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fsmithred

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Registered: 2016-11-25

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freia desktop-live test iso

Take it for a test drive to see if anything is broken.
https://files.devuan.org/devuan_freia/d … p-live.iso

sha256sum:

8f1547575ac66468ac8f9f30fc95167ac6b5d84d484ce89c44456545a616d856

Andre4freedom

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Registered: 2017-11-15

Posts: 273  

Re: freia desktop-live test iso

Hello fsmithred
sorry to say:
your new live image cycles through devuan live boot menu endlessly (after a few secs after every possible selection)
(Did check sha256sum of course)
Computer 1: HP EliteBook 8460p
Computer 2: Dell Optiplex 780

I also tested the netinstall-iso with the same date on both computers.
devuan_freia_7.0-202610311659_amd64_netinstall.iso
it greets me before any boot-menu with:
fails to load com32.....
endlessly

Both computers did work with an older freia net-install.iso from May..

Last edited by Andre4freedom (Today 10:26:46)

fsmithred

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Registered: 2016-11-25

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Re: freia desktop-live test iso

How did you prepare the boot media? It's working here in qemu and also dd'd to a usb it boots legacy or uefi.

Andre4freedom

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Registered: 2017-11-15

Posts: 273  

Re: freia desktop-live test iso

dd to  a USB stick for both ISO-image files , both machines in BIOS/Legacy mode.
The Dell Optiplex  worked with the May-netinstall iso of freia.

Ron

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Registered: 2018-04-22

Posts: 630  

Re: freia desktop-live test iso

The release notes and readme files on the desktop both say excalibur. Shouldn't that be changed to avoid confusion?

Also, the first problem I've noticed is that I can't move the top panel to the bottom.

Last edited by Ron (Today 15:29:24)

dzz

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From: Exmouth, South West England

Registered: 2016-12-01

Posts: 131  

Re: freia desktop-live test iso

Tested here in qemu direct from ISO, on one bios laptop and one uefi laptop. Both Toshiba. Also tested on both machines booted 'findiso' from USB (refracta2usb-prepared multiboot). Not tried grub loopback yet and no disposable USB's here to do a 'dd'.

That behaviour is not seen so far.

What I did notice was the desktop background seems slow to load, although the menu is already responsive.

Also htop/top/free -m shows ~500mb in use with nothing else open, I though somewhat excessive.

Looking at the installed package list I noticed 'kde partition manager', with ~200MB of qt6 deps. Since gparted is also there I didn't see a reason for it. Unless you choose to run KDE that's massive bloat.

I also saw 'atril' which is a recommend of task-xfce-desktop and has various *wayland* deps (although the ISO uses xorg), that's another ~200MB.

I purged all the above then dropped to init 1 and back to find gparted then fails silently. Not investigated why as yet.. polkit/dbus issue? I can look again later and capture some logs.

Apart from that, seems all good.