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Re: Porteus-v3.2rc3 Bug Reports
Posted: 21 Jun 2016, 19:59
by rchase
P.S. I attempted to start the script from the terminal with
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cd /mnt/sdb3/boot
Porteus-installer-for-Linux.com
"Porteus-installer-for-Linux.com: command not found"
Re: Porteus-v3.2rc3 Bug Reports
Posted: 21 Jun 2016, 20:31
by Jack
rchase wrote:P.S. I attempted to start the script from the terminal with
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cd /mnt/sdb3/boot
Porteus-installer-for-Linux.com
"Porteus-installer-for-Linux.com: command not found"
You first have to do this.
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guest@porteus:~$ su
Password: toor
root@porteus:/home/guest#
root@porteus:/home/guest# cd /mnt/sdb3/boot
root@porteus:/mnt/sdb3/boot# sh Porteus-installer-for-Linux.com
root@porteus:/mnt/sdb3/boot#
That how I do it.
Re: Porteus-v3.2rc3 Bug Reports
Posted: 22 Jun 2016, 00:22
by Bogomips
KDE5 32 bit
On the way to making nvidia driver, noticed while in text mode, had lost all swap space. Through elimination found culptit to be rootcopy parameter, and rc.local is a subset of the cinnamon rc.local that is used. So turned on swap with
swapon -a
After making the driver, entered GUI with
init 4. Although nvidia driver was in charge, found KDE to be a bit sluggish.
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guest@porteus:~$ cat /proc/cmdline
quiet initrd=initrd.xz from=/dev/sda10/tmp/iso/rc3/i586/Porteus-KDE-v3.2rc3-i586.iso rootcopy=UUID:b173/rcpy extramod=/dev/sda5/xtrax cliexec=mount~--bind~/home/guest/p9/tmp~/tmp noauto delay=10 3 BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz
guest@porteus:~$ df -h .
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
aufs 529M 181M 348M 35% /
guest@porteus:~$ free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 880 587 65 30 226 104
Swap: 644 399 245
Disk was being thrashed, and top showed
baloo_file peaking at 98% cpu. Shortly thereafter it was a case of REISUB.
@ scdbackup
Was having trouble trying to get
append working on a dvd-rw. After quite a bit of research, opted for xorriso. On 3.1 managed to make a xorriso module, and after some meticulous manual reading, was able to get
append working on a dvd-rw. However there was an unexpected spin off.
Previously on Mint, Brassero managed to make coasters of quite a few of my dvd-rw media. Here on kde K3 Burn could use some of them, but was pleasantly surprised to find that xorriso was able to resurrect almost all the dvd-rw, written off as coasters, except for a couple.
Re: Porteus-v3.2rc3 Bug Reports
Posted: 22 Jun 2016, 01:21
by brokenman
7z could simply ignore the block addresses of all files which have a byte count of 0.
This is kind of the way I see it too. It wasn't broken before.
"Porteus-installer-for-Linux.com: command not found"
./Porteus-install-for-Linux.com <-- note the dot slash
Bogomips, I too foud KDE5 on 32bit a disappointment. I did not observe the runaway baloo process. Will check it out.
Re: Porteus-v3.2rc3 Bug Reports
Posted: 22 Jun 2016, 04:25
by rchase
Jack, thanks. I am not very familiar with Linux; I found some reference to running a script just by entering its name. I've managed to install Porteus to sdb3. My understanding of the problem has been complicated by some weird fault with my IDE controller such that it will boot from a hard drive only if it is on IDE 0; Plop cannot boot OSs on another hard drive attached via IDE either, but can boot from USB.
Re: Porteus-v3.2rc3 Bug Reports
Posted: 23 Jun 2016, 17:59
by Blaze
Xfce x86_64
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root@porteus:~# unetbootin
Unable to load library icui18n "Cannot load library icui18n: (icui18n: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
root@porteus:~# clementine
Unable to load library icui18n "Cannot load library icui18n: (icui18n: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
root@porteus:~# simplescreenrecorder --logfile
Unable to load library icui18n "Cannot load library icui18n: (icui18n: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
For fix this problem need to install icu4c-51.2-x86_64-1.txz via
ldconfig: Can't stat /libx32: No such file or directory and ldconfig: Can't stat /usr/libx32: No such file or directory
and what's meaning?
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root@porteus:~# sudo ldconfig -v | grep icui18n
ldconfig: Can't stat /libx32: No such file or directory
ldconfig: Can't stat /usr/libx32: No such file or directory
libicui18n.so.56 -> libicui18n.so.56.1
root@porteus:~#
Porteus-v3.2rc3 Bug Reports
Posted: 25 Jun 2016, 00:57
by Bogomips
kde 32 bit
Need to retract previous comments. It appears the nvidia installer was responsible for the runaway baloo process, which in turn made kde seem sluggish. However having now made a nvidia driver module and tweaked the boot process, kde response is fine and am no longer writing off kde. Will be quite usable if only could find a lightweight browser, which does not gulp up memory the way vivaldi did, Far worse than PaleMoon in that respect.
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guest@porteus:~$ cat /proc/cmdline
quiet initrd=initrd.xz from=/dev/sda10/tmp/iso/rc3/i586/Porteus-KDE-v3.2rc3-i586.iso rootcopy=UUID:b173/rcpy extramod=/dev/sda5/black cliexec=mount~--bind~/home/guest/p9/tmp~/tmp copy2ram rammod=base ramsize=30% noauto delay=10 BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz
guest@porteus:~$ df -h .
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
aufs 265M 50M 215M 19% /
guest@porteus:~$ free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 880 545 74 63 259 117
Swap: 644 453 191
guest@porteus:~$ cat /var/log/porteus-livedbg
# Recognized devices:
...
/dev/sdb1: UUID="23B9-F6C2" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/sdb2: UUID="3cedaa92-6cfd-4f71-8994-54ab948be7cc" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sdc1: UUID="ab55fc94-4882-417b-b173-7f159944fa9b" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sdc2: UUID="30e88aba-c81c-49ea-9e9b-d23edd56b578" TYPE="ext4"
# Booting device:
/mnt/isoloop
# Porteus data found in:
/mnt/isoloop/porteus
# Changes are stored in:
memory
# Non standard /rootcopy dir:
UUID:b173/rcpy
# Modules activated during boot time:
/memory/copy2ram/000-kernel.xzm
/memory/copy2ram/001-core.xzm
/memory/copy2ram/002-xorg.xzm
/memory/copy2ram/003-kde5.xzm
/mnt/sda5/black/h3x.xzm
/mnt/sda5/black/nvidia-304.131_rc3-i586.xzm
r Gwenview. Could not get it to work.
Files present in directory do not show up.
Another thing was that the screenshot routine claims to save as png, but in reality saves as webp, Eventually found online converter to transform to png, This was necessary as neither postimage,org nor cinnamon image viewer capable of handling this format.
Re: Porteus-v3.2rc3 Bug Reports
Posted: 25 Jun 2016, 18:25
by rchase
On my old Satellite (which seemed to run 3.1 well), Porteus 3.2rc3 x86_64 XFCE booted in graphics mode says "Failed to start message bus ... error reading from ...system.conf", proceeds to load wallpaper, then stop; it doesn't respond to the keyboard, but shuts down within three seconds (with success messages replacing the wallpaper) upon pressing the power button.
P.S. Sorry -- just realized that A) the existing installation no longer has access to the taskbar or whisker menu and
I was trying to boot the new image with that defective Porteus installation in place.
Re: Porteus-v3.2rc3 Bug Reports
Posted: 25 Jun 2016, 20:38
by Bogomips
Re: Porteus-v3.2rc3 Bug Reports
Posted: 26 Jun 2016, 02:15
by brokenman
Bogomips I remember you mentioning a problem with pulseaudio applet using too much CPU. I just reproduced this tonight. I noticed slackware-current has just recompiled the xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin to fix a problem with the panel icon where it did not honour the gtk3 theme.
I installed the package and I don't get the cpu problem but I DO get the opposite of what they intended to fix. Now I have a white square background on the panel icon. Grrrrr. No doubt this will be blamed on the gtk3 theme but I have so far not found a theme that has light widgets and a dark panel and correctly puts a transparent background on the pulseaudio plugin icon. Looks like I will be patching themes tonight.
Re: Porteus-v3.2rc3 Bug Reports
Posted: 26 Jun 2016, 04:16
by brokenman
Got that sorted. The new porteus xfce4 will embrace material design.
Re: Porteus-v3.2rc3 Bug Reports
Posted: 26 Jun 2016, 18:44
by tome
/usr/share/xfce4/weather/icons - icons should not be deleted
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guest@porteus:~$ su
Password:
root@porteus:/home/guest# mousepad
- never ends:
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(mousepad:1572): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: The connection is closed
Maybe leafpad could be better - another Linuxes have the same.
Why slim? Isn't lxdm better - easy to switch DE.
Re: Porteus-v3.2rc3 Bug Reports
Posted: 26 Jun 2016, 19:14
by brokenman
Try:
su -
Then you will be using a login shell.
Why slim? Isn't lxdm better - easy to switch DE.
I was originally using lxdm but came across a showstopper that made the change inevitable. Can't recall what it was right now. Are you having a problem with slim?
Re: Porteus-v3.2rc3 Bug Reports
Posted: 26 Jun 2016, 20:33
by tome
Thanks.
I don't have problem with slim, but from my point of view lxdm was nicer.
Re: Porteus-v3.2rc3 Bug Reports
Posted: 26 Jun 2016, 20:54
by fullmoonremix
@ brokenman... material design... way to go
perhaps I will attempt it with Pek window manager and Bar (by Lemonboy) possibly Xfe also.
In regard to slim... perhaps you could take Qingy for a drive around the block?
It's the only DM that uses DirectFB. It's in the USM thanks to our friends @ SlackOnly.
http://qingy.sourceforge.net/
http://webwarper.net/ww/~av/slakfinder. ... e=#results