[Solved] Porteus 1.1 save.dat write error

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Re: Porteus 1.1 save.dat write error

Post#16 by newbody » 21 Feb 2012, 19:54

oops too late I have already deleted that one and test the lxde one now.
And that one also had the error which this thread is about.
But I used the save manager to repair it. Not that I know if that worked
but it does remember bookmarks so that is good. Swedish works too.
So that is cool. Thanks for all help.

I don't want to go back now when it works :) sorry. Now I will use the
the 1.2RC version.

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Re: Porteus 1.1 save.dat write error

Post#17 by Ahau » 21 Feb 2012, 20:42

Thanks newbody -- glad you got something up and running.

So, you are still getting write errors on your new save.dat? Or, after running the repair tool, is it functioning normally?

For those who might be following this thread, here is a fix for the broken menu items in 32-bit XFCE:

http://porteus-xfce.googlecode.com/file ... h-i486.xzm

Download and put in /porteus/modules folder. On reboot, the menu items will work. Don't use this patch with Trinity.
Please take a look at our online documentation, here. Suggestions are welcome!

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Re: Porteus 1.1 save.dat write error

Post#18 by newbody » 21 Feb 2012, 22:41

Yes after doing the repair it did remember what startpage I had chosen but it failed to remember
that I wanted to have UTF8 but that could be something with firefox mozilla.

Edit. Would be cool to know if the Original Poster also could repair the save file?
I use this code now but maybe that is too much of a good thing? Have I added too much?

title Porteus w/changes
root (hd0,1)
kernel (hd0,1)/porteusboot/vmlinuz from_dir=porteus/ ramsize=60% root=/dev/ram0 rw fsck lxde kmap=se changes=/mnt/sda2/porteus12rc.dat copy2ram toroot nocd noeject noswap
initrd (hd0,1)/porteusboot/initrd.xz
boot

porteusboot instead of just boot is there for to be able to boot other OS that also have boot directories.
nocd noeject noswap are these superflous maybe

copy2ram would work I use 32 bit and I have 1GB RAM.

Anyway I am happy that Porteus exists. Puppy is my main OS but Porteus is number two
and then comes nothing and then nothing ...

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Re: Porteus 1.1 save.dat write error

Post#19 by Abhishek » 11 Jul 2012, 21:44

The save.dat creation error messages don't get displayed in v1.2 Final. Also I suspect that the unexpected system crashes was due to an unstable KDE and not due to corruption of save.dat file. v1.2 LXDE works better without any problem anytime.

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