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When using MUT and unmounting a device, I sometimes find all the desktop icons dissapear and have to restart X to get them back.

Can anyone pinpoint this?

John Doe · Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Posts: 1689 Location: Michigan, US

If it's anything like 2.4.1 then it most likely happens when you have a directory open in ROX that resides on the partition you are unmounting at the time.

BarryK · Posted: Sat 23 Dec 2006, 19:01 Post subject:

Hmm, I wonder if we should change the "drives" icon on the desktop to use Pmount, as MUT is not really being maintained.
In Pmount, a ROX window open on a partition that is to be unmounted is first closed before the unmount.

Previously known as Guest · Joined: 28 Sep 2005 Posts: 240

Briefly tested on hardware & in vmware. Can't seem to get xvesa to load, it defaults to Xorg by default & gives error when trying to run Xvesa wizard.

alienjeff · Joined: 08 Jul 2006 Posts: 2290 Location: Winsted, CT - USA

First and second blush with 2.13beta

downloaded iso
md5sum checked iso - okay
burned iso as "leave open"
checked burn - okay

Booted from CD on Tyan 600MHz P-III, 384M RAM, a machine which has run on a multitude of Puppy versions.

1st boot: puppy pfix=ram, 2nd boot: puppy pfix=ram acpi=off; same result as follows,

John Doe · Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Posts: 1689 Location: Michigan, US

kirk · Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 1333 Location: florida

The pure-ftpd launch script needs to be updated. The one in 2.13 beta has a problem. The -k option seems to conflict with the -A option. So the -k option has been removed. The updated package is here:

http://www.puppyos.net/forum/?1163553598

This Puppy is sure looking pretty!

Pizzasgood · Posted: Sat 23 Dec 2006, 23:06 Post subject:

pakt · Joined: 04 Jun 2005 Posts: 1089 Location: Sweden

BarryK · Posted: Sun 24 Dec 2006, 03:17 Post subject:

BarryK · Posted: Sun 24 Dec 2006, 03:19 Post subject:

I have never had the desktop icons disappear, not ever on any version
of Puppy. But I always use Pmount. So, it's a MUT issue.

pakt · Joined: 04 Jun 2005 Posts: 1089 Location: Sweden

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5241 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

I have checked PuppyBackup with 2.13. With Xdialog and gtk2 it all looks better than before. Gtk2 displays Xdialog different, and it gives some windows-display-issues, but it also happend strange things. When I try to start burning with an "old" CD (a cd that is not blank or not multisession), Puppy completely freeze.

If you instead run PuppyBackup through a terminal, you get past the freeze-point where cdrecords checks media. The terminal are bombed with the message:

Firefox · Joined: 03 Nov 2006 Posts: 171 Location: UK

Hi everyone
Downloaded 2.13 in puppy 2.12 HDisk install. The number of megabytes of the same file is reported as diferent from the original and also in the burn and this freaks me out. Dont know where if any of the missing megabytes are. I dont know how to check the file against the md5 sum there no script or button to do this or tell me the download is fine and I can burn with confidence. I put a blank cd in burner and used burniso2cd in multi mode for the first time (used windows XP before) and it burnt the same as described by alienjeff with kernal panic. Is it a bad download?. In the past I would have said yes and waited another 4 hours for another try whilst wondering how far I could throw the machine out of the window. Anyway I tried another blank disk and this time used the normal burn as against "abnormal" multi. This time it got further along but stopped at device problem. I took the cd from my burner which is attached as slave on ide cable one, and put the cd into my dvd readonly drive which is the master on ide cable 2 and rebooted. It worked!!. However when I clicked on the xorg box the screen went very dull, same problem as reported in 2.12. I assume most people are using fancy laptops now rather than an old Tiny CRT monitor that I`m using.

alienjeff · Joined: 08 Jul 2006 Posts: 2290 Location: Winsted, CT - USA