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LilyDev observations
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lilypond |
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LilyDev observations |
Date: |
Sat, 30 Nov 2019 22:40:16 +0100 |
Hello developer community,
I had an old LilyDev system, I got errors when running ./configure.
So I decided to download a new image.
During this process I discovered a lot of issues in both documentation and
the product itself.
I am not sure if this is the right place to share my observations, but I do
it anyway:
Below I mention a lot of issues in the lilydev image and the documentation,
however this image is still far better, as installing all products by hand,
and find out why a configuration is not working!
At least for 4 years we can download only one flavor of the image: Debian.
In the documentation the image mentioned is
lilydev-vm-fedora-VERSION.raw
* Issue 1: bad file name in documentation
The real name is lilydev-debian-vm-0.3.img
This is minor, but especially the different file extension can be confusing.
The version is already 0.3 for years although the image is changed several
times.
* Issue 2: no version number change
According to the documentation we should select as version 'Fedora (64
bit)', however since we use an Debian image I think we better choose "Debian
64 bits"
* Issue 3: bad choice in documentation
After booting, according to the documentation, we should change some
settings on the menu
* Issue 4 menu is not bottom left, but top left
* Issue 5 Preference is now called Settings
* Issue 6 Documentation says default is US keyboard, however it is an
Italian keyboard !!
According to the documentation I should disable the screensaver, however, I
can not found that setting
* Issue 7 QTerminal is not in System tools (is not installed at all),
but we can use Xfce terminal from System menu
Now installing the virtual box guest additions:
* Issue 8 CD is not automounted, we have to mount it using sudo mount
/dev/cdrom /mnt
And then the guest additions will not install.
It needs the kernel headers for 4.9.0.8-amd.
Those are not installed, and are not available from Debian.
* Suggestion: in the next release of lilydev include the kernel
headers
So I have to install a new kernel
Sudo apt-get lnstall apt-get linux-image-amd64
And for the kernel headers
Sudo apt-get lnstall apt-get linux-headers-amd64
Reboot and: still in 4.9.0.8
Now comes the tricky part, before doing this shut down your machine, and
make a copy of your image!!
Sudo rm /boot/efi/55aa6561f8d74f2baf7279c3b099bc55/4.9.0-8-amd64/*
Sudo cp initrd.img-4.9.0-11-amd64
/boot/efi/55aa6561f8d74f2baf7279c3b099bc55/4.9.0-8-amd64/initrd
Sudo cp vmlinuz-4.9.0-11-amd64
/boot/efi/55aa6561f8d74f2baf7279c3b099bc55/4.9.0-8-amd64/linux
Reboot, and it works.
I am sure there is a more elegant way, but after 8 hours of trying I decided
to use this way
Now we are booted in 4.9.0.11, we can mount the guest additions iso.
Sudo ./autorun.sh does not work, but sudo ./ VBoxLinuxAdditions.run does.
Jaap de Wolff
- LilyDev observations,
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