Gnome 2.20.3 SFS (Only for Puppy4)

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#101 Post by Alucinary »

@ wow

Awesome! thats exactly what i needed :)
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#102 Post by madrunner »

im new and need a little help i'll try to be as descriptive as humanly possible.
I downloaded the .pet first and installed it with no hitches
I then downloaded the gnome sfs into my /
I went into the System boot manager and selected the gnome sfs
I then reboot, exited X into prompt typed addgroup and adduser, i got user halaemon already exists, and already logged in.
I then typed xwin gnome-session and hit enter
my screen flashs black for a second then im right back in JWM with no changes, any help?
im on a full install of puppy4 on a 10 gig partition with basicly nothing installed yet. thank you for your help

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#103 Post by Alucinary »

two things i did slightly different to that -

firstly i set up the user / haldaemon stuff from within the terminal while running xwin and it didnt come up with any "already exists" messages

secondly i also had to change the file "windowmanager" in /etc from jwm to gnome-session then reboot

(oh and my sfs files are in /initrid/mnt/dev_save and renamed so that the ending is _408 - or the number of your puppy version - but if your sfs has loaded then i dont think this would be the problem)
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#104 Post by Malachi »

Okay, I'm a complete Puppy newbie... My laptop only has 191 MB of RAM, and I'm loving the speed (I never knew this old thing could be so fast!). However, the interface really leaves a lot to be desired...

Anyway, to "complete" my perfect OS, I wanted to try gnome on Puppy, but I don't think I have enough RAM to do it...

First, I downloaded the .sfs file and put it onto my hard drive, where the save file is, then deleted that save. I rebooted, entered those commands in the terminal, then downloaded the .PET file. I opened it, but it said I didn't have enough space. So, what do I do?

To anyone who can help me, thank you in advanced! Even if I can't get this resolved, I'll still be a Puppy fanatic :wink: .

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#105 Post by Béèm »

Malachi,
The mesage means you don't have enough space to expend and install the pet. Now you got two numbers, one saying what you still have left and one which is needed. Unfortunately the numbers speak of n° of blocks not MB. I think you can divide the numbers by 1024 to have the MB figure and then you can calculate how many MB you need.
In utility you will find 'resize your personal storage'.
Execute this and increase with the n° of MB calculated.
Reboot after this and try the install again.
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#106 Post by Malachi »

Hi Beem,

Since I didn't have a save file (per the instructions in the first post), I had to reboot and make one. After that, the .PET installed without a problem. With the .SFS file in the same folder as the save, I rebooted again, exited to prompt, and typed in "xwin gnome-session". However, it just ran Puppy normally.

I'm pretty sure the problem is that I am only supposed to make a save file after I install the .PET file. Unfortunately, I don't have enough RAM to do this.

EDIT: I forgot about the commands I was supposed to enter into the terminal. I just did them now, rebooted, and did the prompt thing, but this still doesn't work.

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#107 Post by Béèm »

When you go into bootmanager and select 'choose which extra sfs files you want to load at boot' you get a second window. (with two panes)
Can you post a screen shot?
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#108 Post by Malachi »

Okay, here it is:

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#109 Post by Carnaggio »

I've been getting segmentation faults in Evolution. It's not consistent, but seems to happen when opening a new message. Running Evolution from a terminal gives the following output:

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CalDAV Eplugin starting up ...
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** (evolution:4870): DEBUG: mailto URL program: evolution
creating
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#110 Post by jcagle »

ok, there's a slight problem with Dingo-Xorg-DRI.pet. I went to download it, and it gives me

Concurrent download limit exceeded.

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#111 Post by jcagle »


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#112 Post by jcagle »

OK, so it worked but...

with the pup_save file where I'm using the Gnome SFS, I've got a little problem. My wireless card no longer sees networks. I'm fine in my other pup save files though.

So, here's the error message I'm getting from the network setup.

Error!
Failed to raise interface wlan0.
Failed command was: ifconfig wlan0 up
Error returned was:
ifconfig: SIOCSIFFLAGS: Protocol error

Any help with this would be appreciated, especially since I want to migrate my mail in Evolution in Ubuntu to Puppy. Well, it's kind of pointless when I'm unable to find a network...

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#113 Post by jcagle »

Any help on this at all?

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#114 Post by Béèm »

Malachi wrote:Okay, here it is:

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Sorry Malachi, I lost your post out of sight.
You should tick the box 'ignore above user selection,...........'
Or alternatively leave the box unticked and rename the rename the gnome-2.20.3-test2_410.sfs to gnome-2.20.3-test2.sfs.
This is the way I prefer to work.
Reason there are sfs files which goes with more then one version of puppy.
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#115 Post by wow »

@jcagle: My knowledge about wireless networks is almost nothing.
However, I can give you few ideas.

1. This SFS uses udev to dynamically add/remove device nodes in /dev. Perhaps udev has created the device node for wlan0 with a different name (wlan0_renamed??)

2. Firmware wasn't installed (udev again ...)

3. Tell us more about your hardware and Puppy version.

4. google
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#116 Post by jcagle »

It's Puppy 4.1.1
I'm using a Broadcom BCM4318 (Airforce One 54g) built in wireless on my Acer Aspire 3690.

I'm thinking it is a udev issue, considering all the udev error messages I get when booting up. There's just too many of them to list them all, I'm not even sure if I see them all on screen.

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#117 Post by wow »

Puppy 4.1 tries to start udevd is udev is installed, I removed udevd and pup_event_backend lines in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit to avoid problems with udev (rc.udev) service.

To fix those error message you must add more groups with the 'addgroup' command. Example:

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addgroup lp
addgroup kmem
addgroup video
addgroup kmem
addgroup plugdev
addgroup cdrom
(can't remember more at the moment)
Restart udev to see if there're no missing groups:

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killall udevd
/etc/rc.d/rc.udev start
Another thing that you can do is: run bootmanager to remove gnome.sfs from the list; reboot; and setup your wireless card.
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#118 Post by stifiling »

Really digging this Gnome. Problem though. My wine games appear to work in this gnome...but not in jwm. but the thing is, after starting a game, when i'm done playing and restart X or the computer, my panels permanently disappear. amongst load up they blink about 6 times.....then blink out to not return until the next load up where i yet again get about 6 blinks then they blink out.

why does the games work in gnome but not jwm? i really just want to be able to play my wine gamehouse games even if it's jwm. preferable gnome though.

any help is appreciated...
using puppy 4.1.1

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#119 Post by wow »

I suppose that you start your wine games from those icons on the Desktop, Try to switch to jwm, start ROX-Filer, browse to /root/Desktop then you fill find those launchers, start your games from there.

Hope this helps
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#120 Post by hexdef101 »

i seem to be getting errors for some of the panel applets is there a fix for this
otherwise works fine in puppy 4.2.1


ACH forgot to get the dependancys


this is the complete list to fix those darn errors
(should be done after install)

addgroup haldaemon
adduser -SDH haldaemon -G haldaemon
addgroup lp
addgroup kmem
addgroup video
addgroup plugdev
addgroup cdrom
addgroup disk
addgroup floppy
addgroup uucp

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