If anyone would like to try my version which contains the fixes for the black screen and a hack that allows the installer to complete you can find it here... https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-vbk52SZVzAMjhnbkdCWXNrRmc/view?usp=sharing Best, Colin
On Friday 30 Oct 2015 09:01:00 Tomasz Gajc wrote: > Meanwhile i've fixed the calamares config which was responsible for bug > https://issues.openmandriva.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1401 > > Ofcourse we need ABF up and running to get all the fixes released. > > 2015-10-30 1:18 GMT+01:00 Robert Xu <[email protected]>: > > > Thanks Ben! > > > > I can at least say that starting a live cd is fixed (but could not be > > built by the time the ISO was made). So if you encounter a black > > screen, Ctrl-Alt-F2 to get to another tty, login as root, run > > "finish-install", and then "service sddm restart". That should get you > > past that without any issues. > > > > On 29 October 2015 at 14:37, Ben Bullard <[email protected]> wrote: > > > What with ABF down and many testers reporting that they can't install > > latest > > > OM Lx 3 Beta thought I'd do this. > > > > > > Using Robert Xu's nightly builds here https://nightly.rxu.io/. I used > > > 20151025.iso on hardware and 20141027.iso in VirtualBox. Here's hoping > > this > > > is helpful. > > > > > > 1. Boot in to Live > > > > > > 2. When you get to black screen enter virtual console and login as 'live' > > > > > > 3. To start desktop type 'startx /usr/bin/startkde'. > > > > > > 4. When you get to desktop there will be no menu panel so right click > > mouse > > > and select 'Add Panel>Default Panel' or whatever panel you prefer. > > > > > > 5. Open Konsole, and type 'su' to become root. > > > > > > 6. Type 'export $(dbus-launch)' without the '. > > > > > > 7. Type 'kwrite /usr/lib64/calamares/modules/services/main.py' again > > without > > > the '. That will open the file a root so you can edit it. > > > > > > 8. In kwrite go to 'View' and select 'Show line numbers'. > > > > > > 9. Now comment out (#)lines 29, 55, and 56. > > > > > > 10. Save the edited file and quit kwrite. > > > > > > 11. Still in Konsole as root type 'calamares -d' and installer will > > startup. > > > > > > This will install the latest packages and bug fixes as of the .iso date. > > > > > > So let's do some installing, bug reporting, and bug squashing. Bear in > > mind > > > that with ABF down some bug fixes can't be implemented until it is back > > up. > > > > > > -- > > > Ben Bullard > > > ben79 > > > -------------------- > > > OpenMandriva-QA Team > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > cheers, Robert :: github.com/robxu9 > > _______________________________________________ > > OM-Cooker mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://ml.openmandriva.org/listinfo.cgi/om-cooker-openmandriva.org > > _______________________________________________ OM-Cooker mailing list [email protected] http://ml.openmandriva.org/listinfo.cgi/om-cooker-openmandriva.org
