Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[dru5k1]

Hi, I'm seeing this problem in 5.2 - running live (cd) with a usb save-file

Puppy will save the session automatically at shutdown, unless you uncomment this action in /etc/rc.d/rc.shutdown - which results in an ugly Xorg error at each bootup

When using puppy live and you make a save-file, you get a 'save' icon on the desktop -so if you install a program or make some web-bookmarks, you can click that and save the changes (you know, this takes half a minute). But the problem is that if you make some kind of blunder requiring a reboot - well puppy automatically 'saves' your blunder, and that is a problem

I've looked at "Puppy Event Manager" and chosen PUPMODE 0, but the answer is not there -still a save at shutdown.. The rc.shutdown fix is an ugly one, and I think that Puppy should do this (no saving unless you say so) in a clean and tidy way

I hope you agree.

[jamesbond]

dru5k1 - automatic "save session" is what puppy is designed for. It's neither a problem or a bug.

The big red "save" button - it is only there when one runs puppy on top of flash drives (or multisession-DVD I think), and it's not for what you think --- because puppy always saves session at the end of session, even if you never click that big red button.

If you want to disable this behaviour, then you'll have to modify puppy. There are a few threads in this forum dedicated to that, all you need to do is use google to search for it.

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=disable+saving+automatic+session+site%3Amurga-linux.com&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a.

[dawg]

[bwh1969]

There is a fix for you to have it prompt you at shutdown. Fluppy makes this happen (or at least it used to), and even gives it a timeout, and if you don't say yes within 60 seconds, it will just shut down with no save.

[jemimah]

The only time it's completely safe to save is during shutdown, after all user processes are killed. Otherwise you run the small risk of saving a file at the same time it's being written to which can result in file corruption. Saving during shutdown ensures that all files are cleanly saved.

[pemasu]

http://shino.pos.to/linux/puppy/pupsaveconfig-1.9.9.pet

It has option with frugal installs not to save at shutdown.

EDIT: ok, it works only if you dont use savefile already.
Like pfix=ram or new install.
My mistake, sorry.

[dru5k1]

hmm

if you make some kind of blunder requiring a reboot - well puppy automatically 'saves' your blunder, and that is a problem

[Jasper]

Hi guys,

I have deleted my original post here.

On reflection it was probably only helpful with a frugal install.

My regards

[pemasu]

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=505163#505163

[Dougal]

[dru5k1]

thank you Dougal! that's really helpful

[Digital_Dissident]

I just booted Wary Puppy 5.1.1 using a saved session file for the first time and, much to my chagrin, discovered this automatic saving of the session.

Is there a reason it can't ask whether you'd like to save the session, the way it does when no saved session file was invoked at boot-up? (By default)

(And also ask at the beginning whether or not to enable the periodic automatic saving that was mentioned in the other thread linked in one of the above posts ITT)

That would be much appreciated.

[jamesbond]

I usually don't answer to this kind of question, but today I loosen myself a little bit and swallow this bait.

[Sylvander]

1. To prevent periodic [default is every 30 min] "saves" [actually a "copy"] back to a pupsave file on a [partition on a] Flash Drive.

2. When the pupsave is held on a Flash Drive:
What to do to be given the choice at shutdown "to save or not to save".

3. When the pupsave is on a HDD...
The following is so you can then use the methods in 1 & 2 above.
How to edit the isolinux.cfg file within a Puppy ISO file [used to make the "live" Puppy optical disk], so as to make the Puppy treat its pupsave on a HDD as though it were a pupsave on a Flash Drive.

4. See also this to further explain 3 above.

5. And see also this, which can/should be used PRIOR to making a pupsave file, as an alternative to the above methods.

[nooby]