If you want user to be able to mount a logical volume that's part of an active volume group, you should be able to add a line to fstab for that lv. Something like:

/dev/mapper/vg0-mylv  /some/mountpoint  ext4  defaults,noauto,user   0   0

Then the user can either mount it in terminal, or you could put the mount and unmount commands into panel buttons or a menu item.

Start it from a terminal and there may be some error messages.

I think you can ignore those warnings.
https://unix.stackexchange.com/question … bytes-read

I'm not surprised that gnome won't let you change an icon. The gnome devs are in love with the idea of brand identity. They don't want you to change the way the desktop looks.

Maybe, but that's not the case here. It boots fine with gnome and 5.6 bpo kernel. Here's the package list from that system.
http://distro.ibiblio.org/refracta/misc/pkglist_gnome

Also, desktop-live installed and with 5.6 kernel added works fine.

'apt install' appears on 47 lines. I realize some of those are repeated because they did not run the first time, but there was still a lot added.
You added ubuntu repository keys, so I have to wonder what was installed from ubuntu that might cause problems.
Looks like you installed the 5.7 kernel from unstable.
And you purged and reinstalled other stuff. 

I can't tell what went wrong or when it happened.

Thanks! Here's the new link:
https://git.devuan.org/devuan/documenta … aintainers

(Fixed in first post, too.)

Updated iso:
snapshot_chimaera_01-20200702_1212.iso
https://get.refracta.org/files/experimental/

This one is bigger because it has both 5.6 and 5.7 kernels (and headers).
It boots 5.7 by default. To boot 5.6 you need to press TAB or e to edit the boot command. Change vmlinuz and initrd.img to vmlinuz.1 and initrd.img.1

Also added crda, wireless-regdb, ca-certificates, firefox-esr.

I installed that iso in a qemu VM in uefi mode. I can't get it to boot at all without booting from the iso and using grub commands to boot the virtual hard disk. That's a qemu issue, I'm pretty sure. Anyway, it boots like that, and when I install gnome, it still boots that way, and it's pretty fast.

If you try installing from that iso, user the cli installer, not the graphical one in the apps menu. I ran into gtk problems with that. Just run 'refractainstaller' as root.

One way to get more information is to edit /etc/udev/udev.conf and set udev_log="debug" and make sure it's uncommented.

If you want to try with the system that I'm using for testing, I can upload a live-iso later today.

Use apt, apt-get or aptitude remove Package.
You probably won't need to name all of them, as some will come out automatically with others.
Aptitude will most likely remove more than the others.

You can do 'apt autoremove' afterward to get rid of unneeded packages that weren't already removed.

'apt-get autoclean' will get rid of the obsolete packages in /var/cache/apt/archives
'apt-get clean' will get rid of all the packages in /var/cache/apt/archives

I have no idea, but it sounds like you know what you're doing. I've never done it that way.

Cool! I'm glad you like it.

I neglected to make an announcement, but the beowulf version of refracta is no longer in beta. Refracta10 is here! Some bugs mentioned in this thread have been fixed or workarounds are in place.
That was discussed here: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=3520

Isos are here:
https://get.refracta.org/files/stable/

The question mark and square bracket are the prompt. I got the same. And it did what I said!

And more...

This required some minor hacking to get around dependency issues. When sysvinit gets removed, live-config-sysvinit and refractasnapshot go with it. I copied all the files into place and it works. There needs to be a live-config-runit package.

user@refracta:~$ cat /proc/1/comm 
runit
user@refracta:~$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev            480M     0  480M   0% /dev
tmpfs            99M  392K   99M   1% /run
/dev/sr0        965M  965M     0 100% /run/live/medium
/dev/loop0      927M  927M     0 100% /run/live/rootfs/filesystem.squashfs
tmpfs           494M  440K  493M   1% /run/live/overlay
overlay         494M  440K  493M   1% /

System was installed in a VM, and the live-iso was made with refractasnapshot.
The iso boots in qemu and also isohybrid usb boots on hardware. Stuff works.
This is in beowulf. I think aitor may have done this already. I'm surprised at how easy it was.