So gdm does start up? Then that’s a different issue, no?
I observed the same effect, yes. I wrote about this in the other thread here and you either log in via serial or ssh or you boot from an sd-card.
Yes, freezing issue is known. See the other thread linked above. To fix this, flash the latest system-image to an sd-card. That image has the new reform-tools version which I released this morning and thus it comes with a new convenience script called reform-rescue-shell. That tool will attempt giving you a shell inside the system you have on your emmc/nvme. If it doesn’t work, please tell me so that we can fix it.
If it does work and once you are inside your system, I suggest you just run a apt update && apt full-upgrade. That should fix up your system. You can then leave the rescue shell by pressing ctrl+d or by running exit.
okay I’ve got it working again. Thanks for the rescue-shell script it really makes fixing up the system a breeze.
Out of curiosity, is it possible to run ly on the pocket reform? I recall the mnt reform debian setup switched away from ly but I don’t remember what the reason was.
fairyglade/ly can be packaged once the zig programming language is packaged. Current status of that is here: I Challenge Thee
I’m sure that people would welcome help in getting zig packaged but by having a quick look at it, it seems to be one of the more “challenging” pieces of software to package…
If you want to maintain a package like ly in Debian, I can sponsor your work.
I had a shot at downloading zig and compiling ly locally. Ran into a few compile issues to do with libpam, I think. I am interested in taking a look at this further and figuring out how to package for debian. It’s as good an excuse as any to finally learn how debian packages work.
I’m not sure if I’ll make much progress right away as I’m busy with other stuff right now but If I get time to dig into this properly I’ll make a new thread about it.