Re: [cooking] various boot modes, successes and failures

[pascal.bellard@xxxxxxxxxx]

Hi,

I have tagged slitaz-tools, slitaz-boot-scripts and tazlito, and updated
undigest ISO. http://mirror.slitaz.org/iso/undigest/
Would you mind test it ?

-pascal

> Hi Indigo,
>
> It seems the latest version of the slitaz-tools (
> http://hg.slitaz.org/slitaz-tools/) has not been tagged and rolled out
> yet.
> Yes, we are lazy! :-) . Typically, we tag it when there are enough changes
> made for the new rollout. So, I guess the login problem still exist in
> core.iso and multiple user fix still needs to be tested.
>
> I have missed mails and posts on udev/xorg, so I am not aware of the
> issues
> but I feel most likely the problem should be related to "permissions" and
> "groups" to multiple users. So, the correct assignment of a user to a
> group
> should fix those issue.
>
> You are right that we need a good testing team. Many of the bugs can be
> easily fixed. Moreover, we need to improve the documentation a lot. This
> require a lot of effort and motivation. We are always looking for
> community
> to help and improve.
>
> Rohit
>
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Indigo
> <pointofavailability@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> I've just tested the core.iso in from the undigest repo -- and it
>> still doesn't work after install.
>> This is the same problem as before, the config files being copied to
>> /home, instead of /home/$USER --
>> and with the same chown errors.  Looking at tazx, it seems the cause
>> is the same, the line:
>>     USER=`cat /etc/passwd | grep 1000 | cut -d ":" -f 1`
>> Gokhlayeh suggests a wrapper for adduser, which makes sense in many
>> ways, as both tazx and tazctrl box have to be run,
>> otherwise -- but using the iso to upgrade a system with a persistent
>> home, or just using tazx, still needs to handle multiple users.
>>
>> Although Slitaz is a wonderful LiveCD, it's also good as a VM or on
>> old machines --
>> and just about all of the problems I see on IRC are on installed images.
>> Please, let's also test the isos installed before releasing...
>>
>> Also, udev/xorg still have problems - fixing this should be a priority
>> before the next stable release.
>> I will work on trying to get udev to not fail on an installed version
>> and, hopefully, this will fix the xorg issue.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Christopher Rogers
>> <slaxemulator@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > The squashfs+xz is not build into kernel. Its build as a module. Need
>> to
>> > install linux-squashfs to use it.
>> >
>> > Also i was the one to add the patches to the kernel. I have even
>> tested
>> with
>> > my own version of a livecd. So i know its there.
>> >
>> > 2010/12/22 Philippe Lelédy <slitaz@xxxxxxxxx>
>> >>
>> >> Thanks for this good news.
>> >>
>> >> On 21/12/2010 16:58, pascal.bellard@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> the 2 LORAMs cooking from the mirror: the kernel crashes. I was
>> unable
>> >>>> to rebuild (tazlito build-loram) because now kernel is 2.6.36 and
>> >>>> cooking from the mirror is 2.6.34, and linux-aufs is no more
>> available
>> >>>> for 2.6.34.
>> >>>> Solution: squashfs in 2.6.36 doesn't support LZMA compression, so
>> patch
>> >>>> tazlito.
>> >>>
>> >>> Tazlito has not been release in wok. Coming soon.
>> >>>
>> >>> linux-aufs has been renamed to aufs
>> >>> http://hg.slitaz.org/tazlito/rev/233dc896fb14
>> >>>
>> >>> It support xz compression :
>> >>> http://hg.slitaz.org/tazlito/rev/0c75c957b322
>> >>>
>> >>> xz is supported by squashfs :
>> >>> http://hg.slitaz.org/wok/rev/1bea914df3b9
>> >>
>> >> Add squashfs+xz to kernel ...
>> >> Which kernel ?
>> >> Linux slitaz 2.6.36-slitaz #2 SMP Fri Dec 17 06:45:50 CST 2010 i686
>> >> GNU/Linux
>> >> doesn't seem to have this feature
>> >>>
>> >>> http://hg.slitaz.org/wok/rev/13e4d4e6fcc1
>> >>>
>> >>> loram flavor use xz compression too :
>> >>> http://hg.slitaz.org/wok/rev/0a217ca53bab
>> >>>
>> >>> -pascal
>> >>>
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