Re: [Cooker] MakeCD creating 9 ISOs ?
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 10:29, Warly wrote: Frank Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Apologies if I somehow missed this thread, but how come ./MakeCD -t /data -a /data/cooker/i586 which used to produce 4 650MB ISO images is now producing 9 ? Is mkcd including all of contrib now ? $ echo $[(`du -smc /c/ /RPMS/ /contrib/i586/ | grep total | cut -f 1`)/650] 8 $ echo $[(`du -smc /c/ /RPMS/ | grep total | cut -f 1`)/650] 4 obviously Not that it is possible to create CD's from current cooker without dependency problems... (See my earlier mail).
Re: [Cooker] Exact makeCD or mkcd commmand line?
On Friday 26 September 2003 00:25, Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 25 September 2003 10:05 am, Robert Fox wrote: Could someone share the correct command line for mkcd or MakeCD to create say 3 ISO's from a local Cooker tree . . . This would be very helpful! http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MakeCD The following command /home/john/cooker/i586/misc/MakeCD --discsize 73400 -t /home/john -a /home/john/cooker/i586/ produces the following dependency errors: [...] ERROR check_version: shadow-utils-4.0.3-5mdk.i586 provides shadow-utils == 4.0.3-5mdk but util-linux-2.11z-7mdk.i586 needs shadow-utils = 2902-5 ERROR check_version: apache2-2.0.47-6mdk.i586 provides apache2 == 2.0.44 but apache2-mod_php-2.0.47_4.3.2-2mdk.i586 needs apache2 == 2.0.47 ERROR check_version: apache2-2.0.47-6mdk.i586 provides apache = 2.0.47 but mod_php-4.3.3-2mdk.i586 needs apache == 1.3.28 ERROR check_version: apache2-2.0.47-6mdk.i586 provides apache = 2.0.47 but mod_ssl-2.8.15-1mdk.i586 needs apache == 1.3.28 ERROR check_version: ispell-gd-0.3-10mdk.noarch provides ispell-dictionary = 0.3 but ispell-3.2.06-9mdk.i586 needs ispell-dictionary == 3.2.06 ERROR [...] There are a lot more errors. In the end I end up with 4 iso's, which is fine for me. However will they install? I did not try them yet. Am I doing something wrong? Oh, I used the latest packages from ftp.uninett.no
Re: [Cooker] Degradations of user experience in cooker RC2
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 22:29, Laurent Montel wrote: Le Tuesday 09 September 2003 21:35, John van Spaandonk a écrit : [...] - In the k-menu, the most recently used applications list at the top is gone. I guess this is intentional, and yes I read the discussion on It was a bug update your package ! Hi Laurent, You seem to have changed the default behaviour. I managed to change it back with the kde control centre (it was not possible with the mandrake menu editor or the KDE menu editor, which is the reason I could not find this option) Do you mean to keep this default behaviour? - In kghostview mode in konqy, the zoom buttons are now gone! [...] It was a bug ! Indeed, this is solved by updating today. Thanks! Now only the KDE help must be repaired and this release starts to look good!
[Cooker] Degradations of user experience in cooker RC2
Hi, All remarks for the KDE environment - In the k-menu, the most recently used applications list at the top is gone. I guess this is intentional, and yes I read the discussion on kde-usability. Still this does not match the solution presented there by Waldo. Please put these back while no proper solution is present. We now have to go through the menus to get at the same apps time and again. - In kghostview mode in konqy, the zoom buttons are now gone! This is very serious. By removing these buttons arbitrarily for that viewing mode only you DEGRADE kde usability (that has the same set of buttons visible in all modes.) Please add these back, it is not at all easy for users to put these back (take a look at the toolbar configuration menus and you know what I mean!) And if you are looking to reduce the number of buttons, consider removing other buttons instead. For example why is print frame there? If this change is intentional, for consistency's sake you might just as well remove these buttons from file management mode (they are used there to increase/decrease icon size which is not done much at all and therefore should be done through the menu). On a more general note, what principles are being used by Mandrake to guide decisions of this kind? I do not think that these changes are helping KDE usability... Best John
[Cooker] kde help not working?
When I select the menu Help-[appname] handbook in any KDE application I get an empty KDE Help Center frame which is never updated (hangs). After 10 seconds or so the thing dies and goes away. This is true for ANY KDE application, meaning that help in KDE is seriously disabled for me! Is KDE help not working for other people or is something wrong with my configuration? best John
Re: [Cooker] [Bug 4737] [grub] New: seg fault during installation of grub (0.93-2mdk)
On Thursday 14 August 2003 11:47, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote:
For me this (bourrinage) patch fix it :
--- grub-0.93/lib/device.c.chmou2003-08-14 11:33:57.0 +0200
+++ grub-0.93/lib/device.c 2003-08-14 11:36:55.700163832 +0200
@@ -581,7 +581,7 @@
if (check_device (name))
{
(*map)[num_hd + 0x80] = strdup (name);
- assert ((*map)[num_hd + 0x80]);
+ //assert ((*map)[num_hd + 0x80]);
/* If the device map file is opened, write the map. */
if (fp)
don't know what's wrong though...
Chmouel,
Can you forward the following also to the Cooker mailing list, because for
several weeks I have not been able to post a single thing there. It's sad :-/
I found several strange things in the grub code.
(And yes, I applied both the memcpy and gcc patches)
I inserted in my grub/main.c the following (debug) statements:
[...]
case OPT_DEVICE_MAP:
device_map_file = strdup (optarg);
fprintf(stderr, JvS in grub/main.c. We found a device_map file,
optarg=%s\n, optarg);
fprintf(stderr, JvS in grub/main.c. and the device_map_file=%s\n,
device_map_file);
break;
[..]
And this is what happens:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] grub-0.93]$ grub/grub --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map
JvS in grub/main.c. We found a device_map file, optarg=/boot/grub/device.map
JvS in grub/main.c. and the device_map_file=(null)
And this shows that strdup() does not work as advertised!
using debug statements I determined that the actual segmentation fault
occurs within a system call to realpath()
in function init_device_map() at line 553 of lib/device.c
(realpath() tries to find the real path for /dev/discs/disc0 by following
the symlinks)
So there seems to be a problem with the use of standard system libraries
from grub.
I was not able to correct the problems.
I hope this analysis helps.
John
Re: [Cooker] trouble upgrading to kdebase-3.1.3-4
On Saturday 02 August 2003 19:12, Udo Rader wrote: hi, for the past 3 days I have not been able to update kde due to the following errors: % urpmi --auto-select Some package requested cannot be installed: kdebase-kdm-config-file-3.1.3-3mdk.i586 (Y/n) y The following packages have to be removed in order to perform the updates: kdebase-kdm-config-file-3.1.3-3mdk.i586 (due to unsatisfied kdebase == 3.1.3-3mdk) (y/N) n the problem is that kdebase is at version 3.1.3-4 now but there is no kdebase-kdm-config-file-3.1.3-4 in cooker yet (or at least no mirror I've tried has it so far). udo I looked into the requires of kdebase-3.1.3-4mdk and it includes kdebase-kdm-config-file (like this, without version) So I just used urpmi --auto-select --allow-nodeps --allow-force and it just works with kdebase-kdm-config-file-3.1.3-3 (TM). It seems that the more packages you split kde into, the higher the chance for errors Hope this helps... John
Re: [Cooker] trouble upgrading to kdebase-3.1.3-4
On Saturday 02 August 2003 20:47, Udo Rader wrote: thanks. yes, it is a versioning problem, but not with kdebase, but the current kdebase-kdm-config-file, which explicitly requires kdebase-3.1.3-3. Yes I forgot to mention that. I simply figured that kdebase-kdm-config-file*.x is always for kde 3.1.3.x, so it should work for x=3 as well as x=4. and of course, if the --force is with me, I will win this battle (-: udo I'm sure that you will live and prosper once you've forced it!
Re: [Cooker] urpmi - segmentation fault (long mail)
On Friday 01 August 2003 10:43, Duncan wrote: On Wed 30 Jul 2003 10:56, Olivier Thauvin posted as excerpted below: Le Mercredi 30 Juillet 2003 17:42, John van Spaandonk a écrit : My reply to John is somewhere in the mail, other guys can simply delete it. I want to know how many time he need to find it ;) While I agree with your suggestion to clip unneeded text, finding the reply shouldn't be hard provided the quote levels are properly colored. It wasn't hard here finding your reply in pages and pages.. But then again, I'm a bit used to that, from reading newsgroups where folks all to often don't trim, so my eye easily scans for the color differences.. Yes, it took me about 2 seconds to find the reply But I did not want to nag Olivier about it :-) BTW I cannot seem to reproduce this bug. Als I could not find a core dump... While experimenting with urpmi I tried urpmi --auto-select --bug --media cooker and I noticed that the --bug supresses my explicit media selection, so in my case packages from cooker, plf and contrib were installed... Is this intentional behavior of urpmi? Best John
Re: [Cooker] urpmi - segmentation fault (long mail)
On Friday 01 August 2003 13:39, François Pons wrote: urpmi --auto-select --bug urpmibug --media cooker will work better. Thanks!
[Cooker] urpmi just keeps adding packages - not removing them
Before latest upgrade (1-8, 13:00, ftp.uninett.no): [EMAIL PROTECTED] downloads]$ rpm -q kdebase kdebase-3.1.2-30mdk kdebase-3.1.3-3mdk After this upgrade: [EMAIL PROTECTED] downloads]$ rpm -q kdebase kdebase-3.1.2-30mdk kdebase-3.1.3-3mdk kdebase-3.1.3-4mdk sigh.
Re: [Cooker] urpmi just keeps adding packages - not removing them
On Friday 01 August 2003 18:29, Duncan wrote: On Fri 01 Aug 2003 06:18, John van Spaandonk posted as excerpted below: Before latest upgrade (1-8, 13:00, ftp.uninett.no): [EMAIL PROTECTED] downloads]$ rpm -q kdebase kdebase-3.1.2-30mdk kdebase-3.1.3-3mdk After this upgrade: [EMAIL PROTECTED] downloads]$ rpm -q kdebase kdebase-3.1.2-30mdk kdebase-3.1.3-3mdk kdebase-3.1.3-4mdk It seems to be working fine here. All I have listed is 3.1.3-4mdk. Thus, I'd guess your rpm database is corrupted and may need rebuilt, unless of course others are duplicating that but I'm not for some reason.. Dunkan, You were right. Installing the new RPM caused my database to be rebuild (I guess this is part of the install script), solving the problem. Next time I know what to do! John
[Cooker] urpmi - segmentation fault (long mail)
Hi all, See this copy of my terminal session of 10 minutes ago... It contains several things I do not understand: - segmentation fault - At one point I had installed two versions of kdenetwork - Some strange interdependencies I seemed to have installed everything in the end What other information can I offer? [EMAIL PROTECTED] RPMS]# urpmi --auto-select --media cooker --allow-nodeps To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed (356 MB): GConf-1.0.9-9mdk.i586 GConf2-2.3.3-3mdk.i586 arts-1.1.3-1mdk.i586 cups-1.1.19-6mdk.i586 cups-common-1.1.19-6mdk.i586 curl-7.10.6-1mdk.i586 cvs-1.11.6-3mdk.i586 drakconf-9.2-0.11mdk.i586 drakxtools-9.2-0.24mdk.i586 drakxtools-newt-9.2-0.24mdk.i586 elfutils-0.84-1mdk.i586 evolution-1.4.3-2mdk.i586 faces-1.6.1-18mdk.i586 fonts-ttf-decoratives-1.3-12mdk.noarch fonts-ttf-west_european-1.3-12mdk.noarch ftp-client-krb5-1.3-1mdk.i586 g-wrap-1.3.4-9mdk.i586 gcc-3.3.1-0.7mdk.i586 gcc-c++-3.3.1-0.7mdk.i586 gcc-cpp-3.3.1-0.7mdk.i586 glibc-2.3.2-10mdk.i586 glibc-devel-2.3.2-10mdk.i586 gnome-mime-data-2.3.0-3mdk.i586 gnome-vfs2-2.3.5-2mdk.i586 gnucash-1.8.4-1mdk.i586 gphoto2-2.1.2-0.rc4.1mdk.i586 gpm-1.20.1-9mdk.i586 gtk+2.0-2.2.2-5mdk.i586 gurpmi-4.4-15mdk.noarch harddrake-9.2-0.24mdk.i586 harddrake-ui-9.2-0.24mdk.i586 iptables-1.2.8-1mdk.i586 iputils-20020927-4mdk.i586 k3b-0.9-2mdk.i586 kdeaddons-noatun-3.1.2-5mdk.i586 kdeadmin-3.1.3-1mdk.i586 kdeadmin-kpackage-3.1.3-1mdk.i586 kdebase-3.1.3-3mdk.i586 kdebase-common-3.1.3-3mdk.i586 kdebase-kdm-3.1.3-1mdk.i586 kdebase-kdm-config-file-3.1.3-1mdk.i586 kdegames-3.1.3-1mdk.i586 kdegraphics-3.1.3-2mdk.i586 kdelibs-common-3.1.3-1mdk.i586 kdemultimedia-3.1.3-1mdk.i586 kdemultimedia-kmidi-3.1.3-1mdk.i586 kdenetwork-3.1.3-2mdk.i586 kdenetwork-kppp-3.1.3-2mdk.i586 kdeutils-3.1.3-1mdk.i586 koffice-1.3-0.beta2.8mdk.i586 ldconfig-2.3.2-10mdk.i586 libGConf1-1.0.9-9mdk.i586 libGConf2_4-2.3.3-3mdk.i586 libGConf2_4-devel-2.3.3-3mdk.i586 libXaw3d7-1.5-13mdk.i586 libao2-0.8.3-5mdk.i586 libarts-1.1.3-1mdk.i586 libarts-devel-1.1.3-1mdk.i586 libcups1-1.1.19-6mdk.i586 libcups1-devel-1.1.19-6mdk.i586 libcurl2-7.10.6-1mdk.i586 libdha0.1-0.90-15mdk.i586 libelfutils1-0.84-1mdk.i586 libexif9-0.5.10-1mdk.i586 libfltk1.1-1.1.4-0.rc1.1mdk.i586 libg-wrap1-1.3.4-9mdk.i586 libgcc1-3.3.1-0.7mdk.i586 libgdbm2-1.8.0-23mdk.i586 libgdk_pixbuf2.0_0-2.2.2-5mdk.i586 libgnome-vfs2_0-2.3.5-2mdk.i586 libgnome-vfs2_0-devel-2.3.5-2mdk.i586 libgnome2-2.3.3.1-2mdk.i586 libgnome2_0-2.3.3.1-2mdk.i586 libgnucash0-1.8.4-1mdk.i586 libgphoto2-2.1.2-0.rc4.1mdk.i586 libgpm1-1.20.1-9mdk.i586 libgpm1-devel-1.20.1-9mdk.i586 libgtk+-x11-2.0_0-2.2.2-5mdk.i586 libgtk+2.0_0-2.2.2-5mdk.i586 libkdeaddons1-noatun-3.1.2-5mdk.i586 libkdeadmin1-3.1.3-1mdk.i586 libkdebase4-3.1.3-3mdk.i586 libkdecore4-3.1.3-1mdk.i586 libkdecore4-devel-3.1.3-1mdk.i586 libkdegames1-3.1.3-1mdk.i586 libkdegraphics0-3.1.3-2mdk.i586 libkdemultimedia1-3.1.3-1mdk.i586 libkdenetwork2-3.1.3-2mdk.i586 libkdeutils1-3.1.3-1mdk.i586 libkoffice2-1.3-0.beta2.8mdk.i586 libkrb51-1.3-1mdk.i586 libltdl3-1.4.3-6mdk.i586 libnautilus2-2.3.7-2mdk.i586 libopenjade0-1.3.2-7mdk.i586 libpng3-1.2.5-5mdk.i586 libpng3-devel-1.2.5-5mdk.i586 libpostproc0-0.90-15mdk.i586 libpwdb0-0.61.2-3mdk.i586 libquanta0-3.1.3-2mdk.i586 libsasl2-2.1.15-2mdk.i586 libstdc++5-3.3.1-0.7mdk.i586 libstdc++5-devel-3.3.1-0.7mdk.i586 libtiff3-3.5.7-10mdk.i586 libtiff3-devel-3.5.7-10mdk.i586 libuser-0.51.7-6mdk.i586 libuser1-0.51.7-6mdk.i586 lilo-22.5.6-1mdk.i586 make-3.80-5mdk.i586 menudrake-0.7.4-1mdk.i586 modutils-2.4.25-1mdk.i586 mplayer-0.90-15mdk.i586 mplayer-gui-0.90-15mdk.i586 openjade-1.3.2-7mdk.i586 pan-0.14.0.92-1mdk.i586 perl-5.8.0-30mdk.i586 perl-URPM-0.92-1mdk.i586 perl-base-5.8.0-30mdk.i586 ppp-2.4.1-11mdk.i586 pwdb-conf-0.61.2-3mdk.i586 python-fam-1.0.2-3mdk.i586 quanta-3.1.3-2mdk.i586 rpmdrake-2.1-29mdk.i586 tcsh-6.12-6mdk.i586 telnet-client-krb5-1.3-1mdk.i586 timezone-2.3.2-10mdk.i586 urpmi-4.4-15mdk.noarch userdrake-0.92-15mdk.i586 xpp-1.1-10mdk.i586 Is this OK? (Y/n) y installing /home/john/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/kdelibs-common-3.1.3-1mdk.i586.rpm /home/john/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/libGConf2_4-devel-2.3.3-3mdk.i586.rpm /home/john/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/kdemultimedia-3.1.3-1mdk.i586.rpm /home/john/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/libGConf1-1.0.9-9mdk.i586.rpm /home/john/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/libarts-devel-1.1.3-1mdk.i586.rpm /home/john/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/perl-base-5.8.0-30mdk.i586.rpm /home/john/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/libtiff3-3.5.7-10mdk.i586.rpm /home/john/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/kdebase-3.1.3-3mdk.i586.rpm /home/john/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/libpwdb0-0.61.2-3mdk.i586.rpm /home/john/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/libao2-0.8.3-5mdk.i586.rpm /home/john/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/timezone-2.3.2-10mdk.i586.rpm /home/john/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/lilo-22.5.6-1mdk.i586.rpm /home/john/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/mplayer-gui-0.90-15mdk.i586.rpm
Re: [Cooker] urpmi - segmentation fault (long mail)
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 19:56, Olivier Thauvin wrote: Le Mercredi 30 Juillet 2003 17:42, John van Spaandonk a écrit : My reply to John is somewhere in the mail, other guys can simply delete it. I want to know how many time he need to find it ;) Next, made a bug report if possible, and cut the uneed lines... Good that you use the words if possible. Currently I am not able to file a bug report, bugzilla complains about a missing legal version This mail is very too long. well, I told you it was a long mail! ;-) Here's an abbreviated version as per special request of Olivier :-) [EMAIL PROTECTED] RPMS]# urpmi --auto-select --media cooker --allow-nodeps To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed (356 MB): [long list of packages deleted] [Dependency problems deleted - installation continued without checking dependencies] [long list of packages deleted] 86:gurpmi ## 87:glibc-devel## Segmentation fault [EMAIL PROTECTED] RPMS]# urpmi glibc-devel [glibc-devel and glib-c installed correctly now] Another urpmi --auto-select --media cooker seemed to have installed everything in the end Cheers, John
Re: [Cooker] problems with main mirror - ftp.uninett.no
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 22:15, Robert Fox wrote: Just recently when I Rsync with this mirror - it's deleting files locally but not downloading new ones - is there something wrong with the sync? Thx, R.Fox I have this as well. I guess this means that something is deleting the RPMs at the server, and rsync is just doing its best keeping us up to date... But the result is that we do not have a complete cooker anymore :-\
Re: [Cooker] Bad package in Contribs
Talking about bad packages, I've got one in cooker: xfishtank did not work in 9.1 and still does not work for me. Just a green flash on the display and then nothing noticable anymore... Remove it? On Thursday 17 July 2003 22:14, Guillaume Rousse wrote: Ainsi parlait Dave Cotton : Thanks those who have upgraded offending packages, but, using urpmi.update from a local mirror taken from lip6.fr today 09:20CET the following package caused urpmi to baulk. hackxsw-client-1.41.0-1mdk.i586.rpm Could it not just be removed? At least until it's corrected to comply with the new standard. Done, as it doesn't rebuild since we use gcc 3. If someone with better C/++ skills than me wants to have a look, he is welcome. However, i don't see why it should prevents urpmi to work, unless you try to generate hdlists yourself.
Re: [Cooker] circular dependency in wine RPMS
Indeed, I should use Per Øyvind, not Per. Thx Michael, and thanks Per Øyvind for looking into this! John
[Cooker] correction
It's even worse than I reported: Just like in the previous wine all the files that should be linked in /var/lib/wine/windows are missing The links are like this: winhelp.exe - ../../../../home/peroyvind/rpm/tmp/wine-root/usr/lib/wine/winhelp.exe.so And of course I do not have this file... Hmmm, back to building wine myself...
[Cooker] circular dependency in wine RPMS
The wine, winelib and winetools depend on each other. Not possible to install any one of them without dependency problem. At least this time all the files are in the packages! installing with --force works. Best John
Re: [Cooker] correction
Mark, Thx for this. I will take a look after drinking some wine's to celebrate! I must say I'm impressed by the current (june 2003) status of wine. This is the first time that printing (with CUPS) and saving (from Word 97!) just works without any need for windows dll's. And I managed to install Office 97 from the office 97 cd. The time is near that I can delete my windows 98 partition! I just hope that we will have wine decently packaged when 9.2 ships. The current status will not do. BTW and FWIW, I agree with your opinion about not splitting libraries etc out of the main packages. It just increases the chance of errors, as has been recently demonstrated :-) John On Monday 30 June 2003 20:36, Mark Draheim wrote: On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 18:21:41 +0200 John van Spaandonk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The links are like this: winhelp.exe - ../../../../home/peroyvind/rpm/tmp/wine-root/usr/lib/wine/winhelp.exe .so And of course I do not have this file... Hmmm, back to building wine myself... if you're building yourself, try this one: http://amor.cms.hu-berlin.de/~h0444y2j/pub/winefiles-20030630.tar.bz2 these are my current files, patches and spec for CVS wine. But they should still apply to the June snapshot. Note that there are massive changes to libification which is why these changes never made it into cooker. The spec builds only wine and wine-devel, with utils and libs merged into wine. I might consider splitting out the arts/KDE stuff to avoid having to install QT and KDE on GNOME-only systems, but I won't discuss libification unless someone comes up with some pretty good points in favour of splits. Nevertheless, if you're feeling bored, you can try and merge my changes into current cooker spec and then lobby for inclusion :) Have a look at the changelog of the spec for details. Mark ps: I hope I included all files...
Re: [Cooker] circular dependency in wine RPMS
Per, urpmi did not work, it simply said that everything was up to date. Perhaps a problem with a package list file that did not yet arrive on the server. Therefore I had to try RPM, with which I discovered this dependency. But, as I said, the files it complained about were actually present in the RPM package, and installing with force or nodeps (I forgot) solved it. Still, I think one should be able to manually first install the libs and then the main package (wine) itself without running into dependency problems. I just tried urpmi wine and it wants to install both wine and libwine, which seems right. Apparently yesterday I ran into a problem with an outdated package list file. I did not actually try installing with urpmi, since I now have wine build manually, and I do not want to mess up /var/lib/wine, which I now use for my c drive. Hope this helps. BTW did you notice that the links in (a.o.) /var/lib/wine/windows are faulty after all? I explained this in a new mail, cryptically titled correction. It was for this reason that I built wine manually. Best John On Monday 30 June 2003 22:04, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 30 June 2003 17:48, John van Spaandonk wrote: The wine, winelib and winetools depend on each other. Not possible to install any one of them without dependency problem. At least this time all the files are in the packages! installing with --force works. Best John 'urpmi wine' or 'rpm -U wine-blabla.rpm libwine1-blabla.rpm' etc. if your problem is that you have circular dependencies when installing packages one by one with 'rpm', just install them all at the same time. or maybe I missed something..? - -- Regards, Per Øyvind Karlsen Sintrax Solutions http://www.sintrax.net - +47 41681061 - GPG Key: http://sintrax.net/~hawkeye/key.asc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/AJfDv8F7V9JOSuURArVtAJ9wZ8cv9IosUg/t+He5f/w76mkWqACeMdSE KLDHx8sXrBKjcXT/8ztD888= =CYM2 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [Cooker] Can anybody print pdf files in kde?
On Saturday 28 June 2003 00:54, Dave Cotton wrote: On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 00:25, John van Spaandonk wrote: I can print .pdf files from the command line both using lp and lpr. Then I commented Just the same, but how did we end up with lp -d printer_name and lpr -P printer_name, I've got two printers attached. To which John wrote: ? Here I don't understand you, but I'm not a native English speaker :- Don't worry, I don't think even native speakers understood it. What happened was that I thought I had the problem with lp and lpr. I did lp xxx.pdf nothing happened. Then I did 'lpr xxx.pdf' and got a message to say the job was queued for the Epson printer but that was not connected, my son has 'borrowed' it. So now I had to direct the output to the Canon, so I typed 'lp -p canon xxx.pdf', quick error message, OK 'man lp', 'man lpr', lp needs -d printer_name, lpr needs -P printer_name as the argument But I may have stumbled on something, the Epson and Canon are both on the same parallel port, there is a manual switch. So really the Canon should have swallowed a load of Epson codes and printed pages of garbage. Is it the drivers? What is your printer? My printer is a HP 970cXi, and I'm using the parallel port due to the problems my computer seems to have with USB (http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3138) Best John
Re: [Cooker] Can anybody print pdf files in kde?
Hi Till, You made my day! I can print .pdf files from the command line both using lp and lpr. It was too simple for me to figure it out on my own :-( I managed to capture some output of kghostview (which does not work, as described earlier) by running it from the command line (I only copied the output starting with kprint:) kdeprint: kdeprint: registering 0xbfffec14, number of objects = 1 kdeprint: kdeprint: registering 0x81f50f4, number of objects = 2 kdeprint: kdeprint: registering 0x81e4440, number of objects = 3 kdeprint: kdeprint: registering 0x81e4478, number of objects = 4 kdeprint: kdeprint: registering 0x820437c, number of objects = 5 kdeprint: kdeprint: registering 0x820b848, number of objects = 6 kdeprint: Checking for update possible kdeprint: Starting async connect kdeprint: Connection success, trying to send a request... kdeprint: kdeprint: unregistering 0x81f50f4, number of objects = 5 kdeprint: kdeprint: unregistering 0x820b848, number of objects = 4 kdeprint: kdeprint: unregistering 0x820437c, number of objects = 3 kdeprint: kdeprint: PrintoutMode = High kdeprint: _kde-filters = kdeprint: copies = 1 kdeprint: kde-collate = Collate kdeprint: kde-copies = 1 kdeprint: kde-current = 1 kdeprint: kde-currentpage = 1 kdeprint: kde-isspecial = 0 kdeprint: kde-maxpage = 38 kdeprint: kde-minpage = 1 kdeprint: kde-orientation = Portrait kdeprint: kde-outputtofile = 0 kdeprint: kde-pageorder = Forward kdeprint: kde-pageset = 0 kdeprint: kde-pagesize = 0 kdeprint: kde-preview = 0 kdeprint: kde-printcommand = kdeprint: kde-range = kdeprint: kde-special-command = kdeprint: number-up = 2 kdeprint: orientation-requested = 3 kdeprint: kdeprint: status message: Sending print data to printer: HP_parallel kdeprint: kdeprint: print command: cupsdoprint -P 'HP_parallel' -J '' -H 'localhost:631' -U 'john' -o ' PrintoutMode=High copies=1 number-up=2 orientation-requested=3' '/tmp/kde-john/kghostviewM9PkTb.ps' kdeprint: kdeprint: status message: kdeprint: kdeprint: unregistering 0xbfffec14, number of objects = 2 Hope this is of some use... As to your questions: Using the print function of kpdf does not work (As described earlier) Using the print function of gs (print command: lpr) also does not work. I did not try to install acrobat reader under wine so I cannot comment on that. Thx a bundle, because now my wife can keep using Linux instead of XP :-) But can you shed any light on what is going on? If necessary I will start bugging the kde developers! Thx John On Thursday 26 June 2003 17:52, Till Kamppeter wrote: John van Spaandonk wrote: Hi, It's been months since I've been able to print pfd files from xpdf, kghostview or ghostview using cooker. I seem to remember that it worked in 9.1. Print job just disappears after a while, after job state in kjobviewer went to processing. I cannot see anything relevant in cups log. Switching to lpr/lpd does not help. It is possible to print to file, and this produces a ps file that I can view with the mentioned programs. Printing this file with lp however does not work. Before I file a bug report, does anybody else have this problem? There are no relevant cooker bug reports but you never know... Is this Mandrake related? Or kde-related? (I do not have gnome installed atm) Can you print PDFs directly on the command line: lpr file.pdf or with the printing functions of gv, xpdf, or acroread? Till
Re: [Cooker] Can anybody print pdf files in kde?
On Friday 27 June 2003 20:21, Dave Cotton wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 18:06, John van Spaandonk wrote: I can print .pdf files from the command line both using lp and lpr. Just the same, but how did we end up with lp -d printer_name and lpr -P printer_name, I've got two printers attached. ? Here I don't understand you, but I'm not a native English speaker :-\ kdeprint: kdeprint: registering 0xbfffec14, number of objects = 1 kdeprint: kdeprint: registering 0x81f50f4, number of objects = 2 kdeprint: kdeprint: registering 0x81e4440, number of objects = 3 kdeprint: kdeprint: registering 0x81e4478, number of objects = 4 kdeprint: kdeprint: registering 0x820437c, number of objects = 5 kdeprint: kdeprint: registering 0x820b848, number of objects = 6 That looks about the same as mine. Using the print function of kpdf does not work (As described earlier) Xpdf did work, KGhostView works I switch on the printer... xpdf does nothing with print commands lp or lpr. lpq reports two print jobs, first one stays at processing, second queued. Nothing happens at the printer. Now I think about switching off and on my printer and lo and behold, the first print job comes out. And then the second. I can now print from an application! (ok, the humble xpdf). kghostview still does not work. Printjobs disappear mysteriously from the queue after having been processing for a short while. Wow, I did not even know there were so many pdf viewing applications! Does anyone know a good paper recycler? LOL I know how you feel. Check out http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3138. Cost me about half a cartridge and several hundred pages of paper. John
[Cooker] Can anybody print pdf files in kde?
Hi, It's been months since I've been able to print pfd files from xpdf, kghostview or ghostview using cooker. I seem to remember that it worked in 9.1. Print job just disappears after a while, after job state in kjobviewer went to processing. I cannot see anything relevant in cups log. Switching to lpr/lpd does not help. It is possible to print to file, and this produces a ps file that I can view with the mentioned programs. Printing this file with lp however does not work. Before I file a bug report, does anybody else have this problem? There are no relevant cooker bug reports but you never know... Is this Mandrake related? Or kde-related? (I do not have gnome installed atm) Thx John
[Cooker] Errors in Cooker that are solved in KDE CVS 3.11 BRANCH
Hi all, Is it planned to upgrade cooker to KDE to 3.11 at the end of this week? They plan to tag it this Friday This would fall in the current cooker policy of bug fixes only, no? There seem to be some (serious) bugs in current cooker that are solved in KDE CVS. For example, see the following serious bug that causes webpages to not show at all: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55497 In addition i know that there are upgrades to the netscape plugin that are very usefull for the desktop user. For an example, see http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=1777064forum_id=21800 Best John
Re: [Cooker] Errors in Cooker that are solved in KDE CVS 3.11 BRANCH
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 12:49, Laurent Montel wrote: [...] We will not update kde to kde 3.1.1 I can see the merits of this decision... But can you please consider fixing the mentioned bug http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55497 that causes webpages not to be visible at all? Examples: http://www.maxtor.com, http://www.omroep.nl/nos/ Or can you see these pages? According to the kde developers this bug is solved. I will start to enter a bug report now. Thx John
Re: [Cooker] [Bug 1300] [drakxtools] /usr/lib/cups/filter/cupsomatic file missing from foomatic
Wow Brian, I'm very happy that I read this email. I seem to have the same problem with the latest cooker (this evening of March 5th) I have an HP deskjet 970CXi on the USB. A few days ago it suddenly did not work after urpmi --auto-select, so I reinstalled all the printer software. No worko! I just set the cups log level to debug and restarted the cups daemon. It looks like yours! The relevant section from /var/log/cups/error_log: ... (PID 2817) for job 5. D [05/Mar/2003:21:51:55 +0100] StartJob: backend = /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb D [05/Mar/2003:21:51:55 +0100] StartJob: filterfds[0] = -1, 10 D [05/Mar/2003:21:51:55 +0100] start_process(/usr/lib/cups/backend/usb, 0xbffefd20, 0xbffef1c0, 9, 10, 8) E [05/Mar/2003:21:51:56 +0100] PID 2817 stopped with status 22! I [05/Mar/2003:21:51:56 +0100] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb (PID 2818) for job 5. D [05/Mar/2003:21:51:56 +0100] ProcessIPPRequest: 6 status_code=0 D [05/Mar/2003:21:51:56 +0100] [Job 5] /usr/lib/cups/filter/cupsomatic: No such file or directory D [05/Mar/2003:21:51:56 +0100] CloseClient() 6 D [05/Mar/2003:21:51:56 +0100] CloseClient() 3 and then the job is canceled. Now I will go and get the cuspmatic from Mandrake 9.0 which I luckily still have around somewhere! ps. Do you have this problem too: each KDE program from which I print crashes after the printer dialog window is shown. I think this should never happen, whatever CUPS does! On Wednesday 05 March 2003 21:23, brian wrote: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1300 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-03-05 21:23 --- I installed the latest cups software with urpmi, but the problem still occurs. I hope I'm not missing some obvious configuration step. Let me know what to try next. The debug error I get is: D [05/Mar/2003:15:17:07 -0500] [Job 62] /usr/lib/cups/filter/cupsomatic: No such file or directory The software versions are: $ rpm -qa | grep -e cups -e foo foomatic-filters-3.0-0.beta1.20030302.1mdk cups-1.1.19-0.2mdk foomatic-db-3.0-0.beta1.20030302.1mdk cups-common-1.1.19-0.2mdk foomatic-db-engine-3.0-0.beta1.20030302.1mdk libcups1-1.1.19-0.2mdk cups-drivers-1.1-97mdk --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. --- Reminder: --- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: UNCONFIRMED creation_date: description: Upgraded from Mandrake 9.0 to Mandrake 9.1 beta3 and ran printerdrake to configure for remote cups server/Tektronix Phaser 850 (postscript). Could not print test pages. Set cups LogLevel to debug and saw usr/lib/cups/filter/cupsomatic: No such file or directory in /var/log/cups/error_log. Could not locate the file in any cups or foomatic package in the 9.1 beta3 distribution. Copied cupsomatic from a Mandrake 9.0 system, and printer now works fine. On 9.0, cupsomatic is installed with the foomatic package. On 9.1, a new foomatic-db package appears to install similar files, but not cupsomatic.
Re: [Cooker] [Bug 1300] [drakxtools] /usr/lib/cups/filter/cupsomatic file missing from foomatic
And indeed, installing the cupsomatic from Mandrake 9.0 solved this problem. Now I can go and debug the actual printing problem I had for a month! (printing stops/slows down at the half of the CUPS test page, printer gets a timeout (presumably, the middle led starts flashing orange) and when I press the middle button, the page is ejected half printed. The job is still in the queue but does not print anymore. Removing the job does not help. From now on all my jobs will be queued and none print anymore :-( Best John On Wednesday 05 March 2003 22:02, John van Spaandonk wrote: Wow Brian, I'm very happy that I read this email. I seem to have the same problem with the latest cooker (this evening of March 5th) I have an HP deskjet 970CXi on the USB. A few days ago it suddenly did not work after urpmi --auto-select, so I reinstalled all the printer software. No worko! I just set the cups log level to debug and restarted the cups daemon. It looks like yours! The relevant section from /var/log/cups/error_log: ... (PID 2817) for job 5. D [05/Mar/2003:21:51:55 +0100] StartJob: backend = /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb D [05/Mar/2003:21:51:55 +0100] StartJob: filterfds[0] = -1, 10 D [05/Mar/2003:21:51:55 +0100] start_process(/usr/lib/cups/backend/usb, 0xbffefd20, 0xbffef1c0, 9, 10, 8) E [05/Mar/2003:21:51:56 +0100] PID 2817 stopped with status 22! I [05/Mar/2003:21:51:56 +0100] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb (PID 2818) for job 5. D [05/Mar/2003:21:51:56 +0100] ProcessIPPRequest: 6 status_code=0 D [05/Mar/2003:21:51:56 +0100] [Job 5] /usr/lib/cups/filter/cupsomatic: No such file or directory D [05/Mar/2003:21:51:56 +0100] CloseClient() 6 D [05/Mar/2003:21:51:56 +0100] CloseClient() 3 and then the job is canceled. Now I will go and get the cuspmatic from Mandrake 9.0 which I luckily still have around somewhere! ps. Do you have this problem too: each KDE program from which I print crashes after the printer dialog window is shown. I think this should never happen, whatever CUPS does! On Wednesday 05 March 2003 21:23, brian wrote: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1300 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-03-05 21:23 --- I installed the latest cups software with urpmi, but the problem still occurs. I hope I'm not missing some obvious configuration step. Let me know what to try next. The debug error I get is: D [05/Mar/2003:15:17:07 -0500] [Job 62] /usr/lib/cups/filter/cupsomatic: No such file or directory The software versions are: $ rpm -qa | grep -e cups -e foo foomatic-filters-3.0-0.beta1.20030302.1mdk cups-1.1.19-0.2mdk foomatic-db-3.0-0.beta1.20030302.1mdk cups-common-1.1.19-0.2mdk foomatic-db-engine-3.0-0.beta1.20030302.1mdk libcups1-1.1.19-0.2mdk cups-drivers-1.1-97mdk --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. --- Reminder: --- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: UNCONFIRMED creation_date: description: Upgraded from Mandrake 9.0 to Mandrake 9.1 beta3 and ran printerdrake to configure for remote cups server/Tektronix Phaser 850 (postscript). Could not print test pages. Set cups LogLevel to debug and saw usr/lib/cups/filter/cupsomatic: No such file or directory in /var/log/cups/error_log. Could not locate the file in any cups or foomatic package in the 9.1 beta3 distribution. Copied cupsomatic from a Mandrake 9.0 system, and printer now works fine. On 9.0, cupsomatic is installed with the foomatic package. On 9.1, a new foomatic-db package appears to install similar files, but not cupsomatic.
Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 9.1 Should be Delayed
And me On Wednesday 05 March 2003 22:40, N Smethurst wrote: I realise that I am a relative minnow here, but I nevertheless wish to express my agreement with Tim. I'm glad someone has expressed what I hesitated to say. Le Mercredi 5 Mars 2003 22:07, Timothy R. Butler a écrit : Is it worth risking Mandrake's future as a whole to get this distribution out by mid-March? I just don't personally see that as a realistic date when I'm using RC2. Mandrake developers are amazing people, but I still can't believe all of these problems can be fixed in just nine days. To me, RC2 seems more like a beta release and not a release candidate.
Re: [Cooker] icons don't retain their position through logout or arrange
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 21:35, AAW wrote: On Tuesday, February 11, 2003 03:47 pm, John van Spaandonk wrote: On Tuesday 11 February 2003 20:21, Serge Plüss wrote: At 2/10/2003 02:10 PM, you wrote: Hi Mandrake Beta 3 with latest updates from cooker. I had my icons arranged on the desktop after initial Beta 3 installation. With latest upgrade to cooker packages all my desktop icons get aligned on the upper left side of my desktop. If I move the icons to another location they will be automatically placed back on the upper left when I log out and log back in. Also choosing to align to grid will automatically move them to the upper left. So will changing certain look and feel and desktop settings and clicking on apply. Just to be sure I created a new user (to see if my local kde settings got somehow screwed up) and the same behavior happened to that new user. Serge Just thought I would post a status update to say that even with all the latest updates the icon behavior is still unchanged. No matter where I place them they still revert back to the upper left of the screen at every login or even if I just apply some color changes or other changes from the desktop properties or even if I just do align to grid. With old and new users Serge Serge, I have the exact same problem. Cooker as of tonight 7 pm John Try unchecking all previews in KMenu Configuration KDE LookNFeel Behavior. This showed up in kdebase-3.1-23mdk and has persisted through 27mdk. (Note: I rebuild the cooker SRPM's for my 9.0 system.) Arn Hi Arn, This helped. Problem is somehow related to icon previews. BTW a seemingly related problem appears in Konqueror - file mode. Icons are drawn and then again drawn in a slightly shifted position (as often occurs when a preview is drawn after the original icon is drawn, resulting in flicker, but that's another subject :-) ) However in current cooker (kdebase-3.1-27mdk) the original icons are not erased, resulting in double icons. See attached screenshot (38.9 kB). Best John attachment: double_icons.png
Re: [Cooker] icons don't retain their position through logout or arrange
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 20:21, Serge Plüss wrote: At 2/10/2003 02:10 PM, you wrote: Hi Mandrake Beta 3 with latest updates from cooker. I had my icons arranged on the desktop after initial Beta 3 installation. With latest upgrade to cooker packages all my desktop icons get aligned on the upper left side of my desktop. If I move the icons to another location they will be automatically placed back on the upper left when I log out and log back in. Also choosing to align to grid will automatically move them to the upper left. So will changing certain look and feel and desktop settings and clicking on apply. Just to be sure I created a new user (to see if my local kde settings got somehow screwed up) and the same behavior happened to that new user. Serge Just thought I would post a status update to say that even with all the latest updates the icon behavior is still unchanged. No matter where I place them they still revert back to the upper left of the screen at every login or even if I just apply some color changes or other changes from the desktop properties or even if I just do align to grid. With old and new users Serge Serge, I have the exact same problem. Cooker as of tonight 7 pm John
Re: [Cooker] kpackage removed from kdeadmin-3.1-3mdk?
On Friday 31 January 2003 21:45, Laurent Montel wrote: Le Friday 31 January 2003 19:59, John van Spaandonk a écrit : There seems to be something wrong with the latest kdeadmin. Kpackage is not present in kdeadmin-3.1-3mdk. rpm -q -l does not list the executable for kpackage anymore, although it is still mentioned in the description and e.g. the png icons are still present. Is this deliberate? yes kpackage is in kdeadmin-kpackage Regards. Thx John Laurent, Thx for the info. I take it you will adjust the rest of the contents of kde-admin package to match removel of the binary? Best John
Re: [Cooker] WHY HAVE YOU CHANGE KDM WITH THIS HORRIBLE LOGIN MANAGER ??????
On Saturday 01 February 2003 10:12, Buchan Milne wrote: On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Shift wrote: Moreover I noticed that the login input field has been removed. The user has only the right to choose a user in a list. But HOW this user will do if the linux box has thousnds of users It is an horrible waste of time :( No, I had setup kdm previously to no show users, so my mdkkdm still had a user/password login field. And I suspect the behaviour can still be controlled with the KDE control center module, though I haven't tried. I would like to have the usual kdm back though. Do we need to take this up on MandrakeClub to be heard? IMHO, work on kdm should be going towards making gdm and kdm compatible, so that when in kde with gdm, I can choose shutdown/logout/reboot from kde, or when in gnome with kdm also. And so that when runing kdm I can choose New login or whatever better fits for fast user switching. Buchan I completely agree to the contents of the above posts. The choice of language OTOH is an entirely different matter... :-\ Still, continued unpredictable removals and changes of my kde environment will ultimately cause me to ditch Mandrake Linux and start using something like Debian That would be a shame because Mandrake seems to be really heading in the right direction. Are our voices heard at all here? Can somebody give us Mandrake's policy on the direction of Mandrake / kde integration? Kan we expect more and more removals or changes of kde base packages in the future? Thx John
Re: [Cooker] JDM has changed (IMNSHO) for the worst...
On Friday 31 January 2003 05:06, Gary Greene wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Can some one tell me why it was deemed that the kdm login dialog needed to change to a add-on that isn't in the stock KDE distribution? It looks kinda clumsy from a UI design standpoint. That, and I personally LIKED the stock 3.1 login UI. - -- Gary L. Greene, Jr. [long .sig snipped] I really feel Mandrake should reconsider this. Not only does the whole thing look amateurish (using 2 steps, bad gui) but it makes the system harder to configure for me (cannot configure anymore from kde). Please use either gdm or kdm, but pick a decent mature option. /start rant Please don't tell me you will be solve the configuration problem by providing one of these taking 30+ seconds to start and badly behaving (e.g. no transparent cut and paste, width does not fit title width etc. etc.) Mandrake control modules. /end rant Thx, John
[Cooker] kpackage removed from kdeadmin-3.1-3mdk?
There seems to be something wrong with the latest kdeadmin. Kpackage is not present in kdeadmin-3.1-3mdk. rpm -q -l does not list the executable for kpackage anymore, although it is still mentioned in the description and e.g. the png icons are still present. Is this deliberate? Thx John
Re: [Cooker] wine update for 9.1
On Tuesday 14 January 2003 09:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will soon send an updated version to Thierry. d. On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Vincent Meyer, MD wrote: Is an update of wine planned for 9.1? V. This is good news! Please make sure that it is compiled with CUPS support, and you will have a winner distribution for MS-office users!
Re: [Cooker] (drakconf-9.1-0.6mdk) dummy descriptions in Mandrake Control Center
On Friday 10 January 2003 18:12, Lea Gris wrote: Chuck Shirley wrote: Am I the only one experiencing this malady? It seems to me that having the mcc describe every module as dummy description is a pretty severe problem considering the (premature?!) move to a beta-1 pre-release. Should I be submitting it as an actual bug rather than informally whining about it here in the List? The involved package is drakconf-9.1-0.6mdk Noticed it as well with same guess as you; For information I use french locales. I noticed this as well.
Re: [Cooker] Where's the Kdebase rc6.4mdk ?
On Thursday 09 January 2003 17:07, arakeis wrote: Have someone seen the following rpms : kdebase-3.1-0.rc6.4mdk.i586.rpm popt-1.6.4-25mdk.i586.rpm rpm-4.0.4-25mdk.i586.rpm ? Looks like there having fun somewhere between mdk and the mirrors ! Or is it me ? It must be the mirror. I got these packages yesterday evening 22:30, from ftp.surfnet.nl
[Cooker] Various serious problems with drakx
Hi I've experienced several problems with Drakx in the past. Now (as per today) it got to the point that I cannot use the graphical install anymore. So I figured it's time for an overview of problems I encountered... :-) My system: DELL dimension XPS D233 Pentium 2, 233 STB 3D graphics, containing an S3Virge DX or GX chip. Latest Cooker, downloaded it 22:30 Amsterdam time, January 8. BTW, I use wget to get the latest Cooker, then make a boot floppy and install from disk. 1. I always had this problem, also with Mandrake 9.0... The graphical install is displayed a bit garbled. For example, the background at the top of the page (supposed to be gray?) looks like when you look at a color TV close up. You see big pixels, RGB. Text is barely readable. This could be a fault of the applied X-windows graphics driver? I could live with this problem, and my friends did not encounter it (using more modern hardware), so I never thougt it worth mentioning up to now. 2. Using the latest Cooker install from disk as described above. I now cannot install _at all_ using the drakx. It gets to the stage (in stage_2) that it starts X. Then it draws the top of the page (which looks like described above, showing Welcome to Mandrake Cooker or something like that) and then bombs concluding with the message: the system can be safely rebooted. I managed to write down some messages (from the alt-F4 window): trying to load I810fb module with xress (800) insmodding module failed trying with FBDEV trying with VGA16 meanwhile in the main window, drakx starts complaining about fonts that are not configured, fontconfig that is not installed properly, displays that are not available etc. At the moment I see no way of installing Cooker without damaging my file system - see problems 3. 3. I try to install anyway using the text-based install. Unfortunately drakx does not accept both text-based and expert as options, so now I am stuck in the normal mode. I select upgrade option (BTW what happened to upgrade packages only? Is this now gone? I liked that because it skips unnessesary installation steps) Packages are installed fine. However then it FORCES me to install the boot loader, either on the boot sector or on the partition. Both options fail, because I have a name in the GRUB menu that ends with a space! (Mandrake Cooker ) So now I cannot go further. First question? Why o why does Drakx force me to install a boot loader when I select upgrade an existing system? It should at least offer me the possibility to skip this step. It is very unfortunate that drakx at no place includes a cancel installation option, so now I have to reset the computer, forcing me to repair two filesystems, reboot and now I can using the new version of Cooker. This part I like! :-) By the way I really like the way things are going, draktools are improving tremendously etc, so don't take this as negative critique! I hope this helps. I'm sorry for the length of this email. Just ask if I need to provide more information / do experiments. I did not see anything about these problems on the mailing list. (apart from being forced to install a boot loader) Am I the only one experiencing problems with the graphical setup? John 4.
Re: [Cooker] Cooker problem: Printerdrake does not work
Sasha, Thx for confirming the bug and the tip about the CC. I just entered the bug report: 732. Best, John On Thursday 02 January 2003 19:51, Sascha Noyes wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Entering the bug into bugzilla is generally a good idea, as it will ensure that it is not overlooked/forgotten. It is also a good way of the Mandrake QA team knowing that certain bugs are reproducible for other testers (by people voting for existing bugs that they themselves experience) other than simply counting the number of me toos on this list, and to prioritize fixes (lots of votes = important/significant bug). I am also experiencing problems with PrinterDrake. I don't have any printer configured yet, but was hoping to configure an Epson Stylus C42UX usb printer. Printerdrake gives the following error after starting, (Similar to yours, just a few more Use of uninitialized value eroors): - -- [root@localhost lusr]# printerdrake Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/libDrakX/printer/default.pm line 37 (#1) (W uninitialized) An undefined value was used as if it were already defined. It was interpreted as a or a 0, but maybe it was a mistake. To suppress this warning assign a defined value to your variables. To help you figure out what was undefined, perl tells you what operation you used the undefined value in. Note, however, that perl optimizes your program and the operation displayed in the warning may not necessarily appear literally in your program. For example, that $foo is usually optimized into that . $foo, and the warning will refer to the concatenation (.) operator, even though there is no . in your program. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/libDrakX/printer/default.pm line 38 (#1) Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/libDrakX/common.pm line 208 (#1) TODO: XSetInputFocus if force_focus TODO: ensure focus stuff TODO: XSetInputFocus if force_focus TODO: ensure focus stuff TODO: XSetInputFocus if force_focus TODO: ensure focus stuff cupsd (pid 6574) is running... TODO: XSetInputFocus if force_focus TODO: ensure focus stuff Use of uninitialized value in split at /usr/lib/libDrakX/printer/common.pm line 44 (#1) Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/libDrakX/printer/office.pm line 101 (#1) Use of uninitialized value in hash element at /usr/lib/libDrakX/printer/office.pm line 101 (#1) Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/lib/libDrakX/interactive.pm line 266 (#1) TODO: XSetInputFocus if force_focus TODO: ensure focus stuff Use of uninitialized value in numeric gt () at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/MDK/Common/Math.pm line 133 (#1) Use of uninitialized value in subtraction (-) at /usr/lib/libDrakX/interactive/gtk.pm line 569 (#1) Use of uninitialized value in split at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/MDK/Common/String.pm line 138 (#1) - -- Printerdrake with me however does not stall, probably because I don't have a printer configured already. Configuring a printer however is not possible. Here is what I get when clicking add new printer: - -- Argument isn't numeric in numeric lt () at /usr/lib/libDrakX/printer/printerdrake.pm line 3012 (#2) (W numeric) The indicated string was fed as an argument to an operator that expected a numeric value instead. If you're fortunate the message will identify which operator was so unfortunate. TODO: XSetInputFocus if force_focus TODO: ensure focus stuff Use of uninitialized value in subtraction (-) at /usr/lib/libDrakX/interactive/gtk.pm line 533 (#1) - This is probably a trivial fix so I won't give the output of the next few operation, but will gladly if someone needs it. Suffice it to say that it doesn't work. P.S. Yes, you have broken one rule of the etiquette already! ;-) You've set your reply-to address, which I noticed when I replied to you but nothing arrived on the cooker list. Sascha Noyes On Thursday 02 January 2003 23:46, John van Spaandonk wrote: Hi all, I've got the following problem with PrinterDrake: I started printerdrake from the command line to get the error output (listed below). The error output seems to indicate several problems in the perl script. Then I get the tiny window saying please wait, reading printer configuration files. After a while (1 minute or so) the text in the window disappears and printerdrake hangs (I kill it with CTRL-C). This is a real bummer, since I cannot configure my printer properly and now cannot print. Is this something
[Cooker] Cooker problem: Printerdrake does not work
Hi all, I've got the following problem with PrinterDrake: I started printerdrake from the command line to get the error output (listed below). The error output seems to indicate several problems in the perl script. Then I get the tiny window saying please wait, reading printer configuration files. After a while (1 minute or so) the text in the window disappears and printerdrake hangs (I kill it with CTRL-C). This is a real bummer, since I cannot configure my printer properly and now cannot print. Is this something to report with an official Cooker erorr report? I also experience several problems with installation / upgrading packages, which I will report in a separate mail after I read the reponse on this one. ps this is my first post to this list, so please forgive me if I forget to report something or am not in agreement with the etiquette :-) I am looking forward to helping making Mandrake better by testing it and reporting erorrs! CUPS INFORMATION: Printer State: processing, accepting jobs. Unable to open USB device usb://HP/DeskJet%20970C?serial=ES99T110X4JQ: No such device Device URI: usb://HP/DeskJet%20970C?serial=ES99T110X4JQ OPERATING SYSTEM INFORMATION: I'm on Cooker, current as per Thursday 2-1, 22:00 Amsterdam time. Printer is a HP deskjet 970Cxi, using USB OUTPUT FROM PRINTERDRAKE printerdrake stdout/stderr output: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/libDrakX/printer/default.pm line 37 (#1) (W uninitialized) An undefined value was used as if it were already defined. It was interpreted as a or a 0, but maybe it was a mistake. To suppress this warning assign a defined value to your variables. To help you figure out what was undefined, perl tells you what operation you used the undefined value in. Note, however, that perl optimizes your program and the operation displayed in the warning may not necessarily appear literally in your program. For example, that $foo is usually optimized into that . $foo, and the warning will refer to the concatenation (.) operator, even though there is no . in your program. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/libDrakX/printer/default.pm line 38 (#1) Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/libDrakX/common.pm line 208 (#1) TODO: XSetInputFocus if force_focus TODO: ensure focus stuff -- In a world without fences - who needs Gates?
