[OSGeoLive] [SeasonOfDocs] Help needed to setup VM

[Cameron Shorter]

Hi Felicity, I suspect it is something much simpler than all those things
you tried (although non-intuitive and frustratingly difficult to identify).
So it sounds like you have made it to my screenshot 2 below?
Maybe your newly opened VM window is not capturing the keyboard and/or
mouse keys.

Theoretically, if you don't click on the window, it should automatically
start up after ~ 5 secs from screen 2.
If you click on the ubuntu startup page (screen 2), are you then able to
use the arrow keys to move up/down from the list of options? (That would
indicate the keyboard is capturing key presses. If you can do that, you
should then be able to press Enter on the top "Ubuntu" option and the
startup sequence should start.)

Angelos, Brian, others, you might have some more suggestions for Felicity
to try?

If you remain stuck, it might help to do a video conference either tonight
or over the weekend and we can screen share to try and debug. SMS me some
suggested times that work for you.

Good luck, Cameron


On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 at 07:10, Felicity Brand <felicitybrand at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks Cameron.
> Yep, I get to that initial screen where I press Enter to boot the Ubuntu
> disk. And then nothing happens - I suspect it's not booting.
> I thought at first it's because I didn't wait long enough... so I was very
> patient this time (20 minutes) and still nothing.
> What I've tried so far:
> - Uninstalling VirtualBox and reinstalling
> - Installing an earlier version of VirtualBox
> - Deleting the vmdk, re-downloading and following the whole procedure
> again.
>
> Do I need to play around with the memory size settings or some other
> setting maybe? I'm pretty sure my laptop meets the specs..
>
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 8:49 PM Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Felicity,
>>
>> I'm switching you across to the OSGeoLive email list, where you will find
>> people who can help with these OSGeoLive issues.
>>
>> I suspect you are seeing a screen similar to the following? (I have 2
>> virtual machines, you probably only have 1, without snapshots.)
>>
>> Click on following 1, 2, 3 sequence.
>>
>>
>> This should take you to the following screen. If you don't click on the
>> following screen, it will automatically boot the Ubuntu disk (which is
>> actually our OSGeoLive disk). Otherwise just press enter
>>
>> If you haven't got this far, it is possible you haven't mounted your
>> virtual machine correctly yet.
>>
>> The boot process will go through a couple of screens, then you will get
>> to:
>>
>> Ignore the popup (press Cancel).
>>
>> Click "OK" on the other popup, and then you will have the virtual machine
>> set up.
>>
>>
>> Based on your error report, I suspect you might have been tripped up
>> somewhere else, and we will need to help you with your debugging a bit more.
>>
>>
>> On 13/6/19 7:13 pm, Jo Cook wrote:
>>
>> Hi Felicity,
>>
>> I can't edit the OSGeo Live docs, or post any screenshots right now, but
>> hopefully I can give you some pointers to proceed, and I agree that this
>> section in the documentation needs expanding.
>>
>> The OSGeo system is fully "up" when the Welcome window appears. Once
>> you've read as much or as little of the welcome information as you would
>> like, dismiss it with the OK button. To start a terminal session, click the
>> terminal icon on the start bar (to the right of the firefox icon, called
>> LXTerminal). You can then type the commands provided in the quickstart docs
>> (as they appear after the user at osgeolive:~$ prompt).
>>
>> Hope that helps
>>
>> Jo
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 9:00 AM Felicity Brand <felicitybrand at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> I can't for the life of me get up and running.
>>>
>>> On this page
>>> https://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/virtualization_quickstart.html, I
>>> need a screenshot in the "Running the Virtual Machine" section after the
>>> text "Once the OSGeo system comes up". What should I expect to see here?
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Felicity
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>>> SeasonOfDocs at lists.osgeo.org
>>> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/seasonofdocs
>>>
>>
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