Puppy 4.3 Beta2 -- bugs and reports

[rhadon]

...and I can't reach the part at the top of the window that would allow me to drag it around.

No solution but a workaround which works for me (most time):

With [Alt] + left mouse button you also can move windows.

HTH

Rolf

[alex12]

nevermind

[dejan555]

I guess that wallpaper setter error is already reported?
Well, in case it isn't:

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# wallpaper 

** ERROR **: gtkdialog: Error in line 37, near token '<separator>': syntax error

aborting...
/usr/local/apps/Wallpaper/AppRun: line 284: 25417 Aborted                 gtkdialog3 --program BG_DLG

[tlchost]

tlchost: Try blacklisting the HSF driver and reboot to see if anything changes regarding the sound issue. Use Menu > System > BootManager... then click the button to 'blacklist' a module. Select "hsfpcibasic2" and click "add", "Ok", "Quit", then reboot.

No difference....another problem cropped up....when the system boots...it never goes into the desktop...I have to type xwin to have the desktop appear.

Thom

[dejan555]

When I start hiawatha webserver it runs, I can connect to localhost and to pplog too, but when users from outside want to connect it says Failed to connect.

[veronicathecow]

Hi rjbrewer, could it be a HDD fault (Dodgy sectors etc. Normally faults tend to be fairly fixed unless the hardware is a bit dicky.
Hope it helps
Tony

[edoc]

I have "pfix=fsck" in all of my GRUB setups now to eliminate that variable.

[rjbrewer]

Hi rjbrewer, could it be a HDD fault (Dodgy sectors etc. Normally faults tend to be fairly fixed unless the hardware is a bit dicky.
Hope it helps
Tony

Hard drive is fine;
Others are having the same or similar hard drive install problem.

bob

[rwishlaw]

I am running 4.3 beta 2 on a no usb boot bios machine. I have burned a CD and installed to a USB stick. When I cold boot from the cdrom Grub does not see the pupsave.2fs nor the install on the USB stick.

All works as expected from a warm boot. I have installed the new Ubuntu53 Grub pet but that did not fix the cold boot problem.

Robert Wishlaw

I just burned ttuuxxx's 214X11 to CD and installed to a USB stick. 214X11 does not suffer from the cold boot problem exhibited by 4.24 (4.3 beta 2)

Robert Wishlaw

[Kenny-M]

Regarding 4.3beta2 SCSI

Can boot CD. It sees SCSI drives fine. Universal installer says SCSI install not supported.

Audio chip CS4236 (cs4237b) if specified during Alsa setup you get message it might a few minutes. Program never returns and must be terminated.

Gparted seems to work OK on SCSI drives.

Grub make unbootable system. System comes up at a grub prompt.

Lan card works fine.

-Ken

[veronicathecow]

Frugal on Atom (1.6ghz) based machine with 2gb RAM

Major problem for me is that when using Puppy for some reason it sets the superblock time in the future and causes a fsck to occur on all disks meaning a 25 minute delay before being able to use other linuxes. Any one else having this problem? Time zones for all 3 OS's seem correct and I don't get that problem going from Sidux to PClinuxos or back the other way.


MP4 still no link to Gxine

Flac works fine (Thanks)

CUPS did not give option to choose .ppd file (Perhaps not available in this version of cups?)

Am trying to run Samsung 2510 (Can use Splitx 2. ML-2150 (Not a typo) driver if I can choose it.

At boot "Searching for Puppy files on HDD takes over 10 seconds out of total 32 second boot time. Any way around this?

Thanks for tip about easy change of icons, works a treat.

Everything else nice and fast

It's a while since I have used Puppy properly and it is now so much more polished, well done to everyone!
Tony

[mawebb88]

Looks good. I like the new theme.

Had to use ndiswapper as the loaded ath5k module (on my Acer 5100) would not find my router

The Alsamixer now has a Master volume (did not before on earlier versions of 43 at least for me).

Can't get any of the players to work with my playlist.m3u's. Gxine in 412 works fine with these.

Pnethood continues to work fine using cif's with my Samba LANdisk

Rgds Mike

[ttuuxxx]

Er... you would not believe how easy woof is... no kernel compiling involved at all! As a matter of fact.. no as in zero.. compiling by user.. all done in the scripts!

(Sorry for getting off topic)

Mick your like a newbee in Candy store, I know compiling isn't one of strong points, so yes woof is excellent, I always figured you would of tried it sooner for your retro pc. you could really make a nice small version for it., with a retro kernel
ttuuxxx

[BarryK]

darwin

I just converted and load OpenOffice 3.0 sfs, all works perfectly, including menu items and desktop icons

Trio,
Where can I download the working oo sfs from?

[BarryK]

jakfish

One thing.. when BarryK uploads a version (be it a beta or whatever) he usually uploads a 'woof' to go with it. That 'woof' usually has BarryK's latest configuration, such as, what distro, what packages ...etcetera .. (without going into too much detail.. it is a 4.3beta2 bug thread!). BarryK also offers a variety of kernels and of the four or five woofs I've built k2.6.25.16 has always been an option.

So, if you don't mind downloading a few hundred meg and have a spare five hours and a fastish (1.5GHz plus with 512 ram) box, build 4.3 yourself with the older kernel. It will come out essentially the same but may have bugs.

BarryK

I notice the gtk theme is identical to the one in upup-476. Maybe.. (and there is time) you should put out a request for a matching gtk theme for the Raymond Levang (provided by zigbert) wallpaper. Those blokes in the eyecandy thread go nuts when there is a challenge thrown out! Trio has made it easy too, with his 'maker' series, 'JWM theme maker', 'gtk theme maker'.. etc.

Just some food for thought.

Yes certainly! If anyone wants to mess around with the default theme in 4.3beta2 and improve it, go for it!
Otherwise, I may just leave it as is for the final!

[BarryK]

gtkam hangs and has to be killed after accessing my canon ixus750 (SD550).
it correctly identifies and connects to the camera. I descend the directory tree in the left pane, then once i clikc on the "100CANON" directory the "initialising camera" progress bar fills, stops and then the whole application is dead and has to be killed.
according to the output of dmesg it seems to have segfaulted

Gtkam has been flakey as long as we have used it. This has been going on for a long time, and with each new release I have hoped it would become more stable, but no.

I think we need to write our own equivalent.
There is a commandline utility that apparently works well, so we could knock up a GUI for it.

[BarryK]

oops, my bad - completely missed the "you must not use a FAT directory" warning when upgrading old sfs to sfs4 - have now done so and all seems well. Perhaps we should make it flash a bit and shout "no really, all your simlinks will break if you do not obey this simple command"

Not just symlinks, file permissions may also get corrupted, which will break some apps.

[BarryK]

Er... you would not believe how easy woof is... no kernel compiling involved at all! As a matter of fact.. no as in zero.. compiling by user.. all done in the scripts!

(Sorry for getting off topic)

Mick your like a newbee in Candy store, I know compiling isn't one of strong points, so yes woof is excellent, I always figured you would of tried it sooner for your retro pc. you could really make a nice small version for it., with a retro kernel
ttuuxxx

Yes, and I must get onto adding dependency checking into Woof, to make it easier to choose a cutdown selection of packages. It's on the to-do list.

[shinobar]

can be not a bug but for an information:

i have 2 HDD on IDE primary master and slave.
The 4.3bata1 shows all partitions on HDDs,
But 4.3beta2 does not show some partitons on the slave HDD.

sdb1, sdb2 or sdb3 could not see at 4.3beta2 but sdb6 sees.
'probepart' reports sdb1-3 file systems 'none'.
'fdisk -l /dev/sdb' replies nothing.

pmount does not show sdb1, sdb2 or sdb3.
i ticked 'mut' on pmout settings.
then pmount shows all partions.

then after, 'probepart' and 'fdisk -l /dev/sdb' works correctly,
and all the drive icons appeared on the desktop.

at first:

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# probepart
/dev/sda1|vfat|41029946
/dev/sda2|ext3|41013944
/dev/sda3|vfat|894724110
/dev/sdb1|none|208782
/dev/sdb2|none|43006004
/dev/sdb3|none|43006004
/dev/sdb4|none|2
/dev/sdb5|swap|4192902
/dev/sdb6|ext3|886354182
/dev/sr0|iso9660|237856
# fdisk -l /dev/sdb
# 

(...no reply)

after 'mut' ticked on pmout settings:

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# probepart
/dev/sda1|vfat|41029946
/dev/sda2|ext3|41013944
/dev/sda3|vfat|894724110
/dev/sdb1|ext3|208782
/dev/sdb2|ext3|43006004
/dev/sdb3|ext3|43006004
/dev/sdb4|none|2
/dev/sdb5|swap|4192902
/dev/sdb6|ext3|886354182
/dev/sr0|iso9660|237856
# fdisk -l /dev/sdb

Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
/dev/sdb2              14        2690    21503002+  83  Linux
/dev/sdb3            2691        5367    21503002+  83  Linux
/dev/sdb4            5368       60801   445273605    5  Extended
/dev/sdb5            5368        5628     2096451   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb6            5629       60801   443177091   83  Linux

[trio]

Barry,

I downloaded OO 3.0 sfs a long time ago, but it may be came from this link, (I hope):
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=34325