MX-23 beta 2 feedback thread

[mklym]

Finished the upgrade. No issues so far. Got the broken pipe errors during install but all seems okay. I will post if any issues arise.

[gRegNfo]

APT
apt-notifier

I have a problem with apt notifier (MX Updater), it's broken and I can't realize if I messed up or not.

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$ apt-notifier

$ Gtk-Message: 22:04:00.608: Failed to load module "gail"

** (python3:3609): WARNING **: 22:04:00.615: (../atk-adaptor/bridge.c:1105):atk_bridge_adaptor_init: runtime check failed: (root)

I reinstalled python3 and dependencies, atk, apt, that I found in the repo and I can't figure it out.
Updates still work on synaptic ... but somehow I think I've broken something maybe not a bug.

Not sure what the indication might be that apt-notifier is broken. Does it not work anymore?
The message you got, is based on a missing module used by accessibility library:
Would

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sudo apt install libgail-common

help?

You're a patient life saver
I ended up going to synaptic just to browse again... and the search for GAIL is different from LIBGAIL, my bad.
I also reenabled the status tray plugin on my panel.

I'm dumber by the day!
That's why this community and OS is the best! Thanks

[fehlix]

Finished the upgrade. No issues so far. Got the broken pipe errors during install but all seems okay. I will post if any issues arise.

The "broke pipe" warning is a dkms tool issue, which probably some one upstream need to fix :
Until than in post #114 in this thread a working fix was mentioned.

[i_ri]

hello dolphin_oracle
mx-installer 23.6.05
minstall --oem Success.
finished; then startup ootb.
install had a home/demo directory that i deleted.
yes home has a demo and the user the ootb just created. demo is not an account, just a directory, so i delete the directory.
The previous installer triggered once --ootb on a xfce install and was got the same stray /demo directory. i deleted it.

Beautiful. almost the new default except the spare /demo.
Best installer in the business.

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System:
  Kernel: 6.1.0-9-amd64 [6.1.27-1] arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-9-amd64 root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.5 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 7 dm: SDDM Distro: MX-23_KDE_beta2_x64 Libretto
    June 15 2023 base: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: HP-Pavilion product: AY022AA-ABA p6330f v: N/A serial: <superuser required>
    Chassis: Hewlett-Packard type: 3 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: MSI model: IONA v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required> BIOS: American Megatrends v: 5.15
    date: 06/25/2010
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i3 530 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Westmere gen: core 1 level: v2
    built: 2010-11 process: Intel 32nm family: 6 model-id: 0x25 (37) stepping: 2 microcode: 0x11
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 2 tpc: 2 threads: 4 smt: enabled cache: L1: 128 KiB
    desc: d-2x32 KiB; i-2x32 KiB L2: 512 KiB desc: 2x256 KiB L3: 4 MiB desc: 1x4 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1331 high: 1463 min/max: 1200/2933 scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq
    governor: ondemand cores: 1: 1463 2: 1200 3: 1463 4: 1200 bogomips: 23409
  Flags: ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3
  Vulnerabilities: <filter>
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Core Processor Integrated Graphics vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 v: kernel
    arch: Gen-5.75 process: Intel 45nm built: 2010 ports: active: VGA-1 empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1
    bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0042 class-ID: 0300
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.9 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X:
    loaded: intel dri: crocus gpu: i915 display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22") s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
  Monitor-1: VGA-1 mapped: VGA1 model: AOC 2436 serial: <filter> built: 2010 res: 1920x1080
    hz: 60 dpi: 94 gamma: 1.2 size: 521x293mm (20.51x11.54") diag: 598mm (23.5") ratio: 16:9 modes:
    max: 1920x1080 min: 720x400
  API: OpenGL v: 2.1 Mesa 22.3.6 renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics (ILK) direct-render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 5 Series/3400 Series High Definition Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard 5
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:3b56 class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k6.1.0-9-amd64 status: kernel-api tools: alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 0.3.65 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active
    2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin
    tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: d800 bus-ID: 01:00.0
    chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
  IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
RAID:
  Hardware-1: Intel SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci v: 3.0 port: c080 bus-ID: 00:1f.2
    chip-ID: 8086:2822 rev: N/A class-ID: 0104
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.86 TiB used: 19.47 GiB (1.0%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 type: USB vendor: SanDisk model: Cruzer Glide size: 29.25 GiB
    block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: 1.00
    scheme: MBR
  SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure?
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-2: /dev/sdf maj-min: 8:80 vendor: Toshiba model: DT01ACA200 size: 1.82 TiB block-size:
    physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> rev: ABB0
    scheme: MBR
  ID-3: /dev/sdg maj-min: 8:96 type: USB vendor: SanDisk model: Cruzer Glide size: 14.56 GiB
    block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: 1.27
  SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure?
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 29.24 GiB size: 28.62 GiB (97.86%) used: 10.93 GiB (38.2%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 3 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 file: /swapfile
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 38.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
  Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 2446 libs: 1346 tools: apt,apt-get,aptitude,nala,synaptic pm: rpm
    pkgs: 0 pm: flatpak pkgs: 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 bookworm-updates main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
    1: deb http://la.mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ bookworm main non-free
    2: deb http://la.mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ bookworm ahs
Info:
  Processes: 205 Uptime: 2h 25m wakeups: 1 Memory: 7.62 GiB used: 2.33 GiB (30.6%) Init: SysVinit
  v: 3.06 runlevel: 5 default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12 Client: shell wrapper
  v: 5.2.15-release inxi: 3.3.26
Boot Mode: BIOS (legacy, CSM, MBR)

[karens_haircut]

I am trying to upgrade from 21.3 to MX23. I am following the instructions found here:
https://mxlinux.org/wiki/system/upgradi ... nstalling/

All is good until I run the following command as root in terminal:

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$ find /etc/apt -name “*.list” -exec sudo sed -i ‘s/bullseye/bookworm/g’ {} +

This is the error I get:

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$ grep -qF ‘non-free-firmware’ /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list || sudo sed -i ‘s/non-free/non-free non-free-firmware/g’ /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
sed: -e expression #1, char 1: unknown command: `�'

On the web-page, the single quotes and double-quotes are displayed wrongly (or better have been
replaced by the used web-software.
And if you just copy paste the command those quotings chars will result in such an error,
b/c they have been replaced wrongly by the web-site rendering software (I think wordpress )

So you need edit first the copied command and replace all single quotes and double quotes properly:
e.g. this commnad is wrong:

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find /etc/apt -name “*.list” -exec sudo sed -i ‘s/bullseye/bookworm/g’ {} +

replace all “ and ” with normal double quotes "
and all singel quotes ‘ and ’ with normal single quotes '
so it looks like this:

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find /etc/apt -name "*.list" -exec sudo sed -i 's/bullseye/bookworm/g' {} +

the same for the other command.
wrong:

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grep -qF ‘non-free-firmware’ /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list || sudo sed -i ‘s/non-free/non-free non-free-firmware/g’ /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list

corrected:

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grep -qF 'non-free-firmware' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list || sudo sed -i 's/non-free/non-free non-free-firmware/g' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list

@Adrian suggest to use codebox for these commands to avoid those quot-char issue.
Maybe @peregrine could help to add those codeboxes,
on this page https://mxlinux.org/wiki/system/upgradi ... nstalling/
something similare was done on the Signature verifcation web-page
https://mxlinux.org/wiki/system/signed-iso-files/,
where codeboxes have been added by @peregrine

Thank you!

[gRegNfo]

UPDATE

If any one has a problem with error:

Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/dg2_huc_gsc.bin for module i915

or similar do this

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~$ mkdir firmware
~$ cd firmware
~$ wget -r -nd -e robots=no -A '*.bin' --accept-regex '/plain/' https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/i915/
~$ sudo mv *.bin /lib/firmware/i915/
~$ sudo update-initramfs -c -k all

Also errors with RTL8812AU (search github for updated drivers of your device - mine is RTL8821CE - for kernel 6x and read the docs)

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Loading new rtl8821cu-5.12.0 DKMS files...
/usr/sbin/dkms: line 2497: echo: write error: Broken pipe

were removed:

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~$ sudo apt update
~$ sudo apt install git dkms
~$ sudo  git clone https://github.com/ivanovborislav/rtl8812au
~$ sudo  cp -r rtl8812au /usr/src/rtl8812au-5.13.6
~$ sudo dkms add -m rtl8812au -v 5.13.6
~$ sudo  dkms build -m rtl8812au -v 5.13.6
~$ sudo dkms install -m rtl8812au -v 5.13.6

although because of a warning from using build and installed different modules after retries I ended up using:

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~$  dkms status
~$  rtl8812au/5.13.6, 6.1.0-9-amd64, x86_64: (different modules warning here!!!)
~$ sudo dkms remove rtl8812au/5.13.6 -k <kernel from dkms status here>
~$ sudo dkms install rtl8812au/5.13.6 -k <kernel from dkms status here>
~$  dkms status
~$  rtl8812au/5.13.6, 6.1.0-9-amd64, x86_64: installed

There maybe typos here... I'm using also a dozen kernels for testing future nvidia modules from v5 to v6 also ahs...
Hope it helps!

[pbear]

Finished the upgrade. No issues so far. Got the broken pipe errors during install but all seems okay. I will post if any issues arise.

The "broke pipe" warning is a dkms tool issue, which probably some one upstream need to fix :
Until than in post #114 in this thread a working fix was mentioned.

Is there any reason not to remove the Realtek -dkms packages, assuming of course the user doesn't have a Realtek wireless adapter?
If a user has a Realtek adapter, is there any reason not to remove the other two packages (keeping only the one matching the adapter)?

[gRegNfo]

Finished the upgrade. No issues so far. Got the broken pipe errors during install but all seems okay. I will post if any issues arise.

The "broke pipe" warning is a dkms tool issue, which probably some one upstream need to fix :
Until than in post #114 in this thread a working fix was mentioned.

Is there any reason not to remove the Realtek -dkms packages, assuming of course the user doesn't have a Realtek wireless adapter?
If a user has a Realtek adapter, is there any reason not to remove the other two packages (keeping only the one matching the adapter)?

I just posted a solution for my RTL882CE issue, not sure if it implements your device!
Mine is an internal wifi/bluetooth pcie I changed (not original, first one died) a while ago on my laptop.

https://github.com/ivanovborislav/rtl8812au

The installation is not straightforward and feel free to ask if I made any typos

[BV206]

Ventoy 1.0.93 was released today.
It fixed MX-23 not booting (for me, anyway).
https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/releases

[siamhie]

Ventoy 1.0.93 was released today.
It fixed MX-23 not booting (for me, anyway).
https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/releases

+1

I'm sure the MX patch was added to this version. 1.0.91 didn't have it.

*edit
@BV206 Installed Ventoy 1.0.93 on my thumb drive and copied over my MX-23 fluxbox beta 2 ISO and it booted up without any errors.