antiX-M8.5-beta2 available for testing.

anticapitalista · posted: 2009-12-08 12:03

Hopefully this brings us closer to release.

This uses the latest MEPIS kernel, latest icewm and fluxbox menu (in English) and hopefully fixes the network connection problems some users had.

If your beta1 or earlier is running ok, no real need to install this version (unless you want to provide feedback)

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rokytnji · posted: 2009-12-08 15:27

Quick Question Anti (but I wrote a book I guess). I am thinking of Deleting my Mint 6 Fluxbox RC1 off of my IBM T23 that multiboots Antix 8.2 which has it's own seperate /home partition

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# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xfa4827d6

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1        5672    45560308+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2            5673        7686    16177455    5  Extended
/dev/hda3            9603        9729     1020127+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hda4            7687        9602    15390270   83  Linux
/dev/hda5            6309        7686    11068785   83  Linux
/dev/hda6            5673        6308     5108607   83  Linux

/dev/hda5 is the /home partition for AntiX 8.2 (10.56 gig)
/dev/hda4 is the Mint 6 Fluxbox RC1 Partition (14.68 gig)
/dev/hda6 is the / partition for Antix 8.2 (4.87 gig)

I am thinking of using the 14 gigs in /dev/hda4 as a root (/) partition for downloaded tests for AntiX 8.5 on this Laptop.

Will AntiX 8.5 use the /home on /dev/hda5 or will it make it's own home in / in /dev/hda6. Sorry to ask such a dumb question but when I run the installer it will ask if I wish to keep existing /home. And I am kinda confused how to answer that question since I will be dual booting 2 different releases of AntiX which I have never done before. I had mint on here before I added AntiX 8.2 so everything was pretty straight foward using gparted in installer and shrinking, making new logical partitions, and installing. I figure it will be easier if I just do a hard install instead of just running Live CD or off USB (which this computers is limited and won't boot usb anyways).

Still Learning.

oldhoghead · posted: 2009-12-08 16:17

anti,

I have some issues with both the pt1 and the beta, thought I had a bad burn, I had so many issues, but dl the new beta, burned a 4x, md5 sum good and disk verified ok, runs fine on livecd, but I usually install my test distros to a usb hd, then boot them from there, I have sidux xfce, and one of Danum's cano versions on there, and they boot and run ok. I installed the beta there and during the boot process I get these errors:

mount point /dev/shm does not exist
/bin setupcon:415 cannot create /etc/console-setup/cached.kmap.gz: Directory non existent
mountpoint /dev/pts does not exist
/etc/rcS.d/S36udev-mtab:25:cannot create /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules:Directory nonexistent
/bin setupcon:415 cannot create /etc/console-setup/cached.kmap.gz: Directory non existent
2009-12-08 09:26:52 (configfile.e.947) opening configfile /etclighttpd/lighttpd.conf failed:not a directory,

boot then proceeds normally,
when I try to open a terminal, I get terminal failed to run, if I try to reset the time in control center, I get the same message terminal failed to run,
I am at a loss, never had any issues until this new kernel.
any ideas?

edit: I noticed that luckyb at Mepislovers is encountering some of the same issues.

cheers,
oldhoghead

secipolla · posted: 2009-12-08 18:52

roky, all you have to do is make sure that you don't install /home to a separate partition.

The installer has no idea that some other partition has an antiX /home there, unless you tell it so.

dark-D · posted: 2009-12-08 18:57

some minor things that i noticed:
- roxterm is now white with black text. inxi doesn't look good in it, htop in some themes and mocp. to fix this in roxterm enter in preferences > edit current color scheme > and uncheck [] set text and background colors
- in fluxbox > system > file tools > rox filer should be replaces with pcmanfm. because rox is the default file manager.
- the name of the windows for antix2usb is : testView Widget Basic Example
- when i first made a liveusb with antix2usb the partition was to big and it gave an error but only in the show details sections not as a pop-up. the rest of the script is just great. one thing i saw when i booted the liveusb was that the home uuid for the persistent partition didn't get used because it was already used by another persistent options i guess the root one.

in rest, all is great. i still can't use it as my primary os because of the xorg and the fact that it uses 50% of the cpu when i play a flash movie in the browser. mplayer movies now work but it uses 25-30% of the cpu. the cpu jumpiness is a little lower that previous version.

rokytnji · posted: 2009-12-08 19:53

secipolla wrote:roky, all you have to do is make sure that you don't install /home to a separate partition.

The installer has no idea that some other partition has an antiX /home there, unless you tell it so.

Thanks secipolla. Been a while since I ran installer. I downloaded iso and checked md5sum. Didn't match up. Went into properties of iso and saw only 200+ mb of data. Should have been 400+. Redownloading iso again.

rokytnji · posted: 2009-12-08 21:18

Booted up live right now.
Screenshot in Fluxbox works ok. Didn't in part 1 beta for me. It is in applications>graphics>screenshot.
There is no menu entry though in Icewm in applications>graphics though. No biggy as I can make my own edit to menu.
Still have problems connecting wireless. Wicd sees nothing except wired interface. Rutilt just kept poping up no interface covering the whole screen till I used App Killer to stop it and then it closed all the little windows.
Ceni sees my wireless card and wlan0 interface. Scan brings up my router. But next step doesn't show ip address or anything. All bottom boxes are blank. IP address,Network,Gateway,Netcast,and Broadcast are all blank. I run a open Network. No Wep or WPA. Method box is dhcp. Class is allow hotplug device.

Terminal works for me in reference to hogshead post.

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demo@mepis1:~$ inxi -F
System:    Host mepis1 Kernel 2.6.32-1-mepis-smp i686 (32 bit) Distro antiX-M8.5-beta2 Marek Edelman 07 December 2009
CPU:       Single core Mobile Intel Pentium III - M (UP) cache 512 KB flags (sse) bmips 2399.19 clocked at 1197.00 MHz 
Graphics:  Card S3 SuperSavage IX/C SDR X.Org 1.6.5 Res: 1024x768@60.0hz 
           GLX Renderer Mesa DRI SuperSavage 20061110 AGP 1x x86/MMX/SSE GLX Version 1.2 Mesa 7.6 Direct Rendering Yes
Audio:     Card Intel 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller driver Intel ICH at ports 1c00 18c0 
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.21
Network:   Card-1 Intel 82801CAM (ICH3) PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller driver e100 v: 3.5.24-k2-NAPI at port 6400 
           Card-2 RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI driver rt61pci v: 2.3.0
Disks:     HDD Total Size: 80.0GB (-) 1: /dev/hda ST980815A 80.0GB 
Partition: ID:/ size: 16M used: 103K (1%) fs: rootfs ID:swap-1 size: 1.04GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap 
Info:      Processes 86 Uptime 23 min Memory 140.7/1008.3MB Client Shell inxi

couldn't read inxi -F in terminal but it pasted OK to be readable. Don't know if White background is to blame via Icems post. As you can see. The RT61 module is loaded. But the Belkin PCMCIA card is not lit up.

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demo@mepis1:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82830 830 Chipset Host Bridge (rev 04)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82830 830 Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 04)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 42)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801CAM IDE U100 Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. SuperSavage IX/C SDR (rev 05)
02:00.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420 PC card Cardbus Controller
02:00.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420 PC card Cardbus Controller
02:02.0 Communication controller: Agere Systems WinModem 56k (rev 01)
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82801CAM (ICH3) PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller (rev 42)
07:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI

I could read lspci ok in Terminal. Just not inxi -F. Weird?

Let me know if I need to try anything out before I do a hardrive install. I would like to get wireless working in this laptop. I will have Antix 8.2 on another partition so I won't be a total cripple. I thought I read somewhere here that using the old Wicd might be a better option on AntiX 8,5. Not sure though if that is what I read or not.

rokytnji · posted: 2009-12-08 21:40

Went into PCMaNFM and went to /usr/share/applications and tried to execute screenshot from there in Icewm. Nothing happened. To check I executed Pidgin and root Terminal while in usr/share/applications. They opened OK.

While in usr/share/applications I noticed a lot of icons missing above application names.
screensaver
htop (which won't execute also)(but will open in terminal when htop is typed)(won't lauch from Icewm menu either)
links2 (which does execute)
xmahjongg (which does execute)
xsane image scanning program (which does execute)
xarchive manager (which does execute)
soduku savant (which does execute)
Chatzilla (which does execute)
feh (which works in fluxbox screenshot and rox file manager when clicking on images)

Tests done in /usr/share/applications rightclicking app and hitting execute.

rokytnji · posted: 2009-12-08 22:36

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rokytnji · posted: 2009-12-08 22:42

Do over. My bad. These are readouts after I did a hardrive install of 8.5 full iso. Wouldn't boot after install. Just gave me a please wait loading and underneath a flashing cursor and that was it. Since this post I have uninstalled 8.5 and am sticking with 8.2. I think the cutoff for my boxes for the kernels is 2.6.27 maybe. Just guessing.

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timeout 15
color cyan/blue white/blue
foreground ffffff
background 0639a1

gfxmenu /boot/grub/message

title antiX at hda4, kernel 2.6.32-1-mepis-smp
root (hd0,3)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-1-mepis-smp root=/dev/hda4 nomce quiet nosplash vga=791 
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-1-mepis-smp
boot

title Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional at hda1
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

title antiX at hda6, kernel 2.6.27-1-mepis-smp
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-1-mepis-smp root=/dev/hda6 nomce quiet nosplash vga=791
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-1-mepis-smp

title MEMTEST
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin

fstab

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# Pluggable devices are handled by uDev, they are not in fstab
/dev/hda4 / ext3 defaults,noatime 1 1
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0

mtab

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tmpfs /aufs/lib/init/rw tmpfs rw,nosuid,mode=0755 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
udev /dev tmpfs rw,mode=0755 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
/dev/hdc /cdrom iso9660 ro,relatime 0 0
/dev/loop0 /linux squashfs ro,relatime 0 0
/ramdisk /ramdisk tmpfs rw,relatime,size=825676k,nr_inodes=129012,mode=755 0 0
/ramdisk /home tmpfs rw,relatime,size=825676k,nr_inodes=129012,mode=755 0 0
/aufs /aufs aufs rw,relatime,si=1df178a6,xino=/ramdisk/.aufs.xino,br:/ramdisk=rw:/linux=ro 0 0
fusectl /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw 0 0
/dev/hda4 /mnt/mepis ext3 rw 0 0

plvera · posted: 2009-12-09 00:13

Hello:
I ran beta2 livecd in my Dell desktop, and noticed the following:

1) Very slow boot up time (about 5 min).
2) a lot of error messages (accounting for the slow boot up). Namely:

hdd: status timeout, status=0xd0{busy}
hdd: drive not ready for command

these two lines repeated throughout the boot-up process. I have two cd-roms, the first one (which I use to boot up) is read only, the second is read/write but it's not on the boot list. I don't know if it was complaining about not being able to write to the cd?

the second error message that showed up, and again repeated for a while was:

buffer I/0 error drive hdc, bad block 246090
there was second address that showed up. Again these lines repeated for a long time.

3) after it eventually booted up, I had the same problem with the resolution in this box that I've had with the recent releases. The resolution is too low, and using the F3 option during boot does not fix it.

4) My ethernet connection was not detected. This has also been a recurrent problem with the new kernel.

I'll try it in my Dell Laptop and report on how it behaves.

I hope this helps.

Pedro

dolphin_oracle · posted: 2009-12-09 00:19

rokytnji, your RT61 issues sound that the sort of thing that happens when the firmware isn't present in /etc/firmware (I think that's right). I don't have beta 2, but you might check that out. I've got an old Sony with a belkin rt61 in it, and firmware was always a spot to check in the old days.

rokytnji · posted: 2009-12-09 09:49

I think you are right dolphin oracle. If I could have got my install to boot up I would have explored that issue but I couldn't even get a boot up after installing to a partition I made on Hardrive. Thanks for the suggestion.

plvera · posted: 2009-12-09 13:23

To follow up, I tried the beta2 livecd on my Dell inspiron laptop and things went better compared to my desktop.

Boot up time was normal. There were no repeating error msgs during boot (I really think it has to do with not using a read/write cd-drive in my desktop), and the resolution was fine.

However, neither ceni nor wicd picked up my wireless card, as with the previous releases.

I hope this helps.

Pedro

oldhoghead · posted: 2009-12-10 19:50

anti,

Here is the term window of the last install I did, using as root #minstall:

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demo@mepis1:~$ sux
Password: 
xauth:  creating new authority file /root/.Xauthority
mepis1:/home/demo# minstall
Package `apache2' is not installed and no info is available.
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
umount: /dev/hda3: not mounted
Done

mke2fs 1.41.9 (22-Aug-2009)
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
1177344 inodes, 4703028 blocks
235151 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
Maximum filesystem blocks=0
144 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
8176 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks: 
    32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208, 
    4096000

Writing inode tables: done                            
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done

This filesystem will be automatically checked every 23 mounts or
180 days, whichever comes first.  Use tune2fs -c or -i to override.
tune2fs 1.41.9 (22-Aug-2009)
Setting maximal mount count to 100
Setting current mount count to 0
Setting interval between checks to 0 seconds
Creating journal inode: done
This filesystem will be automatically checked every 100 mounts or
0 days, whichever comes first.  Use tune2fs -c or -i to override.
ls: cannot access /lib64: No such file or directory
/bin/cp: cannot stat `/etc/mepis-network/wireless/*': No such file or directory
/bin/cp: cannot stat `/etc/rc.firewall': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/etc/udev/udev.conf': Not a directory
Installation finished. No error reported.
This is the contents of the device map /mnt/mepis/boot/grub/device.map.
Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect,
fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'.

(hd0)    /dev/hda
/bin/mv: cannot stat `/mnt/mepis/boot/grub/menu.lst': No such file or directory
sed: can't read /mnt/mepis/etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc: No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/etc/adjtime': No such file or directory
Enter new UNIX password: Retype new UNIX password: passwd: password updated successfully
Enter new UNIX password: Retype new UNIX password: passwd: password updated successfully
sed: can't read /mnt/mepis/etc/aliases: No such file or directory
sed: can't read /mnt/mepis/etc/samba/smb.conf: No such file or directory
sed: can't read /mnt/mepis/var/lib/kdm/kdmsts: No such file or directory
mepis1:/home/demo#

hope this helps

cheers,
oldhoghead