Porteus-v1.0-rc1-x86_64 last call for testing

[francois]

Thanks for the information and your patience with me. All these answers were good.

Posted after 8 hours 50 minutes 20 seconds:

@francois
1) "I have seen reading somewhere that fanthom does not intend to keep slackyd in version 1.0"
hmmm... i think it wasn't me i like slackyd very much for the '-d' option and i'm willing to keep in Porteus for a long time.

2)"-at booting still in cli mode, there are a few funy caracters (...@ or the sort)"
some processes are launched in the background to speed up getting into GUI. Could you try to discover from which precess they are coming? i have made cups starting script silent and could do the same for others if needed.

3)"-for naive users not used to root privileges, the file psswd.xzm needs root privileges to be displaced into /porteus/modules. I imagine that this has to be automated."
ok will add extra question for moving passwd.xzm to /porteus/modules

4a)"And what about rights from guest to insert other modules into /porteus/modules?"
must be done from root account i'm afraid

4b)"-if we want non-root, we will be stuck with extra procedures all the time"
that's how unix like system works (vide sudo, SUID, etc...)


5)EDIT:
Hamza, francois - pls look here:
http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=68&t=450

1) I concluded this wrongly as your wrote somewhere that porteus should have its own package manager. Sorry. The presence of slackyd does not exclude a porteus package manager and brokenman is working on it. We should all test it:
http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php? ... 2080#p2080
http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php? ... 6&start=30
2)Excuse my ignorance but how do I do that^
3)Thanks
4)The toroot cheatcode satisfies me, but not on 32 bit.
5)I was looking for a solution for the kde version.

[beny]

i have know only now that exist a config for the layout keyboard,i have edited it with italian keyboard and work like a charm

Posted after 3 minutes 44 seconds:
after a while the keyboard set are changes with the old fanthom?

[Rava]

@francois
Will we have Firefox 4.0.1 in rc2?

[francois]

@francois
Will we have Firefox 4.0.1 in rc2?

Hum! Let me consult the stars and the planets. I will be back in a few moons.

Posted after 20 minutes 43 seconds:

@francois
"-at booting still in cli mode, there are a few funy caracters (...@ or the sort)"
some processes are launched in the background to speed up getting into GUI. Could you try to discover from which precess they are coming? i have made cups starting script silent and could do the same for others if needed.

This happens in frugal mode with changes=porteus_cfg in menu.lst, after keeping default passwords by using the enter key. You need to reboot this way at least two times. Reproduced a few times with new porteus_cfg file.

CUPS from /var/log
1) first run (I have booted more than 6 times):

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E [02/May/2011:19:58:38 +0000] Unable to set ACLs on root certificate "/var/run/cups/certs/0" - Operation not supported
E [02/May/2011:19:59:50 +0000] Unable to remove /var/run/cups/certs/0!
E [02/May/2011:20:00:30 +0000] Unable to set ACLs on root certificate "/var/run/cups/certs/0" - Operation not supported
E [02/May/2011:20:01:25 +0000] Unable to remove /var/run/cups/certs/0!
E [02/May/2011:20:02:05 +0000] Unable to set ACLs on root certificate "/var/run/cups/certs/0" - Operation not supported

2) second run (I have booted more than 5 times):

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E [02/May/2011:20:08:38 +0000] Unable to set ACLs on root certificate "/var/run/cups/certs/0" - Operation not supported

[fanthom]

@francoise
"2)Excuse my ignorance but how do I do that^"
are the characters always the same? could you post them all here? i thought maybe we could figure out which precess is creating them

"4)The toroot cheatcode satisfies me, but not on 32 bit."
brokenman leaved kdm/lxdm login page so users can decide if they want to login as root or guest. (in my opinion 'toroot' is better as you are getting into desktop straight away)

"5)I was looking for a solution for the kde version."
wait for rc2 and updated LST

"cups errors"
acl warnings should be ok according to this thread:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=851259
the more important question is:
are you able to print something at all?
if not then i'll try to dig into this issue little deeper.

@beny
"after a while the keyboard set are changes with the old fanthom?"
it's a known issue - you have 2 options:
- stick to one desktop (remove KDE or LXDE)
- update kbd settings for both: KDE and LXDE (settings are stored in ~/.kde(3,4)/share/config/kxkbrc and ~/.config/autostart/xkb.desktop)
Ahau - could you add it to the FAQ? i expect more people asking for solution.

@Rava
the problem is that mozilla doesn't provide 64bit builds of firefox and you need to compile it from sources
anybody knows updated ff slackware package?


Cheers

[att]

Sorry for the strange reply, but RC1-porteus does not work at all for me.
I installed it to USB, FAT32 HD.
I booted - I got an "ash" shell that my device is not found and Porteus RC1 therefore cannot boot.
Analysis of /proc/partitions shows all partitions but none of my USB-device.
The same does NOT happen on Porteus-beta, i.e. Porteus-beta runs fine for me.
My system: Intel Core2Quad, (775 socket) ; Motherboard: MSI P45-Neo3-FR Rev 1.0 ("Msi-7514"´Rev 1.0) ; 4 GB Ram "Corsair XMS Dominator";
GFX: ATI Radeon 4850 ; various harddisks on the SATA-port of the mobo, and the USB-HD ofcourse.

[Ahau]

Here's a draft entry for the FAQ -- let me know if I've got both the problem and the solution correct:

Q-I've changed my keyboard settings to another layout, but they keep changing back to the old settings. What gives?
A-Keyboard layouts are saved in different files for KDE and LXDE, and they can override each other unless both are updated. These settings are saved in:
~/.config/autostart/xkb.desktop (for 32 and 64-bit LXDE)
~/.kde3/share/config/kxkbrc (32-bit KDE)
~/.kde4/share/config/kxkbrc (64-bit KDE)
Please set your desired keyboard layout in both places. If you are not using "saved changes", you can put both files in their respective directories in /porteus/rootcopy/, so the settings will survive reboot. See the HOWTO on rootcopy for more information.

Posted after 1 hour 41 minute 22 seconds:
I added this FAQ to the main site, and then realized that we don't have a HOWTO for rootcopy, so I expanded the rootcopy section I wrote up for 'Tips and Tricks', and added it as a HOWTO on the main site (under "docs/other").

Let me know if you'd like me to put it anywhere else, too.

[beny]

hi fanthom /tmp/mozilla-firefox-4.0.1-x86_64-2.txz is ready i have used pat slackbuild in the 13.37 version,only have change firefox source header for match version.
http://www.mediafire.com/?dalk27qfr1fr6 check it please,thanks

[att]

I'm so sorry. My external 40GB USB-HD was accidentally formatted with exFAT FS.
I resized it from 40GB to 10GB, formatted it with FAT32, copied all Porteusv1.0-rc1 files there, installed the bootloader and it now works.
I'm writing from it now.

[beny]

hi fanthom i have installed to try the firefox 4.0.1 and i think i have missed the icon i have rebuild package and in e17 the icon is showed,i have added desktop entry file and icon png i have uploaded package with the xzm compression the link to download it is the same apologize me,please check it thanks

[francois]

@fanthom:
"cups errors"
acl warnings should be ok according to this thread:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=851259
the more important question is:
are you able to print something at all?
if not then i'll try to dig into this issue little deeper.
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Printer works after doing the following:

-first boot with empty save file porteusrc1cfg with toroot
-second boot with empty save file porteusrc1cfg without toroot cheatcode: I get ^@ charaters in cli mode after being asked to provide a password, but I keep toor
-enter key
-in X environment unable to print from kwrite with network printer Brother HL 2170w, I do not see hp laserjet 3030 that is plugged in usb
-transformed with lzm2xzm compat32.lzm multilib-v09 printmodule-s6.sq4.lzm
-inserted multilib-v09.lzm, with alien's gcc and glibc, and compat32.lzm from ponce
-working within porteus, I have experienced complete freezing of the system except for the mouse, I had to use power switch to be able to power off
-working on the same issue, I got some freezing of the system or some error messages precedent testing of the same issue

-after booting I am able to print file with hp laserjet 3030 only

[fanthom]

@att
good that it was nothing serious as i was scared a bit for a while

@Ahau
well done

@beny
well done too

@francois
"I get ^@ charaters in cli mode after being asked to provide a password"
ok will try to recreate this with changes= cheatcode

"transformed with lzm2xzm compat32.lzm multilib-v09 printmodule-s6.sq4.lzm"
print module must be 32bit, i'm wonder if there is 64bit version somewhere?

"I have experienced complete freezing of the system except for the mouse"
yes, this may happen during activation of new modules and i thought i have eliminated all possible scenarios for the hang
are you able to recreate the error? please post download link to a module which is causing the hang.

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still waiting on kde-4.6.3 (should be out yesterday). i have bumped kernel to version 2.6.38, LXDE to latest snapshot from ponce.cc, we have FF-4.0.1 and slackyd-1.0 as a last call updates.

only kde left....

Cheers

[Blaze]

i have bumped kernel to version 2.6.38

Latest Stable Kernel 2.6.38.5

[ponce]

I think fanthom bumped to that, blaze

if useful, I prepared a slackbuild for slackyd to easily build/update it
(if you use sbopkg with my git repo, just "sbopkg -i slackyd")

[fanthom]

@Blaze
yep - 2.6.38.5

@ponce
ty
btw - is there any way of saving stuff from your git tree as a plain text?
(so far i didn't figure out how to do it and just used ctrl+c ctrl+v )