Hopefully!pemasu wrote:Bug fix to be carried to the woof ?
Attached is what I'll be putting in Slacko-5.4 rc2. I have moved the call down to allow for responsible service scripts. (ie YASSM, network_roxapp)
Hopefully!pemasu wrote:Bug fix to be carried to the woof ?
So looks like the fix is good then..rcrsn51 wrote:Here was my test procedure.
1. Booted off the Live CD. It found the sfs on the hard drive.
2. Selected all the defaults and immediately made a save file on an NTFS flash drive. There WAS a network connection, so I don't know how that's significant.
3. Rebooted. The save file was detected, followed by a kernel panic!
4. Repeated using "umount-FULL". No problems.
My best explanation for this behaviour is that the buggy busybox umount isn't happy until it's found something it can unmount.rcrsn51 wrote:It's odd that when the save file is on an NTFS hard drive partition, it sometimes works.
I understand that, but when you are dealing with trying to help someone with very little computer skill do something, it's sometimes best not to futher confuse them by trying to walk them through how to register an irc nick and and configure their IRC client properly... which has nothing to do with the reason they came into the channel in the first place.tlchost wrote:That's why some of us suggest that a user with a "default" nick create a nick of their own.Q5sys wrote:
Its getting really confusing in the freenode #puppylinux room, because people are assigned defualt names in numerical order.
Thom
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if [ -f $HOME/.xchat2/xchat.conf ];then
sed -i -e "s|spupuser|slacko${HOSTNAME:5}|" \
-e "s|spupuser1|slacko${HOSTNAME:5}1|" \
-e "s|spupuser2|slacko${HOSTNAME:5}2|" \
$HOME/.xchat2/xchat.conf
fi
yepQ5sys wrote:oh wait there you are in the IRC now testing it.
I'll report back tomorrow once I've had a chance to test it, hopefully in the afternoon. Not my turn on the Pentium D today, and new puppies other than Wary haven't worked on the K6 for several months due to lack of cmov.rcrsn51 wrote:Hopefully, jades will confirm that it solves his problem in Slacko.
Are people just saving their save files to a NTFS drive... or are they saving it to a drive that they use windows on? The reason I ask is that its possible windows (when running) is doing something with the safe file which is making it unreadable by puppy. Perhaps trying to move it when it tries to defrag, etc. If its just sitting on a dormant non OS ntfs drive, then the possible issues are different.Sage wrote:Several folks are reporting NTFS issues with different Puppies at this time. Not sure I subscribe to the above rationale. Testing these distros on a Windoze machine is a fine idea, but it doesn't strike me as logical to save alien OS files on there. If folks like what they see, there might be much better options. Top of the list has to be Gparted Wdoze into oblivion, it isn't difficult even for neophytes. My experience of a range of ages and abilities is that folks finishing with the devil's OS once and for all makes them ecstatically happy! Alternatives, esp. if the machine in question is shared, include second HDs which are dirt cheap on eBay for the size demands of Puppy, caddies, USB sticks (mentioned above), external HDs, other solutions also available. Most of Puppies' finest attributes can be had within modest confines. Why not another -[ oh, yes, older! ] - piece of hardware from the local boot sale, neighbour's spoilt kids, in the loft/garage/under the bed, for example. Just what is it that folks want to do that needs another Echelon in this world! Anyone living within range is welcome to select from my retinue of entirely suitable machines, gratis. Or I'll build to their spec. at cost.
Slackware is the oldest continuously supported open distro and defers to many of the classic tenets of the genre; Slacko provides best-of-breed in the compact distro kennel.
It seems to do games, videos & musak editing, which, although not its prime directive, would normally be accomplished on larger machines/distros, games consoles, studio sets and the like.
Horses,courses.
In my tests here, the umount script was accidentally unmounting an NTFS partition.ICPUG wrote:I had no problem creating the save file and I have no problem on reboot with icons gone.
It's possible that 5.3.3 came out in the period when I didn't have a functioning hard drive on the Pentium D machine, so I wouldn't have been able to test it on an NTFS parition. I was mainly working off a USB stick. My current 5.3.3 saves are upgrades of ones from earlier versions. The only other 5.3x Puppy I've been testing from around that time was Wary, but that was on the K6 machine which doesn't have NTFS partitions on either of the drives (FAT32 Win98 parition, ext3 data partition and a couple of full installs on ext4).rcrsn51 wrote:Why it doesn't happen all the time is a mystery. Also, it should have been happening in previous 5.3 Puppies. But IIRC, jades had no problem in Slacko 533.