MX Cinnamon respin / remastering not possible

[betazoid]

Hi, I have created a respin with Cinnamon. I have removed XFCE. However, after a modification I wanted to remaster the respin again and got the error message "problem starting mksquashfs. Could not get PID".
Apparently I could execute remaster right after removing XFCE, but not after a reboot. I suspect that some important package was removed with XFCE?
How can this problem be solved?
Thanks in advance for the help
Anna

[dolphin_oracle]

the remaster script throws out that error when it can't find a PID (process ID) for the run-mksquashfs process. that script runs in a terminal called with "x-terminal-emulator".

see if you can run "x-terminal-emulator" and if you get a working terminal. On a basic MX install, that command opens xfce4-terminal.

[dphn]

with Cinnamon DE it's easier you use LMDE3, add MX-repos and install some MX-Tools. It's a systemd system.

Other way is purging xfce, add LMDE3 repos to MX-Linux and install cinnamon, nemo, mint-artwork, mint-x-icons, mint-y-icons, mintsources, mint-mirrors, mint-wallpapers-tara. Have tried this for a while. Looks exactly like Linux Mint, the best cinnamon experience.

For the snapshot packages mx-snapshot, mx-remaster, mx-iso-template, mx-installer must be installed. Other packages are dependencies like squashfs-tools, syslinux, syslinux-utils

[dphn]

with Cinnamon DE it's easier you use LMDE3, add MX-repos and install some MX-Tools. It's a systemd system.

Other way is purging xfce, add LMDE3 repos to MX-Linux and install cinnamon, nemo, mint-artwork, mint-x-icons, mint-y-icons, mint-themes, mint-backgrounds-tara. Have tried this for a while. Looks exactly like Linux Mint, the best cinnamon experience.

For the snapshot packages mx-snapshot, mx-remaster, mx-iso-template, mx-installer must be installed. Other packages are dependencies like squashfs-tools, syslinux, syslinux-utils, xorriso

[betazoid]

Thanks for the answers.
LMDE is not really an option for me because I need the new kernel.
I have also tried to (re-)install the XFCE terminal, but it does not seem to help.
I will try that other way though, I think - adding the Mint Debian repos.

[dolphin_oracle]

well, I didn't say to reinstall the xfce4-terminal, I said to check and see if x-terminal-emulator gets you a terminal. its different. and with the adding and subtracting of software, its very possible that the x-terminal-emulator is pointed at the wrong terminal, and that likely won't change when adding other sources.

you can also check with the "alternatives-configuration" in the menu, if its still install.

[rasat]

I had same problem with Gnome respin (without Xfce). Try the command line instead of MX Snapshot icon.

su-to-root -X -c mx-snapshot

[betazoid]

well x-terminal-emulator calls up the gnome terminal, this is also the (only) choice that is shown in alternatives-configuration unter x-terminal-emulator

@rasat: I do not understand. the problem is not snapshot but remaster.

btw: how do I add the LMDE repo to MX?

[dolphin_oracle]

ok, now make sure that squashfs-tools is still installed.

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apt-cache policy squashfs-tools

[betazoid]

squashfs-tools is installed