[Cooker] More on Panoramix
Still a no go... four attempts last night... I pass the second stage ok, and keeps going ok just after I finish selecting the packages to install just quits with a signal 11... This was happening with Gi_hd.img 'panoramix-install' Then tried with boot.img and everything goes well until it comes to install the boot-loader... it fails time after time... Why it can't write the boot-loader? So I end up with a 'LI' at boot time... gg Also the same problems with Xfree-3.3.5? It detects the video card ok, but there's no login gui, and the pop up window that asks you if you want to start X everytime.. etc bla bla.. keeps showing in the upper left portion of the screen... when it is supposed to be in the center of the screen (?) I fixed the fuzztime mistake ... so I got a fresh image... what is wrong? If I install from the CD mdk-6.0 I don't have the most minimal error. With the new installation always fails to detect my NIC it's a realteck 8029... never had any trouble with previous releases. ';-( Sergio Korlowsky
Re: [Cooker] More on Panoramix
We have to remember thats what we are here for. To test this thing out so that it can become the next distro. We submit the bug reports and the mandrake team figures out the problems. Although I have had more or less this these same problems for quite a few days now. Every since they merged the mandrake 6.1 packages with cooker. On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, you wrote: Still a no go... four attempts last night... I pass the second stage ok, and keeps going ok just after I finish selecting the packages to install just quits with a signal 11... This was happening with Gi_hd.img 'panoramix-install' Then tried with boot.img and everything goes well until it comes to install the boot-loader... it fails time after time... Why it can't write the boot-loader? So I end up with a 'LI' at boot time... gg Also the same problems with Xfree-3.3.5? It detects the video card ok, but there's no login gui, and the pop up window that asks you if you want to start X everytime.. etc bla bla.. keeps showing in the upper left portion of the screen... when it is supposed to be in the center of the screen (?) I fixed the fuzztime mistake ... so I got a fresh image... what is wrong? If I install from the CD mdk-6.0 I don't have the most minimal error. With the new installation always fails to detect my NIC it's a realteck 8029... never had any trouble with previous releases. ';-( Sergio Korlowsky -- ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~- Holiness unto the Lord, He must increase, but I must decrease Brook Humphrey Owner, Mobile PC Medic webmaster, www.thelinuxstop.com webmaster, www.webmedic.net
Re: [Cooker] More on Panoramix
Sergio Korlowsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Still a no go... four attempts last night... I pass the second stage ok, and keeps going ok just after I finish selecting the packages to install just quits with a signal 11... This was happening with Gi_hd.img 'panoramix-install' when you have a signal 11 problem, redo the installation and switch to alt-f2 at the selecting packages step. see % cd /proc % cat meminfo % cat swaps if you have less than 50MB of free space (ram + swap), you won't get to installing packages. In some cases, installing less packages will consume less ram.
Re: [Cooker] More on Panoramix
On Sat, 9 Oct 1999 07:33:20 -0700, you wrote: On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, you wrote: when you have a signal 11 problem, redo the installation and switch to alt-f2 at the selecting packages step. see % cd /proc % cat meminfo % cat swaps if you have less than 50MB of free space (ram + swap), you won't get to installing packages. In some cases, installing less packages will consume less ram. Same problem here but i have 140 megs of ram on my system but I'll check on next install maybe it doesn't see it all for some reason. If you are doing an install and keeping your /home partition, you can record the debug messages just before the failure by doing: crtl-alt-F2 cat ddebug.log /mnt/home/debug.txt cat /proc/meminfo /mnt/home/meminfo.txt cat /roc/swaps /mnt/home/swaps.txt I have explore2fs which I run under windows to view linux ext2 files. Here is the link. http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm
Re: [Cooker] More on Panoramix
On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, you wrote: crtl-alt-F2 cat ddebug.log /mnt/home/debug.txt cat /proc/meminfo /mnt/home/meminfo.txt cat /roc/swaps /mnt/home/swaps.txt ooops. the last should be cat/procs/swaps /mnt/home/swaps.txt Thanks for the info I'll try it next time. I'm currently updating and making sure all my files are current. -- ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~- Holiness unto the Lord, He must increase, but I must decrease Brook Humphrey Owner, Mobile PC Medic webmaster, www.thelinuxstop.com webmaster, www.webmedic.net
Re: [Cooker] More on Panoramix
Pixel wrote: Sergio Korlowsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Still a no go... four attempts last night... I pass the second stage ok, and keeps going ok just after I finish selecting the packages to install just quits with a signal 11... This was happening with Gi_hd.img 'panoramix-install' when you have a signal 11 problem, redo the installation and switch to alt-f2 at the selecting packages step. see % cd /proc % cat meminfo % cat swaps if you have less than 50MB of free space (ram + swap), you won't get to installing packages. In some cases, installing less packages will consume less ram. The systems is a Celeron-400 with 128Mb of RAM and 127mb of swap space hda 11 gigs and hdb is 4.3 gigs, 36x cdrom, cd-writerCRW-622 video card cirrus logic GD-5464 with 8Mb of VDRAM monitor is AcerView=54e motherboard is ATC-6220 Intel 440BX shipset AGP - ATX and eth0 Realtek 8029 uses ne2k-pci module. before merging helios and cooker I was able to run cooker without much problems... and yes.. I understand we are helping test 'debug' the new release, it's just that a times it seems like we are going the oposite way ;-) (just joking!) Sergio Korlowsky
Re: [Cooker] More on Panoramix
Terrapin wrote: On Sat, 9 Oct 1999 07:33:20 -0700, you wrote: On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, you wrote: when you have a signal 11 problem, redo the installation and switch to alt-f2 at the selecting packages step. see % cd /proc % cat meminfo % cat swaps if you have less than 50MB of free space (ram + swap), you won't get to installing packages. In some cases, installing less packages will consume less ram. Same problem here but i have 140 megs of ram on my system but I'll check on next install maybe it doesn't see it all for some reason. If you are doing an install and keeping your /home partition, you can record the debug messages just before the failure by doing: crtl-alt-F2 cat ddebug.log /mnt/home/debug.txt cat /proc/meminfo /mnt/home/meminfo.txt cat /roc/swaps /mnt/home/swaps.txt I have explore2fs which I run under windows to view linux ext2 files. Here is the link. http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm Great..! I have hdb with 4.3 gigs for windows itself, and I am installing cooker from my home partition '/home/ftp/pub/cooker' so I can save the information now! thanks for the tip ;-) sk
Re: [Cooker] More on Panoramix
On Sun, 10 Oct 1999 09:15:17 -0700, Terrapin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are doing an install and keeping your /home partition, you can record the debug messages just before the failure by doing: crtl-alt-F2 cat ddebug.log /mnt/home/debug.txt cat /proc/meminfo /mnt/home/meminfo.txt cat /roc/swaps /mnt/home/swaps.txt ooops. the last should be cat/procs/swaps /mnt/home/swaps.txt arghhh (doing too many things at once) s/b cat /proc/swaps /mnt/home/swaps.txt I have explore2fs which I run under windows to view linux ext2 files. Here is the link. http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm
[Cooker] kernel-headers... Missing?
I just noticed kernel-headers for kernel 2.2.13-15 are missing from cooker... I just see kernel-headers-2.2.13=14mdk (?) sk
Re: [Cooker] More on Panoramix
On Sun, 10 Oct 1999 11:40:21 -0500, Sergio Korlowsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great..! I have hdb with 4.3 gigs for windows itself, and I am installing cooker from my home partition '/home/ftp/pub/cooker' so I can save the information now! thanks for the tip ;-) sk You may have a problem with this. My cooker stuff resides in /usr/local/cooker (on partition /usr/local - hda9) and it is mounted READ ONLY as /tmp/hdimage/cooker so I was not able to write to this partition like I wanted to.
[Cooker] hdlist
Something wrong with hdlist. I have just downloaded the locales and Mesa, usually I stop fmirror with ctrl-c, run genhdlist, re-run fmirror. fmirror delete the partial file in.hdlist and reports that the mirroring is finished. Now fmirror reports new hdlist size. Bye Alessandro
Re: [Cooker] More on Panoramix
Sergio Korlowsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: crtl-alt-F2 cat ddebug.log /mnt/home/debug.txt cat /proc/meminfo /mnt/home/meminfo.txt cat /roc/swaps /mnt/home/swaps.txt in fact this so usefull that ddebug.log is *now* copied to /root/ddebug.log at the end of each step. This is a great enhancement. Thanks for the tip, i should have done it before :-! cu Pixel.
Re: [Cooker] More on Panoramix
On 10 Oct 1999 19:13:31 +0200, Pixel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sergio Korlowsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: crtl-alt-F2 cat ddebug.log /mnt/home/debug.txt cat /proc/meminfo /mnt/home/meminfo.txt cat /roc/swaps /mnt/home/swaps.txt in fact this so usefull that ddebug.log is *now* copied to /root/ddebug.log at the end of each step. This is a great enhancement. Thanks for the tip, i should have done it before :-! It will not retain debug info from before partitioning if it fails during partitioning :-( cu Pixel.
Re: [Cooker] hdlist
Il dom, 10 ott 1999, hai scritto: allxsan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is not the case. I have done many attempts but the results is the same Why you don't create a script like this : #!/bin/sh fmirror -f MirorrCookerWithExcludeGenhdlist cd /path_to_cooker_rpms/ ./misc/gendhlist . Each time you relaunch your mirror you regenerate the hdlist. Thank you but the hdlist on sunsite.se and rpmfind have a different size from the hdlist generated on my PC. Bah :-) Bye Alessandro
Re: [Cooker] hdlist
On Sun, 10 Oct 1999 19:40:11 -0400, allxsan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you but the hdlist on sunsite.se and rpmfind have a different size from the hdlist generated on my PC. Bah :-) Bye Alessandro ah I've had bad results from sunsite.se and stopped using it several months ago. Maybe you can pick another?
[Cooker] Panoramix install work-around
I managed to install with Panoramix by NOT activating the "Go" button in "Choose packages to install" after my selections. I used the "Install system" in the menu and it proceeded. I am having problems with bootdisk and lilo, but will retry with new download tonight.
Re: [Cooker] hdlist
On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, you wrote: On Sun, 10 Oct 1999 19:40:11 -0400, allxsan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you but the hdlist on sunsite.se and rpmfind have a different size from the hdlist generated on my PC. Bah :-) Bye Alessandro ah I've had bad results from sunsite.se and stopped using it several months ago. Maybe you can pick another? ftp.sunet.se always give the correct result for me. Michael Irving
[Cooker] gi_hd fails here too :)
Good news, i just made an gi_hd install fail. That's good news as i'm now able to reproduce it, and hopefully, fix it!! Thanks a lot to all of way for your feedback on this bug. I also added some sort of small ls when the hd `does not appear to contain a Linux Mandrake installation tree'. Now the first three entries in the directory will be shown... cu Pixel. PS: it crashes well (twice for me already :)
Re: [Cooker] hdlist
Il dom, 10 ott 1999, hai scritto: On Sun, 10 Oct 1999 19:40:11 -0400, allxsan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you but the hdlist on sunsite.se and rpmfind have a different size from the hdlist generated on my PC. Bah :-) Bye Alessandro ah I've had bad results from sunsite.se and stopped using it several months ago. Maybe you can pick another? For me sunet.se ( not sunsite ) worked well. I have only an ISDN 64K connection but the frame rate is stable al 7.3k. I also have a batch file for rpmfind ( slow ) but the results is the same. Thank you Alessandro
Re: [Cooker] More on Panoramix
Terrapin wrote: On Sun, 10 Oct 1999 09:40:46 -0700, Terrapin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Too many things to remember without a computer to look after things. My head is full. ;-) This is correct stuff: crtl-alt-F2 cat /tmp/ddebug.log /mnt/home/debug.txt cat /proc/meminfo /mnt/home/meminfo.txt cat /proc/swaps /mnt/home/swaps.txt Well... in a couple hours I'll be ready to try again... let you all know what happens. and I will include all the above info Fresh install, still downloadin ;-) sk
Re: [Cooker] More on Panoramix
Same here. One problem I notice that there is a new mdkinst_stage2.gz but when i try to download I get this Cannot get file `Mandrake/base/mdkinst_stage2.gz', skipping. (550 Mandrake/base/mdkinst_stage2.gz: Permission denied.) The permissions are set wrong on the file. On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, you wrote: Terrapin wrote: On Sun, 10 Oct 1999 09:40:46 -0700, Terrapin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Too many things to remember without a computer to look after things. My head is full. ;-) This is correct stuff: crtl-alt-F2 cat /tmp/ddebug.log /mnt/home/debug.txt cat /proc/meminfo /mnt/home/meminfo.txt cat /proc/swaps /mnt/home/swaps.txt Well... in a couple hours I'll be ready to try again... let you all know what happens. and I will include all the above info Fresh install, still downloadin ;-) sk -- ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~- Holiness unto the Lord, He must increase, but I must decrease Brook Humphrey Owner, Mobile PC Medic webmaster, www.thelinuxstop.com webmaster, www.webmedic.net
Re: [Cooker] More on Panoramix
On Sat, 09 Oct 1999, you wrote: Also there are two copies of the locales. There is a 3mdk and a 4mdk for all of them. I mirror from ftp.sunet.se and they are usually pretty good. -- ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~- Holiness unto the Lord, He must increase, but I must decrease Brook Humphrey Owner, Mobile PC Medic webmaster, www.thelinuxstop.com webmaster, www.webmedic.net
Re: [Cooker] More on Panoramix
On Sat, 09 Oct 1999, you wrote: Same here. One problem I notice that there is a new mdkinst_stage2.gz but when i try to download I get this Cannot get file `Mandrake/base/mdkinst_stage2.gz', skipping. (550 Mandrake/base/mdkinst_stage2.gz: Permission denied.) You are trying to get it as it is being updated on the remote site. Just wait a few minutes. I've had that happen before.
Re: [Cooker] Panoramix install work-around
On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, you wrote: Terrapin wrote: I managed to install with Panoramix by NOT activating the "Go" button in "Choose packages to install" after my selections. I used the "Install system" in the menu and it proceeded. I am having problems with bootdisk and lilo, but will retry with new download tonight. You mean just click on the install system button instead of the Go option? Yes. But Pixel has found the problem and I notice there are fresh uploads. See his post here. You might want to wait for a bit before mirroring again. I'll try that! I am almost done downloading a fresh image. oh..oh... You will have to mirror again ;-)
Re: [Cooker] More on Panoramix
webmedic wrote: On Sat, 09 Oct 1999, you wrote: Also there are two copies of the locales. There is a 3mdk and a 4mdk for all of them. I mirror from ftp.sunet.se and they are usually pretty good. -- ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~- Holiness unto the Lord, He must increase, but I must decrease Brook Humphrey Owner, Mobile PC Medic webmaster, www.thelinuxstop.com webmaster, www.webmedic.net I'll check that as soon as the mirror is finish... and a quick call to Pixel will change the file permissions on the mdkinst_stage2.gz. he use to be around at this hour... BTW I download from ftp.rpmfind.net sk
[Cooker] DISPLAY variable
Yo, 1. Is it a feature that the DISPLAY environment variable is not set after a 'su - user' ? 2. Also, the kfmsu2 script fails if the root shell is set to csh instead of bash. The best I could find was to change the su command: su root -c 'bash -c DISPLAY=$DISPLAY; bash -c "export DISPLAY"; bash -c "kfm -sw /dev/null"' --- kel __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[Cooker] QT2
Has anyone managed to make the QT2 in Cooker compile anything? I've had absolutely no luck so far. Eddy Cooper
Re: [Cooker] gi_hd works here now :)
On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, you wrote: ok, installing now with no more problem :-)) well, not totally true. Be carefull _not_ to select ghostscript and ghostscript-Both. Or in any case do not ``Go on anyway'' as asked. Otherwise install ordering will *not* be done and bad things are gonna happen :( Don't try to install printer. BAD things happened. The "ghost" came out right on top of the printer section and bit me. It seized up Panoramix. :-( I re-installed w/o printer and was successfull right to x configure when mouse died. currently uploading new version... please wait...
[Cooker] New panoramix install problems
1) Actually the new printer detection worked good for me. 2) when it got to my video card the install recognized it but didn't set up xf86config correctly. After I booted into the system I ran Xconfigurator and it fixed the problem for me. 3) xserver isn't set up correctly. It still posts the messages in the upper left hand corner of the screen during testing the install. Also if it is set up to goto init 5 on boot xdm, kdm, and gdm refuse to start at all. To fix this change the last line of /etc/inittab to read x:5:respawn:kdm -nodaemon after I did this kdm came right up no problems. Maybe the script that it was pointing to /etc/X11/prefdm isn't working correctly. 4) One last thing after failing to install the xserver correctly it also failed to install the bootloader. Not to big a deal at least it made a boot disk for me. 5) It doesn't have a problem identifying my mouse anymore. Thanks Pixel. I was getting it to work without the mouse but the mouse does help make things go faster with panoramix. -- ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~- Holiness unto the Lord, He must increase, but I must decrease Brook Humphrey Owner, Mobile PC Medic webmaster, www.thelinuxstop.com webmaster, www.webmedic.net
[Cooker] Netscape still a no go
Not sure why but netscape still doesn't work. I tried installing libstdc++-compat-2.95-1-3mdk to see if that was the problem but netscape still doesn't run. Mozilla m10 does though. Its comming along quite nicely. -- ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~- Holiness unto the Lord, He must increase, but I must decrease Brook Humphrey Owner, Mobile PC Medic webmaster, www.thelinuxstop.com webmaster, www.webmedic.net
Re[2]: [Cooker] More on Panoramix
Hello Terrapin, Monday, Monday, October 11, 1999, you wrote: Terrapin On 10 Oct 1999 19:13:31 +0200, Pixel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sergio Korlowsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: crtl-alt-F2 cat ddebug.log /mnt/home/debug.txt cat /proc/meminfo /mnt/home/meminfo.txt cat /roc/swaps /mnt/home/swaps.txt in fact this so usefull that ddebug.log is *now* copied to /root/ddebug.log at the end of each step. This is a great enhancement. Thanks for the tip, i should have done it before :-! Terrapin It will not retain debug info from before partitioning if it fails Terrapin during partitioning :-( cu Pixel. you could if you let cooker always generate a small debug partition of a few mb which doesnt get overwritten by subsequent partitioning and have cooker dump all msgs/dumps/logs there. After all its a debug product so you can do something like that which doesnt have to be in the final product. Best regards, tracer mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOTE: 1 MAILRUN PER DAY ONLY
