Re: [expert] Mounting a floppy
On Tuesday 28 October 2003 9:57 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: Is it possible to set up a floppy to be mounted as ext2 or DOS without the use of supermount? I see in the default installation, that /dev/fd0 is using the term auto instead of specifying which file system. It doesn't seem to be covered under the mount or fstab man pages, so I am assuming its a supermount term. And I prefer to not use supermount, I prefer the KDE mounting tools, as supermount messes with my USB Camera. Just another question that I answered after hitting the send button. Yes, it was other commands that were messing things up. I simplified my fstab to /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,nosuid,user,nodev 0 0 and it now mounts fine. -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Packet writing to CDRW
Hi All, Well since the announcement of the packet drivers and Mandrake, does anyone know how the packet writing works in Mandrake 9.2, I mean it would be really cool just to use a CDRW device as a removable drive which can be written to on the fly. Cheers Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] KDE 'copy to' context option?
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 22:46, Jeremy Gregorio wrote: This is just about the only thing I miss from redhat (ok, there's freshrpms nice, easy to find reliable servers, but plf and texstar are a fair trade for that :) ). I could right click a file and there was a 'copy to' option that poped up a list of directories. Is this some funky redhat specific thing, or can I change a setting somewhere? Thanks yet again. Jeremy Gregorio Wow you are right. I hadn't notice it before because I've been so quick to install Texstar's updates. Nor can I figure out what the difference between the two are. 3.1.4 via Texstar has it and MDK stock doesn't h. James __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mdk 9.2 issues
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 21:28, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Tuesday 28 October 2003 11:32 am, Ray Warren wrote: On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 07:34:49AM -0800, James Sparenberg wrote: b) multiple lun: After adding the dvd-reader to ide-scsi, the machine got 7 readers and 7 burners = scd0 - scd13. According to him options scsi_mod scsi_man_luns=1 in etc/modules.conf didn't helped. The reader is a toshiba, the burner a teac 512eb. bug #31 Can you add these to bugs.mandrakelinux.com? Ok, I just attempted to join anthill, and start writing up some of my own bugs. Now that I have joined the system, I can't seem to get a password out of it. Any thoughts? I just tried to create a new account and I got the mail in about 2 seconds. Have you tried the send new password function? This will tell you if it thinks you even have an account. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mdk 9.2 issues
Fred Albrecht wrote: Steffen Barszus wrote: Hi ! I have installed 9.2 PP d/L on a friends machine and got some massive problems. He is now running 9.1 again, but i thought it might be worth to share experiences. a) totem crashed immediatly but was standard app for playing mp3's. I don't know why it crashed, does it run stable for anyone ? Works fine for me. Although on second thought it's with the stuff from PLF, not just the stock version from MDK. I've watched several DVDs and numerous clips from the web with it without problems. Basically if Xine works, Totem should work as well. It's mostly just a change of interface. As for MP3 files, I use Zinf, so I haven't tried Totem. There is a bug in libxine and some alsa drivers that has been corrected in the CVS. Update to the new libxine1 rpms that are in PLF (add PLF medium with http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon), they are the rc2 and include the patch. Eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] apcups Monitoring
My ups is working well, but I would like to use the monitoring software. Unfortunately I seem to have a config problem, which I don't understand. These are the error messages: Wed Oct 29 09:53:14 GMT 2003 Cannot create /var/lock/subsys/apcupsd/LCK..ttyS0 serial port lock file: ERR=No such file or directory Wed Oct 29 09:53:14 GMT 2003 apcupsd FATAL ERROR in apcdevice.c at line 87 Unable to create UPS lock file. Wed Oct 29 09:53:14 GMT 2003 apcupsd error shutdown completed The directory /var/lock/subsys/apcupsd exists. Why can't it create the lock file? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] apcups Monitoring
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 05:34, Anne Wilson wrote: My ups is working well, but I would like to use the monitoring software. Unfortunately I seem to have a config problem, which I don't understand. These are the error messages: Wed Oct 29 09:53:14 GMT 2003 Cannot create /var/lock/subsys/apcupsd/LCK..ttyS0 serial port lock file: ERR=No such file or directory Wed Oct 29 09:53:14 GMT 2003 apcupsd FATAL ERROR in apcdevice.c at line 87 Unable to create UPS lock file. Wed Oct 29 09:53:14 GMT 2003 apcupsd error shutdown completed The directory /var/lock/subsys/apcupsd exists. Why can't it create the lock file? Anne I guess the first obvious question is does the dir have the correct permissions for whatever apcupsd is running as? On my system it runs as root. And, are you sure there is a /var/lock/subsys/apcupsd directory? I have a apcupsd file in /var/lock/subsys/ but no apcupsd directory... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mdk 9.2 issues
Ok, I just attempted to join anthill, and start writing up some of my own bugs. Now that I have joined the system, I can't seem to get a password out of it. Any thoughts? I just tried to create a new account and I got the mail in about 2 seconds. Have you tried the send new password function? This will tell you if it thinks you even have an account. Yes, And still no password. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Update on the LG problem.
On Tuesday 28 October 2003 11:13 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Dell HP/Compaq and others seem to be assisting MDK with solving the problem with LG CDROMS. http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/lgerrata.php3 For the latest... James James: I'm wondering how long it will be until some piece of malware is propagated that will seek out systems using these drives and send the fatal flush-cache instruction. One can only hope that the moron at LG who wrote the original BIOS is now engaged in some other line of work more suited to his talents -- cleaning stables comes to mind. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] insmod help needed
With a lot of help from the GnomeMeeting list I have finally got it working as user - this with pwcx forced. I now need to make it automatically do this. As I understand it I now have to insert into /etc/modules.conf the line post-install pwc /sbin/insmod -f /home/anne/tmp/ToUcam/usb-pwcx-8.2.2/x86/gcc-3.2/pwcx-2.4.20.o /dev/null 21 || : Does that look right? I'm not sure what the last part of this means. Once I get this sorted I'll try to go back through the thread and document what happened. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] apcups Monitoring
On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 12:57 pm, Brian V Bonini wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 05:34, Anne Wilson wrote: My ups is working well, but I would like to use the monitoring software. Unfortunately I seem to have a config problem, which I don't understand. These are the error messages: Wed Oct 29 09:53:14 GMT 2003 Cannot create /var/lock/subsys/apcupsd/LCK..ttyS0 serial port lock file: ERR=No such file or directory Wed Oct 29 09:53:14 GMT 2003 apcupsd FATAL ERROR in apcdevice.c at line 87 Unable to create UPS lock file. Wed Oct 29 09:53:14 GMT 2003 apcupsd error shutdown completed The directory /var/lock/subsys/apcupsd exists. Why can't it create the lock file? Anne I guess the first obvious question is does the dir have the correct permissions for whatever apcupsd is running as? On my system it runs as root. And, are you sure there is a /var/lock/subsys/apcupsd directory? I have a apcupsd file in /var/lock/subsys/ but no apcupsd directory... I think you pointed me at the solution g. I created the /var/lock/subsys/apcupsd directory, because it seemed to want to use that to create the lock file. However, I now think I was wrong. I have deleted that directory. There is a file /var/lock/subsys/apcupsd, which must be used in the lock file creation. We'll see what happens at the next reboot, but I think that is right. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] insmod help needed
Am Mittwoch, 29. Oktober 2003 16:27 schrieb Anne Wilson: With a lot of help from the GnomeMeeting list I have finally got it working as user - this with pwcx forced. I now need to make it automatically do this. As I understand it I now have to insert into /etc/modules.conf the line post-install pwc /sbin/insmod -f /home/anne/tmp/ToUcam/usb-pwcx-8.2.2/x86/gcc-3.2/pwcx-2.4.20.o /dev/null 21 || : Does that look right? I'm not sure what the last part of this means. Hell. Please copy pwcx-2.4.20.o to /lib/modules/uname -r/misc/ , run depmod -a afterwards and then insmod it from where or try modprobe on it. I don't think its a good idea to insmod a kernelmodule from users home (maybe the dir has write access for the user ... Once I get this sorted I'll try to go back through the thread and document what happened. Anne Hope you get all sorted out :) Have fun StefMandrake9.2 running since todayfen :))) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] A big OOoops!
Sopmehow I have list my klipper, kmix etc from the taskbar. I guess I've moved or resized something by accident. Any tips on getting them back? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mdk 9.2 issues
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 07:15, Rob Blomquist wrote: Ok, I just attempted to join anthill, and start writing up some of my own bugs. Now that I have joined the system, I can't seem to get a password out of it. Any thoughts? I just tried to create a new account and I got the mail in about 2 seconds. Have you tried the send new password function? This will tell you if it thinks you even have an account. Yes, And still no password. H I'm going to ask the guys running it if they have any idea what the problem may be. James Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Update on the LG problem.
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 07:12, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Tuesday 28 October 2003 11:13 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Dell HP/Compaq and others seem to be assisting MDK with solving the problem with LG CDROMS. http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/lgerrata.php3 For the latest... James James: I'm wondering how long it will be until some piece of malware is propagated that will seek out systems using these drives and send the fatal flush-cache instruction. One can only hope that the moron at LG who wrote the original BIOS is now engaged in some other line of work more suited to his talents -- cleaning stables comes to mind. -- cmg Or worse yet, the guy probably has it on his resume that he has written device drivers and is working for a number of other companies. Heck with talent like this he'll probably become a CEO *evil grin* James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] apcups Monitoring
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 07:48, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 12:57 pm, Brian V Bonini wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 05:34, Anne Wilson wrote: My ups is working well, but I would like to use the monitoring software. Unfortunately I seem to have a config problem, which I don't understand. These are the error messages: Wed Oct 29 09:53:14 GMT 2003 Cannot create /var/lock/subsys/apcupsd/LCK..ttyS0 serial port lock file: ERR=No such file or directory Wed Oct 29 09:53:14 GMT 2003 apcupsd FATAL ERROR in apcdevice.c at line 87 Unable to create UPS lock file. Wed Oct 29 09:53:14 GMT 2003 apcupsd error shutdown completed The directory /var/lock/subsys/apcupsd exists. Why can't it create the lock file? Anne I guess the first obvious question is does the dir have the correct permissions for whatever apcupsd is running as? On my system it runs as root. And, are you sure there is a /var/lock/subsys/apcupsd directory? I have a apcupsd file in /var/lock/subsys/ but no apcupsd directory... I think you pointed me at the solution g. I created the /var/lock/subsys/apcupsd directory, because it seemed to want to use that to create the lock file. However, I now think I was wrong. I have deleted that directory. There is a file /var/lock/subsys/apcupsd, which must be used in the lock file creation. We'll see what happens at the next reboot, but I think that is right. Anne Note that they are files in this dir not directories. From my experience (as useless as it may be.) these are just 0 byte files that get touched by a product to signal that it is running. I've seen the create error a number of times when a process dies incorrectly and this file is left behind. The next time it starts it can't touch the file and fails to start because the program doesn't know how to recover from this condition. If you remove it from this dir is the program then able to start correctly? James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] A big OOoops!
On Oct 29, 2003, at 11:26, Anne Wilson wrote: Sopmehow I have list my klipper, kmix etc from the taskbar. I guess I've moved or resized something by accident. Any tips on getting them back? Right click on an empty space on the bar and select add Applet and you will see the lost ones there. Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Packet writing to CDRW
On 29 Oct 2003 18:32:05 +1100 Mark Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Well since the announcement of the packet drivers and Mandrake, does anyone know how the packet writing works in Mandrake 9.2, I mean it would be really cool just to use a CDRW device as a removable drive which can be written to on the fly. Cheers Mark Saved this link which someone used to good effect. http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/cdrw-hint.txt Are you ex Ericson NZ, Mark? I seem to recognise the name. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Update on the LG problem.
James Sparenberg schrieb am Wed, 29 Oct 2003 09:37:59 -0800: Heck with talent like this he'll probably become a CEO *evil grin* Wasn't there a guy like this in the early 80ies selling computer stuff from a garage together with his friend? He later became leader of a large company selling crap to the masses. wobo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] A big OOoops!
On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 5:51 pm, Schwartz Avi wrote: On Oct 29, 2003, at 11:26, Anne Wilson wrote: Sopmehow I have list my klipper, kmix etc from the taskbar. I guess I've moved or resized something by accident. Any tips on getting them back? Right click on an empty space on the bar and select add Applet and you will see the lost ones there. Add System Tray - that was it. Thanks Avi Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] insmod help needed
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 10:27 am, Anne Wilson wrote: With a lot of help from the GnomeMeeting list I have finally got it working as user - this with pwcx forced. I now need to make it automatically do this. As I understand it I now have to insert into /etc/modules.conf the line post-install pwc /sbin/insmod -f /home/anne/tmp/ToUcam/usb-pwcx-8.2.2/x86/gcc-3.2/pwcx-2.4.20.o /dev/null 21 || : Does that look right? I'm not sure what the last part of this means. Once I get this sorted I'll try to go back through the thread and document what happened. Anne Anne, I've already got this in /etc/modules/conf: post-install pwc /sbin/insmod --force -k /lib/modules/usb/pwcx.o /dev/null 21 || : and it makes no difference for Gnomemeeting here. Lemme know if pointing it to your normal users /home works. Thanks! -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Update on the LG problem.
Dell He still sells junk. Look at the LG drive issue. -Original Message- From: Wolfgang Bornath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 1:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Update on the LG problem. James Sparenberg schrieb am Wed, 29 Oct 2003 09:37:59 -0800: Heck with talent like this he'll probably become a CEO *evil grin* Wasn't there a guy like this in the early 80ies selling computer stuff from a garage together with his friend? He later became leader of a large company selling crap to the masses. wobo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] KDE 'copy to' context option?
On Wednesday, October 29, 2003 02:31 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 22:46, Jeremy Gregorio wrote: This is just about the only thing I miss from redhat (ok, there's freshrpms nice, easy to find reliable servers, but plf and texstar are a fair trade for that :) ). I could right click a file and there was a 'copy to' option that poped up a list of directories. Is this some funky redhat specific thing, or can I change a setting somewhere? Thanks yet again. Jeremy Gregorio Wow you are right. I hadn't notice it before because I've been so quick to install Texstar's updates. Nor can I figure out what the difference between the two are. 3.1.4 via Texstar has it and MDK stock doesn't h. James You might check for packages that weren't installed, probably due to package splitting. I'd start with kdeaddons*. The option is present on my system (latest cooker KDE, rebuilt from SRPM for 9.1). I use it enough that I'm confident I'd have noticed its absence on previous versions. Arn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Update on the LG problem.
there was also little billy --- Original Message --- From: Lawson, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [expert] Update on the LG problem. Dell He still sells junk. Look at the LG drive issue. -Original Message- From: Wolfgang Bornath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 1:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Update on the LG problem. James Sparenberg schrieb am Wed, 29 Oct 2003 09:37:59 -0800: Heck with talent like this he'll probably become a CEO *evil grin* Wasn't there a guy like this in the early 80ies selling computer stuff from a garage together with his friend? He later became leader of a large company selling crap to the masses. wobo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] insmod help needed
On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 6:32 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 29 October 2003 10:27 am, Anne Wilson wrote: With a lot of help from the GnomeMeeting list I have finally got it working as user - this with pwcx forced. I now need to make it automatically do this. As I understand it I now have to insert into /etc/modules.conf the line post-install pwc /sbin/insmod -f /home/anne/tmp/ToUcam/usb-pwcx-8.2.2/x86/gcc-3.2/pwcx-2.4.20.o /dev/null 21 || : Does that look right? I'm not sure what the last part of this means. Once I get this sorted I'll try to go back through the thread and document what happened. Anne Anne, I've already got this in /etc/modules/conf: post-install pwc /sbin/insmod --force -k /lib/modules/usb/pwcx.o /dev/null 21 || : and it makes no difference for Gnomemeeting here. Lemme know if pointing it to your normal users /home works. Thanks! Hi, Dark Lord. I haven't forgotten that you are wrestling with the same thing. Within the next 24 hours, all being well, I'll send you a summary of the steps I took and why. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Update on the LG problem.
Really? I thought it was William Doors. Anne On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 6:35 pm, Lawson, Jim wrote: Dell He still sells junk. Look at the LG drive issue. -Original Message- From: Wolfgang Bornath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 1:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Update on the LG problem. James Sparenberg schrieb am Wed, 29 Oct 2003 09:37:59 -0800: Heck with talent like this he'll probably become a CEO *evil grin* Wasn't there a guy like this in the early 80ies selling computer stuff from a garage together with his friend? He later became leader of a large company selling crap to the masses. wobo -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] insmod help needed
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 01:52 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Hi, Dark Lord. I haven't forgotten that you are wrestling with the same thing. Within the next 24 hours, all being well, I'll send you a summary of the steps I took and why. Anne Thanks Anne - much appreciated! -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] apcups Monitoring
On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 5:46 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 07:48, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 12:57 pm, Brian V Bonini wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 05:34, Anne Wilson wrote: My ups is working well, but I would like to use the monitoring software. Unfortunately I seem to have a config problem, which I don't understand. These are the error messages: Wed Oct 29 09:53:14 GMT 2003 Cannot create /var/lock/subsys/apcupsd/LCK..ttyS0 serial port lock file: ERR=No such file or directory Wed Oct 29 09:53:14 GMT 2003 apcupsd FATAL ERROR in apcdevice.c at line 87 Unable to create UPS lock file. Wed Oct 29 09:53:14 GMT 2003 apcupsd error shutdown completed The directory /var/lock/subsys/apcupsd exists. Why can't it create the lock file? Anne I guess the first obvious question is does the dir have the correct permissions for whatever apcupsd is running as? On my system it runs as root. And, are you sure there is a /var/lock/subsys/apcupsd directory? I have a apcupsd file in /var/lock/subsys/ but no apcupsd directory... I think you pointed me at the solution g. I created the /var/lock/subsys/apcupsd directory, because it seemed to want to use that to create the lock file. However, I now think I was wrong. I have deleted that directory. There is a file /var/lock/subsys/apcupsd, which must be used in the lock file creation. We'll see what happens at the next reboot, but I think that is right. Anne Note that they are files in this dir not directories. From my experience (as useless as it may be.) these are just 0 byte files that get touched by a product to signal that it is running. I've seen the create error a number of times when a process dies incorrectly and this file is left behind. The next time it starts it can't touch the file and fails to start because the program doesn't know how to recover from this condition. If you remove it from this dir is the program then able to start correctly? James Hi, James. I had ended up with a directory and a file with the same name. Unfortunately, even after deleting the directory, all is not well. The upsmon program is not as well documented as apcupsd, imo, so I accept that my config file is faulty, but I don't know how to correct it. Do the errors in the attached file tell you what I need to do? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Oct 29 19:05:57 anne-linux apcupsd[1434]: apcupsd FATAL ERROR in apcdevice.c at line 87 Unable to create UPS lock file. Oct 29 19:05:57 anne-linux apcupsd[1434]: apcupsd error shutdown completed Oct 29 19:05:57 anne-linux apcupsd: failed Oct 29 19:05:58 anne-linux upsmon: Network UPS Tools upsmon 1.2.1 Oct 29 19:05:58 anne-linux upsmon: Oct 29 19:05:58 anne-linux upsmon: Fatal error: insufficient power configured! Oct 29 19:05:58 anne-linux upsmon: Oct 29 19:05:58 anne-linux upsmon: Sum of power values: 0 Oct 29 19:05:58 anne-linux upsmon: Minimum value (MINSUPPLIES): 2 Oct 29 19:05:58 anne-linux upsmon: Oct 29 19:05:58 anne-linux upsmon: Edit your upsmon.conf and change the values. Oct 29 19:05:58 anne-linux upsmon: upsmon.conf: invalid directive MONITOR anne-linux Oct 29 19:05:58 anne-linux upsmon: Using power down flag file /etc/killpower Oct 29 19:05:58 anne-linux upsmon: Oct 29 19:05:58 anne-linux upsmon: upsmon.conf: invalid directive EXEC - Execute NOTIFYCMD (see above) with the message Oct 29 19:05:58 anne-linux upsmon: NUT Starting UPS monitor: failed Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Packet writing to CDRW - URL has been changed
The url below does not work. LeRoy On 29 Oct 2003 18:32:05 +1100 Mark Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Well since the announcement of the packet drivers and Mandrake, does anyone know how the packet writing works in Mandrake 9.2, I mean it would be really cool just to use a CDRW device as a removable drive which can be written to on the fly. Cheers Mark Saved this link which someone used to good effect. http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/cdrw-hint.txt Are you ex Ericson NZ, Mark? I seem to recognise the name. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Update on the LG problem.
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 10:15, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: James Sparenberg schrieb am Wed, 29 Oct 2003 09:37:59 -0800: Heck with talent like this he'll probably become a CEO *evil grin* Wasn't there a guy like this in the early 80ies selling computer stuff from a garage together with his friend? He later became leader of a large company selling crap to the masses. wobo Yeah but he was smart enough to let his friend write drivers. Sides. He's a big seller of Unix these days. *grin* James __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] insmod help needed
On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 5:04 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: Am Mittwoch, 29. Oktober 2003 16:27 schrieb Anne Wilson: With a lot of help from the GnomeMeeting list I have finally got it working as user - this with pwcx forced. I now need to make it automatically do this. As I understand it I now have to insert into /etc/modules.conf the line post-install pwc /sbin/insmod -f /home/anne/tmp/ToUcam/usb-pwcx-8.2.2/x86/gcc-3.2/pwcx-2.4.20.o /dev/null 21 || : Does that look right? I'm not sure what the last part of this means. Hell. Please copy pwcx-2.4.20.o to /lib/modules/uname -r/misc/ , done run depmod -a afterwards Problems - depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/misc/pwcx-2.4.20.o and then insmod it from where or try modprobe on it. I don't think its a good idea to insmod a kernelmodule from users home (maybe the dir has write access for the user ... What now? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] apcups Monitoring
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 11:20, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 5:46 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 07:48, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 12:57 pm, Brian V Bonini wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 05:34, Anne Wilson wrote: My ups is working well, but I would like to use the monitoring software. Unfortunately I seem to have a config problem, which I don't understand. These are the error messages: Wed Oct 29 09:53:14 GMT 2003 Cannot create /var/lock/subsys/apcupsd/LCK..ttyS0 serial port lock file: ERR=No such file or directory Wed Oct 29 09:53:14 GMT 2003 apcupsd FATAL ERROR in apcdevice.c at line 87 Unable to create UPS lock file. Wed Oct 29 09:53:14 GMT 2003 apcupsd error shutdown completed The directory /var/lock/subsys/apcupsd exists. Why can't it create the lock file? Anne I guess the first obvious question is does the dir have the correct permissions for whatever apcupsd is running as? On my system it runs as root. And, are you sure there is a /var/lock/subsys/apcupsd directory? I have a apcupsd file in /var/lock/subsys/ but no apcupsd directory... I think you pointed me at the solution g. I created the /var/lock/subsys/apcupsd directory, because it seemed to want to use that to create the lock file. However, I now think I was wrong. I have deleted that directory. There is a file /var/lock/subsys/apcupsd, which must be used in the lock file creation. We'll see what happens at the next reboot, but I think that is right. Anne Note that they are files in this dir not directories. From my experience (as useless as it may be.) these are just 0 byte files that get touched by a product to signal that it is running. I've seen the create error a number of times when a process dies incorrectly and this file is left behind. The next time it starts it can't touch the file and fails to start because the program doesn't know how to recover from this condition. If you remove it from this dir is the program then able to start correctly? James Hi, James. I had ended up with a directory and a file with the same name. Unfortunately, even after deleting the directory, all is not well. The upsmon program is not as well documented as apcupsd, imo, so I accept that my config file is faulty, but I don't know how to correct it. Do the errors in the attached file tell you what I need to do? Anne I would pay attention here. Oct 29 19:05:58 anne-linux upsmon: Fatal error: insufficient power configured! Oct 29 19:05:58 anne-linux upsmon: Oct 29 19:05:58 anne-linux upsmon: Sum of power values: 0 Oct 29 19:05:58 anne-linux upsmon: Minimum value (MINSUPPLIES): 2 I don't have a system I can look at/ test to see what it should be but it seems that your config file power values add up to 0 which is what it's really complaining about. It would seem that the error about writing the lock file is designed to through you off track *grin*. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] apcups Monitoring
On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 7:48 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: I would pay attention here. Oct 29 19:05:58 anne-linux upsmon: Fatal error: insufficient power configured! Oct 29 19:05:58 anne-linux upsmon: Oct 29 19:05:58 anne-linux upsmon: Sum of power values: 0 Oct 29 19:05:58 anne-linux upsmon: Minimum value (MINSUPPLIES): 2 I don't have a system I can look at/ test to see what it should be but it seems that your config file power values add up to 0 which is what it's really complaining about. It would seem that the error about writing the lock file is designed to through you off track *grin*. The sample file seems to be saying that 1 is usually right for a single machine, and that's what I tried up to an hour or so ago. I don't know where it's getting that 'sum of power values' or what it means by it, so I'm stumped. It's not life-threatening, but I hate having things badly configured. I could always get rid of upsmon, of course, and save myself a lot of bother, but then Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Kmail problem (mdk 9.2)
Greetings all, I am having a weird problem with Kmail, when I compose a message, all is well, the header look correct from within Kmail, but when I look at the sendmail queue, the sender address has changed to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -Queue ID- --Size-- Arrival Time -Sender/Recipient--- 81ABC81B4B 1169 Wed Oct 29 10:19:43 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] When sending from Mozilla Thunderbird, all look great in sendmail: -Queue ID- --Size-- Arrival Time -Sender/Recipient--- 4D39A81B4E 625 Wed Oct 29 10:20:02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have the correct addresses setup in the Kmail config, anyone know why this would be happening? Thanks. ...Rob -- If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you. = Robert Goshko Axis Computer Consulting Services, Inc President Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada http://www.axis-dev.ca/ Supporting the Revolution In Your World = Registered Linux User #260513 GNU/Linux i686 2.4.22-10mdk-725ca Mandrake Linux 9.2 mobile AMD Athlon(tm) 4 1500+ 13:19:32 up 7:04, 1 user, load average: 0.93, 1.34, 1.38 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] insmod help needed
Am Mittwoch, 29. Oktober 2003 20:28 schrieb Anne Wilson: On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 5:04 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: Am Mittwoch, 29. Oktober 2003 16:27 schrieb Anne Wilson: With a lot of help from the GnomeMeeting list I have finally got it working as user - this with pwcx forced. I now need to make it automatically do this. As I understand it I now have to insert into /etc/modules.conf the line post-install pwc /sbin/insmod -f /home/anne/tmp/ToUcam/usb-pwcx-8.2.2/x86/gcc-3.2/pwcx-2.4.20.o /dev/null 21 || : Does that look right? I'm not sure what the last part of this means. Hell. Please copy pwcx-2.4.20.o to /lib/modules/uname -r/misc/ , done run depmod -a afterwards Problems - depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/misc/pwcx-2.4.20.o I guess this is quite normal. You propably have compiled the driver module w/o module versioning support. This can cause this error. and then insmod it from where or try modprobe on it. I don't think its a good idea to insmod a kernelmodule from users home (maybe the dir has write access for the user ... What now? The above error doesn't mean necessarily anything bad. Just change the insmod line to correct the path. I was just concerned that the module lays in your home. If you want make it right , you could recompile the module. With some drivers i had that too. With DEFINES= -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -D__KERNEL__ -DNDEBUG the problem was cured. Hope that helps Steffen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Interesting wireless driver tool
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just came across a message posted to the wlan-ng list. There is a company out there called Linuxant and they have released Driveloader, a windoze driver compatibility layer and installer. Here is the info from their page: DriverLoader is a revolutionary compatibility-wrapper allowing standard Windows NDIS (Network Driver Interface Specification) drivers shipped by hardware vendors to be used as-is on Linux x86 systems. DriverLoader technology is the ideal Linux solution to support devices for which no adequate native open-source drivers are available. It also allows vendors to drastically reduce time to market or eliminate the need to support multiple drivers for Windows and Linux. By using the same driver on both platforms, significant resources can be saved. There are rpms available for Mandrake and Redhat, plus generic rpms for everyone else. The package is made up of open and binary components as needed by licensing. Their website is: http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader You must read their release notes and agree before downloading. Unless you are a full GPL/OSS-only type, the agreement isn't onerous at all. Thus, it appears that they have a package that allows you to use windows drivers for wireless lan devices when there are no available linux-native drivers. I downloaded rpms for both 9.1 and 9.2 (I have 9.1 right now and expect to install 9.2 soonish). If this works as advertised, this is cool. 802.11g support for linux (after a fashion) as well as 802.11b for those annoying devices for which there are no linux drivers. praedor - -- Our ship is in the hands of pilots who are steering directly under full sail for a rock. The whole crew may see this course to violate our liberties in full view if they look the right way. - --Samuel Adams, 1771 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/oCsPaKr9sJYeTxgRAiofAJ9mYdBN38IpGVmoWV3LQElmL5AhBwCfeBDJ vopS/30PKkn0FH59Y94wSAA= =o8/N -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Update on the LG problem.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am Wed, 29 Oct 2003 13:36:27 -0500: there was also little billy Now as you mention the name: That's the one I meant! Couldn't remember the name, though ;-) Time for retirement. Couple of weeks to go. wobo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Interesting wireless driver tool
Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just came across a message posted to the wlan-ng list. There is a company out there called Linuxant and they have released Driveloader, a windoze driver compatibility layer and installer. Here is the info from their page: DriverLoader is a revolutionary compatibility-wrapper allowing standard Windows NDIS (Network Driver Interface Specification) drivers shipped by hardware vendors to be used as-is on Linux x86 systems. DriverLoader technology is the ideal Linux solution to support devices for which no adequate native open-source drivers are available. It also allows vendors to drastically reduce time to market or eliminate the need to support multiple drivers for Windows and Linux. By using the same driver on both platforms, significant resources can be saved. There are rpms available for Mandrake and Redhat, plus generic rpms for everyone else. The package is made up of open and binary components as needed by licensing. Their website is: http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader You must read their release notes and agree before downloading. Unless you are a full GPL/OSS-only type, the agreement isn't onerous at all. Thus, it appears that they have a package that allows you to use windows drivers for wireless lan devices when there are no available linux-native drivers. I downloaded rpms for both 9.1 and 9.2 (I have 9.1 right now and expect to install 9.2 soonish). If this works as advertised, this is cool. 802.11g support for linux (after a fashion) as well as 802.11b for those annoying devices for which there are no linux drivers. I can not help but to be skeptical butt... Do keep us up to date on how these drivers work, if indeed they do... drjung -- J. Craig Woods UNIX Network/System Engineer http://www.trismegistus.net/resume.htm Let him that would move the world, first move himself. --Socrates Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Interesting wireless driver tool
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 29 October 2003 04:18 pm, J.C. Woods wrote: Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just came across a message posted to the wlan-ng list. There is a company out there called Linuxant and they have released Driveloader, a windoze driver compatibility layer and installer. Here is the info from their page: DriverLoader is a revolutionary compatibility-wrapper allowing standard Windows NDIS (Network Driver Interface Specification) drivers shipped by hardware vendors to be used as-is on Linux x86 systems. [...] I can not help but to be skeptical butt... Do keep us up to date on how these drivers work, if indeed they do... The driveloader is free, as in beer, so they are not making (or trying to make) money off this from the enduser. This makes me less suspicious. Perhaps they are making use of wine in some capacity, in combination with non GPL code (the binary portion of the package). At this time I don't have a non-linux-friendly wlan card. I DID and likely will again as I am interested in going up to 802.11g. I suppose I could test the driveloader with another 802.11b card I have (which is also supported via the prism2 drivers) that I don't use or care about. I'll edit its id from the /etc/pcmcia/config file and see if I can get driveloader to install and use the windoze driver that came with it. praedor - -- Our ship is in the hands of pilots who are steering directly under full sail for a rock. The whole crew may see this course to violate our liberties in full view if they look the right way. - --Samuel Adams, 1771 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/oDIfaKr9sJYeTxgRAoRyAJoCrP4vNO9PzlEa/4BIvIpePgfYcgCgrq0u IDMo13QQ2c9SlbJjnXPKnV8= =MvPI -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] insmod help needed
On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 8:37 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: Am Mittwoch, 29. Oktober 2003 20:28 schrieb Anne Wilson: On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 5:04 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: Am Mittwoch, 29. Oktober 2003 16:27 schrieb Anne Wilson: With a lot of help from the GnomeMeeting list I have finally got it working as user - this with pwcx forced. I now need to make it automatically do this. As I understand it I now have to insert into /etc/modules.conf the line post-install pwc /sbin/insmod -f /home/anne/tmp/ToUcam/usb-pwcx-8.2.2/x86/gcc-3.2/pwcx-2.4.20. o /dev/null 21 || : Does that look right? I'm not sure what the last part of this means. Hell. Please copy pwcx-2.4.20.o to /lib/modules/uname -r/misc/ , done run depmod -a afterwards Problems - depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/misc/pwcx-2.4.20.o I guess this is quite normal. You propably have compiled the driver module w/o module versioning support. This can cause this error. That's a relief g and then insmod it from where or try modprobe on it. I don't think its a good idea to insmod a kernelmodule from users home (maybe the dir has write access for the user ... What now? The above error doesn't mean necessarily anything bad. Just change the insmod line to correct the path. I was just concerned that the module lays in your home. If you want make it right , you could recompile the module. With some drivers i had that too. With DEFINES= -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -D__KERNEL__ -DNDEBUG the problem was cured. Thanks, Steffen. It works fine from it's new home. Now all I have to do is find out how to keep the right perms on /dev/video* Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] NFS Install - How?
Hi! Copy the 3 cds into the same directory.. Then try to install with nfs. (after exporting the directory for nfs access) I install 9.1 this way in 10 machines.. El Vie 24 Oct 2003 07:12, T. Ribbrock escribió: With 9.1, I had the first CDROM mounted on the server and exported as NFS share. On the machine I was installing 9.1 on, I chose NFS install and gave the directory on the server. So far, so good. But: The install fails, as I only have one CD available and it doesn't give me the option to mount another one later (at least not as far as I can see). I then experimented with just mounting a partition with the ISOs on it, but that seemed to be a non-starter. I've used that technique in Red Hat Linux 7.3 before, with a hard disk install: You put the ISOs on a partition, point the installer to them and the installer will use them. So, either this isn't possible via NFS or MDK doesn't support this (or, if it is supported, I wasn't able to find the documentation describing it). In the end, I ended up copying the contents of all three CDs on one partitions into one big tree. That's possible, of course, but feels rather clumsy, never mind that I'd have to do it for even more CDs with 9.2 (as I went for the Power Pack). Is there a better way? And where do I find it documented? Cheerio, Thomas P.S.: A bit of background: The installation is on a laptop with no CDROM, hence, a network install is the only option. NFS seemed the easiest option, as I have a file server anyway. FTP I would have to install (and uninstall later), which is more work... :-} -- = Lic. Alfredo Carlos López INIFTA - UNLP Phone: +54-221-425 7430 Instituto de InvestigacionesFax: +54-221-425 4642 Fisicoquímicas Teórica y Aplicada. Suc. 4 C.C. 16 1900 La Plata, Argentina Calle 68 nro.74 (e118/119) Dto. 15Phone: +54-221-423 6240 1900 La Plata, Argentina Cell-Phone: +54-221-(15) 455 0141 = One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. - Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Packet writing to CDRW - URL has been changed
Hi, I have found the correct link.. http://archives.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives/hints/2002-August/001207.html Super I will be trying that out later, it's about time that Linux had packet writing, I can see with decent packet writing setup, the old floppy drive will no longer used, I hate floppies. (Hey so much for the LG CD readers) :) With the new Kernel that Mandrake now suppling does that support packet writing or did they pull it out? Cheers Mark On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 06:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The url below does not work. LeRoy On 29 Oct 2003 18:32:05 +1100 Mark Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Well since the announcement of the packet drivers and Mandrake, does anyone know how the packet writing works in Mandrake 9.2, I mean it would be really cool just to use a CDRW device as a removable drive which can be written to on the fly. Cheers Mark Saved this link which someone used to good effect. http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/cdrw-hint.txt Are you ex Ericson NZ, Mark? I seem to recognise the name. -- Michael __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Mark Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cyber Essentials Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Packet writing to CDRW - URL has been changed
Is this it?? http://archives.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives/hints/2002-December/001409.html Dj. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The url below does not work. LeRoy On 29 Oct 2003 18:32:05 +1100 Mark Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Well since the announcement of the packet drivers and Mandrake, does anyone know how the packet writing works in Mandrake 9.2, I mean it would be really cool just to use a CDRW device as a removable drive which can be written to on the fly. Cheers Mark Saved this link which someone used to good effect. http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/cdrw-hint.txt Are you ex Ericson NZ, Mark? I seem to recognise the name. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Packet writing to CDRW - URL has been changed
Mark Williamson kirjoitti viestissn (lhetysaika Torstai 30 Lokakuu 2003 00:22): Hi, I have found the correct link.. http://archives.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives/hints/2002-August/001207 .html Super I will be trying that out later, it's about time that Linux had packet writing, I can see with decent packet writing setup, the old floppy drive will no longer used, I hate floppies. (Hey so much for the LG CD readers) :) With the new Kernel that Mandrake now suppling does that support packet writing or did they pull it out? It got pulled out... no reason to take another chance for now... I'll readd the new patches to my kernels sometime in the next couple of weeks -- Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Fatal server error strikes
Hi Haywire, others, Thanks for your answer: On Tuesday, 28 October 2003 at 16:56 h, HaywireMac wrote about Re: [expert] Fatal server error strikes: On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 19:47:44 - Dick Gevers [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Restoring all fonts from tarballs I had put on cdrw in preparation for upgrading to 9.2 didn't help anything. Could be the perms are wrong on the fonts that you restored, font server cannot read them. Make sure dirs are searchable, ie. drx-rx-r (I think). That seems out of the question, because I had tarred them to local drive and then burnt them to cdrw, copied the tarballs back to HD and extracted the fonts. Tar is notorious for keeping permissions okay. It's worth checking, no? Indeed! You're quite right, they were not like they had been before I tarred them (dunno why). So I restored all permissions with big hopes this would do it. But no, I'm still not able to get X running. My hope is somebody on this list knows a solution!? I'm betting on the fontpath not being searchable (ie. wrong perms), but I'm no Xpert;-) What are the fontpaths listed in your XF86Config-4 and what are the perms on those directories? These are okay now. But still no go. Thanks beforehand for any hints. Much appreciated! Regards, =Dick Gevers= -- Registered Linux user 309037 (suffering in Windows). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] insmod help needed
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: Now all I have to do is find out how to keep the right perms on /dev/video* You can try editing /etc/security/console.perms, looking for the line near the bottom of that file that reads: console 0600 v4l 0600 root.sys And then changing it to: console 0666 v4l 0666 root.sys That *might* do what you want (you'll need to reboot afterwards, for it to take effect, AFAICT). HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to every- body is the 'most reliable Windows ever.' To me, this is like saying that asparagus is 'the most articulate vegetable ever.' -- Dave Barry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mount: error 19 / Kernel panic booting 2.4.22
I get a kernel panic when I boot kernel-2.4.22. When I boot from kernel-2.4.19, everything is fine. I've just upgraded from 9.1 to 9.2. The messages I get on the console are: Loading sd_mode.o module Mounting /proc filesystem Creating root device Mountint root filesystem mount: error 19 mounting auto flags defaults well, retrying without the option falgs mount: error 19 mounting auto well, retrying without any flag mount: error 19 mounting auto pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2 ... (Any spelling mistakes are mine, as I had to type a copy of this in). All my partitions are ext3. A copy of my /etc/fstab: /dev/hda1 / auto defaults 1 0 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 /home auto defaults 1 0 /dev/hda6 /usr auto defaults 1 0 /dev/hda7 /var auto defaults 1 0 /dev/hda8 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hda10 /mnt/hdb10 auto defaults 1 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,nosuid,noauto,exec,user,nodev 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat sync,nosuid,noauto,user,nodev,unhide 0 0 /dev/sda1 /mnt/syjet auto noauto,users,exec 0 0 /dev/hdb3 /mnt/winxp ntfs noauto 0 0 /dev/hdb4 /mnt/winxp2 ntfs noauto 0 0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Update on the LG problem.
On October 29, 2003 10:53 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Really? I thought it was William Doors. Anne On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 6:35 pm, Lawson, Jim wrote: Dell He still sells junk. Look at the LG drive issue. -Original Message- From: Wolfgang Bornath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 1:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Update on the LG problem. James Sparenberg schrieb am Wed, 29 Oct 2003 09:37:59 -0800: Heck with talent like this he'll probably become a CEO *evil grin* Wasn't there a guy like this in the early 80ies selling computer stuff from a garage together with his friend? He later became leader of a large company selling crap to the masses. wobo Nahhh, young William only wrote a buggy basic and then graduated to alleged operatng systems. :) I think it's Stephen Outofworks ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] updates to 9.2
I just reloaded my 9.2 and installed updates. Now I not only do not have any screen savers but the menus are almost completely empty. Some of the Start option menus are completely gone. I can not even get a terminal started. I have been fond of Mandrake but this is really a disappointment when it goes form bad to worse. If this is the state of Mandrake then new users will be turned away and never come back. I am not trying to put down Mandrake, but I am really starting to get feed up with the problems. Can somebody tell me what is going on? Thanks Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Packet writing to CDRW - URL has been changed
Wow, I will keep the original kernel that has the packet drivers.. unless I get a LG-Cdrom, that's unlikely. Cheers Mark On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 10:03, Thomas Backlund wrote: Mark Williamson kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika Torstai 30 Lokakuu 2003 00:22): Hi, I have found the correct link.. http://archives.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives/hints/2002-August/001207 .html Super I will be trying that out later, it's about time that Linux had packet writing, I can see with decent packet writing setup, the old floppy drive will no longer used, I hate floppies. (Hey so much for the LG CD readers) :) With the new Kernel that Mandrake now suppling does that support packet writing or did they pull it out? It got pulled out... no reason to take another chance for now... I'll readd the new patches to my kernels sometime in the next couple of weeks -- Mark Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cyber Essentials Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] 9.2 Kernel Source
Hi, The 9.2 CDs doesn't seem to include kernel-source. Is it being renamed to something else now? I also did a urmpi kernel-source, and system told me everything is installed. May I ask where is kernel-source? I guess I could always download the kernel errata source. Regards, Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Re: does the XFS filesystem lose data, or is my disk broken?
Looks like this was a known problem. I hope it's been fixed - but I'm not inclined to experiment further: Re: data loss From: Eric Sandeen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Glenn Burkhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Glenn Burkhardt wrote: I'm using XFS with Mandrake 9.1, from the patched kernel file kernel-2.4.21.0.25mdk-1-1mdk.rpm. The rev that's logged during boot is SGI XFS 1.3.0pre2 with ACLs I've seen a couple of times that files are filled with zero's after rebooting. some changes were made in the 1.3.0 release post pre2 which addressed this. Newer xfs code should make this better. You might check the Mandrake 9.2 kernels, perhaps they have the final 1.3.0 release in them? -Eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Update on the LG problem.
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 10:12, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Tuesday 28 October 2003 11:13 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Dell HP/Compaq and others seem to be assisting MDK with solving the problem with LG CDROMS. http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/lgerrata.php3 For the latest... James James: I'm wondering how long it will be until some piece of malware is propagated that will seek out systems using these drives and send the fatal flush-cache instruction. One can only hope that the moron at LG who wrote the original BIOS is now engaged in some other line of work more suited to his talents -- cleaning stables comes to mind. -- cmg Or working for Microsoft. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] updates to 9.2
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 09:53 pm, Michael Noble wrote: I just reloaded my 9.2 and installed updates. Now I not only do not have any screen savers but the menus are almost completely empty. Some of the Start option menus are completely gone. I can not even get a terminal started. I have been fond of Mandrake but this is really a disappointment when it goes form bad to worse. If this is the state of Mandrake then new users will be turned away and never come back. I am not trying to put down Mandrake, but I am really starting to get feed up with the problems. Can somebody tell me what is going on? Not sure where you have been, as this problem is being talked about all over the place, but all you have to do is run 'update-menus -v' as root and that should fix the menu problem. I'm surprised you are running into a screesaver issue if you have applied all the updates, since the new kde packages supposedly fixed that problem. Are you sure you have kdeartwork installed. If not, there is a discussion here on how to fix that http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?mop=modloadname=Forumsfile=viewtopictopic=2276forum=18 Cheers! -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] insmod help needed
On Thursday 30 Oct 2003 1:15 am, Bill Mullen wrote: On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: Now all I have to do is find out how to keep the right perms on /dev/video* You can try editing /etc/security/console.perms, looking for the line near the bottom of that file that reads: console 0600 v4l 0600 root.sys And then changing it to: console 0666 v4l 0666 root.sys That *might* do what you want (you'll need to reboot afterwards, for it to take effect, AFAICT). HTH! That did it. I'd been trying to control it through /etc/security/msec/perm.local. After the reboot I opened GnomeMeeting and it fired up with video immediately. Thanks, Bill Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Packet writing to CDRW - URL has been changed
On Thursday 30 Oct 2003 3:54 am, Mark Williamson wrote: Now I wonder if they can be read on a M$ box, with some sort of packaet drivers enabled, Hmm it will be real nice if they compatible. It would be nice, but I'm not hopeful. A udf disk written by Nero can not be read by a machine with Roxio software in and vice versa, so I presume that the 'standard' is not so standard. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Update on the LG problem.
On Thursday 30 Oct 2003 2:24 am, John Wilson wrote: On October 29, 2003 10:53 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Really? I thought it was William Doors. Anne On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 6:35 pm, Lawson, Jim wrote: Dell He still sells junk. Look at the LG drive issue. -Original Message- From: Wolfgang Bornath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 1:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Update on the LG problem. James Sparenberg schrieb am Wed, 29 Oct 2003 09:37:59 -0800: Heck with talent like this he'll probably become a CEO *evil grin* Wasn't there a guy like this in the early 80ies selling computer stuff from a garage together with his friend? He later became leader of a large company selling crap to the masses. wobo Nahhh, young William only wrote a buggy basic and then graduated to alleged operatng systems. :) I think it's Stephen Outofworks Of course, it was the back bedroom, not the garage g Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
