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Re: MX-17 to MX-18 update testing

Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2018 1:00 pm
by Paul..
FYI...Starting with MX-18 beta 1, adding devrepo.list...and upgrading, I get:

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Distro: MX-18b1_x64 Continuum December 3  2018

Re: MX-17 to MX-18 update testing

Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2018 1:04 pm
by dolphin_oracle
Paul.. wrote: Tue Dec 04, 2018 1:00 pm FYI...Starting with MX-18 beta 1, adding devrepo.list...and upgrading, I get:

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Distro: MX-18b1_x64 Continuum December 3  2018
that would be correct. and it will always say beta1 because we only change the strings on RC an up.

So if you started with 17.1, it would change to MX-18.

But don't get too worried about it, it literally just a text string for identification at this point, and the main release is still a little ways off.

Re: MX-17 to MX-18 update testing

Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2018 1:31 pm
by philotux
Thanks for the upgrade path!
Upgraded from 17.1 Nov. snapshot. Here it is:

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$ inxi -S
System:
  Host: mx Kernel: 4.15.0-1-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 
  Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 Distro: MX-18_x64 Continuum March 14  2018 
Apart from the wrong date, everything seems to be good so far. I will report back if I stumble upon any issues.

Thank you for you your hard work!
Greetings

Re: MX-17 to MX-18 update testing

Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2018 1:46 pm
by freefreeno
Before this update I was having an issue with firmware for intel 8260 and I would just like to report that it is fixed with the package firmware-iwlwifi 20180825+dfsg-1. That is the correct firmware for intel 8260 wireless adapter and performance seems to be better also. Just wanted to let ya'll know there is no more dmesg errors about loading wireless firmware.I have to run solely off of wifi so it is a big deal to me when something funny is going on with wifi or anyhting like that. If anyone knows any good tweaks for wireless performance I am open to suggestions.Please someone tell me how to disable services with sysV because systemd is usual way of doing things.

Re: MX-17 to MX-18 update testing

Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2018 1:49 pm
by Adrian
philotux wrote: Tue Dec 04, 2018 1:31 pm Apart from the wrong date, everything seems to be good so far. I will report back if I stumble upon any issues.
If I remember correctly we decided to leave the date of original installation there this way we'll know if you installed MX-17 and updated to MX-18 or you installed MX-18 directly, it might be relevant for troubleshooting.

Re: MX-17 to MX-18 update testing

Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2018 1:55 pm
by fehlix
freefreeno wrote: Tue Dec 04, 2018 1:46 pm Please someone tell me how to disable services with sysV because systemd is usual way of doing thing
something like

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sudo service  "init-service-name" status
sudo service  "init-service-name" stop
sudo service  "init-service-name" start
sudo service  --status-all
also this comes handy to view start/stop service:

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sudo sysv-rc-conf 
Note runlevels 2,3,4,5 are for "normal" operating in differen modes,
in most cases they are either on or off. Normal GUI runlevel is 5.

Re: MX-17 to MX-18 update testing

Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2018 1:57 pm
by Stevo
Adrian wrote: Tue Dec 04, 2018 10:47 am Things worked fine here, but I don't use Nvidia so I cannot really report on that update.

Q: After the update should people remove or keep the dev repo enabled? I don't think we'll add stuff to dev repo, right?

EDIT, the release name shows correctly for me (maybe it needs a reboot)

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Distro: MX-18_x64 Continuum March 14  2018 
They can deactivate it unless they need some further Mesa and or -dev packages from it that have to match installed versions.

Re: MX-17 to MX-18 update testing

Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2018 2:02 pm
by philotux
Adrian wrote: Tue Dec 04, 2018 1:49 pm
philotux wrote: Tue Dec 04, 2018 1:31 pm Apart from the wrong date, everything seems to be good so far. I will report back if I stumble upon any issues.
If I remember correctly we decided to leave the date of original installation there this way we'll know if you installed MX-17 and updated to MX-18 or you installed MX-18 directly, it might be relevant for troubleshooting.
Thanks for the clarification, Adrian! That makes sense.
And thanks for such a great OS! It's a joy to use!

philotux

Re: MX-17 to MX-18 update testing

Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2018 2:07 pm
by loradona

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loradona@Tux:~
$ inxi -S
System:    Host: Tux Kernel: 4.18.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 
           Distro: MX-18_x64 Continuum March 14  2018 
Here we go !

Re: MX-17 to MX-18 update testing

Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2018 3:33 pm
by freefreeno
For some reason MX USB unmounter will not stop running. It keeps appearing at boot and I dont know why. I have no USB's even plugged in and it still shows up at boot. I can right click and hit quit and a few minutes later it comes back in the panel.