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release SPS RobertFlexx

SPS Linux live 2026-08-31-9

SPS Linux live images for 2026-08-31-9. Use these instead of -8. Plasma on -8 loaded GPU modules, then died with `error starting process "kwin_wayland_wrapper"` and `Failed to create wl_display`. No compositor means no window. What changed: - Copy `/usr/bin/kwin_wayland_wrapper`. startplasma looks it up on PATH to open the Wayland socket; kwin_wayland alone is not enough. - Copy libxcb-cursor so the xcb Qt plugin can load if Wayland is down. - Copy xdg-permission-store so xdg-desktop-portal can start. - Symlink `qdbus` to qdbus6 when the host only ships qdbus6. Assets: - sps-live-tty.iso — console live image with recipes and a compiler - sps-live-tty-slim.iso — small console image; setup needs the network - sps-live-plasma.iso — Plasma/Wayland live session (Konsole -> setup) Checksums are in SHA256SUMS. 8c60b572e31e95a96248715e1256b31ecb9ce6fa82c4b5b500af11f276a2dad1 sps-live-tty.

release SPS RobertFlexx

SPS Linux live 2026-08-31-8

SPS Linux live images for 2026-08-31-8. Use these instead of -7. A TTY Plasma install on -7 died with `systemd conflicts with elogind (both in this transaction)` because polkit still hard-depended elogind. The Plasma live session on -7 got past D-Bus and then died with `Failed to create wl_display`. What changed: - polkit optional systemd/elogind (sps-extra). OpenRC still gets elogind from init-openrc. systemd Plasma installs no longer pull both. - Live Plasma no longer sets QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland, so KWin can create the compositor instead of connecting to a missing socket. - live-rc loads virtio_gpu, qxl, cirrus_qemu, bochs, and related DRM modules. The session waits for /dev/dri/card0. - Mesa libgallium/libEGL_mesa, fontconfig, DejaVu, KWin data, udev DRM rules, and xdg-desktop-portal land on the Plasma disc. Assets: - sps-live-tty.iso — console live image with recipes and a c

release SPS RobertFlexx

SPS Linux live 2026-08-31-7

SPS Linux live images for 2026-08-31-7. Use these instead of -6. Guided setup on -6 died after the bootloader screen with `guided partitioning requires --format yes`. Plasma on -6 could lose the system D-Bus when the host `system-local.conf` was copied onto the disc. What changed: - Guided layouts ask to erase the disk in the dialog. Scripts still need `--format yes`. - The bootloader screen can run grub-install after a second confirm on the chosen disk. Notes-only is still the default. - After packages land, known services (SDDM, dbus, sshd, NetworkManager, and others) are enabled for systemd or OpenRC. Pass `--services no` to skip. Installing sddm as an extra enables the matching unit. - Plasma + systemd no longer pulls elogind. - Live Plasma always runs the system bus as root and starts it in sysinit, so a copied host dbus config cannot drop privileges to a missing message

release SPS RobertFlexx

SPS Linux live 2026-08-31-6

Bootable hybrid ISOs for **SPS Linux** (informally Splux). Flash, boot, run `setup`. This set replaces [live-2026-08-31-5](https://github.com/RobertFlexx/SPS/releases/tag/live-2026-08-31-5). **-5** TTY/`setup` printed `no disks found (is lsblk on PATH?)` because this builder ships `lsblk` as `/bin/lsblk` and the ISO only copied `/usr/bin/lsblk`. Every image now copies partition tools by command name (`lsblk`, `sfdisk`, `mkfs.ext4`, `mkfs.vfat`, `mkswap`, `cfdisk`, …). `zsh` is not on the live disc. It is an optional `shells-extra` package after install. Live `/bin/sh` is busybox. QEMU still needs a writable disk besides the CD, for example `-drive file=disk.img,if=virtio`. Guided layouts skip `rom`/`loop` devices. ## Images - **sps-live-tty.iso** (618M) - **sps-live-tty-slim.iso** (36M) - **sps-live-plasma.iso** (1.3G) ## SHA-256 ``` 480e58d1c4d57fd52d6651fe057a8af1fa32d0397c42d0e0e3ff1c

release SPS RobertFlexx

SPS Linux live 2026-08-31-5

Bootable hybrid ISOs for **SPS Linux** (informally Splux). Flash, boot, run `setup`. This set replaces [live-2026-08-31-4](https://github.com/RobertFlexx/SPS/releases/tag/live-2026-08-31-4). TTY and slim images are unchanged; Plasma is rebuilt. Plasma on **-4** reached D-Bus, then died: `org.kde.KSplash.service` runs `/usr/bin/plasma_waitforname`, which was not on the disc (`Failed to execute program org.kde.KSplash`). This image copies `plasma_waitforname`, `ksplashqml`, `plasma_session`, and seeds `/root/.config/kdedefaults`. `org.freedesktop.locale1` is systemd-localed; live PID 1 is busybox, so that log line is expected and not fatal. ## Images - **sps-live-tty.iso** (617M): console install image (same as -4). - **sps-live-tty-slim.iso** (31M): tools only (same as -4). - **sps-live-plasma.iso** (1.3G): host Plasma/Wayland, nouveau, Konsole → `setup`. ## SHA-256 ``` 6d85be2c95f038934c

release SPS RobertFlexx

SPS Linux live 2026-08-31-4

Bootable hybrid ISOs for **SPS Linux** (informally Splux). Flash, boot, run `setup`. SPS the package system is separate from this distro. These images install SPS Linux. An LFS tree can still use `src`/`sget` without this installer. This set replaces [live-2026-08-31-3](https://github.com/RobertFlexx/SPS/releases/tag/live-2026-08-31-3). Live `/bin/sh` is always busybox. Installed Splux still defaults to **systemd**; OpenRC is the other choice. This builder has no systemd binaries, so live PID 1 is busybox init. The squashfs is **zstd**, so the live root mounts in seconds. The old xz image sat on `loop0` while a multi-gigabyte Plasma root decompressed. Plasma starts a UTF-8 session bus (`dbus-run-session -- startplasma-wayland`); the live system bus runs as root because this disc has no `messagebus` account. `setup` copies the bundled `dir` recipe trees from the live image and indexes the