ro-mode-init: Live Mode Indicator not working

HulaHoop · February 7, 2019, 6:43pm

@Algernon When running with ro-mode-init I noticed the taskbar icon is unable to recognize that live mode was enabled (I tested it to be fully functional). Does the indicator only work for the grub method or is it supposed to see both?

Algernon · February 10, 2019, 10:27pm

I actually never tested it for ro-mode-init because it is not the recommended way. It probably does not work because it checks for “boot=live” in the livecheck.sh, which is not present for ro-mode-init. I guess it can be changed to something else like checking for the presence of the overlay mountpoint. I can’t test it though because I have some problems building Whonix currently.

HulaHoop · February 11, 2019, 2:46am

I see, thanks.

Is it the KVM build that’s giving you trouble?

Patrick · February 11, 2019, 9:22am

I specuclate it’s due to the many changes that happen as a result of [FIXED] Apt RCE announced. New Whonix images needed. Whonix build NOT safe at the moment..

Algernon · February 11, 2019, 9:25am

No, more or less everything.
It either fails already at the 1100 step when building for stretch and I could not yet figure out why it fails. When building for buster it at least manages to start step 1200 but then shows lots of lintian errors probably for each package it wants to build. I guess the buildsystem itself also needs to be buster since mmdebstrap is not in stretch.

@Patrick
Does building work for you with the current source?

Patrick · February 11, 2019, 9:32am

Are you sure you’re using the latest git tag 14.0.1.3.8? mmdebstrap is no longer a package dependency there. mmdebstrap now has to stay in help-steps/mmdebstrap until buster and/or until a new release of mmdebstrap is being made because… (see https://github.com/Whonix/Whonix/commit/998a7d5a0cbcd98f68afd5115ffd07e8cbed2236) That makes setting up the build system a lot easier. Only stretch builds are tested. Did not attempt a buster build yet.

Algernon · February 11, 2019, 9:37am

I think it was the latest tag. Need to check again though. But it asked for mmdebstrap so I just upgraded everything to buster. Maybe I test it again with the updated Build Documentation.

Patrick · February 11, 2019, 9:39am

This wasn’t what I intended / tested. That could indeed result in lots of build issues.

Patrick · February 11, 2019, 9:40am

https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Dev/Build_Documentation/14_full was not up to date. Was still mentioning mmdebstrep package install from buster. Sorry. Fixed now.

Algernon · February 11, 2019, 9:41am

True. I maybe go back to stretch or wait till the dust has settled. Buster will be soft frozen today afaik so should be more or less stable.

HulaHoop · April 17, 2019, 3:15am

Would be nice to have whenever you’re ready.

BTW Buster builds should be fine now.

Patrick · April 17, 2019, 12:47pm

Note:

Updates will be posted in the same thread.

HulaHoop · April 17, 2019, 4:19pm

whispers: Yes but he is a KVM user

Patrick · January 21, 2020, 8:01am

Fixed?

Patrick · January 21, 2020, 3:10pm

github.com

Kicksecure/xfce-desktop-config-dist/blob/master/usr/share/livecheck/livecheck.sh

#!/bin/bash

## Copyright (C) 2018 - 2021 ENCRYPTED SUPPORT LP <adrelanos@whonix.org>
## Copyright (C) 2018 Algernon <33966997+Algernon-01@users.noreply.github.com>
## See the file COPYING for copying conditions.

set -e

## sudo /bin/lsblk --all
##
## NAME   MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
## sda      8:0    0  100G  1 disk
##
## 1 means read-only
## 0 means read-write

## As soon as we have at least one "0" it is concluded: not live mode.

## when using snapd:
##

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Patrick · November 24, 2020, 4:20pm

Should be fixed in all repository. Let me know if this is not the case.