Merged bug fix found in R3 build #2

overlay/etc/chrony/chrony.conf

@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+# Welcome to the chrony configuration file. See chrony.conf(5) for more
+# information about usable directives.
+
+# Include configuration files found in /etc/chrony/conf.d.
+confdir /etc/chrony/conf.d
+
+# This will use (up to):
+# - 4 sources from ntp.ubuntu.com which some are ipv6 enabled
+# - 2 sources from 2.ubuntu.pool.ntp.org which is ipv6 enabled as well
+# - 1 source from [01].ubuntu.pool.ntp.org each (ipv4 only atm)
+# This means by default, up to 6 dual-stack and up to 2 additional IPv4-only
+# sources will be used.
+# At the same time it retains some protection against one of the entries being
+# down (compare to just using one of the lines). See (LP: #1754358) for the
+# discussion.
+#
+# About using servers from the NTP Pool Project in general see (LP: #104525).
+# Approved by Ubuntu Technical Board on 2011-02-08.
+# See http://www.pool.ntp.org/join.html for more information.
+pool ntp.ubuntu.com        iburst maxsources 4
+pool 0.ubuntu.pool.ntp.org iburst maxsources 1
+pool 1.ubuntu.pool.ntp.org iburst maxsources 1
+pool 2.ubuntu.pool.ntp.org iburst maxsources 2
+
+# Use time sources from DHCP.
+sourcedir /run/chrony-dhcp
+
+# Use NTP sources found in /etc/chrony/sources.d.
+sourcedir /etc/chrony/sources.d
+
+# This directive specify the location of the file containing ID/key pairs for
+# NTP authentication.
+keyfile /etc/chrony/chrony.keys
+
+# This directive specify the file into which chronyd will store the rate
+# information.
+driftfile /var/lib/chrony/chrony.drift
+
+# Save NTS keys and cookies.
+ntsdumpdir /var/lib/chrony
+
+# Uncomment the following line to turn logging on.
+#log tracking measurements statistics
+
+# Log files location.
+logdir /var/log/chrony
+
+# Stop bad estimates upsetting machine clock.
+maxupdateskew 100.0
+
+# This directive enables kernel synchronisation (every 11 minutes) of the
+# real-time clock. Note that it can’t be used along with the 'rtcfile' directive.
+rtcsync
+
+# Step the system clock instead of slewing it if the adjustment is larger than
+# one second, but only in the first three clock updates.
+makestep 1 3
+
+# Get TAI-UTC offset and leap seconds from the system tz database.
+# This directive must be commented out when using time sources serving
+# leap-smeared time.
+leapsectz right/UTC
+
+# ET: Enable GPS as a time source
+refclock SHM 0 refid GPS poll 4 precision 1e-3 offset 0.128

overlay/etc/crontab

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+# /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab
+# Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab'
+# command to install the new version when you edit this file
+# and files in /etc/cron.d. These files also have username fields,
+# that none of the other crontabs do.
+
+SHELL=/bin/sh
+# You can also override PATH, but by default, newer versions inherit it from the environment
+#PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
+
+# Example of job definition:
+# .---------------- minute (0 - 59)
+# |  .------------- hour (0 - 23)
+# |  |  .---------- day of month (1 - 31)
+# |  |  |  .------- month (1 - 12) OR jan,feb,mar,apr ...
+# |  |  |  |  .---- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0 or 7) OR sun,mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat
+# |  |  |  |  |
+# *  *  *  *  * user-name command to be executed
+17 *	* * *	root    cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly
+25 6	* * *	root	test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily )
+47 6	* * 7	root	test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly )
+52 6	1 * *	root	test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly )
+
+# ET: Restore old-releases apt repository on startup
+@reboot root cp /root/emcomm-tools-os-community/overlay/etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/

overlay/etc/default/gpsd

@@ -1,6 +1,14 @@
 # Author  : Gaston Gonzalez
 # Date    : 4 October
+# Updated : 6 October
 # Purpose : GPS configuration for EmComm Tools
+#
+# Note: The 3.22 version of gpsd shipped with Ubuntu 22.04 has an issue
+# obtaining subsequent positions after the initial fix. 
+# 
+# See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gpsd/+bug/2011721 
+#
+# Workaround: Use -b option or upgrade to gpsd 3.25
 
 # Prevent starting automatically by systemd 
 START_DAEMON="false"
@@ -13,4 +21,5 @@ USBAUTO="false"
 DEVICES="/dev/et-gps"
 
 # -n should be used when using GPS as a reference clock
-GPSD_OPTIONS="-n"
+# -b user read-only mode to prevent u-blox protocol from being used
+GPSD_OPTIONS="-n -b"

overlay/etc/skel/.conkyrc

@@ -17,12 +17,12 @@ conky.config = {
 };
 
 conky.text = [[
-${font DejaVu Sans Mono:size=12}${alignc}${time %A, %B %d %Y}
+${font DejaVu Sans Mono:size=14}${alignc}${time %A, %B %d %Y}
 Local: ${alignr}${time %H:%M:%S}
 UTC: ${alignr}${tztime UTC %H:%M:%S}
 Uptime: ${uptime}
 
-IP: ${execpi 3600 /opt/emcomm-tools/bin/et-system-info ip} 
+IP: ${execpi 60 /opt/emcomm-tools/bin/et-system-info ip} 
 
 ${execp /opt/emcomm-tools/bin/et-system-info release}
 CAT: ${execpi 15 /opt/emcomm-tools/bin/et-system-info et-cat}

scripts/install-gps.sh

@@ -2,9 +2,8 @@
 #
 # Author  : Gaston Gonzalez
 # Date    : 1 October 2022
-# Updated : 4 October 2024
+# Updated : 6 October 2024
 # Purpose : Configure GPS and time synch
-set -e
 
 et-log "Installing GPS packages and dependencies..."
 apt install \
@@ -26,6 +25,5 @@ et-log "Disable automatic start of gpsd..."
 systemctl disable gpsd
 
 et-log "Updating chronyd to support GPS as a time source..."
-echo "# ET: Enable GPS as a time source" >> /etc/chrony/chrony.conf
-echo "refclock SHM 0 refid GPS poll 4 precision 1e-3 offset 0.128" >> /etc/chrony/chrony.conf
+cp ../overlay/etc/chrony/chrony.conf /etc/chrony/
 systemctl restart chronyd

scripts/update-apt.sh

@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@
 # Author  : Gaston Gonzalez
 # Date    : 16 March 2024
 # Updated : 6 October 2024
-# Purpose : Updates the apt repository
+# Purpose : Updates the apt repository to use the old-releases 
 
-et-log "Updating apt to use the old repository"
+et-log "Updating apt to use the old repository..."
 
-cp -v ../overlay/etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list
-sudo chattr +i /etc/apt/sources.list
+cp -v ../overlay/etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/
+cp -v ../overlay/etc/crontab /etc/
 
 apt update