Re: [expert] urpmi woes
On Wednesday 19 Nov 2003 5:41 pm, Jason Williams wrote: SNIP One last question regarding sources for urpmi. I've been playing around with the commands to add media and remove media, just to get a feel for things. The only question I have now, is that when I do a search for samba, it only lists samba3. From what im gathering, it is searching the 'contrib' tree and not the 'main' tree. Is there a way to get urpmi to search both trees? Then, if I specifically want to look for samba3, I could type: urpmq -i samb3 or something similar? I appreciate it. Jason urpmq will search all available media unless you force it to use a specific media with --media or restrict it to update media with --update It may be your 'main' source is not configured properly or maybe you are just being misled by the way urpmq will return a limited list if there is a close match. Compare for example what is returned if you do :- urpmq samba urpmq samb urpmq --fuzzy samba derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] urpmi woes
On Wednesday 19 Nov 2003 12:27 am, Jason Williams wrote:
Ok...not sure if this should go here, but so far, i've had no luck in
trying to resolve my problems with urpmi.
Just did a fresh install of 9.2 on one of our IBM servers.
I used the easy urpmi site to setup my urpmi servers so I could install
software accordingly.
Also, I should mention that I did go to http://www.urpmi.org and tried to
read the how-to, but a lot of the pages are no longer active.
Here is the problem.
When I run urpmq --fuzzy, I get no response. Not sure why, but it does not
list anything.
Also, look at the following:
$ urpmq -i samba3-common
medium contrib uses an invalid list file:
mirror is probably not up-to-date, trying to use alternate method
Still gives the description, but that error is something i'd like to
correct.
Quick look at my urpmi.cfg:
Installation\ CD\ 1\ (x86)\ (cdrom1) removable://mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS {
hdlist: hdlist.Installation CD 1 (x86) (cdrom1).cz
with_hdlist: ../../Mandrake/base/hdlist1.cz
removable: /dev/hda
key-ids: 70771ff3
}
Installation\ CD\ 2\ (x86)\ (cdrom2) removable://mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS2 {
hdlist: hdlist.Installation CD 2 (x86) (cdrom2).cz
with_hdlist: ../../Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz
removable: /dev/hda
key-ids: 70771ff3
}
International\ CD\ (x86)\ (cdrom3) removable://mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS3 {
hdlist: hdlist.International CD (x86) (cdrom3).cz
with_hdlist: ../../Mandrake/base/hdlist3.cz
removable: /dev/hda
key-ids: 70771ff3
}
updates
ftp://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/updates/9.2/RPMS {
hdlist: hdlist.updates.cz
with_hdlist: ../base/hdlist.cz
update
}
main
ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/9.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS
{ hdlist: hdlist.main.cz
with_hdlist: ../base/hdlist.cz
key-ids: 70771ff3
}
contrib
ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/Mandrake/9.2/contrib/i586 {
hdlist: hdlist.contrib.cz
with_hdlist: ../../i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz
list: list.contrib
key-ids: 70771ff3
}
Granted, I really do not want to use the CD's for any type of installation,
but instead just use the ftp sites exclusively.
With that in mind, I feel like im a little lost in the water here.
What can I do to correct this problem?
I appreciate everyones help and input.
Cheers,
Jason
For urpmq --fuzzy you need to supply a string parameter
For example urpmq --fuzzy samba
That error with
medium contrib uses an invalid list file:
mirror is probably not up-to-date, trying to use alternate method
is a temporary issue because the list file on the mirrors is currently out of
date. It does not affect the operation of urpmi. It is just an annoyance.
To remove your CD media type
urpmi.removemedia
You will be given a list of all the urpmi sources, then
urpmi.removemedia media_name
will remove a specific media.
HTH
derek
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Re: [expert] urpmi woes
On Wednesday 19 Nov 2003 1:21 am, Jason Williams wrote: snip That error with medium contrib uses an invalid list file: mirror is probably not up-to-date, trying to use alternate method is a temporary issue because the list file on the mirrors is currently out of date. It does not affect the operation of urpmi. It is just an annoyance. Anyway to fix this manually? Or can I just resync my sources to get the updated tree? It is the tree on the mirror that is broken. We will have to wait until it is fixed. It is the file 'list' in the contrib folder that is out of date. The list includes the old kernel packages that were replaced. I do not know how urpmi uses the list file. It is clearly not essential since not all sources have one. When it is eventually fixed do a urpmi.update -a to bring your database in line with the mirror. You should also be updating the database for your updates source frequently. I automate my updates in a cron job with this :- urpmi.update updates urpmi --update --auto --auto-select derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Clean up old logs
On Saturday 15 Nov 2003 5:32 pm, Björn Lundin wrote: Adrian Golumbovici wrote: Anyway, how can I find out if logrotate is running? look in the crontab or int /etc/cron.daily ps aux | grep logrotate didn't show any results. And what does logrotate actually do (how does it work)? It's not a deamon, its started by cron, run and then dies. I see some logs archived (with .gz ending) in /var/log but don't really need them (they just take up space). proberbly logrotate, that what it does, switching logfile for processes, keeping the old ones compressed. Anything older than 30 days should be irrelevant. man logrotate will help you to set that up, by tweaking /etc/logrotate.conf /Björn And if you turn your computer off at night you will need to install the anacron RPM. The cron job to run logrotate is scheduled at 4am each morning. If your computer is switched off at night it will never run. Anacron will run missed cron jobs for you. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Clean up old logs
On Saturday 15 Nov 2003 7:30 pm, Adrian Golumbovici wrote: Oh shucks. Then maybe that was it. Since last electricity invoice almost let me broke I started to shut it down at night (that is for the last 6 months). :) Just install it. It will start as a service automatically. No config is necessary derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] chkrootkit and mailing results to root
On Wednesday 12 Nov 2003 1:30 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 11 November 2003 04:23 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: As I was sitting here staring at tail -f /var/log/syslog I saw my chkrootkit anacronjob fly by. At the end of the check, I noticed an email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] An outtake from my syslog post chkrootkit: The message is being sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sending email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] will fail and go to nobody. What is actually sending this message and where do I find the config file so I can correct it to send messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Set your hostname appropriately and all messages sent to root should be delivered to the right person. You may also create an alias in Postfix assuming that you have no reason to actually send messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is it postfix itself? In order to avoid having the mandrake list bounce all my mails back at me, I had to setup my local postfix to set myorigin = yahoo.com. If I set it to be my actual localdomain (ravenhome.net) I will lose the ability to post to the expert list. Is this [EMAIL PROTECTED] originating from postfix via this myorigin setting? Well, you could do as I do and set up an alternate transport in Kmail to send to the list using your ISP SMTP server rather than trying to bounce messages through Postfix which the Mandrake mailing list appears to dislike, and then send all other messages through Postfix. I figure it has something to do with references to internal networks in the Received headers. If you set MAIL_WARN=yes MAIL_USER=emailaddy in /etc/security/msec/security.conf then the results of chkrootkit will be amalgamated into the daily security emails msec will start sending you. The security mails will also include lists of :- config files altered, world writable files, ports opened/closesd/authentication violations, and firewall hits. If you are not running Postfix or some other MTA, then ssmtp is a simple smtp agent which could deliver the mails for you. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Problems retrieving mail: fetchmail: smtp listener protocol error
On Wednesday 12 Nov 2003 7:48 pm, HaywireMac wrote: SNIP Starting postfix: postalias: warning: My hostname node1 is not a fully qualified name - set myhostname or mydomain in /etc/postfix/main.cf postmap: warning: My hostname node1 is not a fully qualified name - set myhostname or mydomain in /etc/postfix/main.cf Ah, the fun and frolic of a new install! SNIP As it says, you have not defined a domain name. Postfix will not work unless it knows the local domain name. By default it picks it up from the Hostname. Define a hostname.domainname either in /ets/sysconfig/network or /etc/postfix/main.cf If this is a fresh install the other simple mistake is to not define an alias for root in /etc/postfix/aliases (run 'newaliases' afterwards) derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Problems retrieving mail: fetchmail: smtp listener protocol error
On Wednesday 12 Nov 2003 9:55 pm, HaywireMac wrote: On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 21:41:29 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: As it says, you have not defined a domain name. Postfix will not work unless it knows the local domain name. By default it picks it up from the Hostname. Define a hostname.domainname either in /ets/sysconfig/network or /etc/postfix/main.cf aaah, yes, now that I look, /ets/sysconfig/network shows no hostname at all. IIRC, it was HOSTNAME=node1 ? I never had more than that in 9.1, is there a need to add .localdomain or something now?-- yes Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Any harm in upgrading? (Rpm question)
On Tuesday 11 Nov 2003 1:24 pm, turgut kalfaoglu wrote: Often, when I update something, like for example Mozilla's 1.6 alpha is out, and I want to install it. It comes with its own installer. When I try to remove Mozilla 1.3 that comes with Mandrake 9.1, it gives me a warning that galeon and other tools are using mozilla 1.3. Can I safely assume that I can use the --nodeps option and bypass these warnings, since I intend to install the updated version of the same program a few minutes later?I have been doing that, but I have a nagging doubt about it! thanks! -turgut No Galeon is bound to a specific mozilla release. Galeon will not work afterwards. Also the mozilla installer will put the mozilla files in a different location to Mandrake. Refer to my earlier post today. Use of --nodeps and --force often leads to grief. What you can do is to have both versions of mozilla installed and manage symlinks to select them. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Bizarre postfix problem cant send mail
On Sunday 09 Nov 2003 7:10 am, Jack Coates wrote: A lot of answers were written, you might want to go through the mail archives. My strong, nay, vehement suggestion at this point is to format that box's disk drives and start over, then ask specific questions. Portsentry is good. It is also non-free in the OSI sense since Psionic's purchase by Cisco, IIRC. Shorewall is a sight easier than editing iptables directly, but the people who can't handle it generally seem to like gshield. I've also used Monmotha in the past and liked it, does it work with iptables? Anyway, to grok shorewall you should read its docs. Here's some guiding principles: first, set up interfaces. There is at least one, which is the exterior ethernet. localhost not required here. second, set up zones. A zone is a network which is connected to an interface. There are at least two zones, one for localhost and one for the Internet. Change the Mandrake names to something you understand. third, set up policy (deny everything between Internet and localhost). fourth, set up rules (allow SMTP from Internet to localhost). On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 09:41, dfox wrote: SNIP I tried running shorewall but got nowhere. I don't know how to edit shorewall files and I don't want something that won't even let me ping my gateway when installed. iptables is running because of portsentry but I don't see anything that is specifically tied to port 25. And in atcp mode it's supposed to ignore certain standard ports anyway. Shorewall by default disables Ping. If you want ping enabled then add a line in /etc/shorewall/rules ACCEPT loc fw icmp8 (assuming the local zone is called 'loc') then 'shorewall restart' derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mozilla flash and shockwave plugins not working in MDK9.2
On Monday 03 Nov 2003 11:44 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've just installed MDK9.2 with the upadtes w/o problems. However, I can't make flash (and shockwave was unavailable for MDK9.2) plugins work in Mozilla. I eve tried to install an rpm from http://macromedia.rediris.es/site_ri.html but didn't work, either. Any clues as to how solve this. Anybody had the same problem? TIA Rafa Valencia, Spain Did the RPM put the plugin into /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4/plugins ? If not then either move it or make a symlink. As for shockwave AFAIK there is no linux version, but you can get the Windows version working if you buy Codeweavers 'Crossover Plugin' or with a bit more effort you can run it under Wine. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] IM issues
On Sunday 19 Oct 2003 10:24 am, Anne Wilson wrote: 1) I have kopete installed, and I did not remember to do anything about msn before I went away. Everything was fine when I left, but now it tries to connect to msn on opening, fails, and segfaults. Is there any way that I can get in to the configuration file to stop instant connections? I have looked for it, but can't see the file. 2) What exactly is the purpose of Jabber? I installed it so that I could run kopete, but have two issues with it - a) I get failed messages on shutdown that relate to jabber, and they go by so fast that I can't read them. I know where to find messages that come up during bootup, but I'm not so sure about shutdown messages. b) From top it seems that it takes up a relatively big slice of cpu and mem, even when kopete is not loaded: 1759 daemon10 0 10080 9.8m 848 S 0.7 1.9 4:31.08 jabberd so what is it doing? Anne Anne jabberd is the jabber server. You only need it if you want to provide IM services for people. More likely you will connect to a public jabber server. There is a list at www.jabber.org One reason you might want to run your own jabbber server is because since Oct 15th MSN changed their protocol to lock out 3rd party IM clients. However a workaround has been devised for the MSN transport for jabber servers, but not all servers are running the updated version yet. (The public server I use has not yet) derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] IM issues
On Sunday 19 Oct 2003 11:51 am, Anne Wilson wrote: SNIP I chose to use kopete because my two grandchildren use msn along with their friends. I assumed that the msn change was what was causing the problem now. IM is not a service I have used much, and I know very little about it. Do you know some recommended reading? Do I google for kopete to see what I can learn about the current situation? The connection to MSN can be supported 2 ways :- By supporting the MSN protocol in the client like Gaim does. Or by relying on the MSN transport addon to the Jabber server, in which case the problems since Oct15th are nothing to do with the developers of the client. I am not sure how kopete does it since I am not a user. My client of choice is Psi There are some informative discussions in the Psi Forum at http://psi.affinix.com/forums/index.php?act=STf=1t=819s=254ad1e05e55815b4b489745c3356197 derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 start menu hosed after installing Moz 1.4
On Saturday 18 Oct 2003 4:53 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 08:38, D. R. Evans wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18 Oct 2003 at 10:21, Avi Schwartz wrote: I had a similar problem and no, I did not install Mozilla. There seems to be a problem in rebuilding (or lack of) the menus in 9.2. I found there is a program /usr/sbin/update-menus which when I ran it, it rebuilt all menus and desktop links. No such program on my installation. This is wonderful! Can anyone spell catch-22? Just how does one regenerate the start menu when the menu is so hosed that you can do almost nothing?!! I'm amazed that this didn't happen to anyone during testing. So far, the _only_ thing I did with my pristine 9.2 installation was to add Moz 1.4, and this immediately bit me. I suppose that I can always do a complete re-install. And NOT add Moz 1.4 once the installation is complete :-) Doc Doc, That's because the program is in /usr/bin/ not /usr/sbin. I think the original poster had a finger slip.(Like I haven't done this a few hundred times myself.) To verify just type which update-menus and it will tell you full path. Or better yet just type update-menus, and it will run. (Warning it doesn't look like anything happens, since it immediately returns, don't worry it runs in the background for a couple of minutes before the menu's reappear.) The program that supplies this is menu-2.1.5-123mdk, and this is one disk 1 of your 9.2 disks. This is a manditory rpm so it should be already on you disk. james I also had the issue of my menus disappearing in 9.2 and found the problem was a malformed menu entry in /etc/menu/menudrakeentry If you run update-menus -d It will highlight any malformed lines for you In my case the problem was a line reading ?package(menu): needs=fluxbox icon=applications_section.png section=Fluxbox/Styles/ title= charset=utf8 The null title is not permitted. Just inserting some text here fixed it for me after running update-menus again as root and as user derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mmap mode in Alsa and 2.4.22 kernel
I have just upgraded to current Cooker with the 2.4.22-10mdk kernel, and find that everything works Ok except sound in Enemy Territory, and xmms using the alsa output plugin. ET fails with a message about /dev/dsp and mmap If I disable mmap mode in the xmms alsa plugin advanced settings, the sound works again. If I revert to the 2.4.21-13mdk kernel sound works in et and xmms-alsa with mmap. I know I could work around the problem by using the OSS driver, but I wondered if someone can offer some insight on what is going on. (My sound driver is snd-via82xxx ) derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Can't see my new Mandrake 9.0 box on the network
Most likely you have a firewall in place. The default firewall config will block netbios (samba) and ucmp (ping) traffic For firewall config help see www.shorewall.org You might find the fix outlined here useful http://www.club-nihil.net/mub/viewtopic.php?t=5514 HTH derek On Sunday 06 Oct 2002 6:18 pm, Lorne wrote: Hey guys, I have a preplexing situation. I rebuilt my box at work from scratch (I kept my home partition). Everything seemed fine until I attempted to do a samba share. I couldn't see the share. Went back to basics and I can't even ping it. Now get this.. The linux box is 172.22.76.15. My windows box is 172.22.76.89. They both have a subnet of 255.255.255.0, with a gateway of 172.22.76.1. Both can ping the gateway. Both can get out on the internet. I have found that the mac address of the linux box IS in the arp cache of the windows box, so that leaves me to believe that it is my linux box that is configured wrong somehow somewhere. Even wilder is they are on the same hub, so it sure can't be a misconfigured switch. What can I be missing in the config files on the linux box that would be causing this? I'm ready to start a packet trace tomorrow if no one gives me any ides. thanks in advance. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Fax gui frontend
On Tuesday 13 Aug 2002 1:07 pm, Praedor Tempus wrote: I have installed and am using the hylafax package on my 8.2 system. I have never used this software before, nor any other linux fax software. I have tried sending a fax via CLI (which appears to be the only method available) but do not yet know whether or not I was successful. As for receiving a fax... Are there any GUIs for hylafax? I have seen several listed for efax and sendfax, but since I am using hylafax, I have simply fax (ie, fax send number filename. Simple enough in principal but I would prefer a frontend that anyone could use (I wont get my wife to do CLI stuff). Is there any such beast as a graphical frontend to the hylafax package? It would need to deal with received faxes too, not just sending faxes (be nice to preview what the fax program is planning to send). praedor kdeprintfax may be configured to use either hylafax or efax as a backend. In KDE the CUPS pseudo fax printer will launch kdeprintfax. I do not know how well it works with hylafax since I use efax. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] More fax problems hylafax and efax
On Tuesday 13 Aug 2002 3:21 pm, Praedor Tempus wrote: Printing/sending to fax a simple text file from kwrite I get a nice printing hang and this is the logfile output from Print to fax (recipient and fax number edited): SNIP Sending to fax using: /usr/bin/fax 'NAME=praedor' DEV=modem PAGE=letter 'FROM=XXX XXX ' send XXX /home/praedor/.kde/tmp-lapdog.ravenhome.net/kdeprint_ebsXt75 /home/praedor/.kde/tmp-lapdog.ravenhome.net/kdeprint_ebsXt75 is postscript... /usr/bin/efax: Tue Aug 13 08:34:26 2002 efax v 0.9 Copyright 1999 Ed Casas efax: 34:26 Error: can't open pre-lock file /var/lock/TMP..08625: Permission denied efax: 34:26 failed - /home/praedor/.kde/tmp-lapdog.ravenhome.net/kdeprint_ebsXt75.001 efax: 34:26 done, returning 2 (unrecoverable error) There were errors (see T4962419.log). SNIP Well I can tell you how to get fax working with efax efax by default tries to write a lock file in /var/lock, but users do not have write permission to this directory. To fix it either give global write perms to /var/lock, or else edit the LOCK parameter in /etc/fax.config to something like else like /tmp This bug was fixed in Cooker recently. Another thing I found about faxing is that you cannot send faxes of dovuments that contain fonts unknown to ghostscript. KWrite should be OK, but you can get problems with OpenOffice. Also if your document is plain text you need the enscript rpm. HTH derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] KreateCD Problem
On Thursday 21 February 2002 16:53, Robert Goshko wrote: I installed KreateCD yesterday, but I have not been able to get it to work in Data CD mode. When I select that from the start up menu, it jumps right to Calculating ISO 9660 size, and never returns. What is up with that, there have been no files added, so the size should be 0 and return instantly. Anybody know what is up with this? I had the same problem and asked the author. here is his advice KreateCD 1.1.0 might have problems and show this behaviour if it cannot execute the command line applications it uses. (in this case mkisofs). Is mkisofs installed? Are you able to execute it in the command line? It worked for me... If it does not help you, the kreatecd archives might contain some other useful info. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] email filtering [spamassassin x spamfilter]
On Tuesday 29 January 2002 15:54, you wrote: Spamassassin... anybody using? I've tried it with the .procmailrc and .forward files recommended but I saw no results! Any recommendation? Yep I've been using it for 6 months now with excellent results. I scarcely get any spam in my inbox, and there is no messing about with recipies. If SpamAssassin is working all your mails will have their header altered showing how many 'points' they scored. Here is a sample header it puts on your mails. X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=13 required=6 tests=INVALID_MSGID,HTML_WITH_BGCOLOR,PORN_4,CHARSET_FARAWAY_BODY,RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET,RCVD_IN_OSIRUSOFT_COM,X_OSIRU_SPAM_SRC X-Spam-Flag: YES Did you test the spamassasin as described in the README with the spam samples provided? Check on the web site for the latest instructions for use with .procmailrc I think the installation instructions in the .tar.gz are out of date. derek I've been using spamfilter (http://nl.linux.org) and it's quite good! But I've been told that spamassassim give us better control over what's to considered spam or not. Ricardo Castanho PS:As far I heard about 'spamassassin' let's tag or score a email to be considered spam, Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Weird Problems #3: Copy/Cut and Paste
Are you cutting and pasting the Unix way? Use left mouse button to highlight text and press mouse wheel to paste. It works across almost all Linux apps. derek On Tuesday 15 January 2002 16:53, Paul Sue wrote: Hi, Why doesn't copy/cut paste seem to work consistently? For example, why can't I copy from my browser to my Evolution Compose Message box? Or from my e-mail to my eterm? I've tried using the Control keys as well as well as from the menu and the clipboard icons. I think the problem seems to occur under both gnome and kde. Thanks foer any suggestions, Paul _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Weird Problems #3: Copy/Cut and Paste
Well if you have no mouse wheel try the middle button.. Now you have learned something. On Tuesday 15 January 2002 19:31, you wrote: At 06:46 PM 1/15/2002 +, Derek Jennings wrote: Are you cutting and pasting the Unix way? Use left mouse button to highlight text and press mouse wheel to paste. It works across almost all Linux apps. derek That is funny. I have been in UNIX for over 10 years, and I have never owned a mouse with a wheel. To the lost soul trying to cut and paste, try your keystrokes: CTRL + C = COPY CTRL + V = PASTE J. Craig Woods UNIX/NT SA -Art is the illusion of spontaneity- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Can not play music CD with alsa
WinME does not need the cable to play Audio CD's From Win ME onwatds Windows Media PLayer uses the IDE interface to play CD's. Some cheapskate manufacturers now save themselves 10p by not supplying the cable!! To hear your CD's over the IDE interface try this cdda2wav -D /dev/cdrom -q -e -t1+10 -d0 -N This will play tracks 1 to 10 on standard sound output using CD device /dev/cdrom HTH derek On Tuesday 15 January 2002 21:33, you wrote: Hi, I have searched the bug database in alsa site but found nothing similar, the thing is very strange. I got via686a card ; two cd using ide-scsi for all as one is cd-writer, alsa-0.5.12a ; everyhting is fine (play xmms, etc..) except cd music doesn't play no matter I try. When iserting music cd and press Play button on cd drive, the light on the driver is blinking indicating that it is playing but no sound at all. Use grip and play, or any cd player is the same. Run aumix and set the cd ; unmute .. doesn;t help. I just dont understand why, probably the cable? Then I reboot, boot into winme and play, it is fine. Ok here I got stumped, pls help. Thanks = S.KIEU http://my.yahoo.com.au - My Yahoo! - It's My Yahoo! Get your own! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Can not play music CD with alsa
On Tuesday 15 January 2002 22:56, you wrote: --- Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WinME does not need the cable to play Audio CD's From Win ME onwatds Windows Media PLayer uses the Yes u are rigth, I tested this IDE interface to play CD's. Some cheapskate manufacturers now save themselves 10p by not supplying the cable!! What a shame ! To hear your CD's over the IDE interface try this cdda2wav -D /dev/cdrom -q -e -t1+10 -d0 -N This gives me error below: $ cdda2wav -D /dev/cdrom -q -e -t1+10 -d0 -N cdrom device (/dev/cdrom) is not of type generic SCSI. Setting interface to cooked_ioctl. This is normal cdda2wav: Invalid argument. Cannot get mmap for 86016 Bytes on /dev/zero. This is not normal. It works on my system. Try /dev/scd0 or something. However grip is ok to rip it using cdparanoia . The Hope thats OK for you. I took a look around the net but did not find a CD player which uses the IDE interface. Hopefully the authors will get around to it before too many of these 'cable free' PC's hit the market :-) Derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Any gurus on PDF printing?
On Thursday 10 January 2002 16:05, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: On my 8.1 system I have two PDF printers defined. The first is the pseudo printer defined by KDE which uses ps2pdf to generate PDF files. With this printer I have had disappointing results when printing complex spreadsheets from StarOffice6.0 with the resulting pdf files being unreadable by either gv or Acrobat4.05, or else them being readable but of poor quality with columns wandering all over the place. The second pdf printer I added by selecting the Adobe Distiller2017.801 printer driver from the list offered by printerdrake. This printer does not seem to work at all. If I put a postscript file into it, a postscript file comes out again, but with a slightly different header. Any suggestions? Would it help for example to use the non GPL but freely available ghostscript7.x instead of the GPL'd ghostscript6.51 supplied with Mandrake? It depends on the content of the spreadsheets, but one possibility would be to transfer the spreadsheet to gnumeric (1.0.0 or better) for example by saving them as excel files and opening them in gnumeric. Then to save the sheet as a LaTeX file and run that file through pdflatex. THe created pdf file can be opened by acrobat or xpdf. (At least I haven't found something that doesn't.) The problem is that exporting as a LaTeX file looses information, but it depends on whetehr you are using that info. Thanks for the suggestion. I was wondering if LaTeX might be able to help. As it happens I tried out the AFPL version of Ghostscript7.03, and that produced pdf files which Acrobat displayed perfectly. gv still had minor problems displaying the files. A document written in Landscape format would be 'chopped off' regardless of whether I displayed it in portrait or landscape. However installing the GSView4.1 pdf viewer worked perfectly, although the UI is not as nice as gv. Thanks again derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Any gurus on PDF printing?
On my 8.1 system I have two PDF printers defined. The first is the pseudo printer defined by KDE which uses ps2pdf to generate PDF files. With this printer I have had disappointing results when printing complex spreadsheets from StarOffice6.0 with the resulting pdf files being unreadable by either gv or Acrobat4.05, or else them being readable but of poor quality with columns wandering all over the place. The second pdf printer I added by selecting the Adobe Distiller2017.801 printer driver from the list offered by printerdrake. This printer does not seem to work at all. If I put a postscript file into it, a postscript file comes out again, but with a slightly different header. Any suggestions? Would it help for example to use the non GPL but freely available ghostscript7.x instead of the GPL'd ghostscript6.51 supplied with Mandrake? TIA derek -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] samba and SWAT and webmin and MCC
Do you have the line 127.0.0.1 localhost in your /etc/hosts table? derek On Tuesday 01 January 2002 00:20, Ken Nowack wrote: --- Lee Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try smb start from a command line? Yes, I have smb service running. Xinetd is running too. Webmin is running too. The current version of samba is installed also. swat won't connect - error cannot connect: localhost is broken webmin won't connect - error connection refused So, now I'm off to the wonderful world of text samba configuration. See you in a week LOL Ken __ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Konqueror not working as user, need guidance/help
I usually find deleting ~/.kde.share/config/konquerorrc does the trick of fixing that one. No idea why though.. You will of course lose your konq settings if you delete this file.. derek On Thursday 27 December 2001 07:03, Ralph F. De Witt wrote: Hi: I have Mandrake 8.1 powerpack installed, it was a clean install. I have been able to access the internet sucessfully and view files as user since install. Yesterday, Konqueror and Kfmclient have stopped working. There are no error messages. Konqueror will start, a process is started, but no window or taskbar icon is displayed etc. I have removed the user mcop and dcop and iceAuthority files. But still no go. I have looked in the archives. There is one mention of this problem, but no solution. I have a strace of Konqueror and kfmclient if any one thinks that might help. To me it looks like It was searching the usr and local icon cahces for icons for my bookmarks, and then just stops mid stride. I am at a loss as to what to check etc. Can anyone help Ralph Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Nvidia issues
Yes. On three occasions with the 2313 drivers I got a lockup by having 2 X window sessions open at once and then closing one down. It caused a hard lockup where the screen went black and the computer did not respond to anything. I have been back on the 1541 drivers for 2 weeks now without any similar problem. I have no plans to try the 2313 drivers again anytime soon. I have a GeforceDDR video card. HTH derek On Monday 24 December 2001 01:32, Johnc wrote: I have an Nvidia geforce 2 mx PCI card that has been causing full Xwindows lock ups to the point of having to do a hard shutdown. I removed the GLX and Nvidia module lines form my XF86Config-4 file and seem to have no problems. I know the drivers are closed source and there not a lot that can be done in that respect. Driver ver. is 1.0-2313 has anyone experienced similar problems with these drivers? I used the tarballs to install them on the default 8.1 kernel 2.4.8-26. I am curious if maybe there is a utility to check the card to see if maybe it is failing as i never had these issues until recently and I experience similar problems in windows. TIA, John Wheat Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] PCMCIA support in 2.4.13
Apologies if this has been asked before, but can someone advise me on pcmcia support in the 2.4.13-10 cooker kernel I have a Ricoh PCI-PCMCIA adapter in my desktop which was autodetected fine by 2.4.8 and worked fine after configuring the PCIC options for i82365 I have installed the 2.4.13 kernel, and in the process removed kernel-pcmcia-cs-2.4.8-26, and replaced it with pcmcia-cs-3.1.29-6 from cooker My modules.conf contains pre-install pcmcia_core CARDMGR_OPTS=-f /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start The module pcmcia_core loads, but no apparent attempt is made to detect the card. The system log contains nothing. Any tips? TIA Derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
