USB Porteus, new computer, problems

[Ed_P]

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~#  uname -a
Linux porteus.example.net 6.8.10-porteus #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri May 17 18:09:34 MSK 2024 x86_64 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

~#  cat /etc/porteus/*
001-core.xzm:20250131
002-xorg.xzm:20241212
002-xtra.xzm:20240924
003-cinnamon.xzm:20240924
initrd.xz:20230923

~#  ls -l /mnt/live/memory/images
000-kernel.xzm : May 17 2024
001-core.xzm : Jan 31 04:05
002-xorg.xzm : Dec 12 07:15
002-xtra.xzm : Sep 24 2024
003-cinnamon.xzm : Dec 29 2023
07-printing-x86_64-2025-01-02.xzm : Jan 2 04:09
50save.dat.xzm : Jan 15 20:32
Dell6.4.10-wifi.xzm : Aug 18 2023
Dellautonet.xzm : Aug 26 2024
Dellsound.xzm : May 14 2022
brother-mfcj4335dwpdrv-3.5.0-1.i386.xzm : Jul 11 2024
firefox-132.0-x86_64-en-US.xzm : Nov 4 01:15
mychanges.xzm : Mar 22 00:31
pipewire.xzm : Jan 14 11:57
wmctrl-1.07-x86_64-2salix15.0.xzm : Feb 6 2024
xtrmods.xzm : Feb 19 17:32

~#  cat /proc/cmdline
quiet BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/syslinux/vmlinuz volume=33 reboot=cold extramod=/Modules

Boot Drv: sda1

New computer an Acer.

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~#  uname -a
Linux porteus.example.net 6.8.10-porteus #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri May 17 18:09:34 MSK 2024 x86_64 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-13420H GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

~#  cat /etc/porteus/*
001-core.xzm:20250131
002-xorg.xzm:20241212
002-xtra.xzm:20240924
003-cinnamon.xzm:20240924
initrd.xz:20230923

~#  ls -l /mnt/live/memory/images
000-kernel.xzm : May 17 2024
001-core.xzm : Jan 31 09:05
002-xorg.xzm : Dec 12 12:15
002-xtra.xzm : Sep 24 2024
003-cinnamon.xzm : Dec 29 2023

~#  cat /proc/cmdline
quiet BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/syslinux/vmlinuz nomagic base_only norootcopy initrd=/boot/syslinux/initrd.xz

Boot DRV: /mnt/sda1

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root@porteus:/home/guest# dmesg | egrep 'rror|display|915'
[    0.128058] ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [\_SB.PC00.TXHC.RHUB.SS01], AE_NOT_FOUND (20230628/dswload2-162)
[    0.128067] ACPI Error: AE_NOT_FOUND, During name lookup/catalog (20230628/psobject-220)
[    0.128072] ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [\_SB.PC00.TXHC.RHUB.SS02], AE_NOT_FOUND (20230628/dswload2-162)
[    0.128075] ACPI Error: AE_NOT_FOUND, During name lookup/catalog (20230628/psobject-220)
[    0.128078] ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [\_SB.PC00.TXHC.RHUB.SS03], AE_NOT_FOUND (20230628/dswload2-162)
[    0.128081] ACPI Error: AE_NOT_FOUND, During name lookup/catalog (20230628/psobject-220)
[    0.128084] ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [\_SB.PC00.TXHC.RHUB.SS04], AE_NOT_FOUND (20230628/dswload2-162)
[    0.128086] ACPI Error: AE_NOT_FOUND, During name lookup/catalog (20230628/psobject-220)
[    0.915425] ENERGY_PERF_BIAS: Set to 'normal', was 'performance'
[    0.915619] microcode: Current revision: 0x0000410e
[    0.915696] IPI shorthand broadcast: enabled
[    7.372405] platform regulatory.0: Direct firmware load for regulatory.db failed with error -2
[    7.676027] i915 0000:00:02.0: vgaarb: deactivate vga console
[    7.676063] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] Using Transparent Hugepages
[    7.676535] i915 0000:00:02.0: vgaarb: VGA decodes changed: olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=io+mem:owns=io+mem
[    7.698165] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] Finished loading DMC firmware i915/adlp_dmc.bin (v2.20)
[    7.739045] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] GT0: GuC firmware i915/adlp_guc_70.bin version 70.20.0
[    7.739049] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] GT0: HuC firmware i915/tgl_huc.bin version 7.9.3
[    7.756155] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] GT0: HuC: authenticated for all workloads
[    7.756521] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] GT0: GUC: submission enabled
[    7.756522] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] GT0: GUC: SLPC enabled
[    7.757008] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] GT0: GUC: RC enabled
[    8.981126] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20230929 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0
[    8.981982] i915 display info: display version: 13
[    8.981983] i915 display info: cursor_needs_physical: no
[    8.981984] i915 display info: has_cdclk_crawl: yes
[    8.981984] i915 display info: has_cdclk_squash: no
[    8.981985] i915 display info: has_ddi: yes
[    8.981985] i915 display info: has_dp_mst: yes
[    8.981986] i915 display info: has_dsb: yes
[    8.981986] i915 display info: has_fpga_dbg: yes
[    8.981987] i915 display info: has_gmch: no
[    8.981987] i915 display info: has_hotplug: yes
[    8.981987] i915 display info: has_hti: no
[    8.981988] i915 display info: has_ipc: yes
[    8.981988] i915 display info: has_overlay: no
[    8.981989] i915 display info: has_psr: yes
[    8.981989] i915 display info: has_psr_hw_tracking: no
[    8.981989] i915 display info: overlay_needs_physical: no
[    8.981990] i915 display info: supports_tv: no
[    8.981990] i915 display info: has_hdcp: yes
[    8.981991] i915 display info: has_dmc: yes
[    8.981991] i915 display info: has_dsc: yes
[    8.985133] fbcon: i915drmfb (fb0) is primary device
[    9.029666] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] fb0: i915drmfb frame buffer device
[    9.389156] Bluetooth: hci0: Found Intel DDC parameters: intel/ibt-0040-4150.ddc

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System:
  Host: porteus.example.net Kernel: 6.8.10-porteus x86_64 bits: 64
    compiler: gcc v: 2.37-slack15 Desktop: Cinnamon 5.2.7 tk: GTK 3.24.33
    wm: muffin dm: LXDM Distro: Porteus-v5.01
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Aspire A515-58PT v: V1.12
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: RPL model: Birkin_RTU v: V1.12 serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: Insyde v: 1.12 date: 01/20/2025
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 16.7 Wh (31.5%) condition: 53.1/53.1 Wh (99.9%)
    volts: 10.7 min: 11.3 model: LGES KT0030G025 AP23A8L serial: 15344
    status: Discharging
CPU:
  Info: 8-core (4-mt/4-st) model: 13th Gen Intel Core i5-13420H bits: 64
    type: MST AMCP arch: N/A rev: 2 cache: L1: 704 KiB L2: 7 MiB L3: 12 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 400 min/max: 400/4600:3400 cores: 1: 400 2: 400 3: 400
    4: 400 5: 400 6: 400 7: 400 8: 400 9: 400 10: 400 11: 400 12: 400
    bogomips: 62668
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: i915 v: kernel
    bus-ID: 0000:00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:a7a8
  Device-2: Generic ACER HD User Facing type: USB driver: uvcvideo
    bus-ID: 1-6:2 chip-ID: 04f2:b79c
  Display: x11 server: X.org 1.20.14 driver: loaded: modesetting
    unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: <missing: xdpyinfo>
  OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 13.0.0 256 bits) v: 4.5 Mesa 21.3.5
    direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel bus-ID: 0000:00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:51ca
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k6.8.10-porteus running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Intel driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: N/A bus-ID: 0000:00:14.3
    chip-ID: 8086:51f1
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: 18:93:41:ef:e4:80
  IP v4: 192.168.200.209/24 type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
    broadcast: 192.168.200.255
  IP v6: 2603:7081:1e03:a706:ade:d61b:d9e1:438a/64
    type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
  IP v6: fe80::2778:ea46:4712:d8de/64 type: noprefixroute scope: link
  WAN IP: 74.70.206.218
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: N/A type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-10:3
    chip-ID: 8087:0026
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 3 state: down bt-service: not found
    rfk-block: hardware: no software: no address: 18:93:41:EF:E4:84
RAID:
  Hardware-1: Intel Device driver: vmd v: 0.6 bus-ID: 0000:00:0e.0
    chip-ID: 8086:a77f
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 982.77 GiB used: 86.68 GiB (8.8%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Western Digital
    model: WD PC SN740 SDDQNQD-1T00-1014 size: 953.87 GiB speed: 63.2 Gb/s
    lanes: 4 serial: 24070V802513 temp: 27.9 C
  ID-2: /dev/sda type: USB model: USB DISK 3.0 size: 28.9 GiB
    serial: 0718993E1EEEEF76
Partition:
  Message: No partition data found.
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 27.8 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 256 Uptime: 2m Memory: 15.33 GiB used: 1.25 GiB (8.2%)
  Init: SysVinit v: 3.07 runlevel: 4 default: 4 Compilers: gcc: 11.2.0
  alt: 11.2.0 Packages: note: see --pkg pkgtool: 1 Shell: inxi.sh
  running-in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.3.12

Anything pop out for a solution?

Added in 1 day 1 hour 30 minutes 11 seconds:
Don't have the problem with porteux 2.0.

[Blaze]

How about Porteus 5.1 alpha 2?

[Ed_P]

Unfortunately 5.1a2 doesn't boot on my current system.


Added in 2 hours 23 minutes 17 seconds:
Redownloaded the ISO and am able to boot it.

ISO: /ISOs/Porteus/Porteus-CINNAMON-v5.1-alpha2-x86_64.iso

Will see about creating a USB system tomorrow.


Added in 13 hours 26 minutes 10 seconds:
A good suggestion Blaze

Started with this:
http://www6.frugalware.org/mirrors/linu ... x86_64.iso

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~#  uname -a
Linux porteus.example.net 6.14.0-porteus #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Mon Mar 24 20:27:42 MSK 2025 x86_64 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

~#  cat /etc/porteus/*
001-core.xzm:20250325
002-xorg.xzm:20250325
002-xtra.xzm:20250325
003-cinnamon.xzm:20250325
initrd.xz:20240731

~#  ls -l /mnt/live/memory/images
000-kernel.xzm : Mar 24 13:30
001-core.xzm : Mar 25 02:09
002-xorg.xzm : Mar 25 02:12
002-xtra.xzm : Mar 25 02:13
003-cinnamon.xzm : Mar 25 04:20
firefox-132.0-x86_64-en-US.xzm : Nov 4 01:15
pipewire.xzm : Jan 14 11:57
wmctrl-1.07-x86_64-2salix15.0.xzm : Feb 6 2024
xtrmods.xzm : Feb 19 17:32

~#  cat /proc/cmdline
quiet BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/syslinux/vmlinuz APPEND extramod=UUID:0745-D166/Modules noload=save.dat  extramod=UUID:0745-D166/Modules initrd=/boot/syslinux/initrd.xz

Boot Drv: sda1

Got these:


File Manager icon missing and Porteus Update having a problem.


Wide terminal text.

But no video driver problem. WiFi working also.

My 1st Porteus system on the new pc. I think I will keep it.

[Blaze]

I don't have issue with icons.
Looks like your changes are broken icons

[ncmprhnsbl]

Porteus Update having a problem.

..because there are none

[Ed_P]

Looks like your changes are broken icons

Not sure how but it appears to be the case. Thank you.

..because there are none

Fair enough, and good to hear, but the "Downloading: update-porteus-live DONE" and "Downloading: update.txt DONE" messages imply otherwise.

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guest@porteus:~$ 
guest@porteus:~$ cat /var/log/porteus-livedbg | grep /dev/
/dev/sda1: UUID="0745-D166" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/nvme0n1p4: LABEL="Recovery" UUID="3008D1EF08D1B456" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/nvme0n1p3: LABEL="Acer" UUID="10A2D14EA2D138C4" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/nvme0n1p1: LABEL="ESP" UUID="B6D0-F3E2" TYPE="vfat"
guest@porteus:~$ 
guest@porteus:~$ ls /mnt/sda1
guest@porteus:~$ 
guest@porteus:~$ ls /mnt/sdb1
Dell/                  EFI/             Guest/
Modules/               My_Files/        Notes.txt*
Optional/              SysSnapshot.sh*  System\ Volume\ Information/
USB_INSTALLATION.txt*  boot/            changes/
install.txt*           porteus/         porteus-usb.sh*
guest@porteus:~$ 

/sda1 empty, /sdb1 my Porteus USB system!

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New scenario.

After closing lid for a period of time, reopening it and the task bar icons don't work. Files Manager, terminal, Menu's Shutdown option doesn't open.

Ctrl+Alt+Del doesn't work.

Alt+PrtScr+ B U S takes me to the boot log screen and relogging in as guest yields: I/O error, dev loop1

Alt+PrtScr+R works.

[Ed_P]

Another problem trying to exit alpha2.

[Ed_P]

Another Alpha 2

Simple script, run after making the two system changes:

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if [ -d /tmp/mod/ ]; then
   rm -rf /tmp/mod
fi
mkdir -p /tmp/mod

# copy the modified files

# For 12 hr clock & xed with line numbers   
cp -a -p --parents    /home/guest/.config/dconf/user                  /tmp/mod/
cp -a -p --parents    /home/guest/.config/xed/accels                  /tmp/mod/
ls -R                 /tmp/mod/
read

dir2xzm  /tmp/mod  /tmp/$MOD.xzm   &&   rm -rf /tmp/mod

echo 
lsxzm    /tmp/*.xzm

yields this "This is not a valid module" error when trying to activate it.


Any ideas?

Added in 10 hours 40 minutes 35 seconds:
Script was run in alpha 2 as root. Other mods, which work, created in 5.01. dir2xzm bug?

[beny]

Hi Ed_P,you can use terminal: mksquashfs curl-8.13.0-1-x86_64.pkg curl-8.13.0-1-x86_64.xzm,this is an example,your directory and your directory.xzm,well if you want to use the script as you wish good luck

[Ed_P]

Thanks beny.

I tried your mksquashfs suggestion but got the same result.

I also tried creating a save.dat file and booting with the changes=EXIT: cheatcode and after making some simple changes and rebooting the changes aren't present.

Added in 19 hours 35 minutes 14 seconds:
save.dat problem due to my grub2 menu error.

[Ed_P]

yields this "This is not a valid module" error when trying to activate it.
Image

Any ideas?

Yes. Need new glasses.

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if [ $ans == 1 ] || [ $ans == 6 ]; then
      echo $PSWD | sudo -S activate $OPTIONAL/mynemob*.xzm    > /dev/null 2>&1 
   fi
   if [ $ans == 2 ] || [ $ans == 6 ]; then
      if ! [ -e /mnt/live/memory/images/firefox*.xzm ]; then
         echo $PSWD | sudo -S activate $OPTIONAL/firefox*.xzm > /dev/null 2>&1 
         sleep 2
      fi
      echo $PSWD | sudo -S activate $OPTIONAL/myfirefox*.xzm  > /dev/null 2>&1 
   fi
   if [ $ans == 3 ] || [ $ans == 6 ]; then
      echo $PSWD | sudo -S activate $Optional/mytweaks.xzm    > /dev/null 2>&1 
   fi

1. Option 3's directory is wrong!
2. Some changes are only effective if activated when booting. Such as:

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# For 12 hr clock & xed line numbers  :) 
cp -a -p --parents    /home/guest/.config/xed/accels                /tmp/mod/
cp -a -p --parents    /home/guest/.config/dconf/user                /tmp/mod/
# For FireFox icon on task bar  :)
cp -a -p --parents    /home/guest/.config/cinnamon/spices/[email protected]/*   /tmp/mod/

A long learning process.

Now on with alpha2 testing.

New question. When I boot without a save.dat my nemo /home/guest/ folder displays 7 folders; Decktop through Videos, but when I boot with a used save.dat I only have the Desktop folder. Awkward for saving screen shots and downloads. Something else I'm screwing up?