Slacko Puppy 5.3.1

[Jasper]

Hi,

What about Menu>Desktop>Desksetup Templates for Desk Icons>Traditional.

It may not be exactly what you want or need and it may not work, but if you click on the Floppy disk style icon, in that same window, first you should be able to restore your current mess - or you could backup your current mess first. then click that icon.

My regards

PS you're a decade out in your reply above.

[Sylvander]

1. SUCCESS!

That did the trick!
Now all partition icons are displayed...
Just as I like them.

2. I'm being offered the option "Save the session = Yes/No?" at shut-down; haven't yet tested if it's working OK.
Will do so as I reboot to backup the slackosave.

3. The "Save" icon on the desktop still isn't working.

4. Will make a backup of the present slackosave, then try the other stuff you suggested.

[Jasper]

Hi again Sylvander,

I'm pleased you've had a partial result. I never use my desktop save icon so as to avoid an error message on rebooting. I seem to recall you found a fix for that. A restatement below or a link to your fix would be appreciated.

My regards

[Sylvander]

1. I have lots of handy stuff found here at the Puppy forums, and listed in my Puppy Linux thread at the PC-Guide forums.

Here's page 14 of my thread, which is at page 17 right now, and has had 59,836 views at this moment.

Here's the post that includes the link to the post with the info you want [plus links to other related and useful stuff].

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And here's the post by Dougal that gives the needed info.
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When I'm setting up a new Puppy I go through that thread finding useful stuff [configurations/tweaks/packages] to add.
The above is only one of them.
I've often thought it would be a good idea to make a new post or thread listing all the really pertinent stuff in one go, and leave out all the dross.
Any thoughts?

2. The save at shutdown of Slacko is working/functional.

[Aitch]

Sylvander

Your thread over there is a one man masterpiece....thanks

Aitch

[don570]

I made the audacity package a bit
smaller by removing similar libraries

The libsamplerate that I used was 0.1.2
that I found on the forum

When I compiled the latest version 0.1.8
it was just too big and stripping didn't make
any difference. So I kept the old libsamplerate
in the pet package.

Here's the revised package with the similar
libraries removed

http://www.datafilehost.com/download-f8c606c8.html

_________________________________________

[Sylvander]

one man masterpiece....

Wow! It sure is nice to have my efforts so appreciated.

Thank you.

[Jasper]

Hi Sylvander,

Thanks to your help the minor spurious reboot error message I had when using my desktop save icon is now fixed.

Although I don't have problems saving on exit to power off or reboot it seems the better option to use the desktop save icon - because if anything goes seriously wrong with any save - there is the opportunity to recover (which seems impossible [except for "puppy pfix=1" as a partial solution] if a save on exit fails).

My regards

[coldbeer]

FYI: Kernel Panic Slacko 5.3.1
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Loading drivers neede to access disk drives.
Searching for Puppy files....
Loading the 'puppy_slacko_5.3.1.sfs' main file... copying to ram
Setting up the layered filesystem...
Performing a 'switch_root' to the layered filesystem ...Kernel panic not sync'd.
g:Attempted to kill init!
Pid: 1, com: switch_root Not tainted 2.6.37.6 #1
Call Trace:
[<c12a2988>] ? panic+0x4d/0x130
[<c1029179>] ? dn+exit+0x5a/0x59d
[<c1029868>] ? dn_group_exit+0x0/0x7b
[<c12a48a5>] ? syscall_call+0x7/0xb
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

I have an older P4 machine with pata drives and Nvidia GeForce 6200 card.

Clues:
1) I have used puppy 4.3.1 on this same machine lots of times. Then I got the NVidia card and puppy 4.3.1 now also gives a kernel panic on the live cd - ALONG with this Slacko 5.3.1. Problem due to video card?

2) I have Slackware 13.37 also and it boots fine.

[mave]

Hi,

did on a blank Thinkpad T41: ext3-partition and 1024MB-partition and installing Slacko 5.3.1 (and GRUB4DOS).

Now the swap-tartition is shown in Desktop as sda2. On other installs, no swap is shown...

And: clicking on it, Puppy wants to open a floppy drive. (disabling floppy inside BIOS gives no change).

Uuups! Why this?

[bigpup]

Hi,

did on a blank Thinkpad T41: ext3-partition and 1024MB-partition and installing Slacko 5.3.1 (and GRUB4DOS).

Now the swap-tartition is shown in Desktop as sda2. On other installs, no swap is shown...

And: clicking on it, Puppy wants to open a floppy drive. (disabling floppy inside BIOS gives no change).

Uuups! Why this?

What does Gparted say the partition is?

[01micko]

Hi,

did on a blank Thinkpad T41: ext3-partition and 1024MB-partition and installing Slacko 5.3.1 (and GRUB4DOS).

Now the swap-tartition is shown in Desktop as sda2. On other installs, no swap is shown...

And: clicking on it, Puppy wants to open a floppy drive. (disabling floppy inside BIOS gives no change).

Uuups! Why this?

Ok, this has to be the most unusual thing I have ever seen!

Of course maybe you can do some debugging yourself, fdisk -l, probepart and others.

What happens when you boot a live session pfix=ram? (just edit the menu.lst at boot). Does the same show up?

Can you try booting live pfix=ram with racy/wary 522 ?(either one). These will probably exhibit the same as a Slacko pfix=ram boot as the woof version is very close. This will also narrow down to a Slacko or woof issue.

How did you format the drive? Was the drive formatted with Slacko?

More info is definitely needed.

[01micko]

FYI: Kernel Panic Slacko 5.3.1
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Loading drivers neede to access disk drives.
Searching for Puppy files....
Loading the 'puppy_slacko_5.3.1.sfs' main file... copying to ram
Setting up the layered filesystem...
Performing a 'switch_root' to the layered filesystem ...Kernel panic not sync'd.
g:Attempted to kill init!
Pid: 1, com: switch_root Not tainted 2.6.37.6 #1
Call Trace:
[<c12a2988>] ? panic+0x4d/0x130
[<c1029179>] ? dn+exit+0x5a/0x59d
[<c1029868>] ? dn_group_exit+0x0/0x7b
[<c12a48a5>] ? syscall_call+0x7/0xb
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

I have an older P4 machine with pata drives and Nvidia GeForce 6200 card.

Clues:
1) I have used puppy 4.3.1 on this same machine lots of times. Then I got the NVidia card and puppy 4.3.1 now also gives a kernel panic on the live cd - ALONG with this Slacko 5.3.1. Problem due to video card?

2) I have Slackware 13.37 also and it boots fine.

Hmmm.. something tells me there is a hardware issue with your optical reader if you booted from CD/DVD. If not, more is needed, like how you installed.

[mave]

Hi,

the partition is real swap and the harddisk was formatted under Slacko with GParted...

But, sorry, now it's at parent's desk about 300km away. Will look closer with Teamviewer on it

It's running without problems. Maybe I can reproduce this on another Thinkpad. Thanks to all, great thanks for Slacko!

[charlie6]

Hi,

FYI: Kernel Panic Slacko 5.3.1
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Loading drivers neede to access disk drives.
Searching for Puppy files....
Pid: 1, com:

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switch_root Not tainted 2.6.37.6 #1

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2) I have Slackware 13.37 also and it boots fine.

As far as I could remember, I got once such a

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switch_root Not tainted 2.6.37.6 #1

message while trying to boot slacko using a fresh slacko-frugall install and using the «2.6.37.6-smp» version of vmlinuz (i.e. vmlinuz-2.6.37.6-huge-smp) after installed
- kernel-modules-smp-2.6.37.6_smp.txz and
- kernel-huge-smp-2.6.37.6_smp.txz files
downloaded from the slackware repo. (context: install of the 2.6.37.6-smp kernel for compiling a kernel module - details herehttp://karellen.blogspot.com/2011/11/pc ... linux.html )
In my case, the puppy-slacko's vmlinuz was trying to boot using modules in /lib/modules/2.6.37.6-smp/kernel/XYZ/.../*.ko modules. So I experienced that the puppy_slacko's vmlinuz (is not -smp) would not match with /lib/modules/2.6.37.6-smp/kernel/XYZ/.../*.ko modules)
Here, changing to a full install and symlinking vmlinuz to vmlinuz-2.6.37.6-huge-smp (and deleting the previous vmlinuz) got it solved.

In your case, would the puppy-slacko-save files be «too close» to the slackware files inside the same directory/or/partition, would'nt they?
Or a mismatch upon the name «vmlinuz», Slacko using the vmlinuz of Slackware, or something like that?

Doing

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# uname -r

Slacko anwers

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# uname -r
2.6.37.6

whereas the slackware 13.37-smp answers

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# uname -r
2.6.37.6-smp

Also, all this is given as cut-and-try-results-for-information-only as my informatic knowledges are limited.

Hope this could help anyway, <| ;~)> !

Cheers ...
and...
Merry Xtmas to the whole Puppy goodwilling community !

Charlie

[MoebusNet]

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Slacko Puppy, version 5.3.1

Chip description:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller

Driver used by Xorg:
intel

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: "1024x600" Depth: Depth 24

-Computer-
Processor : 2x Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N450 @ 1.66GHz
Memory : 1023MB (207MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Sat 24 Dec 2011 02:51:58 PM CST
-Display-
Resolution : 1024x600 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Mesa DRI Intel(R) IGD x86/MMX/SSE2
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
-Input Devices-
AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse
Power Button
Sleep Button
Lid Switch
Power Button
PC Speaker
1.3M WebCam
Video Bus
-Printers (CUPS)-
CUPS-PDF : <i>Default</i>
-SCSI Disks-
ATA TOSHIBA MK1665GS
SanDisk U3 Cruzer Micro
SanDisk U3 Cruzer Micro
USB2.0 CardReader

The early ENE cardreader for this netbook works out-of-the-box
If we can ever come up with a real trackpad driver instead of the ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse driver, I'll be tickled pink!

Thanks for the hard work!!!

[Karl Godt]

SLACKO-5.3.1# uname -r 2.6.37.6

Full installed to partition sda10 on

Manufacturer: Dell Inc. Product Name: OptiPlex 745 Type: Desktop
Type: Central Processor Family: Core 2 Manufacturer: Intel
Current Speed: 1866 MHz
# free -m
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 1000 330 670 0 27
-/+ buffers: 302 697
Swap: 1004 0 1004



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SLACKO<>LUPU BUG :

/root/Startup/freememapplet_tray

# strings
bash: strings: command not found

BUT is named strings-GNU so not a bug with strings
AND busybox is compiled with the strings applet too

# busybox strings /root/Startup/freememapplet_tray |grep df

df -m | grep ' /initrd/pup_ro1$' | tr -s ' ' | cut -f 2,4 -d ' '
df -m | grep '/dev/root' | tr -s ' '| cut -f 2,4 -d ' '
df -m | grep ' /initrd/pup_rw$' | tr -s ' ' | cut -f 2,4 -d ' '

Slacko uses the woof df while Lupu df-FULL , which is ok in frugal mode .

The slacko freememapplet_tray is compiled for the Lupu df output .

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WOOF BUG :

/bin/umount

Since i have installed slacko full to sda10
running /usr/local/Partview/pdff.pl
by clicking the freememapplet_tray icon
the sda1 alway showed as mounted on the desktop
thought it had been successfully unmounted .

The problem is with grep '/dev/sda1' not doing a grep -w '/dev/sda1' :
simply grep would also grep sda10 up to sda19 .
Adding -w to grep for the mount_icon part of /bin/umount seems to have solved this :

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 if [ "`df | tr -s ' ' | cut -f 1,6 -d ' ' | grep -w "$drvPATTERN" | grep -v ' /initrd/' | grep -v ' /$'`" = "" ];then

    if [ "`df | tr -s ' ' | cut -f 1,6 -d ' ' | grep -w "$drvPATTERN" | grep -E ' /initrd/| /$'`" != "" ];then

I am expecting few more to come in this df and mount issue .

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Other than this no real problems so far .

I really like the slacko modprobe compiled with zlib support opposed to debian/ubuntu modprobe !
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year !

[James C]

Just manually upgraded the Slacko frugal install on my Windows 7/PCLOS/Lucid box from 5.30 to 5.31.Other than needing to quickly redo my icon layout everything appears to have upgraded fine with all previously installed apps still functioning normally.

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Slacko Puppy, version 5.3.1

Chip description:
oem: NVIDIA
product: G98 Board - 5610002u Chip Rev

Driver used by Xorg:
nvidia

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: " 1440x900 " Depth: Depth 24

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
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# glxgears
10548 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2109.600 FPS
10897 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2179.400 FPS
10599 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2119.800 FPS
10657 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2131.400 FPS
10527 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2105.400 FPS
10763 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2152.600 FPS

VGA compatible controller : nVidia Corporation G98 [GeForce 8400 GS]

[MoebusNet]

HDD-active light is always illuminated whether booting with or without save-file. Lucid 5.28 not doing this. Any information i can provide?

EDIT: Same machine, clean 5.3.1-004 install to manual-frugal USB flash drive. Does not exhibit this behavior. Oh well, another non-issue.

[zigbert]

There seems to be an issue with viewnoir......



Works fine for filenames containing only english chars