Porteus-v5.01 bug reports

[roadie]

Getting this with the 20240801 core update and xzm2dir:

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root@porteus:/home/guest# cd /tmp
root@porteus:/tmp# ls *.xzm
001-core.xzm
root@porteus:/tmp# mkdir core
root@porteus:/tmp# xzm2dir 001-core.xzm core

Extract .xzm module to folder
Usage: xzm2dir moduleName.xzm [outputFolder]
Example: xzm2dir module.xzm
Example: xzm2dir module.xzm outputFolder

root@porteus:/tmp#

[ncmprhnsbl]

Getting this with the 20240801 core update and xzm2dir:

arrgh, somehow i put the opposite of what it should be
/opt/porteus-scripts/xzm2dir: line 7

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if [ "$1" == "" ] || [ "$1" == "-h" ] || [ "${1##*.}" == "xzm" ]; then

should be:

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if [ "$1" == "" ] || [ "$1" == "-h" ] || [ "${1##*.}" != "xzm" ]; then

[reisub]

Using the current Porteus updates, 001-core.xzm & 002-xorg.xzm, booting takes an hour , "cat /etc/porteus/*" doesn't work and nemo has theme problems.

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guest@porteus:~$ nemo

(nemo:2892): Nemo-WARNING **: 19:20:35.577: Current gtk theme is not known to have nemo support (Adwaita) - checking...

(nemo:2892): Nemo-WARNING **: 19:20:35.608: The theme appears to have no nemo support.  Adding some...

(nemo:2892): Nemo-WARNING **: 19:20:35.649: Action 'mount-archive.nemo_action' is missing dependency: /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-archive

** (xed:2911): WARNING **: 19:20:53.472: Could not load theme icon user-home: Icon 'user-home' not present in theme Paper


cat /etc/porteus/*

[ncmprhnsbl]

Using the current Porteus updates, 001-core.xzm & 002-xorg.xzm, booting takes an hour , "cat /etc/porteus/*" doesn't work and nemo has theme problems.

can't reproduce here.
will need more information on you booting setup ie. cheatcodes, changes, extra modules and so on. (the nemo theme warnings are normal but the missing dep is odd to say to least)
please try in 'always fresh' mode if you havn't.
and what about: ls /etc/porteus or even ls /mnt/live/memory/images/*/etc/porteus

[reisub]

I redownloaded the 2 updates, 001-core.xzm & 002-xorg.xzm, I rebuilt the /porteus/base folder and the system boots normally, with my normal assortment of modules, nemo works fine and "cat /etc/porteus/*" works. Not sure what happened before.

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guest@porteus:~$ cat /etc/porteus/*
001-core.xzm:20240802
002-xorg.xzm:20240802
002-xtra.xzm:20240511
003-cinnamon.xzm:20231229
initrd.xz:20230923
guest@porteus:~$ 

[Ed_P]

240923 updates.

Always Fresh mode:

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guest@porteus:~$ cat /etc/porteus/*
001-core.xzm:20240924
002-xorg.xzm:20240924
002-xtra.xzm:20240924
003-cinnamon.xzm:20240924
initrd.xz:20230923
guest@porteus:~$ 
guest@porteus:~$ ls -l /mnt/isoloop/porteus/base/
total 433692
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 150122496 May 17 15:32 000-kernel.xzm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 129409024 Oct 23  2024 001-core.xzm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 117551104 Oct 23  2024 002-xorg.xzm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  21663744 Oct 23  2024 002-xtra.xzm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  25354240 Oct 23  2024 003-cinnamon.xzm
guest@porteus:~$ 
guest@porteus:~$ ls -l /mnt/live/memory/images
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root  61 May 17 15:31 000-kernel.xzm/
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 305 Sep 24 05:30 001-core.xzm/
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 154 Sep 24 05:34 002-xorg.xzm/
drwxr-xr-x  6 root root  72 Sep 24 05:35 002-xtra.xzm/
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 129 Dec 29  2023 003-cinnamon.xzm/
guest@porteus:~$ 

Why is the Cinnamon file date in /mnt/live/memory/images Dec 29 2023?

And when I boot in my changes update mode why do I get this?

[ncmprhnsbl]

Why is the Cinnamon file date in /mnt/live/memory/images Dec 29 2023?

that was the last time it was "built", the recent update was just a small tweak so didn't require reconstruction.

And when I boot in my changes update mode why do I get this?

"this" is the login screen(lxdm), and i'd need know what "my changes update mode" entails to have a guess.

[Ed_P]

"my changes update mode"

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     set linux_folder=/porteus5.0
#     set iso="/ISOs/Porteus/Porteus-CINNAMON-v5.01-x86_64-240521.iso"
#     set iso="/ISOs/Porteus/Porteus-CINNAMON-v5.01-x86_64-240804.iso"
     set iso="/ISOs/Porteus/Porteus-CINNAMON-v5.01-x86_64-240923.iso"
     set SaveDat=50save.dat
     
menuentry " Porteus 5.01 ISO - changes="  --class slackware   --class user-icon-porteus  {

     set Changes=$SaveDat  # porteussave.dat 
     set bootparms="volume=33 reboot=cold extramod=$linux_folder/Modules \
       changes=EXIT:$linux_folder/changes/$Changes \
       noload=kde;jinn;lxqt;xfce;lxde;mate;open;dat.xzm;mychanges;autonet;menu1" # ;mychanges"

     search -f $iso --set=root
     loopback loop $iso
     linux (loop)/boot/syslinux/vmlinuz      from=$iso $bootparms
     initrd (loop)/boot/syslinux/initrd.xz
     }  

It works fine with my other Porteus ISOs.

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If I boot 240923 with my "safe mode" (no save.dat file) boot menu it boots to the Cinnamon screen.

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menuentry " Porteus 5.01 ISO - AF'"  --class slackware   --class user-icon-porteus  {

     set bootparms="volume=33 reboot=cold extramod=$linux_folder/Modules \
       noload=kde;jinn;lxqt;xfce;lxde;mate;open;dat.xzm;menu2" # ;mychanges"

     search -f $iso --set=root
     loopback loop $iso
     linux (loop)/boot/syslinux/vmlinuz from=$iso $bootparms
     initrd (loop)/boot/syslinux/initrd.xz
     }

I boot my Porteus ISOs in 4 modes. AF always fresh, AF+ always fresh plus all my Porteus modules (browser, printing, printer driver, etc), AF' my safe mode, always fresh plus all my Porteus modules and a module of some changes I've made (bookmarks, time zone, settings, etc) and no automatic saving of more changes, Changes always fresh plus all my Porteus modules and my save.dat file of changes/tweaks I've made and the ability to make and save more changes and no access to my changes module.

Added in 33 minutes 15 seconds:
My save.dat file is 536.9 MB, my changes module (mychanges.xzm) is 8.4 MB.

[ncmprhnsbl]

If I boot 240923 with my "safe mode" (no save.dat file) boot menu it boots to the Cinnamon screen.

which points to something in your save.dat interfering with lxdm's autologin somehow.
first stop, check for /etc/lxdm/lxdm.conf in your save.dat ..beyond that, i'm short on clues. it doesn't seem like an xorg failure.
an immediate workaround or possible test would be to try the (normally unnecessary) cheatcode "login=guest"

[Ed_P]

check for /etc/lxdm/lxdm.conf in your save.dat

When I signon, in my "changes update mode" I don't have a task bar or Porteus menu to access nemo but I do get a window stating "Cinnamon just crashed" and "You are currently running in fallback mode".

I found a way to get a terminal window and when I tried to cd to /etc/lxdm/ it said no such directory.

When I rename my save.dat to an .xzm module and activate it I see no /etc/lxdm folder in it.

Added in 1 hour 39 minutes 46 seconds:

check for /etc/lxdm/lxdm.conf in your save.dat

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guest@porteus:/mnt/live/memory/images/50save.dat.xzm$ cd /etc
guest@porteus:/etc$ cd /lxdm
bash: cd: /lxdm: No such file or directory
guest@porteus:/etc$

And in my "safe boot mode" system:

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guest@porteus:~$ cd /etc
guest@porteus:/etc$ cd /lxdm
bash: cd: /lxdm: No such file or directory
guest@porteus:/etc$ su
Password: 
root@porteus:/etc# cd /lxdm
bash: cd: /lxdm: No such file or directory
root@porteus:/etc#

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possible test would be to try the (normally unnecessary) cheatcode "login=guest"

Doesn't help.

[ncmprhnsbl]

When I signon, in my "changes update mode" I don't have a task bar or Porteus menu to access nemo but I do get a window stating "Cinnamon just crashed" and "You are currently running in fallback mode".

ok, that's fairly important info ..could be any number of things .. /var/log/Xorg.0.log might show something or /home/guest/.xsession-errors
and/or boot to textmode(3) and startx
also possibly something in ~/.cache

And in my "safe boot mode" system:

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guest@porteus:~$ cd /etc
guest@porteus:/etc$ cd /lxdm
bash: cd: /lxdm: No such file or directory
guest@porteus:/etc$ su
Password: 
root@porteus:/etc# cd /lxdm
bash: cd: /lxdm: No such file or directory
root@porteus:/etc#

grading for terminal skills = F
short lesson:

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$ cd /etc  (this is fine)
:/etc$ cd /lxdm (wrong: tries to find lxdm in the root directory(/) where it isn't)
:/etc$ cd lxdm  (correct: finds lxdm in the current directory(/etc))
## if you really want to do the extra typing
:/etc$ cd ./lxdm (correct: finds lxdm in the current directory(.) but silly) 
## really all you need:
$ ls /etc/lxdm

but anyway, probly nothing to do with lxdm.

[Ed_P]

grading for terminal skills = F

short lesson:

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$ cd /etc  (this is fine)
:/etc$ cd /lxdm (wrong: tries to find lxdm in the root directory(/) where it isn't)
:/etc$ cd lxdm  (correct: finds lxdm in the current directory(/etc))
## if you really want to do the extra typing
:/etc$ cd ./lxdm (correct: finds lxdm in the current directory(.) but silly) 
## really all you need:
$ ls /etc/lxdm

Thank you ncmp.

Added in 3 hours 17 minutes 47 seconds:

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guest@porteus:~$ cat /etc/lxdm/*.conf
cat: /etc/lxdm/lxdm.conf: Permission denied
guest@porteus:~$ su
Password: 
root@porteus:/home/guest# cat /etc/lxdm/*.conf
[base]
## uncomment and set autologin username to enable autologin
autologin=guest

## uncomment and set timeout to enable timeout autologin,
## the value should >=5
# timeout=10
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Xorg.0.log

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[     3.952] 
X.Org X Server 1.20.14
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
[     3.952] Build Operating System: Slackware 15.0 Slackware Linux Project
[     3.952] Current Operating System: Linux porteus.example.net 6.8.10-porteus #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri May 17 18:09:34 MSK 2024 x86_64
[     3.952] Kernel command line: quiet BOOT_IMAGE=(loop)/boot/syslinux/vmlinuz from=/ISOs/Porteus/Porteus-CINNAMON-v5.01-x86_64-240923.iso volume=33 reboot=cold extramod=/porteus5.0/Modules login=guest changes=EXIT:/porteus5.0/changes/50save.dat noload=kde;jinn;lxqt;xfce;lxde;mate;open;dat.xzm;mychanges;autonet;menu1
[     3.952] Build Date: 10 July 2024  03:41:31PM
[     3.952]  
[     3.952] Current version of pixman: 0.40.0
[     3.952] 	Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
	to make sure that you have the latest version.
[     3.952] Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
	(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[     3.952] (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Thu Oct 24 13:38:45 2024
[     3.966] (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
[     3.981] (==) No Layout section.  Using the first Screen section.
[     3.981] (==) No screen section available. Using defaults.
[     3.981] (**) |-->Screen "Default Screen Section" (0)
[     3.981] (**) |   |-->Monitor "<default monitor>"
[     3.982] (==) No monitor specified for screen "Default Screen Section".
	Using a default monitor configuration.
[     3.982] (==) Automatically adding devices
[     3.982] (==) Automatically enabling devices
[     3.982] (==) Automatically adding GPU devices
[     3.982] (==) Automatically binding GPU devices
[     3.982] (==) Max clients allowed: 256, resource mask: 0x1fffff
[     3.993] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/misc" does not exist.
[     3.993] 	Entry deleted from font path.
[     3.993] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/local" does not exist.
[     3.993] 	Entry deleted from font path.
[     3.993] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/OTF" does not exist.
[     3.993] 	Entry deleted from font path.
[     3.993] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/Type1" does not exist.
[     3.993] 	Entry deleted from font path.
[     3.993] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/CID" does not exist.
[     3.993] 	Entry deleted from font path.
[     3.993] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/" does not exist.
[     3.993] 	Entry deleted from font path.
[     3.993] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/" does not exist.
[     3.993] 	Entry deleted from font path.
[     3.993] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi" does not exist.
[     3.993] 	Entry deleted from font path.
[     3.993] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi" does not exist.
[     3.993] 	Entry deleted from font path.
[     3.993] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic" does not exist.
[     3.993] 	Entry deleted from font path.
[     3.993] (==) FontPath set to:
	/usr/share/fonts/TTF
[     3.993] (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
[     3.993] (II) The server relies on udev to provide the list of input devices.
	If no devices become available, reconfigure udev or disable AutoAddDevices.
[     3.993] (II) Loader magic: 0x619c80
[     3.993] (II) Module ABI versions:
[     3.993] 	X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
[     3.993] 	X.Org Video Driver: 24.1
[     3.993] 	X.Org XInput driver : 24.1
[     3.993] 	X.Org Server Extension : 10.0
[     3.993] (II) xfree86: Adding drm device (/dev/dri/card0)
 :
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guest@porteus:/mnt/nvme0n1p7/porteus5.0$ cat Xorg.0.log | grep -i "(WW)"
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[     3.993] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/misc" does not exist.
[     3.993] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/local" does not exist.
[     3.993] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/OTF" does not exist.
[     3.993] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/Type1" does not exist.
[     3.993] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/CID" does not exist.
[     3.993] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/" does not exist.
[     3.993] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/" does not exist.
[     3.993] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi" does not exist.
[     3.993] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi" does not exist.
[     3.993] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic" does not exist.
[     4.086] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fbdev
guest@porteus:/mnt/nvme0n1p7/porteus5.0$ cat Xorg.0.log | grep -i "(EE)"
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[     4.134] (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/libglamoregl.so: libexpat.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[     4.134] (EE) modeset: Failed to load module "glamoregl" (loader failed, 0)
[     4.134] (EE) modeset(0): Failed to load glamor module.
[     4.278] (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib64/dri/swrast_dri.so failed (libexpat.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
[     4.278] (EE) AIGLX error: unable to load driver swrast
[     4.278] (EE) GLX: could not load software renderer
guest@porteus:/mnt/nvme0n1p7/porteus5.0$ 

or

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guest@porteus:/mnt/nvme0n1p7/porteus5.0$ cat Xorg.0.log | grep -e "(WW)" -e "(EE)"

[Ed_P]

In

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~#  cat /etc/porteus/*
001-core.xzm:20240802
002-xorg.xzm:20240802
002-xtra.xzm:20240511
003-cinnamon.xzm:20231229
initrd.xz:20230923

Cinnamon works with these errors:

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guest@porteus:/var/log$ cat Xorg.0.log | grep -e "(WW)" -e "(EE)"
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[     7.870] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/misc" does not exist.
[     7.870] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/local" does not exist.
[     7.870] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/OTF" does not exist.
[     7.870] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/Type1" does not exist.
[     7.870] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/CID" does not exist.
[     7.870] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/" does not exist.
[     7.870] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/" does not exist.
[     7.871] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi" does not exist.
[     7.871] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi" does not exist.
[     7.871] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic" does not exist.
[     7.899] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fbdev
guest@porteus:/var/log$ 

So the problem with 240923's Cinnamon is the:

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cat Xorg.0.log | grep -i "(EE)"
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[     4.134] (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/libglamoregl.so: libexpat.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[     4.134] (EE) modeset: Failed to load module "glamoregl" (loader failed, 0)
[     4.134] (EE) modeset(0): Failed to load glamor module.
[     4.278] (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib64/dri/swrast_dri.so failed (libexpat.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
[     4.278] (EE) AIGLX error: unable to load driver swrast
[     4.278] (EE) GLX: could not load software renderer

errors.

Which 240923 update module dropped the files? 001-core.xzm, 002-xorg.xzm or 002-xtra.xzm?

Added in 23 hours 27 minutes 12 seconds:
Same problem when using the 20240924 updates with the older Cinnamon DE module.

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~#  uname -a
Linux porteus.example.net 6.8.10-porteus #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri May 17 18:09:34 MSK 2024 x86_64 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

~#  cat /etc/porteus/*
001-core.xzm:20240924
002-xorg.xzm:20240924
002-xtra.xzm:20240924
003-cinnamon.xzm:20231229
initrd.xz:20230923

And the 20240924 002-xorg.xzm has the /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/libglamoregl.so file.

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guest@porteus:/mnt/live/memory/images/002-xorg.xzm/usr/lib64/xorg/modules$ ls -l
total 906
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    816 Sep 24 01:34 drivers/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root     32 Sep 24 01:34 extensions/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    248 Sep 24 01:34 input/
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 105104 Sep 24 01:34 libexa.so*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 113520 Sep 24 01:34 libfb.so*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  22720 Sep 24 01:34 libfbdevhw.so*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 217080 Sep 24 01:34 libglamoregl.so*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 146024 Sep 24 01:34 libint10.so*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  38976 Sep 24 01:34 libshadow.so*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  14368 Sep 24 01:34 libshadowfb.so*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  31024 Sep 24 01:34 libvbe.so*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  35872 Sep 24 01:34 libvgahw.so*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 138096 Sep 24 01:34 libwfb.so*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  26253 Feb 13  2021 v10002d.uc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  35007 Feb 13  2021 v20002d.uc
guest@porteus:/mnt/live/memory/images/002-xorg.xzm/usr/lib64/xorg/modules$ 

The problem file must be: libexpat.so.1 file.

[beny]

https://slackware.nl/slakfinder/index.p ... e=#results

[Ed_P]

I think it relates to this beny:

Updates as of 2024-09-23 for 001-core, 002-xorg, 002-xtra, 003-kde5, 003-cinnamon, 003-lxde

Bugfix/Security updated packages from upstream:
:
:
expad
:
:

Don't know which of your versions ncmp used. Or why it only effects Cinnamon and save.dat changes.

Added in 1 day 7 hours 37 minutes 41 seconds:
Gave up. Formatted a new save.dat file. Cinnamon DE now opens correctly when used in update changes mode. 80MB of changes lost.

Added in 21 hours 48 minutes 34 seconds:
Fortunately, I was able to restore all my settings and bookmarks from my 8MB changes mod.