My report on Quirky 6.0

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#601 Post by Sage »

I may have to introduce strict rules in the install scripts, not to allow installation into too-small drives/partitions.
Thanks for rapid response! The HD seemed to have sda1ext4, sda2ext3, sda3f2s, maybe a swap? Had nothing vital, so have re-installed (partition) using new script.

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My report on Quirky 6.0

#602 Post by Billtoo »

New install of Quirky Tahr 6.0.5 to a 400x 16gb SDHC card.
Installed proprietary nvidia driver.
Took snapshot.
Updated PPM and installed applications from Ubuntu repos + compiled
wine 1.7.12
Took snapshot.
video-info-glx 1.5.3 Sun 16 Feb 2014 on Quirky Tahr 6.0.5 Linux 3.12.6 i686
0.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF110 [GeForce GTX 560 Ti OEM] (rev a1)
oem: NVIDIA
product: GF110 Board - 12630002 Chip Rev
X Server: Xorg Driver: nvidia
X.Org version: 1.15.0
dimensions: 1920x1080 pixels (602x343 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce GTX 560 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.3.0 NVIDIA 334.16

It's working great so far.

EDIT:
Added wbar.
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#603 Post by broomdodger »

Barry wrote:The busybox 'printf' applet might do an octal to base 10 conversion. It works like the C printf() function.
Barry,
hour=`date +"%I"` # returns "01-12"
hour=`date +"%H"` # returns "00-23"

The problem is 08-09 are invalid octal numbers.

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# printf "%d" 09
bash: printf: 09: invalid octal number
printf works great for valid octal numbers.

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# printf "%d" 077
63
You are correct, an alternate would be better,
because the '-' flag is not an option on the Mac.

Another option is to use these which are 1 char shorter! :)
%k hour, space padded ( 0..23)
%l hour, space padded ( 1..12)

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#!/bin/sh
# Walk ON the hour

hour=`date +"%l"` # space padded " 1..12"

for i in 4 3 2 1 ; do
t=$(( ( hour + i ) * 100 ))
(( t >= 2400 )) && (( t = t - 2400 ))

exec urxvt -g 47x5-0+$((13*i)) +sb \
  -bg black -fg cyan \
  -w 0 -b 1 -bd green \
  -title "Take a Walk" \
  -e bash -c "leave ${t} && bash" &

sleep 0.1
done
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#604 Post by Sage »

Q-T 605 new install to partition ext4
There have been problems:
Install crashed at 41%. Hard reset, reinstall. GRUB4Dos crash when trying to edit menu.lst.
G4D reinstalled from Slacko!
No default 'aluminium', set 'colour' instead. PPM FlashPlayer v11 doesn't work with BBC iPlayer/SM - will overwrite with v10 from stock since it is usually more reliable. Yes, success, just as Terryphi advised some while ago.
it's all getting a bit fraught with version numbers, two distinct Q- versions, install scripts and names. Don't envy the developer's housekeeping effort before gold.

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#605 Post by broomdodger »

BarryK wrote:I noticed one thing wrong. When running as root (not spot), the default download directory is supposed to be pre-set in
/file/portable/chromium/profile/Default/Preferences
to download to
/file/downloads

However, when I did a download, it defaulted to /root/Downloads
I looked at Chromium settings, I thought it was already set to '/file/downloads', but decided to reset it to '/file/downloads' and now Chromium downloads to '/file/downloads'.

I wonder if the preset and bad chars in it.

Barry

Would you check to see that BOTH of these point to "/file/downloads"?

This is how they look AFTER manually [re]setting to "/file/downloads".

"download": {
"default_directory": "/file/downloads",
"directory_upgrade": true,
"extensions_to_open": "",
"prompt_for_download": true
},

"savefile": {
"default_directory": "/file/downloads"
},

Bill
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Quirky Tahr 6.05

#606 Post by Jim1911 »

For those that require a Bible Study Tool, Bibletime works great on Barry's latest Quirky Tahr.

I have it installed on a flash drive and find that it works great and is exceptionally fast. It does require the whole partition or drive. Bibletime is installed by clicking on the install icon which runs the Quirky Package Manager. Be sure to first configure the package manager, otherwise your search may not find Bibletime and even if it is found it probably will not install.

Thank you Barry,
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#607 Post by broomdodger »

Quirky Tahr 6.0.5
Chromium installed from PPM

This Chromium is working great.
I removed ALL Flash Players and Chromium WILL play TED http://ted.com/talks but SeaMonkey will not.

Is there something about HTML5 not working in SeaMonkey for TED?

TED gives this message:
It appears that we are unable to play this video in your browser for one of the following reasons:

+ you have JavaScript disabled
+ your device does not support HTML5 video
+ you have an old version of the Adobe Flash Player. Download the latest Flash player to view this video.
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#608 Post by peebee »

BarryK wrote:Without actually having hands-on at your computer, I don't really know what else to suggest.

You should be able to follow a logical procedure to determine why the code that I supplied did not work, whereas what you did before did work.
Hi Barry

I think the problem is that $INTERFACE is wlan0 whereas for rfkill it needs to be wlan - i.e. no zero

If I put your code into a test file BUT change $INTERFACE to wlan then it works correctly - but with wlan0 it fails because the rfkill list wlan0 command fails.

Hope this constitutes the necessary "logical procedure"...I can't test directly because I don't know what $INTERFACE actually contains

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#609 Post by roadkill13 »

broomdodger wrote:
BarryK wrote:
ETP wrote:
@roadkill13
Quote:
Acer Aspire 3680 laptop running Quirky Tahr 6.03 with Google Chrome browser.
For the record can you describe in detail how you managed to get Google Chrome running in Tahr?
Have you tried Chromium?

It is in the Ubuntu repository. I just noticed it there, using the Quirky Package Manager, haven't tried it though.
I tried Chromium... it said:
Quote:
Chromium can not be run as root.
Please start Chromium as a normal user. To run as root, you must specify an alternate --user-data-dir for storage of profile information.
I do not understand what to do. But I like to play and may solve.

Also after PPM install, it said 'gstreamer' was needed.
But I have service_pack-6.0.3_TO_6.0.4-tahr.pet installed, which was to add gstreamer.

EDIT:
Well I tried and it did not work:
Code:
# chromium-browser
/usr/bin/chromium-browser: line 99: lsb_release: command not found
/usr/bin/chromium-browser: line 100: lsb_release: command not found
[15304:15304:0213/171529:ERROR:chrome_browser_main_extra_parts_gtk.cc(50)] Startup refusing to run as root.

# chromium-browser --user-data-dir=/file/personal
/usr/bin/chromium-browser: line 99: lsb_release: command not found
/usr/bin/chromium-browser: line 100: lsb_release: command not found
[14854:14879:0213/171454:ERROR:nss_util.cc(445)] Error initializing NSS with a persistent database (sql:/root/.pki/nssdb): libmozsqlite3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[14854:14879:0213/171454:ERROR:nss_util.cc(211)] Error initializing NSS without a persistent database: NSS error code: -5925
[14854:14879:0213/171454:FATAL:nss_util.cc(213)] nss_error=-5925, os_error=0
Aborted
Oh my... what to do?

Bill


OK, fixed, see blog post:
http://bkhome.org/news/?viewDetailed=00063

There was rather a lot to do, to get it all right, but the next release of Quirky Tahr (6.0.5), which should be out very soon, will (hopefully) have it all sorted out.
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http://bkhome.org/news/
The Google Chrome Fixator package takes care of the problem encountered with running in root and adds some parameters to the command line related to memory for those running Chrome from a save file.

Great news that all that is sorted out with 6.05. I am the glad beneficiary of all the hard work that has gone into this. Thank you.

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#610 Post by BarryK »

Sage wrote:
I may have to introduce strict rules in the install scripts, not to allow installation into too-small drives/partitions.
Thanks for rapid response! The HD seemed to have sda1ext4, sda2ext3, sda3f2s, maybe a swap? Had nothing vital, so have re-installed (partition) using new script.
Yes, but how big is the partition? That is, size, in MB or GB. Mouseover the icon on the desktop will tell you.
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#611 Post by BarryK »

broomdodger wrote:
BarryK wrote:I noticed one thing wrong. When running as root (not spot), the default download directory is supposed to be pre-set in
/file/portable/chromium/profile/Default/Preferences
to download to
/file/downloads

However, when I did a download, it defaulted to /root/Downloads
I looked at Chromium settings, I thought it was already set to '/file/downloads', but decided to reset it to '/file/downloads' and now Chromium downloads to '/file/downloads'.

I wonder if the preset and bad chars in it.

Barry

Would you check to see that BOTH of these point to "/file/downloads"?

This is how they look AFTER manually [re]setting to "/file/downloads".

"download": {
"default_directory": "/file/downloads",
"directory_upgrade": true,
"extensions_to_open": "",
"prompt_for_download": true
},

"savefile": {
"default_directory": "/file/downloads"
},

Bill
Bill,
Ah, that must be it!
I have added that extra "savefile" entry into /usr/local/petget/hacks-postinstall.sh, also in the FIXUPHACKS file in the chromium template in the Quirky build system.
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#612 Post by BarryK »

peebee wrote:
BarryK wrote:Without actually having hands-on at your computer, I don't really know what else to suggest.

You should be able to follow a logical procedure to determine why the code that I supplied did not work, whereas what you did before did work.
Hi Barry

I think the problem is that $INTERFACE is wlan0 whereas for rfkill it needs to be wlan - i.e. no zero

If I put your code into a test file BUT change $INTERFACE to wlan then it works correctly - but with wlan0 it fails because the rfkill list wlan0 command fails.

Hope this constitutes the necessary "logical procedure"...I can't test directly because I don't know what $INTERFACE actually contains

Cheers
peebee
peebee,
That's great!
OK, for sns at least, I have modified /usr/local/simple_network_setup/sns line 327 as follows:

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#scan for networks...
 #140201 peebee reported need this... 140217...
 WIF="$(echo -n "$INTERFACE" | grep 'wlan' | sed -e 's%[0-9]$%%')" #convert wlan0 to wlan
 [ "$WIF" ] && [ "`rfkill list ${WIF} | grep 'Soft blocked: yes'`" != "" ] && rfkill unblock $WIF
 FLAGERR=
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#613 Post by Sage »

..how big is the partition
It was ~4Gb. All deleted and 605 re-installed /wipe option with the difficulties described above.

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#614 Post by Rodney Byne »

After a clean install of QT 6.0.5 to flashdrive, I note
the yellow First Time SeaMonkey box still appears
on every launch of SeaMonkey.
Its intended purpose to only appear once is not working.

Could the symlink

ln -snf /usr/lib/seamonkey/seamonkey /usr/bin/seamonkey

be permanently included by default please in future releases.

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#615 Post by Sage »

Above, I wrote:
PPM FlashPlayer v11 doesn't work with BBC iPlayer
Not sure what's different in recent Puppies but micko's Slacko64 doesn't work either with it's pre-installed FP. In that case there may be another issue? How can I convert a 32-bit v.10 into a 64-bit .pet?! Suspect that turn out to be rhetorical, esp. as it's proprietary code!

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#616 Post by mavrothal »

/usr/local/jwmconfig2/jwmConfigMgr points to the now removed wallpaper, instead of the new qwallpaper
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#617 Post by BarryK »

Rodney Byne wrote:After a clean install of QT 6.0.5 to flashdrive, I note
the yellow First Time SeaMonkey box still appears
on every launch of SeaMonkey.
Its intended purpose to only appear once is not working.

Could the symlink

ln -snf /usr/lib/seamonkey/seamonkey /usr/bin/seamonkey

be permanently included by default please in future releases.
It should have disappeared after a reboot.

But, that was an act of desparation. You guys who have this problem, have to help me.

Download the attached, then:

# gunzip seamonkey.gz
# chmod 755 seamonkey

Copy it to /usr/bin/, replacing old 'seamonkey' -- if you have a symlink there, delete that first.

Now, in a terminal:

# seamonkey > /root/seamonkey.log 2>&1

Let us know if you get the popup, well you should, as that is the problem.

Exit seamonkey, start again, notice the two >>:

# seamonkey >> /root/seamonkey.log 2>&1

Then post the file /root/seamonkey.log here. As an attachment, you might have to gzip it, or just append ".gz".
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#618 Post by James C »

Used service pack to update from 6.0.4 to 6.0.5 .........no obvious problems so far.

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Quirky Tahr, version 6.0.5

Chip description:
VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)

Requested by /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Resolution (widthxheight, in pixels): 1024x768
Depth (bits, or planes): 24
Modules requested to be loaded: dbe

Probing Xorg startup log file (/var/log/Xorg.0.log):
Driver loaded (and currently in use): intel
Loaded modules: dbe dri2 extmod glx kbd mouse

Actual rendering on monitor:
Resolution: 1024x768 pixels (270x203 millimeters)
Depth: 24 planes

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
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# free
             total         used         free       shared      buffers
Mem:       2065684       361732      1703952            0        19084
-/+ buffers:             342648      1723036
Swap:      2150396            0      2150396
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Fastest download of Quirky tahr 6.0.5

#619 Post by don570 »

Fastest download of Quirky tahr 6.0.5
Thanks to forum member Puppus Dogfellow

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id= ... sp=sharing

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#620 Post by Puppus Dogfellow »

unable to get webcam to work on dell inspiron mini netbook--it ran guvcview under slacko 5.3 and precise 5.6 and 5.7. in tahr i was able to get some basic webcam program (the name of which i can't recall--camsomething...) to work, but after the upgrade to 6.0.5, that wouldn't work either. i uninstalled all the webcam stuff, reinstalled the latest guvcview from the PPM and still no luck. any suggestions?

thanks in advance.

(other than that it really is running extraordinarily well off the usb 2 drive.)

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