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Porteus 5.0 RC2 bug reports

Posted: 07 Jan 2021, 15:26
by Blaze
joejac, thanks.
Happy to all in 2021 ;)
joejac wrote: ↑
04 Jan 2021, 18:38
 Are there any news on the final release of Porteus 5?
Not before release of Slackware 15

Porteus 5.0 RC2 bug reports

Posted: 08 Jan 2021, 07:54
by Rava
Blaze wrote: ↑
07 Jan 2021, 15:26
 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.

Porteus 5.0 RC2 bug reports

Posted: 09 Jan 2021, 07:16
by ncmprhnsbl
Rava wrote: ↑
04 Jan 2021, 03:33
 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:

Porteus 5.0 RC2 bug reports

Posted: 11 Jan 2021, 08:11
by 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.

Porteus 5.0 RC2 bug reports

Posted: 12 Jan 2021, 13:12
by ncmprhnsbl
fulalas wrote: ↑
11 Jan 2021, 08:11
 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
fulalas wrote: ↑
11 Jan 2021, 08:11
 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) ;)

Porteus 5.0 RC2 bug reports

Posted: 14 Jan 2021, 02:39
by Rava
ncmprhnsbl wrote: ↑
12 Jan 2021, 13:12
 @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 :bad:

Porteus 5.0 RC2 bug reports

Posted: 21 Jan 2021, 11:49
by Rava
I formatted a 2 GB SDHC to ext2 and copied the boot/ folder and subfolders from the Porteus-XFCE-v5.0rc2-x86_64.iso to make it able to boot Porteus.

So I executed Porteus-installer-for-Linux:

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Verifying archive integrity...  100%   MD5 checksums are OK. All good.
Uncompressing Porteus Installer  100%  

                             _.====.._
                           ,:._       ~-_
                               '\        ~-_
                                 \        \.
                               ,/           ~-_
                      -..__..-''   PORTEUS   ~~--..__

==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--

Installing Porteus to /dev/mmcblk0p1
WARNING: Make sure this is the right partition before proceeding.

Type 'ok' to continue or press Ctrl+c to exit.
ok
Flushing filesystem buffers...

Installation failed with error code '2'.
Please ask for help on the Porteus forum: www.porteus.org/forum
and provide the information from /mnt/mmcblk0p1/boot/debug.txt

Exiting now...
cat: /mnt/mmcblk0p1/boot/syslinux/lilo.menu: No such file or directory
Indeed there is only a lilo.conf in boot/syslinux/ - and there is also no lilo in boot/syslinux/ .

Here what debug.txt has, I left out the other devices that are not /dev/mmcblk0p1 , and also all the loop's from the modules:

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device: /dev/mmcblk0
partition: /dev/mmcblk0p1
partition number: p1
partition mount point: /mnt/mmcblk0p1
installation path: /mnt/mmcblk0p1/boot
subfolder: 
filesystem: ext2
bootloader: lilo
error code: 2
system: porteus.example.net 5.4.30-porteus x86_64
mount details: /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt/mmcblk0p1 ext2 rw,noatime,nodiratime 0 0
[…]
Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 1.84 GiB, 1977614336 bytes, 3862528 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Device         Boot Start     End Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/mmcblk0p1 *      135 3858623 3858489  1.8G 83 Linux

Porteus 5.0 RC2 bug reports

Posted: 22 Jan 2021, 12:25
by beny
mount the device in a /mnt directory cd on boot directory and reload the installer.....maybe work if this is the issue

Porteus 5.0 RC2 bug reports

Posted: 22 Jan 2021, 12:38
by Rava
beny wrote: ↑
22 Jan 2021, 12:25
 mount the device in a /mnt directory cd on boot directory and reload the installer.....maybe work if this is the issue
The device is in a /mnt/ directory - /mnt/mmcblk0p1 .
I could use a USB card-reader, maybe that makes a difference…

But anyway, when lilo should be the bootloader, then I would need a lilo as well for installation, or not?
Is secretly one of the *c32 files lilo in disguise?

I try the USB card-reader approach and report back.

Added in 13 minutes 24 seconds:
Neato, it worked, now Porteus-installer-for-Linux not tried lilo but extlinux.

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Verifying archive integrity...  100%   MD5 checksums are OK. All good.
Uncompressing Porteus Installer  100%  

                             _.====.._
                           ,:._       ~-_
                               '\        ~-_
                                 \        \.
                               ,/           ~-_
                      -..__..-''   PORTEUS   ~~--..__

==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--

Installing Porteus to /dev/sdd1
WARNING: Make sure this is the right partition before proceeding.

Type 'ok' to continue or press Ctrl+c to exit.
ok
Flushing filesystem buffers...

Using extlinux bootloader.

Installation finished successfully.
You may reboot your PC now and start using Porteus.
Please check the /boot/docs folder for additional information about
the installation process, Porteus requirements and booting parameters.
In case of making tweaks to the bootloader config,
please edit: /mnt/sdd1/boot/syslinux/porteus.cfg file.

Press Enter to exit.

Porteus 5.0 RC2 bug reports

Posted: 22 Jan 2021, 12:54
by beny
good to know... mmc isn't multimedia card? not secure digital

Porteus 5.0 RC2 bug reports

Posted: 22 Jan 2021, 12:59
by Rava
beny wrote: ↑
22 Jan 2021, 12:54
 good to know... mmc isn't multimedia card? not secure digital
Could be a slot for both, you definitely can insert and mount a secure digital card in it - as seen in what debug.txt above reports.

When I next boot I use the SD card - not via the USB card-reader - the idea was to use the unused SD card slot and keep the USB ports for USB devices - and report here if booting via SD card slot works, or if the SD card can only boot via USB card-reader.

Porteus 5.0 RC2 bug reports

Posted: 22 Jan 2021, 13:07
by beny
in my desktop system i can't boot the card via usb3, i have an ugreen device that have a ssd plug and two usb 3 and also a sd card reader and this device boot in all system also in my notebook work,in the past if you have a multireader card device you can't boot from it.

Porteus 5.0 RC2 bug reports

Posted: 22 Jan 2021, 13:26
by Rava
beny wrote: ↑
22 Jan 2021, 13:07
 if you have a multireader card device you can't boot from it.
I thought my BIOS "choose device to boot from screen" showed me the card reader if one is inserted during boot…

…

Do not tempt me to boot right now. :D
ImageImage

Porteus 5.0 RC2 bug reports

Posted: 16 Mar 2021, 09:15
by nanZor
E2FSCK out of date warning:

Running 5.0rc2 with LXDE. I use the internal mmcblk device formatted with ext to store my changes. Works great, however the system did come up with a hint to use the FSCK bootcode next time to make sure all the filesystems are consistent. But I got this warning:

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MMCBLK0P2 has unsupported feature:   METADATA_CSUM
Get a new version of e2fsck !
So not really a bug, but it appears that the e2fsck as supplied in RC2 doesn't dig my mmcblk device for doing normal fsck's..

Porteus 5.0 RC2 bug reports

Posted: 16 Mar 2021, 09:20
by nanZor
Init ID "x1" respawning too fast

Noticed that on occasion, the one of my systems will halt at

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Init ID "x1" respawning too fast.  Disabled for 5 minutes.
After 5 minutes it will just respawn too fast again in an infinite loop.

One fix for that when it happens is to CTRL-D out of it, log in again, and manually startx

And on occasion, when instructed to reboot, the system seems to just halt, and not reboot. Might be a timing issue with one of my cheap machines ...

Not show-stoppers, just something that I've seen once in a blue moon.
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