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Old 11-15-2021, 11:46 AM   #1
kjhambrick
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LiveSlack and multilib and GRUB and ELILO


all --

I had been running Slackware Live Edition 15.0 on my new laptop for a week as of last Saturday.

In addition to the base system, I added the following 'bonus' packages to /liveslak/addons/

Code:
-rw-r--r-- 1 konrad users 816971776 Nov  7 07:53 0050-multilib-current-x86_64.sxz
-rw-r--r-- 1 konrad wheel 769531904 Sep  9 14:42 0060-alien-current-x86_64.sxz
-rw-r--r-- 1 konrad wheel 127877120 Sep  9 14:43 0060-alienrest-current-x86_64.sxz
-rw-r--r-- 1 konrad users 303837184 Nov  7 06:35 0060-nvidia-470.63.01_5.15.1-current-x86_64.sxz
Everything was running great on my new Laptop ( Sager NP9672N-G1 ).

I had done quite a few tweaks ( ! I love the persistence feature in LiveSlack ! ) so I decided to try the setup2hd utility to install Alien Bob's LiveSlack System to my HD.

The setup2hd scrpt didn't work -- it installed ELILO instead of GRUB2 exactly the way pchristy desccribed: https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...re-4175671086/

I was able to recover by booting the LiveSlack USB again and then I followed pchristy's advice for fixing GRUB.

Aside from the initial boot, I've also got corruption in /var/log/packages/

All but the ffmpeg entry seem to be related to multilib

Code:
# ls -la  /var/log/packages/ |grep '^[a-z]'
total 41556
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  106496 Nov  6 19:00 ./
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root    4096 Nov  6 18:59 ../
c--------- 1 root root    0, 0 Nov  7 07:47 aaa_glibc-solibs-2.33-x86_64-4
c--------- 1 root root    0, 0 Sep  9 14:42 ffmpeg-4.4-x86_64-1
c--------- 1 root root    0, 0 Nov  7 07:48 gcc-11.2.0-x86_64-2
c--------- 1 root root    0, 0 Nov  7 07:48 gcc-g++-11.2.0-x86_64-2
c--------- 1 root root    0, 0 Nov  7 07:48 gcc-gfortran-11.2.0-x86_64-2
c--------- 1 root root    0, 0 Nov  7 07:48 gcc-gnat-11.2.0-x86_64-2
c--------- 1 root root    0, 0 Nov  7 07:48 gcc-go-11.2.0-x86_64-2
c--------- 1 root root    0, 0 Nov  7 07:48 gcc-objc-11.2.0-x86_64-2
c--------- 1 root root    0, 0 Nov  7 07:49 glibc-2.33-x86_64-4
c--------- 1 root root    0, 0 Nov  7 07:49 glibc-i18n-2.33-x86_64-4
c--------- 1 root root    0, 0 Nov  7 07:49 glibc-profile-2.33-x86_64-4
Note that each of these 'packages' are char devices.

I believe I can clean these out by replacing them with the slackware 64 info but I was looking for opinions on that ...

Anyhow that's my experience.

Thanks.

-- kjh
 
Old 11-15-2021, 03:55 PM   #2
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LiveSlak is a superb tool but for "permanent" installs Current is fuller and wiser.
 
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Old 11-16-2021, 04:20 AM   #3
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LiveSlak is a superb tool but for "permanent" installs Current is fuller and wiser.
Thanks enorbet, so now I know

-- kjh
 
  


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