Vectorlinux7 RC3.4 bug reports and comments

[Colonel Panic]

Hi. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but it doesn't, unfortunately. I changed to "uk" and still ended up with the same (wrong) keystrokes that I had before.

colonel panic ok thanks for testing our first two efforts please try number three.................
download and install this package: http://vectorlinux.osuosl.org/vec7/vlkbdset-0.1-noarch-vl70.txz
then run vasm and let us know if any success or failure.
Fingers crossed!!

Cheers,
Vec

Hi. I've tried it again, but sadly with the same result; the keyboard won't change over from the US one.

- CP .

[pierce.jason]

Did you log out of X or restart the computer after the change? I don't believe it is expected to make the change "live".

Also, can you please confirm that you're using RC3.4 here and not an older one? Xorg had problems with this in some older releases. `cat /etc/vector-version`

[Colonel Panic]

Thanks for replying.

Did you log out of X or restart the computer after the change?

Yes I did, twice (three times if you count today).

And still the problem remains, unfortunately. On holding down the shift key and typing across the top from left to right, I get the following;

~!@#$%^

 I don't believe it is expected to make the change "live".

True.

Also, can you please confirm that you're using RC3.4 here and not an older one? Xorg had problems with this in some older releases. `cat /etc/vector-version`

Yep, I did that and got this;

7.0 STD RC3.4 built on OCT-01-2001

So it is the current one.

Best,

CP .

[uelsk8s]

Colonel Panic,

can you install this pkg: http://vectorlinux.osuosl.org/Uelsk8s/vlkbdset-0.1-noarch-2vl70.txz
It should let you set the keymap so that it works in terminal and X upon reboot. let us know if it works for you.

Thanks,
Uelsk8s

[Colonel Panic]

Thanks. Yes, I'll try that - 'twill have to be tomorrow though as it's very late here in the UK now.

Thanks again for your trouble,

CP .

[uelsk8s]

Thanks. Yes, I'll try that - 'twill have to be tomorrow though as it's very late here in the UK now.

Thanks again for your trouble,

CP .

This maybe a dumb question, but I really dont know. Is there a difference between the gb and uk keymaps?

[Pita]

Thanks. Yes, I'll try that - 'twill have to be tomorrow though as it's very late here in the UK now.

Thanks again for your trouble,

CP .

This maybe a dumb question, but I really dont know. Is there a difference between the gb and uk keymaps?

Well according to setxkbmap there is no such thing as uk map, however, there is a gb map.

[Pita]

Why is "at" not anymore included in the services of VectorLinux? One has to copy it first from /etc/rc.d/init.d/sample to ../init.d. Then run services. Is it that no one is using "at" anymore? I use it all the time. It's fast and easy. Other distros have it still as a standard.

[Colonel Panic]

Colonel Panic,

can you install this pkg: http://vectorlinux.osuosl.org/Uelsk8s/vlkbdset-0.1-noarch-2vl70.txz
It should let you set the keymap so that it works in terminal and X upon reboot. let us know if it works for you.

Thanks,
Uelsk8s

Hi,

I installed the new package today. Still isn't happening I'm afraid;

~!@#$%^&

Wish I could say otherwise.

Thanks anyway,

CP .

[pierce.jason]

I installed the new package today. Still isn't happening I'm afraid;

Check your ~/.bash_profile for anything like "setxkbmap". Also make sure your ~/.Xmodmap file is empty.

I discovered just today that my .bash_profile had a line put in it by the installer that was preventing keyboard setting from working as expected.

[Colonel Panic]

Thanks for your advice. I'm in Vector 6.0 KDE Classic (still a good distro) at the moment but will try that the next time I'm in 7.0.

Best,

CP .

[retired1af]

Flawless installation. Didn't even have to pause the boot at GRUB to add rootdelay=10 which I thought was rather sweet.

One issue found so far, and that's the lack of .fdi files for policies. Wanted to set things up to disable my touchpad, but the required policy file is non-existent with this version. >.<

Will play around some more with it. So far, liking what I see. Very polished and looking GOOD!

[retired1af]

Looking at vcpufreq. powernow-K8 is still standard. K10 should be included for the newer CPUs.

[retired1af]

Installed it on my Samsung N110 netbook.
Installation went without problems. Everything is working out of the box ( wireless, touchpad,..)
Using VL Quickpicks makes it very easy to install frequently used programs.
The only bug i'm having at the moment is when I try to set up screensaver. Xscreensaver is saying the deamon is not running and when clicking ok to activate, I get the following error :

Code:

The xscreensaver daemon did not start up properly.Please check your $PATH and permissions.

That's all for now.

greets

nicdm

Got the same thing on my Toshiba notebook.

[retired1af]

What is debug (/var/log/debug) used for and why is it getting larger every second?

File is at 4.5MB and climbing. Here's a sample of what it's filling with.

Oct 19 21:28:37 Bodacious kernel: [12470.588424] <3>07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07  ................
Oct 19 21:28:37 Bodacious kernel: [12470.638759] <3>1f 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07  ................
Oct 19 21:28:37 Bodacious kernel: [12470.638763] <3>07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07  ................
Oct 19 21:28:37 Bodacious kernel: [12470.638766] <3>07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07  ................
Oct 19 21:28:37 Bodacious kernel: [12470.638769] <3>07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07  ................
Oct 19 21:28:37 Bodacious kernel: [12470.638772] <3>07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07  ................
Oct 19 21:28:37 Bodacious kernel: [12470.638775] <3>07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07  ................
Oct 19 21:28:37 Bodacious kernel: [12470.638778] <3>07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07  ................
Oct 19 21:28:37 Bodacious kernel: [12470.638781] <3>07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07  ................

Edit.. Some more clues in the debug file...

Code:

root:# cat debug | more
Oct 19 18:01:08 Bodacious kernel: [    6.242816] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
Oct 19 18:01:08 Bodacious kernel: [    6.345128] sr 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
Oct 19 18:01:08 Bodacious kernel: [    8.207581] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
Oct 19 18:01:08 Bodacious kernel: [   13.684745] sky2 0000:04:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
Oct 19 18:01:08 Bodacious kernel: [   13.684892] sky2 0000:04:00.0: irq 44 for MSI/MSI-X
Oct 19 18:01:08 Bodacious kernel: [   14.180411] ACPI: acpi_idle registered with cpuidle
Oct 19 18:01:08 Bodacious kernel: [   14.329882] Registered led device: mmc0::
Oct 19 18:01:08 Bodacious kernel: [   14.726290] ath5k 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
Oct 19 18:01:08 Bodacious kernel: [   14.804906] HDA Intel 0000:01:05.2: irq 45 for MSI/MSI-X
Oct 19 18:01:08 Bodacious kernel: [   14.868788] checking generic (f0000000 1000000) vs hw (f0000000 8000000)
Oct 19 18:01:08 Bodacious kernel: [   15.226898] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x65
Oct 19 18:01:08 Bodacious kernel: [   15.226901] ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map
Oct 19 18:01:08 Bodacious kernel: [   15.226906] ath: Country alpha2 being used: 00
Oct 19 18:01:08 Bodacious kernel: [   15.226908] ath: Regpair used: 0x65
Oct 19 18:01:08 Bodacious kernel: [   15.227055] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel_ht'
Oct 19 18:01:08 Bodacious kernel: [   15.500635] <3>1f 07 07 07 07 07 0f 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 0f 07  ............
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Oct 19 18:01:08 Bodacious kernel: [   15.500638] <3>07 07 07 0f 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07  ............
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Oct 19 18:01:08 Bodacious kernel: [   15.500641] <3>07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 0f 07 07 07 07 07 07 07  ............
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Oct 19 18:01:08 Bodacious kernel: [   15.500643] <3>07 07 07 07 07 0f 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 0f 07 07  ............

Code:

Oct 19 18:01:20 Bodacious dhcpcd[2722]: eth0: using hwaddr 00:23:8b:7d:be:20
Oct 19 18:01:20 Bodacious dhcpcd[2722]: eth0: executing `/usr/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-run-hooks', reason PREINIT
Oct 19 18:01:20 Bodacious dhcpcd[2722]: eth0: executing `/usr/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-run-hooks', reason NOCARRIER
Oct 19 18:01:21 Bodacious dhcpcd[2722]: eth0: using hwaddr 00:23:8b:7d:be:20
Oct 19 18:01:21 Bodacious dhcpcd[2722]: eth0: executing `/usr/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-run-hooks', reason CARRIER
Oct 19 18:01:21 Bodacious dhcpcd[2722]: eth0: sending DISCOVER (xid 0x95c17e13), next in 3.50 seconds
Oct 19 18:01:21 Bodacious dhcpcd[2722]: eth0: sending REQUEST (xid 0x95c17e13), next in 4.56 seconds
Oct 19 18:01:21 Bodacious dhcpcd[2722]: eth0: sending ARP probe (1 of 3), next in 1.09 seconds
Oct 19 18:01:22 Bodacious dhcpcd[2722]: eth0: sending ARP probe (2 of 3), next in 1.15 seconds
Oct 19 18:01:23 Bodacious kernel: [   36.759689] <3>1f 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07  ............
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Oct 19 18:01:23 Bodacious kernel: [   36.759692] <3>07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07  ............
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Oct 19 18:01:23 Bodacious kernel: [   36.759696] <3>07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07  ............
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Code:

Oct 19 18:01:23 Bodacious dhcpcd[2722]: eth0: sending ARP probe (3 of 3), next in 2.00 seconds
Oct 19 18:01:25 Bodacious dhcpcd[2722]: eth0: adding IP address 192.168.1.16/24
Oct 19 18:01:25 Bodacious dhcpcd[2722]: eth0: adding route to 192.168.1.0/24
Oct 19 18:01:25 Bodacious dhcpcd[2722]: eth0: adding default route via 192.168.1.1
Oct 19 18:01:25 Bodacious dhcpcd[2722]: eth0: writing lease `/var/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-eth0.lease'
Oct 19 18:01:25 Bodacious dhcpcd[2722]: eth0: executing `/usr/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-run-hooks', reason BOUND
Oct 19 18:01:25 Bodacious dhcpcd[2722]: forking to background
Oct 19 18:01:25 Bodacious dhcpcd[2916]: eth0: sending ARP announce (1 of 2), next in 2.00 seconds
Oct 19 18:01:27 Bodacious dhcpcd[2916]: eth0: sending ARP announce (2 of 2)
Oct 19 18:01:33 Bodacious kernel: [   47.146786] <3>1f 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07  ............
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Oct 19 18:01:33 Bodacious kernel: [   47.146789] <3>07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07  ............
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Oct 19 18:01:33 Bodacious kernel: [   47.146792] <3>07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07  ............
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