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#521 Post by Marble42 »

Thanks for the welcome @gcmartin! :-)

Unfortunately I'm a very basic user (using just FireFox, and perhaps a writing program). My abilities to report issues is very limited.

I can however help out in translating stuff in Serbian language (language shared by Ex-Yugoslavian countries - Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia&Herzegovina, Montenegro. Is something like that needed? Is it easy to do, just translate it? My technical knowledge is very limited so I have no idea what I am offering here, hehe.)

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Precord and Pavrecord. New versions uploaded

#522 Post by mcewanw »

new version Precord uploaded. Now version 9.0.2. Changes notified here:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 862#790862

also

new version pAVrecord uploaded to match the changes. Now version 9.0.2. Changes notified here:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 861#790861

Note that on my computer at least (Pentium M 1.6GHz 1GB RAM) pAVrecord works much better on Puppy Precise 5.7.1 or DebianDog than in Slacko for some reason I can't so far resolve. In Slacko using the default MPEG-4/10 settings, my webcam preview loads slowly when recording and and recording itself is also jumpy, but, as I say, might just be my webcam (different webcam drivers maybe?) if not the differing ffmpeg/ffplay used in these different systems. Huge difference though - working very smoothly in Precise.

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#523 Post by bigpup »

Marble42 wrote: I can however help out in translating stuff in Serbian language (language shared by Ex-Yugoslavian countries - Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia&Herzegovina, Montenegro. Is something like that needed? Is it easy to do, just translate it? My technical knowledge is very limited so I have no idea what I am offering here, hehe.)
Go here and read about Momanager.
http://bkhome.org/fossil/woof2.cgi/arti ... 4fefdcbb79
Language packs are usually posted in the Localization Projects section of the forum.
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#524 Post by SFR »

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#525 Post by xanad »

gettext in 'desksetup.sh'
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 062#791062

******

Another little contri...
'ptheme_gtk': adds two lines 60 and 61 (missing in the original)

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export TEXTDOMAIN=ptheme_gtk
export OUTPUT_CHARSET=UTF-8
and add gettext at line 86
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 211#791211

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#526 Post by mavrothal »

xanad,
you may want to consider submitting these as pull requests to woof-CE so all puppies can benefit from your contribution :wink:
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#527 Post by darkcity »

What is the status of alsaconf and alsa tools in the latest build? sound support has regressed from version 5.3.1 for me, see the following thread for details-

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=94623

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#528 Post by bigpup »

01micko,

I think there is a problem still with the Puppy repositories. I know you recently worked on issues with the Lucid Puppy repositories, but there still seems to be problems.

Not sure if it is with all of the Puppy repositories, but here is one I tried for Slacko.
http://ftp.nluug.nl/ibiblio/distributio ... lacko14.1/

I downloaded a pet package from here.
Saved it to my hard drive.
Clicked on pet package to install.
Started the install and got error message package will not install.

666phiib says he had to do this to get it to work.
666phiib wrote:something has gone weird with the .pets at ibiblio and nluug and you need to extract them and re-pet them to get them to work ....
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ydrv_slacko_5.9.3.7

#529 Post by shinobar »

EDIT: There is ydrv_slacko_5.9.3.8:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 433#791433

We are awaiting next release slacko-5.9.4, but at this point of time, I made a collection of recent fixes against slacko-5.9.3.
Updated vmlinuz and initrd.gz is available in the slacko-5.9.3.6: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 817#787817

HOW TO USE
Rename the file ydrv_slacko_5.9.3.7.sfs to 'ydrv_slacko_5.9.3.sfs', and place it where the slacko-5.9.3 is installed.
The base Puppy can be slacko-5.9.3 or slacko-5.9.3.6.

WHATS NEW (from the original 5.9.3)
1. seve-to-directory fix (df matter)
2. All the extra SFS (exept main,zdrv,adrv and ydrv) are totally handled by the sfs_load to avoid long wait at boot with the message 'next boot will be faster'.
3. Some tweaks to speed up at boot and at install/uninstall packages
4. ntfs permission to be 755. But it depends on the initramfs when the ntfs is /mnt/home.
5. pup_event bug fixes
6. New installers.

USED PACKAGES
Note: Not all the files in PET are in the SFS. Some files in the SFS are not from the packages on this list.
pup_event_files-140714.tar.gz http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=94804
f2fs-usb-installer-0.21-noarch.pet http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... &start=403
pui-experimental4.tar.gz http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... &start=439
frugalinstaller-2.0.1.pet http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=57711
grub4dos-0.4.4.v1.9.2.pet http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=51697
sfs_load-2.1.8.pet http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=64354
pman-2.3.pet http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=56887
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rc.sysinit

#530 Post by shinobar »

The ydrv_slacko_5.9.3.7 has updated /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit. Here is the diff:

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--- rc.sysinit.org	2014-06-21 06:27:24.000000000 +0900
+++ rc.sysinit	2014-07-27 10:57:31.883324320 +0900
@@ -91,9 +91,11 @@
 #130618 3builddistro sets 'DEVTMPFSFLG' variable.
 #130629 need directory /tmp/pup_event_ipc, to support new pup_event IPC.
 #130630 bring back tmpfs on /tmp for full HD installation.
+#140626,140708,140727: all extra sfs by sfs_load, another link of /mnt/home
+#150727: remount fix(SFR) http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=94328&start=502
 
-# always use devtmpfs
-mount -t devtmpfs devtmpfs /dev 
+# always use devtmpfs 
+[ -d /initrd ] && mount -t devtmpfs devtmpfs /dev
 DEVTMPFSFLG=1
 
 #unset TZ #100319 busybox hwclock gives priority to this (rather than /etc/localtime) and 'init' has set it wrong.
@@ -199,7 +201,7 @@
 #v409 mount/umount scripts no longer write to /etc/mtab, as gparted failed to create a
 #ext3 partition -- dunno why. Instead, now have /etc/mtab a symlink to /proc/mounts...
 rm -f /etc/mtab
-ln -s /proc/mounts /etc/mtab
+ln -sf /proc/mounts /etc/mtab
 
 #redirect all output to a log file (must do after remount rw)...
 [ ! "$LOGLEVEL" ] && exec 1>/tmp/bootsysinit.log 2>&1
@@ -489,6 +491,20 @@
   fi
  fi
 fi
+#140727: another link
+MNTPNT=""
+PART=""
+if [ -L /mnt/home ]; then
+  MNTPNT=$(readlink /mnt/home)
+elif [ -d /initrd/mnt/dev_ro2 ]; then
+  MNTPNT=/initrd/mnt/dev_ro2
+fi
+[ "$MNTPNT" ] && PART=$(echo "$MNTPNT"| tail -n1| cut -f1 -d' ' | cut -s -f3 -d'/')
+if [ -b "/dev/$PART" ]; then
+  [ -d /mnt/$PART ] && rmdir /mnt/$PART
+  ln -s $MNTPNT /mnt/$PART
+fi
+#END another link
 
 ################WAIT MODULES LOADED##################
 echo "WAIT MODULES LOADED"
@@ -583,6 +599,9 @@
 
 status_func 0
 
+##############LOAD EXTRA SFS######################
+[ -d /initrd ] && [ -x /etc/init.d/sfs_load ] && /etc/init.d/sfs_load start
+
 ##############USER SELECTED MODULES##################
 echo "USER SELECTED MODULES"
 #the user can select extra modules to load in the BootManager...
@@ -861,15 +880,18 @@
 	rfkill unblock wlan
 fi
 # SFR hack for IO bug http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=681383#681383
+#150727: remount fix(SFR) http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=94328&start=502
 KERNVER=${KERNVER%%-*} # just for appending "-4g","-PAE" or whatever
 if [ ! "$PUPMODE" = 5 ];then  
   if vercmp $KERNVER ge 3.2 ;then
     if vercmp $KERNVER lt 3.8 ;then
-      case "$DEV1FS" in
-      ntfs|vfat|ext2)
-      mount -o remount,sync /dev/loop1 # changed 130210, SFR
-      ;;
-      esac
+      if [ "${PUPSAVE##*.}" = "2fs" ] || [ ${PUPMODE} -eq 3 -o ${PUPMODE} -eq 7 -o ${PUPMODE} -eq 13 ] ; then
+        case "$PUPSAVE" in
+          *,ntfs,*|*,vfat,*|*,ext2,*)
+            mount -o remount,sync /dev/loop1 # changed 130210, SFR
+          ;;
+        esac
+      fi 
     fi
   fi
 fi
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probepart

#531 Post by shinobar »

The /sbin/probepart in the zdrv_slacko-5.9.3.7 is a bit modified from the one in the pup_event_files-140714:

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--- probepart-140714	2014-07-14 09:25:41.000000000 +0900
+++ probepart-5.9.3.7	2014-07-27 21:12:37.956547209 +0900
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
 printf "$ALLDRVS"|while read DISK
 do
   FDISK="`fdisk -l /dev/"$DISK"`"
-  EXTD="`echo "$FDISK"|grep -w 'Extended'|grep "$DISK"|awk '{print $1}'`" 
+  EXTD="`echo "$FDISK"|grep 'Ext'|grep "$DISK"|awk '{print $1}'`" 
   EXTD=${EXTD##*/}
   [ "$EXTD" ] && echo -n "$EXTD " >> /tmp/extended_parts
 done
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#532 Post by xanad »

:oops: Sorry
01micko wrote:..and here is the latest f2fs installer.
I tried to translate also this file but momanager does not recognize it.
missing these 2 lines at 37 and 38:

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export TEXTDOMAIN=f2fs-usb-installer
export OUTPUT_CHARSET=UTF-8
ps: if you think it is not the right place for this kind of beta test, let me know ....

:D anyway great job!

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#533 Post by mavrothal »

bigpup wrote: I think there is a problem still with the Puppy repositories.
That is a really strange one!
If you use PPM (download only) or just "wget URL" or "curl -O URL" to download a package, works just fine.
However, if you download through Firefox (or Midori) the downloaded pet has different md5sum than the one you get with wget! So somehow downloading via the browser you get a corrupted pet.
More important the md5sum of the internal tarball of the pet is different than the one added to the pet file by dir2pet so pet2tgz catches that and bails out!
:?

Bottom line, wget or curl your pets for now. (or use the download only option of PPM)

Latter: Tried download via browser or curl on a Mac. Same story! The browser gets you a different pet!!!
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#534 Post by SFR »

mavrothal wrote:
bigpup wrote: I think there is a problem still with the Puppy repositories.
That is a really strange one!
If you use PPM (download only) or just "wget URL" or "curl -O URL" to download a package, works just fine.
However, if you download through Firefox (or Midori) the downloaded pet has different md5sum than the one you get with wget! So somehow downloading via the browser you get a corrupted pet.
More important the md5sum of the internal tarball of the pet is different than the one added to the pet file by dir2pet so pet2tgz catches that and bails out!
:?

Bottom line, wget or curl your pets for now. (or use the download only option of PPM)
It's an old problem: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 504#737504

In Firefox it can be fixed with:
1. about:config
2. Find network.http.accept-encoding string
3. And delete its gzip,deflate value

But can't find a way for Chromium - this doesn't work...

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#535 Post by mavrothal »

SFR wrote: It's an old problem: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 504#737504

In Firefox it can be fixed with:
1. about:config
2. Find network.http.accept-encoding string
3. And delete its gzip,deflate value

But can't find a way for Chromium - this doesn't work...

Greetings!
Yeh, looking at the 2 versions of the pet I realised that the browser's one was decompressed and just a tar archive.
I did not have this problem in the past though :? ....
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Re: ydrv_slacko_5.9.3.7

#536 Post by gyro »

shinobar wrote:I made a collection of recent fixes against slacko-5.9.3.
There seems to be a problem with "shutdownconfig" in this ydrv.
I just did a fresh frugal install of slacko 5.9.3, using this ydrv, vmlinuz and initrd.gz from your "whiteouts" file, and the original puppy_slacko and zdrv.
On first shutdown I chose a save_directory. In the sanity check dialog, every thing looked ok, but it created a directory called "slackoslackosave" one level up from where it was supposed to be.
This looks like a "/" is missing, since it should have been "slackosave" in a directory called "slacko".

When I examined "shutdownconfig" from this ydrv, I noticed line 665 is:

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Path (folder) of the pupsave:   \Zb\\\${SAVEPATH}/${NAMEONLY}\ZB
whereas line 673 contains:

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   SAVEFILE="${SAVEPATH}${NAMEONLY}"
Note the "/" in the first but not in the second.

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#537 Post by zigbert »

Added xanad's fixes to ptheme_gtk
Thank you
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ydrv_slacko_5.9.3.8

#538 Post by shinobar »

gyro wrote:When I examined "shutdownconfig" from this ydrv, I noticed line 665 is:

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Path (folder) of the pupsave:   \Zb\\\${SAVEPATH}/${NAMEONLY}\ZB
whereas line 673 contains:

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   SAVEFILE="${SAVEPATH}${NAMEONLY}"
Note the "/" in the first but not in the second.
Thanks. Fixed.
See the detail:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 333#791333
or the README file in the archive.
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Extract. Rename the file ydrv_slacko_5.9.3.8.sfs to 'ydrv_slacko_5.9.3.sfs', and place it where the slacko-5.9.3 is installed.
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shutdownconfig

#539 Post by shinobar »

The patch against /usr/sbin/shutdownconfig of slacko-5.9.8 original. Thanks to gyro.

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--- shutdownconfig-s593	2014-06-21 13:05:31.000000000 +0900
+++ shutdownconfig-s5938	2014-07-28 23:50:29.873271509 +0900
@@ -568,14 +568,13 @@
 If anything looks wrong, choose \Zb\\\${T_notsave}\ZB...\"`"
   ${DIALOGEXE} ${BACKGROUNDYELLOW} ${TITLEPARAM} "$T_sanititle" --colors --no-collapse --extra-button --ok-label "$T_saniyes"  --extra-label "$T_sanichange" --cancel-label "$T_notsave" --yesno "$T_sanitext" 0 0 #110926
   SANITYRET=$?
-  [ $SANITYRET -ne 0 -a $SANITYRET -ne 3 ] && return 1
-  [ $SANITYRET -eq 0 ] && break
-  if [ $SANITYRET -eq 3 ];then #change folder.
-    changefolder
-  else
-   SAVEFILE="${SAVEPATH}${NAMEONLY}"
+  if [ $SANITYRET -eq 0 ];then 
+   SAVEFILE="${SAVEPATH}/${NAMEONLY}"
    PUPSAVE="$SAVEPART,$SAVEFS,$SAVEFILE"
+   break
   fi
+  [ $SANITYRET -eq 3 ] || return 1
+  changefolder 
  done
  [ -f ${SMNTPT}${SAVEPATH} ] && return 1 #abort. must be a directory.
  [ ! -d ${SMNTPT}${SAVEPATH} ] && mkdir ${SMNTPT}${SAVEPATH}
@@ -670,14 +669,13 @@
 If anything looks wrong, choose \Zb\\\${T_notsave}\ZB...\"`"
   ${DIALOGEXE} ${BACKGROUNDYELLOW} ${TITLEPARAM} "$T_sanititle" --colors --no-collapse --extra-button --ok-label "$T_saniyes"  --extra-label "$T_sanichange" --cancel-label "$T_notsave" --yesno "$T_sanitext" 0 0 #110926
   SANITYRET=$?
-  [ $SANITYRET -ne 0 -a $SANITYRET -ne 3 ] && return 1
-  [ $SANITYRET -eq 0 ] && break
-  if [ $SANITYRET -eq 3 ];then #change folder.
-    changefolder
-  else
-   SAVEFILE="${SAVEPATH}${NAMEONLY}"
+  if [ $SANITYRET -eq 0 ];then
+   SAVEFILE="${SAVEPATH}/${NAMEONLY}"
    PUPSAVE="$SAVEPART,$SAVEFS,$SAVEFILE"
+   break
   fi
+  [ $SANITYRET -eq 3 ] || return 1
+  changefolder 
  done
 
  mkdir -p $SMNTPT$SAVEFILE 2>/dev/null
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downloads and md5sum problems

#540 Post by gcmartin »

That is a really strange one! ...
However, if you download through Firefox (or Midori) the downloaded pet has different md5sum than the one you get with wget! So somehow downloading ... you get a corrupted pet.
More important the md5sum ...
For the last couple of months I, too, have been having problems with downloads where the result was a file which matches in filesize, but, md5sum does NOT match its published constant. This has resulted in multiple downloads to get it right.

I have found the following:
  • PUP distro does not matter i.e. ones used all the time, test versions, etc.
  • Utility used does NOT matter i.e. browser, wget, etc
  • downloaded location does NOT matter i.e. USB, HDD, NAS, etc.
  • Cloud contributor does NOT matter i.e. Dropbox, Google, Ibiblio, mirrors, etc.
The ONLY thing I have not done was to fire up a Windows and test.

It now takes me multiple times in downloads to get an accurate download which matches the published md5sum. This is in sharp contrasts to the many years where I almost NEVER had any mismatching md5sums. Now, its become regular. I think its time for me to call my ISP.

Confused too.
P.S. In last week, when this occurs, I have followed the bad download to permanent media with downloading to RAM (for example /root) with much better results. But, this is a subjective response to secondary downloads.

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