[SOLVED] bl-welcome not welcoming

MsMattie · 2017-06-06 23:02:45

bl-welcome isn't opening up for me on the command line.

Instead, it seems to run but then the command line is reproduced, blank, with no error or anything. I searched these forums and tried:

$ bl-welcome
$ sudo bl-welcome
$ bl-welcome - u
$ bl-welcome-understood.

No luck. The home/.config/bunsen folder does have bl-setup, bl-welcome, bl-welcome-understood.

Is there something I am not seeing going on, or am I going to have to reinstall the entire system to get bl-welcome. I need to install printer files to use an HP printer.

Last edited by MsMattie (2017-06-07 14:13:18)

ozitraveller · 2017-06-07 01:23:09

Are there any error messages in sessionerrors?

johnraff · 2017-06-07 02:19:52

Hi MsMattie, also:
1) Have a look at ~/.cache/bunsen-welcome/bl-welcome.log
2) Run

bash -x /usr/bin/bl-welcome

and post back what you find.

MsMattie · 2017-06-07 03:29:06

I've been trying to think of when I installed BL on this machine and it may have been when I had no online access and just installed from the iso and bypassed the online updates at that time. Which may have been what led to this problem. Anyway, the results of

$ bash -x /usr/bin/bl-welcome

is below:

mattie@X200:~$ bash -x /usr/bin/bl-welcome
+ set -o nounset
+ TEXTDOMAIN=bl-welcome
+ BL_COMMON_LIBDIR=/usr/lib/bunsen/common
+ BL_WELCOME_LIBDIR=/usr/lib/bunsen/welcome
+ . /usr/lib/bunsen/common/bl-include.cfg
+ default_mirror=http://deb.debian.org/debian
+ mirror_regex='http://([[:alnum:]_-]+\.)+[[:alnum:]]+(/[[:alnum:]._-]+)*/?'
+ log_dir=/home/mattie/.cache/bunsen-welcome
+ mkdir -p /home/mattie/.cache/bunsen-welcome
+ logfile=/home/mattie/.cache/bunsen-welcome/bl-welcome.log
+ STEPS_BASIC=('check-repos' 'apt-update' 'apt-upgrade' 'system-tweaks' 'deuterium-tweaks' 'install-images-extra' 'install-java-packages' 'add-debian-backports' 'add-bunsen-backports' 'install-flashplugin' 'devel')
+ STEPS_DEVEL=('devel-install-version-control-tools' 'devel-install-lamp-stack' 'devel-install-packaging-tools')
+ [[ -d /lib/live ]]
+ exit 0
mattie@X200:~$

johnraff · 2017-06-07 04:14:35

Is this a live session? The existence of /lib/live is a test that the script uses, because normally it's only present in live sessions. bl-welcome should not be run live.

If it's an installed system then you can safely remove /lib/live, and bl-welcome should run.

ozitraveller · 2017-06-07 04:30:07

Yes I agree with john, in fact, I remember there used to be a message to that effect if the user tried to run it in live. I know that my scripts still have the message.

Ozi

MsMattie · 2017-06-07 14:12:14

This works after taking out the "live" folder. Thanks to johnraff and ozitraveller. I would never have figured that out.

What's funny is that I wanted the bl-welcome to put printer support in, not realizing that printers had been taken out of the bl-welcome and put into the pipe menues.

johnraff · 2017-06-08 01:20:17

btw I wonder why /lib/live was there. Did you do some unusual install?

MsMattie · 2017-06-09 19:19:14

I can't remember for certain but I think this laptop was one I was preparing as a secondary backup and when I installed BunsenLabs on it. At that time, I didn't have internet access. So, I just installed from the usb .iso and then bypassed the online bl-welcome at that time. The result seems to be above, where the "live" folder was on the SSD. I'm not positive this is what happened, but if that is what happened, it should be possible to duplicate it.

On the other hand, few people probably install without internet access, so maybe it isn't necessary to correct it.

johnraff · 2017-06-10 00:47:08

OK, for now let's wait and see if anyone else reports the same problem.

ozitraveller · 2017-06-10 06:34:54

I've not seen this happen before on an installed system. Curious.

DeepDayze · 2017-06-10 14:50:17

Maybe it's a bug....errr feature

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