Bugs/4.0.2CD


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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.

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.