Bugs/4.0.2CD

2006-02-22T08:34:12Z

FlorianLaRoche:

1)The 4.0.2 CD at boot says: Welcome to the KNOPPIX live Linux-on-DVD!

THIS IS THE CD AND NOT THE DVD AS IT DISPLAYS!

2) Boot Option "knoppix no{swap}" is getting ignored (at least on an SATA Harddrive with Linux Swap partition). !!! Knoppix will still use the swap partition !!!

3) if toram boot option is used, shutdown does not work. After X-windows exit, shell prompt appears, but system does not do shutdown. Also poweroff or shutdown commands have no effect at all.

3a) if toram boot option is used, "knoppix-terminalserver" NFS does not work. The client side will say "Permission denied by server" when trying to mount the exported "/cdrom" dir. Have attempted modifying/blanking hosts.allow and hosts.deny, fiddling with export options, flushing iptables, and changing permissions/owners on the exported directory. This function works flawlessly when booted from CD.

4) not sure this is new, but while customizing 4.0.2CD I encountered a problem involving hotplugging multiple usb-storage devices. If one is mounted, and another is plugged in, the first device often seems to move to a new device but the old mount remains. There seems to be some explanation of this behavior in /sbin/hotplug-knoppix. Comments therein suggests the problem goes back to 2002. It would be the nice and expected behavior if plugging new storage doesn't booger up existing mounts. Any explanation of the issues involved would be helpful as well.

5) Starting knoppix with boot option "knoppix desktop=xfce" initiates successfully xsession, sound can be heard but when loading xfce desktop computer returns to shell screen with message X Window xsession terminated with errors.
Tried on x40, within vmware. all other options boot up correctly (in regard to xsession...)
no errors in xfreelogs:
(WW) VMWARE(0): Failed to set up write-combining range (0xfa000000,0x1000000)
(WW) VMWARE(0): Option "DPMS" is not used
(WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/share/fonts/truetype".
Entry deleted from font path.
(Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/share/fonts/truetype").
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/latex-ttf-fonts" does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/defoma/CID" does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/defoma/TrueType" does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such device)

just tried this on a quite typical desktop machine. same behaviour. desktop xfce seems to be broken.

6) /usr/share/knoppix/profile contains files and directories (e.g. .gnupg .mozilla .nessus.keys .netscape) which are copied into /home/knoppix when the X session is started (see rsync commands in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/45xsession). However, these files are '''owned by root''', not knoppix! So files which knoppix does not have permission to read '''fail to get copied''' (e.g. .nessus.keys). Only found this out because I was trying to add a .ssh directory in there and wondered why it failed to get copied across at boot time ... a swift ''chown -R knoppix.knoppix /usr/share/knoppix'' before re-mastering the Knoppix CD fixes this.

If you follow the instructions on the [[Knoppix_Remastering_Howto]], the equivalent command would be ''chown -R 1000.1000 /mnt/hda1/knx/source/KNOPPIX/usr/share/knoppix''.

7) Knoppix 4.02 CD won't boot on an IBM Thinkpad I Series 1161-43u. It only
displays "Disabling IRQ 15" over and over. Knoppix 3.8 CD works fine.
* Have you tried any of the cheatcodes? Have you cross posted this issue to the forum? --[[User:Rwcitek|Rwcitek]] 22:16, 5 Nov 2005 (GMT)

8) Change read/write mode not working with bootfrom-cheat ---
If I start knoppix with "knoppix bootfrom=/dev/hdb1/KNOPPIX.iso", and then right-click "Hard Disk [hdb1]" on Desktop and choose Actions->Change read/write mode, I get this error after confirming the action: "The remount command failed. Maybe there is another process accessing the filesystem currently."
I can still remount this manually with "sudo mount -o remount,rw /cdrom2.loop"
This bug is also present in 4.0.2-DVD
* Possible workaround: create a swapfile /mnt/hdb1/knoppix.swp. Have you cross posted this issue in a forum? --[[User:Rwcitek|Rwcitek]] 22:16, 5 Nov 2005 (GMT)

9) Knoppix-terminalserver
* clients/hosts booting with etherboot ROM's fail, because of some bug in the etherboot.nbi, but I'm not sure. can't find miniroot.gz, ... and than vmlinuz
* /etc/resolv.conf which is symlink to /etc/dhcpc/resolv.conf is not updated even for the hosts which boot with a PXE ROM, running netcardconfig with dhcp yes does the trick. --[[User:bsd|bsd]] Mon Nov 7 05:30:02 UTC 2005

10) CD 4.02 do not use the USB 2.0 full speed mode.
The error is in the linuxrc in /boot/isolinux/minirt.gz The line
USB2="ehci_hcd.ko"
should be
USB2="ehci_hcd"

11) There seems to be something wrong with the hardware detection of several versions of knoppix (all Knoppix versions with kernel 2.6.x that I tried, including the latest (4.0.2)):
I've written a forum entry describing the problem: http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22343
To be more specific, the wrong driver for a family of network cards is being loaded (or that's what I think), causing knoppix to crash on boot, while trying to get an IP from DHCP.

12) mkbootfloppy doesn't work, possibly since 3.7. I made a forum post, with a rather ugly fix, here: http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22949
It seems the problem is that if the second boot floppy is formatted as a 1722 KB disk then knoppix thinks the disk is corrupt at boot time. If the second boot floppy gets formatted as a 1440 KB disk then everyting is fine.

13) configure_bttv fails with xdialog usage message.
After review, i came to the conclusion that the error is caused by missing values in CARDLIST, when the radiolist construct runs for the tunners it should contain values of: "type=xx" but the only ones contained in the file is: "card=xxx".

14) Thomson TCM390 modem not detected ([[netusb]])


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Bugs/4.0.2DVD

2006-02-22T08:33:27Z

FlorianLaRoche: add category Bug Pages

1.) Reported by: pawel

proteon.ko and skisa.ko produces "segmentation fault" on boot if all available network modules are integrated into miniroot.gz

2.) Reported by: Freebooter

The 4.0.2 DVD if F3 is pressed at boot opens a window which says:
knoppix toram Load entire CD to ramdisk (1GB)

THIS IS THE DVD AND NOT THE CD AS IT DISPLAYS!

3.) Reported by: Ethereal

It seems that the number of captured Packets/Second in Ethereal,
never returns to 0, but continues to grow over time.
You will see this behavior by running Ethereal of the 4.0.2 DVD and
clicking in the menu bar on: Capture -> Interfaces...
In the previous release of Knoppix 4.0 DVD the Ethereal app seems
to work fine and the number will return to 0 as you would expect.

4.) Reported by SJMac: Config and Persistent HD conflict?

I have a USB key with 2 partitions. In Knoppix they are /dev/sdb1 (ext2) and /dev/sdb2 (vfat).

I "save Knoppix configuration" in to /mnt/sdb1 and it is found on a reboot if I use myconfig=scan. If I create a "persistent Knoppix disk image" in /dev/sdb1, then it is never used, even if I specify home=/dev/sdb1 or home=scan at boot.

If I create the persistent disk image in the vfat partition, then it is detected at startup (no command line option required).

Maybe I cannot have a config config and persistent HDD file on the same partition? Also see http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Using_FAQ#Q:_Knoppix_3.2:_Errormessage_during_booting.2C_when_HOME-Directory_is_saved_on_HD.3F

5.) Reported by SJMac: Nothing is Saved to my Persistent HD Until I reboot

Nothing is saved to a persistent HD image until the image is found after a reboot. Is this intentional, as it doesn't seem to be mentioned in the UI?

6.) Reported by SJMac: Custom Config is obseleted by Persistent HD Image.

It is not mentioned in the UI that saving a Custom Configuration is not necessary if a persistent HD image is used, or is it only necessary for certain settings.

7.) Reported by SJMac: Trying to get a GB / UK English configuration with lang=gb (or lang=uk, or lang=en_gb) does not have any effect.

Setting, eg lang=tr, does set up a turkish configuration, so there is something specificly wrong with lang=gb?

8.) Reported by Arne: SCSI drivers loaded despite "noscsi"-Option

On my system (Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe mainboard), KNOPPIX 4.0.2 DVD crashes with a kernel panic during boot when an S-ATA disk is connected. This is a Linux bug, I presume. But there is also a Knoppix bug, which is that Knoppix still attempts to load the scsi/libata-core driver (which means my machine crashes) even if the "noscsi"-Option is supplied. IMO noscsi should disable the SCSI subsystem (including S-ATA) entirely.


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