BK wrote: One question, does the problem occur if you choose ext2 for the
save-file?
The problem with not finding the desktop icons (and consequently showing
them as red triangles with a "?" inside) seems to be due to the savefile
existing but not being correct. As soon as I delete the savefile (from
another installed puppy) and reboot into precise-5.6, I'm back to the
first-time boot situation and the desktop icons are there and ok.
To answer your question, the incomplete shutdown problem is the same
whether I choose ext3 or ext2 for the savefile. However, looking at the
savefile, I find that although I always selected 512M for the savefile size,
that wasn't the size I got, which was about 32M for ext3 and about 8M for
ext2. (With the Lucid 511 and 528 installs on the same machine, which
are still there and still work, when one requested 512M, one got 512M
In this particular case, there must be an additional problem with writing
(or reading) the savefile, since even though it's not the size I requested,
the amount of state I was trying to save was tiny - just the timezone
setting. I can't tell if the TZ is restored correctly (until the other problems
get fixed) as I keep my hw clock in local time.
@rjbrewer - thank you for your clue about acpi; I tried applying it naively,
but it didn't work for me. Can someone point me to documentation about
what the acpi status (as read from /var/log/messages and/or the /proc
filesystem) _should be_ to obtain correct shutdown, and what the exact
usage of pfix with grub (0.97) is? I've read the boot message files in the
precise-5.6 iso image, and they are way too terse and incomplete to
include the obscure details which seem to be needed here.