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Re: antiX live usb issue
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2019 2:05 pm
by rs55
A suggestion:
If fuseiso* is only causing a problem for a certain subset of machines ( like mine), but necessary for other machines, then perhaps you could make fuseiso* optional, or at least allow users to uninstall it.(as it used to be prior to this latest version).
Re: antiX live usb issue
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2019 2:06 pm
by rs55
anticapitalista wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2019 2:01 pm
Are you sure the issue is lum etc and not your bleeding edge liquorix kernel?
I dont think its the liquorix kernel, because the problem also occurs in my Antix installation which is on 4.9 kernel.
Re: antiX live usb issue
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2019 2:10 pm
by rs55
have you tested on thinkpads circa 2011-2012 models? ( x220, x230, t420, w520 etc)? These are my favorite machines and I think they are quite popular with linux enthusiasts in general.
Re: antiX live usb issue
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2019 2:11 pm
by anticapitalista
rs55 wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2019 2:10 pm
have you tested on thinkpads circa 2011-2012 models? ( x220, x230, t420, w520 etc)? These are my favorite machines and I think they are quite popular with linux enthusiasts in general.
I have a Thinkpad L412
Re: antiX live usb issue
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2019 2:18 pm
by dolphin_oracle
running LUM from the command line with the "--force=nofuse" switch should then work if fuse is the problem. We can add that option to the gui easy enough.
Re: antiX live usb issue
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2019 2:22 pm
by fehlix
rs55 wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2019 2:05 pm
If fuseiso* is only causing a problem for a certain subset of machines ( like mine), but necessary for other machines, then perhaps you could make fuseiso* optional, or at least allow users to uninstall it.(as it used to be prior to this latest version).
Please verify that it works for you with disabling fuseiso from command line like this:
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sudo live-usb-maker --force=nofuse
Probably this can also be set permanently into the saved configfile.
Re: antiX live usb issue
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2019 2:42 pm
by BitJam
rs55 wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2019 12:55 pm
Urgent!!
In MX, I noticed the updater had updates for LUM and associated files including fuseiso and cli-..
I updated, created a new live usb and attempted to boot. Got a fatal error:
"Error: mount: mounting /dev/loop0 on /live/linux failed: Invalid argument"
This may not be a fuse problem. This error will occur when the kernel does not support the type of squashfs compression used to make the linuxfs file (but there could be other issues as well).
Please try again with the "bp=e" option. This will get you to a shell when the error occurs. Then run "dmesg | tail -n20". This will likely tell us more about what is going on.
Once the bootloader has run (and read the vmlinuz and initrd.gz files) then our fragmentation woes are over. The Linux kernel has no problem reading fragmented files so I suspect the problem is the compression method.
Re: antiX live usb issue
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2019 2:51 pm
by rs55
fehlix wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2019 2:22 pm
rs55 wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2019 2:05 pm
If fuseiso* is only causing a problem for a certain subset of machines ( like mine), but necessary for other machines, then perhaps you could make fuseiso* optional, or at least allow users to uninstall it.(as it used to be prior to this latest version).
Please verify that it works for you with disabling fuseiso from command line like this:
Code: Select all
sudo live-usb-maker --force=nofuse
Probably this can also be set permanently into the saved configfile.
Yes - it works with the command line and force=nofuse.
It would be great if the gui for LUM had a checkbox for fuse/nofuse. I dont think Iam the only one this issue with fuse- I believe dolphin was also having the same issue.
Where is the config file for LUM and how do I change it?
Re: antiX live usb issue
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2019 3:15 pm
by fehlix
rs55 wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2019 2:51 pm
Where is the config file for LUM and how do I change it?
I havn't tested the save config settings feature. But if you run live-usb-maker --help
such an option is mentioned. Need to check...
Re: antiX live usb issue
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2019 4:05 pm
by BitJam
@rs55, please run LUM again with fuse enabled. When you boot, please add these two options:
The first will check the integrity of the linuxfs file before we try to mount it. The 2nd will get you to a shell when the error occurs. In the shell run the command:
This should tell us why the mount failed. You could possible take a picture of the output if that is easy for you and it seems warranted.
If we are still getting fragmentation problems and we can't fix them then we may have to change our strategy and only use fuse when normal mounting fails. If I do give up then that will mean there will be some (rare) systems that LUM will not work on which is not a desirable outcome.
I want to first find out exactly what the problem is and then deal with it.