Lucid Puppy 008 Bug Reports & Fixes

[Jim1911]

1. Pwidgets doesn't work properly on Lucid puppy 007. It needs libidn.so.11 which links to libidn.so.11.5.34.

Works fine after these are placed in lib. 01micko has posted a link.

Pwidgets needs libidn, unfortunate but unforseen..

http://ubuntu.mirrors.tds.net/ubuntu/po ... 2_i386.deb

Yes it's a deb, will install straight in.

2. Songbird doesn't play itunes music libraries, haven't tried other file types. Amarok works well with itunes.

Jim

[gjuhasz]

Nice job! A few notes only:

"Announcement and release notes for 0.0.7" - the announcement text forgotten from /usr/share/doc/release-0.0.7.htm file.

Seamonkey v1.1.18 does not run, in spite of seamonkey-1.1.18 folder contains 23 MB data. It could be executed in 006, out-of the box.

Puppy browser is already included in the sfs, available when clicking on Help icon. It should also be the "defaultbrowser" until running Quickpackage.

Abiword 2.8.2 in 007 does not support accented letters when saved as docx. However, they are OK in all the rest formats (doc, abw, rtf, pdf, ps, etc). UTF and hu_HU set. This problem appears in ttuuxxx's 4.3.2-V3, too.

[Lobster]

in 008 - wiki page updated - but more updating welcome -
hey it is a wiki
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/LucidPuppy
and
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/LucidPuppySFS

OK . . .
the desktop background changer (wallpaper changer)
it does not seem to resize properly?
I change my font sizes and need to resize.

[Lobster]

I have the ati radeonHD installed so this needs to be confirmed
but the only test video file that played in Puppy Lucid 008
was an mpg from puppy-reference/video
Some such as asf are playing sound only in gxine
when clicked on

[01micko]

I have the ati radeonHD installed so this needs to be confirmed
but the only test video file that played in Puppy Lucid 008
was an mpg from puppy-reference/video
Some such as asf are playing sound only in gxine
when clicked on

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 601#406601

The libfaad bug and fix...

[Lobster]

thanks 01micko - typed this in at the console

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ln -s /usr/lib/libfaad.so.2.0.0 /usr/lib/libfaad.so.0

now I can play files by dragging onto gxine (play icon) from rox
(but not yet by just clicking on them)

Flash is working (and no longer crashing the system)
however . . .

the flash file on this page is very crisp
and clear - plays well
until I click the full screen button - it then becomes choppy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/ap ... -tv-advert

Thanks everyone - Lucid Puppy is getting there - do we have a later Flash or earlier compiled?

[Lobster]

right click on lock icon (top right)
configure screen locking - works
by locking up the program - so not working . . .

[stu90]

gxine:
typed the command in terminal however no picture is showing with any of my .avi's just audio - ts.mpg file in puppy refrences plays video.

Also seem to be having some trouble with quickpackage / quickpet clicking on a browser download normaly brings up a dialog box connecting to server, downloading etc quickpackage is still runnig after 30 mins but no download try to open it again the message "quickpet is already running please wait"

[Lobster]

Latest Flash available here (thanks to Coolpup for reminding me)
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/FlashPlayer
works in Lucid. Better? Maybe a little but it is a Flash problem
- not Puppy or Browser - It is Adobe and Flash proprietary code

[upnorth]

I noticed that when right clicking on a file and selecting properties, after closing the popup box, the file is still selected. This is the "rox filer focus bug". The conditional put in /etc/profile doesn't seem to work properly with the current /root/.packages/woof-installed-packages and might need some tweeking. I don't know if it is functional in q19 or not, but the gtk there is 2.16 so it would't matter there yet.



this is from /etc/profile:

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#100208 rox-filer needs this for GTK >= 2.18, fixes focus problem...
if [ `grep -E '^gtk+-2|libgtk2.0' /root/.packages/woof-installed-packages | head -n 1 | cut -f 3 -d '|' | cut -f 2 -d '.'` -ge 18 ];then
 export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=true
fi

added this for workaround

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#============================
export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=true
#============================

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to test, when the following is entered in console it returns true, before it returned blank

# echo $GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS
true

The newest rox version has this fixed but is still untested sourcecode
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01515

[playdayz]

upnorth, we had a good fix from aarf, it looks like I left it out, I must have rebuilt that package and forgotten. Your fix is shorter though. Thanks.,

[01micko]

.

Also seem to be having some trouble with quickpackage / quickpet clicking on a browser download normaly brings up a dialog box connecting to server, downloading etc quickpackage is still runnig after 30 mins but no download try to open it again the message "quickpet is already running please wait"

Hello stu90

I put in a loop to check for the download, but I should have put in a timeout in case the server does not respond, that will be fixed for the next version.

Cheers and thanks for report

[upnorth]

For the rox focus bug:

This works too and is probably better. The rox wrapper script is:

/usr/local/bin/rox

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#!/bin/sh
export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=true
exec /usr/local/apps/ROX-Filer/AppRun "$@"

See amigo's comment here:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01389

[popescu eugen]

in lupu008 gxine
subtitles not work

[rameshiyer]

I am not able to install ( Full Hard Disk) Lucid Puppy 008 in machine. While installing Lucid Puppy 008, it reports no media to install . I also tried to mount hard disk through pmount. However, this also fails as hard disk is not detected.

Please note that Both Quirky 10 & 18 is working in Full Hard Disk installation ( Grub boot loader) . Kindly look into this.

[Sit Heel Speak]

I am not able to install ( Full Hard Disk) Lucid Puppy 008 in machine...

@rameshiyer: it might help track the bug down, to know what kind of a hard disk system you have.

@playdayz:

I too have a problem with a full install, in Lupu-008: gparted is evidently unable to format a partition ext3. It *appears* to succeed, but the attempt to boot a full install on it, sadly, crashes when the kernel line is executed, with a "file or directory of wrong type" (or close to that) message.

I moved the fresh full-install filesystem over to another partition, booted into Puppy 4.21 and reformatted the partition (ext3 again), moved the Lupu filesystem back onto said partition, tried booting again, and this time Lupu-008 successfully booted.

This is on a vintage-2005 80-gigabyte plain ATA HD, dual-P3 box with a gig of ram. The partition is 12 GB in size.

So, PUI is writing the full-install filesystem OK, just gParted needs to be updated or down-graded to a version that works.

I see that PUI still advises the user of the option to create a savefile...even when the user has chosen to create a full install...

rt kernel version build pet, on the way, in a day or two or three...after I figure out this sysprof-module.ko thing-y...

[rameshiyer]

Dear Sir

Lucid Puppy 008 is not detecting my hard disk while installing through Universal Installer. Usually I don't find any problem hard disk installation. Quirky 10 as well as 18 detected the Hard disk 250 GB internal SATA Hard disk without any problem. However Lucid fails to detects. It no media found for installation.
It is not detecting any partition. Gpart also fails to detect any hard disk or partition.
Presently system having Windows XP, Quirky 10 & Quirky0.18. All of them are full hard disk boothing by Grub 4 Dos.Kindly look into this please. .

[stu90]

.

Also seem to be having some trouble with quickpackage / quickpet clicking on a browser download normaly brings up a dialog box connecting to server, downloading etc quickpackage is still runnig after 30 mins but no download try to open it again the message "quickpet is already running please wait"

Hello stu90

I put in a loop to check for the download, but I should have put in a timeout in case the server does not respond, that will be fixed for the next version.

Cheers and thanks for report

hi 01micko,

I don't know if this is a server problem as i seem to have the same problem in 000 as well, just booted lupu6 quickpet download works as normal booted into the new lupu000 pfix=ram same quickpet download doesn't work i get one dialog box saying next step is to confirm download but after that nothing although quick pet is running.
Definatly have a live internet connection.

[Sit Heel Speak]

...Lucid Puppy 008 is not detecting my...250 GB internal SATA Hard disk...gparted also fails to detect any hard disk or partition....

@rameshiyer:

No need to shout, we have good ears.

@playdayz: The 008 live-CD works OK here on a Seagate ST3500418AS 500 GB SATA drive connected to an Intel D865GSA mainboard, see screenshot. I have not yet tried installing grub from Lupu-008.

***addendum: rameshiyer is right, gparted cannot see this disk (keeps scanning forever and ever...). It is not a kernel issue, it's a gparted issue.

Voodoo 3 card support, or lack thereof, is however I believe a kernel issue. Said support is new in the 2.6.33.2 kernel and Barry's seems to have overlooked it.

[Sit Heel Speak]

@playdayz:

Here is the DISTRO_PKGS_SPECS-ubuntu-lucid by which I succeeded in building a Lucid Pup. Some hand-tinkering with the initrd.gz was also needed.

Sorry, I did not make careful comments, but if you diff it (diffutils not diff! ) against yours, you can see where I altered it.

Mysteriously, some pets could not be found with the || syntax, the pet name must be explicitly specified within the | and | . Is this an issue within 2createpackages? Or is it because I'm using the wrong repo triplet (e.g. ubuntu-lucid-official) in the .pet's I hand-built?

Perhaps we can synchronize our efforts somewhat, if you'll keep me abreast of your DISTRO_PKGS_SPECS-ubuntu-lucid and the ls -lah of packages-pet.