[Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] kernel-2.4.18.14mdk-1-1mdk
I'm having two problems with the latest kernel. I've never tried compiling the kernel from the Mandrake source but I read through the documentation in the Mandrake reference manual and there weren't any surprises there. However, when I tried to 'make xconfig' I get the following: rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts kconfig.tk make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14mdk/scripts' gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -o tkparse.o tkparse.c gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -o tkcond.o tkcond.c gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -o tkgen.o tkgen.c gcc -o tkparse tkparse.o tkcond.o tkgen.o cat header.tk ./kconfig.tk ./tkparse ../arch/i386/config.in kconfig.tk 3rdparty/lirc/Config.in: 11: can't handle dep_bool/dep_mbool/dep_tristate condition make[1]: *** [kconfig.tk] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14mdk/scripts' make: *** [xconfig] Error 2 I get past this by using 'make menuconfig' instead. I change only the processor type to Athlon (I wanted to start simple and make sure it works with minimal changes). 'make dep' completes successfully. I then run 'make clean bzImage modules'. It fails with the following: make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14mdk/kernel' make[1]: Nothing to be done for `modules'. make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14mdk/kernel' make -C drivers CFLAGS=-D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14mdk/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=athlon -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -include /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14mdk/include/linux/modversions.h MAKING_MODULES=1 modules make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14mdk/drivers' make -C atm modules make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14mdk/drivers/atm' gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14mdk/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=athlon -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -include /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14mdk/include/linux/modversions.h -g -nostdinc -I /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/2.96/include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=eni -c -o eni.o eni.c In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14mdk/include/linux/prefetch.h:13, from /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14mdk/include/linux/list.h:6, from /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14mdk/include/linux/module.h:12, from eni.c:6: /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14mdk/include/asm/processor.h:51: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14mdk/include/asm/processor.h:51: field `loops_per_jiffy_R_ver_str' declared as a function /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14mdk/include/asm/processor.h:73: nondigits in number and not hexadecimal /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14mdk/include/asm/processor.h:73: parse error before `0657d037' /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14mdk/include/asm/processor.h:73: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14mdk/include/asm/processor.h:253: nondigits in number and not hexadecimal /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14mdk/include/asm/processor.h:253: parse error before `7413793a' /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14mdk/include/asm/processor.h:253: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14mdk/include/asm/processor.h:257: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14mdk/include/asm/processor.h:473: missing white space after number `7e9' /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14mdk/include/asm/processor.h:473: parse error before `7e9' /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14mdk/include/asm/processor.h:473: `kernel_thread_R_ver_str' declared as function returning a function /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14mdk/include/asm/processor.h:473: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype In file included from eni.c:6: /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14mdk/include/linux/module.h:183: nondigits in number and not hexadecimal /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14mdk/include/linux/module.h:183: nondigits in number and not hexadecimal /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14mdk/include/linux/module.h:183: nondigits in number and not hexadecimal /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14mdk/include/linux/module.h:183: nondigits in number and not hexadecimal /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14mdk/include/linux/module.h:183: parse error before `62dada05' /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14mdk/include/linux/module.h:183: `inter_module_register_R_ver_str' declared as function returning a function /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14mdk/include/linux/module.h:183: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14mdk/include/linux/module.h:184: nondigits in number and not hexadecimal /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14mdk/include/linux/module.h:184: missing white space after number `7a9e845' /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14mdk/include/linux/module.h:184: parse error before
Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] kernel-2.4.18.14mdk-1-1mdk
oops, forgot to mention. I tried compiling with both gcc 3.0.4(-2mdk) and gcc2.96(-0.76mdk). -- Dave On Tuesday 07 May 2002 01:23 am, you wrote: I'm having two problems with the latest kernel. I've never tried compiling the kernel from the Mandrake source but I read through the documentation in the Mandrake reference manual and there weren't any surprises there. However, when I tried to 'make xconfig' I get the following:
Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] kernel-2.4.18.14mdk-1-1mdk
You are correct. It was a silly and careless mistake (and a great example of why one shouldn't mess with their kernel at 2am). Unfortunately, 'make xconfig' still refuses to work. I'll have to look into it more when I'm a bit more awake. -- Dave On Tuesday 07 May 2002 01:39 am, you wrote: /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14mdk/include/asm/processor.h:73: parse error before `0657d037' make mrproper (or distclean) before configuring; search list and newsgroup and WEB and whatever; I am not going to post the same instructions over and over again. -andrej
[Cooker] More ATA133 Information
Hey all, I've found some interesting news on the kernel issue I've been working on with my machine. Last week, Promise submitted a kernel patch fixing stability issues with its ATA133 controllers and the linux kernel. The thread from the linux.kernel mailing list can be found here on deja: http://groups.google.com/groups?th=8f9d77d79e1e2056 This discussion, mainly between a Promise developer and Alan Cox seems to have a lot to do with the non-existant stability I've been experiencing with 2.4.18. Some of Red Hat's developers have also weighed in on this. Maybe Mandrake should look into it as well. This issue is only going to get bigger and bigger as more and more ATA133 drives hit the market. -- Dave
[Cooker] Kernel PDC20269 chipset (ATA133) Bug
Hey All, I know I've been harping on this for awhile now but I have more evidence to support the fact that there is a bug in the ATA133 patch that's in kernel-2.4.18.5mdk-1-1mdk. This is the bug that makes the 8.2 install fail on my machine. This is also the bug that hangs my stable installation when kernel-2.4.18.5mdk-1-1mdk is installed. Yesterday, I installed kernel-linus2.4-2.4.18-1mdk on my stable 8.1 installation. It works flawlessly. I would really like to see this fixed before release because for me, this *IS* a show stopper. My 2nd hard drive is on the ATA133 card (a Promise UltraTX2 using this the PDC20269 chipset). It cannot use DMA on the stable 8.1 kernel or on the linux 2.4.18 kernel but it can in the Mandrake 2.4.18 kernel. The transfers to and from that drive without the patch are ~2mb/s and slow my machine way down since it's not using DMA. With the patch transfers go at ~36mb/s sustained with hardly a slowdown on my machine. Is anyone else having problems with this? Is anyone at Mandrake looking into it? Thanks -- Dave
Re: [Cooker] Beta 4 Install Fails during Package Install
To answer your questions: 1. No, it seems to fail on a random package. 2. No, my system is not overclocked. 3. Yes, the install works flawlessly with a 2.2 kernel. However, when I boot into 8.2, it is extremely crash prone. It can't seem to stay running for more than a few minutes under X. This is my third attempt at getting this e-mail out. Let me know if there's anything I can give you that will help you get to the bottom of this problem. -- Dave On Wednesday 06 March 2002 02:13, you wrote: Dave Cowern [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey all, I posted awhile ago about having trouble installing the betas. Beta 4 is unfortunately no better for me. In addition to the things I tried before (I've copied my original message below for completeness), I've changed my partitions from ReiserFS to ext3 and also ext2, I've used 3 different kinds of CDRs (including ones I've used very successfully in the past to install mdk isos), I've used 3 different CD drives (one DVD drive, one CDR drive, and one plain old CD drive). I've tried it with passing the kernel options I need (ide2= for a IDE controller card). I've tried it with various security settings. The install crashes while installing packages every single time. It doesn't bomb out with an error, it just hangs. I've let this thing sit for 12 or more hours and it doesn't budge. My question this time around is I've seen people posting all kinds of nice logs showing where the install has failed or given them an error. Where do I get those from on my machine? I rebooted using the rescue option and poked around in /tmp and /var/log but all the files there were empty. As always, any suggestions are welcome. I really want to get this working on my machine before 8.2 ships... I don't relish the thought of using 8.1 until 9.0 comes out. Thanks! -- Dave Oh, P.S. -- Warly posted 5 criteria earlier for another install problem earlier this week. In case anyone is tempted to regurgitate them, here are my responses. mmm, a tough one... 1. Does it crash on the same package (for that set the details mode and see or boot with rescue and read the /root/drakx/ddebug.log) 2. Is your machine overclocked ? 3. Do you experienced the same behavior with a 2.2 kernel (boot with the second CD, use alternate 2.2 kernel, or make a bootdisk with alternatives images in /images/alternatives) 4. Can you do a hd install (copying the CD on a partition and using second CD or hd boot images to start the install from it)
Re: [Cooker] Beta 4 Install Fails during Package Install
The 2.4.18 kernel was the one that was extremely unstable. I can try downgrading to an earlier mdk kernel if you think that might help. I've reverted to 8.1 for the time being. Here is what lspcidrake from 8.1 gives me: unknown : unknown (10b9/1647//) unknown : Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi]|M5247 usb-ohci: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi]|M5237 (USB) usb-ohci: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi]|M5237 (USB) unknown : Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi]|M5229 IDE unknown : Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi]|M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV] emu10k1 : Creative Labs|SB Live! (audio) ns558 : Creative Labs|SB Live! (joystick) unknown : unknown (105a/4d69//) tulip : DEC|DECchip 21140 [FasterNet] unknown : Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi]|M7101 PMU Card:Voodoo3 (generic): 3Dfx Interactive, Inc.|Voodoo 3 unknown : Virtual|Hub [] unknown : Virtual|Hub [] unknown : Seiko Epson Corp.|Stylus Color 760 / M800C [Printer|Printer|Bidirectional] unknown : KC Technology Inc.|KC82C160S Hub [] unknown : Unknown|Camera [] The first two unknowns are probably my ATA133 controller its the Promise UltraTX2 133 -- it uses the PDC20269 chipset. Since support for this is new in 8.2 and my machine works fine under 8.1, I'm willing to bet that this is the problem. Is there anything else I can give you that might narrow it down? I'll work on getting 8.2 installed again tomorrow morning to hopefully gain a little more information. -- Dave On Thursday 07 March 2002 14:18, you wrote: Dave Cowern [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: To answer your questions: 1. No, it seems to fail on a random package. 2. No, my system is not overclocked. 3. Yes, the install works flawlessly with a 2.2 kernel. However, when I boot into 8.2, it is extremely crash prone. It can't seem to stay running for more than a few minutes under X. This is my third attempt at getting this e-mail out. Let me know if there's anything I can give you that will help you get to the bottom of this problem. -- Dave Well, it must be a pb linked with one of your hardware, could you try to install a 2.4 kernel afterwards and boot with it. Could you also include a lspcidrake, and maybe guess which hardware could be unstable. Maybe some of you memory get corrupted, haven't you add something that you had not before (memory, scsi, ...)
[Cooker] Beta 4 Install Fails during Package Install
Hey all, I posted awhile ago about having trouble installing the betas. Beta 4 is unfortunately no better for me. In addition to the things I tried before (I've copied my original message below for completeness), I've changed my partitions from ReiserFS to ext3 and also ext2, I've used 3 different kinds of CDRs (including ones I've used very successfully in the past to install mdk isos), I've used 3 different CD drives (one DVD drive, one CDR drive, and one plain old CD drive). I've tried it with passing the kernel options I need (ide2= for a IDE controller card). I've tried it with various security settings. The install crashes while installing packages every single time. It doesn't bomb out with an error, it just hangs. I've let this thing sit for 12 or more hours and it doesn't budge. My question this time around is I've seen people posting all kinds of nice logs showing where the install has failed or given them an error. Where do I get those from on my machine? I rebooted using the rescue option and poked around in /tmp and /var/log but all the files there were empty. As always, any suggestions are welcome. I really want to get this working on my machine before 8.2 ships... I don't relish the thought of using 8.1 until 9.0 comes out. Thanks! -- Dave Oh, P.S. -- Warly posted 5 criteria earlier for another install problem earlier this week. In case anyone is tempted to regurgitate them, here are my responses. 1. burn a new CD done. many times. 2. try new CDR brand done. twice 3. change your CD drive done. twice 4. change your burner had friends burn the CDs for me. 5. do not test try to stop me ;-) -Old Message--- Hey all, I've been having a lot of problems installing the betas. Since beta 1, I'd get past the package selection to the actual installing of packages. It'd get through maybe 10 - 20 packages before locking up completely. Switching screens to see whats going on, I find that its trying to fetch an RPM from the CD when it fails. At first I figured that it might just be bad media so I tried different brands of CDRs, same deal. Then, I thought it might be something with the CD burning program so I tried xroast (I was using xroaster so I tried gcombust). Same deal. Then I realized they were basically just both front ends using the same CD burning utility. My working MDK8.1 CDs were burnt using Nero (under windows) so I tried doing that on the same media as the MDK8.1 CDs. Same deal. I then thought it could be something with my CD or DVD drive but the install fails the same way on both. I have a TDK121032A CDR and generic 10x DVD drive thats identified as a LITEON DVD-ROM LTD163. A install of MDK8.1 succedes 100% of the time on both. The weird thing is that on a whim I decided to try installing beta 3 under VMWare. The install ran like a champ... all the way to completion. The last thing I can think of might be that it might be a problem with ReiserFS which is what I'm using for all my partitions. I would try deleting my / and /usr partitions and reinstalling on ext3 to see if that worked but I don't have any more time to fiddle with it this weekend. Has anyone ran across any similar problems? I didn't see any problems related to this in the bugzilla database and I wanted to try to narrow it down a little bit before I posted a formal report there. Thanks! -- Dave -End Old Message---
Re: [Cooker] Logitech Quickcam Express
Really now? I find that interesting because without the qce-ga driver (which I downloaded and built from the sourceforge website), camstream and GnomeMeeting do not work as they do not find the cam on /dev/video0. /dev/video and /dev/video0 exist but there are errors opening them. However, when I install the driver from sourceforge, it works fine. Could this be a problem with the driver in Mandrake's kernel? TIA -- Dave On Monday 04 March 2002 06:05, you wrote: marc == Marc Lijour [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: marc Hi, marc is there a chance to have the qce-ga driver in the kernel? marc (it's not that I have it working!) It is already there. Later,Juan. marc Is there a working driver for the Logitech Quickcam Express.? I can't get marc that working despite of the hardware being listed in the Mandrake marc 'compatibility list' on the web-site.
Re: [Cooker] Problems installing the betas
Slight Update: I did try using ext2 and ext3 for the / and /usr partitions. No dice... same problems locking up on a random package. On closer inspection, the CDs I'm using are NOT the same brand as the 8.1 disks I have working. I'll go out tomorrow and try a different brand of CDR. I'm still open to any suggestions anyone has. :-) TIA -- Dave On Saturday 23 February 2002 22:24, you wrote: Hey all, I've been having a lot of problems installing the betas. Since beta 1, I'd get past the package selection to the actual installing of packages. It'd get through maybe 10 - 20 packages before locking up completely. Switching screens to see whats going on, I find that its trying to fetch an RPM from the CD when it fails. At first I figured that it might just be bad media so I tried different brands of CDRs, same deal. Then, I thought it might be something with the CD burning program so I tried xroast (I was using xroaster so I tried gcombust). Same deal. Then I realized they were basically just both front ends using the same CD burning utility. My working MDK8.1 CDs were burnt using Nero (under windows) so I tried doing that on the same media as the MDK8.1 CDs. Same deal. I then thought it could be something with my CD or DVD drive but the install fails the same way on both. I have a TDK121032A CDR and generic 10x DVD drive thats identified as a LITEON DVD-ROM LTD163. A install of MDK8.1 succedes 100% of the time on both. The weird thing is that on a whim I decided to try installing beta 3 under VMWare. The install ran like a champ... all the way to completion. The last thing I can think of might be that it might be a problem with ReiserFS which is what I'm using for all my partitions. I would try deleting my / and /usr partitions and reinstalling on ext3 to see if that worked but I don't have any more time to fiddle with it this weekend. Has anyone ran across any similar problems? I didn't see any problems related to this in the bugzilla database and I wanted to try to narrow it down a little bit before I posted a formal report there. Thanks! -- Dave
Re: [Cooker] rpm rpm broken
I had a situation like this once... I used the rescue option on the Mandrake 8.0 install disk to get the rpm binary (/usr/bin/rpm, i think?). I copied it to my home directory (by mounting my Linux drive). THEN, I rebooted and once I was back in my original linux install, I did ./rpm -uvh older_rpm_package.rpm --oldpackage and everything was happy again. A pretty solution? No... but definitely better than getting the RPM source, compiling it and whatnot. -- Dave On Monday 16 July 2001 06:28 pm, you wrote: I updated to the latest cooker rpm of rpm. Big mistake; my machine is fubared because rpm now segfaults. Anyone know of a fix? Mordy
[Cooker] live_update problems
Recently I've had problems running live_update from Mandrake install CDs on my cooker install: Mandrake 8.0 and MandrakeFreq #2: ../perl: ../../../lib/ld-linux.so.2: version `GLIBC_2.2.3' not found (required by /lib/libc.so.6) Mandrake Cooker 20010712: ../perl: error while loading shared libraries: cannot open shared object file: cannot load shared object file: No such file or directory. I'm also having problems with MandrakeUpdate (whenever I select something to install it tells me none of the packages I want to install exist. I'm guessing the two are both problems with perl (I've tried both cooker and stable perl packages since these problems started.) Here is what my perl is currently: # rpm -q perl perl-5.600-30mdk # rpm -q perl-devel perl-devel-5.600-30mdk
Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] rpmdrake-1.3-71mdk
Also, to toss my $.02 in... In my installation, rpminst will launch then come back telling me that packages ,whatever_packages_i_select... are not found. I'm assuming that having a white space and a comma is the problem (it's looking for a package with a space for a name). -- Dave On Tuesday 10 July 2001 11:39 am, you wrote: On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 10:55:06AM -0400, David Walluck wrote: David Odin wrote: Please don't build rpmdrake package without telling me. rpmdrake is in CVS, and now the rpm isn't in sync with the CVS anymore. This means: - extra work for me (I have to find out what you've changed, and resync CVS) - this release of rpmdrake isn't tagged into the CVS (and won't be), so this particular release could not be built again, if needed. - I could have missed this email and then erase your work. So please, don't rebuild other people's package, especially when it is for such small changes. Just drop an email with the required changes. Okay, but is someone working on fixing the MandrakeUpdate problem reported? Which problem? I'm aware of a lot of problems with MandrakeUpdate/rpmdrake. And yes, I'm working on them. I spend too much time updating this thing for the latest rpmlibs, and fixing what other people does wrong. It is kind of difficult to look for fixes in cooker manually, especially when we hear that the dates of some files were incorrectly set and therefore, ls -t doesn't tell me what's new. I have heard about this problem on some mirrors. Unfortunately, there's nothing I can do here. regards, DindinX
[Cooker] Return of the Ugly Fonts
After installing X 4.1 and the newest xfs, I'm back to having ugly (non-anti-alised) fonts. When I did the initial install a couple days ago, I exited X, restarted xfs and went back into X. That's when I first noticed the ugly fonts. Hoping it would go away with my next reboot, I just wrote it off. I finally rebooted and they're still here :-( Any ideas as to what's causing this? TIA -- Dave
Re: [Cooker] ssh in mandrake 8.0
I use the ssh included with Mandrake 8 daily for extremely long periods of time to connect to our Sun server (it's SunOS 5.8 which I don't think it uses openssh, correct me if I'm wrong) and our RS/6000 cluster (running AIX version 4, again, I don't think it uses openssh). I haven't had any problems with it at all. -- Dave On Sunday 29 April 2001 14:53, you wrote: Hello, I've experienced pretty bad behaviour from ssh when connecting to non-openssh sshd's. I've been disconnected with two different errormessages. I've filed bug 3286 on qa.mandrakesoft.com. Is anyone else seeing this? rebuilding with vanilla openssh src rpm fixed the problem. // Johan
Re: [Cooker] Cooker feedback from SAT 4/28
I have the same problem with being disconnected on startup and having to manually connect myself everytime I reboot (ever 4 - 7 days, depending so it's not THAT annoying...) It would be nice to have this fixed though. On Saturday 28 April 2001 19:59, you wrote: 1) The 'details' button in the install stage is Great!!! pssst: how much harder would it be to make a button which allows selection of all packages? 2) No hitches installing 3) On initial boot: many unresolved symbol messages right before Aurora starts 4) Initial state is off-line (cablemodem, dhcp) MCCnetworkinternetconnection shows disconnected choose 'connect' and although eth0 is started, the screen says not connected close window and reopen (internet icon) and all is correct. Very close, I'd say!
Re: [Cooker] Tuxracer
On Saturday 21 April 2001 01:56, michael wrote: Works good but Tux is white here, a ghost of himself in earlier days I too have that problem under 8.0 with a Voodoo 3.
Re: [Cooker] HD ISO install
On Friday 20 April 2001 18:35, Guillaume Cottenceau Please note that this feature has an important limitation: it can install only from the first ISO. Packages from any subsequent ISO's will not be available during install. This feature is provided with Linux-Mandrake since version 7.2. That's a really nice feature and all but I had the unhappy privilidge of finding out that it will still list packages from the second CD in the package choosing screen. It will let you select them but when you go to install it will get to those packages and it will say something like "error installing package -- [continue] [ignore]" it would be really nice if it would let you either a) use the second CD or b) not show the packages it can't install
[Cooker] Apache problem
No matter what I do, Apache 1.3.19 will seg fault on start-up. This has been a problem with almost all Apache packages in Traktopel (the package I'm currently using is .apache-1.3.19-3mdk) When I run Apache under gdb, this is what I get: (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/sbin/httpd (no debugging symbols found)...[New Thread 1024 (LWP 15004)] Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread 1024 (LWP 15004)] 0x0806a255 in ap_get_local_host () (gdb) I haven't tried compiling the latest Apache from scratch yet but I'll post results if I do. -- Dave
