[Cooker] sendmail-8.12.1-6mdk newaliases hanging issue
Greetings, I have noticed a few others on this list reporting an issue where the sendmail daemon hangs when starting up from the initscript. It hangs while trying to run newaliases. I believe the following is the root of the problem: # here is what the user will want to execute: # /usr/bin/newaliases. It is a symlink, as it should be, # to /etc/alternatives/mta-newaliases # lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 32 Jul 18 14:52 /usr/bin/newaliases - /etc/alternatives/mta-newaliases* # ok, now here is /etc/alternatives/mta-newaliases, # pointing to /usr/bin/newaliases.sendmail. This is good too. # lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 28 Jul 18 14:52 /etc/alternatives/mta-newaliases - /usr/bin/newaliases.sendmail* # herein lies the problem: /usr/bin/newaliases.sendmail is a # symlink to /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail # lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 25 Jul 18 14:52 /usr/bin/newaliases.sendmail - ../sbin/sendmail.sendmail* There is not actually a /usr/sbin/newaliases.sendmail binary - just a symlink back to sendmail! Which is why it hangs, it's trying to run sendmail with no arguments, which just waits for user input, and besides that, it's not even the write program. Querying the package file seems to say that the /usr/sbin/newaliases.sendmail is included: $ rpm -qpl /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/sendmail-8.12.1-6mdk.ppc.rpm | grep newalias /usr/bin/newaliases.sendmail -- there it is! However, it looks like perhaps during postprocessing, the binary gets overwritten with a symlink back to sendmail.sendmail? Thoughts? Peter -- Peter R. Wood - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://prwdot.org/
sendmail-8.12.1-6mdk - sendmail.sendmail ?
Greetings, I just pulled in the new sendmail package from cooker (sendmail-8.12.1-6mdk) and noticed that instead of the usual /usr/sbin/sendmail, the sendmail binary is named /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail. It seems to be this way for many of the files: [root@woburn root]# rpm -ql sendmail | grep '\.sendmail' /usr/bin/mailq.sendmail /usr/bin/newaliases.sendmail /usr/bin/rmail.sendmail /usr/lib/sendmail.sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail /usr/share/man/man1/mailq.sendmail.1.bz2 /usr/share/man/man1/newaliases.sendmail.1.bz2 /usr/share/man/man5/aliases.sendmail.5.bz2 Is this a new convention in sendmail, or is it an error? It certainly was getting some of my apps confused until I made a symlink from /usr/sbin/sendmail to /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail. Peter -- Peter R. Wood - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://prwdot.org/
Re: sendmail-8.12.1-6mdk - sendmail.sendmail ?
Thanks Stew... it was causing some hell. I downgraded to the 8.2 version and it's working fine now. Will keep my eyes out for the updated version. An update - with some info from Ben Reser on the update-alternatives script, I found that the sendmail package was actually correct. Since the alternatives system now accounts for mta's, each mta's binary is named with a .mta extension (for example, postfix's binary would be sendmail.postfix). This system requires an update to be run whenever a new package is installed for a certain 'alternative'. Part of this update was handled properly by sendmail's RPM install script, but part was omitted. For more information check here: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/howtos/mdk-rpm/advanced.html#ALTERNATIVES I ran 'update-alternatives --auto mta' and this made the correct symlinks from the /etc/alternatives/mta* files to the binaries the system is expecting. However, I'm still having problems with the sendmail-8.12.1-6mdk package. When I start up sendmail using /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail, it seems to hang. If I hit ctrl-c, it finishes starting, and sendmail seems to be running and it works normally. Thoughts? Peter -- Peter R. Wood - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://prwdot.org/
Re: Which PCI ethernet card do you use on an OldWorld Mac ?
Jeroen Diederen said: I have a problem with my PCI ethernet card I presume. I would like to ask you guys, to respond if you have an OldWorld Mac with an extra ethernet card in a PCI slot. If you own such a machine, and you got it workin' under Linux, could you please tell me what kind of ethernet card you use ? I think that my ethernet card is not supported on my PM 7600. I have an UMAX SuperMac J700, which is an OldWorld, PCI, PowerMac. I am using a 3Com 3C905-TXM 10/100 card in a PCI slot there, and it works great under Linux. It does not work under MacOS. Peter -- Peter R. Wood - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://prwdot.org/
wakeup from sleep fails on pismo
Greetings, I am trying to get my Pismo to wakup from sleep. Currently, when opening the lid after sleep, the screen comes back up, with whatever was previously displayed, but then the system locks up. I must do a hard reset to get control back. I'm using kernel-2.4.18.6.1mdk-1-1mdk and pmud-0.10.1-3mdk, installed on an 8.2 MDK system. Any suggestions? Thanks, Peter
failed deps for kde3 install
I'm trying to install the kde3 packages from the contrib directory. I satisfied all of the dependencies, except I can't seem to find some files that postgresql-devel requires: [root@wintermute kde]# urpmi postgresql-devel To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed (0 MB): postgresql-devel-7.2-12mdk.ppc libpgperl-7.2-12mdk.ppc Is it OK? (Y/n) Y installing /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS1/postgresql-devel-7.2-12mdk.ppc.rpm /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS1/libpgperl-7.2-12mdk.ppc.rpm error: failed dependencies: libecpg = 7.2-12mdk is needed by postgresql-devel-7.2-12mdk libpgsqlodbc = 7.2-12mdk is needed by postgresql-devel-7.2-12mdk Installation failed Try installation without checking dependencies? (y/N) n It seems odd that it wouldn't be able to find these deps, seeing as I do have both the 8.2 cd's in the urpmi database, and postgresql is on the cd... any idea where I might find these? using rpmfind.net did not turn up any ppc-compatible binaries. Thanks, Peter -- Peter R. Wood - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://prwdot.org/
Re: kde3
On Monday 06 May 2002 09:56 pm, Stew Benedict wrote: The bulk of kde3 built for 8.2 PPC should be up on the mirrors now, in contribs. kdebase was giving me a bit of trouble. Thx, Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 I've installed these packages on my 8.2 ppc system, and they seem to be working great! KDE3 looks and feels very nice. There is only one problem I have encountered thus far: When I click on the 'konsole' icon in the panel, konsole launches, but the rest of the panel seems to lock up. I can do stuff on the KDE desktop, and the rest of my apps work ok, but I can't click on anything in the panel. As soon as I exit from Konsole, it seems that everything is freed back up, but I also get this message: KDEInit could not launch 'konsole-noxft' Anyone else seen this? It *only* happens when I click the Konsole icon in the panel. If I run 'konsole' from an xterm or from the KDE 'Run' menu, it acts normally. Peter
Re: KDE3
KDE3 stuff should start trickling out. I'm building the stuff from cooker contrib, on a clean 8.2 system, and the uploads are landing in the PPC cooker tree, from the looks of things. So far qt3 and art3 are up, building kdelibs3 now Have you had much chance to put it through its paces on your systems? Just wondering how it performs... Peter
pbbuttonsd and input layer
ERROR: Can't find an input event queue for the keyboard in /dev/input/, maybe permisson denied. does anybody know where this might be hiding so I can link to it? It needs to run as root to have access to /dev/input. You wouldn't want some other user to be able to capture your keystrokes now would you? I get the same error with pbbuttonsd on my Powerbook Pismo. And yet I am running it as root. Upon further investigation, I have found that there are indeed no keyboard device in the input directory: [root@wintermute root]# ls -al /dev/input/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Dec 31 1969 ./ drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Dec 31 1969 ../ crw-r--r--1 root root 13, 63 Dec 31 1969 mice crw-r--r--1 root root 13, 32 Dec 31 1969 mouse0 crw-r--r--1 root root 13, 33 Dec 31 1969 mouse1 crw-r--r--1 root root 13, 34 Dec 31 1969 mouse2 [root@wintermute root]# I did a little more digging, and found that the event interface support is compiled in as a kernel module, and is not loaded at boot time by default. What you need to do first is: modprobe evdev Then you should have no problems running pbbuttonsd as root. :-) Hope this helps, Peter -- Peter R. Wood - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://prwdot.org/
Evolution + IMAP (Was: Evolution updates)
Speaking of Evolution... I've tried to use the version of Evolution that's included with Mandrake 8.2/PPC. I set up an account to use my local IMAP server, and I give it the path to my maildir (~/mail). However, when it logs in and downloads the IMAP folders, I get not only the contents of my mail directory, but everything that's in /home/prw/ as well. Even though I have it set to display only 'subscribed folders,' it is still showing everything else. Needless to say, this is very annoying, because I'm not interested in how many new 'messages' are in my ~/.ssh directory... Any ideas on how to get it to *just* show the contents of ~/mail, and nothing else? Thanks, Peter -- Peter R. Wood - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://prwdot.org/
mozilla segfault + april 15 packages
I just pulled in some updates from a cooker-ppc mirror. They were dated April 15, and included slightly newer versions of mozilla, libnspr4, libnss, etc. After installing all of these updated packages, Mozilla segfaults on launch. I have tried removing the new mozilla and libnspr4 packages, and replacing them with the ones from 8.2b2, but the segfault seems to have stuck. Any ideas on what has changed in these new packages that might cause mozilla to segfault on startup? Nothing in my environment has changed other than these packages from April 15. Thanks, Peter -- Peter R. Wood (Lists) - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://prwdot.org/
Re: mozilla segfault + april 15 packages
that might cause mozilla to segfault on startup? Nothing in my environment has changed other than these packages from April 15. Update, I have also tried removing the new gdk packages and replacing them with the old versions: gdk-pixbuf-loaders-0.16.0-1mdk libgdk-pixbuf-gnomecanvas1-0.16.0-1mdk libgdk-pixbuf2-0.16.0-1mdk libgdk-pixbuf-xlib2-0.16.0-1mdk This also did not alleviate the problem... Peter -- Peter R. Wood (Lists) - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://prwdot.org/
for New England folks
Greetings, For anyone in the New England area, the Boston Linux and Unix usergroup is holding its 12th Linux Installfest on Saturday, April 20, at Mt. Ida College in Newton. Yours truly will be on hand to install Linux on PowerPC systems. I will have a variety of distributions, including Mandrake 8.2 beta 2 for PowerPC (or 8.2 final if I can get a copy burned before then). If you are within driving distance of the Boston area, and are interested in visiting, esp. to have Linux installed on your Mac, check out the BLU page for more details: http://www.blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2002-ifest12 Cheers, Peter -- Peter R. Wood - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://prwdot.org/
mirroring a powerbook display in mandrake
Greetings, Has anyone tried to mirror a PowerBook display from Mandrake/PPC? I would like to do a demo of a Mandrake install on my Pismo PowerBook at a local usergroup meeting, and I'm wondering if it will be feasible for the display to be mirrored to an overhead projector via the VGA port. I remember a while ago that there was a mirror.c app that BenH (I think) had hacked that would do this, but I don't know what the current status is, or if there's an easier way to do it. Thanks, Peter -- Peter R. Wood - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://prwdot.org/
font problems with baudens' XFree86 packages
I've downloaded and installed David Baudens' XFree86 packages from: https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/~baudens/ppc/ which nicely fix the DRI issues. However, installing them seems to cause a problem with certain fonts in X. In particular I have noticed that some fonts in my web browsers are stretchedout vertically, or otherwise messed up. Has anyone else seen this? Is it perhaps an issue of having the correct font paths? Thanks, Peter -- Peter R. Wood - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://prwdot.org/
Re: 8.2 beta issues (again)
Anyone else with USB printers that are working? I'm running Mandrake 8.2 beta 2. I have an HP DeskJet 940c USB printer. It's plugged into a 7-port Belkin USB hub, which is plugged into a USB port on my Pismo. I ran the Mandrake printer setup, chose a manual configuration, and set it for USB printer #0. It doesn't really matter what physical port the printer is plugged into. From what I can tell, the first USB printer to be detected shows up as USB printer #0. It works perfectly for me. Here is the USB data on my printer from 'cat /proc/bus/usb/devices' T: Bus=02 Lev=02 Prnt=02 Port=05 Cnt=01 Dev#= 3 Spd=12 MxCh= 0 D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=00(ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=03f0 ProdID=1604 Rev= 1.00 S: Manufacturer=Hewlett-Packard S: Product=DeskJet 940C S: SerialNumber=MX15L6F0S6BH C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr= 2mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=07(print) Sub=01 Prot=02 Driver=usblp E: Ad=81(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl= 0ms E: Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl= 0ms Here are the kernel mods loading at startup: printer.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 3 if 0 alt 0 printer.c: v0.8:USB Printer Device Class driver Peter
XFS filesystem support
I have seen discussion on the list about using the XFS filesystem with MandrakePPC, and I have seen the option to use it when formatting your partitions in the installer. However, I am wondering if anyone on the list actually uses it regularly with their MandrakePPC system. It looks like a nice modern filesystem to use with PPC, and since I have an experimental system to play with, I'm interested in trying it out. Any thoughts, let me know. Peter -- Peter R. Wood - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://prwdot.org/
Re: KDM and ATI Rage 128
https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/~baudens/ppc/ I installed these packages on my PowerBook Pismo with an ATI Rage Mobility 128, commented the DRI modules back into my XF86Config-4, and everything works beautifully now. Tried the OpenGL xscreensaver modules - they run as smooth as silk with hardware acceleration! Amazing... I haven't tried OpenGL on here for some time, so maybe it's been good for a while, but this is the best I've seen it. :-) Peter
Re: PowerBook G3 (FireWire, 2000) Gnome, Sound, and Samba. 8.2 Beta2
update xscreensaver (rpm -Uvh) possibly uninstall gnome-pilot, gnome-control-center, gnome-control-center-plus (rpm -e) clean out /usr/share/control-center (first rpm -qif /usr/share/control-center, to make sure it's not owned by anything, then rm -fr /usr/share/control-center) install the new gnome-control-center (rpm -i) The gnome-control-center on your site seems to be older than the version included with 8.2b2 (1.4.0 vs. 1.5.11). Will it work just as well?
8.2b2 printer, kdm, airport problems
Stew et al, error that the 'qtcups' package was not found. I assume this is a qt frontend for CUPS. In any case, I was not able to set up a printer because of this. Added to rpmslist. I had used the x86 list which I thought would have resolved these missing package issues. Interestingly, when I booted up after install, I was able to use DrakConf to configure the printer. However, it did not properly detect my printer. I have a USB connected HP DeskJet 940c. I had to manually specify a USB #0 printer, but other than that, the configuration and testing worked fine. I seem to remember this printer being detected in earlier MDK versions Unfortunately, in the 4 machines I've had access too, I haven't yet seen this behaviour, so it's a bit hard to fix. It's interesting, sometimes it looks totally fine. For example, if I switch to VT 1-6 from KDM, and then back to VT 7/KDM, KDM looks totally fine. There are varying degrees of ugliness, from KDM login window totally absent, to multi-colored, to totally fine. No there aren't. Unfortunately no-one mentioned any additional issue with gnome, besides the original missing libs until a couple of days ago, and the ISO's were already burnt by then. I'll look into it. The next time it comes up, Ill generate a BugBuddy report and send it off to the GNOME folks; would you like a copy of the debugging info as well? they want to. Most novice users, however, would not understand the concept of having two network interfaces operating simultaneously. I dunno. Just rambling about this a bit, so if it seems inane, please ignore. :-) Good ideas, I don't think it will be implemented this time around though. This has been addressed by several people already. Basically it comes down to two things: 1) detecting/activating/recognizing Airport properly (which is PPC-specific) and making the networking configuration a bit more new-user friendly (which is more general). Peter
Airport
1) I don't have airport, hence it's difficult the do the installer work for it. Do you have a machine that will accept Airport? If so, maybe some of us on the list could chip in to get you an Airport card and a base station. I worked it out and it would take 10 people donating $37.69 to cover the cost of an Airport card and (first gen) base station at Smalldog, including tax + shipping. Then you could work on Airport stuff, as well as do some development outside now that spring is upon us. :-) Peter
kdm and kde 3.0 beta packages
David tells me it seems to be associated with using DRI with r128. You might try disabling it. Hmm, I'll give that a try. Sure, send it over. Looking over the control-center and bonobo SRPMS, it looks like this problem is not new on x86 either. Frederic has several iterations of patches that have been applied/removed. Ok. Also, I just downloaded KDE's 3.0-beta2 MDK-PPC RPMS and tried to install them, but it looks like it was built for a slightly earlier version than mdk 8.2beta2. They're looking for libpng.so.2, but libpng.so.3 is included with 8.2beta2. I am downloading the SRPMS right now and I'm going to try to build them myself. Anyone else tried to use these KE 8.0beta2 packages on mdk-ppc? Peter
Re: 8.2 PPC Beta2 out...
Arrgh, and all the US servers overloaded. :-( Le Mercredi 27 Mars 2002 17:28, vous avez écrit : just incase you don't go to mandrake.com every day, the new beta is out there.. mike
Re: 8.2 PPC Beta2 out...
Ah, I was just able to get on ftp.orst.edu , downloading both ISO's at once, around 50 KB/s each over cable modem. Maybe tomorrow I'll be able to burn the ISO's. :-) Peter - Original Message - From: John C. Tull [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 12:48 PM Subject: Re: 8.2 PPC Beta2 out... I was able to get mine off of the Oregon State server with no problem. Use an ftp program and login as anonymous with email password. Seems to have more slots than purely anonymous ftp. From there to University of Nevada, Reno, I was able to sustain a 500+ kbps transfer. Took about 30 minutes for both images.
8.2 Beta 2 problems
Howdy, Just installed 8.2 beta 2 tonight from cd's. I ran into a few problems: 1) Near the end of installation, when the summary of input devices, language, locale, printer, etc is displayed, I click on Printer to try and add a CUPS printer. Whereas this worked fine in previous versions, I had some trouble in this version. After installing most of the packages, it gave me an error that the 'qtcups' package was not found. I assume this is a qt frontend for CUPS. In any case, I was not able to set up a printer because of this. 2) When I boot up in graphical login mode, the KDM screen is still butt-ugly/messed up as in previous releases. I'm assuming this is a problem that is the responsibility of KDE developers? 3) GNOME seems to have lots of problems. It starts up somewhat okay, but I get errors related to 'bonobo-moniker-archiver' when I do various things, such as opening up capplets in the Control Center. Specifically, it's telling me that 'bonobo-moniker-archiver' has segfaulted, and that /usr/bin/background-properties-control has segfaulted. Are there some new bonobo/gnome packages that I can urpmi? 4) Network detection during install doesn't seem foolproof, and this is more of a general Mandrake issue than a PPC-specific one. But nonetheless, here it is: I've got gmac ethernet built in on my Pismo, as well as an airport card. When the network detecter runs, it only detects my gmac. I then must tell it that I have another interface, and select the Apple Airport driver, which it will then load. Obviously, this is something I understand, but the novice user may not know what to do. I'm not sure how to make it easier for a novice user, but we would definitely want the airport module to be detected. Ideally, it should be detected along with the gmac interface, and presented to them in a list of interfaces which can be chosen radio-button style. I.E. pick either gmac or airport, and give an option for advanced users to choose both if they want to. Most novice users, however, would not understand the concept of having two network interfaces operating simultaneously. I dunno. Just rambling about this a bit, so if it seems inane, please ignore. :-) Thanks, Peter p.s. This is on a PowerBook G3 Pismo w/320 megs ram, airport, bunches of USB devices. -- Peter R. Wood - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://prwdot.org/
Re: trying to add cooker media to mandrake 8.0
OK, thanks. I'll try this. On a similar note, is there a place from which I can rsync the latest cooker packages? Peter
Updating software via urpmi (WAS install report)
Is there any text-based way to automagically pull in new packages from the mirrors? I have somewhat answered my own question - I have found urpmi, and found out about urpmi.addmedia to let me add a source. But I'm not exactly sure what URL I need to put in. My guess is: urpmi.addmedia ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/Mandrake-devel/coo ker/ppc/Mandrake/base/ with hdlist1.cz Does this look right? When I run it, I get some errors such as 'No such file 'descriptions''. And after the media is added, when I try to do 'urpmi evolution' it seems to try and download the dependencies, but in fact states that the files do not exist on the server. Does the problem perhaps lie in distro.ibiblio.org, or did I set up my media incorrectly? Peter
Re: Updating software via urpmi (WAS install report)
Ok, I have answered my own question again. Here is the command I used, this time building a successful media list: urpmi.addmedia --distrib ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/Mandrake-devel/coo ker/ppc/Mandrake/ This automatically gets the hdlists, etc. Peter
working triple-boot? please email
Greetings, If anyone has a working triple-boot set up on a NewWorld machine as follows, please email me *off-list* and let me know how you got it to work: MacOS X MacOS 9 Mandrake 8.x PPC I have successfully done OSX + OS9, and OS9 + Mandrake, but I can't seem to get all three to work together. This is on a Pismo PowerBook Thanks, Peter -- Peter R. Wood - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://prwdot.org/
Re: Second Stage Cooker Install Problems
Hello James, I did this same install on my PowerBook G3 (Firewire) and ran into the same problem. I believe, but have no proof, that it may have to do with the power management built into the kernel that's used for the installer. What I did to solve my problem was run my finger over the trackpad periodically while the install was going on. This kept the machine from thinking it was idle, and thus did not access the power management code (which I think was causing it to lock up). Regarding the console keys, I think I had to do something insane like Fn-Ctrl-F1... can't remember though. I don't have Linux installed on there any more so I can't check. Like I said, it worked for me, but YMMV. Good Luck, Peter - Original Message - From: James O'Malley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2001 4:53 PM Subject: Second Stage Cooker Install Problems Was just wondering if there was a reason I cannot install via FTP from the current cooker tree? I have a powerbook G3 Firewire and have done the following: Mirrored the cooker tree (successful) Ran gendistib on it (successful) Burned a CD-RW to boot the thing (successful) Loaded gmac.o for network access (successful) Selected FTP, entered host, directory, user, password (successful) Started loading second stage and locked up the install program at like 90% done. (I don't know how to change terminals on a mac... tried every key combination I could think of but I can't see the error console or whatnot) Is there anything I should know about the current tree? I'm heading home for the holidays and I don't think I can live without a linux box. This powerbook is my only hope *G*. Any word on a beta release soon? James
easy way to upgrade packages
Hello, I have a system with Mandrake 8.0 PPC installed. I am wondering if there is a simple way to automatically download and upgrade to the latest version of packages on my system, other than downloading all of the RPMS and doing an rpm -Uvh on them. Thanks, Peter -- Peter R. Wood - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://prwdot.org/
