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cooking firewall

ernia — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:18:45 +0200

the default firewall.conf set INPUT policy to DROP and allows packets from lo interface and packets from local network, without any other INPUT accepting rule.
so if you set the interface to ppp+ no INPUT packets are allowed, unless they are spoofed packages claiming to come from local network.
this makes your browsing a little bit difficult :-)
the 3.0 firewall.conf had these rows

# Accept input trafic only for connections initialized by user.
iptables -A INPUT -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT

that makes things working, maybe we could have the rows back?

@devs
is it enough to put problems i find in cooking here or am i supposed to fill bugs in slitaz labs too?
i ask this because in slitaz labs i rarely see changes and i don't know if bugs are assigned or not.

SQLite + PHP

gaia — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 20:47:09 +0200

Midori Bugs again :(

Ok , I do simply . I'm teeacher, rescuing a school of teatcher shortage.... but I'm last year student too. And I'm crowling under work :( and need some stuff to keep them busy on Slitaz. (I'm making real-time advertising for Slitaz ;)

First

I need code of a Html form with PHP to write the results in a SQlite DB

After, I may be able to view all my DB on the page. Some statistical button options to check to compute and have results back yould be very nice :D

Just be able to modify the code with the couple : Leafpad - Midori

Thaaanks

SliTaz on Asus EEE PC 1005PE - Network not working, Screen resolution problems

harpya — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:25:47 +0200

Hi all,

I putted the CD in Ext. Dvd-rom, SliTaz started, booted, but .. it's only in console. I have tried to type "startx", but something went wrong - " Fatal error: no screens found" soo, I tried to check my internet connection - simply typed "ping -c google.com" - " Bad address google.com " .. Now, I'm stucked, I don't know what to do. My router is 100% working, net cable 100% - on other distros is internet working properly .. So, if You can, please, help me =) Much thanks.

Btw. I have tried:

ifconfig eth0 up

I'm sorry for my bad english. =)

[SOLVED}Midori delete Feed

Gearhead — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:40:16 +0200

I'm running 3.0 with midori 2.4
I've been trying to delete a feed thats not working in the panel but it won't respond to the right click delete button.
I've uninstall midori and reinstall but it keeps coming back when reinstalling.
So there must be a file storing this info thats not deleted when removing....any ideas what file it would be?
It is also retaining my proxy settings.
Thanks

Any luck installling Midori 0.2.8

Gearhead — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:27:38 +0200

Anyone had luck installing Midori 0.2.8?
I've tried but keep coming up with errors that I have not had luck fixing.
It all seems to be in the /usr/bin/midori file but I don't have expertise to figure it out.
Any input would be helpful.

root (hd1.0) error 21 disk not exist

Francis — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:30:07 +0100

Hi. Im new to linux and i have created my partition for slitaz 2.0 and windows 2000 pro

I have given windows 2000 pro = 5gb hard drive /dev/hda2
and the reset for slitaz /dev/hda1
Theres only 1 13gb hard drive in the system. (i know is not much as is only for my parents as they browse the internet)

Screenshot from the partitioner
http://i47.tinypic.com/21wn6x.png

Slitaz partitions and installs ok to /dev/hda1 and installed GRUB to /dev/hda okay but when i come to boot it says

root (hd1.0)
error 21 disk not exist

I have tryed going into grub into the boot folder and renaming hd0.1 in the file to see if that helps but it not letting me edit the file, permission denied

Hope you can help.

cooking tazpkg 4.1

ernia — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:50:54 +0200

i've upgraded tazpkg and i got lot of these:

/usr/bin/tazpkg: line 63: envsubst: not found
/usr/bin/tazpkg: line 63: envsubst: not found

installing gettext and not only gettext-base as i had before the error disappear
maybe envsubst should be included in gettext-base?

Total noob wants help please

stuffses — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 06:31:56 +0200

Hi I followed this tutorial: http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=slitaz

and evrything worked fine, but now I have no idea what to do. I sea the gui, to seems fine, and im sure its obvious what im missing but ive got no idea how to continue

Im installing aircrack incase you didnt know

acer aspire one

Additional ethernet modules needed ie. realtek 8139 netcard driver

Peter — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:45:33 +0100

hi all.

shoud'nt all of the older netcard drivers be added, as slitaz is so great on older hardware. i cannot use slitaz on my compaq evo n1020v, as there is no module for the realtek 8139.

the optimal solution would to make an extra taz pakage with additional drivers for ethernet, and just add as many as possible (or more:) to this package. then there is no bloat for the linux kernel package, but via usb you could add the older drivers using this new linux-alt-ethernet.tazpkg.

thanks for a great system. hop you like the idea.

peter.

Sound ALSA Slitaz LinuxProblems

hantor — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 20:56:01 +0200

Sound in Slitaz has gone in Celibat !!!! ALSA advanced linux sound arhitecture --> AAGA Advanced Arhitecture Problem Generator ! You can kill your self getting sound to work ! Kernel supports it ALSA aparently support it 100% Slitaz find it and configuered it but magicaly still no sound ! Its not only Slitaz relaited problem ! Many other distros have also ALSA no sound desese ! So what is Linux with no sound you can picture it self ! I urge eny user to post their problem with linux what so ever as much as posibly often ! So no one can praise Linux to the Heaven eny more ! Linux as pure os is one of the kind, but everything arround it, on top off it can be wery questionable ! Thus so many problems with it ! At my wery laic opinion everything arround the kernel is wrong implemented ! Everbody of developers and comunity has only one thing in mind and that is command line as in dos times ! Many user will strongly dissagree that but when problems occur the only solution is command line ! No unified package management, no unified standard free as a chicken on backyard - headless kaos ! Free software as free problems ! The more the freedom the more the problems ! As result To Many Problems With Linux ! Maybe becose its free i dont know ! If i have the money i will buy MAC ! Now i see with diferent eyes to the Windows despite the problems with viruses malware rootkits and security ... Widely available drivers on all pc platform 1000% compatibility and it simply works if you install some strong security relaited software with some reasonable care what you execute ! So why user can not in linux install software with few mouse klicks like in windows ! Some hardware is present now for ages but still the same problems again and again and again ! Graphic cards can not develop full speed due to driver license policy and so on and on and on ! Thank you Linux now i aprishieate Windows more ! Ease of use in Linux is an utopic dream and will newer be apropriete for common average and laic user ! So when will be seing linux with ease of use like windows - utopic dream ! Ask me in 10 years !

Package manager (solved)

bww — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 00:44:03 +0200

Hello,
I'm a newbie to Slitaz and linux I have an older machine and was looking for an o. s. I could run on it. I am trying Slitaz 3.0 I have downloaded and burned the live CD and tried just running from memory and it seemed to work ok. So I loaded the program to the hard drive and was trying to download packages from the package manager. I have recharged the list and updated all the packages so I would get the latest information the problem comes when I double click on a package nothing happens, the package gets highlighted but that's it the window that should open next (as I've seen on youtube) doesn't open allowing me to choose either download or download & install. I am not familiar with the scripts coming from windows that's why I was using the GUI. is my download missing something or am I doing something wrong ?
It wouldn't work from the live CD either.
Any help would be appreciated
Thanks in advance
BW

Connexion through a LAN

Lorrain — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 09:05:29 +0200

Hello (and sorry for my english...)
I'm a newbie in SliTaz (SliTaz 3.0)
I have an Internet connexion problem.
I must connect through the LAN of my company. But to do that, I have to give access to "automatic configuration scripts" which are on a main server of the company. And I don't know how to do.
(Reading the Handbook, I saw that, in the "Netbox Manager", ther is a tab named "System Wide". But it doesn't exist on mine. I give this precision because I have the feeling it's linked with my problem...)
Can somebody help me ?
Thanks in advance,
Lorrain

add greek keyboard layout-complete newbie

dimitrios — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:56:16 +0200

sorry guys,
can anyone help me to add greek layout in my pc?
if there is any older post please forgive but i didn't find it.
thanks in advance

SliTaz is so cute...

Remastering technics (without CD, changing menu from Tazx etc.)

oui — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 23:35:11 +0200

Hi

As my msg on the French forum from last week did get no answer, I repeat it in my bad English here:

After a CD start to get a fresh system and very more than one hour to increase the system with new packages the liveCD routine refuses to continue because my CD drive is broken and the USB CD drive with which I did boot is not recognize because it is not mounted but after it is mounted can not be used because it is mounted, a really silly dilly situation!

a/ how to do to avoid that difficulty?

of course as the solution is not known, I did quit the session so that all the work was forgotten including the exact new configuration I did create!

where is the list of installed packages to find?

b/ how to do to reinstall exactly the same configuration from that list (of course, if possible automatically!)?

c/ as Slitaz 3.0 refuses to start (because the nv video driver was not taken under consideration in tazx and tazx always find that somewhat is not installed or is not good) I am using the flavour http://mirror.slitaz.org/iso/3.0/flavors/slitaz-3.0-xvesa.iso with the tinyx. how to rebuild the usual menu from tazx after the installation of (all / usual) xorg packages (the installation of wine starts in all cases the installation of the most of them and don't accept tinyx at all as equivalent!) that to allow to try to start the usual xorg installation at the start with the remastered CD from the new ISO? and how to add the nv video driver to the tazx menu of the new remastered ISO (this is my main goal with the remastering!)? perhaps it is possible to add also tinyx in the same menu for all cases...?

d/ SliTaz proposes in the flavour iso with tinyx a keybord us_accentos. it is better than nothing, ok. but it is not good enough for a bilingual user French/German because no ç æ ß etc ... (I can write them now because I am in Puppy linux ;-) ). the us_intl offers very more possibilities. what is to do to add it in best position in my new remastered ISO (best position would be default selection!)?

salut

cooking winetricks receipt

ernia — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 15:40:32 +0200

the default cooking winetricks is not executable when installed and uses some wget options unknown to busybox, so the real wget should be a dependencie. this could be the correct receipt

# SliTaz package receipt.

PACKAGE="winetricks"
VERSION="20101008"
CATEGORY="misc"
SHORT_DESC="Script to install various redistributable runtime libraries in Wine."
MAINTAINER="slaxemulator@gmail.com"
DEPENDS="wine cabextract unzip zenity wget"
WEB_SITE="http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks"

# Rules to gen a SliTaz package suitable for Tazpkg.
genpkg_rules()
{
	[ -f $SOURCES_REPOSITORY/$PACKAGE-$VERSION ] ||
	wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/$PACKAGE -O $SOURCES_REPOSITORY/$PACKAGE-$VERSION

	mkdir -p $fs/usr/bin
	cp -a $SOURCES_REPOSITORY/$PACKAGE-$VERSION $fs/usr/bin/$PACKAGE
	chmod a+x $fs/usr/bin/$PACKAGE
}

in my system it works

cooking epdfview-cups without icon in desktop file

ernia — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 23:05:45 +0200

because of these rows in /usr/bin/tazwok

	# Desktop entry (.desktop).
	if [ -d "$_pkg/usr/share/applications" ]; then
		cp -a $_pkg/usr/share/applications $fs/usr/share
	fi
	# Homemade desktop file(s) can be in stuff.
	if [ -d "stuff/applications" ]; then
		mkdir -p $fs/usr/share
		cp -a stuff/applications $fs/usr/share
	fi
	if [ -f "stuff/$PACKAGE.desktop" ]; then
		mkdir -p $fs/usr/share/applications
		cp -a stuff/$PACKAGE.desktop $fs/usr/share/applications
	fi

and of these row in the receipt

	cd $fs/usr/share/pixmaps
	rm ../epdfview/pixmaps/icon_epdfview-24.png
	rm ../epdfview/pixmaps/icon_epdfview-48.png
	ln -s ../epdfview/pixmaps/icon_epdfview-32.png epdfview.png

epdfview-cups genpkg produce a no icon desktop file:
the first tazwok if copy in $fs/usr/share/applications the original desktop file who refers to icon_epdfview-48.png , which has been deleted
the second tazwok if does nothing because stuff/applications does not exist
the third tazwok if does nothing because the desktop file in stuff is epdfview.desktop while the PACKAGE variable contains epdfview-cups .

Solutions:
1) create a applications subdir in stuff and move the provided desktop file in it, so with the second if tazwok will owerwrite the original desktop file whith the provided one
2) modify the third if in tazwok to catch stuff/*.desktop. it should be very probably that a desktop file in stuff is there to go in $fs/usr/share/applications :-)

I chose first solution and it works ;-)

cooking clawsmail needs libassuan as BUILD_DEPENDS

ernia — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 21:15:58 +0200

without it build fails with

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lassuan

Is ther a file usage tool for slitaz

rustysmoove — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 16:45:21 +0200

I would like to install kdirstat or something similar.

how to install adobe flash on firefox?

gabak — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 22:49:38 +0100

i want to watch some youtube videos so it say an error when i try to install the adobe flash that pop up on the firefox screen

FTP server

Akaash — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 15:16:38 +0200

I'm new to SliTaz and need to configure a FTP server on slitaz...i've install sftp-server but, have no idea how to use it... ny help would be appreciated.

Network on Asus r2h

bluefade — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 10:41:01 +0200

Hi,
I've finally managed to install a linux distro, on it. But i can't get the wired network to work.
It uses a RTL8101E PCI Express (r8169) - i got this info from another site.
Can someone help me??

Thank you,
Bruno

Slitaz gaming

rustysmoove — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 01:19:49 +0200

so far I have heroes of might and magic 3 and openarena working great. Tried a few in wine without much luck.
Any good games out there????

hwclock and slitaz handbook

ernia — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 05:38:36 +0200

Is the slitaz handbook http://www.slitaz.org/en/doc/handbook/system-admin.html wrong in the hwclock section?
it says

Syncronize the system clock to the hardware clock ( --utc = universal time, -l = local time):
# hwclock -w --utc
Syncronize the hardware clock to the system clock:
# hwclock -s --utc

hwclock --help says

Options:
-r Show hardware clock time
-s Set system time from hardware clock
-w Set hardware clock to system time
-u Hardware clock is in UTC
-l Hardware clock is in local time
-f FILE Use specified device (e.g. /dev/rtc2)

Aren't the -w and -s options inverted? Am i misunderstanding?
Should the doc be fixed? If yes am i allowed to do that?

[solved] no prompt command on every terminal exept xterm

xfred — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 06:06:23 +0200

hi,

I have experienced this problem,search, search, search and found the solution. So, im posting it in case some one encounter the same problem.

What i have dons is add my user to the tty group in /etc/group
and change mode=600 for mode=620 on devpts line inside /etc/mtab

Theres the source of solution:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/kde-konsole-shows-no-prompt-just-the-cursor-291602/

hopes its gonna work for you.

Installation on Acer Aspire One AOA110

knives — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 21:51:53 +0200

Hello, I use slitaz on my laptop but I'm a beginner and I just recover an acer aspire one A110 for which I worry about is why I appeal to your aid.

1 I have a 16 GB SSD and two multi-card reader on it. The Multi is not acknowledged. I put a 16GB SD card into my home and I wanted to find out how.
It gave me a first indication namely:

# Switch to root (password: root): su

# Install Linux modules for maps DSS
Tazpkg-get install linux-mmc
# Load the module if necessary:
modprobe mmc_block
I see the 16 GB card but I can not install the home above.

3 There is a webcam and I wanted to know how to install it. I installed linux-video and v4l-dvb but it is not recognized.

4 I want to use Wine but it requires Xorg out I can not make it work with Xorg. I installed Slitaz Xvesa because when I install the login Slitaz Core appears in text and no way to have a graphical display.

If something is not clear I could give you more precision.

Thank you in advance for your help

Sincerely Knives

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[FSF] Hardware we all want: FSF announces criteria for hardware endorsement program

Gokhlayeh — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:24:15 +0200

Here's a copy/paste of an article from Free Software Foundation :

Hardware we all want: FSF announces criteria for hardware endorsement
program "Respects Your Freedom"

http://www.fsf.org/news/endorsement-criteria

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Thursday, October 14, 2010 -- The Free
Software Foundation (FSF) announced today that it has published an initial
set of criteria for endorsing computers and other devices. The FSF seeks
both to obtain feedback on the criteria, and raise interest in the program
among hardware manufacturers. Ultimately, the FSF plans to promote an
endorsement mark to be carried on products that meet the criteria:
respects your freedom.

http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Hardware/Endorsement_criteria

"The desire to own a computer or device and have full control over it, to
know that you are not being spied on or tracked, to run any software you
wish without asking permission, and to share with friends without worrying
about Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) -- these are the desires of
millions of people who care about the future of technology and our
society. Unfortunately, hardware manufacturers have until now relied on
close cooperation with proprietary software companies that demanded
control over their users. As citizens and their customers, we need to
promote our desires for a new class of hardware -- hardware that anyone
can support because it respects your freedom," said Peter Brown, executive
director of the FSF.

The FSF's criteria seek to cover all aspects of user interaction with and
control of a device: they say the hardware must run free software on every
layer that is user upgradeable, allow the user to modify that software,
support free data formats, be fully usable with free tools, and more.

FSF license compliance engineer Brett Smith said, "Every software
component needed to produce endorsable hardware is now available. We have
several GNU/Linux distributions that only include free software, and are
completely functional on the right hardware. We have the LinuxLibre kernel
that does not include nonfree microcode. And we have cutting edge mobile
platforms like Android and MeeGo that are based on free software. In the
past we've spoken to manufacturers who were interested in making free
software-friendly hardware, but they worried about connecting with
customers. With our endorsement mark and the strong criteria that back it,
we plan to bridge that gap and demonstrate to manufacturers that they
stand to gain plenty by making hardware that respects people's freedom
instead of curtailing it."

The initial set of guidelines are available on the LibrePlanet wiki, at
http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Hardware/Endorsement_criteria. The FSF
welcomes contributions on the wiki discussion page, including suggestions
for improvements to the criteria, and ideas and art submissions for an
endorsement mark.

Hardware manufacturers interested in endorsement should contact
licensing@fsf.org.

About the Free Software Foundation

The Free Software Foundation, founded in 1985, is dedicated to promoting
computer users' right to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute
computer programs. The FSF promotes the development and use of free (as in
freedom) software -- particularly the GNU operating system and its
GNU/Linux variants -- and free documentation for free software. The FSF
also helps to spread awareness of the ethical and political issues of
freedom in the use of software, and its Web sites, located at fsf.org and
gnu.org, are an important source of information about GNU/Linux. Donations
to support the FSF's work can be made at http://donate.fsf.org. Its
headquarters are in Boston, MA, USA.

About Free Software and Open Source

The free software movement's goal is freedom for computer users. Some,
especially corporations, advocate a different viewpoint, known as "open
source," which cites only practical goals such as making software powerful
and reliable, focuses on development models, and avoids discussion of
ethics and freedom. These two viewpoints are different at the deepest
level. For more explanation, see
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html.

Media Contacts

Brett Smith
License Compliance Engineer
Free Software Foundation
+1 (617) 542 5942 x18
brett@fsf.org

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usb failure

Luigino — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:38:44 +0200

Hi,
I installed yesterday the last Slitaz version on the HD of my vintage PC Omnibook Xe2, PII 366MHz, 256MB ram, HD 20 GB, PCMCIA to triple USB card, no ethernet.
My concern is that USB devices (both usb store stick and Huawei E156G USB internet key) are not recognized at all.
It seems that rules in /etc/udev don't foresee usb devices. Isn't it? How can I connect to internet?

[SOLVED] how do i setup a local repository?

ernia — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 12:04:26 +0200

I'm in 3.0.
I'm building some packages with tazwok, mainly for italian language support and/or more recent version of software.
How do i make tazpkg install my packages prior than the ones in the official repositories?
How do i could share these packages in un unofficial italian repository?
Is there a guide somewhere?

[SOLVED] Installing Midori in 3.0

Gearhead — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:05:12 +0200

I am running 3.0 with firefox installed on a HD, I'm using this flavor because it's the only one that will work with my Thinkpad 600 video card.

1. I would like to try running Midori 0.2.4, so I tazpkg installed it and it downloaded all the other packages in needs and installed them. Now the Midori icon is in my start menu as are other Midori files in my system but when I click on it nothing happens. When I try opening it in Xterm it says
"error while loading shared libraries: libgpg-error.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

Am I suppost to do more to get it to work....compile....config...add a file?

Intel 865g enable dri workaround

rustysmoove — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 22:39:49 +0200

I have a Compaq Evo D310v with i82865g on-board video. I installed mesa, mesa-dri, mesa-dri-intel, xorg-x86-video-intel and linux-agp then rebooted. when i do glxinfo | grep render as tux i get back software rasterizer if i do it as root i get back opengl renderer string Mesa DRI Intel 845g. so as user no hardware accel for games. root works no problem for games.

I then did # addgroup tux video and restarted. same deal though. no user hardware acel.

I then did LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo | grep render. which led me to the file /dev/dri card0 cannot open. so I checked permissions and only root has them for that file.

so I changed permissions with pcmanfm as root to allow user read+write permission then restarted . same deal no accel went back to folder no permission again

so I did chmod 666 /dev/dri/card0. restarted, still no permission after restart.
Works great for user as long as I don't restart.

Then I tried adding sudo chmod 666 /dev/dri/card0 to rcS.conf file to run at boot. but it says it
cannot find the file.

I'm at a loss as to how to make the change stick without having to pcmanfm or chmod it at every startup.
ANY IDEAS
thanks