Test cycle 2023.02 ISO

demm

First, minimal test ISO is uploaded for the February stable ISO release.

This ISO marks the move to Plasma 5.27, 5.26.90 is included. Changes for the new Plasma that could use some more testing are new kwin tiling options and the big Multi-monitor Refactor.

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.

Plan is to have Frameworks 5.103.0, KDE Applications 22.12.2, Plasma 5.26.0 and Linux 6.1.xx on the final ISO.

The ISO is using packages from the build & kde-next repo's, but those repo's is not enabled, so if you decide to install, make sure to add the kde-next &build repo to your pacman.conf.

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 -d

The 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.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/kaos-test/files/iso/KaOS-2023.02.06-x86_64.iso
SHA256Sum:

ccb7c95458356bf340735e8163ed174ac0acb05c9cf729dcfb7efd03f4d06a09  KaOS-2023.02.06-x86_64.iso

On this ISO you will find:
Linux 6.1.10
systemd 252.5
gcc 12.2.0
Qt 5.15.8+
Frameworks 5.102.0
Plasma 5.26.90
KDE Applications 22.12.2
Calamares 3.3 Beta
Octopi 0.14.0 with sysinfo & cachecleaner tool

Known issues:

The bottom progress-bar in Calamares reacts to mouse clicks & opens a virtualkeyboard (narrow)

demm

Second minimal ISO is up.
Major amount of updates, including new kernel, updated KDE patch-set for Qt5, Frameworks packages moved to 5.103.0, Plasma is now at the final 5.27, no more beta, new mesa and another 70 or so updates.
No new bugs were found on the first minimal ISO, so expect the first full (and hopefully final) ISO in a day or 2.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/kaos-test/files/iso/KaOS-2023.02.10-x86_64.iso
SHA256SUM:

f834f7123e98303f7a8b060de930c1a380503f982f10cfbb5bd80a88f98bbc52  KaOS-2023.02.10-x86_64.iso

mendez

I have a problem with ISO-2023.02.10 and grub

From log:

Job file "/usr/lib/calamares/modules/grub/main.py" 
    .. Running ("grub-install", "/dev/nvme0n1") 
    .. Target cmd: ("grub-install", "/dev/nvme0n1") Exit code: 1 output:
 Installing for i386-pc platform.
grub-install: error: unknown filesystem.
Python Error:
 <class 'subprocess.CalledProcessError'> 
 Installing for i386-pc platform.
grub-install: error: unknown filesystem. 
 File "/usr/lib/calamares/modules/grub/main.py", line 63, in run
    install_grub(boot_loader)

  File "/usr/lib/calamares/modules/grub/main.py", line 46, in install_grub
    check_target_env_call(["grub-install", install_path])

  File "<string>", line 5, in <module> 
 
09:18:47 [6]: virtual void Calamares::JobThread::run()
    Skipping non-emergency job "gummi_entries" 
    ..  Skipping non-emergency job "umount" 
09:18:47 [1]: void Calamares::ViewManager::onInstallationFailed(const QString&, const QString&)
    ERROR: Installation failed: "Wystąpił błąd Boost.Python w zadaniu \"grub\"." 
    .. - message: "Wystąpił błąd Boost.Python w zadaniu \"grub\"." 
    .. - details: <div><strong>Command 'grub-install /dev/nvme0n1' returned non-zero exit status 1.</strong></div><div>Installing for i386-pc platform.
grub-install: error: unknown filesy~~~~stem.</div><div><br/>Traceback:</div><div><pre>File &quot;/usr/lib/calamares/modules/grub/main.py&quot;, line 63, in run
    install_grub(boot_loader)

  File &quot;/usr/lib/calamares/modules/grub/main.py&quot;, line 46, in install_grub
    check_target_env_call([&quot;grub-install&quot;, install_path])

ISO SHA256SUM verified.

Filesystem EXT4

demm

Not clear how you end up using grub. Grub is only supported for BIOS systems, but seeing nvme, I presume this is not a 10+ year old system, so it should use UEFI (systemd-boot or rEfind).

Note: Please use code tags for cli output (enclose with 3 backticks ```, done for you this time.

mendez

demm Not clear how you end up using grub

Simply by choice, and I will continue to use it.

On KaOS-2023.02.06, grub works. Then something broke on new iso. Whether you will want to fix it is your will.

demm

Then please post the full installation.log. You used BIOS mode to boot? What filesystem used for /boot? GPT or msdos filesystem?
Neither the installer (Cala) nor grub had any changes between those ISOs, so completely in the dark as to what you encountered (no grub issue here).

mendez

I have installed in the same way and with the same settings KaOS-2023.02.06. This works.

Now I have no logs from 2023.02.10.

demm You used BIOS mode to boot?

Yes BIOS, like always.

demm What filesystem used for /boot? GPT or msdos filesystem?

msdos. /boot is on my primary partition with KaOS.

If it is very necessary, I can try again with the 2023.02.10, and upload the entire error log.

Perhaps a log of 2023.02.06, will be enough? Same settings, only no installation error.

demm

Since the only error you have shown so far is unknown filesystem full log from the failed install will be needed to see what the "unknown" filesystem is.
Only issue I can think of now is new e2fsprogs (since you use ext4), e2fsprogs 1.47.0 was not on the Feb 6 ISO.

(for the record, I have a 2008 system I always use to test grub installs and old nvidia non-free drievers, all good on that system, with XFS)

mendez

OK, I will try to install 2023.02.10.

And because "The content must not be greater than 65535 characters."

https://pastebin.com/PrDbXM7n

demm

Issue confirmed, I can replicate on that old system, when using ext4 (only).

EDIT:
mendez
Issue is in e2fsprogs, reinstalled on the old system (with ext4) after installing older e2fsprogs from one of the back-up mirrors (from https://ca.kaosx.cf/core/).
I have not found any bug reports for e2fprogs 1.47.0, but I will use 1.46.6 for the upcoming full ISO (and might move the package back to that version, if issue not found soon).

demm

First full ISO is up. It includes the older e2fsprogs as discussed above.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/kaos-test/files/iso/KaOS-2023.02.12-x86_64.iso

SHA256SUM:

adfcc5ccb1dfe55f2d150dacac722a914ad1a07670ffc3d35709394cd746b56d  KaOS-2023.02.12-x86_64.iso

demm

https://kaosx.us/news/2023/kaos02/
The February ISO is now released, big thanks to all all who helped in this test cycle.