Puppy 4.2 RC4 Deep Thought - Bugs & Fixes

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Re: Cups NO

#406 Post by ttuuxxx »

Minnesota wrote:
Can someone try this cups and see what the cpu usage is?
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Fresh CD boot RC4, ran CUSP... initializes...

RAN PET.. "Failed to connect".... this was after restart X....

Two machines. Assume necessary to restart x?
na you shouldn't have to restart after installing it, ok how about this patch that pizzasgood offered, It was included in the last one you tried, but that was on beta3, maybe just reboot on your live cd, with
puppy fix=ram
and then install this small patch :) with the current cups installed. Not the beta 3 just the one which came with the cd :)
I'm thinking maybe beta 3 isn't working correctly so we'll try the current one, the current one works for you right? but you just have high cpu resource usage right ?
thanks for the help
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#407 Post by Pizzasgood »

capoverde wrote:Also, with XOrg the keyboard shorcut to open a terminal inside a directory (<'>) doesn't work -- not that it matters much, but this is an old unsolved issue, most probably a tricky one since all other shortcuts seem to work.
Actually, it does work. But it uses the backquote, not the normal quote ( ` vs ' ). On a US keyboard it's the same key as the tilde, left of the 1 and below the Esc.

`f00 wrote:Obviously, xorg.conf switched over to new vidcard at boot - same issue as noted with xorg (when dealing with vidcard with more than one vga out, as many aftermarket vidcards have as a standard), namely the line in xorg.conf, section server layout

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#   Screen      1  "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
must be commented out to keep the maus-pointer from disappearing 'offscreen' .. even though there is only one monitor on this card, xorg seems perhaps to be interpreting the card's two vga outs as 'screens' even if there is no display connected to the 2nd vga out.
Earilier in this thread I supplied WhoDo with a further modified /usr/sbin/xorgwizard that will automatically comment out any screen lines besides Screen0, in addition to the other modifications it has had since 4.1.2.
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#408 Post by ttuuxxx »

Hey WhoDo
A couple of months back I posted a gimp package I compiled In the Software section, Today one user asked me how come you can't acquire from a scanner in gimp using xsane, well I read up on it and basically first you need a system link from xsane bin to the usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plugins etc, so I tried it and it worked on Dpup, but dpup isn't puppy, when I tried it on 4.2 rc4 no go, Then I started thinking it must be Xsane, so I compiled the latest version and sure enough it didn't compile with gimp support, because I didn't have the devs installed at the time. So I install the gimp devs and recompiled it and poof it worked.
Below is the latest xsane with gimp support its 4kb larger then the repo pet, but its also a couple versions newer.

also if you wanted a 5.5MB gimp for the repo this one compiled without patching things and changing glib.dbus etc like other gimps on the forum.
http://www.puppylinux.asia/tpp/ttuuxxx/ ... oc-nsl.pet

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#409 Post by trio »

Whodo

First I want to say NO OFFENSE to anybody.....ok ttuuxxx?

I tried to use icewm's freememapplet in jwm...picture below...the "M" only shows half or it won't be like that in 4.2 final if using this? Or could be only me?

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#410 Post by 01micko »

trio wrote:Whodo

First I want to say NO OFFENSE to anybody.....ok ttuuxxx?

I tried to use icewm's freememapplet in jwm...picture below...the "M" only shows half or it won't be like that in 4.2 final if using this? Or could be only me?

Thanks
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#411 Post by pa_mcclamrock »

linuxcbon wrote:1Gb RAM is not enough for me for remasterpup2...Does you[r] new program fix it ?
You've tried remasterpup2 and it didn't work because you had "only" 1 GB RAM? Ugh! Well, eegad said he has 1 GB RAM too, and he reported that the newer version of mksquashfs (attached above, i.e., on page 27 of this thread) did work for him with Remaster Express (presumably it would work with remasterpup2 too).

Untar the tarball, rename /usr/sbin/mksquashfs as "mksquashfs.old" or something ("mksquashfs.ancien" in French), copy the new mksquashfs to /usr/sbin, and give it a try (preferably while running HardInfo to see what's happening to your computer's memory). If it doesn't work, please let me know what happens instead.
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#412 Post by trio »

Ok, I've been thinking & testing how is the easiest workaround for the bcm43xx module problem, and I found one..very easy..want to test?

1. boot fresh (no pup_save)
2. install this pet below
3. reboot (you'll be asked to make pup_save file, please make one)
4. on this second boot, then you go to network wizard..and bcm43xx won't be there....... :lol:

Hopefully Whodo already fix this for final..

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#413 Post by MinHundHettePerro »

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#414 Post by ttuuxxx »

MinHundHettePerro wrote:
trio wrote:Whodo

First I want to say NO OFFENSE to anybody.....ok ttuuxxx?

I tried to use icewm's freememapplet in jwm...picture below...the "M" only shows half or it won't be like that in 4.2 final if using this? Or could be only me?

Thanks
Not only you, me too in IceWM!

Cheers/
MHHP


I'm working on it :)
Really the numbers are way more important than the letters, m=mb g=gb etc, But i'm working on it as we speak:) It never used to do that, Its something new, I wonder why ?
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#415 Post by MinHundHettePerro »

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Dual Xeon 3.2 GHz, 1 GB, nvidia quadro nvs 285[/color]
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Re: Cups NO

#416 Post by Minnesota »

ttuuxxx

Boot RC4 new from CD.. should be same as pfix=ram?
a. click on cups-patch-v1.pet
FAILED TO CONNECT with either link, from System or from Setup menu
b. restart menu
same results
c. restart x
same results
Boot RC4 new from CD
a cups-8462-i386-3.pet
b Any combination of system menu, restart menu, restart x, setup menu....all yield
FAILED TO CONNECT

Boot RC4 new from CD..
a. click on cups-patch-v1.pet
Finally read message for need to REBOOT
Put in stick, saved to stick
reboot from CD assumed picked up saved data from stick
b. FAILED TO CONNECT

:( :( :( Not having any luck with this....

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#417 Post by ttuuxxx »

Sorry guys that Gimp/Xsane package was missing a updated lib, its now updated but its 145kb bigger, libtiff.so.5 I had to include, so since probably WhoDo doesn't have a extra 145kb compressed, probably just use it as a repo item.
here's the link to the updated package that includes the latest libtiff
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... h&id=16574
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Re: Cups NO

#418 Post by ttuuxxx »

Minnesota wrote:ttuuxxx
you have to boot clean on puppy 4.2
you need the cd in the drive and reboot, when the first screen comes up tye
puppy pfix=ram
that will ignore anything you have saved on hard disk and boot 100% in ram.
then try the patch please :)
ttuuxxx

you could also unplug your hard drive if you really want to make sure :)
and have the patch saved on usb etc or download it again from here.
http://audio.online-convert.com/ <-- excellent site
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No hard drive

#419 Post by Minnesota »

NO hard drive.. test bed has mobile disk, and I pull the drive.. so Booting from CD clean!!!

Greg

add:

In a few cases I have pressed RESET.. but I assume Puppy is loading from scratch and will not pick up anything in OLD memory... I know this is not true with the old video as I can see last image a sometimes.. but I assume regular memory is reset????

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support for e-sata connected HDD's

#420 Post by Béèm »

My Medium has a second 320GB HDD connected to a e-sata connector in a bay. So the HDD is connected external.

the 4.20RC4 don't recognize this HDD.
The first sata HDD is recognized fortunately.

I tried upup-015 and to my surprise and pleasure this external HDD was recognized.

I looked at the kernel version and saw 2.6.29.rc7.
Could this be the reason for the support of the external HDD?
Will this support be there soon in 4.2x?
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#421 Post by technosaurus »

@Whodo - are you keeping track of the DEV packages as well or should we start a separate thread to compile all the DEV packages for the new programs and new versions of old programs??? It would be nice to have a devx_420.sfs...
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DistroWatch

#422 Post by SouthPaws »

Hey, WhoDo there's a flurry of NON-STABLE release announcements on distrowatch...
Will there be one of 4.2RC4 (to possibly draw in more testers) before the awesome final?

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Cannot mount CIFS share

#423 Post by jamesbond »

RC4 (and I believe RC3,2,1 down to puppy 4.1.2) cannot mount CIFS share (aka "Windows share" or 'Windows Network Drive"). While we're talking about Windows here, unfortunately most of personal NAS storage also use the same protocol (e.g. my WD MyBook World Edition).

1. mount -t cifs doesn't work due to lack of helper mount.cifs program
2. mount -t smbfs doesn't work because of missing symlink from /opt/samba/bin/smbmount to /sbin/mount.smbfs
3. Even if pt 2 above is fixed, I found that smbmount doesn't do it's job properly --- I can mount, but doing directory listing doesn't work.

This wasn't a problem in 2.15CE because at least smbmount works fine there.

The fix?

Download and install mount.cifs to /sbin.

I have prepared a dotpet, and if you like you can get the source itself, from here http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 811#288811

I compiled that in Fatdog but I've already tested in RC4 and it works.
It's 7.9K compressed, 18K uncompressed, and in my opinion, is really necessary.

Then you can do things like:

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mount -t cifs -o user=YourUserName,pass=YourPassword //IP_address_of_your_CIFS_server/Name_of_shared_folder /mnt/data
Once done you can unmount as usual

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umount /mnt/data
Those who like GUI, should get PNetHood updated to use this instead of smbmount. Anyway for me PNethood doesn't work because nbtscan (the command used to look for servers) crash my WD MyBook and I don't have a solution for it yet ...

EDIT: pnethood already know how to use cifs ... so that's good. I can use pnethood to mount a known server, but the nbtscan problem still exist and I still don't have a solution.

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#424 Post by 8-bit »

This is just an observation concerning hidden errors and a place to check for them.
Fire up Puppy RC4 with pfix=ram
Go to /temp with ROX.
Open the xerrs.log file.
It shows a number of things.
One was not being able to load tray icon nothing.png
There are others that are interesting as placement parameters being wrong for the screen size.

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#425 Post by capoverde »

Pizzasgood wrote:
capoverde wrote:Also, with XOrg the keyboard shorcut to open a terminal inside a directory (<'>) doesn't work -- not that it matters much, but this is an old unsolved issue, most probably a tricky one since all other shortcuts seem to work.
Actually, it does work. But it uses the backquote, not the normal quote ( ` vs ' ). On a US keyboard it's the same key as the tilde, left of the 1 and below the Esc.
So that's it! Thanks to you PG and some googling, I've learned about the "backquote" character... and that it does exist in one version of the Italian kbd layout (<alt>+<ù>), which is implemented in Puppy, although no keyboard I've ever seen around here shows it (!!) .

I'd never find out by myself -- particularly since with XVesa the normal apostrophe does call the terminal... which makes up for another oddity. :shock:

*Edit: upon testing this, it turned out that the "backquote" character can also be obtained with <alt>+<apostrophe> (as in the Italian kbd layout for Switzerland) and only this combination calls the terminal while <alt>+<ù> doesn't, even if it types the "`" correctly.

As for what I reported previously about the top tray, it does hide away if Ptray is closed without hitting the "Apply" tab; else it remains active. And then, often after that (but not always... will test), an ultra-tiny window for Blinky appears at the top left of the screen (sorry if this has been reported already, but 29 pages take too long to read...).
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