Puppy 4.3 pre-beta bug reports

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edoc · #41 Post by **edoc** » Tue 04 Aug 2009, 03:27

4.21 can't support the ath9k drivers and Fatdog 112 appears to be buggy and without active support - at least not on the main thread that I found.

Is the pre-final 4.3 reasonably stable?

Does it support ath9k?

Does it support dual-core?

Thanks!

BTW: I need to still use Fatdog 112 to be productive but I "broke" the Seamonkey install - lost the ability to click on a URL - no response, the GUI is a mess as well. Will your update work for a Fatdog 112 install? (I have lost track of what is in what Puplet any more - way too many out there and each changing constantly!)

charlie6 · #42 Post by **charlie6** » Tue 04 Aug 2009, 04:02

Hi,

Maybe this could not be relevant for ppa-422.

It seems that problem occurs on a Fuji Siemens PC: it does not occur on another Compaq with also GRUB multiboot installed.
I tried to boot that live-cd with saved session on an identical Fuji Siemens with only WindowsXP installed (bios set for cd boot): it does not boot on that live-cd.
Live-cd without saved session do boot on both PC's instead.

The following was also on an identical Fuji Siemens.

charlie6 wrote:Hi,
[ ppa422 live-cd + saved session ] do not boot on PC with GRUB multiboot.
details:
have burned cd-rw multisession with ppa-422.iso
boot OK on first live-cd boot
have set keyboard, GMT, etc...
have saved "save to cd" at shutdown

I do not understand why the PC does boot.

I boots on another PC with only windowsxp installed.
I already had the case on earlier 417.
Does anyone has an axplanation.
Cheers
Charlie

EDIT:
maybe part of explanation here under par 1.d)
thanks to Barry and developpers crew !
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/LiveDVD

Cheers
Charlie

#43 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Tue 04 Aug 2009, 13:32

I went to compile mupdf on 4.22 and the compiler/devx didn't have the jam library which is like make but was needed, so I compiled it and here it is, maybe it could be added to the devx? its only 34kb
ttuuxxx
jam-2.5-i386|jam|2.5-i386|||88K|pet_packages-4|jam-2.5-i386.pet||compile tools|puppy|4|official|

BarryK · #44 Post by **BarryK** » Tue 04 Aug 2009, 14:46

Sit Heel Speak wrote:I should also here note, that both gposil and yours truly have observed, in this thread, that Puppy Package Manager has a tendency to choke on PET package names that have an underscore in them. I have no idea how relevant this is to Woof, but, with reference to the above message, perhaps the -DEV naming convention is the preferable one.

You are referring to the old package manager. The Woof-built puppies have a package manager that is a complete rewrite. From scratch.

So any comments, of whatever nature, about the package manager in 4.21 and earlier do not apply.

The '-DEV' is incorrect. These packages were created for 4.21 and I do not use them. It must be '_DEV'.

edoc · #45 Post by **edoc** » Tue 04 Aug 2009, 21:43

Is 4.3 going to be the first WOOF-built Puppy?

#46 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Tue 04 Aug 2009, 23:03

edoc wrote:Is 4.3 going to be the first WOOF-built Puppy?

Hi edoc that would be a question for Barry, but I'll still give a point a view

Really it would come down to how Barry builds it, The updated packages have been compiled manually and not taken from another another linux os repo, So if he wanted to he could build it using the older unleashed script way, or he could use the woof build scripts. I would say its a woof build but not really a true woof, lol
ttuuxxx

edoc · #47 Post by **edoc** » Tue 04 Aug 2009, 23:07

Perhaps the "true" WOOF Puppy versions will begin at 5.0?

shinobar · #48 Post by **shinobar** » Wed 05 Aug 2009, 00:35

Hi Barry
don't you allow remastered main sfs file named 'ppa-422a.sfs' for example.
i mean the line 409 in init script:

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FND_PUPXXXSFS="`find /mnt/data -maxdepth 2 -xdev -type f -name ${DISTRO_FILE_PREFIX}-${DISTRO_VERSION}.sfs | grep -v ' ' | sed -e 's%^/mnt/data%%g' | tr '\n' ' '`"

#49 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Wed 05 Aug 2009, 01:15

edoc wrote:Perhaps the "true" WOOF Puppy versions will begin at 5.0?

well initially I think that was his plan, That the first official woof will be 5.0, but then he got all retro like and revisited 2.18 and 4.3, which I don't think was his initial objective, but made a lot of sense anyways. I guess we'll wait for the 4.3 official release and read the release notes

ttuuxxx

esmourguit · #50 Post by **esmourguit** » Wed 05 Aug 2009, 07:38

Bonjour à tous,
There is a problem with Remasterpup2. When viewing this window below and when i click OK button, the program seems to loop, it returns the same window. It was the same on 417 version.
Cordialement

01micko · #51 Post by **01micko** » Thu 06 Aug 2009, 11:56

Hello Barry,

Not a bug, a request

As you may know there have been a few requests for the puppy version and kernel to be displayed on the screen. Sure, you can click "help" and almost the first thing you see is the puppy version.
I created a small script (Versioninfo)which displays the Puppy and kernel in the tray for sixty seconds. Many seem happy with it and it has been reasonably popular. This is not the request.

Here is the request.

. Could you create a blank file in /etc called "pup-derivative" or some such. Then, responsible puplet creators could put their puplet name in that file for scripts like mine, or conky or Pwidgets to use. You, (or any future Benevolent Dictator) could use it too; the current pre-beta could have "pre-beta" in the file.

I have put "pre-beta" in this file and it is only 8 bytes.

Here's the result adding that to my script. (see screeny)

Cheers, thanks for reading.

edoc · #52 Post by **edoc** » Thu 06 Aug 2009, 13:21

01micko,

That is a terrific and valuable idea!

And Puppy-tiny too.

BarryK · #53 Post by **BarryK** » Fri 07 Aug 2009, 00:05

Another snapshot uploaded, "4.3 pre-beta-reloaded":

http://puppylinux.com/blog/?viewDetailed=00964

Lobster · #54 Post by **Lobster** » Fri 07 Aug 2009, 03:08

BarryK wrote:Another snapshot uploaded, "4.3 pre-beta-reloaded":

Running that
the upgrade of 'imagination' slide viewer 1.5 seems usable and very useful
exported a slideshow with sound and transitions
(previous version 1 was incomplete)

Quisp (from menu) brings up Puppy browser with:
500 - Internal Server Error

Ray MK · #55 Post by **Ray MK** » Fri 07 Aug 2009, 04:26

Hi

Just downloaded and it looks good - feels fast.

Must play with CPU Freq tool on old laptop and see what happens.

Must also try Wifi on EeePc 701SD and see if it works.

Will play some more and feedback.

Very best regards - Ray

shinobar · #56 Post by **shinobar** » Fri 07 Aug 2009, 08:07

vi command crashes with segment fault.
same as 4.17alpha, 4.22 pre-beta.

BarryK · #57 Post by **BarryK** » Fri 07 Aug 2009, 11:37

Lobster wrote:Quisp (from menu) brings up Puppy browser with:
500 - Internal Server Error

Anyone else get this?

BarryK · #58 Post by **BarryK** » Fri 07 Aug 2009, 11:43

shinobar wrote:vi command crashes with segment fault.
same as 4.17alpha, 4.22 pre-beta.

Hmmm, perhaps I didn't upgrade properly and 4.3pbr built with the older e3 pkg. Try this one:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... -2.7.1.pet

Ray MK · #59 Post by **Ray MK** » Fri 07 Aug 2009, 12:51

Hi

This is amazing - running on my 5/6yr old Patriot laptop with 96mb ram, (only using 44mb)
1Ghz Celeron proc. and a 250mb swap partition. (frugal install on ext2)

checked Quisp - seems ok - read the introduction in puppy browser - fine.
did not do more 'cos not sure how to work Hiawatha etc.

For the things I normally do - file management, browsing and generally twiddling, all seems good - and considering the limited spec's of my old contraption - fast.

Writing this in medit - nice.

Hope that helps - very best regards - Ray

Edit - it works - clicked start and went to Quisp test page and looked at the examples - phew - so much to learn about all things Puppy.

Lobster · #60 Post by **Lobster** » Fri 07 Aug 2009, 13:45

Quisp (from menu) brings up Puppy browser with:
500 - Internal Server Error

update:
because the last few releases have been good
I did an update rather than a clean install
Doing a clean install just now to check
Quisp is there and working . . .

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