4.3 Beta 1 -- bugs and reports

[GrumpyWolfe]

Hi All
I was just about to say I have a bug then read the post about incompatible sfs's. But did not think that was going to affect the save files. At one time I think I remember puppylinux offering to upgrade a save file or something like that. If I was to rename it to the new name system would it then offer to convert it.

Just curies

[Sylvander]

1. Began installing packages:
fox-1.6.31
xfe-1.19.2
firefox-3.5
wine-1.0
htop-0.8.1
nmap-4.76
All OK up to here.

2. Tried to install:
(a) captura.pup
Was warned I needed to install:
dotpuphandler
puppybasic
Using the Puppy Package Manager.

(b) Could only find in "puppy-3->Setup":
dotpup_downloader-05d-mu

(c) Installed that, and it was reported there were no missing dependencies, but still any attempt to open captura.pup resulted in the same warning as 2a above.

3. How should I install pup files?

[Fox7777]

Puppy Linux has so far been the Linux distro of choice on older or lower capacity computers because it is small and fast but the black screen of death when the power is suddenly interrupted, etc. has been a problem because of the support calls we get. We do need the black screen bugfix incorporated into future Puppy releases.

[8-bit]

Sylander,

As a work around to install a pup package, use these steps.
(1) Make a new directory in /
(2) copy the pup package to that directory and rename with ext of zip
(3) Click on the renamed package and extract all files.
(4) Run the script file that is included.
(5) Delete the directory you created.
Run Refresh Menus or restart x to get menu entry if included.

Hope that helps.

[Jim1911]

1. 4.3 beta recognizes, mounts and can read/write to ext4 partitions.
2. Gparted 0.4.5 successfully resized a large ext3 partition and created an ext4 partition on the freed space.
3. A frugal installation on that ext4 partition results in a grub error which prevents it from running.

Other observations:
1. Tried unsuccessfully to install these .pets from the official repository. They appeared to install and were listed in the menu, but would not run due to many missing dependencies.
gnome-games-Lite_2.26.1-i486-uj
pidgin-2.4.1
gimp-2.6.6-i486-uj
gimp-2.4.0-rc3
2. Successfully installed:
gtk_theme_stardust_zigbert-0.5
galculator-1.3.1

Please consider for 4.3 and woof:
1. Updating initrd.gz so that a frugal installation will work on ext4.
2. Providing an option to create ext3 and ext4 pup_save files.

[Lobster]

Instead of using the unversal installer to create a Puppy USB flash drive (did not work first time) I decided to use the 'Bootflash Install', which seemed easier and worked first time.
So was able to boot straight into Puppy 4.3 Beta on my Asus netbook.
So that was good
but could not connect to the net with WPA2 encryption (I think it is still not supported?)

[gposil]

From the ext4 wiki....

Booting from an ext4 filesystem

Right now there's not a stable version of grub that supports booting a kernel from a ext4 partition. It's recommended that you keep /boot in a ext3 partition.

Preliminary ext4 support seems to have been added to the 1.97 version of the GRUB2 development branch.

There's also a Google Summer of Code project (from opensuse) which seem to have developed ext4 grub support. Both projects -GRUB2 and the GSoC projects- seem (sadly) to be different efforts.

The grub package in Ubuntu 9.04 and later includes a patch to support booting from ext4 filesystems

The ubuntu patch is still a bit hit and miss.

[playdayz]

Grub bootloader config is not creating a menu.lst file. It does create /boot/grub in the partition I enter (dev/sda1) and all the "stages" are in there but no menu.lst. What I get is the Working, please wait for a much longer time than usual and then no menu.lst.

This is for a frugal install with advanced 2.29 kernel. It happens with both ext4 and ext2. I am using both vmware and virtualbox and it happens with both; it also happened with 4.3prebeta-reloaded.

It is difficult for me to test natively, so perhaps someone could do a frugal install with the advanced kernel and check for menu.lst after running Grub bootloader config--very likely this is a problem with the virtualizers... thanks

[ttuuxxx]

was able to use libflashplayer-10.0.32.18.pet from here (this gives fullscreen youtube)
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/AdobeFlashPlayer Now if I can get Openoffice and xaraLX working, I will be happy . . .

My old SFS for xaraLX and OpenOffice are not showing up in the bootmanager. I seem to remember this is a known bug? I renamed them with OpenOffice310_JRE_lzma_423.sfs (for example) but they are not showing up in the bootmanager. is something amiss?

Lobster just get unsquashfs from series 4 , while running this version, then drop the sfs on-top of the unsquashfs bin and it will extract in root, then rename the folder and make a new sfs.
ttuuxxx

[playdayz]

would it be possible to include libshadowfb.so with the basic Puppy? It is included in xorg_xorg_full (for 4.2.1); it is necessary for the two virtualizers vmware and virtualbox to use their own video drivers. If it is present in /usr/X11R7/lib/xorg/modules then vmware works out of the box with its own vmware_drv (which is included in the basic Puppy). If it is not present then X will not start from xorgwizard because xorgwizard chooses the vmware_drv which will not start without libshadowfb.so. thanks

[ttuuxxx]

would it be possible to include libshadowfb.so with the basic Puppy? It is included in xorg_xorg_full; it is necessary for the two virtualizers vmware and virtualbox to use their own video drivers. If it is present in /usr/X11R7/lib/xorg/modules then vmware works out of the box with its own vmware_drv (which is included in the basic Puppy). thanks

You might want to ask Barry that at his blog also
ttuuxxx

[8-bit]

Hi All
I was just about to say I have a bug then read the post about incompatible sfs's. But did not think that was going to affect the save files. At one time I think I remember puppylinux offering to upgrade a save file or something like that. If I was to rename it to the new name system would it then offer to convert it.

Just curies

Well, I just tried creating a furgal install with the scsi version
I then copied my Puppy 421 save file over and renamed it.
I then booted the frugal install and it tried to update my pupsave.
But....
I ended up with a very unstable os and a black sceen desktop with the puppy taskbar at bottom with menu.
Some applications would not work and others worked ok.
But xorg wizard did not get me a working desktop using xorg and xvesa defaulted to 640x480 with no way to change it.

Also, booting from a burnt cd (md5sum matched), alsa setup said it could not find my pci sound card.
I went ahead and let it do a probe and it set up a sound card, but I got no speaker icon on the taskbar.

Computer used is Compaq Presario with AMD Athalon X2 4800 Duel-Core Processor, 3 gigs of ram, Nvidia GeForce 6150 SE Graphics.

I also tried to udate alsa by downloading and installing the latest ALSA pet file I could find, but still got the same result of no PCI card found.

[Sylvander]

@8-bit
1. "(3) Click on the renamed package and extract all files."
Got the following when I tried to do that:
tar -zxvf '/00/Captura.tgz'
gzip: stdin has more than one entry--rest ignored
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

[8-bit]

PstreamTV is failing to start Gxine.

Ah, Gxine is rolled back to 0.5.9,

Trio's latest is modded to accommodate 0.5.904.

Cheers

########

quick and dirty fix

open /usr/local/pstreamvid/funcions by right clicking and selecting Open As Text

Comment out (place a "#" at start of line) lines 19,20,21,22,25

It should look like the screeny

No Mick, please don't do that, you'll disable the "off" fullscreen. Just delete the --geometry ... 200% , then it should be good. i'll upload v 1.3 in pstreamvid thread to revert back to gxine 0.5.9

thanks

Trio
Try changing /usr/local/pstreamvid/tmp/fullscreen to 'on'
It is set to off by default.
I changed it to on with a text editor, saved it and all worked!

[8-bit]

@8-bit
1. "(3) Click on the renamed package and extract all files."
Got the following when I tried to do that:
tar -zxvf '/00/Captura.tgz'
gzip: stdin has more than one entry--rest ignored
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Ok, I just downloaded and tried that and I see what you mean.
In this case, do my steps in the previous post, but rename the pup file extension to zip. After that you should have it show as a box type icon.
Then extract to a temporary directory and run the dotpup.sh script.
Sorry for the false lead there.

[eztuxer]

Works fine for most as frugal on Futjisu 2.6 GHz with 512 MB ram.
On AAO the microzog wireless mouse works just great of the CD, but is lagging and jerky after full install and USB stick install as well.
USB installed on win 32 partition 2GB.
Big bug, when chosing to save the file, it gets stuck "saving" led blinking forever, cold hard boot mandatory.
On rebooting, it hasn't saved anything.
wifi running but need to refresh twice the scan to see all APs.
This problem wasn't ocuring with 417.
Sound works.
Back at it for more...

[DaveS]

Had to add /lib/firmware/b43/

[exProphecy]

I was just wondering.. does anyone have a screenie of this 4.3b1 theme?

[DaveS]

[DaveS]

Duplicated