonthlyCalendar blank:

oninteractive’ apt full-upgrade -y

That did not seem to make any difference, I tried apt-get update and then DEBIAN_FRONTEND=‘noninteractive’ apt-get --assume-yes full-upgrade

but was still asked about the config file /labwc-greeter/autostart

[sdetweil]

@Scott-M thanks… SO much fun…

I am trying to test on my pi5 , I am remote from my home office, and do not have my hdmi/micro adapter… so am trying headless…

pi imager, set ssh on, use pw authentication,
pi boots, ssh is on, but password doesn’t work…

using mac and ubuntu vm , and windows vm…

also of interest is that the wifi connection also does not work , only ethernet

[Scott-M]

@sdetweil
Luckily I had a slow week at work!

This seems to have worked:

sudo apt-get -y  -o Dpkg::Options::=“–force-confdef” -o Dpkg::Options::=“–force-confnew” full-upgrade

I have brought my Pi5 home, and a couple of micro SDs so happy to test when I can. I do have a lot of driving chilren around to do but some time in between.

[sdetweil]

@Scott-M thank you very much

ok, I’ve updated raspberry.sh on the v231 branch
let me know what you find when u can

[Scott-M]

@sdetweil

These seems to be a subtle difference between our keyboard layouts perhaps,

raspberry.sh has this line

upgrade_result=$(sudo apt-get -y  -o Dpkg::Options::=“–force-confdef” -o Dpkg::Options::=“–force-confnew” full-upgrade | pv -l -p)

but the quotes around –force-confdef and –force-confnew are the wrong type . Should be:

upgrade_result=$(sudo apt-get -y  -o Dpkg::Options::="–force-confdef" -o Dpkg::Options::="–force-confnew" full-upgrade | pv -l -p)

It causes this error:

dpkg: error: need an action option

Type dpkg --help for help about installing and deinstalling packages [*];
Use 'apt' or 'aptitude' for user-friendly package management;
Type dpkg -Dhelp for a list of dpkg debug flag values;
Type dpkg --force-help for a list of forcing options;
Type dpkg-deb --help for help about manipulating *.deb files;

Options marked [*] produce a lot of output - pipe it through 'less' or 'more' !
E: Sub-process dpkg --set-selections returned an error code (2)
E: Couldn't record the approved state changes as dpkg selection states

Maybe just replace the quotes rather than copy and pase. I noticed the same thing when I copied the link you sent previously for the test branch.

[sdetweil]

@Scott-M I copied directly from your original post, it also shows the curved quotes

pushed fix

[Scott-M]

@sdetweil So it does, not sure why, I copied it from the terminal window.

[sdetweil]

@Scott-M said in MMM-CalendarExt3 and MMM-MonthlyCalendar blank:

So it does, not sure why, I copied it from the terminal window.

the MagicMirror forums assume word processing for quotes unless in a code block

once you save it, poof… it will never change back automatically
so it looks like you decided to add the code black later… (just experience )

[sdetweil]

@Scott-M note this latest fix also changes MagicMirror.sh to detect which window manager is running (wayland or labwc) and use the different start command if detected

[Scott-M]

@sdetweil
I probably did add the code block after. Lesson learned! And this is partly why I am having more issues with this. It has been very frustating, after it worked last night, it isn’t now.

I think I know what the issue is but it is time consuming writing the SD image and running the script so if you can bear with me. I want to test it at least twice before I update here.

I suspect the 2 dashes before

--force-confdef
--force-confnew

have been replaced by a single dash of a different character type. Again, because I put the code block around the text after I copied it.

This should be the correct code but let me test again to make sure. It has worked once, just want to do it again and will update.

sudo apt-get -y -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confnew" full-upgrade

In the mean time, the above code will auto select the default option if one is available and then answer Yes if there is no default. In the case of the prompt that was appearing, the old configuration file ‘/etc/xdg/labwc-greeter/autostart’ is kept. If you want the package maintainers file instead just remove the first option:

-o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef"

[sdetweil]

@Scott-M yes the double dash was replaced with single… new update pushed…

[Scott-M]

@sdetweil

It seemed to get through the upgrade stage very quickly and

apt-get upgrade  started
apt-get upgrade result =rc=0 Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...

in the log seems to show the upgrade didn’t work. I will run the script locally on the pi and send the output to the termnial to see what is happening but it won’t be tonight, I have to go out now.

Update tomorrow…

[Scott-M]

@sdetweil

MagicMirror did run though…

[Scott-M]

@sdetweil
So, I have tried the following, each on a freshlly flashed OS.

1 - Copied

sudo apt-get -y -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confnew" full-upgrade

directly from the raspberry.sh script, updated and then upgraded using the above and it worked.

2 - Modified the script as below and ran it locally so I can see the output in terminal during the upgrade part, and it worked, no errors durring the upgrade. And Magic Mirror Ran successfully.

	if [ $upgrade -eq $true ]; then
	   sudo apt-get install pv -y >>$logfile
	   echo "apt-get upgrade  started" >> $logfile
	   sudo apt-get -y -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confnew" full-upgrade | tee -a $logfile
	   #upgrade_result=$(sudo apt-get -y -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confnew" full-upgrade | pv -l -p)
	   #upgrade_result=$(sudo apt-get --assume-yes full-upgrade  2>&1 | pv -l -p)
		 #upgrade_rc=$?
		 #echo apt-get upgrade result ="rc=$upgrade_rc $upgrade_result" >> $logfile
	fi

3 - Copied your raspberry.sh script to the home directory unmodified and ran it locally and it also works. Log file still reads

apt-get upgrade result =rc=0

But it worked, is the what you would expect in the log?

4 - Run the script again directly using.

bash -c "$(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts/v231/raspberry.sh)"

This works and the log file reads the same

apt-get upgrade result =rc=0

Running apg-get full-upgrade again show that there is nothing new to do.

Bottom line, it works!

Attempt no 2 running the modified script locally, the whole upgrade output went to the log file.

[sdetweil]

@Scott-M thanks. pv is a tool for showing progress on the commandline

it shows <=>
moving left to right or right to left as output goes thru

i put it in because others said they didnt know if it was still working or hung

ill make changes, new release coming

[sdetweil]

@Scott-M said in MMM-CalendarExt3 and MMM-MonthlyCalendar blank:

sudo apt-get -y -o Dpkg::Options::=“–force-confdef” -o Dpkg::Options::=“–force-confnew” full-upgrade | tee -a $logfile

updated script, removed pv , give it a try if you have time

[Scott-M]

@sdetweil

All good, works fine.

[sdetweil]

@Scott-M woohoo… thanks…