ERRORS SO FAR
I think I should dedicate a post to errors since I am so error-prone.
* I do not do this on purpose to torture you - sometimes things work only on my Clara that I discover later, e.g. by clean install on new SD card!
CRITICAL STEP (or /sbin/agetty won't run):
# cp /mnt/onboard/.adds/koreader/libs/ld-musl-armhf.so.1 /lib/
This is the the same loader ld-musl-armhf.so.1 from the elinks install in a previous post.
Obviously if I am running binary from /sbin without the library path of /mnt/onboard/.adds/koreader/libs/, then I need to supply the loader in the base /lib/ directory.
I did not realize that I had done this on my Clara some months ago.
Your fbpad w/USB keyboard won't work without starting and pkilling agetty (or equivalent).
IMPORTANT NOTE: ON MY KOBO, EITHER USB OR WIFI NETWORKING (WHETHER CONNECTED TO HOTSPOT OR NOT) HAD TO BE ENABLED OR DEVICE FREEZES (when running fbkeyboard). WHO KNOWS WHY?
SORRY FOR ANY FRUSTRATION - I HAD DONE MANY SUCCESSFUL TESTS NOT REALIZING THAT ENABLING WIFI WAS RELEVANT!
Somewhere I renamed fbpads in my upload to fbpadS in my NickelMenu entries.
That might cause error...
Anything else?Hopefully that's it.
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CAUTION: You know how Nickel does all that background work when you connect USB cable to desktop, click "connect", then later unmount?
Well, there may be a risk of data corruption if you had a loop mounted file, e.g. Alpine chroot.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...38&postcount=2
So better don't try this. But if you DO connect a USB cable, either exit the chroot and unmount the loop first, OR click "cancel" and use SSH/Telnet networking instead. (I have done this for months.)
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