MX-23 beta 2 feedback thread

[Melber]

@Jerry3904 Would it be possible to include cursors with MXFB-Look?

That's definitely a question for Melber. It wouldn't happen though until after Final -- we're smack dab in the middle of feature freeze now.

@siamhie I have been fiddling with mxfb-look to include gkrellm monitor and dock settings. Can look into adding cursors too...but, as Jerry said, it won't be happening before final release.

[Jerry3904]

@keos refresh with: Menu > MX Updater

[operadude]

Been trying to get Beta-2, Xfce (64-bit) to work with VirtualBox.
Was spotty, but finally got it installed (32GB vdi, 16GB RAM).

Updates, partially, but with a number of errors: "HASH MISMATCH", "pipe broken", "can't get package" (or something to that effect).

I can't post to the Forum from VBox because Firefox keeps crashing.

Unfortunately, also having trouble with copying /var/log/mxpi(.install?) to Host machine, so I can't at this point relay relevant info from VBox environment.

Could use some suggestions about best way to set it up.

Anyway, here's my QSI (Host):

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System:    Kernel: 5.10.0-23-amd64 [5.10.179-1] x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-5.10.0-23-amd64 root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.18.1 tk: Gtk 3.24.24 info: xfce4-panel, plank wm: xfwm 4.18.0 vt: 7 
           dm: LightDM 1.26.0 Distro: MX-21.3_x64 Wildflower October 20  2021 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:   Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: H270-HD3 v: N/A serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Gigabyte model: H270-HD3-CF v: x.x serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends 
           v: F5 date: 04/24/2017 
Battery:   Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse PID:0080 serial: N/A 
           charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: Discharging 
CPU:       Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core i3-7100 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Kaby Lake 
           family: 6 model-id: 9E (158) stepping: 9 microcode: F0 cache: L2: 3 MiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 31199 
           Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/3900 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled 
           Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable 
           Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
           Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
           Type: mmio_stale_data mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
           Type: retbleed mitigation: IBRS 
           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: IBRS, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling, 
           PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected 
           Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode 
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:  Device-1: AMD Oland PRO [Radeon R7 240/340 / Radeon 520] vendor: Micro-Star MSI 
           driver: radeon v: kernel alternate: amdgpu bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:6613 
           class-ID: 0300 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.18.0 driver: loaded: radeon 
           display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1 
           Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2") 
           s-diag: 582mm (22.9") 
           Monitor-1: HDMI-0 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 305 size: 160x90mm (6.3x3.5") 
           diag: 184mm (7.2") 
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD OLAND (DRM 2.50.0 5.10.0-23-amd64 LLVM 11.0.1) v: 4.5 Mesa 20.3.5 
           direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 200 Series PCH HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel 
           v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a2f0 class-ID: 0403 
           Device-2: AMD Oland/Hainan/Cape Verde/Pitcairn HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 7000 Series] 
           vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1 
           chip-ID: 1002:aab0 class-ID: 0403 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.0-23-amd64 running: yes 
           Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
Network:   Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: Gigabyte driver: e1000e v: kernel port: f000 
           bus-ID: 00:1f.6 chip-ID: 8086:15b8 class-ID: 0200 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
           IF-ID-1: tun0 state: unknown speed: 10 Mbps duplex: full mac: N/A 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 8.42 TiB used: 3.09 TiB (36.7%) 
           SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
           ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 970 EVO 250GB 
           size: 232.89 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 
           type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 1B2QEXE7 temp: 32.9 C scheme: GPT 
           ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 model: SATA SSD size: 111.79 GiB block-size: 
           physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 61.3 
           scheme: GPT 
           ID-3: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Kingston model: SA400S37120G size: 111.79 GiB 
           block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> 
           rev: 61K1 scheme: MBR 
           ID-4: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 vendor: Seagate model: ST3000DM001-1ER166 size: 2.73 TiB 
           block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 7200 
           serial: <filter> rev: CC25 scheme: GPT 
           ID-5: /dev/sdd maj-min: 8:48 vendor: Toshiba model: DT01ACA050 size: 465.76 GiB 
           block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 7200 
           serial: <filter> rev: A750 scheme: GPT 
           ID-6: /dev/sde maj-min: 8:64 vendor: Western Digital model: WD5000AADS-00S9B0 
           size: 465.76 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: N/A 
           serial: <filter> rev: 0A01 scheme: GPT 
           ID-7: /dev/sdf maj-min: 8:80 type: USB vendor: Seagate model: Expansion Desk 
           size: 3.64 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 4096 B type: N/A serial: <filter> 
           rev: 0739 scheme: MBR 
           ID-8: /dev/sdl maj-min: 8:176 type: USB model: Storage Device size: 7.5 GiB block-size: 
           physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: N/A serial: N/A rev: 1.00 scheme: MBR 
           SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure? 
           ID-9: /dev/sdm maj-min: 8:192 type: USB model: Mass Storage Device size: 3.69 GiB 
           block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: 1.00 
           scheme: MBR 
           SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure? 
           ID-10: /dev/sdn maj-min: 8:208 type: USB model: Storage Device size: 7.4 GiB 
           block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: N/A serial: N/A rev: 1.00 scheme: MBR 
           SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure? 
           ID-11: /dev/sdo maj-min: 8:224 type: USB vendor: Sabrent model: SABRENT 
           size: 698.64 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B type: N/A serial: <filter> 
           rev: 0104 scheme: MBR 
Partition: ID-1: / raw-size: 20.49 GiB size: 20 GiB (97.61%) used: 12.36 GiB (61.8%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 253:0 mapped: root.fsm 
           ID-2: /boot raw-size: 512 MiB size: 487.2 MiB (95.16%) used: 107.9 MiB (22.2%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2 
           ID-3: /boot/efi raw-size: 256 MiB size: 252 MiB (98.46%) used: 1.3 MiB (0.5%) fs: vfat 
           dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 
           ID-4: /home raw-size: 40.02 GiB size: 39.1 GiB (97.69%) used: 8.6 GiB (22.0%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/dm-1 maj-min: 253:1 mapped: 2.home.fsm 
Swap:      Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) 
           ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 21.77 GiB used: 2 MiB (0.0%) priority: -2 
           dev: /dev/dm-3 maj-min: 253:3 mapped: swap 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8 C mobo: 27.8 C gpu: radeon temp: 41.0 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:     Packages: note: see --pkg apt: 2995 lib: 1459 flatpak: 0 
           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://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ bullseye main non-free
           2: deb http://ftp.linux.org.tr/mx/repo/mx/repo/ bullseye main non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/skype-stable.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.skype.com/deb stable main
Info:      Processes: 300 Uptime: 7h 59m wakeups: 3 Memory: 31.3 GiB used: 3.67 GiB (11.7%) 
           Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 default: 5 tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 
           alt: 10 Client: shell wrapper v: 5.1.4-release inxi: 3.3.06 
Boot Mode: UEFI

I would really like to try Beta-2 on VirtualBox, so if anyone has suggestions:

[keos]

@ Jerry3904

'mx-updater' is not displayed, i used 'synaptic', reload and apply ... reboot. ...

Now I have a horrendous panel looks like 'fluxbox', although it still saying: xfce4-panel 4.18.2

[siamhie]

@Jerry3904 Would it be possible to include cursors with MXFB-Look?

That's definitely a question for Melber. It wouldn't happen though until after Final -- we're smack dab in the middle of feature freeze now.

@siamhie I have been fiddling with mxfb-look to include gkrellm monitor and dock settings. Can look into adding cursors too...but, as Jerry said, it won't be happening before final release.

OK, thanks @Melber.


One other item that I brought up in beta 1 was certain styles display a sub-menu with more than 34 items as one long entry. @m_pav @Jerry3904 ?





If you edit that particular style and change the value for menu.bevelWidth: from 1 to 2 then the entries are set into 2 columns.





It would be easier if an entry was added to Overlay so that any style that has the value 1 gets set to 2 automatically.

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menu.bevelWidth: 2

[Jerry3904]

Thanks

[keos]

@ Jerry3904

I went to the user manual to where the information about Xfce4 is, over there I found an alternative:

MX Tweak > Panel tab, click "Options" button under Docklike

It's not exactly like that but after a little struggle with the little window that opened ... I could 'apply' ... and in a few seconds the 'default panel' appeared -- I just lost the settings, a minor problem!.

Thanks.

[Gaer Boy]

I'm having a problem with booting. It looks like something has gone awry with the install but I've repeated it with the same result. Live USB runs fine, install 64-bit XFCE to SSD, /dev/sdb6, labelled rootMX23, swap to /dev/sdc11. Grub not installed to EFI, updated later on MX-21.

Booting stops early with errors re files not found. Screen photo attached.

bootfail.jpg

One oddity I notice - at the fsck /dev/sda6 message, the data-3-6 is the label on an empty partition on another disk. On another booting attempt it was data-2-6, which is an empty partition on a 3rd disk. There seem to be a lot of error messages in the minstall.log file.

minstall.log

For completeness, QSI.

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System:    Kernel: 6.0.0-3.1mx-amd64 [6.0.7-1~mx21+1] x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.0.0-3.1mx-amd64 root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet 
           splash 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.18.1 tk: Gtk 3.24.24 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm 4.18.0 vt: 7 
           dm: LightDM 1.26.0 Distro: MX-21.3_ahs_x64 Wildflower November 22  2021 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:   Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: B550I AORUS PRO AX v: N/A serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Gigabyte model: B550I AORUS PRO AX v: x.x serial: <filter> 
           UEFI: American Megatrends v: F11 date: 12/31/2020 
Battery:   Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Keyboard K270 serial: <filter> 
           charge: 100% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: Discharging 
           Device-2: hidpp_battery_1 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse M185 serial: <filter> 
           charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: Discharging 
CPU:       Info: 6-Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 5600G with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
           arch: Zen 3 family: 19 (25) model-id: 50 (80) stepping: 0 microcode: A50000B cache: 
           L2: 3 MiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 93425 
           Speed: 1700 MHz min/max: 1400/3900 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1700 
           2: 1400 3: 1400 4: 1400 5: 1560 6: 1700 7: 1400 8: 2648 9: 1698 10: 1400 11: 1400 
           12: 1400 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected 
           Type: l1tf status: Not affected 
           Type: mds status: Not affected 
           Type: meltdown status: Not affected 
           Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected 
           Type: retbleed status: Not affected 
           Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl 
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
           Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, STIBP: always-on, 
           RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected 
           Type: srbds status: Not affected 
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:  Device-1: AMD Cezanne vendor: Gigabyte driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus-ID: 07:00.0 
           chip-ID: 1002:1638 class-ID: 0300 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.14 compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.18.0 driver: 
           loaded: amdgpu,ati unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1 
           Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2") 
           s-diag: 582mm (22.9") 
           Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 305 size: 160x90mm (6.3x3.5") 
           diag: 184mm (7.2") 
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD RENOIR (LLVM 14.0.5 DRM 3.48 6.0.0-3.1mx-amd64) 
           v: 4.6 Mesa 22.0.5 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: AMD Renoir Radeon High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           bus-ID: 07:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1637 class-ID: 0403 
           Device-2: AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           bus-ID: 07:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k6.0.0-3.1mx-amd64 running: yes 
           Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE vendor: Gigabyte driver: r8169 v: kernel port: f000 
           bus-ID: 05:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8125 class-ID: 0200 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: f000 bus-ID: 06:00.0 
           chip-ID: 8086:2723 class-ID: 0280 
           IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Bluetooth: Device-1: Intel AX200 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-8:3 
           chip-ID: 8087:0029 class-ID: e001 
           Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: down bt-service: N/A rfk-block: 
           hardware: no software: no address: <filter> 
           Info: acl-mtu: 0:0 sco-mtu: 0:0 link-mode: slave accept 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 2.05 TiB used: 254.52 GiB (12.1%) 
           SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
           ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: ST1000DM005 HD103SJ size: 931.51 GiB 
           block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 7200 
           serial: <filter> rev: 00E5 scheme: MBR 
           ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 870 EVO 250GB size: 232.89 GiB 
           block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> 
           rev: 1B6Q scheme: GPT 
           ID-3: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 vendor: Toshiba model: HDWD110 size: 931.51 GiB 
           block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 7200 
           serial: <filter> rev: A8J0 scheme: MBR 
Partition: ID-1: / raw-size: 30 GiB size: 29.36 GiB (97.87%) used: 14.05 GiB (47.8%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/sdb5 maj-min: 8:21 
           ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 100 MiB size: 98.4 MiB (98.45%) used: 941 KiB (0.9%) fs: vfat 
           dev: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17 
Swap:      Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) 
           ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 7.81 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 
           dev: /dev/sda11 maj-min: 8:11 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 38.2 C mobo: 16.8 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 33.0 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:     Packages: note: see --pkg apt: 2413 lib: 1255 flatpak: 0 
           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://free.hands.com/debian/ bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://free.hands.com/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://mxlinux.mirrors.uk2.net/packages/mx/repo/ bullseye main non-free
           2: deb http://mxlinux.mirrors.uk2.net/packages/mx/repo/ bullseye ahs
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vivaldi.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] http://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb/ stable main
Info:      Processes: 326 Uptime: 11m wakeups: 5 Memory: 15.06 GiB used: 1.8 GiB (11.9%) 
           Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 default: 5 tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 
           alt: 10 Client: shell wrapper v: 5.1.4-release inxi: 3.3.06 
Boot Mode: UEFI

[bbfuller]

I was interested to follow this topic:

viewtopic.php?t=75664

about Windows discovery of samba shares and the recommendation to install the "wsdd" package.

I've just done that on a 21.3 installation and in a 23-beta1.

The 21.3 installation came from the test repository and works as far as a cursory test is concerned.

sudo service wsdd status

reveals a running service with no further input required on my behalf.

On the 23-beta1 system after install the service status command results in

wsdd: unrecognized service

Is there something I am missing?

The wsdd file is in /usr/sbin on both machines

[pbear]

I would really like to try Beta-2 on VirtualBox, so if anyone has suggestions:

Frankly, this sounds like a VBox issue, rather than a problem with the beta2 release. Many users (myself included) have had no difficulty installing beta2 in VBox. I do see the broken pipe errors mentioned upthread when updating the Realtek dkms modules ("/usr/bin/dkms: line 2497: echo: write error: broken pipe"), but the VM runs fine otherwise.

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$ inxi -SM
System:
  Host: mx-beta2 Kernel: 6.1.0-9-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce
    v: 4.18.1 Distro: MX-23_beta2_x64 Libretto June 15  2023
Machine:
  Type: Virtualbox System: innotek GmbH product: VirtualBox v: 1.2
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Oracle model: VirtualBox v: 1.2 serial: <superuser required>
    BIOS: innotek GmbH v: VirtualBox date: 12/01/2006