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Puppy 3.00 bug reports here
Posted: Tue 02 Oct 2007, 21:42
by Leon
1. It is impossible to boot Puppy 3.00 using frugal install with psubdir parameter. The boot process stops after this message is shown on the screen:
Searching for Puppy files in computer disk drives
After long search the boot process stops with this message:
/bin/sh:can't access tty;job control turned off
The only way to make frugal install to work for me is to move pup_300.sfs, zdrv_222.sfs and pup_save.2fs file to the root directory of the same partition where /Bp300 subdirectory with vmlinuz and initrd.gz file reside.
This is Puppy-3.00 boot section from my menu.lst:
# Boot Puppy Linux
title Puppy-3.00, idehd, /Bp300
rootnoverify (hd0,4)
kernel /Bp300/vmlinuz PMEDIA=idehd
initrd /Bp300/initrd.gz
boot
2. When trying to start my ADSL internet connection with Roaring Penguin after some time this message is shown on the screen:
Error starting connection: TIMED OUT
The Network Wizard properly detects 1 alive 'eth0' network interface but can't properly configure 'eth0'.
I also installed and tried dhcpcd-2.0.4. The Network Wizard
shows that network configuration of 'eth0' is successful but my ADSL internet connection using Roaring Penguin still can't be established.
I haven't this problem with any version prior to Puppy 3.xx.
Posted: Tue 02 Oct 2007, 22:19
by alienjeff
USB
Posted: Wed 03 Oct 2007, 01:36
by RPM
HELP AJ,
I allowed 3.00 to update 2.16.1 on USB flash and now my USB mouse, keyboard are not recognized and it now does not recognize my wireless card.
more whiskey seems to help but only a little.
Posted: Wed 03 Oct 2007, 01:45
by alienjeff
RPM: As your lawyer, I strongly advise you to continue drinking. After consuming a sufficient amount of whiskey, write a thank you note to Barry. That way he'll be sure to know how you really feel about v3.00 ... -aj
Posted: Wed 03 Oct 2007, 04:24
by Wolf Pup
gxine still experences freezng when playing mp3 files, after installing ezpup gxine full screen works, but still freezes after a while.
Puppy 3.00-seamonkey
Posted: Wed 03 Oct 2007, 07:00
by eccentric
Barry Sir,
As far as i have tested P3.00 the only thing not working is
PPPoE. it was working in beta. CUPS is working with my HPdeskjet920c
The network eth0 is working.
Thank you for your Puppy. Michael.
Posted: Wed 03 Oct 2007, 07:17
by cthisbear
RPM: As your lawyer, I strongly advise you to continue drinking. After consuming a sufficient amount of whiskey, write a thank you note to Barry. That way he'll be sure to know how you really feel about v3.00 ... -aj "
A real mongrel act that....but I had a real good laugh all the same.
Chris
Re: Puppy 3.00 bug reports here
Posted: Wed 03 Oct 2007, 10:22
by BarryK
Leon wrote:This is Puppy-3.00 boot section from my menu.lst:
# Boot Puppy Linux
title Puppy-3.00, idehd, /Bp300
rootnoverify (hd0,4)
kernel /Bp300/vmlinuz PMEDIA=idehd
initrd /Bp300/initrd.gz
boot
leon, this line needs the psubdir parameter:
kernel /Bp300/vmlinuz pmedia=idehd psubdir=Bp300
...although Puppy should have found the files without that.
Posted: Wed 03 Oct 2007, 10:25
by Nevermore
i have been unable to bypass xorg autoprobing
ì've been using 2.14, but the only way to make it work was to choose xorg, ctrl-c to stop the autoprobe, then xorgconfig and fill it with my card details (xvesa never worked)
with 3.0 seems that is not possible anymore, while i am able to run xorgconfig and correctly store details of my card, when i send startx i go back to the xorg-xvesa selection window
is there a way to force the manual xorgconfig so allowing me to get X?
thanks
Puppy 3.00 bug
Posted: Wed 03 Oct 2007, 11:29
by wuwei
I confirm the bug on pppoe as reported by Leon, eccentric and panzerpuppy.
Roaring Penguin does not work for my DSL-Modem. An internet connection is not possible. This occurs on a fresh CD and on an upgraded one.
The bug was not present on 2.17.1, it was on 2.21 and now on 3.00.
Hope you will figure this out, otherwise an upgrade to 3.00 is not feasible.
Further: When upgrading my USB-install to 3.00 I cannot run a custom theme in JWM, which works fine in 2.17.1.
zygo
Posted: Wed 03 Oct 2007, 12:00
by zygo
makesquashfs-lzma is missing. How can I compress my remastered pup_222.sfs using lzma?
Re: Puppy 3.00 bug reports here
Posted: Wed 03 Oct 2007, 12:50
by Leon
BarryK wrote:
Leon wrote:
This is Puppy-3.00 boot section from my menu.lst:
# Boot Puppy Linux
title Puppy-3.00, idehd, /Bp300
rootnoverify (hd0,4)
kernel /Bp300/vmlinuz PMEDIA=idehd
initrd /Bp300/initrd.gz
boot
leon, this line needs the psubdir parameter:
kernel /Bp300/vmlinuz pmedia=idehd psubdir=Bp300
...although Puppy should have found the files without that.
Barry,
I know that it shold be:
kernel /Bp300/vmlinuz pmedia=idehd psubdir=Bp300
but as I wrote the 'psubdir' parameter became unusable for me. I had to omit it to make Puppy work.
With this settings:
# Boot Puppy Linux
title Puppy-3.00, idehd, /Bp300
rootnoverify (hd0,4)
kernel /Bp300/vmlinuz PMEDIA=idehd psubdir=Bp300
initrd /Bp300/initrd.gz
boot
the boot process stops after long search with this message shown on the screen:
Searching for Puppy files in computer disk drives
/bin/sh:can't access tty;job control turned off
Posted: Wed 03 Oct 2007, 14:10
by NathanO
gxine 0.5.11 when trying to do File Open causes x to crash.
Drag a file to it and it works, but will some times give an error message at the end of the file. This last time it froze up while trying to verify error message and will not restart.
Did not have problems in older 2.xx Puppy.
Will try a cold reboot when I get back from the post office and paying bills and see what happens.
Small Bugs
Posted: Wed 03 Oct 2007, 18:12
by RMP
Hi
Just a couple of things causing me problems.
1. Gxine. I listen to internet radio and if I use links on web pages and get presented with the dialog box to use the default madia player it will open Gxine but it will freeze before it has buffered anything. If I copy the link and paste it into Gxine it plays fine. This is with WMA files.
2. I use a wireless USB dongle with the Zydas chipset. WMA was fine in 2.17.1 but it is not possible in 3.00. The dialog states it is not possible to use WPA with the 1211rw module. It worked perfectly in 2.17.1.
Thanks
Seamonkey loading times
Posted: Wed 03 Oct 2007, 18:44
by veronicathecow
Not sure if a bug but 3.00 final with 128mb or ram loads seamonkey in 55 seconds on PIII 650Mhz.
However with and extra 64mb ram bringing it to 192mb RAM it loads in just 10 seconds!
Any thoughts?
Thanks
Seamonkey 1.1.2 extension installs fail
Posted: Wed 03 Oct 2007, 18:53
by flagman
I attempted to install Noscript and Mouse Gesture extensions to Seamonkey 1.1.2. Both download and then fail with error 201.
Same behavior under betas 2 and 3
I've yet to identify this error code, so I can't be sure who or what's at fault. Both these extensions installed and worked under 2.17 (Seamonkey 1.0.8.
I pulled down and installed Seamonkey 1.1.4 to /usr/lib/seamonkey, modified a few links and it works well.
Extensions install perfectly under 1.1.4.
Hope this helps.
Posted: Wed 03 Oct 2007, 19:40
by linuxcbon
BUG 1
I got 2.17 installed on old laptop. I try to boot from cd with 3.0 with pfix=ram.... Couldnt boot : error messages :
/tmp/bootinit.log
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mount: /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: mounting /dev/loop0 on /pup_ro2 failed
kernel log
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end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 160100
Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 40025
SQUASHFS error: sb_bread failed reading block 0x133c0
SQUASHFS error: unabe to read uid/gid table
Pausing for 60 seconds...
Setup the Unionfs layered filesystem...
Perform a 'switch_root' to the new Unionfs filesystem...Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
with ALSA sound Wizard :
it searches for sound cards.
no PnP or PCI card found, thats normal.
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probes ISA cards.
starting snd-opl3sa2
/usr/sbin/alsactl no sound card found
amixer mixer attach default
in /etc/modprob.conf I got :
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# --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
# --- ALSACONF verion 1.0.8 ---
alias snd-card-0 snd-opl3sa2
alias sound-slot-0 snd-opl3sa2
options snd-opl3sa2 fm_port=-1 midi_port=-1 port=0x370 wss_port=0x530 isapnp=0 dma1=1 dma2=0 irq=5
# --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
Posted: Wed 03 Oct 2007, 19:56
by linuxcbon
file:///usr/share/doc/home.htm is not updated
Developer News is old address.
Puppy discussion forums too.
Posted: Wed 03 Oct 2007, 20:24
by ArnaudN
Hi everyone,
Two problems I have seen:
My laptop has a bcm43xx wifi chipset.
It is well recognized, but after having entered my WEP key and successfully checked the network, there is no way to get an IP adress with DHCP...
Another problem: I usually play with swf games on my local hard drive. I specially have a kind of reference "curveball.swf" which is a highly dynamic ping pong game. This game is very fluid with puppy 2.16 but is rather jerky with 3.00 final (it already was in beta2 but I could not report it): The animation gets slow 1 second about every 5 seconds which makes the game rather hard to play
ArnaudN
Posted: Wed 03 Oct 2007, 21:16
by iandel
G'day,
I like the 3.00 release except for three things.
1. It doesn't detect eth0 or eth1 on one computer (Desktop with asus m/board) or eth0 on the other (Gateway laptop) or load the modules (or drivers or whatever they are in the wizard for network). These worked fine previoulsy (2.14).
2. My USB mouse didn't get detected on the desktop. Even when I dropped out of X and tried to select the mouse in xorgwizard it kept drpping back to PS2. So I have to use an old M$ ps2 mouse.
3. The available disk space thingy in the bottom right hand corner states that I have no disk space, when there is over 40gig left.
I reloaded 2.14 on another partition and have internet access as it was before, with both eth0 and eth1 detected.
Apart from these bits not working I like the upgrade. Help.
EDIT...
All these things work fine when booting from the CD with pfix=ram,clean. They don't work after it is installed on the hrad drive.