Tux Machines

QV version 240425 pre-alpha released (and more)

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 26, 2024,

updated May 06, 2024

See 240423 announcement:

https://bkhome.org/news/202404/qv-version-20240423-pre-alpha-released.html

I was hoping to get onto implementing an update mechanism, but we keep finding bugs.

In 2020 I posted about using the 'restarter' utility in /etc/init.d/bluetooth, to immediately restart 'bluetoothd' if it crashes:

https://bkhome.org/news/202011/xf86-input-wacom-and-restarter-compiled-in-oe.html

Yes, well, the worst has happened. Testing the latest QV, I observed /tmp/bootsysinit.log being endlessly appended, like this: [...]

Update

Also new:

This is basically the same as the previous release, 240425:

https://bkhome.org/news/202404/qv-version-240425-pre-alpha-released.html

Except have reverted the pam/shadow change, as it caused some breakage, reported by Caramel:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=117978#p117978

http://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/void/

Note, as I am typing this blog post, 'qv-240506-amd64.img' is still uploading. The Internet connection has become very slow.