).
Is there any way to correct this ? Do you need more details ?
Thanks for your help.
Olivier Blin
preferences, but
when I type it into the Character set input box, it seems to work.
Thanks for your help.
Olivier Blin
Hi
I can't connect on web sites with nautilus or dillo. I've properly configured my Proxy
Preferences in Gnome Control Center. Is there any other way to make dillo use my proxy
?
Thanks
Olivier Blin
Could you check if it is the same problem as one of these?
https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1777
Thanks for your help, it's the same bug as this one.
When setting a proxy in the proxy network window, it doesn't enable the http_proxy.
I had to use gconf-editor to force the use of
://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2091
Olivier Blin
if you run apps through their menu entries, most multimedia apps
should use soundwrapper to disable artds while you use a sound app
(game, sound editor, ...)
soundwrapper doesn't disable artsd (or esd) before starting the program, it launches
the program using artsd (or esddsp) so that it can
Mandrake 9.1RC1 not works fine, no connetion to
internet through SiS 900-Base PCI fast Eternet
Adapter, no sound with Avance AC'97 Audio (run
artswrapper as root,answer: can not access device ...,
busy).
Try to pass noapic to the kernel, it helps for some motherboards with SiS900 chips.
I understand now. I have an update so I'll change its installation behavior. Thx
Spence
Woah, you're quite speed :)
I'm the user wich experienced this problem, I just made a bug report here :
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2946
Avview, actually ati.2, completely broke my X server
Good job :)
But I think you've mixed up ACPI and APIC notions on this page :
http://openfacts.berlios.de/index-en.phtml?title=Mandrake/Compaq_Presario_700_series
And you might add details on how to disable APIC or ACPI.
I haven't made changes on this page, because these issues are not specific to
Hi,
This bug has already been reported :
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2709
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2819 (should be marked as a duplicate of
the first ...)
You can grab it on a Cooker mirror, read the bug report for more details.
Please have a look at
Hi
The defaut sshd installation allows root login.
It could be a major security problem to allow root login by ssh.
In /etc/ssh/sshd_config, I can see this: #PermitRootLogin yes.
Perhaps would it be better to put PermitRootLogin no instead.
Cheers,
Olivier Blin
?
A Details ... button in draksec to know what allows the security level would be
helpful :)
Olivier Blin
http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/msec.php
Thanks but this page seems outdated:
I can only choose between 3 security levels in draksec, while five are described in
this page.
Futhermore, it doesn't talk about sshd (or just a little).
And it would be really helpful to add further
man msec
tells you how to change to different levels...
Yes, but it doesn't tell me when sshd will allow root login.
How can the user know that ?
of this file
;)
Olivier Blin
I never wanted to do so because I think user can be surprised by
the output plugin changing automatically. Additionally, if then
user launches xmms from commandline and soundwrapper chose, say,
arts, if arts is no longer running xmms will be suddenly not
working.
So why not make a script
On 10 Mar 2003 05:08:29 +0200
Mario R. Pizzolanti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi!
For some reason, evolution is using some very strange settings for its
fonts. As a result all field heights are about 2.5 times the size of
the actual font size. This makes the screen look quite ugly and makes
And broken for remote X
Perhaps, but I haven't suggested to use it, we could provide a similar simple script
that would be used only once to detect the best audio output available. The best
would be to put a button in XMMS preferences to auto-detect audio ouput.
Olivier
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 11:42:18 -0500
scott chevalley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I updated to cooker very late Saturday night and it seemed to be fixed
for me. I even did a test of watching for font.cache files while
testing all the previews and they were not created...
hmmm
scott
I
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 20:42:55 -0500
Élie Charest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Amid the flurry of bug reports, let me just say that I just tried out the
latest version of the Mandrake Control Center (9.1-mdk21, I believe) and it
looks very, very nice.
9.1 is turning out to be one sweet distro!!
ups, I've forgotten my text ...
Amid the flurry of bug reports, let me just say that I just tried out the
latest version of the Mandrake Control Center (9.1-mdk21, I believe) and it
looks very, very nice.
I agree, they're really nice :)
9.1 is turning out to be one sweet distro!!
Yep,
It would be a Wizard/Gui client side front end for Bugzilla.
Something like drakbug ?
It seems to be a nice tool to help newbies reporting bugs, but how can they know that
this tool exists ?
I can't see any shortcut for this app in my sweet gnome menus :)
I have read that there is an acpi resume or hibernation function, but I can't
find any documentation about it.
I guess suspend-scripts is what you need, enjoy :)
$ rpm -qi suspend-scripts
Name: suspend-scripts Relocations: /usr
Version : 1.4
that :/
Olivier Blin
new
packages, in order to allow him to compare the description of current installed
packages to the description of the packages he may want to install.
Olivier Blin
You should not install cooker packages on a 9.1 install. You should run full
cooker, or run a stable release.
Why not ?
If it fails here, it means that one of the installed packages has wrong dependancies.
One of them should require the new Orbit, or something that requires it.
Futhermore,
could make a temporary patch to fix this problem.
Olivier Blin
Such a shame... Now how will I waste my spare time?
there's a fork named Project Inferno, latest cvs snapshot of FC is located at:
http://www.ffh.us/eric/freecraft-cvsroot.tar.gz
also stop by #projectinferno on irc.freenode.net
Here's the homepage of Project Inferno :
Have people been able to boot this kernel? On which CPU?
Yes, I use this new kernel with a AMD XP 1800+ and a ECS K7S5A motherboard.
I'm on ext3 (/boot and /)
I'm also on ext3 for /boot and /, kernel-2.4.21-0.0.1mdk-1-1mdk worked for me, until I
uninstalled 2.4.21-rc1 ...
Now, when I boot with it, it prints lots of error and ends with something like :
kernel attempted to kill init, aborting
I'll reinstall
Hi
You have forgotten to increase the release, it should be 0.beta2.3mdk ...
Olivier
On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 09:00:22 +0200 (CEST)
Laurent MONTEL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--=-=-=
Name: koffice Relocations: (not relocateable)
Version : 1.3
So to boot up I have to pick my kernel, do Alt-SysRq-E when module
dependencies freeze, login to the console, modprobe nvidia and usbmouse,
restart the xfs service and restart the dm service. This is not optimal.
:)
Same problem here, but I also need to modprobe some i2c and video modules to
just now, the system's starting freezing at Finding module
dependencies: - it sits there and does nothing. I can workaround this
with Alt-SysRq-E, which terminates whatever is freezing the system, and
boot continues, but then the X Font Server fails to initialise properly
(complains about
You could have looked at it, it's small...
But the answer is: the kernel.
--- linux-2.4.21-0.13mdk/fs/devfs/base.c.minilogd 2002-11-29 02:53:15.0
+0300
+++ linux-2.4.21-0.13mdk/fs/devfs/base.c2003-05-06 00:41:35.0 +0400
It's not a patch for the latest kernel
This is (most likely) a devfs bug, it was fixed by a patch by Andrey. If
you have this hang often, please test attached patch (for some people it
never occurs, for others only rarely)
Hi
Thanks for the help.
I applied this patch to the kernel source (it was a pain to download the package
To be absolutely sure you applied it correctly, and it is working, can you
type as root:
while true ; do ls /dev/foo rm -f /dev/foo done
better ctrl-c it after after a few 100 times. Than, check in ps ax if you
have all these processes hanging in the D state. If so: patch is not
Anyway, can you produce a stack trace?
alt-sysrq-T at the hang?
please run it through ksymoops if needed.
No, i can't produce a stack trace.
The kernel prints he will show the trace, but nothing occurs :(
If it really does not work, I am guilty of yelling at everbody (although
other people have reported success with this patch).
No, you're not guilty, this patch had to be tried.
Anyway, can you produce a stack trace?
alt-sysrq-T at the hang?
please run it through ksymoops if needed.
I
THANK YOU!
np, i'm not doing the hardest part :)
- do you have /lib/dev-state/log file?
yes
$ ls /lib/dev-state/log -l
srw-rw-rwT1 root root0 jui 4 22:13 /lib/dev-state/log=
- what gives 'grep log /etc/devfsd.conf'
$ grep log /etc/devfsd.conf
# Restoring /dev/log on
Hello Olivier Blin,
I know its not on topic but it seemms that your email address on
laposte.net is blacklisted by spamcop...
I was playing with some antispam tools and obviously it intrigued me
what was supposedly spam.
So if you find people not responding or members on the cooker
- what happens if you boot without devfs (with devfs unmounted)?
It boots fine when i start the kernel with devfs=unmount.
/var/log/syslog:Jul 8 23:44:35 blino rc.sysinit: Unmounting initrd: succeeded
- what happens if you boot without devfs with root mounted read-write
initially (I am
- do you have /lib/dev-state/log file?
yes
$ ls /lib/dev-state/log -l
srw-rw-rwT1 root root0 jui 4 22:13 /lib/dev-state/log=
Good, this was the immediate culprit. Remove it and you should be able
to boot normally. It was expected to be removed by devfsd update
All other thinkpad's I have heard of do very well, most
users I have encountered had no problems enabling acpi, all NTFS resizes
I have done worked fine. Most users probably also miss the
thinkpad-specific features in contrib, such as tpb, and in cooker they
will probably miss tpctl and
a GPL library into a LGPL library violates the GPL.
If so, ESD shouldn't be used by SDL.
If not, libao could be used by SDL :-)
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Jul 15 10:45:44 2003
[...]
Related project which may iterest those who use GTK-- is GtkGLArea--.
There is a typo in the description, s/iterest/interest.
This sentence may have to be rewritten a bit, for example : A related project which
may interest GTK-- users is GtkGlArea--.
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sigh maybe I'll try this, but I just hate discussing policies. I think
it's a rather strange feature and people who've mailed me used much
stronger terms. The metacity guys obviously think it is an essential
feature, otherwise they wouldn't have hardcoded it into the wm.
I think I'll throw
theme config, you could display something like In order to use
themes at boot, you need to use a video mode with frame buffer at boot, you can set
this in the advanced settings of the boot loader.
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No more, maintainer is officially removing pdf support from ggv.
It has been decided quite some time ago. You're quoting outdated
info.
So, where can I get up to date info about ggv ? :-)
Even the current GGV user manual says that GGV supports PDF rendering.
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that pdf is no longer supported in ggv.
The PDF attached in the bug report now looks good in GGV, so the bug should be marked
as fixed instead of wontfix :-)
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download do a urpmi.update and then ask the user if he wants to upgrade his
packages.
But how could this applet know if the user has access to Internet ?
Should it care about that ?
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not run 'urpmi.update' or anything else that requires
elevated priveleges.
I agree :)
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The use of e-mail instead of courriel in the French translations?
I'm a native french speaker and I've never heard anyone saying the word courriel.
All french people I know use the word e-mail, even teachers.
So I guess it's ok to keep e-mail.
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but it is
unreachable ...
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installation, so he couldn't know that the
problem was the big amount of memory.
If the errata url was showed at the beginning of the installation, he could have found
it himself ...
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cdrecord -scanbus fail ?
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I can confirm that cdrecord works fine. When I perform the above
command it works fine.
cdrecord has perhaps a new output format, that could explain why xcdroast and k3b fail
to scan bus.
You should check cdrecord changelog to find if some changes like this were done
recently.
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Hi
When I start nautilus, it segfaults and show gnome_segv dialog box, which pops up
again as soon as I close it.
How can I trace nautilus to locate the bug ?
Where can I find nautilus-debug packages ?
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idea :)
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nice catch but please, add this to the bug (you removed the bugzilla
cc:)
bugzilla seems down :/
that's why i didn't
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of integration with rpmdrake (does this mean writting some perl scripts
?)
- kde port
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the thread named [Cooker] For 9.2 - automatic update notification.
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wasn't totally awoken ;)
I agree, the notification area must be used.
Then, the same program could be used by both GNOME and KDE.
Thanks for pointing this out.
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I've just started one for KDE as well :)
See a screenshot of the work so far here:
http://www.davidsansome.com/mutray.png
Nice :)
Is it a KDE app or Qt only ?
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What about just making an icon on specified users desktop. That will work
on all DE as well I think. And it is easy to do with a script.
Good idea, this would be quite easy, I'll try to code this on-desktop notification
this Week-End.
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s/géré/gérés/
Variantes :
Modifie la manière dont les fichiers sont gérés
Modifie la façon de gérer les fichiers
Thanks for your additional info, but please reply on Bugzilla ;-)
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of all,
pressing F2 brings up the verbose text mode if you need to debug anything.
Good idea :)
ita on IRC suggested this theme :
http://www.saltwater.be/files/blacktux/mandrake/silent-1024x768.jpg
I find it quite smart, it looks very professional, what do you think of it ?
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Name: modutils Relocations: (not relocateable)
Version : 2.4.22Vendor: MandrakeSoft
Release : 10mdk.Build Date: Wed Jul 16 18:04:22 2003
Nice typo in release ;-)
(the dot)
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qa.mandrakesoft.com is ok ;-)
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Yes, the Gorilla theme is missing a few icons, it also doesn't show
the yelp icon. I wonder why it doesn't inherit the icons from the
default theme.
This was bug 4278, fixed today by Frederic Crozat :)
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By the way, gnome 2.3 splash screen stays a lot of time (about 1-2 minutes), there
might be a typo somewhere.
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BTW, where do I get a 9.2 rescue CD ? Or do you mean 9.1 ?
It's the installation CD (the first one) of 9.2 beta1.
Hmm, try re-registering all schemas on your system (see my previous answer
on another thread..)
No need to re-register them, it works since my last boot, quite strange ...
Thanks for all your work, you're on the good way to get reliable Gnome 2 and Gtk 2 for
9.2 :-)
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of the car/cdr
elements
Schema: /etc/gconf/schemas/panel-default-setup.entries
Document `/etc/gconf/schemas/panel-default-setup.entries' has the wrong type of root
node (gconfentryfile, should be gconfschemafile)
Thanks for your help.
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-q --provides kdenetwork | grep kdenetwork
kdenetwork = 1:3.1.2-18mdk
All seems to be all right here.
I don't know where it comes from, but arts Obsoletes might (may ? must ?) need a
cleanup.
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manually ?
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By the way, gnome 2.3 splash screen stays a lot of time (about 1-2 minutes), there
might be a typo somewhere.
Nevermind, that was a problem with my ~/.gnome2
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Wow, /etc/gconf/schemas/desktop.schemas is from GConf1 :((
And gconftool-1 doesn't complain with it, only gconftool-2.. I'll see what
I can do but it is not really important..
Thanks for the fix, but you forgot to mention it in your changelog ;)
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could you elaborate on your solution? i have the same splash screen problem
Hi,
My ~/.gnome2/session had some useless entries such as Mozilla.
Try to remove them or to delete these useless entries.
Hope this helps :)
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OK, never mind, I just messed with the preferences a bit and it seems
fixed now.
Can you explain what you did to resolve this ?
Just in case my gnome session gets broken again ;-)
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~/.gnome2/session is that logout was disabled
for some minutes after having started gnome2.
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is broken there, it's even not half the size it should be.
On uninett.no :
-rw-r--r-- 4734976 2003/07/30 15:07:08 hdlist2.cz
On sunet.se :
-rw-r--r--13793011 2003/07/30 15:07:08 hdlist2.cz
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Yep, contrib hdlist is broken there, it's even not half the size it should be.
It seems to be back now :-)
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: http://ac2i.tzo.com/dctc/
Terrorists !
It's not the right url (copy/paste sucks).
Please change it to : http://downman.sourceforge.net/ :-)
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yesterday afternoon :
-rw-r--r--19060388 2003/07/30 20:18:30 hdlist.cz
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- 2.4.21 final.
Hum, which one is it ? 2.4.22-pre9 or 2.4.21 ?
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$ rpm -q arts --obsoletes | grep kdebase3
kdebase3
kdebase3-nsplugins
kdebase3-devel
$ rpm -q --whatprovides kdebase3
kdebase-3.1.3-1mdk
arts obsoletes current kdebase, how can I upgrade to kde 3.1.3 ?
Cheers
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provides.
With current arts spec file and kdebase spec file, it's logical that arts obsoletes
kdebase.
PS: please post with Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :)
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I just re-installed a fresh Cooker from today and found that KDE did not
install. When I tried to urpmi kdebase it fails about dependencies on
other kde packages.
It's probably a problem with arts, see the thread Big mess with arts obsoletes ...
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desktops :)
I'll try to put update this in contrib this week-end
PS: please post with Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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/Mandrake92
Cheers
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kdebase3 != kdebase
Hum ?
arts should obsoletes all packages that provide kdebase3, no ?
kdebase provides kdebase3 and rpm 4.2 also obsoletes virtual
provides, so it's normal that rpm obsoletes kdebase package.
Am I right ?
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/vendor_perl/5.8.0/urpm.pm
Bandwith limit is almost here, it would be quite esay to add one or
two more lines of code in urpm.pm to handle a limit_rate: xxx
option in urpmi.cfg
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Olivier Blin
be limit_rate ...
Otherwise it won't work :)
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Yes, but as the subject says, this is with ext3, which happens to be
the default filesystem, so by default newbies see this ...
BTW, in 9.2 beta 1, ext2 was the default filesystem, we had better
switch back to ext3 for next beta ;-)
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at least, it uses ext3 in cooker
Thanks for the fix
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somewhere.
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with many other tools.
There might be a better solution than patching each one of this tools.
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$rpm -qRp kdebase-3.1.3-4mdk.i586.rpm |grep kdm
kdm
kdebase-kdm-config-file
BTW, why does kdebase require kdm ?
We can also use gdm or mdkkdm to log in KDE.
IMHO, gdm, kdm and mdkkdm should provide something like
display-manager, then kdebase would require display-manager.
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,
There is no package named termcap-devel, but there is one that provides
termcap-devel, it's libtermcap2-devel.
You can find such things with urpmf --provides.
$ urpmf --provides termcap-devel
libtermcap2-devel:libtermcap-devel[== 2.0.8-35mdk]
libtermcap2-devel:termcap-devel[== 2.0.8-35mdk]
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