Zenwalk 2.6 warnings

Zol1 · **Joined:** Tue May 16, 2006 11:01 pm **Posts:** 42

" It does... But what will an inexperienced user do, if he's told to run upgrade-config? Say yes of course... "

"Yes, i agree."

Yes i did it

DDDDDD

I'm clearly an inexperienced user according to the test.

Real problem was xfce startup ask my hosts file and i had no network. Btw i solved it. piece of cake

I hope this is all and some bigger monster dosen't lurking here... ::)

Ugly Dolphin · **Posted:** Mon May 22, 2006 2:55 am

--> JP

You wrote to install/upgrade a list of packages.

But dbus is still in /extra, and in gw version (on http://repository.zenwalk.org/ (?)
Is it normal ?

Fred

Borromini · **Posted:** Mon May 22, 2006 7:38 am

Ugly Dolphin wrote:

--> JP

You wrote to install/upgrade a list of packages.

But dbus is still in /extra, and in gw version (on http://repository.zenwalk.org/ (?)
Is it normal ?

Fred

Dbus is on the latest pre-release iso if i'm correct (there is a messagebus service mentioned when you can set the services to be started at boot).

hyperion · **Posted:** Mon May 22, 2006 7:45 am

PLease read my post with more attention : I wrote that some packages WILL be upgraded to match the ISO, WHEN the new version WILL come.

It's a previsional warning, these packages have not been updated yet.

JP

bobef · **Joined:** Sun May 14, 2006 9:12 am **Posts:** 13

Borromini wrote:

Tv: look at it this way: if you back up your settings, reinstalling takes 15 minutes, and putting everything back a few seconds

. And you got yourself a clean system

.

How to back up my settings?

tv · **Joined:** Sun May 07, 2006 8:22 am **Posts:** 14

Borromini wrote:

Tv: look at it this way: if you back up your settings, reinstalling takes 15 minutes, and putting everything back a few seconds

. And you got yourself a clean system

.

oh i am happy to see newer releases!
each one seems to be better than the previous one.
i am waiting for the day when i will log in before the log in screen appears!

it is getting soooo fast!

netpkg has never worked for me somehow.
i always download h newer versions or the packages themselves.

and is there a how to on backup?

regards
tv

hyperion · **Posted:** Mon May 22, 2006 5:19 pm

Packages upgraded

Enjoy

JP

metatux · **Posted:** Mon May 22, 2006 5:59 pm

HI,

i'm using 2.6 right now. Now there are serveral packages upgraded but dunno if it would be in this state a risk:

Code:

netpkg list-upg
Checking for network connectivity, please wait...
Downloading description file
Connecting to the packages repository...

[U][a] Found sysvinit-2.84-i486-3z26.tgz on the repository : sysvinit-2.84-i486-2z26.tgz is installed
[U][a] Found udev-092-i486-1z26.tgz on the repository : udev-091-i486-3z26.tgz is installed
No package found on http://download.zenwalk.org/i486/current/packages/e
No package found on http://download.zenwalk.org/i486/current/packages/g
[U][n] Found tcpip-0.17-i486-3z26.tgz on the repository : tcpip-0.17-i486-2z26.tgz is installed
[U][l] Found libgsf-1.14.1-i486-1z26.tgz on the repository : libgsf-1.14.0-i486-1z26.tgz is installed
[U][xap] Found desktop-2.6-i486-5z26.tgz on the repository : desktop-2.6-i486-4z26.tgz is installed
[U][xap] Found ghex-2.8.2-i486-1z26.tgz on the repository : ghex-2.8.1-i486-1z22.tgz is installed
[U][xap] Found gnome-vfs-2.14.1-i486-1Z26.tgz on the repository : gnome-vfs-2.14.0-i486-1Z26.tgz is installed
[U][xap] Found leafpad-0.8.9-i486-1z26.tgz on the repository : leafpad-0.8.8-i486-1z26.tgz is installed
[U][xap] Found terminal-0.2.5.2-i486-2z26.tgz on the repository : terminal-0.2.5.2-i486-1z26.tgz is installed
[U][xap] Found xfce-4.3.90.2-i486-2z26.tgz on the repository : xfce-4.3.90.2-i486-1z26.tgz is installed
[U][extra] Found xfmedia-0.10.0-i486-3z26.tgz on the repository : xfmedia-0.10.0-i486-2z26.tgz is installed

i wished there would be a backup solution. Anything like sbackup for example.
Now as JP said in his warning i think these are only for upgraders?

My last upgrade-config has just killed my users pwd's etc. so xlock etc. doesen't work anymore.

Bytes,
Metatux

Borromini · **Posted:** Mon May 22, 2006 6:47 pm

bobef wrote:

Borromini wrote:

Tv: look at it this way: if you back up your settings, reinstalling takes 15 minutes, and putting everything back a few seconds :). And you got yourself a clean system ;).

How to back up my settings?

Write a little script, for example like this:

Code:

#!/bin/sh 
# Script that backups my most important configuration files & scripts

# Root privileges are needed for this script to let it do the work! 

BACKUPDIR=/home/stijn/backups/Zenwalk-$(date +%d.%m.%Y)
HOMEDIR=/home/stijn


# Verify if we run this script as root
if [ "$(id -u)" != "0" ]; then 
  echo "This script must be run as root!" 
  exit 67
fi


# Check if the needed temporary directory exists
if [ ! -d $BACKUPDIR ]; then
 mkdir -p $BACKUPDIR
fi
cd $BACKUPDIR


# Check if the backup directory is empty, so we can create a clean backup
if ls -l | grep "totaal 0"; 
then 
  echo "Target directory is empty. Proceeding with backup" 
else 
  rm -rf * 2> /dev/null; echo "Emptying target directory... Give me a sec" 
fi 

echo "Creating backup structure and putting files in place..." 
mkdir -p $BACKUPDIR/etc/ssh
mkdir -p $BACKUPDIR/etc/rc.d
mkdir -p $BACKUPDIR/etc/sane.d
mkdir -p $BACKUPDIR/etc/udev/rules.d
mkdir -p $BACKUPDIR/lib/modules
mkdir -p $BACKUPDIR/root
mkdir -p $BACKUPDIR/boot

cd /etc
cp -pR \
  fstab \
  netpkg.conf \
  sudoers \
  lilo.conf \
  wpa_supplicant.conf \
$BACKUPDIR/etc

cp -pR sane.d/plustek.conf $BACKUPDIR/etc/sane.d

cd /etc/rc.d
cp -pR \
  rc.freepops \
  rc.netfilter \
  rc.modules \
  rc.local \
  rc.M \
  rc.6 \
  rc.ntpd \
  rc.splash \
  rc.turion \
$BACKUPDIR/etc/rc.d

cd /etc/ssh
cp -pR \
  ssh_config \
  sshd_config \
$BACKUPDIR/etc/ssh

cd /etc/udev/rules.d
cp -pR 10-udev.rules $BACKUPDIR/etc/udev/rules.d

cd /root
cp -pR wlanscript-amilo $BACKUPDIR/root

cd /lib/modules/
cp -pR * $BACKUPDIR/lib/modules

cd /boot
cp -pR * $BACKUPDIR/boot

# Compress the system backup
cd $BACKUPDIR
echo "Creating backup: sysconfig$(date +%Y.%m.%d).tar.bz2." 
tar cjf sysconfig$(date +%Y.%m.%d).tar.bz2 * &> /dev/null

echo "Backup sysconfig$(date +%Y.%m.%d).tar.bz2 is being transferred to the storage folder..."
mv sysconfig$(date +%Y.%m.%d).tar.bz2 .. 

# Cleaning up
rm -rf $BACKUPDIR
echo "Emptying target map..."
echo "Bailing out ;-)" 

exit 0

bobef · **Joined:** Sun May 14, 2006 9:12 am **Posts:** 13

Borromini wrote:

bobef wrote:

Borromini wrote:

Tv: look at it this way: if you back up your settings, reinstalling takes 15 minutes, and putting everything back a few seconds :). And you got yourself a clean system ;).

How to back up my settings?

Write a little script, for example like this:

Code:

#!/bin/sh 
# Script that backups my most important configuration files & scripts

# Root privileges are needed for this script to let it do the work! 

BACKUPDIR=/home/stijn/backups/Zenwalk-$(date +%d.%m.%Y)
HOMEDIR=/home/stijn


# Verify if we run this script as root
if [ "$(id -u)" != "0" ]; then 
  echo "This script must be run as root!" 
  exit 67
fi


# Check if the needed temporary directory exists
if [ ! -d $BACKUPDIR ]; then
 mkdir -p $BACKUPDIR
fi
cd $BACKUPDIR


# Check if the backup directory is empty, so we can create a clean backup
if ls -l | grep "totaal 0"; 
then 
  echo "Target directory is empty. Proceeding with backup" 
else 
  rm -rf * 2> /dev/null; echo "Emptying target directory... Give me a sec" 
fi 

echo "Creating backup structure and putting files in place..." 
mkdir -p $BACKUPDIR/etc/ssh
mkdir -p $BACKUPDIR/etc/rc.d
mkdir -p $BACKUPDIR/etc/sane.d
mkdir -p $BACKUPDIR/etc/udev/rules.d
mkdir -p $BACKUPDIR/lib/modules
mkdir -p $BACKUPDIR/root
mkdir -p $BACKUPDIR/boot

cd /etc
cp -pR \
  fstab \
  netpkg.conf \
  sudoers \
  lilo.conf \
  wpa_supplicant.conf \
$BACKUPDIR/etc

cp -pR sane.d/plustek.conf $BACKUPDIR/etc/sane.d

cd /etc/rc.d
cp -pR \
  rc.freepops \
  rc.netfilter \
  rc.modules \
  rc.local \
  rc.M \
  rc.6 \
  rc.ntpd \
  rc.splash \
  rc.turion \
$BACKUPDIR/etc/rc.d

cd /etc/ssh
cp -pR \
  ssh_config \
  sshd_config \
$BACKUPDIR/etc/ssh

cd /etc/udev/rules.d
cp -pR 10-udev.rules $BACKUPDIR/etc/udev/rules.d

cd /root
cp -pR wlanscript-amilo $BACKUPDIR/root

cd /lib/modules/
cp -pR * $BACKUPDIR/lib/modules

cd /boot
cp -pR * $BACKUPDIR/boot

# Compress the system backup
cd $BACKUPDIR
echo "Creating backup: sysconfig$(date +%Y.%m.%d).tar.bz2." 
tar cjf sysconfig$(date +%Y.%m.%d).tar.bz2 * &> /dev/null

echo "Backup sysconfig$(date +%Y.%m.%d).tar.bz2 is being transferred to the storage folder..."
mv sysconfig$(date +%Y.%m.%d).tar.bz2 .. 

# Cleaning up
rm -rf $BACKUPDIR
echo "Emptying target map..."
echo "Bailing out ;-)" 

exit 0

OK, this sound easy. But it happens that when I renisntall some packages (don't know exactly which one) I lose all my desktop, window manager and ui settings and I have to customize them again. Will the above script save them, beucase I don't know where they are kept really...

Borromini · **Posted:** Tue May 23, 2006 7:04 am

You should create a separate /home partition. That way, when you reinstall, you only wipe your / and not your /home, so you'll keep all your user settings

. This script is meant to back up the general settings (often in /etc) and some other stuff.

den · **Joined:** Fri Apr 07, 2006 8:50 am **Posts:** 118

when can we expect 2.6 iso? i have upgraded packages with netpkg, and now have the same problem which i had once when i installed 2.4. when i put usb flash stick in, i become two folders usb and usb1. mount shows that stick is mounted on usb, but when i get in and when i try to ls the content i become input output error message.

hm, now i see what is at least the part of problem. udev mount the stick as ext2, and the stick is in fat32 format, second it mount sde and should mount it's first partition (sde1). manually i can mount the stick with mount -t vfat.

any recommendation what should i do now? wait iso image, or something else? i have alredy tried to reinstall udev sysfsutils and pcmciautils but didn't help.

den · **Joined:** Fri Apr 07, 2006 8:50 am **Posts:** 118

udevtest /dev/sde gives me this as output:

deno[rules.d]$ udevtest /dev/sde
add_to_rules: invalid SYSFS operation
add_to_rules: invalid rule '/etc/udev/rules.d/udev.rules:26'
add_to_rules: invalid SYSFS operation
add_to_rules: invalid rule '/etc/udev/rules.d/udev.rules:56'
main: unable to open '/dev/sde'

and mount shows that it is mounted as ext2:

/dev/sde on /mnt/usb type ext2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,sync,dirsync)

Borromini · **Posted:** Tue May 23, 2006 8:50 am

den wrote:

when can we expect 2.6 iso? [...]

Soon - i just saw it is already mirrored on the repo...

den · **Joined:** Fri Apr 07, 2006 8:50 am **Posts:** 118

hey, thanx. i am just downloading it

.

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