Porteus 5.0 RC2 bug reports

[Blaze]

joejac, thanks.
Happy to all in 2021

Are there any news on the final release of Porteus 5?

Not before release of Slackware 15

[Rava]

Not before release of Slackware 15

To be even more confusing, check your /var/log/Xorg.0.log :

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guest@porteus:~$ grep "Slackware 15.0" /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[    54.709] Build Operating System: Slackware 15.0 Slackware Linux Project

Red herring much?

And no, you are not running Slackware 15.0 yet:

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guest@porteus:~$ cat /etc/slackware-version
Slackware 14.2+

the + indicates you run current.

[ncmprhnsbl]

System 5.0rc2 with 003-xfce-4.12-20201108.xzm

/opt/porteus-scripts/xpsinfo aka 'Porteus System Info' ends with this:

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/bin/sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/porteus-scripts/xpsinfo", line 360, in <module>
    class XPSInfo(Gtk.Window):
  File "/opt/porteus-scripts/xpsinfo", line 361, in XPSInfo
    system_info = PSInfo()
  File "/opt/porteus-scripts/xpsinfo", line 20, in __init__
    self.init_infos()
  File "/opt/porteus-scripts/xpsinfo", line 255, in init_infos
    fd.write( f.read() )
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.8/codecs.py", line 322, in decode
    (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xb7 in position 6429: invalid start byte

confirmed
for some strange reason /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog are now encoded in ISO-8859-1 ( instead UTF-8) ... hard to say if that is the real bug here..
work around for now is: xpsinfo:
line 255: with open('/var/log/messages', encoding="ISO-8859-1" ) as f:
and
line 279: with open('/var/log/syslog', encoding="ISO-8859-1" ) as f:

[fulalas]

It works for me if I open from application menu -> system -> porteus system info. It seems it requires to be called by psu.

Maybe we should change xpsinfo to detect when it doesn't have super user privileges.

[ncmprhnsbl]

It works for me if I open from application menu -> system -> porteus system info

hmm.. yeah ..whatever was going on there isn't now, for me... for the moment
@Rava (or anyone else who experiences this) . if xpsinfo fails with that error^
please do: (as root)

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# file -b /var/log/*

this is what mine looks like now (with xpsinfo (unmodified) working)

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# file /var/log/*
/var/log/Xorg.0.log:      JSON data
/var/log/btmp:            empty
/var/log/cron:            ASCII text
/var/log/debug:           ASCII text
/var/log/dmesg:           JSON data
/var/log/faillog:         empty
/var/log/lastlog:         empty
/var/log/maillog:         empty
/var/log/messages:        ASCII text
/var/log/nfsd:            directory
/var/log/packages:        symbolic link to ../lib/pkgtools/packages
/var/log/pkgtools:        directory
/var/log/porteus-livedbg: ASCII text
/var/log/samba:           directory
/var/log/scripts:         symbolic link to ../lib/pkgtools/scripts
/var/log/secure:          ASCII text
/var/log/setup:           symbolic link to ../lib/pkgtools/setup
/var/log/slim.log:        ASCII text
/var/log/syslog:          ASCII text
/var/log/wtmp:            data

Maybe we should change xpsinfo to detect when it doesn't have super user privileges.

although that's not the issue here, it's on my todo list (and for various other of the new scripts)

[Rava]

@Rava (or anyone else who experiences this) . if xpsinfo fails with that error^
please do: (as root)

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# file -b /var/log/*

I think you meant

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# file /var/log/*

here the info

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root@porteus:/# file /var/log/*
/var/log/Xorg.0.log:        JSON data
/var/log/btmp:              empty
/var/log/cron:              ASCII text
/var/log/debug:             ASCII text
/var/log/dmesg:             JSON data
/var/log/faillog:           empty
/var/log/lastlog:           data
/var/log/maillog:           empty
/var/log/messages:          Non-ISO extended-ASCII text
/var/log/messages.1.gz:     gzip compressed data, last modified: Mon Jan 11 18:29:34 2021, from Unix, original size modulo 2^32 773525
/var/log/nfsd:              directory
/var/log/openbox-changelog: ASCII text
/var/log/packages:          symbolic link to ../lib/pkgtools/packages
/var/log/pkgtools:          directory
/var/log/porteus-livedbg:   ASCII text
/var/log/samba:             directory
/var/log/scripts:           symbolic link to ../lib/pkgtools/scripts
/var/log/secure:            ASCII text, with very long lines
/var/log/setup:             symbolic link to ../lib/pkgtools/setup
/var/log/syslog:            ASCII text, with very long lines
/var/log/wtmp:              data

/var/log/messages: Non-ISO extended-ASCII text