Re: [Gnewsense-dev] metad beta1 released

[Karl Goetz]

On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:58:48 +0100
Sam Geeraerts <address@hidden> wrote:

> Robert Millan schreef:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > metad beta1 is released, now for i386 and amd64 as well as mipsel:
> > 
> >   http://archive.gnewsense.org/gnewsense-metad/installer/3.0~beta1/
> > 
> > This beta release is very preliminar and not intended to be heavily
> > publicised. It is only intended for members of the gNewSense
> > community to help testing it.
> 
> I made my partition bigger and did a proper Base+Laptop+Desktop 
> (tasksel) i386 installation (text installer). There were some weird 
> things going on at first boot, but things were better at subsequent 
> boots. I'll do another install tomorrow to investigate better.
> 
> My basic use test was to just see if every entry in the Gnome menus 
> starts properly. My findings:

> - System -> Admin -> Network pops up a window "Unsupported platform"
> in which you can choose a platform. I chose Debian Lenny and all
> seemed fine.
> - System -> Admin -> Users and Groups: same thing

IIRC we had the same problem in the deltad days. its caused by GST
(GNome system tools).

> - System -> Admin -> Software Sources doesn't start. We'll probably
> need some files for gNS in /usr/share/python-apt/templates/.
> - System -> Admin -> Update Manager: same thing.

Could you run it from a term to see what output it provides?
thanks,
kk

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Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS)
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