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Puppy 4.1.2 (2.6.25.16 kernel) final - bug reports
Posted: Mon 08 Dec 2008, 09:10
by technosaurus
Announcement 4.1.2
Feedback for 4.1.2
Please post any bug reports or any other feedback about Puppy 4.1.1 to the forum:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/
There is a special thread for discussing the Network Wizard:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=31522
There are some extra drivers posted here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=34159
If you have a Asus EeePC or MSI Win U100 mini-notebook, look at this thread.
1st Bug: some text files try to open in vi
Fix:
edit /etc/xdg/rox.sourceforge.net/text
change code to:
Code: Select all
#!/bin/sh
exec xterm -e geany "$@"
Posted: Mon 08 Dec 2008, 18:04
by Caneri
Posted: Mon 08 Dec 2008, 21:53
by exProphecy
I thought this error was fixed in 4.1.1. But I just upgraded to 4.1.2 and I'm getting this message when copying FROM root TO a mounted drive.
'/mnt/home/misc/bookmarks12.8.08.html' already exists - overwrite? Yes
cp: preserving permissions for `/mnt/home/misc/bookmarks12.8.08.html': Operation not permitted
Failed to copy '/root/my-documents/bookmarks12.8.08.html'
Done
There was one error.
Posted: Mon 08 Dec 2008, 22:11
by exProphecy
In Seamonkey, I am able to open "Preferences" once and when I close and reopen "Preferences" the second time, I am unable to. I must close Seamonkey first to be able to access "Preferences" again.
Also, in Seamonkey, how come the Privacy & Security tab is empty?
Xorg works in 4.1.1, not in 4.1.2
Posted: Wed 10 Dec 2008, 02:38
by pa_mcclamrock
I just got the puppy 4.1.2 (non-retro) ISO from ibiblio, burned it to a CD, and booted from it--until Xorg failed to work, even after I manually gave it exactly the same configuration as I have with 4.1.1 (non-retro), where it works fine. Oddly, the X test on 4.1.2 worked fine too--but after I exited with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace and entered "xwin," I got the message saying "This script will run X Windows for you," but it didn't. All I got was the prompt again.Does anybody know what the problem might be? Xorg has always worked for me before, even on Puppy 1.0.7 (or whatever my 1.x version was) back in 2005. I'm now back to 4.1.1, and Xorg is behaving itself as it always has before.
David McClamrock
Posted: Wed 10 Dec 2008, 03:31
by technosaurus
I cannot duplicate your seamonkey bug - works fine for me
As for cp failing can you post the code you typed that is failing?
Video - try copying your xorg.conf from 4.1.1 to 4.1.2
Posted: Wed 10 Dec 2008, 04:08
by exProphecy
technosaurus wrote:I cannot duplicate your seamonkey bug - works fine for me
As for cp failing can you post the code you typed that is failing?
Video - try copying your xorg.conf from 4.1.1 to 4.1.2
Can you try the bug I posted before the Seamonkey one? Try mounting something and copying files onto it.
Posted: Wed 10 Dec 2008, 04:42
by Flash
exProphecy, the 'copy bug' has been around since at least 4.1. The file(s) seem always to be correctly copied or moved even though Puppy reports that they weren't, so I haven't reported it.
Posted: Wed 10 Dec 2008, 04:55
by exProphecy
Oh yea I noticed they were copied correctly but how come it says the message? It's more of a little nuisance than a real problem. Is there a way to fix it?
Also, it seems to not appear for me in 4.1.1. It appears for me in 4.1 and 4.1.2.
Posted: Wed 10 Dec 2008, 22:04
by Wolf Pup
Puppy will not boot via usb. Gives "Missing Operating System" on boot.
Posted: Thu 11 Dec 2008, 08:33
by zigbert
1.)
I clicked on several small *.pet files in rox.
They all installed, but jwm crashed at next restart.
After replaced the .jwmrc, jwm worked.
What happend? My guess would be that:
- All parallel petget processes calls for the fixmenus script.
- If unlucky (as me) some of processes called the fixmenus script NEARLY at the same time.
- The fixmenus scripts write a fresh .jwmrc, and if there are 2 (or more) writers, they would easy corrupt the strictly format in .jwmrc.
2.)
Petget still fails when trying to install a *.pet from a directory with spaces in directory-name.
I have reported this several times for the latest releases, so I guess it is not considered as a bug.
Sigmund
Posted: Sat 13 Dec 2008, 19:08
by PaulBx1
In the Xvesa video wizard, for every resolution listed, there is 1 resolution for 16 bit color and two listed for 24 bit color.
I'm guessing this bug goes back a ways.
Posted: Sun 14 Dec 2008, 12:16
by gerry
Puppy 4.1.2 RETRO.
Tried to do a hard drive full install. Universal installer refused, because it says Puppy 301 is installed on the chosen partition, and the partition is mounted and cannot be unmounted.
Puppy 301 was there, a long time ago, but the partition has been deleted by gparted, written all zeroes by Killdisk, new partion created and formatted. All this twice.
Rox shows an empty partition, Pmount and gparted both show the partition unmounted. Grub exists somewhere (MBR?), with a menu in a Debian partition. If I boot Debian, the Grub menu only shows Debian.
Gerry
Broadcom Wireless
Posted: Mon 15 Dec 2008, 12:20
by NathanO
4.1.2 does not see the Broadcomm wireless card. 4.1.1 does detect it and loads the b43 module. HP Pavillion zv6000 that has had the wireless card work with versions 3.X.
Posted: Mon 15 Dec 2008, 17:03
by friednoodle
This is from Barry at
http://puppylinux.com/download/release-4.1.2.htm,
note the bit about copying to vfat filesystems. I have gotten into the
habit of putting a partition with ext2 or ext3 on my usbsticks to
get around such trouble. Windows using friends might find it a bit antisocial but it works for me.
Version 4.1.1
Heh heh, I'm still "leader" for this bugfix release. There are a few niggly things in 4.1 that I wanted to fix. I strictly avoided any changes from 4.1, only applied bugfixes that were really needed or highly desirable. These fixes include: mouse detection, touchpad tapping, loading extra SFS files, DVB USB firmware, old Network Wizard, GPRS messsage, desktop drive icon renaming, desktop drive icon realigning, check dependencies of installed PET packages, ALSA shutdown,
ROX error message when copying from Linux to vfat filesystem, improved support for widescreen resolutions, remaster-CD improved, rxvt terminal pasting, and many network setup fixes especially for wireless (including ndiswrapper). Details on all of these fixes can be found by going to my blog,
http://puppylinux.com/blog, and do a search for "(SP1)" in the title
.
Posted: Tue 16 Dec 2008, 19:48
by jrb
rdate -s time-a.nist.gov (or other sites) resets my timezone to GMT+8 (Perth, Au) and sets the time to Perth time. See:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=36730
Trackpad and keyboard eror for MacBook
Posted: Thu 18 Dec 2008, 03:45
by PuppyMac
I downloaded Puppy 4.1.2 onto a MacBook however the trackpad does not work at all. When I get a text editor up and running, the keyboard repeats the first letter inputted into the system and does not repeating the text.
Thoughts?
Posted: Thu 18 Dec 2008, 22:41
by Botanic
...not really a bug but sth quite annoying since version 2.16 at least :
Xarchive window is too little when opened, we need to extend it every time or click the arrow-down button to access "Extract"
EDIT: this will actually depend on the gtk theme used, but there's an issue anyway
Posted: Thu 18 Dec 2008, 23:56
by Béèm
Flash wrote:exProphecy, the 'copy bug' has been around since at least 4.1. The file(s) seem always to be correctly copied or moved even though Puppy reports that they weren't, so I haven't reported it.
Get indeed the same issue.
Altho I am happy that the move/copy seems to be ok, it makes people uneasy as an error message is an indication that something went wrong.
So I think the issue should be taken care of.
Posted: Sat 20 Dec 2008, 17:12
by Botanic
"Set global font size" isn't working. It only changes the size of characters in the taskbar and the pinboard.