Slacko64-6.3.0

[01micko]

Slacko64 6.3.0 is out!

See the new slacko website for downloads and links to the release notes and official announcement. I have emailed Barry to contact Ladislav at Distrowatch.



Bug report thread.

Enjoy!


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Sorry guys.. I had to reupload the iso. There was a fatal flaw in sfs_load - my fault.

So if you grabbed it before Tue Nov 17 00:04:24 UTC 2015 (Tue Nov 17 10:04:24 EST 2015 [Australian]) you'll have to delete and re-download.


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Legacy info


A delta is up at the below link to upgrade your iso 7MB

Updated 11 November

- fixed encrypted save files
- fixed themeing
- latest woof fixes

Get it: http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/te ... ko64/6101/

Use the previous devx

NOTE: no fdrv as per 6.1.0.1 - built from testing branch woof-CE

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Changes are the same as the 32 bit version.

- (kernel source is in the slacko64 repo with the pets)

It is rather large because it has lots of firmware, however it is not all loaded by default. On the iso you'll notice a new file called fdrv_slacko_6.0.8.1.sfs. This is the extra firmware which is cross checked from the kernel modules so that no firmware that is not needed gets included.

The idea is that if all your hardware works then just don't load the fdrv or if you do and install to usb, hdd, whatever discard it. But if some piece of hardware, be it your graphics card or wireless card, doesn't work then you can load the fdrv from the kernel commandline :

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puppy pfix=fw_drv

or tack fw_drv onto your grub or syslinux commandline.

Other than that this is just a normal slacko64 in every other respect. So report things as per normal.

[Billtoo]

I loaded the driver sfs with SFS-Load on-the-fly.

My Linksys WUSB54GC v1 802.11g Adapter [Ralink RT73] is working now,
not sure if the firewall settings were the problem before.
Anyways, it's working now.

Thanks.

Edit: I just booted my Slacko-6.0.7.4 32bit and my Linksys WUSB54GC v1 802.11g Adapter [Ralink RT73] is working here too.
It would appear to run okay at first but firefox couldn't connect to the forum "server not found" message, after running the firewall setup and clicking on several options it is working fine.

[James C]

Quick manual frugal install...... working well without the fdrv.

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# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Slacko64 Puppy, version 6.0.7.4

Chip description:
VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210] (rev a2)

Requested by /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
  Depth (bits, or planes):              24
  Modules requested to be loaded:       dbe 
  Modules requested to not be loaded:   glx 
  Drivers requested to be loaded:       nouveau 

Probing Xorg startup log file (/var/log/Xorg.0.log):
  Driver loaded (and currently in use): nouveau
  Loaded modules: dbe dri2 exa extmod fb kbd mouse shadowfb

Actual rendering on monitor:
  Resolution:  1440x900 pixels (381x238 millimeters)
  Depth:       24 planes

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
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# free
             total         used         free       shared      buffers
Mem:       8064528       896312      7168216       261292        98416
-/+ buffers:             797896      7266632
Swap:      8396796            0      8396796

[mavrothal]

Booting from CD pfix=ram

First time click the top tray it crashes. OK after X restart
pdesktop will not run because /root/.jwm/tmp/pdesktop_xml is missing. Eventually when pTheme is used the file is generated and pdesktop runs.
ptheme through a bunch of errors on “apply

[zigbert]

Thank you mavrothal for the feedback.
I am downloading right now ...

[zigbert]

First findings and fixes

Firewall
- checked the default setup, and couldn't connect to puppylinux.org
- /usr/sbin/connectwizard points to firewallinstallshell (line 257)

Jwm_config
- desktop mouseclicks:
/root/.jwm/root_menus/menu1/2/3 misses, but is precent in Woof?
https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/w ... root_menus
Without these links, jwm_config/ptheme will give an error message when activating new settings.
- pdesktop doesn't start at first run - Fixed in Woof
- Remove existing item in tray - Fixed in Woof

pTheme
- Woof (rootfs-packages/ptheme) contains 2 wallpapers in /usr/share/backgrounds. These are not included in this iso?
- Jwm-theme-swither included code to window-buttons-switcher - Fixed in Woof

pTheme uses a new jwm theme switcher. The old themes are located in $HOME/.jwm/themes, and not in /usr/share/jwm/themes as requested. This could of course be changed, but themes are shared data and should be placed in /usr. The new switcher generates a preview, and does not require the png's in the theme pets. Also, this Slacko includes the Stardust jwm-themes in $HOME/.jwm/themes. This is overkill, since they are a part of the pTheme pack.

First time click the top tray it crashes. OK after X restart

I can not reproduce this

Please report any bug found!

The attached pet includes updated and missed files in the jwm_config package.

[mavrothal]

First findings and fixes

Much better
The remaining issues from the ones reported is the gtk theme switcher and the ROX Pinboard issues.

Some new ones have to do with the (top) tray configuration.
Apply does nothing visible. You have to manually restart JWM to see the changes.
These is no quit/exit button. You have to use the window close button.
When you select a configuration button on the left there is no evident way to go back to the tray settings screen (you have to press again the 'TrayN" button that is already highlighted!)
Does not make any sense to hide the tray in a different side than where is present. By the time you move the mouse will hide again. Autohide should just be on and off, but you should be able to position the tray in all 4 sides instead of only top and bottom.

BTW in the current setting selecting to hide the tray in a different position just makes it crash and disappear.

[Billtoo]

Manual frugal install to my HP desktop.
I just left the firewall turned off and my Linksys WUSB54GC v1 802.11g
Adapter [Ralink RT73] is working fine.
I installed zigbert's pet and setting up JWM is working, I do miss the
right click to bring up the menu.

Thanks.

Edit: I discovered that clicking the middle button brings up the menu, nice.

[01micko]

Firewall
- checked the default setup, and couldn't connect to puppylinux.org
- /usr/sbin/connectwizard points to firewallinstallshell (line 257)

I'm thinking the firewall runs too early. The old firewall was completely broken and that's why everything connected! We seem to must have a net connection before running the firewall. I think it should be removed from quicksetup. The tray icon is enough alert.

@Billtoo.

On wireless, after a reboot, if the firewall is on, and you have already set it up, does it make the network connection?

[Billtoo]

@Billtoo.
On wireless, after a reboot, if the firewall is on, and you have already set it up, does it make the network connection?

Yes, just tried it, it took a few seconds but wireless is working.

[gcmartin]

My findings are in the comments in the terminal report, below:

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  # echo "Starting the system pristine from default boot settings" 
Starting the system pristine from default boot settings

# ip addr
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue 
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc mq qlen 1000
    link/ether f4:b7:e2:63:c9:a5 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
    link/ether 5f:f9:ed:02:ff:9e brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 192.168.1.6/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global eth0
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
# free
             total         used         free       shared      buffers
Mem:       3910220      3639104       271116       566420      1227940
-/+ buffers:            2411164      1499056
Swap:            0            0            0
# echo "SWAP partition is NOT discovered on boot"
SWAP partition is NOT discovered on boot

# echo "First PUP ever booted that used this much RAM upon reaching desktop"
First PUP ever booted that used this much RAM upon reaching desktop

# slocate
bash: slocate: command not found
# locate
bash: locate: command not found
# updatedb
bash: updatedb: command not found
# echo "Just checking"
Just checking

# smbclient -V
Version 4.1.20
# uname -a
Linux Slacko64-AIOtouch 4.1.11 #1 SMP Sun Oct 25 06:43:56 EST 2015 x86_64 Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU G2020 @ 2.90GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
# echo "The usual expected Slacko64 info"
The usual expected Slacko64 info

# ping -c 2 yahoo.com
ping: bad address 'yahoo.com'
# echo "I cannot route to WAN websites thru browsers or via pings"
I cannot route to WAN websites thru browsers or via pings

# ping -c 2 localhost      
PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.044 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.049 ms

--- localhost ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 0.044/0.046/0.049 ms
# ping -c 2 192.168.1.6      
PING 192.168.1.6 (192.168.1.6): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.1.6: seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.044 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.6: seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.051 ms

--- 192.168.1.6 ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 0.044/0.047/0.051 ms
# ping -c 2 192.168.1.1
PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.792 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.285 ms

--- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 0.285/0.538/0.792 ms
# ping -c 2 192.168.1.4
PING 192.168.1.4 (192.168.1.4): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.1.4: seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.545 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.4: seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.495 ms

--- 192.168.1.4 ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 0.495/0.520/0.545 ms
# echo "I can reach local LAN resources, BUT CANNOT route to WAN websites"
I can reach local LAN resources, BUT CANNOT route to WAN websites

I am sure this is already known

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# echo "Final finding before signing off"
Final finding before signing off
# echo "On desktop, touch tracking still an issue on this release"
On desktop, touch tracking still an issue on this release

In any event, this system is extremely responsive. But, I fear, that had I had WAN access, I would have locked the system with the number of browser tabs I usually open before discovering the missing SWAP that was traditionally discovered at boot in Slackos.

Hope this is helpful as things progress

[01micko]

@gcm

Is the md5sum ok?

loads swap here just fine. Maybe the kernel doesn't like your hardware? Is your CD/DVD reader wearing out? Did you get a batch of dodgy media? Check dmesg and /var/log/messages and also the boot logs in /tmp

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# free
             total         used         free       shared      buffers
Mem:       3875688       484756      3390932       247908        42896
-/+ buffers:             441860      3433828
Swap:      1977340            0      1977340
# uname -rm
4.1.11 x86_64

[gcmartin]

The checksum was checked at download time. Its OK.

Just rebooted Pristine again. The boot did NOT pick up the SWAP, but it did change the used RAM count to something reasonable like you show. I think in my initial playing around I used the new 'f-drive boot parm' and I must conclude that it had something to do with the used RAM count. But on this boot, I did NOT use it. Still, the system is very fast (responsive). Manually starting SWAP, of course, works. But, new users will miss this and experienced PUP users will too.

Now if I can just wrap my arms around this LAN-WAN issue. Just tried the Frisbee approached tested last week, but, now, I am not getting anywhere with that, either.

If there is some data I can provide that would yield insight for this DELL AIO touchscreen system, please let me know.

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root# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor DRAM Controller (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller (rev 04)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev c4)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev c4)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 6 (rev c4)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev a4)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation B75 Express Chipset LPC Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family 6-port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 04)
01:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
02:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS5209 PCI Express Card Reader (rev 01)
02:00.1 SD Host controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS5209 PCI Express Card Reader (rev 01)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 08)

P.S. I know that TahrPUP64 is another PUP, but, it does NOT have the LAN-WAN problems described. I await the TahrPUP64 ISO with a newer kernel built (version 4.xx++) in it, to try it.

[01micko]

The boot did NOT pick up the SWAP, but it did change the used RAM count to something reasonable like you show. I think in my initial playing around I used the new 'f-drive boot parm' and I must conclude that it had something to do with the used RAM count.

It's only 20 MB, maybe 100MB expanded (CORRECTION: 43 MB, 81 MB expanded). How can you come to that conclusion? I can see it as an hypothesis but certainly not a conclusion.

That's like me saying "I conclude that the kernel doesn't like your hardware".

In fact that is my hypothesis.

[zigbert]

- some bugfixing in tray setter
- added the missing backgrounds in /usr/share/backgrounds
- added jwm themes to /usr/share/jwm/themes (from /root/.jwm/themes)

More to come... as soon as more time is available
- mavrothal is right - tray setter could be simplified, but that is not a minor task. Let's see...
- mavrothal is right - both gtk/jwm theme switcher could be improved.

Personally, I think the default settings for any theme should be set as a global theme in pTheme. Like this, user can revert back to the default settings.

[Volhout]

Downloaded the ISO and burned on 1G USB stick.

Boot on modded C720 chromebook (seabios)
Reason for trying: Slacko has always worked great for me, and this version is supposed to have recent kernel, and extra fimware, that may support hasswell core in C720. It's a try....

Booted to desktop right away. Thats GOOD.

Touchpad not working - common amongst linux distro's, that why I allways have a mouse lying around. It appears to be an I2C touchpad. Some Ubuntu distro's are patched to support the touchpad.

WIFI working OOTB (using Barry's simple setup)

Sound needs some work, retrovol defaulted to hw:0 (HDMI output), after changing to hw:1 still no sound. Used ALSA to default to HW:1, and after that retrovol "kind of" works, but showed graphical artefacts (bars are build up small segments, every other segment was present, controlling volume still worked, only with half the number of segments. This was in tray, and in full window of retrovol. Later tray icon disappeared.
IS the config window correct. the left column is ACTIVE and the right column INACTIVE. That is reverse with many other config's I've seen.

Sound still present, volume control via ALSA still works. Maybe ALSA and retrovol byte eachother ?

Posting this from Slacko on the C720. Some work is needed to patch the keyboard function keys (brightness up/down, volume up/down/mute,
. Suggestion how to do this ?

Battery icon in tray works, , but it shows the charger graphics when running on battery only.


Not a bad start, given that this is brand new...

Regards,

Volhout

[gcmartin]

@01Micko, +1.

I agree that is the wrong word. Its a hypothesis drawn as the only thing I could think of as different to the subsequent pristine use. Also, let's not rule out that maybe by something inadvertent I may have caused the RAM use, unwittingly. So one of the many may have been responsible for the results seen in the RAM report. If I see it again, I will try to use top to spot any app(s) that could be the contributor to that RAM anomaly.

Again, the system was very responsive in spite of what the free command was showing in system use.

[mavrothal]

@zigbert
Is improving
Are the pets cumulative or you also need to install 0.1?

You might find useful regarding placement-depended autohiding the autohide function in v1.1 of this little tray pet.

Any thought on the PuppyPin?

Would also be very nice in the tray setup the apps are showing as icons instead of the XML strings. You can not edit them anyway, so they are not very helpfull as text.

[01micko]

@gcmartin

Please run this command

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fdisk -l | grep ' Linux swap' | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | tr '\n' ' '

That tells us where your swap partition(s) are.

My result:

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# fdisk -l | grep ' Linux swap' | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | tr '\n' ' '                
/dev/sda9 /dev/sdb3 #

Also picks up my usb HDD (/dev/sdb3)

[gcmartin]

It appears that the touch machine may not match as well as this older PC for current Slacko64. Notes contained in the following console log.

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# echo "Different desktop PC. Non-UEFI, non-touch, Pristine DVD boot"
Different desktop PC. Non-UEFI, non-touch, Pristine boot
# uname -a
Linux Slacko6074onSLI 4.1.11 #1 SMP Sun Oct 25 06:43:56 EST 2015 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
# 
# ip addr  
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue 
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
    link/ether 0f:5f:f6:2c:e7:ff brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
    link/ether 0f:5f:f6:2c:e2:bb brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
# echo "No IP achieved upon boot. No cable in eth0. Cable is in and active in eth1"
No IP achieved upon boot. No cable in eth0. Cable is in and active in eth1
# echo "Use SNS to use get IP from DHCP host on the LAN"
Use SNS to use get IP from DHCP host on the LAN
# 
# ip addr                                                             
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue 
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
    link/ether 0f:5f:f6:2c:e7:ff brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
    link/ether 0f:5f:f6:2c:e2:bb brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 192.168.1.7/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global eth1
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
# free
             total         used         free       shared      buffers
Mem:       4041360       665412      3375948       243708        70216
-/+ buffers:             595196      3446164
Swap:     12581940            0     12581940
# ping -c 2 yahoo.com      
PING yahoo.com (98.139.183.24): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 98.139.183.24: seq=1 ttl=44 time=58.269 ms

--- yahoo.com ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 50% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 58.269/58.269/58.269 ms
# echo "Expected results from above commands on this PS"
Expected results from above commands on this PS
# echo "WAN navigation via terminal and via the desktop browser"
WAN navigation via terminal and via the desktop browser
# 
# fdisk -l | grep ' Linux swap' | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | tr '\n' ' '
/dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 

LAN/WAN also behaving as expected on this PC. I am browsing to forum via Slacko6074, now.