[OSGeoLive] OSGeoLive 14.0 status: alpha4

[edgar.soldin at web.de]

On 1/5/2021 14:45, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
> 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

that is complicated! try Ventoy. two steps only easy and has the advantage of an otherwise still usable data stick! ..ede