"Testing" Sensei & Sensei64

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stifiling
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#141 Post by stifiling »

meowcats wrote:Sensei files are in /Sensei64/

The light on the drive only turns on when there is activity, it blinks when kernel and initrd load, but then stop after that.

I can even mount the flash drive from the ramdisk prompt too, and am able to access files.
Ok...so it's doing everything but finding the files on the flash drive. and u're using Grub2 still? i'm going to test it with grub2 right now...and see what i come up with.

edit:
it's working fine on mine with grub2 too. my exact menu entry is:

menuentry "Sensei64" {
set root=(hd0,1)
linux /boot/Sensei64/vmlinuz
initrd /boot/Sensei64/initrd.gz
}

stifiling
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#142 Post by stifiling »

i jus reuploaded Sensei64 with the updated initrd.gz. Would be nice if another user could test it on usb...and report if it successfully loaded....or ended with "sfs not found".

i also fixed the kernel panic when loading a save file on usb, added xarchiver, zip, unzip, unrar, pupsaveresize, grub4dos, and makesfs.

i fixed the issue with slim crashing sometimes and not starting X, by removing slim, and using nodm. fixed Frisbee not connecting sometimes after stopping and starting X.

the same changes are also in the Sensei isos.

meowcats
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#143 Post by meowcats »

interestingly when i am at initial ram disk prompt, if I run "~./init" then it finds the sendesk, senapps, sensei64_001.sfs! However after it says "copy to ram" it still leaves me at inital ram disk prompt. :(

stifiling
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#144 Post by stifiling »

meowcats wrote:interestingly when i am at initial ram disk prompt, if I run "~./init" then it finds the sendesk, senapps, sensei64_001.sfs! However after it says "copy to ram" it still leaves me at inital ram disk prompt. :(
does it appear to go through the complete 'usual' boot procedure? loading modules [ok] etc?

if so...did u try startx just to see if it would start...

meowcats
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#145 Post by meowcats »

No, it doesn't get far enough to 'finish' loading, and as far as i can tell, doesn't actually change the file system any.
startx not found ;)

stifiling
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#146 Post by stifiling »

i just uploaded an lxde sendesk for Sensei. For users who may happen to prefer lxde/openbox over xfce. I shrunk the size of the isos about 40 more MB and made some adjustments to keep the different desktops working neatly and without issues. So if you prefer lxde over xfce...delete or backup sendesk-xfce_001.sfs....and replace it with the sendesk-lxde_001.sfs

Also still awaiting feedback on the status of USB booting Sensei64 from another user....is it working ok for you? or are you also getting 'sfs not found'??

efgee
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#147 Post by efgee »

I know you are not waiting for me... anyway, just tried to load Sensei64 from USB-Flash (2GB).
Loads OK but it can't find the sfs file either.

Used UNetbootin to load the ISO to USB.

stifiling
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#148 Post by stifiling »

efgee wrote:I know you are not waiting for me... anyway, just tried to load Sensei64 from USB-Flash (2GB).
Loads OK but it can't find the sfs file either.

Used UNetbootin to load the ISO to USB.
thanks for that efgee. guess that confirms it. i need to try it on some more machines.

r u certain unetbootin pulled the sfs files off the iso and onto the flash drive? do u see senapps or sendesk? when loading?

efgee
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#149 Post by efgee »

stifiling wrote:r u certain unetbootin pulled the sfs files off the iso and onto the flash drive? do u see senapps or sendesk? when loading?
The USB drive has the following files:
boot.cat
initrd.gz
isolinux.bin
menu.c32
senapps64_001.sfs
sendesk64-xfce_001.sfs
sensei64_001.sfs
syslinux.cfg
ubnfilel.txt
ubnpathl.txt
vmlinuz

stifiling
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#150 Post by stifiling »

ok i was able to reproduce this exact same behavior by using a usbhub. FatDog64-521..still booted, but Sensei64...did the exact things mentioned by meowcats and efgee.

I was able to get it to load using this initrd.gz
md5 = 9ec2c52016dcd4ba6d8457b59aba30a8

could you two try this initrd...and see if it works correctly...

efgee
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#151 Post by efgee »

Tried the new initrd.gz file but it stuck on the same error... :cry:

BTW: I don't use a USB-hub it's just a Toshiba laptop.

stifiling
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#152 Post by stifiling »

efgee,

what if from that prompt you run:

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/init
do u then see senapps sendesk and sensei64.sfs copying to ram?

efgee
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#153 Post by efgee »

No.
If I do "/init" the system tries to do the same: load the sensei64_001.sfs file but it doesn't work.
When I do "ls" I only see the files inside the "init" file.

pinguino
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makesfs error

#154 Post by pinguino »

Hi stifiling. Now with new scripts makesfs and arch2sfs opera.sfs was created and loaded ok (had to reboot to refresh menu), but the same errors during the process appears, now this example is with midnight commander:
[root@sensei ~]# pacman -Sy
:: Synchronizing package databases...
sensei 1911.0 B 0.00B/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
archlinuxfr 9.5 KiB 31.2K/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
[root@sensei ~]# makesfs mc
:: Cleaning packages cache
:: Downloading mc
resolving dependencies...

Packages (3): libssh2-1.4.3-1 slang-2.2.4-2 mc-4.8.7-1

Total Download Size: 2.49 MiB

:: Proceed with download? [Y/n] y
:: Retrieving packages ...
libssh2-1.4.3-1-i686 202.1 KiB 29.7K/s 00:07 [######################] 100%
slang-2.2.4-2-i686 851.8 KiB 53.0K/s 00:16 [######################] 100%
mc-4.8.7-1-i686 1497.5 KiB 56.3K/s 00:27 [######################] 100%
(3/3) checking keys in keyring [######################] 100%
(3/3) checking package integrity [######################] 100%
:: Moving packages to /mnt/home/mc
mv: cannot stat '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/epdfview-0.1.8-4-i686.pkg.tar.xz': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/lcms-1.19-2-i686.pkg.tar.xz': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/openjpeg-1.5.0-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/package-query-1.2-2-i686.pkg.tar.xz': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/poppler-0.22.1-3-i686.pkg.tar.xz': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/poppler-glib-0.22.1-3-i686.pkg.tar.xz': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/yajl-2.0.4-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/yaourt-1.3-1-any.pkg.tar.xz': No such file or directory
:: Running script arch2sfs mc.sfs
Extracting:
libssh2-1.4.3-1-i686.pkg.tar.xzusr/share/man/man3/: Failed to set file flags
usr/lib/libssh2.so: Can't create 'usr/lib/libssh2.so'
usr/lib/libssh2.so.1: Can't create 'usr/lib/libssh2.so.1'
bsdtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.

mc-4.8.7-1-i686.pkg.tar.xzusr/bin/mcview: Can't create 'usr/bin/mcview'
usr/bin/mcedit: Can't create 'usr/bin/mcedit'
usr/bin/mcdiff: Can't create 'usr/bin/mcdiff'
bsdtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.

slang-2.2.4-2-i686.pkg.tar.xzusr/lib/libslang.so.2: Can't create 'usr/lib/libslang.so.2'
usr/lib/libslang.so: Can't create 'usr/lib/libslang.so'
bsdtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.


Creating mc.sfs
Parallel mksquashfs: Using 1 processor
Creating 4.0 filesystem on mc.sfs, block size 524288.
[===============================================================\] 550/550 100%
Exportable Squashfs 4.0 filesystem, xz compressed, data block size 524288
compressed data, compressed metadata, compressed fragments, compressed xattrs
duplicates are removed
Filesystem size 2758.91 Kbytes (2.69 Mbytes)
27.71% of uncompressed filesystem size (9957.51 Kbytes)
Inode table size 4814 bytes (4.70 Kbytes)
21.30% of uncompressed inode table size (22598 bytes)
Directory table size 6190 bytes (6.04 Kbytes)
36.86% of uncompressed directory table size (16793 bytes)
Number of duplicate files found 4
Number of inodes 705
Number of files 548
Number of fragments 15
Number of symbolic links 0
Number of device nodes 0
Number of fifo nodes 0
Number of socket nodes 0
Number of directories 157
Number of ids (unique uids + gids) 1
Number of uids 1
root (0)
Number of gids 1
root (0)
mc.sfs is created in /mnt/home and loaded ok.

regards.

moonskin
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#155 Post by moonskin »

While I'm not a beginner as such, I'm certainly not too knowledgeable and I really don't know where to start with this.

I did a manual frugal install of Sensei Full and so far am very happy with it. I love xfce!

It's on a Dell Latitude D520. Is there anything I can install that will let me have more control over the trackpad as I need to turn off taps (I'm quite heavy handed)?

Secondly, I'm considering using it to run virtual organs so I installed qjackctl and qsynth using Pacmanexpress. qjackctl/jack works but qsynth will not even start. I tried starting qsynth from the terminal and got the following error:

symbol lookup error: /lib/libreadline.so.6 undefined symbol: UP

I reinstalled readline but that made no difference.

Any ideas anyone?

Regards
Graham

stifiling
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#156 Post by stifiling »

moonskin wrote:While I'm not a beginner as such, I'm certainly not too knowledgeable and I really don't know where to start with this.

I did a manual frugal install of Sensei Full and so far am very happy with it. I love xfce!

It's on a Dell Latitude D520. Is there anything I can install that will let me have more control over the trackpad as I need to turn off taps (I'm quite heavy handed)?

Secondly, I'm considering using it to run virtual organs so I installed qjackctl and qsynth using Pacmanexpress. qjackctl/jack works but qsynth will not even start. I tried starting qsynth from the terminal and got the following error:

symbol lookup error: /lib/libreadline.so.6 undefined symbol: UP

I reinstalled readline but that made no difference.

Any ideas anyone?

Regards
Graham
i looked for a solution to disabling the touchpad and came across this thread. it's pretty much saying to install "synaptics" using pacman or pacmanexpress and run the command:

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synclient TouchpadOff=1
so that solution should work. if it does, you can add that command to the /root/.start file...and that should disable the touchpad automatically when starting the machine.

as far as that readline error....it's saying /lib/libreadline.so.6.....when the arch package installs the readline lib to /usr/lib/libreadline.so.6

with that being the case....could you try deleting the file /lib/libreadline.so.6 if it exists...and run the command:

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ln -s /usr/lib/libreadline.so.6.2 /lib/libreadline.so.6
and see if that works... that should make a symlink to the lib it's asking for.

moonskin
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#157 Post by moonskin »

Thanks

I'll try that when I can get time to get back to it.

Cheers
Graham

stifiling
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#158 Post by stifiling »

i jus reuploaded sensei64. i noticed the webcam modules weren't included. also hoping usb booting is working correctly.

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