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EDIT: there was a bug in v2.2.4, fixed at v2.2.5. See another post bellow.

UPDATED: pupsaveconfig-2.2.4
#7may12 - v2.2.3 shinobar: rc.shutdown: refined avoiding re-login (killfuser avoid killing my grand parents)
#20may12 - v2.2.4 shinobar: rc.shutdown: fix was failed to mount cd beacause of the probepart bug (tnx to phil66)

Just short, shinobar : Now i have encountered this problem of re-login also .

Full installation to "Normal HDD Setup" with 2 Win ntfs partitions
and the OEM recovery fat partition - resized -
and made a fourth extended partition with two swaps - one for swap and one for suspend to disk -
and a 6-7 GB ext4 partition with racy-5.3 on it PUPMODE=2 plus Saluki-19 frugal PUPMODE=12 .

I was running the full install several times and it powered off or rebooted ok, and all of a sudden today it started to kill a process that seems to do a re-login, since i have taken out several rm -rf from rc.shutdown and put the rm -rf /tmp into rc.sysinit (together with a mkdir -p /tmp;chmod 1777 /tmp) - so bootcnt.txouch is still there, so no automatic xwin for me .

I first replaced fuser with busybox fuser since busybox seems to honour PID 1 - init automatically . Tjhat worked ok, but i am unsure if that is the right way . Besides PID1 i started to filter `pidof reboot`, `pidof poweroff` and "$$" which seems to work for me .

Besides that, the fuser command leaves a bunch of several dozen <defuncts> @me for some [milli]seconds . I have put a sleep 2 at first line of killzombies function.

Am reading your code now ! Thanks !

Hey,

I'm using this on Slacko 3.3, running from a usb stick, and while it saves on my hard drive fine, Puppy doesn't detect it at boot.

Any ideas?

Ghost Dog wrote:I'm using this on Slacko 3.3, running from a usb stick, and while it saves on my hard drive fine, Puppy doesn't detect it at boot.

If you have 'pmedia=usbflash' boot option, remove this pmedia option.
The boot option is on a file named menu.lst, syslinux.cfg, or extlinux.conf.

Thanks Shino, that did it.

Merci de l'avoir fait.
No bug from my side. Very usefull tool !

I haven't seen any NLS files, so I made a translation to Spanish for version 2.2.4 which I currently use. Note: there are a few lines with provisional translations, I'll post the file with those lines revised later. Also, the AR is just the country chosen for the system, the translation is in standard Spanish and shall work whatever Hispanic country is chosen.

There was a bug in v2.2.4, fixed at v2.2.5.
http://shino.pos.to/linux/puppy/

/etc/rc.d/rc.shutdown-v2.2.5 wrote:#29apr12: do not kill myself to avoid re-login
#7may12 - v2.2.3: avoid killing my grand parents, more verbose under debug mode
#v2.2.4: fix typo
#v2.2.5: fix again killing my grand parents
MYPID=$$
PARENT=$PPID
killfuser() {
[ "$1" ] || return
BADPIDS="`fuser -m $1 2>/dev/null`"
[ "$BADPIDS" ] || return
PSRESULT=$(ps -al)
PSRESULT=$(echo "$PSRESULT"| tr -s ' ' | cut -f4,5,14 -d' ')
[ "$VERBOSE" = 'debug' ] && echo "MYPID=$MYPID, PARENT=$PARENT"
for ONEBAD in $BADPIDS
do
[ "$ONEBAD" = "$MYPID" ] && continue
[ "$ONEBAD" = "$PARENT" ] && continue
echo "$PSRESULT" | grep -w "$ONEBAD" | grep -qw -E "$PARENT|poweroff|reboot" && continue
if [ "$VERBOSE" ]; then
[ "$VERBOSE" = 'debug' ] && echo "$PSRESULT" | grep -w $ONEBAD
echo -n "Killing process $ONEBAD..."
if [ "$VERBOSE" = 'debug' ]; then
echo -n ", or skip(S)? " ; read R
R=$(echo $R | tr 's' 'S' | cut -b1)
[ "$R" = 'S' ] && continue
else
echo > /dev/console
fi
fi
kill $ONEBAD
sleep 1
kill -9 $ONEBAD 2>/dev/null
sync
done
}

Note that pupsaveconfig-2.2.5.pet does not have NLS. pupsaveconfig_NLS is coming soon.

Please see my post here
This doesn't happen to me in latest Precise, Slacko or Wary, even with PupShutdown installed.

Thank you Shin, it is a great little program, works exactly like it is described and it is what I was looking for. I am using 5.3.1.

Again, thanks

I installed to slacko5.5, Likely worked, I change to -0 (do not save). But,when I install apps (in another day), why it save at pupsave file without run savepupsave ?
Sorry for my English.

mhanifpriatama wrote:I installed to slacko5.5, Likely worked, I change to -0 (do not save). But,when I install apps (in another day), why it save at pupsave file without run savepupsave ?
Sorry for my English.

It is the fault of the petget (Puppy Package Manager).
One of the solution is to use the petget-20120418.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=64708

Hello shinobar,

I'm ok to translate pupsaveconfig into French.

Question: Can I use the file http://shino.pos.to/linux/puppy/pupsaveconfig.pot, it is updated for version 2.2.5?

Sincerely,

ASRI éducation wrote:Can I use the file http://shino.pos.to/linux/puppy/pupsaveconfig.pot, it is updated for version 2.2.5?

No problem, but i have made it updated.

shinobar wrote:

ASRI éducation wrote:Can I use the file http://shino.pos.to/linux/puppy/pupsaveconfig.pot, it is updated for version 2.2.5?

No problem, but i have made it updated.

Ok !

I tested FR translation with PupsaveConfig v2.2.5 and Precise Puppy v5.4.92.
This seems ok.
Cordialement,

Working in Carolina lite I just noticed that the option to create a 2fs/3fs/4fs only works when I create the personal save file immediately after the first boot from an iso (or pfix=ram).

But when I first make localization / keyboard adjustments, perhaps add some software etc, and then attempt to create a personal save file it fails. First I can not make it larger than 0kb, plus the options for 3fs and 4fs disappear. In this stage a 2fs and 3fs but not 4fs can only be created after ctrl-alt-backspace and the reboot command.

This is both in Carolina and in carolina lite (frugally installed).

I think this is a but in PupSaveConfig 2.2.5 but I am not sure.

Dromeno wrote:But when I first make localization / keyboard adjustments

What is your locale?

Explanations given in the first topic. congratulations. pupsaveconfig is described step by step.
If my little video can help too here it is
This video was a memo for myself, so it's a french spoken one, i Make it better right now
click there
Improved, but i join some music, no explanations needed, because everything is said upper.
I have some problems shutting down Puppy Night LXDE. Nothing prooved that pupsaveconfig is the reason.