Feedback and Bug Reports for Porteus v2.1 RC2

[Ed_P]

RazorQT 32bit works with -vga cirrus!! What the heck?? One works with one, the other works with a different one.

Also not sure what this means.

http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/7021/lftw.png

[brokenman]

RazorQT 32bit works with -vga cirrus!!

Is this good? I assume your referring to the 2D GUI accelerators for an emulator under win?

The error about /var/run/slim.auth shouldn't hinder login (please confirm). The file is generated during login.
At first I thought it was ck-session but after booting ck-list-sessions shows only one session. If you have any clues I am all ears on this one.

[wread]

@fanthom
I did not give you accurate enough information to recreate my bug before. It goes like this:

I start the machine with two USB sticks connected, one with the OS (2.1-kde4-rc2-32) the other one has files, both are ext4 formatted.
Now I stop the files-usb, extract it and insert the fat one: the machine rejects it.

IMHO the machine learns that the usb is ext4 formatted and when a fat fs comes in, it won't accept it, but when I try the other partition (a posix one, I think it is ext3) the machine takes it without complaining.

Here the output of message:

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root@porteus:~# tail /var/log/messages
Jul 15 22:27:49 porteus dbus[1338]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper'
Jul 15 22:28:16 porteus kernel: [  122.145218] sdb: detected capacity change from 7803174912 to 0
Jul 15 22:28:16 porteus kernel: [  122.338074] usb 1-2: USB disconnect, device number 3
Jul 15 22:28:29 porteus kernel: [  134.417043] usb 1-2: new high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci-pci
Jul 15 22:28:29 porteus kernel: [  134.538458] scsi4 : usb-storage 1-2:1.0
Jul 15 22:28:30 porteus kernel: [  135.630631] scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Kingston DT 101 G2        PMAP PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
Jul 15 22:28:30 porteus kernel: [  136.258833] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] 30233472 512-byte logical blocks: (15.4 GB/14.4 GiB)
Jul 15 22:28:30 porteus kernel: [  136.259454] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
Jul 15 22:28:30 porteus kernel: [  136.277267]  sdb: sdb1 sdb2
Jul 15 22:28:30 porteus kernel: [  136.280093] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
root@porteus:~# 

Seems to me all normal; the one I disconnect is an 8 Gb, the one I connect is a 16 Gb with 2 partitions.
See if you can recreate it...

The same happens with a single patition fat formatted 2Gb stick:

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root@porteus:~# tail /var/log/messages
Jul 15 22:28:30 porteus kernel: [  136.280093] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
Jul 15 22:46:21 porteus -- MARK --
Jul 15 22:56:43 porteus kernel: [ 1828.577054] usb 1-2: USB disconnect, device number 5
Jul 15 22:57:09 porteus kernel: [ 1854.434057] usb 1-2: new high-speed USB device number 6 using ehci-pci
Jul 15 22:57:09 porteus kernel: [ 1854.551874] scsi5 : usb-storage 1-2:1.0
Jul 15 22:57:10 porteus kernel: [ 1855.552765] scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access     MOAI     USB Flash Drive  1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
Jul 15 22:57:10 porteus kernel: [ 1855.557048] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] 3973120 512-byte logical blocks: (2.03 GB/1.89 GiB)
Jul 15 22:57:10 porteus kernel: [ 1855.557727] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
Jul 15 22:57:10 porteus kernel: [ 1855.758540]  sdb: sdb1
Jul 15 22:57:10 porteus kernel: [ 1855.763618] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
root@porteus:~# 

I see no error again, but it won't get mounted!

Regards

William

[fanthom]

@EdP
modules 0-2 are shared between desktop editions so it should work the same no matter of DE you are actually using.
please run 'md5sum' on 002-xorg.xzm and check if it's the same for XFCE and RazorQT.

@wread
thanks for evaluation. i think i know what's causing this:
when you boot with stick inserted then it gets it's own entry (with respective filesystem) in /etc/fstab. if you remove it and plug another stick with different fs then you get an error as filesystem does not match the one saved in /etc/fstab.
please do a simple test for me:
delete /etc/fstab, try to recreate the error and let me know how it goes.

@brokenman, Ahau
do we need /etc/fstab at all? maybe i could never create it since it's for reference only (and cannot even be modified)?

[wread]

Bingo! Tom, that was it! Deleted /etc/fstab and it bit!

Thanks!

[Ahau]

LXDE/Xfce use /etc/fstab for showing internal volumes in gvfs applications (pcmanfm, thunar). If I delete /etc/fstab, they all disappear from the file manager. What about a udev rule to remove the fstab entry for removable drives when they are removed?

[francois]

porteus 32 bit rc2 kde edition:
- clicking left on the arrow at the right of the google box at upper right of the firefox window:
The last download will appear
- clicking right and selecting open the containing folder will:
open audacious instead of the file manager.

Thanks.

[brokenman]

Mount-manager also uses fstab for something. If an alternative can be found to removing it then I would prefer the alternative.

[Ed_P]

RazorQT 32bit works with -vga cirrus!!

Is this good? I assume your referring to the 2D GUI accelerators for an emulator under win?

The error about /var/run/slim.auth shouldn't hinder login (please confirm). The file is generated during login.
At first I thought it was ck-session but after booting ck-list-sessions shows only one session. If you have any clues I am all ears on this one.

Yes and yes it does login & startx, eventually.

However XFCE 32bit does not with -vga cirrus. See attached images.

http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/1389/px58.png

http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/7624/axdw.png

It would be nice if a single -vga option worked for all Porteus versions.

[fanthom]

@Ahau, brokenman
ok - /etc/fstab stays in. would be good to have the udev rule before we go final.

@francois
i think you are referring to qmmp and this bug was closed in rc2. are you using old changes or something?
please check $HOME/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list and make sure that you have:

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inode/directory=kde4-dolphin.desktop;

@EdP
did you run md5sum on 002-xorg.xzm from Razor and XFCE ISO's? is it the same?
also - on the attached image i see udev timeout which means that some emulated hardware did not get initialized. would be nice if you could track this down and change relevant qemu component to get rid of it.

[donald]

XFCE-32bit

Installt for testing on an Ext2 usb-stick

In porteus.cfg:

APPEND initrd=initrd.xz xfce changes=/porteus

is missing, so nothing is gonna be saved by default.

[Hamza]

Running fresh install on my main computer and unable to run Porteus. It freeze at udev stage but the 'welcome' sound of KDE4 desktop is played some seconds after.

I'm unable to run any versions of v2.1 rc2 so far and I'm unable to retrieve any logs of errors/events.

[Rava]

@Hamza
have you also tried a text / non X version, too?
You can scroll up with the keyboard and make screenshots using a real (digital) camera, if there is something interesting to see, put that up, e.g. on tinypic and link it in your post...
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With a fresh XFCe booting up, so far all is working as it should with v2.1 RC2 x86-64, seems some of my old settings fro, 2.0 made the system act weird...
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Found another issue:
Trying to rename the label of a USB stick using gparted results in this error:

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Set partition label to "16GB_W_G" on /dev/sdb1  00:00:00    ( ERROR )
     	
mlabel ::"16GB_W_G" -i /dev/sdb1
     	
mlabel: invalid option -- 'i'
Mtools version pre6-3.9.8, dated 27 May 2001
Usage: mlabel [-vscVn] [-N serial] drive:

Is there really no newer version than a pre-*** from 2001? More than 12 years old?

[Hamza]

have you also tried a text / non X version, too?

No, nothing. Even text mode doesn't works. I'm blocked at stage of "udev" just after "additional modules".

[Rava]

@Hamza
You also tried it with just 000-kernel.xzm and 001-core.xzm?
Notthing in your rootcopy? Have you checked the md5 of 000-kernel.xzm and 001-core.xzm?
Have you some extras in your kernel / APPEND line in porteus.cfg?

I presume there is nothing to be seen on screen for a screenshot via camera to be taken?