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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

Den 2015-05-20 15:41, Nio Wiklund skrev:
> Den 2015-05-20 14:50, Nio Wiklund skrev:
>> Den 2015-05-20 06:11, Nio Wiklund skrev:
>>> Den 2015-05-20 02:24, Israel skrev:
>>>> On 05/19/2015 04:22 PM, Israel wrote:
>>>>> On 05/19/2015 04:18 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
>>>>>> Den 2015-05-19 23:15, Israel skrev:
>>>>>>> ..
>>>>>> Thanks Israel,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> For making all these improvements :-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm looking forward to testing them.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best regards
>>>>>> Nio
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> No problem Nio!
>>>>> I am ready for ToriOS to be out :P
>>>>>
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>> a little update :)
>>>> I re-uploaded the ISO after trying to fix the LiveCD Wifi issue.
>>>> This is the #1 priority for testing right now :)
>>>>
>>>> on the upside I started using rsync to upload the ISO, so this whole
>>>> entire process is becoming much less time consuming :)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Israel,
>>>
>>> 1. WiFi
>>>
>>> I'm looking forward to Interprog's result concerning wifi.
>>>
>>> 2. Icons
>>>
>>> Last night there was time for me to test only the icons live in the old
>>> version - and I think it works quite well now (even though you use an
>>> old version of mkusb. It should be tested with version 9.1.6 which is in
>>> the unstable PPA now).
>>>
>>> I may have to change zmktbl and ztweaks for everything to be as it
>>> should be. But these are minor issues. I'll be back about it.
>>>
>>> 3. The other items on the list in yesterday's mail:
>>>
>>> -----
>>> Den 2015-05-19 23:15, Israel skrev:> Hi all...
>>>> I updated the ISO to fix the minor issues we were having in the previous
>>>> ISO.
>>>> please test!!
>>>>
>>>> Issues to look for in Live CD:
>>>> mkusb icon exists (in my testing this is true)
>>>> other icons work
>>>> dltbl (Download Tarball)
>>>> pcmanfm icons in menu://applications
>>>> does WiFi work from the liveCD?
>>>> anything else you want to check
>>>>
>>>> Changes to live CD:
>>>> ToriOS plymouth theme (text only) is on the ISO.
>>>> You can either boot verbose (the traditional way we have done it... i.e.
>>>> not quiet splash)
>>>> or boot regularly... (torios-plymouth-text)
>>>>
>>>> Now... would it be a good idea to use the graphical plymouth theme for
>>>> the live CD or not?
>>>>
>>>> Changes to installed system:
>>>> xfce4-power-manager is now installed by default.
>>>>
>>>> Not too sure if there are any issues left in the base OS.  This just has
>>>> updated packages...
>>>> I will eventually replace the lsb release file with ubuntu precise at
>>>> some point...  but for now it is what it is
>>> -----
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>> Nio
>>>
>>
>> Hi again Israel,
>>
>>
>> Live:
>>
>> Jack is right. 'starter' needs executable permission. And so does
>> 'dltbl'. You keep forgetting about permissions ;-)
>>
>> When I'm at it: Please remove 'rsyncer' and 'rsync-getter' from the OBI
>> directory.
>>
>>
>> Installation:
>>
>> I selected the PAE system, but it was not installed until I ran
>>
>> sudo apt-get update
>> and
>> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>>
>> in the installed system. This is a regression.
>>
>>
>> Installed:
>>
>> 1. Icons
>>
>> mkusb has the three coloured dots in the menu system, but the correct
>> icon in pcmanfm. Maybe you have not implemented the improved menu
>> generator in the installed system?
>>
>> All entries in the menu and in pcmanfm have icons.
>>
>> 2. add-apt-repository needs the standard Ubuntu lsb-release data
>>
>> In order to install the bleedin edge mkusb 9.1.6 I run
>>
>> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mkusb/unstable
>>
>> but it did not work - there was an error output until I reset the content of
>>
>> /etc/lsb-release
>>
>> to the standard values for Ubuntu:
>>
>> DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
>> DISTRIB_RELEASE=12.04
>> DISTRIB_CODENAME=precise
>> DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS"
>>
>> It needed at least Ubuntu (with capital U). Probably it needs precise or
>> 12.04, but I did not check it in detail. This is a serious bug (that we
>> have been waiting for :-P
>>
>> I fixed it manually and installed mkusb.
>>
>> 3. Trusty kernel an wifi
>>
>> I also installed the trusty kernel with
>>
>> sudo apt-get install linux-image-3.13.0.53-generic
>>
>> which provides drivers for my wifi automatically in my Toshiba with i5
>>
>> Later on I installed the full hardware enablement stack with
>>
>> sudo apt-get install --install-recommends linux-generic-lts-trusty
>> xserver-xorg-lts-trusty libgl1-mesa-glx-lts-trusty
>>
>> Both installations worked.
>>
>>
>> Best regards
>> Nio
>>
> 
> Hi again Israel,
> 
> After I installed the full hardware enablement stack and rebooted, there
> was at least one big problem, pcmanfm stopped working :-(
> 
> I started from scratch again (and again installed the full hardware
> enablement stack). It works now, also pcmanfm works now.
> 
> Maybe I was doing something in an awkward way last time. Anyway, now I
> changed lsb-release to the standard for Ubuntu before starting to
> update/upgrade and installing the hardware enablement stack.
> 
> There are proven issues and strongly suspected issues. I think we should
> not bother to debug everything possible in order to use the modified
> lsb-release file. Please reset it, and go back to the old dltbl
> (remember to make it executable).
> 
> 
> Best regards
> Nio
> 

Hi again - quick correctíon:

I checked, and it should be possible to keep the newest (and current)
version of 'dltbl'.

It uses

release="$(grep VERSION_ID /etc/os-release|cut -d= -f2)"

so 'os-release' instead of 'lsb-release' and is not affected by your
changes.

Best regards
Nio