12:19 <mort> I'm building a custom image with a user created in customize-image.sh. The system will automatically start GNOME. Can I change GNOME settings from customize-image.sh? I'm trying to do 'sudo -u <name> gsettings set blah blah blah' but that doesn't work and I get a dconf warning:

12:19 <mort> dconf-WARNING **: 12:14:02.707: failed to commit changes to dconf: Cannot spawn a message bus without a machine-id: Invalid machine ID in /var/lib/dbus/machine-id or /etc/machine-id

12:20 <mort> I don't want the message bus to spawn, I just want the file with the config to be changed

12:21 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <igorpec> https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/main/config/desktop/common/environments/gnome/debian/postinst

12:24 <mort> I may be stupid but I don't see that changing dconf settings

12:56 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <xmort> Does anyone have any ideas?

13:21 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <igorpec> this is far away thing, gnome specific ... that postinst is doing something in this, but my understanding of gnome is terrible

13:26 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <xmort> ah, you're right actually

13:27 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <xmort> 'dconf update' reads that textual config and compiles it to dconf's binary config format

13:28 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <xmort> I didn't realize dconf had such a textual format and just assumed that it was configuring something else which uses ini-style configs rather than gsettings

13:34 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <igorpec> i know i am right 😉 i spent weeks studying to get to this level 😉

14:48 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <xmort> Can you change plymouth theme from customize-image.sh? Alternatively is there some other way? I've installed a theme and set it as the default using update-alternatives and run `update-initramfs -u`, but that doesn't seem to take effect

14:48 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <xmort> If I run `update-initramfs -u` on the generated image, the theme _does_ change, so the update-alternatives stuff works as it should

20:29 <DC-IRC> [Matrix] <schwar3kat:tchncs.de> Just a heads up for Armbian build.

20:29 <DC-IRC> [Matrix] <schwar3kat:tchncs.de> On Linux Mint Wilma (I guess possibly on other Noble based distro's)

20:29 <DC-IRC> [Matrix] <schwar3kat:tchncs.de> Deprecated package python3-distutils is no longer available.

20:29 <DC-IRC> [Matrix] <schwar3kat:tchncs.de> https://docs.python.org/3.10/whatsnew/3.10.html#distutils-deprecated

20:29 <DC-IRC> [Matrix] <schwar3kat:tchncs.de> Error:

20:29 <DC-IRC> [Matrix] <schwar3kat:tchncs.de> Installing host-side packages [ ntpdate python3-distutils ]

20:29 <DC-IRC> [Matrix] <schwar3kat:tchncs.de> E: Package 'python3-distutils' has no installation candidate

20:29 <DC-IRC> [Matrix] <schwar3kat:tchncs.de> error! [ Failed to install host packages; make sure you have a sane sources.list. ]

20:32 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <igorpec> this is probably addressed at noble (if NOBLE) ... there are more bugs, staying on Jammy is still to go in general

21:41 <DC-IRC> [Matrix] <schwar3kat:tchncs.de> Thanks @igorpec I found it - I will investigate adding wilma.

21:48 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <xmort> Does Armbian generate partition UUIDs on first boot? How does it know what the rootdev should be on first boot?

21:49 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <xmort> what the u-boot rootdev should be*

21:50 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <mecoblock> I kind of thought it would be easier to add a board for a new SoC / Family 😅.

21:50 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <mecoblock> I wanted to add the BPI-R4 with:

21:50 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <mecoblock> "mainline-dev" kernel: https://github.com/frank-w/BPI-Router-Linux

21:50 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <mecoblock> (6.9-main branch) and u-boot: https://github.com/frank-w/u-boot (2024-04-bpi branch)

21:50 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <xmort> I think I'm having a problem where, if I have an image installed on my device's eMMC, u-boot on an SD card I insert will load a rootfs from the eMMC

21:50 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <xmort> and I need to fix that

22:26 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <xmort> wait what, when I inspect the generated images they have different UUIDs every time