KLV-Airedale-sr16 with the Void Linux Kernel 6.11.11_1

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KLV-Airedale-sr16
Kennel Linux Void Airedale Stable Release 16 978 MiB download size ↓
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This is Stable Release version 16

• Void Linux kernel 6.11.11_1

• Complete system update/upgrade from upstream Void Linux repos.

• upgraded TAS-1.15 to TAS-1.18

• Cortile upgraded to version 2.5.2

From sr15 ->

• From Puppy Linux added Partview

• Upgraded Grub2config to version 2.0.2_1 from @Sofiya

From sr14 ->

• Upgraded the save2flash mechanism to version 1.9_1

• Complete system update/upgrade from upstream Void Linux repos.

• Cortile upgraded to version 2.5.0

• Thanks to @fredx181 and @wiak for the fine tuning!

From sr13 ->

• Added the Void Linux multilib repository to the xbps configuration

• Complete system update/upgrade from upstream Void Linux repos.

• Added 3 styles available via Settings->Display with the files in /root/.themes

• Updated filemnt and filemnt-thunar for correct syntax with the mount command

From sr12 ->

• Installed using the latest FirstRib skeleton initrd.gz version="7.0.3"; revision="-rc1" Date: 05Apr2024

• Removed xz-5.6.0 and replaced with rollback to safe version xz-5.4.6

• Added a script to launch regeneration of the xLunch menu when selected from the xLunch menu.

• Added Cortile 2.3.3 for a dynamic tiling wm layered on top of XFCE4.

From sr8 ->
Added Grub2config adapted for KLV usage borrowed from Puppy Linux to be able to install a grub2 boot loader on a drive partition easily.
With both Grub4Dos and Grub2config together, setting up a boot-able virtual machine frugal installation can be done in the RAM0 mode.
with a complete system update/upgrade and outfitted with a Void Linux kernel 6.11.11_1 on 08Jan2025
cpupower has been added. Audio is now using pipewire.

The wd_utils are updated to the latest versions supplied by @wiak, and @fredx181 has fixed a bug in the save2flash script.

Has Firefox 127.0.2 built in for a web browser.

Features full SAMBA support and managed by a modified for KLV Samba Simple Management GUI script, borrowed from F96-CE_4.

This version is equipped with 01firmware-6.9.1_1.sfs created with the woof-CE Kernel-Kit during a huge kernel build.

The team fine tuned login/logout with a long term solution utilizing the Void Linux service manager runit to fix a conflict after upgrades to the runit-void package added a service directory agetty-tty1 that conflicts with KLV's custom agetty-autologin-tty1 during logout/login causing difficulty in changing user. Adding a file called : /etc/sv/agetty-tty1/down instructs runit to disable the service which is persistent across reboots.

The initrd.gz and w_init are upgraded to version 7.0.1-rc1 which are constructed from the latest FirstRib skeleton-initrd.

Added the symlink gtk2dialog that targets the binary gtkdialog-8.5 which is compiled against GTK2 which gives access to either gtk2 or gtk3.

@fredx181 has repaired a bug in save2flash and modified swapper.sh to adapt for the /mnt/home device showing directly in Thunar and on the desktop. swapper.sh activates any swap partitions available to KLV-Airedale during system start.

From a suggestion by @wiak added in a modification to w_init that will display icons for /mnt/home partition in Thunar and on the desktop.

New and improved tuning of the /boot directory boot stanza's. improving the reliability of booting in QEMU, Ventoy and S2SG.

Improved and rebuilt initrd.qz including expanded support for SD cards.

Routine system update/upgrade. And wallpapers from @Sofiya are included, replacing some of the stock xfce4 backgrounds.

@wiak has again done more work improving the boot system menus and further improvement to the initrd.gz boot mechanisms :

The iso config file boot/grub/menu.lst is used to boot from cdrom using that internal to ISO provided menu.lst (i.e. he currently uses grub4dos for that purpose).
The ISO config file boot/grub/loopback.cfg is used (per usual) to provide the boot menu for SG2D
The ISO config file boot/grub/grub.cfg is used by Ventoy (but included no Ventoy compatible entries until my alterations below)

I have made some modifications to all of the above (though have left previous entries in place for later experimentation and possible modification or deletion).
In particular I have provided the ability when booting via SG2D or Ventoy of using the FR modes:

a. RAM0 for session changes in RAM only (i.e. no save persistence)
b. RAM2 save on demand mode back to upper_changes folder (or ucimg savefile) in same directory iso is stored (or in subdirectory if symlink manually made to iso).
c. RAM2 save on demand mode back to upper_changes folder in, Clarity suggested, partition with LABEL 'Persistence' and directory 'Sessions'
d. Direct save (not in RAM) back to upper_changes folder (or ucimg savefile) in same directory iso is stored (or in subdirectory if symlink manually made to iso).
e. Direct save (not in RAM) back to upper_changes folder in, Clarity suggested, partition with LABEL 'Persistence' and directory 'Sessions'

No editing of the presented SG2D or Ventoy boot menus will be required to achieve these most useful FR initrd modes. User just needs to put the KLV iso in BOOTISOS (or wherever it is put usually) and boot...

starting of the pulseaudio system for any user that is logged in has been fixed and improved. Thanks wiak, Sofiya and fredx181 for the exact steps.

Upgraded to a new version of @fredx181's save2flash, and set LANG=en_US.UTF-8 in /etc/environment as default localization.

Thanks to @Sofiya for the poorercputemp and Display Control packages that also have been added to desktop.

• Grub2config is now included in the System menu. For setting up a boot-able device using gparted and grub2config.

• Grub4Dos is also in the menu. Making KLV-Airedale also capable of setting up a boot-able device using gparted and grub4dosconfig.

• CUPS starting as a service has been added and is working thanks to @rcrsn51 spotting missing components!

KLV-Airedale-sr16 is just as at home on FAT32, NTFS partitions as it is running from ext2/3/4 formatted partitions.

Also included is wiak's generate a set of boot stanzas script. fredx181's mksplash has a menu entry and the remaster script is installed.

With the addition of a xfce4 desktop tiling configuration. A tip from wiak for configuring Tiling windows done with the Super (Windows) key and an up, down, left, right, home, pgup, pgdown or end key.

gxmessage in the default rootfs.

save2flash has been expanded to handle persistence on FAT32 and NTFS partitions.
The mksplash GUI utility to create splash notification banners.

The latest initrd.gz brings vFat and NTFS formatted partition support to KLV, allowing persistence on NTFS/vFat systems as well as the usual /ext2/ext3/ext4/swap support.

• included htop, Grub2config, Grub4Dos, CUPS

• created a symlink /root/spot with the target /home/spot

• Auto login cleaned up.

• includes also the logout logic provided by fredx181 gives true mulit-user support.

• replaced loop.cfg to the most recent modifications.

• Debian kernel 6.0.0-3-KLV SMP PREEMPT DYNAMIC is used.

• added gtkhash

Plus the other important improvements contributed by the KLV team.

Added @fredx181's save2flash utility that can be used when KLV is started in RAM2 mode to perform session saves on demand for persistence.
This is similar to PUPMODE13 in Puppy Linux.

fredx181's swap partition enable script includes the latest revisions, and also added are the packages

• mime-add-1.0_0.noarch.xbps

• edit-sfs-1.0_0.noarch.xbps

KLV-Airedale-sr16 is able to load squash SFS packages on the fly or during the boot sequence.
Squash files and ISO images can be opened from the file manager and the read the contents.

• can run with rootfs, 01fimware and 00module SFS files as uncompressed directories.

• Also able to load compressed and/or decompressed directories,
  once a 2 digit prefix is added to the file name.

• It is possible to mix using compressed squash files and uncompressed directories.

Also can be downloaded from https://rockedge.org/kernels in ISO->Kennel_Linux->Airedale

[TerryH]

Pleased to see an update of KLV Airedale. I created a new install of KLV Airedale SR16 using upper_changes for SR15. All appears to have gone well, so far all working nicely. Thank you.

[geo_c]

Pleased to see an update of KLV Airedale. I created a new install of KLV Airedale SR16 using upper_changes for SR15. All appears to have gone well, so far all working nicely. Thank you.

Though you might find doing that works without issue, I would say that it's not advisable, especially if your SR15 upper_changes weren't system-updated more recently than the SR16 iso, because in that scenario you might be layering older packages over more recent ones. Still it may work out, time will tell.

KL's have many versatile methods to transfer system configs from one install to another. For instance you could create other uncompressed layers with higher numbers. I start with 50 and have layers that contain things like network configurations, cups pps files, desktop files, /root/.config files for specific applications, symlinks to portables, and so forth. My Airedale install directory looks like below. I have the config layers above the squashed upper changes and 07rootfs layers so that they always get precedence. With this arrangement I can replace or add to the lower layers and still retain my configs. I have installed applications in the squashed 20_upper and 21_upper changes layers. This way I can modify my configs easily since they are uncompressed and copy them to different machines. If I were to replace the 07rootfs with a newer iso version. I would deactivate the 20 and 21 layers so that they didn't conflict with any newer packages installed in the new iso, and then I would re-install the applications contained in the old 20 layers and squash a new 20 layer from a newly created upper_changes. But I would not have to reconfigure the settings contained in the 50-58 layers.

00modules-6.1.38.sfs
01firmware-6.1.38.sfs
07KLV-airedale-DPi7-20240615.sfs
16gtkdialogGTK3_filemnt64.sfs
17filemnt-20240523.sfs
20_upper_20240822.sfs
21_upper_20241227.sfs
/50_Airedale_config
/51_Airedale_i03
/52_Pipewire_256
/53_Network-HPi8
/54_Cups-HPi8
/55_Sounds_sf2
/56_pAPPS_other
58_Lilypond-html.sfs
/upper_changes
/work
restore_history
vmlinuz
grub_config.txt
wd_grubconfig
initrd.gz
w_init

[TerryH]

Pleased to see an update of KLV Airedale. I created a new install of KLV Airedale SR16 using upper_changes for SR15. All appears to have gone well, so far all working nicely. Thank you.

Though you might find doing that works without issue, I would say that it's not advisable, especially if your SR15 upper_changes weren't system-updated more recently than the SR16 iso, because in that scenario you might be layering older packages over more recent ones. Still it may work out, time will tell.

KL's have many versatile methods to transfer system configs from one install to another. For instance you could create other uncompressed layers with higher numbers. I start with 50 and have layers that contain things like network configurations, cups pps files, desktop files, /root/.config files for specific applications, symlinks to portables, and so forth. My Airedale install directory looks like below. I have the config layers above the squashed upper changes and 07rootfs layers so that they always get precedence. With this arrangement I can replace or add to the lower layers and still retain my configs. I have installed applications in the squashed 20_upper and 21_upper changes layers. This way I can modify my configs easily since they are uncompressed and copy them to different machines. If I were to replace the 07rootfs with a newer iso version. I would deactivate the 20 and 21 layers so that they didn't conflict with any newer packages installed in the new iso, and then I would re-install the applications contained in the old 20 layers and squash a new 20 layer from a newly created upper_changes. But I would not have to reconfigure the settings contained in the 50-58 layers.

00modules-6.1.38.sfs
01firmware-6.1.38.sfs
07KLV-airedale-DPi7-20240615.sfs
16gtkdialogGTK3_filemnt64.sfs
17filemnt-20240523.sfs
20_upper_20240822.sfs
21_upper_20241227.sfs
/50_Airedale_config
/51_Airedale_i03
/52_Pipewire_256
/53_Network-HPi8
/54_Cups-HPi8
/55_Sounds_sf2
/56_pAPPS_other
58_Lilypond-html.sfs
/upper_changes
/work
restore_history
vmlinuz
grub_config.txt
wd_grubconfig
initrd.gz
w_init

I appreciate the details you have provided and understand your concern. Maybe I could have included some additional information. In my case I believe I am safe, this install has not had any system updates, no additional software, other than sfs or portable applications. I have kept this install as is, the only changes I have made are aesthetic config changes. For other KL's I have, I now mainly have pseudo full installs, creating backups of upper_changes as I proceed with system updates.

[geo_c]

I did a system update today and runit was updated. I got a message that I don't know whether it's relevant to Airedale or not. Just thought I'd point it out.

It reads from OctoXbps configuring:
runit-void-20231124_6: configuring ...
runit-void-20231124_6: post-install message:
In a future release of the runit-void package, the default cgroup mode
will change from "hybrid" to "unified". Users should explicitly specify
"unified" (recommended) or "hybrid" CGROUP_MODE in rc.conf.
Note that some container runtimes and images may not work optimally or
at all with the "hybrid" cgroup mode due to ongoing deprecation of
cgroup1 support.
runit-void-20231124_6: updated successfully.

[geo_c]

Not sure where to put this in the forum, so I'll start here since I encountered in Airedale on my recently updated version of SR8.

I did a system update last night, just a few packages needed updates, one of them was rsync.

Ran my sync scripts today and got an error:

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[root]/mnt/home/sync-script/syncMEDIA/home-geoboot/$:./rs-geobootDBOX2home
sending incremental file list
Internal hashtable error: illegal key supplied!
rsync error: errors with program diagnostics (code 13) at hashtable.c(88) [generator=3.4.0]
rsync error: received SIGUSR1 (code 19) at main.c(1600) [Receiver=3.4.0]
[root]/mnt/home/sync-script/syncMEDIA/home-geoboot/$:

A quick internet search and it looks like this is a bug in the rsync update and not VOID specific. Dropping the -H option from my command allows it to run. The workaround found here: https://bugs-devel.debian.org/cgi-bin/b ... ug=1093089

HOWEVER BUG IS NOW FIXED FROM THE REPOSITORY:

I just ran an update with OctoXBPS and there was a new update for rsync, so problem fixed NOW.

Just a heads up that the very latest version of rsync needs to be installed.