One factor is the use of squashfs with XZ compression which is notoriously slow at decompression. GZIP decompression is much faster for normal use, and an extra 10% to 20% disk space is unimportant even with vast programs like LibreOffice.

Hello 666philb I have compiled a kernel, using the kernel-kit, on 901. It works OK but there are some -Wmissing-prototypes errors from gconf.c when choosing configuration option 2. This applies to recent kernels and happens with Bionicpup as well. I assume some part of GTK is missing or needs updati...

Hello 666philb
There's a file /etc/modprobe.d/cdrecord.conf that triggers some abuse, when I run modprobe, but doesn't normally matter.

However I have just installed VirtualBox on fossapup64 and the modprobe error prevented the rcvboxdrv script from running properly until I disabled the .conf.

Hello 666philb

I need to modprobe lp to use my printer. If I do this from a terminal it works and the printer prints OK.
If I put modprobe lp into /etc/rc.d/rc.local it doesn't work. I can't think what I can have done wrong!

It's not as simple as that...! If I rename the file then I need and fdrv= boot parameter like the zdrv= for the menu entry that boots with 666philb's kernel. I tried that but it didn't work. My kernel has the firmware in zdrv so it doesn't need the fdrv although it appears to be harmless if it has b...

Hello 666philb Thanks for this. I have done a manual frugal of 901 with your kernel. The only peculiarity so far is that, at idle, my Athlon 3000G never gets to the lowest p-state. With "watch -n 5 sensors" in a terminal the voltage settles at 906 mV As a matter of routine I had already re...

run-as-spot is working for me with Vivaldi. Vivaldi put it's configuration files in /home/spot/.config/vivaldi. I copied a history file from my normal Bionicpup64 to "default" there. That saved me retyping all the URLs. Have you installed any third party debs with a postinst script that b...

Hello 666philb I'm down to the trivia now! I installed libmpv & celluloid aka gnome-mpv. No missing dependencies or icons! But it or vaapi complain about missing amdgpu.ids, but not fatal. That comes from libdrm-common... Having installed that there are no errors and Celluloid is working OK at a...

Few of things users are broken (spot and finn). Can't login or run-as either run-as-spot is working for me with Vivaldi. Vivaldi put it's configuration files in /home/spot/.config/vivaldi. I copied a history file from my normal Bionicpup64 to "default" there. That saved me retyping all th...

Hello 666philb

I think that /root/.jwmrc has the wrong include: /root/.jwmrc-tray but the changes are written to: /root/.jwm/jwmrc-tray1

So the changes don't have any effect!

Vivaldi has appeared in the internet menu now. I don't know when it happened!

Hello 666philb There's something amiss with the jwm configuration. I don't know whether this is a known problem. I noticed that using the Jwm desk manager to make the tray autohide had no effect. Also Vivaldi did not get added to the menu automatically, like it usually does. Looking into it /etc/xdg...

Hello 666philb Thanks for this. It's just like bionicpup64 so I didn't need to retrain myself. I'm using just the Adrv plus a 5.6.6 kernel that I built including the amdgpu 20.10 firmware. Boots my Athlon 3000G OK The ethernet did not connect, so I installed rerwin's three recently updated pets, and...

Hello rerwin

I deleted the savefile and made a new one
Installed the three packages
Reboot - success
Added DEBUG to SNS
Run SNS from Internet Connection Wizard - success
Run Netwiz, test - success, Auto DHCP - success

Thank you too!

Hello rerwin I edited the file Reboot & wait for network to connect Run SNS setup from Internet connection wizard. - Success. On another BP64 copy, I tested connection at boot with sleep 2.5 in rc.network_eth and that worked OK In Netwiz selecting eth0 - Auto DHCP, it connects when the progress ...

Hello rerwin

I edited the files.
Then reboot
Then run SNS from Internet connection wizard.

Here are the two logs. The network connects at startup but SNS setup doesn't connect.

Hello rerwin The network cable is always connected and the router is always on. If I boot Fatdog it always connects. In the messages I get the r8169 eth0 bit followed by the dhcpcd bit. In BP64 I can run Netwiz and select eth0 - Auto DHCP and it connects the same way as Fatdog but, if I reboot, it d...

Hello rerwin

I deleted the file and the bootsysinit.log looks plausible, but SNS still fails. I notice that it gives up after about 6 seconds.

Hello rerwin I did the following: Create new copy of Bionicpup64 in menu.lst Do UK locale stuff Create savefile Install updated SNS, NetWiz and network_connect_update-20200410-beta.pet Reboot, just in case.. Save bootsysint.log Choose SNS in Internet Connection Wizard Usual error: There does not see...

Hello rerwin The problem is that dhcpd is not started. I don't know what is supposed to do that. All I have to do is run /usr/sbin/dhcpcd in a terminal and the network connects, as it is now. This is what it says in the terminal: dhcpcd[5675]: version 6.6.2 starting dhcpcd[5675]: all: IPv6 kernel au...

My new AM4 motherboard with Athlon 3000G behaves the same as 666philb. If I try SNS it says: "There does not seem to be any network connected to eth0" With the network wizard I can click: eth0 - Auto DHCP and it connects. I select keep the setting, but it does not connect at startup. I in...