Re: [Cooker] Bugs in 7.1 and some suggestions
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[Cooker] Bugs in 7.1 and some suggestions
Hi, I have installed Mandrake 7.1 on a notebook (Pentium II 366, S3 Virge, ESS Solo 1, PCMCIA Modem, and PCMCIA 100MB LAN). I have found/fixed some bugs and I also have some suggestions: 1.) /etc/rc.d/rc.modules: BUG: In this file there is a typo. Instead of initlog -s "Loading module: $modules" it must read initlog -s "Loading module: $module" SUGGESTION: Leave out the 'insmod -p $module /dev/null 21 ' checking, because it leads to problems in the following example. The module 'paride' needs 'parport'. Therefore 'modprobe paride' loads 'parport' automatically. Starting 'paride' with 'insmod' would fail, though with 'modprobe' it succeeds. Therefore the mentioned test fails and 'paride' is not loaded. The simple 'modprobe' would load it. This problem appears for all modules which require another module even if 'modprobe' would load it automatically. 2.) Netscape and PostScript or PDF files BUG: If I assign 'gv %s' (or any other PostScript viewer) with the PostScript Mime Type under 'Edit'/'Preferences'/'Navigator'/'Applications', I always get a GhostScript Interpreter Error and 'gv' shows me the correct number of pages but not the contents of the file. Assigning 'acroread %s' (Both version 3 and 4) to the 'Portable Document Format' Mime type leads to the PDF file being loaded, but not shown. 'acroread' does not start. To fix this Bug I have edited /usr/bin/netscape commenting out the following lines if [ -n "$LD_PRELOAD" ]; then LD_PRELOAD=$prefix/lib/netscape/libnspipepatch.so:$LD_PRELOAD else LD_PRELOAD=$prefix/lib/netscape/libnspipepatch.so fi export LD_PRELOAD both in the newbrowser() and in the oldopt() function. Now Netscape displays PostScript and PDF (via 'gv' and 'acroread') without any problems. 3.) The Acrobat Reader Plugin for Netscape does not work in general BUG: I have added the lines export MOZILLA_HOME=/usr/lib/netscape # find plugins export NPX_PLUGIN_PATH=/usr/local/Acrobat3/Browsers/intellinux:$MOZILLA_HOME/p\lugins:$HOME/.netscape/plugins # find # Acrobat Reader plugin to the beginning of the /usr/bin/netscape script and Netscape found the plugin, but ignored it due to a missing libc5 library. The library is /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libc.so.5 and its path is in /etc/ld.so.conf. So I set the link ln -s /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libc.so.5 /lib ldconfig and Netscape crashed with the plugin. After commenting out the lines which I inserted in /usr/bin/netscape. Netscape ran, but without Acroread plugin. 4. ) Turning off NIS when there is no network SUGGESTION: Sometimes I connect my notebook to a LAN where it gets some information by NIS, but sometimes I use it without LAN. Then the ypbind daemon starts anyway and I get a lot of messages because of a missing NIS server. To avoid these error messages I have inserted a check in the /etc/rc.d/init.d/ypbind file. I have edited only one line as follows: ... # See how we were called. case "$1" in start) echo -n "Binding to the NIS domain... " daemon ypbind echo # the following fixes problems with the init scripts continuing # even when we are really not bound yet to a server, and then things # that need NIS fail. pid=`pidofproc ypbind` if [ -n "$pid" ]; then echo -n "Listening for an NIS domain server: " times=0 until ypwhich /dev/null 21 || [ "$times" = "10" ] do echo -n "." ; sleep 1 times=$[$times+1] done ### ### This line changed: ### ypwhich || $0 stop ## -- Turns off NIS if ypwhich fails ### ### fi RETVAL=$? [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] touch /var/lock/subsys/ypbind ;; ... See the line between the '###' lines. Now the NIS daemon will only run if there is a NIS server available. 5.) Suggestion: Take PCMCIA network cards into account during the network configuration in the installation process. I hope these hints will make Mandrake better, but all in all it is a nice distribution (automatic GL installation, automatically use ALSA for ESS SOLO 1 which is much better than the kernel driver for this card, syntax highlighting in Emacs ...). Till
Re: [Cooker] Bugs in 7.1 and some suggestions
Thanks for the advice but I am still a high school student.. I have a so called opimistic future...I am new to linux, I want to improve the hardware compability list of linux From: Till Kamppeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Development List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Cooker] Bugs in 7.1 and some suggestions Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 17:35:01 +0200 Hi, I have installed Mandrake 7.1 on a notebook (Pentium II 366, S3 Virge, ESS Solo 1, PCMCIA Modem, and PCMCIA 100MB LAN). I have found/fixed some bugs and I also have some suggestions: 1.) /etc/rc.d/rc.modules: BUG: In this file there is a typo. Instead of initlog -s "Loading module: $modules" it must read initlog -s "Loading module: $module" SUGGESTION: Leave out the 'insmod -p $module /dev/null 21 ' checking, because it leads to problems in the following example. The module 'paride' needs 'parport'. Therefore 'modprobe paride' loads 'parport' automatically. Starting 'paride' with 'insmod' would fail, though with 'modprobe' it succeeds. Therefore the mentioned test fails and 'paride' is not loaded. The simple 'modprobe' would load it. This problem appears for all modules which require another module even if 'modprobe' would load it automatically. 2.) Netscape and PostScript or PDF files BUG: If I assign 'gv %s' (or any other PostScript viewer) with the PostScript Mime Type under 'Edit'/'Preferences'/'Navigator'/'Applications', I always get a GhostScript Interpreter Error and 'gv' shows me the correct number of pages but not the contents of the file. Assigning 'acroread %s' (Both version 3 and 4) to the 'Portable Document Format' Mime type leads to the PDF file being loaded, but not shown. 'acroread' does not start. To fix this Bug I have edited /usr/bin/netscape commenting out the following lines if [ -n "$LD_PRELOAD" ]; then LD_PRELOAD=$prefix/lib/netscape/libnspipepatch.so:$LD_PRELOAD else LD_PRELOAD=$prefix/lib/netscape/libnspipepatch.so fi export LD_PRELOAD both in the newbrowser() and in the oldopt() function. Now Netscape displays PostScript and PDF (via 'gv' and 'acroread') without any problems. 3.) The Acrobat Reader Plugin for Netscape does not work in general BUG: I have added the lines export MOZILLA_HOME=/usr/lib/netscape # find plugins export NPX_PLUGIN_PATH=/usr/local/Acrobat3/Browsers/intellinux:$MOZILLA_HOME/p\lugins:$HOME/.netscape/plugins # find # Acrobat Reader plugin to the beginning of the /usr/bin/netscape script and Netscape found the plugin, but ignored it due to a missing libc5 library. The library is /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libc.so.5 and its path is in /etc/ld.so.conf. So I set the link ln -s /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libc.so.5 /lib ldconfig and Netscape crashed with the plugin. After commenting out the lines which I inserted in /usr/bin/netscape. Netscape ran, but without Acroread plugin. 4. ) Turning off NIS when there is no network SUGGESTION: Sometimes I connect my notebook to a LAN where it gets some information by NIS, but sometimes I use it without LAN. Then the ypbind daemon starts anyway and I get a lot of messages because of a missing NIS server. To avoid these error messages I have inserted a check in the /etc/rc.d/init.d/ypbind file. I have edited only one line as follows: ... # See how we were called. case "$1" in start) echo -n "Binding to the NIS domain... " daemon ypbind echo # the following fixes problems with the init scripts continuing # even when we are really not bound yet to a server, and then things # that need NIS fail. pid=`pidofproc ypbind` if [ -n "$pid" ]; then echo -n "Listening for an NIS domain server: " times=0 until ypwhich /dev/null 21 || [ "$times" = "10" ] do echo -n "." ; sleep 1 times=$[$times+1] done ### ### This line changed: ### ypwhich || $0 stop ## -- Turns off NIS if ypwhich fails ### ### fi RETVAL=$? [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] touch /var/lock/subsys/ypbind ;; ... See the line between the '###' lines. Now the NIS daemon will only run if there is a NIS server available. 5.) Suggestion: Take PCMCIA network cards into account during the network configuration in the installation process. I hope these hints will make Mandrake better, but all in all it is a nice distribution (automatic GL installation, automatically use ALSA for ESS SOLO 1 which is much better than the kernel driver for this card, syntax highlighting in Emacs ...). Till Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
