Re: Problems with live testing install in encrypted mode

2024-07-22 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Brandon On 2024/07/04 12:33, Brandon Werner wrote: On Wed, Jul 3, 2024, at 7:38 PM, Brandon Werner wrote: I have gotten a bit closer to the answer. the location of the keyfile "/crypto_keyfile.bin" is not written to /etc/crypttab in the latest testing images. If you manually write that to c

Re: Problems with live testing install in encrypted mode

2024-07-03 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Brandon On 2024/07/03 18:40, Brandon Werner wrote: After the patches landed to fix mounts recently in calamares-settings-debian, I decided to test the installer. https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-live-builds/amd64/iso-hybrid/debian-live-testing-amd64-mate.iso

Bug#1061595: Debian Live 12.4.0 AMD64 Xfce Fails to Start Its Graphical Environment

2024-01-28 Thread Jonathan Carter
I couldn't reproduce the xfce issue, it started just fine on a Dell Optiplex 7010. Did you run sync after the dd completed?

Re: i386 bookworm image

2023-06-11 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Ben On 2023/06/11 07:48, Ben Westover wrote: I noticed that there is no i386 live image for Debian 12 bookworm, only amd64. Looking back to the bookworm DI RCs, it looks like i386 is missing from those too, so this seems to be intentional. I have two questions: 1. Were i386 live images pha

Debian Live 12 (bookworm) test images available (rc1)

2023-04-04 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Just a quick note to announce the availability of Debian 12 (bookworm) test images. This test release is happening along side the d-i rc1 release, and is itself called rc1. ISO-hybrid images can be downloaded from: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/bookworm_di_rc1-live/amd64/iso-hybrid

Re: Source of firmware packages (Was: Starting the weekly live images for Bookworm building again)

2023-03-20 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Roland On 2023/03/20 19:10, Jonathan Carter wrote: On 2023/03/20 18:36, Roland Clobus wrote: FWIW, I've uploaded live-tasks-non-free-firmware that could be used to provide firmware packages for either desktops or servers. Control file here with more details: https://salsa.debian.org

Re: Source of firmware packages (Was: Starting the weekly live images for Bookworm building again)

2023-03-20 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Roland On 2023/03/20 18:36, Roland Clobus wrote: FWIW, I've uploaded live-tasks-non-free-firmware that could be used to provide firmware packages for either desktops or servers. Control file here with more details: https://salsa.debian.org/live-team/live-tasks-non-free-firmware/-/blob/main/

Re: Starting the weekly live images for Bookworm building again

2023-03-20 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hey Roland On 2023/03/20 09:11, Roland Clobus wrote: This weekend I've written the missing parts, non-free-firmware images are now generated by default by live-build, and the ISO images are still bit-for-bit reproducible. How do you currently install the non-free firmware packages? FWIW, I'v

Bug#1033227: unblock: live-tasks-non-free-firmware/12.0.1

2023-03-20 Thread Jonathan Carter
;"" Source: live-tasks-non-free-firmware Maintainer: Live Systems Maintainers Uploaders: Jonathan Carter Section: non-free-firmware/metapackages Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13) Standards-Version: 4.6.2 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/live-team/live-tasks-n

Bug#1020942: debian-live: Reconsideration of Calamares installer on the next stable of Bookworm

2022-10-02 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi On 2022/09/29 08:52, Green wrote: Calamares installer should act properly to NOT install unneeded large amounts of locales by default; on the contrary other distribution's installer like in Fedora or MX Linux behave quite properly. I agree, this is among a few other issues, my #1 issue wi

Re: Calamares as "superusser" in Debian Mate live system

2021-09-28 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Guillermo On 2021/09/28 13:50, Guillermo Sosa wrote: Good morning, my query, and I think that I am actually reiterating it, is due to the MateDE version of Debian 11, since I never used or worked on this desktop, and it is the following since there is something that catches my attention and

Re: In Bullseye installed with calamares hundreds of unneeded localization pkgs/progs are still present

2021-08-23 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2021/08/23 19:50, Roland Clobus wrote: On 23/08/2021 12:38, luca.pedrielli wrote: To get a clean installation(I choosed italian lang) I had to: # apt-get purge anthy anthy-common fcitx-pinyin fcitx-table... A similar issue was posted to this list a few days ago: https://lists.debian.org/deb

Re: Debian Live support for Consfigurator

2021-07-15 Thread Jonathan Carter
HI Sean On 2021/07/11 06:54, Sean Whitton wrote: > I've only implemented a straightforward ISOLINUX boot option for now, > because I am not myself at all familiar with the Debian installer and > the intricacies of multiboot ISOs. But all that could be added. Or > Consfigurator could replace just

Re: Some Debian Live testing

2021-04-22 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2021/04/21 22:07, Daniel Reichelt wrote: > On 21.04.21 21:14, Jonathan Carter wrote: >> * Xfce looks a lot nicer and the broken have been fixed, and also fine >> overall. > The broken $what? Ah was late, probably meant to type either broken icon theme or missing run icon. (I

Re: Some Debian Live testing

2021-04-21 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2021/04/21 22:13, Roland Clobus wrote: > I'm curious, which ISO images did you use? > The released buster 10.9 images [1], or some bullseye images? The bullseye images. -Jonathan

Some Debian Live testing

2021-04-21 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi everyone I did a quick smoke-test of the live session for each amd64 isos. Some notes: * cinnamon is in a much better shape than last time, the two biggest issues are fixed (actually ships with a default terminal emulator, no more pop-ups on login) * gnome is still good overall, but we sho

Re: Replacing live-wrapper for live images by live-build?

2021-04-19 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Roland (and Steve (and others)) On 2021/04/19 19:10, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Thanks for asking, and for your efforts so far. I'm going to be frank > in my response - please don't take this personally! Ditto, your work is much appreciated. > My experiences with live-build over the years have b

mlterm

2020-08-12 Thread Jonathan Carter
lable in the default terminals in the other desktops. Is it perhaps time to remove mlterm from the default builds? Is there anyone that needs it on the live media? Any objections if it's removed? thanks, -Jonathan -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ https://wi

Reducing the amount of i386 Live images for bullseye

2019-10-17 Thread Jonathan Carter
ad with S3 graphics). So, what I'm asking is, how far should we cut back? Is there any compelling reason at all to keep any of the 3 installation mediums I want to drop? Do we need more than one gui system? And if just one, any strong preference (along with reasons?). -Jonathan -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀

Announcing Debian Live RC1

2019-05-05 Thread Jonathan Carter
debian.org/debian-live/ * Debian Live IRC channel: #debian-live on irc.debian.org (aka irc.oftc.net) -Jonathan, on behalf of the Debian Live team -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian Developer - https://wiki.debian.org/highvoltage ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ https://debian.org | https

Re: Bug#927219: xorg log

2019-04-18 Thread Jonathan Carter
ded to mention that I added that 'nomodeset' while experimenting. So, if I understand correctly, the patch from tails should enable early KMS properly, and allow Xorg to start using KMS without having to resort to vesa? thanks for all your input :) -Jonathan -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦

Help needed: outstanding Debian live bugs

2019-04-17 Thread Jonathan Carter
Thanks! -Jonathan -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian Developer - https://wiki.debian.org/highvoltage ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ https://debian.org | https://jonathancarter.org ⠈⠳⣄ Be Bold. Be brave. Debian has got your back.

Bug#927219: xorg log

2019-04-16 Thread Jonathan Carter
Here is my my xorg log file on my AMD Radeon HD 8570D: [18.183] X.Org X Server 1.20.3 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 [18.183] Build Operating System: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 x86_64 Debian [18.183] Current Operating System: Linux debian 4.19.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.28-2 (2019-03-15)

Bug#927219: live-config: amdgpu graphics fail to be configured

2019-04-16 Thread Jonathan Carter
Source: live-config Severity: important When using an AMD graphics chip, users of live media only get a black screen with no text when xorg should start and the machine appears to be frozen. When installing via d-i, the installed system starts up fine and brings up xorg. Something appears to be

Bug#927216: live-wrapper: Stale /etc/fstab

2019-04-16 Thread Jonathan Carter
Source: live-wrapper Severity: important Dear Maintainer, Debian live images are left with a stale /etc/fstab file, which causes some problems for the calamares installer (which is worked around in a wrapper script) and which causes the only error messages seen when live media boots up (see: http

Re: Calamares-installer 64bit testing-live

2019-04-06 Thread Jonathan Carter
rminal, if it has an official terminal emulator that's nicer than those already on the iso then we can add it. -Jonathan -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian Developer - https://wiki.debian.org/highvoltage ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ https://debian.org | https://jonathancarter.org

Re: Calamares-installer 64bit testing-live

2019-04-06 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2019/04/06 11:57, Jonathan Carter wrote: >> As compare i tried same scenario with linux mint debian edition 3 with >> calamares installer. Both options worked as result with luks1 encrypted >> partition.  >> The manjaro-guys had similar problem with calamares and luks2 e

Re: Calamares-installer 64bit testing-live

2019-04-06 Thread Jonathan Carter
testing machines? No, you're right, it's broken in Debian right now. LMDE still has cryptsetup 2.0 and afaik manjaro temporarily downgraded back to cryptsetup 2.0. It seems that right now, it's going to be best to patch calamares to specify '--with-default-luks-format=LUKS1' whe

Re: Live-installer: luks2-encryption

2019-03-29 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2019/03/29 19:50, Dernsen wrote: > I installed last debian-testing-live bypass calamares-installer, after > that booting was not possible. Hdd was encrypted witk LUKS2 ("TWO")?!? > Is luks2 now possible with grub2 or is it just a bug? Converting luks2 - >> luks1 was not possible...  Odd, this w

Proposed changes to live-tasks

2018-12-26 Thread Jonathan Carter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi Live team It's probably a good idea to do some housekeeping on live-tasks ahead of the upcoming freezes, how about: 1. Merge MR#1 re-introducing live-task-standard: https://salsa.debian.org/live-team/live-tasks/merge_requests/1 2. Move out cal

Bits from highvoltage testing live images

2018-11-09 Thread Jonathan Carter
em to support this, but can live with that) It's getting late for now, this was just light testing on all images and I tested Calamares, I didn't get to UEFI or LUKS or installing using d-i this time. -Jonathan -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ De

iBus pop-up on live images

2018-07-26 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Debian Live contributors I thought I'd rather write here first for some initial feedback before filing a bug and making a change. If you've used the mate or gnome live images in recent releases you would have noticed a pop-up that notifies the user that the default shortcut for iBus have chan

Re: Bug#900576: live-task-recommended: dependency on calamares brings in qt dependencies in every image

2018-06-01 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 01/06/2018 17:05, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Jonathan Carter has recently uploaded version 0.4 for >> live-tasks that contains a change adding calamares to all live images. >> The primary complaint in this bug report is that this has now introduced >> Qt dependencies fo

Re: Changes to consider for debian-live (calamares and gparted)

2018-05-21 Thread Jonathan Carter
ystem. That page above provides screenshots of the calamares installer (as used in that derivative). Your question was what calamares is to the end user, I don't know what could illustrate it better than that. -Jonathan -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian Develop

Re: Changes to consider for debian-live (calamares and gparted)

2018-05-21 Thread Jonathan Carter
eenshots of calamares: https://desktop.aims.ac.za/getting-started/ Then I also quickly threw together a 3 minute video on how calamares looks on Debian: https://highvoltage.tv/media/quick-calamares-demo-for-debian-live-mailing-list HTH, -Jonathan -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) ⣾⠁⢠⠒

Changes to consider for debian-live (calamares and gparted)

2018-05-21 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
t our users want. -Jonathan [0] https://calamares.io/ -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian Developer - https://wiki.debian.org/highvoltage ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ https://debian.org | https://jonathancarter.org ⠈⠳⣄ Be Bold. Be brave. Debian has got your back.

Request to be added to live-team on salsa

2018-05-03 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi I would like to push to debian-live related repositories on https://salsa.debian.org/live-team and maintain live packages as part as the live team, so this is my request to add my salsa user (jcc) to that group. -Jonathan -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian

Bug#897585: debian-live: Please add keyutils to live media package pool

2018-05-03 Thread Jonathan Carter
Package: debian-live Severity: normal Please add keyutils to the live media package pool. This is required for users who set up encrypted volumes and use luks keys to either encrypt further volumes, or when using GRUB to unlock luks from an encrypted GRUB. Alternatively it could also be include

Announcing Debian 10 (Buster) Live Alpha 1

2017-09-21 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
The Debian Live team is pleased to announce the first alpha release of Debian Live for Debian 10, codename "buster". == About Debian Buster Live images alpha 1 == This release exists to test the current state of Debian live images for the current development version (Debian 10, codename 'Buster')

Planning Buster Live alpha1 release

2017-09-17 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Dear Debian Live team Recently, there has been some good discussion about the future of Debian Live images[1]. One problem that particularly stood out was lack of testing Debian Live during the stretch cycle and very little testing right before release. For Buster, I propose that we aim to releas

Re: No su

2017-06-28 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Phil On 29/06/2017 03:35, Phil Wyett wrote: > Even having simple character only password only, I cannot 'su'. > > Are all others getting the same? Is there a bug report to play with on > this one? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=866206 I suppose that will have to go into the