[Cooker] Another 9.2B2 issue...
...Just upgraded a 9.1 machine. All went smoothly until install bootloader time. I use grub (why would anyone want lilo???). The script grabed a lot of old kernels from the /etc/lilo.conf file (a file I never noticed had all the old cruft in it) and tried to install them. Of course, this fails miserably. Fixed by symlinking to make lilo happy. This truly sucks, there is just so much vmlinuz-x.y-nzzzmdk you can type before going nuts :-) This seems to me to be a bit of a problem - /boot/grub/menu.lst and /etc/lilo.conf *can* be horribly out-of-sync. Seems to me a reasonable solution is to just install a new lilo.conf which lacks all the users old stuff (this can't fail); or fall back to this if lilo barfs trying to incorporate the old stuff. Anyone have an opinion? /Kevin -- Kevin J. Maciunas Net: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Computer Science Ph : +61 8 8303 5845 University of Adelaide Fax: +61 8 8303 4366 Adelaide 5005 SOUTH AUSTRALIA Web: http://www.cs.adelaide.edu.au/~kevin Fingerprint = 7E5A A0C2 22BC 5993 17F2 93CE B1FD DEC6 D0C0 50CD
Re: [Cooker] Bamboo upgrade of 9.1RC1 system failure
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 14:08, Todd Lyons wrote: Was it that / ran out of room or do you have a seperate /boot and it ran out of room? Just / - no seperate /boot in that config. The symptoms are pretty tragic - it just hangs! Recovery is not quite so pleasant, as it turned out.. /Kevin -- Kevin J. Maciunas Net: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Computer Science Ph : +61 8 8303 5845 University of Adelaide Fax: +61 8 8303 4366 Adelaide 5005 SOUTH AUSTRALIA Web: http://www.cs.adelaide.edu.au/~kevin Fingerprint = 7E5A A0C2 22BC 5993 17F2 93CE B1FD DEC6 D0C0 50CD
Re: [Cooker] No DISK drive!
On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 20:30, Ron Stodden wrote: Bad news - 9.1 Show-Stopper! On my machine with a Soltek motherboard and an add-on PCI Promise IDE23 controller 9.1 installs from hd.img and the 9.1 tree faultlessly. On my other machine with a Gigabyte motherboard with integrated Promise controller Installing 9.1 from an hd.img floppy immediately says No DISK drive! Just as a counter-point, both my machines have 9.1 *as upgrades* from 9.0. This machine has the HDs on IDE2 and IDE3; the SMP box @ work has them on IDE2 and IDE4. So it *does* work on some configurations! M/Bs are MSI 694D (with a Promise 2 channel PCI card add-in); ASUS A7V133 with the on board Promise RAID/IDE set to IDE. So it smells like a Gigabyte M/B problem.. /Kevin -- Kevin J. Maciunas Net: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Computer Science Ph : +61 8 8303 5845 University of Adelaide Fax: +61 8 8303 4366 Adelaide 5005 SOUTH AUSTRALIA Web: http://www.cs.adelaide.edu.au/~kevin Fingerprint = 7E5A A0C2 22BC 5993 17F2 93CE B1FD DEC6 D0C0 50CD
Re: [Cooker] [Bug 3567] [mozilla] Can't type in boxes in webpage
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 20:41, fcrozat wrote: After using mozilla for a time and using tabs, I loose the ability to be able to type anything in the boxes (address bar or text boxes, such as the one I am filling in now). The only fix has been to close and restart mozilla I have observed this with Galeon too. It seems to be a 'focus' issue - I can re-gain the ability to type in the boxes by simply removing focus (click on root window), then click in the box - brings focus back properly. Incidentally, while in the I refuse to listen to you state, I can get things into the boxes by X cut-n-paste - it just doesn't like the keyboard. This *is* really annoying! I'm a Gnome user, can't tell if it happens under KDE. /Kevin -- Kevin J. Maciunas Net: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Computer Science Ph : +61 8 8303 5845 University of Adelaide Fax: +61 8 8303 4366 Adelaide 5005 SOUTH AUSTRALIA Web: http://www.cs.adelaide.edu.au/~kevin Fingerprint = 7E5A A0C2 22BC 5993 17F2 93CE B1FD DEC6 D0C0 50CD
[Cooker] Bamboo upgrade of 9.1RC1 system failure
Just upgraded my SMP box from 9.1RC1 - Bamboo. It failed. Spectacularly - unable to boot as a result of a crash while upgrading the kernel package! The problem was my root partition - I had quite a bunch of kernels in there (my fault, I need to spring clean more often). The machine has 1GB of memory, so the default install peels off the normal kernel, SMP and Enterprise. I think DrakX needs to check more carefully the available space - If I was a non-hacker type user and had upgraded 8.2-9-9.1-... then it is quite likely I'd accumulate a *lot* of old kernels.. I think any recent Windows refugee would find this pretty disturbing (Grub loaded the bootstrap, but couldn't find the initrd in my case). This was actually easy for me to recover, of course. When I cleaned up and re-applied the upgrade, it only gave me the option to upgrade from Dolphin, BTW. So a broken 9.0/9.1/9.1RC1 system looks like 8.2 to DrakX! Cheers /Kevin -- Kevin J. Maciunas Net: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Computer Science Ph : +61 8 8303 5845 University of Adelaide Fax: +61 8 8303 4366 Adelaide 5005 SOUTH AUSTRALIA Web: http://www.cs.adelaide.edu.au/~kevin Fingerprint = 7E5A A0C2 22BC 5993 17F2 93CE B1FD DEC6 D0C0 50CD
Re: [Cooker] [Bug 3567] [mozilla] Can't type in boxes in webpage
On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 07:55, Buchan Milne wrote: Additionally, it also sometimes affects (for me): -typing in the address bar -typing in the search field in messenger Ditto. Sometimes restarting one component helps. I also wonder if it has to do with amount of free memory, since it almost never occurs with less than 1 hour use of mozilla. I don't think so. I have had a bit of a poke around a couple of times - the Galeon processes are not terribly large (well, heck, they ARE big; but they always are!) and I have free memory :-) This has happened to me when I have recently run Galeon up on this system @ home, so usually less than a couple of hours. Galeon stays up for weeks on the system @ work, with no apparent problems... /Kevin -- Kevin J. Maciunas Net: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Computer Science Ph : +61 8 8303 5845 University of Adelaide Fax: +61 8 8303 4366 Adelaide 5005 SOUTH AUSTRALIA Web: http://www.cs.adelaide.edu.au/~kevin Fingerprint = 7E5A A0C2 22BC 5993 17F2 93CE B1FD DEC6 D0C0 50CD
[Cooker] 9.1RC1 - acrobat plugins + Galeon
I've upgraded two machines from 9.0 - 9.1RC1 and both have this issue. I have the acrobat reader plugin on the 9.0 systems, after upgrade, it still works but consumes 100% of the system and is so S-L-O-W. Unusably slow, in fact... Acrobat is: acroread-nppdf-5.0.6-1mdk acroread-5.0.6-1mdk Since these came from the Club, I guess bugzilla is inappropriate, but this is a real killer! /Kevin -- Kevin J. Maciunas Net: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Computer Science Ph : +61 8 8303 5845 University of Adelaide Fax: +61 8 8303 4366 Adelaide 5005 SOUTH AUSTRALIA Web: http://www.cs.adelaide.edu.au/~kevin Fingerprint = 7E5A A0C2 22BC 5993 17F2 93CE B1FD DEC6 D0C0 50CD
[Cooker] Belated PrinterDrake bug!
Just did a full 9.0 install on the machine at home (was running Cooker). PrinterDrake screws up my printer! Printer: HP PSC-750 **ON AN HP-JETDIRECT SERVER** PrinterDrake happily sets everything up, but mangles the settings so when you look it is a local printer rather than a TCP Socket. You can repair it by going into printerdrake and manually set it to be a network printer once more.. If anyone needs me to test, I can of course - I suspect I might be the only person in the Mandrake Universe with this config! Cheers /Kevin -- Kevin J. Maciunas Net: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Computer Science Ph : +61 8 8303 5845 University of Adelaide Fax: +61 8 8303 4366 Adelaide 5005 SOUTH AUSTRALIA Web: http://www.cs.adelaide.edu.au/~kevin Fingerprint = 7E5A A0C2 22BC 5993 17F2 93CE B1FD DEC6 D0C0 50CD
Re: [Cooker] HP OfficeJet support?
On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 11:05, Timothy R. Butler wrote: Cool. Are you pleased with the printing/scanning quality on your all-in-one? Right now, I'm looking at the PSC 750 or 2110 ($250 and under range). Its nice to hear that MDK includes the drivers for these units... I have a PSC-750 on an HP-JetDirect ethernet server. It works flawlessly under 8,2. It is interesting to note that scanning with a net connected device isn't supported under Windows :-) Everything works - just point and click to install. Wonderful work. /Kevin -- Kevin J. Maciunas Net: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Computer Science Ph : +61 8 8303 5845 University of Adelaide Fax: +61 8 8303 4366 Adelaide 5005 SOUTH AUSTRALIA Web: http://www.cs.adelaide.edu.au/~kevin Fingerprint = 7E5A A0C2 22BC 5993 17F2 93CE B1FD DEC6 D0C0 50CD
Re: [Cooker] Galeon crashes
On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 05:22, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hi! Lately galeon crashes quite a lot. The last page it crashed for me, was http://lwn.net/2002/0411/devel.php3 . Does anyone else experience this problem? This is a Virgin 8,2 system and it works just fine for me. I'll try Cooker @ home later tonight. /Kevin -- Kevin J. Maciunas Net: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Computer Science Ph : +61 8 8303 5845 University of Adelaide Fax: +61 8 8303 4366 Adelaide 5005 SOUTH AUSTRALIA Web: http://www.cs.adelaide.edu.au/~kevin Fingerprint = 7E5A A0C2 22BC 5993 17F2 93CE B1FD DEC6 D0C0 50CD
Re: [Cooker] 8.2 problems...
On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 08:45, Malcolm-Rannirl wrote: I haven't noticed anyone mention these so far... I tried to use ext3 as my root partition (diskdrake is quite happy to let you set this up). However the system was unusable on booting as it appears to be unable to mount the root partition (it will load the initrd and get part way into the boot sequence, but if I try booting without the initrd it kernal panics). I have ext3 root fs without any problems at all... All set up by the install. So it works, which points to a problem with your particular setup. Apropos KDE, sorry, I plead GNOME :-) KDE bits and pieces work just fine for me under 8.2 however.. /Kevin -- Kevin J. Maciunas Net: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Computer Science Ph : +61 8 8303 5845 University of Adelaide Fax: +61 8 8303 4366 Adelaide 5005 SOUTH AUSTRALIA Web: http://www.cs.adelaide.edu.au/~kevin Fingerprint = 7E5A A0C2 22BC 5993 17F2 93CE B1FD DEC6 D0C0 50CD
Re: [Cooker] Evolution 0.11-2mdk from cooker.. problems!
On 30 Jul 2001 10:07:11 +0200, Frederic Crozat wrote: Dans l'article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kevin Maciunas [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Dear all, I just upgraded evolution 0.10-something to 0.11-2mdk and have it working stably but can't send mail. The composition window never comes up properly - the editable text area never appears. Is this just me or is it a bug? I've now tried it here on a Mandrake 8.0-Freq 2 system, not just my cooker based system with the same nett result. Check you have both gtkthml and libgtkhtml13 with the same version.. -- Yes, this was the problem. That'll stop me blindly following the dependancies in RPMs :-) How come installation of libgtkhtml didn't co-require gtkhtml? Just smells like a dependancy bug to me. Thanks for the accurate and prompt response! /Kevin -- Kevin J. Maciunas Net: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Computer Science Ph : +61 8 8303 5845 University of Adelaide Fax: +61 8 8303 4366 Adelaide 5005 http://www.cs.adelaide.edu.au/~kevin SOUTH AUSTRALIA
