Bug 488033 - KDE Neon developer edition’s installer won’t launch
Summary: KDE Neon developer edition’s installer won’t launch
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: neon
Classification: KDE Neon
Component: Live/Install images (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Neon Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Neon Bugs
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Reported: 2024-06-04 18:42 UTC by techxgames
Modified: 2024-06-05 22:05 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description techxgames 2024-06-04 18:42:43 UTC 
Created attachment 170146 [details]
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SUMMARY
Installer won't launch from Welcome Center.  Calamares thinks its Debian

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Click the icon on Welcome Center


OBSERVED RESULT
there's Calamares entry and thinks its Debian

EXPECTED RESULT
Installer should launch

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Neon Developer Edition

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
neon-developer-20240527-1604.iso
Comment 1 techxgames 2024-06-04 18:59:19 UTC 
Tried to install and got 'The source filesystem "/run/live/medium/live/filesystem.squashfs'" does not exist
Comment 2 Stuart K. Smith 2024-06-05 22:05:12 UTC 
Using a VM and the KDEneon Developer ISO dated 05/27, I launched Calamares from Konsole instead of using the graphical launcher and it revealed this error message:

filesystem not found "/run/live/medium/live/filesystem.squashfs"

The file itself - filesystem.squashfs - exists on the ISO in "casper", so I created the directory "/run/live/medium/live" and symlinked to "/cdrom/casper/filesystem.squashfs" in it. Voila, the installer ran. It still crashed at grub-install (I didn't take the time to prep the drive properly) but it did do the installation.

Clearly, it seems, a Debian Calamares set up was used and not edited to work with KDEneon.

Notably, this is now the THIRD time there has been a Calamares mis-configuration in the last 6 weeks or so. Previously there were typos relating to networking and one other thing I can't recall at the moment.