Lucid Puppy 5.2.7 RC2

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Snail · #841 Post by **Snail** » Tue 26 Jul 2011, 18:44

Just to confirm that I also get the VPAU error without using or installing any video players.

Thanks for the Pfind fix Rerwin.

bigpup · #842 Post by **bigpup** » Tue 26 Jul 2011, 18:51

xerrs.log messages.

Example of are they good or bad?
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 331#547331

pemasu · #843 Post by **pemasu** » Tue 26 Jul 2011, 19:02

For adventurous testers. Gparted-0.9.0

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./configure --prefix=/usr --build=i686-t2-linux-gnu --x-libraries=/usr/X11R7/lib --x-includes=/usr/X11R7/include --disable-libtool-lock --disable-doc --disable-scrollkeeper --enable-libparted-dmraid

Bert · #844 Post by **Bert** » Tue 26 Jul 2011, 19:30

Great Pemasu, Gparted with NLS! Thank you.

There's an official warning though not to use 0.9.0 for resizing NTFS partitions...( I don't have ntfs, but many here probably will..)

NOTE: Please use GParted Live 0.8.1-3 or 0.8.1-6 if you need to resize NTFS.
See Bug #655215 - NTFS partition resize fails with GParted Live 0.9.0-6.

pemasu · #845 Post by **pemasu** » Tue 26 Jul 2011, 19:36

General knowledge has been long that resizing ntfs should be left for windows partition applications. I have followed that advice all the time.
But it is good to know that problem. I didnt notice that warning.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted ... ME.md/view

I have confirmed that there certainly does seem to be a problem with this new
GParted Live 0.9.0-6 image which uses the ntfsresize command version
2.011.4.12AR.4 (libntfs-3g).
This problem does not occur with GParted Live 0.8.1-3 which uses the ntfsresize
command version 2.0.0.

In Lucid Puppy 266:

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sh-4.1# ntfsresize
ntfsresize v2.0.0 (libntfs 10:0:0)

Follow debate in Gparted pages:

Downgrade to ntfsprogs 2.0.0 is just a workarround IMO. The ntfsprogs 2.0.0
code is unmaintained since ages. ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs is where the development goes now.

Hi Marcos. Yes the downgrade to ntfsprogs 2.0.0 would be temporary until
ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs can get the problem fixed.

The old ntfsprogs has not been enhanced for a few years but has proven to be relatively robust. As such I think it might be the best interim solution.

Billtoo · #846 Post by **Billtoo** » Tue 26 Jul 2011, 19:47

pemasu wrote:General knowledge has been long that resizing ntfs should be left for windows partition applications. I have followed that advice all the time.
But it is good to know that problem. I didnt notice that warning.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted ... ME.md/view

I used gparted 9.0 in fatdog64 beta5 to resize this drive and nothing bad has happened yet, here's hoping.

edit: I rebooted the pc and when it went to load windows it loaded
some files and wanted to restore windows to the hard disk, I made the
restore dvds yesterday but I rebooted with my fatdog dvd instead,ran
gparted and made 4 ext4 partitions on the drive.

So, if you like windows don't use gparted to resize an ntfs partition.

pemasu · #847 Post by **pemasu** » Tue 26 Jul 2011, 19:52

Well. Even Barry Kauler used windows application to shrink his new computer ntfs partition. Usually shrinking the existing partition with OS has been the culprit. I have encountered it also. Defragmenting the OS partitition first and then shrinking has not been always succesful.

#848 Post by **BÃ©Ã¨m** » Tue 26 Jul 2011, 20:13

Even in the Windows world, I have seen warnings that if a ntfs is used for some time, files could be at the end of the partition and resizing could cut off useful info.
There are defrag programs, that not only defrag, but also optimize and push files to the beginning.

Would be nice if a gparted and/or related program does the same.

DaveS · #849 Post by **DaveS** » Tue 26 Jul 2011, 20:17

Béèm wrote:
Would be nice if a gparted and/or related program does the same.

Be nice if M$ FIXED the problem

rerwin · #850 Post by **rerwin** » Tue 26 Jul 2011, 20:56

playdayz,
Although cleaning up the error messages from the "-wrap.sh" scripts appeals to me as a programmer, I have a more expedient solution to the log trashing. The script issues the error messages because it expects to see a script named "compress", to go along with "uncompress". Rather than touch xarchive's friends, in the attached package I provide the required script, derived from "uncompress". And it actually works.

I see no evidence that it has been in puppy since 4.3.1, and probably never has been. The trashing threat has always been there, apparently, but hardly anyone noticed. With the package installed, no error messages to mess up the log! And a command-line way to zip-compress files in place.
Richard

playdayz · #851 Post by **playdayz** » Tue 26 Jul 2011, 21:03

As I posted earlier, I was getting the error just by using SeaMonkey.... no multimedia apps involved.

Yes Béèm and James C. Good sleuthing. Seamonkey uses gecko-mediaplyer which uses gnome-mplayer. I am using the next version luci-267 and I am not seeing the problem.

Help -> About Plugins in Seamonkey will show that.

And Béèm, Seamonkey 2.2 is way much faster than Seamonkey 2.0.x. Faster even than Firefox 5 on some measures! I mention it because I think it is wonderful to see a fast Seamonkey.

http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... cid525.pet

pemasu · #852 Post by **pemasu** » Tue 26 Jul 2011, 21:06

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-67 ... 89#6736160

Concerning

Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Read the latest comment first.
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-67 ... ml#6738852

playdayz · #853 Post by **playdayz** » Tue 26 Jul 2011, 21:14

pemasu wrote:http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-67 ... 89#6736160

Concerning
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Read the latest comment first.
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-67 ... ml#6738852

See above. I think it was probably gecko-mediaplyer throwing the message to xerrs.log instead of flashplayer. Let me try something.

Yikes Using flashplayer to start a youtube video seems to have wiped the whole xerrs.log. It was *not* gecko-mediaplyer that did that. Well, we know flashplayer is an ill-behaved program anyway and at least it plays the videos.

<Add> It did not wipe the xerrs.log--it still shows a size--but it won't open as text in geany.

<Add2> Yes. Flashplayer does produce those errors, even when I removed gecko-mediaplyer. So it looks like we fixed them with gnome-mplayer and gecko-mediaplyer but not with flashplayer.

pemasu · #854 Post by **pemasu** » Tue 26 Jul 2011, 21:21

I deleted libflashplayer. Lets see if those error messages stops......

playdayz · #855 Post by **playdayz** » Tue 26 Jul 2011, 21:24

...maybe it's transforming itself into a self-destructive app.

ROTFL.

xarchive-fix

Got it rerwin. Thanks.

Jim1911 · #856 Post by **Jim1911** » Tue 26 Jul 2011, 21:29

@pemasu,

Thank you for this update, it appears to work fine, although the docs are not linked to the application.

Cheers,
Jim

pemasu · #857 Post by **pemasu** » Tue 26 Jul 2011, 21:33

Jim1911. As my ./configure showed. I compiled it without documentation purposely.
That DOC pet is automatically created by splitpkg script and it has those legal notes etc...

dejan555 · #858 Post by **dejan555** » Tue 26 Jul 2011, 21:56

playdayz, if you need a nature wallpaper this photo might be good
http://photo.b0x.me/index.php?iID=447

Here's my screenshot with it, but my desktop is rather minimal so you might try it with desktop icons

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 495#547495

Bert · #859 Post by **Bert** » Tue 26 Jul 2011, 22:01

Gparted 0.9.0

On my Luci266 the Gparted-NLS is not functional.

The gparted.mo is there in /usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES.., but after refrehing WM, rebooting, Gparted is still in English.

I even rebooted with pfix=ram, to make sure it was not caused by something I had done in my save file.

Is there something additional that needs to be done?

Has anyone tried the NLS?
Thanks!

playdayz · #860 Post by **playdayz** » Tue 26 Jul 2011, 22:40

I had so much fun chasing that vdpau message that I got a headache!

In the upcoming RC, gnome-mplayer does not generate the message nor does Firefox. Opera does generate the message. Seamonkey may generate it only with flashplayer not gecko-mediaplyer, I can't quite remember. That's enough for me.

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