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General Support / guidance on auto reset
« on: August 23, 2013, 07:57:56 AM »
Hi,
I've been trying to get auto-reset working (http://wiki.ubermix.org/page/Auto-Reset) with limited success. Maybe I'm not understanding it correctly or maybe the wiki page is out of date, eg: on the wiki it says to edit the line in /boot/grub/grub.cfg that ends with 'splash'. However there is no line that ends that way, but there is one that ends 'splash --no-log vt.handoff=7'
I have appended to that line and it is doing something, but not what I expect.
After booting into 'generic' mode, I've made some software changes/updates and have customized the homescreen and homepages of Firefox and Chrome. If I set the grub.cfg line to 'aufs=restore_home' it keeps all the changes to the UI but does NOT delete some test files I've placed in /home/user. If I set it to 'aufs=restore_both' it wipes out the UI changes and resets the browser homepages. Also, it does remove the test files in /home/user/ and keeps the software changes I've made.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding what is supposed to be happening with those reset modes, but here is what I'm looking to achieve:
Thanks in advance!
I want the system to keep all of my software updates/changes/additions and keep all the UI changes made (browser home pages, custom Favorites screen, etc) but to erase any user files and any other config changes.
I'll note also that I have been making all those changes while booted into 'generic' mode.
I've been trying to get auto-reset working (http://wiki.ubermix.org/page/Auto-Reset) with limited success. Maybe I'm not understanding it correctly or maybe the wiki page is out of date, eg: on the wiki it says to edit the line in /boot/grub/grub.cfg that ends with 'splash'. However there is no line that ends that way, but there is one that ends 'splash --no-log vt.handoff=7'
I have appended to that line and it is doing something, but not what I expect.
After booting into 'generic' mode, I've made some software changes/updates and have customized the homescreen and homepages of Firefox and Chrome. If I set the grub.cfg line to 'aufs=restore_home' it keeps all the changes to the UI but does NOT delete some test files I've placed in /home/user. If I set it to 'aufs=restore_both' it wipes out the UI changes and resets the browser homepages. Also, it does remove the test files in /home/user/ and keeps the software changes I've made.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding what is supposed to be happening with those reset modes, but here is what I'm looking to achieve:
Thanks in advance!
I want the system to keep all of my software updates/changes/additions and keep all the UI changes made (browser home pages, custom Favorites screen, etc) but to erase any user files and any other config changes.
I'll note also that I have been making all those changes while booted into 'generic' mode.