Elive

A lot of Techies doing reviews are using Oracle virtual box to try new OS and to make reviews.

I don’t know all the technical reasons behind it but why Elive cannot run at it’s full " Visual effects potential” within a VM ?

In my case I started products review project in french ( a new project I have on " Patreon”) and even if I was blown away by ELive, THe fact that I can’t show Elive at it’s Full potential when runned within a VM, I have delayed my review of Elive.

My simple tought was " I’ll find a time to install it on a real PC” and use Vokoscreen already within Elive but.... I don’t have that many PC’s (3 : one to run my TV (ubuntu budgie), one on my laptop for work (EndlessOS as the HP stream is kind of slow... Ia tried Elive but was having problem with TouchPad ) and one on my desktop (that for now I want to keep it with the actual Linux distro...)

So even if the performance is not good, if it is technically possible for you to let Elive install itself " with it’s full GUI power " (sorry don’t know how to call it) within a VM, for sure I would do a french review and post it on my Patreon page, and on my LinkedIn Wall (18.000 connections). May be others Nerds would also make review of it on their Youtube channel / web site...

As I am impressed by ELive GUI when activated at it’s full potential, when installed on a real machine, I don’t want to record a video of the " Virtual BOx version of elive”.

JF

Today I downloaded the iso-hybrid of 2.6.0 and installed it sda5 as /.
When I chose sda8 as /home it during the install I carefully said NOT to format it.
However the install did not pick up the /home directory as planned.

First I couldn’t log in via the graphical screen. So I Ctrl-Alt-F1 into
tty1 & logged in then sudo su to edit /etc/fstab.

What had happened was there were no options chosen for sda8. So I
added “defaults” and rebooted.

Then I found that your install had deleted all the other directories on
sda8 leaving only my elive user (larryel)

Please change your install to NOT erase all the other users on the
chosen /home partition. The logic would seem to be that if a user did
NOT want to format the partition s/he would MOST certainly NOT want the
install to erase all the data on the partition either,

Beta 2.6.14

If the prior version installed on the hard drive uses the LABEL= partition naming convention in /etc/fstab, both the / and /home partitions should be changed to UUID= or if one wants to risk it /dev/sdc or sda or whatever # blkid from the live boot calls it.

Since i am not too sure about the handling of multiple users on /home I am now going to clone a home partition to test the install.

I have just installed E16 64 bits on my Acer laptop, and when I close the lid, the whole system freezes and I have to do a forced shutdown to start it up again.
It does not go into hibernation, it only freezes. I have trouble starting the pc up after hibernation as well.

Thank you for an otherwise great and very pretty OS.

It is needed to set some extra configurations for when there’s Intel cards in Elive Compiz:

• change mplayer conf to use X11 (or GL is better option?), and set the zoom ON
• Update: set the X11 or GL as a choice for the user (in case of any elive-compiz, not only intel), explaining how to configure it later and what’s the difference between them
• xine: use xshm or gl output (ask to the user too, or better, include the answer of the previous question for selection there too)
• gstreamer-properties for configure gstreamer to use X11 instead of XV
• xorg: set XAA instead of EXA (see deliver configuration for eeepc)
• export INTEL_BATCH=1 in /etc/profile
• set a different launcher for skype (.desktop) that uses: http://forum.skype.com/index.php?s=4417cd748721d80e99c902e2857eb6d8&showtopic=328901&st=0&p=1622441&#entry1622441

It would be nice to have better volume control uupon installtion. Maybe a switch on the desktop or better support for laptop volume hotkeys.

After downloading .bin file (targed linux executable)
There is no signature for RUN the file.Must go to terminal and:
chmod +x file.bin logged as root. Better to do this automatically..

Black Bar at bottom of my screen. Covers up everything but launch bar, any window thats open (e.i. iceweasel, if i drag it to the bottom of my screen it covers it up)

i have tried restarting enlightenment, going back to original themes, wallpaper, etc.
to no avail.

i belive after i used eltrans and updated my system with this it did it.
elive version:

linux version 2.6.26.8-elive-686

Hi,

I have yesterday finished installation of last beta version. Unfortunately I wasn’t front of my laptop when the installation process went to an end. I think that there’s probably on last step something like how to boot the system isn’t it? Now the system doesn’t boot and I can’t access bios... Have you some idea what to now? I’ m using Lenovo ThinkPad E530c.
Thanks.

BR,

Vlad.

PrinceAMD has a computer which when kms loads, the console turns blank, user can’t see anything, but the system continue booting correctly (1-2 minutes in blank)

Maybe should be good to add a boot option in the live menu with this entry: nomodeset that solves the problem, for those cases

Hi!

I noticed yesterday when i tried after 2 hours of working on Elive (last Dev. Version elive_1.9.37_unstable) to restart my X-server, that the x-server restarts, but it keeps can’t loging in in my system again, and show me just the Black Screen. I have Nvidia Graphic Card, i user the Nvidia Driver shipped with Elive, but not the last one ( the one with Graphic Card up to 512M RAM) my Graphic Card is Nvidia FX 5200 AGP, and the resolution of my Monitor is 1920×1080 Full HD , Viewsonic Flat screen. I had at last to restart my system by pressing at one Ctrl-alt- del combination to restart the estem, because the system did not want to give me anyone of the other console modes to login and do anything. By the way, i added my xorg.conf to add my resolution manually. thats all what i did. Please repare this Problem.

Best Regards,
FreeEagle

Sometimes the drivers give us a strange name (actually this practice was drop a lot by drivers developers), but there’s at least 2 that i know that are for a specific purposes, like vboxnet* that is for virtualbox related networks (not useful at all to have it on netconnector), and pan* that means Personal Area Network, so for bluetooth devices, not useful at all in netconnector too, i recommend to just ignore these 2 devices (maybe include a variable where to list all the ignorable devices in the header of the code?) from netconnector since they are not useful/needed, but also making NC buggy (in a sort of way)

At first live boot on a pentium III 600Mhz medion model LT9399 (3D AGP 8Mo), asus L7000G)portable the screen is black with slight difference. Unable to see and to manage with installation when Ctrl+ALt+Tab change user seem to give the correct light screen but in a little while the system shut down....

After to close blender in the static version, it exits with an error value, maybe because of an error setting the audio card to 44100

so enlightenment shows a window with error dialog, annoying

As in the Kanotix it will be very usefull to use the menu for bluetooth, devices detection and setting up, also menu for GPRS connection

Something related to bluetooth causes the machine to halt on startup. I have had to disable bluetooth on all the Dell laptops I have tried to run Elive 2.0 with. I have tried with Dell Precision M2400 and Latitude 6400.

Boot Disk Error when attempting to boot from ELIVE CD-R. I downloaded the ISO file to a CD-R, set boot mode in BIOS to CD ONLY and I get “BOOT DISK ERROR. PLEASE INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER”. Tried putting it on one of my hard drives. Same problem. Any ideas my friends? I am running a home built machine with an ASUS M2N32-SLI deluxe motherboard and updated BIOS.

Yesterday I installed Elive Revolution. The livecd worked without problems. But when I installed it, it stops after boot saying something like “VFS, invalid mount point (0,0)”.

The previous version of Elive worked well with my laptop.

Please resolve. Thanks.

During the boot - the first menu offer “select language” - whenU select Czech - you cannot log to elive - keyboard is dead. (In the case of English everything is of course OK).

Version 1.9.38(18/08/09) , boot problems , no graphical system , single boot: option (Failsafe boot problems).
After install, no usplash.

Greetings:
Agust

I have burned a few .iso of Elive Topaz 2.0 (stable) 001 that have passed the MD5-Checksum comparison and that I have burned at slow speeds to ensure no errors. Every time I boot the CD I get stuck at this error “mdadm: No arrays found in config file or automatically” Where it waits for 7 minutes before finally performing the rest of the boot process. This has happened both on a Latitude D630 and Latitude E6400.

Dear Team,

great work, thank you.
But unfortunately I cannot boot after installation.
Or to be more specific… I can boot and all ttys take my requests…except of course tty7.
Or the main one booting… That one is black/blank…but i can kind of use my mouse as a curser.
This is exactly the same behavior I have when booting the live-stick with the default values.
But it works with the option “graphical problems”.
So imho I need the same boot option offered on the live-stick as “graphical problems”
for my main grub.
What parameters do I need to put in there… Or how can I fix this?
I will not use it as a live-system cause its just too damn inconvenient.
So please tell me how to get enlightenment to boot?
Otherwise I’ll have to back to ubuntu:(

Thank you and have a great day

The live cd does not boot from a firewire dvd-recorder; at least not the one which came with my Acer Travelmate 3012wtmi.

Both Debian and Ubuntu boot with no problem at all (Debian used to have the same problem before, though) and in Gentoo, it works when the “doscsi” kernel argument is passed. I have not successfully booted Elive with this drive, however.

I don not think this will be a problem very hard to fix; it just needs to be detected ;).

I will try the latest Elive as well (downloading now) and report, but I don not expect it to work, since this bug is not mentioned on the “Fixed Bugs” list.

/ / Talyz / /

This bug, which I earlier posted for “Revolution”, occurs in 0.5 dev as well.

The live cd does not boot from a firewire dvd-recorder; at least not the one which came with my Acer Travelmate 3012wtmi.

Both Debian and Ubuntu boot with no problem at all (Debian used to have the same problem before, though) and in Gentoo, it works when the “doscsi” kernel argument is passed. I have not successfully booted Elive with this drive, however.

I don not think this will be a problem very hard to fix; it just needs to be detected ;).

I will try the latest Elive as well (downloading now) and report, but I don not expect it to work, since this bug is not mentioned on the “Fixed Bugs” list.

/ / Talyz / /

Brasero can’t burn any dvd:

Checking session consistency (brasero_burn_check_session_consistency burn.c:1785)
BraseroGrowisofs called brasero_job_get_action
BraseroGrowisofs getting varg
BraseroGrowisofs called brasero_job_get_action
BraseroGrowisofs called brasero_job_get_input_type
BraseroGrowisofs called brasero_job_get_flags
BraseroGrowisofs called brasero_job_get_speed
BraseroGrowisofs called brasero_job_get_device
BraseroGrowisofs called brasero_job_get_action
BraseroGrowisofs called brasero_job_get_session_output_size
BraseroGrowisofs called brasero_job_get_input_type
BraseroGrowisofs called brasero_job_get_fd_in
BraseroGrowisofs called brasero_job_get_current_track
BraseroGrowisofs called brasero_job_get_input_type
BraseroGrowisofs called brasero_job_get_tmp_dir
BraseroGrowisofs called brasero_job_get_action
BraseroGrowisofs called brasero_job_set_current_action
BraseroGrowisofs got varg:
	growisofs
	-use-the-force-luke=notray
	-use-the-force-luke=dao
	-dvd-compat
	-speed=4
	-use-the-force-luke=tty
	-Z
	/dev/hdb
	-dry-run
	-r
	-J
	-input-charset
	utf8
	-graft-points
	-path-list
	/tmp/brasero_tmp_4RENLU
	-exclude-list
	/tmp/brasero_tmp_LWENLU
	-print-size
BraseroGrowisofs launching command
BraseroGrowisofs called brasero_job_get_fd_out
BraseroGrowisofs stderr: Using 02___000.MP3;1 for  Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/02 - Prospettiva Nevski.mp3 (02 - Prospettiva Nevski.mp3)
BraseroGrowisofs stdout: Executing 'genisoimage -r -J -input-charset utf8 -graft-points -path-list /tmp/brasero_tmp_4RENLU -exclude-list /tmp/brasero_tmp_LWENLU -print-size | builtin_dd of=/dev/hdb obs=32k seek=0'
BraseroGrowisofs called brasero_job_set_dangerous
BraseroGrowisofs stderr: Using 09___000.MP3;1 for  Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/09 - Voglio Vederti Danzare.mp3 (09 - Voglio Vederti Danzare.mp3)
BraseroGrowisofs stdout: HUP
BraseroGrowisofs stderr: Using 18___000.MP3;1 for  Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/18 - L'Ombrello E La Macchina Da Cucire.mp3 (18 - L'Ombrello E La Macchina Da Cucire.mp3)
BraseroGrowisofs stderr: Using 16___000.MP3;1 for  Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/16 - Caffè De La Paix.mp3 (16 - Caffè De La Paix.mp3)
BraseroGrowisofs stderr: Using 17___000.MP3;1 for  Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/17 - Atlantide.mp3 (17 - Atlantide.mp3)
BraseroGrowisofs stderr: Using 04___000.MP3;1 for  Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/04 - Le Aquile.mp3 (04 - Le Aquile.mp3)
BraseroGrowisofs stderr: Using 07___000.MP3;1 for  Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/07 - Centro Di Gravità Permanente.mp3 (07 - Centro Di Gravità Permanente.mp3)
BraseroGrowisofs stderr: Using 05___000.MP3;1 for  Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/05 - Cuccurucucù.mp3 (05 - Cuccurucucù.mp3)
BraseroGrowisofs stderr: Using 08___000.MP3;1 for  Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/08 - Summer On A Solitary Beach.mp3 (08 - Summer On A Solitary Beach.mp3)
BraseroGrowisofs stderr: Using 10___000.MP3;1 for  Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/10 - Radio Varsavia.mp3 (10 - Radio Varsavia.mp3)
BraseroGrowisofs stderr: Using 13___000.MP3;1 for  Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/13 - E Ti Vengo A Cercare.mp3 (13 - E Ti Vengo A Cercare.mp3)
BraseroGrowisofs stderr: Using 01___000.MP3;1 for  Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/01 - L'Era Del Cinghiale Bianco.mp3 (01 - L'Era Del Cinghiale Bianco.mp3)
BraseroGrowisofs stderr: Using 06___000.MP3;1 for  Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/06 - Bandiera Bianca.mp3 (06 - Bandiera Bianca.mp3)
BraseroGrowisofs stderr: Using TITOL000.TXT;1 for  Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/titoli.txt (titoli.txt)
BraseroGrowisofs stderr: Using 15___000.MP3;1 for  Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/15 - Povera Patria.mp3 (15 - Povera Patria.mp3)
BraseroGrowisofs stderr: Using 14___000.MP3;1 for  Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/14 - Nomadi.mp3 (14 - Nomadi.mp3)
BraseroGrowisofs stderr: Using 11___000.MP3;1 for  Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/11 - La Stagione Dell'Amore.mp3 (11 - La Stagione Dell'Amore.mp3)
BraseroGrowisofs stderr: Using 03___000.MP3;1 for  Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/03 - Up Patriots To Arms.mp3 (03 - Up Patriots To Arms.mp3)
BraseroGrowisofs stderr: Using 12___000.MP3;1 for  Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/12 - No Time No Space.mp3 (12 - No Time No Space.mp3)
BraseroGrowisofs stderr: Using FRONT000.JPG;1 for  Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/front.jpg (front.jpg)
BraseroGrowisofs stderr: genisoimage: Error: '/home/agostin0/Downloads/torrents/Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/02 - Prospettiva Nevski.mp3' and '/mnt/data/Downloads/torrents/Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/02 - Prospettiva Nevski.mp3' have the same Rock Ridge name '02 - Prospettiva Nevski.mp3'.
BraseroGrowisofs stderr: genisoimage: Error: '/home/agostin0/Downloads/torrents/Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/01 - L'Era Del Cinghiale Bianco.mp3' and '/mnt/data/Downloads/torrents/Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/01 - L'Era Del Cinghiale Bianco.mp3' have the same Rock Ridge name '01 - L'Era Del Cinghiale Bianco.mp3'.
BraseroGrowisofs stderr: genisoimage: Error: '/home/agostin0/Downloads/torrents/Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/03 - Up Patriots To Arms.mp3' and '/mnt/data/Downloads/torrents/Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/03 - Up Patriots To Arms.mp3' have the same Rock Ridge name '03 - Up Patriots To Arms.mp3'.
BraseroGrowisofs stderr: genisoimage: Error: '/home/agostin0/Downloads/torrents/Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/04 - Le Aquile.mp3' and '/mnt/data/Downloads/torrents/Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/04 - Le Aquile.mp3' have the same Rock Ridge name '04 - Le Aquile.mp3'.
BraseroGrowisofs stderr: genisoimage: Error: '/home/agostin0/Downloads/torrents/Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/05 - Cuccurucucù.mp3' and '/mnt/data/Downloads/torrents/Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/05 - Cuccurucucù.mp3' have the same Rock Ridge name '05 - Cuccurucucù.mp3'.
BraseroGrowisofs stderr: genisoimage: Error: '/home/agostin0/Downloads/torrents/Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/06 - Bandiera Bianca.mp3' and '/mnt/data/Downloads/torrents/Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/06 - Bandiera Bianca.mp3' have the same Rock Ridge name '06 - Bandiera Bianca.mp3'.
BraseroGrowisofs stderr: genisoimage: Error: '/home/agostin0/Downloads/torrents/Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/07 - Centro Di Gravità Permanente.mp3' and '/mnt/data/Downloads/torrents/Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/07 - Centro Di Gravità Permanente.mp3' have the same Rock Ridge name '07 - Centro Di Gravità Permanente.mp3'.
BraseroGrowisofs stderr: genisoimage: Error: '/home/agostin0/Downloads/torrents/Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/08 - Summer On A Solitary Beach.mp3' and '/mnt/data/Downloads/torrents/Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/08 - Summer On A Solitary Beach.mp3' have the same Rock Ridge name '08 - Summer On A Solitary Beach.mp3'.
BraseroGrowisofs stderr: genisoimage: Error: '/home/agostin0/Downloads/torrents/Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/09 - Voglio Vederti Danzare.mp3' and '/mnt/data/Downloads/torrents/Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/09 - Voglio Vederti Danzare.mp3' have the same Rock Ridge name '09 - Voglio Vederti Danzare.mp3'.
BraseroGrowisofs stderr: genisoimage: Error: '/home/agostin0/Downloads/torrents/Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/10 - Radio Varsavia.mp3' and '/mnt/data/Downloads/torrents/Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/10 - Radio Varsavia.mp3' have the same Rock Ridge name '10 - Radio Varsavia.mp3'.
BraseroGrowisofs stderr: genisoimage: Error: '/home/agostin0/Downloads/torrents/Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/11 - La Stagione Dell'Amore.mp3' and '/mnt/data/Downloads/torrents/Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/11 - La Stagione Dell'Amore.mp3' have the same Rock Ridge name '11 - La Stagione Dell'Amore.mp3'.
BraseroGrowisofs stderr: genisoimage: Error: '/home/agostin0/Downloads/torrents/Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/12 - No Time No Space.mp3' and '/mnt/data/Downloads/torrents/Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/12 - No Time No Space.mp3' have the same Rock Ridge name '12 - No Time No Space.mp3'.
BraseroGrowisofs stderr: genisoimage: Error: '/home/agostin0/Downloads/torrents/Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/13 - E Ti Vengo A Cercare.mp3' and '/mnt/data/Downloads/torrents/Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/13 - E Ti Vengo A Cercare.mp3' have the same Rock Ridge name '13 - E Ti Vengo A Cercare.mp3'.
BraseroGrowisofs stderr: genisoimage: Error: '/home/agostin0/Downloads/torrents/Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/14 - Nomadi.mp3' and '/mnt/data/Downloads/torrents/Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/14 - Nomadi.mp3' have the same Rock Ridge name '14 - Nomadi.mp3'.
BraseroGrowisofs stderr: genisoimage: Error: '/home/agostin0/Downloads/torrents/Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/15 - Povera Patria.mp3' and '/mnt/data/Downloads/torrents/Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/15 - Povera Patria.mp3' have the same Rock Ridge name '15 - Povera Patria.mp3'.
BraseroGrowisofs stderr: genisoimage: Error: '/home/agostin0/Downloads/torrents/Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/16 - Caffè De La Paix.mp3' and '/mnt/data/Downloads/torrents/Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/16 - Caffè De La Paix.mp3' have the same Rock Ridge name '16 - Caffè De La Paix.mp3'.
BraseroGrowisofs stderr: genisoimage: Error: '/home/agostin0/Downloads/torrents/Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/17 - Atlantide.mp3' and '/mnt/data/Downloads/torrents/Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/17 - Atlantide.mp3' have the same Rock Ridge name '17 - Atlantide.mp3'.
BraseroGrowisofs stderr: genisoimage: Error: '/home/agostin0/Downloads/torrents/Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/18 - L'Ombrello E La Macchina Da Cucire.mp3' and '/mnt/data/Downloads/torrents/Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/18 - L'Ombrello E La Macchina Da Cucire.mp3' have the same Rock Ridge name '18 - L'Ombrello E La Macchina Da Cucire.mp3'.
BraseroGrowisofs stderr: genisoimage: Error: '/home/agostin0/Downloads/torrents/Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/front.jpg' and '/mnt/data/Downloads/torrents/Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/front.jpg' have the same Rock Ridge name 'front.jpg'.
BraseroGrowisofs stderr: genisoimage: Error: '/home/agostin0/Downloads/torrents/Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/titoli.txt' and '/mnt/data/Downloads/torrents/Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection/titoli.txt' have the same Rock Ridge name 'titoli.txt'.
BraseroGrowisofs stderr: Unable to sort directory Franco Battiato - The Best Platinum Collection
BraseroGrowisofs stderr: HUP
BraseroGrowisofs process finished with status 5
BraseroGrowisofs called brasero_job_error
BraseroGrowisofs finished with an error
BraseroGrowisofs asked to stop because of an error
	error		= 0
	message	= "no message"
BraseroGrowisofs stopping
BraseroGrowisofs got killed
Session error : unknown (brasero_burn_record burn.c:2372)