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Posted: **Sun 19 Jun 2016, 04:13**

Long time puppy user, t2, upups, slackpups and etc. Whenever i plug in a flash drive be it sda or sdb1,2,3, the drive is recognized and an icon/icons pop up. In every pup so far all i do is click on the icon the partition is mounted and OPENED! With xenialpup it always opens pmount? I don't want to see pmount, i want the partition mounted and opened! This is not an automount issue. What am I not doing right? Thanks in advance.

Shocker

Posted: **Sun 19 Jun 2016, 10:57**

@Shocker: I cannot reproduce your problem. I made a flash drive install of Xenialpup and drive icons work properly (except that mine are missing the little "mounted" symbol in the corner).

I suspect that there is something wrong with your flash drive setup.

Posted: **Sun 19 Jun 2016, 15:04**

rcrsn51 wrote:@Shocker: I cannot reproduce your problem. I made a flash drive install of Xenialpup and drive icons work properly (except that mine are missing the little "mounted" symbol in the corner).

I suspect that there is something wrong with your flash drive setup.

I have the same issue with the flag after mounted with pmount. I have played around and got the flag to show up, but it stays after i unmount it.

Posted: **Thu 23 Jun 2016, 04:43**

I think numix gtktheme must be fixing.
Left: flat-grey-rounded theme
Right: numix theme

Posted: **Thu 23 Jun 2016, 13:43**

B.K. Johnson wrote:
IIRC, the version of ndiswrapper that I got to build with the k4.1.11 kernel change was from sourceforge. If you want, I can post a PET of it.
Please post.

Any feedback on this?

Posted: **Fri 24 Jun 2016, 04:07**

rcrsn51, I didn't see the need for any feedback; didn't know what you would have expected anyway. I just wanted to know whether or not I had previously downloaded that version. Peeking inside the pet confirmed that I had. And I did not say I would downgrade the Xenial kernel to k4.1.11, so nothing to report. But if I ever decide to downgrade, I'll send you a PM.

Sorry for any misunderstanding.

Posted: **Fri 24 Jun 2016, 07:58**

Shocker wrote:
rcrsn51 wrote:I have played around and got the flag to show up,

Please tell us what you did.

...R

Posted: **Fri 24 Jun 2016, 11:18**

@Robin2: You have misquoted this. It was Shocker who got the flag to show up.

Posted: **Fri 24 Jun 2016, 16:21**

There was a reference to the mount flag issue on page 4 of this thread, specific to the pup_event_frontend_d daemon. I found similar behavior when manually invoking this.

Example: mount the drive, flag not displayed. Open terminal to invoke the pup_event_frontend_d. Flag shows as a result of this action. Unfortunately when you unmount, flag is not cleared, eventually there are a series of error messages displayed in the terminal. I regret I don't recall what the error messages was as I investigated it about a week ago and moved on to other priorities.

Still, I hope this info helps in some way.

Cheers!

Posted: **Fri 24 Jun 2016, 23:21**

It is well documented (in this thread) that in xenialpup the drive icons are broken.

I offer a solution to this.

The shipped version of util-linux (a suite of programs that includes the mount, blkid, losetup utilites etc) is too new for what puppy expects. This will change soon at the woof level but for the moment it can't for reasons outside the scope of this post.

I have compiled the version which I use in slacko which is from the petbuilds. One complication here is that eudev is used in xenial pup; a good thing of course but util-linux expects libraries in a different place, so for the following packages to be used at the woof level then a symlink needs to be made. Don't worry if you download the packages as the fixup package attached fixes this in a running system (tested pfix=ram).

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# suitable for running in woof
(cd usr/lib; ln -sf ../../lib/libudev.so libudev.so)

The packages

The first one in this list and the attachment below are necessary. Others optional.

http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... xen701.pet *REQUIRED

http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... xen701.pet
http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... xen701.pet
http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... xen701.pet

The attachment below is required.

After installation X must be restarted. If you are unsure just reboot.

Please report results.

Posted: **Sat 25 Jun 2016, 00:51**

I loaded both required pet packages with a graphical restart per the guidance. Well Done, the mount flag displays properly and clears properly too.

THXs!

Posted: **Sat 25 Jun 2016, 00:56**

howling_hound wrote:I loaded both required pet packages with a graphical restart per the guidance. Well Done, the mount flag displays properly and clears properly too.

THXs!

Glad it works.

Thanks for report.

Posted: **Sat 25 Jun 2016, 05:44**

Thanks 01micko, your two pets resolved all my issues with mount and open from the desktop icons. Icon Flags function correctly too.

I have only had to ask for help a few times since I joined in 2010, but I have always found expert help here from people like you.

This had me stumped.

Thank you very much.

Shocker

Posted: **Sat 25 Jun 2016, 06:16**

01micko wrote:It is well documented (in this thread) that in xenialpup the drive icons are broken.

I offer a solution to this.

The shipped version of util-linux (a suite of programs that includes the mount, blkid, losetup utilites etc) is too new for what puppy expects.
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Don't worry if you download the packages as the fixup package attached fixes this in a running system (tested pfix=ram).

I was interested to a "losetup" solution for encryption to work. In a pristine install of the original iso with no savefile I have installed your pets and encryption works, encrypted savefiles can be mounted. Thanks. I used in other puppies:

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losetup -a

to see loop devices. Now you must use:

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losetup-FULL -a

This is a solution for rek769's issue:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=107269

Posted: **Sat 25 Jun 2016, 07:27**

01micko wrote: I offer a solution to this.

Thanks. It works for me with the two required PETs.

...R

Posted: **Sat 25 Jun 2016, 07:28**

rcrsn51 wrote:@Robin2: You have misquoted this. It was Shocker who got the flag to show up.

Apologies. I forgot to check my post after posting it.

...R

Posted: **Mon 27 Jun 2016, 16:39**

New apps qt5 available through the Xenial PPM : Phototonic.
It was just a flash information, for when all install problems are solved.
If ever a passenger should need it..
I will give further info later, not to disturb technical review. When our linuxians will be installing 7.0.2.
For people not stuck in the starting blocks, a nice Sqlite Database...

Posted: **Thu 30 Jun 2016, 19:32**

01micko wrote: I offer a solution to this.

I implemented the pair of essential PETs and that got my drive icons working properly. But it seems to have totally screwed up the clock at the top of the screen. Every time I reboot the time is wrong - sometimes by a day and 1 hour and other times by a day and several hours.

Just now I had the incorrect time and I de-installed the two PETs and rebooted and the time was back to the correct value.

In your Post there are 3 optional PETs. What are they for?

...R

Posted: **Thu 30 Jun 2016, 20:24**

Robin2 wrote:In your Post there are 3 optional PETs. What are they for?

I think DEV is the include files if you want to compile things, DOC is for the text files you can read about the program, and NLS is for support for other languages. I doubt any of them will fix your clock issue but idk. Maybe util-linux 2.21 and 2.2x can mix?

Posted: **Fri 01 Jul 2016, 08:06**

I have been advised in this Thread that I should report this problem here.

When I try to play a DVD VOB file the video playback has jerks in it. This happens when I play from the external DVD drive and when I play the same file after copying to the hard disk.

IIRC it all worked perfectly on this same laptop (Acer Cloudbook) with 64 bit Xubuntu so I waited until the 64 bit version of Xenial pup came along thinking it would solve the problem - but there was no change.

Also IIRC it worked perfectly with Barry's QuirkXerus - but I prefer the "standard" Puppy.

I would appreciate if anyone has any suggestions to solve the problem as it renders this new PC unusable for watching DVDs on it nice big screen (well, big compared to my other laptop).

Thanks

...R

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