[community] mabox-snapshot & mabox-persistence-usb

Total success creating the ISO with v0.3.0 in the reinstalled VM. :partying_face:

As you can see the original aliases are not there yet. For the next stage, some tips regarding memtest in the grub. :grin:

The memtest is ready … I just need to create a new release :wink:

Soonish in the repo…

Update:

Mabox-snapshot v0.3.1.

Now with memtest.

pacman -Syu mabox-snapshot

Nice, it works. :star_struck:

Launched and got it running. The EFI side worked fine too in another computer. :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

So far the only remaining detail, as noted before, is the missing alias.

There is another strange behavior but not sure the root cause yet: Opening pcmanfm in the /usr/shared/backgrounds folder appears empty and any action as refreshing or going up a level ends up crashing the app with a core error. If you take a look from terminal the image files are there with the right permissions; this is the only folder with the problem. :thinking:

Hi @M0nst3r,

Thanks again for testing. :wink:

I thought it was a personal issue with pcmanfm, I have the same behaviour. I will have a look at it.

The alias was not clear to me. Will have a look at it too.


In the meanwhile when you set the background dir to thumb view pcmanfm won’t crash. This will also fix the issue. The issue is a typo: Viewmode thumbnails should be thumbnail

To be continued… :penguin:

Good catch! Thanks :slight_smile:
Fixing in progress …

Hi @M0nst3r,

Update: v0.3.2

would you mind testing the new release before publishing on mabox repo.

git clone https://github.com/musqz/mabox-snapshot.git
or git pull

cd packaging
makepkg -si

mabox-snapshot version

Thanks :penguin:

I’m quite busy, but I’ll try to find a moment. The fix for thumbnails shouldn’t be needed anymore… today’s mabox‑tools should take care of it.

mabox-snapshot 0.3.2 pushed to repo.
Tested it briefly against today released iso. All fine.
Custom aliases from .bashrc saved :slight_smile:

Thanks :slight_smile:

Excellent. Both issues fixed. :man_dancing:

You guys rock. :smiley:

Hi, I’ve created my first snapshot, but when I run the ISO in VirtualBox to test it, an error appears after the login screen and it returns to the login screen.
I am attaching both screenshots and the command used to create it.

juan@juan-h310n20 /run/media/juan/DATOS/juan $ sudo mabox-snapshot create preserving --workdir /run/media/juan/f27b3aed-4453-4c63-a4a4-84bca175d10e --output-dir /run/media/juan/f27b3aed-4453-4c63-a4a4-84bca175d10e --encrypt

    juan@juan-h310n20 /run/media/juan/DATOS/juan $ mabox-snapshot doctor
    [ok]   /etc/os-release identifies as Mabox
    [ok]   mksquashfs found
    [ok]   xorriso found
    [ok]   grub-mkimage found
    [ok]   mkinitcpio found
    [ok]   mkfs.fat found
    [ok]   mcopy found
    [ok]   rsync found
    [ok]   openssl found
    [ok]   yay found (optional)
    [ok]   magick found (optional)
    [ok]   cryptsetup found (optional)
    [ok]   memtest86+ found (BIOS) -- live ISO will include a memory-test entry
    [ok]   calamares found -- ISOs will include the installer
    [ok]   Mabox Calamares branding present at /usr/share/mabox-snapshot/calamares-branding
    [info] 176.4 GiB free at /var/lib/mabox-snapshot
    [info] 2 kernel(s) detected: linux612, linux618
    juan@juan-h310n20 /run/media/juan/DATOS/juan $ mabox-snapshot version
    mabox-snapshot 0.3.2


The failure is in a VNC remote desktop service.

I don’t use virtualbox so I cannot check an iso myself. But with qemu the snapshots run fine for me.

I would look into VNC on your host while creating the snapshot. If you run something like a remote desktop service.
Suggestion: Stop the services while creating the snapshot.

Hello, I have stopped the VNC services and created a new snapshot. There are no errors now, but after logging in, the system loops back to the login screen.

I have tested using VirtualBox and a USB drive with Ventoy, obtaining the same results.

I need to run further tests.

At the login screen press ALT+F5 to get to a tty prompt. Login using your name and password. Examine the boot journal and look at the errors using this command:

journalctl -b -1 -p err

You may be able to find the answer.

Also, you could try issuing the ‘startx’ command from the tty prompt and see what happens.

@JuanD ,

Sorry to hear the iso is still failing at boot.

The feedback of the journal could help tracing the bugger.