Re: [expert] IPtables fails on bootup
Leif Madsen wrote: I just upgraded my iptables today (I should really stop running stuff through the Mandrake Updates program...) and now I'm getting an error on bootup. It's basically telling me that iptables v.1.2.2 is failing and either it or my kernel needs to be upgraded. I'm running kernel 2.4.3-20mdk. Would me upgrading to the 2.4.7 kernel possibly fix this problem? (And I already know not to upgrade it through Mandrake Update, which is why it is still at 2.4.3) Would downloading the Mandrake RPM and installing it manually through a command prompt be stable? I've got this computer setup the way I want now after spending the last 16 hours in front of it, and would really hate to lose it. It's the only problem I'm having right now. Thanks in advance. Yes, the rpm approach to kernel upgrade works very nicely. There are some how to's on one of the linux sites but I forget the URL. I have not been there in awhile. Some one on this list might know. Downloading the rpms and installing them is really very simple. Just check your system for all kernel rpms, and go get the ones you need from rpmfind.net. If you rpm -ivh the packages you will not get into trouble. By using the i option, you will leave your current kernel intact. After doing your rpm on all kernel packages, check out lilo.conf for your new kernel setup, and look at /boot to make sure all entries in lilo.conf match your files in /boot. Even now, before you install new kernel packages, if you look at lilo.conf, and compare it with /boot, you will get the feel of what needs to be done. Make sure you run /usr/sbin/lilo after you do anyting to the lilo.conf file. Good luck... -- J. Craig Woods UNIX SA -Art is the illusion of spontaneity- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Logitech mouse and ati video
Hi, Thanks for the response. This one didn't work under Windows with the software that came with it,so I took it back to the store.Must have been defective. Thanks, Dan On Saturday 22 September 2001 10:19 pm, you wrote: Mandrake's hardware database lists both the mouse and the video card in question as being reported as compatible, but not actually tested. I'm using the Logitech Wheelmouse with the optical sensor instead of a ball and Mandrake detected it without any problem. I've got it connected to a usb port, but my son has one connected to the ps/2 port. Both work flawlessly. Joe On Saturday 22 September 2001 10:33 am, you wrote: Hi all, Can the Logitech ifeel optical mouse be used with Linux and if so how? Also is the ATI xpert 128 video card supported under Linux? I'm running LinuxMandrake 8.0. Thanks, Dan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] GCC 3.1
Will the mandrake 8.1 have the gcc 3.1 in it or are they staying with 2.96.. if not I guess I'll have to downgrade to gcc 2.95 then.. Harold Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mac-on-Linux
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 08:40:07PM -0400, Asheesh Laroia wrote: I can confirm that many sources (via http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+8100+mac) agree that MkLinux will run on your Mac. However, OpenBSD and NetBSD also run. If I were you, I'd grab one of those instead, as they're not ancient (MkLinux's last web site update was 31 Jul 2000). Check www.openBSD.org and www.netBSD.org. These OSs, if you don't know, are derivatives of the Berkeley Systems Distribution, the Real UNIX (tm) from which all others are derived. I know that OpenBSD is known to be the most secure UNIX, and that NetBSD is considered the most ported UNIX. Other than that, the web sites will be much more informative Don't forget BeOS as well will run quite nicely on a Nubus box. Still available for free last time I checked. -- Steve - Toronto ICQ 35454764 /~\ 'If you're not a rebel when you're 20 you've got no heart; if \ / you're not establishment when you're 30 you've got no brain. X Join the ASCII ribbon campaign against HTML email/ \ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mac-on-Linux
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 11:51:09AM -0400, Steve wrote: On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 08:40:07PM -0400, Asheesh Laroia wrote: I can confirm that many sources (via http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+8100+mac) agree that MkLinux will run on your Mac. However, OpenBSD and NetBSD also run. If I were you, I'd grab one of those instead, as they're not ancient (MkLinux's last web site update was 31 Jul 2000). Check www.openBSD.org and www.netBSD.org. These OSs, if you don't know, are derivatives of the Berkeley Systems Distribution, the Real UNIX (tm) from which all others are derived. I know that OpenBSD is known to be the most secure UNIX, and that NetBSD is considered the most ported UNIX. Other than that, the web sites will be much more informative Don't forget BeOS as well will run quite nicely on a Nubus box. Still available for free last time I checked. Bad form to reply to one's own post but - I was wrong BeOS doens't run on Nubus. Sorry my bad, should have checked the hw compatiblity list b4 posting. -- Steve - Toronto ICQ 35454764 /~\ 'If you're not a rebel when you're 20 you've got no heart; if \ / you're not establishment when you're 30 you've got no brain. X Join the ASCII ribbon campaign against HTML email/ \ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Where have all the devices gone?
I just installed 8.1 rc1 -- clean install because I want to play with xfs. Now when I try to mount my cdrom or floppy I get 'unknown device' and /var/log/messages contains: Sep 23 15:08:01 charon modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module block-major-143 I used DrakConf-Hardware to scan my system and if found the cdrom as hdc, but there is no /dev/hdc. Unfortunately I forget what the major and minor are for hdc otherwise I would simply create it using mknod. There is the link /dev/cdrom which is unusual to say the least. Here is how it translates: [root@charon dev]# ls -l /dev/cdrom lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 13 Sep 23 10:30 /dev/cdrom - cdroms/cdrom0 [root@charon dev]# ls -l /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 33 Dec 31 1969 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 - ../ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd I am not familar with this new set of references and it may because my '/' is XFS. If so, what is wrong with my fstab? [root@charon dev]# cat /etc/fstab # the basic file systems needed by Linux /dev/hda6 /boot ext2 noatime 1 2 /dev/hda7 / xfs noatime 1 1 /dev/hda8 /home xfs noatime 1 2 # the virtual file systems used by Linux none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 # the supermounts for the removable media #/mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/dvd 0 0 #/mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,exec,noatime 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat noauto,user,exec,noatime 0 0 # the optional file systems that the user may mount when desired /dev/hda1 /mnt/windoze vfat noauto,user,exec,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 # and of course, swap. /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 NOTE: this is an fstab from 8.0-8.1beta1-8.1rc1 with ext2 only that I used and I just idioticly over wrote the 8.1rc1 with xfs without looking at it first thinking that there would be no difference except the xfs. Any and all help is appreciated. Al Niessner Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Where have all the devices gone?
Al Niessner wrote: I just installed 8.1 rc1 -- clean install because I want to play with xfs. Now when I try to mount my cdrom or floppy I get 'unknown device' . . . . Maybe you'd like to visit bugzilla and add comments: https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/cgi-bin/show_bug.cgi?id=5257 -- The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected, in one indissoluble bond, the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.President John Quincy Adams Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.members.atlantic.net/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Qestion
I have Mandrake 8.0 and it seems that my root password is no longer working. What is the correct method to recover this verses a complete reinstall.
Re: [expert] Qestion
On Sunday 23 September 2001 19:59, you wrote:
I have Mandrake 8.0 and it seems that my root password is no longer
working. What is the correct method to recover this verses a complete
reinstall.
Within lilo:
Your-image-name[*] init=/bin/sh
and then /sbin/passwd at command prompt
[*] Perhaps this is "Linux"
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Re: [expert] GCC 3.1
Both. gcc is 2.96, and there are optional gcc3 packages as well. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] iptables firewall
1. NAT doesn't work. I can access internet from Linux machine but not from other intranet machines. 2. If I use nmap to see what ports are open on the linux firewall machine it still reports that ports other than 22,80,443 25 (which I wanted open) are still open, eg like port 631 which is used by CUPS. Bart Vetters wrote: Hi Nak, But when I use my firewall, NAT doesn't work! What exactly does not work? You cannot reach the internet? Your packets source address is not translated by the NAT table? One thing that is apparent from your script (but you may have put it elsewhere) is that it does not enable IP Forwarding (echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward). CU Bart Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Where have all the devices gone?
civileme wrote: On Sunday 23 September 2001 23:06, Al Niessner wrote: #/mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/dvd 0 0 #/mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,exec,noatime 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat noauto,user,exec,noatime 0 0 In a term, do supermount -i disable and /dev/hdc will be in /etc/fstab. Right now, it is hiding behind a supermount of /mnt/cdrom With the advent of devfs, /dev/cdrom is no longer needed nor does it serve any purpose. So multiple cdrom floppy references in /etc/fstab: /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=iso9660,exec,ro 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=vfat,exec,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,codepage=850 0 0 /mnt/floppy2 /mnt/floppy2 supermount dev=/dev/fd1,fs=vfat,exec,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 /dev/fd0/mnt/floppy autonoauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 /dev/fd1/mnt/floppy1autonoauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 and mismatch to /etc/mtab: /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount ro,dev=/dev/scd0,fs=iso9660 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount rw,sync,dev=/dev/fd0,fs=vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 /mnt/floppy2 /mnt/floppy2 supermount rw,sync,dev=/dev/fd1,fs=vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 are now normal? Why three floppies, blank, 1 2? -- The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected, in one indissoluble bond, the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.President John Quincy Adams Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.members.atlantic.net/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] LILO - Fatal Error (for a friend-rush please?)
Friend of mine recently installed Mandrake 8.0 onto his laptop. He now can't get into his Win2K partition (which is important for school tommorow). This is his current lilo.conf file. boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal keytable=/boot/us.klt lba32 prompt timeout=50 message\/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append= devfs=mount read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append= devfs=mount failsafe read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=NT table=/dev/hda I then got him to try this lilo.conf (mine) boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=NT keytable=/boot/us.klt lba32 prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message-graphic menu-scheme-wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append= hdc-ide-scsi quiet vga=788 read-only ...some stuff in the middle other=/dev/hda1 label=NT table=/dev/hda When he runs lilo.. he gets: Fatal: Can't put the boot sector on logical partition 0x305 I tried to think of him going into linuxconf and possibly switch to GRUB as a temp. work around, but now he is getting an unending series of 40 40 40 40... when he tries to get into linuxconf. Ideas??? This is beyond my knowledge (especially since I'm remote from him..) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LILO - Fatal Error (for a friend-rush please?)
On September 23, 2001 01:18 pm, Leif Madsen wrote: Friend of mine recently installed Mandrake 8.0 onto his laptop. He now can't get into his Win2K partition (which is important for school tommorow). This is his current lilo.conf file. The quick and dirty way to get back into windoze (while blowing away LILO for now) is to boot to DOS and rewrite the master boot record. Your windoze recovery disk should have the appropriate files present. Simply run fdisk /mbr from the DOS command line. Then run fdisk and select your windoze partition as active. Then remove your recovery disk and reboot. It should come up with windoze. You can fix LILO later by booting from your madrake install CD. Good luck! -Eric -- arctic bears - email and name services 25 email addresses@yourdomain CA$11.95/month DNS starting at CA$3.49/month - domains from CA$25.95/year for details contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://www.arcticbears.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LILO - Fatal Error (for a friend-rush please?)
On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 13:32:32 -0700 Eric Paynter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On September 23, 2001 01:18 pm, Leif Madsen wrote: Friend of mine recently installed Mandrake 8.0 onto his laptop. He now can't get into his Win2K partition (which is important for school tommorow). This is his current lilo.conf file. The quick and dirty way to get back into windoze (while blowing away LILO for now) is to boot to DOS and rewrite the master boot record. Your windoze recovery disk should have the appropriate files present. Simply run fdisk /mbr from the DOS command line. Then run fdisk and select your windoze partition as active. Then remove your recovery disk and reboot. It should come up with windoze. You can fix LILO later by booting from your madrake install CD. NO Do not do that. With the error you are receiving when trying to boot Win2k if fdisk/ MBR is run it will make the system unbootable. Rather, login to linux and as root run /sbin/lilo -u. This will unistall Lilo and restore the previous bootloader, Win2Ks. Charles (-: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mac-on-Linux
On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 10:35, you wrote: Where do I find it? ISO :) preferred! Tnx Alan I think you'll find that the old mklinux will install run on your 8100 hth Alan, there are also a few others which you might try (although I can't recall 100% on the nubus compatability): The one which most people seem to recommend (YMMV) is Yellowdog: http://www.yellowdoglinux.com And, by a quick search on their homepage on 'nubus', a link to a post on their support lists http://lists.yellowdoglinux.com/yellowdog-general/February01/0216.html which seems to indicate that it can indeed be done. (this was actually a thread about a newer kernel - the stock one might run out of the box - take a look on their website see) the isos are mirrored all over the place, e.g. for Australia: yellowdoglinux http://planetmirror.com/pub/yellowdog/ www.linuxppc.org -linuxppc distro, definitely not for nubus, but page has lots of links, including mklinux Anyway, with the other posts here, you should have enough by now - otherwise Google is your friend HTH -- john in syd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LILO - Fatal Error (for a friend-rush please?)
First of all, what's with the backslash after message in his lilo.conf? If that's of no help, try removing the table= line in his. Also, is it just me or do you have duplicate Linux entries? Other than that, I can be of no help. Sorry. Best of luck -- Asheesh. On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Leif Madsen wrote: message\/boot/message What is this? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mac-on-Linux
On Mon, 24 Sep 2001 09:56, you wrote: And, by a quick search on their homepage on 'nubus', a link to a post on their support lists http://lists.yellowdoglinux.com/yellowdog-general/February01/0216.html Alan, normally, you are correct, but if you follow the post above (or just do your own search on yellowdog's website for nubus, you'll find a couple of links (like, 4 or 5 pages of them), many of which deal with the installation of Yellowdog onto a nubus ppc cheers -- john in syd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] parport revisited
hi, i have an old compaq 486DX-50Mhz, 8mb ram, 2 Gb HD that i want to load linux on. i downloaded and burned the iso image for mandrake 7.0 i486 from http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ftp.php3#486 the laptop does'nt have any cdrom drive or ethernet h/w. I have an external cdrom that connects to the parallel port (Onspec - 'on26.o'. where can i get customised boot disk to get the install to read the cd via the parport. OR i could connect the laptop via a 'laplink' cable to my desktop and perfrom an NFS install via slip..., also, any idea which would be quicker? any help, ideas urgent ;) Ashley Moore. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] PGACCESS not connecting
On Sunday 23 September 2001 06:56 pm, you wrote: Hi, here's my response of a few weeks ago I'm having some difficulties with pgaccess in mandrake 8.0. It loads up fine, but I can't actually do anything with it. If I try to create a database, I get the following error message: Tcl error executing pg_exec create database dbName is not a valid postgresql connection If I try to open a database I created in psql, I get the following error message: Error trying to connect to database 'dbName' on host localhost PostgreSQL error message:Connection to database failed PQconnectPoll() -- connect() failed: Connection Refused Is the postmaster running (with -i) at 'localhost' and accepting connections on TCP/IP port '5432'? What do I need to do to be able to use pgaccess? Looking through the '/etc/rc.d/init.d/postgres' script, I don't see the -i or the port set anywhere. Am I looking in the right place? Theo, You're in the right place, but you have to do some magic to get it to work at this point. It astounds me that Mandrake doesn't do this for us (or provide a nice GUI for doing it ourselves), but you actually have to add the -i option to the postres script. Unfortunately, its not that easy. Madrake calls pg_ctl to actually start postgres. It passes /usr/bin/postmaster as an arguement. One of the options to pass to pg_ctl are the options to pass to /usr/bin/postmaster (lost yet?). That option is -o. In that option is where you want to pass the -i. Since I've confused myself, here's my line from /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgres (line 83) su -l postgres -c /usr/bin/pg_ctl -D $PGDATA -p /usr/bin/postmaster -o '-i' start /dev/null 21 yips! At that point, I was able to go in and create databases and view them from pgaccess. It sounds like you've got that step down already. Good luck David -Original Message- From: Ken Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 6:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] PGACCESS not connecting There was a thread started a few weeks ago about PG-Access not connecting in 8.0 but never did see an answer.. Does any one have an idea why?? Postmaster is started and I can use the CLI to connece to postgres OK.. Not a big CLI user and would like to take advantage of the GUI interface.. Thanks all. Thanks David that did the trick. I had to change some setings after it loaded and I had to load the postgres db first, but it's working and working good. -- Ken Thompson Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ww.nwaa.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
