MX-21 KDE/plasma RC1 feedback

[SwampRabbit]

@Arnox For Steam it isn't that its "missing" like already said, its a matter or knowing how to use the package management tools to find i386 packages
Edit: this is why its in Popular Apps... makes things smarter not harder.

Quickly I made a screenshot for Synaptic.... MXPI.... coming next
https://i.imgur.com/MK5rTaK.png

Have no clue about the Flatpak issue... haven't had time to look, but its probably something small and easy

[dolphin_oracle]

Flatpaks not working in the KDE RC1. I installed Freetube from there in the Beta version so I know it used to work on my computer.

On that note, it seems some packages are missing from the MX Package Installer. Notably Steam (can be installed via the Popular Applications tab though) and VeraCrypt. Synaptic's not installed either, though I'm not sure if that's intended or not. Doing an apt-get install for VeraCrypt also results in it finding nothing.

By the way, no, I didn't touch the default respositories.

as far as I know, veracrypt is not on flathub so there is no flatpak for it. and its not in the debian repo. The veracrypt authors actually prefer folks to download from their own site.

[Gerson]

It happens to me that if I have files in the /home partition and I cut to paste them in my backup partition, I get a message saying: "Access denied to /media/Files/..." (see image) However the action is fulfilled, but they are still grayed out in /home (second image). If I change directory, when I come back; they have already been deleted from the sending folder and are still in the destination folder. The annoying thing is the message that appears and the gray color of the files, otherwise the files are changed and are not damaged. (third image)

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I close and give solved this point for me, I formatted the hard disk, I created partition /home, /root, /swap and made a ntfs partition for data; and I reinstalled again MX 21RC. It did not work for me to make ext4 partition for data because it did not allow me to access it, so I made it ntfs and now I work without problems to copy, cut and paste.

[uncle mark]

In the main menu, one of the three circular buttons is missing. I have Logout and Restart, but not Shutdown. Had something similar in B1, B2 was like it was supposed to be.

I had this problem on B2 and now on RC1 in one setup (out of 3). Just open Application Menu > Power / Session and right-click on the missing item. Then select Add to favourites. This fixed it for me.

@Adrian Live session was ok in my case. The icon(s) went missing after couple of reboots in RC1.

That did the trick, @markol . Thanks.

@Adrian , I'm almost certain it was okay in the live session when I installed.

<shrug>

[rainfox]

This was reported by multiple users in the Beta. Any reason it's not been addressed with the RC?

Maybe it hasn’t been addressed yet since only so many things can get fixed in one month across all MX versions?

Maybe it’s a KDE issue, not an MX issue?

Any reason no one has identified the exact cause and let us know?

its not default in debian. we had patched the network-manager clients under mx19, but the same patches don't work this time.

I've tried several things to reproduce the "wifi not connection" issue on login.
The thing that finally fixed it, I enabled the "KDE Wallet" checkbox.
From that point on the wifi connection was restored on every login. Even after disabling the KDE Wallet this kept on.

Can someone check this?

[paul1149]

Hello i am new in this Forum!
I am not sure if it is there by default but although i created a root user during the installation process i have only one administrator user the user i created as normal user!
In KDE settings i ve tried to create a new root user but is impossible! No error at all!

Thanks in advance

Hello!
From the RC1 announcement. (Easy to miss.)

MX-21 Release Candidate 1 now available for testing purposes – MX Linux
https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-21-release- ... -purposes/

Things that are new in MX-21 RC1:

User password (sudo) for admin tasks by default. You can switch this in mx-tweak->Other tab

[Gerson]

I installed Opera from the MX repository, and it won't start

A fix is identified; an updated of MXPI->PopApps opera installer will be available asap
+++EDIT+++

.. and Vivaldi work without problem.

As you have installed vivaldi:
A workaround fix to make opera work again:

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sudo cp /opt/vivaldi/lib/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/lib_extra/libffmpeg.so

Thanks @fehlix with this trick now Opera opens without problem. Thank you.

[Arnox]

@Arnox For Steam it isn't that its "missing" like already said, its a matter or knowing how to use the package management tools to find i386 packages
Edit: this is why its in Popular Apps... makes things smarter not harder.

Quickly I made a screenshot for Synaptic.... MXPI.... coming next
https://i.imgur.com/MK5rTaK.png

Have no clue about the Flatpak issue... haven't had time to look, but its probably something small and easy

Flatpaks not working in the KDE RC1. I installed Freetube from there in the Beta version so I know it used to work on my computer.

On that note, it seems some packages are missing from the MX Package Installer. Notably Steam (can be installed via the Popular Applications tab though) and VeraCrypt. Synaptic's not installed either, though I'm not sure if that's intended or not. Doing an apt-get install for VeraCrypt also results in it finding nothing.

By the way, no, I didn't touch the default respositories.

as far as I know, veracrypt is not on flathub so there is no flatpak for it. and its not in the debian repo. The veracrypt authors actually prefer folks to download from their own site.

Yeah, looks like Veracrypt is not in the Debian 11 stable repo. Weird...

As to Steam, I'm not so concerned about Steam itself so much as wanting to make sure I see all 32 and 64 bit packages. Again, how would I turn that 32 bit filter off? Or am I misunderstanding things?

[Discostu]

On my Suface Pro 3 (in live usb mode) I can't connect to WiFi:

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System:
  Host: <filter> Kernel: 5.10.0-8-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/antiX/vmlinuz quiet splasht nosplash 
  lang=de_DE kbd=de tz=Europe/Berlin persist_all splasht 
  Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.20.5 wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM 
  Distro: MX-21_KDE_RC1_x64 Wildflower October 5  2021 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Microsoft product: Surface Pro 3 v: 1 
  serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Microsoft model: Surface Pro 3 v: 1 serial: <filter> 
  UEFI: American Megatrends v: 3.11.2550 date: 06/12/2018 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 10.8 Wh condition: 36.9/42.2 Wh (88%) 
  volts: 6.8/7.6 model: LGC-LGC X883815 type: Li-ion serial: <filter> 
  status: Discharging cycles: 386 
CPU:
  Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i7-4650U bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Haswell family: 6 model-id: 45 (69) stepping: 1 microcode: 24 
  L2 cache: 4096 KiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx 
  bogomips: 18357 
  Speed: 2129 MHz min/max: 800/3300 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2129 
  2: 1729 3: 1505 4: 2058 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled 
  Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, 
  SMT vulnerable 
  Type: mds status: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no 
  microcode; SMT vulnerable 
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
  Type: spec_store_bypass 
  mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
  Type: spectre_v1 
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: 
  conditional, IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds status: Vulnerable: No microcode 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics vendor: Microsoft 
  driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:0a26 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 driver: modesetting 
  unloaded: fbdev,vesa compositor: kwin_x11 resolution: 2160x1440~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 5000 (HSW GT3) 
  v: 4.5 Mesa 21.2.1 compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Haswell-ULT HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
  bus ID: 00:03.0 chip ID: 8086:0a0c 
  Device-2: Intel 8 Series HD Audio vendor: Microsoft 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 chip ID: 8086:9c20 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.10.0-8-amd64 
Network:
  Device-1: Marvell 88W8897 [AVASTAR] 802.11ac Wireless vendor: SafeNet 
  driver: mwifiex_pcie v: 1.0 port: 3040 bus ID: 01:00.0 
  chip ID: 11ab:2b38 
  IF: mlan0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Marvell Bluetooth and Wireless LAN Composite Device 
  type: USB driver: btusb bus ID: 1-6:5 chip ID: 1286:204b 
  serial: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 592.63 GiB used: 5.07 GiB (0.9%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: MZMTE512HMHP-000MV 
  size: 476.94 GiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B 
  speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 1M0Q scheme: GPT 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: SanDisk model: Ultra USB 3.0 
  size: 115.69 GiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B 
  serial: <filter> rev: 1.00 scheme: MBR 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw size: N/A size: 6.08 GiB used: 54.4 MiB (0.9%) fs: overlay 
  source: ERR-102 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 47.0 C mobo: N/A 
  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
  2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
  1: deb http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/mxlinux/packages/mx/repo/ bullseye main non-free
  2: deb http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/mxlinux/packages/mx/repo/ bullseye ahs
Info:
  Processes: 220 Uptime: 5m Memory: 7.68 GiB used: 756.0 MiB (9.6%) 
  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 

It works in MX 19.

[davemx]

To be honest, I'm not too bothered about not being able to install Skype (via mxpi favourites) or Freetube (via flatpak) as I can install them using the deb files from their sites and they both seem to work just fine. I don't suppose this happened because I uninstalled plasma-discover and added synaptic and apt-notifier?