Transporting Porteus
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Transporting Porteus
All desktop versions ....
Both fat32 and ext3 ...
several usb sticks ...
Porteus works great on the system (~5 yr old XP)
that I downloaded and installed it with ......
BUT !
When I boot my actual target system (mini-itx atom processor)
with the sticks .....
I get a black screen with mouse arrow only.
Right click brings a menu that says porteus 2.1.1 but only the
turn off and terminal items respond ......
Slax works fine !!!
Any Insights ???????????
Both fat32 and ext3 ...
several usb sticks ...
Porteus works great on the system (~5 yr old XP)
that I downloaded and installed it with ......
BUT !
When I boot my actual target system (mini-itx atom processor)
with the sticks .....
I get a black screen with mouse arrow only.
Right click brings a menu that says porteus 2.1.1 but only the
turn off and terminal items respond ......
Slax works fine !!!
Any Insights ???????????
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Re: Transporting Porteus
are you saying that the same usb works fine on one PC but does not on mini-itx atom processor system?
please launch terminal and generate 'xpsinfo' raport. also - could you make a photo of what you are getting if possible?
thanks
please launch terminal and generate 'xpsinfo' raport. also - could you make a photo of what you are getting if possible?
thanks
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Re: Transporting Porteus
> are you saying that the same usb works fine on one PC but does not on mini-itx atom processor system?
precisamundo !

The xpsinfo put the info @ /root/Desktop/psinfo_report.txt
but I get access denied to open it ??? (complete linux newbie here)
precisamundo !

The xpsinfo put the info @ /root/Desktop/psinfo_report.txt
but I get access denied to open it ??? (complete linux newbie here)
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Re: Transporting Porteus
I rebuilt with root as user and it's a different ballgame.
(working at least to some extent)
The report is too long for the forum, but I'll cut it in half or ??
if you want ........
(working at least to some extent)
The report is too long for the forum, but I'll cut it in half or ??
if you want ........
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Re: Transporting Porteus
@hitsware
really weidr - looks like plain openbox
please upload xpsinfo raport to pastebin.com and link here.
thanks
@phhpro
is it the same issue you are experiencing? if yes then we are in troubles.
really weidr - looks like plain openbox

please upload xpsinfo raport to pastebin.com and link here.
thanks
@phhpro
is it the same issue you are experiencing? if yes then we are in troubles.
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Re: Transporting Porteus
Pardon these posts , I'll try something different , report is too big for pastebin .
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Re: Transporting Porteus
bled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
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Re: Transporting Porteus
e 'org.freedesktop.UPower'
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Re: Transporting Porteus
This is handier :
BUT, this was after changing build to root user.
I know no way to capture report the other way
since the file manager doesn't work .....
http://home.comcast.net/~mnjmiller/psinfo_report.txt
BUT, this was after changing build to root user.
I know no way to capture report the other way
since the file manager doesn't work .....
http://home.comcast.net/~mnjmiller/psinfo_report.txt
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Re: Transporting Porteus
please check if you have:
in /etc/lxdm/lxdm.conf
and
in /home/guest/.dmrc (hidden file)
i guess that you have 'Session=openbox' in .dmrc
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session=/usr/bin/startlxde
and
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[Desktop]
Session=lxde
i guess that you have 'Session=openbox' in .dmrc
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Re: Transporting Porteus
Do you mean to go back to guest as user, so that the problem re-occurs ?
Then pull the usb-stick and read the files with another PC ?
As I said, it seems to be working now (root as user) .......
Then pull the usb-stick and read the files with another PC ?
As I said, it seems to be working now (root as user) .......
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Re: Transporting Porteus
while logged into working root account please launch lxterminal and paste here output of 'cat /home/guest/.dmrc' command.
thanks
thanks
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Re: Transporting Porteus
guest@porteus:~$ cat /home/guest/.dmrc
cat: /home/guest/.dmrc: No such file or directory
guest@porteus:~$ sudo cat/home/guest/.dmrc
bash: sudo: command not found
guest@porteus:~$ su cat /home/guest/.dmrc
Unknown id: cat
guest@porteus:~$ su cat/home/guest/.dmrc
Unknown id: cat/home/guest/.dmrc
guest@porteus:~$ su
Password:
root@porteus:/home/guest# cat /home/guest/.dmrc
cat: /home/guest/.dmrc: No such file or directory
root@porteus:/home/guest# cat/home/guest/.dmrc
bash: cat/home/guest/.dmrc: No such file or directory
root@porteus:/home/guest#
cat: /home/guest/.dmrc: No such file or directory
guest@porteus:~$ sudo cat/home/guest/.dmrc
bash: sudo: command not found
guest@porteus:~$ su cat /home/guest/.dmrc
Unknown id: cat
guest@porteus:~$ su cat/home/guest/.dmrc
Unknown id: cat/home/guest/.dmrc
guest@porteus:~$ su
Password:
root@porteus:/home/guest# cat /home/guest/.dmrc
cat: /home/guest/.dmrc: No such file or directory
root@porteus:/home/guest# cat/home/guest/.dmrc
bash: cat/home/guest/.dmrc: No such file or directory
root@porteus:/home/guest#
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Re: Transporting Porteus
http://www.timesys.com/embedded-linux/r ... enter/atomphhpro wrote:@fanthom: Bears an obvious similarity. By now, I'm almost always presented with exactly the same situation: cursor on black screen -> CTRL-ALT-F2 -> CTRL-ALT-F7 -> GUI
If it helps, graphics is an Intel Golan. Odd, I haven't thought of it before. Might give it a moment to fetch the latest, and then try to drop it in. Will post back once I have the results.
This is a Porteus issue (not Linux alone)
I've used many distros (live and installed)
on my Atom system with little (if any)
differance (in performance) from the
same distro on the Pentium ...
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Re: Transporting Porteus
This one is rather odd. hitsware, please do try as guest again. You don't need to reinstall for this, just hit TAB on the bootloader menu screen and use the arrow and backspace keys to remove the cheatcode, 'login=root' (see our cheatcode documentation for more on that if needed), then hit enter to boot up as root.
If the problem is not repeated, it may have been a corrupted download or some other quirk. If it was repeated (and this goes for phpro too), then I'm at a bit of a loss for what's going on. The only thing I can really imagine is that the lxde components aren't starting up due to some race condition or lxde is trying to start before something else is ready and that is causing it to fail. You could try the following --
as root, open up /etc/rc.d/rc.4 and just prior to the last line, insert a new line and add 'sleep 5', so it looks like this:
Save the file and reboot if you are using saved changes. If you're not using saved changes, add this to your rootcopy, e.g.
where /mnt/sdb2/porteus is the location of your current installation.
Other than that, I guess my only advice is to make sure you test it in always fresh mode so you are testing without any additional modules or files in rootcopy or saved changes, just to make sure it's not some configuration that got saved for your other machine that is interfering.
HTH
If the problem is not repeated, it may have been a corrupted download or some other quirk. If it was repeated (and this goes for phpro too), then I'm at a bit of a loss for what's going on. The only thing I can really imagine is that the lxde components aren't starting up due to some race condition or lxde is trying to start before something else is ready and that is causing it to fail. You could try the following --
as root, open up /etc/rc.d/rc.4 and just prior to the last line, insert a new line and add 'sleep 5', so it looks like this:
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[ "$login" ] && sed -i -r s/^.*autologin=.*$/autologin$login/g /etc/lxdm/lxdm.conf || sed -i -r s/^.*autologin=.*$/autologin=guest/g /etc/lxdm/lxdm.conf
sleep 5
exec /usr/sbin/lxdm
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mkdir -p /mnt/sdb2/porteus/rootcopy/etc/rc.d
cp -ar /etc/rc.d/rc.4 /mnt/sdb2/porteus/rootcopy/etc/rc.d/
Other than that, I guess my only advice is to make sure you test it in always fresh mode so you are testing without any additional modules or files in rootcopy or saved changes, just to make sure it's not some configuration that got saved for your other machine that is interfering.
HTH
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