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Could be a firewall issue, please see here for the networking options https://porteus-kiosk.org/parameters.ht ... k_settings.

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28 Apr 2020, 16:30

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At least now I know why I could not change it (the 'edit' button was missing).

I'm not sure if this is a good idea. Anyway - good to know. Well, the problem when trying to debug this is that Porteus Kiosk runs almost completely from RAM (except the persistent partition), so there are no shutdown logs to check for a possible reason why the reboot does not work. Or is there an ...

@fanthom: Sorry, could not find how to edit the post topic to add [Solved] at the start of the subject line - how do I do that?
On the other hand - this solves _only_ the problem of non-rebooting, not the complete Burn kiosk ISO and reboot.

Today I found a way to reboot the ASLAN-W719 platform (using Kiosk 5.x). It is a little weird, because everything else - reboot, reboot -f, init 6 - did NOT work. This finally did the trick: /etc/rc.d/rc.6 Even weirder: the rc.6 script does a lot of cleanup and uses 'reboot' at the end... Added: Fun...

If you have SSH access and enough memory on the kiosk systems, you can use the wizard to build a new (properly configured) Porteus Kiosk ISO (works also in a VM), copy the new ISO image via scp onto the target, and then use 'dd' to manually replace the existing installation on the target HDD/SDD. Re...

Hi Paul,

Can you boot Ubuntu 19.04, or some other Linux distribution?
If these also fail, it could be a hardware problem.

BR-Hagen

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Hm... I need to check if the platform boots, when writing a new ISO image via SSH from within a running PK instance. :-) Verified: this works: copy a new ISO image with scp into /root (= in RAM) use 'dd' to write it into the boot device (e.g., /dev/sda) Nice! Saves a few steps during development. :...

The solution is to download a fresh porteus-kiosk 4.9.0 ISO file. (The ISO file was replaced with a patched/fixed build around 2019-11-01.)

Hello fanthom, Interesting detail, thanks for letting me know! (So it's not a 'sync' issue, e.g. when using 'cat' instead of 'dd'.) Sorry, shipping a device is not an option. From our tests I know for sure that Ubuntu 18.x works fine on the DFI-AL051. As I am not at work at the moment, earliest Mond...

Many thanks!

Some time after installing Porteus-Kiosk 4.9.0 with Chrome (--kiosk-mode) on a kiosk system, while running our web application, the browser pops up a little window with Can't update Chrome Chrome couldn't update to the latest version, so you're missing out on new features and security fixes. [Reinst...

With Porteus-Kiosk 4.9.0, the built-in "Burn kiosk ISO on selected device" succeeds, but then the kiosk device does not boot. Affected kiosk systems (x86_64 with touchscreen): ASLAN-W719 device (configured for legacy boot) DFI-AL051 (EFI configuration). This works: "Save kiosk ISO on removable devic...