Elive

Some cds are not automatically reproduced when they are introduced into the computer, specifically the “Lord of the Rings” soundtrack. It gives the option of running some windows type autorun but it doesn’t launch the audio program. Thanks ;)

some error messages when you run smb-usershare are shown in the terminal, but not graphically, this can be a problem when the user is running the application from graphical mode only (menu applications launchers).

In my case, just repackaging it for the new version i found these messages:

Lacking to install the “samba” package:

net usershare: cannot open usershare directory /var/lib/samba/usershares. Error No existe el fichero o el directorio
Please ask your system administrator to enable user sharing.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/smb-usershare", line 580, in <module>
    gui.msgbox(START_MSG)
TypeError: msgbox() takes exactly 3 arguments (2 given)

Lacking to add the user to “samba” (sudo adduser me sambashare), i comment the exact parameter because maybe is a good idea to request the root password via “gksu” tool to do it for the user

net usershare: cannot open usershare directory /var/lib/samba/usershares. Error Permiso denegado
You do not have permission to create a usershare. Ask your administrator to grant you permissions to create a share.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/smb-usershare", line 580, in <module>
    gui.msgbox(START_MSG)
TypeError: msgbox() takes exactly 3 arguments (2 given)

smbmount is required for smb-browser, but the package smbfs is not available in debian wheezy right now, i’m not sure why, maybe is replaced by the package cifs-utils, or maybe it enters back in the future (release of wheezy stable), in any of the cases i leave this report opened to know that something needs to be fixed around :), which means adapt smb-browser to the new tool or get some kind of port

PS: in any of the cases, smb-browser is not a strict requirement for Elive since thunar is able now to browse samba networks in a friendly way

after to create a user in samba (previously on my system), i can’t share folders anymore”, and this message:

$ smb-usershare -p princeamd/                           % 
net usershare: usershares are currently disabled
 Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/usr/bin/smb-usershare", line 580, in <module>
  gui.msgbox(START_MSG)
 TypeError: msgbox() takes exactly 3 arguments (2 given)

Chromium complains about outdated flash version, like in www.electroswing-radio.com , there’s some bugs reported in debian (bts show chromium), so we need to wait the release of debian first to see what happens with this

This workaround in needed for these models 3400

root $ echo “options snd_hda_intel model=auto” » /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf ; rmmod snd_hda_intel ; modprobe snd_hda_intel

I just tried to use Google Talk for videoconference (calls) but seems to not work, I tried it on chrome and even installed a .deb package provided by google, it complains about that is not correctly installed or something similar, I will need to make future look to it

Iceweasel browser will not open email with hotmail.com. Hotmail.com says outdated and errors with mismatch tag. Tried to upgrade with synaptic package manager but synaptic package manager error message when reloading update lists and firefox is not available. Old versions of firefox (as in Mint 8 or other old linux distros) continue to work in Hotmail but iceweasel errors. Google Chrome does not offer add-ons that Firefox offers such as download helper so is not a good iceweasel replacement. I recently just paid for elive 2.0 and am facing errors with it being outdated. William

Hi there,

1st I cannot set the Due in Version box into the next stable version number.

So anyway- This is a freshly purchased, fully installed Topaz from 1st April 2013, running on a IBM T42 1.7 ghz P4 Pentium M processor with 1gig ram.

System runs great except - It fails to shutdown correctly at every option available.

Message reads ‘Killing remaining processes’ and just hangs.

It is marked as Critical severity, due to the fact I am crashing heads on hard power off, although that may not be critical as far as you are concerned, this is my last ide laptop drive of 250gig and I don’t want it toasted.

Thank you

PrinceAMD has a computer which when kms loads, the console turns blank, user can’t see anything, but the system continue booting correctly (1-2 minutes in blank)

Maybe should be good to add a boot option in the live menu with this entry: nomodeset that solves the problem, for those cases

Lastest e17, after to finish wizard go fast to the applications menu and scroll it, e17 freezes

This bug reported by AlexAnteMachina has nothing to do with composite, not even with vbox, I tried it in laptop and e17 simply gets frozen, seems like X11 is died, very strange bug! even with my libs updated without the optimize options (please somebody confirm that we have debug messages now), there’s simply no way to get a backtrace because everything is blocked (well, you can kill X11, but you lose everything)

Maybe there’s not even needed to select German language, it looks like an efreet bug

This is another bug, but seems like caused by the same reason, sometimes, and just sometimes, e17 starts looking like this (some hang in the startup of efreet, or uncomplete or similar, idk)
http://main.elivecd.org/tmp/enlightenment/shot-2013-06-01_22-24-45.jpg

A restart of e17 will solve the problem, but is not a good way to start e17 of course

Another bug: if you install eltrans (here is elive in version 2.1.40), and you try to open the menus, it becomes frozen

Hello.

I have to intent install the Elive 2.0 Topaz (elive_2.0_Topaz_new-kernel_up003.iso) in laptop IBM Thinkpad 380ED, but appear this message:
“Processor does not support: cmov”

Can you help me please ?

Best regards.

The systems reference sheet ­ ThinkPad 380ED

Processor Type: Pentium MMX 166/66 MHz / 64 bit transfer to L2 cache / 64 bit transfer to memory

Processor Upgrade: None

L2 cache: 256 KB / write­through / direct mapped / 8 ns / synchronous pipelined burst

Diskette Drive: Internal 3.5” 1.44 MB / use simultaneously with CD­ROM / on right side

External FDD port: None since diskette internal

CD­ROM: 5.25” CD­ROM / 8­20x speed / CAV / multi­session / XA / ATAPI / not bootable / not removable / on right side

Preload(see side): Windows 95 OSR2

Available date: September 1997

Disk ­ size / ms: 2.1 GB / 13 ms / PIO Mode 4 (2635­5AU), 3.0 GB / 13 ms / PIO Mode 4 (2635­6AU), 5.1 GB / 12 ms / PIO Mode 4 (2635­7AU)

Disk controller: EIDE / PCI 2.1 / supports one internal disk / no DMA or busmaster support / not removable / upgrade only by IBM or dealer

Display ­ size and type: 12.1 inch FRSTN color (2635­5AU), 12.1 inch TFT color (2635­6AU, 2635­7AU)

Display ­ technology: (2635­5AU) SVGA / 640 x 480 or 800 x 600
Dual scan / FRSTN / 150 ms / 70 nits 65,536 sim colors / 35 to 1 contrast
(2635­6AU, 2635­7AU)
SVGA / 640 x 480 or 800 x 600
Active Matrix TFT / 75 ms / 100 nits 65,536 simultaneous colors / 100 to 1 contrast ratio

Graphics ­ controller: NeoMagic MagicGraph128ZV (NM2093) /128 bit SVGA accelerator / Zoomed Video support / DDC1 and DDC2B 1.125 MB / DRAM (embedded) / color space conversion and interpolation in X and Y axis / support for DCI, DirectDraw

Graph ­ arch/data: PCI 2.1 / 32 bit / external SVGA to 1024 x 768 with 256 colors

Graphics ­ features: Simultaneous LCD and CRT / 150 degree tilt

Memory ­ std / max: 16 MB / 80 MB / non­parity / 3.3 volt / EDO

Memory ­ features: 1 socket for one JEDEC 144 pin EDO SO DIMM of 8, 16, 32, or 64 MB / socket accessed from bottom via screw

Keyboard / # of keys: Full size alp/num / 85 (6 Fn key functions) / keyboard slope with Port Replicator

External keyboard: External keyboard support with option cable 06G8619 or Port Replicator

Pointing/ palm rest: TrackPoint III / no drag lock keys

Battery ­ type / life: Li­Ion / non­intelligent / 2.0 hrs (2635­5AU), Li­Ion / non­intelligent / 2.5 hrs (2635­6AU, 2635­7AU)

Charge time ­ on/off: 4.2 to 12 hrs / 3.3 hrs

Architecture: PCI 2.1 / 32 bit / 33 Mhz (EIDE, graphics, PCMCIA, Port Replicator) ISA (audio, diskette, serial, parallel, infrared)
Intel Mobile Triton 82430 PCIset / Intel 82371MX PIIX / NS PC87338

PCMCIA slots: 2 Type I or 2 Type II or 1 Type III / Zoomed Video support in lower slot /PCMCIA 2.1 compatible / PC Card Standard 95 / Cirrus Logic CL­PD6729 (PCI)

Serial / parallel ports: One 9 pin; 16550A / one (IEEE P1284­A, EPP, ECP, bidirectional)

MPEG decoder: None (software support for MPEG­1 in Windows 95)

Audio support: 16 bit audio chip / 20 voice MIDI FM Synthesis / Crystal Semiconductor CS4236 One internal speaker / .5 watt / dial volume control / int mic / full duplex spk/mic

Audio in/out jacks: Input/microphone jack (stereo) / output jack (stereo) / no joystick port

Infrared ports Infrared port on left side / IrDA 1.1 compatible / up to 4 Mbps

Security: Power ­on password / Hard disk password / security keyhole / personalization

Preinstalled software: Microsoft Windows 95 OSR2 with applications (listed on right)

Seems like wifi doesn’t automatically connect when i come back from suspension and im in another location (and I enable the wifi power-button later too), i need to open the internet configurator emodule for to start/open the Network-manager applet (note that by default is removed in order to save some resources consumption and memory usage.

The question is... do we need this nm-applet running all the time so that the network will be correctly connected/updated all the time? this sounds for me non-sense since there’s a daemon of NM, the applect should be only for manual selection or configuration of things, otherwise a daemon should works a daemon.

It happens to you too ?

Hi Team,

Thanks a lot for great work of art and development!
There is however a critical bug for Russian l10n: if one chooses Russian from the initial boot menu of Topaz 2.0 stable, the encodings for NTFS become look like this: ru_RU.KOI-8.utf8 and because there is no such encoding set, all those partitions must first after booting in become unmounted (as the distro mounts them automatically which is great, but sadly not in this error case), then the encoding for ALL ntfs partitions in /etc/fstab must be manually changed under root to one of the normal one, like ru_RU.utf8 (I always just deleted that obsolete KOI-8 records), and then become again mounted normally.
This bug also causes an error or a couple of them during the boot-in process, and definitely prevents users from adequate access onto their ntfs partitions, as naturally all Cyrillic chars become unavailable, and mount problems, etc.

Just to mention: when the world does already have UTF, national encodings look as obsolete and as odd as using the sudo scheme while I totally agree with your philosophy of “if you want to become root, simply type “su -”, enter password and become root”.

The bug spoils everything equally out of a live CD or a live USB stick.

Just to notice: KOI-8 as a Russian national localization encoding is almost not used anywhere by now (March 2014). UTF8 has already for pretty long been a recommended and much more effective encoding set to properly map and operate over Cyrillic chars. The great example of simple UTF8 implementation of l10n is in a commercial by now live CD/USB distro of PartedMagic.
Thus a question: is it posssible to get a rebuilt version of the same Topaz 2.0 or much better a newer stable bootable elive system with the described bug fixed?

Thank you!

PLEASE be describable, clear, and direct. Think that we need to understand, found, and solve the bug.

Remember to set the Due in Version box into the next stable version number.

Thank you

Multiple reports:

- If you run the upgrade mode with the beta version, it doesnt seems to boot it (file not found)

- The entry from grub is not removed after the first (any state) reboot

- The installer of 3.0 needs to be adapted

xrandr / e17 screen confs are not restored after to have played a game or launched some applications that changes the screen sizes

Try for example with “smc” (super mario chronicles) package in debian

WARNING: “cd .e ; bkp s”, it will broke your e17 conf

Note: maybe only in xinerama ?

When in wizard module (first e17 start), if you click fastly to next you get wrong configurations, the Next button should be disabled until all the interface has finished to load and calculate what is needed (languages list generated, pages rendered, etc...)

A common case is to start e17 with the “Mobile” interface (even if default is computer)

Users should not remove essential packages, but they do...

We will need some kind of feature that at shutdown (more reliable than boot-time) will check if we have removed any essential-elive package and asks if restore it

If you put the laptop to suspend, when you put it back you cannot browse shared folders, this happens on my acer-aspire-one laptop in live mode at least

Maybe there’s a post-suspend hook/script that needs to be added for reload sambasomething ?

In laptop of sapi, there’s an hdmi entry that is not a real card, in order to preselect it correctly we could list the channels and see if has any valid entry, for example this wrong one has:

~ amixer
Simple mixer control ‘IEC958’,0

Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [off]

~

Kill tumblerd always before umounting a partition

~ ps aux | grep 30017
1000 1868 0.0 0.0 5188 732 pts/0 SN+ 17:35 0:00 grep 30017
1000 30017 4.5 3.4 517740 68508 ? Sl 17:12 1:02 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/tumbler-1/tumblerd
~

seem vbox is out of date with this really new kernel so the vboxdrv modules segf somewhere in the kernel, I suggest using a kernel that is supported by vbox, this problem is only with vbox.

With the new installer in 2.3.1 iso the reiserfs4 cab still be selected ad the desired FS but after install on boot it seems the reiserfs4 modules are still missing!

Thenuxnewbie (princeamd’s friend?) reported a crash on e17 “trying to move gadgets from shelf” he said, attached crasdump file

<Thenuxnewbie> im on wifi and i just noticed something, it would allow me to remove the gadget as long as the wifi signal strength isn’t displayed in what i presume is the system tray
<Thenuxnewbie> but as long as it’s showing signal strength bar, trying to remove the gadged crashes e17

So try to remove the wifi widget with the systray active to reproduce the bug

installed from...iso 2.3 beta / kernel 3.14
all updated through synaptic.
Both Thunar and EFM freeze the system when trying to open a new folder or document
I have not tried anything else as I keep having to reboot

Regards
Mike