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BarryK · Posted: Fri 23 Feb 2018, 03:54 Post subject:

Have been busy, implemented a Service Manager for EasyOS and Quirky:

http://bkhome.org/news/201802/pupevent-service-manager.html

Done that, now I will look at rerwin's above post!

belham2 · Joined: 15 Aug 2016 Posts: 1647

BarryK · Posted: Fri 23 Feb 2018, 06:12 Post subject: Re: Further networking improvements

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 5320 Location: Ontario

A tip from James Bond...

To format a SD card in linux ...
First zero out card, then format with gparted.

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 5320 Location: Ontario

A gui for mpscan

BarryK · Posted: Wed 28 Feb 2018, 20:52 Post subject:

OK, version 0.8 released, see blog announcement:

http://bkhome.org/news/201803/easyos-pyro64-08-released.html

The kernel is now 4.14.20, has the nvm driver, requested by scsijon.

BarryK · Posted: Thu 01 Mar 2018, 05:35 Post subject:

Just thinking, what is stopping me from bumping this up to "beta quality", then final 1.0...

Two things mostly.

Firstly, the instability on some systems, hanging.

Secondly, the immaturity of the container mechanism. I haven't worked on that for sometime.

The instability bothers me more than anything, as I can't reproduce it myself, and have no idea whether it is caused by the design of EasyOS (the way the layered filesystem and partitions are put together), or just some buggy software somewhere, such as something eating up file handles, or a memory leak.

Whatever, it seems to only be on certain hardware.

I will think about what to do, to test this problem.

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 5457 Location: GB

0.8: Excellent, no instability on any of my kit. Only problem is ADI 1888 sound chip not recognised and not sure how to load extra drivers, if available. Think method has been described before but forget - HW more my end of the business.
Only other comment - not sure default saving of my wlan p/w onto USB stick is always best strategy for a portable OS?!

BarryK · Posted: Thu 01 Mar 2018, 07:48 Post subject:

I have had a thought about a possible cause for instability, involving aufs/overlay.

Would appreciate feedback, from anyone who has this lockup problem.

Running Easy on the same PC that experiences the lockup, do you have this file?:

/mnt/q_ro/q.sfs

If yes, it means that q.sfs was copied into RAM at bootup (by the init script in initrd).

If no, then q.sfs is mounted from where it is in the working partition, on /mnt/q_ro/q_sfs

There is a possibility that the latter case is causing a problem for aufs.
Maybe.

BarryK · Posted: Thu 01 Mar 2018, 07:52 Post subject:

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 5457 Location: GB

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 5320 Location: Ontario

Arp scan is bigger in size but it picks up a computer that mpscan can't
(because of a crossover ethernet cable I built)
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=984450#984450
I also use getlocalip

Rodney Byne · Joined: 31 Jan 2014 Posts: 206

To Barry,

Thanks for good version 0.8 on usb.

Yes this is in its correct folder: /mnt/q_ro/q.sfs

So on here without any instability,
it means that q.sfs was copied into RAM at bootup
(by the init script in initrd).

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Here is a nice pupRadio little portable radio icon to save to a private folder
and then drag to pupRadio properties:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?dcr=0&source=hp&ei=NjmYWpz3B6aFgAaH05fQCQ&q=download+Iconshock-Real-Vista-Multimedia-Radio.ico&oq=download+Iconshock-Real-Vista-Multimedia-Radio.ico&gs_l=psy-ab.3..33i160k1.2483.283609.0.329483.94.72.22.0.0.0.228.6862.57j14j1.72.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..0.64.5205...0j0i131k1j0i13k1j0i22i30k1j33i22i29i30k1.0.nVod0PTlJF4

Just copy/paste in SM the above URL.

Regards.

Cu Chulinux · Posted: Fri 02 Mar 2018, 13:56 Post subject:

Hi Barry,

My laptop that I've been playing around with Easy and Quirky on is one with the instabilities. Toshiba P55W-C5200 model.

Tried latest versions, the instabilities appear after initial setup and rebooting. Basically the computer becomes unresponsive and I have to hard reset. Usually first the keyboard dies then the pointer shortly after that. Up until first reboot it all seemed to run fine.

Easy 0.8 and 0.6.8 Xerus I checked /mnt/q_ro and there is both a q.sfs and a q_sfs.

Because var points to tmp/var there are no logs to check after rebooting. I am going to try rebooting and dmesg >> file over and over until it acts up to see what messages I get. I'll report back what turns up.

Eventually I'll try booting my desktop with an Easy usb to test it there. It currently runs FreeBSD.

Add: btw the laptop works flawlessly with both Fatdog64 and Xenialpup 7.5

BarryK · Posted: Sat 03 Mar 2018, 05:54 Post subject: