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#401 Post by norgo »

Hello @gyro

thank you for testing and feedback
Downloaded today Sailor's ISO for test.
Sorry but I can't detect a difference to the former versions, unfortunately.

Freezing happened extrem rarely and I don't know how to force it.
After usage of uxa acceleration I've never seen such a behave.

To reproduce a hanging of an application window is quite easy, see intel_test_-vo_xv.mkv

As the file name indicate, this only happens under usage of XV video output driver.
After that I did this test once again using uxa acceleration.

Result: absolute impossible to get a hanging or freezing of application windows.

greetins

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#402 Post by torm »

Xenialpup64 7.5 appears to have the same locale bug.. :(

No idea. Does it originate from Puppy, or comes from upstream?

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#403 Post by Dry Falls »

Downloaded slacko64-6.9.9.9-uefi-k4.9-FF-LO.iso yesterday. I have an intel box which has a history of freezing and/or dropping the keyboard and mouse without the boot kernel parameter, <intel_idle.max_cstate=1>. Booted slacko64 without the fdrive and no boot parameters other than 'ram' and everything worked without so much as a hiccup. I think it's the best slacko yet!

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build fail

#404 Post by norgo »

Wanted to build a snapshot of today's Slacko-700 testing branch, but unfortunately it fails.

./1download alerted that following packages couldn't downloaded: grub, installwatch and xdg_puppy_jwm

So I had a look into downloaded DISTRO_PET_REPOS.
The table of contents of "Packages-puppy-common-official" is empty and "PKG_DOCS_PET_REPOS" doesn't contain such an entry.

Unfortunately this commit deleted the table of contents of this REPO and a recent version doesn't become loaded because there is no address defined.
So the download of some PET's fails.

Because the pet_packages-common and pet_packages-noarch differ it would be useful to remain both DOC entries in PKG_DOCS_PET_REPOS.
I added "z|http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/di ... official|z" to PKG_DOCS_PET_REPOS
and got the table of contents and PET's downloaded again.

The real problem comes now
./3builddistro-Z stopped working with following error message:

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initrd_progs-20170706-2-static.tar.x 100%[====================================================================>]   4.01M   983KB/s    in 4.2s    

2018-03-22 19:11:02 (983 KB/s) - '0sources/initrd_progs-20170706-2-static.tar.xz' saved [4208780/4208780]


Now building initial ramdisk in initrd-tree/...
LANG: en_US.UTF-8

Arch: i686
* Extracting initrd_progs-20170706-2-static.tar.xz...

* Using default locale
* Using default keymap


***        INITRD: initrd.gz [i686]
*** /DISTRO_SPECS: Slacko Puppy 6.9.9.9 x86

chroot: can't execute 'echo': No such file or directory
ERROR: could not 'chroot' into sandbox3/rootfs-complete
This means that something is incomplete, perhaps a library
needed by bash. Check it out. Have to exit script now.
Thanks in advance

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#405 Post by Sailor Enceladus »

@norgo: Same behavior here when running ./1download. Packages-puppy-common-official seems to be empty.
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#406 Post by peebee »

Delete it and download:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/Pa ... n-official

0setup should do this for you.....
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#407 Post by Sailor Enceladus »

I tried a Slacko64 build with the latest woof-CE when at my parents for Easter on my dad's Core2Duo laptop. Here's the iso:
http://www.mediafire.com/folder/y13kxdldb9i9d/x86_64

It seems to be working ok so far on it, I didn't need anything from puppy-common this time either. These comments also apply to it:
- The adrv has Firefox 52.7.3esr and Abi/Gnumeric
- chose Original Pup as the default theme, and gnome-mplayer as the default music player
- kernel has firmware-140621-cut, if you are missing any drivers/functionality there's instructions on how to swap kernels here

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#408 Post by Billtoo »

@Sailor

I installed to the hard drive of my Acer desktop:

System: Host: puppypc14078 Kernel: 4.4.126 x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: JWM 2.3.2 Distro: Slacko64 Puppy 6.9.9.9
Machine: Device: desktop System: ACER product: Aspire M5620 v: R01-A4 serial: PTS860X0348050CF642700
Mobo: ACER model: G33T-AM v: 1.0 serial: 00000000 BIOS: American Megatrends v: R01-A4 date: 12/19/2007
CPU: Quad core Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 (-MCP-) speed/max: 1603/2403 MHz
Network: Card: Intel 82566DC-2 Gigabit Network Connection driver: e1000e
Drives: HDD Total Size: 500.1GB (3.6% used)
Info: Processes: 184 Uptime: 1:08 Memory: 419.4/7984.8MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.8
X Server: Xorg Driver: nvidia
X.Org version: 1.18.3
dimensions: 3840x1080 pixels (1049x292 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 GT 430/PCIe/SSE2
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 384.130

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
Core 0: @1870 1: @1603 2: @1870 3: @1870 MHz

I installed applications with PPM,installed the proprietary Nvidia
driver, and compiled Smplayer/Smtube.

Works great,
Thanks.

Edit: I've done 2 more hard drive installs, pc1 has newer intel graphics, pc2 has ati radeon graphics.

It's working well on both new installs.
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slacko hangs on i5 machine

#409 Post by foxpup »

Sailor Enceladus wrote:I tried a Slacko64 build with the latest woof-CE when at my parents for Easter on my dad's Core2Duo laptop. Here's the iso
I installed it on my dualcore and it works very nice.

I also installed it on my i5 laptop.
Startup seems to hang there between loading modules and starting X. It comes through eventually. I send you xerrs.log and my system specs in case you want to look into this.
When I try to startup with the savefile, it really hangs.
I have not yet tried to switch kernels. I may go for the 4.9.30 from 01micko and see wat happens.
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#410 Post by ozsouth »

@Sailor - thanks for this puplet. I used your 4.4.126 kernel in LXpupsc64 18.03 - faster than 4.15 kernels, but still covered for spectre/meltdown.

@Foxpup - last time I had that happen, missing firmware was the culprit.

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#411 Post by foxpup »

ozsouth wrote:@Foxpup - last time I had that happen, missing firmware was the culprit.
I switched kernel and zdrv and now it runs very nicely.
You could be right ozsouth, but I don't know which. It may be a kernel specific driver that needs compiling. Is there an easy way to know? Can I see it in some log file?

On my dualcore this slacko with the original kernel has now effectively replaced a heavily remastered Tahr 6.0.2 as my main workhorse.

Is slacko not ready for a release? Wouldn't it be nice if slacko, dpup (radky) and upupBB (peebee) released all together !?

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Slacko 700 RC3 K4.4.70-PAE

#412 Post by norgo »

Here the 32 bit version of Slacko 700 RC3 snapshot for testing.
Used kernel version K 4.4.70-PAE

BUILD_FROM_WOOF='testing;6d5d2531;2018-04-05 13:45:04 +0300'

Looks really good, didn't find seriously errors up to now except these blemishes

- pkeys=de will be ignored ( I'm using ISOBOOTER )
- empty tables of contents of developer tools remain in packages/builtin_files ( 0 byte files )
- menu entry xcalc present but application not installed

slacko-700-RC3_k4.4.70-PAE_2018-04-05.iso

size: 281 M
md5: 16d38a00df3318e93a979463f9d150a9

Many thanks for this great Distro

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Re: Slacko 700 RC3 K4.4.70-PAE

#413 Post by gyro »

norgo wrote:- pkeys=de will be ignored ( I'm using ISOBOOTER )
Do you answer 'y' or 'n' to the isobooter "splash screen" question?
Answering 'n' means it boots using the files in the iso rather than booting the iso itself.
Then adding boot parameters in "menu.lst" should work.

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Re: Slacko 700 RC3 K4.4.70-PAE

#414 Post by norgo »

gyro wrote:Do you answer 'y' or 'n' to the isobooter "splash screen" question?
Answering 'n' means it boots using the files in the iso rather than booting the iso itself.
Then adding boot parameters in "menu.lst" should work.
Hello gyro,
yes I'm using isobooter with "splash screen" and "menu.lst" contains already the boot parameter pkeys=de

here a snippet of my "menu.lst"

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title SLACKO  32 700 RC3 K4.4.70-PAE 2017-12-10 DEVELOPMENT
partnew (hd0,3) 0x00 (hd0,0)/slacko-700-RC3_k4.4.70-PAE_2017-12-10.iso
map --heads=0 --sectors-per-track=0 (hd0,0)/slacko-700-RC3_k4.4.70-PAE_2017-12-10.iso (0xff)
map --hook
root (0xff)
kernel /vmlinuz pmedia=cd psavemark=2 pfix=ram pkeys=de
initrd /initrd.gz

title SLACKO  32 700 RC3 K4.4.70-PAE 2018-04-05 DEVELOPMENT
partnew (hd0,3) 0x00 (hd0,0)/slacko-700-RC3_k4.4.70-PAE_2018-04-05.iso
map --heads=0 --sectors-per-track=0 (hd0,0)/slacko-700-RC3_k4.4.70-PAE_2018-04-05.iso (0xff)
map --hook
root (0xff)
kernel /vmlinuz pmedia=cd psavemark=2 pfix=ram pkeys=de
initrd /initrd.gz

title SLACKO  64 700 RC3 K4.9.30 
partnew (hd0,3) 0x00 (hd0,0)/slacko64-6.9.9.9-uefi-k4.9-FF-LO.iso
map --heads=0 --sectors-per-track=0 (hd0,0)/slacko64-6.9.9.9-uefi-k4.9-FF-LO.iso (0xff)
map --hook
root (0xff)
kernel /vmlinuz pmedia=cd psavemark=2 pfix=ram intel_pstate=disable pkeys=de
initrd /initrd.gz
the other versions are working without problems

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Re: Slacko 700 RC3 K4.4.70-PAE

#415 Post by foxpup »

norgo wrote:Here the 32 bit version of Slacko 700 RC3 snapshot for testing.
Used kernel version K 4.4.70-PAE

BUILD_FROM_WOOF='testing;6d5d2531;2018-04-05 13:45:04 +0300'

Looks really good, didn't find seriously errors up to now except these blemishes

- pkeys=de will be ignored ( I'm using ISOBOOTER )
- empty tables of contents of developer tools remain in packages/builtin_files ( 0 byte files )
- menu entry xcalc present but application not installed
Norgo, thank you for this new build. Now I have a recent slacko32 as well to test with.
I have installed yours on my dualcore PC and found it works well
I took kernel sources and devx from micko's build and compiled the 304.137 nvidia driver for my graphic card.

I use pkeys=be-latin1. It is all right on the prompt (nox) but it has to be setup again for X (be), as in most Puppies. No problem.
I install frugally by copying the Puppy files into a directory and adding lines to the menu.lst for grub4dos.

Confirmation on the other blemishes.

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#416 Post by norgo »

Hello foxpup,

thank you for feedback.

update:
My search for the reason of pkeys issue ends up here
Seems to be a feature now ;-)

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#417 Post by peebee »

norgo wrote:Hello foxpup,

thank you for feedback.

update:
My search for the reason of pkeys issue ends up here
Seems to be a feature now ;-)
see:
https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/w ... dd2d476e2e
fixes for keymap-set and xkbconfigmanager

improve symbiotic relationship and throw xorgwizard-automatic into the mix

hopefully this fixes the pkeys= issue reported by @peabee
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#418 Post by norgo »

@peebee

hey peebee you already knew this.
I only read your post at github today, thank you for report.

I patched slacko-700-RC3_k4.4.70-PAE_2018-04-05.iso by the changes of commit d553a8c for test.

slacko-700-RC3_k4.4.70-PAE_2018-04-05_d553a8c-patched.iso
size: 281 M
md5: a7bed9a8abad39a4874c0e8ed3cd7cbb

Up to now no problems at all.

wdlkmpx you are awesome !

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ifactive

#419 Post by Dry Falls »

Frisbee in /usr/sbin/ifactive should be changed to all lower case in script ('Frisbee' -> 'frisbee') to work with the frisbee installed in Slacko64. Also, sections on frisbee-tray might be removed, as it's not present or used in this version. If this is part of woofCE, someone should commit the change. If it was just lifted out of lighthouse for this build, just change the script.

Here's the fixed one (still has ref to frisbee-tray):
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64 bit kernel

#420 Post by ozsouth »

I've made a 64bit Slacko compatible 4.9.94 kernel via Puppy kernel-kit, with the cutdown firmware option. Is Spectre/Meltdown mitigated. Have swapped it into Slacko64 6.9.9.9 and LxpupSc64 18.03. Works ok in both.
See: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 955#989955
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