[OSGeoLive] OSGeoLive 14.0 status: alpha4

[Angelos Tzotsos]

On 1/5/21 2:39 PM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
> On 1/4/21 10:43 PM, edgar.soldin at web.de wrote:
>> On 04.01.2021 20:53, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
>>> On 12/29/20 1:00 PM, edgar.soldin at web.de wrote:
>>>> On 28.12.2020 15:46, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> Recently we had a lot of package updates in our development ppa, 
>>>>> so we are releasing OSGeoLive 14.0 alpha4 to test the new updates.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please download [1], [2], test and report any issues found [3]. 
>>>>> Change log available at [4].
>>>> hey Angelos,
>>>>
>>>> just tried. two observations:
>>>>
>>>> 1.
>>>> the disk is checked on every startup and finds one corrupt file. 
>>>> doesn't say which though.
>>>>
>>>> 2.
>>>> noticed the Desktop Shortcuts are still sporting the exclamation 
>>>> mark and are still asking for open/execution. will this be fixed in 
>>>> the final release? setting the executable bit and 'gio set 
>>>> myapp.desktop "metadata::trusted" true' seems to work after a 
>>>> reload or a new logout/login.
>>>>
>>>> thanks.. ede
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>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> The error reported on startup is just a checksum test for the 
>>> squashfs file which is obviously different from the original Lubuntu 
>>> file. We need to figure out how to disable this test.
>>>
>>> The desktop shortcuts issue persists even after we added this fix 
>>> some time ago. Since the user is created on boot time, we need to 
>>> make sure this command is executed on login somehow.
>> well. wherever this user creation happens (didn't dig), can't you 
>> append a loop over (selective osgeo created) desktop items there?
>>
>> running something after login would usually be placed in 
>> /home/user/.profile , but i'm not sure that this is faster than the 
>> gui desktop loading.
>>
>> ..ede
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>
>
> About the check on iso startup I found this:
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/1231875/how-to-disable-live-system-check-at-startup-booting-in-ubuntu-20-04 
>
>
> The desktop shortcut fix has been fixed here:
> https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive/commit/ec4a68ebe0afd0e81e5d4a18f80ec4641c92b0b8 
>
>
>

Also found this guide to create bootable usb drives:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1217832/how-to-create-a-full-install-of-ubuntu-20-04-to-usb-device-step-by-step

-- 
Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
President
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos

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