[Cooker] urpmi broken (again)
urpmi-2.1-4mdk (3mdk was broken too, same way) [root@tyan gio]# urpmi.addmedia GioCooker http://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/Mandrake/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/ with ../base/hdlist.cz retrieve of [source_url/../base/hdlist.cz] failed no hdlist file found for medium GioCooker unable to update medium GioCooker [root@tyan gio]# --auto-select update didn't work either - doesn't even try to retrieve hdlist.
Re: [Cooker] Mirrors not synced?
And while you're at it, why not change the cooker mailing list archive link to one that works, like: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker The one you point to is ALWAYS at least a week behind, and they obviously (by their own admission) don't care. Thanks... Gio John Cavan wrote: As far as I can tell, neither primary mirrors have synced up with recent changes in the past two days. Which reminds me, the link from the cooker page on the Mandrake web site to sunsite.uio.no is wrong... Regards, John
[Cooker] Comments on the recent urpmi problems (2.0-4 and 2.0-5)
The problem is inherent on line 103 in
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux/urpm.pm, where a check is done
to see if read_config has been previously called by checking
$urpmi-{media}. Unfortunatley this variable has, at some point, been
referenced and is set to a null array even though read_config hasn't
been called yet.
It would be better coding practice to use a real flag, than to check
something that's supposed to be undefined - at any rate, removing the
check (leaving the second half on the line intact) eliminates the
symptom - but isn't the fix.
In /usr/sbin/urpmi, the logic that determines when read_config gets
called needs re-examined. In particular, the referencing of
$urpmi-{media} in other routines (the filter_xxx, for example) when
read_config hasn't been called is a problem. Again, if a routine needs a
variable set in another routine it's probably a good idea to validate
that said routine has been called.
Lastly, I'd like to comment on Mandrake's decidedly inadvisable practice
of putting broken packages in the cooker mirrors, PARTICULARLY the ones
that are used to maintain cooker distributions (urpmi, grpmi, rpmdrake).
If you don't have a solid, broad-based, thorough testbed for exercizing
these packages out, then spend some time and effort to CREATE ONE. This
is not the first time that you've broken the update mechanisms, and it
only demonstrates your lack of testing and quality assurance. While I
realize cooker is a place for new code, that's a poor excuse for your
failure to thoroughly work out your code prior to letting the world try
it - again, and in particular, the code that most everyone uses to
update their test systems.
Those of us on the bleeding edge would appreciate your work much more if
you'd at least care enough to validate that code which you have complete
control over prior to its release, even in a pre-beta environment.
Regards,
Paul
Re: [Cooker] LM 8.0 Loose ends: Boot prompt problem
Add options parport_pc io=0x378,0x278 irq=7,auto to your /etc/modules.conf and the parport driver init won't scan for the winbond and smsc chipsets. (that assumes, of course, that those *are* your parallel port addresses and interrupts!) Regards, Gio - Original Message - From: "michael" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2001 1:18 AM Subject: [Cooker] LM 8.0 Loose ends: Boot prompt problem I feel like I should have said something with RC1 and kernel -17mdk, because that's when I started to notice that (not using graphical boot) when I am prompted to log in. after a very short time, "winbond Super IO detection..." and "SMSC Super IO detection come up and cover the login line and the next one. Of course, I can log in no problema but it *looks funny*. -- -m-
Re: [Cooker] rebuilding the kernel rpm for a athlon based system...
Not exactly sure about the SRPM, but the standard kernel Makefile uses "uname -m" to get the architecture for the build. What do you get when you type "uname -m"? If it's "i686" then that's your answer. What's in /proc/cpuinfo? (I believe if you "export ARCH=athlon" prior to the build you'll get what you desire...) - Original Message - From: "Daniel McKee" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 5:49 PM Subject: Re: [Cooker] rebuilding the kernel rpm for a athlon based system... I had to modify his directions, but i kinda got it to work...It's still insisting on building a .i686 rpm not a .athlon RPM I figured out how to force a .athlon RPM, but when I go to install it, I get "incompatable architecture"... ??? I got a Socket A 1GHz Thunderbird, if that's not a Athlon, I don't know what is...lol Anyhow, can someone jump in and help [us] out? Is Mandrake not Athlon savvy yet or ?? Why is my system a i686 instead of a "Athlon"??? And, before someone goes jumping my back about "its the same thing" go look in /usr/src/RPM/RPMS and you'll see a "athlon" directory and a "i686" directory... Why the Athlon directory then?? TIA Daniel McKee - Original Message - From: "michael" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 9:38 AM Subject: Re: [Cooker] rebuilding the kernel rpm for a athlon based system... root wrote: Hi, someone about a week ago posted some directions on how to rebuild the kernel srpm to be optimized for a athlon cpu...can you please repost the directions??? TIA Daniel McKee i followed it verbatim and it didn't work for me...:-( -- pax -m-
Re: [Cooker] kcontrol blank
Actually in the latest stuff it's in /usr/share/applnk-mdk/Configuration/.directory - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2001 8:36 AM Subject: Re: [Cooker] kcontrol blank Yeah, I have the problem, too. According to http://www.pclinuxonline.com/Help_ __How_To/KDE-2/kde-2.html Log in as root and open the /usr/share/applnk.kde directory. Copy the Settings folder to your /.kde/share/applnk in your home directory and also to your /.kde/share/applnk directory in your root directory. Exit out, restart KDE-2 and your control Panel will be fixed. Other solutions are here: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=author:rtee%40btinternet.comnum=20hl=en; lr =safe=offrnum=2seld=942882559ic=1 Bug filed: https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/cgi-bin/show_bug.cgi?id=3113 I guess it's a bug with just upgrading to KDE 2.1 and so on, something wrong in the upgrade path. Evidently, it doesn't affect too many people, because it's been around for a while. Something in the Mandrake menu system isn't working right with adding the X-KDE-BaseGrou=settings to the Preferences/KDE/.directory file. I just manually added the line and it works, but everytime update-menus is run, it gets over-written. Robby Stephenson On Fri, 13 Apr 2001 00:40:16 EDT, Elton Woo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Con Kolivas wrote: Is kcontrol meant to still be blank? There are no settings to change. It's been blank for a while now. I take it that you are referring to the KDE Control Center, if so , the answer is "no". On one of my first installs of Traktopel, though I was able to set options by logging into my root account, when I invoked the program from in my user account, all the tabs / pages in the Control Center were blank. IMHO, this might be a bug in cooker. Perhaps I should report it? Has anyone else here found this? cheers, Elton Woo ;-)
Re: [Cooker] RpmDrake and MandrakeUpdate
Don't panic (that's a maxim in this environment!) First run a urpmi.update and make sure that it runs OK and all the files come down. Sometimes if you run in the middle of an update to the mirror you get out of sync, or you only get partial files. If that's all OK try the urpmi again, and see what happens. I (and others) have seen several issues, most notably in my case Bastille installs a firewall that causes FTP issues under the covers. I've gotten by that, but the newer 2.4.3 kernels seem to have issues as well - I'm trying to narrow that down today. You can run tcpdump and see the FTP's happen behind the scenes to see if you're experiencing what I am - run "tcpdump -s 0 -x -X -p port 21 or port 20 | tee trace.out" In the resulting output you'll see a "connection reset by peer" message - at least that's what I get. I'll update more when I know more, in the hope that it'll help others. Regards, Gio - Original Message - From: "Daniel McKee" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "cooker mailing list" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 11:03 PM Subject: [Cooker] RpmDrake and MandrakeUpdate Agh, everything is breaking on me :-/ MandrakeUpdate; Cannot open the compssUsers.flat file rpmdrake; Cannot open the compssUsers.flat file Is this related to my urpmi problem also or ??? Someone please help Daniel McKee
Re: [Cooker] problem with rpmdrake/urpmi
Thanks, Franois, this really is a nice set of programs for maintaining Mandrake. Keep up the good work, many of us out here appreciate it... Regards, Gio - Original Message - From: "Franois Pons" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 12:47 PM Subject: Re: [Cooker] problem with rpmdrake/urpmi "Bruce F. Press" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul Giordano wrote: try: rm -f /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/.listing Right on the money! Yes but this is my fault; please use 31mdk for that... Franois.
[Cooker] kdebase/kdelibs error
This morning syncing w/urpmi - error: failed dependancies: kdepim 2.1.1-3mdk conflicts with kdelibs-2.1.1-3mdk kdebase 2.1.1-4mdk conflicts with kdelibs-2.1.1-3mdk
Re: [Cooker] problem with rpmdrake/urpmi
try: rm -f /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/.listing see what happens then... - Original Message - From: "Bruce F. Press" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 9:51 AM Subject: [Cooker] problem with rpmdrake/urpmi Whenever I try to use rpmdrake or urpmi, I get the following cryptic mesage: unable to determine rpms cache directory /var/cache/urpmi/rpms unable to get source packages, aborting at /usr/bin/urpmq line 153. /var/cache/urpmi/rpms exists and is writable
Re: [Cooker] unable to add mirror to rpmdrake in 'Define sources' *bump*
That was IT! I didn't ever realize I had the firewall enabled - just installed Bastille to start playing around with it. Uninstalled Bastille and poof - receiving new updates as I type. Thanks for the solution. Rolf... Regards, Gio - Original Message - From: "Rolf Pedersen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 10:01 PM Subject: Re: [Cooker] unable to add mirror to rpmdrake in 'Define sources' *bump* Paul Giordano wrote: And some more info - attempting to select a single package using "urpmi package name" causes parsehdlist to go into a loop on my failing machine. Something's really goofed in the mix here, could be two separate problems. The LIST issue appears to be something with the ftp failing with the connection reset. Weird that it's only urpmi, not urpmi.update (on my system). Well, Gio, I think I've ferreted out the cause of my complaint. I re-installed, all in ext2 but that's not it. Appears to be the Bastille tinyfirewall, which I configured with all the restrictive, default settings. Upgraded to all the latest rpmdrake, urpmi, and wget, with the firewall not loaded at boot==rpmdrake adds a cooker source. Remove the source, reboot with firewall loading==adding the same source stops at the familiar ==LIST.Reboot with the firewall not loading==the same source now adds nicely again. I would say the Bastille firewall is getting in the way and I'll report this to qa. Thanks for your attention to my difficulties; good luck solving yours. Let me know if there's anything I can check for you. rolf
Re: [Cooker] unable to add mirror to rpmdrake in 'Define sources' *bump*
And I though it was just me - try a tcpdump on another session for port 20 and 21 and see if you get a "Connection reset by peer" under the covers. My urpmi.update runs fine - indicating that wget is OK. Which mirror? I had the problem on sunet and sunsite, haven't tried others. Interesting too, only on one machine - my other machine seems fine. What's the urpmi version? (note, I'm not the developer, just curious to see if there's any commonality). Regards, Gio - Original Message - From: "Rolf Pedersen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 12:06 AM Subject: Re: [Cooker] unable to add mirror to rpmdrake in 'Define sources' *bump* Rolf Pedersen wrote: I have been reading cooker daily since 8.0b1, done a search for rpmdrake, queried qa, and am surprised to have not found exactly this problem, so it is likely user error. This is now for a fresh install of beta3 on /, /home, /usr reiserfs partitions but seems typical of my experiences w/rpmdrake in 8.0beta*. Well, inasmuch as I have a Via chipset (Asus K7V) and, having caught wind of problems when combined w/reiserfs, I formatted / in ext2, /usr in reiserfs, and reinstalled. Went straight to rpmdrake, added a cooker source, and upgraded urpmi and rpmdrake. One other change I made in install was to accept the servers postfix and webmin, whereas I refused this before as I did not know of their utility to my install on single-box internet/office workstation. GUI is looking good! Back to square one! After the initial successful addition of a cooker source with rpmdrake, myriad attempts to update the existing or add new cooker sources, with rpmdrake or urpmi.addmedia, various versions of rpmdrake, wget, and urpmi all fail after logon to the mirror at retrieving the hdlist '==LIST' Depending on how I kill the stalled process(es), I can sometimes get an error message 'unable to read hdlist' which got me to wondering what (de)compression utility is associated with .cz and is that somehow the source of the problem? Konqueror shows it as an archive but archiver errors that it should have a .bz extension and won't open it. Unable to find any info on .cz files. Security level set to low at install. Tinyfirewall running but logons are successful. This sucks :- rolf
Re: [Cooker] unable to add mirror to rpmdrake in 'Define sources' *bump*
Thanks, Rolf - It appears to be a problem in latter versions of urpmi - see this thread, recent: http://www.mail-archive.com/cooker@linux-mandrake.com/msg32976.html I've been working with Franois in these threads: http://www.mail-archive.com/cooker@linux-mandrake.com/msg32741.html http://www.mail-archive.com/cooker@linux-mandrake.com/msg32698.html Oh heavies of Mandrake, we have a serious problem developing here... Regards. Gio - Original Message - From: "Rolf Pedersen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 2:22 PM Subject: Re: [Cooker] unable to add mirror to rpmdrake in 'Define sources' *bump* Nice to hear from you, Gio. The start of this thread, with some (monotonously typical) terminal output while rpmdrake tries to add an ftp source is here: http://www.mail-archive.com/cooker@linux-mandrake.com/msg32541.html --- large cut---
Re: [Cooker] unable to add mirror to rpmdrake in 'Define sources' *bump*
And some more info - attempting to select a single package using "urpmi package name" causes parsehdlist to go into a loop on my failing machine. Something's really goofed in the mix here, could be two separate problems. The LIST issue appears to be something with the ftp failing with the connection reset. Weird that it's only urpmi, not urpmi.update (on my system).
Re: [Cooker] Re: [Frozen-CHRPM] urpmi-1.5-28mdk
Hi Franois, wget alone works fine - in fact, I can do the urpmi.update w/o a problem, and pull down the 8M hdlist. Did a wget (-NP /var/cache...) of kernel-2.4.3*, it worked fine. It's only when urpmi does it that it fails. Did you catch the post where I described my tcpdump? It shows a "Connection reset by peer" on sunsite and sunet getting the file list - where the straight wget's work just fine. Hope this helps, and thanks lots for the response and aid. Regards, Gio - Original Message - From: "Franois Pons" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 11:24 AM Subject: Re: [Cooker] Re: [Frozen-CHRPM] urpmi-1.5-28mdk "Paul Giordano" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Franois, Still no love here - urpmi.update runs fine, urpmi --auto-select does not. Could it be a change in wget, wget parms, or the hdlist format that's causing this? Is it because I'm running as root? Is there some way that I've goofed up security (something that updated 2 days ago?) Interesting too, if I try to run after a failure I get unable to determine rpms cache directory /var/cache/urpmi/rpms unable to get source packages, aborting at /usr/bin/urpmi line 255 If I delete the /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/.listing file then I get the original failure. Regards, and thanks, Gio This is problably a problem of security, so you tried wget alone ? Can you try with --passive-ftp too ? Franois.
Re: [Cooker] Compiling kernel-2.4.3-8mdk.src.rpm on a Athlon Tbird
Well, there's the Linux-From-Scratch-HOWTO which is good reading for an overall picture - But the "long and short of it": switch into /usr/src/linux *note - only good in 2.4.2 kernels and above...* make menuconfig *or* make xconfig choose "Load Configuration from File" enter "/boot/config" for the running kernel choose "Processor Type and Features" choose "Processor Family" and select "Athlon/Duron/K7" get back to the main menu, choose "Save Configuration to File" save it somewhere safe (/root/MYKERNEL-2.4.3-8.config) choose "Save and Exit" this creates a file named ".config" in the /usr/src/linux directory At this point you can and should edit the file "Makefile" and set "EXTRAVERSION" to your own suffix - it'll prevent you from overwriting the Mandrake kernels. Now run "make dep" (sorts out the kernel dependancies for the make files" then run "make modules" - go get a coffee (builds the loadable modules) then run "make bzImage" - go get another coffee (builds the actual kernel) run "make modules_install" - this copies all the modules into /lib/modules/2.4.3-(your EXTRAVERSION suffix) run "make install" - this copies the kernel to /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.3-(your EXTRAVERSION suffix) and builds System.map-2.4.3-(your EXTRAVERSION suffix) - the module/kernel symbol table xref At this point you have an Athlon enhanced kernel. Need pcmcia? Now "cd pcmcia-cs-3.1.25" make config answer the questions, select mostly the defaults, and make sure you select "read from kernel tree" when asked. make all make install Need alsa? cd .. cd alsa-??? ./configure --with-isapnp --with-sequencer --with-cards-(your sound card) (you can get the list of cards using ./configure --help) make install Now, run "depmod -aF System-2.4.3-(your EXTRAVERSION suffix) 2.4.3-(your EXTRAVERSION suffix)" This should *not* produce any errors. If you played with other settings when you configured the kernel you might see some things pop out here - go through the process again until this is clean and returns no messages! This builds the file /lib/modules/2.4.3-(your EXTRAVERSION suffix)/modules.dep, and it's used by modprobe to load any modules that are depended on by the one you're loading. Need an initial ramdisk (initrd)? run "mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.3-(your EXTRAVERSION suffix) 2.4.3-(your EXTRAVERSION suffix)" - this builds an initial ramdisk containing /lib/modules/2.4.3-(your EXTRAVERSION suffix) for the kernel to load startup modules from - required for SCSI, reiserfs, etc. Almost done!! - edit /etc/lilo.conf or /boot/grub/menu.lst, create a copy of one of the entries, and update it to point to your kernel version (and initrd if needed.) Run "lilo" or do a grub install (I think you can use the install.sh in the /boot/grub directory, but I'm not a grub-ite right now.) Cross your fingers, and reboot. Select your new kernel at the prompt - woo hoo! Wasn't that fun? Now that you've got a working scenario, you can modify the kernel to your exact machine - always make sure you change EXTRAVERSION so you don't overwrite your working kernels! Also - when you repeat the process, run "make mrproper" first - this will clean up and remove the previous kernel compile code. Then run the "make menuconfig" or "make xconfig" again, load your previously saved kernel config, and continue on as before. If you're just going to rebuild the kernel after a source update, copy your config file to the kernel source root (cp /root/MYKERNEL.config /usr/src/linux/.config) and run a "make oldconfig" - this will run through and update your config file automatically, stopping and asking you about what you want for any new configuration options that may show up. When that's done, copy the config out again (cp /usr/src/linux/.config /root/MYNEWKERNEL.2.4.3-8.config) and resume with the "make dep" step. Whew! that was a bunch! I do this all the time, since I have a PIII and an Athlon. There was some prefetch code in the 2.4.2 kernels that hasn't made it to the 2.4.3 tree yet - it was only enabled on the PIII and Athlon builds (and broke when you ran Linux under a VMWare virtual machine...) Happy kernel hacking... Regards, Gio - Original Message - From: "michael" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 4:02 AM Subject: Re: [Cooker] Compiling kernel-2.4.3-8mdk.src.rpm on a Athlon Tbird On 07 Apr 2001 00:54:41 -0700, Daniel McKee wrote: snip How do I compile a Athlon optimized kernel from src rpm??? This is a great question! I'd like to know too. -m-
Re: [Cooker] Compiling kernel-2.4.3-8mdk.src.rpm on a Athlon Tbird
Oh and check out http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/install/kupgrade3.html There's a lot of really good stuff out on mandrakeuser.
Re: [Cooker] Beta 3 and VMWare
Allow me to answer - LILO installs the graphic menu by default, which does not work on VMWare. There's a simple way around it - generate a boot diskette image and boot from that, then edit lilo.conf to use boot-menu.b instead of boot-graphic.b. This is a problem with VMWare's VESA graphics support. Aurora also will not work under VMWare for the same reason. Second thing you'll hit is that VMWare doesn't truly support pcnet32 as a 32bit card. The newer kernels distribute pcnet32 for the real thing, and it breaks VMWare causing a Not Supported popup and VMWare crash. To get around this use an older pcnet32 driver or comment out the 32 bit check in drivers/net/pcnet32.c (there's actually a patch in 2.4.3-ac3 that fixes this, I think.) Hope this helps... - Original Message - From: "Esko" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 3:04 PM Subject: [Cooker] Beta 3 and VMWare I tried installing Beta 3 under VMWare today. On "reboot" of virtual machine all I saw was LILO: 2.17 Is there any way to make sure Mandrake 8 can be used under VMWare. (We're a Windows shop at work and I really want my Linux. BTW: 7.2 works fine.) Esko -- They have to pay me to use Windows... On MY TIME I use Linux!
[Cooker] Re: [Frozen-CHRPM] urpmi-1.5-28mdk
Hi Franois, Still no love here - urpmi.update runs fine, urpmi --auto-select does not. Could it be a change in wget, wget parms, or the hdlist format that's causing this? Is it because I'm running as root? Is there some way that I've goofed up security (something that updated 2 days ago?) Interesting too, if I try to run after a failure I get unable to determine rpms cache directory /var/cache/urpmi/rpms unable to get source packages, aborting at /usr/bin/urpmi line 255 If I delete the /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/.listing file then I get the original failure. Regards, and thanks, Gio - Original Message - From: "Franois Pons" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Changelog List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 1:00 PM Subject: [Frozen-CHRPM] urpmi-1.5-28mdk --=-=-= Name: urpmiRelocations: (not relocateable) Version : 1.5 Vendor: MandrakeSoft Release : 28mdk Build Date: Thu Apr 5 19:57:32 2001 Install date: (not installed) Build Host: bi.mandrakesoft.com Group : System/Configuration/Packaging Source RPM: (none) Size: 95566License: GPL Packager: Franois Pons [EMAIL PROTECTED] Summary : User mode rpm install Description : urpmi enable non-superuser install of rpms. In fact, it only authorizes well-known rpms to be installed. You can compare rpm vs. urpmi with insmod vs. modprobe --=-=-= * Thu Apr 05 2001 Franois Pons [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1.5-28mdk - updated man pages. - fixed remove of synthesis file before update. - fixed remanent rpm file in cache. -- http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/cookerdevel.php3
[Cooker] urpmi failing on me, the continuing saga
So I did a tcpdump, and lo and behold under the covers the ftpLIST command goes, then the results start coming back, there's some handshaking, and then a "connection reset by peer". What would suddenly start that happenning, and only on a urpmi --auto-select(not a urpmi.update, for example?) I've done other wget's (kernel source, for example) and have no problem. Any help appreciated... Regards, Gio
[Cooker] urpmi seems broke
Hi all, This just started happening, I assume with latest changes... do a urpmi.update, that works fine - follow with a urpmi --auto-select, after it selects the packages it's unable to retrieve them. I've attached the output - any help appreciated. Installed version urpmi-1.5-27mdk
[Cooker] urpmi broke? (with attachment this time... sheeesh.)
(Helps to use the attach feature. Man I'm brain-dead today.) Hi all, This just started happening, I assume with latest changes... do a urpmi.update, that works fine - follow with a urpmi --auto-select, after it selects the packages it's unable to retrieve them. I've attached the output - any help appreciated. Installed version urpmi-1.5-27mdk t.t
Re: [Cooker] urpmi broke? (with attachment this time... sheeesh.)
ls -al /var/cache/urpmi/rpms total 36 drwxr-xr-x2 root urpmi 32768 Apr 5 05:05 ./ drwxr-xr-x5 root urpmi4096 Apr 3 07:52 ../ -rw---1 root root0 Apr 5 05:12 .listing file /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/.listing /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/.listing: empty Deleting the empty .listing file and running --auto-select again does not help. Thanks and regards, Gio - Original Message - From: "Franois Pons" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 10:29 AM Subject: Re: [Cooker] urpmi broke? (with attachment this time... sheeesh.) "Paul Giordano" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This just started happening, I assume with latest changes... do a urpmi.update, that works fine - follow with a urpmi --auto-select, after it selects the packages it's unable to retrieve them. I've attached the output - any help appreciated. Installed version urpmi-1.5-27mdk Can you check with "ls -l /var/cache/urpmi/rpms" and do file /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/.listing Thanks, Franois.
Re: [Cooker] urpmi broke? (with attachment this time... sheeesh.)
df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 3484780 2952184426328 87% / - Original Message - From: "Franois Pons" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 11:46 AM Subject: Re: [Cooker] urpmi broke? (with attachment this time... sheeesh.) "Paul Giordano" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ls -al /var/cache/urpmi/rpms total 36 drwxr-xr-x2 root urpmi 32768 Apr 5 05:05 ./ drwxr-xr-x5 root urpmi4096 Apr 3 07:52 ../ -rw---1 root root0 Apr 5 05:12 .listing file /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/.listing /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/.listing: empty Deleting the empty .listing file and running --auto-select again does not help. Thanks and regards, Gio And available size ? I try another way for getting these rpm file. Franois.
[Cooker] sunsite.uio.no
And now we're back to the "invalid archive" problem - c'mon guys, what's going on?
[Cooker] Lost Desktop recovery
In all the urpmi's I appear to have lost the default desktops in KDE and GNOME. Does anyone have a fast easy way to restore them? I tried deleting all the hidden directories but to no avail. Thanks in advance... (Oh, and thanks for fixing the sunsite.uio.no cooker...) Regards, Gio
[Cooker] hdlist.cz broken on primary mirror
Can't urpmi there any more...
[Cooker] sunsite.uio.no hdlist still broken -
Now it gives "invalid archive"
[Cooker] urpmi problems
Well, the hdlist.cz on sunsite seems fixed, but now I get "trying to bypass existing medium GioCooker", avoiding (...insert long list of package names here...) unable to get source packages" afterI respond Y to the Is It OK prompt on an --auto-select. What'd I do?
[Cooker] icewm 1.0.7
I get "unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/share/doc/icewm-1.0.7/icewm.sgml: cpio: read" on icewm, and "unpacking of archive failed: cpio: Bad Magic: on icewm-light 1.0.7... Anyone else see this? I pulled 'em down from sunsite.uio.no... Regards, Gio
Re: [Cooker] screem still dead
8mdk - it's broken on my system as well. Same symptoms - get splash, w/"Creating Interface" - starts an oafd --ac-activate --ior-output-fd=9, then hangs (and the splash is hard set on foreground.) - Original Message - From: "Lenny Cartier" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2001 1:27 PM Subject: Re: [Cooker] screem still dead Vincent Meyer wrote: Hi, Downloaded the latest version of screem. At least instead of a line in the middle of the screen there is the splash, which gets as far as creating interface and hangs. the 8mdk one ? It works here. lenny -- -- Lenny Cartier [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Informatique: Excel, Word, chef de projet informatique." (c) Serious resume
Re: [Cooker] mkbootdisk
Hi Pixel, If the devices are not equal ($device $rdevice) then lilo gets a device busy attempting to write to the floppy (now, I'm using devfs and that may be the difference.) As long as the device lilo attempts to use is the same as the one mounted to /mnt/mkbootdisk then lilo's happy (at least on my system!) Thanks for the help... Gio - Original Message - From: "Pixel" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2001 3:42 PM Subject: Re: [Cooker] mkbootdisk "Paul Giordano" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also - could you change the line "boot=$device" that's written to the $MOUNTDIR/etc/lilo.conf to read "boot=$rdevice"? Otherwise you get a device busy condition using devfs - $device is /dev/fd0, $rdevice is /dev/fd0u1440. can you explain more? rdevice is /dev/fd0H1440, not fd0u1440. why would it work better with boot=/dev/fd0H1440 in lilo.conf? thanks, Pixel.
Re: [Cooker] Look! Prettier Linux ASCII char logo to replace linux_logo RPM
Oh, that's TOO cool. Nice find, Prana... Gio - Original Message - From: "Prana" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Cooker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 7:36 PM Subject: [Cooker] Look! Prettier Linux ASCII char logo to replace linux_logo RPM Hiya, I was wondering if linux_logo-3.05-6mdk can be replaced with this program? Screenshot: http://www.littleigloo.org/images/welcome2l_screen1.gif http://www.littleigloo.org/images/welcome2l_screen2.gif http://www.littleigloo.org/software_003.php3 Sources: ftp://littleigloo.org/pub/welcome2l/Welcome2L-3.04.src.tar.gz ftp://littleigloo.org/pub/welcome2l/Welcome2L-3.04-1.i386.rpm -- Prana [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cyest.org GnuPG Key ID: 0x33343FD3 (2000-07-21) Key fingerprint = F1FB 1F76 8866 0F40 A801 D9DA 6BED 6641 3334 3FD3 http://blackhole.pca.dfn.de:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x33343FD3
[Cooker] XFree86 4.0.2a S3 Savage MX
The Savage IX/MX driver you're shipping in XFree86 is at the 1.1.0 level - it doesn't work (This is the driver for Toshiba Tecra's, and IBM Thinkpad I20's to name two) - The latest is 1.1.15, I don't know about how it's maintained through XFree86.org, but Tim's updates are always released from http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html Regards, Gio
[Cooker] mkbootdisk
Also - could you change the line "boot=$device" that's written to the $MOUNTDIR/etc/lilo.conf to read "boot=$rdevice"? Otherwise you get a device busy condition using devfs - $device is /dev/fd0, $rdevice is /dev/fd0u1440. Thanks again... gio
[Cooker] mkbootdisk
Could you put double-quotes around the [ -z $rootdev ] at the bottom please? Thanks... Gio
Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake way SLOOOOW! How to use it?
Yeah, I gotta say that urpmi work's pretty well for me, and I be a command prompt kind of guy (it's the control freak in me.) I'm using it on a fresh 8.0b1 install and I used it to upgrade a 7.2 install. For the libstdc++/gcc 2.96 and KDE updates alone it was worth it! Is there a way, though, to rebuild the default menu/desktop options in KDE/Gnome? When I updated there were dependencies for the menu updater that caused it to fail at several points - and I don't know what got missed. (Although a point could be made that if I don't know what I'm missing then it's probably not important...) Regards, Gio - Original Message - From: "Pixel" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 7:06 AM Subject: Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake way SLW! How to use it? "Brian J. Murrell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 01:07:56PM +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: Nice ? So it's not just me who thinks that MandrakeUpdate is REALLY missing Yeah, well the MDK folks keep saying it's rpmdrake. I wish just one of them would describe how to keep a Cooker up to date using the tool. The lack of resonse to many queries indicates to me that it cannot be done and as such it is not ready to replace MandrakeUpdate. best ways to keep uptodate: - ``urpmi --auto-select'' (works nicely on my box, though segfault on some) - ``apt-get --dist-upgrade'' (works quite nicely, though it doesn't like my box, keep crashing) or use urpmi and apt-get to install one package only. or use rpmdrake which is just a front-end to urpmi.
[Cooker] kapmd CPU explanation
For all you concerned citizens, see http://olstrans.sourceforge.net/release/OLS2000-apm/OLS2000-apm.htmlat a little before half-way through. There's abasic explanationof kapmd and the idle loop, and the "sham" CPU usage. It's a nice transcript discussing power management in the Linux kernel. A little curiosity is a dangerous thing... Regards, Gio
Re: [Cooker] gcc-2.96
Actually I asked after this a short time back, and after some good feedback from the list here, a bit more research, and some serious experimentation I'm pretty comfortable. I've compiled several packages and at least a dozen kernel gens, no issues (other than my own oopses.) It is definitely a tighter standard, and I like that. It is, after all, the cooker - anyhow, using urpmi the update to my 7.2 system went fairly well. IMHO I'd go ahead and use it. "Join Us - don't be afraid..." :} Gio - Original Message - From: "JimBoB" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 7:12 AM Subject: Re: [Cooker] gcc-2.96 I agree! I won't using Mandrake 8.0. JimBoB - Original Message - From: Mattias Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 6:26 PM Subject: [Cooker] gcc-2.96 I know we had a long debatte about if LM should start using gcc-2.96 in cooker, I was against it. But I was then told that there would not be any stable release based on a CVS snapshot of gcc, LM was not going to make the same mistake as RedHat. But that was then, what is said a few month ago is not worth anything now... now Mandrake are going to make the same mistake as RedHat. I'm not going to tell people why gcc-2.96 is a big mistake since they probably have heard all the arguments and ignored them. The only thing left to do is to leave Mandrake for a release that use their common sence and listen to the people that develop the software they are about to use For you who haven't read about the use of gcc 2.96 you can read the this by Linus Torvalds. http://boudicca.tux.org/hypermail/linux-kernel/2000week51/0868.html /Snaggen, will not be using Mandrake in the future -- Mattias Eriksson E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tvistevgen 26 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 907 36 UMEA Tel:090-198800 SWEDEN 070-5636769 'I don't fight for a cause Hemsida: http://www.acc.umu.se/~snaggen I fight for the fight' PGP: http://www.acc.umu.se/~snaggen/snaggen.asc
[Cooker] iputils/xinetd
I scanned the archive, in case I missed the fix, and found nothing - could we get a resolution to the iputils/xinetd install issues previously reported? Thanks much
Re: [Cooker] iputils needs new xinetd
Actually I get exactly the same thing after installing xinetd-2.1.8.9pre14-2mdk.i586.rpm and xinetd-ipv6-2.1.8.9pre14-2mdk.i586.rpm Gio - Original Message - From: "Chmouel Boudjnah" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 5:33 AM Subject: Re: [Cooker] iputils needs new xinetd Quel Qun [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: # rpm -U iputils-20001110-2mdk.i586.rpm error: failed dependencies: xinetd = 2.1.8.9pre14-2mdk conflicts with iputils-20001110-2mdk you need to upgrade your xinetd... -- MandrakeSoft Inc http://www.chmouel.org --Chmouel
Re: [Cooker] error running mkinitrd
I had similar problems, including a kernel oops when mkinitrd went to mount
the loopback device. The problem appears to be in the kernel source
packaging - when I downloaded the "reference" kernel source from kernel.org
and recompile all was well - but then, I customize the heck out of my
kernels.The mdk kernel dists seemed OK, but I had my own configuration
issues in other places (devfs, reiserfs).
To ramble on a bit more...
The arch/ directory seems to be missing a lot of code in the kernel-source
RPMs. In addition, the PCMCIA configs are only half there - at minimum the
PCMCIA modem and network driver modules should be genned (pcnet_cs, for
example). Lastly, realize that now that PCMCIA base is in the kernel it's a
bit different configuration-wise - in /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia there's three
(four?) choices for the PCIC module (yenta-socket, i82365, (hd64465_ss?), or
tcic) and it must match the hardware.
Hope I'm helping and not just chattering...
Gio (Paul Giordano)
- Original Message -
From: "Stefan van der Eijk" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 12:25 AM
Subject: Re: [Cooker] error running mkinitrd
Pixel wrote:
root [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Anyone know what would cause this error?
# mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.1-8mdksmp 2.4.1-8mdksmp
error: -d option is not supported on Linux
error: -d option is not supported on Linux
Error creating temporaries. Try again
i've added a require for mktemp = 1.5-9mdk so that it doesn't happen
again
(unless --nodeps is used :)
mkinitrd seems to hang in mid-air now... I've got:
[root@stefan /sbin]# rpm -qa | grep mkinit
mkinitrd-2.7-2mdk
[root@stefan /sbin]# rpm -qa | grep mktemp
mktemp-1.5-9mdk
But when I try to make the image it stops like this:
[root@stefan /boot]# mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.1-9mdk.img 2.4.1-9mdk
mke2fs 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
doing an strace ends up with:
stat64(".", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
stat64("/sbin/mount", 0xb4c8) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
stat64("/sbin/mount", 0xb4c8) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
stat64("/usr/sbin/mount", 0xb4c8) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
stat64("/bin/mount", {st_mode=S_IFREG|S_ISUID|0755, st_size=58640, ...})
= 0
stat64("/bin/mount", {st_mode=S_IFREG|S_ISUID|0755, st_size=58640, ...})
= 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [INT CHLD], [], 8) = 0
_llseek(255, -1761, [6478], SEEK_CUR) = 0
fork() = 20586
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [CHLD], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [CHLD], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x80704b0, [], 0x400}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
wait4(-1,
Any idea's?
Stefan
Re: [Cooker] error running mkinitrd
Just a guess, the only command in mkinitrd that has a "-d" on it is the mktemp command - try issuing that alone as in "mktemp -d test.x" and see whether that works. Which mkinitrd do you have installed? I seem to be OK with mkinitrd-2.7-1 and mktemp-1.5-9... Paul Giordano - Original Message - From: "root" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 11:24 AM Subject: [Cooker] error running mkinitrd Anyone know what would cause this error? # mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.1-8mdksmp 2.4.1-8mdksmp error: -d option is not supported on Linux error: -d option is not supported on Linux Error creating temporaries. Try again -Bryan Opfer
