Errors and difficulties you may see

(so far just based on the author’s own experiences when this project began in 2020)

contributions welcome

This can only ever be a partial list of difficulties with the above procedures, not intended to be complete since this isn’t a manual on Ubuntu configuration or dual-booting. Quick solutions to common problems in this section that would help other Frankenwallet installers are welcome for submission through the repository.

wspanish (or other unnecessary) package can’t be added during installation time… this is harmless & can be ignored.

• errors seen during installation (inconsequential) in 20.04.1 release
• in this case, the wspanish package had a dependency problem.
• Generally: if the Ubuntu installation stops to complain about such a package, just ignore the problem and click Continue.
• Any dependency problems found in the installation are almost guaranteed to be cleaned up the first time doing an apt update in the booted system.

snap won’t go quietly

• Some Linux distributions install LVM as a snap, and for these we may have a dependency problem.
• I managed to scuttle one system by removing one of the snaps, even though it wasn’t LVM.

asked to “run fsck manually on root” to start after a disk check failure

• likewise if writes fail, and you try to save a file in the shell and it says “read only file system”
• we’ve had no positive results from actually running fsck on root as it suggests.
• therefore best to reboot when you see this message
• If you see this message repeatedly, you probably have to reinstall… another argument for saving all Frankenwallet files in either high- or low-security encrypted backups on the host machine.

if you can’t Restart or Shut Down after you get in that “read only” state, it’s no problem powering off.

• No point doing a “sync” since any further writes to the disk are impossible: therefore you’re not losing anything further by powering off the machine (without being able to shut down, in fact it’s the only thing you can do).