[Trisquel-devel] New Trisquel 8 development images

[Lee Strobel]

Hi Pablo,

Regarding that issue that you mention:

I have been dual-booting Windows and GNU/Linux for several years and I
have always had that same problem, that it is not possible to mount an
ntfs Windows system partition r/w, even if Windows was fully shut down
(not hibernated).

However, I had that problem back when I used Ubuntu, before I switched
to Trisquel. So, I am fairly sure it is an issue between Windows and
GNU/Linux in general, and not an issue just for Trisquel.

You should be able to mount the partition for read-only though.

Regards,

Lee



On Fri, 2018-01-12 at 15:03 +0000, Pablo Correa Gómez wrote:
> I have continued with further testing on devices and I just found one
> error while CD/DVD read, external ntfs HDD and Arduino and AVR
> programming over USB worked fine.
> 
>         The error I found is that Trisquel is not able to mount rw
> the
> Windows ntfs partition that I have in my hard drive:
> 
> # sudo mount -v -t "ntfs" -o
> "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=999,gid=999" "/dev/sda4"
> "/media/trisquel/TI31299800B"
> 
> Windows is hibernated, refused to mount.
> Failed to mount '/dev/sda4': Operation not permitted
> The NTFS partition is in an unsafe state. Please resume and shutdown
> Windows fully (no hibernation or fast restarting), or mount the
> volume
> read-only with the 'ro' mount option.
> 
>         However, I know that Windows is fully shutdown, as I am able
> to
> successfully execute that same command from Fedora. In Trisquel
> mounting the device ro works fine.
> 
> Cheers,
> Pablo.
>         
> ________________________________________
> De: trisquel-devel-bounces at listas.trisquel.info [trisquel-devel-bounc
> es at listas.trisquel.info] en nombre de Rubén Rodríguez [ruben at trisquel
> .info]
> Enviado: domingo, 24 de diciembre de 2017 6:26
> Para: trisquel-devel at listas.trisquel.info
> Asunto: [Trisquel-devel] New Trisquel 8 development images
> 
> The new images are available in the usual place:
> http://jenkins.trisquel.info/makeiso/iso/
> 
> Following up discussion on the previous "Freedom Friday" meetings,
> I've
> wrapped up the needed updates to the trisquel-meta package:
> https://devel.trisquel.info/trisquel/trisquel-packages/commit/766eaf2
> 420175fa08cd8151ae2eb8c6e3d9b5757
> https://devel.trisquel.info/trisquel/trisquel-packages/commit/fa12528
> 5f2e04a3d4440527ddb14b88ce08546a1
> 
> As a result the iso build script now uses metapackages to do package
> selection, instead of a hardcoded package list. This was a long
> back-and-forth process to move all features from the GNOME-fallback
> desktop packages to the Mate ones. A lot of cleaning is still needed
> for
> the LXDE, Sugar, GNOME and KDE metapackages.
> 
> Other tasks included updates to the trisquel-desktop-common-data
> package, screensaver, boot splash, free-firmware, and gnome-app-
> install,
> along with the makeiso script itself.
> 
> ## Testing
> 
> Please test as many features in the images as possible, and report
> all
> outstanding bugs as replies in this thread. Given the amount of
> changes
> done, pay special attention to:
> 
>  * Internationalization: try different languages if you know them
> enough, look for untranslated applications. If you can, check that
> fonts
> for non-latin scripts work correctly. Test the international keyboard
> input system.
>  * Accessibility: test that the screen reader and other accessibility
> features work as expected.
>  * Devices: try printers, cd read/write, bluetooth, cameras, and any
> other common devices you may have around.
> 
> Note that as discussed in development meetings, the intention is to
> release Trisquel 8 soon as possible and move the development effort
> to 9
> (to be based on Ubuntu 18.04), so small annoyances will not be
> considered blockers (but all the described systems need to be
> usable).
> 
> ## Pending work
> 
> The main items still needing work in order to finish the release are:
> 
>  * Testing/QA
>  * FSDG issues listed in merge requests, and other MR review/approval
>  * Deployment and testing of the upgrade system, for Trisquel 7 users
>  * Artwork
> 
> My next focus will be to clear up the merge request queue.
> 
> I'll be taking a 3 week break starting this weekend, so I'll not be
> available for the Freedom Friday meetings. It should be a good time
> for
> a final round of testing.
> 
> Happy testing and holidays!
> 
> Ruben
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