Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[starhawk]

Hey, rg66, when you get the time, I've got a question. Why is it that the "my computer locks up when I install a non-PPM package" goes away in Slacko 1.0 (still haven't upgraded ) after installing a PPM package? I'm genuinely curious about that... seems very odd.

[rg66]

[starhawk]

[rg66]

@ starhawk

The bug was fixed in 1.1, are you using a 1.0 save file? Try it in RAM and see what happens.

The shutdown message should depend on what pupsave mode you're in. Frugal to HD should give the "slackosave.3fs mounted top layer, session already saved" message. The other one is maybe for USB flash, not sure. Check pupsave config in Control panel > System.

[starhawk]

Was using a fresh install with ext3 savefile on another system -- I can try it running from RAM but I really don't expect anything different and I'd rather not ding up the FS on that drive any more than I have to I know from experience that hard reboots are not Puppy-friendly, even on ext3...

Both installs (netbook and second system) are frugal to SSD -- pmedia=ataflash. Also, I was wrong; it's the netbook is the one giving me "session already saved" -- the other system still has to save on shutdown. Probably that's because I'm using a browser SFS on that system in addition to the savefile...

[rg66]

[starhawk]

I can fix that. But it won't fix the package installer

[starhawk]

BUG REPORT
...of a bug already reported. This is further coverage...

So I've been re-setting-up my Acer laptop today, for various reasons. I installed X-Slacko 1.1 PAE on there. Before installing *anything else* I installed a PET using PPM for some boring game thing that I'll never play. This is the fix for the PetGet bug in X-Slacko 1.0 PAE per the ISO in this thread.

Every two or three "foreign" (not from PPM) packages I install, now, the bug reoccurs and I have to hard-reboot. I've done that FOUR TIMES.

rg66, this is most definitely NOT FIXED. I sincerely hope you will take some time to look at the code (it's well beyond me, or I'd do it myself) and figure out what the @*#$!! is going on here -- because it's a showstopper, at least for X-Slacko 1.1. I will be burning a CD of 1.0 PAE to see how it runs... if it has similar symptoms I may indeed go back to Win7. This is getting ridiculous.

System specs --
Acer Aspire 5532
Turion 64X2 CPU (I forget the speed)
4gb RAM
256gb SSD (64gb as OS partition, remainder as userdata partition)
Install of Puppy X-Slacko 1.1 PAE, frugal, to internal IDE/SATA flash media
Grub4DOS bootloader

EDIT: I gparted away 1.1 PAE and replaced it with 1.0 PAE and the fix/workaround works for me as it has in the past. rg66, whatever you did to this Pup between 1.0 and 1.1 didn't make the problem go away -- it made it WORSE.

EDIT2: something of a correction to the last edit -- the fix/workaround was not as effective as I thought, or there's something else going on. Just had the bug hit me again this is getting to be a real pain in the you-know-what. rg66, I really hope you'll take a look at the code here and not just insist that you "fixed it" -- which you unfortunately but certainly did not!

[rg66]

Download the installpkg.sh.gz below and extract it to /usr/local/petget and see if that fixes the pet install issue.

[starhawk]

That shell script needs to be made executable after extracting -- figured that out the hard way

I'm going to tentatively say that this fixes the issue in 1.0 -- I've installed 3 PETs and a PUP package and so far X-Slacko 1.0 is barking rather than barfing, if you know what I mean...

I'll boot X-Slacko 1.1 from LiveCD, install the script and see how things go. There is one other (minor to me) bug I'm noticing in 1.0 which is that drive icons don't show on the desktop after installing, unless you manually go in and refresh them (and even then the boot drive doesn't show!). I /know/ that's fixed in 1.1 because I didn't see it till I rolled back to 1.0... which is one of three reasons I haven't mentioned it before -- the others being that (as mentioned) it's a fairly minor bug and that I've been pestering you enough (IMO) with the much larger PetGet problem.

[starhawk]

Posting from X-Slacko 1.1, as LiveCD.

I installed the shell script immediately after booting, and did not install any PETs from PPM.

I've installed five PET packages and one PUP package so far and the problem has not recurred. I'm going to call this one FIXED.

I have become quite weary of fighting with OSes to get them to do what I want, and I was about ready to give up on Puppy because of this (and other similar things in the past) and just go back to Win7. I really didn't want to do that, but it was getting to the point where continuing to deal with this stuff, one thing after another, it just felt like it was too hard to keep going.

So, thank you, rg66, for truly fixing this thing. Thank you. This feels good to me...

EDIT: 12 PETs and a PUP, and counting! No problems yet...
This is good

[Pete22]

I apologize for not reading all the previous posts.

I am using X-slacko pae and enjoy it very much.
However, the sound is on full blast. there is no way to lower it because
when I click on the icon it says


Gstreamer is unable to detect any sound devices. That seems strange since
it is working,

Is there a fix for this?

Pete

[rg66]

[Geoffrey]

It seems the the link for xdg-open is broken, run this code in the terminal to fix it.

[Geoffrey]

xfce4 whiskermenu plugin

Edit: recompiled whisker menu to fix screen lock activation.

Compiled in XSlacko.