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PaulBx1
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#161 Post by PaulBx1 »

I've had probs decompressing pet's, no room left to decompress..
I think a lot of these problems are because of the tiny ram-based /tmp directory; you simply run out of room. See pages 3 and 4 of this thread:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 6&start=45

The solution Mark figured out was to quit X, create a /tmp directory somewhere on the hard drive (in my case, because I wanted to retain security, in my encrypted pup_save in /root/tmp) and mount it to the existing ram-based /tmp.

The only question I have on that is whether the ram based one is used up first before resorting to the added (slower) disk-based one. That would be ideal...

Of course this needs to be handled in the boot script for a permanent solution.

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Bugs list 3.01 - Gxine, Internet sharing/firewall on boot up

#162 Post by growler »

I am a relatively recent convert having played with 2.16 the 2.17 now having 3.01 installed on 2 computers at different locations - using frugal installs to a hard drive on both machines. I thought to give back my experiences in the interests of improving the quality - some or all of these may already have been reported - they are all relatively minor issues in my view and hope they are not received as criticism - or me living up to my user name! Only a humble tester reporting the issues observed:

Machine 1 - is connected to a cable modem through eth4 and has a local network on eth1 - I wanted to have the firewall start up on boot - both eth4 and eth1 are static IP addresses. However, the firewall will not start since puppy is kicking off the network interfaces and the firewall start script fails. Once the network interfaces are up I can start the firewall ok and then internet sharing over eth1 can commence but only after a manual start.

Gxine - is flaky and freezes and locks up most of the time - its useless really - I don't use puppy as a media player machine (fortunately).

Barry asked for feeback on the viewer versus editor - me thinks most newbies would be wanting to view photos rather than edit in mpaint. However, GTKSee is a shocker - it freezes when you open a picture then try to take it full screen - there is no option to open pictures that scale to the window. GQview that installed from the PET is much better - I have changed my defaults. I've not checked out Fotox.

Machine 2 uses DHCP to connect to an ADSL router - but this crashes the machine on boot up with errors around the unionfs - I can report back in more detail if it is required. I have to unplug the network cable - boot up then run the network wizard to refresh the DHCP lease.

My wife is a double clicker and Sea-monkey complains and brings up the profile manager - which confuses her when she just wants to look up trademe. An option to allow double clickers might be nice.

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#163 Post by Pizzasgood »

An option to allow double clickers might be nice.
Right-click a desktop icon. Go to "Options" (or maybe it's "Rox-Filer -> Options"). Now go into the "Pinboard" section and uncheck the "Single-click to open" box. Next, go to the "Filer windows" section and uncheck the "Single-click navigation" box. Finally, click "OK".
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#164 Post by Sage »

Neat trick, Wolf Pup. How do you do it? But you couldn't detect my BSD system - it just says 'Your IP is using Mozilla/Netscape5".
Maybe a little more work to do?!

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#165 Post by crabbypup »

and you could't detect the difference between rogers cable and rogers mobile isp's :D . also, it probably doesn't distinguish between different puppy microdistro's such as teenpup or pizzapup (haven't tried, but there is another one similar to yours out there and it only says 'linux' for anything but mac and windoze) and it probably doesn't recognize Ecommstation versus os/2. but whatever. that is quite off topic.

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problem with wireless, caused by zombies?

#166 Post by prehistoric »

I've had a peculiar problem in changing locations with wireless. The first time I configure wireless I have no problems. Changing to a second location leads to frustration, I can detect the network, but DHCP never connects. By accident I found plugging in a USB wireless dongle also allowed me to reconfigure the first interface.

I'm wondering if Barry's discovery about fuser and zombies could explain this. In the past I've tried to kill visible processes to break an apparent deadlock, but now it seems zombies would not be visible. Anyone else recognise this?

prehistoric

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#167 Post by Amit »

Free memory (the one on the tray)
The help info opens dillo, with http://usr/share/doc (not file://usr/share/doc/...) and it looks really bad.

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3.01 unmounts the USB device that it boots from

#168 Post by pakt »

3.01 unmounts the USB device that it boots from.

When I boot 3.01 from a USB stick, I get correctly get the warning to not disconnect the USB device, BUT the stick is unmounted anyway after booting.

Should I want to load a module afterwards, it won't be found since the zdrv_301.sfs file is on the unmounted USB stick. :?
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#169 Post by Sage »

Wrong 'Bugs' - sorry.

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#170 Post by gerry »

This one is not exactly 301, rather it's GTKSee. I have a folder /mnt/hda2/photos

GTKSee will list all the files in mnt/hda2, but not the folder. GIMP has no problem.

EDIT: ie GTKSee will list all the .sfs, .2fs, .BAK etc files, but not the "/photos" folder, or, of course, the files in it.

Home is on hda1, and hda2 is mounted.

Puppy 214R using GQView has no problem.
Both 214R and 301 are live cd.

Gerry

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Puppy Package installer in Puppy 3.01

#171 Post by purple_ghost »

On the last screen on installing a Pet package I get the message, "???has been installed. Needed unresolved Dependencies." (or whatever it exactly says). If the number of needed dependencies is large, I can not get to the bottom of that message, which might include a, 'Continue on to install dependencies." Instead I must this message by way of the X on the upper right hand side of the window.

Encountered this on installing the Dot Pet for Java6u5 which I downloaded from (bugs) folder in the CA website.

This issue must be a real pain on a fourteen inch monitor.
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