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berni51

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Refracta ready for Excalibur?

On the Refracta hompage Excalibur is still classified as "Testing". However they offer an excalibur folder in the download area.
Does anybody know if Refracta is finally prepared to upgrade to excalibur?

Regards
Berni

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fsmithred

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Re: Refracta ready for Excalibur?

You must have looked at the page right before I updated it yesterday. Either that or you need to refresh the page in your browser. I uploaded new Refracta 13 (Excalibur) isos yesterday. Those are ready.
https://get.refracta.org/

For upgrades, I think the only preparation that's needed is that you should update/upgrade your daedalus and install the usrmerge package before changing sources to excalibur.  Refracta is Devuan with a different selection of packages and a few different settings. So it's ready for the next devuan release whenever the next devuan release is ready. And that happened two weeks ago.

I may as well mention it here because someone is sure to ask. "Why is it 13.1? What happened to 13.0?"
Answer: 13.0 was made two months ago and is still sitting on my hard drive. It never got uploaded while I was busy on the devuan release. So I made new ones.

https://get.refracta.org/files/stable/
https://get.refracta.org/files/testing/

berni51

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Re: Refracta ready for Excalibur?

Thankx for your kind help. Update/upgrade is just running on my Refracta machine.

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dzz

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Registered: 2016-12-01

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Re: Refracta ready for Excalibur?

Thanks for 13.1 Excalibur. Refracta Live has long been an essential addition to my USB travelling toolkit.

However:

The live-config script (/usr)/lib/live/config/1065-refracta-lang needs updating for this version
Language selector doesn't show in lightdm greeter
There is no preinstalled video player
Default xfce background xfce-x.svg (The Rat) shows rather than intended custom background
pmount for fixed disks and mmcblk* doesn't work
Udev boot error message noise (mtp and alsa)

There are simple fixes for all the above, done and tested OK here in a rebuilt ISO.

fsmithred

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Re: Refracta ready for Excalibur?

I also forgot to install gtk3-nocsd. Firefox looks like it got scalped.

Not sure where mpv went.

I'm not seeing the error messages - they're flying by too fast. I'm guessing the alsa error is for 90-alsa-restore.rules. I can add the corrected file for that.

The rat seems inconsistent. Sometime I see it and sometimes not.

Fixes are welcome, thanks. I almost uploaded another iso for the nocsd, but I decided to wait in case there was something else.

I just now added mpv, jmtpfs, mtp-tools, f2fs-tools.

dzz

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Re: Refracta ready for Excalibur?

The rat seems inconsistent. Sometime I see it and sometimes not.

Strangely, the custom background shows in qemu, usb or grub boot you get the rat. Similar issue to https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=7133&p=2 .. Seems upstream is uninterested in fixing that. But we can locally, in chroot:

# Convert a copy of /usr/share/backgrounds/xfce/deepsea_173556_640x480.png to svg (used png2svg)
# Copy the new svg to /usr/share/backgrounds/xfce/deepsea.svg .. Then (in chroot):

dpkg-divert --divert /usr/share/backgrounds/xfce/xfce-x_orig.svg --rename /usr/share/backgrounds/xfce/xfce-x.svg
cd /usr/share/backgrounds/xfce
ln -s deepsea.svg xfce-x.svg

Language selector fix (even better to see a keyboard selector also) done here in chroot:

sed -i 's/#indicators=.*/indicators=~session;~language;~clock;~power/' /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf

The mtp boot noise is fixed by installing libmtp-runtime. The alsa error fix is as https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=7400

Updated 1065-refracta-lang : https://paste.debian.net/1411823 .. Remember to name it correctly and +x it.

BTW there is no point showing fixed-disk icons on the desktop if they give no information and mount permission is denied!

EDIT How does Thunar actually do mounts? This needs sorting to assist use as a rescue image

Last edited by dzz (Yesterday 20:40:38)

fsmithred

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Re: Refracta ready for Excalibur?

- Updated 1065-refracta-lang - and I see that the standard live-config options for locales no longer works. Only the keyboard layout changes. I'll have to hack the boot menu on the next build.

- Fixed lightdm as indicated. Note: lightdm-gtk-greeter allows you to select the locale, slick-greeter allows you to select the keyboard. I don't know how to get either one to do both. (I like the look of slick-greeter)

- Added lines to /etc/pmount.allow (and hacked refractasnapshot and installer to deal with the nvme line)

#/dev/sd[a-z][0-9]*
#/dev/nvme[0-9]n[0-9]p[1-99]

- Diverted xfce background image

inkscape -l deepsea_173556_640x480.png -o deepsea.svg

dpkg-divert --rename --divert /usr/share/backgrounds/xfce/xfce-x.svg.distrib /usr/share/backgrounds/xfce/xfce-x.svg

ln -s deepsea.svg xfce-x.svg

- Added libmtp-runtime and modified /etc/udev/rules.d/90-alsa-restore.rules

- Unchecked the box in desktop settings for showing fixed drives. (That box is new, thanks.)

- Thunar mounts disks. In the case of encrypted disks, it says it failed after you give the password, but the /dev/mapper device appears and clicking on it mounts it.

fsmithred

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Re: Refracta ready for Excalibur?

- Updated iso:
https://get.refracta.org/files/stable/r … 3_1310.iso