Re: [Cooker] mkttfdir - Segmentation fault
On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, R. Scott Chevalley wrote: > Could be a bad font file. run mkttfdir with strace to trace the > segfault and see if it is trying to open a > particular font. > > # strace mkttfdir Then, better filter the open() syscall with: strace -eopen
Re: [Cooker] Fyi - ISO Image Size - Burning from WinXP/Home
liquid wrote: > I am using WinRar 3.0, and Win XP Pro, and my computer is a AMD athlon > 1.4ghz, and I have no problems. It has to be your burning software, I do > hope you aren't using windows xp's burning software. Re-reading your > email, I see it is winxp doing the burning.. Come on man, that's > horrid... Don't leave it up to Windows to make a burning software, get a > real software. Nero is great, or fireburner, or whatever. I agree. I tried Windows XPs burning support just aout of curiosity and I have to tell you it is no good. It's clumsy and it often had troubles. Just switched off burning OSes burning support. I use Nero Burning ROM and it works great everytime. -- Live long and prosper!
[Cooker] figaro password manager
I have been using fpm for the last couple of years (figaro's password manager) to manage all my password, and it has been pretty stable. Is there any password manager in cooker currently? If not, could we include this one? -- Eugenio Diaz, BSEE/BSCE Linux Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Cooker] Re: gnome still doesn't start.
Le ven 09/08/2002 à 01:05, Han a écrit : > Hi, > > I installed the latest updates from the cooker mirror. I made a > test-account on which happens exactly the same as with my own account. I > don't know why this is happening and I seem to be the only one who is > bothered by this problem. > > So lets debug this before the masses run into it. > > I included a list with all the rpms installed on my system. It doesn't help without the error message.. -- Frederic Crozat MandrakeSoft
[Cooker] libguicast
What provides libguicast.so? [root@fulgore:/home/linux/mandrake-devel/cooker/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS]# rpm -Fvh bcast-2000c-12mdk.i586.rpm error: failed dependencies: libguicast.so is needed by bcast-2000c-12mdk [root@fulgore:/home/linux/mandrake-devel/cooker/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS]# -- Eugenio Diaz, BSEE/BSCE Linux Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Cooker] xinet security updates
One of my best friends, who is a main developer of xinetd alerted me to several security problems that were fixed in the last version 2.3.6. He suggested we should update cooker before the 9.0 release. -- Eugenio Diaz, BSEE/BSCE Linux Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Cooker] Mandrake and Winmodems
Igor Izyumin wrote: > On Thursday 08 August 2002 10:15 pm, Ben Reser wrote: > >>That is not Mandrake's fault. Mandrake doesn't control the kernel. >>They just package it, include a few patches. Changing the driver model >>is something that will take the cooperation of the core kernel >>developers, especially Linus and Alan Cox. > > I'm not faulting Mandrake. I'm saying you can't compare it with Windows > directly. > > >>I still think you're barking up the wrong tree for the issues. >> >>Mandrake has a policy that they don't ship binaries on the GPL CDs. I >>think this is a reasonable policy. They do ship binary drivers, >>depending on the license, in the commercial CD set. > > Yes, it is a reasonable policy. I don't own a CD set, so I can't say what the > quality of it is (I am a "silver" Mandrakeclub member, though). > > >>Fact is most of the newbie users who will have difficultly installing >>these drivers probably are using the commercial CD sets. But even those >>that aren't the Mandrake Club has started packaging some based upon >>requests. For example you can now download RPMs for Nvidia drivers. > > Yes, although some packages in Mandrakeclub seem to be just links to the > manufacturer's RPMs. These don't always work out of the box, from my > experience (example: conexant HCF/HSF modems). AFAIK from what I tried with conexant modems requires an ACPI kernel (which is not the case of our latest). Bye. Giuseppe.
Re: [Cooker] Mandrake and Winmodems: hiding source is totally bogus
Leon Brooks wrote: > On Fri, 9 Aug 2002 06:45, Igor Izyumin wrote: > >>Sometimes, they don't have a choice. > > Yeah, like about once in every two blue moons. > > >>They may have trade secrets or >>something within the driver that would prevent it from being open-sourced. >>For example, if nVidia open-sourced their driver, their competitors could >>use their work for their own chips. Do you think they want that? > > No, I don't. But it _is_ a totally bogus excuse. Their competitors _will_ be > clean-rooming their chips and disassembling their drivers anyway. It's one of > those if-you-outlaw-guns-then-only-outlaws-will-have-guns problems. As things > stand, *only* their competitors have access to their `secrets' and not you or > I, not their more-or-less friends! What could be a worse situation than that? > Better to also give their allies access, no? > > Some point-haired-boss moron lawyer makes that decision, not someone with > their brains actually operating. > > Cheers; Leon > > IMHO, the fact is that sometimes the same company don't probably totally owns the code they include in the closed (or partially closed source) drivers. they ship. E.g. for NVidia I've read it's due to code written from SGI (GLX). Also other companies have claimed the same policy (e.g. the Matrox has the HAL library in closed source object binary only [and thus not included in XFree]). Others instead tried a different approach and let their drivers to be included open source in the main linux/XFree tree (e.g. Adaptec, Compaq for RAID). In other cases, instead companies released binary only drivers but abandoned it (e.g. the ESS module for ESS based winmodems, or the Lexmark printer drivers) so they would work only on old kernels/distributions. Bye. Giuseppe.
[Cooker] emacs-21.2-9mdk
After installing this new package, I observe a strange behaviour of the emacs window. When I launched emacs, the windows opens with 85x46 geometry (Xdefaults) and at the end of the init stage, the window switches to 85x43 geometry when the toobar disappears : in /etc/emacs/site-start.el ... ;; (pixel) Hide toolbar since it's not useful (tool-bar-mode -1) ... When I open a new frame, the geometry is ok (85x46). I'm ok with the comment but how avoiding the resizing of the first window ? Thierry Saura.
RE: [Cooker] Fyi - ISO Image Size - Burning from WinXP/Home
I am using WinRar 3.0, and Win XP Pro, and my computer is a AMD athlon 1.4ghz, and I have no problems. It has to be your burning software, I do hope you aren't using windows xp's burning software. Re-reading your email, I see it is winxp doing the burning.. Come on man, that's horrid... Don't leave it up to Windows to make a burning software, get a real software. Nero is great, or fireburner, or whatever. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of allen Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 10:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Cooker] Fyi - ISO Image Size - Burning from WinXP/Home XP/Home does not want to burn 700MB. It says it wants the ISO to be 44MB smaller to fit on the media. This same media has been working fine from my Linux desktop machine for a couple years ( big stack of CD media ) and I believe previous ISO's (8.2 and before) were of a similar size. I will try different media soon to see what happens. This may be of interest, maybe not. Marketing people may go "hmn..." Anyone else see anything like this ? Just my media sucks ? ( Maybe winrar is interfering, have to try that too. Winrar is the app that "knows" what an .iso is ) If it matters, this is a compaq presario 715us, Athlon 1.4Ghz, Toshiba DVD/CD R,RW. And it has latest updates from both Redmond, and Compaq Driver updates as of today. The compaq driver updates are necessary due to PIO vs. DMA on the CD Drive, evidently a "wrong" default registry setting that cripples CD Write-ability. The "software" doing the burning is XP/Home itself. Drag-n-plop to the CD drive, click a wizard.
[Cooker] tetex-doc-1.0.7-54mdk.i586.rpm
[root@combo RPMS]# rpm -Uv tetex-doc-1.0.7-54mdk.i586.rpm Preparing packages for installation... tetex-doc-1.0.7-54mdk error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/share/texmf/doc/omega/base/omega-manual.pdf;3d535877: cpio: read failed - Bad file descriptor Thierry Saura.
[Cooker] Fyi - ISO Image Size - Burning from WinXP/Home
XP/Home does not want to burn 700MB. It says it wants the ISO to be 44MB smaller to fit on the media. This same media has been working fine from my Linux desktop machine for a couple years ( big stack of CD media ) and I believe previous ISO's (8.2 and before) were of a similar size. I will try different media soon to see what happens. This may be of interest, maybe not. Marketing people may go "hmn..." Anyone else see anything like this ? Just my media sucks ? ( Maybe winrar is interfering, have to try that too. Winrar is the app that "knows" what an .iso is ) If it matters, this is a compaq presario 715us, Athlon 1.4Ghz, Toshiba DVD/CD R,RW. And it has latest updates from both Redmond, and Compaq Driver updates as of today. The compaq driver updates are necessary due to PIO vs. DMA on the CD Drive, evidently a "wrong" default registry setting that cripples CD Write-ability. The "software" doing the burning is XP/Home itself. Drag-n-plop to the CD drive, click a wizard. -AEF -- My new laptop is XP/Home, but before you laugh at me, it has VMWare and mdk 8.2 also ;)
Re: [Cooker] 9.0 BETA - Bug report / Installation - rapport de bug beta 9 rpm2 installé via cooker d
Bonjour, Ce fichier est installé par la bêta, j'ai eu le même problème que vous car j'utilise cooker depuis juin. Je vous le met en attachement. Si vous bêta-testez cooker, je vous conseille de vous abonner à la mailing-list de cooker. Pour ce faire, cliquez sur le lien "cooker" de la page d'accueil, dans la partie "je suis développeur", et lisez les instructions de la page ou vous arriverez. Bon bêta testing ! :-) Aurélien Bompard -- ,--.-'-,--. \ /-~-\ / / )' . . `( \ ( ( ,---. ) ) \ `(_o_o_)' / \ `-' / | |---| | [_] [_] # --- Workstation Office Workstation [icon=office] [path=Workstation] [descr=Office programs: wordprocessors (kword, abiword), spreadsheets (kspread, gnumeric), pdf viewers, etc] OFFICE PUBLISHING PIM Game station [icon=arcade] [path=Workstation] [descr=Amusement programs: arcade, boards, strategy, etc] GAMES Multimedia station [icon=multimedia] [path=Workstation] [descr=Sound and video playing/editing programs] AUDIO VIDEO GRAPHICS Internet station [icon=networking] [path=Workstation] [descr=Set of tools to read and send mail and news (pine, mutt, tin..) and to browse the Web] NETWORKING_WWW NETWORKING_MAIL NETWORKING_NEWS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKING_CHAT NETWORKING_FILE_TRANSFER NETWORKING_IRC NETWORKING_INSTANT_MESSAGING NETWORKING_DNS Network Computer (client) [icon=terminals] [path=Workstation] [descr=Clients for different protocols including ssh] NETWORKING_REMOTE_ACCESS NETWORKING_FILE Configuration [icon=configuration] [path=Workstation] [descr=Tools to ease the configuration of your computer] CONFIG WEBMIN Scientific Workstation [icon=sciences] [path=Workstation] [descr=] SCIENCES Console Tools [icon=terminals] [path=Workstation] [descr=Editors, shells, file tools, terminals] EDITORS TERMINALS TEXT_TOOLS SHELLS FILE_TOOLS # --- Graphical Environment KDE Workstation [icon=kde] [path=Graphical Environment] [descr=The K Desktop Environment, the basic graphical environment with a collection of accompanying tools] KDE X Gnome Workstation [icon=gnome] [path=Graphical Environment] [descr=A graphical environment with user-friendly set of applications and desktop tools] GNOME X Other Graphical Desktops [icon=windowmanager] [path=Graphical Environment] [descr=Icewm, Window Maker, Enlightenment, Fvwm, etc] GRAPHICAL_DESKTOP X # --- Development Development [icon=editors] [path=Development] [descr=C and C++ development libraries, programs and include files] DEVELOPMENT EDITORS Documentation [icon=documentation] [path=Development] [descr=Books and Howto's on Linux and Free Software] BOOKS # --- Server Web/FTP [icon=file_transfer] [path=Server] [descr=Apache, Pro-ftpd] NETWORKING_WWW_SERVER NETWORKING_FILE_TRANSFER_SERVER Mail/Groupware/News [icon=mail] [path=Server] [descr=Postfix mail server, Inn news server] NETWORKING_MAIL_SERVER NETWORKING_NEWS_SERVER Database [icon=archiving] [path=Server] [descr=PostgreSQL or MySQL database server] DATABASES DATABASES_SERVER Firewall/Router [icon=networking] [path=Server] [descr=Internet gateway] NETWORKING_FIREWALLING_SERVER DNS/NIS [icon=hardware] [path=Server] [descr=Domain Name and Network Information Server] NIS_SERVER NETWORKING_DNS_SERVER Network Computer server [icon=networking] [path=Server] [descr=NFS server, SMB server, Proxy server, ssh server] NETWORKING_FILE_SERVER NETWORKING_REMOTE_ACCESS_SERVER
Thank you - Re: [Cooker] Beta2 - rpmdrake - manual upgrade
Somehow I didn't see that in the archive... maybe I needed to go back a week or so... oops... The other problem is still interesting about the "db4" and Page not found. Does anyone else test trying to upgrade things manually or is that not kosher ? -AEF On Thursday 08 August 2002 11:25 pm, Damon Lynch wrote: > In an earlier mail on this list someone pointed out this: > > ftp://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/mandrake/cooker/cooker/i586/Mandrake/base/comps >sUsers > > Download it and name it /var/lib/urpmi/compssUsers.flat. Or copy it > from any 8.2 box. gc posted a URL last week to download the one that he > uses. > > On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 14:22, allen wrote: > > How do I get a compssUsers.flat if I do not boot off of the cd > > and use that upgrade method ?
Re: [Cooker] Ship beta CDs?
On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 10:15:44PM -0500, Gordon Hollenbeck wrote: > Because DirePC limits my downloading to 150MB a day, it takes me a while > to get the beta ISOs downloaded (I couldn't get beta 1 downloaded before > beta 2 came out), so I was wondering if anyone could mail me the CDs and > I could mail back blank replacements. > > It would be nice if someone in Texas, USA could help (faster shipping > times) so that I can start beta testing before the next beta comes out. I'd be willing to but I'm in Washington State. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org If your love has no hope of being welcomed do not voice it; for if it be silent it can endure, a guarded flame, within you. - The Wisdom of the Sands
Re: [Cooker] Beta2 - rpmdrake - manual upgrade
In an earlier mail on this list someone pointed out this: ftp://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/mandrake/cooker/cooker/i586/Mandrake/base/compssUsers Download it and name it /var/lib/urpmi/compssUsers.flat. Or copy it from any 8.2 box. gc posted a URL last week to download the one that he uses. On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 14:22, allen wrote: > > How do I get a compssUsers.flat if I do not boot off of the cd > and use that upgrade method ?
Re: [Cooker] Mandrake and Winmodems
On Thursday 08 August 2002 09:07 pm, Igor Izyumin wrote: > > > Your argument is falling on deaf ears anyway. The policy is set. It's > > not going to change now. Exactly the point. Not to mention that allot of us agree with the way it's being done. You want to know how it works in real life? This is an example. You can download the drivers from nvidia of whoever and they don't charge you but when mandrake or red hat or whoever aproaches them and says can we distibute your drivers with our product? The response for allot of these things is yes you can for 1$ for every time you give it out or whatever price they set. I'm not saying nvidia does this but alot of other companies do. So the policy is you have to pay to get them because it costs mandrake to give them out. Now is it fair to say gime gime gime when it costs mandrake to give it out and yet you want it for free. Well that is if it is to be put on the gpl cd's. I understand you pay for it. Please read this before you say anything back: http://www.water-cool.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=17 It's called why we should not take linux for granted please do read it. > > I was mostly hoping to change some people's attitudes towards a few things, > I don't really care much about changing policies. I know, this is probably > not the right forum for such things (sorry :), but I think that sometimes > people need to consider things from more than one viewpoint. -- -~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~- Brook Humphrey Mobile PC Medic, 420 1st, Cheney, WA 99004, 509-235-9107 http://www.webmedic.net, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Holiness unto the Lord -~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-
[Cooker] Licq 1.2.0a?
Hi, not trying to be impatient, but I'm just wondering if a Licq 1.2.0a package is heading our way. Thanks. __ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com
Re: [Cooker] Mandrake and Winmodems
On Thursday 08 August 2002 10:15 pm, Ben Reser wrote: > That is not Mandrake's fault. Mandrake doesn't control the kernel. > They just package it, include a few patches. Changing the driver model > is something that will take the cooperation of the core kernel > developers, especially Linus and Alan Cox. I'm not faulting Mandrake. I'm saying you can't compare it with Windows directly. > I still think you're barking up the wrong tree for the issues. > > Mandrake has a policy that they don't ship binaries on the GPL CDs. I > think this is a reasonable policy. They do ship binary drivers, > depending on the license, in the commercial CD set. Yes, it is a reasonable policy. I don't own a CD set, so I can't say what the quality of it is (I am a "silver" Mandrakeclub member, though). > Fact is most of the newbie users who will have difficultly installing > these drivers probably are using the commercial CD sets. But even those > that aren't the Mandrake Club has started packaging some based upon > requests. For example you can now download RPMs for Nvidia drivers. Yes, although some packages in Mandrakeclub seem to be just links to the manufacturer's RPMs. These don't always work out of the box, from my experience (example: conexant HCF/HSF modems). > Your argument is falling on deaf ears anyway. The policy is set. It's > not going to change now. I was mostly hoping to change some people's attitudes towards a few things, I don't really care much about changing policies. I know, this is probably not the right forum for such things (sorry :), but I think that sometimes people need to consider things from more than one viewpoint. -- -- Igor
[Cooker] Ship beta CDs?
Because DirePC limits my downloading to 150MB a day, it takes me a while to get the beta ISOs downloaded (I couldn't get beta 1 downloaded before beta 2 came out), so I was wondering if anyone could mail me the CDs and I could mail back blank replacements. It would be nice if someone in Texas, USA could help (faster shipping times) so that I can start beta testing before the next beta comes out. -- "I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not so sure." Gordon Hollenbeck | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AKA: Thrawn / Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 60306035 / MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---+ Phoenix Online Open Souce, 3D, MMORPG The Next Wave Looking for web host http://www.murtos.com/po/
[Cooker] DirecPC stalled downloads
I am behind a SyGate gateway that is under Windows 98. The internet access is provided by DirePC. Previously, 90% of all downloads stalled. The problem is in the communication from the client to the server, the server wasn't receiving the ack TCP messages from the client. See the attached output of tcpdump. ack 4489777 That line is repeated often. It is the acknowledgment by the client to the server to say that he has received the TCP packets. I suspect that the gateway is at fault (Winblows). But to make a long story short, the solution to the problem is to put the following in /etc/rc.local: echo 134900 >> /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_default echo 134900 >> /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_max echo 0 >> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_timestamps echo 1 >> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_sack echo 1 >> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling ifconfig eth0 mtu 1460 To make this easier for users, in drakconnect, you could ask "Are you using DirecPC?" and if they are, add those lines to rc.local. -- "I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not so sure." Gordon Hollenbeck | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AKA: Thrawn / Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 60306035 / MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---+ Phoenix Online Open Souce, 3D, MMORPG The Next Wave Looking for web host http://www.murtos.com/po/
[Cooker] shorewall-1.3.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/93255/ -- Regards // Oden Eriksson Deserve-IT Networks -> http://d-srv.com
Re: [Cooker] Mandrake and Winmodems
On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 10:10:21PM -0500, Igor Izyumin wrote: > Do you think Mandrake should always be one step behind Microsoft? Then why > not use Microsoft? Are you saying Microsoft should be the role model for > Mandrake? And by the way, it's hell of a lot easier to install drivers under > Microsoft's OSs than with Linux. When you can install any driver on Linux in > about 10 minutes without using the console, then you can begin drawing lines > between Linux and Windows. That is not Mandrake's fault. Mandrake doesn't control the kernel. They just package it, include a few patches. Changing the driver model is something that will take the cooperation of the core kernel developers, especially Linus and Alan Cox. I still think you're barking up the wrong tree for the issues. Mandrake has a policy that they don't ship binaries on the GPL CDs. I think this is a reasonable policy. They do ship binary drivers, depending on the license, in the commercial CD set. Fact is most of the newbie users who will have difficultly installing these drivers probably are using the commercial CD sets. But even those that aren't the Mandrake Club has started packaging some based upon requests. For example you can now download RPMs for Nvidia drivers. Your argument is falling on deaf ears anyway. The policy is set. It's not going to change now. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org If your love has no hope of being welcomed do not voice it; for if it be silent it can endure, a guarded flame, within you. - The Wisdom of the Sands
Re: [Cooker] Mandrake and Winmodems
On Thursday 08 August 2002 05:42 pm, Brook Humphrey wrote: > Again complain about this to the companies. When was the last time windows > included nvidia drivers. They include a generic frame buffer driver and if > you want the other you have to install it. Wow mandrake does you one better > if you buy the product they even include the drivers for you. They are > already one step ahead of microsoft. Do you think Mandrake should always be one step behind Microsoft? Then why not use Microsoft? Are you saying Microsoft should be the role model for Mandrake? And by the way, it's hell of a lot easier to install drivers under Microsoft's OSs than with Linux. When you can install any driver on Linux in about 10 minutes without using the console, then you can begin drawing lines between Linux and Windows. -- -- Igor
Re: [Cooker] Mandrake and Winmodems: hiding source is totally bogus
On Thursday 08 August 2002 07:52 pm, Leon Brooks wrote: > No, I don't. But it _is_ a totally bogus excuse. Their competitors _will_ > be clean-rooming their chips and disassembling their drivers anyway. I very much doubt that - it's too hard and too expensive. It's hard enough to write drivers, and even harder to disassemble them. It's easier to develop your own, I would think. But when you have full access to the source code, it's a different story. > It's > one of those if-you-outlaw-guns-then-only-outlaws-will-have-guns problems. > As things stand, *only* their competitors have access to their `secrets' > and not you or I, not their more-or-less friends! What could be a worse > situation than that? Better to also give their allies access, no? Well, they won't really care; if their competitors do reverse engineer their drivers, they will pay double for the drivers and will be left with a technology that's a generation old. It's kinda like the joke about stealing computer blueprints... by the time you steal them, they're already outdated. The goal is to make it harder - it's just like security screws and warranty stickers on hardware. > Some point-haired-boss moron lawyer makes that decision, not someone with > their brains actually operating. Yes, but that's the reality. An OEM won't permit their techies to distribute drivers if it's not ok with the lawyerbots. -- -- Igor
Re: [Cooker] drakconf/menudrake close bug
Alastair Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i. from the Control Centre, select System | Menus; > > ii. close the 'Menu to edit' window (ie press neither 'System menu' or 'Root > menu'); > > iii. menudrake goes on to edit the System menu. > > Of course, focus should go back to the Control Centre after step ii. Could you rephrase? What's the exact problem? Trying to follow your steps but fail to reproduce the 'bug'.
[Cooker] Beta2 - rpmdrake - manual upgrade
I have Mandrake 9.0 Beta 2 "on top of" Mandrake 8.2 via a little combination of "rpm -Uvh" "rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force" "urpmi..." rpmdrake... sheesh. Anyway, it is in a way "cooler" than the old one. I would like to make it work... er, better. I have two problems, as they both have to do directly with rpmdrake I'm including them here. 1. Since I upgraded most everything manually, rpmdrake complains something about not having the [ compssUsers.flat ] I can make it shut up by "touch"ing that file. How do I get a compssUsers.flat if I do not boot off of the cd and use that upgrade method ? I'm braindead or there's no docs... 2. This seems to have cleared up but I was getting a lot of complaining about "db4 page not found" Seemed like a memory swapping something kind of problem. There is no db4 anything that appears to be included in the beta. This is either two questions or two bug reports... ? -AEF
Re: [Cooker] rfbdrake-0.8.3-4mdk
Tech At Mathco Dot Com <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When running rfbdrake from the kde menu it starts up but dies > after a few seconds after connecting to the host... showing below. Seems to be fixed now. Could you test with rfbdrake-0.8.3-6mdk?
Re: [Cooker] Gnomemeeting Error
"David Bolin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > rpm -qa | grep pwlib = pwlib1-1.3.3-1mdk > rpm -qa | grep openh323 = openh323_1-1.9.3-1mdk > rpm -q gnomemeeting = gnomemeeting-0.92-0.4mdk latest gnomemeeting is 0.93-2mdk.
[Cooker] 9.0-beta2 drakconnect bug
I just installed 9.0beta2 on a friends workstation and encountered a showstopper bug in drakconnect. here are the details: I didnt set up networking on initial install because I didnt know what kind of ISA nic card was being used and auto-probing didnt work. After the install, I found out it was a ne2000 compatible ISA card (ne module). Went to drakconf, started drakconnect. ran the wizard, no go. I tried to specify the options, still no go. however, from a cmd-line, I could load the module correctly (modprobe ne io=0x300). the problem: drakconnect doesnt just run "modprobe ne io=0x300". I runs "modprobe ne (comma seperated values) io=io=0x300". 2 notes. 1) the part in parans are definately in the command issued by drakconnect and 2) the duplicate 'io=' part might be me. we didnt have time to check that part. Also, I am not subscribed to the cooker list anymore, so if someone could get this to the right place? Im thinking any module that needs params will have this problem. David -- "I find your lack of faith disturbing." --Darth Vader --- 9:00pm up 36 days, 10:44, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Re: [Cooker] PHP configuration (almost everything is disabled)
Richard Tango-Lowy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are you referring ot the extensions? > > The php-session and php-gettext packages don't appear to be included > with beta 2. I installed them from rpmfind and everything now works. Is > there a reason they aren't included in 9.0? They are now reintegrated in main.
[Cooker] gpilotd crashes
Using the very latest Cooker packages (as of about 1900 hours GMT-5:00, 8 August), gpilotd exhibits repeatable crashes on my system. In addition, the gpilotd started by default during my GNOME login does not respond to hotsync inits started by pushing the hotsync button on the cradle. More detail (1): Using gpilot-install-file to install a PDB or PRC file seems to work fine, the first time I try it. The second time, gpilotd crashes immediately after I press the hotsync button. For me, at least, this is consistently reproduceable, and does not seem to depend on any particular PRC or PDB file. Any hotsyncs that do not involve gpilot-install-file seem to work just fine. After gpilotd dies, I can restart it and try again, and the transfer works fine. A second attempt at installing a file with gpilot-install-file always fails, and kills gpilotd. More detail (2): When I log into the GNOME environment, gpilotd appears to have been started with no switches. Pressing the hotsync button on the cradle does not start a transfer. After killing gpilotd and restarting, hotsyncs initiated from the cradle work fine. I'm using an IBM Workpad C3 (a rebadged Palm Vx) running PalmOS 4.1. It's in a serial hotsync cradle connected to /dev/ttyS0. A further nitpick: during testing of the gpilot-install-file problem, I accidentally managed to produce a corrupted PDB file. Attempting to transfer this seems to kill gpilotd instantly -- it would be nice if gpilotd were to abort the transfer and recover gracefully. -- "However, Science People like to believe in laws, even when such laws can be circumvented by their own Science. They become most displeased if you suggest it would be more accurate to speak of the Generally Good Idea of Gravity or the Three Useful Guidelines of Thermodynamics." -- James Alan Gardner, /Ascending/
Re: [Cooker] Mandrake and Winmodems: hiding source is totally bogus
On Fri, 9 Aug 2002 06:45, Igor Izyumin wrote: > Sometimes, they don't have a choice. Yeah, like about once in every two blue moons. > They may have trade secrets or > something within the driver that would prevent it from being open-sourced. > For example, if nVidia open-sourced their driver, their competitors could > use their work for their own chips. Do you think they want that? No, I don't. But it _is_ a totally bogus excuse. Their competitors _will_ be clean-rooming their chips and disassembling their drivers anyway. It's one of those if-you-outlaw-guns-then-only-outlaws-will-have-guns problems. As things stand, *only* their competitors have access to their `secrets' and not you or I, not their more-or-less friends! What could be a worse situation than that? Better to also give their allies access, no? Some point-haired-boss moron lawyer makes that decision, not someone with their brains actually operating. Cheers; Leon
[Cooker] gco (GNOME Comics Oragnizer)
This used to be in contrib but it disappeared back around like 7.1 as far as I can tell. I've repackaged it anew... uploaded it to the incoming folder. Until (and if) it goes into contrib it's available here: http://mirror.brain.org/linux/breser (I have 8.2/i586, 8.2/ppc and cooker/x86 versions available there) Name: gco Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 0.3.3 Vendor: MandrakeSoft Release : 1mdk Build Date: Thu 08 Aug 2002 05:12:20 PM PDT Install date: (not installed) Build Host: occipital.brain.org Group : Databases Source RPM: gco-0.3.3-1mdk.src.rpm Size: 248846 License: GPL Packager: Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://www.daimi.au.dk/~maxx/html/maxximum-linux.html Summary : GNOME Comics Organizer Description : GNOME Comics Organizer GNOME Comics Organizer is a program to help you keep track of your comics collection. * Thu Aug 08 2002 Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 0.3.3-1mdk - Reintroduce to Mandrake -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org If your love has no hope of being welcomed do not voice it; for if it be silent it can endure, a guarded flame, within you. - The Wisdom of the Sands
Re: [Cooker] Gnomemeeting Error
rpm -qa | grep pwlib = pwlib1-1.3.3-1mdk rpm -qa | grep openh323 = openh323_1-1.9.3-1mdk rpm -q gnomemeeting = gnomemeeting-0.92-0.4mdk Florin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Bolin) writes: > > > [bscar@bscar bscar]$ gnomemeeting > > gnomemeeting: relocation error: gnomemeeting: undefined symbol: > > _ZTVN13PArrayObjects11ObjPtrArrayE > > > > make sure you have the latest version. > > what do you get with the following commands ? > > rpm -qa|grep pwlib > rpm -qa|grep openh323 > rpm -q gnomemeeting > > cheers, > -- > Florinhttp://www.mandrakesoft.com > http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~florin/ > -- Just when you think you were making progress you realize that you were facing backwards.
Re: [Cooker] drakxservices
Elliott Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > now after looking at it, it appears that all the scripts in /etc/init.d are in > order, but make up the second half of the alphabetized list. i think i understand, i'll fix it.
Re: [Cooker] Resizing ext3 partition
Paul Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > I didn't have enough space to run the upgrade, so I thought I'd just use the > partitioner to increase the size of my main ext3 partition. I got rid of the > swap, leaving nothing but empty space "to the right" of the partition I want > to make bigger, but the disk partitioner would only give me the option to > shrink the partition. Is this the correct procedure? What action would you > recommend? you should have a log on console 3, something like dumpe2fs /dev/xxx gives: ... can you give it?
[Cooker] XPM icons and the howto...
Just noticed that the howto still refers to icons for the menu system as being xpm's. It ought to reference png's. :) -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org If your love has no hope of being welcomed do not voice it; for if it be silent it can endure, a guarded flame, within you. - The Wisdom of the Sands
Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] djbsupport-1.0-4mdk
On torsdagen den 8 augusti 2002 12.17 Vincent Danen wrote: > On Thu Aug 08, 2002 at 02:14:03PM -0400, Oden Eriksson wrote: > > > Looking at ftp.rpmhelp.net/pub/Mandrake/djbware/9.0/RPMS, there is no > > > qmail nor djbdns package (there are some for 8.2). > > > Do I need to rebuild the 8.2 SRPMs for my cooker ? > > > > I don't know, but "rpm --rebuild the_file.src.rpm" would do the trick. > > Patience... =) I just put the 9.0 tree up yesterday and haven't had a > chance to put anything there yet. > > qmail will not work with a --rebuild, unless you use the 7.2 build, > because qmail users are no longer in the setup package. I have a new > version that fixes this, but I've just been testing it these last days > and haven't had a chance to put it on the site yet, along with the > other packages. > > By this weekend they should be up. Cool!. Then I rip these and see if I find time to make them dietized. I started on a dietizing howto for the DJB suite as an article for mandrakesecure.net, but it's damn hard to "put on paper". -- Regards // Oden Eriksson Deserve-IT Networks -> http://d-srv.com
Re: [Cooker] Mandrake and Winmodems
On Thursday 08 August 2002 03:45 pm, Igor Izyumin wrote: > > As I said previously, you can't always expect open-source drivers, just > like you can't expect every program to be free/open source. Drivers cost > money to develop, and open-sourcing them is not always an option. Again complain about this to the companies. When was the last time windows included nvidia drivers. They include a generic frame buffer driver and if you want the other you have to install it. Wow mandrake does you one better if you buy the product they even include the drivers for you. They are already one step ahead of microsoft. -- -~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~- Brook Humphrey Mobile PC Medic, 420 1st, Cheney, WA 99004, 509-235-9107 http://www.webmedic.net, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Holiness unto the Lord -~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-
[Cooker] 9.0 BETA - Bug report / Wireless Prism2_pci/pcmcia(cs)/usb support
mandrakeexpert incident 28779 forwarded to cooker. -- Alan quoted text below ben_jir_man : 08/08 05:17 : Incident created Prism2_pci support is not available by default. the implementation of the source found at: http://www.linux-wlan.com would greatly improve the usefulness of mandrake 9.0 final when it is available. the source is (to my understanding) stable at this point, but when I attempt to build it under the newer versions of the kernel I recieve error messages about my kernel source being of invalid type. I'm sure the guys at the linux-wlan website would be happy to fix the little bugs if it were to get packaged with a distro. Just a thought. Hope to see some wireless networking support on the GUI install in the near future, it would be amazing if it would auto-detect my card and just ask me for the required information to save to the /etc/wlan.conf files and have my wlan up and running out of the box. Thanks for your time, Benjamin Anderson -end quoted text-
Re: [Cooker] PHP configuration (almost everything is disabled)
On torsdagen den 8 augusti 2002 18.29 Richard Tango-Lowy wrote: > Which other extensions are missing? I have no idea because I don't have these ISO:s at home, I only have the Cooker repository. > Rich > > On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 00:31, Oden Eriksson wrote: > > The php-session and php-gettext packages don't appear to be included > > with beta 2. I installed them from rpmfind and everything now works. > > Is there a reason they aren't included in 9.0? > > Oops, I think someone made a mistake there..., I have sent a list at > least 2 times with the extensions that should be moved from contribs to > main. -- Regards // Oden Eriksson Deserve-IT Networks -> http://d-srv.com
[Cooker] 9.0 BETA - Bug report / usb radio & devices
mandrakeexpert incident 28776 forwarded to cooker. -- Alan quoted text below myd2 : 08/08 04:28 : Incident created I have a dsbr100 d-link usb radio.(and a hauppage tv card) When there was /dev/radio the radio worked good with the gradio program, but with the late updates of mandrake, even with Mandrake Linux 9.0 beta2, I must write "gradio -d /dev/video1' for the frequences to appear but the sound and volume doesn't work at all. Can you tell me what's wrong with that ? My email is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for all. -end quoted text-
[Cooker] 9.0 BETA - Bug report / Installation - 9.0beta2 F1 key
mandrakeexpert incident 28741 forwarded to cooker. -- Alan quoted text below acmiddleton : 07/08 04:46 : Incident created Hitting F1 following reboot (see my last ticket), just resulted in a pure blue screen. I hit ESC a couple of times and got some text, but I'm pretty sure the system is locked up (keyboard beeps now when I type any key, fan turned on, indicating CPU is in tight loop). My system: Dell Latitude C600/C500, 1Ghz PIII, 256M SDRAM, 14.1 SXGA display, 8x CDRW, Win2k/8.1 Mandrake dual boot. Had a compact flash plugged in, as well has ethernet cable. BIOS is up to date. This problem is repeatible. Good news: I rebooted, and this time tried just installing rather than upgrading linux, after a few boot messages, the GUI resumed. Everything from this point worked fine: I just set my mount point, picked packages, but did a cancel and went back and mounted /home because I forgot, and the install worked fine, though at the end of the first time wizard, when the browser was invoked, the size was wrong, and it looked confusing. -end quoted text-
Re: [Cooker] PHP configuration (almost everything is disabled)
Which other extensions are missing? Rich On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 00:31, Oden Eriksson wrote: > The php-session and php-gettext packages don't appear to be included > with beta 2. I installed them from rpmfind and everything now works. Is > there a reason they aren't included in 9.0? Oops, I think someone made a mistake there..., I have sent a list at least 2 times with the extensions that should be moved from contribs to main. -- ars Cognita Richard Tango-Lowy - President [EMAIL PROTECTED] 603 424-0713 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake-remove crash
On Thu, 8 Aug 2002 15:17:31 -0700 Todd Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jaco Greeff wrote on Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 09:18:12AM +0200 : > > > > I must admit, I don't like the fact that the rpmdrake* tools close down > > after installing/uninstalling one package. > > gc fixed that in the current version. It now restarts after an action > completes. > It's better, but it still looks rather silly to have it close and restart. It should just return to the file list. -- Murray J. Root DISCLAIMER: http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/ Mandrake on IRC #mandrake & #mandrake-linux = help for newbies (irc.openprojects.net) #mdk-cooker = Mandrake Cooker (irc.openprojects.net) #mandrakeguru = merged with #mandrake on irc.oftc.net
[Cooker] 9.0 BETA - Bug report / Installation - rapport de bug beta 9 rpm2 installé via cooker d
mandrakeexpert incident 28740 forwarded to cooker. -- Alan quoted text below taurus06800 : 07/08 04:39 : Incident created rpmdrake 2.0.5. apres une mise a jour de rpmdrake et de ses composants via cooker, je recois un message d'erreur lorsque je selectionne "install software" ou "remove software". voici le message : "impossible de trouver /var/lib/urpmi/compssUsers.flat, l'installation aurait pourtant du le generer. la classification choix mandrake sera desactivée." ce problmeme ne vient peut etre que de la version cooker mise a jour et ne concerne pas la beta... cordialement. [EMAIL PROTECTED] taurus06800 sur mandrake -end quoted text-
Re: [Cooker] Mandrake and Winmodems
On Thursday 08 August 2002 04:28 pm, Ben Reser wrote: > Yet so many people here complain because Mandrake doesn't ship xyz > driver for their hardware. I complain when they don't ship it on purpose, because of a "political" decision that could have been worked out with some effort. > Well the hardware manufacturers know that > their drivers won't be integrated if they don't make source available. > They've made a business decision. They've decided that they don't care > very much about Linux support or that the few people who use Linux won't > mind going looking for their drivers. Sometimes, they don't have a choice. They may have trade secrets or something within the driver that would prevent it from being open-sourced. For example, if nVidia open-sourced their driver, their competitors could use their work for their own chips. Do you think they want that? > So the way I see it is if you don't like the driver situation complain > the the hardware manufacturers. Ultimately they are the ones > responsible for making the driver available. They are the ones who have > decided to make the drivers available under terms that are not really > compatible with the Linux communities expectations. As I said previously, you can't always expect open-source drivers, just like you can't expect every program to be free/open source. Drivers cost money to develop, and open-sourcing them is not always an option. -- -- Igor
Re: [Cooker] PHP configuration (almost everything is disabled)
On torsdagen den 8 augusti 2002 18.10 Richard Tango-Lowy wrote: > Are you referring ot the extensions? > > The php-session and php-gettext packages don't appear to be included > with beta 2. I installed them from rpmfind and everything now works. Is > there a reason they aren't included in 9.0? Oops, I think someone made a mistake there..., I have sent a list at least 2 times with the extensions that should be moved from contribs to main. > Rich > > On Sat, 2002-08-03 at 13:32, Oden Eriksson wrote: > > In 8.2, almost everything was enabled. Is there a reason for the > > change? > > My fault for cutting it to pieces..., but if you check further down on > that same page there's valuble info for you. > > -- > Regards // Oden Eriksson > Deserve-IT Networks -> http://d-srv.com -- Regards // Oden Eriksson Deserve-IT Networks -> http://d-srv.com
[Cooker] live_update problems
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For the last few days, live_update hasn't installed any packages. When it gets to the package installation stage it gives me several errors saying it couldn't install a package (19 last time I tried) and the a few seconds after the last error it goes on to the next stage, and it doesn't seem to install any new packages. (I'm not on the mailing list; please cc all replies to my address) - -- Richard Garand - r i c h a r d @ g a r a n d n e t . n e t ICQ: 12190132 - http://www.garandnet.net Katz' Law: Man and nations will act rationally when all other possibilities have been exhausted. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9UuxEjuZKnjxs0fMRAiRNAJ94BHUSZG6KEQux8c4NijSRZFmnkACg/lyE mswM3ZiauMVfagDDqfOJoNI= =y1br -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake-remove crash
Jaco Greeff wrote on Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 09:18:12AM +0200 : > > I must admit, I don't like the fact that the rpmdrake* tools close down > after installing/uninstalling one package. gc fixed that in the current version. It now restarts after an action completes. Blue skies... Todd -- Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.0-0.2mdk Kernel 2.4.18-21mdk msg69619/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [Cooker] PHP configuration (almost everything is disabled)
Are you referring ot the extensions? The php-session and php-gettext packages don't appear to be included with beta 2. I installed them from rpmfind and everything now works. Is there a reason they aren't included in 9.0? Rich On Sat, 2002-08-03 at 13:32, Oden Eriksson wrote: > In 8.2, almost everything was enabled. Is there a reason for the change? My fault for cutting it to pieces..., but if you check further down on that same page there's valuble info for you. -- Regards // Oden Eriksson Deserve-IT Networks -> http://d-srv.com -- ars Cognita Richard Tango-Lowy - President [EMAIL PROTECTED] 603 424-0713 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [Cooker] Mandrake and Winmodems
Igor Izyumin wrote on Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 12:39:47PM -0500 : > > Also, about the nvidia drivers: they are some of the best drivers I have ever > used. nVidia has the best 3D drivers out there. And could somebody please > enlighten me about the usefulness of open-source drivers for a proprietary > video card or modem, especially if these drivers come with an open-source > wrapper (so that you can fix it when kernel changes break it)? And they are only provided to you by Mandrake on the Commercial Applications CDs. I can see binary only winmodem drivers being placed on the Commercial Apps CDs as well, but NOT in Main. Blue skies... Todd -- Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.0-0.2mdk Kernel 2.4.18-21mdk msg69617/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[Cooker] small rpmdrake bug
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If I add a new source in sourcemanager, but if it is unable to download the synthesis file the program now adds the source but deactivates it. So far so good. But If I then quit the sourcemanager and restart it, the source is there, unchecked, but upon editting it, it lost its source location URL. Danny - - -- The state of innocence contains the germs of all future sin. -- Alexandre Arnoux, "Etudes et caprices" -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9UqQ7aeiN+EU2vEIRAnpQAJ4yjSJMPD7B+Ux41lA8yQua1hGesACfVz2f Hqq3apebkewJKJ7abyAwYQI= =cs9c -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[Cooker] Gaim don't work
It crashes on run -- Mr. Jeremy Salch - Data Services Granbury.Com, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email www.granbury.com - Business Website www.tblx.net - Personal Website
Re: [Cooker] drakxservices
On Thursday 08 August 2002 01:44 pm, Pixel wrote: > Jure Repinc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Pixel wrote: > > > Elliott Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>Would it be posible to alphabetize the services listed in > > >> drakxservices? > > > > > > alphabetize? what do you mean? > > > > Make an option to order/sort them by name. > > well, it's already done so, and that's also what i get when testing! When I run drakxservices here's the ordering i get of the services (i'll just list the first letter...) c,d,e,f,l,r,s,t,a,c,d,g,h,i,k,l,m,n,o,p,r,s,u,w,x now after looking at it, it appears that all the scripts in /etc/init.d are in order, but make up the second half of the alphabetized list. maybe you could put all those in a frame or something if you are going to keep them separated like that, or just alphabetize the whole list.
Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 9.0 beta 2 : XFdrake and S3Trio3D/2X
Pixel wrote: >4MB is the default, not the detected VideoRam ;pp > >I'm going to change this a little, but anyway I don't wanna rely on >ddc probed VideoRam which is sometimes wrong (which caused the need >for the "Show All" button in 8.2) > But some explanation to the user that suggested 4MB might be inaccurate would be nice :-) BTW I'm noticing this on the console when runing XFdrake.: using different removable device [/dev/hdb] for "disc 1 MandrakeLinux 9.0 beta2 (x86) (cdrom1)" using different removable device [/dev/hdb] for "disc 2 Mandrake Linux 9.0 beta 2 (x86) (cdrom2)" using different removable device [/dev/hdb] for "disc 3 Mandrake Linux 9.0 beta 2 (x86) (cdrom3)" Looks like supermount might be causing this. It may explain this cdrom - munging stuff... What does XFdrake want to do with installer discs anyway? -- Olo GG#: 274614 ICQ UIN: 19780575 http://olo.office.altkom.com.pl
Re: [Cooker] Obvious upgrade from 9.0b1 to 9.0b2 bugs
On Thu, 2002-08-08 at 21:25, Frederic Crozat wrote: > > > 3. The only correctly configured desktop icons under gnome 2 are > >CD-ROM, CD-ROM (2), MandrakeOnline, and Trash. The rest have > >the foot icon. > > What is "the rest" ?? > Apologies Frederic. I was referring to icons such as the various Mandrake icons like Mandrake Control Center (except for MandrakeOnline), as well as the Gnome Start Here and Home icons. Damon
Re: [Cooker] ~/-bash:
Quel Qun wrote: > Hi, > > For some reason I end up with a file named -bash: in my home > folder and it screws up the * expansion: > > $ ls * > ls: invalid option -- : > Try `ls --help' for more information. > > It took me some time to find a way to remove this file, so just > in case it happens to anyone else, just use > > $ rm -f ./-bash\: > ls -- * rm -- -bash:
Re: [Cooker] Mandrake and Winmodems
On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 12:39:47PM -0500, Igor Izyumin wrote: > [rant] > Not including the driver in the distribution would mean that users will have > to hunt them down, download, compile, and install them. These things are > very annoying to do, especially when your modem is not working. Mandrake > should really be more considerate to their users, and should at least try to > work out an acceptable license with the driver's authors. The driver should > DEFINITELY be included if the license permits it. The only reason users don't have to do this for Windows is because hardware manufacturers make their hardware work with generic windows drivers, Microsoft writes a driver for their hardware (probably after signing confidentiality agreements that would preclude an open source driver), or the manufacturer actually ships their own driver with the hardware. Most of the time even if one of the previous two occurs they still ship a driver. Very few hardware manufacturers ship drivers for Linux with their hardware. Some of them make them available via their website. I guess my point here is that nobody whines when Windows doesn't include every driver under the sun. They just use the driver made available with the hardware. Yet so many people here complain because Mandrake doesn't ship xyz driver for their hardware. Well the hardware manufacturers know that their drivers won't be integrated if they don't make source available. They've made a business decision. They've decided that they don't care very much about Linux support or that the few people who use Linux won't mind going looking for their drivers. So the way I see it is if you don't like the driver situation complain the the hardware manufacturers. Ultimately they are the ones responsible for making the driver available. They are the ones who have decided to make the drivers available under terms that are not really compatible with the Linux communities expectations. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org If your love has no hope of being welcomed do not voice it; for if it be silent it can endure, a guarded flame, within you. - The Wisdom of the Sands
[Cooker] Resizing ext3 partition
Hi all, I didn't have enough space to run the upgrade, so I thought I'd just use the partitioner to increase the size of my main ext3 partition. I got rid of the swap, leaving nothing but empty space "to the right" of the partition I want to make bigger, but the disk partitioner would only give me the option to shrink the partition. Is this the correct procedure? What action would you recommend? Thanks in advance, Paul Dorman. Mdk9 is looking real nice, btw...
Re: [Cooker] rpm question
On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 08:32:21PM -0400, Oden Eriksson wrote: > Yes I know, but I want to know how to solve the above stuff. Well the documentation that you've already been pointed to is what you want. Then if want examples look through all the macros in /usr/lib/rpm/ Keep in mind that you can actually put a macro in a separate file: %_post_service uses %_add_service_helper which is just a macro for the: /usr/share/rpm-helper/add-service command... Basically the answer to your question is to read the documentation. But frankly the problem you've presented is already solved so if you don't want to read the documentation, just use what's already there and don't worry about it. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org If your love has no hope of being welcomed do not voice it; for if it be silent it can endure, a guarded flame, within you. - The Wisdom of the Sands
Re: [Cooker] drakxservices
Jure Repinc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Pixel wrote: > > Elliott Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >>Would it be posible to alphabetize the services listed in drakxservices? > > alphabetize? what do you mean? > > Make an option to order/sort them by name. well, it's already done so, and that's also what i get when testing!
[Cooker] Problem with latest initscripts and /sbin/mii-tool
Hello, I'm unable to setup my network card through DHCP. My guess is that it's due to the latest initscripts (initscripts-6.87-1mdk, updated yesterday). When booting or if I do a "service network restart" I get the following error: "no link present. check cable?". But if I type "dhcpcd eth0" in a console I get an IP address and everything is ok. Looking through the file /sbin/ifup and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/network-functions the problem is caused by the function check_link_down in network-functions. I don't really understand the logic behind the four cases in the if/fi test for the output of the /sbin/mii-tool command. In my case when I type /sbin/mii-tools eth0 I get: [root@pc184 root]# /sbin/mii-tool eth0 eth0: 10 Mbit, half duplex, no link Denis
Re: [Cooker] drakxservices
Pixel wrote: > Elliott Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>Would it be posible to alphabetize the services listed in drakxservices? > > > alphabetize? what do you mean? Make an option to order/sort them by name. I also would like to see this as otherwise I have to go thru whole list to find certain service. Maybe add column haders and make them clickable so that the names and other options would be sortable in ascending and descending order by clicking onto column header. Something like in file managers details view. -- Live long and prosper!
Re: [Cooker] drakxservices
Elliott Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Would it be posible to alphabetize the services listed in drakxservices? alphabetize? what do you mean?
Re: [Cooker] lib(fake)css [Was: php-tclink]
Neulich schrieb Geoffrey Lee:
> [...]
> Anything that carries CSS support we have to compile --without-css, I know
> this sucks, but at least you always have the source, even though I hate
> to say that you must get the source and recompile in order to get that
> support.
How about adding two packages named "libfakecss" and "libfakecss-devel"
to cooker which contain
* libfakecss
==
- /usr/lib/libcss.so.0.1.0(the same functions as libcss, but with
empy bodys: all returning (int)0, void
or NULL)
* libfakecss-devel
- /usr/include/css.h
- /usr/lib/libcss.so ->/usr/lib/libcss.so.0.1.0
- /usr/lib/libcss.so.0.1.0 -> /usr/lib/libcss.so.0.1.0
You can add "BuildRequire: libfakecss-devel" then which binds against our
dummy libcss. We could even ship this "libfakecss" with the ditribution, as
she does nothing.
If vendors replace "libfakecss" by a package named "libcss" which provides
some other functionaity it is not our fault. So nobody can sue us. Specially
if we mention it in the information (rpm -qi) as in the docs of libfakecss
that it is illegal in US to replace it by a RPM named libcss ...
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[Cooker] drakxservices
Would it be posible to alphabetize the services listed in drakxservices? -Elliott Martin
Re: [Cooker] Auto logon 9.0b2
Just out of interest, do non login shells launched from the environment started by autologin now have all the paths added to them correctly (on 8.2 /usr/games doesn't appear to be there for example)? -- Sitsofe | http://sucs.org/~sits/
Re: [Cooker] initscripts and eth
"J.A. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> New try (of course echo's should be killed for real initscripts):
>
> check_link_down ()
> {
> if [ ! -x /sbin/mii-tool ]; then
> return 0
> fi
>
> if [ -z "$(ip link show $1 up)" ]; then
> echo "Link" $1 "is DOWN, rising..."
> ip link set $1 up
> fi
>
> for (( try=0; try<10; try++ ))
> do
> output=`LC_ALL=C mii-tool $LINK $1 2>&1`
> if echo $output | grep -vqs "no link"; then
> echo "Link" $1 "is UP"
> return 1
> fi
> sleep 1
> done
> echo "Failed to raise" $1 "after 10 seconds"
> return 0
> }
>
> $LINK can be assigned in ifcfg-eth0, for example I have LINK="-F 10baseT-FD".
>
> Do not know if this matters for somebody, but the fact is that with default
> latest initscripts I thought my cablemodem was broken until I (sigh) booted
> windows on the laptop.
I have integrated this in the initscripts-6.87-2mdk, could you test ?
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