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Bugs and Solutions
The following bugs have been fixed in SLAMPP 2.0.1. I keep and record all information mentioned here as archive. New bugs will be reported above this announcement.
Bug #1
On July 30, 2009, Mark G. has pointed two glitches on SLAMPP 2.0. Thank you for your information.
- It seems on few laptops or PCs, the numlock key is activated by default. It could bring a problem for those who have shared keyboard keys between regular keys and the numerical ones.
- rc.gpm file is missing in /etc/rc.d folder. It causes some applications that need GPM console mouse server stop running. FYI, Zenwalk has dropped this rc file for a while. But, this could lead to some issues for some of us.
Solutions: (August 3, 2009)
- I have made the existing rc.numlock file non-executable. So, it will not run automatically during startup.
- The rc.gpm file is included to fix the problem.
- Download the new rc.d_live.lzm file here, rc.d_live-1.lzm.
- Open existing slampp-2.0-zw.dvd.iso and mount it on new folder.
- Make a new folder: # mkdir /tmp/source
- Mount the iso: # mount -o loop /tmp/slampp-2.0-zw-dvd.iso /tmp/source
- Make another folder for remaster: # mkdir /tmp/remaster
- Copy all files from source to remaster: # cp --preserve -Rf /tmp/source/* /tmp/remaster
- Remove the old rc.d_live.lzm file in /tmp/remaster/slampp-2.0-zw/base/ and replace with the new file, rc.d_live-1.lzm.
- After that run in slampp-2.0-zw folder, ./make_iso.sh to build the new iso file.
- Don't forget to unmount the source folder: # umount /tmp/source
- Done.
Bug #2
On August 3, 2009, Clint Tinsley has shown me a bug in LILO installer application, LiloFix, which can stop LILO to be installed properly during live hard disk installation. It appears I had included a bad bitmap image for Lilo. You can find the corresponding image in the following directory, /usr/share/zenlive/revert2zw/boot on the Live DVD. There are two workarounds to quickly solve the problem.
- Replace the bad image with your own bitmap. It must be an 640X400 indexed image in 256 colors. Or,
- Comment out line 126 to 129 in /usr/sbin/lilofix. So the result will be like this. Don't forget to save the file. After fixing it, you can now install LILO. Just run LiloFix under System menu.
This fix will be included in the upcoming maintenance release.
Bug #3
August 16, 2009: System keeps mounting the partition unmounted through Gparted applications. Thus, it prevents Gparted to format or do any administrative work on that partition. The cause of problem is that Thunar always do automounting in default. To solve this bug, I follow the suggestion of Shador on Zenwalk Support Forum. Please copy paste the following script on your favorite editor, save and make it executable, and run it to have Gparted work properly.
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#!/bin/bash
# as suggested by Shador at Zenwalk Support Forum
# http://support.zenwalk.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=22179
THUNARRC="$HOME/.config/Thunar/thunarrc"
launch_gparted() {
gksu gparted
}
if grep -q "MiscVolumeManagement=FALSE" $THUNARRC; then
# automounter is yet disabled
launch_gparted & exit
else
sed -e 's/MiscVolumeManagement=TRUE/MiscVolumeManagement=FALSE/' -i $THUNARRC
launch_gparted
sed -e 's/MiscVolumeManagement=FALSE/MiscVolumeManagement=TRUE/' -i $THUNARRC
fi
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This bug will be fixed in the upcoming maintenance release.