Racy Puppy 5.2.2 Final, 18 Nov. 2011

[Geoffrey]

Recordmydesktop works, it needs the devx loaded for python, Gtk-RecordMyDesktop-0.3.8-Lucid.pet and it needs libjack for sound libjack-0.0.23.pet

Geoffrey

[Tman]

Note to Barry Kauler....

I don't know if this is significant but I found two gtkhash
pet packages made by tuuxx
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 42&t=32700
that cause recent puppies such as Racy and Slacko
to not install some pets properly.
...

ttuuxxx's gtkhash would not install for me with woof. I later discovered that his pet contains a .config/rox.sourceforge.net/SendTo folder that is not symlinked while, in recent puppies, that folder is symlinked to the .config/rox.sourceforge.net/OpenWith folder. This is what is causing the breaking of other Right-click options in Rox-Filer. I have been informed, by another forum member that the SendTo folder should not be a symlink. However, woof builds recent pups with this directory-structure.

[otropogo]

Following a private suggestion for solving my Puppy USB3 problems, I've just downloaded and tried Racy 5.2.2_k3.1 in LiveCD mode, primarily to test its native USB3 support.

It will recognized and mount devices on the USB3 expresscard port on my laptop without any error messages. However, when I copy files on the ntfs Goflex drive (whether on the USB3 port or on USB2), it pops up the following error message in red text:

Operation not supported; failed to copy /mnt/sdxx/xxxx.jpg

In fact, the file is copied successfully, and can also be deleted again. However, this popup occurs every time on both of my PCs.

When I mount this drive on USB2 or USB3 using Slacko_5.29.6, there is no such error message.

In order for the USB3 devices to be recognized by Racy 5.2.2, they must be attached and powered up at bootup. And if removed and reattached after initial recognition, they aren't recognized again. There's no such problem with the USB2 port.

[seacyd]

I have tried to compile claws-mail 3.7.10cvs112 but "make" fails:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=588483

The error message when compiling
http://pastebin.com/vDp3w9nH

When discussing this in the claws-mail irc channel, I got the hint that

when building, according to the pc file, i believe it expects to find gdkpixbuf.h here: /usr/include/gtk-2.0/include/gdkpixbuf.h
...what is true is that gdkpixbuf.h is not in the position that the pc file reports it to be

this is my gtk+-2.0.pc :
http://pastebin.com/6Xmci6Jh

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# cat /usr/lib/pkgconfig/gtk+-2.0.pc
prefix=/usr
exec_prefix=${prefix}
libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib
includedir=${prefix}/include
target=x11

gtk_binary_version=2.10.0
gtk_host=i486-t2-linux-gnu

Name: GTK+
Description: GTK+ Graphical UI Library (${target} target)
Version: 2.20.1
Requires: gdk-${target}-2.0 atk cairo gio-2.0 pangoft2
Libs: -L${libdir} -lgtk-${target}-2.0 
Cflags: -I${includedir}/gtk-2.0 

Can this be a racy problem or is it something else?

[sc0ttman]

when I copy files on the ntfs drive, it pops up the following error message in red text:

Operation not supported; failed to copy /mnt/sdxx/xxxx.jpg

That simply means the permissions were not maintainted - file permissions are lost when copying from ext2/ext3/etc to NTFS or FAT partitions... It is nothing to worry about in most cases...

[shinobar]

nvidia-glx-sdl-290.10.sfs runs on Racy-522.
Seems stable and the gimp-2.7.x problem disappeared.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=72405

[shinobar]

when I copy files on the ntfs Goflex drive (whether on the USB3 port or on USB2), it pops up the following error message in red text:

Operation not supported; failed to copy /mnt/sdxx/xxxx.jpg

In fact, the file is copied successfully, and can also be deleted again.

That simply means the permissions were not maintainted - file permissions are lost when copying from ext2/ext3/etc to NTFS or FAT partitions... It is nothing to worry about in most cases...

Right. But I think it is a woof bug.
The 'silent' option required in /bin/mount.
At line 52:

ntfs-3g $CMDPRMS -o umask=0,no_def_opts,silent 2>/tmp/ntfsmnterr${MYPID}.txt

and line 62:

ntfs-3g $CMDPRMS -o force,umask=0,no_def_opts,silent 2>/tmp/ntfsmnterr${MYPID}.txt

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... start=2446

[otropogo]

when I copy files on the ntfs drive, it pops up the following error message in red text:

Operation not supported; failed to copy /mnt/sdxx/xxxx.jpg

That simply means the permissions were not maintainted - file permissions are lost when copying from ext2/ext3/etc to NTFS or FAT partitions... It is nothing to worry about in most cases...

Thanks for the explanation.

But perhaps I should add that the file copies that evoked the "operation unsupported copy failed" popup were all from the ntfs drive to itself, NOT from ext2/ext3 to ntfs. I was merely making a second copy on the original ntfs drive.

[otropogo]

when I copy files on the ntfs Goflex drive (whether on the USB3 port or on USB2), it pops up the following error message in red text:

Operation not supported; failed to copy /mnt/sdxx/xxxx.jpg

In fact, the file is copied successfully, and can also be deleted again.

That simply means the permissions were not maintainted - file permissions are lost when copying from ext2/ext3/etc to NTFS or FAT partitions... It is nothing to worry about in most cases...

Right. But I think it is a woof bug.
The 'silent' option required in /bin/mount.
At line 52:

ntfs-3g $CMDPRMS -o umask=0,no_def_opts,silent 2>/tmp/ntfsmnterr${MYPID}.txt

and line 62:

ntfs-3g $CMDPRMS -o force,umask=0,no_def_opts,silent 2>/tmp/ntfsmnterr${MYPID}.txt

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... start=2446

Thanks for your comment. On reviewing you url above, I noted the following comment.

The ntfs-3g-2010.3.6-i386.pet, by ttuuxxx, solved the error message problem for me.

And I wonder whether this pet is usable in lupu 5.2.8, and if so, whether it will fix the intermittent problem I have in lupu of the ntfs file system refusing to mount except in read-only mode?

If so, this would allow me to use USB3 reasonably well in 5.2.8 with the USB3 pet installed.

[Tman]

The copy-error reported by otropogo also exists in the Racy-based Saluki. The error message is faulty, becuase the file does actually get copied over.
Shinobar's method of hacking /bin/mount has been confirmed to fix the problem. Thanks, Shinobar.
Attached is a pet with Shinobar's fix.

[otropogo]

The copy-error reported by otropogo also exists in the Racy-based Saluki. The error message is faulty, becuase the file does actually get copied over.
Shinobar's method of hacking /bin/mount has been confirmed to fix the problem. Thanks, Shinobar.
Attached is a pet with Shinobar's fix.

Thanks Tman, Shinobar.

Yes, the pet fixed the spurious copy error message.

[otropogo]

Am unable to access the alternative format for the Pmount window via the preferences tab, so no unified window or MUT is available.

On my desktop machine, the Intel D865GLC with ATI X1550 video adapter, I'm also unable to boot reliably (rarely it does work) from the liveCD/2fs file without entering

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puppy acpi=off

at the boot prompt

[Geoffrey]

I prefer this over the other mail clients.

Once used, never forgotten.
On the other hand, have you tried EudoraOSE yet? Still the choice of professionals!

That is nice, I've never tried it before, thanks for the tip

Geoffrey

[Sage]

I've never tried it before

I've been bashing on about it for some years now, but as with most things, folks are too busy ploughing their own furrow & co.
Things would get a whole lot better if someone from the IT fraternity could bend the ear of BK ! The SM suite is like a giant millstone. There are two essential essentials in an OS - a good reliable browser and an excellent email client. After that, it's all horses & courses.

[duke93535]

goof

[duke93535]

otropogo:

Am unable to access the alternative format for the Pmount window via the preferences tab, so no unified window or MUT is available.

In playing around, here is how I got Pmount’s preferences to work.

1. Rename in /usr/sbin/gtkdailog3 to gtkdialog3.hide.

2. Symlink gtkdialog4, naming it gtkdialog3 in /usr/sbin.

3. Install mut2-1.3.1238.pet from here: ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pet_packages-4/

Works for me.

duke

[otropogo]

otropogo:

Am unable to access the alternative format for the Pmount window via the preferences tab, so no unified window or MUT is available.

In playing around, here is how I got Pmount’s preferences to work.

1. Rename in /usr/sbin/gtkdailog3 to gtkdialog3.hide.

2. Symlink gtkdialog4, naming it gtkdialog3 in /usr/sbin.

3. Install mut2-1.3.1238.pet from here: ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pet_packages-4/

Works for me.
duke

Thanks for your suggestion. Am a bit antsy about symlink, or indeed, any manual changes in system configuration, but will try playing with it later (using a test 2fs file.).

If anyone caught my original post, I'm afraid I'm getting swamped with Puppy versions, and got Racy 5.2.2 confused with Luci 529.

USB3 does seem to work in Racy 5.2.2 without the bothersome intermittent ntfs errors of lupu. It does however, intermittently refuse to load xwindows without pfix=acpi on my desktop machine. Today it loaded fine the first time, then failed on the second.

I also miss fprot/xfprot, and have never been able to install clam-av so it actually works.

Just now I went a few more rounds with both.I've got xfprot installed on the desktop system. When I open it, it goes online to get the sigs file, but then reports it can't expand it. So I downloaded the file manually in /usr/local/f-prot. So now, instead of wanting to go online, x-fprot responds with "binary not found". However, no installation for the binary fprot is listed in any of the repositories available to packet manager.

So then I tried to install clamav, which I've read Barry prefers to the "broken" f-prot. There's only one package in the repos clamav-0.91.2.pet, in the Puppy 3 repository. I installed it "successfully", but no tab or icon for it appears anywhere, and I have no idea how to access it to run it or update its sigs file.

I noticed earlier today, playing with Fedora16 LiveCD that they've been unable to get a working update app for clamav continuously since 2005! So what's more broken, clamav, which doesn't work at all, or x-fprot/frpot, which runs and updates ok in Puppy 4.x and lupu?

Lupu is ok except for its very scary handling of ntfs filesystems.
Aside from the intermittent ntfs-g3 error that causes it to mount usb drives in read only mode, I've recently had an instance where all of the subfolders in a folder disappeared when I moved another folder into it.

There was no error message or clue of any kind as to what had happened. Both the moved file and the entire contents of the target file, with 30 subdirectories and almost a gigabyte of datafiles bytes became instantly inaccessible.

When I rebooted, they were all there again. No disk utility could find anything wrong with the partition. But it's ntfs.

[sszindian]

Trying to setup wifi with Racy. It seems we are almost there except for this...

(Using Linksys AE1000 High Performance Wireless-N USB Adapter and BELKIN N300 Wireless Router)

Any suggestions appreciated!



>>>---Indian------>

[sszindian]

Searching my files in Racy, I found that the rt2800usb file is in fact there, compiled for 3.0.7 but, wifi still gives the error message (in above post) and doesn't work?

>>>---Indian------>

[sszindian]

Hmm... My BELKIN router came equipted with a 'PASSWORD' protect... I'm wondering if that might have something to do with not being able to setup my wifi? I checked the setup as best I know how and didn't see anywhere to enter a password for Racy wireless!! Where is that setup function hiding? I previously setup wifi on my Nextbook Tablet without a hitch.

Maybe I need to take this problem to a different thread???

>>>---Indian------>