Fatdog64-810 Final [17 Jan 2020]

[don570]

The kernel changed between fatdog64 802 and 810.
I wonder if that makes a difference in nvidia drivers.
I can get fatdog64 802 to load nvidia driver.
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[step]

The same driver is known to work on 810 for another user. After loading the SFS did you run depmod -a from the command line and reboot?

I couldn't get the nvidia driver SFS to work on fatdog64 810

Any more details on what that means? Thank you.

[don570]

After loading the SFS did you run depmod -a
yes.

The nvidia driver is definitely loading at boot time but x windows won't load
and only the console is possible.
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[step]

Please run bugreport.sh and PO me the resulting archive. This will provide us with detailed information on system configuration. At your discretion before sending the archive you may edit out any confidential information. Thank you.

[jamesbond]

I couldn't get the recent openshot appimage to launch
Here is message at terminal...

# /mnt/sdc1/OpenShot-v2.5.0-x86_64.AppImage
Loaded modules from current directory: /tmp/.mount_rsisUF/usr/bin
app:INFO ------------------------------------------------
app:INFO Sun Feb 23 13:16:56 2020
app:INFO Starting new session
app:ERROR OpenShotApp::Import Error: libselinux.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

OpenShot image requires libselinux to run. I've just uploaded libselinux to the repo. Download it with gslapt and openshot should run. Please report back if it doesn't.

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@twigboy - Fatdog doesn't run flatpak at the moment. Perhaps you can suggest to gnucash team to package their "universal binary" using AppImage instead, which Fatdog (and many other Linux distros) does run. I tried to build gnucash myself but it depends on webkit (which is a very big package with requires hours of compiling) - so perhaps next time.

[don570]

I couldn't get the recent openshot appimage to launch
Here is message at terminal...

To James ...

Yes the solution is to install libselinux.so.1 from repository
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[don570]

https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/rel ... ux-x64.zip

When I tried to run etcher appimage , there was a there was an error
reported to terminal....

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# ./balenaEtcher-1.5.79-x64.AppImage 
/tmp/.mount_balenaVHDbib/balena-etcher-electron.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-3.so.0: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32

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There is new version of mtpaint
https://github.com/wjaguar/mtPaint
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Latest mypaint appimage
https://github.com/mypaint/mypaint-appi ... continuous
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[Ether]

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Help please.

I searched all 206 pages of this thread and was not able to find examples of grub4dos bootcodes (to put in my existing menu.lst file).

Did I somehow miss it ?

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[don570]

There is a puppy program written by shinobar called grub4dos that
will create the menu.lst file automatically .
It was first written for old BIOS computers.

I have an old computer (Dell optiplex 990)
What I did was to take an old CD that had puppy linux burnt on it (Racy linux)
and booted my computer with it and ran shinobar's GRUB4DOS.
It created the menu.lst file in the windows 10 computer, so both windows and linux can boot.
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If you check the fatdog repository there is a programm called grub4dos
available

https://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/packa ... i686-1.txz
It was created in January. I'm not sure about it . Didn't try it.
It may be intended for modern computers????
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James wrote about grub4dos ...
but that was a full install rather than frugal.
http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/web/fa ... stall.html


Frugal install is explained here
http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/web/fa ... drive.html
but it uses refind_x64.efi which checks for bootable operating systems

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[Ether]

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Help please.

I searched all 206 pages of this thread and was not able to find examples of grub4dos bootcodes (to put in my existing menu.lst file).

Did I somehow miss it ?

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Just to clarify a couple of things:

1) I already have grub4dos installed and have several frugal installs of other puppy & dog distros.

2) I have created a folder for frugal install of FatDog64-810 and extracted the ISO there.

3) I want to manually edit my existing menu.lst file to add an entry to boot FatDog64-810.

4) I want to Porteus boot with changes on EXIT

Thank you.

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[SFR]

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# ./balenaEtcher-1.5.79-x64.AppImage
/tmp/.mount_balenaVHDbib/balena-etcher-electron.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-3.so.0: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32

You need to install GTK3 (x86_64) and its deps from repo.

I searched all 206 pages of this thread and was not able to find examples of grub4dos bootcodes (to put in my existing menu.lst file).

Here's an example, from my menu.lst:

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title Fatdog64-810
find --set-root --ignore-floppies /Fatdog64-810/initrd
kernel /Fatdog64-810/vmlinuz rootfstype=ramfs savefile=ram:device:sda2:Fatdog64-810/fd64save_dmcrypt_.ext4
initrd /Fatdog64-810/initrd
boot

Greetings!

[Ether]

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Help please.

I searched all 206 pages of this thread and was not able to find examples of grub4dos bootcodes (to put in my existing menu.lst file).

Did I somehow miss it ?[/b]

.

Just to clarify a couple of things:

1) I already have grub4dos installed and have several frugal installs of other puppy & dog distros.

2) I have created a folder for frugal install of FatDog64-810 and extracted the ISO there.

3) I want to manually edit my existing menu.lst file to add an entry to boot FatDog64-810.

4) I want to Porteus boot with changes on EXIT

Thank you.[/b]

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For the record, here's what worked for me:

1) FatDog64-810 ISO contents extracted into folder /mnt/sda3/0307

2) grub4dos 0.4.4 (2009-06-20) menu item as follows :

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title 0307 Fatdog64-810 without savefile
root (hd0,2)
kernel (hd0,2)/0307/vmlinuz rootfstype=ramfs savefile=none
initrd (hd0,2)/0307/initrd

Initial observations, FWIW:

1) No apt-get, no Synaptic. So I used GSLapt to download and install an app I wanted called "xcas". GSLapt found that app, and it listed the dependencies, but I could not find an option to say "yes I want the dependencies too". So I went ahead with the install, thinking it would grab the dependencies since the app won't work without them. The download and install proceeded without any error messages. But when I tried to run the app it would not run because files were missing.

2) I could not find any module tools to create module from changes. Is this not supported in FatDog?

3) When exiting, FatDog offered to create a saveFILE, but no option to create a saveFOLDER.

So 3 questions:

1) Am I using GSLapt incorrectly? How do I tell it "yes I do want all the dependencies" ?

2) Is there a way to create a load-on-the-fly squashfs module from changes?

3) Are saveFOLDERS not supported at all?

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[dr. Dan]

@Ether:
I'll answer what I can, and the Fatdog team can fill in the rest or correct me if my answer is insufficient.

3) In the fatdog64 create a savefile process there is an option to make it a folder instead. Perhaps this should be mentioned in a help file. There is some information in the 'How does Fatdog's layered filesystem work?' file.

2) -

1) I'm not sure when or why it happened, but I have installed giac-xcas, and it runs correctly. It does not list dependencies that I can see. I have the fd64-devx... SFS file loaded, which may contain the needed files. The SFS loader is in the Control Panel -> System tab. Gslapt typically loads dependencies automatically. Prior to downloading software it shows an expandable list of all packages it intends to install. Since you posted that dependencies are listed, are you able to post that list? Or you could run it from terminal and post what it shows as missing.

Dan

[step]

libgtk-3.so.0: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32

That would indicate that the AppImage is loading the 32-bit version of libgtk-3, which can't work for a 64-bit app. Was the 32bit-fd64.sfs loaded in you system when the AppImage failed with that message? If so unload the 32-bit sfs and try again. If it wasn't loaded then I can only speculate that the AppImage itself carries a 32-bit libgtk-3 library, and gets confused. Make sure that the 64-bit gtk3 package is installed, as SFR said.

You could also keep both the 32-bit and 64-bit packages installed at the same time, and control which one gets loaded first by setting and exporting shell variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH appropriately.

[SFR]

1) Am I using GSLapt incorrectly? How do I tell it "yes I do want all the dependencies" ?

I have the fd64-devx... SFS file loaded, which may contain the needed files.

Yes, the rest of needed deps is in devx.sfs.

2) Is there a way to create a load-on-the-fly squashfs module from changes?

Only manually, e.g.:

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mksquashfs /aufs/pup_save my_changes.sfs -comp lz4

This will create an lz4 compressed SFS with everything from your savefile/folder (if you're using RAM mode, save session before doing it, so all changes end up there).
If you don't have a savefile/folder, changes are kept in /aufs/pup_rw.

Then you can load it on boot using e.g.:

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extrasfs=local:my_changes.sfs

Click the "Help" icon on the pinboard or this link for more details about the extrasfs boot option: http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/web/fa ... tions.html
I've never done this myself, though, so can't tell how well it's going to work...

3) Are saveFOLDERS not supported at all?

You can create a savefolder, but only on one of the following filesystems:

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ext*|f2fs|xfs|jfs|ntfs

Greetings!

[chiefengineer]

I cannot find this on the create_ap forums. Long story short: migrated old Dell laptop from 630 to 810. Broadcom wireless no longer recognized, even after enabling drivers, etc. So I used external usb Realtek and directed create_ap to use hostapd-rtl-2.6-x86_64-1 .

For some reason this magically doubled all my download speeds, however every four days the bridge between eth0 and wlan0 dies and can only be revived by a reboot. I cannot trace this easily, and have looked at all the settings in DNSMASQ to no avail. DMESG's last entries say NFS open file maximum reached = a large number.

It would seem I should be able to set this number larger somewhere, since it would seem create_ap opened them, or at least tweak something somewhere so I can stop rebooting.

Perhaps (please) one of you gurus knows where I can find the table this exists in, or if the idea of resetting it is futile?

This is the only app I run on this machine.

[don570]

[chiefengineer]

nothing alarming so far

[don570]

Perhaps your problem is related to the way that ntfs disks are mounted in fatdog64.
For instance I've noticed that if I try to mount an ntfs disk using a line in the fstab file --->
The result is that I can read data but not write data to the mounted disk.


Perhaps some network software has noticed the unusual way that your ntfs disk
is mounted and is commenting to a log file.????

So avoid mounting a ntfs disk using a line in fstab file.
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[chiefengineer]

that was a dd'd iso image with a save folder on sdb3 (ext2).


The exact dmesg error that closes out internet is:
VFS:file-max limit 44818 reached

Could this refer to refer to port?

Look at this article:

https://www.speedguide.net/port.php?port=44818

It happened again in the middle of the night last night,
and I scoured the logs at 4AM.