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edoc · Posted: Sun 07 Mar 2010, 23:11 Post subject:

Yup, that's it!

tazoc

@All,
Jim1911 and synthplayer's results led me to find a serious bug with 4.43 G:

The pupsave tries to mount as the host partition's fstype, rather than the pupsave's fstype! This means that saving your session on anything but ext2/ext3/ext4 will fail on reboot as it did for synthplayer.

I will fix the init script, rebuild and re-upload the ISOs tomorrow, as this is a showstopper. In the meantime, I've taken the affected base and Mariner ISOs off the web site.

I have to be up early in the morning to make an important phone call, so I cannot stay up tonight to fix this, but will do so as soon as possible. I apologize for any inconvenience this has caused.
-TazOC

synthplayer · Joined: 07 Mar 2010 Posts: 3

Hi Jim and Tazoc, I'm saving the spup443 and pupsave (512mb) files to NTFS so to have a quicker livecd bootup and leave xp as it is without affecting xp or the mbr. Just to add, when it got to check 6 on bootup it said something about dev/loop and that the filesize did not need to be altered as it was already the right size, or something like that.

synthplayer · Joined: 07 Mar 2010 Posts: 3

Just to add, after pausing for 60 seconds, a message said that the kernal would not sync and the caps lock light was flashing and nothing happened

stu90 · Posted: Mon 08 Mar 2010, 09:49 Post subject:

Run into a problem on Lighthouse Pup 4.43 G base

Frugal install on ext3 partition 1gb .3fs save file

Using open box windows manager with Opera 10.10 - 4742f.sfs web browser open
- when i try to install pwidgets from the puppy packages manager after down loading packages the lower task bar vanishes and no applications (except turn off / reboot) work from right mouse click system menu. After reboot lighthouse loads to a black screen and a cross 'X' mouse cursor.

I deleted that save file made a new one with the exact same settings and problem occurred again.

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9479 Location: SwedenEurope

Stu90,

I guess you may have more luck when he has uploaded the fixed version?

He wrote this:

Jim1911 · Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 2353 Location: Texas, USA

Jim1911 · Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 2353 Location: Texas, USA

abushcrafter · Joined: 30 Oct 2009 Posts: 1447 Location: England

tazoc · Posted: Mon 08 Mar 2010, 12:08 Post subject:

tazoc · Posted: Mon 08 Mar 2010, 12:27 Post subject:

synthplayer & Jim1911,
Thank you for the additional information. A frugal install of 4.43G into an NTFS partition will fail also. I'm working on a fixed 4.43Gu1 and should have it up later today. I'll try to fix it so an spupsave.4fs will mount as well.

Jim1911 · Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 2353 Location: Texas, USA

Hi TazOC,
If you want another machine test, PM the new init file and I'll test it on NTFS, ext3, and ext4 partitions before you upload the new iso. I unpacked your 443G initrd.gz and saw the changes that you've made to the init vs. the ones that I'd made to 443F to make it mount as 3fs, however, my limited knowledge of code doesn't provide any assistance to you. At least I can give it a test on my hardware.
Jim

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5175 Location: Finland

Using 443G. Upgraded by xdelta. I have ext3 partition and I use ext2 savefiles. I started with fresh savefile. Should I upgrade to fixed 443G ?

Problem: wireless does not remember my savings. I have to start with load my profile and click DHCP before I can connect to net. Is it new bug or is it part of this existing problem ?

tazoc · Posted: Mon 08 Mar 2010, 14:05 Post subject: