live-config's openssh-server component rewrites sshd_config to
"PasswordAuthentication no" on every live boot, so the live session only
accepted SSH keys. An sshd_config.d drop-in sets it back to yes; sshd uses
the first value it reads and sshd_config includes the drop-ins first, so the
drop-in wins. The login is user / live (live-config's default), now noted
in INSTALL.md. check-iso.sh fails the build if the drop-in is missing.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
All three build targets move from Debian 12/bookworm to Debian 13/trixie
for fresh installs; existing Debian 12 systems remain supported in place.
Docker: api/help on python:3.13-trixie, controller on 3.13-slim-trixie,
app on node:20-trixie (matches trixie's nodejs 20), samba/zim on
debian:13. Full backend suite passes on Python 3.13 in the api container.
debian-live-config: --distribution trixie; postgres teardown for the
SQLite cutover (pg_dropcluster hook block removed, wrolpi-bootstrap.sh no
longer creates a cluster or calls the deleted initialize_api_db.sh — the
API creates wrolpi.db itself on first start). README documents the
SQLite layout and drops Etcher recommendations.
pi-gen: upstream has no trixie branch — the arm64 branch now defaults to
RELEASE=trixie; KEYBOARD_KEYMAP=en_US is rejected by trixie's
console-setup (ckbcomp validates), use 'us'; stop stamping a Postgres
.pgpass into /etc/skel.
Package lists (both targets): postgresql-15/postgresql-doc/libpq-dev
deleted; libtiff5-dev renamed to libtiff-dev; software-properties-common
and cpufrequtils removed from trixie (Controller CPU throttle falls back
to sysfs, dead cpufreq-set sudoers rule removed); locales and gnupg added
(no longer arrive transitively under --apt-recommends false); sqlite3 CLI
added for reset_tags.sh.
help.sh: replace the Postgres service/port/socket/cluster/psql checks
(all false FAILEDs after the SQLite cutover) with SQLite checks:
wrolpi.db exists, PRAGMA quick_check, file_group table + row count, run
as the wrolpi user so root never creates the -shm sidecar.
Both build scripts take a WROLPI_BUILD_DIR override so development builds
can run beside the release pipeline's build trees; the sudo re-exec
passes it through explicitly (a plain sudo would drop it).
test_common.py: the truncate tests hard-coded sys.getsizeof results from
the 3.11 object layout (str/list shrank in 3.12); assert the contract
(fits budget, prefix, monotonic in budget) so they pass on 3.11 and 3.13.
Verified: trixie ISO (3.7G) and pi-gen desktop image (4.3G) both built
from scratch and passed their sanity checks.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
wrolpi-bootstrap.service is `WantedBy=multi-user.target` and `Before=`
the wrolpi-api/app/kiwix/controller services, but had no ordering
constraint against lightdm. Systemd was free to start lightdm in
parallel with bootstrap, so XFCE autologin would land before bootstrap
had written /tmp/wrolpi-firstboot-summary.txt — and the
wrolpi-firstboot-notify autostart would fire, find no summary, and
exit silently.
On the live test this manifested as the user seeing the desktop come
up immediately but never seeing the welcome zenity dialog. The notify
script's own log confirmed the timing race:
===== Mon May 25 08:01:46 PM UTC 2026 invoked ... =====
no summary file at /tmp/wrolpi-firstboot-summary.txt — nothing to do
bootstrap was still in the middle of `pg_createcluster` at 20:01:46
and didn't write the summary file until ~20:01:48.
Adding `Before=display-manager.service lightdm.service` makes systemd
wait for bootstrap to complete before bringing up the display manager.
Tested live by logging out + back in on the running ISO (re-firing
autostart with the summary already in place) — the zenity dialog
appeared.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Five Type=Link launchers drop on /home/wrolpi/Desktop/ via the chroot
hook:
WROLPi https://localhost/ /opt/wrolpi/icon.png
WROLPi Controller https://localhost/controller/ controller-logo.png
WROLPi Help https://localhost:8086/ help-browser (icon theme)
Kiwix Library https://localhost:8085/ accessories-dictionary
WROLPi Files file:///media/wrolpi/ folder
All HTTPS URLs land on Caddy on localhost; the file:// URL is
dispatched via xdg-open to Thunar.
XFCE Bookworm rejects any .desktop file in $HOME/Desktop without
metadata::trusted set, even for Type=Link entries (verified live). So
this also restores the trust autostart we previously had for the now-
removed Calamares icon — generalised to walk every *.desktop in
$HOME/Desktop and stamp the trust metadata on each, every session
start. Idempotent; gio set is a no-op when values already match.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The original wrolpi-firstboot-notify.desktop was XDG-valid (per
`desktop-file-validate`) but xfce4-session would not pick it up: zero
log entries on first boot, no zenity dialog, no process spawned.
Bringing the file in line with the upstream autostart entries that we
saw working (nm-applet, xfce4-notifyd, etc.) fixes it. The likely
required field is one of `TryExec=` / `Icon=` / `Categories=` —
desktop-file-validate didn't flag the absence of any of them, but
adding them as a set makes the autostart fire.
Also instruments the notify script: it now writes a one-line log entry
to /tmp/wrolpi-firstboot-notify.log on every invocation so a future
"didn't see the dialog" report has a smoking gun.
And the rm of the (root-owned) summary file now tries via sudo first.
/tmp's sticky bit prevented the unprivileged user from removing a
root-owned file — left a stale summary that would re-trigger the
dialog on a subsequent login.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Splash:
Shifted the logo + text block up by half a logo-height. GRUB's menu
renders centred over the splash; the previous placement put the icon
directly behind the menu entries.
First-boot summary:
wrolpi-bootstrap.sh now accumulates a short list of notable actions
(partition created, Postgres cluster set up, DB initialised) and
writes them to /tmp/wrolpi-firstboot-summary.txt. A new XDG autostart
(wrolpi-firstboot-notify) reads that file once XFCE comes up and shows
a zenity dialog telling the user what just happened — answering the
"wait, what did this thing just do to my USB drive?" question.
Subsequent boots where the bootstrap is a no-op write no summary file,
so the dialog only appears the boot it actually matters. /tmp is tmpfs,
so the file is also naturally per-boot.
Adds zenity to the package list (not pulled by --apt-recommends false).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Calamares desktop-icon path doesn't launch reliably in our wrolpi
auto-login session. We chased two stacks of fixes — gvfs + tumbler
for xfdesktop's launch path, lxpolkit for pkexec's GUI auth agent,
metadata::trusted + xfce-exe-checksum for XFCE's untrusted-launcher
check — and the icon still does nothing when double-clicked on a fresh
boot. The upstream Debian Installer reached via GRUB has none of these
problems and is the better-tested path for installing onto disk.
build.sh adds:
--debian-installer live live-installer copies the squashfs
onto the target instead of doing a
network re-install
--debian-installer-gui true graphical d-i frontend available
GRUB will now show Live / Install / Graphical Install / Advanced
entries; the user picks at boot.
Drops:
- calamares + calamares-settings-debian from the package list
- /etc/calamares/branding/wrolpi/ + settings.conf + modules
- The install-wrolpi.desktop launcher + the trust autostart we shipped
to try to make it click-able
Net ISO size will drop ~50-100 MB (Calamares + Qt5).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three classes of UX gaps surfaced when test-booting the previous build:
Audio silent.
--apt-recommends false stripped task-xfce-desktop's recommend chain,
which is what normally pulls the PulseAudio server. We only had the
panel plugin + client libs. Adding pulseaudio + pulseaudio-utils +
pavucontrol + alsa-utils explicitly.
No WiFi UI.
NetworkManager daemon was running and could see the radio, but
network-manager-gnome (nm-applet) wasn't pulled by recommends either.
Adding it explicitly.
Desktop "Install WROLPi" icon does nothing.
Two missing pieces stacked: (a) xfdesktop's launch path needs gvfs
(for metadata::trusted) and tumbler (thumbnail dispatch raises a
GLib critical without it). (b) Even when xfdesktop dispatches, pkexec
can't authenticate without a registered GUI polkit agent — task-xfce-
desktop's recommend chain would have provided one, but it didn't, so
pkexec falls back to a TTY agent that fails in a Thunar-spawned
process (no /dev/tty). Adding gvfs, lxpolkit, tumbler. Rewrites
the desktop launcher as Type=Link (skips the executable-trust check
entirely) and ships a session autostart that gio-sets
metadata::trusted + metadata::xfce-exe-checksum so xfdesktop accepts
user-owned .desktop files.
Also fixes a Calamares FATAL on boot: branding.desc requires a slideshow
key even when there's no real slideshow content; ships a minimal show.qml
that just renders the WROLPi logo + a welcome line.
Also adds xfce4-notifyd and xfce4-power-manager to desktop.list.chroot —
not directly tied to the three issues above, but obvious omissions from
the same recommend-stripped XFCE install.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The installer now identifies as WROLPi rather than Debian: product name,
sidebar logo (the wifi-pie favicon from /icon.png), bootloader entry name,
and URLs all point at WROLPi. Sidebar colors are WROLPi purple.
Three new files under etc/calamares/:
- branding/wrolpi/branding.desc — product strings + image + color scheme
- branding/wrolpi/wrolpi-logo.png — copy of the project favicon
- settings.conf — override picks branding=wrolpi and adds
shellprocess to the exec sequence
- modules/shellprocess.conf — rm /home/wrolpi/Desktop/install-wrolpi.desktop
on the target so the installed system
doesn't ship with a broken icon
Slideshow QML is intentionally omitted: producing our own QML/asset pack
is deferred polish. Calamares falls back to a static welcome screen.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two parallel live-build configs (debian-live-config/ for the installer
ISO and wrolpi-portable/ for the Live USB) carry the same chroot hook
with subtly different fixes — the portable side had accumulated the
better implementation (npm build, SHA-pinned blobs, dynamic Postgres
version, partition-by-start-sector, controller.yaml sentinel, autologin,
branding). This commit folds those improvements into debian-live-config/
and retires wrolpi-portable/.
The Postgres data + config directories now bind-mount to
/media/wrolpi/config/postgresql/{data,config} regardless of deployment
shape (Live USB, Calamares-installed system with external drive,
Calamares-installed system with no external drive). Result: pulling
a WROLPi external drive from one host and plugging into another
brings the entire indexed library along — no re-indexing. Previously
the DB lived on /mnt/persistence/postgresql-{data,config} on Portable
and on /var/lib/postgresql (root) everywhere else; moving a drive
required rebuilding the DB on the new host.
Single wrolpi-bootstrap.{sh,service} replaces wrolpi-portable-bootstrap.
The script detects deployment by probing for a live-boot medium mount:
present → Live (create persistence partition if missing); absent →
Installed (skip partition step; Postgres bind-mount and cluster init
still run). --debian-installer is dropped from lb config; Calamares
will land in a follow-up commit as the graphical installer.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
