Wary Puppy 5.2.2, 18 Nov. 2011

[BarryK]

wary 5.2 pmusic 2.1.8 is the first time I have tried pmusic.

Strange things happen with playlists, they change after quiting pmusic and restarting!

I went back to wary 5.1.4.1 and did all the same initialization to pmusic 1.8.3 and the playlists seem stable.

The following is some info I could gather:

" -------1---------2---------3---------4---------5---------6----
wary 5.2
pmusic 2.1.8 also 2.1.9

+ index
+ add jazz to playlist 1 (5 pieces)
+ add classical to playlist 2 (3 pieces)
+ add rock to playlist 3 (4 pieces)
! all play ok

quit pmusic
restart pmusic
playlists have changed! Playlist 1 is now Playlist 2.

Could this have something to do with the newer gtkdialog or ffmpeg in wary 5.2?

# pmusic -D
Dependencies
R E Q U I R E D
bash [OK]
coreutils [OK]
awk [OK]
sed [OK]
gtkdialog >= 0.7.21 [MISSING]
ffmpeg >= 0.8 /usr/local/pmusic/pmusic: line 162: [: git: integer expression expected
[MISSING]
aplay (alsa) [OK]

R E C O M M E N D E D
libid3tag (meta-tagging) [OK]
cdda2wav (play/rip audio-CD) [OK]
wget (connection to www) [OK]

O P T I O N A L
Pburn (burning audio-CD) [OK]
Pschedule (podcast managing) [OK]
pEqualizer (10 band equalizer) [MISSING]

# gtkdialog -v
gtkdialog version 0.8.0 (C) 2003-2007 Laszlo Pere, 2011 Thunor

# ffmpeg -version
ffmpeg version git-2011-10-01-78f08c0, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg developers
built on Oct 2 2011 07:10:53 with gcc 4.3.4

" -------1---------2---------3---------4---------5---------6----
wary 5.1.4.1
pmusic 1.8.3

seems to work ok
playlists seem stable

# pmusic -D
Dependencies
R E Q U I R E D
bash [OK]
gtkdialog [OK]
ffmpeg [OK]
aplay (alsa) [OK]

R E C O M M E N D E D
libid3tag (meta-tagging) [OK]
cdda2wav (play/rip audio-CD) [OK]
wget (connection to www) [OK]

O P T I O N A L
pburn (burning audio-CD) [OK]
pschedule (podcast managing) [OK]

# gtkdialog -v
gtkdialog version 0.7.21 (C) 2003-2007 Laszlo Pere, 2011 Thunor

# ffmpeg -version
FFmpeg version SVN-r25158-snapshot, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 the FFmpeg developers
built on Sep 24 2010 21:49:52 with gcc 4.3.4

broomdodger,
Would you mind posting this over in zigbert's pmusic thread? He is the only one who can fix it, and he might not be reading this thread.

Pmusic:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=31206

Well, I can help out, I will send a pm to zigbert.

[BarryK]

Wary frugal. I get exactly the same error as in Racy when trying to print form anything other than the CUPS test page,

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Set Allowed Users
HP (Default Printer) "/usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops failed"

The CUPS printing problem in Wary/Racy also appeared in Drake Puppy and the solution is the same. Any application that prints through the GTK print backend /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/printbackends/libprintbackend-cups.so now needs the missing filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops. Trying to substitute a like-named program from another package simply won't work.

The attachment below contains the correct filter from a different build of CUPS 1.3.11.

You may need to do a CUPS restart to make it work.

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/etc/init.d/cups restart

Thanks very much for fixing printing!

I have posted about it on my blog:
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02567

[BarryK]

Clicking the "Playback" tab in 'Adobe Flash Player preferences' causes the gui to crash and close.

Yes, unfortunately, nothing I can do about that. We are at the mercy of the Adobe developers. I wonder if they have a bug reporting thingy somewhere?

[Frank Cox]

From the terminal run these two commands:

rm /etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders
gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders >/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders

When you reboot all should be as expected.[/quote]

Where do I find a book to learn this sort of thing? I really struggle with understanding man pages and command line options as I have never studied them . If you could suggest a book , or some tutorials that are designed to teach these things I would greatly appreciate it.

[BarryK]

I substituted a 'bookmarks.html' file into the .mozilla folder in root, but the bookmarks do not appear in SM 2.3.1, even after a reboot.

Incidentally, I don't see a YT download app in the menu tree.
.

I move my saved bookmarks file to root, then use bookmarks
manager to import.

For youtube:
Install video download helper 4.9.5 from here.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... /versions/

When installed right click around navigation bar until you see
a little window with "customize" at the bottom. Click customize.
Drag the little colored balls up between the printer and search
icons.

I found out something interesting, a smaller video_download_helper:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02568

[BarryK]

I am install fresh Wary 52 ( frugal ). everything ok, like detect my huawei e173 modem etc until klick power off > save file > Administrator .........
and until wait.... there is nothing happen ( wary not shutdown ). Did i miss something ?
sorry for bad english.....

Someone else reported having to wait a very long time, but the shutdown did eventually happen -- that was for a beta release of Wary.
I never found out what their problem was, as I cannot repeat the problem on any of my computers.

So, try waiting, a long time. I think he reported 15 minutes or thereabouts.

[BarryK]

Hmmm, I just tried the xmodmap workaround, reassigned Insert key as BackSpace -- then started geany and Insert key worked as before!

It did seem to reassign, though, did it?

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# xmodmap -pk |grep Insert
     90    	0xff9e (KP_Insert)	0xffb0 (KP_0)	
# xmodmap -pk |grep BackSpace
     22    	0xff08 (BackSpace)	0xfed5 (Terminate_Server)	
    106    	0xff08 (BackSpace)

My Insert key now functions exactly as the backspace key. If I need the Insert toggle action (so chars get overwritten while typing), I tap the numeric keypad's Insert key, that key still works as normal.

Yes, it did seem to reassign. Have you also tried starting geany after the reassign, see if you get the same problem?

Well, it is not really a problem, as really only want the reassign to work in FF/SM.

[BarryK]

I did set 777 to rootfs-skeleton/tmp (and var), but the build in sandbox3/rootfs-complete has lost that, become 755.

So, I have placed a couple of lines in the build script, 3builddistro, that changes tmp and var back to 777.

Would it be better in /etc/rc.d/rc.update? Full installs suffer the 755 permissions on /tmp too.

Ok, done. It's done in both places.

[BarryK]

puppyinstaller

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Updating /etc/networkmodules...
ERROR: modinfo: could not find module acx
...

This is in file /usr/sbin/updatenetmoduleslist.sh. I have added 2>/dev/null to make modinfo quiet.

[BarryK]

puppyinstaller

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dc: syntax error at '596.2'
dc: syntax error at '8.204'[/quote]

i don't know what to say about this. I have looked at /usr/sbin/puppyinstaller, there are two lines that use the 'dc' utility. I put in those same values, works fine.

[broomdodger]

broomdodger,
Would you mind posting this over in zigbert's pmusic thread? He is the only one who can fix it, and he might not be reading this thread.

Pmusic:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=31206

Well, I can help out, I will send a pm to zigbert.

BarryK
I had posted both places, not knowing if it was a gtkdialog problem or pmusic.

zigbert asked for that info I posted, and also said he was busy with version 2.2

[rcrsn51]

I thought that I had fixed this. Well, it only occurs for some people, as in live-CD and frugal installation modes, a tmpfs is mounted on /tmp, which has 777 permission (group and world writable).

Having been bitten by this bug a few times myself, I know one of its sources. Certain PET packages contain a /tmp folder which the developer has used to distribute files before committing them to the end user's filesystem. But if the /tmp folder in the PET has 755 permissions, it will replace the correct 777 permissions on the user's actual /tmp folder.

[BarryK]

puppyinstaller

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dc: syntax error at '596.2'
dc: syntax error at '8.204'[/quote]

i don't know what to say about this. I have looked at /usr/sbin/puppyinstaller, there are two lines that use the 'dc' utility. I put in those same values, works fine.[/quote]

I have just realised what your problem might be. I had removed the global LANG=C from the puppyinstaller script.

If you have a language that uses a comma instead of a dot for the decimal point, example 25,34 then that is what 'dc' will expect.

Ok, I will prefix 'dc' like this:

LANG=C dc ...

This problem seems to be because the 'disktype' utility is reporting partition size with a dot, not a comma.

[Shep]

My Insert key now functions exactly as the backspace key. If I need the Insert toggle action (so chars get overwritten while typing), I tap the numeric keypad's Insert key, that key still works as normal.

Yes, it did seem to reassign. Have you also tried starting geany after the reassign, see if you get the same problem?

Well, it is not really a problem, as really only want the reassign to work in FF/SM.

The re-assign persists for all programs. Yes, geany sees the insert key now as another Backspace key. So does the shell command line. (I'm still using an earlier Wary, 5.1 or so, not the latest.)

You could modify /root/.Xmodmap instead

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# cat /root/.Xmodmap
keysym Insert = BackSpace
pointer = 1 2 3 4 5

[shinobar]

I tried a version of Gimp 2.7.1 that shinobar made for
Wary and it couldn't save a document. The
application would disappear

There seem sharing library problem. I will check it up on Wary 5.2.

EDIT:
I am not sure what was wrong, but try gimp-2.7.1-1-w5.sfs.
http://shino.pos.to/party/bridge.cgi?puppy/opt/pup5/

Stil got segfault at exporting the image...
Exactly, it crashes at looking up saving folder.

(gimp-2.7:9752): GLib-WARNING **: goption.c ignoring no-arg, optional-arg or filename flags ( 8 ) on option of type 0
** Message: Module '/usr/lib/gegl-0.1/ff-load.so' load error: libavformat.so.52: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
This is a development version of GIMP. Debug messages may appear here.

gimp-2.7: fatal error: Segmentation fault

EDIT2:
I removed the SFS, and installed gimp-2.7.1-w5.pet, bable-0.1.2-w5 and gegl-0.1.2-w5 from the PPM. libavformat.so.52 is missing.
Got same result(Crash when looking up saving folder ).

EDIT3:
Tried compile new babl-0.1.4, gegl-0.1.6 and gimp-2.7.3 on Wary-5.2.
But the result is the same(Crash when looking up saving folder ).

It seems the nVidia driver(nvidia-glx-285.05.09) and the kernel problem.
I changed the graphic driver to vesa (nv didn't work) and disappeared the problem.

EDIT4:
Most recent nvidia-glx-290.10 driver seems no problem.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=72405

[BarryK]

Here is a PET package to upgrade Wary 5.2 to 5.2.1:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02573

Minor bug fixes, except for one big one -- the printing fix.

[don570]

new mtpaint 3.34.74
available in a pet package

newest mtpaint saves a layer properly while using wary

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=71332
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[otropogo]

After waiting a couple of days in the hopes someone could shed light on the several issues reported in my previous post here (BTW - somehow my e-mail notification of new posts in the thread has been blocked), I decided to simply try again, with the same PC, DVD-burner, and LiveCD as the first time.

The only change was the monitor, substituting a PC-enabled 20" Sun Microsystems model for the Viewsonic E90 I used in the previous boot Both monitors are attached to the system via a DualHead2Go connector, and booting with either or both powered up has not created any difficulty in 4.3.1 or lupu. After setup was completed, I powered up the second monitor, and it displayed identically to the Sun. So I don't believe this change can account for the massive difference in the desktop appearance and function, let alone the failure of major components to work, or the automatic setup of a wary savefile without user input. It's a very intriguing mystery to me, and I'm astonished that neither Barry nor anyone else here has expressed the slightest interest.

I booted the CD with

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puppy pfix=ram

, to avoid booting from the warysave-SD5.3fs file created automatically by the installer on the first bootup, and also to avoid waiting for Wary to search the whole system for savefiles.

The installer presented the keyboard, timezone, and local/UTC options, and after that I selected xorg's probe option, as I did the last time. As previously, the xorg wizard offered a ridiculous resolution of 1024x768, and I tested it. It used only the top two thirds of the screen, so I hit CTL-ALT-BACKSPACE, reconfigure, and as always, was offered no option except to tweak the refresh rate.

I chose TWEAK, and chose 60Hz (which I know from experience is the only rate the xorg wizard will accept for my monitors (I wish I knew why!)), and presto! - the screen filled at 1600x1200 resolution with the announcement that the Radeon driver was installed.

Hitting OK gave me a normal desktop, with all the icons, and the wallpaper. The drive icons were there, ABI worked. I was even able to run the Pwallpaper image chooser and substitute a wallpaper from Puppy 4.x for the ghastly selection provided.Go figure!

And furthermore, this time the Wary installer DID NOT take it upon itself to created a warypet folder and install a 384MB 3fs warysave file on a partition of its choice without consultation (not yet, anyway).

However, the failure of the Pmount preferences tab to do anything persists. And another strange thing is that whereas the first Wary 5.2 boot had Gimp available and working in the Graphic menu, I don't see it this time...

BTW - I wonder why the pets for UFRAW (standalone and GIMP plug-in) and RAWSTUDIO, which are available for lupu and 4.3.1, are not found by Wary's packet manager?

Overall, I guess I've got some good news this time. I wonder if that means I'll be notified of new posts in subscribed threads once more...

Update: tried playing some mp4 videos after upgrading to 5.2.1. All I get from MPlayer is a console and audio, but no video.

I then tried installing xine-ui. 099, and a number of listed dependencies, and after all that, there was yet another notice of missing libraries, but no option to download.

Finally, I installed gxine 059.. But it had missing dependencies too.

Gxine shows in the Multimedia menu, but nothing happens when I click on it. It seems there's no way to play an mp4 video.

OTOH, clamAV installed without a hitch, and supposedly is accessible through the utilities menu. But I can't find a tab for it anywhere...

What was "broken" about x-fprot, anyway? It worked fine for me in Puppy 4.xx and lupu.

[rcrsn51]

Here is guvcview for Wary. The separate DEP package contains the dependencies - libportaudio, libv4l2, libSDL and libavcodec. Because of their size, I have uploaded them externally.

guvcview_wary-1.5.0.pet
guvcview_wary_DEP-1.5.0.pet

Look in the menus under Multimedia.

This also works in Racy.

(If someone else has already posted this, I apologize.)

[otropogo]

Here is guvcview for Wary. The separate DEP package contains the dependencies - libportaudio, libv4l2, libSDL and libavcodec. Because of their size, I have uploaded them externally.

guvcview_wary-1.5.0.pet
guvcview_wary_DEP-1.5.0.pet

Look in the menus under Multimedia.

This also works in Racy.

(If someone else has already posted this, I apologize.)

Thanks. I'm in lupu right now, but will try after rebooting with Wary later today.

Should I uninstall the gxine and xine downloads and their installed dependencies before installing the above pets?