Re: [expert] recover a db3-error (-30985)

2002-09-28 Thread hans schneidhofer
Am Samstag, 28. September 2002 02:02 schrieb Vox: rpm --rebuilddb hi, first at all thanks for your mail and help ! was running now rpm --rebuilddb and got this here : Fehler: rpmdb: damaged header instance #615 retrieved, skipping. does anyone know, what this stand for ? thanks one time

Re: [expert] gkrellm on all workspaces?

2002-09-28 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 19:38 -0400, Dave Seff wrote: I right click on the gkrellm that shows up in the taskbar, then go to - To Desktop - all Desktops Yes, that's what I thought it should do. But it doesn't. When I rightclick on the gkrellm-placeholder in the taskbar I only get the options

[expert] Ext3 Question

2002-09-28 Thread Rick Friedman
I want to convert my filesystems from ext2 to ext3. However, currently, kernel support for ext3 is built in as module support. I'm running kernel 2.4.19 which I built from the source. My question is, does ext3 support need to be built directly into the kernel itself rather than as a module?

[expert] hotplugging, pcmcia: too many modules loaded, corrupt modules.pcmcia or corrupt card?

2002-09-28 Thread Peter Møller Neergaard
I have just got a PCMCIA ieee1394 card which I am trying to get to work with Mandrake 8.1 and a self-compiled kernel 2.4.19. That made me discover the hotplug functionality from the hotplug package. So far I have been naïve enough to believe that the cardbus hotplugging was controlled just by

[expert] Raid error message

2002-09-28 Thread Mark Williamson
Hi Everyone, Have been successfully been using software RAID with Mandrake.. but there is a error message on startup, that i would like to get rid of.. request_module[md-personality-2]: Root fs not mounted md: personality 2 is not loaded! I actually get this error for each raid device, it

[expert] Why is my RAID0 slower than RAID1 device?

2002-09-28 Thread Mark Williamson
HI Everyone, Just trying to workout why I have a Raid 0 that is slower that a Raid 1 device.. Now I have here a /dev/md0 which is a Raid1 and /dev/md4 which is Raid0 now using hdparm to test the speed.. # hdparm -Tt /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.52 seconds

Re: [expert] ncurses-devel

2002-09-28 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sat, 28 Sep 2002 13:10:43 +0200 Wolfgang Bornath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: nybody seen ncurses-devel for 9.0? I only see ncurses 5.2-27 on the CDs and on the Mandrake server, no ncurses-devel. libncurses5-devel-5.2-27mdk It is included in the cds. Mandrake uses librrafication for all apps

Re: [expert] ncurses-devel

2002-09-28 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 07:24 -0400, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Sat, 28 Sep 2002 13:10:43 +0200 Wolfgang Bornath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: nybody seen ncurses-devel for 9.0? I only see ncurses 5.2-27 on the CDs and on the Mandrake server, no ncurses-devel. libncurses5-devel-5.2-27mdk

Re: [expert] Ext3 Question

2002-09-28 Thread et
On Saturday 28 September 2002 03:34 am, you wrote: I want to convert my filesystems from ext2 to ext3. However, currently, kernel support for ext3 is built in as module support. I'm running kernel 2.4.19 which I built from the source. My question is, does ext3 support need to be built

[expert] ncurses-devel

2002-09-28 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
Hey, next day, next problem: Anybody seen ncurses-devel for 9.0? I only see ncurses 5.2-27 on the CDs and on the Mandrake server, no ncurses-devel. RPMFind shows only ncurses-devel 5.2-12mdk as src rpm for cooker. It is needed for compiling the AVM driver for FritzCard DSL. wobo -- If you

[expert] rpm db4?

2002-09-28 Thread Marco Romeny
damnit! whatever I do with rpm it gives me: rpmdb: region error detected; run recovery. error: db4 error(-30981) from dbenv-open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - (-30981) rpm --rebuilddb gives the same result OF COURSE. it

Re: [expert] .xinitrc/startx weirdness

2002-09-28 Thread SpeedMan
On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 20:59, s wrote: Hi gang, I have a little mystery going on here that isn't really distro or version specific as I've had it happen to me for many many mandrake releases and in Slackware. But something somewhere somehow for some reason is creating an empty .xinitrc

Re: [expert] rpm db4?

2002-09-28 Thread Marco Romeny
rtfm. I solved it. 'remove /var/lib/rpm/__db*' http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb/ - Original Message - From: Marco Romeny [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 15:45 Subject: [expert] rpm db4? damnit! whatever I do with rpm it gives

[expert] LM 9 scsi problem

2002-09-28 Thread Jonathan Dlouhy
I installed Mandrake 9 yesterday, no apparent problems. I tried using my HP 5p SCSI scanner today and xsane can't see it. If I do cat /proc/scsi/scsi both my SCSI devices are recognized. I have a CD burner set up as IDE-SCSI that had been working fine along with the scanner. Now neither work. I

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2002-09-28 Thread Jimmie Kester
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Re: [expert] Myster of my own.

2002-09-28 Thread Mark Weaver
Alastair Scott wrote: On 26 Sep 2002 20:30:26 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone else been receiving blank e-mails from people they don't know. I get 2 or 3 a week always blank no attachment just the header.. never from the same address... I think this is the

Re: [expert] Supermount stopped working?

2002-09-28 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 18:10, Todd Lyons wrote: However, it doesn't want to eject: the eject button is ignored until I log out of KDE, only then I get my disk back. It seems the unmounting part is not working? This is a KDE issue. There's nothing you can do about it because that's the

Re: [expert] Myster of my own.

2002-09-28 Thread James Sparenberg
just got one of them through the list... from a Jimmie Kesterquestion is ... was it only blank for me? (except for the MDK added footer that is James On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 08:45, Mark Weaver wrote: Alastair Scott wrote: On 26 Sep 2002 20:30:26 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL

[expert] install from ftp with 9.0

2002-09-28 Thread Robin
Hi all, I just got MDK 9.0 last night. I remember that I used to be able to just boot with 2nd cd and do a network install from ftp with all versions of 8, but 9.0 is not letting me do it. Did I miss something somewhere? TIA Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

[expert] rpmdrake 9.0 slowdown

2002-09-28 Thread J. Grant
Hi, just installed 9.0, rpmdrake takes at least 25 secs to open, before it was 2 secs then 5 secs loading the rpm db etc. Anyone else experienced this? got a solution JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Issues with Burning a CD

2002-09-28 Thread Stefano Pogliani
Hi, I have tried GCombust, ERoaster, K3B... all of them seem to work but at the end my CD is not burnt. I do not have strange messages, I have logs as to which each MB is written but at the end.. I wouldn't like to reboot to Windows just for burining the new MDK 9.0 CDs. Anyone has an

Re: [expert] Myster of my own.

2002-09-28 Thread Ray Warren
On 28 Sep 2002 at 10:37, James Sparenberg wrote: was it only blank for me? (except for the MDK added footer that is It was blank for me also. Ray Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Issues with Burning a CD

2002-09-28 Thread s
On Saturday 28 September 2002 01:28 pm, Stefano Pogliani wrote: Hi, I have tried GCombust, ERoaster, K3B... all of them seem to work but at the end my CD is not burnt. I do not have strange messages, I have logs as to which each MB is written but at the end.. I wouldn't like to

Re: [expert] Issues with Burning a CD

2002-09-28 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 28 September 2002 02:28 pm, you wrote: Hi, I have tried GCombust, ERoaster, K3B... all of them seem to work but at the end my CD is not burnt. I do not have strange messages, I have logs as to which each MB is written but at the end.. I wouldn't like to reboot to

Re: [expert] Supermount stopped working?

2002-09-28 Thread PlugHead
FWIW: I noticed my cdrom acting flakey under KDE (it would eject when I pressed the button, but then immediately retract...) and the 'Eject' option on the icon didn't work. Since this is an upgraded system (MDK 8.2 - MDK 9.0), I deleted the icon and re-created it--and it seems to work just

[expert] Postfix configuration question??

2002-09-28 Thread Dale Morris
I need to configure Postfix so I can use mutt and slrn. Postfix seems pretty simple but I'm a little gunshy because the only other time I configured it, it worked fine but I ended having my root mail go directly to the administrator at mail provider. He got pretty upset after a while.. Here

Re: [expert] Ext3 Question

2002-09-28 Thread William Kenworthy
I think you get around this by using an initrd. Check out man mkinitrd. BillK On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 19:53, et wrote: On Saturday 28 September 2002 03:34 am, you wrote: I want to convert my filesystems from ext2 to ext3. However, currently, kernel support for ext3 is built in as module

Re: [expert] Supermount stopped working?

2002-09-28 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 28 September 2002 02:12 am, you wrote: DL, I know we've been over this before, you and I, but have you tried checking out supermount under LM90 yet? Nope, not yet - was gonna wait for the full release version (I have more luck with those) I thought I'd give it a whirl since

Re: [expert] Why is my RAID0 slower than RAID1 device?

2002-09-28 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. On Sat 2002-09-28 at 20:20:37 +1000, Mark Williamson wrote: Just trying to workout why I have a Raid 0 that is slower that a Raid 1 device.. Why do you think that this shouldn't be the case? AFAIK, usually RAID0 is at most comparable to RAID1 on reading speed, but may be slower

[expert] Motherboard Question

2002-09-28 Thread Ralph F De Witt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi: I am contemplating building a new system. The two motherboards that I am looking at are, one a MSI KT3 Ultra2 w/o raid, lan, and video, and two a MSI KT4 Ultra w/o raid, lan, and video. This will be my primary workstation. I am wondering will

Re: [expert] Myster of my own.

2002-09-28 Thread et
na, I think old Jimmie is learning and just subscribed to both the newbie and the expert list and sent a blank mail to each by mistake, my guess On Saturday 28 September 2002 01:37 pm, you wrote: just got one of them through the list... from a Jimmie Kesterquestion is ... was it only

Re: [expert] Ext3 Question

2002-09-28 Thread Rick Friedman
Well, as it turns out, I decided to recompile th kernel. Of course, this time, I made sure that ext3 support was built in. :) Rick On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 15:18, William Kenworthy wrote: I think you get around this by using an initrd. Check out man mkinitrd. BillK On Sat, 2002-09-28 at

Re: [expert] Issues with Burning a CD

2002-09-28 Thread Stefano Pogliani
K3B and ERoaster were used without the dummy. So they should have been able to do the job /stefano s wrote: On Saturday 28 September 2002 01:28 pm, Stefano Pogliani wrote: Hi, I have tried GCombust, ERoaster, K3B... all of them seem to work but at the end my CD is not burnt. I do not

[expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-28 Thread Lorne
Anybody else having trouble installing the Nvidia chipset 440 128MB of ram? It absolutely will not install for me. ? This card is an MSI card and it is supposed to be fully supported I thought. ?? I keep getting a (EE) No devices detected error message. It surely looks serious and bad and

Re: [expert] Issues with Burning a CD

2002-09-28 Thread Stefano Pogliani
cdrecord -scanbus gives me the following: Cdrecord 1.11a31 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.1.22 Using libscg version 'schily-0.6' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'SEAGATE ' 'ST318203LW ' '0001' Disk 0,1,0 1) 'QUANTUM '

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-28 Thread Philip Webb
020928 Lorne wrote: Anybody else having trouble installing the Nvidia chipset 440 128MB of ram? --- big snip --- (--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device (EE) No devices detected. Fatal server error: no screens found IIRC i had that when i tried a screen size my

Re: [expert] Why is my RAID0 slower than RAID1 device?

2002-09-28 Thread Mark Williamson
Hi Benjamin, Thanks for your insight into the reasons why this may be the case, and I agree with your assumptions, I really only added the RAID0 at the end drives with some left over space just to see what RAID0 was like.. One thing I know is that Mandrake makes setting up RAID a joy.. Cheers

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-28 Thread s
On Saturday 28 September 2002 18:57, Lorne wrote: Anybody else having trouble installing the Nvidia chipset 440 128MB of ram? It absolutely will not install for me. ? This card is an MSI card and it is supposed to be fully supported I thought. ?? I keep getting a (EE) No devices detected

Re: [expert] Issues with Burning a CD

2002-09-28 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 28 September 2002 07:27 pm, you wrote: cdrecord -scanbus gives me the following: Cdrecord 1.11a31 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.1.22 Using libscg version 'schily-0.6' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'SEAGATE '

Re: [expert] Issues with Burning a CD

2002-09-28 Thread Ken THompson
On Saturday 28 September 2002 12:28 pm, Stefano Pogliani wrote: Hi, I have tried GCombust, ERoaster, K3B... all of them seem to work but at the end my CD is not burnt. I do not have strange messages, I have logs as to which each MB is written but at the end.. I wouldn't like to

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2/9.0 bad cmos checksum error

2002-09-28 Thread Joseph Stegner
Is there any suggestions left? Joe - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 4:03 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2/9.0 bad cmos checksum error On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Joseph Stegner wrote: Here's the

Re: [expert] Issues with Burning a CD

2002-09-28 Thread Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas
Em Sab 28 Set 2002 15:28, Stefano Pogliani escreveu: I could only burn my mdk90 set with a **very slow** speed (2) with cdrecord and high quality cd's! It as long, long really long ... but it the job was done! []s Ricardo Castanho Hi, I have tried GCombust, ERoaster, K3B... all of

Re: [expert] Issues with Burning a CD

2002-09-28 Thread s
Well, I'd bypass the frontends and go straight for cdrecord next. Something like: cdrecord -v dev=2,0,0 speed=4 Mandrake9.0-cd1-inst.i586.iso and maybe even try -dao too as I've read of many having to use that for the larger isos. maybe try that and see. -s On Saturday 28 September 2002

Re: [expert] Supermount stopped working?

2002-09-28 Thread Philip Webb
020928 various people wrote: the eject button is ignored until I log out of KDE: only then I get my disk back. It seems the unmounting part is not working? --- This is a KDE issue. --- I've installed winblows replacement systems for friends using KDE and seen the mount problems. Esp with

Re: [expert] Issues with Burning a CD

2002-09-28 Thread Vinh N. Pham
Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: Em Sab 28 Set 2002 15:28, Stefano Pogliani escreveu: I could only burn my mdk90 set with a **very slow** speed (2) with cdrecord and high quality cd's! It as long, long really long ... but it the job was done! []s Ricardo Castanho Hi, I

[expert] Canon C5500 printer

2002-09-28 Thread Pierre Fortin
Hi guys! Recently converted another M$ user to LM8.2 and have a problem... The printer is a Canon C5500 multifunction printer which works fine under W9x. Under LM8.2, everything *appears* to work -- file seems to be sent to printer, long files stay queued/active for longer time vs short files,

[expert] Mdk 9.0: nspluginscan crashed, DCOPserver not running

2002-09-28 Thread Gonzalo Avaria
Hi you guys: first, let me tell you, this is the first install that went ZERO trouble for me... it always crashed when i tried to do a boot disk, NICE WORK!!!. Anyway, i thougt i could work with the new 9.0 but my happiness ended when i tried to load KDE. After log in, and before the loading

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2/9.0 bad cmos checksum error

2002-09-28 Thread et
On Saturday 28 September 2002 09:59 pm, you wrote: Is there any suggestions left? have you tried to boot with an alternate kernel inage from the 2.2.x series kernels? Joe - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 26,

Re: [expert] Canon C5500 printer

2002-09-28 Thread Randall Jonasz
Which printing system are you using? I've only used CUPS without any problems. If you're using CUPS, direct your browser to http://localhost:631 You can manage your printer from there. Cheers, Randy On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 22:24, Pierre Fortin wrote: Hi guys! Recently converted another

MORE INFO: Re: [expert] Mdk 9.0: nspluginscan crashed, DCOPserver not running

2002-09-28 Thread Gonzalo Avaria
Well i've tried some things that i found on the internet. I'm sending the files that have the messages that i've recieved when i used dcopserver --nosid (file: log.txt) and startkde (logs2.txt). About the nspluginscan, i modified the /usr/bin/startkde , commenting the line that has the

RE: [expert] Postfix: How does reject_unknown_client work?

2002-09-28 Thread Bill Shirley
Hi, I shot myself in the foot once and got this exact same behavior. I had messed up my DNS and MY postfix couldn't resolve MY host name. I had accidently deleted the host name that resolves to postfix's $myhostname. Hope this helps, Bill Shirley -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-28 Thread Lorne
I have tried all the Nvidia drivers that mandrake had built in. There were like 6 of them. Did you mean nvidia linux drivers? I haven't found those yet. On Saturday 28 September 2002 06:47 pm, you wrote: On Saturday 28 September 2002 18:57, Lorne wrote: Anybody else having trouble installing

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2/9.0 bad cmos checksum error

2002-09-28 Thread Joseph Stegner
Don't 8.2/9.0 use different kernel images? - Original Message - From: et [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 11:08 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2/9.0 bad cmos checksum error On Saturday 28 September 2002 09:59 pm, you wrote: Is there any

Re: [expert] Nvidia Gforce4

2002-09-28 Thread s
Please try these: http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-3123/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-3123.tar.gz http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-3123/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123.tar.gz ppl have soo much trouble with the rpms. just untar these and type: 'make' as root without single quotes in each resulting