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#406 Post by Karl Godt »

Barburo wrote:I know that the Lighthouse Pup derivatives all recognize ext4 partitions so I assumed that it was pmount that did it.
So ... I copied the pmount exec from LHPup 503 (Tazoc's latest 32-bit LHPup which correctly identifies my /dev/sda7 partition as ext4), and executed it in Macpup528.

It ran perfectly but listed my ext4 partition as ext3!
So I'm wondering where and how does Macpup identify the partitions?

I looked in fstab (after booting into macpup 528) and all I see is:
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts gid=2,mode=620 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,rw 0 0
which doesn't tell me much.

I looked in LHpup /sbin and saw that Tazoc had another exec - pmount3 with a note that it was changed to recognize ext4 partitions. It ran properly on LHPup 503 but when I copied it to Macpup it only ran far enough to display the swap partition then it quit. I ran it in a terminal and it showed an error message .
sh-4.1# /pmount3
Killing old window
/pmount3: line 770: 20400 Terminated yaf-splash -font "8x16" -outline 0 -margin 4 -bg orange -text "Puppy Drive Mounter

Please wait, probing hardware..."
I'm not up to any more investigating than that so I pass this ext4 puzzle onto someone who's more tech capable than I am.
B
Just a short not : not at any Macpup atm :
pmount uses

grep 'ext[2-4]' /usr/sbin/pmount
#v420JPa1 4Jun09: fix mount iso9660, ext2/ext3
#VALIDPARTS="`echo "$PARTSINFO" | grep -E 'vfat|msdos|ntfs|minix|ext2|ext3|ext4|reiser|xfs|iso9660'`"
VALIDPARTS="`echo "$PARTSINFO" | grep -E 'vfat|msdos|ntfs|minix|ext2|ext3|ext4|reiser|xfs|iso9660|udf'`"

bash-3.00# grep 'PARTSINFO=' !$
grep 'PARTSINFO=' /usr/sbin/pmount
PARTSINFO="`$PROBEPART -k | grep -v 'none' | tr ' ' '_' | tr '\t' '_' | cut -f 1-3 -d '|'`" #v3.98 fix for mut2.
PARTSINFO="/dev/$i|vfat|1440
PARTSINFO="$FDDRIVE|vfat|1440
cutPARTSINFO="`echo "$PARTSINFO" | grep "$xDSKPATTERN" | tr '\n' ' '`"

bash-3.00# grep 'PROBEPART=' !$
grep 'PROBEPART=' /usr/sbin/pmount
PROBEPART="probepart"
PROBEPART='mut --noserv probepart' #v407

bash-3.00#

To get the partitions .
Puppy does not write much into /etc/fstab automatically, except the default four lines cited above and only used by /etc/rc.d/rc.shutdown at last line busybox umount -ar

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#407 Post by Karl Godt »

runtt21 : about grill_light : /usr/share/enlightenment/data/themes already has two "readable" .edj's :
default.edj and illume.edj , which both have a grill_dark background .
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#408 Post by runtt21 »

Wow the .062 build of e .That's Fox 3 . I haven't boot that up in a long time. I misunderstood what you were telling me,Sorry.

BTW they changed the edj file format, mp511 has the new type and the converter for the old type. If you make .edj files in a macpup before 511 they wont work in any of the ones from 511 on.....

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#409 Post by runtt21 »

I have converted Karl's background so it will work in 528 and made a .pet for it. Enjoy.
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#410 Post by Barburo »

Thanks for the replies.
The ext4 thing was "Operator Error"!
If you have "use MUT" checked for pmount it won't recognize ext4 partitions.
Un-check it and it does see ext4.
Egg on my face.
B.
[i]Laptop[/i]: Acer Aspire 5810TZ

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#411 Post by Karl Godt »

mut is a pretty old project by Jesse :

mut2 update - fixes for Dingo 4.1alpha5
in times of kernel 2.6.25

ext4 was introduced with kernel 2.6.30 i think .

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#412 Post by runtt21 »

New optional updates for macpup528 and 528v2 see second post here:

http://hardkap.net/forums/topic/macpup-528-updates

I have updated my java guide too, 5th post:

http://hardkap.net/forums/topic/how-to-java-and-flash-1

I am currently working on some new themes. I should have the first one out in a day or two....

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#413 Post by omskates »

Hi Runtt :D
I've not been very active on forums last several months. Just wanted to say "HI" to my friends. 8)

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#414 Post by runtt21 »

Hey Omskates, Good to hear from you!!!

I decided to put Karl's background into a theme. :D I should have MP-Silk-4 uploaded soon. The Macpup logo and text fade in and then out on mouse over.


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#415 Post by runtt21 »

The MP528-Silk-4.pet is now in the macpup 528 folder on my macpup page. Enjoy !!
[url]http://macpup.org/runtt21[/url]

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#416 Post by runtt21 »

I have decided to rename one of the new themes that I have been working on "Hypnotized" in Honor of Bob Welch the late Fleetwood guitarist. The Wallpaper is by pr09studio. http://pr09studio.deviantart.com/

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I should have it up tomorrow.I have three more new themes after this one.

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#418 Post by runtt21 »

The MP528-Hypnotized-1.pet is now in the macpup 528 folder on my macpup page. Enjoy !!
[url]http://macpup.org/runtt21[/url]

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#419 Post by Gnuxo »

I was wondering. An error happened while trying to get an app working in Macpup 528, and x crashed.

I wound up in the tty screen. I tried to see if I could get into a different tty session by ctrl+alt+(f2/3/4..etc;)

But it requested a password. I wasn't aware that Macpup had a root password.

I know that you guys didn't expect that people would need it. Usually your in X. But it's good to know it in case X crashes again and I need to get into weechat via command line to ask for help.

Thanks in advance for any answers.

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#420 Post by runtt21 »

If X crashes you need to run "xwin enlightenment_start " at the prompt.

What where you trying to run?

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#421 Post by Gnuxo »

I was trying to install Pyroom. And when installing libfontconfig, e17 would crash periodically.

Two times I tried uninstalling and reinstalling libfontconfig1 and e17 crashed.

Also when I tried a .pet of Focus Writer, saving my work would cause everything to freeze and nothing would respond. Except trying to switch x sessions through ctrl+alt+f2/3/4...etc;

In which I case I found that switching x sessions into the tty was not possible due to the login.

I finally got a .pet of pyroom that works so I'm fine now but it's still sad how e17 crashes. I hope that bug will be fixed in newer versions of e17.

Speaking of which? I was wondering about Macpupv2.

Is that mainly a development version? Or a final?

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#422 Post by runtt21 »

It's unusual for a crash like that. When that happens in macpup it's because a .pet has something in it that is already in use and then tries to overwrite it during the install. Where do you get these .pets?

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#423 Post by Gnuxo »

The puppy package manager.

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#424 Post by runtt21 »

Are you using the ubuntu repos? I can't find those at ibiblio

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#425 Post by Gnuxo »

Yeah, the ubuntu repos.

Unfortunately. I needed plenty of dependencies for the install. Luckily I found a pet which didn't need that many.

Would be nice if the PPM had a autoremove feature for those unneeded dependencies.

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