Re: [Cooker] Re: Creation of a community

2003-02-08 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 08 February 2003 03:22 pm, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: J. Greenlees [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: creating a community for mandrake cannot be done without active support fron mandrakesoft staff, or it isn't mandrake, it's based on mandrake. the silence from mandrake employees is

Re: [Cooker] beta3 OpenOffice troubles

2003-02-09 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 09:24 am, Reinout van Schouwen wrote: Hello Mandrake developers, Before I file a bug about this I want to discuss it here just to make sure it's no user error and to pin down the problem exactly. :) I'm running

Re: [Cooker] beta3 OpenOffice troubles

2003-02-09 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 10:20 am, Leon Brooks wrote: On Sunday 09 February 2003 10:48 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: OpenOffice is very picky about fonts. It might be helpful for you to read this: http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/fontguide.html

Re: [Cooker] [Fwd: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender]

2003-02-09 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 11:27 am, David Bolin wrote: Off subject, but the last few times I have tried to post to the cooker list I have received this in reply, and my messages were not posted. -Forwarded Message- From: Mail Delivery

Re: [Cooker] Re: Creation of a community ( was : the end is inevitable )

2003-02-09 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 06:05 pm, Gustavo Franco wrote: On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 15:36, Steve Fox wrote: On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 13:36, Gustavo Franco wrote: Any person has the same view of my messages as Lonnie? Just a lurker on this thread

Re: [Cooker] Re: Creation of a community ( was : the end is inevitable )

2003-02-10 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 10 February 2003 12:22 am, Steve Fox wrote: The only thing in doubt is the reference to 'Mandrake developers', which makes it sound like Mandrakesoft employees were in this discussion, which they were not. The article insinuates that the

Re: [Cooker] Re: Creation of a community ( was : the end is inevitable )

2003-02-10 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 10 February 2003 03:15 am, Gustavo Franco wrote: Stupid estimation! My name isn't Martin Schulze!!! I was sent a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the url of this thread, if you can read my name isn't cited in the news.The DWN issue #6

Re: [Cooker] Re: nvidia woes (possibly cured)

2003-02-10 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 10 February 2003 09:01 am, Buchan Milne wrote: You are using hardware that is not supported sufficiently by the vendor to provide open-source drivers, and thus Mandrake Linux cannot fully support this hardware in the download edition.

Re: [Cooker] Re: nvidia woes (possibly cured)

2003-02-10 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 10 February 2003 01:36 pm, Ben Reser wrote: On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 09:10:20AM -0500, Greg Meyer wrote: Some of your hardware (insert specific's) is from a vendor that prevents us from providing full support in the GPL download edition

Re: [Cooker] Re: MandrakeSoft Article

2003-02-11 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 February 2003 07:41 am, et wrote: snip we all know what was here /snip He took a shot at rewriting the article, and in my estimation made no change in the way he is characterizing the thread. This is my second correspondence

Re: [Cooker] Re: UNIX Lore

2003-02-12 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 12 February 2003 07:19 am, Götz Waschk wrote: And it would be nice if it were removed. I have children using Mandrake and would be apalled it they view the sex man page. Let me guess: you are a catholic? You don't have to be a

Re: [Cooker] Re: UNIX Lore

2003-02-12 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 12 February 2003 07:50 am, Götz Waschk wrote: Am Mittwoch, 12. Februar 2003, 07:44:02 Uhr MET, schrieb Greg Meyer: Let me guess: you are a catholic? You don't have to be a Catholic to have morals! Let me get this straight: I'm

[Cooker] This Morning's Controversy

2003-02-13 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I don't see a controversy yet this morning. I need a good Cooker controversy to get my day started properly, although I do realize that many of you have already had lunch. How about Let's bring back rpmdrake 1.4! - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP

Re: [Cooker] MakeCD errors out with.....

2003-02-13 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 13 February 2003 09:23 am, Jon wrote: Rsync'd the latest this morning (02/13/2003) and MakeCD errors out with the following, am I the only one? :( Give me the exact error message and I'll try to recreate it here. BTW, sorry for the

Re: [Cooker] MakeCD errors out with.....

2003-02-13 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 13 February 2003 10:03 am, Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 13 February 2003 09:23 am, Jon wrote: Rsync'd the latest this morning (02/13/2003) and MakeCD errors out with the following, am I the only one? :( Give me the exact error

Re: [Cooker] This Morning's Controversy

2003-02-15 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 15 February 2003 10:02 am, Leon Brooks wrote: On Thursday 13 February 2003 08:14 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: I don't see a controversy yet this morning. I need a good Cooker controversy to get my day started properly, although I do realize

[Cooker] MakeCD leaving out kernel package

2003-02-16 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I ran MakeCD tonight on updated Cooker and CD1 included the kernel-enterprise package only. CD3 had kernel-sources and kernel-docs, but the only kernel available on the CD images was kernel-enterprise. Why wouldn't the standard kernel be

Re: [Cooker] Lastest install kernel 2.4.21-pre4.6mdk reboots on Chaintech Apogee

2003-02-17 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 17 February 2003 01:43 pm, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: feature is a total of . I think you meant * of . - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux)

Re: [Cooker] Dup messages from Bugzilla.

2003-02-17 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 17 February 2003 03:36 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: [Bug 1692] [gcc-colorgcc] update conflicts preventing install of latest colorgcc and the next is [Cooker] [Bug 1692] [gcc-colorgcc] update conflicts preventing install of latest

Re: [Cooker] Frozen-Bubble-1.0.0

2003-02-18 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 16 February 2003 07:43 pm, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Just to let you keep in touch, I've just released frozen-bubble-1.0.0; it's uploaded in cooker as well.. right in time before RC1-packages-updates-freeze, which should happen very

Re: [Cooker] Any chance the kvim could make it into 9.1?

2003-02-18 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 18 February 2003 06:41 am, John Allen wrote: -- John Allen, Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] MandrakeClub Silver Member. Go vote for it over on the Club website. - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version:

[Cooker] RC1 install kernel - Installation on KT400 Soyo Dragon Ultra

2003-02-18 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This I am sure is related to the ongoing saga of acpi. Upon attempting to install from rc1 cds tonight, I got the missing interrupts error for hard drives connected to the Highpoint controller. The controller is configured as a ide device rather

[Cooker] RC1 - Install X configuration

2003-02-18 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When testing the XFree configuration after changing to a higher resolution from the default selected for my hardware, a couple of issues came up 1) the test screen has no image, just a grey background. 2) After the test completed, the mouse cursor

Re: [Cooker] ACPI problem with Dell i8200

2003-02-19 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 19 February 2003 04:26 pm, Jeremy Salch wrote: Feb 19 15:16:20 pr2 kernel: Dell Inspiron with broken BIOS detected. Refusing to enable the local APIC. would this have something to do with ACPI not working properly on a Dell Inspiron

Re: [Cooker] ACPI problem with Dell i8200

2003-02-19 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 19 February 2003 04:36 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 19 February 2003 04:26 pm, Jeremy Salch wrote: Feb 19 15:16:20 pr2 kernel: Dell Inspiron with broken BIOS detected. Refusing to enable the local APIC. would this have

Re: [Cooker] ACPI problem with Dell i8200

2003-02-19 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 19 February 2003 06:13 pm, Jeremy Salch wrote: Do you know if there is anything that can be done about it being broken? I think that it is not the BIOS being broken but the code being broken. I DO NOT necessarily fault the Linux

Re: [Cooker] ACPI problem with Dell i8200

2003-02-19 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 19 February 2003 06:27 pm, Sascha Noyes wrote: The answer to the question is that the acpi implementation depends on the apic, so if the apic does not work properly, acpi will not work properly either. I've got a Compaq Presario

Re: [Cooker] [Bug 1179] [kdebase] Mandrake's new kdm is welcomed with extreme displeasure

2003-02-20 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 February 2003 07:03 am, kde wrote: https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1179 Thank you for responding to this finally. It is important to know your thinking on the matter. If I may offer some feedback on your comments.

Re: [Cooker] [Bug 1179] [kdebase] Mandrake's new kdm is welcomed with extreme displeasure

2003-02-20 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 February 2003 08:21 am, Buchan Milne wrote: Newbies would learn a lot faster, and not have to reinstall all the time, if they never logged in as root. Most configuation you want to do can be done in Mandrake Control Center, and

Re: [Cooker] [Bug 1179] [kdebase] Mandrake's new kdm is welcomed with extreme displeasure

2003-02-20 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 February 2003 09:17 am, Buchan Milne wrote: OK, prepare for a whole bunch of replies to a.o.l.m then (only over weekends) like this: 1)NEVER LOG IN AS ROOT. Use MCC or su 2)If you plan on spending more time than necessary fixing

Re: [Cooker] [Bug 1179] [kdebase] Mandrake's new kdm is welcomed with extreme displeasure

2003-02-20 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 February 2003 10:05 am, Jan Ciger wrote: I personally do not have a problem with the new login manager, because as most of the people, just hit enter on the preselected icon and type in the password (a single user machine). Actually

Re: [Cooker] [Bug 1179] [kdebase] Mandrake's new kdm is welcomed with extreme displeasure

2003-02-20 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 February 2003 10:47 am, et wrote: Crossover plugins require you to be root in a GUI to install and setup, and so does at least one CDrom Burning program In that case, you could start the installer in a root console from within the

Re: [Cooker] [Bug 2286] [Installation] New: Confirmation Step for bootloader install skipped

2003-02-24 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 February 2003 06:23 am, Pixel wrote: cybercfo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: During an install of 20030223 Cooker, the step in the installation process where the bootloader installation is selected and confirmed was skipped. I was not

Re: [Cooker] Hi !

2003-02-24 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 February 2003 09:16 am, Teletchéa Stéphane wrote: I've just done a set of cds from latest snapshot and i realized that kernel packages were in cd3 : This has been going on for a while now. Initially I did not report it and assumed it

Re: [Cooker] [Bug 2286] [Installation] New: Confirmation Step for bootloader install skipped

2003-02-24 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 February 2003 04:23 pm, Pixel wrote: Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: By extension then if my installation contains other OS bootloader, like ntldr or GrUB, I will get prompted for where I want to install LILO. This seems

Re: [Cooker] Hi !

2003-02-24 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 February 2003 09:16 am, Teletchéa Stéphane wrote: I've just done a set of cds from latest snapshot and i realized that kernel packages were in cd3 : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cooker]# ls /mnt/disk/Mandrake/RPMS3/ke TAB

Re: [Cooker] Hi !

2003-02-24 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 February 2003 10:33 pm, Quel Qun wrote: I think, the c parameter should be included in the -a, i.e.: $COOK/misc/MakeCD --discsize 73400 -a -c 3 $COOK Here is my command line that led to the same result [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Cooker] Hi !

2003-02-25 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 25 February 2003 04:57 am, Teletchéa Stéphane wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /mnt/dist/cooker/cooker/i586/misc] $ ./MakeCD -t ~/ -a -c 3 ../ - -- This command works. /home/Sources/cooker/i586/cooker/i586/misc/MakeCD --discsize

Re: [Cooker] Bug 1583 not taken into account ?

2003-02-25 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 25 February 2003 07:38 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doing it in the install process would be *even* more broken. It should be done in the network init scripts, so that an entry for 127.0.0.1 is made for the output of hostname

Re: [Cooker] [Bug 2396] [Installation] New: hpt372

2003-02-25 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bugzilla tells me it is broken, so I'll post here. On Tuesday 25 February 2003 03:59 am, ramon wrote: https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2396 Product: Installation Component: hardware Summary: hpt372

Re: [Cooker] Bug 1583 not taken into account ?

2003-02-25 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 25 February 2003 08:47 am, Buchan Milne wrote: Which is exactly why I said localhost.localdomain *must not* be hardcoded into /etc/hosts. The question is, when should `hostname` get an entry in /etc/hosts pointing to the loopback? In a

[Cooker] Default Galaxy Colorscheme not set as default

2003-02-25 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I noticed tonight after updating to current Cooker that the Galaxy colorscheme is not being used as default in KDE. I test this by going into the color module of KDE Control Center and choosing the Galaxy theme and the colors definitely changed

Re: [Cooker] Bug 1583 not taken into account ?

2003-02-26 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 26 February 2003 06:20 am, Buchan Milne wrote: Teletchéa Stéphane wrote: Le mar 25/02/2003 à 14:47, Greg Meyer a écrit : This needs a fix. If no network name is defined, the localhost.localdomain must be present in order to fix

Re: [Cooker] MDK9.1rc1 buglets

2003-02-26 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 26 February 2003 10:20 pm, Jim Hubbard wrote: I posted most of this to bugtraq, just thought I'd email to this list too just in case. Mdk's bug tracking system has never inspired a lot of faith on my part. Anyway, here goes: Most

[Cooker] Trouble with hostname on dhcp network

2003-02-27 Thread Greg Meyer
I am having trouble with the hostname on my cooker box and can't figure out what is going on. I am updated through 20030227's Cooker. I am on a network with a dhcp server and have set a hostname in drakconnect. When I reboot, the machine is assigned an ip address by the dhcp server

Re: [Cooker] Trouble with hostname on dhcp network

2003-02-27 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 27 February 2003 10:51 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: I am having trouble with the hostname on my cooker box and can't figure out what is going on. I am updated through 20030227's Cooker. I am on a network with a dhcp server and have set a hostname in drakconnect. When I reboot

Re: [Cooker] Trouble with hostname on dhcp network

2003-02-27 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 27 February 2003 11:04 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 27 February 2003 10:51 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: I am having trouble with the hostname on my cooker box and can't figure out what is going on. I am updated through 20030227's Cooker. I am on a network with a dhcp server

Re: [Cooker] Trouble with hostname on dhcp network

2003-02-28 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 28 February 2003 04:04 am, Buchan Milne wrote: What have you got in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth? (NO I am not saying people should have to edit this by hand, I am trying to see what drakconnect should be doing). This is what I have to get the behaviour I want:

Re: [Cooker] Trouble with hostname on dhcp network

2003-02-28 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 28 February 2003 10:16 am, Buchan Milne wrote: Cool. But maybe also we need to have a summary of the desired behaviour? Fred? Florin? Otherwise we don't know what to file bugs for ... That would be great. Of course I don't need it in time to do the testing, but it would be needed

[Cooker] What is cdrom-changedisk.img

2003-03-01 Thread Greg Meyer
Anybody know what this particular floppy image is for? cdrom-changedisk.img -- Greg

[Cooker] Where is everybody?

2003-03-01 Thread Greg Meyer
I don't think I ever have not gotten a message in a 8 hour time span before. -- Greg

Re: [Cooker] Bug 1583 not taken into account ?

2003-03-01 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 01 March 2003 12:20 pm, Buchan Milne wrote: But you are complaining about the wrong issue. The hostname should *not* be set to localhost.localdomain. If it has not been configured by the user it should be localhost. Hardcoding is the wrong approach, since it *will* result

Re: [Cooker] mozilla problems...

2003-03-01 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 01 March 2003 05:49 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: I was able to capture the strace at the freeze on a couple of occasions, one after I had removed mozilla fonts. It seemed to be dealing with /etc/hosts at the time, so I include that content. Excellent, another name resolution issue.

Re: [Cooker] openoffice.org 1.0.2 save as pdf

2003-03-01 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 02 March 2003 12:15 am, tarvid wrote: how do you do that? This question is better on one of the suport lists. Anyway, I digress. You set up a printer that is a pdfwriter in spadmin. -- Greg

[Cooker] Broken localhost resolution, zeroconf and drakconnect

2003-03-02 Thread Greg Meyer
With all the discussion on Cooker about broken localhost resolution and the new zeroconf setup, I took it upon myself to install Friday night's Cooker about 14 times to test various scenarios. Since Buchan has been in the center of this discussion, I conferred with him and he suggested I spam

Re: [Cooker] Broken localhost resolution, zeroconf and drakconnect

2003-03-02 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 02 March 2003 08:43 am, Greg Meyer wrote: Somehow, I missed the output for step 10. I added it to output.tgz and reposted. http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/network-test.summary http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/output.tgz -- Greg

Re: [Cooker] gatos

2003-03-02 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 02 March 2003 02:56 pm, Aleksander Adamowski wrote: Austin Acton wrote: With the update to XFree 4.3, I was hoping avview would start working again, but we're still seeing bug reports about it. Can XFree 4.3 please be patched with the latest drivers from the GATOS project?

Re: [Cooker] zeroconf?

2003-03-02 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 02 March 2003 02:28 pm, Jörg Skottke wrote: setting up the networking from drakconf asks for the hostname and zeroconf. what is zeroconf? Doesn't anybody Google anymore? http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2002/12/20/zeroconf.html A short explanation about what it is on the

Re: [Cooker] zeroconf?

2003-03-02 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 02 March 2003 04:32 pm, Buchan Milne wrote: A short explanation about what it is on the install screen would be nice though. Enter a zeroconf hostname. This will allow you to operate your computer on a Multicast DNS environment without reconfiguring the network interface.

[Cooker] Why can't I set a hostname on a dhcp network

2003-03-02 Thread Greg Meyer
I have been going over this and over this on my machine and no matter what I change, I cannot set a hostname on a machine when dhcp is being used. It will only use the name supplied by dhcp server, which is not what I want. Is it tmdns/zeroconf or dhclient? Is it desired behavior to not allow

Re: [Cooker] Why can't I set a hostname on a dhcp network

2003-03-02 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 02 March 2003 10:53 pm, Lonnie Borntreger wrote: On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 21:45, Greg Meyer wrote: I have been going over this and over this on my machine and no matter what I change, I cannot set a hostname on a machine when dhcp is being used. It will only use the name supplied

Re: [Cooker] Why can't I set a hostname on a dhcp network

2003-03-02 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 02 March 2003 11:19 pm, Lonnie Borntreger wrote: If all those are yes, then you'll need to check the logs and see what errors if any are coming back to you. Of course the problem could be the server. Have you been able to set the hostname before? That is an affirmative on 9.0,

[Cooker] Re: [newbie] au8830 install in 9.1

2003-03-02 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 02 March 2003 11:07 pm, Brian Trainor wrote: I'm trying to instal the au8830 drivers in Mandrake 9.1rc1 under KDE 3.1 What source tarball are you using? I had to update from aureal cvs to get it to build on my machine with 9.1. -- Greg

Re: [Cooker] Why can't I set a hostname on a dhcp network

2003-03-03 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 03 March 2003 03:19 am, John Allen wrote: Is it tmdns/zeroconf or dhclient? It is dhclient. You will need to do a man dhclient.conf and create a suitable dhclient.conf file. Why should a distro that is supposed to be easy for newbies require one to man dhclient.conf and manually

Re: [Cooker] [Bug 2038] [drakxtools] Program crashes at startup.

2003-03-03 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 03 March 2003 03:56 am, Thierry Vignaud wrote: cybercfo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Next install I did I ran printerdrake at install summary, and it appeared everything installed. Then, when running printerdrake from within MCC, double-clikcing on a remote cups printer causes it to

Re: [Cooker] Re: what's the mess with the club ?

2003-03-03 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 03 March 2003 10:32 am, Buchan Milne wrote: But Club does provide simple (thumbs up/thumbs down) positive (or negative, but cooker provides negative also ...) feedback also, which helps in maintaining packager morale ;-). Club also provides a value add that encourages people to join,

Re: [Cooker] [Bug 2038] [drakxtools] Program crashes at startup.

2003-03-03 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 03 March 2003 11:12 am, Thierry Vignaud wrote: Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Next install I did I ran printerdrake at install summary, and it appeared everything installed. Then, when running printerdrake from within MCC, double-clikcing on a remote cups printer

Re: [Cooker] Broken localhost resolution, zeroconf and drakconnect

2003-03-03 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 03 March 2003 12:17 pm, Frederic Lepied wrote: First that's the normal behaviour to be able to set the hostname only in static IP mode. You can't choose by yourself a name and have it known by the other hosts on the network if the IP is given by DHCP. The only hack to achieve

Re: [Cooker] Broken localhost resolution, zeroconf and drakconnect

2003-03-03 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 03 March 2003 12:43 pm, Buchan Milne wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: 2) The only times that host `localhost` resolved successfully was when static addressing was used. Sorry, just a query here, did you run 'host `localhost`', or 'host `hostname`'. If 'host `hostname`' resolves

Re: [Cooker] Broken localhost resolution, zeroconf and drakconnect

2003-03-04 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 04:23 am, Buchan Milne wrote: Ben Reser wrote: On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 07:43:15PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote: Sorry, just a query here, did you run 'host `localhost`', or 'host `hostname`'. If 'host `hostname`' resolves, GNOME should work. If it does not, GNOME

Re: [Cooker] zeroconf works inRC1 doesnt work

2003-03-04 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 04:06 am, Ron Brickle wrote: Hi I downloaded and installed mandrake 9.1 rc1 it is giving me a headache it hangs at boot on mount local files I have to reboot when it does this and I cant use my cable bigpond advance bpalogin it has only connected once that's cable by

Re: [Cooker] Broken localhost resolution, zeroconf and drakconnect

2003-03-04 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 04:23 am, Buchan Milne wrote: Ben Reser wrote: On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 07:43:15PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote: Sorry, just a query here, did you run 'host `localhost`', or 'host `hostname`'. If 'host `hostname`' resolves, GNOME should work. If it does not, GNOME

Re: [Cooker] RC2, first impression

2003-03-04 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 06:06 pm, Oden Eriksson wrote: tisdagen den 4 mars 2003 22.52 skrev Francisco Alcaraz Ariza: I had a similar problem with rc1 using the XFREE86 4.299 nvidia driver for my geforce4; if you haven't the apropriate rpms from nvidia for the kernel, select as graphic

Re: [Cooker] RC2 and Networking

2003-03-04 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 06:12 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: Same problem exist in RC2 as in RC1 and all Betas Home LAN 6 systems, 5 connecting to internet though gateway system via dhcp with each system needing a static IP. During clean RC installation/Networking, either automatic or if

Re: [Cooker] Broken localhost resolution, zeroconf and drakconnect

2003-03-04 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 09:01 am, Greg Meyer wrote: Somehow, running drakconnect changes a setting somewhere, that I cannot (or have not been able to) find, that breaks localhost resolution. You'll note that an entry has been made to /etc/hosts for the hostname I chose when I ran drakconnect

Re: [Cooker] [Bug 2038] [drakxtools] Program crashes at startup.

2003-03-04 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 03 March 2003 11:34 am, Thierry Vignaud wrote: Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ok, i know the problem source but not yet how to properly fix it. the problem is that now, we rely on the client's gtk::plug disconnection from the mcc's gtk::socket to kwown when

Re: [Cooker] [Bug 2648] [shorewall] shorewall disable any ppp connectivity

2003-03-05 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 04:32 am, Florin wrote: is that a bug ? I was not reporting a bug, I was trying to help out by attempting to verify the bug and was not able to, so I commented about it. Cheers /g [EMAIL PROTECTED] (cybercfo) writes:

Re: [Cooker] RC2 internet, solved uninstallin shorewall

2003-03-05 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 03:51 am, Buchan Milne wrote: wrnash wrote: Is there another program that will work better than shorewall. I've nothin but problems with shorewall. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH SHOREWALL. (sorry, I have had to answer this one way too many times). If there

Re: [Cooker] RC2 internet, solved uninstallin shorewall

2003-03-05 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 09:23 am, Buchan Milne wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 05 March 2003 03:51 am, Buchan Milne wrote: If there are any problems, it is due to drakfirewall or drakconnect not being designed to be used in the order people use them in. Shorewall works exactly

Re: [Cooker] RC2 internet, solved uninstallin shorewall

2003-03-05 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 11:21 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg, Just when I select in MCC install internet sharing shorewall is first installed and the problems start. In fact in the rc2 installation I select shorewall, so Internet sharing was installed later, after one or two times

Re: [Cooker] RC2 internet, solved uninstallin shorewall

2003-03-05 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 12:49 pm, francisco wrote: I have run drakconnect, everything seems OK but as soon shorewall is activated it is not possible connect to internet. El Miércoles, 5 de Marzo de 2003 17:54, Greg Meyer escribió: On Wednesday 05 March 2003 11:21 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 9.1 Should be Delayed

2003-03-05 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 04:07 pm, Timothy R. Butler wrote: According to what I understand, Warly is reporting that Mandrake Linux 9.1 will be finalized no later than March 14. In my opinion, this could very well be a death sentence for MandrakeSoft. Quite frankly, Mandrake 9.1 has a LOT of

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 9.1 Should be Delayed

2003-03-05 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 09:19 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: And all this criticism over something that cannot really be controlled is fruitless and makes the people working 7day/80hour weeks feel negative and prevents high levels of productivity. Help them, don't hurt them. BTW, remember

Re: [Cooker] More (minor) bugs

2003-03-05 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 10:55 pm, jokerman64 wrote: 1. There is no way for root to log in in mdkkdm I believe this is a feature. You have three choices 1) urpme mdkkdm urpmi kdebase-kdm 2) Set all users as no show, so that you type in all user names. This will allow root

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 9.1 Should be Delayed

2003-03-05 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 06 March 2003 12:09 am, Timothy R. Butler wrote: Other bugs, like the fact that kdeartwork isn't included have been things I've been reporting for several weeks (without response at all from MDK). This package was missing from 9.0 also. I think it is a feature, not a bug. The

Re: [Cooker] Another test.

2003-03-06 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 06 March 2003 08:53 am, Teletchéa Stéphane wrote: My mobo is blacklisted in rc2 for acpi, but it seems the problem is solved in latest kernel. I would like to check by myself whether this is still true or not. but i don(t know where in kernel source, i can undo the blacklist

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 9.1 Should be Delayed

2003-03-06 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 06 March 2003 10:42 am, John Allen wrote: On Thursday 06 March 2003 15:22, Austin wrote: On 2003.03.05 23:35 Leon Brooks wrote: An awful lot of people, despite a very long lead time and plenty of notice, suddenly leapt out of the woodwork in the last week crying `oh,

Re: [Cooker] Bug 1583 not taken into account ?

2003-03-06 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 06 March 2003 10:14 am, Jaco Greeff wrote: On 06 Mar 2003 14:49:27 +0100, Teletchéa Stéphane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : I think these entries are missing in /etc/hosts : localhost.localdomain. snip Unless this line, gnome fails to load correctly. I did a fresh

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 9.1 Should be Delayed

2003-03-06 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 06 March 2003 11:28 am, Austin wrote: On 2003.03.06 11:03 N Smethurst wrote: A HOWTO-be-mandrake-bug-tester-without-annoying-everyone would be good. Absolutely. Any volunteers? Must include: Fun Stuff: -how to get beta/rc/cooker onto your system -how to keep it up to date

Re: [Cooker] Bug 1583 not taken into account ?

2003-03-06 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 06 March 2003 11:14 am, Buchan Milne wrote: Is the GNOME problem fixed or do the entries appear in /etc/hosts. In my experience on RC2 as soon as you go through the DrakConnect dialogs, (DHCP machine) the /etc/hosts file gets rewritten as 127.0.0.1 localhost, the entry is

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 9.1 Should be Delayed

2003-03-06 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 06 March 2003 11:48 am, Austin wrote: On 2003.03.06 11:38 Greg Meyer wrote: I would volunteer to do it, or at least help. Cool. If you post a draft somewhere (an incomplete one even), you're bound to get help/suggestions/corrections. If you need www space just ask me. Austin

Re: [Cooker] [Bug 1425] [kdenetwork] K Remote Desktop - Browsing not available. SLP support not installed correctly.

2003-03-06 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 06 March 2003 11:08 am, Texstar wrote: So, don't you want to then: 1)file a bug on openslp, and ensure it gets confirmed. Supply your specfile / patch if necessary. 2)Include the information in this mail in bugzilla for this bug? And confirm it? Then maybe the right

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 9.1 Should be Delayed

2003-03-06 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 06 March 2003 12:16 pm, Jason Straight wrote: On Thursday 06 March 2003 09:32 am, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Jan Ciger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am pretty much green here, but I have to agree - let's push the release date few days. There are bugs, which are pretty

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 9.1 Should be Delayed

2003-03-06 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 06 March 2003 11:33 am, Austin wrote: It just seems to me that people are really stuck in the idea of ISO's because they've never known otherwise. It sounds like you're talking about Windows :-) -- Greg

Re: [Cooker] Bug 1583 not taken into account ?

2003-03-06 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 06 March 2003 03:46 pm, Buchan Milne wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 06 March 2003 11:14 am, Buchan Milne wrote: The problem still exists that after user runs drakconnect, GNOME cannot resolve localhost. Before and after entry in /etc/hosts is the same 127.0.0.1

Re: [Cooker] beta-tester FAQ, hurrah!

2003-03-06 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 06 March 2003 06:37 pm, Leon Brooks wrote: On Friday 07 March 2003 12:54 am, Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 06 March 2003 11:48 am, Austin wrote: On 2003.03.06 11:38 Greg Meyer wrote: I would volunteer to do it, or at least help. Cool. If you post a draft somewhere

Re: [Cooker] Bug 1583 not taken into account ?

2003-03-07 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 07 March 2003 06:28 am, Buchan Milne wrote: $ getent hosts `hostname` Thanks Buchan, I did see the post that an update was made and I'll test it tonight. Greg, I installed rc2 last night, and there are two issues I see so far 1)No way to set DHCP_HOSTNAME in

Re: [Cooker] Bug 1583 not taken into account ?

2003-03-07 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 07 March 2003 09:02 am, Buchan Milne wrote: It seems to me there should also be an entry in dhclient-eth0.conf to tell the dhcp client to send the requested hostname. No need: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bgmilne]# grep -i hostname /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 9.1 Should be Delayed

2003-03-07 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 07 March 2003 11:54 am, Sascha Noyes wrote: I agree with Warly here. People do not seem to notice that Mandrake has a certain development philosophy: 1. Release every 6 months 2. Include the latest stable versions of popular software, irrespective whether it might be unpolished.

Re: [Cooker] Stable/Unstable Debian style - from 9.1 should be delayed

2003-03-07 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 07 March 2003 10:44 pm, George Mitchell wrote: Obviously 9.1 is almost out the door and there is nothing even in Mandrake's power to change that. But in following this thread, I do see a lot of value in moving to a Debian style Stable/Unstable model. The additional overhead would

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