Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Pizzasgood · Posted: Sat 10 May 2008, 13:00 Post subject:

What types of installs are they? So far I've been testing with a frugal install booted with pfix=ram, but maybe things are different when there's a save file, or if it's a full-hd install.

mtcorbeil · Joined: 09 May 2008 Posts: 5

All 3 computers have Save file with pcPuppyOS files copied on Fat 32 partitions and are booted from floppy disks

GrayGhost · Joined: 28 Mar 2008 Posts: 6 Location: Wisconsin USA

Pizzasgood,
Now that I have manually updated the main.cvd file the daily updates are working fine. Must have been something with that file. Sorry I forgot to tell you last time that I have a frugal install with a non-encrypted save file on a linux ext3 partition. Right now everything seems to be working fine.

Thanks,
GG

mtcorbeil · Joined: 09 May 2008 Posts: 5

I started from scratch and made a new savefile. Good thing pcPuppy doesn't much customizing other than Firefox and adding a wallpaper, then I updated clamav files directly from the web site manually, that went well, but updates still doesn't work, I get this error message "./clam_wrapper: line 11: 5409 Illegal instruction" and clamav directory fills with folders with names like: "clamav-dec968622970595d3727190a2daf9c8f and with files with names like: "clamav-df7b0bc0311490603093ae68715e94c9" and it adds a new folder and file every time I try to update but funny thing is the cvd main and daily files have the correct date and time. I tried to scan a folder and got this error message: "./clam_wrapper: line 11: 5966 Illegal instruction". But what I really don't understand is why it works ok on one the 3 computers??? All 3 have the same pcPuppyOS setup installed on Fat 32 partitions

Pizzasgood · Posted: Thu 15 May 2008, 21:10 Post subject:

Try updating with the command freshclam rather than the menu entry.

I don't see yet what is causing the "Illegal Instruction" error, but I do see that it has issues with spaces. Spaces in files or directories inside the directory being scanned are fine, but spaces in the path leading to the directory you tell it to scan will result in errors. This happens in roughly the same chunks of code that cause the other error, and isn't something that can just be solved by adding quotation marks.

So, I'm going to scrap that chunk and redo it from scratch. I never liked it anyways. Too finicky. This probably won't solve that permissions related bug (I think that's just related to corrupt files), but it should get rid of the clamav_wrapper errors along with the filename problems.

meanwhile, scans can be done manually like this:

mtcorbeil · Joined: 09 May 2008 Posts: 5

Did what you said to update with freshclam and got this error message: "Illegal instructions" without quotes.

mtcorbeil · Joined: 09 May 2008 Posts: 5

Should have added the rest of the message: Clamav update process started at .........
main.cvd is up to date (version...etc...)
downloading daily-7111 [100%]
and then....... Illegal instruction

Pizzasgood · Posted: Sat 17 May 2008, 19:59 Post subject:

I haven't seen that before. It almost sounds like freshclam itself is corrupt. I'll look at it some more when I get some time.

Meanwhile, I've made a patch for clam_wrapper so that it will support paths with spaces. I also corrected a small bug in PET-Be-Gone.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?mode=attach&id=9723
http://www.browserloadofcoolness.com/software/puppy/PETget/petbegone-0.2.pet

puppyluvr

Hello Pizzasgood Very Happy

Id swear I posted a review early in May on this, but I dont see it now sooo...

Installed pcPuppyOS after about 10 minutes. I could tell this was a winner right off..
Did a full HD install on a P3 600mhz 382ram Compaq desktop. A few personal tweaks,
a couple of Browsers later and it settled in nicely. So nicely that I forgot all about it. It has been the only OS running ever since. So the other day I was on it and thought, what Puppy is this? I actually had to check!!! (It was grubbed as Linux on hda4, I actually figured it out from the backgrounds!!!)) It has run so well that I just have not had to think about it!!!
Its like "Set it and Forget it". Very Happy

Seriously, this one is a winner. Not a peep out of it, no
trouble, nothing!!! Installed all kinds of stuff along the way..No problem.. The kids have rebooted it to WinXP and back a few times, no sweat. Customized my grub so I will remember what Puppy I`m on!!!
Also put a reminder on the desktop!!!
To Quote Cartman....SWEET!!!

Pizzasgood · Posted: Sat 14 Jun 2008, 22:59 Post subject:

Good to hear it. Smile

JustGreg · Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 651 Location: Connecticut USA

I have installed pcPuppyOS (full normal Linux to hard disk partition) on my 2goPC (second generation Classmate) and it works well. It is nice to have a full feature Linux to show people.

I ran into one problem while installing using an USB CDROM. The device is a 6x CDROM with USB 1.0 interface. It took to long to copy the large sqs file. The power saving feature of the 2goPC activated and stop the install. The solution, one does a frugal install to a 1 Gigabyte SD card and use that to do the full installation to the hard drive.

The other minor installation problem was Xorg setup did not detect the 800x480 screen resolution. This is not a problem of puppy, The resolution modes are numbered differently on the 2goPC from those of the Classmate/EeePC. The solution is edit the file /etc/resolution fix. For the 800x480 screen using 16 bit color, one changes /etc/resolutionfix to"

Diamond · Joined: 11 Dec 2007 Posts: 141

Hello!

First,thanx for a great distro!Please don't mind,just some thoughts (and bugs)

ClamAV is not working,always showing some wrapper problem.

And finally,problem with all puppy distros,unicode problem.Actually it is problem with cyrillic letters.In Geany there is almost 100% correct,actually,there is one letter that isn't displaying correct.But with firefox,opera and office,there is more problems.In office,some cyrillic text is displaying correct,but it seems that font is "verdana".And I can't find manually that font (?!?!).The other cyrillic texts are displaying not so good.Some letters are good,some are not.Any chance of correcting this bug ?

And oppinion,any chance for some new skin Smile

And any chance of hotpup in next versions of pcpuppyos ?

Pizzasgood · Posted: Sun 06 Jul 2008, 14:55 Post subject:

The clock and calendar can be disabled from Start->Utilities->Toggle. The actual files that start them are in /etc/init.x/. Anything set executable inside that directory will automatically get run with the 'start' option when X starts. The 'toggle' options just toggle the executable bit and updates the menu entry for the toggle option.

The format of the taskbar clock is in /root/.icewm/preferences. There will be a format line where you can modify how the appearance will be (probably commented out to begin with, so remove any '#' on the 'TimeFormat' line).

Diamond · Joined: 11 Dec 2007 Posts: 141

by skins I mean skin for whole distro,not mozilla Smile

JustGreg · Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 651 Location: Connecticut USA

Thanks Pizzasgood for the information. It will allow me to customize pcPuppyOS for the small screen. After I finish, I will post what I did for others to use.