GNUinOS - Libre

aitor · 2025-09-09 16:57:33

zapper wrote:

/dev/mapper/gnuinos--vg-root does not exist dropping to a shell!

@zapper: read my last post in DNG, please

On the other hand, live isos required a couple of additional udeb packages in order to get disk encryption in debian-installer, named libargon2-1-udeb and libjson-c5-udeb

Do they work now?

zapper · 2025-09-11 03:35:41

@aitor cool, its about time

prospero · 2025-09-15 21:39:47

aitor wrote:

On the other hand, live isos required a couple of additional udeb packages in order to get disk encryption in debian-installer, named libargon2-1-udeb and libjson-c5-udeb
Do they work now?

Installing from the 2025-09-09 runit ISO with LVM encryption gives a familiar piece of advice about life:

ALERT! /dev/mapper/gnuinos--5--0--1--vg-root does not exist. Dropping to a shell!

I should add that installing to disk from the 2025-09-09 live iso without encryption works well, with or without LVM.

As usual, I have been using the runit XFCE amd64 iso image.

Last edited by prospero (2025-09-17 03:08:06)

aitor · 2025-09-20 00:41:13

prospero wrote:

Installing from the 2025-09-09 runit ISO with LVM encryption gives a familiar piece of advice about life:
ALERT! /dev/mapper/gnuinos--5--0--1--vg-root does not exist. Dropping to a shell!

Thanks, prospero, the LVM partitioning without encryption worked for me as well. I will try to fix the issue with LVM encryption as soon as possible.

aitor · 2025-10-04 12:47:55

New live images with XLibre:

https://www.gnuinos.org/mirror/daedalus/runit
https://www.gnuinos.org/mirror/daedalus/sysvinit

prospero · 2025-10-05 01:19:26

aitor wrote:

New live images with XLibre

This feels snappier than ever.

Also, a minor video bug helped me locate the VM setting that had been slowing down startup for a while. Not sure whether a virt-manager update changed the defaults at some point, but after switching video mode to VGA the runit+xfce amd64 system is back to its earlier 7-8 seconds to graphical session. And the cursor is back to its usual form factor.

aitor · 2025-10-08 04:39:06

prospero wrote:

Installing from the 2025-09-09 runit ISO with LVM encryption gives a familiar piece of advice about life:
ALERT! /dev/mapper/gnuinos--5--0--1--vg-root does not exist. Dropping to a shell!
I should add that installing to disk from the 2025-09-09 live iso without encryption works well, with or without LVM. cool
As usual, I have been using the runit XFCE amd64 iso image

The runit XFCE isos tagged as 2025.10.08 worked with encryption. They have been uploaded today.

greenjeans · 2025-10-08 18:34:55

@aitor, to get Xlibre running on Daedalus, did you have to install the libdrm packages from backports?

aitor · 2025-10-08 20:37:51

@greenjeans, the only backport was xorgproto available in the same repository:

http://packages.gnuinos.org/xlibre/pool … /xorgproto

prospero · 2025-10-09 01:42:08

aitor wrote:

The runit XFCE isos tagged as 2025.10.08 worked with encryption.

It is working here too. Great job, thanks!

zapper · 2025-11-02 19:54:35

Looks like the new devuan stable is out, I look forward to seeing you adjust your version to have it.

zapper · 2025-11-30 04:02:37

aitor, you working on Excalibur? Just wondering when that version coming out.

aitor · Yesterday 22:08:34

@zapper, I'm rewriting and redesigning simple-netaid from scratch in Gtk and GObject (it was written in Gtkmm). So, yes, I am working on excalibur, but I still cannot provide specific release dates.

Btw, a few days ago I received an email from the FSF applauding my efforts to work on a fully free GNU/Linux distro and asking whether I am interested in complying with the FSDG. Firstly however, they have to make sure there are no misunderstandings about the relationship between this project, the GNU project, and the FSF. I should certainly inform the public that the distribution contains GNU programs, such as by referring to it as a GNU/Linux distribution, but not in ways that are confusing. The use of the term GNU in an old distribution from the autonomous community of Extremadura in Spain (https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/GnuLinEx) made me to naively believe that it was possible to use it in the name itself, but I was mistaken because it implies being part of the GNU project. Hence, they kindly requested me to change the name of the distro. It makes sense. They hold their trademarks to prevent the said confusion. I recently informed them that I have almost decided on the new name, and they thanked me for being so cooperative.

zapper · Today 06:23:55

It doesn't sound much different than gnewsense though in my opinion. Yet the FSF wasn't telling them to change trademarks.

I guess because the name itself looks different even if they sound very similar when spoken out loud.

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