Precaution when insufficient space in working-partition

A couple of people have run into this problem, of having insufficient free space in the working-partition. There are various scenarios where this is a problem.

One of those is when do a version update; the latest 'vmlinuz', 'initrd' and 'easy.sfs' may push the free space below a reasonable value. One precaution that can be taken is to reduce the history-depth; that is, how many previous versions of Easy are kept. I have inserted this code into /inc/07-new-version script, at line 28:

 #20260917 check if enough space in working-partition...
 WPfreem=$(df -m /mnt/${WKG_DEV} | grep '^/dev/' | tr -s ' ' | cut -f 4 -d ' ')
 if [ $WPfreem -lt 3000 ];then #3GB
  if [ $DEPTH_MAX -gt 2 ];then
   DEPTH_MAX=$((${DEPTH_MAX}-1))
   echo -n "$DEPTH_MAX" > /mnt/${WKG_DEV}/${WKG_DIR}.session/session1/var/local/version-history-depth
  fi
 fi

That is one step, more checks can be done.  

Tags: easy

Audacious rolled back

Having a bit of a saga with Audacious music player. Easy 7.4.7 has Audacious package from Easy Scarthgap. I have been gradually recompiling them in woofQ2, in Easy Excalibur; and that is the case for Audacious in Easy 7.4.8.

However, pp4mnk has discovered a plugin problem:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=176978#p176978

I have taken the easy way out, reverted to using the Audacious packages from Scarthgap.   

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EasyClone alternate build path and progress

EasyClone is introduced here:

https://easyos.org/install/how-to-clone-a-easyos-installation.html

Forum member pp4mnk suggested it would be helpful to have a progress indication while the "EASYCLONE" file is being created. Forum member oliverjames wants an alternative path in which to build "EASYCLONE", if insufficient space in the working-partition. Discussion here:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=16721

I have implemented both. There is now a button to bring up a dialog window to choose an alternative path, see near bottom:

While creating EASYCLONE, there is a window on the desktop that has lines appended as the build progresses. Here it is at about 90%:

...this makes use of the 'popup' utility, which has the ability to append lines.

Here is the final window, showing the path, in a "temp4" folder where I chose to build EASYCLONE:

EasyClone is proving to be popular, this takes the usability up a notch.   

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German users please stay with version 7.4.7

There is a bad "de" translation that breaks the desktop:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=176948#p176948

Please wait for Easy 7.4.10  

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Fix reading Xlibre server version

See forum:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=176902#p176902  

A quick check, I have to fix more than just the xorgwizard:

# grep -rl 'Xorg -version' .
./usr/bin/inxi
./usr/sbin/xorgwizard-automatic
./usr/sbin/xorgwizard
./usr/local/video_upgrade/video_upgrade_wizard

 

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EasyOS Excalibur-series version 7.4.9 released

Oh wow, uploading took all day. I'm at a caravan park in rural Western Australia, that has free wifi. It is by StarLink, which is slower to upload than download. But this is incredible; started uploading the latest EasyOS, by sunset still only about halfway.

My phone contract is with Vodafone; however, Vodafone has poor coverage in rural regions. Whereas, Telstra has good rural coverage. I have a second phone with a Telstra sim, a prepaid sim, not a contract. Gave up on the wifi, did a 28-day recharge, 20GB, on the Telstra sim, AU$44, and finished the upload very fast. Telstra has 5G in this town.

Changes since 7.4.8:

• Audacious is back, more DE translations — September 16, 2026
• Fix system X cursor Chromium 151* — September 16, 2026

Download:

https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/excalibur/2026/7.4.9/

Feedback welcome at the forum:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=176899#p176899

Have fun!   

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Audacious is back, more DE translations

The Audacious music player got left out of Easy 7.4.8, now fixed.

Forum member RingeUI has been contributing German translations. That's great, have added the last contribution for the easy 7.4.9 build.

As the Chromium X cursor has been fixed, Easy 7.4.9 will be back on building with the latest security-release of Chromium, right now that's 152.0.7977.82.  

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Fix system X cursor Chromium 151*

I posted that Chromium 151.* was no longer recognizing the system cursor.

Forum member NorthernSoul found a solution, adding this line in /etc/gtk-3.0/settings.ini:

gtk-cursor-theme-name = default

Good, but it does pose a problem when update Easy from an earlier version, as that settings.ini file may have user-customizations. That means, although I have fixed it in easy.sfs, the bottom layer of overlayfs, the user-customized settings.ini will be on the top read-write layer of overlayfs.

Therefore, in the initrd, I am putting in some code to check if there is a settings.ini on the read-write layer, and append that extra line onto it.   

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