Elive

The new disks health feature doens’t reports the correct values:

❯❯❯ cat /etc/elive/disks-health
disks_scanned=""
count_gshock="0"
count_sectors_reallocated="0"
count_sectors_pending="0"

Installing 3.8.2 beta as permanent on a PNY 32 GB USB key plugged in a dell Latitude 630, everything went fine except the following : every choices on packages to be kept on disk (themes, softwares…) were discarded, resulting in a minimal install (2 themes, 1 language…)

Hello,

I got this error message while using elive-health from command line :

find: paths must precede expression: `/home/jack/.local/share/Trash'
find: possible unquoted pattern after predicate `-type'?

I found out that a ‘find’ command at line 100 of this script was incorrectly formatted, it showed :

find -type f "$HOME/.local/share/Trash" -delete

where it should be :

find "$HOME/.local/share/Trash" -type f -delete

So it prevents removal of Trash content.

Patch available, just ask!

Regards,

Hello, Team
I have a Lenovo x201i laptop ( CPU Core i3 + 8GB RAM)
Firstly , i use 32bit latest version OS - very nice
but it can see only 3GB RAM and i decided install 64Bit system
i download latest beta version , write it on USB-stick and tryed
boot… before, i turn off security password to HDD acssess on BIOS
Boot starting and i see a menu ( a few options booting 64 bit system)
but if i tryed anything- after a few second leptop rebooting…

When I open software center I get a error warning say (something went wrong sorry). And also when theres updates the same software center says (Failed to install file: not supported). Not a programmer so hope someone can figure what is going on I noticed there is a newer version of gnome software center available but I don,t know how to install manually. Wish it could be in the software center repository somehow.

Certian programs that are in the slider window “grey out” on a quick restart of Elive. I have seen Azureus and Firefox do this. This is all I know, try it out. Does anyone know a way to debug this? Thanks, later.

When I put a usb key for exemple elive mount it on /media/XXX with the user option. Is not realy a bug but the user option implies noexec, nosuid, et nodev option. I think noexec is not a cool option because I have often program on my key and is not a security because you can start a script for exemple like this /bin/sh ./script.sh. my proposition keep the user option but remove noexec. more information here → http://linuxfr.org/forums/15/7853.html (french)

Try it out, I get two terminals directly over top of each other. I think some people might not have an “Ins” or Insert key, does anyone have a different default key that they use to bring up a term (x2) window?

In Elive (cvs20060516) there is problems with cdripping. cdda2wav is not working, cdparanoia is painfully slow. (To rip 1 CD in elive takes 80 minutes on my old debian install on the same computer it took less then 10 min) Ubuntu-users has reported similar problems.

The current default GTK theme for the Night look is too dark in my opinion. OO.org2 has a dark background with blueish font colour which is a bit distrasting and hard on the eyes.
I found the following Neos theme at...

http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=24229

It still maintains that dark look while allowing gtk applications to still have the traditional white background with black font. It also has nice rounded window borders.

When I plug in my IPod it causes two instances of Thunar to open. This is a rather trivial, but annoying bug, as I immediately have to close one instance of Thunar and click cancel when it asks me to if I wish to unmount the device.
I think it would be better if Thunar didn’t open when I insert my IPod. Instead GTKPod could handle IPods and other mp3 players by default instead of Thunar as most people won’t use Thunar for IPod management (as it can’t sync, read, etc.) only GTKPod.

When Xpad notes are open on screen 1 and E16 is exited from screen 2, negative coordinates are written to the xpad config file. On restart, notepads are not visible on either screen.

example X coord -255

Cuando instalas el opera no hay ninguna manera de recuperar el enlace de firefox para hacerlo el navegador por defecto. Hay la forma manual:

rm /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser ; ln -s /usr/bin/firefox /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser/x-www-browser

Esto tecnicamente tendria que hacerlo automaticamente al volver a eliminar el opera.

The live cd does not boot from a firewire dvd-recorder; at least not the one which came with my Acer Travelmate 3012wtmi.

Both Debian and Ubuntu boot with no problem at all (Debian used to have the same problem before, though) and in Gentoo, it works when the “doscsi” kernel argument is passed. I have not successfully booted Elive with this drive, however.

I don not think this will be a problem very hard to fix; it just needs to be detected ;).

I will try the latest Elive as well (downloading now) and report, but I don not expect it to work, since this bug is not mentioned on the “Fixed Bugs” list.

/ / Talyz / /

entangle and e17genmenu missing from default e17 menus. e noobs could well be put off by this, thinking they can’t edit the menus and the shortcut bar, at least not graphically. You have to know about entangle to use it to add itself to the e17 menus.

A shortcut to e17genmenu would be nice too.

I was very happy to see both qjackctl and zynaddsubfx as part of the default elive packages so I presumed it was also going to come with a real-time kernel as I heard that, as of 2.6.18, this has entered the mainline kernel code. Sadly this doesn’t seem to be the case.

This is the biggest missing feature in elive for me, and other wannabe Linux musicians too I’d think. If real-time support can’t be enabled it the primary elive kernel for whatever reason then it would be great if it came with a second, rt-enabled one too.

Icedove and Thunderbird are both installed by default on Elive 0.5.3. Thunderbird should be removed in favour of Icedove as this is the version that Debian is using. On a related note, maybe the Icedove icon should be replaced with one of the icons from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IceDoveIcon or one from gnome-look.org because I’m not sure if you can ship that icon without Thunderbird.

gtkpod fails to start with the following error.

lontra@elive[~]$ gtkpod
* glibc detected * malloc(): memory corruption (fast): 0x0845dd60 ***
Aborted

Elive 0.53 unstable using fglrx driver option....fails and the screen rest black and any key or combination works.
Just after choosing between ati driver options.
With 0.51 unstable works well.
My pc: AMD 1000, ATI-9550 and Compaq 17” monitor.
Help
Jose

This is by far my favourite Linux distro Thanks.

The Bug
System hangs(with mouse pointer disappearing) on my IBM Thinkpad T22 (P3, 512mb ram) every time I use the internet. Problem occurs in both e16 and e17(more frequently here) versions of elive 0.4, 0.5 all and so far on Revolution livecd.

I don’t know if its elive, firefox or just a general problem with Debian and the Thinkpad.

GTKPod is under found under utils → file manager. I think it makes more sense to put GTKPod in Audio as it’s used for audio. This is just a suggestion.

The driver for bcm43xx(broadcom 4318) is buggy(unusable), the best way is using ndiswrapper and windows*sic* drivers, contact me if you need something!

I have a couple old computers with Ati Rage 128 Pro 32MB cards. In both Revolution releases the detection of the video card dos not work properly and asks to choose fglrx, radeon or VESA drivers for X11, the first two failing, obviously, and the third one being terribbly slow.
The driver to use is r128, and changing that in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and restarting the X system everything works perfectly.

i have a problem with shares-admin-manager, when i run this program for directory shared , the app freeze.