Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 3845

Announcement 4.1.2

Feedback for 4.1.2
Please post any bug reports or any other feedback about Puppy 4.1.1 to the forum:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/

There is a special thread for discussing the Network Wizard:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=31522

There are some extra drivers posted here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=34159
If you have a Asus EeePC or MSI Win U100 mini-notebook, look at this thread.

1st Bug: some text files try to open in vi

Fix:
edit /etc/xdg/rox.sourceforge.net/text

change code to:

Caneri · Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Posts: 1567 Location: Canada

Prit has a mirror ready here
http://www.puppylinux.asia/puppyfiles/
http://puppylinux.ca/puppyfiles/puppy-4.1.2-k2.6.25.16-seamonkey.iso
http://puppylinux.ca/puppyfiles/puppy-4.1.2-k2.6.25.16-seamonkey.iso.md5.txt
http://puppylinux.ca/puppyfiles/puppy-4.1.2retro-k2.6.21.7-seamonkey.iso
http://puppylinux.ca/puppyfiles/puppy-4.1.2retro-k2.6.21.7-seamonkey.iso.md5.txt

Thanks Prit.

Also this one is fast http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/puppylinux/
Eric

exProphecy · Posted: Mon 08 Dec 2008, 17:53 Post_subject:

I thought this error was fixed in 4.1.1. But I just upgraded to 4.1.2 and I'm getting this message when copying FROM root TO a mounted drive.

exProphecy · Posted: Mon 08 Dec 2008, 18:11 Post_subject:

In Seamonkey, I am able to open "Preferences" once and when I close and reopen "Preferences" the second time, I am unable to. I must close Seamonkey first to be able to access "Preferences" again.

Also, in Seamonkey, how come the Privacy & Security tab is empty?

pa_mcclamrock · Posted: Tue 09 Dec 2008, 22:38 Post_subject: Xorg works in 4.1.1, not in 4.1.2

I just got the puppy 4.1.2 (non-retro) ISO from ibiblio, burned it to a CD, and booted from it--until Xorg failed to work, even after I manually gave it exactly the same configuration as I have with 4.1.1 (non-retro), where it works fine. Oddly, the X test on 4.1.2 worked fine too--but after I exited with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace and entered "xwin," I got the message saying "This script will run X Windows for you," but it didn't. All I got was the prompt again.Does anybody know what the problem might be? Xorg has always worked for me before, even on Puppy 1.0.7 (or whatever my 1.x version was) back in 2005. I'm now back to 4.1.1, and Xorg is behaving itself as it always has before.

David McClamrock

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 3845

I cannot duplicate your seamonkey bug - works fine for me

As for cp failing can you post the code you typed that is failing?

Video - try copying your xorg.conf from 4.1.1 to 4.1.2

exProphecy · Posted: Wed 10 Dec 2008, 00:08 Post_subject:

Flash · Posted: Wed 10 Dec 2008, 00:42 Post_subject:

exProphecy, the 'copy bug' has been around since at least 4.1. The file(s) seem always to be correctly copied or moved even though Puppy reports that they weren't, so I haven't reported it.

exProphecy · Posted: Wed 10 Dec 2008, 00:55 Post_subject:

Oh yea I noticed they were copied correctly but how come it says the message? It's more of a little nuisance than a real problem. Is there a way to fix it?

Also, it seems to not appear for me in 4.1.1. It appears for me in 4.1 and 4.1.2.

Wolf Pup · Joined: 27 Apr 2006 Posts: 637

Puppy will not boot via usb. Gives "Missing Operating System" on boot. Sad

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5291 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

1.)
I clicked on several small *.pet files in rox.
They all installed, but jwm crashed at next restart.
After replaced the .jwmrc, jwm worked.
What happend? My guess would be that:
- All parallel petget processes calls for the fixmenus script.
- If unlucky (as me) some of processes called the fixmenus script NEARLY at the same time.
- The fixmenus scripts write a fresh .jwmrc, and if there are 2 (or more) writers, they would easy corrupt the strictly format in .jwmrc.

2.)
Petget still fails when trying to install a *.pet from a directory with spaces in directory-name.
I have reported this several times for the latest releases, so I guess it is not considered as a bug. Smile

Sigmund

PaulBx1 · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 2308 Location: Wyoming, USA

In the Xvesa video wizard, for every resolution listed, there is 1 resolution for 16 bit color and two listed for 24 bit color.

I'm guessing this bug goes back a ways.

gerry · Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 944 Location: England

Puppy 4.1.2 RETRO.

Tried to do a hard drive full install. Universal installer refused, because it says Puppy 301 is installed on the chosen partition, and the partition is mounted and cannot be unmounted.

Puppy 301 was there, a long time ago, but the partition has been deleted by gparted, written all zeroes by Killdisk, new partion created and formatted. All this twice.

Rox shows an empty partition, Pmount and gparted both show the partition unmounted. Grub exists somewhere (MBR?), with a menu in a Debian partition. If I boot Debian, the Grub menu only shows Debian.

Gerry

NathanO · Joined: 22 Feb 2007 Posts: 193 Location: San Antonio, TX

4.1.2 does not see the Broadcomm wireless card. 4.1.1 does detect it and loads the b43 module. HP Pavillion zv6000 that has had the wireless card work with versions 3.X.

friednoodle · Joined: 19 Nov 2007 Posts: 14

This is from Barry at http://puppylinux.com/download/release-4.1.2.htm,
note the bit about copying to vfat filesystems. I have gotten into the
habit of putting a partition with ext2 or ext3 on my usbsticks to
get around such trouble. Windows using friends might find it a bit antisocial but it works for me.