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rolfie

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Registered: 2017-11-25

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Test report Freia netinstall 20260819

Is my second test in a VBox VM. My setup: German language, keyboard, timezone, expert install to cli with sysvinit, luks encrypted. Manual installation of Cinnamon DE on X11 w/o recommends to reduce the usual bloat and to get a system with that sw I like and need. I am using my notes so the result is mostly reproduceable.

Installer: no comments

German language in DE wasn't set: fixed.
Time zone not set: problem still present. There is a discussion ongoing on github LinuxMint/Cinnamon #13922. Fixed locally by installing ntpsec.
Call up of several graphical applications on the DE only worked once (bug #972): solved by adding accountservices to cinnamon as a dependency (upstream).
syslog-ng installed now, solves bug #973. I have to have a look at logrotate on the next ISO.

So far so good, no further comments.

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your work.

rolfie

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Re: Test report Freia netinstall 20260819

Testing the 20260903 iso at first glance shows no new topics. logrotate is present.

ovi

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Re: Test report Freia netinstall 20260819

I see some strange characters in the terminal (I use xfce4-terminal). I can't remember if I saw them since I run Freia on a VM.

I haven't tried with another terminal. I usually have only one installed.
One question, please, regrading the forum usage. Can I attach images from my local storage to a post?

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Andre4freedom

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Re: Test report Freia netinstall 20260819

You could post you screen-dumps or image files here:
https://postimages.org/
and insert the link to your contribution here in the forum.

Good luck

ovi

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Re: Test report Freia netinstall 20260819

Thank you Andre4freedom for your answer.

Back to strange characters in the terminal, I installed foot terminal and output looks normal: no weird characters. Maybe is related to the xfce4-terminal it self, or xfce4-terminal in a Wayland session. Otherwise, everything looks great from my personal perspective

ralph.ronnquist

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Re: Test report Freia netinstall 20260819

The field of study is called "Character Encoding", grounded in the particular mechanisms in use in your circumstances.