[Cooker] AutoInstall - Printers

2001-09-14 Thread David Eastcott
Hi, Using tonight's Cooker; Thanks for allowing driver selections again. Auto install of a printer fails with error message: warning: foomatic-configure failed at ... printer.pm line 756. Noticed a difference between the GUI based install and the auto install; The GUI install has a couple e

Re: [Cooker] Fresh Install 15-sep 2:24

2001-09-14 Thread Fabrice FACORAT
Le Samedi 15 Septembre 2001 04:49, Manuel de Vries scribit : > - During installation no SCSI was found (correct), but according > to syslog it is still loading the SCSI module. Is this perhaps because > I have a CD-writer? you're cdwriter is emulate in SCSI. for that it use ide-scsi and sr_m

Re: [Cooker] status of supermount?

2001-09-14 Thread Blue Lizard
Borsenkow Andrej wrote: > I remember having reported some problems in new supermount incarnation > ... what is the status? Was something fixed in the meantime? > > -andrej > > > hmm. i believe juan may still be frantically chewing away on rw, but ro seems ... eh...well... each will have hi

[Cooker] Fresh Install 15-sep 2:24

2001-09-14 Thread Manuel de Vries
Hi, I just installed the latest Cooker and I am very impressed by the current state of the distribution. I didn't find any showstoppers, just a few minor things: - As mentioned in an earlier mail by someone else, it would be a lot more clear if the installation dialogs had a blinking curso

Re: [Cooker] PLease, add explicit time config step back to installer

2001-09-14 Thread Blue Lizard
Borsenkow Andrej wrote: > The "keep time in GMT" and "NTP sync" are too hidden. I only > accidentally discovered that installer wanted to keep my time in GMT > (because I had to install in English and then correct timezone). Most > people would not even know such options exist because install summ

[Cooker] Cooker Install.

2001-09-14 Thread Yura Gusev
2 small things. I can'`t press left and right buttoms at the stame time (PS/2 wheel) and also rmatind hd not formating hda1..5 -- 7:55pm up 21 days, 8:59, 3 users, load average: 0.01, 0.08, 0.08 __ | / \ |Iouri Goussev// \\ \_\\ //_/

Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] mkinitrd-3.1.6-8mdk

2001-09-14 Thread Fabrice FACORAT
Le Vendredi 14 Septembre 2001 16:49, Chmouel Boudjnah scribit : > Fabrice FACORAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Le Vendredi 14 Septembre 2001 16:30, Guillaume Cottenceau scribit : > > > --=-=-= > > > Name: mkinitrd Relocations: (not > > > relocateable) Version : 3

[Cooker] Re: No Subject

2001-09-14 Thread guran
Stay put man, coders very often get so fond of their own 'tunnel vision' that they fall in love with their own patch. Mdk has already got bad reputation for patches that destroy for administrators - your activities are needed as their salt. regards guran

[Cooker] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: rotflags and initrd

2001-09-14 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 09:54:06PM +0200, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > Fuck you, Nice. Is that how we conduct ourselves here? I bet I can beat you in the dirtiest nastiest insults but I don't conduct myself like that in public. I won't bother you any more. b. -- Brian J. Murrell

Re: [Cooker] mkbootdisk - no space on device

2001-09-14 Thread svetljo
sorry it was syslinux right ? svetljo wrote: > Hi > couldn't we have 2 bootdisk: one for the kernel and lilo, and one for > the ramdisk > smth like debian, the kernel is realy too big it should be much simple > with 2 floppies > > Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > >> Chmouel Boudjnah <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [Cooker] mkbootdisk - no space on device

2001-09-14 Thread svetljo
Hi couldn't we have 2 bootdisk: one for the kernel and lilo, and one for the ramdisk smth like debian, the kernel is realy too big it should be much simple with 2 floppies Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: >Chmouel Boudjnah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>Guillaume Cottenceau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

[Cooker] Re: Re: Re: Re: rotflags and initrd

2001-09-14 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 09:17:45PM +0200, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > I'm "missing the point" :-) ? Yes you are. Here is what the kernel does when it mounts the initrd and then mounts the real root fs starting with init(): lock_kernel(); do_basic_setup(); prepare_namespace();

[Cooker] Re: Re: Re: rotflags and initrd

2001-09-14 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 05:23:38PM +0200, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > Guillaume, you are missing the point. The "rootflags" flag is meant for passing parameters to the kernel for mounting the root filesystem. It's functionality should be preserved through any and all enhancements a distribut

[Cooker] rpm fu**ing segfaults

2001-09-14 Thread Mark D'voo
What the fu** is wrong with rpm, this has happend twice, i'm using a mandrake freq from august. and when i update rpm drake, not only does it have to update a shit load of packages like apache, but then it asks if i want to force it, well the only way to update it is to force it, so i did. an

[Cooker] 1.578 - no locale

2001-09-14 Thread guran
Hi I opted for sv as second language during install and UK english during install. [guran@Archimedes guran]$ locale LANG=en LC_CTYPE=en_GB LC_NUMERIC=en_GB LC_TIME=en_GB LC_COLLATE=en_GB LC_MONETARY=en_GB LC_MESSAGES=en_GB LC_PAPER="en" LC_NAME="en" LC_ADDRESS="en" LC_TELEPHONE="en" LC_MEASUREM

[Cooker] Re: Re: rotflags and initrd

2001-09-14 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:54:43PM +0200, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > by "one-of" flags you mean you want to use kernel parameters ? Not necessarily. Perhaps I have a system which has an ext3 root filesystem but for debugging or recovery or testing reasons, I want to mount it without the jo

Re: [Cooker] testing LATEST cooker: disaster with locales I suppose

2001-09-14 Thread Claudio
On Friday 14 September 2001 16:32, Fabrice FACORAT wrote: > Le Vendredi 14 Septembre 2001 16:17, Claudio scribit : > > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: > > LANGUAGE = "it_IT:it", > > LC_ALL = (unset), > > LC_ME

RE: [Cooker] testing LATEST cooker: disaster with locales I suppo se

2001-09-14 Thread PARODI Davide
Same thing here with Beta3. I solved rpm issued removing /etc/sysconfig/i18n thus forcing use of "C" locales. Now rpm doesn't segfault anymore. D.Parodi -- From: Claudio [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 16:17 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Cooker] testing LATEST cooker: disaster with locales I suppose

2001-09-14 Thread Fabrice FACORAT
Le Vendredi 14 Septembre 2001 16:17, Claudio scribit : > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: > LANGUAGE = "it_IT:it", > LC_ALL = (unset), > LC_MESSAGES = "it_IT@euro", > LC_TIME = "it_IT@euro", > LC_

Re: [Cooker] permissions on kdesktop

2001-09-14 Thread guran
On Friday 14 September 2001 15:54, Mattias Dahlberg wrote: > Well, I just made a clean Cooker install and you can't even drag an object > from Konqueror to the desktop. Permission denied. Amazing. I have just installed a new Cooker, and from Konqueror, as user, on cnn homepage I clicked on the

[Cooker] testing LATEST cooker: disaster with locales I suppose

2001-09-14 Thread Claudio
System mirrored and installed 5 minutes ago... X works fine now, but this is what I obtain running XFdrake and many many other application: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = "it_IT:it", LC_ALL = (unset),

[Cooker] 1.1mdk releases, bad idea.

2001-09-14 Thread Troels Liebe Bentsen
The mdk tag is not supported by rpm, and will give problems when . release versions are released. [root@tlb nextgen]# rpm -Uvh /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i686/fake-1-1.1mdk.i686.rpm fake ## [root@tlb nextgen]# rpm -Uvh /usr/src/RPM/RP

Re: [Cooker] permissions on kdesktop

2001-09-14 Thread Mattias Dahlberg
> > > Try to drag an icon from the panel to the desktop. Try to drag > > > something from the kmenu to the desktop. > > Works fine here. Well, I just made a clean Cooker install and you can't even drag an object from Konqueror to the desktop. Permission denied. Amazing. Regards, Mattias

Re: [Cooker] liblinuxconf update error

2001-09-14 Thread Fabrice FACORAT
Le Vendredi 14 Septembre 2001 14:21, Borsenkow Andrej scribit : > > > I do not understand the purpose of versioned names in this case. Do > > > you > > > really expect two versions of linuxconf to peacefully coexist on one > > > system? > > > > why not? why 2 versions ? the interest ? Mandrake s

Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] rpmdrake-1.3-91mdk

2001-09-14 Thread Fabrice FACORAT
Le Vendredi 14 Septembre 2001 14:30, David Odin scribit : > > If I try to add one, there's no > > rpmdrake icon in the application set of icons. > The icons for rpmdrake has always been in mandrake_desk. If there're not > anymore, I would have appreciated at least to be informed. no more rpmdrak

RE: [Cooker] liblinuxconf update error

2001-09-14 Thread Borsenkow Andrej
> > Borsenkow Andrej <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Preparing... > > ## > > file /usr/lib/liblinuxconf.so.1 from install of > > liblinuxconf1_26-1.26-4mdk conflicts with file from package > > liblinuxconf1_25-1.25r7-8mdk > > Installation failed

RE: [Cooker] is rpm -i kernel really save?

2001-09-14 Thread Borsenkow Andrej
> > > I still think it is more logical to create backup entry for old version > > on update. > > but this entry should be //already// present ! If you start with clean installation this entry is not present.

Re: [Cooker] still cannot get konqueror to run as user in kde, but can under other wm

2001-09-14 Thread Mattias Dahlberg
> unfortunately I have already upgraded to 2.4.8-22 and > still have the problem I did a (clean) Cooker install just minutes ago and Konqueror won't start when logged in as a user, but loads fine and quick as root. Has this problem been identified? It's a true show-stopper. Regards, Mattias

Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] rpmdrake-1.3-91mdk

2001-09-14 Thread David Odin
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 03:15:35PM +0400, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: > > > > I've lost rpmdrake icon > > > > rpmdrake-1.3-91mdk > > kdebase-2.2-51mdk > > You mean that?: > > [root@cooker boot]# rpm -q --changelog kdebase | less > ... > * Thu Sep 13 2001 David BAUDENS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2.2-48mdk

Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] rpmdrake-1.3-91mdk

2001-09-14 Thread Fabrice FACORAT
Le Vendredi 14 Septembre 2001 13:15, Borsenkow Andrej scribit : > > I've lost rpmdrake icon > > > > rpmdrake-1.3-91mdk > > kdebase-2.2-51mdk > > You mean that?: > > [root@cooker boot]# rpm -q --changelog kdebase | less > .. > * Thu Sep 13 2001 David BAUDENS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2.2-48mdk > > - Remo

RE: [Cooker] PLEASE: i2c-i801 does not work in recent mdk kernels

2001-09-14 Thread Borsenkow Andrej
> Borsenkow Andrej <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: > > > Andrej Borsenkow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > >>Well, one more attempt ... > > >> > > >>I specifically installed 2.4.3-20mdk under cooker to test it once > > >>more. In 2.4.3-20mdk i2c-i801 loads without p

[Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] rpmdrake-1.3-91mdk

2001-09-14 Thread Fabrice FACORAT
Le Jeudi 13 Septembre 2001 23:01, DindinX scribit : > --=-=-= > Name: rpmdrake Relocations: (not relocateable) > Version : 1.3 Vendor: MandrakeSoft > Release : 91mdk Build Date: Thu Sep 13 22:52:22 > --=-=-=

Re: [Cooker] XFree86-4.1.0-11mdk --> i810 can start at 1024x768@16bpp only!

2001-09-14 Thread Mattias Dahlberg
Is this marked as "unfixable" by MandrakeSoft? I just happened to choose 24bit while installing Cooker and then X wouldn't work at all, I can't even change console (Alt-Fx) - everything's black. - Original Message - From: "Claudio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday

[Cooker] is rpm -i kernel really save?

2001-09-14 Thread Borsenkow Andrej
It works pretty well, it creates bootloader entries it automatically installs them ... but - it links vmlinuz/initrd to new versions - it creates new bootloader entry that explicitly points to *new* version thus you are left with two entries pointing to *new* kernel version and none pointing to

[Cooker] mkbootdisk - no space on device

2001-09-14 Thread Borsenkow Andrej
New install, single had, root on /dev/hda1 as xfs. Bootdisk is not bootable,after "Uncompressing RAM image" endless dots. From ddebug.log: DrakX v1.576 built Thu Sep 13 16:03:57 2001 * starting step `createBootdisk' * to put in modules * missing module floppy * missing module floppy * running:

[Cooker] root on xfs problems

2001-09-14 Thread Borsenkow Andrej
boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=788 default=linux keytable=/boot/ru4.klt lba32 prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw ... image=/wrk/boot/vmlinuz label=test1 root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/wrk/boot/initrd.img append=" devfs=moun

[Cooker] liblinuxconf update error

2001-09-14 Thread Borsenkow Andrej
Preparing... ## file /usr/lib/liblinuxconf.so.1 from install of liblinuxconf1_26-1.26-4mdk conflicts with file from package liblinuxconf1_25-1.25r7-8mdk Installation failed Kinda missing Obsolete? Or bad soname? [root@cooker root]# objdump -x /usr