Does the gnuinos flavor of debian-installer load any non-free firmware? If so, that would probably be a bug to fix.

It has been reported that (some versions of) this script may be broken, leading to non-free firmware being loaded and installed no matter what the user chooses:

https://sources.debian.org/src/hw-detec … e.sh/#L361

The gnuinos.org website seems to be down. I am getting this page instead:

Just before seeing your last post, I had tried completely removing the nvidia GPU that was disabled at boot time but still plugged in, and I got an X session and a desktop, but no xfce4-panel.

I am now getting the same with the latest test image: graphical session starts, but no panel to be seen. So the last two test images (eudev and vdev) seem to behave the same when the integrated Intel graphics is the only GPU available. I will plug the nvidia GPU back in and let you know what happens.

UPDATE: I am getting the same Xorg error as with the previous test images when the nvidia GPU is plugged in (but disabled at boot time). So until now there has been no change in behavior, the only difference is triggered by unplugging the disabled external GPU.

I was able to boot from the USB into that computer using the devuan_daedalus_5.0.0_amd64_desktop-live image. 🤔

Crocus may be innocent after all.

Hi there, and thanks for the update! This does look like a nice Gtk GUI, so I thought I had to give it a try

Currently getting this when booting the runit XFCE amd64 live system:

elogind[XXXX]: Failed to connect to system bus: No such file or directory
elogind[XXXX]: Failed to fully start up daemon: No such file or directory

EDIT: it works fine on a VM, so the error could be caused by a failing USB flash drive.

It looks like the new JWM image does not have the dbus problem any more, thanks!

After checking further, the issue that prevents the graphical session from starting seems to be the same as with plasma-sysvinit: glamor also complains that it does not get enough instructions. So it is likely hardware related. I now need to try with the latest xfce-runit image, maybe more recent versions of some GPU driver require higher specs.

The xfce-sysvinit image boots fine on the same hardware, though.

I have been trying to boot from the JWM iso, but am getting a flashing screen with umpteen lines of this error message:

fail: dbus: unable to change to service directory: file does not exist

EDIT: no luck with the plasma-sysvinit iso either. I am getting error messages about glamor not getting enough instructions (64 vs. 128), so this is probably hardware related. I may try the xfce-sysvinit iso and see how that goes.

EDIT: the xfce-sysvinit live iso is running great, difficult to tell the difference with the installed xfce-runit system.

I like your logic of requesting extra work for Gnuinos while suggesting sending money elsewhere.

How about RYS?

Reclaim Your Sanity.

Great work, as always! Thank you aitor.

I just have one side question, about a boot time warning message saying that udevd cannot be found. Since this is expected, I was wondering what is triggering the message. So far I have found this general explanation, which sounds reasonable: "These are related to many things on Linux revolving around udev."

The line is in there: /etc/runit/bootup/02-eudev.sh. Is it for compatibility reasons? I just modified the string so it now says "Gnuinos 5.0 Daedalus rocks!" instead.

Thank you for the new ISOs. I fell asleep at some point last month, and did not realize that Daedalus has now been promoted to stable.

The Chimaera Xfce version that I installed some time ago is doing quite fine, I just updated it today. It is taking about 450MiB of RAM, which is great for a system with a complete DE, and about 950MiB with Icecat, LibreOffice and GIMP running, which is quite a feat.

I will upgrade the USB live system to the last Daedalus ISO, and see how that goes. 

UPDATE: The Gnuinos Daedalus live session works great, so I am considering installing it. A fresh install is an option, but I would like to try upgrading from Chimaera. Is there anything specific to know? simply edited the sources.list to 'daedalus' and ran apt upgrade, and that was it. Or is something missing? It currently says "Daedalus" everywhere, and all personal settings were correctly applied wherever applicable.

Well you made me curious, so I searched for d_e_a_dalus in this forum, and guess what came out:

https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=4885

My actual point is, I too like the sapphire theme very much, it almost feels like deepsea was a sort of preamble, a necessary path that unfolded into sapphire. I now need to get that Gnuinos Daedalus preview back into testing, I just noticed the 2023.06.21 images.

Good to know, thanks.

I am currently 100% happy with Gnuinos 4.0 Chimaera 64-bits Xfce, so I would like to thank you again for your effort.

The only extra system package I install is gvfs-backends, so I can sftp into other local machines right from Thunar's address bar.