Puppy 3.01 final bugs reports here

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Sage
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#41 Post by Sage »

Very serious powerdown issue: FULL install v3.01

The shutdown issue has never been fully addressed with any of the 2.xx series, and now 3.xx ones, of Puppy. This is constantly reflected by discussion on the Forum.
Depending on the HW and/or BIOS settings, it may be necessary to add acpi=force/on/off somewhere in the system.

Here's an exciting new feature for Barry to examine. After an 'hard upgrade' (mke2fs !) to v3.01, I forgot to accommodate the acpi issue. That usually results in the HD shutting down, the Power down message appearing with the board still fully powered up. Instead of pressing the OFF button, I pressed the RESET button to restart Puppy.
Start up then entered an endless loop, (which I am unable to capture or read properly as it flashes past), after
Entering personal script, just before X starts.
Starts with:

touch: cannot touch '/tmp/bootcnt.txt' : Input/output error
-sh ....
some lines about X117, old mouse and video mode which are too rapid to read, then ending:
(To shutdown PC type "poweroff", to reboot PC type "reboot").

CTL-C does not stop the loop, but CTL-ALT-BKSPCE does completely power off the machine

WTF is happening? Any chance of recovering the system?

Tried to fix problem by copying rc.local from CD - nogo. Tried replacing whole of /etc, then whole of X11 - nogo. Tried 'Upgrade' . Nothing works. It's going to be mke2fs again!
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pupmate
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Sweep bug

#42 Post by pupmate »

1) I've just upgraded to 3.01 Final and found myself with the self same Real playback problem - missing cook.so as posted previously. This time I got rid of my current pup_save file and problem went away. So obviously my pup_save was he problem, NOT puppy 3.01.

However,

2) I was trying to record from the BBC listen again site, which I could now listen to successfully, using Sweep. When clicking on anything in the edit screen, Sweep dies. Ran this up from Terminal window to look for error messages and got:-
# sweep
sweep: alsa_setup: audio interface does not support host endian 32 bit float samples (Invalid argument)
Floating point exception
#

I have tried earlier versions of Puppy, running from cdrom with pfix=ram, and the last one that worked was 2.14. Every one since dies in the same way.

Anyone any ideas?

Incidentally, tried recording with soxgui and just got distorted mess. Finally, installed lame and used script with arecord to make satisfactory mp3s. All this to listen whilst I walk the dog!

Still love puppy - it's so quick to boot and use.

Kal
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Printer Problem

#43 Post by Kal »

Wolf Pup

Thank you, Wolf Pup and Caneri, the newer hpijs-2.1.4 fixed my printer problem, which was posted earlier.

Thanks again, Kal

groo
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3.01 heavy encrypt won't boot

#44 Post by groo »

You may have already run into this. Using puppy on a USB stick with 2 partitions. One NTFS and one ext3. Puppy is on the ext3 side.

Loaded 3.01 on the USB stick. If i save without encryption, no problems. If i save with heavy encryption, it reports that it needs fsck right after the Password: prompt. Try to fsck and it says it can't find the superblock. It doesn't give you a chance to put in the password. Just jumps to the error.

Booted from the 3.00 CD and installed that over the same USB stick and the encryption works fine. Same save file and everything.

Many thanks for all great work you guys do. Nice to have a fast light OS on the keychain.

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#45 Post by Mazzo »

My problem with USB encrypted pup-save is 100% a fault of the USB stick.

Sorry to confuse, but it only showed up on a e2fsck read/write test, the plain read test showed OK. Brand new stick as well!

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#46 Post by linuxcbon »

Gxset X settings : Bell : enable : "beep me up" doesn't make any sound.

When deleting from ROX-Filer, files are not moved to the trash ?

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#47 Post by Sage »

I saw one of Lobster's "inodes" messages, yesterday, when trying to upgrade from 2.14 to 3.01 on an Intel machine. It completely screwed up both X window options, too. Had to reinstall on an AMD board and transfer the HD. I despise everything about Intel - one of the devil's acolytes!

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can't see hd partition

#48 Post by willhunt »

I can't see my hdb10 partition?
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Printing trouble

#49 Post by RobP »

I had problems with printing in puppy 3.01.
I downloaded the pet package that Wolf PUP offered in this blog but I still got an error (foomatic-rip)

After creating the directory /usr/local/etc/foomatic I got output on my hp deskjet connected via an USB port.

I Hope it will help others too.

Rob

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#50 Post by eduardo »

Batch file rename PET package Gprename does not work in puppy 3.01. It worked perfectly with puppy 2.14. This is from the command line:

# gprename
# Unknown error
Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/gprename/bin/gprename.pl line 16.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/gprename/bin/gprename.pl line 16

Anyone else having this problem?

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#51 Post by barriew »

Problem with CUPS 1.2.11 when trying to print to a printer on a Windows PC via Samba. It worked in 1.1.23, but the smbspool file or symlink is not included in /etc/cups/backend with 1.2.11 Adding it doesn't solve the problem.

More details in the this thread

http://208.109.22.214/puppy/viewtopic.p ... 7af655e846

Barrie

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#52 Post by tlchost »

Wolf Pup wrote:for anyone having trouble printing with their hp printer, try this, delete printer from cups, then remove hpijs-1.7, install the package below, restart puppy, test if the printer works
My problem is more interesting....there is no pull down for either a USB printer or my HP Laser4 plus.

The print control in 2.17.1 works just fine.

I guess I could print to a pdf...save that to a ubs drive and reboot into widows or 2.17.1 ... but that doesn't seem to be an efficient solution.

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#53 Post by bite »

For puppy 3.01 - scribus doesnt load at all

Ive de-installed it and re-install it several times but no go.


For Lobster's Shard.-
The following Icons are not on the menu (eg. scribus, dia diagram editor and art of illusion) also art of illusion needs java or it wont run needs to be downloaded.

For Pizzasgood NOP 3.01 it seems its based on 3.0 not 3.01?
Very good overall speed and easy to be used as a base pup.
Would like a version of this one with xvesa only for older junk. :D

All in all Im testing to be the main OS on my new compaq c700 I will not go back to windows ever but would like to run WINE if possible for some older PC apps.

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CUPS printing malfunction with HPIJS driver

#54 Post by rerwin »

My HP DeskJet 5850 direct-networked printer worked perfectly with its hpijs driver prior to 3.01. But with 3.01, the test page (and other print attempts) prints a first page as four lines ending with a line-feed but no carriage return, forming a "stair-step". (Each line should start to the right of the previous line, below.)

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%!PS-Adobe-3.0
			%%LanguageLevel: 1
								%%DocumentData: Clean7Bit
														%%DocumentSuppliedResou
I also tried the hpijs PPD version provided for the samba problem, but saw no difference. Then I tried the version from 3.00, with the same result. So it appears not to be a driver problem, but the effect of some change in the new CUPS or foomatic-rip.

Does anyone recognize this symptom?

Richard

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Universal Installer + full HD + usb

#55 Post by prehistoric »

This one turned up during a session where I switched from a version of 3.01 to the original. With a USB flash drive in the USB port, I booted off the CD and did a full install to /dev/hda1, wiping a previous installation. After installing Grub to the MBR, I checked /boot/grub/menu.lst and found no entry for any linux. There was an entry for DOS on the flash drive, even though there was no system (of any kind) there. Rebooting, without the USB flash drive plugged in, I had no trouble with a full install to /dev/hda1, getting a correct menu.lst.

Have also seen the same weirdness others have seen with /dev/hda1 not shown as mounted, even though it was the boot drive .

pre-(hysterical/historic)

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Serious UnionFS bug

#56 Post by gray »

The new unionfs has a serious bug. In the main puppy layer if there is a folder that is actually a link to a real folder and you install a pet package or even merge in an sfs file that has a file in that link folder the link folder is corrupted in your save file [frugal/pendrive install]. The link folder is no longer a link, but an empty folder - though when you try to delete the folder it wont, complaining it aint empty!

This could be the cause of some very strange behaviours.

Edit: Correction, only happens on a USB pendrive :?
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#57 Post by Pizzasgood »

For Pizzasgood NOP 3.01 it seems its based on 3.0 not 3.01?
NOP isn't mine. The only non-paid-for Puppies I've made are Empty Crust and the Pizzapup series.

(And for the record, Pizzapup 3.0 and 3.0.1 were based on Puppy 2.12 and 2.14, respectively. The version numbers were because they were the third iteration of Pizzapup.)
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#58 Post by bite »

Sorry Pizzasgood got confused with the author. :oops:

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White out files

#59 Post by Henry »

I never completely understood white out files.I have a very well behaved 3.01 (live cd) with about 2000 of them. True, they are zero length, but I like to run a tight ship - are they needed? Well I'm sure not all of them, but what's an easy way to delete the unneeded ones?

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#60 Post by JustGreg »

I got a new computer with lots of memory (1024 megabytes) and 80 gigabyte drive. Install one of the many puppy installs, I did a frugal install to one of the partitions (Pup301 directory). I modified Grub to boot the frugal installation. It boots fine. However, when you shutdown, you are ask about saving the session. I have select save to the partition. It shutdowns. About reboot, Puppy 3.01 starts as no having any saved information. I have tried saving three times. It works fine if one saves to pupsave.2fs file. However, it will not work with the save to the partition. The partition, I am saving, has an ext2 file system. Checking one finds only partial information for root, none of the normal configuration files are present.

On booting, it appears the partition is not mounted. This may be the problem. This is the same problem that WhoDo reported in another forum.
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