Wary/Racy 5.3RC2 (5.2.91)

[James C]

Following that link I can successfully ping the nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf .

# ping 192.168.1.254
PING 192.168.1.254 (192.168.1.254): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.1.254: seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.377 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.254: seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.374 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.254: seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.988 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.254: seq=3 ttl=255 time=0.375 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.254: seq=4 ttl=255 time=0.386 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.254: seq=5 ttl=255 time=0.278 ms

[James C]

For whatever it's worth, no such problems in several different Lucid installs, the latest Slacko or Ttuuxxx's 432 which I'm posting from.Just used wget to download Flash.

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# wget http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/11.1.102.63/install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz 
--17:41:30--  http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/11.1.102.63/install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz
           => `install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz'
Resolving fpdownload.macromedia.com... 23.1.210.70
Connecting to fpdownload.macromedia.com|23.1.210.70|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 6,746,733 (6.4M) [application/x-gzip]

100%[====================================>] 6,746,733    158.18K/s    ETA 00:00

17:42:13 (157.10 KB/s) - `install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz' saved [6746733/6746733]

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This problem is occurring in Wary,Exprimo and Saluki though.I'll admit that I'm stumped at the moment.

EDIT:

No problems in the Slacko 531 (2.6.37.6) and Three_Headed_Dog either.

[shinobar]

Maybe depends on the flashplayer version,
the ownership under /usr is messing up after the flashplayer downloaded.

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# ls -l /usr
total 0
drwxrwxr-x 1  501 guest  60 2012-03-18 09:27 bin
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root    3 2010-09-21 00:21 doc
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root    3 2012-03-18 09:25 etc
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root    3 2012-03-18 08:20 games
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root   29 2011-09-08 13:36 include
drwxrwxr-x 1  501 guest 100 2012-03-18 09:27 lib
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root  115 2011-05-04 10:11 libexec
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root  446 2005-02-05 23:47 local
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root   60 2012-03-18 09:27 sbin
drwxrwxr-x 1  501 guest 180 2012-03-18 09:26 share
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    5 2012-03-18 09:23 X11 -> X11R7
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    5 2012-03-18 09:23 X11R6 -> X11R7
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root   73 2011-03-26 08:44 X11R7

I had need to 'chown root.root -R /initrd/pup_rw/usr' to repair (also need to reboot).

@Barry
The /usr/sbin/delayedrun are better to be modified:

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# diff delayedrun.org delayedrun
257c257
<       tar -zxf $download_name #111117 install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
---
>       tar --no-same-owner -zxf $download_name #111117 install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
261c261
<         cp -a -f usr/* /usr/
---
>         cp -rf usr/* /usr/

Or, use the getflash-0.9.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=74491

[FeodorF]

The InkspaceLite ruler at top looks messed up as soon as you move the mouse cursor from left to right/right to left side of he sheet. The ruler gets filled up with arrow signs. The arrow signs get cleared from the ruler as soon as you scroll up or down. (See picture)

InkspaceLite offers two print buttons. As soon as you try the 'Print...' button you will crash InkspaceLite. If you use the 'Print Direct...' button everything works fine - as well as CUPS-PDF printing. (See picture)

I put some graphic together and looked at xerrs.log afterwards.
Don't like those error messages. (See pictures)

[FeodorF]

As soon as I try to setup the vesa mode for my nvidia MX440 the xorgwizard crashes. (Black screen, cursor at top left position, keyboard locked)

You will have to do a hardware reset. After resetting Xwin will start in vesa mode without any problem.

Remark: Well, the problem doesn't exist with ATI-cards.

[James C]

Manual frugal install on another old slow box.All basics working on initial boot.

repo# report-video
Wary Puppy, version 5.2.90 on Sat 24 Mar 2012

Chip description:
1.0 VGA compatible controller
Intel Corporation 82810E DC-133 (CGC) Chipset Graphics Controller (rev 03)
oem: Intel810(TM) Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: intel

X.Org version: 1.3.0
dimensions: 1024x768 pixels (321x241 millimeters)
depth of root window: 16 planes

...the above also recorded in /tmp/root/ as report-video,
and archived with xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log as report-video-full.gz
#
-Computer-
Processor : Celeron (Mendocino)
Memory : 124MB (78MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Sat 24 Mar 2012 10:43:29 PM CDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1024x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Mesa DRI i810E 20050821 x86/MMX
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : ICH - Intel 82801AA-ICH
-Input Devices-
Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse
USB Keyboard
USB Keyboard

-Processor-
Name : Celeron (Mendocino)
Family, model, stepping : 6, 6, 5 (Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron)
Vendor : Intel
-Configuration-
Cache Size : 128kb
Frequency : 498.42MHz
BogoMIPS : 996.84
Byte Order : Little Endian

[pemasu]

James C. You pinged your router, I presume. It should respond.
More helpful would be to ping some external address in numerical and dns name.
Like 8.8.8.8 and www.google.com

[broomdodger]

Maybe depends on the flashplayer version,
the ownership under /usr is messing up after the flashplayer downloaded.

racy5290 frugal - new save file - Flash 11.1 r102
Seems fine here.

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# ls -l /usr
total 5
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1024 2012-03-17 17:32 bin
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root   69 2010-09-20 08:22 dietlibc
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root    3 2010-09-20 08:21 doc
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root    3 2012-03-17 17:32 etc
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root    3 2012-03-17 16:20 games
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root   37 2010-09-20 08:15 i486-t2-linux-gnu
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root   29 2012-03-17 17:32 include
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root  209 2012-02-17 03:39 java
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1024 2012-03-17 17:32 lib
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root  115 2011-09-08 17:19 libexec
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1024 2012-03-18 08:30 local
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1024 2012-03-17 17:27 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1024 2012-03-17 17:26 share
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    5 2012-03-17 17:32 X11 -> X11R7
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    5 2012-03-17 17:23 X11R6 -> X11R7
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root   73 2011-09-10 04:26 X11R7

[shinobar]

Maybe depends on the flashplayer version,
the ownership under /usr is messing up after the flashplayer downloaded.

racy5290 frugal - new save file - Flash 11.1 r102
Seems fine here.

Have you installed the flashplayer as the racy automatically offers?
Or, is it a report using the getflash-0.9?

[James C]

James C. You pinged your router, I presume. It should respond.
More helpful would be to ping some external address in numerical and dns name.
Like 8.8.8.8 and www.google.com

O.K.

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# ping 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: seq=0 ttl=51 time=53.502 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: seq=1 ttl=51 time=52.910 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: seq=2 ttl=51 time=52.869 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: seq=3 ttl=51 time=52.806 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: seq=4 ttl=51 time=53.239 ms

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# ping www.google.com
ping: bad address 'www.google.com'
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[broomdodger]

Maybe depends on the flashplayer version,
the ownership under /usr is messing up after the flashplayer downloaded.

racy5290 frugal - new save file - Flash 11.1 r102
Seems fine here.

Have you installed the flashplayer as the racy automatically offers?
Or, is it a report using the getflash-0.9?

I let racy install flash automatically.

[FeodorF]

Little problem with the Xclipboard.

If you like to save the text you don't know which button to click.
There is no 'Yes'/'No' readable. Buttons lower parts are cut.
See picture.

[FeodorF]

urxvt has a hidden bug.

If you type, while urxvt builds up you will have extra characters infront of '#' (see picture).

This means, that the keyboard-buffer is read way too soon.

I found this bug by using a P II - 266.

[LaRioja]

I have installed Racy 5.2.90 on my AMD LE 1250 box and chose German locale in the Quick Setup but I accidentally did not tick UTF-8 Encoding. I changed this later in Puppy-Setup, but it doesn't get permanent. So on every reboot I have to change to UTF-8 again.
Is there something wrong?
Thanks for a hint.

[FeodorF]

If you start dougal's 'Network Wizard' you will get a message in xerrs.log like this:

/usr/sbin/net-setup.sh: line 1683: scanpci: command not found

Checking with 'Pfind' you will see, that the binary 'scanpci' is missing.
(See pictures)

[npierce]

Little problem with the Xclipboard.

If you like to save the text you don't know which button to click.
There is no 'Yes'/'No' readable. Buttons lower parts are cut.

For short answer, skip to last paragraph of this post.

For boring, long-winded answer, read on - - -

This problem has been around longer than Puppy. The earliest bug report that I have seen goes back to 2001.

As far as I can tell, this problem is a result of a change in the Xaw library. The xclipboard utility was written back in the days of libXaw.so.6 (or perhaps even earlier). The current library on Racy 5.2.2 is libXaw7.so.7.0.0.

My best guess of what happened is that recent binaries were compiled with Xaw7. This will happen on any distro where Xaw7 is the default for compiling with the -lXaw flag (which happens when this link exists: /usr/X11/lib/libXaw.so -> libXaw7.so).

I have a copy of xclipboard that was compiled in 1998 from 1996 source code. It does not have this problem. Its resource file (app-defaults/XClipboard) is from 1994, and is identical to the resource file currently on Racy 5.2.2, except for the version comment in the top line.

If I run that old binary on Racy, it finds libXaw6.so.6 and doesn't have this problem. If I play with the symlink so that it instead finds libXaw7.so.7, it has this exact problem.

Similarly, if I run the current binary on Racy it finds libXaw.so.7 and has this problem. But if I play with the symlink so that it instead finds libXaw6.so.6, the problem goes away.

I'm guessing that if the Makefile was modified to compile with -lXaw6 instead of -Xaw, it would eliminate this problem, but I have not tried that. There is no need. The problem can be fixed simply by adding a few lines to the resource file.

(I don't know if there is a bug in libXaw7, or just a change in defaults which required more resources specified in the resource file. I've not dug into this that deeply. Life is short. But it does seem strange that a simple change in defaults would result in an unusable dialog box. On the other hand, it is not unusual for Xaw applications to be missing "fallback resources" and create unusable windows if certain resources are also missing from the resource file.)

The fix came from Stanislav Maslovski in July 2008, in response to a bug reported to Debian by José Luis González way back in December 2001 (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=127060).

The fix made it upstream to freedesktop.org in August 2008 (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17364), was finally committed to the code base by Alistair Leslie-Hughes in April 2011, and was released in xclipboard 1.1.2 on 2012-02-11 (over a decade after it was first reported). It is not available in the X11R7.6, but should be available in X11R7.7, due out sometime in 2012.

Meanwhile, xclipboard 1.1.2 source code is available as an individual release at:
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/in ... 1.2.tar.gz

The resource file (app-defaults/XClipboard), which is all that is needed to fix this problem, is available from cgit.freedesktop.org at this URL. Backup your current /etc/X11/app-defaults/XClipboard and replace it with this one.

[FeodorF]

Thank you very much npierce! Fine Job!

FeodorF

[vicmz]

Has anyone had this problem translating shutdownconfig GUI? The translation in the first dialog that appears at the first shutdown offering to save session looks distorted, cutdown. I checked all translations within the file but I have no idea what I can be doing wrong. (see attached picture)

This is the text that the dialog in the picture is supposed to show, I first copied the original string then translated in the file through MoManager:

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Usted arrancó desde un live-CD o DVD, y ahora puede guardar sus ajustes y archivos personales en una unidad Flash USB o cualquier partición de disco duro. La sesión se guardará como un único archivo, llamado '${DISTRO_FILE_PREFIX}save.2fs', que tendrá un sistema de archivos ext2 (o ext3) en su interior.\n
Sin embargo, si usted ha grabado el CD/DVD como multisesión (no cerrado), entonces las sesiones se pueden guardar como pistas adicionales en el CD/DVD, cada sesión guardada aparecerá en el CD/DVD como un directorio con todos los archivos guardados en él, no como un único archivo. \\Zb\\1ESTO ES TODAV

[rodin.s]

This script has strange gettext. I haven't tested your mo-file since I don't have this Racy on CD and this dialog only appears while booting from CD but maybe it's because of the mistake here:

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\\Zb\\1ESTO ES TODAV

[vicmz]

OK, I can't figure out why two of the buttons are still in English, but the GUI is displayed properly now. Thanks, rodin.s