BitJam
It seems likely that I had the savestate messed up somehow. I’ll probably never know for sure what I did but it seems to have worked itself out.
I agree with you. The symptom you had would be explained by having savestate disabled but persistence enabled. Since “savestate” and “nosavestate” are both sticky, it is easy to disable this feature and not notice until you get a problem like the one you originally described.
I strongly disagree with what noClue said. It might be true for most live systems but I don’t think it applies to ours. A number of people use our live system with persistence as their main system. Some people use it as their only system. Our lead developer does his development on our live system with persistence. He has been doing this for many years. The savestate feature was designed to let one live-usb work with persistence on different hardware systems. And as you have probably seen, it is really easy for the user to program which files get saved and which get saved on a machine by machine basis in case we missed something.
Over on the MX forums we are using some of the special features of our live system to help someone debug a hardware/kernel issue (I think) that prevents them from installing. We recently won an award for having the very best Linux live-usb system. Several people who had been running Knoppix for years changed to using our live system with persistence because it was more stable and worked better. They’ve been amazed by the stability. You can find at a little more about our live system from this article: The Most Extensive Live-usb on the Planet!
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