Quirky April 7.0 - 7.0.3, 7.0.4, 7.0.4.1

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James C · #381 Post by **James C** » Thu 09 Apr 2015, 08:03

Installed the service pack when offered,saved,rebooted and all seems well.

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Quirky April, version 7.0.3

jd7654 · #382 Post by **jd7654** » Thu 09 Apr 2015, 08:36

OK, I figured out my problem with April 7.0.3 frugal install failure:
The installquirky GUI installer is very particular about which platform you run it from for frugal install.

First tries on Athlon machine 2GB:
Install from Live 7.0.3 ISO - Failed/Abort (not a block device error)
Then tried install from other OS on same box:
Quirky 6.1.4 - installer failed to even start, error with liblzma.so.5

Then tried from Puppies:
Slacko 5.7 - FAIL/Abort (not a block device error)
Precise 5.7.1 - FAIL/Abort (not a block device error)
(previously, only Slacko and Precise and higher were needed to install Quirkies)

On to another machine, Core2Duo 2GB:
Install from Live 7.0.3 ISO - Failed/Abort (not a block device error)
From Quirky 6.0.5 ... SUCCESS!!!
Hmmm...maybe it likes Tahr...

Back to 1st machine:
From Tahr 6.0.2 - SUCCESS!!!

So the installquirky seems very finicky about where you run it from for the frugal install. It likes Tahr flavors, but doesn't even like it run from itself inside live 7.0.3 environment!?

OK, I'm done for the night...

edit: previous successful installs of April 7.0.3 to USB flash and to HD partition were done from Quirky 6.2 and April 7.0.2.

mavrothal · #383 Post by **mavrothal** » Thu 09 Apr 2015, 09:15

Tried the installquirky.x86 installer.
The vbox of the first dialog (IQ_DLGF) of the /tmp/selfgzNUMBER/installquirky script may need to be scrollable, because there are cases (as the picture shows) that runs out of the screen and is not usable.
This may also be true for other dialogs in the process latter as they will not fit in a small (VGA) screen. (I used "<vbox scrollable=\"true\" space-expand=\"true\" space-fill=\"true\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\">" in line 219)
Also it would be nice if it could provide a download site choice as ibiblio is particularly slow. (when I changed install-quirky-to-... script to use a faster site failed of some problem with the hash file)
BTW, is there any reason that the script is using a windows-specific encoding (cp1252)? Makes it a bit tricky to review it in puppy as geany will open it to a blank file.
More when the ibiblio download finishes...

L18L · #384 Post by **L18L** » Thu 09 Apr 2015, 09:22

jd7654 wrote:...The Quirky Installer window is a little too tall for the 1024x600 screen and the bottom two elements are not visible. But I knew what they were from running on another desktop, so I tabbed through it blindly OK.

Just a friendly hint as an alternative to "blindly tabbing"

Keeping Alt key pressed
you can move any window
with left mouse tab pressed.

Bert · #385 Post by **Bert** » Thu 09 Apr 2015, 10:00

Perfect upgrade from 7.02 to 7.0.3 using the service pack.
Wow, insanely fast booting!

Gratefully,
Bert

mavrothal · #386 Post by **mavrothal** » Thu 09 Apr 2015, 10:57

Bert wrote: insanely fast booting!

Any spacial setting?
My slacko-5.7 full install boots in 14 seconds. In the same hardware and a different partition of the same hard drive April 7.0.3 boots in 15 seconds.
What am I missing?

Bert · #387 Post by **Bert** » Thu 09 Apr 2015, 11:32

mavrothal wrote:
Bert wrote: insanely fast booting!
Any spacial setting?

No, I was just comparing the April 7.0.3 boot time to the April 7.0.2 boot time. Didn't measure anything. The felt difference was remarkable.

BarryK · #388 Post by **BarryK** » Thu 09 Apr 2015, 12:30

unicorn316386 wrote:Installed 7.0.3 Full on ext4 Partition. All is well.
Boot up is fastest of all Puppies I've tried (6 seconds?). Using only 90MB of RAM on startup.

Only tiny hiccup was that I had to save "april-7.0.3.usfs.xz" (141MB) manually from don570's link to hard drive (mnt/sda2) outside of RAM because my RAM was too full (11MB free) to use automatic method from install (which tries to save file inside RAM).

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Yeah, this is the main problem with the Installer, when the "working space" is inadequate. That is at top of the list to fix.

BarryK · #389 Post by **BarryK** » Thu 09 Apr 2015, 12:38

jd7654 wrote:Tried the GUI installer with 7.0.3 and let it download option. Got an error when it tried to save file to /tmp location. It didn't ask to save somewhere else where there was more space. So I just grabbed the file manually and install went fine. Installed to USB flash and HD partition.

Tried the ISO. Frugal install option went away for netbook. Install link just runs GUI installer for drive or partition. Assume it was hard denial by the under 1.2 GB RAM tick box, whereas on 7.0.2 it let it slide?

The HD install footprint really is getting smaller, nice! It was under 500MB on 6.1.4 and then blew up to around a Gig for 6.0.5 and 6.2. April was 800MB but now down to 600MB with 7.0.3.

Yes again, this not-enough-space is at top of my list to fix.

So for now, message to everyone, better to download the Quirky file, somewhere with plenty of space, then run the Installer.

jd7654,
In your case the Installer wants to download into /tmp. I never encountered a problem with that, as I am testing on a laptop with 4GB RAM, and the tmpfs mounted on /tmp has a quite large maximum size limit.

Billtoo · #390 Post by **Billtoo** » Thu 09 Apr 2015, 12:53

I did another installation from Mint 17 64bit to a 128gb usb 3.0 ssd.

I added radky's FbBox-2.0 + some other pets.

It's working well.

danilone · #391 Post by **danilone** » Thu 09 Apr 2015, 13:34

Hello.

It's nice to see mr. Kauler busy as ever. The new version of Quirky caught my attention specially for its UEFI-booting capabilities.

Recently I bought a LG Slidepad as a gift to my wife. Later I learned its chipset is an Intel Clover Trail which is not Linux-friendly to this day.
It is a 32-bit architecture with UEFI-booting and no Legacy mode. More info here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... ug/1341944

Anyway, I was planning on installing the new Quirky to a SDCard but the combination of 32-bit CPU + Over 1.2GB + UEFI made the Quirky Installer give me this:

No installing options for 32-bit Quirky, UEFI-booting. Suggest you go BACK and choose BIOS-booting (legacy mode)

Back to Windows 8.1...

jd7654 · #392 Post by **jd7654** » Thu 09 Apr 2015, 15:45

L18L wrote: Just a friendly hint as an alternative to "blindly tabbing"
Keeping Alt key pressed
you can move any window
with left mouse tab pressed.

Ah yes, thanks. You can tell I don't use that tiny netbook too much.

I'm getting deja vu...I think I remember doing this way back in the CRT and SVGA days. Got lost in long term storage.

jd7654 · #393 Post by **jd7654** » Thu 09 Apr 2015, 15:45

BarryK wrote: jd7654,
In your case the Installer wants to download into /tmp. I never encountered a problem with that, as I am testing on a laptop with 4GB RAM, and the tmpfs mounted on /tmp has a quite large maximum size limit.

Thanks for the response Barry.

Just so you know, that failure was just a trial on an old clunker sandbox PC, P4 with 512MB RAM, and only 256MB /tmp is available. So the error I assume was from it calculating not enough space being available for both the download and decompressed usfs file, around 600MB needed in /tmp?

linuxcbon · #394 Post by **linuxcbon** » Thu 09 Apr 2015, 16:11

April64 7.0.3

- having a bi-core processor, when installing with 4install-quirky-to-partition : Parallel mksquashfs: Using 1 processor

- can you add a modprobe for ipv6 at the start , so april is good for it ?

- for my card, /lib/firmware/radeon/RS780_uvd.bin is missing
can be found at http://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/radeon_ucode/

- geany still missing 2 icons : save-all and build

linuxcbon · #395 Post by **linuxcbon** » Thu 09 Apr 2015, 18:07

April64 7.0.3

- when removing the keyboard language in xorg.conf , the keyboard language is not set anymore

- # rxvt
rxvt: unable to load base fontset, please specify a valid one using -fn, aborting.

linuxcbon · #396 Post by **linuxcbon** » Thu 09 Apr 2015, 19:03

April64 7.0.3

- # acpid
# more /var/log/acpid.log
acpid: can't change directory to '/etc/acpi': No such file or directory
solution : creating folder /etc/acpi solves it

jd7654 · #397 Post by **jd7654** » Thu 09 Apr 2015, 23:08

Some more April 7.0.3 installquirky GUI feedback:

I should say the traditional install to drive or partition is fine, as it was before, and that's how I'd use Quirky anyway. April 7.0.3 works well and I have it installed all over the place.

But tried installing April 7.0.3 from a few more platforms just to test:

X-Slacko 2.3.2 - installed frugal OK.

LxPup 15.02.1 - install frugal FAIL! Got stuck on some kind loop or massive data copy, had to stop it after it gobbled up 5 GB!
Ran the installquirky from console and had the output below, the problem started after I hit continue to start the install, and the "recursion detected" message came out:

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# ./installquirky.x86
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing installquirky  100%  
ldd: /tmp/selfgz194726537/syslinux: No such file or directory
Error creating proxy: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gtk.Private.UDisks2VolumeMonitor: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 127 (g-dbus-error-quark, 25)
Error creating proxy: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gtk.Private.GPhoto2VolumeMonitor: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 127 (g-dbus-error-quark, 25)
cp: recursion detected, omitting directory '/initrd/mnt/dev_save/LxPup-15.02.1/lxpupsave-TMP/april-7.0.3/dev_save'
^CSignal caught, cleaning up
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Apparently installing in LxPup, instead of installing april-7.0.3 to:
/dev/sda4
where I selected,(and X-slacko did successfully) it installed it to:
/initrd/mnt/dev_save/LxPup-15.02.1/lxpupsave-TMP
the LxPup save folder.

And then it proceeded to copy dev_save under april-7.0.3, which happens to be /dev/sda4 that has a complete Fedora install on it, in addition to frugal X-Slacko and LxPup directories. So it was trying to copy all that under april-7.0.3 for some reason, copying all that under itself, and it got to 5GB and was still going so I had to stop it.

ETP · #398 Post by **ETP** » Fri 10 Apr 2015, 13:29

Google Chrome Pet for 64bit versions of Quirky April.
GetLatest64bitChromeVersion-V3.pet

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id= ... aring#list

This pet (302k) will download, install & set as the default browser the latest 64bit stable version of Chrome.
Having installed the pet a menu item "Get Latest Chrome Version" will appear on the JWM Internet sub-menu.

When clicked, a series of prompts will guide you through the process.
A final prompt (White text on a blue background) will invite you to launch Chrome.
Please note that this final prompt may take a couple of minutes to appear.

The pet includes the additional dependencies required by Chrome and is only suitable for use with
64bit versions of Quirky April.

When newer versions of Chrome become available in order to update:

1. Use PPM (Puppy Package Manager) to uninstall the existing version of Google-Chrome-Stable.

2. Click on the JWM Internet menu “Get Latest Chrome Version

peebee · #399 Post by **peebee** » Fri 10 Apr 2015, 15:10

Qurky April 7.0.3 "frugal" install to a hard disk directory

Wifi connection established using sns - do a save - reboot - wifi connection does not automatically re-establish itself - needs a right click on the network_tray icon and then manual click of 'connect now' to re-establish....

LxPupApril64-15.03 pets work fine on this new edition except that the "do a save at each reboot" option is not detected - will need to work out why.....@BK any clues as to what has changed for this new feature?

Cheers
PeeBee

L18L · #400 Post by **L18L** » Fri 10 Apr 2015, 15:29

No way for a remaster?

I am running it (just for fun) from a 1GB USB stick controlled by grub4dos.

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