topic title: A few minor issues
Posts: 1,308
BitJam
Joined: 31 Aug 2009
#1
I am very impressed by how stable and trouble free antiX-15 has been so far. BTW, the number of downloads per day has been
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at around 940. This includes downloads of md5 files (674) but they are canceled out by the bittorrent downloads (797) which aren't counted.

I have seen a few minor issues:
  1. The firmware for the Intel Wireless 7260 chipset was for older kernels. I needed to download the firrmware for 3.19+ kernels from
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    . I now have dual-band wireless plus bluetooth. There may be a similar problem with firmware for other Intel wireless chipsets.
  2. The directories /sbin and /usr/sbin don't get added to the PATH in .bashrc. This is due to a small bug. Change"&&" to"||" to make the line in .bashrc:

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    [ -z"${PATH##*/sbin*}" ] || PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin
  3. There is a funny bug in one (and AFAIK only one) geany call in /usr/local/bin/antixcc.sh, the control centre script. It is the"Edit Bootloader Menu" action in the Live tab. You can work around the bug by adding doublequotes to the action so it becomes:

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    <action>gksu"$EDITOR /live/boot-dev/boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg /live/boot-dev/boot/syslinux/gfxboot.cfg" &</action>
    I have no idea why they are needed here and not elsewhere. On my system, without this change I only got to edit gfxboot.cfg and not syslinux.cfg.
  4. This is not really a bug, just a slight annoyance. YMMV. I like my X11 terminals to scroll to the bottom when I hit a key so I can see what I'm typing. This is off by default on roxterm but can be enabled either via their preferences GUI or by adding the following line to the ~/.config/roxterm.sourceforge.net/Profiles/Default file:

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    scroll_on_keystroke=1
  5. The live-remaster-exclude.list does not correctly exclude the udev persistent-net.rules file. The line should be:

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    etc/udev/rules.d/*-persistent-net.rules
    This bug was already fixed in the default machine-state-files file. This bug made changing my wireless mini-card (after a remaster) a little interesting.
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Posts: 1,445
skidoo
Joined: 09 Feb 2012
#2
these files pathed in /usr/local/bin are not set executable:

/usr/local/bin/fancy-prompts.bash
/usr/local/bin/droopy
Posts: 1,028
SamK
Joined: 21 Aug 2011
#3
skidoo wrote:these files pathed in /usr/local/bin are not set executable:

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/usr/local/bin/droopy
ls -1lh /usr/local/bin/droopy*

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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  35K Jan 22  2014 /usr/local/bin/droopy
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6.3K Apr 25 11:06 /usr/local/bin/droopy.sh
In antiX, droopy is started from droopy.sh to pick up its configuration. The executable bit is not required on droopy.

If you want to run droopy directly and handle the configuration yourself, you can of course manually set it to be executable. Note in that case the Droopy video and Droopy FAQ will no longer apply.
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skidoo
Joined: 09 Feb 2012
#4
Thanks for explaining. (Really, thanks. I'm not being argumentative; I'm just trying to understand.) Still, it seem like an oddity to me.
Is this analagous to the approach of creating a wrapper for mumble?
If so, I would similarly question the advisability of disabling executable bit for mumble (just) because 1-to-1-voice exists on the system.
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SamK
Joined: 21 Aug 2011
#5
skidoo wrote:Is this analagous to the approach of creating a wrapper for mumble?
If so, I would similarly question the advisability of disabling executable bit for mumble (just) because 1-to-1-voice exists on the system.
No change was made to the executable status of Mumble by 1-to-1 Voice. It is installed directly from the Debian repo. You may be better served by raising your concerns there.
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skidoo
Joined: 09 Feb 2012
#6
isosnapshot bug:

If user has chosen a custom output directory,
then, on the following screen, clicks the"edit the configuration file" button (even just to review the file content, not actually performing an edit)...
the program discards/ignores the chosen output directory and, instead, writes to /home/snapshot/
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skidoo
Joined: 09 Feb 2012
#7
ControlCentre --} System --} Choose Startup Services

thought we covered this during betatesting but I can't find the post.
As evidenced here
antix-control-center-choose-startup-services-broken-t5823.html
the"odd" item (compared to other items, this requires root user password, user password for sudo not accepted) is a source of confusion.
Clicking opens a roxterm window, no explanation, prompting simply"Password:"
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should be revised to either accept user's paswowrd for sudo, or to at least prompt"enter password for the ROOT USER account"
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skidoo
Joined: 09 Feb 2012
#8
the keybind assignment files for jwm/icewm/fluxbox
all contain a"help" keybind pointing to a non-existent path:
file://usr/share/antix/help-docs/index.html
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skidoo
Joined: 09 Feb 2012
#9
bug exists in /sbin/localize-repo script

if UTC is selected as timezone via boot menu, during init an error message is displayed"localize-repo error... no code found for"
and content of /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list is changed to
deb http:///jessie jessie main nosystemd dev (path only, no hostname)
and multiple lines within of /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list are changed to ftp..debian (invalid hostname, double dots)