Re: Bug Reports!

[drbongo]

Nimer has found a bug wuth the Cups Server system in Vinux 1.2, There
is no simple way to fix this at the moment but I will of course try to
get it working again for version 1.3 as long as I can identify what I
did that made it go wrong in the first place. I do not actually do
anything to the printer settings, but it is possible another setting I
changed disabled it or more likely something I removed to make space
on the CD broke it. If anyone has any ideas, or has not found this
problem please let me know.

drbongo

On 25 Dec 2008, 22:28, drbongo <tony.sa...@rncb.ac.uk> wrote:
> Please use this thread to report any problems you have or bugs you
> find in Vinux!

[drbongo]

Good news on the cups printing bug, I have just tested the original
hard-drive install of the pre-alpha vinux 1.3 and printing worked with
no problems. I also tested a remastered iso live cd version and that
worked too. This means that the cups server problem is just a
temporary glitch in 1.2 probably caused by me installing and/or
uninstalling something to the 1.1 version when making 1.2 - 1.3 is a
complete rebuild from the Original 8.10 and I have documented the
process in detail so I am fairly confident cups will be fine in 1.3.
Now I won't have a sleepless night! drbongo

[David Ring]

I downloaded and installed (and formated) Vinux 1.3 on my hard drive.

When I try to make config I get a Gnome Terminal with a blue rectangle
at the bottom - it says INS -batch on the left, and 1:1 altH=help
Em

I also entered "bash" in the terminal before writing this email, and I
get the same error.

I tried other files to compile and I get the same error!

What should I remove and reinstall? Bash?

Best

David

[Anthony Sales]

I have not experienced this myself, you are saying that when you open a
normal Gnome terminal in the X window you get a blue rectangle at the bottom.
Is this with the screen reader or magnifier working or both, and are you
typing any particular commands at the command line?

drbongo

[David Ring]

It is only when I run "make config" and it happens on every program
that I run make config.

Best

[Anthony Sales]

Could you provide me of an example of the exact commands you are typing and
which programs you are trying to configure so that I can test this out for
myself. I will also need to check this is not a bug which we have inherited
from Ubuntu 8.10. drbongo

[David Ring]

Hi Dr. Bongo,

It appears anytime I try to "make configure" a program.  I've wiped the latest version of Vinux from the hard drive, the penultimate version does NOT have this bug and programs compile nicely.

Good luck with the newest iso though.  I'll try the next version, but for now, I'm sticking with the older version.

I am trying INX on the hard drive now - and I'm installing emacspeak - INX is an Ubuntu version that runs in the CLI command line interface which is what I find is best for me.  I don't have to play "Click the Mouse on the Donkey" with a screen reader - everything is done by keyboard and I know where I am at every moment!

Best wishes,

David

[Anthony Sales]

Hi David, Which version of Vinux did this problem appear in 1.3? Because I
have changed the remaster process to allow a user to create their own
username and password and that could be the cause of the problem. If you let
me know which version it worked in I will check it out -again if you could
provide me with the name of a package you are trying to compile I might be
able to reproduce it and find a fix. By the way have you tried GRML, because
this is a text based distro with loads of useful applications and it has the
speakup compiled into the kernel so that if you type swspeak at the boot
prompt, and then again at the prompt after login you have full speech support
for all of the installed applications. If you are a more advanced user this
may suit you better, as Vinux is aimed at beginners I have not tested the
compilation tools as I thought it unlikely that any beginner would be trying
something like this. But thanks for the bug report, I will try to fix this
for the next release. drbongo

-----Original Message-----
From: vinux-de...@googlegroups.com on behalf of David Ring
Sent: Thu 26/02/2009 20:46
To: vinux-de...@googlegroups.com
Subject: [VINUX] Re: Bug Reports!

[David Ring]

This problem only happens with the latest version of Vinux,   I tried several programs - it happens with all of them.

I downloaded, checked against md5sum, verified the burn with the same md5sum.  My computer memory is ok as I've done a complete memory test over night.

Thanks,

David

[Labrador]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:44:43AM -0500, David Ring wrote:
>
> It is only when I run "make config" and it happens on every program
> that I run make config.

make config isn't a command to be used for compiling a program, in general
its:
./configure
make
and if no problem encountered, then make install

BTW, if you haven't added the right -dev packages it will output error
messages of course.

Labrad0r

[Anthony Sales]

It may also to do with the build-essentials package not being installed, but
it is strange that this worked in 1.2 but not 1.3 - the difference is that I
used the remastersys dist mode instead of the backup mode so that end users
could choose their own username and password during installation. So this
could be caused by using a different remastering mode. drbongo

-----Original Message-----
From: vinux-de...@googlegroups.com on behalf of Labrador
Sent: Thu 26/02/2009 23:34
To: vinux-de...@googlegroups.com
Subject: [VINUX] Re: Bug Reports!

[David Ring]

Hello Dr. Bongo,

Word reached me deep in the jungle by the coconut telegraph and I am happy that the drums are beating with information these days.

I hope the problem I described happens to you as well, does it?

Be well and keep the home fires burning!
DR

[Anthony Sales]

I am afraid that I haven't been able to reproduce it as yet, but I really
need to know exactly what commands you are typing in the terminal and which
programs you are trying to configure etc, to make any real progress. If you
have time please send me the exact commands, and which packages you are
trying to install or configure etc. This will help enormously.

drbongo

-----Original Message-----
From: vinux-de...@googlegroups.com on behalf of David Ring
Sent: Fri 27/02/2009 16:49
To: vinux-de...@googlegroups.com

[Labrador]

Sorry but IMHO make configure doesn't exist as command at all:

a normal compilation process includes:
unpacking the tarball
cd tarball-dir/ where you unpacked the tar
./configure
make
and if no erros after make, then make install

That's all.

If you explain which package you're trying to cimpile + provide us with the
INSTALL instructions, then you'll probably see that make configure probably
doesn't exist, in ten years I use Linux I'd never seen such a command but
hundred of times ./configure && make && make install

Labrad0r

--
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1 :
Micro$oft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace.
This is a bug, which Ubuntu is designed to fix !
http://www.ubuntu.com/

[drbongo]

I have just discovered a minor bug in the Lynx setup while testing the
textonly mode, in that if you launch it by typing just lynx at a
terminal it will give an error message as it is trying to look for a
local example page which I have removed. I had fixed this in 1.2 (I
think) but forgot to include it in 1.3 or 1.31. It just means if you
want to run lynx you must also type the URL you want to visit e.g.
lynx http://vinux.org.uk - sorry for any inconvenience caused. drbongo

[David Ring]

If you can't replicate the problem, it must have been a faulty install - remember I installed Vinux to my hard drive.

I used:

./configure
make install

I was trying to put in Voxin the IBM Text to Speach files.

I believe all and any of those commands got me to where I saw the text "fly" past the screen then the blue line at the bottom.  I tried it with other programs and got the same.  I don't have Voxin on the hard drive now as I had some work to do, so I put in Windows - I need the Adobe Illistrator and other programs to edit an art file.  Darned Adobe when you make a pdf file with Inkscape it knows that it is a non-Adobe file and refuses to open it - even thought pdf isn't "just" Adobe. 

If you get no problem with this, it was just a faulty install. 

DR

Best
DR