Quirky April 7.0 - 7.0.3, 7.0.4, 7.0.4.1

[rufwoof]

I downloaded Libre 64 bit via http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... fd1#700801 and linked into my April Frugal boot i.e. unsquashfs the libre sfs file in the directory where I store vmlinuz (frugal boot) and then

cd /
cp -rs /mnt/sda3/quirky7/squashfs-root/* .

to sym link the entire content of libre (which still left 770MB free space on my 1.5GB system (excluding heaps of free space also in devtmpfs)).

But when I start Libre up it flashes the splash screen but then crashes/stops. Looks like you might need both Java and dbus/glibs libs to have been installed.

It was the LibreOffice 4.3.4 x86_64 (SFS) version that I downloaded that's suggested as being OK for slacko64 and FatDog64 - but maybe there's conflicts there with April

i.e. not looking for a quick fix ... rather just messing around and highlighting that something maybe amiss that might need to be included on Barry's watch/to-do list

On a separate note I did have a look at why screen resolution changes might not be working ... but my knowledge/skill is insufficient to identify where the problem might be. I did drop Wary 5.5 sfs in as a alternative q.sfs ... and that hit similar problems so my guess its nothing inside the sfs itself but something to do with the rest (vmlinuz/initrd (basic set excluding sfs). My guess is that the problem might be down to incorrect nv modules/drivers or layering of such .... but that's a noobs total wild guess.

[BarryK]

That's because there is no matching console keymap.

So, it would seem that we have to find a "srp.gz" console keymap.

OK, think I have got it.

/lib/keymaps has console keymaps that I originally obtained from Tiny Core Linux. Those guys extracted them from the 'kbd' package and converted them to kmap format.

I found the latest 'kmaps.tcz' from here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux ... /kmaps.tcz

Actaully, it is an SFS file, so just rename it to 'kmaps.sfs', then click to open it.

The kmaps are at /usr/share/kmap

I found 'sr-cy.kmap', and have renamed it to 'srp' and gzipped it.

Download the attached, place in /lib/keymaps, then delete this file:

/var/local/quickset-keyboard-list

Then run quicksetup:

# quicksetup

...choose "srp"

...anyone who knows Serbian, let me know if this works!

If so, 'srp.gz' will go into /lib/keymaps permanently.

[BarryK]

But when I start Libre up it flashes the splash screen but then crashes/stops. Looks like you might need both Java and dbus/glibs libs to have been installed.

You need Libreoffice compiled for April.

The PPM has a PET, in "pet-april" repo.

Or direct download (124.5MB):

http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/quirky ... pril64.pet

[rufwoof]

The mksquashfs with no compression (-noX -noI -noD -noF switches) is really quick in April. After making some cosmetic changes and opting to save the frugal boot (create new q.sfs file) I just about caught it when creating the attached screen capture before it completed (I set a 5 second delay before screen capture so I could pull up the main menu to also be included in the shot). And that's on a single core (old AMD64) !!!

It (the remaster/save script I posted earlier) doesn't currently however preserve sound nor internet connection settings across reboots - so something that I've missed out in the script (that I currently don't know how to fix).

[L18L]

...
Download the attached, place in /lib/keymaps, then delete this file:

/var/local/quickset-keyboard-list

Then run quicksetup:

# quicksetup

...choose "srp"

...anyone who knows Serbian, let me know if this works!

If so, 'srp.gz' will go into /lib/keymaps permanently.

... I know the cyrillic letters
and I have been trying it in Puppy Precise 5.7.1 which is the distro our Serbian Puppy Translators Team member Griot is using.

Success !

Thank you very much

[rufwoof]

But when I start Libre up it flashes the splash screen but then crashes/stops. Looks like you might need both Java and dbus/glibs libs to have been installed.

You need Libreoffice compiled for April.

The PPM has a PET, in "pet-april" repo.

Or direct download (124.5MB):

http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/quirky ... pril64.pet

THANKS Barry.

Downloaded the PET, renamed it to a .tar.gz suffice and extracted it to where vmlinuz is stored, cd / and cp -rs <path to where extracted> to sym link 'sfs load' and Libre starts up/works great. Still leaves 785MB of free space in my frugal (and massive amounts of /devtmpfs free space also).

Thanks again.

[rufwoof]

Not sure how stable that April compiled Libre is. Had a couple of times that its crashed on me whilst running quick tests. I tend to use scalc to both draw and scribble (see attached) as well as the more conventional spreadsheet stuff and have many inter-twinned spreadsheets.

It may be down to how I've 'loaded' libre using sym links into a frugal April. Or it might be the extensions I've dropped in (such as for portrait and landscape page switching). But just a observation being noted just in case others might also see problems.

Seems to crash with a relatively small and empty alert box that flashes up for a second before libre crashes both from the desktop and tray (quicklaunch disappears).

[linuxcbon]

April64 7.0

- why is /var/ a link to /tmp/var/ and root contains .var/
Why not have a separate normal /var/

- /root/Choices/ files should be in /root/.config/rox.sourceforge.net/
- root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin it is needed by .xinitrc , so needs to be changed too

- /root/.icewm/ is not needed

[Griot]

Download the attached, place in /lib/keymaps, then delete this file:

/var/local/quickset-keyboard-list

Then run quicksetup:

# quicksetup

...choose "srp"

...anyone who knows Serbian, let me know if this works!

If so, 'srp.gz' will go into /lib/keymaps permanently.

I can confirm that this solution works just fine!
For a quick setup one can open Menu > Setup > Mouse/Keyboard wizard > Advanced Xorg... > Layout Variants then choose second option 'latin' (srp:Latin), click YES for immediate change and use following terminal commands for switching between Cyrillic/Latin letters.
(For those running Precise 5.71)

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setxkbmap srp

invokes Serbian Cyrillic letters

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setxkbmap srp latin

invokes Serbian Latin (qwertz)

My appreciation for solving this problem goes to L18L & Mr. BarryK.
Cheers!

[BarryK]

...
Download the attached, place in /lib/keymaps, then delete this file:

/var/local/quickset-keyboard-list

Then run quicksetup:

# quicksetup

...choose "srp"

...anyone who knows Serbian, let me know if this works!

If so, 'srp.gz' will go into /lib/keymaps permanently.

... I know the cyrillic letters
and I have been trying it in Puppy Precise 5.7.1 which is the distro our Serbian Puppy Translators Team member Griot is using.

Success !

Thank you very much

A couple of scripts needed fixing too. /usr/sbin/input-wizard, keymap-set, quicksetup. I think that I also made a small change in /etc/rc.d/rc.country.

This will be in SP1.

[BarryK]

April64 7.0

- why is /var/ a link to /tmp/var/ and root contains .var/
Why not have a separate normal /var/


- /root/.icewm/ is not needed

/var is sharing the tmpfs created on /tmp. This is a technical decision, avoiding too many tmpfs's.

Only /var/local is preserved between reboots, which is why it is saved in /root

/root/.icewm will be needed if the icewm package is installed.

Also, you commented awhile back, /dev/shm not used. But it is, applications use it.

[BarryK]

Download the attached, place in /lib/keymaps, then delete this file:

/var/local/quickset-keyboard-list

Then run quicksetup:

# quicksetup

...choose "srp"

...anyone who knows Serbian, let me know if this works!

If so, 'srp.gz' will go into /lib/keymaps permanently.

I can confirm that this solution works just fine!
For a quick setup one can open Menu > Setup > Mouse/Keyboard wizard > Advanced Xorg... > Layout Variants then choose second option 'latin' (srp:Latin), click YES for immediate change and use following terminal commands for switching between Cyrillic/Latin letters.
(For those running Precise 5.71)

Code: Select all

setxkbmap srp

invokes Serbian Cyrillic letters

Code: Select all

setxkbmap srp latin

invokes Serbian Latin (qwertz)

My appreciation for solving this problem goes to L18L & Mr. BarryK.
Cheers!

Great!

[linuxcbon]

April64 7.0

- pidgin desktop icon is missing
- /sbin/init.d/ is needed ?

[linuxcbon]

April64 7.0

- in /dev/ many files have the wrong group. For example /dev/tty* should be in group tty. Same thing for /etc/cups/ /var/spool/ /usr/bin/ etc
What is also strange is /etc/group has twice tty and tty has same number 2 as bin...

[linuxcbon]

April64 7.0

- After installing devx

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 ldconfig 
ldconfig: /usr/lib/libisl.so.10.2.2-gdb.py is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start.

[ianc]

r.e. flsynclient - touchpad tap settings, when altered, do not save. they are reset at boot. minor problem however. ty for great puppy.

[L18L]

...
Download the attached, place in /lib/keymaps, then delete this file:

/var/local/quickset-keyboard-list

Then run quicksetup:

# quicksetup

...choose "srp"

...anyone who knows Serbian, let me know if this works!

If so, 'srp.gz' will go into /lib/keymaps permanently.

... I know the cyrillic letters
and I have been trying it in Puppy Precise 5.7.1 which is the distro our Serbian Puppy Translators Team member Griot is using.

Success !

Thank you very much

A couple of scripts needed fixing too. /usr/sbin/input-wizard, keymap-set, quicksetup. I think that I also made a small change in /etc/rc.d/rc.country.

This will be in SP1.

Barry, you know best which scripts to change. Thank you.

All that previous issue was about keyboard.
Another thing is locale.
Hope the following code quoted from
http://puppy-translators-team.40341.n7. ... 8.html#a92
will explain it:

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Startet my Precise 5.7.1  pfix=ram and tried to make locale sr_SR@latin.
Does not work as you reported.

Looked into /usr/sbin/quicksetup and found the culprit around line 1139 :
LANGCHOICE="`echo -n "$COMBO_LOCALE" | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | cut -f 1 -d '@'`" #nl_BE@euro, need to chop.
nl_BE is Bert's locale
Nobody needs @euro if using utf8.
But that code has chopped each @ that is @latin  has been chopped !
Change it to look like:

 #LANGCHOICE="`echo -n "$COMBO_LOCALE" | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | cut -f 1 -d '@'`" #nl_BE@euro, need to chop.
 LANGCHOICE="`echo -n ${COMBO_LOCALE//@euro/} | cut -f 1 -d ' '`" #all @euro chopped. #150227

.... and locale sr_SR@latin can be activated.

${COMBO_LOCALE//@euro/} is the bash builtin equivalent of
echo ${COMBO_LOCALE}| sed s/@euro//

Testing these things for Serbian locale (they appear to need 2 languagesn) is another thing.
Keyboard problem is SOLVED.
Get your beer from http://puppy-translators-team.40341.n7. ... .html#a121

[BarryK]

April64 7.0

- pidgin desktop icon is missing
- /sbin/init.d/ is needed ?

I was puzzled at first, tested Pidgin, then realised, the icon is missing from the tray.

OK, I will see if I can find it.

/sbin/init.d/fuse is something I have on hold for now. It is in the 'fuse' package compiled in T2, but it is supposed to be at /etc/init.d/.

But, I don't know if I want to put it there. Don't think I ever had to run a start script before, to use fuse.

There needs to be testing of a fuse filesystem, to see whether this start/stop script is needed.

ntfs-3g is a fuse filesystem, but it is a special case, has it's own fuse driver builtin, so it seems doesn't use the kernel 'fuse' module.

So, I will leave the fuse start/stop script where it is for now, not doing anything.

[BarryK]

April64 7.0

- pidgin desktop icon is missing
- /sbin/init.d/ is needed ?

I was puzzled at first, tested Pidgin, then realised, the icon is missing from the tray.

OK, I will see if I can find it.

Took me about four hours!

Eventually figured out how to get the pidgin icon appearing in the tray.

[BarryK]

April64 7.0

- in /dev/ many files have the wrong group. For example /dev/tty* should be in group tty. Same thing for /etc/cups/ /var/spool/ /usr/bin/ etc
What is also strange is /etc/group has twice tty and tty has same number 2 as bin...

All of the device nodes in /dev are created automatically by the Linux kernel.

All of this group stuff only matters for running non-root.