Linux Lite 7.0 RC1 Released

[sqwuade]

Jerry - as you requested, I tested updating the sources in a fresh install of LL7-RC1 and didn't see any issues.

I was messing around with the Kernel Installer in the tweaks section and tried to install some of the old 3.x kernels to see how they would work.  None of the 3.x series kernels would install.  I was able to install 4.2 and booted into it.  None of the web browsers seemed to work w/ kernel 4.2 though!  Strange but who's going to be using a kernel that old anyway..?  I suppose the ones that won't install at all should be removed from the list?

I also found this small bug in the Wallpapers area (There's one wallpaper missing):



On the subject of Wallpapers I've got a few cool ones you might consider using - Some space pics and a few other generic ones:

https://digitalhemi.com/files/img/Wallpaper/

I'd like to submit a feature request too:
Could the default profile use a Windows Manager theme / setting that makes it easier to grab the edges / corners of windows?  I noticed the Xfce desktop option in Debian 12.5 is set up nicely in that way - real easy to adjust windows sizes.  I've got my LL7 test box set to use the "Default-hdpi" option which seems pretty good.  I think it gives around a 5px width to grab the edge.

Thanks,  Scott

[trinidad]

SSH worked OOTB for me. Didn't change anything other than installing Remmina. It may be there are inconsistencies in the installer due to some applications needing policy kit with the old options and the installer configuring new style. Lite-tweaks in XFCE needs actions and rules scripts old style. They were missing for lite-tweaks in my initial install of 7.x. Probably have to figure out what works correctly with Ubuntu 24 base and installer and what doesn't post install, and then have appropriate post installation script for whatever requires old style policy kit stuff. Previously on older versions of LL configuration was set by the installer, but now policy kit settings methods are optional on the version Ubuntu XFCE uses. I'll get it all to work eventually, but I still think the bashisms in lite-tweaks are not the problem.

TC

[sqwuade]

Is anyone else not able to open Chrome in "Live" mode?

Was there a problem with the Whisker Menu Clean tweak?  I noticed it has been commented out in lite-tweaks but was working in LL6.6.

[Valtam]

The wallpaper 'bug' is an XFCE wallpaper, I wonder if they know about it.

[Valtam]

Minor change to Lite Welcome.

[trinidad]

anyway the PIPESTATUS(0) array was being populated with the error code 127

Generally means command not found so usually something is out of wack with the PATH system variable. Only a few things could have caused this, given that the previous 6.6 code worked fine. Policy kit is iterated differently between 6.6 and 7. The polkit.service file path in systemd is slightly different with the full service configuration being written directly in the .service file in 7 but daemonized in 6.6.

Code:

systemctl status polkit

Compare between the two.
Given that it's a c2 (command) server perhaps Lite Tweaks user has to be added to polkit.service and/or path to User must be iterated differently in Lite Tweaks.

TC
   

[sqwuade]

The new Welcome screen app graphics look great Jerry!  Nice work!

I made some more progress on the lite-tweaks issue.  I was trying to figure out why the zRAM tweak no longer worked in LL7 and was thinking there was something with the script that couldn't be interpreted with the newer version of bash - WRONG!

The crux of the problem with lite-tweaks on LL7 is that the Whisker Menu tweak was commented out and somehow that threw a bug in the script that caused trouble with the zRAM portion of the script to exit with a 127 code.  https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-fix-bash-...eturn-code

I.e. the lite-tweaks script (/usr/bin/lite-tweaks) from LL6.6 works fine in LL7! - except for the fact that the Whisker Menu tweak no longer functions properly.  The reason the Whisker Tweak no longer works is because the path/file "$HOME/.config/xfce4/panel/whiskermenu-10.rc" no longer exists in LL7, and the Whisker Menu tweak script tries to replace the data on line 2 of that file with "recent=" (thereby deleting the "Recently Used" apps from the list.)  The new version of Whisker menu apparently stores that data elsewhere or in a different way.

I went through the lite-tweaks script and deleted all of the references to the Whisker Menu tweak and now the zRAM tweak works fine in LL7.

Here's the revised lite-tweaks script with the references to the Whisker Menu statements removed.  It works fine in LL7 and the zRAM tweak is back in it:

https://digitalhemi.com/files/apps/Linux...ite-tweaks

Scott

[sqwuade]

Did you get the 127 error code too Trinidad?  I saw it every time the script crashed when I was initially testing it.



The " '[' 127 -ne 0 ']' " part was being generated from line 786 where "127" was the output of PIPESTATUS(0)

Code:

if [ "${PIPESTATUS[0]}" -ne "0" ]; then _clean_up; exit 0 ; fi # If Quit is clicked then exit

anyway the PIPESTATUS(0) array was being populated with the error code 127

Generally means command not found so usually something is out of wack with the PATH system variable. Only a few things could have caused this, given that the previous 6.6 code worked fine. Policy kit is iterated differently between 6.6 and 7. The polkit.service file path in systemd is slightly different with the full service configuration being written directly in the .service file in 7 but daemonized in 6.6.

Code:

systemctl status polkit

Compare between the two.
Given that it's a c2 (command) server perhaps Lite Tweaks user has to be added to polkit.service and/or path to User must be iterated differently in Lite Tweaks.

TC
 

[Valtam]

Thanks [member=50208]sqwuade[/member]

Is anyone having issues with Lite Updates in 7x? ie. the progress bar looks like it's freezing?

[sqwuade]

Yes, I get an error when in Live mode and trying to update.  Here's the log info from it:

===========================
Install Updates Error log
===========================
Install Updates could not fetch the package cache information lists.
Go to https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/ and paste the log below into the Software - Support - Updates section for assistance.

============ Log ===========

Ign:1 cdrom://Linux Lite 7.0 - Release amd64 dists/ InRelease
Ign:2 cdrom://Linux 22.04 - Release amd64 dists/ InRelease
Err:3 cdrom://Linux Lite 7.0 - Release amd64 dists/ Release
  Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs
Err:4 cdrom://Linux 22.04 - Release amd64 dists/ Release
  Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs
Hit:5 http://repo.linuxliteos.com/linuxlite galena InRelease
Hit:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble InRelease
Hit:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-backports InRelease
Ign:8 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu noble InRelease
Hit:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security InRelease
Hit:10 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates InRelease
Err:11 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu noble Release
  404  Not Found [IP: 185.125.188.12 80]
Reading package lists...
E: The repository 'cdrom://Linux Lite 7.0 - Release amd64 dists/ Release' does not have a Release file.
E: The repository 'cdrom://Linux 22.04 - Release amd64 dists/ Release' does not have a Release file.
E: The repository 'http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu noble Release' does not have a Release file.