Xenialpup CE 7.5 / 25 Nov 2017

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#16 Post by watchdog »

The losetup in initrd.gz is the right one. I have copied it in the main sfs (rebuilding it) in /bin and in /sbin as losetup-FULL and I did a symlink to /bin/busybox in /sbin dir named losetup. Now encryption is working and I can mount encrypted savefiles by filemnt.

Pelo

Tahrpup kept stuck to 6.0.

#17 Post by Pelo »

Version jump to seven :!: Tahrpup kept stuck to 6.0.
I will try Xenialpup, of course. I hope the quality as good than Tharpup.
"i've stuck with the 3.14 kernel for the moment as the 4.* versions" is that really important ? Don't worry, we shall wait as long as needed. Perhaps newbies not even should have remarked the kernel version..
"that it has both qt4 and qt5 libs" ah, that is the main progress, don't delete anything, that is the reason why xenial will bring us a plus.
New applications will be available in the menu ! if not, i shall explore and advise what to add in this xenial,
263MBs downloading 'for amusement, only' and new pleasures. ..

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#18 Post by backi »

Booted Xenial from Usb stick .

After the first setup and restarting WinManager it stuck to the black screen typed in xwin no reaction. Could not process further.
I had to pull the electricity plug .
Does not work for me.---using a Toshiba Satellite 3000.

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Re: Tahrpup kept stuck to 6.0.

#19 Post by Sailor Enceladus »

Pelo wrote:Version jump to seven :!: Tahrpup kept stuck to 6.0.
Fido has improved ?
Pelo wrote:"i've stuck with the 3.14 kernel for the moment as the 4.* versions" is that really important ? Don't worry, we shall wait as long as needed. Perhaps newbies not even should have remarked the kernel version..
I think there is a sort of stigma with 4.x (Hurr, Durr Im'a Sheep) kernels for many because something worked before but didn't after, though in my cases this was usually because of missing drivers in the kernel build rather than a problem with the version itself. I remember reading according to Linus that they just switched from 3.x to 4.x because the 3.x number was getting too high and it wasn't really a "milestone" difference though (maybe 3.14 -> 3.18 and 3.18 -> 4.0 was about the same amount).

ferretgrandpa

#20 Post by ferretgrandpa »

Downloaded and made CD, boots fine, wifi works, freq scaling tool not working well (like in Tahrpup 6.0.(0,2,5).
Used universal installer to put on USB stick, would make to a ext 4, gave "need ExtLinux version 4 for frugal install on ext 4'. Took over 30 minutes to convert 32GB stick to ext3 from ext4., then everything locked up and had to hard boot. Fired up on slacko 5.7 (my 'base' puppy), 9 minutes to ext3 to ext 4 and back to ext3. Re-partitioned stick to 3 parts, 1 is ext 2, 2 is ext 3 and 3 is ext 4.
Back to Xenial CD, Universal installer ok with ext2 and ext3, same message with ext4. made sd2 (ext3) boot and 'folder' save file. Booted to Black screen,bricked, Booted from CD with USB plugged in, found savefile, booted to black screen, bricked.

Not working well with this machine:
Toshiba Satellite C55t-A
Intel Celeron CPU N2820 @2.13GHz , 2.13GHz
4.00 GB Ram
All Intel

This is somewhat normal for this machine, when I first got it, I spent a week trying every puppy I had (4.11 to 5.28, had to update the Bios so I could boot CSM, etc.)
downloaded a few more and made cds, only slacko 5.7.0 PAE (kernel is different than the one in the No-PAE) worked out of the box.
Tahr pup tried to work, just didn't do well. Vivid 6.5 works fine, as does slacko 6.3 and slacko64 6.3, Peppermint 6 works fine (will even boot uefi, s'boot off)

I'll keep checking back
Tom

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#21 Post by futwerk »

a few backgrounds.
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#22 Post by James C »

Installed some stuff,including the latest Opera, with no real surprises.Working pretty well.
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#23 Post by irishrm »

Installed to USB and booting from a very old, low spec PC. For some reason it seems to be a perfect fit for this machine. In fact it may have saved it from the recycle center.

666philp great work.

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Re: Xenialpup 7.0.0

#24 Post by peebee »

666philb wrote:Xenialpup nearly BETA
problems so far...
ddcprobe segfaults
hwclock also segfaults so time/date is wrong:

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root# dmesg | grep "segfault"
[   26.229957] hwclock[8251]: segfault at 0 ip b75883d1 sp bfbfdcac error 4 in libc-2.23.so[b7515000+1ad000]
[   26.631299] ddcprobe[8362]: segfault at c0e86 ip 00000e86 sp 00000ffa error 15 in mem[0+1000]
[   27.412937] ddcprobe[8430]: segfault at c0e86 ip 00000e86 sp 00000ffa error 15 in mem[0+1000]
root# 
ImageLxPup = Puppy + LXDE
Main version used daily: LxPupSc; Assembler of UPups, ScPup & ScPup64, LxPup, LxPupSc & LxPupSc64

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#25 Post by peebee »

Duplication? - Default Applications Chooser can be dropped from build if PuppyApps D.A.C. is chosen in woof-ce....
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#26 Post by slavvo67 »

I'm jumping on the bandwagon and downloading, now. I look forward to using and reporting back if I seen any possible issues.

Thanks Phil!!

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#27 Post by backi »

Testing now .......Looks good .

Is there any possibility to use Zram ?
In Tahrpup it could be enabled .
Something to think about for later .

Cheers .

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#28 Post by Brown Mouse »

Been testing for a few days and its looking very promising :)

Had a few weird minor things going on during desktop setup but they all seemed to be corrected once I made a save file.

One oddity.
The cpu temp tray icon which I've never had working in any Puppy previously loads up at boot and then vanishes around 30 seconds later.

Cheers Phil.You're doing a great job for Puppy once again :)

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Re: Xenialpup 7.0.0

#29 Post by Puppus Dogfellow »

666philb wrote:Xenialpup nearly BETA

[...]
abiword crashes :D
[...]
Have you considered focuswriter? haven't tested it much but it's very lightweight and capable, and it appears to be reliable. :D

anyway, here's a mirror, 666philb:

xenialpup

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CUPS - no Admin

#30 Post by davids45 »

G'day 666philb,

After a whole "5 mins" of running a Frugal Xenial, a couple of things.

CUPS - 'fires up' as you said back on p1, but fails for me at the next step - when trying to add a printer via the Admin page (see screenshot)

Having more partitions than sense :oops: , I can have issues displaying the drive icons across the bottom of my monitor with overlaps making clicking tricky on many Pups (not just xenial).
Fiddling with the Icons set-up (your 'Icon manager' or in /etc/eventmanager), I can re-space them out a bit from the startup but only the second row (my sdb series) while the sda set remains unchanged. Also the sorting is not quite numerical. (See screenshot again)

I guess this is a Woof problem but thought I'd mention it as there may be an easy fix from someone knowing what he's doing :) .

David S.
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#31 Post by rcrsn51 »

@David: I cannot replicate your problem. Try a clean setup with no installed packages.

@Phil: There are indeed numerous missing files. I have pulled them out of Tahrpup605 and assembled them in a PET here.

1. /etc/cups/snmp.conf is needed to detect network printers. It also needs a CUPS restart.

2. /usr/share/cups is missing a bunch of stuff. The most crucial file is mime.convs.

3. The CUPS filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops is broken. The version from Tahrpup works.

4. The SANE config file /etc/sane.d/dll.conf is missing.

I have run a full suite of print/scan tests and everything now works.

However, I cannot get dir2pet to work with xz compression.

BTW, I have posted a new PeasyScan v2.9 here.

[Edit] PeasyPort needs an upgrade to v2.1 and YASSM needs an upgrade to v2.9.

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#32 Post by irishrm »

rcrsn51:

I was trying earlier today to activate my canon printer/scanner, with no success.

Installed your cups patch.pet and the other printer pets you recommended.

Having already installed your candi.pet and the canon driver.debs both printer and scanner are working well.

Would have no chance of doing any of this without your help.

Thanks as always.
irishrm.

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#33 Post by rcrsn51 »

Excellent. Now that you have all the Canon Debian packages downloaded, you should use candi-pet-maker to build your own print/scan driver PET. Read here.

@Phil: I find the default Xenialpup theme difficult to read. It's gray text on a gray background on a white desktop.

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#34 Post by irishrm »

rcrsn1:

Just made a canon printer.pet for 32 bit OS. Looks good, will test when doing the next new install. Will also try making the combo pet later.

Its great to learn something new.

O for the know-how.

Thanks again.
irishrm.

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#35 Post by Sailor Enceladus »

rcrsn51 wrote:However, I cannot get dir2pet to work with xz compression.
I got it to work in Slacko 6.3.0.6, but it wasn't easy (example pet of the spot dir):

cd /root
mkdir -p new/spot_xz/root
mkdir -p new/spot_gz
cp -r spot new/spot_xz/root
cp -r new/spot_xz/root new/spot_gz
cd new
dir2pet spot_xz -x -s -w="spot gets xzed"
dir2pet spot_gz -g -s -w="spot gets gzed"
mv *.pet ..
cd ..
rm -rf new
ls *.pet -l


Not sure if root permissions need to be changed first. But if typing "which xz" shows nothing in Xenial, dir2pet won't work.

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