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aurora store not working blend os v4 version

downloaded blend os v4 gnome version the aurora store once installed when I click on it to open it crashes I cant even open while the f droid works fine any help
Solution:
it's an upstream Aurora issue with Waydroid

Boot problem with manual partitioning

I have tried several times to install the OS with manual partitioning, with a boot partition, I tried once formatted and once without formatting along with another OS, and a formatted system partition. All in the Blend OS installer application itself. Yesterday @ム丂イ乇尺ノ丂ズ told me that this was fixed in the latest version 4636db55 but the result for me is the same. Any information you can give me I will gladly provide, thanks for everything
Solution:
Yup you were correct. It wasn't in the intial boot order but I went into another option where it fedora as first boot and "OS" as second boot. It's up and running. Thank you again. I guess this is going to be a case for refind after all.

Plasma track is broken

I chrooted in my system disk, edited system.yaml but akshara fails to verify the checksum
Solution:
he said the package repo was rebuilt, just update
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sddm user missing in plasma track? | PLASMA ISSUES

HOW TO REPRODUCE - Downloaded the latest (4636db55) iso - Successfully installed via ventoy and rebooted - Edited system.yaml to change "default-gnome" to "plasma" - Ran akshara update successfully and rebooted...
Solution:
I was investigating this bug yesterday, and the root cause appears to be akshara simply discarding the new passwd and group files. Implementing the nss-altfiles module (https://github.com/aperezdc/nss-altfiles) to have separate system variants of those files should be viable, since akshara would then be able to replace those files during updates. I'm implementing this right now.

OpenVPN

Any advice on how to get an openvpn client working via networkmanager? I know they are different, but openconnect worked straightaway. I know my ovpn file is good - that works on a Fedora box that I have running.
Solution:
ugh - looks like PIA has issues with openssl 3.3.1, and that is where the issue lies. I was able to grab their script to manually build connections on demand from their GH page, so this can be closed - thanks for coming along for the ride with me.

Error 1101/500 in cloudflaremirrors.com

I can't run
akshara update
akshara update
without it failing to download core.db
Solution:
We've changed the default mirror to geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com

Missing required signature

Hi, I'm trying BlendOS v4 for the first time and I prefer to go in a VirtualBox instance. Unfortunately, the installation process is stuck during packages download; there are 35 packages that have the error "missing required signature" and pacman tries to download indefinitely. Is there anything that I can do or need to wait for a new iso? Cheers...
Solution:
you can try redownloading and reflashing the ISO
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device did not show up

hello. after installing icewm, xorg, xorg-xinit, noto-fonts and noto-fonts-cjk and then rebooting, i get this error message. ERROR: '/dev/disk/by-label' device did not show up after 30 seconds......
Solution:
thanks i will.

In Search of Assistance: Please HELP Resolving BlendOS feature v3 with Read and Write

Is there any way to enable manual updates and/or change the read or write mode within the system in blendOS? I know that version 3 does not support manual updates by default and is only in read mode, but I want to see if there is any way to change that.
Solution:
you really should just update to v4

akshara update hanging

I just added a package to system.yaml and when running akshara update it's now hung for a good half hour after generating locales. Any tips?
Solution:
journalctl -xeu akshara -f
journalctl -xeu akshara -f
can be used to see more detailed information about what it is doing
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is installing with existing /user partition supported in V4

I did try it and the result is this but during install it said error downloading pkgs
Solution:
could you download the latest ISO from the download page ('Master Build Server') and try that?
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4.0 beta --> 4.0 final

If I was running the beta, do I need to reinstall with the final .iso, or will it flip over to the final version?
Solution:
sudo akshara update

"Press any button to continue"

Hello, i discovered about v4 update and tried to boot it, but it refused to boot from Ventoy(latest version) and threw an error "Press any button to continue"(video attached) My Asus VivoBook specs: Ryzen 7 4700U 16 GB of on-board soldered RAM ...
Solution:
need to use etcher instead of ventoy

Test post 2

help
Solution:
solution totally

Blend OS v4 doesn't boot on bare metal

the new v4 stable ISO doesn't boot on bare metal with systemd throwing an error about a qemu service failing, it doesn't get far enough to generate logs or be able to switch to a TTY (when the latter is attempted, it immediately snaps back to the output of systemd, which just shows the aforementioned qemu error).
Solution:
@Erathorn Zyltris @game_r/dev🐧 xorg-server wasn't installed xD

Aurora fails to install in v4 beta

Just installed the new v4 iso. Aurora fails to install but F-Droid installed just fine
Solution:
i don't have the time these days to mess with it so i'm just using scrcpy instead on blend. kind of annoying but it works for the one or two android apps i want to see and control from my desktop

error trying to change track DE

Unhappy with the choice of cinnamon and cannot seem to switch, do I need to do a full reinstall?
Solution:
umount -l /usr && wget https://git.blendos.co/blendOS/system-tools/akshara/-/raw/main/akshara && sudo mv ./akshara /usr/bin/akshara
umount -l /usr && wget https://git.blendos.co/blendOS/system-tools/akshara/-/raw/main/akshara && sudo mv ./akshara /usr/bin/akshara
...
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Framework Laptop report

Installed BlendOS v3 Gnome Edition on my Framework 13 (i5). It normally runs PopOS, but I decided to give blend OS a try because of the Android support. I burned the ISO to a Kioxia USB3 flash drive in PopOS using balencia etcher and rebooted into the installer without issues. I also was able to install without issue, and most things work. ...
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blendOS v3 live USB frozen when booting

Hello everyone, I'm a Linux Mint user trying to learn blendOS for the first time. Interested with its UI, I downloaded blendOS v3 Deepin and burnt the ISO using Linux Mint's USB Image Writer with no errors. ...
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How to update gnome to 46 (best practice way)?

Help me please, pretty please!
Solution:
on v4 you can