MX-21 KDE beta 1 feedback thread

[Adrian]

Private Internet Access from MX package installer failed with missing cheksum error.

[ ERROR ] Missing checksum[/code]

There's a /usr/share/pia-downloader-installer/install_piavpn.sh file part of the piavpn-downloader-installer package that tries to download from a site with curl and that site returns a "301 Moved Permanently"

@fehlix The piavpn-downloader-installer needs to be fixed.

[fehlix]

Just tested a frugal install so far (on MBR-partitioned disk, ivy bridge era desktop), looking very nice !

Some preliminary remarks:

• i am pretty sure i picked a keyboard layout (which is indeed active in my frugal session) but which was not activated (yet) through the frugal configuration dialogs, making it a tad difficult to change password etc

Password change dialog is run within a console. The console keymap is driven by the chosen language. The X-keyboard layout can be set by kbd= parameter. But the kbd-boot parameter would not change the console keymap.
Example: If I choose lang=en_US and kbd=de. I would be prompted for changing demo/root password with en_US keymap, but when finally getting to KDE the actual keyboard would be German keyboard layout.
OK, not optimal ... My workaround: disabale password change at the console with "pw=none" boot parameter.
You can change password later, e.g with MX User managemenr.

PS: forget the last point above, apparently this is a glitch in this particular Dell'sBIOS - I have booted two other systems in MBR/legacy mode with no issue.

But: the Dell is where i was willing to overwrite a partition with MX21, and the disk is MBR-partitioned. Can I boot the installation key in UEFI mode, start the installer without esp partition and without installing grub at the end ?

Not clear to me, why you want booting in UEFI mode with MBR-partitions. But yes, you can boot in UEFI-mode and tick off/disable the GRUB installation. Not clear how you to boot into the system without boot loader. Actually you can boot in UEFI-mode and do GRUB-bootloader installation in BIOS/MBR mode.

[fehlix]

Private Internet Access from MX package installer failed with missing cheksum error.

That's not a specific KDE issue. They changed the URL and taken away to verify the download with a checksum. I'll have a look.

[uncle mark]

Installed to my old beater Acer laptop, flawless install as expected. Fought with date and time but that resolved itself. Did some minor UI configs in the live session, and will do some more once I'm done playing and exploring. Warren's legacy appears to be holding up: this beta is better than most finals. Kudos to all.

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System:
  Host: <filter> Kernel: 5.10.0-8-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10.0-8-amd64 
  root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash 
  Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.20.5 wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM 
  Distro: MX-21_x64 Wildflower August 22  2021 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Aspire 5250 v: V1.01 
  serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Acer model: Aspire 5250 v: V1.01 serial: <filter> BIOS: Acer 
  v: 1.01 date: 04/21/2011 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 28.4 Wh condition: 48.1/47.5 Wh (101%) 
  volts: 12.3/10.8 model: Panasonic AS10D51 type: Li-ion 
  serial: <filter> status: Charging 
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech M215 serial: <filter> 
  charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: Discharging 
CPU:
  Topology: Dual Core model: AMD C-50 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Bobcat 
  family: 14 (20) model-id: 1 stepping: N/A microcode: 5000029 
  L2 cache: 512 KiB 
  flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 3990 
  Speed: 922 MHz min/max: 800/1000 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 922 2: 906 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected 
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected 
  Type: mds status: Not affected 
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected 
  Type: spec_store_bypass status: Vulnerable 
  Type: spectre_v1 
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
  Type: spectre_v2 
  mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds status: Not affected 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Wrestler [Radeon HD 6250] vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI 
  driver: radeon v: kernel bus ID: 00:01.0 chip ID: 1002:9804 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: ati,radeon 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa compositor: kwin_x11 
  resolution: 1366x768~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD PALM (DRM 2.50.0 / 5.10.0-8-amd64 LLVM 11.0.1) 
  v: 3.3 Mesa 21.1.5 compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD SBx00 Azalia vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:14.2 chip ID: 1002:4383 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.10.0-8-amd64 
Network:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR8152 v2.0 Fast Ethernet 
  vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: atl1c v: kernel port: 2000 
  bus ID: 06:00.0 chip ID: 1969:2062 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter 
  vendor: Lite-On driver: ath9k v: kernel port: 2000 bus ID: 07:00.0 
  chip ID: 168c:002b 
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 111.79 GiB used: 6.95 GiB (6.2%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Kingston model: SV300S37A120G size: 111.79 GiB 
  block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s 
  serial: <filter> rev: BBF0 scheme: MBR 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw size: 106.38 GiB size: 104.15 GiB (97.90%) 
  used: 6.95 GiB (6.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
  ID-2: swap-1 size: 5.37 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap 
  swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache pressure: 100 (default) 
  dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 68.6 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 69 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
  1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
  1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
  1: deb http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/mx/repo/ bullseye main non-free
  2: deb http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/mx/repo/ bullseye ahs
Info:
  Processes: 168 Uptime: 9m Memory: 3.57 GiB used: 994.9 MiB (27.2%) 
  Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 
  alt: 10 Shell: quick-system-in running in: quick-system-in 
  inxi: 3.0.36 

[richb]

Private Internet Access from MX package installer failed with missing cheksum error.

That's not a specific KDE issue. They changed the URL and taken away to verify the download with a checksum. I'll have a look.

I understand. However someone trying to install PIA in MX-21 KDE would encounter this error, So I believe the report is valid.

[uncle mark]

Installed to my old beater Acer laptop, flawless install as expected. Fought with date and time but that resolved itself. Did some minor UI configs in the live session, and will do some more once I'm done playing and exploring. Warren's legacy appears to be holding up: this beta is better than most finals. Kudos to all.

Dolphin is crashing hard. Won't open. It tries, but never gets there.

Wifi does not reconnect automatically on restart. If there's a checkmark to tell it to I sure haven't seen it.

I'm not going to spend any more time on it this evening. Just offering up data points. Heck, I might have a funky install. I didn't bother checking the ISO or the disk I burned.

[Adrian]

or the disk I burned.

I suspect that, I always use flashdrives... even those are not that reliable.

[richb]

Wifi does not reconnect automatically on restart. If there's a checkmark to tell it to I sure haven't seen it.

I have the same issue. There is a n option in the Network Connections setting to start automatically and a priority number under the wifi tab. I have it ticked with a priority of 5 but it still needs to be started manually. It probably is a native KDE application issue. I doubt it can be fixed by our developers. ( But they have surprised me in the past).

[uncle mark]

Wifi does not reconnect automatically on restart. If there's a checkmark to tell it to I sure haven't seen it.

I have the same issue. There is a n option in the Network Connections setting to start automatically and a priority number under the wifi tab. I have it ticked with a priority of 5 but it still needs to be started manually. It probably is a native KDE application issue. I doubt it can be fixed by our developers. ( But they have surprised me in the past).

My priority was set to 0; I changed it to 1 (not knowing what I was actually doing). No joy.

[uncle mark]

or the disk I burned.

I suspect that, I always use flashdrives... even those are not that reliable.

I usually use flash drives too, but this old beater usually does better with disks.