Pussy Linux - Known Issues/ Bugs/ Development News etc created by sickgut on November 8th 2011 http://www.thepussycatforest.info sickgut@gmail.com Official fourm thread at murga-linux site: (will move to dedicated forum soon) http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=69475 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Updated 29th January 2012: Added bug #15: auto mounting of USB storage devices doesnt work on Pussy Base but works on the Xtra version. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Updated 15th December 2011: removed bug #8: keymaps for other languages - blah blah blah.... this issue was fixed in the latest release and i simply forgot to delete the keymap bug from the list. Updated 8th December 2011: There is a minor bug in the JWM menus, the entry for camera monitor in the video section is still there even tho i have removed it from this version of Pussy. If you click on that menu entry it will not do anything. I dont think this is serious enough to warrant a new patch, however i plan on solving the rox filer focus problem and if i can make a patch for that then this menu entry bug will be solved in that patch aswell. This only affects users of the xtra version of Pussy. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Updated 6th December 2011: Uploading the final revisions of the .iso's now. We are at beta preview 2 as the official version now. Finally we have automounting of removable devices and single click mounting of squashfs and iso. WICD network manager now defaults to use wlan0 automatically, there is no need to edit the preferences section and add wlan0 to get your wifi working. This fix was submitted by community member arff. Added GTKam and guvcview and grandr so we now have an application for grabbing images from cameras, webcam video recording and multi monitor support. The save-file section in catroll-panel is completed and the previous patch has been intergrated into it. There is currently no patches needed for this newer version catroll-panel now has keyboard and sound sections. The keyboard section now provides for languages other than english for the keyboard mapping. The sound section contains an alsa reinitialization script, that forces redetection of your sound hardware incase it isnt working after booting. Removed the really crappy grub2 package from /addons dir of the live media due to it being useless and broken in places, this only of benefit to new users if its completely automated, it needs more work done to it before i release it again. In its present state its just going to mess up peoples systems. You are better off just to apt-get install grub and figure it out than using the grub2 that was previously supplied. Documentation, HDD installation, grub2 installation and setup and perhaps solving the ntfs boot patition write issue is what the next release will be focussing on. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pussy Linux list of known issues as of the most current release: (the numbers arent in sequencial order now due to fixing some problems and deleting them, im keeping the previous numbers that where assigned to the issues as its easier to remember bug number #4 for example and not have to change bug #4 to bug #3 just because we solved problem #1.) #2. No instructions for installing to HDD and no decent easy to install bootloader supplied with the OS. Hopefully in the next release, the there will be a control-panel option to install Grub2 or atleast a user editable script that can install Grub2 and enough documentation will be included to help people understand how it works. For the foreseable future HDD install will only be an experimental option that may be slightly out of the grasp of the average newbie. #3. No real way to create a Pussy USB stick from within Windows. By the next release either one of two options maybe supplied to do this. Either a script that runs the Windows dd.exe command to image the USB stick with the .img USB image of Pussy, or the Windows application "Lili" (Linux Live USB creator) will be supplied on the .iso with enough documentation that will explain to the user how to use "Lili" to create a working Pussy USB stick from the .iso itself. #4. When Pussy is installed on a NTFS partition on a HDD and this is also the boot partition, write access is disabled. This only affects NTFS, all other partition types such as FAT32, EXT2 etc work fine. Methods for fixing this issue are currently being explored but I cannot provide a definate time frame for fixing the problem. #5 On HDD installs, the copy to RAM option isnt working in a way that suits HDD installs because the copy to RAM option copies the entire live media to RAM, and for HDD installs this means the entire partition. Pussy will still boot in such a case after the copy to RAM errors out and then it will boot normally. I think the key to solving the problem is something to do with adding the "module" tag to the boot code so it only loads the files specified. Altho I am currently working on the problem I cannot offer a time frame for fixing it. The #4 issue may well be solved by solving this issue as when you can copy to RAM, the boot parition is unmounted and so the user can remount it in the OS as read/ write. Issue #4 and #5 are only related to HDD installs and altho Pussy is mostly a CDROM or USB stick OS, solving issue #4 and #5 is my top priority. #9. No swapfile or swap partition creation instructions or applications other than the commandline or using gparted. Both HDD and USB installations will have a control-panel script that can be edited by the user. A save file must be used for Pussy to remember where the swap file is, however swap partitions will be found automatically during boot. #10. Documentation is generally lacking for almost everything and this makes Pussy a little out of the grasp of users who are new to linux or Debian based linux OSes. Unique features such as cleanmode browsing really need to have explanations. #12. No single click auto install of .deb packages. This is usually required for newer users who arnt familiar with using dpkg --install at the commandline who want to install .debs that arent part of the Debian repos, for example the latest versions of Skype or Virtual Box or Google Earth downloaded from their respective websites. Whatever method is setup for this it will provide a verbose output that will let the user know if there are any problems during install, most likely somehow auto open an Xterm terminal that shows the commandline dpkg application doing its usual thing. -----> a work around for this has been discovered and will be included in the next release. #13. The JWM window manager menus need to be purged of all useless crap that no one will use, mostly applications from the X11-applications package that is installed along with xorg by default. This only applies to the Pussy menu section, not the Debian section as the Debian section is completely automated. #14. A rox-filer GUI file selection focus problem has been identified, its behaves strange as you have to always unselect your previous selection before selecting something new. Aparently apt-get upgrade fixes the problem. Obviously one of the packages in the upgrade fixes the problem but I havent figured out which yet. When i do either a patch will be released or a new version. This fix for this was found by community member saintless. #15. The Pussy base version doesnt autodetect and mount USB storage devices automatically in the /media dir. However the Pussy Xtra version does this fine.