Menu

Show posts

This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.

Show posts Menu

Messages - Snap

#61
Understood. Thanks for the info, hackerdefo.
#62
@ hackerdefo: tried the nobootwait option and didn't worked quite well. if the drive is present it doesn't automount any more. If the drive is off the booting sequence gets interrupted with errors. Back to nofail untill I find anything better.
#63
Wow, this thread has becoming really informative on the subject. Thanks guys for all the contributions.

QuoteUsing the PARTUUID= resulted in an endless bootloop on login.  In other words, it would allow me to type in the password, wait for an agonizingly long time, then when it looked like it was going to boot in, it just sent me back to the lightdm login screen...

Really? I would never have thought of fstab or UUIDs in a boot loop like this. I would drive crazy for weeks trying fix something related with the X server! ...which is not the case as you pointed out. Obviously fstab ain't what it used to be.

#64
Great tip, hackerdefo.

Do you know if there's a timeout option for systems running with sysvinit?
#65
VSIDO Installation Help / Re: Nvidia Install Problems
October 26, 2016, 10:54:02 AM
I have a quite similar system (only older). The uefi/bios of these mobos are darn complex. It took me a good while to get used to it. Now that time went by and it works fine I forgot how the heck I did it. But from the top of my head I remember that I had to disable secure boot and enable hybrid legacy+uefi mode in order to boot both types of distros. Also the drive selection/boot order is a bit of a mess. It can drive you crazy until you figure it out.

Hope these crap tips help. If you need it I can poke into my uefi/bios for you and check the exact settings. My rig now boots anything you throw at it.
#66
General Support / Re: NVMe Placeholder
October 26, 2016, 09:38:31 AM
Glad you solved this, guys.

I just want to point that this sounds more like a (welcomed) workaround than a true solution. IIRC, the nofail option silently (thankfully) ignores errors and keeps the thing going. I use that option for external drives included in fstab that may or maybe not present. With the nofail option there are no complaints if the drive is missing and the rest of the drives mount normally. Otherwise it stalls (with whatever init).
#67
General Support / Re: (SOLVED) Dialogue box issues
October 19, 2016, 06:29:22 AM
Whatever the reasons behind, a good job is a good job. You can feel love and care put in making Vsido.

For me there are two kind of distros, those that make you jump away just minutes after install them and those that make you want to explore them further and spending good whiles on them. Vsido belongs to that second category.
#68
General Support / Re: (SOLVED) Dialogue box issues
October 18, 2016, 02:54:32 AM
I was suspecting this, boss. Not strange wanting to throw the towel with the current Debian/Linux situation. It's somewhat better now, though still not what it used to be. I fully understand your frustration.

You were not the only one about to jump away from Debian to some place else. But the alternatives I was considering and testing over the last months were not fully convincing (Void, Arch, Slackware, BSDs...) for different reasons, so here we are, still on Debian.

Glad the situation eased and you found the motivation to keep going and keeping Vsido alive... Besides I don't use it as my main system (GTK3, systemd, etc...) I still love this cool and well thought little distro you put together.
#69
VSIDO Discussions / Re: Debian Bloat...
October 11, 2016, 04:58:34 AM
Wow, great move! Well done, boss.
#70
General Support / Re: (SOLVED) Perl Jam III WARNING!!!
September 26, 2016, 07:46:47 AM
Well, at least this one was short. I was expecting a quite long transition.
#71
QuoteThe Aur - any time I've added packages from the Aur, Arch soon borked; stay away from that

That's what they say. I've been away from Arch for a long while but I remember it that way too. Better to compile from source yourself than trust often unattended aur packages.
#72
General Support / Re: Kernel / Grub Boot issue <SOLVED>
September 16, 2016, 08:02:33 AM
QuotePlease someone tell me why I will regret this. I dont see any downside but I could be wrong.

I won't be the one.  8)

OpenRC everywhere here. VastOne wrote an specific switching guide for Vsido somewhere in the forum. But the essentials work for any Debian and from Jessie to Sid. Tested several times.
#73
Scripts / Re: Poor Man's Youtube Downloader
September 15, 2016, 06:35:10 AM
git updated.  8)
#74
General Support / Re: Krrnel / Grub Boot issue
September 04, 2016, 08:01:22 AM
AFAIK drivers are somewhat troublesome lately... once again.

Try running in no modesetting. When reaching grub press the e key. and in the line that begins with "Linux..." add the following at the end.

For nouveau drivers (Nvidia GPUs) just add nomodeset. It should look something like this:

"quiet splash nomodeset"

For Intel cards:

"quiet splash nomodeset i915.modeset=0"

if it boots normally then add these changes to /etc/default/grub and to make the changes permanent run

sudo update-grub

Sorry, I have zero experience with AMD/ATI cards, but I read they're problematic lately too.
#75
General Support / Re: spacefm + desktop icons
July 05, 2016, 05:46:59 AM
PCmanFM is the LXQt default file manager. The reason of being ported IIRC.