AV Linux MX Edition 23.1 (AVL-MXe) Released!

[blast0id]

Glad you got it working! Phew!

yeah, me too! w00t w00t!

I empathize with what you're going through with your little one, that's a lot to to handle for everyone, sincere wishes for a quick recovery!

thanks, she was born @ 28wks via emergency c-section (God bless her, she almost killed her mother) @1lb 12.5oz miracle & 13in, she was in the NICU for almost 3mos but she's as rambunctious as her two older siblings, and is nearing 20lbs now... crazy, if you really wanna see something crazy you should see what they billed the insurance company for the 2.5mos of NICU

but enough about my baby lol, thanks for making us this beautiful linux baby right here! w00t w00t!

[blast0id]

so for anyone who might possibly run into an issue after reboot where enlightenment doesn't load properly, try installing and leaving the settings on this page:

alone... according to this: https://youtu.be/Fl5TMM7cViI?t=865 the icons are tied to the computer name/domain from the setup page on the screenshot above, this makes me think more than just the icons are tied to it, because changing those settings on that install page is what caused all my problems with enlightenment not loading after initial install reboot.

it would be nice to know how those settings can be changed, but to also changed whatever config file for enlightenment needs to be changed/edited so as to match and not have those issues after install...

so I guess I'll do some digging.

[siamhie]

so for anyone who might possibly run into an issue after reboot where enlightenment doesn't load properly, try installing and leaving the settings on this page:

You can have any computer name you want. You just don't set a domain name unless you plan on running a service (web server, mail server, etc.) on that machine.

If this is a single network, and you do not intend setting up a local mail server or a DNS server that connect to the Internet,
then the domain name is of no importance at all and can be left as blank.

The domain name only serves to combine with the host-name to create the the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the system.
For example, if the domain name is company.com and the host name is host1, then the FQDN is host1.company.com. You will still
need to setup a DNS server to resolve that name to an IP address, or have some Internet DNS server point to your network.

Without a domain name, the computers can still be identified on their network by their host-name.

Since this is a home desktop being attributed a local IP address via DHCP, a blank domain name is entirely appropriate.
Specifying a domain name would have no effect at all in that case.

For more info see Wikipedia : Fully qualified domain name

[AVLinux]

@blast0id

You are right that the hostname and icon theme are connected but the hostname being changed shouldn't cause booting issues unless there's a weird new bug in the installer.. I will be doing a fresh install on my dev/build box tomorrow and I will experiment..

On an installed system you can simply edit /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts with mousepad as root to create a unique hostname.

[FullScale4Me]

Manual changes to /etc/hostname also need to be carried over to etc/hosts BTW.

[blast0id]

@blast0id

...snip... but the hostname being changed shouldn't cause booting issues unless there's a weird new bug in the installer..

No, so to clarify further, it booted fine but enlightenment wouldn't properly load. I ended up in one of two places, a login box that after putting in my info & hitting enter would disappear & enlightenment would never load ... Or you get to a blank screen with a cursor. Both scenarios you'd have to ctl+alt + F1-6 - type login credentials then "startx" but that would give you the vanilla enlightenment without AVL customizations...

[pffftdwarf]

@pffftdwarf

Ok good! Thanks for the clarification and the info!

This is acting like some kind of lightDM issue, I wonder if it's a systemd vs. sysvinit thing..?

To be clear once you were able to get the system installed everything worked OK?

Just did some further "testing":

• in QEMU/KVM with virtmanager the Live-USB boots normal

• with "FAILSAFE" enabled it boots into some adventurous 720x340ish lightdm-greeter and you have to login. after login it looks normal (for 720x340ish)

• I dont know if this is the normal behaviour, but when I set the Language to "German" in the Live-Usb boot menu: the TTYs get that info and use an qwertz layout, Enlightenment starts with US/english layout/language.

I assume that the "blankscreen" thing is, like you mentioned, an isolated issue on my machine.

[AVLinux]

@pffftdwarf

Yes this is correct, I do mention it in the Video but I should have made a stronger point of it for non-English users.. Enlightenment requires the keyboard to be changed in it's own settings menu..

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[AVLinux]

Hi all,

A minor ISO update has been uploaded, info has been added to the first post..

[AVLinux]

Manual changes to /etc/hostname also need to be carried over to etc/hosts BTW.

Thanks, appreciated!