Puppy 4.2 RC3 Deep Thought - Bugs & Fixes

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synth · #211 Post by **synth** » Thu 19 Mar 2009, 12:39

AbiWord v2.6.8 Released
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This release includes the following changes (and more!):

* Fix the auto-save feature to actually work and respect the user-selected time interval
* Properly export table border and cell styles for OpenDocument documents
* Make sure the Office Open XML exporter writes out valid documents
* Fix a great number of memory leaks

Full changelog: http://www.abiword.com/changelogs/2.6.8.phtml

zigbert · #212 Post by **zigbert** » Thu 19 Mar 2009, 12:57

Warren
Do you have xli installed? - If you have, I think that must be wrong. I don't see why it should be there. It is not in 4.12. I think that is the answer to wallpaper issue I reported. REMOVE IT - NOW

Sigmund

WhoDo · #213 Post by **WhoDo** » Thu 19 Mar 2009, 13:03

Guys, I'm very happy with the stability of RC4 in private testing. Therefore I will upload it in 8-10 hours unless one of you asks for an extension.

@Zigbert - I think the only way to resolve the clock thing is to upload RC4 so you can play with it yourselves. Setting sleep didn't work. Commenting out the xli line in /root/.xinitrc didn't work either.

@All - the last of the niggling bugs appear to have been squashed

Abiword spell checking now works out of the box
RemaX seems stable
PETget has been localised
Pburn has been updated to 2.2
PCP Control Panel has been included on usability grounds
Alsa has been upgraded to 1.0.19 despite a minor dependency issue
...and many scripts have been tweaked, polished or fixed as necessary

I will give you 48hrs from uploading to break RC4 and report. If there are no breaks of any note then I'll upload Final at the weekend.

Cheers

WhoDo · #214 Post by **WhoDo** » Thu 19 Mar 2009, 13:06

zigbert wrote:Do you have xli installed? - If you have, I think that must be wrong. I don't see why it should be there. It is not in 4.12. I think that is the answer to wallpaper issue I reported. REMOVE IT - NOW

I don't believe so, no. It would only be there if it was in the Pwidgets-2.0.4 pack. The line in /root/.xinitrc is a hangover from earlier experiments with Pwidgets and the clock.

zigbert · #215 Post by **zigbert** » Thu 19 Mar 2009, 13:44

How can I experiment with it if it only occur at first boot (or is it at every boot). Pup_420.sfs is read only, and is out of my reach?????

Sigmund

trio · #216 Post by **trio** » Thu 19 Mar 2009, 13:46

Whodo

clock issue:

before you upload rc4 could you please try attached xonclock to replace old one in /usr/local/bin/

thanks

zigbert · #217 Post by **zigbert** » Thu 19 Mar 2009, 13:52

trio
What is different to this xonclock compared to patriots?

Sigmund

trio · #218 Post by **trio** » Thu 19 Mar 2009, 14:00

zigbert wrote:trio
What is different to this xonclock compared to patriots?

Sigmund

No it's the same..I just afraid that whodo didn't put the right xonclock --> seems to me he's having the previous xonclock symptoms

Edit: come to think of it again..seems more like patriot's xonclock is getting wrong window-id

#219 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Thu 19 Mar 2009, 14:05

[quote="WhoDo"][/quote]
Hey Who I also compiled alsa, Which file is complaining about missing libs, I could give you the same file. I compiled alsa-firmware, alsalibs, alsa-oss, alsaplugins, alsatools, alsautils. Then only one which wouldn't compile was alsa drivers, That was screwy on my pc. So inform me which file you need and i'll send it to you.
Also don't forget the older but better Claws mail on page2 plus my other updates.

I guess probably no need to update Seamonkey since there doesn't look like anytime left before the final for testing. Oh ya one thing thats bugging me a lot, when i right click on a file, a lot of the time I get "Customise Menu" and it auto starts because I have a sensitive i-rocks mouse, anyways we could have a blank space in the menu located at that same area so the Customise menu doesn't basically autostart around 30 times today also? Like maybe a label using a period, or you could put something like 'puppy menu' who know, just that program needs to be moved up or down by one name

ttuuxxx

#220 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Thu 19 Mar 2009, 14:10

WhoDo wrote:Guys, I'm very happy with the stability of RC4 in private testing.

Cheers

I'm more than happy with the stability:)
I updated Glib, Gtk2, Atk, Pixman, Cairo, Pango with all the latest versions and its still working, lol, I can compile etc, no problems

ttuuxxx

bigbeck · #221 Post by **bigbeck** » Thu 19 Mar 2009, 14:41

I can't connect the wireless on my Asus eee 900A. It loads the driver for ethernet, though. I'm using RC3. When I load the proper driver (atho),It just returns, "no new devices found". This same driver works fine with the Pupeee distro. Any possible solutions?

Thank you,

Don

#222 Post by **Pizzasgood** » Thu 19 Mar 2009, 15:21

zigbert wrote:How can I experiment with it if it only occur at first boot (or is it at every boot). Pup_420.sfs is read only, and is out of my reach?????

Sigmund

Find a spot in a Linux partition with 300+ MB of free space and create a directory named rootfs-complete. For this example, I assume /mnt/home/rootfs-complete.

From the same directory where you have a pup_420.sfs file, run these commands:

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mount -o loop pup_420.sfs /mnt/data
cp -a /mnt/data/* /mnt/home/rootfs-complete/
umount /mnt/data

Now you can go into /mnt/home/rootfs-complete/ and change things. When done, go to /mnt/home and run this:

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mksquashfs rootfs-complete pup_420.sfs

That will produce a pup_420.sfs file in /mnt/home. Test it. If it needs more adjustments, go back to /mnt/home/rootfs-complete/ and make more changes.

nilla · #223 Post by **nilla** » Thu 19 Mar 2009, 15:34

bigbeck wrote:I can't connect the wireless on my Asus eee 900A. It loads the driver for ethernet, though. I'm using RC3. When I load the proper driver (atho),It just returns, "no new devices found". This same driver works fine with the Pupeee distro. Any possible solutions?

Thank you,

Don

Try replacing the madwifi pet package with the one on the package repository (madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3861-k2.6.25.16.pet). Did the trick for my eee 701.

zigbert · #224 Post by **zigbert** » Thu 19 Mar 2009, 15:56

Pizzasgood
Wow, thank you.

Sigmund

#225 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Thu 19 Mar 2009, 16:26

Pizzasgood wrote: Find a spot in a Linux partition with 300+ MB of free space and create a directory named rootfs-complete. For this example, I assume /mnt/home/rootfs-complete.

From the same directory where you have a pup_420.sfs file, run these commands:
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mount -o loop pup_420.sfs /mnt/data
cp -a /mnt/data/* /mnt/home/rootfs-complete/
umount /mnt/data
Now you can go into /mnt/home/rootfs-complete/ and change things. When done, go to /mnt/home and run this:
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mksquashfs rootfs-complete pup_420.sfs
That will produce a pup_420.sfs file in /mnt/home. Test it. If it needs more adjustments, go back to /mnt/home/rootfs-complete/ and make more changes.

Thanks thats a better way of changing system files and building a test model

ttuuxxx

#226 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Thu 19 Mar 2009, 17:51

Hey WhoDO heres all the stripped libs from 4.2RC3
http://www.puppylinux.asia/tpp/ttuuxxx/ ... 4.2rc3.pet
Remember its a 1.44MB saving expanded, maybe 500kb compressed.
and if your installing any newer applications like alsa audio, make sure you install them after the libs so they don't get overwritten, I'll post this link on page 2 also with the rest of the files.
ttuuxxx

WhoDo · #227 Post by **WhoDo** » Thu 19 Mar 2009, 19:54

trio wrote:clock issue:

before you upload rc4 could you please try attached xonclock to replace old one in /usr/local/bin/

Will do, trio. No problem.

WhoDo · #228 Post by **WhoDo** » Thu 19 Mar 2009, 20:02

ttuuxxx wrote:Hey Who I also compiled alsa, Which file is complaining about missing libs, I could give you the same file. I compiled alsa-firmware, alsalibs, alsa-oss, alsaplugins, alsatools, alsautils. Then only one which wouldn't compile was alsa drivers, That was screwy on my pc. So inform me which file you need and i'll send it to you.

I don't remember at this point but its not a major issue. When I run Barry's dependency checker at build time it complains about a python-2.5 file being missing. Doesn't seem to impact on the program any other way but testing will confirm that.

ttuuxxx wrote:Also don't forget the older but better Claws mail on page2 plus my other updates.

Claws-3.6.0-html already included

ttuuxxx wrote:I guess probably no need to update Seamonkey since there doesn't look like anytime left before the final for testing.

No, Seamonkey-1.1.15 is not required for this release.

ttuuxxx wrote:Oh ya one thing thats bugging me a lot, when i right click on a file, a lot of the time I get "Customise Menu" and it auto starts because I have a sensitive i-rocks mouse, anyways we could have a blank space in the menu located at that same area so the Customise menu doesn't basically autostart around 30 times today also?

Seems like a kludge to me. I'd rather not include kludges at this late stage. Save that one as a suggestion for the next release. It's not really a bug ... just a usability issue related to mouse sensitivity.

WhoDo · #229 Post by **WhoDo** » Thu 19 Mar 2009, 20:06

zigbert wrote:How can I experiment with it if it only occur at first boot (or is it at every boot). Pup_420.sfs is read only, and is out of my reach?????

It is definitely at 1st boot only, so you'll need Pizzasgood's method for unpacking and repacking the sfs to make changes and experiment.

droope · #230 Post by **droope** » Thu 19 Mar 2009, 20:12

WhoDo wrote:
zigbert wrote:How can I experiment with it if it only occur at first boot (or is it at every boot). Pup_420.sfs is read only, and is out of my reach?????
It is definitely at 1st boot only, so you'll need Pizzasgood's method for unpacking and repacking the sfs to make changes and experiment.

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