Precise Puppy 5.4 and 5.4.2

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vicmz · #151 Post by **vicmz** » Sun 28 Oct 2012, 23:33

Hello Art,
At the moment I'm using this Wine SFS:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... 6-sfs4.sfs
It works well for me in Precise 5.4 (I'm playing plants vs zombies), maybe it works for your setup, too.
Cheers

James C · #152 Post by **James C** » Sun 28 Oct 2012, 23:40

Update...... just booted the non-pae Precise pfix=ram and now I'm also unable to download from the puppy precise repo.See screenie. No problem with Ubuntu repos though.

James C · #153 Post by **James C** » Sun 28 Oct 2012, 23:47

No problem in the regular Precise 5.4.....

01micko · #154 Post by **01micko** » Sun 28 Oct 2012, 23:58

Ok James, that sheds some light for me, I'll come up with a hot fix shortly.

(it's to do with the "retroprecise" prefix, 99% sure)

It just so happens that I have it on the usb stick on the lappy I'm using now..

EDIT

ok, here is the DIFF

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--- /usr/local/petget/downloadpkgs.sh.old	2012-10-29 10:18:55.192350888 +1000
+++ /usr/local/petget/downloadpkgs.sh	2012-10-29 10:08:30.000000000 +1000
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@
  [ "$REPO_DEFAULT_SUBSUBDIR" == "noarch" ] && OFFICIAL_REPO='quirky' #120313
  [ "$REPO_DEFAULT_SUBSUBDIR" == "gap6" ] && OFFICIAL_REPO='quirky' #120515
  [ "$DISTRO_NAME" = "Precise Puppy" ] && OFFICIAL_REPO='quirky' #120908 see /etc/DISTRO_SPECS
+ [ "$DISTRO_NAME" = "RetroPrecise Puppy" ] && OFFICIAL_REPO='quirky' #120908 see /etc/DISTRO_SPECS
  [ "$DISTRO_NAME" = "Precise Arm Puppy" ] && OFFICIAL_REPO='quirky' #120908
  [ "$DISTRO_NAME" = "Wheezy Arm Raspbian Puppy" ] && OFFICIAL_REPO='quirky' #120908
  [ "$DISTRO_NAME" = "Squeezed Arm Puppy" ] && OFFICIAL_REPO='quirky' #120908

REMEMBER.. Barry did warn that retro is unofficial...

James C · #155 Post by **James C** » Mon 29 Oct 2012, 00:53

Success. Downloading Firefox as I type.

tiangeng · #156 Post by **tiangeng** » Mon 29 Oct 2012, 01:33

HP M1005
Use "Xsane image scanner",then selected "USB",but the "prescan" window not appear。

rerwin · #157 Post by **rerwin** » Mon 29 Oct 2012, 02:09

Here is an experiment to utilize jemimah's improvement to dhcpcd that apparently reduces the occurrence of the loss of wireless connections where there is a weak signal. If the feature works so well with Frisbee, why not add it to the other network managers!

This requires the installation of one of the "dhcpcd-dropwait" packages I have posted on page 6:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 566#660566

If you do not have the "dhcpcd-dropwait" package installed, networking will not work. /tmp/dhcpcd.log will document the failure as due to an invalid option.

I hope that any of you needing to use Frisbee because of the annoying disconnects with the other managers will try this experiment with either or both of the standard network managers. Others might try it to verify that wireless networking still works as usual. But my goal is to verify that random disconnects are reduced to the level you see from Frisbee.

Note that for the experiment, the delay is hard-coded as 15 seconds. Please tell me if it needs to be longer. TIA.

Technical note: I added the "-j" option to the wireless invocations to start dhcpcd in the sns rc.network and sns scripts, and the wag-profiles.sh script. Is there any place else I should modify?
Richard

Sage · #158 Post by **Sage** » Mon 29 Oct 2012, 08:05

Because I'm not a user of SM, I don't test it very often. However, after a change of HW on the bench, I used SM to run streaming TV on retro from a liveCD. Everything worked well for ~10mins, then it crashed the entire machine with long lines of code displayed. Couldn't capture these because hard reset was required. Continued with Slacko & FF. Just an observation, unable to provide any further data. Anyone else found this? Will revert to FF, Opera (already done and OK), Midori and Chrome.

mavrothal · #159 Post by **mavrothal** » Mon 29 Oct 2012, 09:25

cthisbear wrote: This would have been better to have been farmed out
to a project co-ordinator....an RC released for 2 weeks or so,
and then the final.

I do not think is fair to "blame" Barry for that.
Is not his "fault" that no one stepped up to the plate.
He asked and as a matter of fact suggested candidates denounced the "offer" for various personal reasons.

Now regarding sufficient testing of the build, with 6-7 pupplets developing simultaneously the handful of testers that test almost everything, can test that much devoting maybe a day per pupplet.
So a "final" is destine to get more users and thus bugs.
A usual recommendation for very cautious users and any software is: "wait till update 1"

Let's not forget that Lucid went through a dozen of "finals" before it reached its maturity.

There is also an inherited problem with puppy that does not allow one puplet to take full advantage from the others. In reality the freedom to build puppy from any distro and any kernel is like building 5-6 distros in parallel! And slackware packages may not run in Ubuntu.
Currently in puppyland we have T2, Ubuntu 10.04 and 12.04, Slackware 13.7 and 14, a couple of Debian versions, some that I missed and an even greater variety of kernels.
They are destined to fix the same bugs over and over...

nubc · #160 Post by **nubc** » Mon 29 Oct 2012, 10:29

Running retroprecise 5.4 as live CD, text highlighting in SM 2.13.1 is non-existent (transparent). Weak highlighting will also impact important settings, eg, proper use of gparted. Where do I adjust the highlight color? [Selected gtk theme "Flat-grey-rounded" to fix this.]

Default wallpaper is white? upup wallpaper looks good with icons.

I see a VLC 2.0.3 package in ubuntu-precise-universe repo. Including some 67 missing dependencies. the vlc install will use 107 MB. I installed VLC with PPM, but there is no evidence that it is working after restarting X server.

Nice to have Transmission in the original app set, because my Wary 5.1.1 doesn't have any torrent app. So this CD will be worth keeping. (Had to use Puppy 2.14x to get the retroprecise ISO.)

Sage · #161 Post by **Sage** » Mon 29 Oct 2012, 12:02

Couldn't get my (USB)card reader to function in retro. Tried several <mount> commands but my CLI skill set is vanishingly small or less. The reader combo is listed in <lsusb> on bus003 dev002.
Any suggestions, please?

Semme · #162 Post by **Semme** » Mon 29 Oct 2012, 13:10

Sage- does: fdisk -l list it? Yes? Then: mount /dev/<fdisk_listing> /mnt/<dir_you_create>

Sage · #163 Post by **Sage** » Mon 29 Oct 2012, 13:37

Thanks for your suggestion, Semme. but sadly not. Tried a bunch of stuff from the 'net but none worked for me. Seems a lot of folks have this problem on various distros, some find solutions, but not all. Tried editing /etc/fstab - no go.

`f00 · #164 Post by **`f00** » Mon 29 Oct 2012, 16:42

nubc wrote:Where do I adjust the highlight color?

gtkchtheme - switch gtk theme. The 'given' Stark-Blue gtk theme uses a light thistle to highlight, other gtks like the old Raleigh have more obvious highlighting.

Semme · #165 Post by **Semme** » Mon 29 Oct 2012, 19:52

With the device plugged during boot, attach a gzipped dmesg to your reply:

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dmesg > dmesg.txt
gzip dmesg.txt

You'll find it in /root to attach.

There may be more to it than a simple mount..

01micko · #166 Post by **01micko** » Mon 29 Oct 2012, 20:11

rjbrewer reported here thet grubconfig is broken in the latest Slacko.

rcrsn51 found the cause and solution here

Precise suffers from the same bug, missing cp-FULL. Though I haven't tried it, it seems gubconfig is broken at the woof level.

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# find / -name cp-FULL
# grep cp\-FULL `which grubconfig`
 cp-FULL -p /usr/share/grub/*/*stage* $BOOT/grub 2>$TMP/null
 cp-FULL -p /usr/local/share/grub/*/*stage* $BOOT/grub 2>$TMP/null
 cp-FULL -p /usr/lib/grub/*/*stage* $BOOT/grub 2>$TMP/null

Evidence that cp-FULL is not in Precise.

mavrothal · #167 Post by **mavrothal** » Mon 29 Oct 2012, 20:48

There are a couple of issues in PUPMODE 6 and 7 (save to the entire partition).
A minor one is that on first reboot you get again the first setup window although you layered file system is already all set.(see picture) After second reboot things are OK.

The big problem is that puppy fails to shutdown after exiting to console.
You must hard-shutdown and if you have an ext3 partition this will usually messup your journal.
I think it because it can not unmount the boot partition.
Looks like an aufs/rc.shutdown issue.

This issue also appears in the latest slacko so must be a woof thing

rjbrewer · #168 Post by **rjbrewer** » Mon 29 Oct 2012, 22:08

01micko wrote:rjbrewer reported here thet grubconfig is broken in the latest Slacko.

rcrsn51 found the cause and solution here

Precise suffers from the same bug, missing cp-FULL. Though I haven't tried it, it seems gubconfig is broken at the woof level.
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# find / -name cp-FULL
# grep cp\-FULL `which grubconfig`
 cp-FULL -p /usr/share/grub/*/*stage* $BOOT/grub 2>$TMP/null
 cp-FULL -p /usr/local/share/grub/*/*stage* $BOOT/grub 2>$TMP/null
 cp-FULL -p /usr/lib/grub/*/*stage* $BOOT/grub 2>$TMP/null
Evidence that cp-FULL is not in Precise.

Yes; found same problem in Precise when doing full install
to empty drive with grub legacy.

Grub4dos is functioning okay.

cthisbear · #169 Post by **cthisbear** » Mon 29 Oct 2012, 22:55

Barry's blog today.

" Bugs are being discovered in Precise Puppy 5.4

However, there is definitely going to be a need for a Service Pack 1,
for those who already have 5.4,
and a corresponding bug-fix release 5.4.1."

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=03078

Chris.

badab99 · #170 Post by **badab99** » Tue 30 Oct 2012, 01:06

Tranmission qt 2.5.1+ deps corrupts system font.

installed from ppm ubuntu rep. required a reinstall with wipe to correct.

Not sure what caused this but it was severe. installed the 2.31 i486 pet and all is well shows 2.51 installed in ppm too. wierd

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