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raymerjacque

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## Re: Refracta Installer on Debian Distro - Makululinux

Fri Nov 22, 2013 5:26 pm

thnx
this installer is starting to look really awesome, thnx for making it
Ill report back if i find anything else
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## Re: Refracta Installer on Debian Distro - Makululinux

Fri Nov 22, 2013 8:28 pm

im having issues with copying to seperate home partition. ill post a screenshot in a bit.
this screenshot is is after installation.
i chose to "change username" to "user", i also selected to "copy home to seperate partition", but seems the home directory isnt copying over properly ? see the error in the pic.
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## Re: Refracta Installer on Debian Distro - Makululinux

Sat Nov 23, 2013 1:02 am

One of the things that has to happen when you change a user name is that references to /home/user need to be changed in some config files. I't possible that the script is missing some of these. Does the new user's home directory exist? Press ctrl-alt-F1 and log in as the new user. Then run these commands:

Code:
  `grep -r "/home/user/" .config
  grep -r "/home/user/" .local
  `

You might need to do that for other hidden directories in addition to .local and .config. Maybe .cache, and maybe others. Then, if you find any, they need to be changed. And I'd like to see what was missed, so I can adjust the commands that are supposed to do this for you. Also, please tell me what desktop environment and what display manager you're using.
Thanks.
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## Re: Refracta Installer on Debian Distro - Makululinux

Sat Nov 23, 2013 5:55 am

( this only happens when i select to use seperate home partition ) dekstop environment is XFCe 4.10, display manager is mdm.
it seems that home is not copied to the seperated selected home partition, because i just reinstalled except this time i did not choose to change username, i only selected to copy to home to seperate partition and i get this error :
so looks like its not copying home to seperate partition properly ? in fact when i managed to log in as root it only showed 1 partition and not 2.
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## Re: Refracta Installer on Debian Distro - Makululinux

Sat Nov 23, 2013 11:38 am

I'll need to see the error log. Separate /home install is working fine here.
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## Re: Refracta Installer on Debian Distro - Makululinux

Sun Nov 24, 2013 6:28 am

ive actually uploaded my iso and sent a link via pm to you, i cant seem to find any errors, maybe you can try install via virtualbox and see whatsup with installer ? since you will know what to look for, and while you have the ISO you may want to check out the display manager as well since we use MDM in that iso.
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## Re: Refracta Installer on Debian Distro - Makululinux

Sun Nov 24, 2013 3:16 pm

I'm a bit short on time and hard drive space. If you run 'refractainstaller-yad -d' from a root terminal (or with sudo), I'll take a look at the full error log, and maybe I can figure out where it's messing up. (Or 'refractainstaller-gui -d' if you're using zenity instead of yad.)
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## Re: Refracta Installer on Debian Distro - Makululinux

Thu Nov 28, 2013 8:19 am

seems i got it all working in the end. Just want to say thanx for assisting me to make this installer work
I actually just released the distro and I have added a thank you to the Refracta team in the release notes, so there will be a bit of advertising for you guys as well
its on the makululinux.com website in download section if you wanna go view it
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## Re: Refracta Installer on Debian Distro - Makululinux

Mon Dec 02, 2013 4:57 pm

You need to include this into your post install script :

> /home/*/.local/share/applications/refractainstaller.desktop

This is for KDE, its desktop shortcuts are in .local/share/applications folder.
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## Re: Refracta Installer on Debian Distro - Makululinux

Mon Dec 02, 2013 9:24 pm

> You need to include this into your post install script :
> /home/*/.local/share/applications/refractainstaller.desktop
> This is for KDE, its desktop shortcuts are in .local/share/applications folder.

Or yours.. that's the point of the post-install script, for a user's extra requirements, without needing to "hack" the main script.
As far as I know that location in kde is for menu items, rather than desktop links. I don't actually run kde(4) but do use Trinity Desktop as well as XFCE.
BTW I noticed the installer seems not to check for a running "live session" when called, it probably should.
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