RE: [expert] urpmi --auto-select Couple of new questions abouturpmi and installing big apps...
Frank, No need for scripts, their is a directory you can copy across some of the files and it will update, I did it 3 weeks ago. I think it is /etc/urpmi, I will check tonight when I get home. But you copy the config file and the lists, then do an update. Tony. -Original Message- From: Franki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 7:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [expert] urpmi --auto-select Couple of new questions abouturpmi and installing big apps... I'll have to give some thought to this.. a shell script seems the most likely candidate... its a shame you can't export sources to a shell script from urpmi.. automate the process as it were, that would be handy.. guess it'll probably happen at some stage down the line.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of James Sparenberg Sent: Monday, 2 December 2002 5:48 AM To: Expert List Subject: Re: [expert] urpmi --auto-select Couple of new questions abouturpmi and installing big apps... What would be helpful in a case like this is to be able to do what PLF did. (actually I got it from Ranger's site) but somehow a PLF CD was created that you install from as if it was CD1 and it contains PLF's rpms This gets moved into a new category called PLF (duh!) and then it hands off to disc ... continues the install and asks for PLF at the end, Even if it were just possible to redo disk 3 (there is a ton of room on it) You would then have the disks available and could create rpms of data files you need. Just my 2 cents. James On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 10:36, Hoyt Duff wrote: On Sunday 01 December 2002 10:43 am, Franki scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: 1. I have two dozen mdk 9.0 boxes around town.. and I have set most of them up to use the same urpmi sources. But its a time consuming process to do so.. is there some config file or directory that I can copy to the new servers to give them the same sources? (texstar, contrib, plf, updates etc)??? that would be very handy if I could just copy across some files and issue urpmi an update.. Why can't you tar /etc/urpmi and /var/lib/urpmi and install that tarball on each new machine? You could even write a .spec file to create an .rpm with them and install and update all the sources easily -- Hoyt http://www.MaximumHoyt.com/ Fix it until it breaks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either Tony S. Sykes or the postmaster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com http://www.bcpsoftware.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] IP alias. How?
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 02:50:55AM +0800, Franki wrote: I prefer to just add them to /etc/sysconf/network-scripts like you said. works great. Thanks for the reply. Got it working now. That's what I did. you can set it up permanently using linuxconf (install linuxconf then run netconf in a terminal.) I never use linuxconf anymore. Bad experiences in the past and it's too obtrusive. I either don't even install it or when installed immediately remove it. Alexander -- *The United States must fully disclose and destroy it's Weapons of Mass Destruction* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] problems with msec daily
I am gettng that same error, but mine is worse.. bzcat: Can't open input file ./newaliases.1.bz2: No such file or directory. bzcat: Can't open input file ./mailq.1.bz2: No such file or directory. bzcat: Can't open input file ./lpr.1.bz2: No such file or directory. bzcat: Can't open input file ./lpq.1.bz2: No such file or directory. bzcat: Can't open input file ./lprm.1.bz2: No such file or directory. bzcat: Can't open input file ./lp.1.bz2: No such file or directory. bzcat: Can't open input file ./cancel.1.bz2: No such file or directory. bzcat: Can't open input file ./lpstat.1.bz2: No such file or directory. bzcat: Can't open input file ./aliases.5.bz2: No such file or directory. bzcat: Can't open input file ./lpc.8.bz2: No such file or directory. I tried update-alternatives --auto mta update-alternatives --auto ctags but it didn't even fix the mail symlinks.. and ctags isn't an error for me.. ALL the symlinks in /usr/share/man/man1 are pointing to non existant files in /etc/alternatives and there are quiet a few invalid symlinks in there also.. as an example, the first link: cancel.1.bz2 points to a symlink in /etc/alternatives with the same name.. and that symlink is pointed back to /usr/share/man/man1/cancel-cups.1.bz2 which doesn't exist. I have no idea what to do here,,, any tips? rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of H. Narfi Stefansson Sent: Monday, 2 December 2002 7:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] problems with msec daily On Sunday 01 December 2002 16:10, Angus Beath wrote: Hi, I've got this error from Cron each day. I'm not sure how to go about fixing it: Subject: Cron root@dunedain nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.daily Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 18:04:19 -0500 (EST) bzcat: Can't open input file ./newaliases.1.bz2: No such file or directory. bzcat: Can't open input file ./mailq.1.bz2: No such file or directory. bzcat: Can't open input file ./ctags.1.bz2: No such file or directory. bzcat: Can't open input file ./aliases.5.bz2: No such file or directory. Any suggestions? Angus This error message comes from makewhatis. Most likely the symbolic link /usr/share/man/man1/newaliases.1.bz2 points to a location in your file system that does not exist. The following commands fixed this for me: update-alternatives --auto mta update-alternatives --auto ctags What is going on: In order to allow you to have multiple versions of the same program installed, symbolic links to the man pages and the executables are maintained. Take an example from my system: /usr/bin/gcc is a symbolic link to /etc/alternatives/gcc /etc/alternatives/gcc is a symbolic link to /usr/bin/colorgcc-3.2 Then, if I install another version of gcc in /usr/bin, say /usr/bin/gcc-3.1, and I want to access it as /usr/bin/gcc, I would change the link in /etc/alternatives. I.e. I would let /etc/alternatives/gcc point to /usr/bin/gcc-3.1. Regular users (like you and I) never worry about these symbolic links because they are handled automatically when we upgrade and downgrade our rpms. In this case, something went wrong with the symbolic link for these 2 packages and we had to re-run the script that handles these links. If you are curious, you can look at the files in the directory /var/lib/rpm/alternatives as well as man update-alternatives. I hope this helps, Narfi. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] IP alias. How?
On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 00:38, Alexander Volovics wrote: On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 02:50:55AM +0800, Franki wrote: I prefer to just add them to /etc/sysconf/network-scripts like you said. works great. Thanks for the reply. Got it working now. That's what I did. you can set it up permanently using linuxconf (install linuxconf then run netconf in a terminal.) I never use linuxconf anymore. Bad experiences in the past and it's too obtrusive. I either don't even install it or when installed immediately remove it. Alexander -- *The United States must fully disclose and destroy it's Weapons of Mass Destruction* If the above is true . Here's the list. Congress Microsoft USPTO Christian Right DMCA UCITA TV Computers that ALMOST do what you need. Blue screen of death. *grin* 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: Re: [expert] USB card reader support on 9.0 ?
Perhaps some installation problems? I have tested this in two different computers and I hadn't any problem, sda1 is created as soon as I plug the usb cable with the camera in postion to download images. Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) - Mensaje Original - Remitente: Munagala Ramanath [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: Lunes, Diciembre 2, 2002 2:32 am Asunto: Re: [expert] USB card reader support on 9.0 ? --- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have conected a Nikon 755 under 9.0 and has work like a charm. After be sure usb, usb-core, usb-storage and ide-scsi modules are loaded I created a directory to be mounted (mkdir -m 777 /mnt/camera). Then, after have usb-pluged the camera, I did: mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera My problem is that the /dev/sda* files are not created. The modules seem to be loaded ok. Ram __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com 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: Re: [expert] USB card reader support on 9.0 ?
Perhaps some installation problems? I have tested this in two different computers and I hadn't any problem, sda1 is created as soon as I plug the usb cable with the camera in postion to download images. Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) - Mensaje Original - Remitente: Munagala Ramanath [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: Lunes, Diciembre 2, 2002 2:32 am Asunto: Re: [expert] USB card reader support on 9.0 ? --- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have conected a Nikon 755 under 9.0 and has work like a charm. After be sure usb, usb-core, usb-storage and ide-scsi modules are loaded I created a directory to be mounted (mkdir -m 777 /mnt/camera). Then, after have usb-pluged the camera, I did: mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera My problem is that the /dev/sda* files are not created. The modules seem to be loaded ok. Ram __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com 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
[expert] Switchin network configuration with 9.0: easy
Dear friends, I used to use drakprofile to change the network configuration in my laptop from my house (conected to muy desktop computer and sharing the modem-cable conection using ip masquering) and my work (a lan direct-conection). But drakprofile can't run under 9.0, in fact it has dissapeared of the distribution :-( So until today I had to plug-on the computer, and when changing from home to the work or viceversa I had to star netconf (DrakConf.. internet conection) and change the ip, gw ...an so on. But now I have made two script to do that, just I need to run one of them, the appropriate, (casa -for home- or universidad -for my job-) as root and immediately i have avaliable the internet. Of course I just need to run the other the first time after have changed my location. I have a Toshiba Satellite 4090XCDT with a pcmcia (pc-net compatible) eth card (eth0). Those are the script contents: CASA ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 up route add -net 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0 route add default gw 192.168.1.1 eth0 UNIVERSIDAD ifconfig eth0 155.54.0.119 netmask 255.255.240.0 up route add -net 155.54.0.0 netmask 255.255.240.0 eth0 route add default gw 155.54.1.200 eth0 As I have mentioned in some previous messages about this subject, I think that for new Mandrake users a program to do that automatically, similar to drakprofile, could be very interesting; I am not a programmer, but it seems so simply for one experimented of the Mandrake team create a front-end for the initial configuration and then for switching between the 2 or more created profiles. Is a thing that will be very good for our wonderfull Mandrake. Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] BUG: Kpaint is broken (think memory-leak)
Hi! Did anyone expierienced that problem too ? If I start kpaint the whole kde getting fast slower till nearly unusable. If I xkill kpaint, there is a crash of kpaint after 20 s and when the slowness disappear. First discovered that on pasting an image in it. Seems to be an open bug on kde. Greets Steffen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] grip
On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 10:14, villoing wrote: How can I make informations contained in each track of a cd recognizeable by grip ? IIRC it should work out of the box. Otherwise check you DiskDB settings actually have cddb server to contact. You may want to change the command line to encode Oggs by default as well. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Alex Bennee Senior Hacker, Braddahead Ltd The above is probably my personal opinion and may not be that of my employer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] problems with msec daily
At 03:16 AM 12/2/02, Franki wrote: I am gettng that same error, but mine is worse.. bzcat: Can't open input file ./newaliases.1.bz2: No such file or directory. bzcat: Can't open input file ./mailq.1.bz2: No such file or directory. bzcat: Can't open input file ./lpr.1.bz2: No such file or directory. bzcat: Can't open input file ./lpq.1.bz2: No such file or directory. bzcat: Can't open input file ./lprm.1.bz2: No such file or directory. bzcat: Can't open input file ./lp.1.bz2: No such file or directory. bzcat: Can't open input file ./cancel.1.bz2: No such file or directory. bzcat: Can't open input file ./lpstat.1.bz2: No such file or directory. bzcat: Can't open input file ./aliases.5.bz2: No such file or directory. bzcat: Can't open input file ./lpc.8.bz2: No such file or directory. I tried update-alternatives --auto mta update-alternatives --auto ctags but it didn't even fix the mail symlinks.. and ctags isn't an error for me.. ALL the symlinks in /usr/share/man/man1 are pointing to non existant files in /etc/alternatives and there are quiet a few invalid symlinks in there also.. as an example, the first link: cancel.1.bz2 points to a symlink in /etc/alternatives with the same name.. and that symlink is pointed back to /usr/share/man/man1/cancel-cups.1.bz2 which doesn't exist. I have no idea what to do here,,, any tips? Have you tried using commands urpmf file and rpm -qf file? They can often be used to identify the package to which a file (or filename) belongs. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] urpmi --auto-select Couple of new questions abouturpmi and installing big apps...
yeah, I imagine that is /var/lib/urpmi and /etc/urpmi will that change anything else??? my machines don't all have the same packages installed and I don't want to mess with the rpm database... is it safe to do this?? rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tony S. Sykes Sent: Monday, 2 December 2002 4:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [expert] urpmi --auto-select Couple of new questions abouturpmi and installing big apps... Frank, No need for scripts, their is a directory you can copy across some of the files and it will update, I did it 3 weeks ago. I think it is /etc/urpmi, I will check tonight when I get home. But you copy the config file and the lists, then do an update. Tony. -Original Message- From: Franki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 7:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [expert] urpmi --auto-select Couple of new questions abouturpmi and installing big apps... I'll have to give some thought to this.. a shell script seems the most likely candidate... its a shame you can't export sources to a shell script from urpmi.. automate the process as it were, that would be handy.. guess it'll probably happen at some stage down the line.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of James Sparenberg Sent: Monday, 2 December 2002 5:48 AM To: Expert List Subject: Re: [expert] urpmi --auto-select Couple of new questions abouturpmi and installing big apps... What would be helpful in a case like this is to be able to do what PLF did. (actually I got it from Ranger's site) but somehow a PLF CD was created that you install from as if it was CD1 and it contains PLF's rpms This gets moved into a new category called PLF (duh!) and then it hands off to disc ... continues the install and asks for PLF at the end, Even if it were just possible to redo disk 3 (there is a ton of room on it) You would then have the disks available and could create rpms of data files you need. Just my 2 cents. James On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 10:36, Hoyt Duff wrote: On Sunday 01 December 2002 10:43 am, Franki scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: 1. I have two dozen mdk 9.0 boxes around town.. and I have set most of them up to use the same urpmi sources. But its a time consuming process to do so.. is there some config file or directory that I can copy to the new servers to give them the same sources? (texstar, contrib, plf, updates etc)??? that would be very handy if I could just copy across some files and issue urpmi an update.. Why can't you tar /etc/urpmi and /var/lib/urpmi and install that tarball on each new machine? You could even write a .spec file to create an .rpm with them and install and update all the sources easily -- Hoyt http://www.MaximumHoyt.com/ Fix it until it breaks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either Tony S. Sykes or the postmaster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com http://www.bcpsoftware.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Checking if a directory is empty
List, I need to write a script that checks if a directory is not empty and if is not empty then it will send an email to someone using sendmail. Does anyone have any ideas? Tim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Need Mozilla java plugin
When I start my LEAF Firewall bandwidth monitor, mozilla says: This page contains information of a type (application/x-java-vm) that can only be viewed with the appropriate plug-in. When I use old netscape 4x everything works fine. How can I solve this ? -- Best regards, M@X. * Climate Control Psychedelic Soundscapes - http://go.to/cchq/ * Linux Shell Scripts RPM Software Packages - http://go.to/conmen/ * Photography Pages - http://home.wanadoo.nl/cchq/photo/photo.html System is up 4:31 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Journaled FS Freezes System
I have received Kernel Panics and Mangled Filesystems from using the ext3 filesystem on Adaptec 2940 Controllers. I would like to know three things: 1. Is anyone else having Reliability issues with the Journaled Filesystems? 2. Which Journaled Filesystems can I Reliably use on an Internet Server? Are any of them Production ready yet? 3. What journalling FS are you using and can you recommend? -- Albert E. Whale - CISSP http://www.abs-comptech.com -- ABS Computer Technology, Inc. - ESM, Computer Networking Specialists Sr. Security, Network, and Systems Consultant Board of Directors - InfraGard - Pittsburgh, PA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Journaled FS Freezes System
On Monday 02 December 2002 11:55 am, you wrote: I have received Kernel Panics and Mangled Filesystems from using the ext3 filesystem on Adaptec 2940 Controllers. Physically check the SCSI system out. You may have termination problems. Do you have a log of the panic messages? I would like to know three things: 1. Is anyone else having Reliability issues with the Journaled Filesystems? I use EXT3 on both my workstation machine as well as the file server and it is the most reliable FS that I have tested so far. 2. Which Journaled Filesystems can I Reliably use on an Internet Server? Are any of them Production ready yet? 3. What journalling FS are you using and can you recommend? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Disable power-managment hi-jacking of Ctrl-Alt-Backspace?
Hi, Until today my box (MDK 9.0) had been running fine. Now it locks up hard at random points during the day requiring a power-cylcle to get it out of this state. I suspect that apmd may be the culprit but its hard to tell as I get no indication in the logs. One thing I have noticed though is the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace sequence that is usually reserved to kill X seems to put my machine into an halted state. The doesn't seem to be any way of disabling power managment from the BIOS and I have uninstalled apmd and apm-scripts and am still getting the same problem. Is there any way to stop this hi-jacking going on? Who's trapping it and killing my system? -- Alex Bennee Senior Hacker, Braddahead Ltd The above is probably my personal opinion and may not be that of my employer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Journaled FS Freezes System
I'm getting an SCB Parity error on DevQ(0:1:0) I am beginning to suspect the Controller Card. Although I've used Adaptec for more than five years now. Maybe the controller has met it's match. Tom wrote: On Monday 02 December 2002 11:55 am, you wrote: I have received Kernel Panics and Mangled Filesystems from using the ext3 filesystem on Adaptec 2940 Controllers. Physically check the SCSI system out. You may have termination problems. Do you have a log of the panic messages? I would like to know three things: 1. Is anyone else having Reliability issues with the Journaled Filesystems? I use EXT3 on both my workstation machine as well as the file server and it is the most reliable FS that I have tested so far. 2. Which Journaled Filesystems can I Reliably use on an Internet Server? Are any of them Production ready yet? 3. What journalling FS are you using and can you recommend? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Albert E. Whale - CISSP http://www.abs-comptech.com -- ABS Computer Technology, Inc. - ESM, Computer Networking Specialists Sr. Security, Network, and Systems Consultant Board of Directors - InfraGard - Pittsburgh, PA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] urpmi --auto-select Couple of new questions abouturpmiand installing big apps...
On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 04:03, Franki wrote: yeah, I imagine that is /var/lib/urpmi and /etc/urpmi will that change anything else??? my machines don't all have the same packages installed and I don't want to mess with the rpm database... is it safe to do this?? Being a lazy cuss I ran this experiment. Had to re-install my Linux on my laptop (I'd recently compiled an application and in the process somehow all kinds of things stopped working right, most noteably rpm, as in building one, my menu system. ) so just for grins along with my home directory and other settings I saved the directories /etc/urpmi and /var/lib/urpmi ... upon completing the reinstall and formating the suspend directory I popped these in place ran urpmi.update -a and it all worked. One thing though if you are going say from 8.2 to 9.0 you can't bring the 8.2 forward. But 9.0 to 9.0 ... I had no problem. James rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tony S. Sykes Sent: Monday, 2 December 2002 4:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [expert] urpmi --auto-select Couple of new questions abouturpmi and installing big apps... Frank, No need for scripts, their is a directory you can copy across some of the files and it will update, I did it 3 weeks ago. I think it is /etc/urpmi, I will check tonight when I get home. But you copy the config file and the lists, then do an update. Tony. -Original Message- From: Franki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 7:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [expert] urpmi --auto-select Couple of new questions abouturpmi and installing big apps... I'll have to give some thought to this.. a shell script seems the most likely candidate... its a shame you can't export sources to a shell script from urpmi.. automate the process as it were, that would be handy.. guess it'll probably happen at some stage down the line.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of James Sparenberg Sent: Monday, 2 December 2002 5:48 AM To: Expert List Subject: Re: [expert] urpmi --auto-select Couple of new questions abouturpmi and installing big apps... What would be helpful in a case like this is to be able to do what PLF did. (actually I got it from Ranger's site) but somehow a PLF CD was created that you install from as if it was CD1 and it contains PLF's rpms This gets moved into a new category called PLF (duh!) and then it hands off to disc ... continues the install and asks for PLF at the end, Even if it were just possible to redo disk 3 (there is a ton of room on it) You would then have the disks available and could create rpms of data files you need. Just my 2 cents. James On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 10:36, Hoyt Duff wrote: On Sunday 01 December 2002 10:43 am, Franki scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: 1. I have two dozen mdk 9.0 boxes around town.. and I have set most of them up to use the same urpmi sources. But its a time consuming process to do so.. is there some config file or directory that I can copy to the new servers to give them the same sources? (texstar, contrib, plf, updates etc)??? that would be very handy if I could just copy across some files and issue urpmi an update.. Why can't you tar /etc/urpmi and /var/lib/urpmi and install that tarball on each new machine? You could even write a .spec file to create an .rpm with them and install and update all the sources easily -- Hoyt http://www.MaximumHoyt.com/ Fix it until it breaks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either Tony S. Sykes or the postmaster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com http://www.bcpsoftware.com/ 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] Journaled FS Freezes System
On Monday 02 December 2002 12:28 pm, you wrote: I'm getting an SCB Parity error on DevQ(0:1:0) I would check the devices on the bus and make sure that the devices all agree to either use (or not use) parity. If you have a mix, one needing parity and another not needing parity, then that could be a source of problems. Other item could be that device one is programmed for parity but is failing internally. And the parity error is trying to tell you that the drive is going bad. I am beginning to suspect the Controller Card. Although I've used Adaptec for more than five years now. Maybe the controller has met it's match. Tom wrote: On Monday 02 December 2002 11:55 am, you wrote: I have received Kernel Panics and Mangled Filesystems from using the ext3 filesystem on Adaptec 2940 Controllers. Physically check the SCSI system out. You may have termination problems. Do you have a log of the panic messages? I would like to know three things: 1. Is anyone else having Reliability issues with the Journaled Filesystems? I use EXT3 on both my workstation machine as well as the file server and it is the most reliable FS that I have tested so far. 2. Which Journaled Filesystems can I Reliably use on an Internet Server? Are any of them Production ready yet? 3. What journalling FS are you using and can you recommend? 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] Need Mozilla java plugin
Open mozilla as root (have to in order to be able to install javavm) go to http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html and click the java runtime environment link. from there follow the instructions and you can get it installed. James On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 06:26, Maxim Heijndijk wrote: When I start my LEAF Firewall bandwidth monitor, mozilla says: This page contains information of a type (application/x-java-vm) that can only be viewed with the appropriate plug-in. When I use old netscape 4x everything works fine. How can I solve this ? -- Best regards, M@X. * Climate Control Psychedelic Soundscapes - http://go.to/cchq/ * Linux Shell Scripts RPM Software Packages - http://go.to/conmen/ * Photography Pages - http://home.wanadoo.nl/cchq/photo/photo.html System is up 4:31 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] Disable power-managment hi-jacking ofCtrl-Alt-Backspace?
Alex, Had a box myself that started doing this a couple of months ago. Turned out I had a bad block (sector? Transistor? not sure of the term) appear in my memory but it was high up in the list. As long as my box was sitting idle no problem. But once I started doing something and memory started being actively used. I would get these random freezes. I'd recommend running a memory testing program such as memtest on it for a few hours and see what's what. Note I've found from experience, mine and others, if you have more than one stick, check them one at a time other wise you won't know which one is bad. The programs tell you they found a problem but unless you understand the cryptic output as for location you will be at a loss for which stick is bad. James On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 09:21, Alex Bennee wrote: Hi, Until today my box (MDK 9.0) had been running fine. Now it locks up hard at random points during the day requiring a power-cylcle to get it out of this state. I suspect that apmd may be the culprit but its hard to tell as I get no indication in the logs. One thing I have noticed though is the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace sequence that is usually reserved to kill X seems to put my machine into an halted state. The doesn't seem to be any way of disabling power managment from the BIOS and I have uninstalled apmd and apm-scripts and am still getting the same problem. Is there any way to stop this hi-jacking going on? Who's trapping it and killing my system? -- Alex Bennee Senior Hacker, Braddahead Ltd The above is probably my personal opinion and may not be that of my employer 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
[expert] Files encoded via oggenc are too fast
Hi all, today i was converting some raw PCM files to ogg files when i noticed that the resulting files plays too fast, i asked one of my friends to encode them for me and they were fine! Mandrake 9.0 # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : CyrixInstead cpu family : 6 model : 2 model name : 6x86MX 2.5x Core/Bus Clock stepping: 7 cpu MHz : 189.714 fdiv_bug: no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug: no coma_bug: yes fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu de tsc msr cx8 pge cmov mmx cyrix_arr bogomips: 378.47 Any suggestions please ?? -- -- Katoob Main Developer Linux registered user # 224950 ICQ # 58475622 FIRST make it run, THEN make it run fast Brian Kernighan. msg62042/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: [expert] Journaled FS Freezes System
I've only used reiserfs and ext3 for any length of time.. both have been exceptionally reliable thus far.. although i have settled on ext3 for everything nowdays.. I have not used a 2940 with them before though.. Were I you, I'd be trying to find out what caused the kernel panic.. a driver conflict seems likely... rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Albert E. Whale Sent: Tuesday, 3 December 2002 12:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Journaled FS Freezes System I have received Kernel Panics and Mangled Filesystems from using the ext3 filesystem on Adaptec 2940 Controllers. I would like to know three things: 1. Is anyone else having Reliability issues with the Journaled Filesystems? 2. Which Journaled Filesystems can I Reliably use on an Internet Server? Are any of them Production ready yet? 3. What journalling FS are you using and can you recommend? -- Albert E. Whale - CISSP http://www.abs-comptech.com -- ABS Computer Technology, Inc. - ESM, Computer Networking Specialists Sr. Security, Network, and Systems Consultant Board of Directors - InfraGard - Pittsburgh, PA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Video questions
Does anyone know how to fix vsync problems with bttv? Have an STB PCI TV card that initial tunes in correctly but after some amount of time gets out of sync. Only seems to happen on some channels. What config changes have to be done to run a console on one monitor/video card and X on a dual head video card/monitor? Any pointers? Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] how to open asf files (stream) in mozilla.
Hi, I'd like open asf files (MS videos) in mozilla. How I can make this? I know that mplayer he opens the videos, but with STREAM I don't obtained success. The MDK9 have the plugger, I used it but I don't obtained success again. Thank you, Emerson BRAZIL ___ Yahoo! Acesso Grátis Internet rápida, grátis e fácil. Faça o download do discador agora mesmo. http://br.acesso.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] how to open asf files (stream) in mozilla.
I had (and still have...) the same problem. I was told to install crossover which allows to you MS plugins such as media player. But it doesn't run here (for example when I try it on a site such as www.fabchannel.com). yet, other plugins (Quiktime, shockwave, realplayer) are running well... Emerson de Mello wrote: Hi, I'd like open asf files (MS videos) in mozilla. How I can make this? I know that mplayer he opens the videos, but with STREAM I don't obtained success. The MDK9 have the plugger, I used it but I don't obtained success again. Thank you, Emerson BRAZIL ___ Yahoo! Acesso Grátis Internet rápida, grátis e fácil. Faça o download do discador agora mesmo. http://br.acesso.yahoo.com/ 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] problems with msec daily
On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 03:16, Franki wrote: I am gettng that same error, but mine is worse.. bzcat: Can't open input file ./newaliases.1.bz2: No such file or directory. bzcat: Can't open input file ./mailq.1.bz2: No such file or directory. bzcat: Can't open input file ./lpr.1.bz2: No such file or directory. bzcat: Can't open input file ./lpq.1.bz2: No such file or directory. bzcat: Can't open input file ./lprm.1.bz2: No such file or directory. bzcat: Can't open input file ./lp.1.bz2: No such file or directory. bzcat: Can't open input file ./cancel.1.bz2: No such file or directory. bzcat: Can't open input file ./lpstat.1.bz2: No such file or directory. bzcat: Can't open input file ./aliases.5.bz2: No such file or directory. bzcat: Can't open input file ./lpc.8.bz2: No such file or directory. I was having the same trouble. Try these commands: update-alternatives --auto lp update-alternatives --auto lpr update-alternatives --auto lpstat update-alternatives --auto cancel update-alternatives --auto lprm update-alternatives --auto lpq update-alternatives --auto mta_newaliases update-alternatives --auto mta_mailq update-alternatives --auto mta_aliasesman The complete list of possible links is in /etc/alternatives. -- Robert Wohlfarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? -- Matthew 6:25b Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Need Mozilla java plugin
* Stardate: 2002-12-02 09:42 * Incoming subspace signal from James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Open mozilla as root (have to in order to be able to install javavm) go to http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html and click the java runtime environment link. from there follow the instructions and you can get it installed. Thanx. I found an easier way to install java, though. I downloaded the j2re RPM from club. Now everything works. -- Best regards, M@X. * Climate Control Psychedelic Soundscapes - http://go.to/cchq/ * Linux Shell Scripts RPM Software Packages - http://go.to/conmen/ * Photography Pages - http://home.wanadoo.nl/cchq/photo/photo.html System is up 8:35 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] javascript in konqueror
Hi experts, Can anyone share how to get javascript to work in konqueror (KDE 3.0.4)? I downloaded Blackdown's JDK-1.3.1 and installed the j2re part of it (runtime environment, I assume). After linking the plugin it provides -- plugin/i386/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so into Mozilla's plugin directory (as described in the installation notes) Mozilla (both 1.1 and 1.2) is able to display a page with javascript correctly. However, I can't get konqueror to do the same. In Configure/Konqueror Browser both Java and JavaScript are enabled globally, with path to java set to my j2re installation: /usr/local/java/j2re1.3.1/bin/java. Plugins are also enabled globally, however when I Scan for New Plugings (with scan directories set correctly), the java plugin is not found (only plugger.so). Finally, when I go to the page with javascript I get a popup with this message: Java VM version: 1.3.1 Java VM vendor: Blackdown Java-Linux Team Unable to load JSSE SSL stream handler, https support not available Not being knowledgeable about java I am at a loss here. Can anyone help? Thanks, Aleksey Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] javascript in konqueror
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Aleksey Y Naumov wrote: Hi experts, Can anyone share how to get javascript to work in konqueror (KDE 3.0.4)? I downloaded Blackdown's JDK-1.3.1 and installed the j2re part of it (runtime environment, I assume). After linking the plugin it provides -- plugin/i386/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so into Mozilla's plugin directory (as described in the installation notes) Mozilla (both 1.1 and 1.2) is able to display a page with javascript correctly. However, I can't get konqueror to do the same. Java is not Javascript. The j2re package will install the Java Runtime but this will not affect the Javascript environment. The javascript problems may be related to the Javascript interpreter in Konqueror itself. Not everything works yet but is getting better. Can you provide a URL that fails? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Help needed in copying files from DVD/CD to Harddisk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi: I have just done a new install of Mandrake 9.0 on a MSI KT3 ULTRA2 motherboard. I am having some problems with the DVD/CDrom. When I try to copy files from the CD to the hard drive the system is loosing files and directories from the cd and a refresh of the cd does not show them. And the second problem I have is that when I close the window displaying the contains of the CD and then right click the cdrom icon to eject the disc the drive opens then quickly closes making it hard to get the cd out. Can any one point me in the right direction to cure these problems? I have tried disabling Supermount in the Mandrake Control Center, Mount Points area and this did not seem to have any effect on problem #1. I have also looked in The errata and troubleshooting areas and found nothing to help. I have also tried Mandrake Newbie list but got no answers. I can live with the quickly opening and shutting CD ROM drive on eject, but need to cure the loosing files and directiories when transfering problem. Thanks in advance. - -- Yours, Ralph. It said Use Windows XP or better, so I installed Mandrake-Linux 9.0 Register Linux User 168814 ICQ #49993234 AIM ralphdewitt jabber.org ralphdewitt GPG Public Key available at http://www.keyserver.net Key Fingerprint = B290 C655 3CBF 3744 D896 C647 538B 4558 A3A9 65FF Kernel version 2.4.19-16mdk Current Linux uptime: 1 days 15 hours 58 minutes. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE96/J1U4tFWKOpZf8RAsEfAJ94tuImmVdYzsa/QngA0+wT5vXX8ACePm3h pIqJJNaE6jvG2Ac2DQEtLMc= =1qjx -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] devfs Issue
Hello, I've been playing around devfs on Mandrake 9.0 and yet cannot make it work the expected way. The goal is to get a winmodem recognised as /dev/ttyHSF0. It is an integrated device on a Sony Vaio (connexant chipset). All works well without devFS but i have decided to make it work with it. The main problem I have is the device not being recognised. I use drivers provided by http://www.mbsi.ca/cnxtlindrv/ . This provides a tar.gz where you just need to install modules by make install. You then run hsfconfig to get the modules compiled on your current kernel. It will then create a devfs config file called /etc/devfs/conf.d/hsf.conf . The script is saying that all worked well : Compilation and installation of HSF modules succeeded. Your HSF modem should now be accessible as /dev/ttySHSF0 Now, the modules are compiled but the device is not. Here's what contains hsf.conf : LOOKUP ^(ttySHSF|modem$) EXECUTE nice /sbin/modprobe hsfserial REGISTER^ttySHSF0$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL symlink $devname modem UNREGISTER ^ttySHSF0$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink modem Now, problem is the laptop contains only this : ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A Whereas devfs declares this : /dev/ttyS0 - tts/0 which is declared right here : [root@localhost root]# cat /etc/modules.devfs |grep tts alias /dev/tts* serial alias /dev/ttyS*/dev/tts alias /dev/cua* /dev/tts So finally here's the 10.000$ question : What device am i supposed to declare to finally get my modem device correctly declared and installed with DevFS. I've spent a couple of hours on the machine and also on the web following most of the newsgroups messages but no luck so far. Thanks for any reply (with a solution ;) Steph -- Mail sent on Mandkrake 9.0 ext3 k2419 AMD 1.4 Piece by Piece, the penguins are taking my sanity apart ... http://frlinux.net - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://gentoofr.org - Portail Francais sur Gentoo Linux Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Help needed in copying files from DVD/CD to Harddisk
Hello, When I try to copy files from the CD to the hard drive the system is loosing files and directories from the cd and a refresh of the cd does not show them. Funily (or not) enough, i got the same problem yesterday after having installed my Mandrake 9.0 on a VIA system (don't think it's related but who knows). I fixed it by installing a vanilla kernel. I lost supermount (which i never use anyway) but all is happy now. And the second problem I have is that when I close the window displaying the contains of the CD and then right click the cdrom icon to eject the disc the drive opens then quickly closes making it hard to get the cd out. Can any one point me in the right direction to cure these problems? I think you don't need to umount, just open your CDROM drive and see if the icon disappears. Steph Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Help needed in copying files from DVD/CD to Harddisk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 02 December 2002 04:03 pm, FRLinux wrote: When I try to copy files from the CD to the hard drive the system is loosing files and directories from the cd and a refresh of the cd does not show them. Funily (or not) enough, i got the same problem yesterday after having installed my Mandrake 9.0 on a VIA system (don't think it's related but who knows). I fixed it by installing a vanilla kernel. I lost supermount (which i never use anyway) but all is happy now. Hello: Can anyone else comment on this. Would turning off Supermount in MCC under Mount points fix this problem. Or do I need to do more? - -- Yours, Ralph. It said Use Windows XP or better, so I installed Mandrake-Linux 9.0 Register Linux User 168814 ICQ #49993234 AIM ralphdewitt jabber.org ralphdewitt GPG Public Key available at http://www.keyserver.net Key Fingerprint = B290 C655 3CBF 3744 D896 C647 538B 4558 A3A9 65FF Kernel version 2.4.19-16mdk Current Linux uptime: 1 days 16 hours 16 minutes. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE96/bkU4tFWKOpZf8RAr0kAJ9QbW4jSF15aDooUbYwbGgha35T7gCgpOKT dquHbGdPDwKq+Kw/kwiYXck= =2gc3 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] devfs Issue
FRLinux wrote: Hello, I've been playing around devfs on Mandrake 9.0 and yet cannot make it work the expected way. The goal is to get a winmodem recognised as /dev/ttyHSF0. It is an integrated device on a Sony Vaio (connexant chipset). All works well without devFS but i have decided to make it work with it. The main problem I have is the device not being recognised. I use drivers provided by http://www.mbsi.ca/cnxtlindrv/ . This provides a tar.gz where you just need to install modules by make install. You then run hsfconfig to get the modules compiled on your current kernel. It will then create a devfs config file called /etc/devfs/conf.d/hsf.conf . The script is saying that all worked well : Compilation and installation of HSF modules succeeded. Your HSF modem should now be accessible as /dev/ttySHSF0 Now, the modules are compiled but the device is not. Here's what contains hsf.conf : LOOKUP ^(ttySHSF|modem$) EXECUTE nice /sbin/modprobe hsfserial REGISTER ^ttySHSF0$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL symlink $devname modem UNREGISTER ^ttySHSF0$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink modem When the hsfserial module is loaded a symlink should be created in /dev called modem. What does /dev/modem point to? Now, problem is the laptop contains only this : ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A Whereas devfs declares this : /dev/ttyS0 - tts/0 That's com1 on your PC... the regular serial port. which is declared right here : [root@localhost root]# cat /etc/modules.devfs |grep tts alias /dev/tts* serial alias /dev/ttyS* /dev/tts alias /dev/cua* /dev/tts So finally here's the 10.000$ question : What device am i supposed to declare to finally get my modem device correctly declared and installed with DevFS. I've spent a couple of hours on the machine and also on the web following most of the newsgroups messages but no luck so far. what is /dev/modem pointing to? also, make sure hsfserial is being loaded... when it is loaded look at your /var/log/messages for devfsd saying it creating a device link... send that output... :) Thanks for any reply (with a solution ;) Steph Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] javascript in konqueror
This one fails for me: http://stat.ethz.ch/R-alpha/R-devel/doc/html/search/SearchEngine.html Doing a search or clicking on links in Keywords by topic does nothing in konqueror, but works in Mozilla. Thanks, Aleksey On Mon, 2 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Aleksey Y Naumov wrote: Hi experts, Can anyone share how to get javascript to work in konqueror (KDE 3.0.4)? I downloaded Blackdown's JDK-1.3.1 and installed the j2re part of it (runtime environment, I assume). After linking the plugin it provides -- plugin/i386/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so into Mozilla's plugin directory (as described in the installation notes) Mozilla (both 1.1 and 1.2) is able to display a page with javascript correctly. However, I can't get konqueror to do the same. Java is not Javascript. The j2re package will install the Java Runtime but this will not affect the Javascript environment. The javascript problems may be related to the Javascript interpreter in Konqueror itself. Not everything works yet but is getting better. Can you provide a URL that fails? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Dual athlon problem with kernel 2.2
Hi there, I have now managed to resolve a problem that I originally emailed to the list about a year ago and thought, for the sake of completeness, I would give the solution. The original email is appended below and was about the failure of 2.4 series kernels to boot properly on an Asus A7M266-D motherboard. The solution is to disable MPS 1.4 Support in the BIOS. Not sure what that does but it fixes the problem. The reason I came across it is that I upgraded to Mandrake 9.0 by doing a fresh install, the only problem being that the installer hung right away. I guess it must be based on the 2.4 kernel whereas the 8.1 installer (which worked) was based on 2.2? Paul. --- ORIGINAL MESSAGE --- Hi, We're running Mandrake 8.1 on a dual Athlon 1600+ (1.4GHz) Asustek A7M266-D board. Installation seemd to go okay but when we try the enterprise (2.4.8-26) or smp kernel (2.4.8-34.1) the machine hangs at two different stages during the boot process. Sometimes it hangs at the IO-APIC test and sometimes it gets past this and hangs a few lines later after printing stuff about CPU0. The up kernel (2.4.8-26) works fine. We also have no success with the 2.4.18 smp kernel. We DO have success with the older 2.2.19-20.1 smp kernel! Does anybody have any idea what changed from 2.2 to 2.4 that would cause this sort of problem and how to fix it? Is there simply something I need to compile into or remove from the kernel? Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks. Paul Fotheringham --- END ORIGINAL MESSAGE --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] devfs Issue
Ok this isn't exactly a solution. But rather a question. Does anything get created via the tarball in /etc/devfs/conf.d? In this directory I have a number of conf files for devices specific to my computer. /etc/devfsd.conf reads this to understand how to configure devices for your box when it starts up and this could be what is missing in order to get it to configure/recognize this device. James On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 16:35, Bryan Whitehead wrote: FRLinux wrote: Hello, I've been playing around devfs on Mandrake 9.0 and yet cannot make it work the expected way. The goal is to get a winmodem recognised as /dev/ttyHSF0. It is an integrated device on a Sony Vaio (connexant chipset). All works well without devFS but i have decided to make it work with it. The main problem I have is the device not being recognised. I use drivers provided by http://www.mbsi.ca/cnxtlindrv/ . This provides a tar.gz where you just need to install modules by make install. You then run hsfconfig to get the modules compiled on your current kernel. It will then create a devfs config file called /etc/devfs/conf.d/hsf.conf . The script is saying that all worked well : Compilation and installation of HSF modules succeeded. Your HSF modem should now be accessible as /dev/ttySHSF0 Now, the modules are compiled but the device is not. Here's what contains hsf.conf : LOOKUP ^(ttySHSF|modem$) EXECUTE nice /sbin/modprobe hsfserial REGISTER^ttySHSF0$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL symlink $devname modem UNREGISTER ^ttySHSF0$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink modem When the hsfserial module is loaded a symlink should be created in /dev called modem. What does /dev/modem point to? Now, problem is the laptop contains only this : ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A Whereas devfs declares this : /dev/ttyS0 - tts/0 That's com1 on your PC... the regular serial port. which is declared right here : [root@localhost root]# cat /etc/modules.devfs |grep tts alias /dev/tts* serial alias /dev/ttyS*/dev/tts alias /dev/cua* /dev/tts So finally here's the 10.000$ question : What device am i supposed to declare to finally get my modem device correctly declared and installed with DevFS. I've spent a couple of hours on the machine and also on the web following most of the newsgroups messages but no luck so far. what is /dev/modem pointing to? also, make sure hsfserial is being loaded... when it is loaded look at your /var/log/messages for devfsd saying it creating a device link... send that output... :) Thanks for any reply (with a solution ;) Steph Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
[expert] Still problems with Windowmaker
OK, Still having fun with WindowMaker. As you may or may not know I've been unable to use Windowmaker on any of my 9.0 boxes because it's unable to load the Mandrake menu system. Today MandrakeOnline had an update which I grabbed... installed then wiped out ~myhome/GNUStep so as to start fresh still no dice. HOWEVER I had tty's 1 2 and 3 monitoring /var/log/kdm.log messages and XFree86.0.log nothing different on any of the screens except the message that it can't find /lib/cpp Ok /lib/cpp is a soft link to /etc/alternatives/lib_cpp which isn't there..oops. so tell me what should this be linked to? Then after that... PLEASE does anyone have a 9.0 box with a working WindowMaker and how did you get it working? I'm really sick of start buttons. *grin* James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Help needed in copying files from DVD/CD to Harddisk
On Monday 02 December 2002 18:12, Ralph De Witt wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 02 December 2002 04:03 pm, FRLinux wrote: When I try to copy files from the CD to the hard drive the system is loosing files and directories from the cd and a refresh of the cd does not show them. Funily (or not) enough, i got the same problem yesterday after having installed my Mandrake 9.0 on a VIA system (don't think it's related but who knows). I fixed it by installing a vanilla kernel. I lost supermount (which i never use anyway) but all is happy now. Hello: Can anyone else comment on this. Would turning off Supermount in MCC under Mount points fix this problem. Or do I need to do more? - -- I used the following to disable supermount: cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.with_supermount supermount -i disable This will give you a new /etc/fstab file and supermount will be completely disabled after the next reboot. Your problems sound typical of the supermount problems and they should go away once you disable it. Narfi. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Still problems with Windowmaker
On Monday, December 2, 2002, at 08:46 PM, James Sparenberg wrote:
Still having fun with WindowMaker. As you may or may not know I've
been unable to use Windowmaker on any of my 9.0 boxes because it's
unable to load the Mandrake menu system. Today MandrakeOnline had an
update which I grabbed... installed then wiped out ~myhome/GNUStep so
as
to start fresh still no dice. HOWEVER I had tty's 1 2 and 3
monitoring /var/log/kdm.log messages and XFree86.0.log nothing
different on any of the screens except the message that it can't find
/lib/cpp Ok /lib/cpp is a soft link to /etc/alternatives/lib_cpp
which isn't there..oops. so tell me what should this be linked to?
Then after that... PLEASE does anyone have a 9.0 box with a working
WindowMaker and how did you get it working? I'm really sick of start
buttons. *grin*
Have you tried running wmaker.inst as the user who will be using
WindowMaker?
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Re: [expert] Dear friends,
That would actually depend on the camera, not on the storage media. On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 12:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tested a camera with ComplactFlash not supported by gphoto2 (Nikon Coolpix 775 USB) and I have been able to mount the CompacFlash as an scsi driver using the usb-storage module: - modules loaded: usb, usb-core, usb-storage and ide-scsis - conection to my laptop via usb-cable - create a dir: mkdir -m 777 /mnt/camera - after plug the camera, mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera And with konqueror in /mnt/camera I had several directories, one of them with the images; I could copy the selected images to other directories in my real hardisk; It was fantastic!. My question now is: Does anyone know if I can do the same with a camera using the Smartmedia storage?, this question is because lots of new very interesting cameras are using this other storage technology. Thanks so much in advance Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) X-Accept-Language: es Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear friends, I have tested a camera with ComplactFlash not supported by gphoto2 (Nikon Coolpix 775 USB) and I have been able to mount the CompacFlash as an scsi driver using the usb-storage module: - modules loaded: usb, usb-core, usb-storage and ide-scsis - conection to my laptop via usb-cable - create a dir: mkdir -m 777 /mnt/camera - after plug the camera, mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera And with konqueror in /mnt/camera I had several directories, one of them with the images; I could copy the selected images to other directories in my real hardisk; It was fantastic!. My question now is: Does anyone know if I can do the same with a camera using the Smartmedia storage?, this question is because lots of new very interesting cameras are using this other storage technology. Thanks so much in advance Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) 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] Still problems with Windowmaker
No never had to before... but will try ... I'm gaim *grin*
James
On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 20:20, Vincent Danen wrote:
On Monday, December 2, 2002, at 08:46 PM, James Sparenberg wrote:
Still having fun with WindowMaker. As you may or may not know I've
been unable to use Windowmaker on any of my 9.0 boxes because it's
unable to load the Mandrake menu system. Today MandrakeOnline had an
update which I grabbed... installed then wiped out ~myhome/GNUStep so
as
to start fresh still no dice. HOWEVER I had tty's 1 2 and 3
monitoring /var/log/kdm.log messages and XFree86.0.log nothing
different on any of the screens except the message that it can't find
/lib/cpp Ok /lib/cpp is a soft link to /etc/alternatives/lib_cpp
which isn't there..oops. so tell me what should this be linked to?
Then after that... PLEASE does anyone have a 9.0 box with a working
WindowMaker and how did you get it working? I'm really sick of start
buttons. *grin*
Have you tried running wmaker.inst as the user who will be using
WindowMaker?
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Re: [expert] Still problems with Windowmaker
Initial suspicion was correct. If GNUStep directory is missing it runs
when you first install. Tried also creating a new user so that MDK's
firstime program ran... either way.. still no menu. dang.
James
On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 20:20, Vincent Danen wrote:
On Monday, December 2, 2002, at 08:46 PM, James Sparenberg wrote:
Still having fun with WindowMaker. As you may or may not know I've
been unable to use Windowmaker on any of my 9.0 boxes because it's
unable to load the Mandrake menu system. Today MandrakeOnline had an
update which I grabbed... installed then wiped out ~myhome/GNUStep so
as
to start fresh still no dice. HOWEVER I had tty's 1 2 and 3
monitoring /var/log/kdm.log messages and XFree86.0.log nothing
different on any of the screens except the message that it can't find
/lib/cpp Ok /lib/cpp is a soft link to /etc/alternatives/lib_cpp
which isn't there..oops. so tell me what should this be linked to?
Then after that... PLEASE does anyone have a 9.0 box with a working
WindowMaker and how did you get it working? I'm really sick of start
buttons. *grin*
Have you tried running wmaker.inst as the user who will be using
WindowMaker?
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Re: [expert] Still problems with Windowmaker
On Monday, December 2, 2002, at 09:50 PM, James Sparenberg wrote:
No never had to before... but will try ... I'm gaim *grin*
IIRC, you've needed to do this for quite a while. Could be wrong, but
I'm quite sure. Anyways, if you install the WindowMaker rpm on the
commandline, you'll see that instruction printed to stdout.
Unfortunately, when installing via rpmdrake you don't get that info.
And I think, although could be wrong, that urpmi suppresses that kinda
stuff.
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Re: [expert] Still problems with Windowmaker
On Monday, December 2, 2002, at 09:54 PM, James Sparenberg wrote:
Initial suspicion was correct. If GNUStep directory is missing it runs
when you first install. Tried also creating a new user so that MDK's
firstime program ran... either way.. still no menu. dang.
Ok... have you tried opening up a term in wmaker and then running
update-menus as a user?
That should give you your mdk menus.
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Re: [expert] Still problems with Windowmaker
Link /etc/alternatives/lib_cpp with /usr/bin/cpp-3.2 as root with the following command: ln -s /usr/bin/cpp-3.2 /etc/alternatives/lib_cpp This should resolve your problems with the menus. It did for me when I ran into the problem. Erik On 2 Dec 2002, James Sparenberg wrote: OK, Still having fun with WindowMaker. As you may or may not know I've been unable to use Windowmaker on any of my 9.0 boxes because it's unable to load the Mandrake menu system. Today MandrakeOnline had an update which I grabbed... installed then wiped out ~myhome/GNUStep so as to start fresh still no dice. HOWEVER I had tty's 1 2 and 3 monitoring /var/log/kdm.log messages and XFree86.0.log nothing different on any of the screens except the message that it can't find /lib/cpp Ok /lib/cpp is a soft link to /etc/alternatives/lib_cpp which isn't there..oops. so tell me what should this be linked to? Then after that... PLEASE does anyone have a 9.0 box with a working WindowMaker and how did you get it working? I'm really sick of start buttons. *grin* James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Still problems with Windowmaker
On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 21:00, Vincent Danen wrote:
On Monday, December 2, 2002, at 09:54 PM, James Sparenberg wrote:
Initial suspicion was correct. If GNUStep directory is missing it runs
when you first install. Tried also creating a new user so that MDK's
firstime program ran... either way.. still no menu. dang.
Ok... have you tried opening up a term in wmaker and then running
update-menus as a user?
That should give you your mdk menus.
Should but unfortunately doesn't... Even after a restart of Wmaker. The
error is that it can't load the applications menu and says output has
been sent to console loaded xconsole to try and caputure this
output but no dice. IF I open the windowmaker config tool I can get the
stock wmaker menu but still am unable to get the Mandrake version.
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RE: [expert] problems with msec daily
Hi all, I ended up getting it working, but the commands people suggested had no noticable effect.. I had to edit the symlinks by hand to get them to work.. most of the problem seems to be that mandrake added -cups to the links, when the file to link to was a link to a cups util, but the link name itself did not have -cups in it... same with the mail stuff and -postfix etc etc... This was a dead standard install (not upgrade) of mdk9.0, so I don't know what the deal is with that.. Still, its fixed now, just hope I don't have to do that with all the installs. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert Wohlfarth Sent: Tuesday, 3 December 2002 3:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [expert] problems with msec daily On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 03:16, Franki wrote: I am gettng that same error, but mine is worse.. bzcat: Can't open input file ./newaliases.1.bz2: No such file or directory. bzcat: Can't open input file ./mailq.1.bz2: No such file or directory. bzcat: Can't open input file ./lpr.1.bz2: No such file or directory. bzcat: Can't open input file ./lpq.1.bz2: No such file or directory. bzcat: Can't open input file ./lprm.1.bz2: No such file or directory. bzcat: Can't open input file ./lp.1.bz2: No such file or directory. bzcat: Can't open input file ./cancel.1.bz2: No such file or directory. bzcat: Can't open input file ./lpstat.1.bz2: No such file or directory. bzcat: Can't open input file ./aliases.5.bz2: No such file or directory. bzcat: Can't open input file ./lpc.8.bz2: No such file or directory. I was having the same trouble. Try these commands: update-alternatives --auto lp update-alternatives --auto lpr update-alternatives --auto lpstat update-alternatives --auto cancel update-alternatives --auto lprm update-alternatives --auto lpq update-alternatives --auto mta_newaliases update-alternatives --auto mta_mailq update-alternatives --auto mta_aliasesman The complete list of possible links is in /etc/alternatives. -- Robert Wohlfarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? -- Matthew 6:25b Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Still problems with Windowmaker
On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 21:47, Erik Laxdal wrote: Link /etc/alternatives/lib_cpp with /usr/bin/cpp-3.2 as root with the following command: ln -s /usr/bin/cpp-3.2 /etc/alternatives/lib_cpp This should resolve your problems with the menus. It did for me when I ran into the problem. Erik Thanks ! Man talk about IMMEDIATE ... Yes menus are there now In Wmaker XFce and others YIEEE! now to do the rest of my boxes. Thanks again. On 2 Dec 2002, James Sparenberg wrote: OK, Still having fun with WindowMaker. As you may or may not know I've been unable to use Windowmaker on any of my 9.0 boxes because it's unable to load the Mandrake menu system. Today MandrakeOnline had an update which I grabbed... installed then wiped out ~myhome/GNUStep so as to start fresh still no dice. HOWEVER I had tty's 1 2 and 3 monitoring /var/log/kdm.log messages and XFree86.0.log nothing different on any of the screens except the message that it can't find /lib/cpp Ok /lib/cpp is a soft link to /etc/alternatives/lib_cpp which isn't there..oops. so tell me what should this be linked to? Then after that... PLEASE does anyone have a 9.0 box with a working WindowMaker and how did you get it working? I'm really sick of start buttons. *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] Still problems with Windowmaker
On Monday, December 2, 2002, at 10:52 PM, James Sparenberg wrote:
Initial suspicion was correct. If GNUStep directory is missing it
runs
when you first install. Tried also creating a new user so that MDK's
firstime program ran... either way.. still no menu. dang.
Ok... have you tried opening up a term in wmaker and then running
update-menus as a user?
That should give you your mdk menus.
Should but unfortunately doesn't... Even after a restart of Wmaker.
The
error is that it can't load the applications menu and says output has
been sent to console loaded xconsole to try and caputure this
output but no dice. IF I open the windowmaker config tool I can get
the
stock wmaker menu but still am unable to get the Mandrake version.
Did you cat .xsession-errors?
First thing I did (just fired up wmaker here on 9.0). Last thing it
says is:
sh: line 1: /lib/cpp: No such file or directory
check /lib/cpp with ls -l and it's pointing to a non-existent file
(dangling symlink)
Create the link /usr/bin/cpp to /etc/alternatives/lib_cpp. Log out
then log back in. Oh. Don't even need to log out then back in again.
Looks like update-alternatives is a little messed up. Wierd thing is,
checking rpm -q --scripts gcc-cpp there is a call to
update-alternatives.
If I execute the exact same thing as %postinstall in gcc-cpp, I get the
symlink properly created.
Looks like something for an errata.
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Re: [expert] Still problems with Windowmaker
On Monday, December 2, 2002, at 11:34 PM, Vincent Danen wrote:
Ok... have you tried opening up a term in wmaker and then running
update-menus as a user?
That should give you your mdk menus.
Should but unfortunately doesn't... Even after a restart of Wmaker.
The
error is that it can't load the applications menu and says output has
been sent to console loaded xconsole to try and caputure this
output but no dice. IF I open the windowmaker config tool I can get
the
stock wmaker menu but still am unable to get the Mandrake version.
Did you cat .xsession-errors?
First thing I did (just fired up wmaker here on 9.0). Last thing it
says is:
sh: line 1: /lib/cpp: No such file or directory
check /lib/cpp with ls -l and it's pointing to a non-existent file
(dangling symlink)
Create the link /usr/bin/cpp to /etc/alternatives/lib_cpp. Log out
then log back in. Oh. Don't even need to log out then back in again.
Looks like update-alternatives is a little messed up. Wierd thing is,
checking rpm -q --scripts gcc-cpp there is a call to
update-alternatives.
If I execute the exact same thing as %postinstall in gcc-cpp, I get
the symlink properly created.
Looks like something for an errata.
Also looks like someone beat me to it. Ah well.
Anyways, I've added this to the 9.0 errata since others may encounter
the same problem.
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[expert] urpmi says everything already installed
There's something wrong (I think) when I try to install packages from the installation CD's. Here's a brief history of what's happening. Can anyone point me in the right direction to go next? Running Mandrake 9.0, Mandrake Control Center, Install Software. None of the packages have check marks, even ones that I know are installed. I check one or more and click the Install button. A dialog box appears saying Everything is already installed (that's not supposed to happen is it). 'rpm -q' from the command line says the checked packages are not installed. If I use 'urpmi' from the command line, it says it can't find the sources. 'urpmi -v' shows the command searching the database for all of the CD's, but still ends by saying it can't find the sources. I ran 'rpm --rebuilddb', and it made no difference. Besides, 'rpm' seems to report the correct information (package installed or not installed). 'urpmi' recognizes the package name, even asking about loading dependencies. I tried searching the mail list archives and Google. Nothing appeared to match this problem. 'man urpmi' hasn't shed any light on the problem (of course that may be a problem my reading comprehension :) This all started because I was trying to use a joystick. Stumbled upon the packages 'libjsw1' and 'libjsw1-calibrator'. The 'gameport' kernel module is already loaded. And I hoped those packages would let me access the joystick. But I kept running into these problems trying to load the packages. All help is appreciated. -- Robert Wohlfarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? -- Matthew 6:25b Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] urpmi says everything already installed
Have a look on the mandrake errata at linux-mandrake.com There is something about this problem in there, with a solution... rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert Wohlfarth Sent: Tuesday, 3 December 2002 12:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] urpmi says everything already installed There's something wrong (I think) when I try to install packages from the installation CD's. Here's a brief history of what's happening. Can anyone point me in the right direction to go next? Running Mandrake 9.0, Mandrake Control Center, Install Software. None of the packages have check marks, even ones that I know are installed. I check one or more and click the Install button. A dialog box appears saying Everything is already installed (that's not supposed to happen is it). 'rpm -q' from the command line says the checked packages are not installed. If I use 'urpmi' from the command line, it says it can't find the sources. 'urpmi -v' shows the command searching the database for all of the CD's, but still ends by saying it can't find the sources. I ran 'rpm --rebuilddb', and it made no difference. Besides, 'rpm' seems to report the correct information (package installed or not installed). 'urpmi' recognizes the package name, even asking about loading dependencies. I tried searching the mail list archives and Google. Nothing appeared to match this problem. 'man urpmi' hasn't shed any light on the problem (of course that may be a problem my reading comprehension :) This all started because I was trying to use a joystick. Stumbled upon the packages 'libjsw1' and 'libjsw1-calibrator'. The 'gameport' kernel module is already loaded. And I hoped those packages would let me access the joystick. But I kept running into these problems trying to load the packages. All help is appreciated. -- Robert Wohlfarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? -- Matthew 6:25b Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
