Re: [Cooker] Suggestions for upcoming Mandrake (3)
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Tom Badran wrote: >> POSTIN: /usr/sbin/mimedb add --priority=5 "mozilla" "text/html" >> POSTUN: /usr/sbin/mimedb del "mozilla" > That sounds like a great solution. Do kde and gnome both use this for mime > types? Also, you have to be careful with the del in case the item being No. Nobody uses a central database for mime type handlers, because there isn't any. Even applications inside Gnome/KDE have their own mime files..:( But I would like this to change and the only thing towards working "pick a file and choose the program to run it" would be this kind of sollution. Of course the programs and users would have their own preferences, but in the case where there aren't any, they could pick _some_ application to run the file instead of letting the novice user to guess which application he/she needs to see a pdf document etc.. I just looked at gnome-vfs, galeon and mozilla. They have all their own mime files, but as thay all are in text/xml, exporter would be quite(?) easy to make for them all. And of course the implementer could always go to talk mozilla/gnome/kde people. :) > deleted is not there (due to manual editing) and make sure that doesnt throw > any erros / crash rpmdrake etc. Sure this is a bit of work to implement now, Of course this kind of database must be first designed so that this kind of situations would not arise. > but the amount of effort going into things like devfs etc. surely means that > this is a worthwile venture. I have installed mandrake on machines for people Agreed. > Just my thoughts, its pretty hard to think of how to improve such a sweet > distro. There is always room for iprovement. But there is usually not enough time to do it. Regards, Matias
Re: [Cooker] rsync f*ckups again!!!
On Fridayen den 9 November 2001 07.07, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: > > Why is it that the rsync admins in norway and sweden never seems to be > > able > > to settle down on the structure of their Mandrake trees??? > > > > I first used rsync via uninett, and they f*cked it up. Then I had to > > change > > to sunet, and the same f*ckup occured. The other day I switched to > > uninett > > > again, and five monutes ago my whole RPMS2 dir was wiped clean... > > Are you sure? Mandrake/RPMS2 on uninett seems to still exist. The fact > that they also got duplicated contrib. seems to indicate, they actually > sync off sunet. At the time the latest shit happened I stopped all rsyncing and logged in via ftp, and yes the RPMS2 dir was gone. But a couple of minutes/hours later it was there again. It's very frustrating. I wonder where the origin is, where do they (uninett and sunet) rsync from? -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | Oden Eriksson, Deserve-IT Networks, Jokkmokk, Sweden. | Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Cooker) for i586 | Current uptime with kernel 2.4.13-4mdksmp: 19:22 | cpu0 @ 814.28 bm, fan 4090 rpm, temp +31.0°C | cpu1 @ 815.92 bm, fan 4066 rpm, temp +29°C
Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] naat-monitoring-0.7-1mdk
On Thursdayen den 8 November 2001 23.53, Florin wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Oden Eriksson) writes: > > Aha! I was mistaken this somehow for another thing from SNF, very > > interesting package. I have to dwell into it if the messy rsync mirror in > > norway ever finishes its deed... > > > > Does it produce stats and graphs on the fly? > > yes, Cool! To me it seems to require a backend for producing the data, and BTW there seems to be something wrong here: ls -la /etc/cron.d/ -rw-r--r--1 root root 65 Nov 8 10:11 naat-monitoring It doesn't need the executable bit set at all maybe? And, maybe there should be a "/var/www/html/monitoring" dir too? > > If not, check http://nisca.sourceforge.net for a very cool software... > > But..., it requires a SNMP aware PHP and Mandrake doesn't have that yet, > > but could have if my php*src.rpm in the Mandrake /incoming/ was checked > > and looked into/cleaned up by experts. That version works for me and > > should work for others too as the required ucd-snmp changes is in place > > since a while back. > > rrdtool does it already without php ;) Ok, I will check this out more throughoutfully then. But, isn't there a www frontend for this, I checked the stuff from SNF but it's not easy to assemble just for naat-monitoring... NISCA has another approach and concept, maybe you should check it out? It's very powerful. Thanks! -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | Oden Eriksson, Deserve-IT Networks, Jokkmokk, Sweden. | Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Cooker) for i586 | Current uptime with kernel 2.4.13-4mdksmp: 18:37 | cpu0 @ 814.28 bm, fan 4141 rpm, temp +31.0°C | cpu1 @ 815.92 bm, fan 4090 rpm, temp +29°C
RE: [Cooker] rsync f*ckups again!!!
> > Why is it that the rsync admins in norway and sweden never seems to be > able > to settle down on the structure of their Mandrake trees??? > > I first used rsync via uninett, and they f*cked it up. Then I had to > change > to sunet, and the same f*ckup occured. The other day I switched to uninett > again, and five monutes ago my whole RPMS2 dir was wiped clean... > Are you sure? Mandrake/RPMS2 on uninett seems to still exist. The fact that they also got duplicated contrib. seems to indicate, they actually sync off sunet. -andrej
Re: [Cooker] 'DeCSS' DVD descrambler ruled legal
Well, as long as the DVD-CCA doesn't win their appeal, that means a .src.rpm could be built. (And a binary RPM could be made available from a less brain-dead country than the Sorta-united States.) After all, France can't tell Yahoo USA not to sell Nazi memorobilia. So the US has no authority over a server in another country by that same reasoning. Too bad it couldn't be on one of the regular CD's. Quel Qun wrote: > > The ruling says it cannot be forbidden to publish the source, it > doesn't say it is legal to compile and use it. I think that's > what people would like to know. > =-= > kk1
Re: [Cooker] Unknown freezes in the night
Steven Lawrance wrote on Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 07:50:43PM -0800 : > > Since I'm just a software person and not an electrical engineer, a bad > capacitor means that I'll have to probably replace the motherboard, Having been an electronics tech in a previous life, I can verify that electrolytic caps are a problem that gradually onsets. We used to get boards in that before we would even start checking parts, we would change all the electrolytic caps. The standing rule was if it's not been changed in less than 6 years, change it without question. Flaky caps on power supplies were the #2 most prevalent fix. (#1 was bad gate driver or base driver circuits, depending on if it was DC or AC equipment). Caps most frequently "dry out" in warm ambient temperatures. And it really is drying out. If you open a new cap and compare to an old cap, you'll see that it's much less moist. That also contributes to it getting warmer (and is mainly why they burn up...no moisture). I'd consider inside of a computer running for several years to be warm ambient temperature. Your mobo could very well be doing this if it's been in service for 4 or more years. Blue skies... Todd -- tlyons at mandrakesoft dot com http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en msg47027/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [Cooker] Unknown freezes in the night
I read this on http://rpmfind.net and some other places via google.com searches (I was about to buy that motherboard and two Celerons a while ago, but decided not to). Calm down :-). The electrolytic capacitor thing seems interesting.. I wonder if that's what it is... Since I'm just a software person and not an electrical engineer, a bad capacitor means that I'll have to probably replace the motherboard, processors, and RAM at the very least -- something that I was hoping to avoid for another couple of years until dual G5s come out :-(.. It froze again today when I was about to use the system :-(. Fortunately, the fsck times (currently use only ext2, but would like to use resierfs) seem very fast in the latest cooker compared to what they were several months ago :-) (new version of ext2fsck?). I've read that several kernel debuggers are available for the Linux kernel. I haven't spent much time looking into whether or not it's built into the cooker kernels, so I was wondering if anyone here knows the best way to try to debug the kernel. I'm very anxious to find out exactly where in the kernel these freezes happen ;-), and if it's consistently in the same place. Time for me to hit the HOWTOs :-)... On Thursday 08 November 2001 02:47 pm, you wrote: > On Thursdayen den 8 November 2001 17.05, Steven Lawrance wrote: > > I've read that the infamous Abit BP6 dual Celeron motherboards were > > notorious for APIC errors and had a lot of crashing problems, but I'm > > hoping that my motherboard, a GigaByte dual-Pentium (GA-5DX or something > > like that), doesn't have the same problems :-) (it came out well before > > the BP6, back in 1997). > > ??? > > I have never had any problems what so ever with my bp6. Where did you read > this? And under what circumstances does it crash? -- --Steven Lawrance-- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Cooker] gcombust and user doesn't work, works in root though
Trying to use gcombust as user and complains about cdrecord permission. Says user doesn't have permission or drive settings wrong. Tried to start cdrecord from terminal and say's don't have permission. User has permission for the cdrom and cdwriter,... Everything works fine as root and burnt a CD. So changed permissions manually on cdrecord itself and now everything works. Permission on file was set 6750, so figure User should have been able to execute cause was in the Group. But would cdrecord still wouldn't work. So changed permissions to 6755 to let Others read and execute, and everthing fine This has happened with cdrecord-1.10-2mdk and 1.11-0.a08_dvdhack.3mdk Figure there is a good chance it isn't just cdrecord itself, but don't know. Haven't seen this problem with other programs though, if the User has permission can use it. Running: kernel-2.4.8-26mdk and KDE base-2.2.1-14mdk
Re: [Cooker] Suggestions for upcoming Mandrake (1)
Yura Gusev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Todd Lyons wrote: > > > Matias Griese wrote on Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 03:22:04PM +0200 : > > > > > > XMMS: The must have X multimedia system -- ?!? > > > > The only thing misleading there is the capitalization. I would suggest: > > "XMMS: The X MultiMedia System mp3/ogg player" > > XMMS is a multimedia player > XMMS is a multi format audio player. > Go with multimedia. It also plays mpegs. -- Murray Root [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email (404) 978-1262 x2646 - voicemail/fax __ FREE voicemail, email, and fax...all in one place. Sign Up Now! http://www.onebox.com
[Cooker] glade can't load due to gnome-db error
[drfickle@tp flink-0.3.2]$ glade glade: error while loading shared libraries: glade: undefined symbol: gnome_db_errordlg_get_type -- Steve Fox http://k-lug.org
Re: [Cooker] Suggestions for upcoming Mandrake (1)
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Todd Lyons wrote: > Matias Griese wrote on Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 03:22:04PM +0200 : > > > > XMMS: The must have X multimedia system -- ?!? > > The only thing misleading there is the capitalization. I would suggest: > "XMMS: The X MultiMedia System mp3/ogg player" XMMS is a multimedia player XMMS is a multi format audio player. -- 10:02pm up 23 days, 10:59, 1 user, load average: 0.04, 0.01, 0.00 __ | / \ |Iouri Goussev// \\ \_\\ //_/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] _\\()//_ .'/()\'. Foo-Bar / // \\ \ jgs\\ // http://foobar.irc-unix.net| \__/ | I am not 31337. But I can use the Vi editor... ;-0
[Cooker] Help with packages (RPM)
Hi everyone, I'm new here and would like to help out anyway I can. Don't worry as I know some stuff about computers (just got my Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and applied math). Code in C all day at work now and would love to get my hands dirty with this stuff... So if anyone needs assistance completing a package just fill me in on details and I'll get started =) --Nick Mr. Nicholas T. Parsons Professional C/C++ Programmer E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Cooker] updating pango breaks libgtk?
Updating pango breaks libgtk? or is this ok to force? V, error: failed dependencies: libpango-0.20.so is needed by libgtk+2-1.3.9-1mdk libpangox-0.20.so is needed by libgtk+2-1.3.9-1mdk libpangoxft-0.20.so is needed by libgtk+2-1.3.9-1mdk
[Cooker] pppoe install
1 rp-pppoe is not installed by default. 2 eth interface that is connected to DSL dont need IP. from documentation "DO NOT assign an IP address to the Ethernet card. DO NOT configure the card to come up at boot time." -- 8:48pm up 23 days, 9:45, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 __ | / \ |Iouri Goussev// \\ \_\\ //_/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] _\\()//_ .'/()\'. Foo-Bar / // \\ \ jgs\\ // http://foobar.irc-unix.net| \__/ | I am not 31337. But I can use the Vi editor... ;-0
Re: [Cooker] USB mic and 8.1
On Fri, 9 Nov 2001 07:17:35 +0700 tracer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > an USB microphone ? WTH do you want to use an USB microphone ? where is > > the inetrest ? a normal jack microphone connect to a normal sound card > > is not enough ? > > If one uses a USB speaker there IS no soundcard in the PC... > One of my customers still has a soundblaster live, uses the Harmon > Kardon digital speakers but the soundcard is only used by the > microphone, kind of a waste so a USB mic may be useful... USB mics are also used by webcams (Philip's ToUCams for example). I don't see why I should buy an extra microphone and attach it to my soundcard if there's already one connected and ready to use? Regards, Rainer
[Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] kernel-mosix-2.4.13-1mdk
Thierry Vignaud wrote: >[Contrib-RPM] > >--=-=-= >Name: kernel-mosix Relocations: (not relocateable) >Version : 2.4.13Vendor: MandrakeSoft > >* Thu Nov 08 2001 Thierry Vignaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2.4.13-1mdk > >- MOSIX-1.5.1 (do not mix with previous mosix releases) > Last didn't work for me...at all. One thing I noticed was that of course the postinst scrippts didn't create or use an initrd and lilo entry pointed to the one from 2.4.13 (non mosix). Give this one a try?
Re: [Cooker] USB mic and 8.1
Hello Fabrice FACORAT, On 07 Nov 2001 14:01:46 +0100 GMT your local time, which was Wednesday, November 07, 2001, 8:01:46 PM (GMT+0700) my local time, Fabrice FACORAT wrote: > le lun 05-11-2001 at 18:27 Charles A Edwards a écrit : >> >> Having been running cooker on 2 systems I finally received my >> copy of the 8.1 PowerPack and installed it on my 1ghz t-bird. >> I won't go into the "fun" that was, it a complaint and rant for >> a different list. >> >> This post relates to a sound problem I encountered when I successed >> in getting 8.1 installed. >> On this particular system I have attached a Telex H-531 Digital USB >> michrophone. > an USB microphone ? WTH do you want to use an USB microphone ? where is > the inetrest ? a normal jack microphone connect to a normal sound card > is not enough ? If one uses a USB speaker there IS no soundcard in the PC... One of my customers still has a soundblaster live, uses the Harmon Kardon digital speakers but the soundcard is only used by the microphone, kind of a waste so a USB mic may be useful... -- Best regards, tracer Using theBAT 1.54 Beta/8 mail to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] C.C.S. Associates using FireTalk: 321338 handphone : 01-891-9560 FAX (USA): (208) 460-3753 pgp 6.5.3 : 0x909D9B10
Re: [Cooker] Unknown freezes in the night
On Thursday 08 November 2001 17:47, Oden Eriksson wrote: > On Thursdayen den 8 November 2001 17.05, Steven Lawrance wrote: > > I've read that the infamous Abit BP6 dual Celeron motherboards > > were notorious for APIC errors and had a lot of crashing > > problems, but I'm hoping that my motherboard, a GigaByte > > dual-Pentium (GA-5DX or something like that), doesn't have the > > same problems :-) (it came out well before the BP6, back in > > 1997). > > I have never had any problems what so ever with my bp6. Where did > you read this? And under what circumstances does it crash? I used to have these by the truckload when I started using mandrake kernels again after the switch to 2.4 series on my BP6, until I modified it to run Pentium III processors. THat old HX motherboard might be having problems supplying clean power to the CPUs. The main change made to my BP6 to run P-IIIs involved upgrading a bunch of electrolytic capacitors. Electrolytic capacitors have finite lifespans. It could be that the capacitors on that HX chipset motherboard might be getting stale... not dead yet, but a bit stale. If they are on the edge, the system would be mostly stable, but would fail from time to time, but not consistantly... Just my opinion, of course... Afterall, I'm a physicyst working as a customer service agent, not an electrician! ~~Chuck
Re: [Cooker] Re: [expert] rsh - Permission Denied
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Glenn Burkhardt) writes: > --- =_aa0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > Content-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > There's a minor bug or documentation discrepancy in rsh-server/pam in Mandrake > 8.1 - perhaps some one who has authority can submit a bug report or correct > it! ;-) > > To review, the comment line in /etc/pam.d/rsh, which says > > # For root login to succeed here with pam_securetty, "rsh" must be > # listed in /etc/securetty. > > is incorrect. The string 'tty' must be placed in /etc/securetty. > hello there, this might come because of msec ... what security level are you using (env|grep SEC] I'll have a look at it, cheers, -- Florin http://www.mandrakesoft.com
Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] naat-monitoring-0.7-1mdk
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Oden Eriksson) writes: > Aha! I was mistaken this somehow for another thing from SNF, very interesting > package. I have to dwell into it if the messy rsync mirror in norway ever > finishes its deed... > > Does it produce stats and graphs on the fly? yes, > > If not, check http://nisca.sourceforge.net for a very cool software... > But..., it requires a SNMP aware PHP and Mandrake doesn't have that yet, but > could have if my php*src.rpm in the Mandrake /incoming/ was checked and > looked into/cleaned up by experts. That version works for me and should work > for others too as the required ucd-snmp changes is in place since a while > back. > rrdtool does it already without php ;) -- Florin http://www.mandrakesoft.com
[Cooker] rsync f*ckups again!!!
Hi, Why is it that the rsync admins in norway and sweden never seems to be able to settle down on the structure of their Mandrake trees??? I first used rsync via uninett, and they f*cked it up. Then I had to change to sunet, and the same f*ckup occured. The other day I switched to uninett again, and five monutes ago my whole RPMS2 dir was wiped clean... I'm tired of fetching the whole damn thing after 4-5 times..., it's not very funny when you are bound to use a "broadband" connection provided by Telia, Sweden and also want to stay up to date with cooker... -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | Oden Eriksson, Deserve-IT Networks, Jokkmokk, Sweden. | Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Cooker) for i586 | Current uptime with kernel 2.4.13-4mdksmp: 6:18 | cpu0 @ 814.28 bm, fan 4115 rpm, temp +34.0°C | cpu1 @ 815.92 bm, fan 4066 rpm, temp +32°C
Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel-2.4.13-4mdk
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 01:31:40PM +0100, Juan Quintela wrote: > > > > Ok, will update after -5mdk (being compiled). > > OK. No hurry. I have compiled 0.5.12 (ALSA is one of the really nice > drivers that compile outside the kernel tree very neatly) and it does > not fix my problem. ~sigh~ > > > because at some point it makes too many problems for ppc people :( > > ~grumble~ As much as it sucks to be dragged behind by lowest common > demoninators, I understand. > Hey, hey! Don't let us poor PPC folks hold you back. If you want to upgrade go ahead. I don't think a lot of PPC users are using alsa, and the beta versions have actually improved PPC support inmost cases. We hit the problem before when I wanted to use beta for PPC in the same kernel that x86 was using stable. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoftOH/TN, USA http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/
Re: [Cooker] compiling kernel
sven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > BTW, does anyone know how the modules list "modules.cz-2.x.x-xmdk.bz" can be > re-generated ? Is it a simple list tarred and bzipped or else ?? "update_kernel" in gi has the following function: [...] echo "Updating modules in '`pwd`' for kernel '$kern'" cp -f `find $kernel_path/lib/modules/ -name "*.o"` . /sbin/depmod -F $kernel_path/boot/System.map* -e *.o | perl -pe 's/\\\n//' \ | perl -ne 's/\.o//g; s/[ \t]+/ /g; print if /: /' > modules.dep perl -pi -e 's/((plip|ppa|imm): parport)/$1 parport_pc/' modules.dep ls *.o | packdrake -b9s "modules.cz" 40 mv modules.cz ../modules.cz-$kern [...] -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
Re: [Cooker] contrib tree duplicated on uninett?
On Thursdayen den 8 November 2001 23.36, Laurent CREPET wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 04:48:56PM +0300, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: > > uninett has two contrib. archivess - one in Mandrake/RPMS2 and one > > outside of cooker tree. Which one is "official"? > > > > -andrej > > First should be a link to second, no ? I got this on my local mirror, > rsync from sunet.se: > lrwxrwxrwx1 lct lct22 nov 5 03:49 RPMS2 -> > ../../../contrib/i586/ No, Andrej is right. But..., the last time I ran my rsync my local Mandrake/RPMS2 was erased. Now they seems to have it back in place again... What a mess... -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | Oden Eriksson, Deserve-IT Networks, Jokkmokk, Sweden. | Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Cooker) for i586 | Current uptime with kernel 2.4.13-4mdksmp: 11:46 | cpu0 @ 814.28 bm, fan 4141 rpm, temp +31.0°C | cpu1 @ 815.92 bm, fan 4115 rpm, temp +29°C
[Cooker] Unknown freezes in the night
This is probably more of a kernel issue or possibly hardware, but my system has locked up twice within the last week while I was asleep :-(. In the log file for the latest one (this morning), it appeared to happen during the cron job run: Nov 8 04:02:00 penguin CROND[18995]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.daily) Nov 8 04:02:00 penguin anacron[18998]: Updated timestamp for job `cron.daily' to 2001-11-08 Nov 8 04:02:10 penguin kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 08(00) Nov 8 04:02:10 penguin kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 02(00) Nov 8 04:02:10 penguin kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 01(00) Nov 8 04:02:45 penguin kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 08(01) Nov 8 04:02:45 penguin kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 02(00) Nov 8 04:02:45 penguin kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 00(00) Nov 8 04:02:49 penguin kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 09(00) Nov 8 04:02:49 penguin kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 02(00) Nov 8 07:01:56 penguin syslogd 1.4-0: restart. Nov 8 07:01:56 penguin kernel: klogd 1.4-0, log source = /proc/kmsg started. Nov 8 07:01:56 penguin kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.4.13-2mdksmp Nov 8 07:01:56 penguin rpc.statd[855]: Version 0.3.3 Starting Nov 8 07:01:57 penguin nfslock: rpc.statd startup succeeded Nov 8 07:01:57 penguin kernel: Loaded 15972 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.4.13-2mdksmp. This system has the latest cooker as of 11/6/2001, and is running on a dual Pentium 233/MMX (Pentium 1). I have actually got these APIC errors ever since I started using 2.4.x (about a year I think..), with occasional freezes. With 2.2.x, I didn't see the APIC errors, though it sometimes froze without warning. Back when it had NT on it (3 years ago), the only thing that froze it was the Creative Labs Sound Blaster AWE64 driver (froze NT during sound playback and listed the driver at the top of the stack in the BSODs). Does anyone have any tips on how I might go about debugging the kernel? On every crash that I've had since running Mandrake, the SysRq key combinations to sync, unmount, and reboot don't work, but they do work when the system is not crashed. I'm hoping that it's a software issue that can be fixed, though I'm not ruling out hardware.. The processors felt very warm in both cases, as if some part of the kernel was stuck in an infinite loop or race condition. In some of my previous kernels, I've commented out the printk() line that writes the APIC error to the log so that my hard drives could actually pin down from less disk activity, but of course this isn't an ideal solution ;-). I've read that the infamous Abit BP6 dual Celeron motherboards were notorious for APIC errors and had a lot of crashing problems, but I'm hoping that my motherboard, a GigaByte dual-Pentium (GA-5DX or something like that), doesn't have the same problems :-) (it came out well before the BP6, back in 1997). Crashes are quite rare, but do happen a couple times each month (unusual for a Linux system). X on my Matrox Millennium II crashes sometimes, too (about once a month), but it doesn't bring the system down with it. My router, by contrast, has been up since I last turned it on in March 2001 (old RedHat 6.2 system on a single Pentium 133 and 300MB hard drive). --Steven Lawrance-- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Cooker] Unknown freezes in the night
On Thursdayen den 8 November 2001 17.05, Steven Lawrance wrote: > I've read that the infamous Abit BP6 dual Celeron motherboards were > notorious for APIC errors and had a lot of crashing problems, but I'm > hoping that my motherboard, a GigaByte dual-Pentium (GA-5DX or something > like that), doesn't have the same problems :-) (it came out well before the > BP6, back in 1997). ??? I have never had any problems what so ever with my bp6. Where did you read this? And under what circumstances does it crash? -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | Oden Eriksson, Deserve-IT Networks, Jokkmokk, Sweden. | Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Cooker) for i586 | Current uptime with kernel 2.4.13-4mdksmp: 11:26 | cpu0 @ 814.28 bm, fan 4141 rpm, temp +31.0°C | cpu1 @ 815.92 bm, fan 4066 rpm, temp +29°C
Re: [Cooker] Suggestions for upcoming Mandrake (3)
On 7 Nov 2001, Fabrice FACORAT wrote: > So it's in fact a central mime type definition. Unfortunately we have 2 > desktop and until they manage to use some common config files we have to > deal with this. True. But as long as we have many config files, we could keep our own database (configuration file) of MIME types and the programs which can handle the MIME types. Every time when a program is installed, it will be added to this configuration file. Then the altered information will be exported to all the programs which are supported (I assume that they all have some kind of configuration files, which we could modify). > But as menudrake there's maybe a way to have unified mime type. I think it won't work for example in Mozilla, Nautilus or in any program.. :( Regards, Matias
Re: [Cooker] Suggestions for upcoming Mandrake (2)
On 7 Nov 2001, Fabrice FACORAT wrote: >> there should be option to choose their own language and keyboard layout > a peer user localdrake ? Yes, some kind of "My Control Center". >> Another such a configuration could be choosing the size of the >> desktop (screen resolution). > At one time there's only one user. CTRL+ALT+ +/- > A personnal resolution for each user may be hard to implement unless ... Yes, that works except the virtual desktop should be shrinked to the same size as the screen resolution is. I'm not quite sure if it is possible, but by restarting X Window system and by using different configuration file it should work..? >> There are also other things which should be in this user-level >> control panel, like: change password, > userdrake Won't work: "In order to run "userdrake" with root's privileges, additional information is required. Password for root: __ " There is Configuration->Other->Change Password, but how many finds it from there? >> change photo, > userdrake Look above.. >> edit menu, > menudrake >> task scheduler, > cf your wm/desktop Yes, but what I meant with one place was to make some kind of My Control Center, where the user could easily find everything without searching for an hour or two.. >> shortcuts to different configuration applications like Gnome Control >> Center, Print Queue, etc, etc.. > ??? i d'ont understand. On the desktop ? n No, not desktop. I mean something like Mandrake Control Center but for a user. Mandrake is very nice distribution as long as you have the root privileges. But if you try to use Mandrake as a normal user, it's just horrible. How to change your language, photo, password? They are very hard to find from menu (because most of the configuration tools need root privileges) if they can be found at all ( + + +/-). Even I don't try to find some configuration tool from the menu, because it's much faster to run it directly from a terminal. My Control Panel would fix this together with Mandrake Control Center if they are both well made. Regards, Matias
Re: [Cooker] contrib tree duplicated on uninett?
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 04:48:56PM +0300, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: > uninett has two contrib. archivess - one in Mandrake/RPMS2 and one > outside of cooker tree. Which one is "official"? > > -andrej > First should be a link to second, no ? I got this on my local mirror, rsync from sunet.se: lrwxrwxrwx1 lct lct22 nov 5 03:49 RPMS2 -> ../../../contrib/i586/ Laurent. -- Laurent CREPET -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://megrapet.free.fr/
Re: [Cooker] screen savers broken by new Mesa
Oden Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > KDE and a lot of other stuff is broken too, dirty fix: > > cd /usr/X11R6/lib/ > ln -s libGL.so.1.3.400 libGL.so.1.2.400 Yes, I didn't see it when building, sorry for the inconveniance, I fix that stuff. François.
[Cooker] Re: [expert] rsh - Permission Denied
There's a minor bug or documentation discrepancy in rsh-server/pam in Mandrake 8.1 - perhaps some one who has authority can submit a bug report or correct it! ;-) To review, the comment line in /etc/pam.d/rsh, which says # For root login to succeed here with pam_securetty, "rsh" must be # listed in /etc/securetty. is incorrect. The string 'tty' must be placed in /etc/securetty. --- Begin Message --- Ok, I found it. In 'rshd.c', there's this line of code: pam_set_item (pamh, PAM_TTY, "tty"); This sets the token looked for in /etc/securetty. So the comment in /etc/pam.d/rsh is wrong - the value needed in /etc/securetty is 'tty', not 'rsh'. This works. After adding the string 'tty' at the end of /etc/securetty, the command 'rsh otherhost ls' works if it's executed by 'root'. This was with LM 8.1. > Hi Glenn, > > I believe there was an issue with /etc/securetty that prevented rsh from > working. I'll have to look back at my archives later tonight and see if I > can find the details - it's been a while! > > That is, unless someone else on the list can explain better why rsh is such > a problem for root under LM8.x? > > -Original Message- > From: Glenn Burkhardt > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 11/7/01 11:17 AM > Subject: [expert] rsh - Permission Denied > > I've found your long correspondence about securetty and rsh for root in > the Mandrake expert archive - did > you every find a solution other than using ssh? > > Thanks. --- End Message ---
Re: [Cooker] Suggestions for upcoming Mandrake (1)
Matias Griese wrote on Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 03:22:04PM +0200 : > > XMMS: The must have X multimedia system -- ?!? The only thing misleading there is the capitalization. I would suggest: "XMMS: The X MultiMedia System mp3/ogg player" -- tlyons at mandrakesoft dot com http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en msg47003/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[Cooker] status of nautilus?
What is the current status of a mandrake-ized nautilus-1.0.5? its been out for quite some time now. Thanks David -- "I find your lack of faith disturbing." --Darth Vader
Re: [Cooker] Suggestions for upcoming Mandrake (3)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Why? There are easier ways to do the same: > > POSTIN: /usr/sbin/mimedb add --priority=5 "mozilla" "text/html" > POSTUN: /usr/sbin/mimedb del "mozilla" > (perhaps we should first look if the executable exists?) > > mimedb would be able to add and remove entries in a file > /etc/mime.run or similiar.. That sounds like a great solution. Do kde and gnome both use this for mime types? Also, you have to be careful with the del in case the item being deleted is not there (due to manual editing) and make sure that doesnt throw any erros / crash rpmdrake etc. Sure this is a bit of work to implement now, but the amount of effort going into things like devfs etc. surely means that this is a worthwile venture. I have installed mandrake on machines for people who have never used linux before, and their biggest complaint (obscure hardware excluded - mostly winmodems) is that even though there is an icon for a file, there is no app, and they have no idea which apps do what. I also think a nice idea would be a place on the website users can request an rpm of a package they want, but for which there is none (and therefore wouldnt know how to install) and we could view these requests and make rpms. This would obviously have searchable functionality and user mailback when a packages has been made etc.. When i was new to linux trying to get some apps working (from source) was very confusing. Especially as everything under dos had an 'install program' of sorts. Ive been using it for years and i STILL cant get festival speech synthesis to compile. Just my thoughts, its pretty hard to think of how to improve such a sweet distro. Tom - -- Tom "Tomahawk" Badran Imperial College Dept of Computing - - PGP Public key available from: certserver.pgp.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE76wTBXCpWOla2mCcRAszDAJ9GOWD1ayBk3ulOjoBq81vqp8W2hgCdEnp5 ltGRtA9xJOBuEGThcvyv0I8= =gmN2 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [Cooker] Suggestions for upcoming Mandrake (3)
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, John Haywood wrote: > four file browsers (konqueror, gmc, XWC, mc), six browsers (konqueror, > Netscape, Mozilla, Opera, links, lynx) and a raft of possible helper apps > (just look at PostScript viewers...) I know. But if Mandrake would offer this kind of auto-MIME feature for some of the most popular applications (like Mozilla), everyone would start thinking that "hey, that's a good idea" and perhaps join the efford.. > Not saying it couldn't be done, but there'd have to be a heck of a long IF, > THEN, ELSE parsing the rpm database on a pretty regular basis - not for the > low-end machine, methinks, and also fairly vulnerable to corruption Why? There are easier ways to do the same: POSTIN: /usr/sbin/mimedb add --priority=5 "mozilla" "text/html" POSTUN: /usr/sbin/mimedb del "mozilla" (perhaps we should first look if the executable exists?) mimedb would be able to add and remove entries in a file /etc/mime.run or similiar.. Then there would be /usr/bin/mimedb_update which would add the entries to the config files of every supported program.. Or better, get the programmers to change their programs to use /ets/mime.run file by themselves.. > although I suppose a package *could* have some sort of optional specfile > field which gave the mime type(s) handled, then have that stored in a central > db, but then we're talking 'bout extending rpm, can 'o worms But I still like the idea. And it would not be too hard to add few lines to spec files.. A few at one time, a few at the another.. Regards, Matias
[Cooker] bash problems
When I log in using Gnome or Sawfish, the terminals doesn't use loginshell, but they still get all the aliases right. (The files in /etc/profile.d/ has been sourced). If I use enlightenment the terminals are still not login shells, but they also don't have the colors or aliases right. But if I start a new terminal from the one opened ( $ gnome-terminal) or any other, this terminal will get the right setup. I have checked how the different setups are started, but the only place I have found a -login (which should trigger the sourcing of /etc/profile.d/), is in /etx/X11/Xsession. So why the difference? Hope this wasn't to confusing seb
[Cooker] How to get the cooker community newsletter by email?
Hello. Once a while I had been receiving a comunity newsletter from Mandrake about the Cooker development latest news. After changing my email servers I have lost this service. How can I have it again? Regards, Romildo -- Prof. José Romildo Malaquias Departamento de Computação http://iceb.ufop.br/~romildo Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brasil [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Cooker] Suggestions for upcoming Mandrake (1)
On 7 Nov 2001, Fabrice FACORAT wrote: > what about a brain storming about that ? > We point out the description that we find incorrect or unclear and > propose an alternative. > After people give their opinion and if there's no major problem we adopt > it. I think that it's too much work. Better idea would be to get some volunteer to make the new tooltips. And perhaps give him our ideas if he wants some. Regards, Matias
Re: [Cooker] Gears crash?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 08 Nov 2001 1:25 pm, you wrote: > Nvidia's drivers haven't been very stable lately from what I've seen. I was > getting intermittent video crashes all the time until I reverted to > 0.9-767, and the problem wasn't limited to Linux. A windows box I have > experienced identical symptoms until I reverted the drivers to 7.78. In > both cases the lockups completely vanished with the older drivers > installed. On a machine i set up with an nvidia card, we had to set the agp mode to 1 in the bios, and it hasnt crashed since. Also, there has been NO performance hit at all (under blows as well, but i dont use that so it doesnt matter). - -- Tom "Tomahawk" Badran Imperial College Dept of Computing - - PGP Public key available from: certserver.pgp.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE76uhdXCpWOla2mCcRAkbdAJ9Wwvj6jEnMkSspuAa+uzjxwq0ktwCfZoPF VXOEPysogzF2INsRkLAesCU= =/2EE -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [Cooker] huge cupsd
Bjoern Jacke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Uh? SuSE's on this list? :) Nice to see! *G* > > why not? anyone can join suse lists ;) Could you tell me how to access Suse lists subscription? I tried to go to SUSE website and search for mailing-lists but no one was reported. Thanks! -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
Re: [Cooker] Cron run-parts /etc/cron.daily
On Thursday 08 November 2001 09:29 am, you wrote: > On Thursdayen den 8 November 2001 16.09, J.P.Pasnak wrote: > > On Thursday 08 November 2001 08:09 am, you wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > since I updated logrotate to the latest release (logrotate-3.5.9-1mdk) > > > I'm getting the following error everyday: > > > > > > error: /etc/logrotate.conf:9 unexpected text > > > > I'm seeing the exact same thing, and it doesn't seem to be e-mailing. > > Line 9 is 'errors root' > > According to the source the errors directive is deprecated. I wonder why? The man for logrotate has change, to reflect the change (still don't know why through): Old man: The first few lines set global options; any errors that occur during log file processing are mailed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and logs are compressed after they are rotated. New man: If no command line arguments are given, logrotate will print version and copyright information, along with a short usage summary. If any errors occur while rotating logs, logrotate will exit with non-zero status. -- "Live fast, die young, you're sucking up my bandwidth" J.P. Pasnak, CD Warped Systems http://www.warpedsystems.sk.ca http://canopener.ca
Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel-2.4.13-4mdk
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 01:31:40PM +0100, Juan Quintela wrote: > > Ok, will update after -5mdk (being compiled). OK. No hurry. I have compiled 0.5.12 (ALSA is one of the really nice drivers that compile outside the kernel tree very neatly) and it does not fix my problem. ~sigh~ > because at some point it makes too many problems for ppc people :( ~grumble~ As much as it sucks to be dragged behind by lowest common demoninators, I understand. > will update to 0.5.12 and then to 0.9.0 ok? OK. I guess I can't ask for much more. If I really need 0.9.0beta9 before it comes in the mdk kernel, I can always build and install it myself (see note above about how nice ALSA is about building outside the kernel. :-) Thanx! b. -- Brian J. Murrell
Re: [Cooker] huge cupsd
Hello Guillaume, go to http://www.suse.com/us/support/mailinglists/index.html Thats all. Just went there for you as I do not like and use Suse at all. Have a good time Burkhard Zombronner Am Donnerstag, 8. November 2001 16:55 schrieben Sie: > Bjoern Jacke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >Uh? SuSE's on this list? :) Nice to see! *G* > > > > why not? anyone can join suse lists ;) > > Could you tell me how to access Suse lists subscription? I tried to go to > SUSE website and search for mailing-lists but no one was reported. > > Thanks!
Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] naat-monitoring-0.7-1mdk
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Oden Eriksson) writes: > On Thursdayen den 8 November 2001 15.30, Philippe Libat wrote: > > --=-=-= > > Name: naat-monitoring Relocations: (not relocateable) > > Version : 0.7 Vendor: MandrakeSoft > > Release : 1mdk Build Date: Thu Nov 8 10:11:04 > > Why not throw in PhpSysInfo as a full replacement of this one as it's based > on that in the first place? Hello, phpsysinfo and naat-monitoring are not the same. Naat-monitoring is using rrdtool as a backend and creates images for network traffic and system graphs and phsysinfo is just a bunch of infos on a web page. cheers, -- Florin http://www.mandrakesoft.com
[Cooker] Strange problems with lesstif in Mandrake 8.1
Lesstiff that comes with Mandrake 8.1 doesn't work well: - Sometimes variables show incorrect values within DDD. - Sometimes robot' sensors show incorrect values within Saphira (a tool to develop robot controllers). Both applications: - Use motif (or compatible) libraries. - Work well with Mandrake 8.0's lesstif. - Work well with Mandrake 8.1 if I uninstall lesstif and install openmotif (I recompiled DDD but not Saphira). I am only subscribed to cooker and I don't read every e-mail, so, if you want more information, cc. to my private e-mail address.
