Lucid Puppy 5.1 Bug Reports and Fixes

[tasmod]

8 bit,

Just a thought. When you first installed did you copy the iso to disk, mount it and copy across the sfs etc, changed menu.lst then rebooted.

I did this once but forgot to then unmount the iso from disk. It left a flag which caused fschk each boot. I then copied across the iso again, mounted and umounted it, shutdown and then rebooted. All was well afterwards.

just wondered if that's what you may have done?

[Jasper]

Hi rcrsn51,

I am less fortunate than your good self because I do not have a deep understanding of how my computer works.

However, I installed Lucid Puppy on an ext 3 partition because when I first set up my frugal hard drive installation I recollect the first-save-note said a file system check would [never] be required if using ext 3.

That was installing lupu 5.0.0, but it may well be the same with luci 219 when the first save option arises.

My regards

[rcrsn51]

@8bit: Tasmod may be on to something. Is the corruption located in the filesystem as a whole or just inside your savefile? This would be easy to determine by temporarily renaming your current savefile and starting a new one.

[bigpup]

LUPU was one of the best pups released in terms of ease in use. However, everything went downhill once I installed the NVIDIA driver (173 for FX5500 Video Card). The screen flickered, window decoration became red and I lost the taskbar. No option for refresh rate was available in the screen resolution changer utility.

Using VESA, I uninstalled the NVIDIA driver then restarted. The desktop remained unchanged (flickering, window decoration red, no taskbar). Somehow, I couldn't roll back to the desktop I had before the NVIDIA driver was installed.

Solution was simple: Wipe the drive clean and install TEENpup.

Try this:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=58810

[8-bit]

rcrsn51 and tasmod,
I may have found the problem. It has nothing to do with a possible hard drive failing.
I checked dmesg using rxvt, and found this:

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Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -298828837 ns)

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Also, I may have set the clock to use hardware time in one version and not the other.
Now Lupu-5.1 seems to boot without doing a file system check.
And if I boot from CD after, my partition shows as clean.
Lucid 5.0 does not though and I am unsure how to change it.
I tried "Set date and time" from the menu in 5.0 and the time setting never completes.
It did with 5.1.

With the progressive updates to 5.0 that are installed along with additional software installed, starting a new pupsave is something I would really like to avoid.
So again, I am open to suggestions.

[playdayz]

Printing PDF

Given the test document in /usr/share/examples/ps/pdf, epdfview prints blank, Foxit Reader displays the document incorrectly but prints what it displays, and Acrobat Reader displays it correctly and prints it correctly. I would advise anyone who needs to print pdf's accurately get Acrobat Reader--there is a reason it is the standard--we may not like that reason....(one reason--it is huge) I will prepare a pet for PPM, give a day or two. Thanks. Foxit Reader does display many things correctly and print them correctly and it is in PPM

rcrsn51 is working on epdfviewer and may have good news soon.

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Chromium 5 and Iron 5 browsers I was playing with Iron the other day and remembered why I liked it--it was fast and stable. I *think* Chromium 5 is not stable in Lucid 5.1.

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

http://diddywahdiddy.net/Puppy500/Iron- ... -Lucid.pet
You know, if we were looking for a default browser, I would seriously consider Iron, it is the fastest-opening of all of them in Lucid Puppy i think.

[rcrsn51]

Printing PDF
rcrsn51 is working on epdfviewer and may have good news soon.

The short-term solution is described here.

[playdayz]

Printing PDF
rcrsn51 is working on epdfviewer and may have good news soon.

The short-term solution is described here.

Or, of course, use Foxit Reader or Acrobat Reader (coming soon). I have a slight prejudice towards using Ubuntu packages such as Cups 1.4.3 because we are after all Lucid Puppy But most important is making it work! rcrsn51's instructions on printing are tremendous.

[Jades]

Jades,

I had similar problems with network parameters not being remembered at reboot on two of the three machines I've installed Luci 51 on. Installing and running Pwireless2 fixed both. Thanks go to jemimah!

Cheers for the tip, I've installed it and it seems to have solved my problem. The odd thing was that I don't remember having the same issue on 5.0.1. Pwireless2 actually stands up very well in comparison to the official Netgear software I'm running on XP.

BTW, right on the intro page it tells you to install a full-featured browser. Netsurf just isn't enough for the big jobs.

For anything requiring JavaScript you're right, but NetSurf has been my first-choice browser on RISC OS for well over four years for good reason. That said, NetSurf started on RISC OS and that version is quite a bit more mature in UI terms than the current Linux one. With more development and with the eventual implementation of JavaScript it could become a good choice as default browser on Puppy but for the time being I have to reluctantly agree we should look elsewhere.

Overall I've been very impressed with Puppy in the short time I've been using it and now that I've replaced the PSU on Zhaan, my AMD K6-2 500 machine, it's going to be interesting comparing the performance on that and on Merlin the 3.4GHz Pentium D PC!

Full HardInfo report for Zhaan is now online at http://www.jades.org/comps/hardinfo_zhaan.html, the one for Merlin will follow once I finish fine-tuning.

[Béèm]

Since 21.08 I am away from home and just got the access code for an internet connection where I am now for the moment.

It is a WPA2 connection.

I tried with the normal internet setup wizard as well as the simple network setup, but I can't connect. Puppy sees the access point but isn't able to see a live network.

I remember I had this already some time ago, but as I use WEP at home I can connect. I am not sure, but I think I did report this, but don't think there was a cure or answer.

Is there a problem using WPA2 with 5.1?
Do others succeed in connecting with WPA2?

Now you might wonder how I can type this.
As in the previous case I found out that the puppy 4.40CE can connect with WPA2 and that's what I am using now.

I see that 4.40CE uses pwireless2.
Could it be that this pwireless2 has a good support for WPA2 and the network wizards from 5.1 not?

So how can I use WPA2 in 5.1?

[edoc]

We are using WPA2 here from more than one laptop w/Lucid 5.1_003 Frugal and all is well.

[chrismt]

I have some sort of a bug

I am using Firefox 3.6.8 with the latest Flash

I was playing a streaming video from http://www.godslearningchannel.com/stream/live/med

While it was playing,

I made it fullscreen and was watching it without moving my mouse

It automatically went to powersave mode and my video was disrupted

Is this a bug only in Puppy 5.1?

[Béèm]

We are using WPA2 here from more than one laptop w/Lucid 5.1_003 Frugal and all is well.

Thanks for confirming.
But what is Lucid 5.1_003. I only know 510
What is the length of your key (in ascii)
The one I got here in the vacation complex is 20 characters ascii.

Not used to WPA2, so I don't know if this is a standard key.

Which network wizard do you use?
- dougal's one
- simple_network_wizard
- pwireless2 (but this one isn't included in 510)

[inoxidabile]

Hi everybody !

The audio isn't completely off , even if the symbol at the right low angle has the "white X on red box" .

Could someone kindly suggest me any solution?

Thanks!

[rjbrewer]

We are using WPA2 here from more than one laptop w/Lucid 5.1_003 Frugal and all is well.

Thanks for confirming.
But what is Lucid 5.1_003. I only know 510
What is the length of your key (in ascii)
The one I got here in the vacation complex is 20 characters ascii.

Not used to WPA2, so I don't know if this is a standard key.

Which network wizard do you use?
- dougal's one
- simple_network_wizard
- pwireless2 (but this one isn't included in 510)

Lucid 5.1_003 would be a test version in Puppy Projects, 5.1.1 testing
and development.

Pwireless2 has solved a wpa connection loss problem I was having
with 5.1.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 65&t=48816

[Béèm]

rjbrewer, thank you for the info.
I supposed that _003 is the latest lucid being 219.
I downloaded and installed, but don't get a connection working with it.
Pwireless2 isn't included in the 219.
As I have no connection, I can't install it either, unless I find a way to download the pet separately with this 440CE I am using now.

And yes, I was aware that Pwireless2 solved your connection problems.

[rjbrewer]

rjbrewer, thank you for the info.
I supposed that _003 is the latest lucid being 219.
I downloaded and installed, but don't get a connection working with it.
Pwireless2 isn't included in the 219.
As I have no connection, I can't install it either, unless I find a way to download the pet separately with this 440CE I am using now.

And yes, I was aware that Pwireless2 solved your connection problems.

Not familiar with 440ce, but:

Download-save pet to root or tmp of 440ce.
Mount Luci_219.
Drag pet from 440ce to root or tmp of 219.
Boot 219, click the pet.

[don570]

I made a pet package of Mhwaveedit 1.4.20

using Lighthouse 4.43.

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./configure  --without-oss --with-default-mixerapp=alsamixer --without-portaudio --without-sdl --without-alsalib --without-oss --without-jack --without-check-casts

I've been using the past couple of days and it seems fine.

http://www.datafilehost.com/download-7af9907f.html


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[Béèm]

rjbrewer, thank you for the info.
I supposed that _003 is the latest lucid being 219.
I downloaded and installed, but don't get a connection working with it.
Pwireless2 isn't included in the 219.
As I have no connection, I can't install it either, unless I find a way to download the pet separately with this 440CE I am using now.

And yes, I was aware that Pwireless2 solved your connection problems.

Not familiar with 440ce, but:

Download-save pet to root or tmp of 440ce.
Mount Luci_219.
Drag pet from 440ce to root or tmp of 219.
Boot 219, click the pet.

I did something similar and have the pet on a common accessible device.
I booted the 219 and installed the pet.
Did run Pwireless2 and I got the message, no wireless device.

I had copied the WPA key I found in 440CE in a file.
Tried to connect with both Dougal's wizard and SNS, and using the copied key, but this failed also.

Then I saw I had a new possibility Pwireless in the network wizard.
Configured the connection which was stored in a profile, but it was until I clicked 'roam' that the connection really was made.

So strange way of doing it, but at least I got a working connection.

Being curious if the connection is held between boots.

[rjbrewer]

Then I saw I had a new possibility Pwireless in the network wizard.
Configured the connection which was stored in a profile, but it was until I clicked 'roam' that the connection really was made.

So strange way of doing it, but at least I got a working connection.

Being curious if the connection is held between boots.

Great idea!

If the connection holds up it "might" eliminate the 5.1 network wizard
as the cause of the problem.