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[Vectorlinux-devel] VL-Dyn-5.9.8.9 Bug Report from Larry

[Larry G. <lgg...@un...>]

Here are my findings:

BUGS?

- despite jackd service running still get error when attempting to 
launch Jack Rack "Could not create JACK client". Also, on shutdown a 
related error: oss2jack [Failed].

- vl-hot detected but did not see files in a vfat formatted SD memory 
card reader. These show perfectly with VL SOHO 5.1. Also, despite 
unmounting the icons remain on the screen ( I assume this is to be a 
feature?).

- cupsd is running but cannot connect through browser to the cups server 
using http://localhost:631

- error on boot up "/proc/splash" does not exist. Is this due to my not 
using lilo to boot?

ANNOYANCES

- gksu is not loaded so hence cannot launch gslapt as a user.

- wdm login screen still has dropdown menu showing fluxbox and iceWM 
(which have been removed).

- in the same vein remove .fluxbox and .icewm directories from /etc/skel

- xfce4 screensaver plugin has been loaded but there does not seem to be 
a way to get to this screesaver (or am I blind?).

- gnumeric Help menu item is looking for doc files somewhere and they 
are elsewhere. They are all on the system. Think we need a link to the 
correct spot. See gnumeric bug reports.

SUGGESTIONS

- install anacron and inkscape

- xfce menu still needs work due to incorrect or misplaced .desktop 
files. If no one else comes to the fore I may be able to do this but I 
am unfortunately flat out here with visitors for a few days.

Larry

Re: [Vectorlinux-devel] VL-Dyn-5.9.8.9 Bug Report from Larry

[John B <joh...@gm...>]

Larry,

I haven't installed 5.9.8.9 yet, but I'll add a couple of comments
between yours.

jb

On 8/9/06, Larry Gagnon <lgg...@un...> wrote:
> Here are my findings:
>
> BUGS?
>
> - despite jackd service running still get error when attempting to
> launch Jack Rack "Could not create JACK client". Also, on shutdown a
> related error: oss2jack [Failed].
>
> - vl-hot detected but did not see files in a vfat formatted SD memory
> card reader. These show perfectly with VL SOHO 5.1. Also, despite
> unmounting the icons remain on the screen ( I assume this is to be a
> feature?).
>
> - cupsd is running but cannot connect through browser to the cups server
> using http://localhost:631

The reason this is happening is that the cups service isn't starting,
because /etc/rc.d/init.d does not have a cups file in it. A quick fix
would be to copy the cups filr from the /etc/rc.d/init.d/sample
directory. However, we do need to ensure that any package of cups that
we provide includes the /etc/rc.d/init.d/cups script, as the vasm
SRVSET script parses /etc/rc.d/init.d to see which services are
available to be set.

>
> - error on boot up "/proc/splash" does not exist. Is this due to my not
> using lilo to boot?
>
> ANNOYANCES
>
> - gksu is not loaded so hence cannot launch gslapt as a user.
>
> - wdm login screen still has dropdown menu showing fluxbox and iceWM
> (which have been removed).
>

The fix here is to remove the xinitrc files for fluxbox and IceWM from
/etc/X11/xinit (I think that's where they're located)

> - in the same vein remove .fluxbox and .icewm directories from /etc/skel
>
> - xfce4 screensaver plugin has been loaded but there does not seem to be
> a way to get to this screesaver (or am I blind?).
>
> - gnumeric Help menu item is looking for doc files somewhere and they
> are elsewhere. They are all on the system. Think we need a link to the
> correct spot. See gnumeric bug reports.
>

That would need to be fixed in the doinst.sh script for the package.

> SUGGESTIONS
>
> - install anacron and inkscape
>
> - xfce menu still needs work due to incorrect or misplaced .desktop
> files. If no one else comes to the fore I may be able to do this but I
> am unfortunately flat out here with visitors for a few days.
>
> Larry

Re: [Vectorlinux-devel] VL-Dyn-5.9.8.9 Bug Report from Larry

[Jose J. R. <jo...@gm...>]

On 8/9/06, Larry Gagnon <lgg...@un...> wrote:
>
> - vl-hot detected but did not see files in a vfat formatted SD memory
> card reader. These show perfectly with VL SOHO 5.1.

I'm not sure what you mean here, vl-hot just issues a mount command
for the volume and creates the desktop icons. The filemanager which
opens from the vl-hot desktop icon should see the files afterwards.
Try refreshing it. If this doesn't work, have an open terminal running
tail -f /var/log/messages so we can see what vl-hot is doing ;).

> Also, despite unmounting the icons remain on the screen
>  ( I assume this is to be a feature?).
>

No, they should dissapear once unmount has finished (this is the
actual visual cue that unplugging is safe). Again, a tail should help
diagnose this. Sometimes in KDE, a konqueror process will not
correctly release the mountpoint, so a simple umount fails and the
icon stays. Which is why in KDE, you have the "umount signal" and
"unmount kill" right-click actions on the icon. In XFCE however, this
kind of actions don't seem to be fully supported yet, which is the
reason for the extra unmount icon workaround. If the mountpoint won't
unmount normally, then a sync from the terminal should make it safe to
remove the drive.

Regards,
Joe1962

Re: [Vectorlinux-devel] VL-Dyn-5.9.8.9 Bug Report from Larry

[John B <joh...@gm...>]

To add to this thread of bugs in the 5.9.8.9 iso, xfburn doesn't work,
because it was built against beta 1 (looks for libxfce4util.so.2,
whereas xfce 4.4 beta 2 has libxfce4util.so.4). I fixed the problem
for my use by creating a symlink from libxfce4util.so.4.0.0 to
libxfce4util.so.2. However, I think we'll need to be careful to
rebuild xfce apps against whatever xfce-du-jour we're using.

FWIW,
John

On 8/10/06, Jose J. Rodriguez <jo...@gm...> wrote:
> On 8/9/06, Larry Gagnon <lgg...@un...> wrote:
> >
> > - vl-hot detected but did not see files in a vfat formatted SD memory
> > card reader. These show perfectly with VL SOHO 5.1.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean here, vl-hot just issues a mount command
> for the volume and creates the desktop icons. The filemanager which
> opens from the vl-hot desktop icon should see the files afterwards.
> Try refreshing it. If this doesn't work, have an open terminal running
> tail -f /var/log/messages so we can see what vl-hot is doing ;).
>
> > Also, despite unmounting the icons remain on the screen
> >  ( I assume this is to be a feature?).
> >
>
> No, they should dissapear once unmount has finished (this is the
> actual visual cue that unplugging is safe). Again, a tail should help
> diagnose this. Sometimes in KDE, a konqueror process will not
> correctly release the mountpoint, so a simple umount fails and the
> icon stays. Which is why in KDE, you have the "umount signal" and
> "unmount kill" right-click actions on the icon. In XFCE however, this
> kind of actions don't seem to be fully supported yet, which is the
> reason for the extra unmount icon workaround. If the mountpoint won't
> unmount normally, then a sync from the terminal should make it safe to
> remove the drive.
>
> Regards,
> Joe1962
>
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Re: [Vectorlinux-devel] VL-Dyn-5.9.8.9 Bug Report from Larry

[Robert L. <vec...@ya...>]

solution to cups problem
http://localhost:631/admin
not sure if something new with cups or a bug in our
package but this works......
vec

--- Larry Gagnon <lgg...@un...> wrote:

> Here are my findings:
> 
> BUGS?
> 
> - despite jackd service running still get error when
> attempting to 
> launch Jack Rack "Could not create JACK client".
> Also, on shutdown a 
> related error: oss2jack [Failed].
> 
> - vl-hot detected but did not see files in a vfat
> formatted SD memory 
> card reader. These show perfectly with VL SOHO 5.1.
> Also, despite 
> unmounting the icons remain on the screen ( I assume
> this is to be a 
> feature?).
> 
> - cupsd is running but cannot connect through
> browser to the cups server 
> using http://localhost:631
> 
> - error on boot up "/proc/splash" does not exist. Is
> this due to my not 
> using lilo to boot?
> 
> ANNOYANCES
> 
> - gksu is not loaded so hence cannot launch gslapt
> as a user.
> 
> - wdm login screen still has dropdown menu showing
> fluxbox and iceWM 
> (which have been removed).
> 
> - in the same vein remove .fluxbox and .icewm
> directories from /etc/skel
> 
> - xfce4 screensaver plugin has been loaded but there
> does not seem to be 
> a way to get to this screesaver (or am I blind?).
> 
> - gnumeric Help menu item is looking for doc files
> somewhere and they 
> are elsewhere. They are all on the system. Think we
> need a link to the 
> correct spot. See gnumeric bug reports.
> 
> SUGGESTIONS
> 
> - install anacron and inkscape
> 
> - xfce menu still needs work due to incorrect or
> misplaced .desktop 
> files. If no one else comes to the fore I may be
> able to do this but I 
> am unfortunately flat out here with visitors for a
> few days.
> 
> Larry
> 
>
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