Quirky Werewolf 64-bit 7.4 released

[ETP]

Upgrading fresh 7.3.1 install on USB stick to 7.3.2 with the service pack

Hi Barry,
In a previous post:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 436#872436
I reported a problem with the service pack 7.3 to 7.3.1 in that neither the new kernel or the new splash screen
were copied by the pininstall script to the first partition on the stick.

In the case of 7.3.1 to 7.3.2 only the revised splash is involved but once again it failed to copy over.
PDEV1=sdb2 in this case as previously.
I am not certain whether the pininstall script is failing to derive sdb1 correctly or the busybox mount is not working.

Thanks for including the revised messagebus script. I have now removed my symlink in /etc to /var/lib/dbus/machine-id

[BarryK]

Did a full install to partition sda2.

There is a minor problem with the size of the drive notification window - it's too short.

see: Quirky Installer: partition

I found how to fix that. This line:

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   <hbox><combobox><variable>COMBOp</variable>${PITEMS}</combobox></hbox>

Renders the combobox right-justified, as per your snapshot.

I found do this, can set it's width:

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  <hbox><vbox width-request="260"><combobox><variable>COMBOp</variable>${PITEMS}</combobox></vbox></hbox>

[BarryK]

2. When installing from ppm when there are a lot of depends. the window is to large and can't click on the radio buttons !

I have reduced the number of dependencies in each tab from 16 to 14.

Up to 30 tabs are allowed, so 16x30 = 480, now is 14x30 = 420.

That's the total number of dependencies that can be displayed, which might seem like enough, but there was one package I installed earlier this year, can't recall which one -- it might have been the Ubuntu Phone developer package -- needed over 420 deps.

[BarryK]

I have updated xdialog to the source maintained by jamesbond, with latest patch from 01micko:

http://chiselapp.com/user/jamesbond/rep ... 87ddfb9cfb

[BarryK]

Upgrading fresh 7.3.1 install on USB stick to 7.3.2 with the service pack

Hi Barry,
In a previous post:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 436#872436
I reported a problem with the service pack 7.3 to 7.3.1 in that neither the new kernel or the new splash screen
were copied by the pininstall script to the first partition on the stick.

In the case of 7.3.1 to 7.3.2 only the revised splash is involved but once again it failed to copy over.
PDEV1=sdb2 in this case as previously.
I am not certain whether the pininstall script is failing to derive sdb1 correctly or the busybox mount is not working.

I found the cause of the problem:

guess_fstype /dev/sdb1

...where sdb1 is first partition of the usb stick, returns "unknown".

It should return "vfat". This is unexpected. The utility works on my other partitions.

NOTICE TO ANYONE WHO HAS AN INSTALLATION TO USB STICK

As ETP has reported, the Service Pack is broken, does not update 'vmlinuz' and 'logo.16' in the first partition.

To fix it manually, you can find 'vmlinuz' at /boot and 'logo.16' at /boot/syslinux in the second partition.
Copy them to the first partition.

I have fixed it by using 'blkid' instead of guess_fstype. This will be in the 7.3.3 Service Pack.
Perhaps it is time to phase out guess_fstype.

[jamesbond]

Perhaps it is time to phase out guess_fstype.

Or build busybox-based guess_fstype. Patch here: http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/source ... plet.patch. It utilises the same code path that "busybox blkid" uses.

[don570]

I was having a lot of problems putting werewolf64-7.3.usfs.xz onto a USB stick ---> actually a SD card and adaptor

Probably I was having the problems because there was already multiple partitions on the stick. In linux Parted utility wouldn't make a fat32 partition. The option was greyed out.

The solution was to format the USB stick in Windows using SD Formater 4.0 ---> using quick format
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/

I formated to fat32 , then Barry Kauler's install scripts would work properly.

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I updated my right click package with Uextract 3.13
It works nicely with werewolf.

The language that is installed depends on the language setting of computer

http://www.datafilehost.com/d/c9f809c9

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[don570]

I tested Quirky Werewolf 64-bit 7.3 and updated with 7.3.1 updater pet.

Everything went well. I checked pCD app to play a music CD.

Installed my Right click package.


Comments:

1) My USB stick ( with werewolf64 installed) wouldn't work on an IBM machine
that had 500 MB of RAM ---> It would only partly boot. vmlinuz would load then a freeze would occur.
I could do a full install to a partition.

My regular machine with 1.5 GB of Ram had no problems.

2) I noticed a strange link file

/root/.config/rox.sourceforge.net/OpenWith/Pmusic
links back to pmusic_CD.desktop


so if it is used with 'Open with' the pCD application will open rather that pmusic

Note that a command like this is needed

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 pmusic -a  "$@"

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[linuxcbon]

Quirky Werewolf 64-bit 7.3.2
- installquirky.x86 is still missing
- INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc doesnt exist in initrd

[gcmartin]

Seems the manual method is best for those a little knowledgeable of Linux and using the "dd" command in line with xz. I believe that dd doesn't care about prior partitioning or disk's layout. It will just write starting a disk block 0 until it exhaust all from the input file or if it hits a file ending error. Thus the USB could be an MSDOS disk or GPT disk or ... "dd doesn't care".

I have had similar issues over the year in use of the USB build utilities from time to time. And the current instructions is missing links to steer us to which utility locations are to be used as the builders (although, I may have overlooked as I covered the documents).

Hope this is a little helpful.

[BarryK]

Quirky Werewolf 64-bit 7.3.3 released:

http://bkhome.org/news/?viewDetailed=00292

[linuxcbon]

Quirky Werewolf 64-bit 7.3.3 released:http://bkhome.org/news/?viewDetailed=00292

are you going to release a new update version everyday, like tomorrow the 7.3.4 ?

Quirky Werewolf 64-bit 7.3.3
problem between vlc and pulse audio :

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# vlc video.mp4 
VLC media player 2.2.1 Terry Pratchett (Weatherwax) (revision 2.2.1-0-ga425c42)
[00000000006e4508] pulse audio output error: PulseAudio server connection failure: Connection refused
[000000000060d948] core libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_r600.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[drongo]

I note that this release is 10MB smaller or thereabouts.
Is that all caused by removing fonts?

[Billtoo]

New install: Downloaded and ran the installer from my netbook install
of Linux Mint 17.2 KDE, pc is an HP desktop:
# report-video

VIDEO REPORT: Quirky Werewolf64, version 7.3.3

Chip description:
VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Oland [Radeon HD 8570 / R7 240/340 OEM]

Requested by /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Resolution (widthxheight, in pixels): 1920x1080
Depth (bits, or planes): 24
Modules requested to be loaded: dbe

Probing Xorg startup log file (/var/log/Xorg.0.log):
Driver loaded (and currently in use): ati
Loaded modules: dbe dri2 extmod fb glamoregl glx kbd mouse radeon ramdac

Actual rendering on monitor:
Resolution: 1920x1080 pixels (508x285 millimeters)
Depth: 24 planes

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
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I updated QPM and installed applications.
No problems with the applications that I use.

Thanks

Edit: I used the Quirky universal intaller to a 64gb usb-3.0 flash
drive which is running on another HP desktop pc.
It's working well here too.

[TIW]

Hi Barry.
I am using gnumeric often and found that it provides the wrong results after putting in some formulas. I than checked with precise 5.7.1and Tahrpup 6.0.2 and had the same unfortunate results. I also checked with all other calculators provided with those puppys and found them all to be wrong. The only consistent result I get if I calculate it manually.
I don't know what the problem is. I guess thats your job.
Thanks for your help.

[BarryK]

I note that this release is 10MB smaller or thereabouts.
Is that all caused by removing fonts?

Yes, but I also removed 'poppler-data'.

I found the mplayer_codecs_basic was the 32-bit version, so replaced with the 64-bit PET, which is a bit bigger.

[gcmartin]

Mplayer seems improved. Thx

[BarryK]

Hi Barry.
I am using gnumeric often and found that it provides the wrong results after putting in some formulas. I than checked with precise 5.7.1and Tahrpup 6.0.2 and had the same unfortunate results. I also checked with all other calculators provided with those puppys and found them all to be wrong. The only consistent result I get if I calculate it manually.
I don't know what the problem is. I guess thats your job.
Thanks for your help.

Well, it is a problem for the Gnumeric developers!

Would it have anything to do with floating point numbers, rounding-off error?

I don't recall, it might have been Gnucash, that used floating point numbers for money arithmetic, which is a very big no no, as you never want to get a rounding off error with money, not even 1 cent.

[BarryK]

Mplayer seems improved. Thx

Yeah, it would be, now it has the 64-bit codecs.

[don570]

Testing 7.3.2

intel i915 driver seems improved but I still have occasional problems
and strange artifacts on screen.

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