Help needed for testing GhostBSD 26.2

ericbsd

I need help testing the changes coming in GhostBSD 26.2. Here is what has been done so far. The ISOs can be downloaded from here.

What has been done so far

Installer (gbi + pc-sysinstall)

Reworked ZFS configuration page with a cleaner two-column layout
Fixed GELI disk encryption with swap. Encrypted swap is now tied to disk encryption instead of a separate checkbox.
Fixed GELI initialization to use proper AES-XTS cipher, 256-bit key, and 4096-byte sector size matching FreeBSD defaults
Fixed encrypted swap fstab entries so the kernel creates a one-time GELI provider at boot
Pool layout options simplified to stripe, mirror, raidz1, raidz2, raidz3

GPU driver support (xconfig)

Added NVIDIA 580 driver detection and installation
Removed NVIDIA 304 legacy driver support (end of life)
Updated AMD RADEON device IDs for improved GPU compatibility

Build system (ghostbsd-build)

Removed nvidia-driver-304 and nvidia-driver-devel from X driver downloads

LLVM shared libraries (ghostbsd-ports)

Split LLVM shared libraries into lightweight -libs subpackages (llvm15-libs through llvm22-libs)
Reduced ISO size by _320MB. Runtime consumers now pull only .so files instead of the full LLVM installation.

What to test

Fresh installation with and without GELI disk encryption
GPU detection and driver setup (NVIDIA and old AMD RADEON)
General desktop usage and application stability
Report any software that does not work properly since the LLVM shared library split is an intrusive change

The repository has a small amount of packages so builds take less time and we can test faster. The list of packages can be found here.

Please report any issues at ghostbsd/issuesissues/new/choose. Thank you for helping make GhostBSD better!

tsesani

Legacy bios - AMD Palm - No Encrypt - WaterFox installed
Started all menu items at one time - no cores
.xsession-errors
LibGTop-Server(c=1988): [WARNING] ioctl(SIOCGIFMEDIA): Invalid argument
See Image for _growisofs error setting up zsh

tsesani

tsesani Regular expressions in Pluma and Mousepad search and replace do not seem to work

Could not do pkg install -y * or escape it to install all pkgs at once.

SteveM

I'm getting the same issue with GhostBSD-26.2-R15.1a2-05-05-16.iso, the MATE OEM version, and the XFCE version. Right as the GUI launches the mouse cursor appears in the center of the screen and a white rectangle in the top left corner, possibly an XTERM prompt indicator. All black otherwise and unresponsive.

On the terminal I can see Xlibre start up then startxfce4 complains that an X server is already running on display 0, and then xfwm4 warning that another compositing manager is running on screen 0. The only errors in Xorg.0.log are related to failing to load module "intel" and "scfb". I'm thinking the intel module might be needed to run the integrated graphics?

This is on a 2012 MacBook Pro which I have previously been able to install the Gershwin build on

tsesani

Created ticket ghostbsd/issues371

me12345

I did sudo pkg update;sudo pkg upgrade
GhostBSD 26.2-R15.1a2 is working great on my laptops though I switched to xorg last round of isos.
I should have time to try a new iso with Xlibre this weekend.