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Drive icon pile-up problem and lib64 comment

#91 Post by davids45 »

G'day 666philb,

Thanks for tackling a new Pup.

I've made a Frugal of your last beta in my 64-bit Pups partition which looked OK and then loaded up my all-apps-in-one-sfs to see how they each run.

A few have missing lib problems which made me look at how you've handled the directories in /usr for 32-bit and 64-bit lib files. You've made a simple link for the lib64 directory to /usr/lib (screenshot). This looks a bit different to other 64-bit Pups (Slacko, Stretch?) where there is a 'real' lib64 directory as well as lib and lib32. Am I right and is there any agreed policy in Puppy on how to handle this 'confusion' (to me at least) of the extra lib directories in the 64-bit Pups?
It's a bit awkward for me when making my apps into sfs to know how to set up their particular libs. For me, a 'one-size-fits-all' (just one sfs does every Pup) would be nice.

The only real issue I've come across in bionicbeta64 so far is I see an old problem with my multitude of drive icons not displaying tidily when doing a change to their set-out.
The default display was OK (no piles) but took two rows so with JWMDesk Manager, I changed the spacing to get just one row of icons across the pinboard bottom.
The first couple are OK then an odd space then after a couple more, the remaining twenty or so just form a pile (screenshot has settings I wanted and the result).

Is this something in Puppy Event Manager (I could try a Slacko64 version)?

Thanks again, and eagerly looking forward to your progression through the Greek alphabet with this 64-bit Bionic :D ,

David S.
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#92 Post by Mike Walsh »

David, see my post above in response to LateAdopter's 'moan' about a similar issue.

Maybe it'll help for you, too.


Mike. :wink:

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Re: Drive icon pile-up problem and lib64 comment

#93 Post by mikeslr »

davids45 wrote:...

A few have missing lib problems which made me look at how you've handled the directories in /usr for 32-bit and 64-bit lib files. You've made a simple link for the lib64 directory to /usr/lib (screenshot). This looks a bit different to other 64-bit Pups (Slacko, Stretch?) where there is a 'real' lib64 directory as well as lib and lib32. Am I right and is there any agreed policy in Puppy on how to handle this 'confusion' (to me at least) of the extra lib directories in the 64-bit Pups?...
Hi david45 & 666philb,

FWIW, my experience has been that Ubuntu* based Puppies neither handle multi-architecture the same way as the Ubuntu's whose binaries went into their making, nor Slackos. Ubuntus actually use three folders named x86_64-linux-gnu to hold 64-bit libs. One is within a parent folder /lib, another at /usr/lib and the third within /usr/local/lib. For whatever reason, Ubuntu based Puppies can neither use, nor even find, those folders.

The Puppy work-around has been to move libs which would have been in a x86_64-linux-gnu into its parent /lib folder. That works with the only potential problem being that Ubuntu uses the same name for both the 64 and 32 bit version of a lib. There's a chance that a user employing both 32 and 64 bit applications might have an application requiring a 32-bit lib which was over-written by a 64-bit lib of the same name moved to its location. That generates a failure to run and a "Wrong Elf class notice".

Slackos, following the Slackware model, place 64-bit libs in three folders named lib64, one in each of the above parent folders. If my flaky memory serves, on one occasion while building a Ubuntu pet rather than moving libs from a x86_64-linux-gnu folder to its parent /lib folder I created a /lib64 folder and moved the libs into it. The Ubuntu based Puppy was able to find and use those libs.

It would probably require a change at the Woof level for Ubuntu based Puppies to automatically move 64-bit libs into /lib64 folders when debs are being installed (change in petget?). But that change might be simpler than either figuring out why Ubuntu based Puppies can find x86_64-linux-gnu folders, or modifying Woof so that Ubuntu based Puppies handle Multi-architecture the same way Ubuntu does.

* This problem also arises when using 64-bit debian-based Puppies or their libs.

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#94 Post by 666philb »

yes at the moment /lib64 & /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu are links to /lib (as are the ones in /usr). this causes problems for .sfs packages as they don't respect the symlink.
pets do though

/lib/i386-linux-gnu & /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu are actual folders for 32bit libs in bionicpup. this is where the 32bit compatibility sfs installs to.

wdlkmpx is planning on changing this at some point in woofce.
Bionicpup64 built with bionic beaver packages http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=114311
Xenialpup64, built with xenial xerus packages http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=107331

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New iso

#95 Post by 666philb »

New iso uploaded, link on 1st page

changes ......

new kernel 4.14.71, hopefully this fixes the shutdown problems
kodi repos should now install properly, problem was kodi repository now a separate package.
homebank rebuilt with working help
compton now has vsync on by default
psync fix ... problem was an older pet overwriting the one in woofce
python3 now installs when needed as a dependency
openshot 2.4.1 now installs from the PPM ... a bit hacky, it fires up sc0ttmans 'pkg' to grab the remaining deps
sfsload should now run ldconfig when the 32bit compatibility sfs is installed
added missing icons for gnome-mpv
added findnrun icons & missing help
changed trash icon colour
skype should install and run direct from the website

plus all the latest fixes at woofce
Bionicpup64 built with bionic beaver packages http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=114311
Xenialpup64, built with xenial xerus packages http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=107331

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Re: New iso

#96 Post by sheldonisaac »

666philb (in part) wrote:New iso uploaded, link on 1st page

changes ......

new kernel 4.14.71, hopefully this fixes the shutdown problems
..
psync fix ... problem was an older pet overwriting the one in woofce
Thanks a lot, 666philb.

So far, very good, on this Dell laptop E6410 from about 2010 or 2011.

(Oh, I just adapted this, after stealing it from bigpup's post:
Bionicpup64 7.9.4, Frugal install on SSD hard drive, format ext 4, using save folder.
Processor i5 CPU M 560 @ 2.67GHz)

I think I had to install

Code: Select all

31331 Sep 21 14:21 Psync-2.6.pet
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 02#1005302
to make psync work?

Thanks again,
Sheldon
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#97 Post by bigpup »

Bionicpup64 7.9.4
Frugal install on USB hard drive, format ext 3, using save folder.
Processor Intel i5-6400 CPU @ 2.70GHz.

Shutdown fixed. :D
No problems with shutdown.

Homebank help now works. :D


Still seeing this problem.
All Puppies you have developed that had PaleMoon built in.
One minor problem about the home page at start of PaleMoon.

Very first time you run PaleMoon.
The Puppy home page is shown.
/usr/share/doc/home.htm

Second time you run PaleMoon.
It starts showing the PaleMoon start page.
https://palemoon.start.me/start

On the second start of Palemoon.
If you go into the PaleMoon>Prefernces>General
Change the home page to:
file:///usr/share/doc/home.htm
Palemoon now always starts on the Puppy home page.

Something in Palemoon is doing this change automatically.
Probably have to live with it.
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected :shock:
YaPI(any iso installer)

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#98 Post by bigpup »

Bionicpup64 7.9.4
Frugal install on USB hard drive, format ext 3, using save folder.
Processor Intel i5-6400 CPU @ 2.70GHz.

I was looking at the RAM usage to see what this version of Puppy may require.

Htop results:

At bootup and and no programs running.
Around 550MB

With only PaleMoon browser running.
Around 750MB.

Looks like a 1GB RAM minimum Puppy.
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected :shock:
YaPI(any iso installer)

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#99 Post by Terry H »

New clean frugal install on laptop Dell Core i3-5005 on USB Flash ext4 format saved to folder. Shutdown and reboot OK.

Looking pretty good at the moment.
bigpup wrote: Very first time you run PaleMoon.
The Puppy home page is shown.
/usr/share/doc/home.htm

Second time you run PaleMoon.
It starts showing the PaleMoon start page.
https://palemoon.start.me/start

On the second start of Palemoon.
If you go into the PaleMoon>Prefernces>General
Change the home page to:
file:///usr/share/doc/home.htm
Palemoon now always starts on the Puppy home page.

Something in Palemoon is doing this change automatically.
Probably have to live with it.
My experience with palemoon is different. I set palemoon to show home page, but regardless of what I have set as home page, it always displays '/usr/share/doc/home.htm'. To get to the home page I have to click the home button.

I set up a start.me customized page, which I have been using and want this page displayed on startup instead of the puppy default home page. As bigpup said, something I have to live with.
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#100 Post by 666philb »

Hi bigpup,

With palemoon i don't think that i'm allowed to change it's default start-page when shipping it with puppy. you are allowed if you compile it yourself and remove all branding like 01micko did. (this used to be the case)

i'm probably being a bit naughty showing the puppy welcome screen once on first launch! :D

as for minimum specs, it definitely needs more oomph than xenialpup.
a cheapo vista ready (it wasn't really vista ready!) core-duo 2gb laptop runs it well.

my crappy netbook 1ghz dualcore (that's 500mhz a core and cpu that's 1cm square) struggles with bionicpup but was just about okish with xenialpup
Bionicpup64 built with bionic beaver packages http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=114311
Xenialpup64, built with xenial xerus packages http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=107331

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Bionicpup64 7.9.4 beta

#101 Post by Billtoo »

I installed to a 64gb usb-3.0 flash drive:

System: Host: puppypc22105 Kernel: 4.14.71 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: JWM 2.3.7 Distro: bionicpup64 7.9.4
Machine: Device: laptop System: Apple product: Macmini6 1 v: 1.0 serial: C07JV98EDWYL
Mobo: Apple model: Mac-031AEE4D24BFF0B1 v: Macmini6 1 serial: C072496085YF1HCAG
BIOS: Apple v: MM61.88Z.0106.B03.1211161202 date: 11/16/2012
CPU: Dual core Intel Core i5-3210M (-MT-MCP-) speed/max: 1843/2501 MHz
Graphics: Card: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller
Display Server: X.Org 1.19.6 driver: intel Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz, 1920x1080@60.00hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ivybridge Mobile version: 4.2 Mesa 18.0.5
Network: Card-1: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM57766 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe driver: tg3
Card-2: Broadcom Limited BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/n driver: bcma-pci-bridge
Drives: HDD Total Size: 577.1GB (2.5% used)
Weather: Conditions: 61 F (16 C) Time: September 25, 2:54 PM EDT
Info: Processes: 145 Uptime: 1:32 Memory: 299.6/16012.9MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.56

I updated PPM and installed favorite applications, kodi now uses the
repositories.
I added "intel_pstate=disable" (no quotes) to the kernel line of the
menu.lst file.

Thanks for the version update.
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#102 Post by artsown »

Frugal installs to hard drives on two different computers ... Dell Optiplex
3010 (i5 four cores four threads) ..... and Dell Dimension E510 (Pentium D
dual core) ... both having 4 gig ram. Installed printer-scanner and temp
monitors. Only problem so far is that psync on version 7.9.4 does not work
either. Sheldonisaac already pointed this out. The psync-2,6,pet I (we) used
on 7.9.3 works on 7.9.4 as well.

Art

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Puppy Event Manager icon oddity

#103 Post by davids45 »

G'day,

Thanks for the feed-back about my puzzlement over the lib directory structures in 64-bit Pups.
I think I'll need to have all-apps-sfs files for each type of 64-bit Pup to try to get around where libs need to go.
I have had missing lib issues with various 32-bit Pups such that my slacko all-apps-sfs has extra libs I don't need in my Debian/Ubuntu Pups' sfs.
But 64-bit may need that extra level of tweaking to get all my apps to run from a single sfs.

Thanks Mike Walsh for the link to your earlier post about the erratic behaviour of BionicPup64's Puppy Event Manager in regard to displaying anything more than a few drive icons.
I used your 'shortcut' instead of going the 'long-way' (Menu>Desktop>....) to get to the icon manager, and trying various number combinations, I could get one to actually work - a single row of separated icons! :shock: :D (screenshot)
Maybe I need to have each parameter divisible by 4? It seemed in a previous episode of this strange behaviour (I can't recall the Pup), using an odd number for any parameter caused the 'pile-up'.
I'll see how this goes with further re-boots to this Pup.

I'm having a problem running wine applications via my all-in-one apps sfs but the other icons on my pinboard (as per screenshot) are working in this now older version of BionicPup64.

Time for testing the next beta :D .

David S.
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#104 Post by Terry H »

Unfortunately still seem to be having some save issues with shutdown / reboot. I have the save interval set to 0 with ask whether to save checked.

When the Save / No save dialog is displayed, intermittently when I hit the Enter Button a '#' appears just below the word Save, following this I can not do anything and the session is not saved. This has happened twice from about 6 shutdown or reboots.

This is with a clean frugal install on USB Flash, using default kernel on Dell core i3-5005u laptop.

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all better now

#105 Post by oldprinter »

downloaded new 7.9.4 iso

made USB stick, added some of my goodies, like firefox 62.0.2, my 49 fonts, gkrellm from PPM, added Avidemux 2.7.1 sfs, and a few others
rebooted several times for check on shut down problems, zero failures, works like it should, good job.

Tom

Pup-SysInfo Hardware Report (Summary), Tue 25 Sep 2018

PC Manufacturer: TOSHIBA
Product Name: Satellite C55t-A
Motherboard Vendor: TOSHIBA
Product Name: Portable PC
BIOS Vendor: INSYDE Corp.
Version: 1.40
Release Date: 04/28/2014

Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU N2820 @ 2.13GHz
Max Speed: 2394 MHz
Current Speed of Core 0:2129 MHz, 1:532 MHz
Core Count: 2
Thread Count: 1

Frequency governor : ondemand
Freq. scaling driver : acpi-cpufreq

l1tf : Not affected
meltdown : Mitigation : PTI
spec_store_bypass : Not affected
spectre_v1 : Mitigation : __user pointer sanitization
spectre_v2 : Mitigation : Full generic retpoline

Linux Kernel: 4.14.71 (x86_64)
Kernel Version: #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Sep 24 15:03:45 BST 2018
Build GCC: 7.3.0

Kernel Command Line:
BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz intel_pstate=disable pmedia=usbflash

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#106 Post by Billtoo »

I installed to a 64gb sandisk flash drive:

System: Host: puppypc25750 Kernel: 4.14.71 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: JWM 2.3.7 Distro: bionicpup64 7.9.4
Machine: Device: desktop Mobo: Acer model: Aspire X3950 serial: U02C120500059
BIOS: American Megatrends v: P01-A3 date: 05/05/2010
CPU: Dual core Intel Core i3 540 (-MT-MCP-) speed/max: 1234/3067 MHz
Graphics: Card: Intel Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller
Display Server: X.Org 1.19.6 driver: intel Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ironlake Desktop version: 2.1 Mesa 18.0.5
Network: Card: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver: r8169
Drives: HDD Total Size: 562.8GB (2.1% used)
Weather: Conditions: 67 F (20 C) Time: September 25, 10:39 PM EDT
Info: Processes: 138 Uptime: 57 min Memory: 326.7/5888.2MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.56

Updated PPM and installed favorite applications.
Connected to a 32" TV via hdmi cable, audio also via hdmi.

It shuts down cleanly,
Works well,
Thanks
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PS1 prompt, desktop icon

#107 Post by sheldonisaac »

Hi, may I ask for help on these items?

When I click the "Terminal" in the tray, I want the result to be like '~> ', rather than 'root# '.

And how to get rid of the desktop icon labeled "Drives", which is 'Puppy drive manager',


Thank you,
Sheldon Isaac
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#108 Post by melon688 »

Menu > Desktop > Psync Time Server Synchronisation > (each NTP) > Sync to time server

Got Error Message.


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psync

#109 Post by sheldonisaac »

melon688 wrote:Menu > Desktop > Psync Time Server Synchronisation > (each NTP) > Sync to time server

Got Error Message.
See the link that artsown posted, at
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 02#1005302
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Bionicpup64 7.9.4 beta

#110 Post by Billtoo »

I installed to a 64gb sandisk flash drive:

System: Host: puppypc2569 Kernel: 4.14.71 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: JWM 2.3.7 Distro: bionicpup64 7.9.4
Machine: Device: desktop System: HP-Pavilion product: GN559AA-ABA a6220n serial: MXF7470DNX
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: Berkeley v: 1.04 serial: X312345678
BIOS: American Megatrends v: 5.13 date: 10/24/2007
CPU: Dual core Intel Core2 Duo E4500 (-MCP-) speed/max: 1914/2200 MHz
Graphics: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Oland [Radeon HD 8570 / R7 240/340 OEM]
Display Server: X.Org 1.19.6 driver: radeon Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz, 1920x1080@60.00hz
OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 6.0, 128 bits) version: 3.3 Mesa 18.0.5
Network: Card: Intel 82566DC-2 Gigabit Network Connection driver: e1000e
Drives: HDD Total Size: 461.6GB (0.8% used)
Weather: Conditions: 68 F (20 C) Time: September 26, 5:03 PM EDT
Info: Processes: 116 Uptime: 8 min Memory: 304.5/3945.1MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.56

Updated PPM and installed favorite applications.
It's hard work for this older computer to do kodi streaming video but
it gets the job done.

Shuts down cleanly.

Thanks for version update.

********************************************************

EDIT: I tested Quirky beaver 8.7.1 on this hp and it uses much less resources when streaming video in Kodi
(see gkrellm screenshot)
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