[Cooker] Services by default...
How about a tool through which the user could easily A> Activate / Deactivate the installed Services AND see what is active B> If A is too hard to implement give a list of services that are active. By the way 8.0 Beta 2 is finally able to install on my FIC PA2013 motherboard. (It was annoying since 7.2 and 8.0 beta 1 would not install) I'm not sure how to assist with testing 8.0 Beta 2. (am I supposed to update 8.0 beta 2 from Cooker periodically or just leave it the way it was installed from the ISOs?) I've been monitoring the list for a few days and haven't seen that type of info. Is there a FAQ about Beta testing Mandrake that explains your processes? Esko
Re: [Cooker] beta2 & xinit error
"=/\\= Majki =/\\=" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > When I start xinit I got error: > > Error on option -geometry:unknown option > Run 'xvt --help' to see a full list option of available command line options > Could issue a ls -l /etc/alternatives/xvt ? -- Fred - May the source be with you
[Cooker] rpminst hangs if nfs unavailable
Subject pretty much covers it. :-) rpmdrake kicked off rpminst to update some packages, and for some reason it couldn't establish the NFS connection to the system that houses my mirror (that's my theory, anyway), and rpminst just hung. Dead. I hoped maybe it would timeout, so I just left it. Had supper. Watched a movie (Bless The Child, if you care, not bad). Came back. Still hung up. Rebooted (sorry, bad holdover habit from my M$ days), and it established NFS just fine and worked. Am I missing a setting somewhere? Or is rpminst in need of a timeout? Eaon
Re: [Cooker] Before you release 8.0 - RPM very huge bug!!!
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Guillaume is just kidding, and was being sarcastic about me because his
perception was that I said a non-factual thing that Perl made Mandrake
installer prone to crash. What I meant was it's really hard for me to read
Perl code, that's why I said Perl isn't a good choice. In my reality, yes,
I've been an x86 Assembly programmer starting in 1996, and I can still code
in Assembly now. I used to code Pascal too before I learned Assembly.
And yes, Assembly is, in my own opinion (not a factual statement), easier
than Perl\('/`'?\$/ that has a lot of weird stuff. However C++, C, Java, and
Pascal is by far preferrable fo userland development. I won't code userland
application using Assembly anymore unless it's necessary.
Hey, by the way, did you hear that new Bind worm? Do you still want to start
bind by default after install? :-) :-) Well, I don't care, besides I believe
that most of the network services will still be started by default after
install.
Prana
On Friday 23 March 2001 22:43, you wrote:
> Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> > Yeah, you're right : it probably crashes because it uses Perl.
> >
> > We are in the process of rewriting it in 30% assembly, 45% pascal, and
> > 25% lambda-prolog.
>
> Oh dear! Has it occurred to you to wonder where you can obtain all
> those skills in a single person? And whether that is a good idea?
>
> Both for initial development and for the ongoing maintenance for a
> number of years ...
>
> Stick to a single language, please, and that NOT being assembler.
>
> It is too risky for the company if that multi-skilled person leaves
> or has to be booted out.
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Re: [Cooker] MandrakeUpdate for MandrakeFreq?
Sean Dague wrote: > > Will we see an update to MandrakeUpdate for 7.2 that will let us update to > MandrakeFreq? That would be most excellent. Hmmm ... I had rather thought that MandrakeFreq was to be the replacement for MandrakeUpdate, and would be issued in 7.2 (like now) and 8.0 versions. -- Regards, Ron. [au]
Re: [Cooker] Before you release 8.0 - RPM very huge bug!!!
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > Yeah, you're right : it probably crashes because it uses Perl. > > We are in the process of rewriting it in 30% assembly, 45% pascal, and 25% > lambda-prolog. Oh dear! Has it occurred to you to wonder where you can obtain all those skills in a single person? And whether that is a good idea? Both for initial development and for the ongoing maintenance for a number of years ... Stick to a single language, please, and that NOT being assembler. It is too risky for the company if that multi-skilled person leaves or has to be booted out. -- Regards, Ron. [au]
[Cooker] updated packages for cooker?
How about new sendmail and bind 9.1.1rc6? -- Thanks Jorg
Re: [Cooker] RPMDrake - a positive email
I just tried RPMDrake for the first time the other night, and while it "feels" slow, it's definitely no slower than KPackage on my system. More likely a problem with the rpm way of doing things than RPMDrake. So I, too, would like to thank MandrakeSoft for another good program. Giles Hamlin wrote: > I just tried playing with it again this evening, as I've finally given > up hope of doing anything with apt-get for the time being and I have > to say.. WOW! It's a vast improvement on the version I used about 10 > days ago, and I found it quite easy to upgrade packages on my system to > the latest cooker versions. Beforehand, I downloaded the latest RPM 4, > urpmi and RPMDrake packages, and with the combination of these, RPMdrake > is finally looking a viable option - oh, and it took maybe less than 10 > seconds to start up on my Athlon 550 so the speed is looking good too :-) > > Good work Mandrake! > > Giles > > P.S - Is it just me or does it look very much like the graphical front > end that Corel designed for apt-get?? -- Digital Wokan, Tribal Mage of the Electronics Age Guerilla Linux Warrior
Re: [Cooker] nvidia binaries for cooker
Hey Con, As I am sure Cooker fans out there would love to have access to these, I can host them on my web site: www.crazy-horse.net It's still in the building stages but it's on a very fast connection and I have plenty of space at the hosting company. I can either put them on an http link or anon ftp space. If you are interested email me back privately or on the list and we'll figure out the easiest way for you to get me the files. -Tim McKenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Con Kolivas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 8:48 PM Subject: [Cooker] nvidia binaries for cooker > I regularly repackage nvidia kernel and glx rpms for latest cooker, > and have a working XF86Config-4 file to use with it. Is anyone > interested in them and if so where should I upload them (my provider > doesn't really let me run a server and upload speed is limited). > > Con. > > > > __ > Get your free Australian email account at http://www.start.com.au > >
Re: Re: [Cooker] Content of mirors
Original message from: Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 11:43:02 +1000 >Con Kolivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> >Those poor Aussies. New York. Someone was out of their mind. :-P >> >> Yes that's right. My brother gets files from my machine via Los >> Angeles... even though we're both 5 mins away from each other in >> Melbourne, Australia! >> :( >> > >It isn't the distance that counts so much as the server. I get better >results from mirrors in the UK than from some that are only a few hundred >miles distant. I don't doubt that but the bandwidth between my machine and my brothers can be made ten times larger by simply downloading ten things concurrently from my machine. __ Get your free Australian email account at http://www.start.com.au
Re: [Cooker] Content of mirors
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 11:43:02 +1000 Con Kolivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Those poor Aussies. New York. Someone was out of their mind. :-P > > Yes that's right. My brother gets files from my machine via Los > Angeles... even though we're both 5 mins away from each other in > Melbourne, Australia! > :( > It isn't the distance that counts so much as the server. I get better results from mirrors in the UK than from some that are only a few hundred miles distant. -- Collins Richey Denver Area
Re: Re: [Cooker] nvidia binaries for cooker
Original message from: Greg Sarsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Con Kolivas wrote: >> >> I regularly repackage nvidia kernel and glx rpms for latest cooker, >> and have a working XF86Config-4 file to use with it. Is anyone >> interested in them and if so where should I upload them (my provider >> doesn't really let me run a server and upload speed is limited). >> >> Con. > >you can send them to me if you want. > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Greg Sounds good. Where would you put them? I'm interested in them being freely available to cookers. __ Get your free Australian email account at http://www.start.com.au
Re: [Cooker] nvidia binaries for cooker
Con Kolivas wrote: > > I regularly repackage nvidia kernel and glx rpms for latest cooker, > and have a working XF86Config-4 file to use with it. Is anyone > interested in them and if so where should I upload them (my provider > doesn't really let me run a server and upload speed is limited). > > Con. > > __ > Get your free Australian email account at http://www.start.com.au you can send them to me if you want. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greg
[Cooker] nvidia binaries for cooker
I regularly repackage nvidia kernel and glx rpms for latest cooker, and have a working XF86Config-4 file to use with it. Is anyone interested in them and if so where should I upload them (my provider doesn't really let me run a server and upload speed is limited). Con. __ Get your free Australian email account at http://www.start.com.au
Re: Re: [Cooker] Content of mirors
> >Those poor Aussies. New York. Someone was out of their mind. :-P Yes that's right. My brother gets files from my machine via Los Angeles... even though we're both 5 mins away from each other in Melbourne, Australia! :( __ Get your free Australian email account at http://www.start.com.au
Re: [Cooker] Fwd: [Win4lin-beta] Win4Lin 3.0 and 2.4.x Kernel support
Peter Ruskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mandrake people, please see paragraph 7 ??? i don't see something to see.. -- MandrakeSoft Inc http://www.chmouel.org --Chmouel
Re: [Cooker] Content of mirors
Ya, they run their site on SunOS, which is pretty odd for a place so in love with OpenBSD. None of which is Linux. Bad them. ;-) I've never really cared if a download dies, since I get nice speed of them so I just restart. But if you were further away or had a bad line that would be a problem. Coffee sounds great. Drop me a line. :-) Eaon On 23 Mar 2001 14:14:28 -0700, Prana wrote: > Hiya, > Just wanna let you know that the mirror @ University of Alberta is > brain-damaged since the FTP doesn't support resume. I'm in Edmonton, by > the way. Wanna go for coffee? > > Prana > > Eaon wrote: > > Otherwise, the University of Alberta (in Edmonton, 300 KMs north of Calgary) > > has a big, fat sunsite mirror and a big, fat pipe, but no mandrake-devel > > (7.2 and iso's, yes, devel, no). Has anyone considered asking them if they > > would add cooker to their site? > > -- > Prana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://www.cyest.org > GnuPG Key ID: 0x33343FD3 (2000-07-21) > Key fingerprint = F1FB 1F76 8866 0F40 A801 D9DA 6BED 6641 3334 3FD3 > http://blackhole.pca.dfn.de:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x33343FD3 >
Re: [Cooker] Content of mirors
Touche, ya got me. :-) But Cadvision is a very low traffic site compared to rpmfind.net (I suppose living here I would know that. They're a local ISP that just happens to be owned by PSINet so they have a big, fat pipe out to the world). And for the amusement of all, I did do a traceroute to Cadvision. 9 hops, none taking longer than 60 ms, and all but two reconizably within the city of Calgary (the two in question didn't give me a name, just an IP, so I can't be sure where they are). It takes 20 hops to get to ciril.fr, with times up to 400 ms Those poor Aussies. New York. Someone was out of their mind. :-P Eaon On 23 Mar 2001 17:10:44 -0600, Vincent Meyer wrote: > um.. well, i get data rates of like 45-65 k/ sec on my cable modem > from ftp.ciril.fr in France, and like 7k / sec from rpmfind in > Boston. Boston is MUCH closer. > > V. > > Eaon wrote: > > Besides, just take a wild guess, what is going to be closer, topology-wise, > > to me, a mirror in the same city as me, or one on the other side of the > > Atlantic (and continent, since Alberta is on the west side of North > > America)? Can you give any example when it would be a shorter route to > > cross the planet than to go down the block? > > >
Re: [Cooker] Before you release 8.0 - RPM very huge bug!!!
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Peter Ruskin wrote: > > Just because we install a service, does not mean we are immediately > > ready to run it. People who have worked in government, universities, > > or large corporate companies will understand the politics involved, > > and how sometimes decisions move slowly. Yuch! > Mandrake doesn't do this with everything. I installed Webmin ages ago and > I've only just found out that I have to go to /usr/share/webmin and run > the setup.sh before it can be used. That's funny - I never used webmin before yesterday (but it was installed along with everything else - it's on a private home network so I don't worry too much about excess services). I was able to browse to https://localhost:1/ without having to run any setup scripts. Michael
[Cooker] Fwd: [Win4lin-beta] Win4Lin 3.0 and 2.4.x Kernel support
Mandrake people, please see paragraph 7 -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: [Win4lin-beta] Win4Lin 3.0 and 2.4.x Kernel support Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 18:19:20 -0500 From: Mike Badger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Beta List members: We are writing to post an update regarding the status of the Win4Lin Desktop release 3.0 and the future of the beta list. The beta list was intended to be a means of supporting beta users during the Win4Lin 2.0 Desktop release. Unfortunately, it continued far past that date into the period of time when no actual Desktop beta was available. We apologize to those who signed up for the list at our web site where you were promised a beta release of the Desktop version. We also apologize to those who downloaded a beta version of the Multi-user version, signed up for this list, and have not received timely support. We want to get our house in order. The first issue we'd like to address is the features that have been added to Win4Lin Desktop 3.0 and the "no hype" facts on when and how you may obtain it. -Status of Win4Lin version 3.0 We have implemented 2.4.x kernel support for all 3 versions of the generic Linux kernel from ftp.kernel.org Additionally we have the beta kernel for Red Hat 7.1, from Red Hat, but no actual Red Hat 7.1 distribution. We have Win4Lin-Enabled Patches/RPMs and SRPMs for SuSE 7.1 If we can acquire either the distributions or the beta kernels, we will add support for Mandrake 8.0 and Caldera 2.5 prior to our release date. If we cannot, then the updates will be available in the future at our web site. A common question we receive is: if you already have the Win4Lin enabled 2.4.x generic kernels, why can't I download them today? The answer is that the 2.4.x Win4Lin enabled kernels require the 3.0 release. An important addition to release 3.0 is the graphical installer that automates the initial installation of Win4Lin, and also can be used to search for and download product updates from the NeTraverse web site. The Win4Lin Installer -performs initial installation of Win4Lin -updates previously installed versions of Win4Lin -can uninstall Win4Lin During initial installation, the Win4Lin installer: -verifies the version of the Win4Lin program RPM -verifies the version of the Win4Lin enabled kernel -verifies the version of the Win4Lin installer The Win4Lin installer can also perform these tasks anytime the user checks for Win4Lin updates. We've made enhancements to our networking support by adding VNET. Version 3.0 now supports: -Winsock 1.1 networking, which shares the Linux IP address -Full IP-based Windows networking support via a virtual network card. This allows support for TCP/IP based applications such as Network Neighborhood and Microsoft Exchange. Please note that this virtual network card does not support non-TCP/IP protocols such as IPX or NETBeui. Like a real network card, the virtual card will require a separate IP address, which can be setup to be obtained from a local DHCP server if one is available. Additionally we have corrected critical bugs and have re-written the user manual. -How and when you can obtain version 3.0 Win4Lin Desktop 3.0 will be available for download at our web site by late April. If you purchased Win4Lin Desktop version 2.0 at our web site, you will be able to download version 3.0 without paying any additional upgrade fee. -The future of the beta list If you joined this list because you downloaded a beta evaluation copy of the Multi-user version and you need technical support, please do the following: Please contact our support department by email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or by visiting our web site www.netraverse.com and clicking on the support link. Support will not be provided through this list. If you joined this list because you wanted a beta release of the 3.0 Desktop version: In the future we hope to strike a balance between how beta sites were managed during the 2.0 release which lacked any participant validation profiling, configuration assessment, and a methodology for managing the support and feedback from the beta sites, and how we have been required to select them now. Due to the aggressive deadlines set by management we have had to select beta sites in order to ensure our testing directives are met. Therefore, we are managing a pool of beta sites through our re-organized Quality Assurance and Testing department. We realize the value of a broad public beta and also know in order to capitalize on that we must do our part. We will not be soliciting a public beta till we can get our beta testing infrastructure in place. Even though we will be closing the beta list effective 03/30/01, please feel free to contact me or our support department anytime. We also welcome and encourage your participation in the Win4Lin Users mailing list. You may join at: http://www.netraverse.com/frame_index.php?screen=win4lin-users Regards, Mike Badger
Re: [Cooker] Content of mirors
On Fri Mar 23, 2001 at 02:14:28PM -0700, Prana wrote: > Hiya, > Just wanna let you know that the mirror @ University of Alberta is > brain-damaged since the FTP doesn't support resume. I'm in Edmonton, by > the way. Wanna go for coffee? > > Prana > > Eaon wrote: > > Otherwise, the University of Alberta (in Edmonton, 300 KMs north of Calgary) > > has a big, fat sunsite mirror and a big, fat pipe, but no mandrake-devel > > (7.2 and iso's, yes, devel, no). Has anyone considered asking them if they > > would add cooker to their site? Yup, I've asked (which is why the updates got on there, and the last stable also, I think). Unfortunately, they didn't really respond when I asked them about cooker, so maybe if a few others (ie. you and Prana) were to ask, then maybe we could get it on there. I'll see if I can find out who runs the mirror site (I forget off the top of my head) to see if it's a possibility. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/FE6F2AFD 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD - Danen Consulting Serviceswww.danen.net, www.freezer-burn.org - MandrakeSoft, Inc. Security www.linux-mandrake.com Current Linux kernel 2.4.2-13mdk uptime: 4 days 0 hours 21 minutes. PGP signature
Re: [Cooker] Content of mirors
um.. well, i get data rates of like 45-65 k/ sec on my cable modem from ftp.ciril.fr in France, and like 7k / sec from rpmfind in Boston. Boston is MUCH closer. V. Eaon wrote: > Besides, just take a wild guess, what is going to be closer, topology-wise, > to me, a mirror in the same city as me, or one on the other side of the > Atlantic (and continent, since Alberta is on the west side of North > America)? Can you give any example when it would be a shorter route to > cross the planet than to go down the block?
Re: [Cooker] Kernel 2.4.2 and Via Chipset
Is there any way to upgrade to Beta 1 from 7.2 without having to use the 2.4.1 kernel? I tried installing it from CD and configuring grub to use the 2.2 kernel but it still resulted in a kernel panic. -Original Message- From: Chmouel Boudjnah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, March 23, 2001 11:01 AM Subject: Re: [Cooker] Kernel 2.4.2 and Via Chipset >"K. Danna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Greetings, >> >> Quick question, Beta 1 warns of potential problems with kernel 2.4.1 and the >> Via chipset, are these problems still present or have they been fixed in >> 2.4.2? > >yes it should be fixed now. > >-- >MandrakeSoft Inc http://www.chmouel.org > --Chmouel > >
RE: [Cooker] Content of mirors
Ahh, you obviously haven't read all the complaints on Slashdot from Aussies :) There was one guy who did a traceroute on his neighbor and the packet was going all the way to New York before coming back! It all depends on which other ISPs your ISP is peering with at the NAP(?). On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Eaon wrote: > Forget all the fancy topology junk, I just mirrored off it one night, and > was pulling upwards of 700K/s. That's getting close to topping out the max > speed of my cable modem. What more evidence do I need than that? > > Besides, just take a wild guess, what is going to be closer, topology-wise, > to me, a mirror in the same city as me, or one on the other side of the > Atlantic (and continent, since Alberta is on the west side of North > America)? Can you give any example when it would be a shorter route to > cross the planet than to go down the block? > > I wasn't just guessing about how good it was before I said something, I have > been known on occasion to research (what little I had to do) what I say > before I say it. > > Unfortunately it wasn't until the mirror was "done", i.e. downloaded all > that it could, that I found out that the thing was broken. It goes as far > as xearth (IIRC) in the Mandrake/RPMS directory, and everything > alphabetically beyond that is not there (I checked against another mirror > (ciril.fr) that I knew was good). images and boot directories are empty > too. > > Eaon > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of JJ > > Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 2:08 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [Cooker] Content of mirors > > > > > > Just because it's close (physically)(sic) to you does not > > indicate how close it > > actually is in internet topography, try a traceroute to the > > LOWEST/FASTEST path! > > > > Eaon wrote: > > > > > While we are on the subject of messed up mirrors, Cadvision > > > (ftp.cadvision.com) is listed on the cooker mirrors page, but > > their mirror > > > of broken. It looks like it failed to finish mirroring on Jan > > 30th, and no > > > one has started it back up again and fixed it. I've tried > > emailing them but > > > got no response (and mirroring from them, with their server > > center being 20 > > > blocks from my home, would be far more efficient than pulling > > from anywhere > > > else). Does anyone else have a contact there they could talk to and get > > > this fixed? > > > > > > And incidentally, the Cooker page says Cadvision is in the U.S. > > It isn't. > > > It is located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. But now I'm just being > > > patriotic. ;-) > > > > > > Otherwise, the University of Alberta (in Edmonton, 300 KMs > > north of Calgary) > > > has a big, fat sunsite mirror and a big, fat pipe, but no mandrake-devel > > > (7.2 and iso's, yes, devel, no). Has anyone considered asking > > them if they > > > would add cooker to their site? > > > > > > Eaon > > > > > > > -Original Message- > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Guillaume Rousse > > > > Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 1:55 AM > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Subject: [Cooker] Content of mirors > > > > > > > > > > > > Who's in charge of mirror at mandrakesoft ? > > > > How is it possible that some mirrors, as rsync.proxad.net, have more > > > > content than primary mirrors (sunsite.uoi.no or sunet.se) ? They > > > > have sparc > > > > & alpha packages, for instance. > > > > -- > > > > Guillaume Rousse > > > > > > > > Murphy's law : If anything can go wrong, it will. > > > > O'Tool's commentary : Murphy was an optimist. > > > > > > > > > > > >
[Cooker] Gdk - bad pixbuff
Hello, Whenever I try to run Nautilis or Evolution I get : Gdk-ERROR **: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) serial 3487 error_code 4 request_code 2 minor_code 0 Is this because I don't use the Mandrake Mozilla, but rather use the Mozilla nightly builds and link to the neaded libraries ? I have all the latest gdk rpm's, nautilus-1.0-4mdk and evolution-0.9-1mdk. Owen
RE: [Cooker] Content of mirors
Forget all the fancy topology junk, I just mirrored off it one night, and was pulling upwards of 700K/s. That's getting close to topping out the max speed of my cable modem. What more evidence do I need than that? Besides, just take a wild guess, what is going to be closer, topology-wise, to me, a mirror in the same city as me, or one on the other side of the Atlantic (and continent, since Alberta is on the west side of North America)? Can you give any example when it would be a shorter route to cross the planet than to go down the block? I wasn't just guessing about how good it was before I said something, I have been known on occasion to research (what little I had to do) what I say before I say it. Unfortunately it wasn't until the mirror was "done", i.e. downloaded all that it could, that I found out that the thing was broken. It goes as far as xearth (IIRC) in the Mandrake/RPMS directory, and everything alphabetically beyond that is not there (I checked against another mirror (ciril.fr) that I knew was good). images and boot directories are empty too. Eaon > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of JJ > Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 2:08 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Cooker] Content of mirors > > > Just because it's close (physically)(sic) to you does not > indicate how close it > actually is in internet topography, try a traceroute to the > LOWEST/FASTEST path! > > Eaon wrote: > > > While we are on the subject of messed up mirrors, Cadvision > > (ftp.cadvision.com) is listed on the cooker mirrors page, but > their mirror > > of broken. It looks like it failed to finish mirroring on Jan > 30th, and no > > one has started it back up again and fixed it. I've tried > emailing them but > > got no response (and mirroring from them, with their server > center being 20 > > blocks from my home, would be far more efficient than pulling > from anywhere > > else). Does anyone else have a contact there they could talk to and get > > this fixed? > > > > And incidentally, the Cooker page says Cadvision is in the U.S. > It isn't. > > It is located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. But now I'm just being > > patriotic. ;-) > > > > Otherwise, the University of Alberta (in Edmonton, 300 KMs > north of Calgary) > > has a big, fat sunsite mirror and a big, fat pipe, but no mandrake-devel > > (7.2 and iso's, yes, devel, no). Has anyone considered asking > them if they > > would add cooker to their site? > > > > Eaon > > > > > -Original Message- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Guillaume Rousse > > > Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 1:55 AM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: [Cooker] Content of mirors > > > > > > > > > Who's in charge of mirror at mandrakesoft ? > > > How is it possible that some mirrors, as rsync.proxad.net, have more > > > content than primary mirrors (sunsite.uoi.no or sunet.se) ? They > > > have sparc > > > & alpha packages, for instance. > > > -- > > > Guillaume Rousse > > > > > > Murphy's law : If anything can go wrong, it will. > > > O'Tool's commentary : Murphy was an optimist. > > > > > >
[Cooker] Joysticks
Sometimes I boot with the 2.2 kernel, sometimes 2.4. The trouble is, they each use different device files for joysticks. I used to load the joystick modules in /etc/modules.conf but never got it working right for 2.4. I added the following to /etc/rc.d/rc.local and that did the trick. It's probably not the most elegant way to do it - comments welcome. ### Setup joystick according to which kernel is booted KERNEL22=`uname -r | grep 2.2.` KERNEL24=`uname -r | grep 2.4.` ### I previously did (after booting 2.2): ### mv mv /dev/js? /dev/js?-22 # we're booting kernel 2.2 ... if [ "$KERNEL22" != "" ] ; then # if /dev/js0-22 exists, last boot was 2.4, else 2.2 [ -c /dev/js0-22 ] && mv -f /dev/js0-22 /dev/js0 [ -c /dev/js1-22 ] && mv -f /dev/js1-22 /dev/js1 [ -c /dev/js2-22 ] && mv -f /dev/js2-22 /dev/js2 [ -c /dev/js3-22 ] && mv -f /dev/js3-22 /dev/js3 modprobe joy-analog fi # we're booting kernel 2.4 ... if [ "$KERNEL24" != "" ] ; then # if /dev/js0-22 doesn't exist, last boot was 2.2, else 2.4 [ -c /dev/js0-22 ] || mv /dev/js0 /dev/js0-22 [ -c /dev/js1-22 ] || mv /dev/js1 /dev/js1-22 [ -c /dev/js2-22 ] || mv /dev/js2 /dev/js2-22 [ -c /dev/js3-22 ] || mv /dev/js3 /dev/js3-22 ln -s /dev/input/js0 /dev/js0 ln -s /dev/input/js1 /dev/js1 ln -s /dev/input/js2 /dev/js2 ln -s /dev/input/js3 /dev/js3 modprobe joydev modprobe ns558 modprobe analog fi -- Linux Mandrake release 7.2 (Odyssey) for i586 KDE 2.1 Linux 2.2.17-27mdkWin4Lin, Uptime 7 hours 38 minutes
Re: [Cooker] Before you release 8.0 - RPM very huge bug!!!
On Friday 23 March 2001 07:33, Daniel Woods wrote: > > > (1) We assume that when you want a server installed, that most > > > probably means that you want it activated because you will use it ; > > > > Not necessarily. The assumption was not 100% valid because the logic > > is: when I install something it doesn't mean that I want it to run > > right away. For example: > [...] > Just because we install a service, does not mean we are immediately > ready to run it. People who have worked in government, universities, > or large corporate companies will understand the politics involved, > and how sometimes decisions move slowly. Yuch! > Mandrake doesn't do this with everything. I installed Webmin ages ago and I've only just found out that I have to go to /usr/share/webmin and run the setup.sh before it can be used. That's probably a good example of how it *should* be done and ought to apply to *all* services - with the appropriate notification so that we know what to do. -- Linux Mandrake release 7.2 (Odyssey) for i586 KDE 2.1 Linux 2.2.17-27mdkWin4Lin, Uptime 7 hours 31 minutes
[Cooker] installing mandrake with Lui
I'm not sure if this is the right place to have this discussion, but I figured that it is a worth while place to try to find the right people. I am one of the developers on the Lui project (http://oss.software.ibm.com/lui) which is a cluster installer which works on many distributions. I have been trying to use it to install Mandrake, but find that something within the packages I am installing is getting a lock on /mnt (which is the local root of the installing client), so our installer can't umount it after install, which causes problems. I am hoping to find whoever works on the Mandrake installer to figure out if such things have been seen by them before, and how to get over the hump. We currently work with RedHat, Connectiva, and MSC.Linux, and I would like to add Mandrake to that list. This seems to be the last hangup I am getting. Any help would be great. -Sean -- Sean Dague [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dague.net/sean AIM: sdague01 There is no silver bullet. Plus, werewolves make better neighbors than zombies, and they tend to keep the vampire population down. PGP signature
Re: [Cooker] Content of mirors
Just because it's close (physically)(sic) to you does not indicate how close it actually is in internet topography, try a traceroute to the LOWEST/FASTEST path! Eaon wrote: > While we are on the subject of messed up mirrors, Cadvision > (ftp.cadvision.com) is listed on the cooker mirrors page, but their mirror > of broken. It looks like it failed to finish mirroring on Jan 30th, and no > one has started it back up again and fixed it. I've tried emailing them but > got no response (and mirroring from them, with their server center being 20 > blocks from my home, would be far more efficient than pulling from anywhere > else). Does anyone else have a contact there they could talk to and get > this fixed? > > And incidentally, the Cooker page says Cadvision is in the U.S. It isn't. > It is located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. But now I'm just being > patriotic. ;-) > > Otherwise, the University of Alberta (in Edmonton, 300 KMs north of Calgary) > has a big, fat sunsite mirror and a big, fat pipe, but no mandrake-devel > (7.2 and iso's, yes, devel, no). Has anyone considered asking them if they > would add cooker to their site? > > Eaon > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Guillaume Rousse > > Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 1:55 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [Cooker] Content of mirors > > > > > > Who's in charge of mirror at mandrakesoft ? > > How is it possible that some mirrors, as rsync.proxad.net, have more > > content than primary mirrors (sunsite.uoi.no or sunet.se) ? They > > have sparc > > & alpha packages, for instance. > > -- > > Guillaume Rousse > > > > Murphy's law : If anything can go wrong, it will. > > O'Tool's commentary : Murphy was an optimist. > >
Re: [Cooker] Content of mirors
Hiya, Just wanna let you know that the mirror @ University of Alberta is brain-damaged since the FTP doesn't support resume. I'm in Edmonton, by the way. Wanna go for coffee? Prana Eaon wrote: > Otherwise, the University of Alberta (in Edmonton, 300 KMs north of Calgary) > has a big, fat sunsite mirror and a big, fat pipe, but no mandrake-devel > (7.2 and iso's, yes, devel, no). Has anyone considered asking them if they > would add cooker to their site? -- Prana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.cyest.org GnuPG Key ID: 0x33343FD3 (2000-07-21) Key fingerprint = F1FB 1F76 8866 0F40 A801 D9DA 6BED 6641 3334 3FD3 http://blackhole.pca.dfn.de:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x33343FD3
[Cooker] MandrakeUpdate for MandrakeFreq?
Will we see an update to MandrakeUpdate for 7.2 that will let us update to MandrakeFreq? That would be most excellent. -Sean -- Sean Dague [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dague.net/sean AIM: sdague01 There is no silver bullet. Plus, werewolves make better neighbors than zombies, and they tend to keep the vampire population down. PGP signature
Re: [Cooker] RFC DrakX package selection tree
> Since, AFAICT, dependencies are always installed, and the only difference > the button makes is whether or not they are shown as selected in the > package selection list, how about: > > "Show automatically-selected packages" I like it
Re: [Cooker] SB Live! & midi LM 8.0 beta1
> "=/\\= Majki =/\\=" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi! > > When I try to play midi on my SB Live! I got error: > > open /dev/sequencer: No such device > > what do you have in your /etc/conf.modules ? > pre-install pcmcia_core CARDMGR_OPTS=-f /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start alias usb-interface usb-uhci alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc alias sound-slot-0 emu10k1 pre-install plip modprobe parport_pc ; echo 7 > /proc/parport/0/irq alias eth0 ne2k-pci
Re: [Cooker] Dual head on G400 with XFree86 4.0.3 anyone?
On 23 Mar 2001, Frederic Lepied wrote: > "Brian J. Murrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 04:23:52PM +0100, Frederic Lepied wrote: > > > "Brian J. Murrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > I have reproduced the bug here. Under investigation... > > > > Awesome!! > > > > Bad news. I have contacted Matrox and the G400 dual head can't work > without libhal. Sorry. Libhal is only used to set the modes. The only reason that they keep it proprietary is that if you have access to the source to libhal, you can also turn off macrovision protection for the DVD decoder. There is work being done to ignore the need for libhal, but I am not certain at what point it is at. Again the DVD copy protection scam has unintended consiquences. Sigh. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame."
Re: [Cooker] Kernel 2.4.2 and Via Chipset
"K. Danna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Greetings, > > Quick question, Beta 1 warns of potential problems with kernel 2.4.1 and the > Via chipset, are these problems still present or have they been fixed in > 2.4.2? yes it should be fixed now. -- MandrakeSoft Inc http://www.chmouel.org --Chmouel
Re: [Cooker] Dual head on G400 with XFree86 4.0.3 anyone?
"Brian J. Murrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 04:23:52PM +0100, Frederic Lepied wrote: > > "Brian J. Murrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > I have reproduced the bug here. Under investigation... > > Awesome!! > Bad news. I have contacted Matrox and the G400 dual head can't work without libhal. Sorry. -- Fred - May the source be with you
Re: [Cooker] Re: XftConfig
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 07:38:13AM +0100, Frederic Lepied wrote: > > Thanks I will use it in my next build. > > Excellent! Can you include an xterm that support AA fonts too? > That would be nice, it only involves recompiling the xterm package with XFree86-4.0.3-mdk1 installed, but without any changes. More important imho would still be to have some good fonts actually included, now that they will be found. The best free (beer) fonts are from M$ windows and from Sun java. Still quite good and free as in speech are the ones from OpenOffice. Red Hat already include some of them as a seperate package. If it is still possible to squeeze another .5 to 2 MB into the distribution CDs, my vote goes to make another package of the already included openoffice60/share/fonts/type1/l*2.pfa (that is "Lucida ... Tur" in western encoding) and make QT depend on that. Those are the files I specified in XftConfig as the next replacements when none of the above free/beer fonts are found. Arnd <><
RE: [Cooker] Content of mirors
While we are on the subject of messed up mirrors, Cadvision (ftp.cadvision.com) is listed on the cooker mirrors page, but their mirror of broken. It looks like it failed to finish mirroring on Jan 30th, and no one has started it back up again and fixed it. I've tried emailing them but got no response (and mirroring from them, with their server center being 20 blocks from my home, would be far more efficient than pulling from anywhere else). Does anyone else have a contact there they could talk to and get this fixed? And incidentally, the Cooker page says Cadvision is in the U.S. It isn't. It is located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. But now I'm just being patriotic. ;-) Otherwise, the University of Alberta (in Edmonton, 300 KMs north of Calgary) has a big, fat sunsite mirror and a big, fat pipe, but no mandrake-devel (7.2 and iso's, yes, devel, no). Has anyone considered asking them if they would add cooker to their site? Eaon > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Guillaume Rousse > Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 1:55 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Cooker] Content of mirors > > > Who's in charge of mirror at mandrakesoft ? > How is it possible that some mirrors, as rsync.proxad.net, have more > content than primary mirrors (sunsite.uoi.no or sunet.se) ? They > have sparc > & alpha packages, for instance. > -- > Guillaume Rousse > > Murphy's law : If anything can go wrong, it will. > O'Tool's commentary : Murphy was an optimist. >
[Cooker] uploaded contrib RPM -- pkgconfig
Dunno if anybody bother to try but this is a good start of unifying effort on various xxx-config scripts.. have uploaded it to /incoming. Lenny, have sent a mesg to you, please at least tell me so if this doesn't worth to be in contrib.. Name: pkgconfigRelocations: (not relocateable) Version : 0.5.0 Vendor: MandrakeSoft Release : 1mdk Build Date: Sun 18 Mar 2001 11:27:43 AM HKT Install date: Sun 18 Mar 2001 11:28:52 AM HKT Build Host: localhost Group : Development/GNOME and GTK+Source RPM: pkgconfig-0.5.0-1mdk.src.rpm Size: 90089License: GPL Packager: Abel Cheung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://pkgconfig.sourceforge.net Summary : A tool to gather compile/link flags of libraries Description : pkgconfig is a tool for determining compilation options. For each required library it reads a configuration file installed in a standard option and ouputs the necessary compiler and linker flags. * Wed Mar 07 2001 Abel Cheung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 0.5.0-1mdk - first mandrake package, taken from redhat rpm - remove manual stripping - some more macros - corrected summary - add some docs (leave out README -- outdated) - add %dir to %_libdir/pkg-config
RE: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] amaya-4.3.1-1mdk
I too say thank you. :-) And someone complained that the developers don't read cooker. ;-) Eaon > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lenny Cartier > Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 8:07 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] amaya-4.3.1-1mdk > > > Eaon wrote: > > > > While we're requesting things, how about the URL to the application > > homepage? > > done :) > > lenny > > > -- > > -- > Lenny Cartier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "Informatique: Excel, Word, chef de projet informatique." (c) > Serious resume >
Re: [Cooker] GConf - needs dependency on OAF
Dans l'article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Vadim Plessky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > Rebuilding GConf, I found that build fails if OAF not installed > (./configure reports that OAF is needed). > Installing OAF before compiling GConf fixed problem. Pls add Build > dependency in GConf SRPM. Fixing on its way.. thanks :) -- Frédéric Crozat MandrakeSoft
Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] amaya-4.3.1-1mdk
Lenny, Thanks! Randy Kramer Lenny Cartier wrote: > > Randy Kramer wrote: > > Amaya is a WYSIWYG browser/web authoring tool from the W3C. UNIX and > > Windows versions are available. > > done :)
Re: [Cooker] Dual head on G400 with XFree86 4.0.3 anyone?
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 04:23:52PM +0100, Frederic Lepied wrote: > "Brian J. Murrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have reproduced the bug here. Under investigation... Awesome!! b. -- Brian J. Murrell
[Cooker] GConf - needs dependency on OAF
Rebuilding GConf, I found that build fails if OAF not installed (./configure reports that OAF is needed). Installing OAF before compiling GConf fixed problem. Pls add Build dependency in GConf SRPM. -- Vadim Plessky http://kde2.newmail.ru (English) http://kde2.newmail.ru/index_rus.html (Russian) Do you have Arial font installed? Just test it! http://kde2.newmail.ru/font_test_arial.html
Re: [Cooker] Dual head on G400 with XFree86 4.0.3 anyone?
"Brian J. Murrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Has anyone gotten the G400 dual head mode to work with the 4.0.3-1mdk > using the driver shipped by Mandrake? > > My Xserver sees both screens (it's showing a screen size of 2880: > 1600 + 1280) but it does not actually display on the second monitor. > > Anyone got this mode working? > I have reproduced the bug here. Under investigation... -- Fred - May the source be with you
Re: [Cooker] Can't boot Traktopel
break an egg white on the CD -- makes an install work better!
Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] amaya-4.3.1-1mdk
Eaon wrote: > > While we're requesting things, how about the URL to the application > homepage? done :) lenny -- -- Lenny Cartier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Informatique: Excel, Word, chef de projet informatique." (c) Serious resume
Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] amaya-4.3.1-1mdk
Randy Kramer wrote: > > I'd like to request that you add something to the description to point > out that it is at least an attempt at WYSIWYG HTML editing, perhaps: > > Amaya is a WYSIWYG browser/web authoring tool from the W3C. UNIX and > Windows versions are available. done :) lenny -- -- Lenny Cartier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Informatique: Excel, Word, chef de projet informatique." (c) Serious resume
Re: [Cooker] Before you release 8.0 - RPM very huge bug!!!
Guillaume Rousse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > > We are in the process of rewriting it in 30% assembly, 45% pascal, and > > 25% lambda-prolog. > Too bad there isn't place anymore for o-caml :-) Actually Pixel is a too poor coder in ocaml :-). -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://us.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
Re: [Cooker] Re: XftConfig
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 07:38:13AM +0100, Frederic Lepied wrote: > Thanks I will use it in my next build. Excellent! Can you include an xterm that support AA fonts too? Thanx, b. -- Brian J. Murrell
[Cooker] Bugzilla LOL 8^)
C'est réponse au poteau au poteau ' incorrect ': "if there was a way to mark a question here as invalid I would sure mark this one" You know you have been using Bugzilla too long when... you start trying to deal with Real Life the same way you would a bug report :-) Girlfriend whining to you... - Your X GF keeps calling? CLOSED! - Seeing other women (blocker)? UNCONFIRMED! - Don't cuddle enough (trivial)? INVALID! - You never cry (enhancement)? WONTFIX! - Forgeting her birthday? Bought a PDA! FIXED! - Leaving the toilet seat up? REMIND! - Spend too much time surfing for Porn? VERIFIED! - Take out the trash? LATER! - You don't want to fight, let's just forget about it? REOPENED! - She doesn't climax in bed (all platforms)? WORKSFORME! LOL! too funny :0) __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [Cooker] Can't boot Traktopel
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > "Alex Riechert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > [...] > > >>> 03:07 is /dev/hda7 so you don't need scsi modules; either you need the >>> reiserfs modules (if you / is on a reiserfs partition) or the root device >>> parameter is not correct.. >>> The best would be to boot the rescue to try and understand what your >>> system needs to mount the root device.. >> >> / is a reiserfs partion (/dev/hda7 / reiserfs defaults 1 1) >> >> So how can I force Linux to load the reiserfs module during the booting? >> Or which root device parameters could be wrong (could you look up my fstab >> and lilo.conf in my original message)? > > > "force" is not the correct wording :-).. > > you need to have an initrd for that. the installer should have done it for > you.. > > best is to do a "man mkinitrd" from a valid system, and build an initrd > for your machine. > > then boot the rescue, copy the initrd on relevant place, possibly update > your bootmanager config file. OK! I'll try it tonight! I'm confident that it will work. Thanks vachement beaucoup for the explanations! Alex
Re: [Cooker] tkinter-2.0-3mdk.i586.rpm is broken
On Friday 23 March 2001 09:01, you wrote: > tkinter-2.0-3mdk.i586.rpm is broken and will not install. This is off of > a current rsync from sunsite.no. When opened with kpackage the package > causes a segfault. With an rpm -ivh tkinter-2.0-3mdk.i586.rpm , rpm just > hangs there. I left it all night with no results. Anyone else having this > problem? Don't I feel silly... just rm'd the package and tried again and it worked this time. Still having the segfault problem with urpmi though. Is this a well known problem? So far the only input I've gotten is that I have to reinstall cooker to fix it. Surely there is another way Anyone at MandrakeSoft have any ideas?
Re: [Cooker] Before you release 8.0 - RPM very huge bug!!!
Le 2001.03.23 17:23:05 +0400, Guillaume Cottenceau a écrit : > Prana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > [...] > > > The installer also needs improvement. It crashes a lot. See the > > frustrated people in newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandrake. People there need > > help too, and some of them are getting frustrated because the installer > > crashes. I hope the next 8.0 won't crash at all. Using perl for install > > is already a bad choice, in my humblest opinion (this part is only my > > opinion from my experience). At least we can work together to make a > > Yeah, you're right : it probably crashes because it uses Perl. > > We are in the process of rewriting it in 30% assembly, 45% pascal, and > 25% > lambda-prolog. Too bad there isn't place anymore for o-caml :-) -- Guillaume Rousse Murphy's law : If anything can go wrong, it will. O'Tool's commentary : Murphy was an optimist.
[Cooker] tkinter-2.0-3mdk.i586.rpm is broken
tkinter-2.0-3mdk.i586.rpm is broken and will not install. This is off of a current rsync from sunsite.no. When opened with kpackage the package causes a segfault. With an rpm -ivh tkinter-2.0-3mdk.i586.rpm , rpm just hangs there. I left it all night with no results. Anyone else having this problem?
Re: [Cooker] Can't boot Traktopel
"Alex Riechert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > > 03:07 is /dev/hda7 so you don't need scsi modules; either you need the > > reiserfs modules (if you / is on a reiserfs partition) or the root device > > parameter is not correct.. > > The best would be to boot the rescue to try and understand what your > > system needs to mount the root device.. > > / is a reiserfs partion (/dev/hda7 / reiserfs defaults 1 1) > > So how can I force Linux to load the reiserfs module during the booting? > Or which root device parameters could be wrong (could you look up my fstab > and lilo.conf in my original message)? "force" is not the correct wording :-).. you need to have an initrd for that. the installer should have done it for you.. best is to do a "man mkinitrd" from a valid system, and build an initrd for your machine. then boot the rescue, copy the initrd on relevant place, possibly update your bootmanager config file. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://us.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
Re: [Cooker] Can't boot Traktopel
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > "Alex Riechert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: >> >> >>> "Alex Riechert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> [...] >>> >>> doesn't work, neither by booting from the floppy drive (the Mandrake boot floppy disk doesn't work at all), nor from the harddisk, sending following error message: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:07 Anyone out there knowing how to solve this problem? >>> >>> Can you try to see if required modules are correctly loaded just before >>> this to happen? Watch for messages beginning with "Loading module" and >>> verify that your scsi adapter, sd_mod and reiserfs and correctly loaded.. >> >> Well, no "Loading module" message at all! What do I have to do to load >> these modules? > > > 03:07 is /dev/hda7 so you don't need scsi modules; either you need the > reiserfs modules (if you / is on a reiserfs partition) or the root device > parameter is not correct.. > > The best would be to boot the rescue to try and understand what your > system needs to mount the root device.. / is a reiserfs partion (/dev/hda7 / reiserfs defaults 1 1) So how can I force Linux to load the reiserfs module during the booting? Or which root device parameters could be wrong (could you look up my fstab and lilo.conf in my original message)? Thanks, Alex
Re: [Cooker] control-center - can't find GdkPixbuf (on rebuild)
Dans l'article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Vadim Plessky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > When I rebuild control-center SRPM, I get following error: My mistake : control-center needs gnome-vfs-devel installed.. (it was the reverse previously..) It will be corrected in next releases of control-center and gnome-vfs packages.. BTW, the error message about GdkPixbuf in control-center is a bad copy/paste from GNOME authors :)) -- Frédéric Crozat MandrakeSoft
Re: [Cooker] Can't boot Traktopel
"Alex Riechert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > > "Alex Riechert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > > >> doesn't work, neither by booting from the floppy drive (the Mandrake boot > >> floppy disk doesn't work at all), nor from the harddisk, sending following > >> error message: > >>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) > >>Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:07 > >> Anyone out there knowing how to solve this problem? > > Can you try to see if required modules are correctly loaded just before > > this to happen? Watch for messages beginning with "Loading module" and > > verify that your scsi adapter, sd_mod and reiserfs and correctly loaded.. > > Well, no "Loading module" message at all! What do I have to do to load > these modules? 03:07 is /dev/hda7 so you don't need scsi modules; either you need the reiserfs modules (if you / is on a reiserfs partition) or the root device parameter is not correct.. The best would be to boot the rescue to try and understand what your system needs to mount the root device.. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://us.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
Re: [Cooker] Before you release 8.0 - RPM very huge bug!!!
Daniel Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > (1) We assume that when you want a server installed, that most probably > > > means that you want it activated because you will use it ; > > Not necessarily. The assumption was not 100% valid because the logic is: > > when I install something it doesn't mean that I want it to run right > > away. For example: > > I agree with all points tha Prana made. Services should only be > started when they are PROPERLY and SECURELY configured. Let the > user decide when that is, not the OS. They are automatically started after reboot, not after installation of package. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://us.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
Re: [Cooker] Before you release 8.0 - RPM very huge bug!!!
Prana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > The installer also needs improvement. It crashes a lot. See the > frustrated people in newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandrake. People there need > help too, and some of them are getting frustrated because the installer > crashes. I hope the next 8.0 won't crash at all. Using perl for install > is already a bad choice, in my humblest opinion (this part is only my > opinion from my experience). At least we can work together to make a Yeah, you're right : it probably crashes because it uses Perl. We are in the process of rewriting it in 30% assembly, 45% pascal, and 25% lambda-prolog. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://us.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
[Cooker] test
Is Cooker list ok? Latest message I received dated by Wed.21 -- Vadim Plessky http://kde2.newmail.ru (English) http://kde2.newmail.ru/index_rus.html (Russian) Do you have Arial font installed? Just test it! http://kde2.newmail.ru/font_test_arial.html
[Cooker] control-center - can't find GdkPixbuf (on rebuild)
When I rebuild control-center SRPM, I get following error: # rpm --rebuild control-center-1.4.0-1mdk.src.rpm checking for getline... yes checking for X11/extensions/xf86misc.h... yes checking for GdkPixbuf library >= 0.7.0... found checking for esd-config... /usr/bin/esd-config checking for ESD - version >= 0.2.5... yes checking for imlib-config... /usr/bin/imlib-config checking for IMLIB - version >= 1.8.2... yes checking for gnome-vfs library >= 0.9... ./configure: gnome-vfs-config: command not found ./configure: gnome-vfs-config: command not found configure: error: Did not find GdkPixbuf installed îÅ×ÅÒÎÙÊ ËÏÄ ×ÏÚ×ÒÁÔÁ ÉÚ /usr/src/RPM/tmp/rpm-tmp.29400 (%build) # --- # rpm -qa | grep gdk gdk-pixbuf-xlib-0.10.1-1mdk gdk-pixbuf-gnomecanvas-0.10.1-1mdk gdk-pixbuf-loaders-0.10.1-1mdk gdk-pixbuf-0.10.1-1mdk gdk-pixbuf-devel-0.10.1-1mdk - >From other side, I can't install (compile) gnome-vfs, as it needs control-center: # rpm --rebuild gnome-vfs-1.0-1mdk.src.rpm õÓÔÁÎÁ×ÌÉ×ÁÀ gnome-vfs-1.0-1mdk.src.rpm ÏÛÉÂËÁ: failed build dependencies: control-center-devel ÎÕÖÅÎ ÄÌÑ gnome-vfs-1.0-1mdk Pls advise how to overcome this cyclic dependency. // cc: me directly, as for some reason I don't have any message from Cooker list from Thursday. -- Vadim Plessky http://kde2.newmail.ru (English) http://kde2.newmail.ru/index_rus.html (Russian) Do you have Arial font installed? Just test it! http://kde2.newmail.ru/font_test_arial.html
[Cooker] some errors in menus
Kaixo! - Forwarded message from olivier - [...] Quelques erreurs en passant: msgid "Qt Desinger" #error (devrait etre Designer) #. Menu description for usr/lib/menu/rxvt msgid "" "A version of the rxvt terminal with support for Tranditional Chinese, " #error (devrait etre Traditional) [...] - End forwarded message - -- Ki ça vos våye bén, Pablo Saratxaga http://www.srtxg.easynet.be/PGP Key available, key ID: 0x8F0E4975
Re: [Cooker] errors; please help
ok! as far as grub is concerned i know know. init=/bin/bash rw andreas
Re: [Cooker] MandrakeUpdate gone
On Friday 23 March 2001 04:27, you wrote: > --- Vincent Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am I missing something ? I've YET to be able to get rpmdrake > > to work, > > Mandrake Update worked better than rpmdrake. Not perfect but > better.:) > This make no sense to throw away better for worse to try to make > worse better. Make more sense to make better even better by > adding more functions or keep it working as same. > > > Check the ones you want to install, click the "install > > marked" button, and > > off it goes. > > > > Vinny > > yes, now try same with http://ftp > it can not do it. > some people need http access. > > > On Monday 19 March 2001 23:55, you wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 06:33:19PM +0100, Frederic Lepied > > > > wrote: > > > > Gary Chisholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Quick question, > > > > > > > > > > Since MandrakeUpdate is gone what can I use to do remote > > > > updates of RPM > > > > > > > Packages > > > > > > > > rpmdrake > > > > > > Bwa ha ha ha! Who's got a Cray to run that thing? Even on > > > > my 800MHz > > > > > Athlon it takes literally minutes to get it going. On my > > > > PIII 600MHz > > > > > I gave up before it got up and running. I am sure we all > > > > here don't > > > > > have close to GHz machines. I feel sorry for the poor > > > > bastard who is > > > > > still running a 2 or 3 hundred MHz PII. > > > > > > b. > > Many people still use P166 with 64MB RAM max!! > (many, many HP systems sold like that on desktops everywhere) > They not run KDE2 or Rdrak. > Apt could work for everybody. > The success of apt-get has more to do with the very careful management of deb packages than with anything in the apt-get design except that it basically forces some of that discipline. In the time-sensitive bazaar of packages and package contributors for this distro, such a level of management is definitely a wishlist itme for when we are as rich and hated as Microsoft .-) Anyway, the packages in Cooker are apt-get capable, but they definitely are not debs. Civileme/QA
[Cooker] What is in MandrakeFreq ?
Hello, I saw the new MandrakeFreq ISO is available on various mirror sites. Could someone tell me what is its content ? Is there a kind of 'ls -lR' available somewhere that lists all the packages included ? Also, I have MDK 7.2 installed, does MandrakeFreq contains usefull stuffs (ie. more recent) for me, or is it just for 7.0 and 7.1 users who wish to upgrade to 7.2 level ? Thanks for any clarifications on what it is this ISO (also, is there a place when package can be accessed directly, without having to download the hole iso ?) Nicolas Pomarede e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It said uses Windows 95 or better, so I loaded Linux!" "In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates ?"
[Cooker] Turboprint--Test results
We tried it after reading the discussion. It prints with quality competitive with the GIMP Print facility on its own test pages. When sent an arbitrary file (the photo file we use to test printers), we get a segfault. TurboPrint isn't going to be recommended for the commercial CDs of this release--Looks promising but not quite ready. Of course it is not free software, so it cannot be in the downloadable CDs. We'll keep watching. Civileme/QA
[Cooker] errors; please help
hi, i installed the cooker again. installing on ext2 partition as / containing /boot. so the kernel does not complain about finding the root fs. but know it get the messages ... respawning to fast. disabling for 5 minutes ... what can i do?installing mdk7.2 works perfectly. and another question. i used lilo but today i installed grub. with lilo i could use command linux init=/bin/bash how make grub do the same? many thx in advance andreas
[Cooker] Content of mirors
Who's in charge of mirror at mandrakesoft ? How is it possible that some mirrors, as rsync.proxad.net, have more content than primary mirrors (sunsite.uoi.no or sunet.se) ? They have sparc & alpha packages, for instance. -- Guillaume Rousse Murphy's law : If anything can go wrong, it will. O'Tool's commentary : Murphy was an optimist.
