slacko-6.0 beta 2

[Colonel Panic]

Just installed Slacko 5.9.3 now. It's good on the whole except that Abiword 3 refuses to display documents properly, so I've had to install another word processor (LibreOffice) for the time being.

[Volhout]

Yesterday I downloaded LxPup14.07_nonPAE and burned it to USB stick using (Pendrive) Universal Installer.

LxPup14.07 booted correct on my EeePC1001HA.
LxPup14.07 did not boot on my DELL E6430 (Quadcore i5) , it could not find de main SFS and dropped out the boot sequence. This is the same USB stick, so the SFS was present.

PeeBee suggested to test Slacko 5.9.3 (he used as a base).
Today I repeated the test with the Slacko 5.9.3 iso, and the behaviour is the same. Boots correct on EeePC, not booting on Dell E6430.

Is this a known issue ?

PeeBee suggested to try 5.9.3.8 since it handles SFS different, but currently I can't boot 5.9.3 (I only have the E6430 at my desk now), so running the pet (to create 5.9.3.8 from 5.9.3) is not possible. Is there a 5.9.3.8 iso ?

Regards,

Volhout

[gcmartin]

Hello @Volhout

Not aware of ...8, but am aware of this test ISO here that members have been testing.

Hope this helps

[Volhout]

Thes 4 iso's all fail the Dell E6430 boot proces.

[gyro]

Testing with slacko 5.9.3 "rc.shutdown" using a save directory in pupmode=12, indicates that line 678:

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 busybox mount -t $SAVEFS -o remount,ro $SAVEDEV /initrd${SAVE_LAYER} 2>/dev/null

is an inappropriate command, and fails.
But, I could not establish that fixing this code made any difference to the health of the "/mnt/home" file system after the shutdown.

There are 3 options:

1) Apply a fix something like this:

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--- rc.shutdown.orig	2014-06-21 13:34:02.000000000 +1000
+++ rc.shutdown	2014-08-01 22:40:59.742740948 +1000
@@ -665,6 +665,7 @@
  sync
  SAVEDEV=`grep "/initrd${SAVE_LAYER}" /proc/mounts | cut -f 1 -d ' '`
  SAVEFS=`grep "/initrd${SAVE_LAYER}" /proc/mounts | cut -f 3 -d ' '`
+ SMNTPT="`df -a | grep -m1 "$SAVEDEV" | tr -s ' ' | cut -f6 -d ' '`" #save-directory
  #100615 Patriot: suggested this code to enable save-layer to remount ro...
  uniFS=$(awk '/unionfs/ {print $3}' /proc/mounts) #gets fstype, ex: aufs
  if [ "$uniFS" == "aufs" -a "$SAVE_LAYER" == "/pup_rw" ]; then
@@ -675,7 +676,11 @@
    sync
   fi
  fi
- busybox mount -t $SAVEFS -o remount,ro $SAVEDEV /initrd${SAVE_LAYER} 2>/dev/null
+ if [ -d $SMNTPT$SAVEFILE ]; then
+  busybox mount -o remount,ro,bind $SMNTPT$SAVEFILE /initrd${SAVE_LAYER} 2>/dev/null #save-directory
+ else
+  busybox mount -t $SAVEFS -o remount,ro $SAVEDEV /initrd${SAVE_LAYER} 2>/dev/null
+ fi
  umount-FULL -i -n -l /initrd${SAVE_LAYER} 2>/dev/null #-l is lazy unmount.
 fi

This assumes that the intent is to remount "/initrd/pup_rw" as "ro". So it does an appropriate remount for a save directory when it detects one.
While I could see that "/initrd/pup_rw" was remounted "ro", I did not see any change in the health of the "/mnt/home" file system.

2) Apply a fix something like this:

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--- rc.shutdown.orig	2014-06-21 13:34:02.000000000 +1000
+++ rc.shutdown	2014-08-08 04:02:08.472247022 +1000
@@ -665,6 +665,7 @@
  sync
  SAVEDEV=`grep "/initrd${SAVE_LAYER}" /proc/mounts | cut -f 1 -d ' '`
  SAVEFS=`grep "/initrd${SAVE_LAYER}" /proc/mounts | cut -f 3 -d ' '`
+ SMNTPT="`df -a | grep -m1 "$SAVEDEV" | tr -s ' ' | cut -f6 -d ' '`" #save-directory
  #100615 Patriot: suggested this code to enable save-layer to remount ro...
  uniFS=$(awk '/unionfs/ {print $3}' /proc/mounts) #gets fstype, ex: aufs
  if [ "$uniFS" == "aufs" -a "$SAVE_LAYER" == "/pup_rw" ]; then
@@ -675,7 +676,9 @@
    sync
   fi
  fi
- busybox mount -t $SAVEFS -o remount,ro $SAVEDEV /initrd${SAVE_LAYER} 2>/dev/null
+ if [ -f $SMNTPT$SAVEFILE ]; then
+  busybox mount -t $SAVEFS -o remount,ro $SAVEDEV /initrd${SAVE_LAYER} 2>/dev/null
+ fi
  umount-FULL -i -n -l /initrd${SAVE_LAYER} 2>/dev/null #-l is lazy unmount.
 fi

This makes the code more accurate by only doing the remount if it is doing something necessary for the success of "rc.shutdown".

3) Do nothing:
The current line 678 works when it is needed, and fails only when it is not required.

gyro

[greengeek]

Thes 4 iso's all fail the Dell E6430 boot proces.

Could you try booting from CD? For some reason I can boot the recent Slackos from CD but not from usb or SD.

[Volhout]

Hi greengeek,

Wil try CD, but this is soooo 1990's..... Hope I can find one. Lucky this Dell has drive...

Volhout

[Chili Dog]

Universal Installer full installs to hard drive from usb sticks also broken in 5.7... has this been fixed in 6?

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=95156

[technosaurus]

i use unetbootin anyhow, it works fine and has both win and nix installers

[Chili Dog]

From usb sticks. To hard drives.

Not the other way around.

[mavrothal]

Universal Installer full installs to hard drive from usb sticks also broken in 5.7... has this been fixed in 6?

Have you seen/tried this few pages back?

[Chili Dog]

No I didn't see that. I will eventually test it.

[seacyd]

Thanks for the new version development.

Google Earth shows a bug in this slacko 5.9.3 (in slacko 5.7.0 it works fine)

Version used: google-earth-7.0.3.8542-x86.sfs

Slacko 5.9.3 (beta 2 of 6.0.0)


Sorry, I hope this is new information - I did not go through the 38 pages in this forum's post.

[mavrothal]

Google Earth shows a bug in this slacko 5.9.3 (in slacko 5.7.0 it works fine)

Version used: google-earth-7.0.3.8542-x86.sfs

According to this, 7.1.2.2041 may be a better option for slacko.

BTW it looks like a video driver issue. Which video driver is used in your system?(sysinfo should help here)

[seacyd]

Thanks: Version 7.1.2.2041 works well in Slacko 5.9.3 (however, the previous version did work fine in my slacko 5.7.0 - for reference)

Here is the graphics output of inxi of Slacko 5.7.0

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Graphics:  Card: Intel Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller 
           X.org: 1.12.4 drivers: intel (unloaded: vesa) tty size: 150x42 Advanced Data: N/A for root 

Here is the graphics output of inxi of Slacko 5.9.3

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Graphics:  Card: Intel Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller 
           X.org: 1.14.3 drivers: intel (unloaded: vesa) tty size: 123x26 Advanced Data: N/A for root 

[technosaurus]

From usb sticks. To hard drives.

Not the other way around.

[Chili Dog]

"If you don't have a usb drive"

So you're still wrong.

And let's just abandon Puppy's basic tools, now that Barry's not here to maintain them. That's a smart idea.

[Chili Dog]

Universal Installer full installs to hard drive from usb sticks also broken in 5.7... has this been fixed in 6?

Have you seen/tried this few pages back?

Ok, I just did a full install from this. And it was pretty awesome. I didn't have to tell it where the usb stick directory was, it knew. And after I installed grub, it booted up perfectly.

Only problem that I experienced was that when it ran the grub4dos installer, it tried installing to the usb stick itself after finding the OS on it. But that might not be a problem with the Universal Installer. (Oh, and some of the icons weren't showing up - was I supposed to move them somewhere?)

Can't wait to see the finished version!

Thanks, 01micko!

[xanad]

New files edited with gettext:

Floppy_Formatter
video-info
video-info-glx
wcpufreq
xorgwizard-automatic

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 120#794120

[rcrsn51]

Legacy Grub 2013 is broken in Slacko 6 beta and Slacko 5.7 for full installs. It mistakenly inputs the code for frugal into the menu.lst. See here:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=95091

@01micko: What is happening with this issue? Also, all of the Peasy-apps are out of date.