Porteus-v5.01 bug reports

[Rava]

<mirror>// x86_64/Porteus-v5.01/kernel/
same place it's been for the last several versions

Thanks.

BTW, what could be the reason the new initrd being the reason why the pause prior e.g. initializing live file system and all modules "corrupted" when they are not?

[donald]

Not a serious bug but I did not expect to see this if the firewall is set to block all
tcp spts:1024:65535 state NEW,RELATED,ESTABLISHED
and
icmp echo-request

Block all means to block all except web browsing or not?
...and if one is generous one could allow mail in/out
[ no pop - pop is obsolete/insecure]

Chain INPUT
tcp spt:smtps state ESTABLISHED
tcp spt:imaps state ESTABLISHED

Chain OUTPUT
tcp dpt:smtps state NEW,ESTABLISHED
tcp dpt:imaps state NEW,ESTABLISHED

[roadie]

i'm wondering if some of the problems(Ravas and benjibassons) are related to have multiple installs on the same media, and that the porteus-v5.0-x86_64.cfg remains the same name (ie. i didn't change it to v5.01) and stuff gets confused.
if this is the case, a workaround would be to rename that file and use the cfgfile=some_name.cfg cheatcode

I have Porteus v5.0 and v5.0.1 set up on the same partition with the only difference being the names of the folders, ie: porteus-5.0-xfce and porteus-5.0.1-xfce and there are no problems with either one being found with the standard .cfg files. I also set up Porteus v5.0.1 with symlinks in the base and modules folders pointing to another partition and all were loaded on booting. Booting times were basically the same with both the v5.0 and v5.0.1 initrd.xz

[Rava]

Sorry for the long post, but the XFCE panel and the I/O error of contents of modules is a complex issue.
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I have Porteus v5.0 and v5.0.1 set up on the same partition with the only difference being the names of the folders, ie: porteus-5.0-xfce and porteus-5.0.1-xfce and there are no problems with either one being found with the standard .cfg files. I also set up Porteus v5.0.1 with symlinks in the base and modules folders pointing to another partition and all were loaded on booting. Booting times were basically the same with both the v5.0 and v5.0.1 initrd.xz

Could be that in my case it is a thing between the 5.0.1 initrd and my older kernel?
because all works well (no delays, symlinked modules all found and loaded without issue) with the older

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initrd.xz:20220928

and in all cases this is my kernel:

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root@rava:/# uname -r
5.4.30-porteus

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Block all means to block all except web browsing or not?

Depends.
I had to tweak my rc.FireWall or else my email program would not work:

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root@rava:/# file /etc/rc.d/rc.FireWall 
/etc/rc.d/rc.FireWall: ERROR: cannot read `/etc/rc.d/rc.FireWall' (Input/output error)
root@rava:/# cat /etc/rc.d/rc.FireWall 
cat: /etc/rc.d/rc.FireWall: Input/output error

Currently I cannot show you the changes. More on that below.
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I presume my issue with not being able to load some files might be the reason why the XFCE panel is not showing?
I activated 05-devel (the correct one after ncmprhnsbl had to point it out to silly me where it sits )
This one:

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74019034b09a66e2756cc626a81a30b025a63db1229908fbf6994d07ee9cc38a  05-devel.xzm

and since I saw no changes in the main menu entries of the panel, I restarted the panel via

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guest@rava:/$ xfce4-panel -r

The panel vanished, no error message, but the panel did not come back !?

Then I tried xfce4-panel -r once more:

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guest@rava:/$ xfce4-panel -r

resulted in this:

and this:

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guest@rava:/$ echo $?
1

Since then the panel is gone. After I read donald's post above I also realized I could no longer access /etc/rc.d/rc.FireWall (my current rc.FireWall is altered due to the needs to allow more ports for SMTP and such) and thus sits in my 992-rootcopy_5.0-RECENT.xzm module (which is a symlink to my most recent created rootcopy-settings-module - currently that is 992-rootcopy_5.0_2023-10-02.xzm)
Other files from 992-rootcopy_5.0-RECENT.xzm aka 992-rootcopy_5.0_2023-10-02.xzm are accessible, though, like this one:

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root@rava:/# cat /etc/HOSTNAME 
rava.myporteus.net

And when I start via the right-mouse-on-desktop menu the XFCE settings and choose "Panel" I get the same error GDBus.Error as above.
I have no idea if its related to me being unable to access some other files.

Could it be the suspend messes up things? That because my modules are loaded via symlinks I cannot access at times their contents?

I had an issue yesterday with all my files in /usr/local/bin - that are part of my 991-usr_local_bin_2023-10-04.xzm (loaded via symlink called 991-usr_local_bin_RECENT.xzm) and by pure coincidence I even captured the exact moment when it happened.
I searched a code snipped in my own scripts in /usr/local/bin via grep, and the first few hits where shown, while all of a sudden the rest of the files were displayed as Input/output error

Look for yourself:

guest@rava:/usr/local/bin$ grep false *sh
Daueralarm2.sh:until false; do
alarm.sh:until false; do
backup.sh:USBbackup=1 # 1=true 0=false
chmod.sh:is not very foolproof and could result in false positives (but that's better
chmod.sh:than false negatives ^-^ )]
daueralarm.sh:until false; do
/bin/grep: update-hda5-101-home.sh: Input/output error
/bin/grep: update-x-101-home.sh: Input/output error
/bin/grep: update-x-seamonkey_2.x_extensions.sh: Input/output error
/bin/grep: usmdb.sh: Input/output error
/bin/grep: waitfor.sh: Input/output error
/bin/grep: webcam.sh: Input/output error

I call that one weird behaviour. Wish I could figure out what's causing the issue.
Trying to repeat that very grep results in Input/output error on all files (a much longer list than in the [ quote ] above.

What did I do? First I mloop's the 991-usr_local_bin_2023-10-04.xzm module and wanted to copy all its files from its usr/local/bin but also got an Input/output error error - not on mloop, but during the attempted copy process.

Then I copied the module to another partition. Did an md5sum on both modules: both md5sums are the same. Then I mloop's the version of the module that I copied to the other partition and then I could copy all its files from usr/local/bin to /usr/local/bin

Did anyone ever encounter an issue like this?

The first module I tried mloop'ing is the one currently activated via booting. Why are the md5sums the same when testing the "original" as loaded during boot that sits on sda5, and the copied one that I copied to sda2 the same, still I cannot access its contents when mloop'ing the sda5 module (the one activated during boot) while I could access its mloop'd contend via the copy from sda2?
When a checksum is made of a file, the whole file is loaded, yes? What could cause one module to fail to access its contents while the other copy can access its contents when both modules created the same md5sum?
Is that some workings of how a live system works that I do not get?


Since it seems I will not get back my XFCE panel any time soon, I try to compile what I wanted to compile (see here meson.build ERROR: Dependency "gtk+-2.0" not found ) hopefully without any more Input/output error and will restart.

[Blaze]

I have Kernel 5.18.8, 6.1.1 and 6.2.11 and this issue does not occur.

A few changes with i915 comes to kernel 6.5.6 https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel ... eLog-6.5.6
Can you test kernel 6.5.6 Porteus Kernel Builder (Пост Blaze #96199) ?

[Ed_P]

The FireFox upgrade doesn't import bookmarks from html files even though it's shown as the only option. Once FireFox is up using the Bookmark's Manage Bookmarks option to Restore from a json file works.

[Rava]

The FireFox upgrade doesn't import bookmarks from html files even though it's shown as the only option. Once FireFox is up using the Bookmark's Manage Bookmarks option to Restore from a json file works.

Could it be that this is a FFx issue with the newer version and not one of update-browser?

But your post reminds me, I should stop procrastinating and purge all my older browsers and replace them with safe newer ones to get rid of the two recent vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-5217 + CVE-2023-4863).

[fulalas]

kernel 6.5.5 has problems with video hardware acceleration.

Intel Iris Xe + intel-media-driver

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$ mpv -hwdec=auto av1-4k60fps.webm

I don't think there's hardware acceleration available for this codec (AV1).

1- Check the video information pressing 'i' when the video is running and show us a screenshot.
2- Does this problem happen with other video codecs like x264?
3- What's is your CPU/GPU full spec (not the commercial name)?

[beny]

hi fulalas, only kodi nexus have the AV1 codec inside with dav1d package,but i don't have intel so i can't confirm if work or not.

[fulalas]

hi fulalas, only kodi nexus have the AV1 codec inside with dav1d package,but i don't have intel so i can't confirm if work or not.

PorteuX is shipped with dav1d since first release. Anyway, dav1d is a 100% CPU decoder, no GPU involved so far.

But I found that Nvidia since 30xx and Intel Gen12/Xe have support to AV1 GPU decode. I haven't had the opportunity to test.

[Rava]

My system:

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root@rava:/# cat /etc/porteus/*
001-core.xzm:20230922
002-xorg.xzm:20231001
002-xtra.xzm:20230922
003-xfce.xzm:20230922
06-man.xzm:20230915
initrd.xz:20220928

Is there some issue with slapt-mod?
First I updated the databases:

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root@rava:/# slapt-mod -u
Retrieving package data [http://slackware.uk/salix/x86_64/slackware-15.0/]...  0Done
Retrieving patch list [http://slackware.uk/salix/x86_64/slackware-15.0/]...Done
Retrieving checksum list [http://slackware.uk/salix/x86_64/slackware-15.0/]...  Done
Retrieving checksum signature [http://slackware.uk/salix/x86_64/slackware-15.0/]...Done
Verifying checksum signature [http://slackware.uk/salix/x86_64/slackware-15.0/]...No key for verification
Retrieving ChangeLog.txt [http://slackware.uk/salix/x86_64/slackware-15.0/]...  Done
Reading Package Lists...Done
Retrieving package data [http://slackware.uk/salix/x86_64/slackware-15.0/extra/]...Done
Retrieving patch list [http://slackware.uk/salix/x86_64/slackware-15.0/extra/]...Done
Retrieving checksum list [http://slackware.uk/salix/x86_64/slackware-15.0/extra/]...Done
Retrieving checksum signature [http://slackware.uk/salix/x86_64/slackware-15.0/extra/]...Done
Verifying checksum signature [http://slackware.uk/salix/x86_64/slackware-15.0/extra/]...No key for verification
Retrieving ChangeLog.txt [http://slackware.uk/salix/x86_64/slackware-15.0/extra/]...Done
Reading Package Lists...Done
Retrieving package data [http://slackware.uk/salix/x86_64/15.0/]...Done
Retrieving patch list [http://slackware.uk/salix/x86_64/15.0/]...Done
Retrieving checksum list [http://slackware.uk/salix/x86_64/15.0/]...Done
Retrieving checksum signature [http://slackware.uk/salix/x86_64/15.0/]...Done
Verifying checksum signature [http://slackware.uk/salix/x86_64/15.0/]...No key for verification
Retrieving ChangeLog.txt [http://slackware.uk/salix/x86_64/15.0/]...Done
Reading Package Lists...Done
Retrieving package data [http://slackware.uk/salix/x86_64/extra-15.0/]...Done
Retrieving patch list [http://slackware.uk/salix/x86_64/extra-15.0/]...Done
Retrieving checksum list [http://slackware.uk/salix/x86_64/extra-15.0/]...Done
Retrieving checksum signature [http://slackware.uk/salix/x86_64/extra-15.0/]... Done
Verifying checksum signature [http://slackware.uk/salix/x86_64/extra-15.0/]...No key for verification
Retrieving ChangeLog.txt [http://slackware.uk/salix/x86_64/extra-15.0/]...Done
Reading Package Lists...Done
Retrieving package data [https://slackware.uk/csb/15.0/x86_64/]...Done
Retrieving patch list [https://slackware.uk/csb/15.0/x86_64/]...Done
Retrieving checksum list [https://slackware.uk/csb/15.0/x86_64/]...Done
Retrieving checksum signature [https://slackware.uk/csb/15.0/x86_64/]...Done
Verifying checksum signature [https://slackware.uk/csb/15.0/x86_64/]...No key for verification
Retrieving ChangeLog.txt [https://slackware.uk/csb/15.0/x86_64/]...Done
Reading Package Lists...Done
Retrieving package data [http://ponce.cc/slackware/slackware64-15.0/packages/]...Done
Retrieving patch list [http://ponce.cc/slackware/slackware64-15.0/packages/]... Done
Retrieving checksum list [http://ponce.cc/slackware/slackware64-15.0/packages/]...Done
Retrieving checksum signature [http://ponce.cc/slackware/slackware64-15.0/packages/]...Done
Verifying checksum signature [http://ponce.cc/slackware/slackware64-15.0/packages/]...No key for verification
Retrieving ChangeLog.txt [http://ponce.cc/slackware/slackware64-15.0/packages/]...Done
Reading Package Lists...Done
Retrieving package data [https://slackware.nl/people/alien/sbrepos/15.0/x86_64/]...Done
Retrieving patch list [https://slackware.nl/people/alien/sbrepos/15.0/x86_64/]...Done
Retrieving checksum list [https://slackware.nl/people/alien/sbrepos/15.0/x86_64/]...Done
Retrieving checksum signature [https://slackware.nl/people/alien/sbrepos/15.0/x86_64/]...Done
Verifying checksum signature [https://slackware.nl/people/alien/sbrepos/15.0/x86_64/]...No key for verification
Retrieving ChangeLog.txt [https://slackware.nl/people/alien/sbrepos/15.0/x86_64/]...Done
Reading Package Lists...Done
root@rava:/# echo $?
0

then looked for the python pip package

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root@rava:/# slapt-mod -s pip
JDSP4Linux-2.3-x86_64-1salix15.0  (Pipewire system equalizer)
aeolus-0.9.0-x86_64-1salix15.0  (pipe organ emulator)
aespipe-2.4f-x86_64-1salix15.0  (AES encrypting/decrypting pipe)
fountain-1.0.3-x86_64-1salix15.0  (pipe standard input to multiple processes)
haskell-pipes-4.3.16-x86_64-1salix15.0  (stream processing library)
netpipes-4.2-x86_64-4  (TCP/IP pipe utilities)
obmenu-generator-0.89-x86_64-1salix15.0  (A fast pipe/static menu generator)
perl-IPC-Run-20220807.0-x86_64-1gv  (system() and background procs w/ piping, redirs, ptys)
pip2tgz-0.8-noarch-1salix15.0  (Make Slackware package of any package in PyPI)
pipdeptree-2.2.1-x86_64-1salix15.0  (show dependency tree of packages)
pipe-viewer-0.1.8-x86_64-1salix15.0  (search and stream videos from youtube)
pipelight-0.2.8.2-x86_64-1alien  (wine-based Silverlight plugin for Linux browsers)
pipemeter-1.1.5-x86_64-1salix15.0  (I/O pipe with progress and speed indicators)
piper-0.6-x86_64-2salix15.0  (configure gaming mice)
pipewire-0.3.44-x86_64-1  (multimedia processing)
pipewire-jack-0.3.44-x86_64-1alien  (multimedia processing, JACK support)
pipewire-native-jack-0.3.44-x86_64-1salix15.0  (Use PipeWire instead of JACK)
piprot-0.9.10-x86_64-1salix15.0  (Command line utility to show requirements)
pipstat-0.2.1-x86_64-1salix15.0  (PyPI packages Counter)
pv-1.6.20-x86_64-1gv  (monitor the progress of data through a pipeline)
pw-1-x86_64-1salix15.0  (view data passing through a pipe)
python-joblib-1.1.0-x86_64-1salix15.0  (lightweight pipelining in Python)
python-pip-21.3.1-x86_64-2  (tool for installing Python packages)
qpwgraph-0.3.0-x86_64-1salix15.0  (a PipeWire Graph Qt GUI Interface)
ruffus-2.8.4-x86_64-1salix15.0  (Computation Pipeline library)
wireplumber-0.4.7-x86_64-1salix15.0  (Session / policy manager implementation for PipeWire)
xpipe-20200503_60b0aec-x86_64-1salix15.0  (split input and feed it into the given utility)

and chose the python-pip-21.3.1-x86_64-2 package, told slapt-mod to "Download and build module (XZ compression)" via -M:

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root@rava:/# slapt-mod -M python-pip-21.3.1-x86_64-2
Reading Package Lists...Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  python-pip 
0 upgraded, 0 reinstalled, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove, 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1.7MB of archives.
Do you want to continue? [y/N] y
1/1 Get http://slackware.uk/salix/x86_64/slackware-15.0/ python-pip 21.3.1-x86_64-2 [1.7MB]...Done

Done
root@rava:/# echo $?
1

As you can see, after the above command there is still enough free space in my / :

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root@rava:/# /bin/df -Tm  /
Filesystem     Type 1M-blocks  Used Available Use% Mounted on
aufs           aufs       388   119       269  31% /

And ideas what went wrong?

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Done

Done

is quite unhelpful, and the return value of 1 shows me something went wrong. But what?

Added in 2 minutes 42 seconds:

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root@rava:/# cd /tmp/GETMOD/python-pip-21.3.1-x86_64-2/slackware64/d
root@rava:/tmp/GETMOD/python-pip-21.3.1-x86_64-2/slackware64/d# ls -o *
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 1809344 2021-11-03 01:42 python-pip-21.3.1-x86_64-2.txz

At least it looks like the package was downloaded okay?

Added in 6 minutes 36 seconds:

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root@rava:/tmp/GETMOD/python-pip-21.3.1-x86_64-2/slackware64/d# txz2xzm python-pip-21.3.1-x86_64-2.txz 
Verifying package python-pip-21.3.1-x86_64-2.txz.
Installing package python-pip-21.3.1-x86_64-2.txz:
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:
# python-pip (tool for installing Python packages)
#
# The PyPA recommended tool for installing Python packages.
#
# Homepage: https://pip.pypa.io/
#
Package python-pip-21.3.1-x86_64-2.txz installed.
Creating /tmp/GETMOD/python-pip-21.3.1-x86_64-2/slackware64/d/python-pip-21.3.1-x86_64-2.xzm

root@rava:/tmp/GETMOD/python-pip-21.3.1-x86_64-2/slackware64/d# echo $?
0
root@rava:/tmp/GETMOD/python-pip-21.3.1-x86_64-2/slackware64/d# ls -o
total 3956
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 1809344 2021-11-03 01:42 python-pip-21.3.1-x86_64-2.txz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 2240512 2023-10-11 21:58 python-pip-21.3.1-x86_64-2.xzm

At least looks like manually creating the wanted module was a success.

Any idea why the progress bar when creating that module was not displayed?
I presume my rotated screen resolution ( xrandr --output HDMI-0 --rotate left ) cannot be the reason. Or can it?

[Rava]

Again slapt-mod fails me.

First I updated all databases via slapt-mod -u

Then tried two searched, sadly, no search results:

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root@rava:/# slapt-mod -s libcrypto
root@rava:/# echo $?
0
root@rava:/# slapt-mod -s libssl
root@rava:/# echo $?
0

Added in 48 seconds:
Or is slapt-mod unable to find libraries?

[beny]

hi Rava:the libcrypto is part of the openssl so i think you have to search openssl

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guest@porteux:~$ sudo slapt-mod -s crypto
M2Crypto-0.38.0-x86_64-4  (cryptography toolkit for Python)
asn1crypto-1.5.1-x86_64-1cf  (Python ASN.1 library)
botan-2.19.1-x86_64-1alien  (Crypto and TLS for Modern C++)
botan-3.2.0-x86_64-1cf  (C++ crypto library)
cryfs-0.10.3-x86_64-9  (cryptographic filesystem)
cryptography-41.0.4-x86_64-1cf  (Python cryptography library)
cryptopp-8.2.0-x86_64-3  (library of cryptographic schemes)
ctunnel-0.8-x86_64-3cf  (Crypto Tunnel for Proxying and Forwarding TCP Connections)
ecryptfs-utils-111-x86_64-8cf  (ecryptfs cryptographic filesystem utilities)
gcr-3.40.0-x86_64-2  (crypto library and ui for gnome-keyring)
go-crypto-0.14.0-x86_64-1cf  (supplementary Go cryptography libraries)
kleopatra-23.08.2-x86_64-1  (KDE Crypto Certificate manager)
libgcrypt-1.10.2-x86_64-1  (General purpose crypto library)
libolm-3.2.13-x86_64-1cf  (Implementation of the olm and megolm cryptographic ratchets)
libsodium-1.0.19-x86_64-1  (Sodium crypto library)
mbedtls-2.25.0-x86_64-1alien  (cryptographic C library with small footprint)
mbedtls-3.5.0-x86_64-1cf  (Light-weight cryptographic and SSL/TLS library)
nettle-3.9.1-x86_64-1  (small cryptographic library)
pycrypto-2.6-x86_64-1alien  (Python Cryptography Toolkit)
pycrypto-2.6.1-x86_64-13cf  (Python Cryptography Toolkit)
pycryptodomex-3.19.0-x86_64-1cf  (low-level cryptographic primitives)
python-ecdsa-0.11-x86_64-1alien  (ECDSA cryptographic signature library)
qca-2.3.7-x86_64-1  (Qt Cryptographic Architecture)
guest@porteux:~$ 

guest@porteux:~$ sudo slapt-mod -s libcrypto
guest@porteux:~$

[Rava]

hi Rava:the libcrypto is part of the openssl so i think you have to search openssl

Is there some search or indexing tool telling folks that are not that knowledgeable than, say, you, where libraries are found?

slapt-mod -s openssl gets me, among others, these:

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openssl-1.1.1m-x86_64-1  (Secure Sockets Layer toolkit)
openssl-1.1.1w-x86_64-1_slack15.0  (Secure Sockets Layer toolkit)
openssl-solibs-1.1.1m-x86_64-1  (OpenSSL shared libraries)
openssl-solibs-1.1.1w-x86_64-1_slack15.0  (OpenSSL shared libraries)

Is the "m" and "w" (after "1.1.1") part of the version numbering?
Or does m and w stand for something else?

[beny]

hi Rava in my system there are the u and the w for the openssl packages so i think is a version number,but.... i have found this for the record:https://www.openssl.org/news/cl111.txt