Screen size issues after update with diederik script

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Screen size issues after update with diederik script - pine-user - 05-13-2026

After updating a fresh PineNote there are now problems with the sizing of the display. The battery percentage is cut off on the right, and the on screen keyboard is partially cut off on the bottom. The application icons in the application view are small and harder to see now than they were before, and there is no text description under them.

The steps I took were the following:

I just got a new PineNote. It was working fine out of the box. I tried running apt upgrade:

Code:
sudo apt update

sudo apt upgrade

and I got the following error message:

Code:
******************************************************************************

*

* The base-files package cannot be installed because

* /lib64 is a symbolic link and not pointing at usr/lib64 exactly.

*

* This is an unexpected situation. Cannot proceed with the upgrade.

*

* For more information please read https://wiki.debian.org/UsrMerge.

*

******************************************************************************

I tried deleting the symbolic link as suggested here. The upgrade proceeded. During the upgrade, I was asked about updating the /etc/plymouth/plymouthd.conf config file. I chose to keep the current version. The upgrade finished without error. Over 800 packages were upgraded, and 17 packages were left unupgraded.

When I rebooted, the PineNote got stuck in a loop saying "booting". I was still able to ssh in. I followed the advice in the last post in the link above and ran the suggested script from diederik. (I downloaded the tar.gz labeled v0.0.4.) After running the script over ssh, the boot loop exited to the desktop screen on the PineNote. I rebooted again, and the PineNote booted normally and showed the desktop screen after booting.

However, at this point I noticed the screen size and icon size/label issues which I described above.

I have screenshots, but I'm not sure how to attach them.