Wary/Racy 5.3RC2 (5.2.91)

[npierce]

Little problem with the Xclipboard.

If you like to save the text you don't know which button to click.
There is no 'Yes'/'No' readable. Buttons lower parts are cut.

For short answer, skip to last paragraph of this post.

For boring, long-winded answer, read on - - -

This problem has been around longer than Puppy. The earliest bug report that I have seen goes back to 2001.

As far as I can tell, this problem is a result of a change in the Xaw library. The xclipboard utility was written back in the days of libXaw.so.6 (or perhaps even earlier). The current library on Racy 5.2.2 is libXaw7.so.7.0.0.

My best guess of what happened is that recent binaries were compiled with Xaw7. This will happen on any distro where Xaw7 is the default for compiling with the -lXaw flag (which happens when this link exists: /usr/X11/lib/libXaw.so -> libXaw7.so).

I have a copy of xclipboard that was compiled in 1998 from 1996 source code. It does not have this problem. Its resource file (app-defaults/XClipboard) is from 1994, and is identical to the resource file currently on Racy 5.2.2, except for the version comment in the top line.

If I run that old binary on Racy, it finds libXaw6.so.6 and doesn't have this problem. If I play with the symlink so that it instead finds libXaw7.so.7, it has this exact problem.

Similarly, if I run the current binary on Racy it finds libXaw.so.7 and has this problem. But if I play with the symlink so that it instead finds libXaw6.so.6, the problem goes away.

I'm guessing that if the Makefile was modified to compile with -lXaw6 instead of -Xaw, it would eliminate this problem, but I have not tried that. There is no need. The problem can be fixed simply by adding a few lines to the resource file.

(I don't know if there is a bug in libXaw7, or just a change in defaults which required more resources specified in the resource file. I've not dug into this that deeply. Life is short. But it does seem strange that a simple change in defaults would result in an unusable dialog box. On the other hand, it is not unusual for Xaw applications to be missing "fallback resources" and create unusable windows if certain resources are also missing from the resource file.)

The fix came from Stanislav Maslovski in July 2008, in response to a bug reported to Debian by José Luis González way back in December 2001 (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=127060).

The fix made it upstream to freedesktop.org in August 2008 (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17364), was finally committed to the code base by Alistair Leslie-Hughes in April 2011, and was released in xclipboard 1.1.2 on 2012-02-11 (over a decade after it was first reported). It is not available in the X11R7.6, but should be available in X11R7.7, due out sometime in 2012.

Meanwhile, xclipboard 1.1.2 source code is available as an individual release at:
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/in ... 1.2.tar.gz

The resource file (app-defaults/XClipboard), which is all that is needed to fix this problem, is available from cgit.freedesktop.org at this URL. Backup your current /etc/X11/app-defaults/XClipboard and replace it with this one.

[FeodorF]

Thank you very much npierce! Fine Job!

FeodorF

[vicmz]

Has anyone had this problem translating shutdownconfig GUI? The translation in the first dialog that appears at the first shutdown offering to save session looks distorted, cutdown. I checked all translations within the file but I have no idea what I can be doing wrong. (see attached picture)

This is the text that the dialog in the picture is supposed to show, I first copied the original string then translated in the file through MoManager:

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Usted arrancó desde un live-CD o DVD, y ahora puede guardar sus ajustes y archivos personales en una unidad Flash USB o cualquier partición de disco duro. La sesión se guardará como un único archivo, llamado '${DISTRO_FILE_PREFIX}save.2fs', que tendrá un sistema de archivos ext2 (o ext3) en su interior.\n
Sin embargo, si usted ha grabado el CD/DVD como multisesión (no cerrado), entonces las sesiones se pueden guardar como pistas adicionales en el CD/DVD, cada sesión guardada aparecerá en el CD/DVD como un directorio con todos los archivos guardados en él, no como un único archivo. \\Zb\\1ESTO ES TODAV

[rodin.s]

This script has strange gettext. I haven't tested your mo-file since I don't have this Racy on CD and this dialog only appears while booting from CD but maybe it's because of the mistake here:

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\\Zb\\1ESTO ES TODAV

[vicmz]

OK, I can't figure out why two of the buttons are still in English, but the GUI is displayed properly now. Thanks, rodin.s

[James C]

One small aggravation ......the Video Upgrade Wizard reports Wary not being connected to the internet, from the screenshot there obviously is an internet connection.Note this forum in the background.

That is strange. This is the relevant code:

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 ping -c 1 www.google.com
 if [ $? -ne 0 ];then
  INSERT0="<text use-markup="true"><label>"<b>`gettext "Currently not connected to the Internet. If you wish to connect later, you can run this Video Upgrade Wizard again via the 'setup' icon on the desktop or the 'Setup' category in the menu. Note, to connect to the Internet, click 'connect' icon on left of desktop."`</b>"</label></text>"
 fi

Can you do this in a terminal:

# ping -c 1 www.google.com
# echo $?

In terminal.....

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# ping -c 1 www.google.com
ping: bad address 'www.google.com'
# echo $?
1
# 

May be related or not, in pemasu's latest Exprimo release I've been experiencing wget problems.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 599#613599

EDIT:

Just tried to use wget to download Flash (as attempted in the linked Exprimo thread) and it fails in Wary as well.

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# wget http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/11.1.102.63/install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz
--2012-03-23 21:25:35--  http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/11.1.102.63/install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz
Resolving fpdownload.macromedia.com (fpdownload.macromedia.com)... failed: Temporary failure in name resolution.
wget: unable to resolve host address `fpdownload.macromedia.com'
# 

Interestingly enough, there are no such problems in the latest Precise Puppy. Video Upgrade, Wget work correctly and pinging presents no problem.

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# ping -c 1 www.google.com 
PING www.google.com (74.125.130.105): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 74.125.130.105: seq=0 ttl=47 time=53.437 ms

--- www.google.com ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 53.437/53.437/53.437 ms
# echo $?
0
# 

[BarryK]

I have updated Russian langpack. Changes: xdelta translation, hunspell-ru etc. Some help files are not translated yet.
Since quicksetup.mo is part of base Puppy I put it separately from langpack.

rodin.s,
It isn't making much sense having translations in Woof anymore, as we have the langpacks.

Unless anyone can give me a good reason not to, I plan to remove them.

That is, I will remove all the .mo files from rootfs-skeleton/usr/share/locale in Woof.

[npierce]

However, disciple has posted to my blog that this in the X resources, I presume in /root/.Xresources, will enable xmessages to display non-English text properly:

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*international: true

Is this true?

/etc/X11/app-defaults/xmessage:

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*international: true

If you instead put it in /root/.Xresources you will need to first run

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xrdb -merge /root/.Xresources

But I'm having problems with some fonts.

Cyrillic works:

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xmessage "

[robwoj44]

I prepared polish langpack for Racy/Wary.
http://dotpups.de/puppy4/dotpups/Localization/

[rodin.s]

I have made additional langpack for Wary/Racy-5.2.90 with some scripts and binaries which are not in official langpack.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 486#615486

[FeodorF]

Hello my friends!

Be careful while you update to Seamonkey 2.8

Those folks do not remind you, that they will kill your old browser history. I wanted to keep mine! God d....!



Argh!

I've to take this one back! It was me. I had copied the new version into the same folder.

[vicmz]

Gnome MPlayer (installed from PPM) crashes on Racy, but it works fine on Wary. I think the video card/drivers may have something to do. So, I had the Lighthouse app make a video report, which is attached to this post if anyone finds it of interest. The video player crashes on Racy either when I try to play a video, resizing the video player window or playing a video in full screen mode, or even by just launching the program. By crashing I mean that X fails -- either my desktop turns black showing just JWM, or (most of the time) directly X exits to a command prompt and I have to run XorgWizard to restore the desktop. I run in frugal install, also now that there's a language pack for my language I set UTF-8 turned on.

[bigpup]

Here is a post about booting from live CD and not finding save file on SD card.
The fix was to use this boot option:

puppy pmedia=usbflash pdev=mmcblk0p1

Is this a bug to require this option?
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=77027

[BarryK]

Difficult....
not only for foreign languages

L18L,
Thanks for discovering that problem! Fixed:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02770

[BarryK]

unable to fix wrong translations in menus

just one example:

the Bcrypt entry should say 'cifrado de archivos' (file encryption), the existing translation says 'encriptado de aplicaciones' (application encryption) -- the word 'encriptar', is so un-Spanish

langpack_es installs the new translations, but existing fuzzy translations remain

Ok, I have removed the "Name[es]" entry from rootfs-skeleton/usr/share/applications/Bcrypt-file-encryption.desktop in Woof.

I will upload Woof soon.

[BarryK]

Having a bit of a problem with ffmpeg. Trying to run Lobster's screen video-capture script, but I get

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unknown input format: 'x11grab'

Hmmm, that is strange. Wary/Racy has a recompiled ffmpeg, but x11-grab was enabled.

Did it work with an earlier version of Wary/Racy?

Would you mind trying the older ffmpeg, get it from here:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/pet_pa ... 02-w5c.pet

The reason that I recompiled it, is that it had network support disabled, that someone wanted for Pmusic.

[BarryK]

# msginit
alsaconf.pot:208: missing `msgstr' section
msginit: found 1 fatal error
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Thus "bad news" when trying to translate

fixed by:

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#: alsaconf:1228
#msgid ""

Thanks for that. I have fixed it in Woof:

rootfs-skeleton/usr/share/doc/nls/alsaconf/alsaconf.pot

I will upload Woof soon.

[BarryK]

I have translated alsaconf now (geany and msgfmt)
2 changes in script, see image.

DIALOG='dialog' #has correct yesno
and
#export LANG=C

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edited 20120322

These test have been made from virtual console.
Launched from menu and alsawizard GUI
we need to change last line of /usr/sbin/alsawizard from

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rxvt -geometry 60x3 -bg orange -e /usr/sbin/alsaconf

to

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#rxvt -geometry 60x3 -bg orange -e /usr/sbin/alsaconf
urxvt -bg orange -e /usr/sbin/alsaconf

This has been fixed in Woof, except that I had neglected to put in the "LANG=$MYLANG" prefix for translating "Yes" and "No".

Alsaconf uses Xdialog. I have left in "export LANG=C" for speed reason only. Last line of alsawizard does not need to be changed.

[BarryK]

Just installed Racy 5.2.90 and it seems to be working very well.
I have come across one problem however.
I use a boot floppy with grub4dos to boot all my puppies.
However I failed to create a boot floppy using Racy.

Here is the log file:
/usr/sbin/grub4dosconfig
version 1.7.2
Tue Mar 20 16:53:25 UTC 2012
BINSTALLER=bootlace.com
sda(MBR)_40.0GB_ATA_ST340014A_
fd0_(FLOPPY_DISK)
sda2/racy5.2.90frugal/puppy_racy_5.2.90.sfs|puppy_racy_5.2.90
sda2/puppy528/lupu_528.sfs|lupu_528
sda2/slacko5.3frugal/puppy_slacko_5.3.sfs|puppy_slacko_5.3


sda2/slacko5.3frugal/puppy_slacko_5.3.sfs|puppy_slacko_5.3

mkfs.msdos 3.0.11 (24 Dec 2010)
Wrigting... /mnt/fd0/menu.lst
Installing bootloader on floppy...
bootlace.com --floppy --chs /dev/fd0

Error: Cannot open file for read/write access.

BOOTLACE writes GRLDR BOOT RECORD to MBR or to the boot area of a file system.
Usage: bootlace.com [OPTIONS] DEVICE_OR_FILE
Options: --read-only, --floppy[=N], --boot-prevmbr-first, --boot-prevmbr-last,
--no-backup-mbr, --force-backup-mbr, --mbr-enable-floppy, --mbr-disable-floppy,
--mbr-enable-osbr, --mbr-disable-osbr, --duce, --time-out=T, --hot-key=K,
--preferred-drive=D, --preferred-partition=P, --sectors-per-track=S, --heads=H,
--start-sector=B, --total-sectors=C, --install-partition=I, --lba, --chs,
--fat12, --fat16, --fat32, --vfat, --ntfs, --ext2, --serial-number=SN,
--restore-mbr, --mbr-no-bpb, --chs-no-tune
DEVICE_OR_FILE: Filename of the device or image. For DOS, a BIOS drive number
(in hex 0xHH or decimal DDD format)can be used to access the drive.
Failed to install bootlace.com.

My work around was to create a boot floppy in Lucid 5.2.8 using the same floppy that failed in Racy.

I'm sure this is only of minority interest but I said I'd report it anyway.

irishrm

Thanks for the report. grub4dos is shinobar's baby. Would you mind reporting the problem to him (Forum member 'shinobar'):

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/privmsg.ph ... st&u=17722

[BarryK]

Racy-5.2.90

Noticed that this new version has slipped back to default of Seamonkey 2.5 from previous Racy version where it was 2.6 and was just wondering what the reason or advantage is? 2.5 seems to work well although the buzz seems to be towards 2.7 ??

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

Er, no, it is SM 2.6.1.