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top title bar remains white at all times

Doesnt jwm theme change fix that.

Updated to 5.4.1 from 5.4.0.90 all went well.

But, when I tried to run iconfinder, it seemed to hang while compiling the icon list. When I broke off the program, I got an error message saying that the list file was probably too large.

Checking /root/.icon_finder revealed a list file weighing in at 4.28 MB, which did seem like quite a lot!

I examined the file and found the source of the problem - iconfinder had left my local machine and had started to download the addresses of all the jpg's on my server. This is why the program appeared to hang.

This unexpected behavior was caused by an unintended interaction with YASSM. iconfinder is configured to search /root among other directories and YASSM mounts the network shares in /root/YASSM - hence the entire network is included in the search rather than just a few local directories where icons are likely to be found.

This problem did not arise earlier when attaching shares with pnethood, which mounts under /mnt/network.

The problem can be solved by adding: to line 115 of iconfinder after "find $Paths".

Alternatively, just run iconfinder for the first time before attaching the network drives with YASSM .

Sage wrote:As reported, 5.4 was behaving so well that I did a FULL, intending to be permanent, as soon as a suitable machine/parts became available.
Please can someone advise whether a simple upgrade via the PUI is recommended/ liable to be successful, preferably folks with actual experience?

Full install upgrades of retro-Precise on 700M and MSI with
no problems.

Grub legacy is now functioning correctly.

drblock2 wrote:This unexpected behavior was caused by an unintended interaction with YASSM. iconfinder is configured to search /root among other directories and YASSM mounts the network shares in /root/YASSM - hence the entire network is included in the search rather than just a few local directories where icons are likely to be found.

What an interesting side-effect! How big a share did you have mounted with YASSM?

One of the rationales for putting the mount points in /root instead of /mnt has to do with using YASSM in a true multi-user environment like Fatdog. An unprivileged user gets a full set of permissions on the mount point if it is in his home directory.

Full install upgrades of retro-Precise ...
no problems.

Many thanks, rj.

For a faster download of precise-5.4.1-retro


http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/distr/quirky/

Warning! This site doesn't appear to have downloaded
precise-5.4.1 properly ---> It shows a size of only 31 meg
when it should have a size of 165 meg

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don570 wrote:For a faster download of precise-5.4.1-retro


http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/distr/quirky/

Warning! This site doesn't appear to have downloaded
precise-5.4.1 properly ---> It shows a size of only 31 meg
when it should have a size of 165 meg

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Try this mirror which has downloaded precise-5.4.1 properly:

http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/linux/quirky/

don570 wrote:For a faster download of precise-5.4.1-retro


http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/distr/quirky/

Warning! This site doesn't appear to have downloaded
precise-5.4.1 properly ---> It shows a size of only 31 meg
when it should have a size of 165 meg

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The retro iso is 199mb.

Howdy Fellas,

In light of BK's mention that "However, longer term, working toward a next release, is up to members of the Puppy community. I will not be coordinating further releases."...Precise 5.4 was supposed to be an LTS version, correct? Seems I remember seeing it compared to the 5 year LTS term of Ubuntu's Precise?

Not trying to grate here, but just got a friend going on Puppy (Slacko 5.3.3) , and they checked the forum, noted the new version number, and then emailed over the quotes above. I explained that this was common with Puppies (ie, Lucid with Playdayz, Slacko with 01micko), etc) that BK sometimes gets them rolling, and then someone in the community will take over the LTS updates. That's...right....right?

As always, I truly appreciate the efforts of every developer in the pound on the users behalf. Playdayz created a true LTS with Lucid, 01micko has made Slacko an incredible and ongoing distro, and none of us would even be here without BK. Thank you.

I was wondering the same thing.
Anyone going to take over as prime developer?

Doesnt jwm theme change fix that.

Yes, pemasu, the bar has color when the jwm theme is changed. I changed the jwm theme to "Flat-grey" and now the title bar is always grey.

nubc wrote:

Doesnt jwm theme change fix that.

Yes, pemasu, the bar has color when the jwm theme is changed. I changed the jwm theme to "Flat-grey" and now the title bar is always grey.

With, for example, "Flat-grey", the bar colour changes from darker grey to lighter grey when I focus on a different window. So it works fine for me.

JWM Themes Exchange
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=23260

true

Themes are what they are, some subtle and others more obvious. In any case, not (usually) a bug per se.

Funny, I've always rather enjoyed the minor challenge of themes I'm not all that thrilled with

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Right, the title bar changes from very light grey (inactive) to medium grey (active). for the setting Flat-grey.

don570 wrote:For a faster download of precise-5.4.1-retro


http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/distr/quirky/

Warning! This site doesn't appear to have downloaded
precise-5.4.1 properly ---> It shows a size of only 31 meg
when it should have a size of 165 meg

________________________________________

Hi don, the ibiblio.nl server synchronization can take a while: maybe a few hours or a day or 2. I had the same problem as you ~31 MB.
If you are in doubt about iso/sfs file size -> use the md5sum.txt to check the file. Usually BK uploads the small files first for other users to check for consistency.
btw, thanks for the french forum support

burning dvd videos by pburn 3.7.5 on the precise puppy 5.4/5.4.1 fails.
I copied /usr/bin/dvdauthor extracted from slacko 533 to precise 541 and got SUCCESS.
Maybe the dvdauthor in precise is somewhat broken.
/usr/bin/dvdauthor extracted from slacko 533 is 135kB large.
the dvdauthor in precise is only 54kB!
EDIT: the dvdauthor in precise is 154kB, whereas slacko 533 has 135kB. (Tnx to pemasu)

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 535#662535
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 020#664020

drblock2 wrote:Updated to 5.4.1 from 5.4.0.90 all went well.

But, when I tried to run iconfinder, it seemed to hang while compiling the icon list. When I broke off the program, I got an error message saying that the list file was probably too large.

Checking /root/.icon_finder revealed a list file weighing in at 4.28 MB, which did seem like quite a lot!

I examined the file and found the source of the problem - iconfinder had left my local machine and had started to download the addresses of all the jpg's on my server. This is why the program appeared to hang.

This unexpected behavior was caused by an unintended interaction with YASSM. iconfinder is configured to search /root among other directories and YASSM mounts the network shares in /root/YASSM - hence the entire network is included in the search rather than just a few local directories where icons are likely to be found.

This problem did not arise earlier when attaching shares with pnethood, which mounts under /mnt/network.

The problem can be solved by adding:

Code: Select all

-path /root/YASSM -prune -o

to line 115 of iconfinder after "find $Paths".

Alternatively, just run iconfinder for the first time before attaching the network drives with YASSM .

Hey Drblock2

Thanks for noticing this unforeseen "feature".
It's been fixed, see here.

Greetings!

@SFR
Tried out iconfinder 1.1 - Works now as advertised. I agree - there are times when you would like to search the entire network. Great application.

@rcrsn51

drblock2 wrote:
This unexpected behavior was caused by an unintended interaction with YASSM. iconfinder is configured to search /root among other directories and YASSM mounts the network shares in /root/YASSM - hence the entire network is included in the search rather than just a few local directories where icons are likely to be found.

rcrsn51 wrote:
What an interesting side-effect! How big a share did you have mounted with YASSM?

I have three network drives with a combined capacity of ca. 1.3 TB connected at the moment although only about 300 GB is actually occupied by data.

I am a creature of habit (with only Windows XP to deal with), but having tried the built-in YASSM, I don't think I will go back to pnethood. YASSM is really fast and stable.

I can also recommend the Samba-TNG server - which I have been using for the last two years to attach my network drives.

Next project is to get rid of the Windows network entirely.

Hi Barry,

Sorry in advance to hijack the thread.

I've been trying to register to your blog2 - sending emails and PMs, but received no response. I'm afraid my emails go to your junk mail folder and I know PMs are not always reliable here - so here's my request. I will re-send my email if you don't get it. My email address is similar to my forum name here.

cheers!