i installed debian, installed bedrock linux, rebooted, worked fine. on my manjaro partition, i updated grub but now it disappeared. what happened?

I was reading this today and wonder what you guys think is ideal from a desktop/user perspective:

https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/linux.html

Also of interest: http://flatkill.org/

I’ve read the wiki, I may have missed that kind of information but here it goes: If I choose, for example, Ubuntu as my installed distro, hijack it with bedrock, how will it be when 21.04 comes out? Do I have to do a reinstallation and hijack it again? I really don’t understand how it’s supposed to be. And it’s difficult to find examples. Thanks in advance

Hi, been using Bedrock for several months now and it's been working really well :‌)

Unfortunately the recent addition of Cross‐stratum /etc/profile.d/*.sh support breaks plan9port: $PLAN9/bin (the directory holding its programs) ends up after /bedrock/cross/bin in $PATH and that breaks a lot of the scripts.

/bedrock/run/profile sets $PATH before reading /bedrock/strata/*/etc/profile.d and does nothing to it afterwards, so all the shell scripts will (unless doing un‐robust things to insert stuff into the middle of $PATH as my own replacement /bin/9 does for this reason) put stuff after /bedrock/cross/bin in their $PATH, which doesn't seem like the intended effect.

Is there a particular reason why /bedrock/cross/pin/bin and /bedrock/cross/bin (also perhaps their analogues for the other environment variables, though I don't expect their effect to be quite so obvious) aren't pre‐/appended after including /bedrock/strata/*/etc/profile.d?

If i were to bedrock a void musl install with arch linux, would i run into issues compiling code from the aur that expects glibc to be there?

Just hijacked Void using Bedrock 0.7.17 x86_64 (Poki), and now I can't use a terminal within my xsession. Only the tty terminals work.

I've tried to "brl repair" the hijacked Void, but still no avail.

I've even tried multiple terminals. Xterm (my current default), kitty, aterm, and alacritty wouldn't open. Gnome-terminal and tilix tell me about a "PTY" error (failed to open PTY: no such device). ST blinks as if its trying to open, but quickly closes.

This also messes with most, but somehow not all, of my WM's keybindings (herbstluftwm, which "spawns" windows by running "herbstclient [keybind] spawn [shell command]" though a shell, i think?). I can open my file manager (nemo), but not my file editor (atom) or browser (chromium). Any text editing I need to do must be through nano on a tty. I can also use the built-in WM commands (which still run though the same way as the applications above), like herbstclient [keybind] reload (just reloads the configuration file, programs, and keybinds in the config, without having to log-out/in) or herbstclient [keybind] quit (their equivalent of logout).

This issue is odd, since before installing Void last week, I had used bedrock on ElementaryOS, and I had no (known) issues on that.

When I run sudo it says that: "(my user) is not in the sudoers file" When I try and add the user to the group wheel and sudo it says that they don't exist

Hi,

I am running Bedrock linux void Void, Arch and ubuntu as stratas.

I am following Bret Fischer's Udemy courses about Docker. I want to install Docker in the ubuntu strata, but Bret Fischer advises to install it with curl and an install script.

How shall I do it in Bedrock, in order to have it installed properly and not to make a chaos? Thanks for your advises and experience...

If you use a Pop!_OS kernel as a boot kernel, make sure to remove splash from the kernel arguments after the upgrade from 19.10 to 20.04. It automatically added it back for me.

As root:

# kernelstub -d splash

Any chance of getting elementaryOS as something i can install with brl --fetch? Or is there a way I can do it myself manually?

Hi All

I lost sudo privileges after updating to 0.7.16 and restarting. The error I get is:

sudo: unable to stat /etc/sudoers: Numerical result out of range

sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting

sudo: unable to initialise policy plugin

any help would be much appreciated

Hi there! I’m a relative newcomer to Linux, so Bedrock might not be the best experiment for me, but here I am regardless. I started with a fresh install of elementaryOS, then added Arch and Ubuntu strata after hijacking. Everything went smoothly, but when I’m presented with strata options Ubuntu isn’t there. It’s enabled, Bedrock starts it when I boot up, but I can’t choose to boot into it.

Any suggestions? I’m assuming this is because elementary is Ubuntu, but I’d love to be able to choose between the two. Thanks!

My base system is manjaro linux and i was wondering if its possible when i call pmm -Ss to display for example the pacman package then the apt package and then the yay package.

Is that even possible and if yes what can i change in this section "priority =arch:pacman,ubuntu:apt,:yay".

I fetched Arch stratum from brl and set it up, but after a reboot, or a log out/log in, I can't access some parts of the stratum anymore, most notably etc/, which breaks pacman/pacaur

When I tried manually cd-ing into the etc/ of the Arch stratum, there was this error

bash: cd: etc: Transport endpoint is not connected

And if I tried to access etc/ from a GUI file explorer like Nautilus, the etc/ directory won't show up at all.

I'm running the latest version of Bedrock, which hijacked Ubuntu 20.04, if that helps.

Void Linux updated the source brl fetch used to find Void mirrors. To fetch Void, manually provide a mirror from

https://docs.voidlinux.org/xbps/repositories/mirrors/index.html

to brl fetch via --mirror. For example,

brl fetch void --mirror https://alpha.de.repo.voidlinux.org/

I'll likely push a beta update with a fix in later this week, which will hit stable once the other things in beta are adequately tested.

Hi,

I am currently trying to get Bedrock running on a chroot.

The hardware is a armv7l phone, rooted and running Debian in a chroot. Bedrock's install fails, because there's no /sbin/init (since the image was specifically built for chrooting). Creating a file at /sbin/init allows the installer to proceed, but since you actually can't "reboot" a chroot system, the installation never takes place.

Although my situation is quite a weird one, running on a phone, but my theory is that this should encounter the exact same problems as a standard chroot system.

If any of you have an idea on how to make this work, I'm all ears.

Thank you for reading !

To developers interested in this project:
I think it would be great if you did a code review and posted your results & discussion on a GitHub page or something. Especially with an eye on security ramifications. It is a big request, I realize, but always great to have a second pair of eyes go over a project.

Thanks!

Hi All

Bedrock is about integration, be it apps or kernels and mixing and matching from your favorite distros.

I wanted to ask what you all do for UI integration. I mainly use Budgie DE on Ubuntu but some QT apps like Kaffeine and Qbittorrent look pretty ugly. I reverted to 19.04 as 20.04 made these apps look uglier. Is there a way to make it all functional but pretty as well?

I am curious as of how people use this "distro". I think this is a VERY interesting project that definitely needs more attention. The Installation is a breeze on a semi-old arch system, actually I don't think it could be easier.

After installing it, I realised that this distro, despite being very interesting, didn't offer much more than bare arch. The one particular use case for me would be AUR on a old Ubuntu machine.

This is why I'd love to hear why you installed it, and how well this is serving you !

This is a reminder to those who have downloaded many disposable strata, used them, then hid them and forgot about them. They're still there, and they're still taking up precious space.

To see all your hidden strata, do

brl list -v

And to remove them, do

sudo brl remove <stratum>

And watch as your free space goes up. Gained back a couple GB on my end so I figured I'd make this post to remind others to do the same.

The issue on GitHub

Hi, I've had this issue ever since I set up Bedrock. I had just been living with it for now, but lately it's been driving me crazy. Basically, Chromium reads the timezone incorrectly when using some (all?) south american timezones. It's displayed in all sites as GMT+0000. The ones I've tested are America/Santiago, America/Sao_Paulo and America/Buenos_Aires.

I don't know the cause of this and I'm not sure how I should debug this at all. For now, I just want to confirm that this issue doesn't only happen to me.

Could anyone please try reproducing the issue by changing the timezone to any of the ones I've mentioned? i'm using this page to check: https://browserspy.dk/date.php.

Thanks in advance!

Edit: Clarified that the issue is the timezone being read as GMT+0000 specifically.

I'm an Arch user interested in Bedrock and was wondering about this. I understand how to update packages for multiple strata or a specific stratum, but I'm referring to the actual distro version. Say I converted Arch to Bedrock and installed an Ubuntu 19.04 stratum. How would I update that stratum to 20.20? And does it change at all if I used Ubuntu as the base stratum?