To answer some of your questions, I do experience the same problems in different Moz browsers, whether it's FF (most recent was v12, as the v13 update crashed), FF4.0, Tumucumaque Minefield 4.0.1, or SeaMonkey 2.3.2. I was unaware about the memory leak issue, any way of tightening that up from the u...

I have Wary 5.2 loaded on an eMachine T5048 ( http://reviews.cnet.com/desktops/emachines-t5048/4507-3118_7-32081796.html ) which is an admittedly poor machine. I got it for free, and all things considered, it's been okay. I use it primarily for email and web browsing, but the performance is deeply i...

Well, back on the HD, everything back to normal (so far). On previous attempts, I had typed "puppy pfix=ram", or "puppy pfix=fsck", but for some reason it would boot Puppy and load the savefile onto the HD, rendering it un-umountable, then load Xwin. I noted when I selected F2 fr...

Also, how is it that a WINDOWS emulator recovery disk can repair or recover LINUX files?

I finally figured out that the 'puppy' needs to be inserted at the beginning of the command... not because anyone TOLD me, OH no- that would be too simple. Let the feeb struggle! Wonderful. No, I found it through several hours of 'net searching... apparently it's "understood", whatever tha...

Pence: Okay, I think I get it now. When booting from the CD, I do get two 'help options' - for Basic Help, press F2, for Advanced Help, press F3. This time, I remembered, and hit F3. I did get the option to set the pfix value, but couldn't remember what it was, and for some reason (as noted in my po...

Thanks for the replies. Here's some feedback: Flash: I, too, had searched Murga ad nauseum looking for something specifically related to the use of fsck as regards a crash and booting from a CD, and did not find anything that helped particularly well. I, too, found the 'pfix=fsck' comment, but am at...

Back on using the bootable Wary 5.2 CD. Going to fsck this drive (as soon as I can figure out how to do it safely, that is) and see what I see. Got a series of the same errors while the CD was loading into RAM, but it managed to get past it and load. So, it should just be 'fsck /dev/sda1', correct? ...

Delved a bit into the machine, and discovered a few things: 1) The CDR is toast. The machine recognizes it, but it will not spin up when told to by the hardware. I swapped in a CDRW from our old machine, and it works just fine. 2) I don't know if IDE2 is good; I decided I didn't want to know, I want...

Thanks for all your replies, I really appreciate it! Yes, this is an eMachine, a 5048 in fact. I received it from a friend whose wife was fed up with it occasionally shutting itself off, especially when it finally would do nothing else. Rather than take it to a shop, they gave it to me... and bought...

Last night, we had a power outage, which happens here from time to time. Usually, the computer reboots, runs a disk check, then reboots again. This time, not so much. It ran a disk check, rebooted, and then upon attempting to load Linux (GRUB did come up), I get the following error repeating over an...

Thanks to all for your help. Yes, I'm running a swap file for my browser, as I only have 512M RAM (remembering with chagrin the first 1MB I bought, in 256k SIMMS... cost me almost $100!). I'll run the Video wizard, and if that doesn't work, I'll check in safe mode. I'll upgrade to the newer Wary as ...

Apropos of absolutely nothing, the printer is refusing to cooperate again. It HAD been working, but now when I select File-> Print... or hit CTRL-P, I get the print options window, hit "Print", I get the "Printing xxx..." progress window, and... nothing. I've tried reinstalling t...

Not tried the video upgrade wizard, not tried a later build.

"some sort of swap"?

Wary Puppy 5.0.3, installed on the HD of an eMachine T5048. P4-3.06GHz, 512MB RAM, all periphs onboard. (I really ought to get a dedicated video card and some more memory...) I finally discovered the root of a problem I've been having recently, wherein I will open a page in Firefox (v13, but ver has...

That's got it, I just printed off the first page of this thread to test. Thank you again ever so much... I really would like to learn how to do such things, but I'm no programmer, and I just need the blasted thing to do what I tell it! Your expertise is much appreciated.

My wife just asked me to print a page from our bank account, and the computer woke up the printer, but didn't send the job. A check on CUPS said, "PDFTOPS FAILED". (running Firefox 11)

I managed to save the page as a text file, and that printed out just fine.

Any suggestions?

That's got it exactly, thank you again! Off and printing...

I went back into CUPS and nosed around, found the logs, and cracked open the error and access logs. Since I still don't know how to give you a screenshot, here's a clipping from my error log, just the last couple jobs (Geany and AbiWord): I [22/Apr/2012:19:08:58 -0500] [Job ???] Request file type is...

rcrsn51, You're a prince. I had to delete the other installed instances of the printer, then shut off and restart CUPS and re-find the printer. I did get the test page out! However, I cannot print from either Geany or AbiWord. (the latter always makes me think of Marty Feldman saying, "Abby... ...