Xenialpup CE 7.5 / 25 Nov 2017

[666philb]

Hi 666philb,

have noticed this on a pristine installation of Xenialpup 7.0.0:

clicking on a disk icon (here sda6) opens a rox window showing sda6 directory; and a green flag pops up in the upper-right corner of the disks icon.

pmount shows that sda6 is mounted;

clicking on that green flag is expected to unmount the correcponding disk; and aftrwds to swith of that green flag.

Here, what happens:
when clicking on that green flag, pmount shows that the disk is effectively unmounted; but the green flag keeps displaying.

To switch it off, doing

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# pup_event_frontend_d

in a console switch it off

Cheers, Charlie

this problem is annoying me and i'm not sure what's causing it. it seems the pup_event_frontend_d daemon isn't working properly

[666philb]

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.

i did include /sbin/losetup-FULL ...what else is needed for encryption to work?

[666philb]

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# 

ddcprobe now ok in the new iso
hwclock still segfaults when booting but runs fine once booted

[666philb]

Duplication? - Default Applications Chooser can be dropped from build if PuppyApps D.A.C. is chosen in woof-ce....

oops ...i missed this.
cheers

[666philb]

Xenialpup nearly BETA

[...]
abiword crashes
[...]

Have you considered focuswriter? haven't tested it much but it's very lightweight and capable, and it appears to be reliable.

anyway, here's a mirror, 666philb:

xenialpup

thanks for the mirror

[666philb]

@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.

thanks rcrsn51,

barryk wrote that used the ubuntu cups for his xenial, so i decided to give that a try and it's working for me. so i've gone with that for this build (7.0.1).

i'll add your updated peasy apps in 7.0.2... i'll concentrate updating a lot of other packages then as well.

cheers

[666philb]

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.

is this the gtk theme or the jwm theme?

[666philb]

Hi.

Since Ubuntu Xenial Xerus seems to be a LTS version:

- any plans to build a Xenial Puppy in 64bit?

yes hopefully once the 32bit done (or nearly done)

[666philb]

666philb -- I can report, finally, that there is a working OpenChrome version that supports the VIA VX855 chipset. I have the *.so and *.la as compiled in the TahrPup 6.0.2-based X-Tahr 1b3. (I assume that they will work in TahrPup 6.0.5 as well...? Kernel 3.14.20 is what I have right now.)

The current Git version of OpenChrome (as of this post) is the one I've compiled. I don't have XenialPup at the moment, but I'm happy to try and compile it.

If XenialPup still uses (as I suspect it does) OpenChrome v.0.3.3 -- that is a known BAD configuration that will not function on systems using the VX855 and similar chipsets, which means that anyone with that hardware is stuck in text mode.

I don't have a complete list of systems, of course, that use the affected chipsets -- but it's going to include, at least, a number of oddball thin clients and perhaps other systems as well.

Again, I have a compiled openchrome_drv.so and openchrome_drv.la for TahrPup 6.0.2, and I can compile it again for any other Pup you might need or want it in -- and I'm more than happy to do that, as well.

hi starhawk

glad you finally sorted this
it might be best to compile it in xenialpup as it is probably compiled for a particular xorg version.

keep hold of the tahrpup ones though and i'll include them in the next tahrpup iso

thanks

[yr1945]

just a quick note to ask for help to suspend Xenialpup 7.0.0... on almost every "puppy" plus "quirkies" I can add acpitool and pupshutdown and then have the capability to suspend the "puppies"... in a few "puppies", eg, Slacko 6.3.0, they automatically suspend when I close the lid (or just move the lid close to the latch)... however, Xenialpup 7.0.0 (and all pups created by 666philb) will not suspend on my laptop... the screen just dims and then pops back on even after installing acpitool and pupshutdown... is it just unique to my laptop (dell latitude 64 bit e6400)? thank you for your support...

[666philb]

new iso uploaded http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/test/xenialpup/

switched to kernel 4.5.2 .. this is the first 4* kernel that works with my nvidia card.
ddcprobe doesn't segfault anymore
fixed Unable to update the static FcBlanks: error
switched to ubuntu's cups and my printer now works
added missing xsane stuff and my scanner now works
added gtk3 ...lot's of packages in the ubuntu repos now have it as a dependency and also firefox now needs it.. adds some size though.
added the brilliant puppy icon theme by 01micko http://blog.puppylinux.com/?viewDetailed=00016 icons in palemoon,abiword,transmission,geany etc all puppyfied

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problems ...

'pup_event_frontend_d' isn't working properly and so the mount and unmount icons on the drives aren't working

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to do.....

update lots of apps ... peasyapps,pfind etc
remove qt4
tweak jwm theme

[666philb]

just a quick note to ask for help to suspend Xenialpup 7.0.0... on almost every "puppy" plus "quirkies" I can add acpitool and pupshutdown and then have the capability to suspend the "puppies"... in a few "puppies", eg, Slacko 6.3.0, they automatically suspend when I close the lid (or just move the lid close to the latch)... however, Xenialpup 7.0.0 (and all pups created by 666philb) will not suspend on my laptop... the screen just dims and then pops back on even after installing acpitool and pupshutdown... is it just unique to my laptop (dell latitude 64 bit e6400)? thank you for your support...

see if 7.0.1 works as it has an updated kernel,

[rcrsn51]

@666philb: Be aware that the latest PeasyPort PET now contains two binaries - arp-scan and pnscan.

[yr1945]

@666philb... no... Xenialpup 7.0.1, will not suspend... it's a strange situation... it's either associated/related to your process for building "pups" or it's something to do with my old laptop... the only "pups" that will not suspend are the ones you create... anyway, thank you for trying to help...

does anyone else have a problem suspending Xenial or tahr pups?

[starhawk]

@666philb -- just now saw your comment. I'll download Xenial tonight and do the driver thing sometime this coming week (might be a tad sooner than that, but don't hold your breath).

FWIW, I'm in the middle of like twelve things right now (including building myself a new system, which right now is not going together entirely gracefully...) so it might be a bit.

But I *will* do it.

[Billtoo]

Manual frugal install to a usb-3.0 SSD.

Computer
Processor 2x Intel(R) Celeron(R) 2957U @ 1.40GHz
Memory 1973MB (137MB used)
Machine Type Physical machine
Operating System xenial - 7.0.1
User Name root (root)
Date/Time Thu 05 May 2016 08:16:45 PM EDT
Display
Resolution 1920x1080 pixels
OpenGL Renderer Mesa DRI Intel(R) Haswell Mobile x86/MMX/SSE2
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Audio Devices
Audio Adapter HDA-Intel - HDA Intel HDMI
Audio Adapter HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH
Audio Adapter PC-Speaker - pcsp

Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43142 802.11b/g/n (rev 01)

The wireless adapter is not seen by the network wizard so using wired.

No problems apart from that so far.

[rcrsn51]

is this the gtk theme or the jwm theme?

I'm guessing that it's the gtk Numix theme. In Xdialog and gtkdialog windows, there is little contrast between text and background.

Has the gtk theme changer app stopped working?

[James C]

Quick manual frugal install to internal hdd. Good so far.

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root# inxi -Fxx
System:    Host: puppypc10059 Kernel: 4.5.2 i686 (32 bit gcc: 5.3.1)
           Desktop: JWM 2.3.5 dm: N/A Distro: xenial 7.0.1
Machine:   Mobo: ASUSTeK model: M5A97 LE R2.0 v: Rev 1.xx serial: 150545593600028
           Bios: American Megatrends v: 2601 date: 03/24/2015
CPU:       Hexa core AMD FX-6300 Six-Core (-MCP-) cache: 12288 KB
           flags: (lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm) bmips: 42141
           clock speeds: min/max: 1400/3500 MHz 1: 1400 MHz
           2: 2000 MHz 3: 2000 MHz 4: 2000 MHz 5: 1400 MHz
           6: 1400 MHz
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210]
           bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0a65
           Display Server: X.org 1.18.3 drivers: nouveau (unloaded: vesa)
           tty size: 70x23 Advanced Data: N/A for root
Audio:     Card-1 NVIDIA High Definition Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0be3
           Card-2 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:14.2 chip-ID: 1002:4383
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.5.2
Network:   Card: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
           driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: d000
           bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full
           mac: 1c:87:2c:5a:bb:e2
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 1120.2GB (3.9% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: KINGSTON_SV300S3 size: 120.0GB serial: N/A
           ID-2: /dev/sdb model: WDC_WD10EZEX size: 1000.2GB serial: N/A
           ID-1: swap-1 size: 8.60GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sdb5
RAID:      System: supported: linear raid0 raid1 raid10 raid6 raid5 raid4
           No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
           Unused Devices: none
Sensors:   None detected - is lm-sensors installed and configured?
Info:      Processes: 174 Uptime: 10 min Memory: 291.1/16112.2MB
           Init: SysVinit v: N/A runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: N/A
           Client: Shell (bash 4.3.291 running in urxvt) inxi: 2.2.35 

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root# free
             total         used         free       shared      buffers
Mem:      16498904      1277008     15221896       267972       119008
-/+ buffers:            1158000     15340904
Swap:      8396796            0      8396796

[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.

i did include /sbin/losetup-FULL ...what else is needed for encryption to work?

In xenial-7.0.0 I extracted losetup from initrd.gz. Is losetup-FULL in the main sfs a different one? What I did was to rebuild the main sfs with losetup from initrd.gz. It should be after copying the main sfs' content in puppy_xenial dir:

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cp /path-to/losetup ./puppy_xenial/bin/
cp /path-to/losetup ./puppy_xenial/sbin/losetup-FULL
cd ./puppy_xenial/sbin
ln -s ../bin/busybox losetup
cd ../..
dir2sfs puppy_xenial

Now downloading xenial-7.0.1.iso.

EDIT: All working here. Great job!

[peebee]

ddcprobe now ok in the new iso
hwclock still segfaults when booting but runs fine once booted

Hi Phil

7.0.1 with k4.5.2

hwclock still segfaults for me after reboot - I can cure it by installing util-linux-2.27.1-i586-1.txz from slackware-current

ddcprobe no longer segfaults - but doesn't produce the info it's meant to either - seems to be a common problem with newer kernels.....

Cheers
peebee