Gnome 2.20.3 SFS (Only for Puppy4)

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#106 Post by Malachi »

Hi Beem,

Since I didn't have a save file (per the instructions in the first post), I had to reboot and make one. After that, the .PET installed without a problem. With the .SFS file in the same folder as the save, I rebooted again, exited to prompt, and typed in "xwin gnome-session". However, it just ran Puppy normally.

I'm pretty sure the problem is that I am only supposed to make a save file after I install the .PET file. Unfortunately, I don't have enough RAM to do this.

EDIT: I forgot about the commands I was supposed to enter into the terminal. I just did them now, rebooted, and did the prompt thing, but this still doesn't work.

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#107 Post by Béèm »

When you go into bootmanager and select 'choose which extra sfs files you want to load at boot' you get a second window. (with two panes)
Can you post a screen shot?
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#108 Post by Malachi »

Okay, here it is:

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#109 Post by Carnaggio »

I've been getting segmentation faults in Evolution. It's not consistent, but seems to happen when opening a new message. Running Evolution from a terminal gives the following output:

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CalDAV Eplugin starting up ...
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** (evolution:4870): DEBUG: mailto URL program: evolution
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Segmentation fault
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#110 Post by jcagle »

ok, there's a slight problem with Dingo-Xorg-DRI.pet. I went to download it, and it gives me

Concurrent download limit exceeded.

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#111 Post by jcagle »


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#112 Post by jcagle »

OK, so it worked but...

with the pup_save file where I'm using the Gnome SFS, I've got a little problem. My wireless card no longer sees networks. I'm fine in my other pup save files though.

So, here's the error message I'm getting from the network setup.

Error!
Failed to raise interface wlan0.
Failed command was: ifconfig wlan0 up
Error returned was:
ifconfig: SIOCSIFFLAGS: Protocol error

Any help with this would be appreciated, especially since I want to migrate my mail in Evolution in Ubuntu to Puppy. Well, it's kind of pointless when I'm unable to find a network...

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#113 Post by jcagle »

Any help on this at all?

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#114 Post by Béèm »

Malachi wrote:Okay, here it is:

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Sorry Malachi, I lost your post out of sight.
You should tick the box 'ignore above user selection,...........'
Or alternatively leave the box unticked and rename the rename the gnome-2.20.3-test2_410.sfs to gnome-2.20.3-test2.sfs.
This is the way I prefer to work.
Reason there are sfs files which goes with more then one version of puppy.
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#115 Post by wow »

@jcagle: My knowledge about wireless networks is almost nothing.
However, I can give you few ideas.

1. This SFS uses udev to dynamically add/remove device nodes in /dev. Perhaps udev has created the device node for wlan0 with a different name (wlan0_renamed??)

2. Firmware wasn't installed (udev again ...)

3. Tell us more about your hardware and Puppy version.

4. google
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#116 Post by jcagle »

It's Puppy 4.1.1
I'm using a Broadcom BCM4318 (Airforce One 54g) built in wireless on my Acer Aspire 3690.

I'm thinking it is a udev issue, considering all the udev error messages I get when booting up. There's just too many of them to list them all, I'm not even sure if I see them all on screen.

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#117 Post by wow »

Puppy 4.1 tries to start udevd is udev is installed, I removed udevd and pup_event_backend lines in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit to avoid problems with udev (rc.udev) service.

To fix those error message you must add more groups with the 'addgroup' command. Example:

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addgroup lp
addgroup kmem
addgroup video
addgroup kmem
addgroup plugdev
addgroup cdrom
(can't remember more at the moment)
Restart udev to see if there're no missing groups:

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killall udevd
/etc/rc.d/rc.udev start
Another thing that you can do is: run bootmanager to remove gnome.sfs from the list; reboot; and setup your wireless card.
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#118 Post by stifiling »

Really digging this Gnome. Problem though. My wine games appear to work in this gnome...but not in jwm. but the thing is, after starting a game, when i'm done playing and restart X or the computer, my panels permanently disappear. amongst load up they blink about 6 times.....then blink out to not return until the next load up where i yet again get about 6 blinks then they blink out.

why does the games work in gnome but not jwm? i really just want to be able to play my wine gamehouse games even if it's jwm. preferable gnome though.

any help is appreciated...
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#119 Post by wow »

I suppose that you start your wine games from those icons on the Desktop, Try to switch to jwm, start ROX-Filer, browse to /root/Desktop then you fill find those launchers, start your games from there.

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#120 Post by hexdef101 »

i seem to be getting errors for some of the panel applets is there a fix for this
otherwise works fine in puppy 4.2.1


ACH forgot to get the dependancys


this is the complete list to fix those darn errors
(should be done after install)

addgroup haldaemon
adduser -SDH haldaemon -G haldaemon
addgroup lp
addgroup kmem
addgroup video
addgroup plugdev
addgroup cdrom
addgroup disk
addgroup floppy
addgroup uucp

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#121 Post by QBall2U »

Has anyone tried using the sfsconvert version converter utility on the gnome-2.20.3test02_400.sfs to convert it to whatever version of the filesystem they are using (i.e. squashfs 3.0 to squashfs 4.0) THEN changing the '_400' to, say '_420' or '_430'?

Just curious if that would work? :? I mean, if it was made using Dingo (puppy 4.0) for a squashfs 3.0, would converting it to squashfs 4.0 (like we do for other .sfs file groups) work?

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#122 Post by hexdef101 »

yes and it converts perfectly

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#123 Post by heri.neutrino »

how to install gnomenu and dockbarx in gnome?

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#124 Post by xileros »

i guess i'm just missing something but how would one go about getting this sfs working on a full install of 525?

i tried on 520 but it just played funny colors and offsets..
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#125 Post by jonrpick »

Agreed... I'd love to see Gnome on Puppy. I realize some may see that as adding something rather "bloated" to a very slim distro, but overall, it would still be far smaller than say, Fedora...

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