Porteus-v5.1 alpha 1 bug reports

[nanZor]

Small graphics issue. Noted on XFCE

If a small program, like the Terminal is minimized, and the system is restarted or rebooted, upon reboot when maximizing the terminal, it lost the titlebar and it's handles.

When I do that, I simply use File > Close window in Terminal to quit, and upon starting the terminal program again, the titlebars are back.

Not a showstopper.

[nanZor]

Minor savefile issue and APPEND line editing (at least on my XFCE Alpha1 and 2..)

When creating a savefile, and the process drops you into mousepad for editing the APPEND line, it brings up an empty new file, rather than locating the syslinux.cfg file, which makes me navigate to it myself. Newbs might not know this location.

Again, my favorite line "not a showstopper". Again thanks to ALL the Porteus family devs for some fine software!

[nanZor]

Two more for 5.x Alpha(s). Running XFCE:

Fastest-mirror - when running fastest-mirror, the output is interspersed with html tags, making a choice impossible. Possibly the recent security thing...

Netsurf browser - After downloading and copying to the modules folder, two identical versions show up in the menu. Unfortunately, neither of them launch from the menu. Netsurf can be activated, but it fails to launch either automatically installed, or manually activated that way too.

Update: If it helps, I grabbed the netsurf module from the latest Nemesis. When activated, the menu correctly shows only one netsurf, but unfortunately it too fails to launch.

(Netsurf is not my daily driver, but it is enough for various tasks, like setting router setups with html interfaces amongst other things..)

[ncmprhnsbl]

Fastest-mirror - when running fastest-mirror, the output is interspersed with html tags, making a choice impossible. Possibly the recent security thing..

ouch EDIT: so it turns out it's an easy fix : /usr/local/bin/fastest-mirror: lines 24 and 26 change http to https (in alpha2, that is)

Netsurf browser

most likely needs a rebuild for the 'current' branch , thanks

When creating a savefile, and the process drops you into mousepad for editing the APPEND line, it brings up an empty new file, rather than locating the syslinux.cfg file

right, so, this is fixed in the python port (/opt/porteus-scripts/make-changes.py) if we can test this one, we can maybe put the old gtkdialog one to bed.

[nanZor]

Thanks ncmprhsbl! On a similar note OpenBox Alpha 2:

Firefox current loads, creates a module ok, but the esr version fails to download..

Firefox-esr download issue (probably a filename?)

After selecting your locale if fails quickly ...

Code: Select all

Updating Firefox
Downloading: firefox-128.0esr.tar.xz

[Error] File /tmp/portff/firefox-128.0esr.tar.xz not found

Thought I'd give Porteus OpenBox a little love..

[ncmprhnsbl]

Firefox current loads, creates a module ok, but the esr version fails to download..

yeah, this is because firefox has changed from tar.bz2 to tar.xz , but only for new packages going forward..
i took the easy way out with the script (so it now only handles tar.xz) so until a new esr is released, it's broken.. was hoping this would happen before anyone noticed
i'll take a look at making it work.. (this is a live script on the server so it can be fixed without needing a new release)

[ncmprhnsbl]

Firefox current loads, creates a module ok, but the esr version fails to download..

fixed now on the server .. turns out apart from the tar.bz2/xz issue there was also a version parsing bug, so now should pull the correct latest version.
at least until they migrate esr to tar.xz :p