Puppy 3.00 bug reports here

[nic2109]

I have had three different problems with USB flash drive installations, but I'm not sure whether they are different problems or different symptoms of a single problem.

1) Puppy 3.0 final installed on a 1Gb flash drive with a 256Mb heavy encryption save file. Couldn't install EZpup-3.0 - too little space to expand the archive.

I tried to expand the save file by an additional 512Mb, but then Puppy wouldn't boot.

Re-installed into second setup.

2) Puppy 3.0 final installed on 1Gb flash drive as an HD install using the whole drive.

Same problem - insufficient space to expand EZpup-3.0 .PET archive.

Installed into third setup: a 2Gb flash drive with a 512 Mb save-file with heavy encryption.

Same problem. Tried to expand the save file by an additional 512Mb and re-boot.

3) Puppy 3.0 final on 2Gb flash drive with heavy encryption save file and a queued request to expand the save-file at next re-boot.

Re-booted OK but ignored the expand request. Still won't install EZpup-3.0.



SOLVED
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I don't actually know WHY it worked when previous methods didn't, but installation via MU's PSI application (aka "Puppy Software Installer") worked perfectly.

Also; it appears that not expanding encrypted save files is a feature not a bug! I read somewhere that Barry plans to change that, so it may appear in 3.02 or 3.1.

[gray]

Just a quickie : gxine wont play ogg files - demuxer not found.

replaced the dmx file with one from 2.17 & it works -obviously the version in Puppy 3.0 is f****d.

[RickyVaio]

Regarding my /bin/sh:can't access tty;job control turned off problems, I fixed it specifying the partition grub had to work on in ALL lines in menu.lst

My entry now looks like this:

title Puppy
rootverify (hd0,1)
kernel (hd0,1)/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 PMEDIA=satahd
initrd (hd0,1)/initrd.gz

I am now typing this from Puppy 3...

HTH
RickyVaio

[wuwei]

When running Puppy 3.00 as a LiveCD I continue to find these problems, even after the PPPOE-fix. (My internet connects through a DSL modem, no router)
Roaring Penguin starts and connects, but Firefox doesn't get access to the internet, neither does Thunderbird.
Same problem occurs in Firehydrant and TMXprism3BETA.
TMXprism3 doesn't even start Thunderbird, neither from the menu, nor a changed desktop icon, nor the console. Also why does TMX use the old mut again? The new one in 2.17 was much more pleasant to look at.

None of this occured in any version of 2.17 I have tested, not Puppy, not TMX, NOP, etc.
Could you please address these issues? Guess this is the 3rd time I have posted this.
Otherwise I am very pleased with Puppy, the 2.17 versions that is. You are doing an excellent job.

[barker]

seems to have been a problem with this particular usb pendrive (although it worked with previous versions). Using a USB pendrive with only 1 partition solved the problem.

Hi I've used puppy's universal installer several times before, and never had problems- but with 3.0 it does not seem to work.
however my pendrive is formatted (fat16, ext2, ext3, fat32, one partition, two partitions, bootable flag, no flag - formatted in windows, formatted with linux, partitioned with gparted, or fdisk, or cfdisk (you see I've tried a few options Wink) it is only recognised as 'superfloppy formatted with ext3 - no files are copied across (although the operation takes some time and uses both the CD-drive and hard disk (swap?)). No options to install a boot loader or make the disk bootable appear afterwards.

Has anyone else had this problem?
Installing on ATA hard-drive no problem.

barker

[ecomoney]

Just a quick polish, when booting from the cd "puppy pfix=ram" to boot into memory and ignore any save files, the loading screen still says "searching for save files".

[cb88]

if you restart jwm while the menu is being rewriten (as when a dotpup is being installed) jwm gets really messed up

[willhunt]

somehow I broke my new puppy
anyone know if this is a 3.0 problem
or something I've done?
here is the error I get
# kp
couldn't load file "/usr/lib/tcl8.5/gnocl-0.9.91/gnocl.so": /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: cairo_pdf_surface_create
while executing
"load /usr/lib/tcl8.5/gnocl-0.9.91/gnocl.so"
("package ifneeded Gnocl 0.9.91" script)
invoked from within
"package require Gnocl"
(file "/usr/sbin/kp" line 16)
#

/usr/lib/tcl8.5/gnocl-0.9.91/gnocl.so is there and there is no .wh. files
???

[Leon]

When running Puppy 3.00 as a LiveCD I continue to find these problems, even after the PPPOE-fix. (My internet connects through a DSL modem, no router)
Roaring Penguin starts and connects, but Firefox doesn't get access to the internet, neither does Thunderbird.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 002#147002

[ecomoney]

There is no validation when choosing the pup_save.2fs file at bootup, entering a numberd choice not on the list causes puppy to load into RAM. Should there be validation at this point? What would happen if the user booted into ram and then at shutdown chose the same name for a pup_file? Would this cause data to be overwritten or would the write fail and the session be lost?

[edoc]

I tried one of the solutions for 3.00 Frugal on my laptop with W2K and it trashed the
w2K boot if not the install.

Windows 2000 could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
,windows 2000 root>\system32\ntoskrn1.exe
Please reinstall a copy of the above file.

Since I don't know what broke it I can go ahead and see about finding and replacing
that W2K file but may just break it again!

Anyone seen this before?

[GatorDog]

somehow I broke my new puppy
anyone know if this is a 3.0 problem
or something I've done?
here is the error I get
# kp
couldn't load file "/usr/lib/tcl8.5/gnocl-0.9.91/gnocl.so":
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol:
cairo_pdf_surface_create
while executing
"load /usr/lib/tcl8.5/gnocl-0.9.91/gnocl.so"
("package ifneeded Gnocl 0.9.91" script)
invoked from within
"package require Gnocl"
(file "/usr/sbin/kp" line 16)
#

/usr/lib/tcl8.5/gnocl-0.9.91/gnocl.so is there and there is no .wh. files
???

Menu/Multimedia/Puppy Sound Mixer doesn't run. If I try to start
it in a terminal ( pvolume-mixer.tcl), I get the same error as above
except the last line is - (file "/usr/sbin/pvolume-mixer.tcl" line 17).
Also, I get the same error as above with "kp".

Pup 3.01 w/ EZpup 3.0

rod

[luck_gh0st]

same here === couldn't load file "/usr/lib/tcl8.5/gnocl-0.9.91/gnocl.so

Pvolume nor kp work but if I play a song in Gxine , the sound does work....
alsamixer works too.....

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[luck_gh0st]

Oooooo k I've been racking my brains all night on this, and I found a cheap , dirty way to fix the above problem....
Simply put your Puppy 300 CD in and in the menu's setup tab use the puppy universal installer, do a Full install, and Upgrade, and when it asks about installing grub, just cancel.
now pmixer and the process killer are back!
I wonder what happened? something that I did notice was that everyone with this prob had used the EZpup, but it could just be coincidence.
Puppy is STILL the best!

[alienjeff]

Please resize screenshots. Sheesh.

[ecomoney]

nice piece of hacking there! It works thats what counts. Perhaps

http://www.phpbbhacks.com/download/7842

I there a volunteer who would be willing to summarize these problems and make a list, and check which ones still exist in 3.02 when it comes out? All reported bugs in 3.02 should be ironed out in 3.03ce.

Thanks

[nic2109]

Please resize screenshots. Sheesh.

Good idea. What is the tool/command

[WhoDo]

Please resize screenshots. Sheesh.

Good idea. What is the tool/command

mtPaint and image>scale canvas. I find 800x600 is plenty for the forum, and if you use http://www.tinypic.com they don't take up space either.

Hope that helps

[alienjeff]

Is there a volunteer who would be willing to summarize these problems and make a list, and check which ones still exist in 3.02 when it comes out? All reported bugs in 3.02 should be ironed out in 3.03ce.

There was one such volunteer. And a "bug reporting thingy."

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 831#129831

Then came a developer's statement - an amicable divorce between official and CE versions.

Now a volunteer is needed to weed through the forum for bugs instead of one of those troublesome bug reporting thingies ...

In the immortal words of Peter Boehnert, "Ready. Fire. Aim."

Pass the beer nuts.

[ecomoney]

Yes, I recall being shown that, it was a shame. Bug reporting/handling is really important and its one of the things that has been pointed out many times as needing improvement in the development of puppy. Since this is the community edition then the community can help with this one. Ive started a request for a bug "SWAT" team here, to compile a thorough list of the things that will need fixing before the community edition in a more methodical way than just reporting via the forum (although this is simple and easy for newbies to do, and bugs do need an easy way of being reported.)

Barry is doing his bit by making the 3.01, and 3.02 version bug fix releases to make an already quite stable core for the next CE edition. "We can use this to iron out the final creases" as well as providing new features that the wider community have asked for.

The request for SWAT members can be found here