Slackware 14.0 RC1 Arrived: Send Your Bug Reports
 

Slackware 14.0 RC1 has been announced as of today by Pat and it contains a lot of bug fixes that comes from many reports from users since Beta release. Please test them and report it here if you find new or regressions after applying the update.

Here's the latest -Current ChangeLog

Great!
Ain't hit my mirrors yet tho.
BTW Willy, thanks for the slackbuilds.
I would have never got digikam working on -Current without them.

Yes, it just hit the primary mirror, so it takes time to propagate to other mirror site :)
glad the SlackBuild working. BTW, i have updated them to 2.8.0 just in case you are interested to build digiKam 2.8.0

Thanks!
I'll do it now. :)

Wow..massive cool update. Will wait a day for mirror syncing. 14 is almost upon us:)

Another quick update:

2.8.0 rolled off perfect!
Thanks again! :)

Thanks, Pat and the entire team for all the hard work to reach RC1. This is a great set of updates and I can't wait for the release of 14.0!

Besides two Xfce bugs (nothing Pat can do about that), everything's running smoothly. :)

Downloading now .. will shake the tree and see what falls out.

Does anyone know if pat + friends use any regression- or integration-tests for prospective releases? It'd be nice to have access to such.

Bug in ChangeLog.txt :-)

n/ModemManager-0.5.2.0-i486-1.txz

should be

n/ModemManager-0.5.2.0-i486-1.txz: Upgraded.

as in x86_64

I dont know if slackpkg works without "Upgraded" text.

Awesome!! Can't wait to try out 14 when it's released!!

btrfs-progs is still 16 month old :/ Really need this one updated to make btrfs usable in Slackware.

Many thanks to Pat and the entire Slackware team. Updating now. :)

Any chance of a bump for mpg123 to 1.14.4 before release, please? :)

-Current working good here except for thunar opened with “kdesu thunar” from mortal user account doesn’t have trash or network in KDE or XFCE.
If I log in to KDE or XFCE root session then everything works.
I Googled it and found several bug reports on thunar so I don't think it's a Slack problem.
However I'm very happy to now be able to access my samba servers via thunar from user accounts.
Things just keep getting better and better.
Thanks Slack crew!

Me neither. I'm ordering a virgin laptop for my university studies (READ: It has not had the cold,dead hand of Bill G. upon it), and it would be a great match for the release of Slackware 14.0.


GO SLACK!!!!!!

I get segmentation fault when I try to run slapt-get and clementine. Messages in dmesg:

WoW !!!

Almost there !!! :D

you have to rebuild slapt-get yourself from source: you will need also this patch from its git repository.
after patching, do a "make pkg" to build an installable/removable package.

Java
 

I though that openjdk would make its way in Slackware 14... It seems that I was wrong.

No worries though, as we can either build a package for the Oracle jdk or jre with the slackbuilds provided in /extre/source or use the openjdk packages or SlackBuilds provided by AlienBOB.

So far, so good, thanks to PV and the team.

After applying the updates to RC1...
I noticed that the output from the daily cron jobs was not mailed to root as I configured.

I removed the "1> /dev/null" from the line for daily cron jobs in /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root so that root would get a message.
And I configured sendmail to send root's mail to my account and I would usually get a message with:
This way I would know that the jobs ran.

However after the updates...
The log files do not appear to have been rotated and there are no messages from sendmail in /var/log/maillog

Messages from sendmail for the previous run before the updates.
Any ideas on what to check?
Thanks in advance...

Edit:
Removed the "1> /dev/null" for the hourly cron jobs.
Created an hourly cron job.

cat /etc/cron.hourly/hourlytouch
The file gets created but root does not receive an email message.

Is there any reason of having seperate seamonkey-solibs now that mozilla-nss, which includes nspr, was added?
IMO there isnt but someone else might have better insight than me.

edit: seperate js was added as well.
From the seamonkey-solibs slack-desc:
all of which are part of Slackware now.

edit2: that also means seamonkey doesnt need to mess with /etc/ld.so.conf anymore.

Also polkit seems to be present in both l/ and kde/ in 32bit.

There's a small bug in Slackware64's version of yptools. Utilities like 'ypinit' seem to look for their counterparts in '/usr/lib' and not in '/usr/lib64', which produces a series of 'command not found' errors.

It's easy to fix this bug with a quick & dirty workaround like this:

My two cents.

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I've been using AlienBob's KDE4.9 with current but would like to upgrade to the beta.

Is there anything in particular that I need to do or can I just do the normal update/install-new/upgrade-all procedure?

I notice the order of install went as follows:

ModemManager-0.5.2.0-x86_64-1.txz
aaa_base-14.0-x86_64-3.txz
analitza-4.8.5-x86_64-1.txz
ark-4.8.5-x86_64-1.txz
blackbox-0.70.1-x86_64-7.txz
blinken-4.8.5-x86_64-1.txz
boost-1.49.0-x86_64-3.txz
....

Was this intentional, I always though that aaa_... packages should be upgrade, installed first first and the reason they are start with aaa_.

These are precompiled binaries, so the order doesn't matter. ModemManager goes first because uppercase precede lowercase letters.

If you're already up-to-date with current and just applying the latest batch of updates that Pat has provided then there's usually nothing to worry about. If you're applying several batches at once because you've fallen behind, then order might be an issue. aaa_elflibs is the main one to watch out for as if you do it in the wrong order you,might actually downgrade some libraries. aaa_base is just a bunch of empty directories so there's not much scope for damage.

Can anyone reproduce the following Window Maker issue?

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WindowMaker issue:
Could not execute command: exec WPrefs

Reproducable on the following new full installs of 14RC1:
1. T60 laptop
2. VMware Wks 8 VM

Steps:

1. Launch WindowMaker :p
2. On blank part of the desktop, right click and select Configure Window Maker.

Result:

You should see an error window that says "Could not execute command: exec WPrefs"

It's as if the expectation is that WPrefs is in one of the paths.

Workaround for the current user:

1. Launch WPrefs from /usr/lib/GNUstep/Applications/WPrefs.app/WPrefs
2. Select Applications Menu Definition
3. Click on Configure Widnow Maker
4. Enter full path in Program to Run field

Yes, I've sent a patch to Pat which fixes this and the missing themes under the appearance menu.

Thunar issue:
No icons displayed in Windows Maker, Fluxbox, Blackbox, and TWM

Reproducable on clean full installs on:
1. T60 laptop
2. VMware Wks 8 VM

Steps:

1. Launch Thunar from any of the above

Result:
No folder icons

FWVM2 issue:
Crashes when attempting to start from startx

Reproducable on clean full installs on:
1. T60 laptop
2. VMware Wks 8 VM

Steps:

1. Run xwmconfig and select fvwm2
2. Run startx

Result:
Kicked back to console.

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Sweet. Thanks!

Create a file ~/.gtkrc-2.0 containing

You need a ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file to fix that.
In XFCE, xfsettingsd will set these values, if you're running thunar outside of XFCE then you need to set them yourself.


edit: Too slow, allend beat me to it. :)

Thanks for the info, all is groovy now :)

Can't reproduce that one. Works here.
Anything in your ~/.xsession-errors file to say why?

No worries on being slow, I am still appreciative :) Thanks!

Did spot an error in the fvwm .xintirc though:

edit: oops got that wrong. lets try again.

should be:

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Both xgames and xscreensaver install a /usr/man/man6/maze.6.gz

edit: Both quota and glibc install
/usr/include/rpcsvc/rquota.{h,x}

as well as this: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...6/#post4736243

Nope, no .xsession-errors file on this end. Just .xsession and .xsession-backup . I do see a xauth: message saying .serverauth.3797 does not exist in my home directory.


Running Tail -100 against /var/log/Xorg.0.log isn't telling me much either (may need to increase the number of lines?)

There is a typo in the new 20-plugdev-group-mount-override.pkla file. The line:

Result=Active=yes

should be:

ResultActive=yes

I've already emailed Pat about this.

Same as GazL for me.

@GazL - Nice catch on the .xinitrc. I see the same.

Hi,

in the installer if the group KDEI is deselected the following packages are still selected in the detailed menu mode

regards fl0

hey?
:)
Do please bump up that XFCE to 4.10 or at least to 4.8.x?
pretty please?

Huh? :)
XFCE 4.10 entered Slackware-current on July 22

And running great so far, with one exception...
:)

Figures :P Things work fine with fvwm2 on my Slackware 14 beta 1 vm (I have yet to snapshot it and then upgrade it). I'll see what happens after I update it.