Some notes so far: after a few false tries, I’ve managed to do a suitable partial upgrade (sans those tss-related files), and when that failed the boot again, I used an earlier boot partition image that I wrote on top of the created failing one. At least most of my byz is now backported - looks nice (gain, thanks @galilley). I still have a group of 50 various files to upgrade (doing it a few at a time - synaptic has helped [works from terminal via sudo -E synaptic]) but so far so good - any setbacks and I can always return to previous working state with disc images. Still unclear why this happened, though (haven’t looked into it that much).
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Seems like re-writing the boot partition is valid workaround (needed again, but all loaded).
In other news, millipixels update won’t install due to unmet dependency: libcamera0.3 (>= 0.3.2). @galilley can that be added to your repo?
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Hi, so I have installed everything awhile ago after many tries. Question to ask, should I comment out the repo in the source.list? Or keep it there for apt update?
Also, is there anyway to disable the transparent background on phosh in this backports? Thanks
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I do not know… You can keep it for further updates.
I believe @guido.gunther can give an advice about transparent background 
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The transparent background is very annoying and visual disturbing when we do the multi tasking on the phosh. The pmos version phone is also the lastest without the transparent background.
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For phosh and backgrounds, start a new thread. Also see, if you get any hints from old threads, like: TUTORIAL: Add a Custom Background in Phosh and Phosh User Customizations
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Fixed! Thanks for reporting 
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Just add fresh Clapper and Livi.
The first one works pretty good (with HW decoding).
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Unrelated to those players, I noticed I don’t have video streaming or audio working. I tried installing some additional files/codecs and got streaming video to work, but if I unmute it, it stops. Audio test is also not heard. Same with headphones and normal stereo. Could someone verify either that they have similar issue, or preferably, that they have video and sound working in backports and can provide a list of their installed pulseaudio and pipewire files here (just to check if my install is missing something).
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Just to check, did you reconfigure wireplumber to be used for video-only?
Please see No Sound section in the readme.
Which kind of streaming video you try to watch? Could you provide the link and the way how you play it so I could check?
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I’ll check those [d’oh, right, I forgot about the notes on sound]. Even just normal youtube failed.
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Nope, no help. No sound from anywhere (that video thing is probably just a bonus). Irritating.
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youtube works well for me (in Chromium). Calls and music too… Are you sure that apt dist-upgrade finished without issues?
You could check the status of pulse-audio:
$ systemctl --user status pulseaudio
And look to the logs to find the reason.
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Ay, seems a dive into those is needed. I was hoping I could avoid that…
Just looking for “error” gave nothing that seemed sound related, just some kernel, bluetooth and sqeekboard stuff. Apparently from jounalctl, we find that pulseaudio has “Failed to create sink input: sink is suspended” [maybe BT related - I have BT disabled], alsa has “alsa_card.platform-sound.hdmi lacks speaker and/or earpiece port”, “error opening hctl device”, “unmet condition check (ConditionPathExists=/etc/alsa/state-daemon.conf)”, “kernel: alsactl … called without MFD_EXEC of MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL set”, “process ‘/user/sbin/alsactl -E HOME=/run/alsa -E XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/alsa/runtime restore 1’ failed with exitcode”, and nothing iteresting from pipewire.
“Vlc” shows “unknown libva error”, “Extension “DRi2” missing” and “vaInitialize: operation failed”.
Can you or someone do sudo journalctl |grep "<something>" on yours to see, which ones you don’t have, just to rule some of them out before digging in deeper.
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hi, I lost the track here. what kinda of issues that you guys are on? i installed long the backports long time ago and you helped me make almost everything works now except a bit of laggy:D
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My installation has been singularly difficult and abnormal from others. At the moment all byz-backports have installed without warnings but for some reason there is no sound (and as a bonus video isn’t working if unmuted). Journalctl has various errors and fails but it’s hard to tell which are relevant and relevant to this issue.
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I also spend almost 3 weeks to make whole thing work(missing the kbd package). I got no sound issue too later after that, but I ran the second command that Galliley’s no soudn commands first
, then I re run the 3 commands. It worked.
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Question, is the flickering issue in the backports the version issue or just the byzamtium not run the higher version well?
Also, is there anyway to only install Phosh-Osk-stub?
Thanks.
Really hard to understand your situation…
Could you check systemctl status and look for failed units like systemctl | grep failed. Next you can inspect the reasons of an each particular unit by systemctl status <unit-name>.
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Do you mean flickering when you scroll the list of applications? As far as I noticed it appears in Buzantium together with bakcports. So, it must be related to some libs like gtk-3… The same effect I observe in ALT Mobile. Purism could apply some patches to avoid it.
That is more interesting - Crimson backports do not affected yet and work smoothly!
It is hardly possible in Byzantium as far as a lot of core libs must be upgraded together. I think Crimson backports will be much more flexible.
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