slackware 15 issues
I was very pleased to read Pat's announcement about the most recent distribution being finally slackware 15! However: I followed the upgrade directions and got a kernel panic when I rebooted. Hmm. Okay, I was able to save some crucial files and did a clean installation which boots, but only from the thumb drive that I made during installation. The real issue(s) that I'm having is about permissions. It looks like root owns everything! I have, by trial and error, changed ownership and group on a bunch of files and I have got the system to a more or less usable condition. The remaining problem is that I can't get sound to work. I think pulse audio is in charge now and I can't get it to work.
I know that this sounds like I'm a newbe but I have used Slackware for a long time and I have never run into anything like this. Any help would be appreciated. Jwc |
What are the permissions on your home directory? And .config? Pulseaudio writes to .config/pulse and if those directories are owned by root it won't be able to write to them and it will fail. Other programs would fail too though.
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Thanks, I changed a few more permissions and I got at least one on-line program to produce sound. Onward and upward! However I would like to know if anyone else is having permission issues with this software.
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slackware 15 issues
No. You must have done something wrong.
At this point you're probably best off wiping it and doing a clean install. IMO, there have been too many "structural" changes between 14.2 and 15.0 to make upgrading a viable option. |
After I tried the upgrade process and got a kernel panic on booting I have done a clean install. What I have now is a system that looks like it is meant to be run by 'root'. I'm in the process of making it more usable now.
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It's been a loooong time since I posted here, but Slackware 15 is out, and I want to share some of my experiences (and hassles). I had no problems with the installation per se, but I have a heavily modified system, I leave out a lot of packages, and compile a lot of my own. Most of the packages I run on 14.2 will compile on 15.0, but there are a few that will not, and I won't be able to cut over from 14.2 until they are resolved. I at present have 15.0 installed on a Lenovo Thinkpad, Kaby Lake generation. I'm running my own compiled kernel-5.15.19.
The following packages will compile on 15.0, some need a little arm twisting: apulse, avidemux, faad2, file-roller, geany, jack2, jack-rack, kdiff3, ladspa_sdk, lame, libass, libdvdcss, libisofs, liblo, mjpegtools, mplayer, mpv, qjackctl, smplayer, swh-plugins, sylpheed, timemachine, viewnior, xsane, and zvbi. I have been unable to compile the following: caps_0.9.7 (a ladspa plugin suite for guitar), dvdbackup-0.4.2 (makes backups of dvd's), qpdfview-0.4.18 (pdf viewer), xfburn-0.5.5 (dvd burner from XFCE), and xforms-1.2.4 (a form builder). Mostly errors about .la files not being found in /usr/lib64. And then wine. I need the multilib version to run Windows 98 era apps. I'm presently running wine-4.0 on my 14.2 system, but it will not compile on 15.0, wine-7.0 will compile, but one of my apps won't run, wine 6.0 will compile and run all my apps, but the startup is very slow due to not finding rpcss. But I can take the wine-4.0 package that I compiled on 14.2, and it runs fine on 15.0, it's quick and everything works, just not a good long-term solution. The login is a hassle cause I get the long timeout, something not configured right and I haven't figured out what yet. Also, the desktop icon doesn't come up when I mount a USB stick, I can issue the mount command manually but it's a hassle. Polkit/udev/udisks tangle, probably, somewhere. All in all it works pretty well, but I need to get the remaining issues resolved before I cut over for good. |
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https://github.com/Kron4ek/Conty It's a self-contained binary, which has all of the required libraries built in. You can use this on a Slackware64 system without multi-lib and it will allow you to run 32 bit Windows apps and games with wine. I see no difference in performance running (for example) Warcraft III with this rather than a version of wine I compiled myself... but that's on a 9th Gen i5. If your computer is older, you may not get the same result but it's probably still worth trying. It'll save you from having to use multi-lib and all of the headaches that brings, as well as compiling wine yourself, which can take ages on it's own. |
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Was consistently getting some init random message during timeout when kernel loading on bootup that's apparently tied to the machine's BIOS version :eek: Nope, not updating BIOS since still ZERO hangs on Slackware64 v14.2 or on amd64 distros based on Debian "bullseye" v11.x (kernels < 5.15.19) . . . |
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I also get the "random: udevd: uninitialized urandom read" message a few times at bootup, doesn't seem to cause any problems. |
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It's been nearly a year since I first posted about slackware15. I have been using it since then; some things work ok and others not. Like everyone else, I've had trouble getting chrome to work. The Slackbuild crashes and, while others have been able to work it out, I have not. Also some other strange things have happened, e. g., I downloaded slack15 from alien bob's site and installed it. Later, having no fun with firefox at all, I downloaded chromium from his site. It downloaded and is installed but it won't run; no error message, it just doesn't run. I've been using slackware since it's early days but I don't recall having this much trouble in the past. Any ideas?
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What's slack15 ? Do you mean an iso image ?
A link or name of the file would be useful. Same for Chrome / Chromium / de-googled Chromium. You'd better post a link. Isn't there a Chrome SlackBuild in extra ? Is that failing ? If yes, where ? |
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I downloaded and installed the slackware15 iso file from alien bob's web site. As far as I know that is the same iso file as found elsewhere. The chrome slackbuild has a glitch in it. There is a message someplace about how to deal with it but I couldn't find it when I tried to install chrome, so I have reluctantly been using firefox.
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Was it a -current iso ?
About chrome slackbuild, without the error do not expect any easy bought help... If I was dependent on chrome I would use Alien Bob's Chromium... |
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