I have been using Blufin (stable channel) for few mounts without any issue. Today I decided to wipe out disk and install Blufin LTS to get even more stable environment for long term.
In Blufin LTS installer I selected keyboard to my native language. Then changed timezone to my timezone and Next and installer crashed. Did it again but this time selected everything default and installation was successful.
Interesting installer asks for keyboard, but after installation it does not remember keyboard selection, it just asks again. The same for time zone. I assume keyboard selection is there if disk encryption is selected (I did not), but probably no need for timezone selection at before reboot installer to ask.
Before I have installed Blufin LTS, in Blufin/stable I had copied my files to external USB disk. Now in Blufin LTS I would like to get data back from external USB disk, but to my surprise external disk is not recognized. In Files program I get:
Like I understand filesystem is not recognized by kernel. I donāt know if this is bug or intentional non-support.
I canāt do without this external USB disk, because I do the backups on it. This is the first OS that has issues with my USB external disk, and I have installed many OS-es (Windows and Linux distros) and all perfectly well worked with it (including Blufin/stable).
It looks like I will need to wipe out Blufin LTSā¦ and do something else.
Clicking on āReport issueā and Red Hat web page appears with user id and password to open. It looks like I am required to have Red Hat account or something. I donāt want to go through yet another bug tracker sign in etc. And does our installer issues belongs to Red Hat bug tracker in the first place?
Now I downloaded Blufin (stable channel) and installed it. Interesting after install finished it displayed to reboot to use it. I clicked on top-right and only Log-off was available. Then what ever icon I clicked on bottom to launch application nothing happened (no app launched). I was trying to launch Terminal and use reboot command, but couldnāt. To work around this issue I have hard power-off the button and again to power on machine and Blufin started successfully.
It would be nice installer at the last step to actually display āRebootā button, so user can just click and reboot.
I have noticed during boot that Blufin image 20250824 is starting up. Which is like almost a month old. I started terminal and: ujust update and I see new image is being downloaded. Interesting, I expected latest ISO to be available for download.
I inserted USB external disk and it is perfectly recognized and working without issue.
Now I just need to reinstall all of the apps from flatpak and Gnome extensions, copy files backā¦ it will take a while to set it up again, but at least Blufin-stable is working fine on my laptop again (unlike Blufin LTS).
Probably this is what we can expect to happen when there is not a lof of users using Blufin or Blufin LTS and plenty of bugs are not yet recognized and fixed. Most of them are probably not specific for Blufin and are upstream bugsā¦ but what ever, I am stuck at finding work-arounds for them.
LTS is pretty new. I would report your problems with your language settings.
As I understand, there is a default CentOS kernel with limited extras. You are trying to use a disk formatted in NTFS, probably formatted by Microsoft Windows. Maybe the default CentOS kernel doesnāt support this? I didnāt check the docs, but that would be a good addition, if thatās the case.
Live images arenāt generated every week, so it could be that you install an older image. However, auto-update is on, so that after reboot you will receive the latest version in the background (or you can trigger it if you are impatient ).
Yes. I need this USB disk with Windows machines too.
I downloaded it from official web page. It is strange, because @j0rge wrote on announcement post, that image was updated on Tuesday. I manually updated it āujust updateā and reboot, but problems remained.
Yes, above bug report looks like the same issue as mine (on Blufin LTS). It looks like I was too early to the party, I should wait couple of weeks at least before changing back to Blufin LTS.
I tried Blufin-stable installed today and I canāt make it to crash. Looks like Blufin LTS has something different then Blufin-stable installer. I at least remember there was Timezone selection, that is not present in Blufin-stable (and there is probably no need at all to have it at this early stage, because Timezone question is asked again after installer finishes and reboots).
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As I remember yesterday (Blufin LTS) I have just changed keyboard so my native keyboard and changed timezone and installer crashed. It should probably pretty simple to reproduce the crash.
Why does Blufin LTS and Blufin-stable use different install options? Is there really a need for it?
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