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When the Pandora runs out of memory and the Out-Of-Memory killer fires, the Applications/Settings/xfce4/panel/panels.xml loses the entries for the menu button and the power monitor.

Suspend to RAM uses less power than the low power mode, but the NetworkManager crashes often after the Pandora woke up from suspend to RAM.

This could be fixed with an update of NetworkManager.

Zaxxon Hotfix 5.

Example (dropbear is running):

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~# nc -vvvv localhost 22
Notice: Real hostname for localhost [127.0.0.1] is localhost.localdomain
Total received bytes: 0
Total sent bytes: 0

~# telnet localhost 22
SSH-2.0-dropbear_0.51
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All required libraries seem present, strace output is inconclusive.

When booting the pandora-OS from sd-card by using the official tar, you will end up with your sd-card being mounted twice: once as / and once as /media/<label>. I solved this by adding "/dev/mmcblk0" to "/etc/udev/mount.blacklist". Maybe this should be added to the default tarball? I'm not sure as it might be used in other ways maybe (beside SD-card-installation)?

Background: I ran "updatedb" as root and have been notified by a message that there was a mount-loop. After adding the above modification the system still booted fine and "updatedb" ran nicely without a warning.

EXAMPLE: MiniMenu with the option "Subcategories as folders" YES, and the current active tab i.e. "Game" lists:

Subgenre folders: ActionGame, AdventureGame, ArcadeGame, BlocksGame, …
App items: Abuse, Amoeboax, Arkaniod, Bloqus, …

THE BUG: Pressing "A" multiple times only cycles the focus between folders (ActionGame, AdventureGame, ArcadeGame), but never reaches the app items (Abuse, Amoeboax, Arkaniod).

BESIDES THIS BUG in the current keyboard item selection logic, I kindly inquire to implement: FS#243

I am suggesting the new option "Grid stop horizontal" for MiniMenu with the following possible settings and their effect.

Yes -> If the boundary is reached the focus remains there.
No -> If the boundary is reached the focus starts at the opposite side again.
Jump to next/prev line -> If the boundary is reached the focus jumps to the next/previous line and the opposite side.

If you set MiniMenu's option "Live (not exit) on app run?" to YES, and you quit an application and return to the still running MiniMenu, it runs in windowed mode, and takes about 2 seconds until it goes into full screen mode again.

This delay should at best be not noticeable at all, at most 0-1 seconds.

Hi there,

it would be neat if an rc script containing this could be added to the os (and run on startup) :

if [ ! -e /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register ];then
modprobe binfmt_misc
mount -t binfmt_misc none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc
fi
echo ":squashPND:M::hsqs::/usr/bin/pnd_run:">/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register

That render all the SquashFS executable directy by clicking them on the icon. Sadly there is no way to pass the arguments to the apps (as pnd_run dont support that).
A similar line could be added to support iso pnd.

Problem - Login Screen does not accept all symbols of the form Fn+char
Reproducibility - always
Actual results - the characters :?#|$€"‘£¥@!_ do not work on the Login Screen with the Pandora's keyboard. When fn then the corresponding character is pressed, nothing is added to the string.
Expected results - these characters should appear just like any other character
Work Around - an external keyboard was able to enter these characters
Aditional Information - While the characters :?#|$€"‘£¥@!_ do not work, the characters ;/\'-+=`() work just fine.

The command line environment of the default OS does not include the command "man" and the respective manpages of the installed programs.
I personally often use manpages, as I hardly remember the syntax/arguments of all programs I use.
Having them would be very convenient!

EVALUATING NEEDED STORAGE AMOUNT

Some may argue that storage space is quite limited on the NAND.

Yes I agree. Hence the number of included programs is limited too. Hence it would not be all too many manpages.

When I press TAB into an empty Terminal prompt, I get 1406 possibilities, which is about the amount of available commands/programs if we ignore aliases, etc.

Multiply that with an average of 20 kb per manpage, and you get about 30 MB in total. With compression this could possibly be brought down to 15-20 MB.

POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS

A) Store into the NAND the manpages of core OS CLI programs only, and not all the library/system/etc documentation.

B) Include only the man command into the core OS, and compile/configure it in such a fashion, that it finds the manpages within non-NAND media (SD card, USB volume, etc).
b1) Specify that it simply looks into a certain path within the /media/*/pandora/ structure.
b2) Or offer PND packages like man-core.pnd, man-extended.pnd,... you get the idea or even man-custom.pnd (which would look into its appdata or a certain path for custom added manpages, to somehow get the b1 approach within the PND approach).

The Wiki states that the Pandora can be used without setting a user password on first boot. But when the password and password confirmation field are left empty, an error pops up saying that there is a password missmatch.

(Please don't fix this bug by just changing the statement in the Wiki ;-)

I added:
iface usb0 inet dhcp

And ran:
ifup usb0

But dhclient simply prints usage.

Since I don't have a Pandora, I used the videos that EvilDragon has shown to discover this issue. Nowhere did I see in the First Boot Wizard that it tells you what the default controls in XFCE does like for example how the mouse moves and clicking using the nubs. It also doesn't tell you what the gaming buttons do (L and R included).

Would be nice to know for first time users. It should also tell a user if they want to change these setting to look at a specific place after the wizard is done. We shouldn't have the users figure the controls and such out by trial and error. When is that ever fun? :)

Build the xml file and defaults.list so that pnd_run is file-assocated to .pnd

Hi,

Evince 2.30 often crashes with the following error message:

(evince:2834): EvinceDocument-CRITICAL **: ev_image_save_tmp: assertion `GDK_IS_PIXBUF (pixbuf)' failed

Segmentation fault

How to reproduce: open Evince,  select a PDF file, go into fullscreen mode, then click into the body of the document.

Cheers, Magic Sam

If you hit the function button, then hit it again to lock the function keys, it doesn't lock the function key.

The delete key, hold shift and hit the back space button, it won't delete, meaning it won't remove the character to the right of the cursor. I saw this on the forum, and confirmed it on my pandora also.

Right now. the XFCE menu handles right clicks like left clicks. It would be more logical to either not do anything on a right click, or open a context menu that e.g. lets the user generate a link to an application on the desktop.

SD-Card in Pandora can only be unmounted by guest (uid=1000) but not by jgeiss (uid=1001).

Steps To Reproduce:

Insert SD-Card (or boot with SD-Card inserted),
Login as jgeiss (uid=1001),
Try to unmount SD-Card via XFCE-Popup-Menu (right mouse click on SD-Card-Icon and select unmount).

Using pygame I try to play a music file starting from some position in the middle::

import pygame
pygame.init()
pygame.mixer.init()

pygame.mixer.music.load('some_file.ogg')
pygame.mixer.music.play(0,60)

This should start playing the file from the firs minute, instead on the pandora the file plays from the start.

I've tried the same code in a debian (sid) chroot (from extend utils) and it works correctly, as it does on my pc (debian wheezy).

I suspect that the issue may be present also in .next (I've done a very quick test on a friend's pandora).

Some relevant version numbers:

* libogg.so.0.6.0 (on debian libogg.so.0.8.0)
* libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0.10.1 (on debian libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0.12.0)

When an internet connection was established through a mobile phone (Android, tethering) via bluetooth, the internet connection will not be re-established when the Pandora was sent to sleep and woken up again. The Pandora seems to be connected to the mobile phone, but no internet connection can be established, not even when manually trying to connect. The only way out is to disable bluetooth and enable it again.

I had similar problems with WiFi, before notaz tweaked the system (http://boards.openpandora.org/index.php/topic/11416-wifi-mysteries-resolved-once-and-for-all-—-power-saving-is-clearly-the-culprit/?p=249036).

If you boot the system with the lid closed, the backlight will still be on when you get to the desktop. You have to lift the lid for an instant and then close again to shut it off. Perhaps this is because of the lack of trigger for an interrupt since the sensor is already activated. Can there be one extra check of the lid sensor after boot to cover this static position?

Please see this for GTK apps : http://library.gnome.org/devel/gdk/stable/gdk-Input-Devices.html
And see this thread : http://boards.openpandora.org/index.php?/topic/372-xournal-pdf-annotations/page__gopid__6836#entry6836

cat >/etc/ld.so.conf<<END
/lib
/usr/lib
END

ldconfig

Hi there,

Many games depend on sdl-perl. Perl and sdl are part of the base OS, but not not the connection between the two.

Cheers,
sebt3

It'll have to be in the SKEL.
/etc/skel/Applications/Settings/Thunar/uca.xml

People can replace the contents of their current uca.xml file with the following to gain this functionality now.
/home/[USERNAME]/Applications/Settings/Thunar/uca.xml

<?xml encoding="UTF-8" version="1.0"?>
<actions>
<action>
<icon>Terminal</icon>
<name>Open Terminal Here</name>
<command>exo-open --working-directory %f --launch TerminalEmulator</command>
<description>Example for a custom action</description>
<patterns>*</patterns>
<directories/>
</action>
<action>
<icon>emblem-symbolic-link</icon>
<name>Mount PND</name>
<command>/usr/pandora/scripts/pnd_run.sh -p %f -m &amp;&amp; thunar /mnt/utmp/</command>
<description></description>
<patterns>*.pnd;*.PND</patterns>
<other-files/>
<text-files/>
</action>
<action>
<icon>gtk-jump-to-rtl</icon>
<name>Unmount PND</name>
<command>/usr/pandora/scripts/pnd_run.sh -p %f -u</command>
<description></description>
<patterns>*.pnd;*.PND</patterns>
<other-files/>
<text-files/>
</action>
</actions>