Slacko(32/64) 6.3.2/6.3.0 bug reports.

[01micko]

Slacko 6.3.2 is out. See announcement

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For Slacko announcement and download links see here

For Slacko64 announcement and download links see here

Place your bug reports here. You can post nice stuff too if you wish.

Updates will go to the post below.


Enjoy slackoing.

[01micko]

Future updates if any.

20160623 : slacko-6.3.2 and slacko64-6.3.2 are out addressing most of the bugs in this thread.

20151017 re: slacko64-6.3.0.iso only!
I had to reupload the iso. There was a fatal flaw in sfs_load - my fault.

So if you grabbed it before Tue Nov 17 00:04:24 UTC 2015 (Tue Nov 17 10:04:24 EST 2015 [Australian]) you'll have to delete and re-download.

[davids45]

G'day 01micko,

Hovering over the Downloads on the Download page, I was about to download the 64-bit version but the hover box came up with '32 bit'. I assume this is the wrong message.
The 32-bit Slacko was the same but correct, of course .

Nice otherwise so far.

David S.

[unicorn316386]

Nice to see a new version released. Looks like lots of polishing has been done. The new Puppy Theme Manager has come a long way and behaves a lot better here now. I like how it has a simple black.svg wallpaper, which seems to work well with Stardust_dark Tray. The download website has an impressive amount of useful information and seems well organized as well.

One small bug I see often in Firefox 38ESR with Slacko 6.x 32-bit (all versions) is that the top line of the tabs don't always clear after clicking on hyperlinks. As the new title displays, dots from the old title stay on the top of the tab. Firefox 28 doesn't have this issue for me though. Maybe a problem with how Australis interacts with Slacko on 1024x768? Screenshot is attached.

edit: Well, installing Dark Tabs is one way to fix the "dot remnants" in 38ESR, and looks better (with my theme) anyway heh heh

[James C]

Sorry,no bug reports yet.

Congrats on a very nice release.

Really uneventful install of Slacko64 6.3.0......all looking good so far.

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# inxi -Fff
System:    Host: puppypc23222 Kernel: 4.1.11 x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: JWM 2.3.2 Distro: Slacko64 Puppy 6.3.0
Machine:   Mobo: ASUSTeK model: M5A97 LE R2.0 version: Rev 1.xx serial: 150545593600028
           Bios: American Megatrends version: 2601 date: 03/24/2015
CPU:       Hexa core AMD FX-6300 Six-Core (-MCP-) cache: 12288 KB 
           Clock Speeds: 1: 1400.00 MHz 2: 2500.00 MHz 3: 1400.00 MHz 4: 1400.00 MHz 5: 1400.00 MHz 6: 2000.00 MHz
           CPU Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm aes aperfmperf apic arat avx bmi1 clflush cmov cmp_legacy 
           constant_tsc cpb cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de decodeassists extapic extd_apicid f16c flushbyasid 
           fma fma4 fpu fxsr fxsr_opt ht hw_pstate ibs lahf_lm lbrv lm lwp mca mce misalignsse mmx 
           mmxext monitor msr mtrr nodeid_msr nonstop_tsc nopl npt nrip_save nx osvw pae pat pausefilter 
           pclmulqdq pdpe1gb perfctr_core perfctr_nb pfthreshold pge pni popcnt pse pse36 rdtscp 
           rep_good sep skinit sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm svm_lock syscall tbm tce topoext 
           tsc tsc_scale vmcb_clean vme vmmcall wdt xop xsave 
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210] 
           X.org: 1.14.3 drivers: nouveau (unloaded: vesa) tty size: 80x25 Advanced Data: N/A for root 
Audio:     Card-1: AMD/ATI [Advanced Micro Devices ] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) driver: snd_hda_intel Sound: ALSA ver: k4.1.11
           Card-2: NVIDIA High Definition Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel 
Network:   Card: Realtek RTL8111/8168 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller driver: r8169 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 1c:87:2c:5a:bb:e2
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 1120.2GB (2.4% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: KINGSTON_SV300S3 size: 120.0GB 
           2: id: /dev/sdb model: WDC_WD10EZEX size: 1000.2GB 
Partition: ID: swap-1 size: 8.60GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap 
RAID:      No RAID devices detected - /proc/mdstat and md_mod kernel raid module present
Sensors:   None detected - is lm-sensors installed and configured?
Info:      Processes: 132 Uptime: 23 min Memory: 294.7/7875.5MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 1.9.17 

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# free
             total         used         free       shared      buffers
Mem:       8064528      1024748      7039780       271324       108528
-/+ buffers:             916220      7148308
Swap:      8396796            0      8396796

[James C]

32 bit install pretty simple too. Installed a few packages and changed the kernel. All good.

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# inxi -F
System:    Host: puppypc30978 Kernel: 4.1.11 i686 (32 bit) Desktop: JWM 2.3.2 Distro: Slacko Puppy 6.3.0
Machine:   Mobo: ASUSTeK model: M5A97 LE R2.0 version: Rev 1.xx serial: 150545593600028
           Bios: American Megatrends version: 2601 date: 03/24/2015
CPU:       Hexa core AMD FX-6300 Six-Core (-MCP-) cache: 12288 KB flags: (lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm) 
           Clock Speeds: 1: 3000.00 MHz 2: 3000.00 MHz 3: 1400.00 MHz 4: 1400.00 MHz 5: 1400.00 MHz 6: 2000.00 MHz
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210] 
           X.org: 1.14.3 drivers: nouveau (unloaded: vesa) tty size: 80x25 Advanced Data: N/A for root 
Audio:     Card-1: AMD/ATI [Advanced Micro Devices ] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) driver: snd_hda_intel Sound: ALSA ver: k4.1.11
           Card-2: NVIDIA High Definition Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel 
Network:   Card: Realtek RTL8111/8168 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller driver: r8169 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 1c:87:2c:5a:bb:e2
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 1120.2GB (2.4% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: KINGSTON_SV300S3 size: 120.0GB 
           2: id: /dev/sdb model: WDC_WD10EZEX size: 1000.2GB 
Partition: ID: swap-1 size: 8.60GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap 
RAID:      No RAID devices detected - /proc/mdstat and md_mod kernel raid module present
Sensors:   None detected - is lm-sensors installed and configured?
Info:      Processes: 146 Uptime: 4 min Memory: 230.9/8000.8MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 1.9.17 

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# free
             total         used         free       shared      buffers
Mem:       8192852       932072      7260780       215152        81200
-/+ buffers:             850872      7341980
Swap:      8396796            0      8396796

[01micko]

Thanks James.

I went with the Plain Old Puppy (aka 'pop') theme in 32 as to not alienate too many users.

If you want to change it check out PTheme in the menu. Standard in woof are ziggy's stardust dark and light but I concocted 'buntoo' and 'pop'. There was a bit of contention in the woof-CE forum.. so I took matters into my own hands. There also a couple more in the repo (should show up in ppm).. winXP and OSX. You can guess why I didn't ship those.

[ally]

both new (32/64) slacko's do not see my Intel Corporation Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 (rev 35) wifi card

normally iwlwifi driver is used, when using the usual iwlwifi module using the load module button it does not recognise the nic

[gcmartin]

Hello @01Micko and thanks bunches for all the hard work you have put into the 4 distros and git you are working on. It really obvious and MUCHLY appreciated. I have to admire how you keep all this straight in your head. In any event, it is Herculean.

I have a single question-topic at this time while I wait for the downloads and it is appropriate to this thread; being that this is "bug reports".

Service Management
Will service-fixes be via Service Packs (aka like TahrPUP great approach) or via fixes/Fix-packs (aka @ETP magnificent approach)? Or will it be a combination of both (this would, of course, be ideal)?

Thanks, again.

[Terry H]

Have done frugal install of both 32-bit and 64-bit slacko 6.3 on a recently acquired Dell D630 Core 2 Duo T7500 2.2 GHz(64-bit) laptop. The 32-bit worked well OOTB. Slack064, I have 2 issues.

1 - The laptop has BCM4321 wifi card, in slacko64, it is not identified, loading either of the b43/b43lagacy modules has no effect. Still no wifi.

2 - The tray configuration utility, does not allow changes to size, postion or autohide, in the default setup. When attempting a change a duplicate line is added to the tray config, causing a conflict. See attached pictures. Other items can be changed successfully using the utility.

This change did not occur in 32-bit.

[James C]

http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=09189

[watchdog]

Thank you 01micko!
Tested without problems a new frugal install of slacko 6.3.0 32 bit. After loading a sfs file you have to restart x to see the new files in the filesystem. I recompiled motion detector. I attach it. The link to kernel source in Sfs manager is broken. I downloaded it from:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... _noPAE.sfs

I used the wary's p7zip-full and slacko 5.7's mtools for unetbootin: not found in PPM.
Tested working your pulseaudio skype: someone may need to edit the following lines in /opt/pa4-32/etc/pulse/default.pa:

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load-module module-alsa-sink device=hw:1,0
load-module module-alsa-source device=hw:0,0

[mavrothal]

2 - The tray configuration utility, does not allow changes to size, postion or autohide, in the default setup. When attempting a change a duplicate line is added to the tray config, causing a conflict. See attached pictures. Other items can be changed successfully using the utility.

This change did not occur in 32-bit.

This appears to be a problem with the specific pTheme used, Buntoo. Specifically the 'restart command' line of jwmrc-tray1
If you change the theme through pTheme to any other everything is fine.

BTW, tray2 of the Buntoo theme is broken too. If you move on the other side the icons disappear. Is the 'spacer' line at the end of it that generates the problem in this case.
I guess the theme designer does not want you to change it . ( )

[Terry H]

This appears to be a problem with the specific pTheme used, Buntoo. Specifically the 'restart command' line of jwmrc-tray1
If you change the theme through pTheme to any other everything is fine.

Yes, I am aware of this, just reporting that there was an issue with using the tray configuration GUI. I have set other themes using pTheme. also have edited config file manually.

BTW, tray2 of the Buntoo theme is broken too. If you move on the other side the icons disappear. Is the 'spacer' line at the end of it that generates the problem in this case.
I guess the theme designer does not want you to change it . ( )

Yes, i saw this after posting. Thanks for the information regarding the spacer.

[oui]

see pls picture

(is not particular to Slacko64 but happens on ALL modern Puppy's ... Is a GREAT bug needing to be eradicated using all Woof's !)

[oui]

note:
it is not xombrero (xombrero seem to be absent at slackware) but only the poor midori...

[oui]

see pls color points!

red points: very uggly

yellow points: can be accepted but is not good... is bad!

green points (hidden top bar and bottom bar) : very good (is not so in all Puppy's), thank you!

[oui]

pls chg the default setting for "reboot"

from 'make a save file' "yes"

to 'make a save file' "no"

as the guy's don't using save file are irritate EACH REBOOT instead to be able only to hit Enter to quit/reboot without save file! this actual default value is completely unlogic !

those guy's using save file can move ONE TIME, not more, the value with Cursor left

[unicorn316386]

@oui: Is it really necessary to split your comments (3 related) into 4 posts? It is confusing to follow. I don't see midori browser in Slacko 6, or even in the PPM. What version did you download, and where did you find it? It's icons/layout look broken too.

[01micko]

both new (32/64) slacko's do not see my Intel Corporation Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 (rev 35) wifi card

normally iwlwifi driver is used, when using the usual iwlwifi module using the load module button it does not recognise the nic

I think I know what's wrong here. First it worked for you, then it didn't. Maybe you need the 'fdrv_XXX.sfs' for extra firmware.

You have to have a frugal install, then open the "SFS Manager" from the "Setup" menu and grab the "Extra Driver Firmware" sfs. It should load automatically.