Fatdog64 702 Final [7 Feb 2016] [CLOSED]

[fatdog]

702RC has continued with RC2. Please see first post.

[L18L]

Get it from the usual location in ibiblio or one of its mirrors: aarnet, uoc.gr, and nluug.nl.

Got it from http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/linux/fatd ... 702rc2.iso in 92 sec!

EDIT:
And http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/linux/fatd ... 702rc2.sfs in 34 sec

[step]

A few things in RC2 (and RC) but not mentioned earlier:
b) right-click openbox menu is now sync-ed with panel-menu (RC2 only)

Thank you, thank you, thank you. To me this is a great usability improvement, regardless of eye candy.

[Billtoo]

Installed RC2 to a 16gb SDHC card, pc is an Acer laptop.
Added Google-Chrome and Firefox.
No problems so far.

Thanks

[Dry Falls]

Using k4.33. Just dropped 702rc2 into initrd and everything is working great. Very nice job. This is the first that boots (either kernel) on my machine ootb since fd700. Thanks.

df

[s243a]

I would recommend updating samba (if not for this release then the next).The reason being is that mono requires: ntls_auth >= 3.0.25

ntls_auth is found in the wind bin package of samba:
https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/ma ... uth.1.html
https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Sa ... #id2653755

A newer version of samba is available for gsplat.

[jamesbond]

@step - glad that you like it! For other puppy builders, if interested to do the same: the updated source is openbox-xdgmenu-0.4.tar.bz2 in ibiblio's fatdog source, fatdog-ob-menu.sh and the updated set of /etc/xdg/menus.

@s243a - The built-in samba is version 3.0.37. It is meant for easy and simple file sharing, so it only contains a minimal subset of binaries and pre-configured config file to make it work. It doesn't contain the entire suite. If you want to run the full suite, then get samba4 package from the repo (via gslapt). Unlike other puppies, I will *never* put the full samba into the basesfs.

[Fbang]

One thing that is not immediately clear is that 702rc supports bonjour. Among other thing, it means that all machines in the same subnet can now refer to each other using hostnames instead of IP address. E.g. if your hostname is "xrdp-server" you can now address is as "xrdp-server.local". For this to work, the machines must be in the same subnet, as the name resolution uses non-routable broadcast address. Welcome to NetBIOS

If you have multiple fatdog machines connected to a router or switch does anything like above or any other type of network discovery need to be disabled to stop them seeing or connecting to each other for privacy?

[slavvo67]

The remaster tool did not work properly for me. It created kernel panic. Would adding the UEFI option on a machine that does not require it do this?

[SFR]

The pTimer/pStopwatch pair is 8 year old and doesn't look too appealing, to put it mildly.
What about replacing them with much more recent pClock?

I modified it slightly to make it compatibile with FD:
- fixed icon in .desktop file
- modified "Set system time zone" menu option (countrywizard -> fatdog-set-timezone.sh) and added "Set per-user time zone" (fatdog-set-timezone.sh user)
- since Fatdog's pschedule does not accept arguments, I added the following info on 'Alarm' tab:
As a Command you can use, for example:
/usr/bin/aplay /usr/share/audio/2barks.au
(^ perhaps a better wording would be in order here)
and removed the filechooser for audio files.
___________

Btw, I just discovered that cron doesn't use my local time, but UTC instead.
My HW clock is set to UTC, my timezone is UTC+1.

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# echo $TZ
:/etc/localtime
# 
# readlink -f /etc/localtime 
/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Warsaw
# 
# date +'%:z %Z'
+01:00 CET
# 

Can anybody confirm this?
Not sure if this is a bug or a feature...

EDIT: I just tried dcron and it works as expected, so it seems to be something wrong with busybox's crond.

EDIT2: Oh, I noticed that crond isn't a symlink to busybox, but busybox-cron.
The regular busybox's crond works just fine, too...

EDIT3: It works if I change the default TZ's value from ':/etc/localtime' to:

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# strings /etc/localtime 
TZif2
	WMT
CEST
EEST
TZif2
CEST
EEST
CET-1CEST,M3.5.0,M10.5.0/3
# 
# TZ='CET-1CEST,M3.5.0,M10.5.0/3' crond -f
Playing Sparc Audio '/usr/share/audio/2barks.au' : Mu-Law, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono
^C
#

busybox-cron was cross-compiled using uClibc, right?

You need to be sure the TZ environment variable is set properly,
since uClibc does not support /etc/zoneinfo junk.

Maybe that's the culprit..?

Greetings!

[Billtoo]

I burned the RC2 iso to a multisession dvd to use on my Acer laptop:

video-info-glx 1.5.3 Sun 31 Jan 2016 on Fatdog64 702 Linux 3.18.7 x86_64
2.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
oem: Intel(R) Sandybridge/Ivybridge Graphics Chipset Accelerated VGA BIOS
product: Intel(R) Sandybridge/Ivybridge Graphics Controller Hardware Version 0.0

X Server: Xorg Driver: intel
X.Org version: 1.16.3
dimensions: 1366x768 pixels (361x203 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ivybridge Mobile
OpenGL core profile version string: 3.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 11.0.6

Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-3227U CPU @ 1.90GHz
Core 0: @899 1: @892 2: @898 3: @828 MHz

It's working well.

[jamesbond]

@slavvo67 - cannot reproduce the problem.
Suggestion:
1. run fatdog-remaster.sh from terminal and watch for error messages
2. try a "copy" remaster with only fd64.sfs (and no other layer) as the sfs included. See if you can get this one to boot.

@SFR - "The pTimer/pStopwatch pair is 8 year old"
-> Yeah I know I was after functionalities The reason why we didn't upgrade to latest is because Fatdog used to ship with gtkdialog 0.8.3 (aka gtkdialog3), and zigbert tends to be on the bleeding edge and uses the latest gtkdialog (gtkdialog4). Now that we ship with gtkdialog4 this should be fine.

Thanks for the pclock modification. I'll give it a test and then merge.

"busybox-cron was cross-compiled using uClibc, right?"
Yes. I think that's the problem. Try adding this in in /etc/init.d/80-crond before starting crond:

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export TZ=GMT$(date +%z | sed 'y/+-/-+/; s/.../&:/')

and see if crond now behaves.

@Billtoo - thanks for testing.

[SFR]

"busybox-cron was cross-compiled using uClibc, right?"
Yes. I think that's the problem. Try adding this in in /etc/init.d/80-crond before starting crond:

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export TZ=GMT$(date +%z | sed 'y/+-/-+/; s/.../&:/')

and see if crond now behaves.

Yes, it's working. Thanks!

Greetings!

[jamesbond]

SFR - thanks for pClock. It's going in.
I'll get rid of prename and ptiming and pstopwatch.
Anyone who wants it can still get it from the repo.

cheers!

[L18L]

gettext'ed
translated
tested 'Install packages' : updated momanager
minor changes:
-- date just to increase window width
-- exit where I thought it should exit

[jamesbond]

Thanks L18L.
But this may have missed the 702 window.
I'll keep it for future builds.

[fatdog]

Fatdog64 702 Final is released. See first post.

[skyblaze]

just downloaded the latest iso and burned to CD booted ok but no touchpad control at all with the mouse pointer frozen dead centre of the screen - I can use the keyboard and ctrl alt backspace to get to bash...

my machine is an Acer Aspire ES 512 series laptop which I believe uses a Synaptics touchpad

Incidentally I can boot from a usb drive using Knoppix 7.2 with no problems as it recognises the touchpad so I can use the mouse

any workaround for this?

[CatDude]

Hello skyblaze

I have just set up a frugal install of 702 on my Acer Aspire 5552,
and the touchpad is working OK here (after using the function keys (Fn + F7) to enable it).

I don't get on with touchpads, so i usually disable it.

CatDude
.

[SFR]

Fatdog64 702 Final is released. See first post.

Thanks for the Final, everything is working fine.

Just a small leftover (PRename) in /etc/control-panel-applets renders a blank icon on 'Utilities' tab.

Greetings!