VL7.1 STD feedback and suggestions.

[roarde]

I'm using Midori on RC2.1 32-bit. No real problems, just small annoyances.

Until, that is, I enable pretty much any add-on. They should rename each one "insta-crash" for this build. And that's a problem many distros are having.

[M0E-lnx]

Aparently, the edit menu crash only happens after you have opened a website.  I was trying it as soon as the app loaded, and in that test case it does not.  This is a known bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/midori/+bug/1303372 .  We'll have to wait for a patch or fix release.  Looks like every one is having this same problem with midori.

NOTE:  My last build does fix a minor annoyance where the tabs would have no close button and no favicon.  To see the fix on a current 7.1 installation follow this guide

Code:

slapt-get -u
slapt-get -i midori faenza-icon-theme mate-icon-them --reinstall

UPDATE:
Looks like there is already a fix, but they may not publish a patch.  Instead it's commited to the next milestone
https://bugs.launchpad.net/midori/+bug/1303372

[nightflier]

RC2.1 32-bit in VB VM: flash-player-properites segfaults when you click "playback" tab.

[roarde]

Duplicated nightflier's flash-player-properties playback tab segfault on real 32-bit hw, STD RC2.1 (incidentally with icewmvmods running, so assuming his was with xfce rules out the de).

[nightflier]

Thanks Roarde. Yes, my test was with xfce, no changes made after install.

[M0E-lnx]

MIDORI ISSUE UPDATE:

I have built a patched version of the midori 0.5.8 package for 7.1 (Thanks to Roarde for the patch).

My initial testing shows this fixes the crash on menu->edit.

Build link: http://vlcore.vectorlinux.com/buildbot/builders/midori/builds/5
The package will be in untested after the build completes

[nightflier]

Tested updated midori on 32-bit in vm. Works. Enabled some add-ons like flash and java, no problems. After I set the GTK theme to "mate" the UI displayed properly, fwiw.

[M0E-lnx]

Tested updated midori on 32-bit in vm. Works. Enabled some add-ons like flash and java, no problems. After I set the GTK theme to "mate" the UI displayed properly, fwiw.

If you sslapt-get -i --reinstall faenza-icon-theme it will display the icons without having to set the theme to mate

[caitlyn]

How are things progressing?  Is there an updated release candidate?  How close (or far) are we from a gold release?

[caitlyn]

I tried using VL 7.1 RC2 with an external USB Hebrew/English keyboard.  While I had no problem making VL work with Hebrew, I did have problems with typing in any language.  I got double and triple characters.  This is probably just a keyboard setting that can be adjusted but I've never seen this problem before.  I've used this hardware configuration with other distros and it just works.

[caitlyn]

Running

Code:

slapt-get --update
slapt-get --upgrade

on my netbook (32-bit VL 7.1) with the testing repository enabled I get the following errors:

Code:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  apr-util: Depends: apr >= 1.4.8-i586-1vl71
  mysql: Depends: zlib >= 1.2.8-i586-1vl71
  gnutls: Depends: zlib >= 1.2.8-i586-1vl71
  libimobiledevice: Depends: libplist >= 1.11-i586-1vl71
The following packages have been EXCLUDED:
  apr-util gambas2-runtime gnutls libgpod libimobiledevice usbmuxd

My exclude list in my slapt-getrc only includes kernel packages.

[roarde]

The missing dependencies are in the untested repo. Line for slapt-getrc:
#DISABLED=http://vlcore.vectorlinux.com/pkg/untested/veclinux-7.1/x86/
Edit: Slapt-getrc now ships with the line #SOURCE=http://vlcore.vectorlinux.com/pkg/ (so on). So to use it, it must be directly edited. Better idea than what I wrote and struck out, IMO.

Then this wouldn't apply to that either, but is left as a guide to adding new repos to slapt-getrc for normal use:
Of course, that adds it as disabled -- can be turned on/off by editing directly or by source selection in GSlapt. Looks like the testing repo isn't being used now on 7.1, and I think that plans are currently to abandon it. Not sure, and at this point subject to change anyway.

But having those packages moved from untested to extra without bringing all the deps along does point up a problem, especially when untested is regularly purged.

[vincent2]

 spent  afew  hours to download vl7.1 rc 2.2.3 64bit,install process went smoothly,

from runlevel 4  login menu , can't enter desktop at all always erros, prompting disk full, infact disk 's 90% vacant space.......
to enter desktop, has to type startx always.....
it's really buggy.

3G modem still doesn't work at all....

vl7.1 rc2.2.3 offers no improvement at all, .

pls offer 3G 4G modem support......

[vincent2]

vl7.1 rc 2.2.4 64bit,install process went smoothly,

from runlevel 4  login menu , still can't enter desktop at all always erros, prompting disk full, infact disk 's 90% vacant space.......

to enter desktop, has to type startx always.....

3G modem still doesn't work at all....

vl7.1 rc2.2.4 offers no improvement at all

hope more engineers in mobile internet provider companies can test vl7.1,offer better 3G support.

[vincent2]

in order to make 3G modem working with chestnutdialer  on vl7,1 rc2.2.4,
 
are  there any special dependent pkgs  need to be installed?

can anyone  give some hints on 3G modem @vl7.1 64bit?

while on slackware14.1 bit, 3G modem does work very well...can't figure out what pkgs and files vector 7.1 missed ?