Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Updates
"Stratos Laspas" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: xlockmore. A very long error list of KDE apps appeared and complained of needing libqt.so.1 this one is strange. Ah yes, the qt doesn't provide libqt.so.1, fixed by fredl. Hiya! When you say fixed, does this mean that there is now a new package uploaded? i've just done it. Should reach mirrors soon. thanks,cu Pixel.
Re: [Cooker] Found what the problem is with PLIP network install!
"Con Kolivas" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well I've discovered the problem - the images initrd.nt and network.img do NOT have the parport and parport_pc modules included! I cannot find compatible modules to include in the modules.cgz file to go with the kernel (insmod keeps failing). Please correct this. There is no other way to install on many simpler laptops. ok, thanks. I'm building a new version now! new one is: pixel@leia:~/gimd5sum network.img c945766cf95caa9fe2981195bb139464 network.img
RE: [Cooker] Mandrake Updates
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Matthew Porter
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 2:20 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Updates
The Update does not appear to work correctly when upgrading
the kernel with
reiserfs. Mandrake's webpage has directions that need to be
followed when
performing the 2.2.16 kernel upgrade; however, before
installing those rpms, load
the loopback module ('insmod loop.o'). Else the file itself
will be removed using
the '-U' option or you will not be able to mkinitrd.
-matthew
Let me see if I understand this. The reason that I can't do a mkinitrd after
I upgrade to 2.2.16 is that loop.o is not already in memory before the
upgrade?
If I insmod this and then do a "rpm -U" on the new kernel package,
everything will be ok? Will loop.o still exist (and be usable) in my modules
in the 2.2.16?
Stratos
Re: [Cooker] zip250 atapi/ide
Walter Lee Queen II [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: what are the major and minor numbers? my numbers are wrong and I can't find ant reference to them uh? afaik, if it's an ide drive, it will appear on hdb4 or hdc4 or hdd4 ... if they are broken here's the nodes: [gc@obiwan ~] ls -l /dev/hd?4 brw-rw1 root disk 3, 4 mai 5 1998 /dev/hda4 brw-rw1 root disk 3, 68 mai 5 1998 /dev/hdb4 brw-rw1 root disk 22, 4 mai 5 1998 /dev/hdc4 brw-rw1 root disk 22, 68 mai 5 1998 /dev/hdd4 brw-rw1 root disk 33, 4 mai 5 1998 /dev/hde4 brw-rw1 root disk 33, 68 mai 5 1998 /dev/hdf4 brw-rw1 root disk 34, 4 mai 5 1998 /dev/hdg4 brw-rw1 root disk 34, 68 mai 5 1998 /dev/hdh4 -- Guillaume Cottenceau
RE: [Cooker] bin86
I pointed out to this list a while ago that Red Hat no longer uses bin86.rpm, the contents have been moved to dev86.rpm. If there's something in bin86 that isn't in dev86, let us know. Don Head [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Linux Mentor [1 314 692-1942] Wave Technologies, Inc. [1 800 826-4640 x1942] [AIM - Don Wave][ICQ - 18804935][Yahoo - Don_Wave] -Original Message- From: Geoffrey Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 2:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Cooker] bin86 Is bin86-0.14.5-1.i386.rpm in RH contrib newer than 0.4 in Cooker? Also I noticed the description is not in English. yep it is. just checked on appwatch. Description : Balk bin86 poskytuje assembler a linker pre 80x86 in trukcie relneho re imu. Tento balk potrebujete ma nain talovany, pokia chcete preklada programy fungujce v relnom re ime, napr. LILO alebo zavdzac kd jadra.
[Cooker] mdk 7.1 problems
Hello dear list, I installed Mandrake 7.1 (final), and I must say i'm very impressed by the overall quality of this new flavor of Mandrake Linux. But i nonetheless faced some problems : - I choose expert mode, so maybe i sould not complain about what follows :-) When choosing individual packages, i removed open_ldap. As i used automatic package dependencies, i didn't remark that the installer also removed many other packages, as for example kdebase ! Maybe i'm completely wrong, but i think that open_ldap is not a prerequisite for kdebase and the other packages removed (cannot remember which). - Another package dependency problem : when using MandrakeUpdate, i could not take the upgrade for xemacs, because of a conflict with emacs-el. As the conflict was not here during the installation, why introduce it later ? - Finally, when upgrading to kernel 2.2.16, i got many problems : the package reiserfs-utils.2.2.16_3.5.19.rpm looked older to rpm than the current reiserfs-utils.3.5.19.rpm. I perfectly understand the error here, but those inconsistencies are nonetheless annoying. I finally installed the package with --force by hand. But when i rebooted, my system refused to run again, because of the reiserfs module not found in /lib/reiserfs (i'm not sure, writing from memory). As i could not resolve this by hand, i only managed to put back the kernel 2.2.15 with the cdrom in rescue mode. I must add that all my partitions use reiserfs, except boot. I also remarked that the initrd was still the one for 2.2.15. When i removed the line in the /boot/grub/menu.lst, all the errors concerning reiserfs disappeared, but the system still refused to boot. As initrd.2.2.15.img is not owned by any package, i don't know how to get a correct initrd for 2.2.16. Any idea ? Pascal Grosse
Re: [Cooker] Voodoo 3 and XF86 4.0?
Also sprach Guillaume Cottenceau : Guillaume Rousse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also sprach Guillaume Cottenceau : Hi, I put a Voodoo3 in my test machine, after seeing your message about xf4+mesa3.2 I made an install, and the xf4 install failed. Then, when I made the modifications you state (dri), now the server works fine. My question is: "where did you find this information" ? And my answer is : on this list :-) i thought you *provided* this informtation to this list. okay, so who provided this information? I'm not sure, but i believe it was Hoyt. He furnished just a diff file with the needed lines. -- Guillaume Rousse Iremia - Université de la Réunion Sleep doesn't exists. Just lack of cafeine.
RE: [Cooker] Can I disable unneeded services?
What services might I disable (with drakxservices) to free up some resources (RAM). I figure there are at least some services running that I don't need that I can kill. What do you need running? That depends on what your system is doing all day (and night). Take some time and go through the list below, it may help you out a little. I threw this together in a matter of minutes, so it's not very good or complete, but it should help some. Here's a really long (not complete) list of services: amd = Automount daemon, automatically mounts filesytems. anacron = Another cron daemon, runs programs at scheduled times (may not really be needed). apmd = Advanced power management, monitors laptop batteries and turns on/off hardware not in use. arpwatch = Watches arp traffic on your network (most likely not needed). atd = A cron-type thing runs programs at a set time (may not really be needed). autofs = Another automatic filesystem mounter. bootparamd = Server for bootp clients (most likely not needed). crond = Cron daemon, runs programs at set times (used by logrotate and other system-level stuff, may want to keep this one.) dhcpd = DHCP server daemon, serves IP addresses to other systems on the network (most likely not needed). gated = Advanced routing daemon (most likely not needed). gpm = Console mouse driver (only needed if you want to use your mouse for copy/paste in the console). httpd = Web server (only needed if you're serving web pages). inet = Inet daemon, handles FTP, telnet, POP mail, and other misc services (you can probably disable some of the services in inet, but by disabling inet, remember that you are disabling FTP and telnet). innd = Internet news server (most likely not needed). isdn4linux = ISDN services (only needed if you have an ISDN Internet connection). keytable = Keyboard mappings. kudzu = Detects and configures new hardware (you can turn this off until you add new hardware). ldap = Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, provides Enterprise-level directory services (most likely not needed). linuxconf = Linux configuration tool, accessible from the web (useful for remote administration, but if you're always in front of the machine, it's not really needed). lpd = Printer daemon (only needed if you have a printer or access a remote printer). mars-nwe = Netware server emulator (only needed if you need to provide Netware-like file/print sharing, most likely not needed). mcserv = Midnight commander server, for using mc from a remote machine (most likely not needed). named = Name server, provides IP address resolution for a domain (only needed if you have a domain and you need to provide DNS service for it, most likely not needed). netfs = Network filesystem mounter (only needed if you do a lot of network filesystem mounting). network = Controls the basic networking components such as your ethernet card. nfs = NFS server, shares filesystem to remote computers (only needed if you will be sharing files among Linux/UNIX machines). nfslock = File locking for NFS (only needed if you use NFS). nscd = Name Switch Cache Daemon, caches user and group lookups among servers (only needed if you use NIS/YP, most likely not needed). numlock = Controls the numlock key (turns it on during bootup). pcmcia = PCMCIA card services for laptops (only needed if you have a laptop). portmap = Portmapper (only needed if you use NIS/YP or NFS). postfix = Mail server (choose between this and sendmail). postgresql = SQL database server (only needed if you need a database). routed = Routing daemon (most likely not needed). rstatd = The 4 big "r" services (only needed if rusersd you're running a full-service shell rwalldserver, most likely not needed) rwhod sendmail = Mail server (choose between this and postfix). smb = Samba, Windows and Linux file/print sharing (only needed if you'll be sharing files between Windows and Linux systems). snmpd = SNMP daemon, used to manage systems over a network (most likely not needed). squid = Squid proxy server, caches Web traffic (most likely not needed). sshd = Secure shell daemon, secure telnet (you may want to enable this to access your machine remotely, it's much more secure than telnet, especially important if you disabled inet). syslog = System log daemon (you should keep this running). usb = USB support services (only needed if you have USB devices on your computer). webmin = Web
Re: [Cooker] wu-ftpd exploit/package upgrade
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 01:25:11AM -0500, Jean-Michel Dault wrote: Can't we go with ProFTPD instead? Or even BSD FTPD. I don't particularly like wu. If you want, visit ftp.freezer-burn.org/pub/custom/proftpd and you will find Mandrake RPMs for ProFTPD. Works awesome. I've stopped using wu-ftpd ever since I built those RPMs. I suggest putting wu-ftpd in the contribs and putting ProFTPD in the main distro. I agree heartily. ProFTPD is *much* nicer... ever since I started using it, it has worked flawlessly and the configuration is much more versatile than wu-ftpd. I vote for this. =) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net Freezer Burn BBS: telnet://bbs.freezer-burn.org . ICQ: 54924721 Webmaster for the Linux Portal Site Freezer Burn: http://www.freezer-burn.org Current Linux uptime: 1 days 16 hrs and 10 mins.
[Cooker] LinuxThreads Debugging
Cooker folks, I just joined this list. Forgive me if this issue has already been raised and addressed! I debug multithreaded servers on Linux, and there are not-so-well-known patches needed to both GDB 4.18 and Glibc 2.1.3 which are required in order for GDB to be effectively "thread-aware". Mandrake 7.1 does not have these patches, it seems! After some fooling around, I discovered that (conveniently) the Redhat 6.2 Glibc and GDB packages have full thread support, and they install cleanly as RPM upgrades for Mandrake 7.1. Regards, Matt
[Cooker] Template .spec file
Hi! Where can I get the template .spec file for building RPMs for Mandrake? Trying to access ftp://ftp.mandrakesoft.com/pub/chmou/skelet.spec just returns, that there are too many anon logins. Could someone please send me the file, and could the spec file please be made available via http and the links in the howto and on the mandrake page be updated? Thanks! Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com Sichere Mail? PGP/GnuPG Keys als Antwort auf Mail mit Betr: Get GPG Key ICQ:7328191
[Cooker] Postfix NOT working by default
The default installation of postfix that comes with Mandrake does not work by default. If I try to use pine to send a message it freezes up pine fot more than a minute. It get's stuck at 0% of sending the message. It does this with other mail readers too like mutt. Getting the latest postfix source and recompiling seems to fix this problem. But I am wondering if anyone else has had this problem? I've experienced it in several different computers. At home, at workstations at school, and on a server at school I've had to recompile postfix to get it to work.Any ideas/solutions? It would be really nice for it to work out of the box.. Daniel Tabuenca [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Administrator Computer Science Department University of California Riverside
[Cooker] Kernel panic w/ 2.2.16-10mdk
Hi, I don't know what happened. I installed the 2.2.16-10mdk on my machine. Since it uses grub and ReiserFS, I recreated the initrd-2.2.16-10mdk.img and edited the menu.lst. Now it won't boot, anding with a kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:07 This is the only kernel on the hard disk, what can I do to recover this machine? Thanks for any help, =-= kk1 Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
[Cooker] Ethernet configuration
Hi! I installed today Mandrake 7.0 on a box with an old ISA Ethernet card. Unfortunately I haven't succeeded in making it work (I bought a PCI card a few hours later). But still I have a question : what is the Ethernet configuration tool under Mandrake?? As far as I've seen, there are "etherconfig", "lothar" and "kudzu". I may have misunderstood the role of each one, anyway it's unclear, to say the least, in Mandrake 7.0. =( Bye, Gregus PS : Direct your comments to my email address please, I'm not subscribed to Cooker list at the moment.
