I am trialing Endless from a USB stick. I get to the home screen with cave photo and bar (wifi connected, sound ok, battery charged, and power icon), but no app icons or other clickables. What should I do?
How did you create the USB stick?
- If you created it on Windows, can you attach the log file from the installer?
- If you created it on Linux, what Endless OS image file did you use?
Unfortunately it is rather hard to debug issues like this where initial setup does not appear. If you are confident at the command line, follow steps 1-3 on https://support.endlessos.org/en/troubleshooting/boot-previous-version, then press e to edit the Endless OS boot entry, add systemd.debug_shell to the line beginning linux, boot, and then press Ctrl+Alt+F9 to get a root shell. Here you can look at the journal with journalctl.
Thank you for the quick, useful reply, Will.
My first reaction, meantime, was to delete and reformat everything and
start again on another machine.
I will report back here (there).
[]s - Peter
WJT,
I just got the home screen, and nothing after that. I created it on Windows, and used Rufus to flash the ISO to the USB drive. I got this message when I used Rufus:
“The image you have selected is an ISO Hybrid, but it’s creators have not made it compatible with ISO/File copy mode. As a result, DD image writing mode will be enforced”.
So then how are we supposed to flash a hybrid ISO to a USB drive? The DD mode that Rufus (supposedly) used didn’t work either. Thanks.
UPDATE: I used the technique of holding down the Shift key and tapping the Escape key. It worked. I also got the Cave screen, but it finally loaded the screen showing app icons,
The problem is that the whole operating system seems very slow. I clicked on icons, and it took a full 2-3 minutes for the system to respond. I don’t mean to be rude, but I want to point out a problem. Thank you.
Sorry. I started a new topic to report (which I will try to delete). Repeating here:
Long story short (this took nearly a week):
- Installer unable to access the download server from any of the three machines at home. tried over and over again. Got assist from Endless community, but meanwhile;
- managed to download the iso by torrent;
- flashed the iso to usb stick, using balena;
- live boot (on an admittedly limited Intel Atom laptop) got me as far as the Endless cave and sky photo worktop, with wifi, power, sound and battery level icons, but no apps and no other clickables (tried three times);
-> intermission during which I returned the usb stick to the store. Under Windows, it was showing only 14 of 32Gb. They exchanged it for a new one. Back home, I discovered https://support.endlessos.org/en/installation/erase-usb, which really should be flagged more conspicuously) -> - decided to redo everything, but differently;
- downloaded the iso again and burned to stick using rufus [Note: got the same DD warning as Henry, below. Took forever to flash to usb, but worked);
- got 4) all over again;
- decided to go for it and reformat the ancient laptop, just to see (previous Windows 7 installation was corrupt anyway);
- everything worked perfectly. Now sending this from Endless 4, via wifi, on ancient machine.
Go figure. Thank you for your time.
Pingo,
So is the new installation on the reformatted Windows 7 laptop working smoothly? It doesn’t take forever to get apps to open and run? Thanks,
The new installation and all apps worked fine, at first. Slowish, but
that’s because the laptop itself is old and low on processing power
(Intel Atom). Nothing different from what I was used to and expected. I
was happy.
Recently, though, Endless has lost contact with the cabled Windows
network running on the other two machines. That connection was working
fine, but now I get “Connection refused” and all sorts of other
messages (html error, internal server error, not a folder etc.),
depending on how I approach it.
I would like to delete all existing network connections and let Endless
set it all up again. See if that solves the problem. I’ve seen that
mentioned somewhere here, but I may have to open up another
thread.
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