Melodie, thank you for your work on the Openbox distro.
I have very little experience with linux so I have hesitated to post here. But I want to learn more about openbox and I have been playing with some of your work for a couple of weeks. Maybe my comments will be helpful.
Thanks for testing it and bringing feedback. It might be helpful indeed. Never know. So don't worry, I'm a newbie too.
With the LiveCD I noticed something that must be related to the menu.cache as you explained for LJK. When I first right-click the desktop to open the menu, under Applications>Editors> it shows Geany. But then if I colse the menu and open again, it shows SciTE. And SciTE works as it should. (Some remnant from the full version I think?)
As Jeff said, I neglected the /etc/skel/.cache/menus/* : I need to replace the files which are there with the current files from /home/guest/.cache/menus directory.
When I go to PCC to set up the firewall, the script tells me that I must download the package mandi-ifw and the package shorewall. This is no problem of course, but would it be better if these packages were already in the iso? (I think this is the same also in your full version RC.)
No sir, but you can suggest to add it for the full version. To be sure I don't forget, it would be nice you post this at the openbox full test version thread. I don't promise you I will : it all depends how much depends it would bring in : can you provide me this information ?
Of course those are very minor things, but maybe this is more important. Could there be a problem in the shutdown script? When I choose shutdown from the menu my machine reboots instead of shutting down completely. This happens on two different computers with this 6.19 Bonsai Test iso run from the livecd. (It also happens with your 2011.6.13 full version RC that I installed on a hard drive. But it does not happen with the official 2010.11 Bonsai.) Has anyone else experienced this?
Yes, I have experienced this. With the PCLinuxOS Education install (the one which will be used to make the final version). I was wondering... if now others also experience the same, it's interesting, we will be several to seek for the cause.
The Edu is built on a Bonsai.
I don't believe it comes from the shutdown script, but rather from a process missing, maybe due to some package I would have removed. I'll look in the Synaptic logs of Bonsai to see if I can find some packages to reinstall.
Bonsai is a version to make your own on top of it. So, I leave all the logs in it, to ensure the people who will make their own to have a better control over it.
For the shutdown problem, please try this : add on the boot kernel line "acpi=force". (In the file /boot/grub/menu.lst).
ie, my boot stanza in the machine I post from:
title linux
kernel (hd0,5)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=/dev/sda6 quiet acpi_apic_instance=2 acpi=force splash=silent vga=864
initrd (hd0,5)/boot/initrd.img
the acpi=force option can be added at the end of the line, or any place close to the end of the line... in fact I'm not sure about the exact rule for this, but doing this way does work.
Your issue (and mine) is different from the one at the thread you pointed to. Ferdes Fides could not use the right-click menu to reboot or shutdown, so the cause is completely different.
In my machine, with PCLinuxOS Education, that happens 20 seconds after the end of the shutdown was completed. Anyone else has his machine that reboots after shutdown ?
