Quirky7-light 32&64 bit - April 2020

[enrique]

I post becouse I was bore. I did not expect you to be happy.

I am no expert on this, point is my main Puppy is BusterDog, with have (no-systemd). I guess for that I get all this weird messages related to sockets.

I did quickly understood. systemd use sockets to allow inter-application communication between programs. So as we install manually with minimal, we end up not installing secondary apps that our installation may need. it seems that every app install a config in /usr/share/dbus-1. I guess to let dbus know that want to also own a socket for internal communication.

Since we did not installed all we get this: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown

What I done some time is to copy a available service config, rename it properly to missing one.

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[D-BUS Service]
Name=org.whateverismising
Exec=  

I know bad boy, but I hate those messages. Be careful not always we can ignore, some applications are requirements.

Yes use the https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/ to get an Idea what they are.

Edit:
GLib-GIO-Message

I did said gvfs because that I recalled seen that. Here is a better explanation suggesting solutions in Ubuntu.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/558446/ ... untu-reins

Best I like is:

Make sure you have the module that does the saving (libdconfsettings.so in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gio/modules/ or /usr/lib/gio/modules/ or wherever you store your GIO modules). On Ubuntu that file is provided by the dconf-gsettings-backend package; reinstalling that one should suffice (sudo aptitude reinstall dconf-gsettings-backend).

So I do like:
apt reinstall dconf-gsettings-backend

if that does not work

apt-get install -f --reinstall dconf-tools libdconf0 libdconf-dbus-1-0 dconf-service

As for pets I guess you need to check those files. look for libdconfsettings.so

[darry19662018]

Found another bug today that plagued Puppy in the Stretch/Puduans era with xcalc crashing xserver.

[jrb]

Found another bug today that plagued Puppy in the Stretch/Puduans era with xcalc crashing xserver.

Good catch Darry. Actually watchdog identified the problem file back in 2017

I have noticed that if you rename /etc/X11/app-defaults/Xcalc.orig then xcalc does not crash X but it's unuseable. So the problem resides in that file.

I found the offender, line 6, and deleted it. Now seems to be working fine. Also works in Stretch, Tahr and I suspect any other Puppies that have this problem, although I see xcalc is missing from some of the newer Puppies.

Attaching a temporary fix. Please test. Will be in the next update.

Cheers, J

[darry19662018]

Working here. Had deleted xcalc but re-installed checked and same behaviour. Then installed your patch and it worked, Xcalc now working normally.

[rockedge]

Hello darry19662018!

I think I ran into the same bug xcalc crashing the X server in the WeeDogLinux (Void Linux)

[darry19662018]

Hello darry19662018!

I think I ran into the same bug xcalc crashing the X server in the WeeDogLinux (Void Linux)

So could be xcalc that had a bug Mmmm will try this out in the Dogs.

[darry19662018]

Well Tried Jessie, Xenial, Bionic, StretchDog and had no such problem running xcalc.

So don't know why this has affected Void version of Weedog.

I now submit this as a bug to see if this is a common problem among'st other distros.

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 58#1055358
and http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 97#1055397

Feel free to submit your experience in Puppies and other Distros.

Noticed by BK in Quirky Pyro. Found this doing a start page search
https://bkhome.org/news/201711/xcalc-crash-fixed.html

[darry19662018]

Tried running pupradio from terminal and found....
line 105 /root/,pupradio/config

So not running at the moment

[enrique]

... I will say that I consider Abiword as a hazard more than an asset.

Interesting comment. Without getting on a fight or details. Why you label it a hazard?

Edit:
I will not defend them. I just want to know what you find hazard of it.

[jrb]

Tried running pupradio from terminal and found....
line 105 /root/,pupradio/config

So not running at the moment

Another good catch. I had never used pupradio before, I'm hard of hearing and most music just doesn't work for me. But I have got it working.

I installed pupradio-0.19.pet from 2013 which is the most recent I could find. It set up and populated the /root/,pupradio/ directory but I still had to create the /root/,pupradio/config text file manually. After that the GUI opened, I chose Xine as my player and 1 out of 8 preset stations still worked. The "Telly www" opened up https://www.squidtv.net/ which I presume works, I don't have the bandwidth to mess with online TV. The "Radio www" link opened up https://www.mikesradioworld.com/ which is in a language for which my OS has no fonts.

I did manage to track down and reset the urls for 5 of the 7 non-working radio presets and also http://www.radiosure.com which will play hundreds of online stations in your browser. Is it worth rebuilding pupradio? I think it might be easier to start from scratch. So I'm removing pupradio. Pmusic will play online radio, MusicSources->RadioStations, but only .mp3 and .ogg streams. Xine will play any of the current streams if you start it from the command line:

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xine http://www.radiofeeds.co.uk/bbcradio4fm.pls

but maybe I just don't know how to use the GUI.

I'll put this on the back burner. Summer is my busy time so it might be a while.

Please let me know if you find anything else broken.

Thanks, J

[jrb]

... I will say that I consider Abiword as a hazard more than an asset.

Interesting comment. Without getting on a fight or details. Why you label it a hazard?

Early on in my Puppy adventures I tried using Abiword several times for professional documents. Insert image-> crash, 3 pages -> crash. My typing isn't fast enough to write off 3 pages of work. I might have gotten around the problems but there are too many good word processors out there.

[darry19662018]

Tried running pupradio from terminal and found....
line 105 /root/,pupradio/config

So not running at the moment

Another good catch. I had never used pupradio before, I'm hard of hearing and most music just doesn't work for me. But I have got it working.

I installed pupradio-0.19.pet from 2013 which is the most recent I could find. It set up and populated the /root/,pupradio/ directory but I still had to create the /root/,pupradio/config text file manually. After that the GUI opened, I chose Xine as my player and 1 out of 8 preset stations still worked. The "Telly www" opened up https://www.squidtv.net/ which I presume works, I don't have the bandwidth to mess with online TV. The "Radio www" link opened up https://www.mikesradioworld.com/ which is in a language for which my OS has no fonts.

I did manage to track down and reset the urls for 5 of the 7 non-working radio presets and also http://www.radiosure.com which will play hundreds of online stations in your browser. Is it worth rebuilding pupradio? I think it might be easier to start from scratch. So I'm removing pupradio. Pmusic will play online radio, MusicSources->RadioStations, but only .mp3 and .ogg streams. Xine will play any of the current streams if you start it from the command line:

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xine http://www.radiofeeds.co.uk/bbcradio4fm.pls

but maybe I just don't know how to use the GUI.

I'll put this on the back burner. Summer is my busy time so it might be a while.

Please let me know if you find anything else broken.

Thanks, J

To be honest Jay I don't use it and don't know who would. Like you say there is pmusic which plays online radio really well and xine - which I was stoked you had included - still a very good player. I agree with removing pupradio , it's inclusion is bit of a waste of time.

I would like to try out Dogradio with this and yradio. I am very happy with this Pup it runs so stable and is a fantastic choice for old hard ware and reminds me of 4.31/4.32 - Again nice effort. Thank you.

[jrb]

I would like to try out Dogradio with this and yradio.

Dogradio wants mplayer and conky but yradio runs out of the box. It asks for xdotool but runs without it. I haven't figured out how to play anything but the presets but I'm sure it can be done. Fred does great work!

[darry19662018]

He certainly does.

[gabtech]

Where can I get jre 64 bit for quirky-light 64

[jrb]

Where can I get jre 64 bit for quirky-light 64

I just downloaded jre-8u241-amd64.sfs from https://yadi.sk/d/Uj-KoBQvxjixH?force_show=1 and it ran a java app for me.

[gabtech]

Thanks jrb for the squash.

[darry19662018]

Notice when running wget the following shows in terminal
/usr/lib/libcrypto.so.1.0.0 - no version available
/usr/lib/libssl.so.1.0.0.0 - no version available

They do exist in /usr/lib

[darry19662018]

Download Dogradio here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/dju ... l.pet?dl=1

Minimal Mplayer: https://sourceforge.net/projects/anitao ... z/download
(Extract and place static mplayer in /usr/bin

You will need conky download one of Fred's
https://fredx181.github.io/StretchDog/i ... 3_i386.deb

[jrb]

Download Dogradio here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/dju ... l.pet?dl=1

Minimal Mplayer: https://sourceforge.net/projects/anitao ... z/download
(Extract and place static mplayer in /usr/bin

You will need conky download one of Fred's
https://fredx181.github.io/StretchDog/i ... 3_i386.deb

Is Dogradio significantly better than Yradio?
I've been enjoying it for the last few days listening to BBC4. Planning on including it in next update.