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jakfish · Joined: 18 Jul 2008 Posts: 710

Thanks for such a clear explanation, and your thinking makes a lot of sense.

I just wish there was a way to make sfs files stay resident in RAM after their initial start. Seems a shame to waste all that memory.

Best,
Jake

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9382 Location: SwedenEurope

Pardon if I have asked this before and then fail to remember where. I did use search
but failed to find it. I am in puppy_squeeze_5.X.13.sfs now but will update to puppy_squeeze_5.X.14.sfs
and test again.

I fail to find the python libs searched for libpython and also tried the word python but nothing show up
in PPM so most likely I do a noob error somewhere.

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5165 Location: Finland

You get basic Python by installing devx sfs file. I havent much tested Python. Usually I avoid it. Which means people are about their own with Python. I got my case full with Python in Snow Puppy time. Even one Python developer was quite rude when I tried to get his app to work 100 %....even that it was him who contacted first. He noticed that I posted about his app. I learned one word from him. It was unacceptable, lol. He used it a lot. The experience changed my attitude toward Python to Icy - Snowy- Polar - stage, lol.

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9382 Location: SwedenEurope

jamesbond · Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 1531 Location: The Blue Marble

futwerk · Joined: 07 May 2011 Posts: 206

a few backgrounds.

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5165 Location: Finland

Thanks Futwerk. Definitively one of those will be The wallpaper of next build.

edoc · Posted: Thu 21 Jun 2012, 23:28 Post subject:

jakfish · Joined: 18 Jul 2008 Posts: 710

>> You can have the cake and eat it too. If dpup has shinobar's sfs_load, one can write an rc.local script to create tmpfs, copy all the user-specified SFS-es to this tmpfs, and ask sfs_load to add these SFS-es. Voila ! "ramboot" completely compatible with woof! <<

@jamesbond: many thanks for an intriguing workaround. I hadn't checked this thread until today, too busy with struggling but finally succeeding with a remaster of 5.X.14 to include my sfs's.

But now you've got me thinking of this approach. I've searched the key words of your advice, but haven't yet found clear instructions for this operation. Could you point me to a helpful thread?

Jake

futwerk · Joined: 07 May 2011 Posts: 206

a few backgrounds.

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5165 Location: Finland

Thanks Futwerk. Good looking backgrounds. I will use them.

edoc

CUPS has been stable for a long while - and I suspect this is not a CUPS failure - but I'm guessing something may have been corrupted.

Our HP P1006 printer has been highly-reliable but suddenly does not respond to CUPS/print commands.

It power-cycles properly and CUPS says all is well.

We've made no changes lately.

I tried Modify and re-selecting the module but no joy.

WDYT?

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5165 Location: Finland

I found your old struggle with HP 1006. That printer needs fimware hotplugging ie feeding to the printer everytime you print.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=57941&start=30
So...it needs compliant foo2xx package. What I would suggest...Remove the printer with cups. Install again foo2xx package you use. Install printer again.

Caveout. Cups permissions can broke if you install applications which overwrite them. Some other distro browsers like .deb installed browsers do that easily. If you have mistakenly overwrote cups permissions in some needed folders or files....you could try jpeps pet to fix them:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=68790

edoc · Posted: Thu 05 Jul 2012, 14:34 Post subject:

I tried delete and reinstall.

Where CUPS was saying that the print job had been completed, even though it had never so much as caused a printer light to blink or the gears to click, suddenly CUPS started whining about some module (usblp) it wants blocked as it confuses itself if there is more than one printer attached - of course CUPS provides no instructions nor a link to the process of dealing with that module (should be a pop-up).

So then I ran the PET you kindly mentioned and linked - then rebooted.

No joy ...

Is it possible that recent storm-related power dips & surges may have done something to the printer?

Or would CUPS have trouble communicating with the printer at all were that the case?

edoc

bluehost.com recommends filezilla for ftp.

I downloaded it via Puppy Package Manager from the exprimo repository.

When done it flagged these missing dependencies: