MX-21 fluxbox beta 2 feedback thread

[Eadwine Rose]

I cannot seem to get secure boot working with MX-19

Maybe I missed something, or misunderstood something. As far as I remember MX cannot boot with secure boot enabled at this time.


Ah, found the comment in question, here: viewtopic.php?p=653725#p653725

[MultipleX]

The default kernel installed are signed. What needs to be done after MX-Installer did run and after purged any dkms-related stuff, would be to install and add signed grub-modules and shim related stuff. Further to not have grub-install and generate efi-grub loader but get the Debian signed efi-loader onto the ESP.
The little hickup, would be that debian signed EFI-grub loader do have a hardcoded prefix for the EFI folder, which is on the ESP something like /EFI/debian. (That' something similar to Mint which use Ubuntu's hardcoded prefix at /EFI/ubuntu)
I might need find my notes how I have installed MX21 to boot in secure mode ... in case anyone might be interested....

Thank you for the explanation. Funnily enough, I did read your post here earlier:

viewtopic.php?p=579034#p579034

Evidently I failed to grasp the significance of it. Probably information overload. Mea culpa. I will have a look.
I have a separate thread under MX Help->Installation relating to the technical help on this issue:

viewtopic.php?f=92&t=66538

[MultipleX]

I cannot seem to get secure boot working with MX-19

Maybe I missed something, or misunderstood something. As far as I remember MX cannot boot with secure boot enabled at this time.


Ah, found the comment in question, here: viewtopic.php?p=653725#p653725

That's a fair point as far as MX-19 is concerned although there are a couple of threads on this forum with instructions on how to enable MX-19 for secure boot, but I guess my question for this thread is whether this has been/will be addressed in MX-21? From my recent research it seems that Ubuntu, Mint, Debian and Redhat among others now provide this functionality "out of the box" so to speak and I guess all distros will eventually.

[Eadwine Rose]

You can take that into your other thread then as you mentioned in your previous post :)

[fehlix]

I cannot seem to get secure boot working with MX-19

Maybe I missed something, or misunderstood something. As far as I remember MX cannot boot with secure boot enabled at this time.


Ah, found the comment in question, here: viewtopic.php?p=653725#p653725

That's a fair point as far as MX-19 is concerned although there are a couple of threads on this forum with instructions on how to enable MX-19 for secure boot, but I guess my question for this thread is whether this has been/will be addressed in MX-21? From my recent research it seems that Ubuntu, Mint, Debian and Redhat among others now provide this functionality "out of the box" so to speak and I guess all distros will eventually.

It will be possible with some additional steps to have MX21-booted with secure boot enabled.
Officially it will not be available out of the box at least not with upcoming MX-21 release.
For MX-19 ( I see you'r other thread), it's a bit more tricky as MX own compiled grub is used,
so I'm probably not focusing to much on MX-19, where I also installed it in secure mode, but
rather get more experience with MX-21 until we can have secure boot official available, with all secure boot related issues somehow sorted, so to say ...

[siamhie]

I was able to update mxfb-accessories today but I can't update mx-docs. I guess it's not on the server?

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The following packages will be upgraded:
   mx-docs (20200817mx21 => 20210925mx21)
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 60.1 MB of archives.
After this operation, 4,943 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
Ign:1 http://la.mxrepo.com/mx/repo bullseye/main amd64 mx-docs all 20210925mx21
Err:1 http://la.mxrepo.com/mx/repo bullseye/main amd64 mx-docs all 20210925mx21
  404  Not Found [IP: 168.235.86.94 80]
E: Failed to fetch http://la.mxrepo.com/mx/repo/pool/main/m/mx-docs/mx-docs_20210925mx21_all.deb  404  Not Found [IP: 168.235.86.94 80]
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

[Jerry3904]

I haven't packaged it yet, tomorrow

[siamhie]

I haven't packaged it yet, tomorrow

Thanks Jerry

[Procenko]

I am sorry, can you explain? Why MX using fluxbox after all its not development anymore?

[trekolet]

Hello, repo bug?

MX updater showed me this all day :

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Actualizador de MX:
Leyendo lista de paquetes... Hecho
Creando árbol de dependencias... Hecho
Leyendo la información de estado... Hecho
Calculando la actualización... Hecho
Se actualizarán los siguientes paquetes:
   mx-docs (20200817mx21 => 20210925mx21)
   mxfb-accessories (21.09.03 => 21.09.29)
2 actualizados, 0 nuevos se instalarán, 0 para eliminar y 0 no actualizados.
Se necesita descargar 60.1 MB/60.2 MB de archivos.
Se utilizarán 4 975 kB de espacio de disco adicional después de esta operación.
¿Desea continuar? [S/n] s
Ign:1 http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo bullseye/main amd64 mx-docs all 20210925mx21
Err:1 http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo bullseye/main amd64 mx-docs all 20210925mx21
  404  Not Found [IP: 70.40.214.183 80]
E: Fallo al obtener http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/pool/main/m/mx-docs/mx-docs_20210925mx21_all.deb  404  Not Found [IP: 70.40.214.183 80]
E: No se pudieron obtener algunos archivos, ¿quizás deba ejecutar «apt-get update» o deba intentarlo de nuevo con --fix-missing?

Actualización completa se realizó (o fue cancelada)

Go to http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/pool/main/m/mx-docs/
See for mx-docs_20210925mx21_all.deb
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      mx-docs_20210925mx21.dsc           2021-09-29 20:52  582   
      mx-docs_20210925mx21.tar.xz        2021-09-29 20:52  131M  
      current.bullseye                   2021-09-29 20:28   16K  
      mx-docs_20210925mx21.changelog     2021-09-29 20:28   16K  
      mx-docs_20190614mx18.3+1.tar.xz    2021-03-01 20:50   53M  
      mx-docs_20190614mx18.3+1_all.deb   2019-07-14 14:41   36M  
      mx-docs_20190614mx18.3+1.dsc       2019-07-14 14:40  648   
      current.stretch                    2019-07-14 14:40   13K  
      mx-docs_20190614mx18.3+1.changelog 2019-07-14 14:40   13K  
      mx-docs_20160701.tar.xz            2019-06-01 15:32  4.7M  
      mx-docs_20170608+1.dsc             2019-06-01 15:32  1.1K  
      mx-docs_20170608+1.tar.xz          2019-06-01 15:32  7.1M  
      mx-docs_20170608+1_all.deb         2019-06-01 15:32  7.1M  
      mx-docs_20160701.dsc               2019-06-01 15:32  1.0K  
      mx-docs_20160701_all.deb           2019-06-01 15:32  4.7M