I hope I put this in the correct place. My apologies if not.

I have installed the smxi script on my laptop with an AMD Turion64 running Antix 7.2. It's using the stock repos, a mix of etch and testing, as installed and have added the sidux repos.

The script runs flawlessly with no errors at all. I tried to upgrade to any available kernel and the script reports back that all is good and asked to reboot into the new kernel. Nothing there. h2 had mentioned that the mepis grub menu is non standard and new kernels should be down on the list but nothing but mepis kernel options.

This is all new to me so I'm not sure what I should be looking for. Should the script have pulled in a sidux kernel(newer than mepis) or not. Am I expecting too much?

Thanks, eriefisher
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There was a bug, thanks, it's fixed now.

If you start smxi again, you will be able to install the kernel as you expect.

Keep in mind, you need to do a dist-upgrade before installing the new kernel, as the script should now indicate.

Let me know how it goes.

<note>Don't try to do the dist-upgrade right now because there's a break in xchat that is put on hold automatically, and the antix upgrade cannot proceed until this break is resolved, probably by tomorrow.

You should be able to run the full dist-upgrade tomorrow.

It's not safe to install a new sid kernel until the system is actually upgraded fully.
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I have not enabled the sid repos, just sidux at the moment. Is this where I'm getting confused?
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If you used the latest smxi, your sid sources are enabled, because you can't run sid kernels without sid sources.

Check to make sure:

cat /etc/apt/sources.list

There was a bug in smxi in terms of how it was handling kernel detection for antix users, that bug has now been fixed.

We'll be getting most of the bugs sorted out as people start actually running this.

However, you are running sid sources if you used smxi and picked anything other than the continue unchanged option.

Obviously, if you are doing manual changes, I can't support that type of thing since I have no way to determine what is changed. However, I don't think that's the case here.

Again, you reported a bug, the bug has now been fixed, although I still need to add in error handling to avoid this issue again, the kernel install should never have started if the kernel to install was null, empty, which is what happened.
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Well I manages to install kernel 2.6.25-7.slh.2-sidux-686 with the script, no errors. However, I just double checked and the sid sources are NOT enabled(commented out '#'). sidux only has been added to my sources.list and I did this manually.

I didn't realize I stumbled onto a bug. Well that's what testing is for.

eriefisher
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This is from antiX-kdelite.iso (M7.01)

I did a dist-upgrade via smxi, all seemed ok, except that on logging in to X, the /etc/apt/sources.list file had gone, and no backup.

I'll see if it happens again.
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that would be a serious bug, if true.
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Sorry, false alarm.

What happened was that the clean cruft removed the mepis-config file
and the mepis-config file removed /etc/apt/sources.list and the sudoers file!

It is a Mepis bug, not a smxi one.

Again sorry for the false alarm.
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Show me the full output for this on a fresh system, that has not had cruft removed:

dpkg -l | awk '/^(rc)[ \t]*/{print $2}'

Then we can find the relevant mepis file name and simply filter it out of the results before removing it.

This shows the entire thing for all items;

dpkg -l | grep '^rc'

That will let you see which file was removed, but rc stuff should not have been left in like that, but it's easy to work around once you have the file name.
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The file name is called
mepis-config

mepis1:/home/demo# dpkg -l | awk '/^(rc)[ \t]*/{print $2}'
blt
fftw3
freeglut3
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
lapack3
liba52-0.7.4
libaa1
libamrnb3
libamrwb3
libao2
libasyncns0
libavahi-core4
libavahi-glib1
libavcodec0d
libavformat0d
libavformat1d
libavutil1d
libbonoboui2-0
libcaca0
libcdio6
libclamav2
libcpufreq0
libcroco3
libcucul0
libcupsimage2
libcurl3
libdc1394-13
libdv4
libfaac0
libfaad0
libffi4
libflac++5
libflac7
libfox-1.6-0
libg2c0
libgadu3
libglib1.2
libgmp3c2
libgnokii3
libgnome2-0
libgnomecupsui1.0-1c2a
libgnomeui-0
libgnomevfs2-0
libgoffice-1-2
libgpgme11
libgpgme6
libgpod2
libgsf-1-114
libgsf-gnome-1-114
libgsmme1c2a
libgstreamer0.10-0
libgtk1.2
libgutenprint2
libhesiod0
libieee1284-3
libifp4
libijs-0.35
libiw28
libjasper-1.701-1
libkarma0
liblame0
liblircclient0
liblzo1
libmeanwhile1
libmikmod2
libmimelib1c2a
libmtp6
libmusicbrainz4c2a
libmyspell3c2
libnautilus-burn3
libnautilus-burn4
libneon25
libnjb5
libnl1-pre6
libnm-util0
libnss3-0d
libntfs-3g13
libntfs-3g5
libofa0
liboggflac3
liboil0.3
libopencdk8
libopenexr2c2a
libopenobex1
libpoppler-qt1
libpoppler1
libportaudio2
libpostproc0d
libpq4
libpulse0
libquicktime0
librsync1
libsbc0
libsexy2
libsilc-1.1-2
libslp1
libsndfile1
libsnmp-base
libssp0
libstdc++5
libstlport4.6c2
libswscale1d
libt1-5
libtagc0
libtorrent9
libtotem-plparser1
libts0
libtunepimp3
libtunepimp5
libtwolame0
libufsparse
libuniconf4.2
libvisual-0.4-0
libvte4
libwavpack1
libwmf0.2-7
libwpd8c2a
libwvstreams4.2-base
libwvstreams4.2-extras
libwxbase2.6-0
libwxgtk2.6-0
libx264-56
libxine1
libxplc0.3.13
libxvidcore4
libxvmc1
libzephyr3
mepis-config
odbcinst1debian1
refblas3
snort-common
snort-rules-default
ssl-cert
tk8.4
unixodbc
wvdial
xchat-common

mepis1:/home/demo# dpkg -l | grep '^rc'
rc blt 2.4z-4 the BLT extension library for Tcl/Tk - run-time packag
rc fftw3 3.1.2-2 library for computing Fast Fourier Transforms
rc freeglut3 2.4.0-5.1 OpenGL Utility Toolkit
rc gstreamer0.10-plugins-good 0.10.6-2 GStreamer plugins from the "good" set
rc lapack3 3.0.20000531a-6 library of linear algebra routines 3 - shared version
rc liba52-0.7.4 0.7.4-11 library for decoding ATSC A/52 streams
rc libaa1 1.4p5-32 ascii art library
rc libamrnb3 7.0.0.0-0.0 floating-point Adaptive Multi-Rate (AMR) speech codec
rc libamrwb3 7.0.0.2-0.1 Adaptive Multi-Rate - Wideband (AMR-WB) speech codec
rc libao2 0.8.8-3 Cross Platform Audio Output Library
rc libasyncns0 0.3-1 Asyncronous name service query library
rc libavahi-core4 0.6.16-3etch1 Avahi's embeddable mDNS/DNS-SD library
rc libavahi-glib1 0.6.20-2mepis1 Avahi glib integration library
rc libavcodec0d 0.cvs20060823-8 ffmpeg codec library
rc libavformat0d 0.cvs20060823-8 ffmpeg file format library
rc libavformat1d 0.cvs20070307-6mepis1 ffmpeg file format library
rc libavutil1d 0.cvs20070307-6mepis1 ffmpeg utility library
rc libbonoboui2-0 2.18.0-5mepis1 The Bonobo UI library
rc libcaca0 0.99.beta11.debian-3 colour ASCII art library
rc libcdio6 0.76-1 library to read and control CD-ROM
rc libclamav2 0.90.1-3etch4 virus scanner library
rc libcpufreq0 002-5 shared library to deal with the cpufreq Linux kernel f
rc libcroco3 0.6.1-1 a generic Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) parsing and mani
rc libcucul0 0.99.beta12.debian-3 low-level Unicode character drawing library
rc libcupsimage2 1.3.2-1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - image libs
rc libcurl3 7.16.4-2mepis1 Multi-protocol file transfer library (OpenSSL)
rc libdc1394-13 1.1.0-5 high level programming interface for IEEE1394 digital
rc libdv4 1.0.0-1+b1 software library for DV format digital video (runtime
rc libfaac0 1.25-0.1 an AAC audio encoder - library files
rc libfaad0 2.5-5mepis1 freeware Advanced Audio Decoder - runtime files
rc libffi4 4.2.1-4 Foreign Function Interface library runtime
rc libflac++5 1.1.2-6 Free Lossless Audio Codec - C++ runtime library
rc libflac7 1.1.2-6 Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtime C library
rc libfox-1.6-0 1.6.25-1 The FOX C++ GUI Toolkit
rc libg2c0 1:3.4.6-6 Runtime library for GNU Fortran 77 applications
rc libgadu3 1:1.7~rc2-2 Gadu-Gadu protocol library - runtime files
rc libglib1.2 1.2.10-17 The GLib library of C routines
rc libgmp3c2 2:4.2.1+dfsg-4 Multiprecision arithmetic library
rc libgnokii3 0.6.14-1 Gnokii library
rc libgnome2-0 2.18.0-4mepis1 The GNOME 2 library - runtime files
rc libgnomecupsui1.0-1c2a 0.31-3 UI extensions to libgnomecups
rc libgnomeui-0 2.18.1-2mepis1 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interface) - runtime files
rc libgnomevfs2-0 1:2.18.1-3mepis1 GNOME Virtual File System (runtime libraries)
rc libgoffice-1-2 0.2.1-4 Document centric objects library - runtime files
rc libgpgme11 1.1.2-5 GPGME - GnuPG Made Easy
rc libgpgme6 0.3.16-2 GPGME - GnuPG Made Easy
rc libgpod2 0.5.2-3mepis1 a library to read and write songs and artwork to an iP
rc libgsf-1-114 1.14.7-1 Structured File Library - runtime version
rc libgsf-gnome-1-114 1.14.7-1 Structured File Library - runtime version for GNOME
rc libgsmme1c2a 1.10-10 GSM mobile phone access library
rc libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.14-1 Core GStreamer libraries and elements
rc libgtk1.2 1.2.10-18.1 The GIMP Toolkit set of widgets for X
rc libgutenprint2 5.0.0-3 runtime for the Gutenprint printer driver library
rc libhesiod0 3.0.2-18.1 Libraries for hesiod, a service name resolution protoc
rc libieee1284-3 0.2.11-1 cross-platform library for parallel port access
rc libifp4 1.0.0.2-3 communicate with iRiver iFP audio devices
rc libijs-0.35 0.35-3 IJS raster image transport protocol: shared library
rc libiw28 28-1 Wireless tools - library
rc libjasper-1.701-1 1.701.0-2 The JasPer JPEG-2000 runtime library
rc libkarma0 0.0.6-2mepis1 Rio Karma access library [runtime files]
rc liblame0 3.97-0.0 LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder
rc liblircclient0 0.8.0-13 infra-red remote control support - client library
rc liblzo1 1.08-3 data compression library (old version)
rc libmeanwhile1 1.0.2-3 open implementation of the Lotus Sametime Community Cl
rc libmikmod2 3.1.11-a-6 A portable sound library
rc libmimelib1c2a 4:3.5.7-2mepis1 KDE mime library
rc libmtp6 0.2.0-1mepis1 Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) library
rc libmusicbrainz4c2a 2.1.5-1 Second generation incarnation of the CD Index - librar
rc libmyspell3c2 1:3.1-18 MySpell spellchecking library
rc libnautilus-burn3 2.14.3-8+b1 Nautilus Burn Library - runtime version
rc libnautilus-burn4 2.18.2-1mepis1 Nautilus Burn Library - runtime version
rc libneon25 0.25.5.dfsg-6 An HTTP and WebDAV client library
rc libnjb5 2.2.5-4.1 Creative Labs Nomad Jukebox library
rc libnl1-pre6 1.0~pre6-5 Library for dealing with netlink sockets
rc libnm-util0 0.6.5-1mepis1 network management framework (shared library)
rc libnss3-0d 3.11.7-1mepis1 Network Security Service libraries
rc libntfs-3g13 1:1.1004-1 ntfs-3g filesystem in userspace (FUSE) library
rc libntfs-3g5 1:1.710-1mepis1 ntfs-3g filesystem in userspace (FUSE) library
rc libofa0 0.9.3-2 Library for acoustic fingerprinting
rc liboggflac3 1.1.2-6 Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtime C library (ogg)
rc liboil0.3 0.3.12-1+b1 Library of Optimized Inner Loops
rc libopencdk8 0.5.13-2 Open Crypto Development Kit (OpenCDK) (runtime)
rc libopenexr2c2a 1.2.2-4.3 runtime files for the OpenEXR image library
rc libopenobex1 1.3-3 OBEX protocol library
rc libpoppler-qt1 0.5.4-6mepis1 PDF rendering library (Qt 3 based shared library)
rc libpoppler1 0.5.4-6mepis1 PDF rendering library
rc libportaudio2 19+svn20060825-1 Portable audio I/O - shared library
rc libpostproc0d 0.cvs20060823-8 ffmpeg video postprocessing library
rc libpq4 8.1.9-0etch1 PostgreSQL C client library
rc libpulse0 0.9.5-7 PulseAudio client libraries
rc libquicktime0 2:0.9.7-1 library for reading and writing Quicktime files
rc librsync1 0.9.7-1 Library which implements the rsync remote-delta algori
rc libsbc0 0.0cvs20070327-1 Subband codec (SBC) library
rc libsexy2 0.1.11-2 collection of additional GTK+ widgets - library
rc libsilc-1.1-2 1.1.3-1 SILC library (silc-toolkit)
rc libslp1 1.2.1-6.2 OpenSLP libraries
rc libsndfile1 1.0.16-1 Library for reading/writing audio files
rc libsnmp-base 5.3.1-8 SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) MIBs and doc
rc libssp0 4.1.1-21 GCC stack smashing protection library
rc libstdc++5 1:3.3.6-15 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
rc libstlport4.6c2 4.6.2-3 STLport C++ class library
rc libswscale1d 0.cvs20070307-6mepis1 ffmpeg video scaling library
rc libt1-5 5.1.0-3 Type 1 font rasterizer library - runtime
rc libtagc0 1.4-8+b1 TagLib Audio Meta-Data Library (C bindings)
rc libtorrent9 0.10.4-1 a C++ BitTorrent library
rc libtotem-plparser1 2.18.2-2mepis1 Totem Playlist Parser library - runtime version
rc libts0 1.0-2 touch screen library
rc libtunepimp3 0.4.2-4.1 MusicBrainz tagging library and simple tagger applicat
rc libtunepimp5 0.5.3-4mepis1 MusicBrainz tagging library
rc libtwolame0 0.3.10-2 MPEG Audio Layer 2 encoding library
rc libufsparse 1.2-7 collection of libraries for computations for sparse ma
rc libuniconf4.2 4.2.2-2.3 C++ network libraries for rapid application developmen
rc libvisual-0.4-0 0.4.0-1.1 Audio visualization framework
rc libvte4 1:0.12.2-5 Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 2.0 - runtime files
rc libwavpack1 4.41.0-1 an audio codec (lossy and lossless) - library
rc libwmf0.2-7 0.2.8.4-2 Windows metafile conversion library
rc libwpd8c2a 0.8.7-6 Library for handling WordPerfect documents (shared lib
rc libwvstreams4.2-base 4.2.2-2.3 C++ network libraries for rapid application developmen
rc libwvstreams4.2-extras 4.2.2-2.3 C++ network libraries for rapid application developmen
rc libwxbase2.6-0 2.6.3.2.1.5 wxBase library (runtime) - non-GUI support classes of
rc libwxgtk2.6-0 2.6.3.2.1.5 wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (GTK+ runtime
rc libx264-56 0.svn20070930-0.0 x264 video coding library
rc libxine1 1.1.2+dfsg-4 the xine video/media player library, binary files
rc libxplc0.3.13 0.3.13-1 Light weight component system
rc libxvidcore4 2:1.1.3-0.3 High quality ISO MPEG4 codec library
rc libxvmc1 1:1.0.4-2 X11 Video extension library
rc libzephyr3 2.1.20070719.SNAPSHOT-1 The original "Instant Message" system libraries withou
rc mepis-config 7.0.03 General configuration settings for SimplyMEPIS
rc odbcinst1debian1 2.2.11-14 Support library and helper program for accessing odbc
rc refblas3 1.2-8 Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3, shared library
rc snort-common 2.3.3-14 Flexible Network Intrusion Detection System [common fi
rc snort-rules-default 2.3.3-14 Flexible Network Intrusion Detection System ruleset
rc ssl-cert 1.0.14 Simple debconf wrapper for openssl
rc tk8.4 8.4.16-2 Tk toolkit for Tcl and X11, v8.4 - run-time files
rc unixodbc 2.2.11-13 ODBC tools libraries
rc wvdial 1.56-1.2 PPP dialer with built-in intelligence
rc xchat-common 2.8.2-1 Common files for X-Chat

This is only for pre-M7.2 releases, as the later versions had mepis-config removed. It is ok to remove mepis-config, but only if the sources.list and sudoers files have been backed up.
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