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[RSH]

Hi Ken.

Sorry for misunderstanding you the first time.

So, if your are booting from USB Flash and using a save file, the shutdown GUI offers a menu, wherein one can select to shutdown with saving to save file or to shutdown without saving to save file.

Would you please try this, and tell me the results.

I do use LazY Puppy generally from USB flash (FAT32). At home to 100% without the use of a save file, in my drumming room I do use a 512 MB save file. And it shuts down each and every time very well.

I'm currently not at home, so I can't make any tests on this. But will try on tomorrow. Would you please also check md5sum of downloaded ISO?

md5sum of LazY Puppy 2.0.2 Final Build 0.0.3: ffedb40dabea61f25cb461fb47fed626

RSH

[the last saviour]

Hi all;
If you got any problem with Pwidget, just delete Space_Puppy_filesystem. Then it will be a good Pwidget.

Lieber Herr RSH;
Thanks for your advices.
I will download those files and test SciPlore again.
I think DeadBeef 4.1-1 should be DeadBeef 0.4.1.
I am very confused with Lash audio & Jack audio recording studio. There're Jack Rack in both studio, but different version.
After Lash audio & Jack audio sfs. are installed, some applications need to be installed whereas some applications need not. And Lash audio recording studio.sfs can't be unloaded.
Please let me know how to set midi to run in both studio. I can play midi only with TiMidity.
I also found TiMidity wouldn't work after Lash audio is loaded.
With Osiris I can't remaster LazyPuppy. It will boot until ../root/.xint.... and cannot find xorg library!!!!
Viele dank.

[RSH]

Hi.

[RSH]

Look also to the above post.

[keniv]

Hi RSH

I do not get the shutdown GUI by clicking on the wbar button, tray button or the menu shutdown. Nothing happens when I click on any of the above. The timed shutdown does work and during shutdown with this I am given the option to shutdown with saving to save file or to shutdown without saving to save file. I had checked the md5sum and it was correct. However I thought it was possible it had become corrupted so I have rechecked and it is still correct. The iso I downloaded is called LazyPuppy-202-EN-003.iso. I am beginning to wonder if it could be something to do with the manual frugal install. However, I installed it to my hd in the same way the only difference being that I am booting a frugal install on an ntfs file system from grub on a small ext3 partition on the hd whereas with the flashdrive I am using grub4dos to boot a frugal install on a fat32 file system. I can't see how this could affect shutdown. I have thought of trying an install to a fresh flashdrive using the installer to see if this works. Thanks for your help with this.

Regards,

Ken.

[RSH]

[8-bit]

Your poll is not covering all options!
If for instance I was loading the libreoffice sfs, I would want it unloaded on exiting. Although with it being a multipart application, the initial menu calling one of the parts might close that menu and and as a result, unload the SFS.
For a game, the auto-unload on exiting the game would be nice.
So to be safe, I would say no auto-unload of the SFS.
I did not take the Poll because it does not clarify enough.

[Jasper]

Hi 8-bit,

Try loading your games using seaside's SFStray and Libre-
Office by right clicking using shinobar's SFS loader. Then,
as I wrote before, right click again to unload it, though with
4GB of RAM you may never need or wish to do that.

My regards

PS How does your poll recommendation look?

[keniv]

Hi RHS

Thanks for taking all this trouble. I have attached two images of the desktop as I thought the information panel might count as a "program opened" and so one image shows this and the other does not. Hope this helps.

Regards,

Ken.

[keniv]

Hi RHS

I looked at wbar config. This gave me the path to the file executed when the wbar shutdown button is clicked on. The path is /usr/sbin/ceelab/shutdown-pc/shutdown-pc. If I run shutdown-pc in a terminal it brings up the shutdown gui on the version of lazy on my hd (shutdown works properly on this one). However if I do the same on the version of lazy on the flash drive booting with grub4dos the shutdown gui does not appear and I get the attached error. I hope this helps.

Regards,

Ken.

[RSH]

Hi, Ken.

Thanks for the last post. Did help a lot to locate the bug.

Installing the attached .pet should fix this. Please, report the result.

Thanks

RSH

[keniv]

Hi RHS

Good news. I installed you pet to Lazy on my flash drive and shutdown is now working. I have done a little bit of testing. I get the gui whether I select shutdown from wbar, tray or menu. All options shut the machine down. I have also tried the 10 sec count down and "now" and both work. I get the save and don't save options. Obviously after installing the pet I chose save and shutdown occurred with save. I have tried with no save and this works as well. I have now done a number of boots and shutdowns and it has worked every time. In trying to get shutdown to work I made a number of save files of different sizes and both ext2 and ext3. Your pet also works on these. I have also tried the timed shutdown. This always worked and still works. If you want me to try anything else please let me know. I should have said earlier that I had already installed your update pet. Thanks again for your time, help and the pet.

Regards,

Ken.

[RSH]

Hi Ken.

Glad to hear it works.

After having a look at your last attached image I did know: it's the menu of the shutdown-gui.

It's a bit of embarrassing to build a OS especially for the use from USB Stick and to put special options into the shutdown-gui for such a use and then it doesn't work.

The users of the now 78 downloaded DE ISO files will never run into this bug. But there seems not to be any English user (174 downloads) using LazY Puppy from USB Stick - except you.

The bug will only come up if using LazY Puppy with English Desktop and booting from USB Stick, using a save file. Exactly this I did not test.

Thanks for all testings made. Enjoy LazY Puppy as often as you can and if entering a bug, please post it. If there would be a similar English-Desktop-USB-Stick-Boot-Bug that I would not entering because of my German Desktop on coding and use, I would like to know it and then to fix it.

Thanks.

RSH

P.S.

Did you made any tests using the menu functions of the shutdown-gui?

[keniv]

Hi RSH

[keniv]

Hi RHS

Have now tried the menu functions in the shutdown gui. All of them worked. Restart X did exactly that. I exited to prompt then typed xwin and got back to the desktop. Reboot pc gave me the option to save which I did as I had made some changes. The save time was a little longer than I expected but perhaps given the changes this was understandable and the reboot was OK. I had two sfs loaded and chose to unload libreoffice 3.5. I shutdown and on booting up again libreoffice 3.5 had been unloaded, I used load-on-the-fly to reload it and this worked OK. So all seems to work. I like the idea of using sfs and have now started to play around a little. I like Opera as a browser and have just downloaded and installed to my flash drive Opera 12.11. I am typing this from it now. I am having a little trouble with flash but I have had this before with Opera and have always managed to get it to work. I should have a chance latter in the week to try my flash drive with some better specified machines. I will let you know how this goes.

Regards,

Ken.