Puppy 4.3 Final -- bug reports and suggestions

[Rickrandom]

I changed the file name from pup_430.sfs to pup-430.sfs, and it worked, so it seems to be a typo bug in the frugal install.

which 430 are you talking about?
in the iso itself, is it pup_430.sfs or pup-430.sfs?

in 430 small.iso it is correct at pup-430.sfs,.

I have the pup-430-small.iso (downloaded 18 Sept, 17:42 UK time) which Isobuster shows contains PUP_430.SFS (dated 16 Sept 09, 18:51:58)

[jakfish]

Mike--

Re: samba--have you tried a variant of this? This is what I use to with 4.3 final, wifi, Samba, eee900-Dell e5500:

mkdir -p /mnt/network/BEAR/efile
mount-FULL -t cifs //192.168.***.***/efile /mnt/network/BEAR/efile -o username=guest,password=guest

Jake

[Michalis]

everyone is saying how fast 430 is but mine, 430small, is noticeably slower than anything puppy i have used recently.

I have totally the same feeling by using 430small. 412 that I was using before was feeling much much faster.


Bug1: Whenever I try to connect to msn using default ayttm always crashes and can only hard reset the system. Have you compiled it with the option --enable-posix-dlopen ? If yes that must be the reason and is a known bug at version 0.6.0 and there is a fix for it at the latest cvs 0.6.0-1. More informations here


Bug2: How many official repositories are suppose to be for any version of puppy? I'm asking it because I have 3 for every version and comparing them with the help of Xdiff they are identical. Maybe that happened when I chosen to update them, but that means that every time someone updates will get more and more?
Also it seems that when I select puppy-woof-official is not being added at the first page, even when restarting ppm.
I have attached also a picture with the repositories.


Also I have a tiny request (less than 5kb) for future puppies and as I read in the forum also others too. Can we have numlock on by default? That needs numlockx and to add one line to .xinitrc --> "nulockx on".

[eztuxer]

Version 423 uses ath5k module too and it works fine with wlan0.

[davesurrey]

Yasou Michalis,
I saw the same Bug 2 in ttuuxxx's Puppy 2.20 which also uses the new PPM. So seems like a bug in the new PPM rather than just specifiic to 430.
Dave

[aarf]

I have the pup-430-small.iso (downloaded 18 Sept, 17:42 UK time) which Isobuster shows contains PUP_430.SFS (dated 16 Sept 09, 18:51:58)

must have been the leprechauns.

[jakfish]

Does anybody monitor the temperature of their machine? If so, does anybody else notice a spike of two-to-three degrees celsius in 4.3 Final?

I'm using an eee 900, and see a decided rise in temperature, which could be many things, new kernel, some weird process happening in my own specs, or whatever.

I'm interested if anybody else can replicate this.

Jake

[aarf]

Does anybody monitor the temperature of their machine? If so, does anybody else notice a spike of two-to-three degrees celsius in 4.3 Final?

I'm using an eee 900, and see a decided rise in temperature, which could be many things, new kernel, some weird process happening in my own specs, or whatever.

I'm interested if anybody else can replicate this.

Jake

used to have temperature, calendar and wifi signal in 421, so where is the widget download.pet because i cant see it in the 430's package manager?

[mawebb88]

Does anybody monitor the temperature of their machine? If so, does anybody else notice a spike of two-to-three degrees celsius in 4.3 Final?

I'm using an eee 900, and see a decided rise in temperature, which could be many things, new kernel, some weird process happening in my own specs, or whatever.

I'm interested if anybody else can replicate this.

Jake

Same for me. Used to run at ~54 with 412 but now sometimes hits 60 and above on my EeePC901. I think we are missing the special drivers for this latest kernel to control he Eee's fan speed etc?

Rgds Mike

[mawebb88]

Earlier in this thread I reported I had upgraded from 412 to 430. None of my 412 installed apps appear in PM.

I just re-installed samba-3.0.25b from a pet file and bizarrely PM reported it as pstreamvid-1.3!

So I did it again and this time PM listed samba-3.0.25b (as well as pstream...)

In both cases PM after reporting successful installation just exited without returning to the main PM window.

Rgds Mike

Nb this is part of my quest to get the folder /shared to samba mount as reported earlier

[Rickrandom]

I have the pup-430-small.iso (downloaded 18 Sept, 17:42 UK time) which Isobuster shows contains PUP_430.SFS (dated 16 Sept 09, 18:51:58)

must have been the leprechauns.

In Windows (oh the shame, I guess Puppy will look inside an ISO without burning to a CD, but I don't know how) pup-430-small.iso contains PUP_430.SFS as attached:

[DaveS]

You guys that are having trouble finding the packages you want in Package Manager................. are you checking the radio button at the bottom of the left hand list for "all"?

[mawebb88]

I and torn between starting fresh with 430 and doing an upgrade from my beloved 412. In view o the problems I am having with samba(server) on the fresh 430 approach I think I will resort to the 412 to 430 upgrade path.

To correct the PM problems I reported I will re-install (in the upgraded 430) all I have in the 412 save file so that PM builds the user-installed-packages file so I can see what's installed again. Tried copy/paste the alienpackages.txt contents to the user-installed-packages file but PM although it listed the ex 412 apps after an un-install of one app the pasted stuff was wiped!

Its the only approach I can think of to get rid on the special drivers (e.g. Eee fan control) out of the upgraded 430 as these are only valid for the previous kernel.

Rgds

Mike

[r__hughes]

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reedited 22sep09 (Partview problem is NOT a PUP430 issue) see below
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pup430 (full) grub-booted frugal on an IBM T22 Thinkpad & a DELL Dimension 2400 PC (both upgrades from pup425).
Works beautifully on both - exceeds expectations with regards to printing (native CUPS Canon S520 printer) & networking (T22 via D-Link DWL-610 wireless & PC via ethernet)
I have the devx-430.sfs & (SFS-Converted) OpenOffice-3.0.sfs4.sfs - All work fine.

I have 2 minor problems:-

1) pup430 pmount has a problem recognizing some of my USB devices eg my Sandisk Cruzer Micro 4G - not recognized/displayed by pmount (even though booted from it) - have to use MUT (which is the solution) & Puppy Event Manager & Restart X server to get it on the desktop. I have also made it a bootable USB flash drive using the Universal Installer but need to use mbr.bin (not the default setting) to make it bootable on my DELL PC.

2) Even though I have successfully installed several pet & unleashed packages I have problems installing partview - It appears to install & even puts itself (ineffectively) in the menu under Filesystem but when run from the terminal gives this scripting error (even though the partview script is identical to the one from pup421)

# partview
Error in startup script: child process exited abnormally
while executing
"exec /bin/losetup-FULL /dev/loop1 | grep "/pup_save" | cut -f 2 -d "(" | cut -f 1 -d ")" | cut -f 4 -d "/" "
(procedure "df_check" line 11)
invoked from within
"df_check"
(file "/usr/sbin/partview" line 84)
#

I miss partview! I use it a lot together with gdmap (which I am pleased to see is a standard pup430 menu/filesystems item - I have to manage very big files/folders on a tight laptop diskspace budget & partview helps a lot.

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22sep09
re: partview problem
A) virgin pup430 save-file with no extras from fullsize pup-430.iso
installed partview-4.1.pet run from terminal gives error

# partview
bash: /usr/sbin/partview: /usr/bin/wish: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
#

B) Ditto from virgin pup430 save-file with no extras from pup-430-small.iso

C) Attempted upgrade from pup421 was a complete disaster with no icons AND no partview

Note: from A) & B) above it is clear that a wish library is missing
from my original problem in (2) above it is clear I have an old version of wish installed
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ie This is NOT a Puppy 4.3 problem
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[Kenny-M]

Puppy 430-k2.6.25.16-SCSI

A lot of material coeverd here, sorry. It's getting so close I can touch it.

Can now install CS4236 sound driver without system crashing during shutdown. Great.

Problem, volume control Zmixer does not work. Can not move Master output. I have to use Alsa Mixer. After reboot volume apparently is reset to 0.

I used Gparted to create an EXT2 partition on sdb1 and an FAT32 partition sdb2. They functionally work under Puppy however Windows XP does not recognize the FAT32 partition and ignores it. I have Ext2Explorer from:
http://www.chrysocome.net/explore2fs
It seems to no longer be able to open the EXT2 partition?

Universal Installer now installs to SCSI drive. Great. I used Frugal install. However you have to run Grub as a seperate task. As a safety measure I insltalled boot info to a floppy drive and the Grub binaries and menu.lst to sdb1/boot/grub which works OK. Now that I know it works how do I put the boot info from the floppy onto the first hard drive? The second drive partition 1 holds Puppy.

SMB printing works to an XP print server OK however there still exists error messges displayed in the ESP Printers window complaining about Tree connect failed (NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED) although it works.

I am able to download and use PET files OK. What's the deal with SFS files? Do they now require special procedures? Example, say I want to install the devx-SFS3_430.sfs (can I assume this will work with 430-k2.6.25.16-SCSI?) ?

Last, will the 430-k2.6.25.16-SCSI version continued to be updated and fixed and what impact does this have on the standard version runninng 2.6.30.5 if I were to create programs?

Thanks...

[aarf]

I have the pup-430-small.iso (downloaded 18 Sept, 17:42 UK time) which Isobuster shows contains PUP_430.SFS (dated 16 Sept 09, 18:51:58)

must have been the leprechauns.

In Windows (oh the shame, I guess Puppy will look inside an ISO without burning to a CD, but I don't know how) pup-430-small.iso contains PUP_430.SFS as attached:

hmmm seems to be your unzipper that may be at fault. have had a similar unzipper problem in windows oh so long ago.
In puppy just click the iso and it will open and show you what is inside.

[aarf]

You guys that are having trouble finding the packages you want in Package Manager................. are you checking the radio button at the bottom of the left hand list for "all"?

searched all the way through and just cant find anything that looks like widgets. what is the exact name so i can pick it out of he alphabetical list? even searched the forum for a pet and still no widgets or pwidgets.pet to download.

[DaveS]

You guys that are having trouble finding the packages you want in Package Manager................. are you checking the radio button at the bottom of the left hand list for "all"?

searched all the way through and just cant find anything that looks like widgets. what is the exact name so i can pick it out of he alphabetical list? even searched the forum for a pet and still no widgets or pwidgets.pet to download.

Pwidgets ***

[rjbrewer]

I miss partview! I use it a lot together with gdmap (which I am pleased to see is a standard pup430 menu/filesystems item - I have to manage very big files/folders on a tight laptop diskspace budget & partview helps a lot.

I have partview from here working fine on 430 small iso.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 07&t=34856

[DaveS]

You guys that are having trouble finding the packages you want in Package Manager................. are you checking the radio button at the bottom of the left hand list for "all"?

searched all the way through and just cant find anything that looks like widgets. what is the exact name so i can pick it out of he alphabetical list? even searched the forum for a pet and still no widgets or pwidgets.pet to download.

Sincere appologies. Did a fresh install to check, and Dear Lord, Pwidgets is not in the package manager.
Find it here. Just install it, it is well behaved
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=35601