Re: LilyDev 5.0 released

[Federico Bruni]

Il giorno ven 20 gen 2017 alle 2:16, Paul <address@hidden> ha 
scritto:
> 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?

This is what I'd recommend. If you managed to get the VM working...

> > > 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.

Ok

> > > 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.)

Ok

> > >  - 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.

I see that 16.04 is Yakkety, so according to the guide below you should 
add your user to libvirt. You can do it with this command:

$ sudo adduser $USER libvirt

Then exit the session, log in again and check that it is now present:

$ groups


> > 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).

I realize now that I may have suggested a simpler command to check if 
Virtual Box is the problem or not. Please try running this in a 
terminal:

kvm -cdrom lilydev-bla-bla.iso -boot d -m 2048