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## refracta-wheezy-beta3 - betaN bugs

Refracta Development, Scripts, etc.
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### Re: refracta-wheezy-beta3 - beta5 bugs

by nadir » Sat Dec 29, 2012 10:09 pm

got you.
Will be back to normal mode in a week (+ - one or two days).
So i herd u liek mudkip?

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### Re: refracta-wheezy-beta3 - beta5 bugs

by dzz » Wed Jan 02, 2013 1:57 am

Holidays (?) here too... Happy New Year Refracta team and users... Now I got a little time for beta5
It's really appreciated that Ibiblio is willing to host this at all but download is quite slow. As I have (for now) access to a faster web server, beta5 (unmodified) is mirrored here (please check the md5 sum before use):
http://exegnulinux.net/refracta/iso/original/
In the upper directories can be found experimental scripts and modified versions (my snapshots)
Now, after extracting the squash, some observations on beta5 ...
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There is stuff in /run/ which probably should not be there
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The "help" menu f2 need references to
"Refracta-6.0.6" changed to "Refracta-7.0.0"
"Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)" changed to "Debian 7.0 (Wheezy)"
menus f3, f4 need references to:
"persistent" changed to "persistence"
menu f5 needs rewrite
All help menus: No need for "live-config", just "config" is OK
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[slash]etc/fstab.d should exist but be empty (it is not)
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no [slash]etc/fstab so still, bootlog errors...
fstab is in the "excludes" list... I did <touch [slash]etc/fstab> before mksquashfs
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/lib/live/107-refracta-configs:
was written for squeeze. Useless for wheezy because live-config numbering has changed.
I wrote new script "1065-refracta-lang" to replace it. Script header explains what it does.
http://exegnulinux.net/refracta/experim ... racta-lang
This is best (if approved at all by Refracta team) done as a deb package but that is not yet done
For non-US users: This enables locale and keyboard to be set automatically at bootup. If tzdata is also included on cmdline, e.g.

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  `config=refracta-lang,tzdata lang=de_DE`

you get also the clock set to UTC as well as DE language and keyboard
The "mainstream" method involves quite a lot of error-prone typing at each startup, e.g. :

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  `live-config=locales,keyboard-configuration,tzdata locales=de_DE.UTF-8 keyboard-layouts=de`

This is ** not well tested but seen working for fr_FR es_ES en_GB de_DE
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As the main man from Debian Live admits that live-* in Wheezy is currently "unsupportable" we can presumably feel free to hack whatever we want, to make things work how we want. In any case, Debian Live actually provide templates to do just that.
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My snapshot, done using http://exegnulinux.net/refracta/experim ... shot-test8
with (only) the above changes will be posted later http://exegnulinux.net/refracta/iso/modified/ If that helps the next "official" version, good.

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### Re: refracta-wheezy-beta3 - beta5 bugs

by fsmithred » Wed Jan 02, 2013 4:50 am

Thanks, dzz. I worked on help pages and boot menu yesterday. Refractasnapshot-9.0.8 is already rolled up in a deb, but I haven't uploaded it yet. I added the lib-live and run directories to the excludes, same as in the installer. Those are needed in case someone wants to make a snapshot from a running live cd/usb.
Didn't touch f5.txt yet. I just added 1065-refracta-lang, and I'll play with it. BTW, the old one worked the one time I tested it, probably in beta3.
There should be fstab, because 'touch $work_dir...blah...fstab' is already in the script. It's been there for awhile, and I think there may have been an occasion where I got the missing fstab messages at boot on some recent snapshot, but most of the time I don't see them. Not getting them tonight on beta5 or the snapshot I made today. Booted both of those in vbox and beta5 on hardware.

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### Re: refracta-wheezy-beta3 - beta5 bugs

by dzz » Fri Jan 04, 2013 1:51 am

it might have been my own rebuild that deleted fstab without making a blank one, will check that later.
Thanks for the snapshot update, will test soon.
New live-boot and live-config are in sid and experimental this week, no time to yet to see if any major changes. Still nothing new for wheezy.

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### Re: refracta-wheezy-beta3 - beta5 bugs

by fsmithred » Sat Jan 05, 2013 12:56 pm

File associations - let me know if I missed any.
gnome-mplayer:
avi flv mkv mov mp4 mpeg mpg
deadbeef:
flac mp3 ogg wav
gthumb:
bmp gif jpeg jpg png tif
text editor (geany):
conf dat txt xml
abiword:
doc
document viewer (evince):
pdf ps
gnumeric:
xls csv (I didn't set that last one. Should .csv open with text editor instead?

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### Re: refracta-wheezy-beta3 - beta5 bugs

by dzz » Sun Jan 06, 2013 1:37 am

Watch out with latest sid live-config... getting total freeze up and boot failure here, even if config is not called
Latest version is 3.0.17-1, beta5 has 3.0.12-1
Where does xfce actually set file associations?
BTW, the numlock bug is back!

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### Re: refracta-wheezy-beta3 - beta5 bugs

by fsmithred » Sun Jan 06, 2013 3:04 am

I haven't upgraded the versions of live-* packages since beta3. Sid is commented out in sources.list. Thanks for the warning.
Found the source of the numlock problem - I hit the numlock key and logged out, so it got saved. I'll have to remember to disable it before I build a snapshot.

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### Re: refracta-wheezy-beta3 - beta5 bugs

by dzz » Sun Jan 06, 2013 12:20 pm

Live-config 3.0.17-1 causing boot failure is now confirmed by someone else on the mailing list.
Found another bug in 3.0.12-1. This could affect refracta unpredictably, don't know why I didn't notice before.

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  `config=script1,script2,script3`

should be enough to run selected scripts only. But others are running as well when they should not (the active ones leave a state file in /var/liv/live)
workaround: " noconfig " immediately before config=whatever

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### Re: refracta-wheezy-beta3 - beta5 bugs

by fsmithred » Sun Jan 06, 2013 9:28 pm

Additional download location:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/refracta/files/
Isos (and eventually usb-hdd images) are in images
refractasnapshot and refractainstaller are in tools
Maybe "images" should be renamed, so people don't think it contains graphics?
Anyway, beta5 is there, and I'm now uploading beta6.
Numlock bug fixed, but don't be too surprised if it reappears in a future snapshot. I'll try to remember to disable numlock before making a snapshot.
Boot methods bug is fixed - you can use a boot methods word, such as 'live' or 'nox' on the boot line, and it works, instead of giving you an error message about not finding a kernel image called 'live' (or whatever boot method you try.) This fix is in refractasnapshot-9.0.8, and this version is installed in beta6.
Deb files for wireless drivers are in /home/user/wireless_drivers. Please test if you can.
I tried booting multiple languages, and it seems to default to en_US, regardless of the order used.

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  `noconfig config=refracta-lang,tzdata lang=en_US,es_ES,fr_FR
  noconfig config=refracta-lang,tzdata lang=fr_FR,es_ES,en_US`

Selecting another of the specified languages when I'm at the lightdm login screen does nothing.
If I only specify one language on the boot line, it works correctly.
Edit: Also added 'kernel.sysrq=1' to -etc-sysctl.conf to enable all magic sysrq commands. (And if you read this post before the edit, I ran updatedb and made a new snapshot, so that's fixed, too.)

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### Re: refracta-wheezy-beta3 - beta5 bugs

by fsmithred » Mon Jan 07, 2013 3:15 am

Sourceforge is reporting the iso size as 708.8MB. According to my system, it's 676M or 708,837,376 bytes, and the intarweb says that 737,280,000 bytes is 700MB, so I think we're still safe in calling it a live-CD.

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