Lucid Puppy 5.2 feedback and bug reports

[zachif]

weird - when installing into the 256MB partition, I never got any error message or any other sign it is too small...

will give it another try, with a 512MB or a 1GB partition.

[bones01]

bones01 wrote:

I installed GimPhoto 2.4.3 from a .pet that I had on file, and was pleased to see that it seemed to work well, but wanted to use the full Gimp. So, went to PPM, clicked on the listing in 'Installed Packages' and went through the routine to uninstall.
But it didn't.
I've now grabbed the full Gimp .sfs from Quickpet sfs get, and that has installed, or so it seems, but won't load up.

I often use Gimp and it works well.
I tested GimPphoto with a prehistoric lupu-lucid (six months old). The system crashed...
Gimp and (or) GimpPhoto no longer working. So I was forced to delete the pupsave to put again a previous saved pupsave.bak (only with Gimp).
Currently (lucid 5.2) I use Gimp-full-2.6.10-lucid.sfs very often for photo retouching. It is stable.

Thanks Tasgarth. You gave me the idea to delete all the gimp files, so I used pfind to locate them and the deleted them. Then I placed the .sfs in the right spot to load, and when I rebooted again it was working.

I still have some troubles with green lines appearing on the work space when I use a brush or the eraser, which is incredibly annoying, but that is not the fault of 5.2. I've had this problem before.

Bones

[Tasgarth]

bones01 wrote:

I still have some troubles with green lines appearing on the work space when I use a brush or the eraser,

I do not have this problem if I understand. The easiest way is to do a screenshot with details. If it can help.

[Bert]

How to get rid of the PPM

I had ticked the Lucid repo and three Buntu repos in the sources. Wanted to add the Quirky repo. That brought the repos to the maximum 5 allowed.
PPM didn't display the Quirky repo after restarting it, so I changed the repos to only Quirky and restarted PPM.

Never saw PPM again
When I click it, there's the yellow/orange bar announcing it (something like "please wait, updating..".) for a split second and then nothing.

Can this be reproduced?
I must add I also added Zigbert's pkg_chooser.sh to PPM (petget). But that's just an elegant new UI, without influence on PPM's code I would think?

Any ideas?

[bigpup]

Thanks BigPup, BUT, still doesn't change anything in the LiveCD system. ...No matter what I do. If its not a bug, then, you or I are not implementing the change properly. Or this is the "new' implementation.

Can anyone tell me how to get PUP5.2 LiveCD running so that the taskbar ONLY shows what's running in the active Virtual Desktop instead of show all task in all desktops?
Thanks in advance

In live CD fbpanel configuration controls the taskbar.
menu>desktop>desktop settings>fbpanel configuration>taskbar tab
show all desks
Select false
select main tab
select OK
This setting should stop showing all tasks in all desktops.

I've been saying something wrong with tasks on taskbar in EVERY virtual desktop for about a month or so. How do I report this as a bug?

Thanks in advance.

Live CD should be using Openbox and fbpanel by default.
It works for me.
The only other thing may be you need a save file for setting changes to work.
Changes in fbpanel configuration will not happen unless you go to the main tab and select OK.

[bigpup]

weird - when installing into the 256MB partition, I never got any error message or any other sign it is too small...

will give it another try, with a 512MB or a 1GB partition.

Never understood why people are so hesitant to give Puppy Linux some room to grow when installing. There are cache areas that change size, temp areas that change size, if you download a program it is compressed and expands to maybe 3 or 4 times before installing, programs need room to work.
For a full install I never use less than 1GB, but that is probably too small if you like to install large program packages. Download the full version of Open Office and see how much room that takes.

[playdayz]

I must add I also added Zigbert's pkg_chooser.sh to PPM (petget).

Thanks for reminding me

[zachif]

OK - installed to a 512MB partition, and it is working!!
Thanks everyone for their help.

I guess my only suggestion for next release would be:
Either do not let install into a partition too small, or give error message when you fail. Everything seemed to be fine until trying to reboot.

I booted from the live CD, and ran the install wizard.
FULL install on SDA3 (Win7 on SDA1 and SDA2).
wizard completed successfully, identified Win 7, created the config for GRUB4DOS and everything seemed to be ok, until trying to boot...
Win 7 still boots OK, when selecting it from the grub4dos menu.
When trying to boot puppy, I get:

Booting Lucid Puppy 520 (sda3/boot)

setting root to (hd0,2)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 ro

Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format


now, the partition size is 256MB, and I have tried it twice!
partition created using Gpart launched from the install wizard.
partition was created as the default ext2.

can anyone help?!

Thanks!

[bones01]

bones01 wrote:

I still have some troubles with green lines appearing on the work space when I use a brush or the eraser,

I do not have this problem if I understand. The easiest way is to do a screenshot with details. If it can help.

I've reported it here
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=59252

Same issue regardless of which version of Gimp is used. This isn't relevant to 5.2 specifically, so I won't clog up this forum with it.

Tasgarth, if you have any idea what might be causing this, and how it could be resolved, I'd be very pleased.

Bones

[ttuuxxx]

ok guys, If you need Gimp, I'll compile it tomorrow, please provide me the direct link to the DevX and then I'll be fine.

ttuuxxx

[pemasu]

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... vx_520.sfs

[ttuuxxx]

Thanks pemasu
ttuuxxx

[gsig1185]

In puppy 4.3 I could choose both Icelandic Keyboard and country settings but in Lucid puppy 5.1 the keyboard was no longer available and in 5.2 neither is available. The keyboard setting is easy to fix with the setxkbmap command but I cannot fix the country settings.

[Bert]

Hi gsig1185,

When you choose menu >> setup >> setup puppy >> personalize settings,
you will find "more" at the bottom of the country settings list. Choose that, click 'OK' and a scroll-down list will open, where you'll be able to select is_IS.

Hope that is what you where looking for..
Velkomin!

[bignono1]

The nathan wallpaper is not working,
in both jwm and openbox,
to solve the problem i downloaded pwallpaper _1.1.2 pet and it did the job,thanks to technosaurus.

[Bert]

The nathan wallpaper is not working,
in both jwm and openbox,
to solve the problem i downloaded pwallpaper _1.1.2 pet and it did the job,thanks to technosaurus.

Hi bignono,

Nathan wallpaper setter is working fine here in Lupu 5.2. Do you have any idea what causes the problem in your installation? Maybe something like (just a wild guess) a 1.5 MB wallpaper in your collection?

[Off-topic, Nathan seems to have disappeared again from the forum. The search function can't even remember him. It takes the most perfected google search (thanks Bruce B), to find Nathan.]

[Sit Heel Speak]

Congratulations playdayz and Mick, this is the first Lupu that "just works" on an Intel D865GSA mainboard. Well, at least, that is...after I disable the onboard RTL8139 NIC and add instead a Netgear 10/100 PCI NIC...and an FX5200 video card.

One quibble:

When I install Opera-11.00-Lucid, the notification tells me to look in "Desktop" to find the icon. It is rather, of course, under "Internet".

[bones01]

ok guys, If you need Gimp, I'll compile it tomorrow, please provide me the direct link to the DevX and then I'll be fine.

ttuuxxx

I'm using Gimp from quickpet and it seems to work ok, BUT I've just tried to work with 'filters' and there's nothing there! No filters!!

Is that a Bug, or a dodgy download?

ttuxxx, if you're putting something together, and I have no idea how you do what you do, then I'll be very interested to see it.

Bones

[ttuuxxx]

Here's the latest gimp, I also included in the package gegl,babl, and for some odd reason it needed slang, so the latest slang is also included. 6.7MB, first delete /root/.gimp-2.7 <-- hidden folder, if you had any previous gimps installed the user settings will be there.
This is the version with single window switch, just that you have to enbale single window each time, grrr I would like to see it default like photoshop, to view single window mode select
Window --> Single Window Mode
Oh yes I also include the extra batch photo plugin

ttuuxxx
http://www.smokey01.com/ttuuxxx/lupu-Up ... 1-i386.pet <-- Main app

http://www.smokey01.com/ttuuxxx/lupu-Up ... 1-i386.pet <--- Gimp dev files for compiling

http://www.smokey01.com/ttuuxxx/lupu-Up ... 1-i386.pet <-- documents
http://www.smokey01.com/ttuuxxx/lupu-Up ... 1-i386.pet <-- Extra Language files

[bignono1]

Hi Bert,
The problem was not due to a big size wallpaper,
i with the help of technosaurus on the puppy chat page tried many ways to solve the problem and only installing the pet did the job.
My guess is that it is rellated to a menu problem i allready pointed out on this topic, page 5.