First, minimal test ISO is uploaded for the first stable ISO of 2019.
provide the installation log, if you encounter any issue at all
As always, early test ISOs are minimal, very few apps, just a web-browser, file manager, text editor, GUI package manager. The non-free nvidia drivers are included since they are a big part of what needs testing. Help is especially needed with testing non-free nvidia for the 415 series. So far no such new card is available in the usually used test systems.
This ISO will feature Readline 8.0.0, Python 3.7.2, Glib2 2.58.3, Qt 5.12.1, Plasma 5.15 among the many updates. Systemd 241 is also on this ISO, but testing is not going too well, there are issues with shutdown & reboot commands, the new option SuccessAction is not working at all yet. More testers are needed for this, thus this ISO is uploaded with this known, major bug.
KaOS ISOs are not only GTK free but are Qt4 & KDE 4 free too.
This is as pure a Qt 5/Plasma 5 ISO as possible.
Plan is to have Frameworks 5.55.0, KDE Applications 18.12.2, Plasma 5.15.1 and Linux 4.20.xx on the final ISO. If all testing goes well expect the final ISO to be released within a week to ten days
Calamares version used is 3.2.5 Release Notes page is not fully updated yet, you will see some the text from the December ISO.
The ISO is using packages from the build repo, but that repo is not enabled, so if you decide to install, make sure to add the build epo to your pacman.conf.
To help with testing:
- Use a GPT partition table on BIOS system (manual partitioning)
- Use Isowriter to write the test ISO to your USB stick, plan is to remove imagewriter from the repos after this test cycle
- Use in live mode on as much different hardware as possible
- If you have an UEFI capable system, check if the ISO boots in both UEFI and legacy BIOS mode, make sure though to turn off secure boot
- test installs on real hardware are needed, not just vbox
- check as many partitioning options as possible in the partitioning of Calamares, see if all works and is clear enough
- test with the BTRFS filesystem, it should now work properly without any intervention on UEFI systems (systemd-bootloader).
debug packages for Calamares are part of all ISOs, run Calamares with gdb if you encounter errors
provide the installation log, if you encounter any issue at all
You can start Calamares from the Welcome app, or run it with:
sudo calamares -dThe install log will be created in the home directory of the Live user, see ~/installation.log. It is available after the install in the target system in /var/log/installation.log
If run from cli, make sure to pastebin the full output, since no installation.log will be copied then, though that log is more complete.
The site for testing ISOs in use:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/kaos-test/files/iso/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/kaos-test/files/iso/KaOS-2019.02.19-x86_64.iso
sha256sum:
5effb922213c3ae4102bdd388ffb1688c2142ba0e67443cbedf26afb51d118c7 KaOS-2019.02.19-x86_64.isoOn this ISO you will find:
Linux 4.20.10
systemd 241
gcc 7.4.0
Qt 5.12.1
Frameworks 5.55.0
Plasma 5.15.1
KDE Applications 18.12.2
Calamares 3.2.5
Octopi 0.9.0 with sysinfo & cachecleaner tool
Known issues:
- Reboot & shutdown from GUI will result in system hang, only option to reboot or shutdown is from cli
sudo systemctl --force rebootorsudo systemctl --force poweroff - Calamares does not respect the set filesystem (XFS) when using any of the automated options, it will fall back to ext4. Manual will set XFS correctly as default.
