Oh, that log doesn't have enough in it. Please run refractasnapshot in debug mode. For the cli script, run refractasnapshot -d and if you used the graphical version, start it from a root terminal (or sudo) as refractasnapshot-gui -d

If the snapshots are being made on a system with a swap partition or an encrypted root filesystem, that might be causing a problem. I'd need to see the debug log to be sure.

Looking at the varied selection of isos that are not working, I'm thinking maybe it's a problem with virtualization. But that's a guess.

@bobsmith
To become root, use su - and you will have root's PATH. Otherwise, you need to use the full path to the command: /usr/sbin/grub-install

If you post or paste or send me refractainstaller.log I might be able to see what the problem is. (If you use the cli installer, please start it as 'refractainstaller -d' to get a more verbose error log. Thanks.)

The extra zcat was needed at the time it was added because the microcode put an extra layer on the initrd.img. I guess that got fixed and snapshot needs to be changed again. That section of code also needs to support the new compression, zstd.

Thanks for posting this.

I'm not seeing any weird behavior with claws mail. I was going to post this a few hours ago and include the warning that my results might not match yours because I'm using lxqt with openbox. Now I see you're using the same.

I have the sapphire theme selected in the openbox settings (and in openbox configuration manager) and silver theme selected in lxqt preferences.
This is daedalus on ASUS EEE netbook, 1366x768 display.

Looks like it's working correctly. You get automatic login in the live-isos. You picked a nox iso, so there's No X. You can run commands. In the live session you can use sudo for any commands or you can use su to become root. The root password is root and the user password is user in case you need it.

Next you should run mocp and listen to half a minute of Dark Star.

If you want to install it, sudo refractainstaller will work.

OK, that's nice that you don't have an overheating problem, but the point I was trying to make is that if you want to reduce cpu load, you can stop letting a bunch of strangers use your cpu. Javascript is executable code that gets run on your computer and is provided by people you don't know.

I put the iso on my old website because it was easier to get there from the build host.,
http://distro.ibiblio.org/refracta/file … p-live.iso

sha256sum

4fb0a40a6f58e358e00e940e3ac6c1112ef450dffdcb509bd0df6949041b477c  devuan_daedalus_5.0-signed-test_amd64_desktop-live.iso

Hint: "\n" means newline.

$ curl wttr.in/Miner?format="Condition:+%C\nTemperature:+%t\n"
Condition: Overcast
Temperature: -2°C

I use weather-util to get the weather and dump it in a file. Then I let conky pick lines from the file.

wrapper script: (get-weather)

#!/usr/bin/env bash

if [ -n "$1" ] ; then
	station="$1"
else
	station="klax"
fi

weather -v "$station"

~/.conkyrc lines

{color}${execi 1800 /home/fred/bin/get-weather > .current_weather}   ${execi 1800 awk '/Temperature/ { print $0 }' .current_weather }     ${execi 1800 awk '/Humidity/ { print $0 }' .current_weather} 

or

${color}${execi 1800 /home/fred/bin/get-weather.sh > .current_weather} ${color}${execi 1800 cat .current_weather | grep -E "United|Wind|Sky|Temperature|Dew|Humidity|Pressure"}

Hmm... that first one isn't working right for me. Something wrong with my alighment or width. Play with the output if you want. I'm using the second one.

If you want to see the whole .conkyrc, I'll show you, but I think you can find multiple examples somewhere on this forum. I'm sure there have been some discussions.

I don't have .xsessionrc either. I'm using xfce, so I put the start commands in a script and added that script to my desktop startup applications.

It looks like this. Give it a name, make it executable, put it in your path (/usr/local/bin or ~/bin if you have one) and add that script to your startup apps.

#!/usr/bin/env bash

wireplumber &

pipewire &

pipewire-pulse &

You'll need to exit the desktop and log in again for it to take effect. If you still have no sound, run pavucontrol and check the settings, and/or run alsamixer in a terminal and check the settings - F6 will let you select the audio device.

I can't check that, but I can suggest that you partition the disk manually as gpt using gdisk or gparted. Then when you run the installer, you can select the partitions you created.

If you use gpt with legacy bios boot, you need a special partition, at least 1MB size, with no filesystem on it ("unformatted" in gparted) and with a flag of ef02 (in gdisk) or bios_grub (in gparted).

Unfortunately, if you run your system in a different language, refracta tools will still be in English. Sorry about that.

The two most likely ways to use refracta2usb are the following options:

ISO_!   04   Create Live-USB from unpacked CD image.
This will unpack the iso file and copy some files to a directory that you name on the usb. If the iso file is bootable by both uefi and legacy bios, both of those methods will be copied to the usb. If the iso does not boot uefi, then only the syslinux bootloader will be added.

or

ISO_2    05  Create Live-USB using intact iso and findiso boot option
This will copy the iso file to the usb and use the findiso option from live-boot to locate the .iso file and boot that. The difference is that filesystem.squashfs is not visible like it is in the ISO_1 option. It also make the intact iso file available for easily sharing it with someone.

The directory structure on the USB will be something like the following if you were to use both methods listed above. This multi-boot USB has two live systems on it. Refracta8_amd64 was added to the usb using the ISO_1 option, and jessie-ice was added using the ISO_2 method. Either system will boot on uefi or legacy bios with this setup.

	
	|── boot
	│   └── grub
	│       ├── efiboot.img
	│       ├── font.pf2
	│       ├── grub.cfg
	│       ├── splash.png
	│       └── x86_64-efi
	|── efi
	│   └── boot
	│       └── bootx64.efi
	├── jessie_ice
	│   ├── initrd.img
	│   ├── jessie-ice-template-20170103_1454.iso
	│   └── vmlinuz
	├── refracta8_amd64
	│   ├── live
	│   │   ├── filesystem.squashfs
	│   │   ├── initrd.img
	│   │   ├── memtest
	│   │   ├── vmlinuz
	│   └── pkglist_refracta8_xfce_amd64_rc1-20160923_1334
	│       └── package_list
	└── syslinux
	    ├── live.cfg[c][/c]
	    ├── (other files)