Module activation - folder doesn't appear in live system

[Ed_P]

@Ed_P, then you do suggest this:

Rava wrote: ↑November 13th, 2023, 1:04 am
Do you really suggest a user should delete hundreds of .wh. files from the live system when that very system is, well, live?

Since I've never done that I don't know what would happen. Can it be done? Would deleted .wh. files become .wh.wh. files? I only do it to my save.dat files when it's not being used. Have you tried it with one of your live system's /porteus/changes folders? And if you do try it please report your results. If a file has been deleted I don't think deleting it a second time will hang the system.

[Rava]

Have you tried it with one of your live system's /porteus/changes folders? And if you do try it please report your results. If a file has been deleted I don't think deleting it a second time will hang the system.

To quote myself:

I think I found the culprit:

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guest@rava:~$ find /mnt/live/memory/changes/home -name ".wh.*"
/mnt/live/memory/changes/home/guest/.basilisk-dev/.wh..wh..opq

I indeed fixed my "Module activation - folder doesn't appear in live system" issue by deleting the very /mnt/live/memory/changes/home/guest/.basilisk-dev/.wh..wh..opq file.

And here I thought identifying the .wh* file sitting in /mnt/live/memory/changes/home/guest/.basilisk-dev/ being the reason why the subfolders and files in /home/guest/.basilisk-dev/ not being displayed and therefore deleting that very .wh* file was a no-brainer, but seems the "rm /mnt/live/memory/path/to/the/one/bothersome/.wh*" file needed to be spelled out after all.

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And please take special care to not delete all .wh* files in your life system, only delete a single one when you encounter a similar issue as described in my initial post.

Under usual circumstances, the .wh* files do their job as intended and there usually is never a need to delete any of these from your life system.

Only when there is a condition that you do not get files or folders from a newly activated module you have to search for the responsible singular .wh* file and only delete that one singular .wh* file.

[Ed_P]

Where do your .wh. files exist rava? In RAM or on your /porteus drive? And how many do you currently have?

[Rava]

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I answered that and more in the other thread: [HOWTO] fix module activation - folder (or file) doesn't appear in live system