Carl....are you aware that this list is a user list, where users
try to help other users? I didn't try and answer your question
the first time because I figured that there were better
qualified individuals on this list to do so. But I can answer
your last question, so here goes. On the KDE desktop there is
an Icon labled Updates. Click it and the MandrakeUpdate script
is activated, which will connect you to the mirror of your
choice and allow you to choose to download and install any
updated packages that may exist on that mirror.
Alan
"Carl A. Cook" wrote:
>
> I guess MandrakeSoft isn't willing to help me with my questions.
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> Carl A. Cook
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> "Carl A. Cook" wrote:
>
> > I've found putting an exit statement in any boottime script causes it to pause.
> > rc.firewall, if it exists, is called from rc.sysinit, which is pointed to by
> > /etc/inittab.
> >
> > Also finding that setting Startup Services in DrakConf only affects
> > /etc/rc.d/rc3.d. Had to copy those additional symlinks into rc5.d since they
> > don't get run when booting directly into graphical. Sounds crazy, but this is a
> > fact. I thought that when booting graphical, it first passed through runlevel3,
> > but noooo.
> >
> > Anyone know how to tell NT you have a point-to-point connection?
> >
> > Anyone know why the system doesn't recognise new fontpaths? (chkfontpath --add)
> > The path is there, but the system either doesn't recognize it, or worse, locks
> > up. When you reboot, xfs fails and X crashes for not finding its font server.
> > Feb 21 10:07:05 hydra PAM_pwdb[729]: (su) session opened for user xfs by (uid=0)
> > Feb 21 10:07:05 hydra PAM_pwdb[729]: (su) session closed for user xfs
> > Feb 21 10:07:05 hydra xfs: xfs startup succeeded
> > Feb 21 10:07:07 hydra xfs: Fatal font server error:
> > Feb 21 10:07:07 hydra xfs: Element #10 (starting at 0) of font path is bad
> > or has a bad font: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
> >
> > It doesn't matter which of the system font paths is first, it fails in the
> > same manner. (bad path or bad font) My procedure worked fine on RedHat6.1.
> > Could it be a PAM problem? How do I fix it?
> >
> > Anyone know how to autoupdate M7.0-2? On MandrakeUser it says, "You can keep
> > your Mandrake-Linux distribution up to date by using the 'MandrakeUpdate' program
> > installed on your box." But I find no evidence of such a utility...
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> > Carl A. Cook
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> > William Ahern wrote:
> >
> > > Nevermind. I figured the problem out. I had an 'exit' statement in my
> > > rc.firewall, which gets run right after the swapon -a. Anybody know why this
> > > causes the boot sequence to pause? How is the script run? Running rc.firewall
> > > manually doesn't cause it to pause...
> > >
> > > thanx,
> > >
> > > Bill
> > >
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