Trisquel Mini LiveCDs being weird (one asks for user:pass, other won't bring up network).
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I burned several Trisquel mini LiveCDs, and used a couple of them without issue for several days to try out Trisquel,
but now something weird is happening.
When I boot to one of these discs, it brings me a login prompt, asking for user:pass, instead of going straight to the desktop.
The other goes straight to the desktop, but fails to bring up the network.
When I try
sudo ifconfig
it shows data for eth0 and lo interfaces.
when I try to
sudo ifup eth0
it says something about ignoring unkown interface eth0=eth0
I can boot to my Debian Wheezy installation and my networking is fine, so there is no problem with the ethernet card or cable modem.
I don't really understand what could be wrong, since these are LiveCDs and, clearly, nothing should be changed on them from one use to the next,
nor has anything changed in the hardware.
I want to be able to carry one of these guys with me and use it where I do not have access to a real OS, but my faith in these is a bit shaken.
At first, I thought the little Trisquel Mini system was pretty nifty (I'm a Debianista and Openbox user, I like light, fast, efficient, and Free).
Why would they work fine 4 or 5 times, then suddenly get weird on me?
./taz
"Why would they work fine 4 or 5 times, then suddenly get weird on me?" you have to clarify if it is the network, the number of isos, the iso that shows up a prompt,...
About the network.
ifup/ifdown only works if you have a configuration file (/etc/network/interfaces by default) that has definitions for the network device you use has argument. I know the eth0 inter face exists, because otherwise you would get a message about the device not existing from ifup. So you have to make the choice of either configuring the file manually and using ifup/ifdown or using a GUI/console-interactive program.
You will have to be more clear where exactly you got the prompt is it immediately before the install/boot live cd menu or afterwards? Did you change any of the default boot flags on this menu? Things like that will help. If you can access any logs that would help too.
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 01:13:20AM +0100, name at domain wrote:
> "Why would they work fine 4 or 5 times, then suddenly get weird on
> me?" you have to clarify if it is the network, the number of isos,
> the iso that shows up a prompt,...
>
> About the network.
> ifup/ifdown only works if you have a configuration file
> (/etc/network/interfaces by default) that has definitions for the
> network device you use has argument. I know the eth0 inter face
> exists, because otherwise you would get a message about the device
> not existing from ifup. So you have to make the choice of either
> configuring the file manually and using ifup/ifdown or using a
> GUI/console-interactive program.
eth0 definitely exists, because ifconfig shows information regarding the
device, however, (not to mention that the card is definitely in the
machine, and my debian system uses it as eth0), but
ifup tells me "ignoring unknown interface eth0=eth0", when I try to do
sudo ifup eth0
Or some such thing (clearly, can't copy/paste anything from there,
because I can't access e-mail without network working, so telling from
memory, although, I could try that one again, and copy/paste to a text
file on the hdd, which I could then access when logged into my debian,
or a working LiveCD.
If I do that, would the output from ifconfig be relevant?
>
> You will have to be more clear where exactly you got the prompt is
> it immediately before the install/boot live cd menu or afterwards?
> Did you change any of the default boot flags on this menu? Things
> like that will help. If you can access any logs that would help too.
>
As far as logs, I suppose next time one of these does this stuff,
I could try to copy stuff to the hdd. What do we want? dmesg?
Now, I get the usual initial menu, where I can set the language and keyboard,
etc., and then choose "try Trisquel without installing".
I did not access the menu that allows altering boot flags,
only set the language to Spanish and the kblayout to US Intl, then
started to boot the live system.
Then, normally, I expect it to go to the LXDE desktop.
But one of the CDs now doesn't do that, rather it takes me to a
graphical login screen (I believe it is a gdm login screen),
whereupon I would be required to enter a user:pass, but this being a
LiveCD, I have not set any users up, because the system is not
installed, just running from the CD.
I've now burned about 8 of these.
Some of them work flawlessly (so far), others hang and hang and hang at
the graphical boot splash and never seem to boot a system,
others do weird stuff described previously (no network, gdm login).
Those with the network and login screen initially worked fine.
It's all just too weird.
taz
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