Porteus 3.1rc feedback

[brokenman]

mate 32bit
Downloaded imagemagick via USM. No problem using display command.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/zfbl2ekjxscjf ... k.png?dl=0

[Bogomips]

So it must be a difference in packages.

Correct. Just checked KDE usm packages requirement. Hasn't changed. Ran on KDE

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loop3     7:3    0    66M  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/003-kde.xzm
loop4     7:4    0   528K  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/sudo-1.8.9p5-i486-1.xzm
loop5     7:5    0     5M  1 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/flashplayer-plugin-11.2.202.411-i3
loop6     7:6    0  35.9M  1 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/VLC_191014.xzm
loop7     7:7    0    60K  1 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/gtk-ch_161014.xzm
loop8     7:8    0  16.3M  1 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/Kate_211014.xzm
loop9     7:9    0  29.6M  1 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/ImM_180914.xzm

guest@porteus:~$ display
display: color is not known to server `FOREGROUND': Success @ error/xwindow.c/XGetPixelPacket/3064.

Got same error when running KDE xzm under Mate. Documented in previous post.

Edit: Also ran KDE xzm under lxqt and xfce with display displaying. (Both usm one and very latest version from Arch worked.)

[Ed_P]

are you up to the challenge for a second one? if yes then please try to do this item next (should be quite easy):

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- make syslinux bootsplash color scheme compatible with current background as "Porteus 3.1rc2" is barely visible

i'm talking about color scheme included in porteus.cfg

OK, found a way to test this but don't see the problem in LXQt i486 version. I also don't see the quoted text, I see "Porteus-v3.1 32bit". Need more information to continue testing.

[fanthom]

@sean
Hoping to have it finished Friday sometime, I hope that's okay?
we still have two weeks to final so even late fixes are ok

I'm duplicating as close as possible the panel main menu, so the right-click menu should be identical to going through the main menu.
it wont be possible to create this menu 'on the fly' upon desktop startup? i prefer to have it dynamic but if this is not an option then static is also ok.

If time permits me, I may add a few immediate (one click) choices from the right-click menu. On my own system I have one click access to a Terminal, PCManFM, and Geany text editor. Then I have a sub-heading "For Experts Only" (really as though I'm one :-), there I have a Super User Mode Terminal, PCManFM, and Editor.
sounds good

Clicking on the main menu/System Tools/Super User Mode - PCManFM brings up a dbus-launch dialog box asking for the root password, I enter toor, the dialog box vanishes and that's it.
worked here but only once. must be related to that 'dbus' command - will double check

thanks for provided menu.xml - will merge it with a tree over the weekend and check if it works.

@Ed_P
must have mixed up something on my side. downloaded ISO from porteus server and color scheme is perfectly ok. we can cross this one off from the list.

thanks

[Ed_P]

@Ed_P
must have mixed up something on my side. downloaded ISO from porteus server and color scheme is perfectly ok. we can cross this one off from the list.

Ok.

FWIW The color ff00ff is transparent in a webpage, that may hold true for Linux also. If so the "menu color title" line in the porteus.cfg file might work well with "#ffF6FF00 #ffff00ff none" or "ffF6FF00 #00000000 none" rather than the current "#ffF6FF00 #30003f07 none".

[Bogomips]

Mate 32 bit

ImageMagick

• USM

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   The following packages are required. 
  fftw-3.3.3-i486-1.txz [2812K] [not installed]
  gcc-4.8.2-i486-1.txz [13056K] [not installed]
  imagemagick-6.8.6_10-i486-1.txz [5668K] [not installed]
  lcms2-2.4-i486-1.txz [2540K] [not installed]
  libmpc-0.8.2-i486-2.txz [80K] [not installed]
  
  Total size: 24 MB
  
   Multiple packages were detected.
   Would you like to merge the packages into one module? [y/n]
  
   Press [r] to remove packages, [q] to quit, or enter to start downloading.
  
   Updates are available. 
   Program update:   not required 
   Database update:  available 
   Please run:  usm -u all  and/or  usm -u usm 
   This message can be disabled in /etc/usm/usm.conf
   ############################### 
  Downloading: fftw-3.3.3-i486-1.txz  DONE
  Downloading: gcc-4.8.2-i486-1.txz  DONE
  Downloading: imagemagick-6.8.6_10-i486-1.txz  DONE
  lcms2-2.4-i486-1.txz already exists
  Downloading: libmpc-0.8.2-i486-2.txz  DONE
  fftw-3.3.3-i486-1: Fastest Fourier Transform in the West                 [14M] 
  gcc-4.8.2-i486-1: Base GCC package with C support                        [46M] 
  imagemagick-6.8.6_10-i486-1: a robust collection of image processing too [17M] 
  lcms2-2.4-i486-1: little cms engine, version 2                           [3.1M]
  libmpc-0.8.2-i486-2: Multiple Precision Complex Library                  [280K]
  Parallel mksquashfs: Using 1 processor
  Creating 4.0 filesystem on /tmp/usm/imagemagick-6.8.6_10-i486-bundle.xzm, block size 262144.
  [=============================================================|] 2065/2065 100%
  
  Exportable Squashfs 4.0 filesystem, xz compressed, data block size 262144
  	compressed data, compressed metadata, compressed fragments, compressed xattrs
  	duplicates are removed
  Filesystem size 27028.75 Kbytes (26.40 Mbytes)
• No Display

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  guest@porteus:~$ ls -l /mnt/live/memory/images/
  total 0
  drwxr-xr-x  7 root root  83 Dec 11  2013 000-kernel.xzm/
  drwxrwxrwx 19 root root 280 Nov 12 23:56 001-core.xzm/
  drwxr-xr-x  7 root root 106 Nov 12 23:57 002-xorg.xzm/
  drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 142 Oct 16 13:32 003-mate.xzm/
  drwxr-xr-x  6 root root  83 Nov 21 19:23 imagemagick-6.8.6_10-i486-bundle.xzm/
  drwxr-xr-x  5 root root  48 Jul 12 23:42 sudo-1.8.9p5-i486-1.xzm/
  guest@porteus:~$ display
  display: color is not known to server `FOREGROUND': Success @ error/xwindow.c/XGetPixelPacket/3064.
  

[brokenman]

Thanks. Getting closer. Please try again with the 05-devel.xzm module activated. Here is my output which works ok.

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root@porteus:/home/guest# usm -g imagemagick

 The following items were found.
 Choose an number to confirm. 
 ctrl+c to quit

1) imagemagick-6.8.6_10-i486-1.txz
#? 1

Processing:   imagemagick-6.8.6_10-i486-1.txz 
Ignored libraries: 

Libraries required:  71
Libraries found in system: 60
Libraries to resolve: 11

...... processing


 The following packages are required. 
fftw-3.3.3-i486-1.txz [2812K] [not installed]
ilmbase-1.0.3-i486-1.txz [124K] [not installed]
imagemagick-6.8.6_10-i486-1.txz [5668K] [not installed]
jasper-1.900.1-i486-3.txz [148K] [not installed]
lcms2-2.4-i486-1.txz [2540K] [not installed]
openexr-1.7.1-i486-1.txz [2972K] [not installed]

Total size: 14 MB

 Multiple packages were detected.
 Would you like to merge the packages into one module? [y/n]

[fanthom]

@Ed_P
will go with "ffF6FF00 #00000000 none" which looks better than pink
if you have other suggestions - please post.

thanks

[Bogomips]

AF

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guest@porteus:~$ grep command /var/log/dmesg 
[    0.000000] Kernel command line: quiet copy2ram ramsize=30% noauto timezone=Europe/London volume=60%

Please try again with the 05-devel.xzm module activated.

Both KDE and Mate (05-devel.xzm module) USM: nogo

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 The following packages are required. 
fftw-3.3.3-i486-1.txz [2812K] [not installed]
ilmbase-1.0.3-i486-1.txz [124K] [not installed]
imagemagick-6.8.6_10-i486-1.txz [5668K] [not installed]
jasper-1.900.1-i486-3.txz [148K] [not installed]
openexr-1.7.1-i486-1.txz [2972K] [not installed]

Total size: 11 MB

 Multiple packages were detected.
 Would you like to merge the packages into one module? [y/n]

 Press [r] to remove packages, [q] to quit, or enter to start downloading.
fftw-3.3.3-i486-1.txz already exists
Downloading: ilmbase-1.0.3-i486-1.txz  DONE
imagemagick-6.8.6_10-i486-1.txz already exists
Downloading: jasper-1.900.1-i486-3.txz  DONE
Downloading: openexr-1.7.1-i486-1.txz  DONE
fftw-3.3.3-i486-1: Fastest Fourier Transform in the West                 [14M] 
ilmbase-1.0.3-i486-1: Industrial Light & Magic base libraries            [1000K]
imagemagick-6.8.6_10-i486-1: a robust collection of image processing too [17M] 
jasper-1.900.1-i486-3: free implementation of the JPEG-2000 standard     [510K]
openexr-1.7.1-i486-1: HDR Image File Format & Library                    [4.1M]
Parallel mksquashfs: Using 1 processor
Creating 4.0 filesystem on /tmp/usm/imagemagick-6.8.6_10-i486-bundle.xzm, block size 262144.
[=========================================================================\] 1693/1693 100%

Exportable Squashfs 4.0 filesystem, xz compressed, data block size 262144
        compressed data, compressed metadata, compressed fragments, compressed xattrs
        duplicates are removed
Filesystem size 12162.81 Kbytes (11.88 Mbytes)
guest@porteus:~$ ls -l /mnt/live/memory/images/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  7 root root  83 Dec 11  2013 000-kernel.xzm/
drwxrwxrwx 19 root root 280 Nov 12 23:56 001-core.xzm/
drwxr-xr-x  7 root root 106 Nov 12 23:57 002-xorg.xzm/
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 130 Nov 15 19:22 003-kde.xzm/
drwxr-xr-x  7 root root  95 Nov 15 20:14 05-devel.xzm/
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root  60 Nov 21 22:16 imagemagick-6.8.6_10-i486-bundle.xzm/
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root  48 Jul 12 23:42 sudo-1.8.9p5-i486-1.xzm/
guest@porteus:~$ display
display: color is not known to server `FOREGROUND': Success @ error/xwindow.c/XGetPixelPacket/3064.

However LXQT and XFCE (No 05-devel.xzm module) are Go!

• LXQT

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  loop0     7:0    0    16M  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/000-kernel.xzm
  loop1     7:1    0    46M  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/001-core.xzm
  loop2     7:2    0  43.7M  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/002-xorg.xzm
  loop3     7:3    0   528K  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/sudo-1.8.9p5-i486-1.xz
  loop4     7:4    0  35.3M  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/003-lxqt.xzm
  loop5     7:5    0  29.6M  1 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/ImM_180914.xzm
  guest@porteus:~$ display
  root@porteus:/home/guest# deactivate ImM_180914.xzm 
  Updating shared library links:  /sbin/ldconfig
  loop2     7:2    0  43.7M  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/002-xorg.xzm
  loop3     7:3    0   528K  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/sudo-1.8.9p5-i486-1.xz
  loop4     7:4    0  35.3M  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/003-lxqt.xzm
  
• XFCE

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  MATE BUNDLE
  guest@porteus:~$ ls -l /mnt/live/memory/images/
  total 0
  drwxr-xr-x  7 root root  83 Dec 11  2013 000-kernel.xzm/
  drwxrwxrwx 19 root root 280 Nov 12 23:56 001-core.xzm/
  drwxr-xr-x  7 root root 106 Nov 12 23:57 002-xorg.xzm/
  drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 142 Nov 16 12:08 003-xfce.xzm/
  drwxr-xr-x  6 root root  83 Nov 21 19:23 imagemagick-6.8.6_10-i486-bundle_m.xzm/
  drwxr-xr-x  5 root root  48 Jul 12 23:42 sudo-1.8.9p5-i486-1.xzm/
  guest@porteus:~$ display
  display: error while loading shared libraries: libjasper.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
  KDE BUNDLE (05-devel activated)
  guest@porteus:~$ ls -l /mnt/live/memory/images/
  total 0
  drwxr-xr-x  7 root root  83 Dec 11  2013 000-kernel.xzm/
  drwxrwxrwx 19 root root 280 Nov 12 23:56 001-core.xzm/
  drwxr-xr-x  7 root root 106 Nov 12 23:57 002-xorg.xzm/
  drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 142 Nov 16 12:08 003-xfce.xzm/
  drwxr-xr-x  5 root root  60 Nov 21 22:16 imagemagick-6.8.6_10-i486-bundle.xzm/
  drwxr-xr-x  5 root root  48 Jul 12 23:42 sudo-1.8.9p5-i486-1.xzm/
  guest@porteus:~$ display
  display: error while loading shared libraries: liblcms2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
  LONG STANDING KDE BUNDLE
  guest@porteus:~$ ls -l /mnt/live/memory/images/
  total 0
  drwxr-xr-x  7 root root  83 Dec 11  2013 000-kernel.xzm/
  drwxrwxrwx 19 root root 280 Nov 12 23:56 001-core.xzm/
  drwxr-xr-x  7 root root 106 Nov 12 23:57 002-xorg.xzm/
  drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 142 Nov 16 12:08 003-xfce.xzm/
  drwxr-xr-x  6 root root  71 Nov  1 00:49 ImM_180914.xzm/
  drwxr-xr-x  5 root root  48 Jul 12 23:42 sudo-1.8.9p5-i486-1.xzm/
  guest@porteus:~$ display
  root@porteus:/home/guest# deactivate ImM_180914.xzm 
  ImM_180914.xzm: The module can't be removed, because it's busy (used).
  
• LONG STANDING KDE BUNDLE

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      root@porteus:/home/guest# sh p10/Por/xzmod.sh -q p10/Por/ImMagick/ImM_180914.txt . /mnt/sda4/mods
      Default Module Name: ImM_180914.xzm
  
      Installing to Fakeroot Directory
  
      libmpc-0.8.2-i486-2: Multiple Precision Complex Library                  [280K]
      gcc-4.8.2-i486-1: Base GCC package with C support                        [46M]
      fftw-3.3.3-i486-1: Fastest Fourier Transform in the West                 [14M]
      jasper-1.900.1-i486-3: free implementation of the JPEG-2000 standard     [510K]
      openexr-1.7.1-i486-1: HDR Image File Format & Library                    [4.1M]
      ilmbase-1.0.3-i486-1: Industrial Light & Magic base libraries            [1000K]
      imagemagick-6.8.6_10-i486-1: a robust collection of image processing too [17M]
      lcms2-2.4-i486-1: little cms engine, version 2                           [3.1M]
  
      Creating Module ImM_180914.xzm
  
      Parallel mksquashfs: Using 1 processor
      Creating 4.0 filesystem on /mnt/sda4/mods/ImM_180914.xzm, block size 262144.
      [=========================================================================/] 2272/2272 100%
  
      Exportable Squashfs 4.0 filesystem, xz compressed, data block size 262144
              compressed data, compressed metadata, compressed fragments, compressed xattrs
              duplicates are removed
      Filesystem size 30264.23 Kbytes (29.55 Mbytes)

UPDATE: Clean Slate

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guest@porteus:~$ grep command /var/log/dmesg 
[    0.000000] Kernel command line: quiet copy2ram ramsize=30% noauto timezone=Europe/London volume=60% norootcopy
guest@porteus:~$ lsblk
loop0     7:0    0    16M  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/000-kernel.xzm
loop1     7:1    0    46M  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/001-core.xzm
loop2     7:2    0  43.7M  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/002-xorg.xzm
loop3     7:3    0    66M  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/003-kde.xzm
loop4     7:4    0   528K  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/sudo-1.8.9p5-i486-1.xzm
loop5     7:5    0  29.6M  1 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/ImM_180914.xzm
guest@porteus:~$ display
display: color is not known to server `FOREGROUND': Success @ error/xwindow.c/XGetPixelPacket/3064.
loop0     7:0    0    16M  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/000-kernel.xzm
loop1     7:1    0    46M  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/001-core.xzm
loop2     7:2    0  43.7M  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/002-xorg.xzm
loop3     7:3    0    66M  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/003-kde.xzm
loop4     7:4    0   528K  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/sudo-1.8.9p5-i486-1.xzm
loop5     7:5    0  72.2M  1 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/05-devel.xzm
loop6     7:6    0  11.9M  1 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/imagemagick-6.8.6_10-i486-bundle.x
guest@porteus:~$ display
display: color is not known to server `FOREGROUND': Success @ error/xwindow.c/XGetPixelPacket/3064.

brokenman, you experienced same problem before

Indeed. It worked for me under xfce and lxqt (didn't try mate) but failed under KDE.

Here is the offending code in the source xwindow.c:

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 3056  /*
3057  Set border color.
3058  */
3059  (void) XParseColor(display,colormap,(char *) BorderColor,
3060  &pixel->border_color);
3061  status=XParseColor(display,colormap,resource_info->border_color,
3062  &pixel->border_color);
3063  if (status == False)
3064  ThrowXWindowException(XServerError,"ColorIsNotKnownToServer",
3065  resource_info->border_color);
3066  pixel->border_color.pixel=XStandardPixel(map_info,&pixel->border_color);
3067  pixel->border_color.flags=(char) (DoRed | DoGreen | DoBlue);

It appears to be directly related to drawing the window border. The border color is set on line 3059 then the window exception is thrown on 3064.

I tried changing theme (sometimes the oxzgen theme is responsible for snags) but to no avail. Ran out of time.

There must have been something that's changed for it to disappear for you on KDE.

[brokenman]

Found it!

In mate 32bit fresh mode I loaded only the following modules: fftw, lcms2 and imagemagick
I then copied only the file /usr/bin/cpp from the package: gcc-4.8.2-i486-1

Now you need to logout and log back in and it works.

So essentially after using USM to download the required modules, you will need to logout and back in for it to work.

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root@porteus:/tmp/un# ls -1 /mnt/live/memory/images/
000-kernel.xzm/
001-core.xzm/
002-xorg.xzm/
003-mate.xzm/
04-firefox.xzm/

Please try for KDE.

[r004]

Hello;
the is a problem while installing to usb flash drive.

Type 'ok' to continue or press Ctrl+c to exit.
ok
Flushing filesystem buffers...

Installation failed with error code '2'.
Please ask for help on the Porteus forum: www.porteus.org/forum
and provide the information from /run/media/r004/Porteus/boot/debug.txt

Exiting now...
Partition 2 does not start on physical sector boundary.

cat: /run/media/r004/Porteus/boot/syslinux/lilo.menu: No such file or direct

[Ed_P]

Please ask for help on the Porteus forum: http://www.porteus.org/forum
and provide the information from /run/media/r004/Porteus/boot/debug.txt

"and provide the information from /run/media/r004/Porteus/boot/debug.txt"

[fanthom]

@r004
this is a known bug with udisks2 which protects MBR of the stick somehow. you have to mount the stick manually and not through the udisk2:

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mkdir /tmp/usb
mount /dev/sdXY /tmp/usb
cd /tmp/usb/boot
sh Porteus-installer-for-Linux.com

that should work

[sean]

RE: LXQt-32bit, Porteus 3.1-rc2

@fanthom

You said: "it wont be possible to create this menu 'on the fly' upon desktop startup? i prefer to have it dynamic but if this is not an option then static is also ok."

fanthom, "dynamic" is way over my head, sorry. Actually, to this date, no distro, to my knowledge, has been able to make such a process "dynamic" in any "lxde" distribution. I will continue to be installing as many current LXQt based distro's as possible in the very near future, in my effort to analyze and assist you and the Porteus developers.

I see there is still some time, and if it permits me, I can add those extra single click apps to the menu.xml.

@brokenman

RE: Mate-32bit, Porteus 3.1-rc2

Do you wish to have each of these under Applications/Accessories?:

Find files & directories
Search for files

Then also, "galculator" in not opening:

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guest@porteus:~$ galculator
galculator: error while loading shared libraries: libquadmath.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

@ncmprhnsbl

Thanks for the kind comment about the menu :-)

@Ed_P (off topic)

How much snow have you shovelled thus far :-) :-( ?

Sean

[Ed_P]

@Ed_P (off topic)

How much snow have you shovelled thus far :-) :-( ?

Actually not that much. 2" at most, so far. And today it's raining.


(on topic)

I really like the 3.1 boot cfg wallpaper. And it looks really nice with LXQt. Booting to LXQt with a version of it without the banner on the bottom as the wallpaper would be very impressive imo. You guys should consider it.