Lucid Puppy 5.0 - Bug Reports and Bug Fixes

[mawebb88]

Hi

Decided to give lupu-501 a run. I use 431 (with quite a few additional pets eg. FF) daily.

Unfortunately one key thing for me does not work. I need to connect to mt LANdisk (Samba) and whereas in 431 everything is fine in lupu although it finds my server and its shares (using pnethoopd) when I show the files it just shows a mounted (green dot) unnamed folder but no files (or other expected folders). Tried installing the pnethood pet from 431 on top and this ended with the same result.

Smaller problem. The Simple Network (Barry's) connection although it found my wireless router failed to connect with my WPK key but the normal Network Connection Wizard works fine,

So back to 431 for the moment.

Rgds Mike

[edoc]

OK, after my rant I went back and looked at the code ...

It really should be clarified in the HELP that one merely needs to Copy and Paste the long line and change "Multiverse" to "Universe" wherever it appears in the second (new) line.

Also, it helps if you count (don't ask how I know this) the number of Repositories ... the instructions are *serious* when they read "No more than five" -- there is no error message if you select a sixth, it just ignores the new selection - that also should probably be fixed with a RED error message of something.

I know, dummy-proofing ...

Once that was completed I went through the whole process of loading Enigma ... a bunch of dependencies, etc. No errors but also no Enigma in the FUN section of the menu. I was, however, able to use "pfind" to chase it down and click on it and it works. No idea why it was not added to the MENU.

[Béèm]

Cannot set German keyboard layout
Edit the xorg.conf file and replace us by de
Restart X

Like I said in the previous post: this doesn't work.
I followed the instructions from http://www.xfree86.org/current/XKB-Config2.html#3, but used "de" instead of "us". Xorg seems to get the settings from somewhere else...

Maybe you're not in xorg then, but in xvesa. I don't know how that works there.

Other idea, not the normal way.
Make a setxkmap statement in profile.local.
If you don't have profile.local, create the file in /etc.

[Béèm]

At least I am not totally gaga

What are you doing on the head of that girl?

[edoc]

At least I am not totally gaga

What are you doing on the head of that girl?

If Lobster were a hermit crab I'd say he was looking for an empty shell ... sure need to pray for that very sad child. How do these people become celebrities?

[rjbrewer]

How Lobsters get born:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrO4YZeyl0I

[edoc]

Revolting ... could not even watch all of it ... something "demonic" about it somehow. People pay money for that stuff? The freak show lives on ...

I know, I know, not "politically correct".

Fine, here's the fine print disclaimer ... IMHO, YMMV ... sigh.

[IVIarcell]

Cannot set German keyboard layout
Edit the xorg.conf file and replace us by de
Restart X

Like I said in the previous post: this doesn't work.
I followed the instructions from http://www.xfree86.org/current/XKB-Config2.html#3, but used "de" instead of "us". Xorg seems to get the settings from somewhere else...

Maybe you're not in xorg then, but in xvesa. I don't know how that works there.

Other idea, not the normal way.
Make a setxkmap statement in profile.local.
If you don't have profile.local, create the file in /etc.

Thanks for the hints, but nevermind. I switched to another distro, because the packet management for installing the devx packet on a FULL install doesn't work the way it's described on the official website. These two things were annoying enough to leave puppy alone - at least for now.

[escargo]

I have an old Compaq Presario 1700 with 196M of memory that had a built-in ethernet interface that failed. An add-in PCMCIA card with a name of Dynex provided Windows with an alternative interface.

I had tried some earlier Linux distros on it, but they failed to recognize the card (and usually needed too much memory).

I tried Puppy 4.2.1 and Puppy 4.3.1 and they both identified the card and allowed me to select eth1 as my internet connection.

I tried Puppy 5.0.0 and its version of the Puppy Network Wizard did NOT recognize the card.

It's not easy to find the version numbers of built-in packages, so I can't tell which versions of the Puppy Network Wizard are in the three versions of Puppy. If I could get 5.0.0 (or really 5.0.1) to work, I might kick WIndows off this laptop and use Linux on it.

Any suggestions on how to get the Network Wizard to recognize the card?

[niel6]

I just tried puppy 4.1.1 on my old Toshiba laptop and now the d-link DFE-670TXD pcmcia adapter works fine and I am connected

[niel6]

Still on my old toshiba laptop:

I booted puppy 4.1.1 and tried to connect to the internet using a DWL-610 wireless pcmcia card.

I tried a long time using the network wizard and it looked as if it worked, but my browser could never connect to any websites.

I find the wireless network wizard a bit confusing to use, there is no "OK" button to verify my selections, so I felt as if I was running in an endless circle *smile*

But now I at least can connect 4.1.1 via an ethernet cable using a D-link DFE-670TXD pcmica pc card adapter.

Also I could not find my own former messages on this list - I had to google for some of my keywords to find it - I would prefer to have threads built, as that is what I am used to in the ubuntu users mailing list.

Just some small talk about what I am thinking about making the puppy documentation better for newbies.

[pop-pop]

I have used the "findfs" utility for several years in various backup scripts that I run from Puppy. /sbin/findfs is actually a symbolic link to "/sbin/tune2fs" which still works in Quirky but not in LuPu 5.0.0 nor 5.0.1.

If I copy the "tune2fs" from Quirky into LuPu, then my backup scripts work as usual.

FYI, I use findfs to identify the /dev/sd? in external USB hard drives. The "sd?" varies depending on the sequence that the drives are powered up.

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backup=$(findfs LABEL='boot_backup' | cut --bytes='1-8')

Looks like Barry (or someone) made a special variant of "tune2fs" that incorporated the "findfs" functionality into "tune2fs".

[niel6]

http://www.tuxmobil.org/pcmcia_linux.html

Here you can see a list of which pcmcia pc cards should work on

linux. :-)

I do not find any Dynex pc cards.

I also do not find D-link DWL-610 wireless pcmcia pc card.

I do however find both:

DFE-670TXD - which works on my puppy 4.1.1 but not lupu

and

DFE-690TXD which do not work on neither 4.1.1 nor lupu - but

seems to be for the 2.4 kernel.

[escargo]

I have an old Compaq Presario 1700 with 196M of memory that had a built-in ethernet interface that failed. An add-in PCMCIA card with a name of Dynex provided Windows with an alternative interface....

Any suggestions on how to get the Network Wizard to recognize the card?

The Network Wizard on Puppy 4.3.1 identifies the interface as
pci: D-Link System DFE-690TXD CardBus PC Card (module 8139too).

Looking at TuxMobil I can see that I'm going to be limited to systems that use the 2.4 kernel.

Added on June 2, 2010: I see that Puppy 4.3.1 is using a 2.6 kernel, so apparently the kernel version is not the problem.

[Jim1911]

My HP Photosmart C5280 All-in-one printed great, however xsane would not work until I installed hplip-3.9.12-scan.pet from here. Now both scanning and printing are working fine.

[Béèm]

My /mnt/home is a vfat and not suited to put .wine directly on it.
(due to symlinks inside .wine)
I found a technic (lost the bookmark to the post of it) to create a 2fs file, put .wine in it and mount it on /root/.wine.
I started to do this manually and this worked well.

Now I wanted to automate the mounting and did put the mount command in /etc/profile.local, so it executes at boot time. The command is:

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mount -o loop /mnt/home/wine-sda2.2fs /root/.wine

But to my surprise, I have now 2 loop devices mounted on /root/.wine.

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# mount
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw,relatime)
/dev/sda2 on /initrd/mnt/dev_save type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,quiet,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/loop1 on /initrd/pup_rw type ext3 (rw,noatime,errors=continue,data=ordered)
tmpfs on /initrd/mnt/tmpfs type tmpfs (rw,relatime,size=126368k)
/dev/loop0 on /initrd/pup_ro2 type squashfs (ro,noatime)
/dev/loop4 on /initrd/pup_ro4 type squashfs (ro,noatime)
/dev/loop5 on /initrd/pup_ro5 type squashfs (ro,noatime)
/dev/loop6 on /initrd/pup_ro6 type squashfs (ro,noatime)
unionfs on / type aufs (rw,relatime,si=bd8ed0d6)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,relatime,size=258580k)
none on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime,gid=2,mode=620)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime)
shmfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,relatime,size=188300k)
none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,relatime)
/dev/loop2 on /root/.wine type ext2 (rw,relatime,errors=continue)
/dev/loop3 on /root/.wine type ext2 (rw,relatime,errors=continue)

How is this possible?

To be sure I looked if I didn't have two 2fs files, but no, this is not the case.

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# find / |grep wine-sda
/initrd/mnt/dev_save/wine-sda2.2fs
# 

Can somebody explain this?
Is there some error somewhere?

[reo]

Hi

i have been following lupu updates since the beginning, but it seems that now since 5.0 xorg config no longer get saved, so upon every reboot i have to probe and select screen config.

i am now on 5.0.1 and still the same. can someone please advise how to make it remember my config ?

thanks kindly

[rjbrewer]

After having a full install of lucid 5.01 for a few days, it lost the
ability to load usb kernel modules; or my usb mouse.

[Béèm]

Hi

i have been following lupu updates since the beginning, but it seems that now since 5.0 xorg config no longer get saved, so upon every reboot i have to probe and select screen config.

i am now on 5.0.1 and still the same. can someone please advise how to make it remember my config ?

thanks kindly

Do you have a save file?

[edoc]

I am seeing the same failure on a laptop - Lucid 5.01 is forgetting how to open X-windows and now refuses to recognize the Wifi.

Either someone slipped a virus into the code or some other thing is going very wrong.

Of interest is that this particular laptop has been rebooted frequently every day as it has been crashing while on YouTube - requiring a cold restart - and now the Wifi failure.

It also seems from this and some other posts that something is "counting" reboots then failing. A buffer somewhere that is not refreshed?