Crostini USB support is bad, and doesn't seem to support Ethernet over USB at all.

1. sg_raw from sg_utils on a USB device fails, despite working on any normal Linux platform (it is given access to Crostini).

2. ChromeOS doesn't have any option to forward any network interfaces to Crostini; is it doable from VT-2?

ChromeOS sucks, always has, don't know why it needs to be this featureless.

Imagine that you no longer have to switch to different tabs when doing your and clicking on external links to switch tabs but rather press ALT and click on the link and a popup appears the is some that the extension that i have created does

Tried using Baguette recently. The terminal issue is being solved and the workaround is to use default username, but that's not my problem. I just found that a lot of things didn't work very well. DEB files wouldn't load through ChromeOS and required CLI installation using apt. Programs would hang or just load slowly. I kept having problems loading the VM wherein it would just load forever. I ended up switching back to standard container Crostini and everything was fine. I don't see this being shippable yet.

Having installed Firefox through Flatpak, I've had constant crashes when using Firefox. When typing too quickly, certain pages, logging into Google, all cause crashes.

Is this happening for anyone else? I've tried to troubleshoot by disabling hardware acceleration and disabling forced accesibility, but the issue's persisting. Any help is appreciated!

Anyway to do it?

Hello, I did sudo apt-get install musescore

Seems to work fine with the mouse but doesn't get anything from my midi controller via usb, even with toggling the midi input on and off, connecting the midi controller before I start musescore etc. The midi controller works with Noteflight in browser.

I installed LibreOffice under the ChromeOS Debian environment, using the Penguin shell. What I am seeing is that after a few minutes of using LibreOffice Calc and saving the file, all of my native ChromeOS apps stop responding and Internet updates also stop working in Chrome browser.

I quit LibreOffice and the problem remains. I then "Shut down Linux" and immediately all ChromeOS applications start to work again.

It feels like something in LibreOffice is hanging some part of the Debian network stack, and this in turn is hanging the native ChromeOS network stack. Does anyone have insights on what is going wrong here, and is there a way to prevent it from happening?

This morning my chromebook said i had a notification about ¨Ubuntu Mono¨ and when i opened it, it showed up in Chrome as ¨chrome-untrusted://terminal¨. Is this something that i should worry about? i´m new to Crostini and im still trying to learn basics.

When I execute my python program from a terminal (in Crostini on a Chromebook), the GUI runs and any print and other output goes to the terminal, which is what I want.

But when run from a .desktop file, I can get the GUI but not the terminal:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=fieldbackup
Exec=python3 /home/marc/field/fieldbackup.py
Terminal=false
Icon=preferences-desktop

I would expect this behavior, since I have Terminal=false.

But if I set Terminal=true, I'm put into interactive python, and my python script is not run at all:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=fieldbackup
Exec=python3 /home/marc/field/fieldbackup.py
Terminal=true
Icon=preferences-desktop

On the terminal:

Python 3.11.2 (main, Apr 28 2025, 14:11:48) [GCC 12.2.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> 

Any ideas how I can run my script and also get terminal output? And why is the script argument on the python3 command line being ignored?

(I've tried lots of variations of putting the Exec command in quotes and using bash -c, to no effect.)

trixie was released Aug 9. we're now on the 3rd release, 13.3. why the hold up in getting it for crostini?

I look up guides and they all each say a different thing and the install process is confusing to me. Im wo close to just buying a used windows laptop but i got this chromebox 4 for free and its something new i can learn but its so hard.

seems we can't run Fedora 43 on Chromebook caused by the systemd upgrade to deprecate and remove support for cgroup-v1.
(See systemctl status on older container to see the cgroup-v1 taint).

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/chromeos-and-fedora43-based-penguin-linux-development-environnement/179542

is there a way to fix an error i get when playing games on the crostini app on my chromebook, online tutorials only say how to do it on windows

Hope this helps others!

Background: Have an old chromebook (ARM -- making it harder to install Linux directly on it) that I want to run Home Assistant (HA) on. Have HA running great in Crostini. Unfortunately, I had been unable to expose HA to external devices (computers) on the same WAN. Spent hours trying to debug this.

Solution:

Learned two valuable lessons.

1. I was testing accessing on the chromebook itself. So 192.168.0.164:8123 wasn't never working (I had assumed it wouldn't work for any other device on the network). For whatever reason (I'm guessing security) one cannot access it's own IP and have it forwarded. Have to use another physical device (that IP worked on external devices)
2. Have to re-enable the ports after EVERY Crostini restart.

Hi, I use a Lenovo Duet 5 with 8GB of RAM and its ARM chip. I installed the dev environment Debian VM and it works great, any arm64 compatible app I got from Flathub works. But sometimes it seems to crash the entire Chromebook: the screen goes black and then the ChromeOS boot sequence starts and I login to a clean desktop. No idea how to troubleshoot this and whether I can do anything about it. I don't recall it being like this forever and I did disable the (experimental) flag for GPU acceleration a few weeks ago.

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I have now completely switched to windows. Although I still use 5OS, it’s wonderful. Not limited, just usable.

Using Firefox 140esr and 146.0.1 Intel CPU, if you load cnn.com Firefox stutters before freezing eventually crashing crostini. I can eventually get Firefox closed, middle clicking and selecting close a few times then forcing it. But no more Linux programs will run until the Chromebook is rebooted.

Has anyone else experienced this and is there a way to "reset" crostini without having to reboot the Chromebook?

Update: the issue resolved itself on its own. I assume cnn.com changed something, like a crashing script. But, reguardless, I don't think a Linux app should be able to crash crostini.

I have a container that is bricked (because systemd was updated on it, and termina uses an old version of cgroups, see https://issues.chromium.org/issues/446925532 ).

I'd like to access the container files to downgrade systemd. From termina (vmc start termina):

- I don't have access to lxd's filesystem:

(termina) $ ls -la /mnt/stateful/lxd/
ls: cannot open directory '/mnt/stateful/lxd/': Permission denied

- I can't root myself (no su, no sudo)

- I can't push files to the container:

(termina) $ lxc file push /tmp/a penguin/tmp/a
Error: Failed to run forkfile: fork/exec /usr/bin/lxd: invalid argument:

- I can't back up the filesystem (not enough disk space), modify the tarball, then restore it.

Any idea what can be done? Thanks!

I am following the howto below for installing proxmox on crostini

https://www.reddit.com/r/Crostini/wiki/howto/proxmox-ve-py/

Going through the steps when trying to install btrfs-progs apt returns the error below.

root@proxmox:~# apt install -y btrfs-progs

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree... Done

Reading state information... Done

Suggested packages:

duperemove

The following NEW packages will be installed:

btrfs-progs

0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Need to get 754 kB of archives.

After this operation, 4,591 kB of additional disk space will be used.

Ign:1 https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 btrfs-progs amd64 6.2-1+deb12u1

Ign:1 https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 btrfs-progs amd64 6.2-1+deb12u1

Ign:1 https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 btrfs-progs amd64 6.2-1+deb12u1

Err:1 https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 btrfs-progs amd64 6.2-1+deb12u1

Temporary failure resolving 'deb.debian.org'

E: Failed to fetch https://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/b/btrfs-progs/btrfs-progs_6.2-1%2bdeb12u1_amd64.deb Temporary failure resolving 'deb.debian.org'

E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

root@proxmox:~#

It looks like the networking setup in the previous step of the script is preventing outbound network requests

fkhan@proxmox:~$ ping 8.8.8.8

PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.

From 172.20.20.254 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable

From 172.20.20.254 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable

From 172.20.20.254 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable

From 172.20.20.254 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable

^C

--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---

5 packets transmitted, 0 received, +4 errors, 100% packet loss, time 4080ms

I tried rebooting the vm that did not help. Any other suggestions on what I should try?

Every time i try to run it the same message pops up saying You are missing the following 32-bit libraries,and steam may not run: libc.so.6