Lite 2.0 - 2.4 upgrade not finishing after using:

First, kudos for discussing home directory encryption in your manual.

Unlike encrypting during install (which unfortunately doesn't work) encrypting with ecryptfs-migrate-home asks at some point for a "passphrase". It would be nice to know what the length/characters requirements are for this phrase. In the example, the user confirms the phrase with ecryptfs-unwrap-passphrase. A 32-character hexadecimal number displays. Is this the only acceptable format?

I'm a bit confused that the instructions say to run ecryptfs-add-passphrase and enter the login password, but the screen shot shows ecryptfs-add-passphrase requesting the passphrase. Which is it?

I tried reading /usr/share/doc/ecryptfs-utils/ecryptfs-faq.html, but became even more confused. Partway through, it stops talking about "passphrase" and out-of-the-blue talks about "keys". Does passphrase=key or are they two different things?

I've used home directory encryption in Xubuntu before, but the encryption took place during install. I don't recall being asked for a passphrase. Encryption is rather exacting and any mistake could result in completely unrecoverable data. That's why instructions for it really need to be crystal clear.

Having said all this, I must repeat that Linux Lite is the best distro I've encountered for general use on modest machines.

installed from a media checked DVD to PATA drive desktop
settings manager is now sparse.
only showing are
screensaver
user manager
workspaces
lite upgrade
mime type
settings editor

all updated were applied
no errors found
/var/log

any ideas?

I done a fresh install of LL2.4
onto a fully tested system, RAM, smartdrive, cables and video cards
and ran into some crashing,
but
the recovery boot mode has some bugs.
If I attempt drop to root I get a SEG FAULT
if I try to get a system summary it will flash errors and return to recovery menu.
.. arithmetic expression: expecting primary: /

Another problem I've had with xubuntu recovery mode menu entry
fsck
and it stalls (same happened with the LL2.4 new install)
seems to be caused by recovery mode trying to check the swap partition (I think it should not do this)
I mention this in case someone else has had this fsck stalling problem.
I have bug report in with ubuntu

I'm sure I'm missing something obvious here, but how do I add menu items - and get them to show in the menu?

I added a group "Office" in order to manually add icons for Apache Openoffice. The Main Menu tool shows an icon for an Office group with a tick in the "show" column, but the icon doesn't show when I open the menu. I have restarted the machine since making the change.

Lite 2.4 32-bit.

Don't know why I'm getting this issue with 2.4 but the sometimes the keyring just pops up regardless of what I'm doing... I could be using any program and up it goes. I always hit cancel and seems to put it to sleep. I remember the first time it popped up was when I first installed 2.4 a few weeks ago and entered my wifi pass... so my keyring is my wifi pass (odd)


Yesterday I was using LibreOffice and after 10 minutes the keyring appears. Today after 30 minutes online it popped up for no reason.


Is there anyway to just disable the keyring which seems redundant since there is a main pass to begin with and there is a seperate wifi pass too ?


The 1.8 version was not having this issue.

The test_trim.sh test doesn't return the all-zeros result that it should. The sector data are unchanged.
I double-checked my fstab modifications, rebooted and retried the test script.

The SSD drive is a Kingston sv300s3. I'm running the 32-bit version of Linux Lite 2.4 on an Asus X101CH eeePC.

McDivot may be right that trimming doesn't happen automatically, you have to request it. I probably won't bother. The idea that my SSD might last longer was the motivation for trying the fstab mod.

Linux Lite is a fine distro, by the way.

The following tip might be of interest to fellow forum members who run multiboot setups with different operating systems (Linux Lite, Windows, Debian, Arch, etc).

Windows and some Linux distros that target Windows market (Ubuntu and its derivatives, including Linux Lite) have the BIOS clock (hardware clock) set to be interpreted in local time while most distros targeting experienced Linux users have the hardware clock set to be interpreted in UTC. This can create a real mess unless you configure all OSes to use the same time standard, which in Linux world is UTC. Here is the link to Arch wiki that explains how to do it in Windows and Ubuntu (and Linux Lite):

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Tim...in_Windows

Linux Lite 2.4 Download Stats to date via Sourceforge, very interesting to see that people are using mobile devices to download the iso...

I have a relative who doesn't have a Ethernet  jack to her laptop and was wondering if a USB 2.0 Male to 10/100Mbps RJ45 LAN Ethernet Network Plug Adapter Cable will work.  She has a old netbook 1.6Ghz atom and 1 GB of ram

I was looking to buy something like this
http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-USB-2-0-Male...0985391397

or this

http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-USB-2-0-10-1...1397&rt=nc