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Image release

From build 3044 the development baton passed to Mark Crossley. Mark has been responsible for all the Builds since. He has made the code available on GitHub. It is Mark's hope that others will join in this development, but at the very least he welcomes your ideas for future developments (see Cumulus MX Development suggestions).

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You said you are going to release a new image as well for the new upcoming 3.16 version.

I recently noticed that the image has the systemd daemon starting method installed and it starts immediately. That is all very fine but it starts with locale GB. When users are migrating from previous Cumulus installations (as the most important situation) this will cause havoc because the naming and the contents of the logfiles will change.

I know we discussed this issue before and it's being worked on, but I think at least a warning should be given on this issue when using the image, if possible prevent it (systemd disabled and asking for a locale?).
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Don't you just need to set the system locale before configuring Cumulus?

Nothing locale dependent is written until CMX has been configured with a station and restarted.
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Ah true, with a fresh install you configure CMX and then it starts running.
However, a warning is useful as users apparently forget about the locale as they are eager to get things running. Anyway, I repaired a sitution which had mixed locales :?
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We need a Wiki update! :)
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It fact it is already there as a step to perform before configuring CMX. I have just boldened it and added a warning.

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mcrossley wrote: Fri 29 Apr 2022 2:36 pm It fact it is already there as a step to perform before configuring CMX. I have just boldened it and added a warning.

https://cumuluswiki.org/a/Raspberry_Pi_ ... Connection
Thanks.
I will modify with a warning for bullseye as that does only change the language setting and not the separators. So you need to set LC_ALL in /etc/default/locale to the locale you need (e.g. LC_ALL=nl_NL.UTF-8).
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Ta, the next image will be based on bullseye. So the default user will be changing too as "pi" has been removed.
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mcrossley wrote: Fri 29 Apr 2022 3:28 pm Ta, the next image will be based on bullseye. So the default user will be changing too as "pi" has been removed.
Is that so? I never noticed when I installed bullseye. Still using pi.
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The change happened in the April build I think
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And what's the motivation of that (realtime chat required ;) )
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Security, lots of people never changed the default password. :bash:

You now have to create a user account on first boot and set it's password. Tricky if you run headless!

The cmx image will have a standard user and we trust our users are smart enough to follow the instructions and change its password. :roll:
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