Porteus-v4.0 bug reports

[Rava]

@rchase
Either try adding the user "avahi" and save the changes files from /etc/, at least save /etc/passwd to be used with the next boot.

Or evben better, look into Porteus 3.2.2 /etc to see in which files the user "avahi" was put into, and copy these info into the 4.0 files, again saving all so that they survive a boot.

I cannot tell you which files these are since 3.2.2. never ran on my current system, so I only have still 3.1 and 4.0 on it.

[Blaze]

Rava, I think you can try this and

[Rava]

Rava, I think you can try this and

Hmmmm wasn't the checksum tester not part of P3.1, incorporated into Thunar`s right click context menu?
It is not there in standard P4.0…
Is the program not part of 4.0? Do I need to add it?

[donald]

@ Rava
look for a script named "clipsum" in /opt/porteus-scripts/context-menu/
if there is none copy it from another porteus version or use a newer
xfce module
in case you copied the file into /opt/porteus-scripts/context-menu/
you have to create a thunar custom action:
/opt/porteus-scripts/context-menu/clipsum %f

EDIT
@ rchase
--> "unknown user name "avahi"" message during boot <--
You can get rid of this message if you create a avahi group and user

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root@porteus:~# groupadd -r -g 85 avahi
root@porteus:~# useradd -r -u 85 -g avahi -d / -s /bin/false -c avahi avahi

reboot - the message should be gone now.

Bear in mind that creating a avahi group/user will also allow the avahi daemon
to start.(avahi comes with the kodi module)

test if it is running:

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root@porteus:/etc/rc.d# ./rc.avahidaemon status
Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon is currently running

If you don't want this, remove the executeable bit from /etc/rc.d/rc.avahidaemon.

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root@porteus:~# chmod -x /etc/rc.d/rc.avahidaemon

otherwise ignore the "unknown user name "avahi"" message and delete
the *.desktop files related to avahi in /usr/share/applications
so avahi doesn't show up in the menu.
I overlooked these .desktop files - sorry
(porteus 4.0 x86_64 - XFCE + kodi_17.6-x86_64_XFCE-don.xzm)
EDIT
It is better to put a NoDisplay=true line in the (avahi) .desktop files than to delete them,
so you can always undo it.

[Rava]

@ Rava
look for a script named "clipsum" in /opt/porteus-scripts/context-menu/
if there is none copy it from another porteus version or use a newer
xfce module
in case you copied the file into /opt/porteus-scripts/context-menu/
you have to create a thunar custom action:
/opt/porteus-scripts/context-menu/clipsum %f

A script named "clipsum" in indeed in /opt/porteus-scripts/context-menu/ … How do I create a thunar custom action again? (Remember I still lack the offline man pages)
Not via Thunar / Edit / Preferences it seems.

[donald]

Thunar / Edit / Configure custom actions ...> create a new one = + button

[Blaze]

Rava, checksum right click action are included in dev iso
My uca-xfce-actions-by-blaze-2018-06-30.xzm

[Rava]

Thunar / Edit / Configure custom actions ...> create a new one = + button

Thanks
I presume this is somehow stored in ~/.config/xfce4

[donald]

~/.config/Thunar/uca.xml

<action>
<icon>package-x-generic</icon>
<name>Get md5sum</name>
<unique-id>1479219991020421-1</unique-id>
<command>/opt/porteus-scripts/context-menu/clipsum %f</command>
<description>Get md5sum</description>
<patterns>*</patterns>
<audio-files/>
<image-files/>
<other-files/>
<text-files/>
<video-files/>
</action>

[Rava]

Found another missing dependency:

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$ ldd /usr/bin/memusagestat|grep not
	libgd.so.3 => not found

[Ed_P]

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guest@porteus:~$ su
Password: 
root@porteus:/home/guest# usm -s libgd.so.3

 ----------------------------- 
 Are you searching for a library file? 

libgd.so.3, it seems a library.
Would you like to find the package for it? [y/n]

 libgd.so.3  was found in   gd-2.2.5-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz 

root@porteus:/home/guest# usm -i gd-2.2.5-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz

Package:  gd-2.2.5-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz  (144 K) [upgrade]
gd: gd (a graphics library)
gd:
gd: gd is a graphics library. It allows your code to quickly draw images
gd: complete with lines, arcs, text, multiple colors, cut and paste from
gd: other images, and flood fills, and write out the result as a PNG or
gd: JPEG file. This is particularly useful in web applications, where
gd: PNG and JPEG are two of the formats accepted for inline images by
gd: most browsers. The gd library was written by Thomas Boutell.
gd:
gd: Homepage: https://www.libgd.org
gd:

root@porteus:/home/guest#  

[rchase]

This may be a bug unrelated to Porteus 4.0, but I notice that my Porteus 4.0 x86-64 XFCE frugal installation to hd on my old Toshiba Satellite constantly resets my display preferences to use the laptop's own display when it resumes from suspend -- I use an external display and have set the display preferences not to use the laptop's display. The preferences are correctly applied on startup, but not when resuming.

[mhens]

When running the (fresh) Porteus 4.0 XFCE iso file "Porteus-XFCE-v4.0-x86_64.iso" in VirtualBox I get the following error when trying to update usm:

root Terminal
usm -u all

"
Downloading: LIBS.TXT.gz DONE
There was a problem downloading the file:
"

I am a Linux newb and have searched in the internet for around 2h now to find a solution.
Since this happens in fresh mode I would have suspected that other Porteus users also face this bug; but I have not found anything new about that topic.

How can I get USM to work? Are there other ways to (easily) install packages in Porteus? Need MongoDB and MongoDBTools.

Thanks,
Martin

[Ed_P]

Hello Martin.

One of the Porteus mirrors has a bad file or you have a bad connection to it. Note the name of the mirror you are downloading from when you get the error. Then click on USM's Settings option, next to the Update one. Edit the problem mirror's file, putting a "#" in front of the active URL and removing a "#" from a URL closer to you. Save the updated file, shutdown USM, restart it and run the update again.



BTW I just ran an update on my system and it ran to completion so the problem is not wide spread.

[raja]

MongoDB and MongoDB-Compass available in slackonly. Update slackonly and download and convert to xzm module..