F22 Live KDE on a VM

[Ed Greshko]

On 04/21/15 20:38, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-04-21 at 20:08 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> On 04/21/15 19:57, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>> I've installed the Beta 3 version of F22 KDE Live in a VirtualBox VM.
>>> This was a clean install, i.e. get a fresh VM, boot the Live CD image,
>>> then install to disk by clicking on the button. My host machine is F21
>>> has plenty of horsepower and an NVidia graphics card under the
>>> proprietary driver. I also installed the VBox Guest Additions and ran
>>> "dnf update" in the guest.
>> A bit confused on the series of events...
>>
>> 1.  Booted Live media.
>> 2.  Installed to disk using default file system layout(?)
>> 3.  Booted the installed system
> 3a. Ran dnf install kernel-devel kernel-headers gcc
> 3b. Ran the VBox Guest Additions script (which requires kernel headers
> and gcc).
> 3c. Rebooted and noted the problems already mentioned.
>
>> 4.  Ran "dnf update"  
> ...
>> 6.  Rebooted
> 6a Problems still present.
>
> What I can't remember at the moment is whether I had to run stage 3a
> from single-user mode due to a non-functioning desktop. I did have to so
> this at stage 4.
>
>> And then.....the unusable DE as noted below?
>>> After logging in, the resulting Plasma DE is unusable. Panel menus pop
>>> up but windows don't appear on the desktop; in fact nothing appears
>>> there except the root background.
>>>
>>> Other Fedora installations (F21 Workstation) work correctly in the same
>>> setup.
>>>
>> So far, I've only done a "netinstall" of KDE B3.  And, there is also the choice of running the non-debug kernel.  I run that since it is faster.
> I might try that. My only purpose in all this is to try and pin down the
> problem with Plasma not preserving window layout and settings across
> sessions, which I've mentioned in another thread. That problem doesn't
> go away when I just try a different user, so my idea was to install
> Plasma from scratch rather than as an update to KDE 4.
>

I see....

Well, I've only done a netinstall and I'm having no issues with responsiveness.  Running in a VBox VM.  I may try a Live install tomorrow if I have the chance.

FWIW, the not preserving window layout problem exists in a scratch install.  Need to check/hunt to see if there is a BZ files so I can add myself to the CC.




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