Re: LilyDev 5.0 released

[Paul]

Hi Federico,

On 01/19/2017 06:35 AM, Federico Bruni wrote:
> If you have some time, can you try installing another Debian testing 
> iso? Choose the netinst ISO for your architecture here:
> https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
>
> This would help to understand if the problem is in LilyDev or in 
> Debian. I guess it's the latter.
> Probably some hardware/kernel problem. I'm just guessing, I never 
> experienced these problems.

Well, this is probably good and bad news, but I tried the netinst Debian 
testing iso (i386 with LXDE) and it's working fine.  (Oddly enough it 
works both with and without PAE/NX enabled.)

Maybe I'll use this as an opportunity to try setting up all the dev 
dependencies from scratch?

> > I tried installing LilyDev5 on my old mac laptop.  It installs fine, 
> > and I can boot into LXQT, entering my password, but then there seems 
> > to be some problem with the mouse/keyboard integration as I can't get 
> > it to respond to clicks or key presses after I have logged in.
>
> This is a problem of Virtual Box. I'm afraid that you should ask for 
> help on Virtual Box forums.

I installed it on this old laptop just to see if it would work, but it 
is too old and slow to be of any real use.

> > virt-manager logs:
> >
> > A. When installing virt-manager and dependencies via synaptic package 
> > manager:
> >
> > W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file 
> > '/root/.synaptic/tmp//tmp_sh' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - 
> > pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/aptitude/+bug/1543280

Ah, thanks.

> > Unable to connect to libvirt.
> >
> > Verify that:
> >  - The 'libvirt-bin' package is installed
>
> $ aptitude show libvirt-bin

Synaptic package manager shows that it's installed.  (I tried that 
command but I don't have aptitude installed.)

> >  - The 'libvirtd' daemon has been started
>
> $ systemctl status libvirtd

Looks like I did manage to get this started, as confirmed by this command.

> > - You are member of the 'libvirtd' group
>
> $ groups

Looks like there is no libvirtd group.  So that's probably it.

> Have you verified these points?
> IIRC you are quite new to Linux and use Ubuntu in your host machine, 
> right? Which version? 

Yes, still pretty new at it.  Ubuntu 16.04 is my host machine.

> Read this guide:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/libvirt.html
>
> In later versions of libvirt the correct group is libvirt (instead of 
> libvirtd). That's the case for Fedora25, libvirt version 2.2.0.

Thanks for the tips and all your work on LilyDev!  At this point I may 
just stick with VirtualBox rather than try to get up to speed with 
libvirt (assuming things go well with this new debian vm).

Thanks again,
-Paul