Things That Won't Run in -Current (21 April 2015).

Poprocks · 06-11-2015, 02:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cwizardone

@Poprocks,
I've had a similar problem since the 21 April updates.
It doesn't matter if the media is in an external drive or in one of the 3 CD/DVD drives in this box, some are read and some are not. In one case the CD is seen, but the only option is to copy it, that is, I can't view the contents with a file manager.
And, as said before, the same CD/DVDs I've had trouble with in Slackware64 since 21 April, read perfectly, using the same hardware, when viewed via winXp or PC-BSD.

Interesting. I haven't had problems with CD/DVDs as yet, but I haven't tried much.

ReaperX7 · 06-11-2015, 03:14 PM

No problems here. Did you remove any packages cwizardone?

cwizardone · 06-11-2015, 06:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ReaperX7

No problems here. Did you remove any packages cwizardone?

No, and in an effort to accommodate PC-BSD's recent requirement that you use their "customized" version of GRUB, I've done several complete, from scratch, installations in recent weeks. The result, as far as the CD/DVD problem and Slackware64-current, hasn't changed.

As to PC-BSD, being forced to use GRUB is a deal breaker and I've gone back to PC-BSD-10.0.1, which gives you the option to use your own boot manager (in my case, LILO) and not install their boot manager (GRUB).
I did manage to learn GRUB-2 and successfully used it to dual boot Slackware64 and PC-BSD-10.1.2, but I just don't care for GRUB.

cwizardone · 06-16-2015, 11:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cwizardone

@Poprocks,
.....since the 21 April updates.
It doesn't matter if the media is in an external drive or in one of the 3 CD/DVD drives in this box, some are read and some are not. In one case the CD is seen, but the only option is to copy it, that is, I can't view the contents with a file manager.
And, as said before, the same CD/DVDs I've had trouble with in Slackware64 since 21 April, read perfectly, using the same hardware, when viewed via winXp or PC-BSD.

I was just monkeying around and put one of the CD/DVDs disks I haven't been able to access into one of the drives, manually mounted it, and as user was able to open the disk and browse it with a file manager.

So, to recap, as user I cannot access the CD/DVD, but once manually mounted by root, I, as user, can access it.
What would be the cause and solution?
Thanks.

willysr · 06-16-2015, 11:46 PM

which group are you?
if i'm not mistaken, you should be in plugdev group

Poprocks · 06-17-2015, 01:19 AM

I thought that group has been unnecessary for some time. But in any event, yes, I am a member of the plugdev group.

cwizardone · 06-17-2015, 10:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by willysr

which group are you?
if i'm not mistaken, you should be in plugdev group

Hi, Willysr!
Yes, my user name has been, since installation, in the plugdev and cdrom groups.

BratPit · 07-14-2015, 12:31 PM

Hi

Quote:

dhcpcd[6767]: eth0: reject NAK via 192.168.178.1

Seems dhcpcd client not working correctly with my Fritz router.
Revert back to previous one and is OK.

Regards

marrowsuck · 07-14-2015, 01:49 PM

Quote:

Seems dhcpcd client not working correctly with my Fritz router.
Revert back to previous one and is OK.

Does the router associate a fixed IP with the PC?
The router probably identifies the PC via its MAC-address and the version string from the dhcp client.
You can set a custom string in /etc/dhcpcd.conf with the vendorclassid option.

BratPit · 07-14-2015, 03:22 PM

Thanks for sugestion.

It was Fixed IP.

Unchecked "always assign same IP address" in the router and it assigns new IP.

kingbeowulf · 07-16-2015, 11:32 PM

Making dhclient the default in NetworkManager.conf will improve Slackware-current "Out-of-the-Box" experience.

Code:

# /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf
#
# See NetworkManager.conf(5) for more information on this file

[main]
plugins=keyfile
dhcp=dhclient

[keyfile]
hostname=yourhostname

I find that Networkmanager and dhcpd do not play well together. I've tested mostly on several Atheros wifi chipsets (ath9k) and Realtek gigibit LAN (r8169). For NetworkManager.conf the following does not work:
dhcpd=internal : fails to connect
dhcp=dhcpd : connect/disconnect loop

From some some comments here:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=743472
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/NetworkManager
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php..._with_dhclient

ReaperX7 · 07-17-2015, 03:10 AM

When I switched to OpenRC, I found NetworkManager didn't behave itself and dumped it for good ol' dhcpcd. Haven't tried wicd yet with OpenRC, but I might.

JackHair · 07-18-2015, 05:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ReaperX7

When I switched to OpenRC, I found NetworkManager didn't behave itself and dumped it for good ol' dhcpcd. Haven't tried wicd yet with OpenRC, but I might.

Using OpenRC and NetworkManager works fine here. I do need to use dhclient instead of dhcpcd though for it to work.

Paulo2 · 07-19-2015, 08:52 PM

Is there some issue with cups in -current (2.0.2 and 2.0.3) related to non-SSE2 CPU?
I installed -current from scratch (AlienBob iso) in a new partition and cups didn't start at boot
(with 'cups: unable to start scheduler.' message from rc.cups).
Then I logged in as root and ran 'lpstat' with 'Illegal instruction' as result.

Now I have two -currents in the same machine:
-One is my 'old' -current install (since 14.0) with cups from Slackware 14.1
(1.5.4, with this version I can print, but it seems that I cannot print remotely with Samba).
-And the new partition with -current from scratch.

In my 'old' -current:
I already ran 'slackpkg' to see if there is some package missing.
I already reinstall (upgradepkg --install-new --reinstall) all packages from the -current iso from AlienBob.
I already tried to build cups with sources from -current tree but it fails with this message

Code:

Generating localization strings...
/bin/sh: line 1: 10603 Instrução ilegal      ./genstrings > sample.c
make[1]: ** [genstrings] Erro 132
make: ** [all] Erro 1

'Instrução ilegal' means Illegal instruction in Portuguese.

Edit- right rc.cups message is 'cups: unable to start scheduler.' not 'cups: scheduler is not running.'

Add- the problem remains with huge kernel (I was using generic).