The Official Release of Lucid 5.25 (Lucid Five Twenty-Five)

[bigpup]

Fresh frugal install Lucid 522.
In browser installer.
Select Iron browser.
List of Iron browsers has programs other than Iron.

[01micko]

Hi bigpup

I can confirm and also fix....

BUT!

What annoys me is that we have hundreds of testers yet not one discovered this? It was introduced on 2101202.

Here's the comment I made in the quickpet script.

GRABPET=`grep -i "$THEPET" $CONFFILE | cut -d '|' -f8|grep -i "$THEPET"` #changed from grep -iw call #20101202 bigpup

Ok, you can blame me, it's my code. But I just discovered a bug (and fix) reported here to do with rox being slow. The bug is in shino's countrywizard script. Again, an easy fix but how come no body found it until the twelfth hour?

I know I put in enough time trying to fix this stuff and do my best as do I'm sure shino and every other coder out there. This is in no way a spray toward you bigpup as you have been instrumental in finding bugs, but I'm sure as hell is down that you aren't the only one to see this.

I'll post playdayz the fixes but I'm sure he's a bit tired of all the "last minute" bugs surfacing when we hardly had a bug report in the preceding month!

(Don't mind me, jus' lettin' off some steeam )

[James C]

(Don't mind me, jus' lettin' off some steeam )

Chrome and Iron won't even run on my computers............

[James C]

Still better than seeing this.....

[01micko]

Still better than seeing this.....

I don't use iron or chromium much either.. only time recently was in spup testing.

(ps, bigpup, check tour PMs)

[Terryphi]

Suddenly I find that Skype and retrovol are broken. I think that the broken retrovol crashes Skype when it is opened.

Here is the result when retrovol is run from terminal:

# retrovol
retrovol: hcontrol.c:573: snd_hctl_load: Assertion `hctl->count == 0' failed.
Aborted

Using the Alsa Sound Wizard I can select the correct driver and configure it but at the sound test I see this error at terminal:

Amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such file or directory

Consequently there is no sound volume.

LATER: Oh, and the retrovol tray icon has disappeared. I think we need something more retro than retrovol that works reliably!

If this is a frugal install of Puppy.
Run a file system check.
There is a chance the file system got corrupted.
Did you uninstall any audio programs before this happened?

Yes, it is a frugal install. No, I haven't uninstalled any audio programs. I have pfix=fsck in the menu.lst entry so there is a file system check at every boot.

The only thing I had done which may be relevant was try changing webcam usb port from front to back and similar for microphone connection. For various reasons I then changed back to front connections.

[mavrothal]

I know I put in enough time trying to fix this stuff and do my best as do I'm sure shino and every other coder out there. This is in no way a spray toward you bigpup as you have been instrumental in finding bugs, but I'm sure as hell is down that you aren't the only one to see this.

I do not really know if puppy 5.2.x is the end of the road but if not you may want to consider a bug tracker for the next release.
Combine it with a public git, cvs, bones, for sources and build scripts and you got a "professional" distro (in the sense that is really much easier to identify, track and correct problems).
Though I'm afraid this may not change "enthusiastic users" to "testers"

[Sage]

Don't usually use .delta files to upgrade but thought I'd give it a spin this time around. The script doesn't seem to work for FULL installs. It asks for the old .iso. Doesn't exist in FULL - everything is decompressed!

So, I resorted to my usual method, liveCD, pfix=ram, etc.
Only the k/b setting remained at UK, all the other localisations returned to USA, except timezone = Peranjori. [Beats me why an Aussie distro defaults to USA!].
If we cannot have all Oz defaults, please can the initial settings panel display every time any changes are made?

re. the Chrome/Iron dispute, I gave up on both due to suspicion about Google data mining and Iron controversies + size.

That just leaves guy-on-a-bike to be added...

[nooby]

ooooh what is Iron controversies? Yes too big but in what way is Iron a controversy to us or anybody? Sorry if it derail.

One way to not get upset over bug found too close to a planned release would be to not set a fix date. Running update. It updates when one feel for it? Not a fix date. On the other hand one maybe need a date to get the enthusiasm kept on high enough motivation to get people engaged in the project?

I rather wish you put the release forwared some month or two to have time to include the shutdown choices that some of us want to be included.

To be able to just click on a sfs file to load and use it and then to click somewhere and it goes back outside of pupsave to be able to be reused again.

Such inclusiveness would be very good to have. Flexibility/Portable apps sort of.

I know too little. Only do it if you feel for it. Computing should be fun. I only suggest what could be fund to include

[Terryphi]

I resolved the Skype retrovol issue reported earlier in the thread by updating to 522 using a savefile from 520. For me Skype requires the firewall to be off to make a connection. Also, retrovol settings need quite a bit of tweaking because some that are needed are not available by default - most importantly the Input Source setting for the microphone!. This can of course be selected by right clicking on the volume icon on the tray and selecting Configure Window. However, this is far from user friendly. For safety after setting up to my satisfaction I deselected the Skype setting "Allow Skype to amend my mixer settings" in case it messed anything up. Inevitably, there is a bit of a trade off between settings for Skype and other programs.

Good news on the Chromium browser front. On initial testing My SFS of Chromium 12.0.716 works fine on my hardware. I suspect there may be a bug in the password manager (or its interaction with the exceptions feature) so I advise selecting the "Never save passwords" setting.

Opera 11.10 beta, as usual, works perfectly.

There is one small niggle, admittedly an obsession of mine, that locale settings are overwritten on upgrade. Barry has fixed this in Wary and it would be good to see it fixed in Lupu.

All in all, Lupu 522 is looking good for my needs. Thanks to all concerned.

[Terryphi]

Hi bigpup

I can confirm and also fix....

BUT!

What annoys me is that we have hundreds of testers yet not one discovered this? It was introduced on 2101202.

Well to be very frank that is because some of us don't like the Quickpet feature and don't test it. Inevitably we only find the time to test the features we find useful and all Puppy variants have plenty of features we don't find useful so please don't be offended!

[Minnesota]

01micko :

First and foremost! CONGRATULATIONS... five At a boys!!! YOU and the rest of the crew have done a bang up job in making this version of Puppy clean and efficient. You have catered to most of the request of users and testers in a very fast way.

SO don't let a few COSMETIC issues bother you. Years from now you can still find cosmetic issues. This Puppy RUNS... that is what is important. Perfect NEVER!

We who build anything from furniture to painting to software...always see the flaws.. but users not so much.

Step back a bit and congratulate yourselves... GOOD JOB!

[Lobster]

GOOD JOB!

Well said - or shouted from the rooftops . . .

gonna do a fresh install of the 522
Just a report on stuff so far.

I tried using the CPU frequency tuning tool (under system) to
ensure Iplayer (uses flash) plays for longer than 15 minutes (did not help)

When playing (these are time consuming but fun tests)
videos (usually avi) in defaultmediaplayer, after about 50 mins
the sound makes a large continuous sound and the program locks -
have to do a ctrl + alt + backspace or x restart
VLC does not have this problem but is too large for Puppy
- we have to compromise and the current system is much better

'Business' (this is a woof error?) in ppm is still empty
- has been in every Lucid release

JWM I have been using in several of our latest test releases
and It has been working well

[tubeguy]

01micko :

First and foremost! CONGRATULATIONS... five At a boys!!! YOU and the rest of the crew have done a bang up job in making this version of Puppy clean and efficient. You have catered to most of the request of users and testers in a very fast way.

SO don't let a few COSMETIC issues bother you. Years from now you can still find cosmetic issues. This Puppy RUNS... that is what is important. Perfect NEVER!

We who build anything from furniture to painting to software...always see the flaws.. but users not so much.

Step back a bit and congratulate yourselves... GOOD JOB!

Relevant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_is ... my_of_good

[ICPUG]

Hi bigpup

I can confirm and also fix....

BUT!

What annoys me is that we have hundreds of testers yet not one discovered this? It was introduced on 2101202.

Here's the comment I made in the quickpet script.

GRABPET=`grep -i "$THEPET" $CONFFILE | cut -d '|' -f8|grep -i "$THEPET"` #changed from grep -iw call #20101202 bigpup

Ok, you can blame me, it's my code. But I just discovered a bug (and fix) reported here to do with rox being slow. The bug is in shino's countrywizard script. Again, an easy fix but how come no body found it until the twelfth hour?

...

I'll post playdayz the fixes but I'm sure he's a bit tired of all the "last minute" bugs surfacing when we hardly had a bug report in the preceding month!

(Don't mind me, jus' lettin' off some steeam )

I think 01micko is having a bad day!

If it helps we are all eternally grateful for what you, playdayz and the other devs do ...

The late reporting of bugs is probably due to a number of things. Here are 2.

Someone has already mentioned that many testers test only what they are interested in. I guess we don't have many interested in Chrome and Iron.

Seeing the rapid pace of development releases, even when it it just once a week, some users, who also want to have fun, will say they just cannot cope with the release schedule. They wait till the release candidate and then make last minute discoveries!

[01micko]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_is ... my_of_good

I think 01micko is having a bad day!

Nah.. just a bad moment

I found consolation in sc0ttman's game he posted http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 027#509027

Runs great! (though I had to have a crash course from my young bloke into how to control the thing!)

[playdayz]

Chrome and Iron won't even run on my computers...........

.
Iron 10 should run in lucid. Oh, I see, unless for older computers.

[chrismt]

@ playdayz

What is new in 522 compared to 521? Just numbers?

[cowboy]

running lupu 521RC from Live CD and new ext3 savefile on vfat USB stick. Boot to desktop was fine. Changed timezone, and Numlock checkbox is excellent, has it always been there? Thought perhaps, Playdayz, that the warning to create savefile before setting up internet connection might be bolder or separated from paragraph - I didn't see it the first time around, expected it to come when clicking on the setup icon or something. Still, fine as is though.

Rebooted 20 times. Internet connection persistent throughout. Sound was iffy - booted as muted each time, even after right click and setting up different levels, and trying alsamixer. However, sound DOES appear without interference about 1 minute and 30 seconds into a new session. Waiting for that period of time always cleared up the sound issue.

installed firefox 4, no issues with firewall, ran gdmap, calculator, geany, nicoedit, pfind, mtpaint, pupcontrol, updated lucid PPM through Quickpet without issue. will check burning CD with burniso. No problems with desktop seizing, no black screen issues on any reboot.

VIDEO REPORT: Lucid Puppy, version 522
Chip description:
Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device

Driver used by Xorg:


Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth:

All devs involved with this release - y'all rule.

[playdayz]

What is new in 522 compared to 521? Just numbers?

Very few changes. A Quickpet update plus some new text on the firstrun dialog.