Fatdog64-611 Final (Updated 12-14-2012)

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rcrsn51
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#321 Post by rcrsn51 »

There are a couple of possibilities.

1. Your sda2 partition has some corruption. What filesystem does it have?

2. The initrd file did not get copied correctly.

3. Your BIOS or your version of GRUB cannot handle Fatdog's humongous initrd. I have a problem when booting Fatdog off a USB drive.

rdog
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#322 Post by rdog »

rcrsn51 wrote:There are a couple of possibilities.

1. Your sda2 partition has some corruption. What filesystem does it have?

2. The initrd file did not get copied correctly.

3. Your BIOS or your version of GRUB cannot handle Fatdog's humongous initrd. I have a problem when booting Fatdog off a USB drive.
Hi rcrsn51,
I checked the sda2 and it is clean. I copied the initrd a few different times without any improvement. Perhaps it is GRUB hmm. I am able to boot from the DVD of the ISO image. I'll try a few more things before giving up on Fatdog64.

Thanks for the help.
Rob

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#323 Post by kirk »

rdog,

I've had that problem with Grub-0.97 on somebody's laptop. Not sure what causes it. I think I just copied the file, deleted the original and then renamed the copy and fixed it. Something up with the filesystem I guess, though fsck didn't help. Maybe it's some kind of fragmentation.

galen

loss of sound alsawizrd also wont fix

#324 Post by galen »

I had sound, now I do not, no panel volume
tried the control panel script, never completes.
sound card works via vlc device selection.
seems init script is dead

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 lsmod
pcspkr                  1779  0 
sg                     27545  0 
snd                    55640  10 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_mpu401,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
snd_ac97_codec        108147  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_intel8x0           26135  0 
snd_mixer_oss          14516  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_mpu401              4728  0 
snd_mpu401_uart         5699  1 snd_mpu401
snd_page_alloc          6681  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
snd_pcm                72118  3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss            37122  0 
snd_rawmidi            18178  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device          4924  1 snd_rawmidi
snd_timer              18081  1 snd_pcm
soundcore               4994  1 snd
asound.conf is correct

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pcm.!default { type hw card 0 device 0 }
ctl.!default { type hw card 0 device 0 }

galen

Re: loss of sound alsawizrd also wont fix

#325 Post by galen »

galen wrote:I had sound, now I do not, no panel volume
tried the control panel script, never completes.
sound card works via vlc device selection.
seems init script is dead

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 lsmod
pcspkr                  1779  0 
sg                     27545  0 
snd                    55640  10 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_mpu401,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
snd_ac97_codec        108147  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_intel8x0           26135  0 
snd_mixer_oss          14516  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_mpu401              4728  0 
snd_mpu401_uart         5699  1 snd_mpu401
snd_page_alloc          6681  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
snd_pcm                72118  3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss            37122  0 
snd_rawmidi            18178  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device          4924  1 snd_rawmidi
snd_timer              18081  1 snd_pcm
soundcore               4994  1 snd
asound.conf is correct

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pcm.!default { type hw card 0 device 0 }
ctl.!default { type hw card 0 device 0 }
sound has return but I think it is a fluke.
I ran /etc/init.d/99-alsa
and next reboot sound returned but
fatdog control panel mixer does not work and tray volume control crashes panel (default is does exist)

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#326 Post by jamesbond »

galen, please try 620beta1 and post your test there. Btw I saw you posted a bug report in the bug report system. Just want to let you know that we've just moved the fossil repository so your bug report is deleted.
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galen

grub legacy mushes all titles into one line

#327 Post by galen »

noticed if fatdog is installed to the hard drive and you select grub install,
the menu.lst is corrupt, the installed will find other distros on the hard drive but list them all on one line and then ask you for a title.
something like this
found linux on [/dev/sda1][/dev/sda2][dev/sda4] what title would like

grub4dos works quite well but it not detected by other distros grub or grub2 (yuk)

I do prefer to use grub4dos on MBR and chainload into grub or grub2 for other distros

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#328 Post by technowar »

I have a Toshiba Satellite C850 - A825 with a Realtek 8723AE wireless device.

My question is, will my wifi work? I have had problems with Debian and Ubuntu for the past few days.

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#329 Post by smokey01 »

Cups has stopped working and I've also noticed seamonkey-spot has stopped too.

When running seamonkey-spot from a terminal I get:

# seamonkey-spot
su: can't chdir to home directory '/root/spot'
su: can't execute '/bin/dash': Permission denied
#

Cups also stopped working when I loaded a Firefox SFS. When I unloaded Firefox, Cups began working again but not now.

The Cups home is displayed in seamonkey @ http://localhost:631/ ,
not via the spot script.

If I select Admin I get Internal Server Error.
Classes and Printers gives a permission denied error.

Any ideas?

Thanks

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#330 Post by jamesbond »

Smokey01,

I think the savefile may have been corrupted. "/bin/dash" is the lightweight shell I use for interpreting shell scripts (because its fast), if you can't execute it something must have gone terrible wrong (either it is deleted, or corrupted and not accessible). You can copy the file back from /aufs/pup_ro/bin/dash (that's the read-only Fatdog SFS copy) to /bin/dash, but looking at the seriousness of the problem I doubt you can recover much.

One other alternative you can try is to boot kernel command line "dofsck" (that "do-fsck" without the dash), this is Fatdog's equivalent of "pfix=fsck" in Puppy. I can't remember when it started to be supported though, all I know is recent Fatdogs support it.

cheers!
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#331 Post by smokey01 »

jamesbond,

dash seems to be working OK. See below.

dash -v
### /etc/shinit - shell init file
# this is executed by shell - both login or non-login
# setup stuff for interactive shells only
case $- in
*i*)
# interactive configurations - prompt, history, etc
# TERM, USER and LOGNAME is already set by login/su
PS1="$USER$ "; [ $USER = root ] && PS1="# "
HISTFILE="$HOME/.history" # ensure all shells use the same history

# aliases
alias ls='ls --color=auto'
alias grep='grep --color=auto'
;;
esac
#

I have been considering making 621 my main OS but I'm waiting for the next release, I guess after the 3.11 kernel is released.

The file dofsck does not appear to be in fd-611 or at least which can't find it.

Thanks

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#332 Post by snayak »

I am using fatdof 611. It has wpa_gui icon in tray instead of usual networking icon. Now I have to connect to eth0 by opening network wizard from control pannel. Is there a way to connect to eth0 automatically and see the RX/TX in tray icon?

Please help.

Sincerely,
Srinivas Nayak
[Precise 571 on AMD Athlon XP 2000+ with 512MB RAM]
[Fatdog 720 on Intel Pentium B960 with 4GB RAM]

[url]http://srinivas-nayak.blogspot.com/[/url]

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#333 Post by Gobbi »

Network Wizard does not connect automatically , maybe because wpagui starts first . To have Network Wizard window at startup instead of wpagui one , in /etc/xdg/Startup/ you must link net-setup.sh from /usr/sbin/ and replace wpagui. The connection is not automaticaly , though...

For the tray icon of network : Right click on lxpanel and choose Add/Remove Panel Applets , then add Network Status Monitor and when you have it right click on it and choose Network Satus Monitor Settings . --> Interface to monitor : you have to write eth0 .

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#334 Post by snayak »

Dear Gobbi,

Many thanks for your help.
I found "Network Status Monitor" applet, it is good, however, it takes a lot of space (width-wise) in the tray. So I had to remove it. :-(

When I was using Fatdog 521, there was always a head of puppy coming to front and saying, "eth0 connected!". In Fatdog 611 I am missing that. Is it that the autoimatic connection to wired network has all together been banned in fatdog 611?

I don't need wpa, since I have no wireless net facility. :-(
[Precise 571 on AMD Athlon XP 2000+ with 512MB RAM]
[Fatdog 720 on Intel Pentium B960 with 4GB RAM]

[url]http://srinivas-nayak.blogspot.com/[/url]

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#335 Post by Gobbi »

I use only wireless , but from what I read in the forum more than one complained that in FD 620 ethernet connects automatically .FD620 is much improoved than FD611 :D .
I would try it... :wink:

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#336 Post by snayak »

I downloaded google-chrome from http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/pets/6 ... 547.65.pet.

It didn't generate a menu item. :-(
While I tried to run it from CLI, it gave
~# google-chrome
/usr/bin/google-chrome: symbol lookup error: /usr/bin/google-chrome: undefined symbol: _XGetRequest
~#
How can I fix it?

Sincerely,
Srinivas Nayak
[Precise 571 on AMD Athlon XP 2000+ with 512MB RAM]
[Fatdog 720 on Intel Pentium B960 with 4GB RAM]

[url]http://srinivas-nayak.blogspot.com/[/url]

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#337 Post by kirk »

snayak,

That pet was made for Fatdog64-630, which is only out as a rc1. Rc2 will be coming out in a couple weeks. To make it work in 611 libX11 would need to be updated. I've uploaded a pet here:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/broken ... -1.6.2.pet


No promises that it won't break other things or that other libraries would need to be updated too. But I think that might be all you need.

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#338 Post by snayak »

Ok.

Thanks kirk for this info.

Do we have CodeLite for fatdog anywhere?

Sincerely,
Srinivas Nayak
[Precise 571 on AMD Athlon XP 2000+ with 512MB RAM]
[Fatdog 720 on Intel Pentium B960 with 4GB RAM]

[url]http://srinivas-nayak.blogspot.com/[/url]

snayak
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#339 Post by snayak »

I noticed that updatedb and locate doesn't work on Fatdog 611.

It shows

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~# updatedb 
/usr/bin/updatedb: line 278: /var/state/locatedb.n: No such file or directory
Failed to generate /var/state/locatedb.n
~#
I did

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~# mkdir /var/state
~# updatedb 
~#
It started working!

Please note this.

Sincerely,
Srinivas Nayak
[Precise 571 on AMD Athlon XP 2000+ with 512MB RAM]
[Fatdog 720 on Intel Pentium B960 with 4GB RAM]

[url]http://srinivas-nayak.blogspot.com/[/url]

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