In the most recent livegui install images, pressing the F7 key displays the following text: nox This causes an X-enabled LiveCD to not automatically start X, but rather, to drop to the command line instead. However, entering the nox option on the kernel command line has no effect, and X is still automatically started. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot a VM or machine using a livegui image (livegui-amd64-20220522T170533Z.iso was tested). 2. Press a key to pause booting, then enter a kernel name (gentoo or gentoo-nofb), followed by the parameter 'nox' (without quotes). 3. Press enter to boot kernel with the parameters entered. Actual Results: The 'nox' parameter has no effect. Xorg and the display manager are started as usual. Expected Results: Xorg and display manager should not start, and the user should be dropped to a command line. I've mostly tested this in a VM. I wonder what other kernel options listed in the liveusb boot help menus might also be similarly nonfunctional. It should be fixed, or else the option could be removed from the boot help menus. Workaround would be to either a) manually shut down the displaymanager service, plasma, and Xorg, or b) use the minimal install iso instead. Someone might need the extra stuff on the livegui iso, however. For example, exfat is available on the livegui iso, but absent from the minimal one.
We changed the option from 'nox' to 'nogui' in display-manager-init. We should update the text to reflect that. Thanks for the heads up!
mattst88: Can you make it keep supporting "nox" for now (maybe also display a warning)
(In reply to Robin Johnson from comment #2) > mattst88: > Can you make it keep supporting "nox" for now (maybe also display a warning) Yep, we can. I asked slashbeast to take a look at this and some of the other display-manager-init bug reports.
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/catalyst.git/commit/?id=991ac4cbe370572840ef586db208c77157e7dfa4 commit 991ac4cbe370572840ef586db208c77157e7dfa4 Author: Ben Kohler <bkohler@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2024-02-27 16:52:12 +0000 Commit: Ben Kohler <bkohler@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2024-02-27 16:54:15 +0000 livecd/files/README.txt: adjust nox -> nogui Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/853127 Signed-off-by: Ben Kohler <bkohler@gentoo.org> livecd/files/README.txt | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
