FOCAL FOSSA!

[saltedcoffii]

I'm sure that all of us Linux enthusiasts are really excited about the release of Focal Foosa, Canonical's latest Ubuntu release, 20.04 LTS, scheduled to be released on April 23. I love and adore crouton, but as time passes, Xenial becomes more and more dated. Xenial repositories aren't just keeping up with everything new, like the latest versions of java, firefox, mono, gnome, gcc, et cetera. When (or if, I suppose,) will crouton be updating to a newer version of Ubuntu? What is in the works already? When will crouton -r help show focal* after eoan*?

[justchen1369]

18.04 has been avaliable for a while now.

[saltedcoffii]

It has been available, but it's not officially supported by crouton, and it's much too buggy for productivity use with crouton.

[dnschneid]

I've added focal* to the list.

We have pretty limited time to go through and repair all the compatibility issues that appear in each release, so we've been sticking to every-other LTS as the default crouton one and try to make that work as well as we can. Focal would be the next on the list, but it'll come down to when @drinkcat and I can allocate a week to hash it out. Rest assured it'll be sometime before April 2021 :)

Patches welcome, as always.

[jvschiavo]

I've added focal* to the list.

We have pretty limited time to go through and repair all the compatibility issues that appear in each release, so we've been sticking to every-other LTS as the default crouton one and try to make that work as well as we can. Focal would be the next on the list, but it'll come down to when @drinkcat and I can allocate a week to hash it out. Rest assured it'll be sometime before April 2021 :)

Patches welcome, as always.

Why Bionic was never tagged as supported? The idea was always to skip 16.04 directly to 20.04?

Is 18.04 safe to install or upgrade on my chroot?

[hacker1024]

I just tried installing Focal, but I was met with a sed error. Eoan works just fine.

$ sudo crouton -r focal -t xorg,extension,audio,touch,kde-desktop

WARNING: focal is an unsupported release.
You will likely run into issues, but things may work with some effort.
Press Ctrl-C to abort; installation will continue in 5 seconds.
WARNING: Your rootfs is writable. Signed boot verification cannot be enabled.
If this is a surprise to you, you should do a full system recovery via USB.
Installing focal-amd64 chroot to /usr/local/chroots/focal
sed: couldn't edit /tmp/crouton.kwG/scripts/focal: not a regular file

[dnschneid]

Looks like I forgot to update the builder with a version of debootstrap that supports focal. That's fixed now.

[jvschiavo]

I think this should be a pinned issue. It is the most hyped thing for crouton right now. There're lots of expectations about this.

[dnschneid]

Good idea.

[neogeo71]

It has been available, but it's not officially supported by crouton, and it's much too buggy for productivity use with crouton.
I disagree. 18.04 LTS It runs perfectly fine in Crouton, been using it for 2 years. never had a issue.

[saltedcoffii]

It has been available, but it's not officially supported by crouton, and it's much too buggy for productivity use with crouton.
I disagree. 18.04 LTS It runs perfectly fine in Crouton, been using it for 2 years. never had a issue.

Oh it won't even launch xorg for me.

[neogeo71]

I posted my process of installing on Reddit. I will find and list it here...

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[jvschiavo]

Oh it won't even launch xorg for me.

I updated from xenial to bionic and it is working kind of okay for me. But Alt + Backspace is not resulting in Delete and I can't find a way to add that back. :/

[neogeo71]

Used this successfully....

Download Crouton

cd ~/Downloads

wget "https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton/blob/master/installer/crouton"

Install Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic

sudo sh ~/Downloads/crouton -r bionic -t gnome

Fix Localization for things like gnome-terminal:

sudo enter-chroot

sudo locale-gen en_US en_US.UTF-8

export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

Fix mouse lag

sudo apt install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics

Fix UI lag

sudo enter-chroot

cd /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d

sudo ln -s /etc/crouton/xorg-intel-sna.conf 20-crouton-intel-sna.conf

Install a bunch of other shit:

sudo apt install gnome-terminal nano ttf-ubuntu-font-family gnome-calculator gnome-calendar gnome-clocks file-roller gedit bash-completion ubuntu-restricted-extras gnome-tweaks iptables darktable rawtherapee steam swell-foop eog

edit Step 2 is currently broken. I'm not sure if this fix will introduce errors, but I did get it to install:

sudo sh ~/Downloads/crouton -r bionic -t core

sudo enter-chroot

Sudo apt install xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-video-intel

exit

sudo sh ~/Downloads/crouton -r bionic -t gnome -u

then continue w/ the rest of the guide.

[derpyegplant]

Focal Fossa seems to only work with xfce. it wont open in gnome
or any other desktop

[neogeo71]

Focal Fossa seems to only work with xfce. it wont open in gnome
or any other desktop
It works! I am running it now. Gnome works. Follow directions above.

[Miustone]

I tried everything possible on My C340-15 to get 20.04 but no success (Running Bionic rn). Will try later again! Thank You very much for this! <3

Random Question. Will it be possible to compile Android Systems on 18.04 or 20.04? I'm not sure about this since i'm running a bit buggy with 18.04 and wonder if 20.04 will allow me to do this...

[saltedcoffii]

I tried everything possible on My C340-15 to get 20.04 but no success (Running Bionic rn). Will try later again! Thank You very much for this! <3

Random Question. Will it be possible to compile Android Systems on 18.04 or 20.04? I'm not sure about this since i'm running a bit buggy with 18.04 and wonder if 20.04 will allow me to do this...

@Miustone You could ask on the subreddit

[Miustone]

I tried everything possible on My C340-15 to get 20.04 but no success (Running Bionic rn). Will try later again! Thank You very much for this! <3
Random Question. Will it be possible to compile Android Systems on 18.04 or 20.04? I'm not sure about this since i'm running a bit buggy with 18.04 and wonder if 20.04 will allow me to do this...

@Miustone You could ask on the subreddit

I don't have a reddit Account but thanks...

[TheRealFanjin]

Hey guys I just wanted to let u guys know I got focal with xfce working perfectly. No bugs, nothing. It is perfect the first time I installed it. First step towards FOCAL FOOSA!

[MisterTrash-77]

Hey, sorry for the question but is anyone able to run focal or eoan ? Focal just show a blackscreen when running "sudo startxfce4" and Eoan just ask me to reboot for dbus to install (When I do it just ask me once more to reboot for dbus).
Thanks

[pairwiserr]

It works! I am running it now. Gnome works. Follow directions above.

@derpyegplant was referring to Focal Fossa, but your instructions are for bionic, @neogeo71 .

[pairwiserr]

Hey, sorry for the question but is anyone able to run focal or eoan ?

I've tried installing focal with gnome but it automatically unmounts.

[TeaWolf]

I'm running focal at the moment and everything works fine except sound and some performance issues. After trying the sound solution from here I can get sound from vlc, but still no sound from Firefox. Concerning performance I keep seeing chrome running at 20% cpu load on top. Is it increase it's niceness from -8 ? Or will this not help ?

[TheRealFanjin]

@TeaWolf Yes, I remember having the exact same audio problem. I think I solved it by doing pulseaudio -D or pulseaudio --start, I forgot which one it was.
As for the Chrome issue, I just don't use Chrome in Linux. I mostly use Vivaldi and Firefox

[satmandu]

This let sudo startgnome work for me:

sudo enter-chroot
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:oibaf/graphics-drivers
sudo apt dist-upgrade -y
echo MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=i965 | sudo tee -a /etc/environment
cd /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d && sudo ln -s /etc/crouton/xorg-intel-sna.conf 20-crouton-intel-sna.conf

[yoiammaac]

@yoiammaac,

$ edit-chroot -al
----------------------------------------------------------------------
chroot name: bionic
crouton: version 1-20210709170820~master:14ca6bc7
release: bionic
architecture: amd64
xmethod: xiwi
targets: xiwi,xorg,cli-extra,keyboard,touch,gnome-desktop,lxde-desktop,chrome-beta
host: version 13982.39.0 (Official Build) beta-channel eve 
kernel: Linux localhost 5.4.119-14931-g1ec34905b11c #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jun 30 20:51:02 PDT 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
freon: yes
----------------------------------------------------------------------
chroot name: focal
crouton: version 1-20210709170820~master:14ca6bc7
release: focal
architecture: amd64
xmethod: xiwi
targets: xiwi,xorg,cli-extra,keyboard,touch,gnome-desktop,lxde-desktop,chrome-beta
host: version 13982.39.0 (Official Build) beta-channel eve 
kernel: Linux localhost 5.4.119-14931-g1ec34905b11c #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jun 30 20:51:02 PDT 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
freon: yes
----------------------------------------------------------------------
chroot name: xenial
crouton: version 1-20210709170820~master:14ca6bc7
release: xenial
architecture: amd64
xmethod: xiwi
targets: xiwi,xorg,gnome-desktop,lxde-desktop,unity-desktop,xfce-desktop,cli-extra,keyboard,touch,chrome-beta
host: version 13982.39.0 (Official Build) beta-channel eve 
kernel: Linux localhost 5.4.119-14931-g1ec34905b11c #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jun 30 20:51:02 PDT 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
freon: yes
----------------------------------------------------------------------```

I have 3 chroots, including focal, all running and working fine with the latest crouton update/patches.
Hope this helps,
-DennisLfromGA

I'm curious if the kernel is a first order issue here.

I'm struggling to get a functioning install of focal xfce.

The first error message I get is

error: Kernel is too old for Iris. Consider upgrading to kernel v4.16.

Looks like most CBs released in the past couple of years are running v4.4 or v4.14, some are running v4.19 or v5.4 (e.g. @DennisLfromGA 's machine)
https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-for-chrome-os-devices

@yoiammaac , what kernel is your's running?
kernel: Linux localhost 4.4.254-37689-g90cbe4d754f7 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jun 27 23:02:44 PDT 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Dozer257]

UPDATE: FINALLY (took me literally 3 minutes to get audio setup using that guide: My complete tutorial:
Install focal Fossa with this command: sudo crouton -r focal -t xorg,audio,core,gtk-extra,x11,xfce. Wait for crouton to do its thing. Create a username and pass, then sudo enter-chroot and enter the following commands:

sudo apt-get remove --purge pulseaudio alsa-base
sudo apt-get install alsa-base
sudo usermod -a -G hwaudio "$USER" This command adds you to the hardware audio group.
Exit the chroot, then on Chrome-OS, enter the following command:
sudo initctl stop cras
This stops cras (the default audio server crouton uses, which doesnt work so is useless).
Then sudo enter-chroot again and enter the command:
cat /proc/asound/cards.
This will list off your audio cards on your chromebook, my cards name is chtmax98090 but yours may be different. The name of your card will be the second line after "1 [" e.g. mine was 1 [chtmax98090
Now enter the command nano ~/.asoundrc and paste the following:

https://hastebin.com/usiqejifuv.shell

I had to put it in hastebin because github was doing weird formatting stuff

Nano may not be installed so install it using:
sudo apt install nano -y
while were at it install pulseaudio again:
sudo apt install pulseaudio -y
(the -y flag skips the yes or no confirmation with apt) Once you've pasted that into ~/.asoundrc, use the keybind: ctrl+o to save and press enter, then ctrl+x to exit. Next install gnome control center if not already installed using:
sudo apt install gnome-control-center
Then when its installed exit the chroot and start xfce using:
sudo startxfce4
Go to your settings and click session and startup (or something like that)
then click applications startup at the top and click add at the bottom.
We need to execute two commands at startup: You can name these whatever you want with a description of whatever you want but for the command we need these commands:
pulseaudio --start
then click ok
now click add one more time, again the title and description can be whatever you want but the command must be:
xfce4-panel
The pulseaudio start command starts the pulseaudio server and the panel command insures the panel starts everytime. (otherwise you may have a hard time using your applications)
Now in order for audio to start working, exit the chroot and start xfce again. Now just customize and your done!

It worked for me, however, the only issue I have is the fact that when I use a headset that uses the audio jack, I can't use it's microphone because it hasn't been detected. But i have a usb headset that has a mic that gets detected just fine, is there a fix for this?

[yoiammaac]

I installed bionic with this and bionic works so fine(much better than xenial), its as if bionic is supported but, xenial isnt. Focal works fine(almost as good as bionic), though with no audio.
Please bring audio at least for focal, if it cant be termed supported.

[betapictoris]

@DennisLfromGA @dnschneid
I installed bionic with this and bionic works so fine(much better than xenial), its as if bionic is supported but, xenial isnt. Focal works fine(almost as good as bionic), though with no audio.
Please bring audio at least for focal, if it cant be termed supported.

1. Please don't mention people if they don't have much to do with it.
2. This is about Focal Fossa, not Bionic and Xenial.
3. @TheRealFanjin solved the audio issues with this:

I think I solved it by doing pulseaudio -D or pulseaudio --start, I forgot which one it was.

[yoiammaac]

@DennisLfromGA @dnschneid
I installed bionic with this and bionic works so fine(much better than xenial), its as if bionic is supported but, xenial isnt. Focal works fine(almost as good as bionic), though with no audio.
Please bring audio at least for focal, if it cant be termed supported.

1. Please don't mention people if they don't have much to do with it.
2. This is about Focal Fossa, not Bionic and Xenial.
3. @TheRealFanjin solved the audio issues with this:

I think I solved it by doing pulseaudio -D or pulseaudio --start, I forgot which one it was.

Sorry
got carried away > 1. Please don't mention people if they don't have much to do with it.

[adamallgood]

@yoiammaac,

$ edit-chroot -al
----------------------------------------------------------------------
chroot name: bionic
crouton: version 1-20210709170820~master:14ca6bc7
release: bionic
architecture: amd64
xmethod: xiwi
targets: xiwi,xorg,cli-extra,keyboard,touch,gnome-desktop,lxde-desktop,chrome-beta
host: version 13982.39.0 (Official Build) beta-channel eve 
kernel: Linux localhost 5.4.119-14931-g1ec34905b11c #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jun 30 20:51:02 PDT 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
freon: yes
----------------------------------------------------------------------
chroot name: focal
crouton: version 1-20210709170820~master:14ca6bc7
release: focal
architecture: amd64
xmethod: xiwi
targets: xiwi,xorg,cli-extra,keyboard,touch,gnome-desktop,lxde-desktop,chrome-beta
host: version 13982.39.0 (Official Build) beta-channel eve 
kernel: Linux localhost 5.4.119-14931-g1ec34905b11c #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jun 30 20:51:02 PDT 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
freon: yes
----------------------------------------------------------------------
chroot name: xenial
crouton: version 1-20210709170820~master:14ca6bc7
release: xenial
architecture: amd64
xmethod: xiwi
targets: xiwi,xorg,gnome-desktop,lxde-desktop,unity-desktop,xfce-desktop,cli-extra,keyboard,touch,chrome-beta
host: version 13982.39.0 (Official Build) beta-channel eve 
kernel: Linux localhost 5.4.119-14931-g1ec34905b11c #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jun 30 20:51:02 PDT 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
freon: yes
----------------------------------------------------------------------```

I have 3 chroots, including focal, all running and working fine with the latest crouton update/patches.

Hope this helps,
-DennisLfromGA

@DennisLfromGA did you have to do anything special to get the gnome desktop to open with focal? I tried sudo crouton -r focal -t keyboard,audio,gnome-desktop -n focalgnome yesterday, and the chroot was created successfully (yay!), but when I tried startgnome, I got a blank screen with the mouse pointer, then a crash and the chroot unmounted. XFCE works fine.

[DennisLfromGA]

@adamallgood,

I just tested the 'gnome' desktop target on 'focal' again today - it failed.

The 'gnome' desktop target worked on both of my 'bionic' & 'xenial' chroots with both 'xorg' & 'xiwi' methods tho.

I saw an older issue that removed the ~/.confg folder and tried it, it worked once but failed after that.
I updated the chroot (sudo crouton -n focal -u) and it worked just once again but failed after that.

I get the below error:

/usr/bin/xinit: connection to X server lost

but I haven't been able to determine exactly what's wrong, sorry.

-DennisLfromGA

[X4X5]

As a rhythm gamer, I've found that using CRAS is more accurate for timing than PulseAudio is. With that being said, do we really need to install PulseAudio during installation?

[riarumoda]

hey, anyone want to test my fix?

technically not my fix since this is a mix of other audio fix for crouton laying around on the internet

thx for whatever guy that recover the original hastebin and posted it to pastebin! (i mean that .asoundrc file)

tested on ChromeOS (rammus) with brunch, on Asus_X407UF (Intel i7-8550U)

Pastebin

[krome-3k]

Please make this work on ARM64 chromebooks.

[betapictoris]

Please make this work on ARM64 chromebooks.

Please stay on topic if you are looking for Unity support on ARM it is not going to happen!
Ubuntu can still be ran on ARM64 you just need to use a different desktop, considering Unity is discontinued it doesn't matter much anyway.

[krome-3k]

No i am not looking for unity desktop.. i use xfce and for arm64 chromebooks crouton only has a stable xenial. I would very much like to use a stable fossa with xfce on arm64 chromebooks with sound and everything else working. I can offer to test it on my device to any developer who is involved with fossa on crouton. Shoutout to all involved devs.

[Litonewo]

What desktops currently work with Focal?

[krome-3k]

I will check and get back to you

[betapictoris]

No i am not looking for unity desktop.. i use xfce and for arm64 chromebooks crouton only has a stable xenial. I would very much like to use a stable fossa with xfce on arm64 chromebooks with sound and everything else working. I can offer to test it on my device to any developer who is involved with fossa on crouton. Shoutout to all involved devs.

Please read the README's documentation on other releases. You must specify the -r option!

[betapictoris]

What desktops currently work with Focal?

I have, personally, seen good success with XFCE...

[sanrobin]

I have, personally, seen good success with XFCE...

I am currently trying to install e17 in focal. Hope it works.

[sanrobin]

I am currently trying to install e17 in focal. Hope it works.

nah i didnt work.

[krome-3k]

No i am not looking for unity desktop.. i use xfce and for arm64 chromebooks crouton only has a stable xenial. I would very much like to use a stable fossa with xfce on arm64 chromebooks with sound and everything else working. I can offer to test it on my device to any developer who is involved with fossa on crouton. Shoutout to all involved devs.

Please read the README's documentation on other releases. You must specify the -r option!

Yes i know.. stop stating the obvious

[betapictoris]

No i am not looking for unity desktop.. i use xfce and for arm64 chromebooks crouton only has a stable xenial. I would very much like to use a stable fossa with xfce on arm64 chromebooks with sound and everything else working. I can offer to test it on my device to any developer who is involved with fossa on crouton. Shoutout to all involved devs.

Please read the README's documentation on other releases. You must specify the -r option!

Yes i know.. stop stating the obvious

Okay, then I don't know what you want me to say. I have a Focal XFCE chroot setup, on arch64.

[betapictoris]

I am currently trying to install e17 in focal. Hope it works.

nah i didnt work.

Not surprised. E17 was released somewhere around 2012... I wouldn't even think you could get it to work, through a PPA, on a normal Focal device!

[krome-3k]

No i am not looking for unity desktop.. i use xfce and for arm64 chromebooks crouton only has a stable xenial. I would very much like to use a stable fossa with xfce on arm64 chromebooks with sound and everything else working. I can offer to test it on my device to any developer who is involved with fossa on crouton. Shoutout to all involved devs.

Please read the README's documentation on other releases. You must specify the -r option!

Yes i know.. stop stating the obvious

Okay, then I don't know what you want me to say. I have a Focal XFCE chroot setup, on arch64.

Is audio working??

[ZZZXXX0110]

My audio is working on Focal with xfce4 and with Sommelier with the fix listed here. But I recently noticed that launching any GUI app or the xfce4 desktop in Crouton would break HDMI audio output for the entire Chrome OS including any apps running on Crouton, HDMI audio won't work for Android apps or Chrome OS native webapps, although my device's built in speaker and Bluetooth audio are not affected. The only way to fix it seems to do a complete reboot.

I made a new issue post on this with more information: #4605

[jefbal99]

UPDATE: FINALLY (took me literally 3 minutes to get audio setup using that guide: My complete tutorial: Install focal Fossa with this command: sudo crouton -r focal -t xorg,audio,core,gtk-extra,x11,xfce. Wait for crouton to do its thing. Create a username and pass, then sudo enter-chroot and enter the following commands:

sudo apt-get remove --purge pulseaudio alsa-base sudo apt-get install alsa-base sudo usermod -a -G hwaudio "$USER" This command adds you to the hardware audio group. Exit the chroot, then on Chrome-OS, enter the following command: sudo initctl stop cras This stops cras (the default audio server crouton uses, which doesnt work so is useless). Then sudo enter-chroot again and enter the command: cat /proc/asound/cards. This will list off your audio cards on your chromebook, my cards name is chtmax98090 but yours may be different. The name of your card will be the second line after "1 [" e.g. mine was 1 [chtmax98090 Now enter the command nano ~/.asoundrc and paste the following:

https://hastebin.com/usiqejifuv.shell

I had to put it in hastebin because github was doing weird formatting stuff

Nano may not be installed so install it using: sudo apt install nano -y while were at it install pulseaudio again: sudo apt install pulseaudio -y (the -y flag skips the yes or no confirmation with apt) Once you've pasted that into ~/.asoundrc, use the keybind: ctrl+o to save and press enter, then ctrl+x to exit. Next install gnome control center if not already installed using: sudo apt install gnome-control-center Then when its installed exit the chroot and start xfce using: sudo startxfce4 Go to your settings and click session and startup (or something like that) then click applications startup at the top and click add at the bottom. We need to execute two commands at startup: You can name these whatever you want with a description of whatever you want but for the command we need these commands: pulseaudio --start then click ok now click add one more time, again the title and description can be whatever you want but the command must be: xfce4-panel The pulseaudio start command starts the pulseaudio server and the panel command insures the panel starts everytime. (otherwise you may have a hard time using your applications) Now in order for audio to start working, exit the chroot and start xfce again. Now just customize and your done!

The hastebin script for the audio is gone as hastebin was bought out, can it be reposted elsewhere?

[ShipmasterKyle]

For those of you having issues with the downloads I'll qoute kapilhp's soulution.

The "quick and dirty" fix for this is to comment out the line revoking the key during su -l. The relevant line in /etc/pam.d/su-l should be commented out as below.

# session		optional	pam_keyinit.so force revoke

The point is that Debian/Ubuntu now revokes the keys when doing su -l by default. However, crouton activates the chroot via su -l. Perhaps crouton should be using some other method (schroot or other?) to enter the chroot.

[DennisLfromGA]

Since crouton is now in 'maintenance only' status, Focal Fossa will not be tested and made the default release.

For more details see this important PSA:

• crouton is now maintenance-only crouton is now maintenance-only #4654