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Wary Puppy 5.1.1 Final
Posted: Sun 20 Feb 2011, 22:37
by BarryK
Here is my blog announcement:
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02149
Feedback welcome...
EDIT: Wary 5.1.1 released, 25 Feb. 2011
This thread was started with the release of 5.1. Discussion of 5.1.1, which is a minor bugfix release, starts on page 3 of this thread.
5.1.1 Blog announcement:
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02158
PPM cursor
Posted: Mon 21 Feb 2011, 02:07
by broomdodger
PPM cursor
Hi Barry
Puppy Package Manager when no package found
The cursor shows when over the desktop,
then disappears behind the main PPM window,
then shows again if you hit the
"Sorry, no matching package name" red dialog.
Ahhh! switching back to PPM from Seamonkey after copying the text in the red dialog without closing the dialog, the whole PPM window is blank. If I move it out of the way I can see the red dialog, click "okay" then PPM window displays.
Is it possible to have <return> trigger the "okay" as well as the mouse?
-Bill
Posted: Mon 21 Feb 2011, 05:04
by James C
Fresh manual frugal install of Wary 510 on my main Linux box.Display,audio and internet were all working on initial boot.
Added several pets including Pwidgets and Pidgin,all are working fine. No real problems at all. Looking good here.
Posted: Mon 21 Feb 2011, 06:32
by Sage
The cursor shows when over the desktop,
then disappears behind the main PPM window,
Have reported this twice before - nil response.
Posted: Mon 21 Feb 2011, 07:35
by Terryphi
Everything tested is working satisfactorily after upgrade from 504. Locale settings are now saved correctly on upgrade except LC_COLLATE for reason I described on BK's blog. However, the LC_COLLATE=en_US setting does not seem to break anything in the way that some other locale settings did.
Thanks for another great version.
Posted: Mon 21 Feb 2011, 08:48
by BongoPlayer
I tried to update using Delta files:
2b696ac4aa031e97e6f890529652bcd8 wary-504-k2.6.32.28.iso
e0ef5673eccd5ef4ee13cfd717cc48ba wary_devx_504.sfs
9c99aff9cb70599e8bd51c39c442604f wary-500.iso___wary-510-k2.6.32.28.iso.delta
f8fd6251b6aa02a4aa7770b0765c1ce0 wary_devx_500.sfs___wary_devx_510.sfs.delta
Got the following in both cases:
"ERROR! failed to recreate the new file. Error message:
xdelta3: target window checksum mismatch: XD3_INVALID_INPUT
okay"
P.S. All 4 checksums verified
jp
Posted: Mon 21 Feb 2011, 12:00
by peebee
It looks like you are trying to update from 504 to 510....
The deltas are for 500 to 510....
Posted: Mon 21 Feb 2011, 12:58
by drblock2
I have been trying to revitalize my old IBM ThinkPad A21m (Pentium III - 750 MHz, 128 MHz ram).
This machine will run Puppy 4.2.0 and Puppy 4.3.1 with the 2.6.21.7 kernel, but hangs on a frugal install of Wary 5.1 k2.6.31.14 after the first two lines following "Booting command list:"
Here is the grub entry with the same configuration that works on Puppy 4.3.1:
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title Wary 5.1
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
kernel (hd0,0)/wary510/vmlinuz PMEDIA=idehd acpi=off PDEV1=hda1 psubdir=wary510
initrd (hd0,0)/wary510/initrd.gz
boot
Is there any thing that I can try to get Wary 5.1 to boot?
Posted: Mon 21 Feb 2011, 15:34
by peebee
drblock2 wrote:I have been trying to revitalize my old IBM ThinkPad A21m (Pentium III - 750 MHz, 128 MHz ram).
This machine will run Puppy 4.2.0 and Puppy 4.3.1 with the 2.6.21.7 kernel, but hangs on a frugal install of Wary 5.1 k2.6.31.14 after the first two lines following "Booting command list:"
Here is the grub entry with the same configuration that works on Puppy 4.3.1:
Code: Select all
title Wary 5.1
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
kernel (hd0,0)/wary510/vmlinuz PMEDIA=idehd acpi=off PDEV1=hda1 psubdir=wary510
initrd (hd0,0)/wary510/initrd.gz
boot
Is there any thing that I can try to get Wary 5.1 to boot?
My even older Thinkpad 600 with a PII 266MHz cpu, 196MB ram and a 2GB swap partition runs wary510 K2.6.32.28 fine frugal install with the following grub4dos entry:
Code: Select all
title puptest
find --set-root --ignore-floppies /puptest/initrd.gz
kernel /puptest/vmlinuz pmedia=atahd psubdir=puptest pfix=fsck
initrd /puptest/initrd.gz
[edit]Just realised it says atahd - this is what grub4dos generated and it works - but of course it has an ide disk not a sata....[/edit]
Cheers
Peter
Posted: Mon 21 Feb 2011, 16:44
by gerry
Several times today tried to download Wary 5.1, but Ibiblio seems to be sick. Or is it only the path from them to me personally?
gerry
Posted: Mon 21 Feb 2011, 17:06
by Jim1911
Full hd installation on an old Sony Vaio laptop with only 64MB ram. Everything appears to be working and this is the fastest that this old laptop has ever run.
Thanks,
Jim
Posted: Mon 21 Feb 2011, 18:32
by aarf
gerry wrote:Several times today tried to download Wary 5.1, but Ibiblio seems to be sick. Or is it only the path from them to me personally?
gerry
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/distro.ibiblio.org/ looks down from here.
Posted: Mon 21 Feb 2011, 22:08
by Sylvander
Used Wary-510-k2.6.31.14-uniproc-ide.iso to make a CD-RW.
[The more up-to-date kernel wouldn't boot on my 2003 desktop PC]
FEATURE:
1. I notice that this Wary searches deeper than where the pupsave files are located [In case there might be more?]
BUG?
1. It lists TWO of everything it finds.
i.e. If there are 2 pupsave files; one on the HDD and one on a Flash Drive, it lists them as items 1 and 2, then lists them again as 3 and 4.
Posted: Tue 22 Feb 2011, 00:01
by jrb
Sylvander wrote:BUG?
1. It lists TWO of everything it finds.
i.e. If there are 2 pupsave files; one on the HDD and one on a Flash Drive, it lists them as items 1 and 2, then lists them again as 3 and 4.
Got the same situation with a humongous initrd.gz netbooting, otherwise everything I've tried has worked well. Didn't get it when booting from frugal.
Posted: Tue 22 Feb 2011, 01:57
by BarryK
gerry wrote:Several times today tried to download Wary 5.1, but Ibiblio seems to be sick. Or is it only the path from them to me personally?
gerry
Some other mirrors of ibiblio:
http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/linux/quirky/wary-5.1/
...er, we seem to have a crisis situation, this is the only mirror that I can find with Wary 5.1. Unfortunately nluug.nl has dropped hosting all Puppy files.
We are going to have to lobby other ibiblio mirror sites to host Wary/Quirky. Or, find other hosts.
Posted: Tue 22 Feb 2011, 09:07
by drblock2
peebee,
Thanks for your prompt advice.
I tried both variants of your code pmedia=atahd and idehd and the machine still hangs.
Apparently, Wary isn't finding the hard disk. Strange.
Posted: Tue 22 Feb 2011, 11:39
by chrismt
Wary 5.1 uni-processor build didn't detect my USB mouse when i did a full install, but it detected it when i ran the live cd.....
Posted: Tue 22 Feb 2011, 11:55
by BarryK
Aaaaargh! Somehow I left out Jimtcl. This is a PET package needed if you want to use a 3G modem.
Wary 5.1 users, please install this PET:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... l-0.63.pet
Looks like there is going to have to be another bugfix release soon.
Wary 5.1 uni-processor on old PC. 3G-modem autodetection pet
Posted: Tue 22 Feb 2011, 14:50
by rodin.s
Wary-5.1 uni-processor works really great on AMD-K6-3D 333 MHz 256 Mb RAM. I only had to replace mplayer. On another PC (Celleron 900 MHz 512 Mb RAM) it works OK but X-server crashed once. Don't know the reason.
DdShurick from russian Puppy team have created 3g-modem auto-detection package. When you plug in 3g-modem - icon appears on the desktop. When you click on it - modem connects to the net and the icon changes. When you click on it again - modem disconnects from the net. No settings needed. We believe that APN is stored in modem and it is not needed to enter it each time. There is apn sript to check stored APN. Just enter
in console. And enter
(or your APN) to put APN into modem. I have adapted the package for Wary. Tested on Huawei E1550, should work on ZTE MF100 and others. (For this version modem should be without pin-code).
Posted: Tue 22 Feb 2011, 15:55
by rjbrewer
Uniprocessor version doesn't suffer from the extended load-module
count when booting, but has so much else added to boot script
that the boot is still slowed.
Right click rox icon problem seems fixed in this one.