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Desktop instable

Geraldo — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 02:40:23 +0200

after upgrading a message saying "One More XML syntax errors were found while parsing the configuration files opembox. stdout see for more information. Was seen the last error in file" / home / tux / .config / opembox / menu.xml " line with a message excepted start tag, '<' not found.
what does that mean? a box appears with the message "error: unable to stablish connection with FAM - do you have" FAM "or" gamin 'installed and running?
the truth is that not open the pacmafm stable! I appreciate the help!

Fresh new receipt (and some issues about it, including translation): WbarConf

blconde — Wed, 12 May 2010 12:05:26 +0200

Here's my WbarConf receipt:

# SliTaz package receipt.

PACKAGE="wbarconf"
VERSION="0.7.2"
CATEGORY="system-tools"
SHORT_DESC="Configuration GUI for wbar written in Python and GTK"
MAINTAINER="blconde@zoho.com"
DEPENDS="wbar python pygtk pygobject"
BUILD_DEPENDS="wbar python-dev  pygtk-dev  pygobject-dev"
WEB_SITE="http://kapsi.fi/ighea/wbarconf/"
TARBALL="$PACKAGE-$VERSION.tar.gz"
WGET_URL="http://kapsi.fi/ighea/$PACKAGE/$TARBALL"

# Rules to configure and make the package.
compile_rules() {
	cd $PACKAGE
	sh ./install.sh /usr 
}
	
# Rules to gen a SliTaz package suitable for Tazpkg.
genpkg_rules()
{
	mkdir -p $fs/usr/bin
	cp -a $PACKAGE/wbarconf $fs/usr/bin
	mkdir -p $fs/usr/share/wbarconf
	cp -a $PACKAGE/README $fs/usr/share/wbarconf
	cp -a $PACKAGE/COPYING $fs/usr/share/wbarconf
	mkdir -p $fs/usr/share/locale
	cp -a $PACKAGE/locale/* $fs/usr/share/locale
	cp -a $PACKAGE/messages.pot $fs/usr/share/wbarconf
	cp -a $PACKAGE/wbarbacks $fs/usr/share/wbarconf
	mkdir -p $fs/usr/share/pixmaps
	cp -a $PACKAGE/wbarconf.png $fs/usr/share/pixmaps
	mkdir -p $fs/usr/share/applications
	cp -a $PACKAGE/wbarconf.desktop $fs/usr/share/applications
}

***

And here's the first issue:

WbarConf's install script "install.sh" brings two lines with the command "cp" and the prefix "-av":
- line 22

cp -av locale/* $startdir/share/locale/ || return 1

- line 27

cp -av wbarbacks $startdir/share/wbarconf/ || return 1

So it results these lines when I run the "tazwok cook wbarconf" (everything else seems fine):

cp: invalid option -- 'v'
BusyBox v1.12.0 (2010-03-12 18:25:03 CET) multi-call binary

Usage: cp [OPTION]... SOURCE DEST

Copy SOURCE to DEST, or multiple SOURCE(s) to DIRECTORY

Options:
        -a      Same as -dpR
        -d,-P   Preserve links
        -H,-L   Dereference all symlinks (default)
        -p      Preserve file attributes if possible
        -f      Force overwrite
        -i      Prompt before overwrite
        -R,-r   Recurse directories
        -l,-s   Create (sym)links

./install.sh: line 22:  return: not found
cp: invalid option -- 'v'
BusyBox v1.12.0 (2010-03-12 18:25:03 CET) multi-call binary

Usage: cp [OPTION]... SOURCE DEST

Copy SOURCE to DEST, or multiple SOURCE(s) to DIRECTORY

Options:
        -a      Same as -dpR
        -d,-P   Preserve links
        -H,-L   Dereference all symlinks (default)
        -p      Preserve file attributes if possible
        -f      Force overwrite
        -i      Prompt before overwrite
        -R,-r   Recurse directories
        -l,-s   Create (sym)links

./install.sh: line 27:  return: not found

Is it a BusyBox issue? Or is there an extra BusyBox module I should install to enable this "-av" prefix?

***

The second issue:

I also translated WbarConf for pt_BR, but only my local "/home/slitaz/wok/wbarconf/wbarconf/locale" folder and local /home/slitaz/packages/wbarconf-0.7.2.tazpkg have this translation, so is there a possibility to upload the already translated .tazpkg to Slitaz's repos?

Anyway, I'll try to get in touch with WbarConf developers to send my .po file for the next release (if any, because the develepment seems closed).

***

The final issue:

Slitaz's repo "gettext" package should bring the "acl" package as dependency, that's the only way I can run the "msgfmt" properly (I got this hint from http://forum.slitaz.org/index.php/discussion/comment/2702/#Comment_2702).

Att.,

BC

mysql error help to start

ostinmartin — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 16:08:52 +0200

Hi

I've install apache, php-apache, php , php-mysql, mysql packeges
I've made php and apache running but mysql don't want to start anyway.

What is the start commad should be?

Network-Monitor does not automatically display active interface

ms3811 — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 10:12:05 +0200

This issue has probably been raised a few times before in this forum, but I couldn't really find a solution anywhere. Is this a known issue, or am I the only one facing this. I have atleast 4 laptops running Slitaz, and this issue is consistent across all of them. To elucidate the problem, Network-Monitor applet in the task bar displays 'Unknown' for the active connection by default. When any interface establishes connection, the applet still continues to display 'Unknown' with little red cross. You have to manually click on the applet, then switch the active to connection to eth1 or ppp0 of whatever is presently connected to get it display properly.

Switching from xorg to xvesa

eggbert — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 22:31:24 +0200

I have made a customized slitaz build from the slitaz3 cooking iso, which I would like to work on as many computers as possible. I seem to be having a lot of problems with video, i.e. only getting as far as the login screen, and it seems from the xorg/xvesa guide that it would be best to use xvesa. The guide suggests using the xvesa iso, the problem is I don't want to have to go back and redo the whole thing from scratch, so is there any way of changing to xvesa in my build? Is it as simple as just removing the xorg meta package?

passwrd recovery

Wolfie63 — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 09:11:11 +0200

new to the forum and used ophcrack for win 7 to recover pswrd due to malicious user name pswrd change. ophcrack shows i have no pswrds but when i try all the usernames and just hit enter i get no entry. I'm somewhat of a novice but would appreciate someone expertise on my options. Thanks in advance!

script transmission

Javi — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 17:59:20 +0200

Hello friends, I've ridden it a download server with an old pc (download legal things clear, and I have in / etc / init.d / a bash "transmission.sh" which contains the following

#! / Bin / sh

echo "running transmission ..."

transmission-daemon -p 9091 -a * -t -u hello -v hello -w /media/hdd01

Well, when I start the pc, I see that you run the bash, but something I'm doing wrong, because the initial, I skip the aid of transmission-daemon, as if not swallow the variables, if you copy it and stick it in a terminal and execute it on my own it works, I have something wrong, something has to be quoted or something.

Sorry for my bad english

Greetings

Bundle files

bjct — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 14:35:13 +0200

Hello

How to install bundle package ?

When i execute bindle file, i have this error :

"env: bash: aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type"

thank

how to change the screen resolution

longshot — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:00:02 +0200

Have just started using Slitaz and i really like it. The only problems i have are:

a) How do i change the screen resolution
b) How do i play cd's and watch video's

Hope someone can help me. Thanks all

Adobe Air on Slitaz - how?

Juspur — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 23:19:25 +0200

.Howdy - I'm a newbie, happy with Slitaz, BUT:
-I really need to be able to install Adobe AIR.
When trying to install the AdobeAIRInstaller.bin, the installer returns with a message, stating that
gnome-keyring or kwallet needs to be installed, before the Adobe AIR-thing.

I've tried to install the AdobeAIRInstaller.exe with WINE without success.

Any suggestions/workarounds? I deeply need it, 'cause Adobe AIR is the installer for WIMP, a great 's
streaming service up here i scandinavia.

I appreciate your efforts -and hope a solution is around the corner.

Have a nice day :-)

another guy with sound issues

gav989 — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:56:47 +0200

hi,

sorry to plague the forum with my problems but as far as i can tell this is the last one

last night i had sound working and this morning i can't get anything. i had sound through vlc and youtube but now nothing. to my knowledge all i've done is fiddle (unsuccessfully) with dropbox since then, but i don't see how that could affect it

i've repacked my linux-sound using the package manager and i've added my user to the 'sound' group so my /etc/group file looks like this:

root:x:0:
lp:x:10:
audio:x:20:gav
nogroup:x:99:
www:x:80:
messagebus:x:25:
cdrom:x:1:
dialout:x:2:
disk:x:3:
floppy:x:4:
kmem:x:5:
tape:x:6:
tty:x:7:
video:x:8:
haldaemon:x:26:
gav:x:1000:
sound:x:9:gav

(my username is 'gav'). i've also done a full update using the package manager

and i still have the problem. is there anythinge else i can try?

shell history

XavierJ — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 11:46:23 +0200

Hello guys,

I've lost my shell commands history on my user account.
It still works on the root account.

I noticed that the file .ash_history was in the root home and not in the user home, so I created it with my user account but it still don't work.

Any suggestions ?

man ftp but no ftp

Digit — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:08:54 +0200

i was planning on using ftp to upload a large file to my site, but when trying "ftp", it tells me command not found.

man ftp works fine tho. :/

is ftp just hiding somewhere not in $PATH?

i have little success with gftp nor filezilla,
what other ftp options are there?

i tried lftp, but then it goes n wants retawk... n i still dont see how to simply upload a file.

what do u guys use for ftp uploads in slitaz?

Can't get Tazlito to make a bootable ISO

Dragynn — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:58:30 +0200

Hi all, i'm new to SliTaz and Linux in general, so first off let me thank the developers of SliTaz, this is the best small version of Linux that i've found in a lot of ways. The 3.0 xvesa boots right up on an ancient Gateway laptop PIII and runs fast and light. I want to keep it light, so Xvesa stays my flavor, removing a few packages that I don't need as well, and adding gphoto2 and dependents to support my digital camera.

My problem is that I can't make my own flavor ISO that will work for some reason, i've tried all methods that Tazlito offers, and it creates and burns a CD, but the CD will not boot up the very laptop I used to create it. Neither "writeiso" nor "liveflavor" will generate an ISO that works, nor will TazUsb box make a usb version that will boot.

Any tips or areas to check would be appreciated, if there's any additional info I need to post please let me know.

Thanks again!
Dragynn

tazbb server acting weird

godane — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 02:46:23 +0200

I tried updated some packages today. I updated pixman today to 1.18.4. It build fine in my chroot. i used this guide:
http://doc.slitaz.org/en:guides:chroot . I used the scripts to build my chroot. pixman only need perl in my chroot to compile fine. But on tazbb server it needs glib-dev package for some release. Also other packages that build fine in my chroot don't build on tazbb server. Can anyone tell me what's wrong with it?

Radio blues ...

Darjeeling — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 16:53:26 +0200

I've got a nice collection of radio stations that I regularly listen to. In the bad old Windows days I used XMplay, which is an excellent audio player. Later, with Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora I used Streamtuner and Radio Tray. And now with SliTaz I am using Moc and Orpheus, each for different kinds of stream protocols and encodings. But what I'm really looking for is THE ONE radio/audio player that can deal with all radio stations. Mplayer is great because it plays practically every stream URL one throws at it from the command line. But who wants to type (or paste) a URL to change a radio station? Orpheus works as a front end to Mplayer but strangely, it has difficulties with with some streams. It is also quite uncomfortable to use as it only lists stream URLs instead of station names. Moc is a very comfortable and powerful player but it cannot deal with certain types of streams (mms, rtsp) ...

... maybe one of you has found the ideal (console-) radio player that 'does it all' and isn't too large?

Can't set system's time

mek8630 — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:16:23 +0200

Well for some reason when I try to sync the system's time online it won't. I think it's because it's set to the wrong time-zone. Well when I try to change the time-zone it won't do that either. I am not sure how to do it or what I am doing wrong IF I am doing anything wrong. I know that I get error codes when trying to launch certain programs saying that something is wrong with my locales, I can't remember if it says they aren't configured correctly or what, but I don't know how to configure my locales.

Boot Time Splash Screens

Thierry — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:35:59 +0200

Hi,

Running my first Slitaz install for a week,
I just say : Great !

To finish the job I started, I need few more functionalities :

1) Boot Time Splash Screen
Can we implement that with the 3.0 distro ?
I can't find anything on this ( except for Live-Cd ).

2) I have been able to make a nice desktop environment with JWM,
and it covers 99% of the needs, but :

- I need to get rid of the pop window menu ( right click on the top of a window )
which is in English and almost not understandable for the purpose of this install.
Any clue on this one ?

- When doing a desktopbox logout, jwm pop up a dialog "Asking for confirmation"
It 's also in English and we don't need this extra-dialog.
How can I change one of this option ?

3) the worse in my case. I've choosen pcmanfm as a file manager because it's simple and
elegant and didn't find simpler ( is there some others ? ).
The problem, is that the menus and options are much too complicated again
for the specific purposes I have. Is there something somewhere for pcmanfm
to behaves differently ( suppression of some menus-options should be the first need )

4) I think I've found 2 bugs in Slitaz , but for sure I'm not sure at all if it's not me :)
So, what ( and where ) I have to do to inform about this ?

Humm, was long :)

Regards,
Thierry

pseudo-beginner.. 1st install Slitaz successful !

Thierry — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:20:15 +0200

Hi,

Yesterday, had the pleasure to make slitaz worked.

However, at boot time, i have a message that UDEV Failed !

So, what can I do for that, and what does this imply in the use
of slitaz ?

Please, be kind with me, I'm a starter :)

Regards,
Thierry

Atheros AR2425 dhcp issues [SOLVED]

ms3811 — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:55:29 +0200

My Dell laptop has a Atheros 2425 chipset wireless card. Slitaz automatically detected and installed the driver for it (ath5k), but I cannot seem to get it to connect to the wireless router. Udhcpc simply keeps sending discovers with no luck. I read in many places that there is an issue with this card with most Linux kernels. There appears to be a solution (http://madberry.org/2008/08/how-to-get-atheros-ar242x-wireless-to-work-2/), but that requires compiling the driver (not too comfortable with that).

Does anyone know of another solution to this issue?

Ps: The router is configured for WPA2-Personal.

lspci | grep Atheros returns:

0c:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)

dmesg | grep Atheros returns:

ath5k phy0: Atheros AR2425 chip found (MAC: 0xe2, PHY: 0x70)
Atheros(R) AR8121/AR8113/AR8114/AR8131/AR8132 PCI-E Ethernet Network Driver - version 1.0.0.11-test
Copyright (c) 2007 - 2009 Atheros Corporation.
ath5k phy1: Atheros AR2425 chip found (MAC: 0xe2, PHY: 0x70)

Need help installing linksys wireless laptop card

cmoney — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:01:42 +0200

lspci shows:
Ethernet controller: linksys, a division of Cisco Systems [AirConn] INPROCOMM IPN 2220 Wireless LAN Adapter (rev 01)

I realized I needed to find windows drivers, so I downloaded them, then I spent forever trying to get tazndis installed. I assume its installed correctly because there is now an option under system tools that says "Manage Windows Drivers"

I opened that up found the driver and clicked install. It now says "neti2220 driver installed: device(17FE:2220) present" at the bottom it says "Ndiswrapper kernel module (unloaded)" I am not sure if this is important

Now being all excited that my driver seems to be installed I went into the wireless settings but it still isnt picking up any networks.

I was reading around and I noticed the results of the command ifconfig -a are often requested.
I put this in and the only connections I have are dummy0 and lo. there is no wlan0

what is going on here?

New to this distro, will it work with....?

sdad — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 18:03:41 +0200

2 things: I want to host virtualbox, appears that there is a download for that.

I need to run run fiber channel, qla2xxx support needed. I believe that is supported in kernel 2.6.??, but I didn't find what kernel this distro is around.

application persistence

buddy — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 18:11:32 +0200

First, this distro is simply, unequivocally, terrific!

Second, I've used unetbootin to install slitaz 3.0 on a usb. The base installation works. But, when I install lighttpd, mysql and php, although files appear in /etc, and such, when I reboot, the installed apps are gone!

What am I doing wrong?

UPDATE: Duh -- figured it out. Unetbootin, huh? Used TazUSB gui tool in System Tools, then installed apps, then TazUSB writefs gzip, and glorioskie!!

Sweet! Thanks to the community for all this work.

Thanks

abiword dictionaries

trvl — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:52:13 +0200

Hello
I use Slitaz on my Asus Eee.
I just installed Abiword, and am wondering if it is possible to install non-english dictionaries, such as Danish?

Thank you

Opera 10.60 and urlfiltrer.ini

Aarn — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:19:39 +0200

Hello,

I'm trying to filter some web site with urlfilter.ini.

I create /home/tux/.opera/urlfilter.ini with :

[prefs]
prioritize excludelist=0

[include]
http://???.opera.com/*

[exclude]
*

in ~/.opera/operaprefs.ini :

[Network]
URL Filter File=$OPERA_PERSONALDIR/urlfilter.ini

but i can always surf all around the web !

Someone did try to use urlfilter.ini with Opera 10 and slitaz 3.0 ?

Thanks for help

Can't make work nVidia Riva TNT2 64 driver.

Miguindi — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 05:08:35 +0200

Hi,
I've an old Pentium III 256 mb ram and nVidia Riva TNT2 64.

I have installed the 3.0 stable and everything runs fine except the graphics card with only work without acceleration and low resolution.

Y have downloaded and compiled from the official nVidia page, the latest driver "NVIDIA-Linux-x86-71.86.14-pkg1.run" with the SliTaz sources following the instructions en your guide "http://doc.slitaz.org/en:guides:nvidia?s[]=nvidia", but no way to start it.

I'm, quite new in linux so my knowledge is not so deep, but I'm ready to follow all the instructions/suggestions to arrange this.

Please, anybody who can helpme, let me know which log files or info you need to help me with my problem.

Thank you very much in advance.

Ar8132 driver for acer aspire one D250

deadwait — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:46:56 +0100

hi guys,
just brought a new acer aspire one D250, which on winxp when i check shows the driver to be atheros ar8132 driver,
i could have sworn once i finished installing slitaz and did a ifconfig i saw eth0 available, after which the laptop hanged, which is something i have never seen in slitaz, now after that the laptop refuses to show a eth0, i checked on the net and tried options of modprobing atl1c and atl1e but even after that ifconfig eth0 up doesnt work,
how do i get this network card to get working on slitaz.
any other acer aspire one users here on the forum?

Are there more repositories to add?

name_unavailable — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:36:34 +0200

I was playing with package manager and was curious whether there's any other repos for slitaz out there?

How do I install ATI Radeon 7500 driver?

name_unavailable — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:12:42 +0200

The option in Control Box ends with no supported hardware found and segmentation fault

how to frugal/manual install slitaz (revision 2.0)

tikbalang — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:51:10 +0100

taken from puppy forums:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=16954


a full, complete install copies each uncompressed file that is in the Puppy operating system's file system to a dedicated partition ... so there will be the directories /bin, /dev, /etc. /lib, /mnt, /proc, /root, /sbin, /var etc etc etc on the partition, each filled with hundreds of files 

a frugal (or poor man's) install just copies the files on the CD to the hard drive ... a boot loader program can boot Puppy from those files exactly the same as if you boot from the CD 

so a frugal install is not a complete install, where a dedicated partition is created and the files in the Puppy file system are copied to the dedicated partition ... for a frugal install, the 3 or 4 files on the CD are copied to the hard drive and they are booted from the hard drive exactly the same way they would have been booted from the CD 

that is, a frugal install is just like booting from the CD disc, except you don't need the cd disc or drive 

so with a frugal install are 1) you don't need the cd and 2) the hard drive is faster and quieter than the cd drive ... and there are other advantages to a frugal install

this is the same method employed by Tazusb LiveUSB tool, using syslinux as boot loader. i will discuss installing Slitaz 2.0 to a FAT32 disk which will appeal more to linux noobs and dos/win users. this revision solves /home/tux problems.

caveats:

- there will be permission warnings which is a limitation of the fat32 filesystem. these can be ignored, or in some cases, root login may be needed.

- slitaz files can not be organized into one subfolder (more clutter at root of disk).

credits:

slicel - for pointing out the problem with "home="

lmart - beta tester