Elive

Hi there, I have installed eLive Gem+ compiz on a Lenovo Thinkpad T60 with an ATI Radeon Mobility graphics adapter. Both the included mplayer and vlc from the repositories flicker when watching movies. This seems independent from the movie format and the payer.

Hi there,

I have installed yakuake (a Quake-like shell) and when I reboot the system from this console then the graphical environment will not come up anymore afterwards. This is because the root filesystem (jfs) could not be mounted read-write anymore. Mount says the filesystem is rw but touch says the filesystem is read-only. fsck / followed by a reboot fixes the problem.

Hi there,

when I plug in my external DVD writer then the following appears in my syslog (/var/log/messages);

Feb 25 19:22:13 T60 kernel: [ 5452.607785] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
Feb 25 19:22:13 T60 kernel: [ 5452.607796] USB Mass Storage support registered.
Feb 25 19:22:18 T60 kernel: [ 5457.632201] scsi 2:0:0:0: CD-ROM TSSTcorp CDDVDW SN-S082H SB00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
Feb 25 19:22:18 T60 kernel: [ 5457.748480] Driver ‘sr’ needs updating - please use bus_type methods
Feb 25 19:22:18 T60 kernel: [ 5457.764735] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Feb 25 19:22:18 T60 kernel: [ 5457.764747] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
Feb 25 19:22:18 T60 kernel: [ 5457.839674] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
Feb 25 19:22:18 T60 kernel: [ 5457.839867] sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
Feb 25 19:22:18 T60 kernel: [ 5457.840431] sr 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 5

When I insert an Audio CD there is no more message concerning that in the log. Alsothe CD doesn’t appear somewhere like e.g. in Thunar or the filesystem under /mnt or /media. Shouldn’t it?

Repeated lines to Standard out for close error: [Errorno 10] No child processes. It seems similar in nature to this bug at http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-bugs-list/2007-July/039036.html. Additionally the program that seems to be causing it is netconnectord.

“Normal” Music-CDs don’t get mounted and do not show up anywhere in the Filesystem.
That makes it impossible to play those CDs and also to copy them to the HDD.

Some device icons (like USBs) of the elive icons theme, needs to have a transparent background

For example, when umounting a USB device from thunar, there’s a popup from the corner of the screen with a message and a icon with a non-transparent background

Games like Wolfenstein not works directly by default, made a compatibility for this, start by add a script to load all the snd-*-oss modules at the init of the system, then see if directly works or needs to run with “aoss” (not so nice way (userfriendly))

http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Enemy_Territory

http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/TIP_ALSA_with_Quake3/Enemy_Territory

when is copying a video, it does a kind of ugly try to made a preview a lot of times, this slows down the computer too, for that, use a kind of tracer (name of file > logs, if name of actual file is equal to logs, wait 30 seconds before to try to do the preview)

At first live boot on a pentium III 600Mhz medion model LT9399 (3D AGP 8Mo), asus L7000G)portable the screen is black with slight difference. Unable to see and to manage with installation when Ctrl+ALt+Tab change user seem to give the correct light screen but in a little while the system shut down....

If i use slovenian language keyboard all the keys dont work. There are only few keys working. Aproximatly 10 keys. If i use english language all keys are working but i dont have then support for special regional letters like (Š???Ž)

I noticed this problem in all elive version (stable and development)

This is a picture how the layout is looking like

Looks like it is not really possible to have a full utf-8 working system on console mode, this mades a lot of translated messages (like in spanish(á, é, í...), or russian) bad readable, broken, crappy...

Maybe is a fixable bug since looks like to work in the installed system

If is not fixable, remove liveboot translations

during install get error not enough free space message reads
filesystem 1kblocks used availible used% mounted on
udev 10240 84 10156 1% /dev
tmpfs

during install of live cd crashes out at about 90-95% saying not enough free space and following message

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
udev 10240 84 10156 1% /dev
tmpfs 517116 4 517112 1% /dev/shm
rootfs 930812 22464 908348 3% /
/dev/scd0 687260 687260 0 100% /elive/.mnt/cdrom
/dev/sda1 76160960 1900600 74260360 3% /elive/.mnt/target

I added Gadgets-Icons to my Desktop. Then I found that they have no function and, even worse, I cant remove them anymore!

I added them like this:
Left-clicked the Desktop →Settings →Gadgets → select “Settings” or “Temperature” →click apply.

But I cannot find a way to remove them!
AND they cannot be moved and also do not have any use.

Here you can see a Screenshot:

//www.flickr.com/photos/alexantemachina/3330715381/

Waking up after suspend is unpredictable. Typically stops before attempting to restore the desktop. (Sometimes the recovery is normal).

Swap is 1100Mb on sdb5, RAM is 1Gb. Added kernel... resume=/dev/sdb5 to menu.lst. Save- operation completes, restore fails.

There’s a big problem with the updates of the system that will broke the graphical system, this bug has Critical severity

The problem is that, if you upgrade your system, it will update the GLX package of your ati/nvidia drivers, this means, that you will have a X version of the kernel with an ati (or nvidia) module in the version Y, that is incompatible with the updated version Z of the GLX package

To solve that problem, I have used all this time a block (hold mark) of the GLX package (the user should have the same kernel all the time)

But the problem is, for example, that if the user update the system that include an updated kernel, and an update of the ati kernel module, the GLX package for ati is not updated so it is incompatible and the user can’t reach the graphical system

Actual case: updated system: update the kernel, but the packages fglrx-driver, fglrx-glx and fglrx-kernel-2.3.26.8-elive-686 are holded, so not updated, the kernel can’t simply load that old version of the ati driver and the user can’t reach the graphical system

If we hold the packages, there’s the problem that everything needs to be updated (so, do not hold anything) in order to work correctly. But if we don’t lock them, also if the user upgrade the system, will use the same version of the kernel, so then the ati GLX package will be updated and not work with the old kernel/module, the only solution for that and everything is that update the version of the kernel too (with a virtual-package for example)... this was requested by some users but, it is a good idea ? what happens if a user dont want to update his kernel ? what about if a version of the kernel mades the computer of a user to NOT boot or not work ? and finally... the grub menu needs to be updated on that case then

Comments about this problematic issue ?

Net-connectors gui no longer displays interfaces or configuration options after upgrade run through synaptic on 3/24/09. Results have been replicated on 3 laptops and one virtual machine. program dump is as follows.

ERROR:dbus.proxies:Introspect error on :1.4:/test: dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.22" (uid=1000 pid=3687 comm="/usr/bin/python /usr/bin/net-connector ") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable" member="Introspect" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination=":1.4" (uid=0 pid=2795 comm="/usr/bin/python /etc/rc2.d/S40netconnectord start "))
ERROR:dbus.proxies:Introspect error on :1.4:/test: dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.22" (uid=1000 pid=3687 comm="/usr/bin/python /usr/bin/net-connector ") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable" member="Introspect" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination=":1.4" (uid=0 pid=2795 comm="/usr/bin/python /etc/rc2.d/S40netconnectord start "))
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "ecore.c_ecore_timer.pxi", line 29, in ecore.c_ecore.timer_cb (ecore/ecore.c_ecore.c:927)
  File "ecore.c_ecore_timer.pxi", line 97, in ecore.c_ecore.Timer._exec (ecore/ecore.c_ecore.c:1501)
  File "/usr/bin/net-connector", line 1198, in initial_scan
    gui.scan(None)
  File "/usr/bin/net-connector", line 769, in scan
    net_dev=self.get_net_dev()
  File "/usr/bin/net-connector", line 954, in get_net_dev
    return net_iface
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'net_iface' referenced before assignment

package oss-compat solves the issue, recommend to add in the default install

Does not work the option of updating via the Internet hours

Doesn’t found the installed ntp package

Synaptic does not start , failure in the application.
Version 1.9.25 compiz.
Agust

Wireless Network can’n use in LAPTOP DELL INSPIRON 1525.

use spanish please.

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I’m using Elive-dev 1.9.24 with latest upgrades.

Now the graphical Logout Manager fails. It does not show the window it should but only a part of it.
To show you what I mean I took a screenshot:
//www.flickr.com/photos/alexantemachina/3470245899/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexantemachina/3470245899/

On the latest Elive testing ISO (1.9.24), the system fails to boot since it can’t detect the base system. Debian Lenny also does the same thing.

I asked on the Debian IRC and apparently there is no support for my cd drive in the 2.6.26 kernel. I’d like this added so I can boot elive. might as well just update to a newer kernel if you ask me (but that’s not my place).

Elive Gem works fine. If you want I can provide additional information.

Joseph