Currently reading short story "Hail and Farewell" by Ray Bradbury.
Not in the mood for that kind of stuff this week.
I heard about something called "House of whispers" which has something to do with Neil Gaiman. That seems more intresting. Maybe some day.

GlennW, any ideas concerning seatd and tty:s ?
I would like to have a working xorg/xfce/lxdm again. There may be some things i would like to do this week.

I had a problem with startx recently. Maybe related, maybe not.

Today i realized that netinstall's sofware won't necessarily "see" Fuhitsu's motherboard from within the vm. It's rater that PIIX4 or ICH9.
So that may have some effect on whether or not there will be bootable ESP-partition inside that vm.

From ~/.xession-errors if found rows with: "failed to execute child process /usr/bin/pm-is-supported" . So maybe there are package or 2 missing. Have to find which.

Edit. I have already tried ctr+alt+del, ctrl+alt+backspace. Didn't seem to do anything. Maybe i'll try again but somewhat i doubt that they help.

Also tried to make an EFI (or ESP)partition into that virtual hd. Not sure if i succeeded. I guess making gpt-style partition table was a wrong move.
But i could make a bios partition. Unfortunately couldn't boot that vm from vhd.

There's no .asoundrc  or asound.conf nor alsamixergui in my system. I'll have to install some packages. But anyways, wireplumber was the quick fix.

Yep, still no /dev/dsp in Daedalus.
But installing wireplumber seemed to be the easy way out of silence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL6NUBk_j6M

... but there is no need to modify initrd if there is only 1 big / -partition . No separate /home or swap or anything.

But right now i'm not going to start all over from scratch.

I'm between sixes and sevens about that EFI partition(and SB). Maybe i'll bypass that someday(if i can). Boot straight into /boot part instead. With a pre-EFI-era machine that's trivial operation. But maybe not with that Fujitsu.

But I've been also thinking that shim should contain public keys for some distros, right? So with a stock kernel and a one_size_fits_all_initrd there shouldn't be problems with shim when booting those?

... on the other hand, to be able to mount /home from encrypted lvm partition(that is not /) during boot means that initrd has to be modified ...

Edit. I'm under an impression from mokutil-related pages that i can make my own keys with openssl and sign whatever i want on /boot with them. The user_made keys are supposed to go to firmware, right?

Next time i'll try to remember check the "/"-situation after configuring LVM but before "done". Just in case.

Today i was able to boot the livedvd's,  so last night i must have changed the firmware settings before trying to boot the Chimaera or Daedalus

Still planning to run that memtest though.

The installation procedure wasn't like that.

sda1=EFI
sda2=/boot
sda3=reserved for encrypted /
sda4=reserved for encrypted VG

would be the idea as far as the partitioning goes.

That "Logical Volume" part was the problem. As i said before, i was able to make /dev/sda3_crypt and /dev/sda4_crypt . Even make a PV inside /dev/sda4_crypt .
But the problems started when trying to make VG, and devices /dev/vg/swap and /dev/vg/home . And make those the swap device and /home - partition. I ran into complaints about /-partition. Couldn't get past  that "partitioning the disk"-phase.

I guess i could provide some screenshots after i have successfully installed xorg and vbox, to clarify what i mean. But that will take some time.