UPupEF-20.04+5 (27-Jun-2020) (UPup Eoan-Focal)

[peebee]

@ssz: re: pWidgets-2.5.8-486

Dangerous old program - not updated since 2015!

Has nasty hidden dependencies in /usr/local/pwidgets/install/.dependencies which because pWidgets does not understand the lib structure of modern UPups means that its pinstall merrily overwrites those essential system dependencies with old out-of-date incompatible versions!!! Hence the system lockup / crash / destruction! BANG!

However if you delete the nasty contents of /usr/local/pwidgets/install/.dependencies and make a new pet without them then it does work.

You should ask for a proper update on the pWidgets thread....

[Marv]

+4 update available

Installed as an update to +2 on both my i5 based Fujitsu S761 and a core 2 duo based Fujitsu T5010. Both boot cleanly, use minimal system resources at idle, have good video FPS, sound, SNS wifi connection, and are perfectly useful as dailies. PcManFm installed and used as the default FM on both. Intel_pstate governor used on the i5 and acpi_cpufreq on the core 2 duo as usual. Main browser in both installs is Slimjet Version 26.0.10.0 run-as-spot from SFS.

I resurrected the T5010 for skype use (run under LxPupSC64) as its' microphone and camera best the S761s by a lot and am pleasantly surprised at how well it runs under both the current LxPups (up to kernel 5.7.2), FFPup, and EFPup. Heavy beast though, probably optimal for fighting off bears.

Cheers,

[musher0]

Thanks much, peebee.
Your UPupEF running well on this lenovo tabletop.

Does it come with a devx? TIA for any pointer.
Ok, got it from the download page, don't bother.

BFN.

[peebee]

27-Jun-2020

+5 update available - both Ubuntu and Woof-CE updates. See post #1

[Marv]

+5 update available

Iso generated using the delta, md5sum checks ok. Both pristine install and an update from +4 boot cleanly and run well on my i5 based laptop. All the usual system checks are good and Slimjet 26.0.10.0 run-as-spot continues to serve well.

Thanks,

[hansi]

27-Jun-2020

+5 update available - both Ubuntu and Woof-CE updates. See post #1

First i like to thank peebee for his ongoing effort. I use his upupbb32 since the first release and every day, also his browser sfs's.

Now - with the current upupef-20.04+x my laptop doesn't shutdown properly, i have to push the power button for 5 seconds or so. Any hints?

The only thing i did is setting timezone and keyboard ... laptop hangs with "now shutting down" (waited ca. 10 minutes).

Edit: it's a frugal install on a usb-attached ssd, beside some other puppies (which do not have this problem), booted via grub4dos

[peebee]

Now - with the current upupef-20.04+x my laptop doesn't shutdown properly, i have to push the power button for 5 seconds or so. Any hints?

Please swap the kernel for that from UPupBB and see if that has the same problem.
I don't see the problem on my pc's so unsure what might be causing it

[sheldonisaac]

Now - with the current upupef-20.04+x my laptop doesn't shutdown properly, i have to push the power button for 5 seconds or so.

I did the update & made a new savefolder. No problem with shutdown.
It's a frugal install on an internal ssd, booted via grub4dos. Dell laptop E6410.

drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Jul 4 16:02 upupefsave-jul3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 213647360 Jun 27 05:19 puppy_upupef_20.04.sfs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21716992 Jun 27 05:17 adrv_upupef_20.04.sfs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1359 Jun 27 05:17 DISTRO_SPECS
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20320256 Jun 27 05:17 fdrv_upupef_20.04.sfs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1390580 Jun 27 05:16 initrd.gz
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Apr 24 10:03 upupefsave-apr24
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23891968 Apr 22 06:21 zdrv_upupef_20.04.sfs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5791968 Apr 22 06:08 vmlinuz

[hansi]

Now - with the current upupef-20.04+x my laptop doesn't shutdown properly, i have to push the power button for 5 seconds or so. Any hints?

Please swap the kernel for that from UPupBB and see if that has the same problem.
I don't see the problem on my pc's so unsure what might be causing it

I dragged vmlinuz and the renamed zdrv_upupbb_19.03.sfs (to zdrv_upupef_20.04.sfs) - but no luck, same result!

[Marv]

27-Jun-2020

+5 update available - both Ubuntu and Woof-CE updates. See post #1

First i like to thank peebee for his ongoing effort. I use his upupbb32 since the first release and every day, also his browser sfs's.

Now - with the current upupef-20.04+x my laptop doesn't shutdown properly, i have to push the power button for 5 seconds or so. Any hints?

The only thing i did is setting timezone and keyboard ... laptop hangs with "now shutting down" (waited ca. 10 minutes).

Edit: it's a frugal install on a usb-attached ssd, beside some other puppies (which do not have this problem), booted via grub4dos

I don't have the shutdown problem here, either from a pristine boot or from a savefile based version of +5. Second generation i5 based laptop here, with more similar than dissimilar hardware to yours. I'll attach my hardware summary from a pristine boot below. Video cards are different and my frugal Grub4Dos install is on a SATA attached SSD, not USB. Shutdown times on my hardware generally run a few seconds to the save dialog unless I've been a bad boy, forgotten and left several SFS I've been working on or viewing mounted. Even then, it's on the order of 10 seconds.

[hansi]

I did a quick test with this kernel - --> huge-5.6.4-upupbb.tar.bz2 --> 5.6.4-rt3

from https://archive.org/download/Puppy_Linux_Huge-Kernels

Shutdown is working well with this kernel ...

I observed: boot complains about "wrong EFI loader signature" - but no problem afterwards

[peebee]

I did a quick test with this kernel - --> huge-5.6.4-upupbb.tar.bz2 --> 5.6.4-rt3

from https://archive.org/download/Puppy_Linux_Huge-Kernels

Shutdown is working well with this kernel ...

I observed: boot complains about "wrong EFI loader signature" - but no problem afterwards

I believe that is a "real-time" kernel produced by rockedge....

http://rockedge.org/kernels/data/kernel ... 5.6.4-rt3/

Maybe send rockedge a PM to see if he knows what in the config might be curing your problem??

[hansi]

I tried your <huge-5.4.44-pup32.tar.bz2> kernel and shutdown works too!

from here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/lxpup/ ... e-kernels/

Should i stick with that?

[Marv]

I tried your <huge-5.4.44-pup32.tar.bz2> kernel and shutdown works too!

from here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/lxpup/ ... e-kernels/

Should i stick with that?

I'm running peebees 4.14.182 kernel (from here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/lxpup/ ... 2/download) in upupef +5 on the i5 based fujitsu with no problems. Might be interesting how you fare with that wrt your shutdown problem as it might be a logical next kernel for EF. My 2 cents only...

[hansi]

Hi Marv,

huge-4.14.182-lxpup kernel has the same shutdown problem - sorry to say ...

[peebee]

I tried your <huge-5.4.44-pup32.tar.bz2> kernel and shutdown works too!

That kernel was built for ScPup32-20.06 (actually comes with 5.4.46) with a different config obtained from Porteus Linux.....

Go with whatever works best for you.....

Would be nice to know what part of the config fixes your problem though....

I'll upload 5.4.46....

[hansi]

Thank you, peebee

I took your <huge-5.4.46-pup32.tar.bz2> kernel and shutdown works (as 5.4.44 did).

Would be nice to know what part of the config fixes your problem though....

I haven't a clue about this, sorry ...