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Posted: **Sat 27 Oct 2012, 15:07**

Hi all,

linux Precice puppy 5.4
Compaq Presario 2100
1gb ram
TENDA USB 150Mbps wireless N "pico" W311MI

I have just Installed linux Precice puppy 5.4, for the third time today.

Every time I try to install any program using puppy package manager, all characters in the dialog boxes change to squares. After rebooting all desktop Icons then change to red triangle warnings with exclamation marks, with the text also turning to squares.

What is happening, and how can I cure it?

Yours
Bullet

Posted: **Sat 27 Oct 2012, 17:18**

Hi Bullet- and Welcome.

While it's probably to do with your graphics card, I'd like ya to confirm these md5's..

Load your Precise cd. Mount it by clking if not auto-mounted, then open that console on your desktop.

Load this command, adjusting the sr0 bit to suit: find /mnt/sr0 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum

.. and compare against mine..

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6a7ef1e62191f6f458ddaacdd881772d  /mnt/sr0/boot.cat
78711d0e5b913f585b0bd6f3520c6bce  /mnt/sr0/boot.msg
f20889b4aeb20c9f319b050696257297  /mnt/sr0/help.msg
d1cab7249c516253b22322d0995fa9b9  /mnt/sr0/help2.msg
38b12f839c3104b75bd796bbf29bfe19  /mnt/sr0/initrd.gz
c3f63545e554ce3a81907a5450e3d3ad  /mnt/sr0/isolinux.bin
9901e4383d29d44cc3acc431a227b4b7  /mnt/sr0/isolinux.cfg
cae684a72b7ed93ee12058a4b1074d4b  /mnt/sr0/logo.16
ae88a8c227d3ea6f68b824ee0bd17bd3  /mnt/sr0/puppy_precise_5.4.sfs
fb5b893f08f094d6ba7232fe8f2d813c  /mnt/sr0/README.HTM
6e84e38f94ef613a402f678df9d32cf4  /mnt/sr0/vmlinuz

They all check out?

Posted: **Sat 27 Oct 2012, 18:23**

Hi Semme

Tried that command on a different laptop (runing ubuntu 12.4lts) but got

bullet@bullet-Aspire-5534:~$ find /mnt/sr0 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum
find: ‘/mnt/sr0’: No such file or directory
d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e -

My cd drive is sr0 so tried /dev/ in place of /mnt/

bullet@bullet-Aspire-5534:~$ find /dev/sr0 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum
d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e -
bullet@bullet-Aspire-5534:~$

Am none the wiser

Posted: **Sat 27 Oct 2012, 20:04**

Hmm.. you get what to do?

In Ubuntu, and, assuming auto-mount's available- mount it.

The *mount* cmd'll show whether she's mounted or not with a response much like mine below..

/dev/sr0 on /mnt/sr0 type iso9660 (ro,relatime,iocharset=utf8)

Then: find /media/cdrom -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum

Show me yours, mine are two posts up- compare. I'm fairly confident the above's gonna work..

==

What was your install disk burned with and at what speed?

Cheap media cd's or other- what brand?

Posted: **Sun 28 Oct 2012, 14:09**

garybullet wrote:Hi Semme

Tried that command on a different laptop (runing ubuntu 12.4lts) but got

bullet@bullet-Aspire-5534:~$ find /mnt/sr0 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum
find: ‘/mnt/sr0’: No such file or directory
d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e -

You didn't first mount the drive! Click on its icon on the desktop to mount your CD drive so you can get a directory listing, then try that line again.

P.S. for others following along, there are three zeros in that line, and no uppercase "o" anywhere!

Posted: **Sun 28 Oct 2012, 18:51**

I got the exact same problem on a Compaq Presario CQ60 running precise puppy.
Yesterday i reinstalled to fix it.
Today i installed firefox package ok, then trird to install lm-sensors which had a few dependencies. I don't think it finished, and i lost all desktop icons and fonts in the process. Fonts in the browser and menu still work

Posted: **Sun 28 Oct 2012, 20:47**

Rhauff- do the files on your disk check out?

Which card have you got there?

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lspci -nn | grep VGA

Posted: **Sun 28 Oct 2012, 22:04**

Well, i"m not sure which files to check out... This is a hard drive install

I can't past the grep output as i can't read the screen on puppy to connect wifi, so I'm typing this on my tablet. VGA controller is NVIDIA GeForce 8200MG

Posted: **Mon 29 Oct 2012, 00:15**

HD install from cd?

Posted: **Mon 29 Oct 2012, 01:07**

I used a usb stick

Posted: **Mon 29 Oct 2012, 01:45**

Well, since I'm not sure whether there's a more recent driver available in your video upgrade wizard, you might be able to help yourself following some of the procedure outlined here. As I'm no authority, it's the best I can offer..

Posted: **Mon 29 Oct 2012, 02:39**

I don't know about the video driver idea, it was displaying fine until the package install.

I tried it on my usb flash install, however, and it installed lm-sensors and dependencies just fine

Posted: **Tue 13 Nov 2012, 10:17**

to fix that bug, just make a symbolic link directory of pango and gdk-pixbuff-20 in /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu

#ln -s /usr/lib/pango /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pango
#ln -s /usr/lib/gdk-pixbuff-2.0 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuff-2.0

then reboot and dont forget to change your wallpaper

Posted: **Tue 20 Nov 2012, 17:28**

zul wrote:to fix that bug, just make a symbolic link directory of pango and gdk-pixbuff-20 in /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu

#ln -s /usr/lib/pango /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pango
#ln -s /usr/lib/gdk-pixbuff-2.0 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuff-2.0

then reboot and dont forget to change your wallpaper

THANK YOU!

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