postmarketOS lightdm issue
I am currently trying to get postmarketOS in a VM in VirtualBox. I have one small issue though. LightDM will not start. Even after running
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service lightdm start Code:
service lightdm status Here are the commands I used to convert Alpine Linux to postmarketOS after adding the key and repository. Code:
apk add postmarketos-base device-qemu-amd64 Code:
apk add postmarketos-ui-phosh Code:
apk add wayland Code:
setup-xorg-base Can someone help me? I would really like this VM to work. Please do not say to run this in QEMU, as all of my VMs are in VBox and I am not going to install another VM program for one VM. |
From https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Phosh don't know if it'll work but..
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I think this is an issue with LightDM and not Phosh. I tried weston as well. Only GNOME and XFCE4 worked. |
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GDM worked, because it is GNOME. Phosh didn’t show up in the sessions. SLIM bricked it. I had to reinstall. On top of all that X is now reporting that there are no screens. Crap. |
I got rid of the VM. Do not answer anymore.
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Not sure what the issue is. Might be the initramfs however I haven't gotten that to work. I'm going to try this again. |
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I'm still using a vm to develop apps for mobile linux since it's easier than trying to code on the phone. And my computer is much faster at compiling. |
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Anyway, back to what this thread started with. I’m going to attempt to install the QEMU amd64 image to the hard disk. I’m going to try using syslinux as the bootloader. |
Update: I managed to boot the kernel and initramfs. The initramfs cannot detect the root partition or boot partition though.
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I am going to just run pmOS in qemu from now on. It doesn’t work in vbox and is going to be much easier to run in qemu.
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I’m still quite puzzled as to why PostmarketOS works perfectly in QEMU but not in VBox. Oh and there is a aarch64 version of QEMU so you can install native apps. Is much slower than x86_64 however. |
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But yes, I keep virtual box for other distros/OS's, for some things it works much better. |
Finally, success.
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Attachment 34263 It took a full hour to set the dang thing up. It also has crazy lag spikes for no reason sometimes. But hey, it's better than nothing! *yes I know I spelt success wrong, there was a lag spike at the time. |
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