Porteus-v1.1rc2-x86_64 ready for testing

[brokenman]

Please read the release announcement for further details and post bugs and requests here. This is last release candidate before the official v1.1 release and things are looking quite stable.

As usual please road test and help out with any bug fixes where possible.

If you find a bug, please make sure you have booted to 'always fresh' mode and have no rogue files in your rootcopy folder. If the problem persists then post your question here and a team of highly trained monkeys will be dispatched to look at the problem.

As per usual we will need 'Beny the great' to produce some nvidia modules.

[lo-n-behold]

I have the impression that the cheatcode "lxde" is no longer working...

[fanthom]

rc2 is very strict about proper cheatcode syntax - 'autoexec=lxde' wont work anymore.
run `cat /proc/cmdline` and make sure you have "[space]lxde[space]" or "[space]lxde[end of line]".

check /boot/porteus.cfg for the rest of booting options (there are changes to "text mode" and "vesa mode" as well).
btw: i hope this is the last time when we mess up with cheats as it always causes some confusion...

[brokenman]

Cheaters never prosper. I agree though, we need to stabilize the cheats and i think you have just about everything covered now.

[Tonio]

First of all, thank you for an rc2 edition of both versions. Testing 64 bit version, I startup in text mode and login as root and type startx get nice KDE. Fireup firefox and there is no connection I check network with

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# ifconfig -a

and there is no ip address. I remedy the situation with dhcpcd, is this a desired change not to pick up IP address at boot?

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root@porteus:~# ifconfig -a
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr d0:27:88:01:37:9c  
          inet6 addr: fe80::d227:88ff:fe01:379c/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:357 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:31210 (30.4 KiB)  TX bytes:3526 (3.4 KiB)
          Interrupt:41 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:184 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:184 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:13940 (13.6 KiB)  TX bytes:13940 (13.6 KiB)

root@porteus:~# dhclient eth0
bash: dhclient: command not found
root@porteus:~# dhcpcd eth0
dhcpcd[2724]: version 5.2.12 starting
dhcpcd[2724]: eth0: broadcasting for a lease
dhcpcd[2724]: eth0: offered 10.155.132.215 from 10.155.132.10
dhcpcd[2724]: eth0: acknowledged 10.155.132.215 from 10.155.132.10
dhcpcd[2724]: eth0: checking for 10.155.132.215
dhcpcd[2724]: eth0: leased 10.155.132.215 for 691200 seconds
dhcpcd[2724]: forked to background, child pid 2748
root@porteus:~# uname -r
3.1.1-porteus
root@porteus:~# cat /etc/porteus-version 
Porteus-v1.1
root@porteus:~# 

Running with copy2ram and so far no issues other than this issue. Will let you know on other machines. Thanks!

[oranus]

Thanks fanthom for rc2

I get an error unmount pendrive from Dolphin,

I use copy2ram cheatcode. When I try to "Safely Remove" porteus boot pendrive, Dolphin says " The Device is currently busy: Cannot unmount because file system on device is busy." I don't use pendrive anyway. But this error does'nt occur any of the other pendrive.

Cheers,

Posted after 1 hour 31 minute 47 seconds:
Copy2ram cheat code works correctly without vga-detect. And pendrive umounted after startup.

[fanthom]

@Tonio
probably eth0 was not available yet when rc.inet1 performed (hope that i didn't send an udev to the background by mistake). please try once again on that PC and if error reoccurs try yo add 'ifconfig' command to the booting scripts just before rc.inet1 starts.
you should see if eth0 is available during next boot.

@oranus
looks like modules from /optional folder are not copied to RAM while they should. Tomorrow will have a look on linuxrc to be 100% sure and fix it, if it's really the case.

Thanks

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@oranus
fixed now - i have forgotten to detach loop device while unmounting 001-core.xzm from /opt. must do the same for 'from_iso=' cheat....
thanks.

[Tonio]

@Tonio
probably eth0 was not available yet when rc.inet1 performed (hope that i didn't send an udev to the background by mistake). please try once again on that PC and if error reoccurs try yo add 'ifconfig' command to the booting scripts just before rc.inet1 starts.
you should see if eth0 is available during next boot.

Does not work again. I am using textmode + copy2ram added on then logging in as root

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root@porteus:~# uname -r
3.1.1-porteus
root@porteus:~# cat /etc/porteus-version 
Porteus-v1.1
root@porteus:~# ifconfig -a
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr d0:27:88:01:37:9c  
          inet6 addr: fe80::d227:88ff:fe01:379c/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:42 errors:0 dropped:2 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:4178 (4.0 KiB)  TX bytes:3526 (3.4 KiB)
          Interrupt:41 Base address:0xa000 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:116 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:116 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:8700 (8.4 KiB)  TX bytes:8700 (8.4 KiB)

There is no connection, but upon running dhcpcd, I can get connection

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root@porteus:~# dhcpcd eth0
dhcpcd[2778]: version 5.2.12 starting
dhcpcd[2778]: eth0: broadcasting for a lease
dhcpcd[2778]: eth0: offered 10.155.132.215 from 10.155.132.10
dhcpcd[2778]: eth0: acknowledged 10.155.132.215 from 10.155.132.10
dhcpcd[2778]: eth0: checking for 10.155.132.215
dhcpcd[2778]: eth0: leased 10.155.132.215 for 691200 seconds
dhcpcd[2778]: forked to background, child pid 2806
root@porteus:~# 

I shall test this without copy2ram option and see if I can get connection automagically and report back.

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Starting in text mode without copy2ram, eth0 gets ip address and connection works. However on another machine with different ip. Hope to get back with more later next week.

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root@porteus:~# ifconfig -a
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:30:67:6c:93:9d  
          inet addr:192.168.1.5  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::230:67ff:fe6c:939d/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1965 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1493 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:2609243 (2.4 MiB)  TX bytes:228073 (222.7 KiB)
          Interrupt:43 Base address:0x4000 

[oranus]

Hi fanthom,

On every release you make Virtualbox.xzm file on basic state. But for using Virtualbox we need "VirtualBox Extension Pack" especially for usb2.0. So I regenerate Virtualbox.xzm with extension pack. Could you post Virtualbox with extension pack?

Thanks

[fanthom]

@Tonio
try to modify /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 as follows:

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if [ "$1" = "start" -o "$1" = "" ]; then
   echo "enabling dhcpcd on all available interfaces..."
   ifconfig lo down 2>/dev/null
   ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 2>/dev/null
   route add -net 127.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 lo 2>/dev/null
   ifconfig eth0 up && ifconfig
   sleep 1
   ifconfig eth0 up && ifconfig
   sleep 1
   ifconfig eth0 up && ifconfig
   sleep 1
   ifconfig eth0 up && ifconfig
   for x in `ls /sys/class/net | egrep -v 'sip|lo'`; do
    /sbin/dhcpcd -L -t 0 $x >/dev/null 2>&1 &
   done
fi

and check if eth0 interface is available when rc.inet1 operates. if yes then all should be ok. if no then you please try to add 'sleep 3' to original rc.inet1 before:

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for x in `ls /sys/class/net | egrep -v 'sip|lo'`; do

and see if that helps.

@oranus
as per our mchat conversation - we can't include ext pack i'm afraid as it's not GPL and requires to accept Oracle license.

@all
i have added latest nVidia driver (and legacy version) to both 32 and 64 bit repos.
thanks beny.

[Kriss]

Some minor problems:
rpm2txz doesn't work in rc2 and works in rc1
lzm2xzm - unsquashfs3 not found

Starting system message bus: /usr/bin/dbus-uuidgen --ensure ; /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system
/etc/rc.d/rc.messagebus: line 18: 2425 Bus error /sbin/ldconfig
...
/etc/rc.d/rc.local: line 10: /usr/bin/syslog: No such file or directory

/sbin/installpkg: line 314: 7772 Bus error /sbin/ldconfig

[fanthom]

@Kriss

rpm2txz doesn't work in rc2 and works in rc1

tested on http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/ ... 6.rpm.html
and works ok for me.

lzm2xzm - unsquashfs3 not found

64bit edition does not support 32bit lzm conversion (i see no point for that). i have added a warning to lzm2xzm script - thanks.

Starting system message bus: /usr/bin/dbus-uuidgen --ensure ; /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system
/etc/rc.d/rc.messagebus: line 18: 2425 Bus error /sbin/ldconfig

something is really messed up with your modules.

/etc/rc.d/rc.local: line 10: /usr/bin/syslog: No such file or directory

again - must be your installation fault as rc.local comes always empty in Porteus

my advice: try always fresh + base modules only.

[Kriss]

Sorry. It's indeed problem with my changes.

[brokenman]

32bit will lose support for squashfs3 in next version so lzm2xzm can be dropped then. Perhaps leave it for version2 as a few other scripts will need to be cleaned a little (activate scripts).

[Kriss]

I don't see power profiles on clean system. Even ones I've created. And can't assign them to events On AC/On battery.