Wifi and bluetooth disabled on pinephone arch-phosh

[pineuser0]

The cellular, wifi, and bluetooth icons don't respond when tapped on the drop-down menu and the screen rotation  button seems to have reverted to switching between portrait and landscape rather than between locked and adapt. The gnome settings app also won't open even after a minute of waiting, whereas the terminal app opens within five seconds.

I think connecting to ethernet might solve this, but I'd like to know if there's a solution to this that involves no internet connection. I don't recall any specific actions that led to this unwanted behavior occuring.

[lacriz]

Hi,

sounds a lot like plasma mobile to me.. have you tried the phosh DE yet?
It is imho more usable and there is a lot more development activity happening compared to plasma mobile.

[pineuser0]

Hi,

sounds a lot like plasma mobile to me.. have you tried the phosh DE yet?
It is imho more usable and there is a lot more development activity happening compared to plasma mobile.

I've just updated the post to include that the post has been wholly about a problem found in arch-phosh

[lacriz]

The cellular, wifi, and bluetooth icons don't respond when tapped on the drop-down menu and the screen rotation  button seems to have reverted to switching between portrait and landscape rather than between locked and adapt. The gnome settings app also won't open even after a minute of waiting, whereas the terminal app opens within five seconds.

Now that I think about it, I somehow stopped using the cell/wifi/bluetooth icons since I found it more helpful + responsive to change that stuff from the settings app. Now if you really cannot open the settings app (after a restart?) I see two choices:

1a) find out which files the settings process is reading (top + lsof can be of help)
1b) delete some of those files (when you are reasonable sure it is a corrupt settings file)

2) start over, be it from a backup, sd image or jumpdrive

The settings app takes its time starting up, but it should not take more than 4 or 5 seconds (from the slowest eMMC in use).
From the same eMMC, starting the Terminal takes not more than 2 seconds.

So you -may- have a problem with the memory hardware (formatting / OS image corrupted during download) you are running your installation from.

[pineuser0]

The cellular, wifi, and bluetooth icons don't respond when tapped on the drop-down menu and the screen rotation  button seems to have reverted to switching between portrait and landscape rather than between locked and adapt. The gnome settings app also won't open even after a minute of waiting, whereas the terminal app opens within five seconds.

Now that I think about it, I somehow stopped using the cell/wifi/bluetooth icons since I found it more helpful + responsive to change that stuff from the settings app. Now if you really cannot open the settings app (after a restart?) I see two choices:

1a) find out which files the settings process is reading (top + lsof can be of help)
1b) delete some of those files (when you are reasonable sure it is a corrupt settings file)

2) start over, be it from a backup, sd image or jumpdrive

The settings app takes its time starting up, but it should not take more than 4 or 5 seconds (from the slowest eMMC in use).
From the same eMMC, starting the Terminal takes not more than 2 seconds.

So you -may- have a problem with the memory hardware (formatting / OS image corrupted during download) you are running your installation from.


pineuser0 reply:

When I run gnome-control-center, it says libudisks2.so.0 is needed but doesn't exist (this was after I removed the file after seeing that gnome-control-center was throwing a different error about libudisks2.so.0 being too short or something). Also, when I connect the phone to a router via ethernet cable, nothing happens. sudo wifi-menu provides the output 'Invalid interface specifications'