Re: [Cooker] iso file creation
Try rm -rf /tmp/.build_hist(or something similar). That cleared a problem for me before. It would probably be good for mkcds to do so also after a successful run Todd - Original Message - From: pablito [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 8:51 AM Subject: Re: [Cooker] iso file creation Okay, I tried it again and I still get that one big iso file. rpmslist sorts the files out by cd and the script reads rpmslist, and then I see that the script pushes files according to the rpmslist somewhere, but something must be going wrong somewhere. -Original Message- From: Warly [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, June 15, 2001 12:55 AM Subject: Re: [Cooker] iso file creation pablito [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have tried to mirror cooker and make the iso files several times. Since everyone else makes these with no problems, I figured I must be doing something wrong. There was something wrong with the mkcds install script at first. Then I found out mkisofs is not installed by default and installed it. Now, the result is fairly standard: a. A message saying I don't have locale configured right, which I checked and found that locale is installed and appears to be configured. not important b. At the end of the script, messages that files were not found in the scripts and were being added to the last iso file. This happens no matter how many times I repeat the mirroring process. (I could not get the DSL connection to work in linux so I am using a windows program called syncromagic that seems to make a copy of the site and delete non-matching files.) This is not linked to the mirroring process. This only have to do with the Mandrake/base/rpmslist file. This files contains the cooker packages separated by CDs. As there are often new packages or new libraries into cooker, these files, that I only check once every one or 2 weeks, are not up to date, and as a consequence there are packages present in the repository but not in the file, these packages are added to the last iso images automatically. c. Result: I get three iso files, one 1.2 gigs in size and the other 2 of 0 bytes apiece. I got this same result once by running mkcds.pl by itself. This is not normal, however. -- Warly
[Cooker] RAID install
UGH - a tweaked SCSI cable caused my Linux RAID install to fail because it could not write the partition table - ignore previous msg. Everything now installs fine with yesterday's cooker except 1) squid and proftpd wn't start because they cannot determine their hostname - using dhcp until my IT department assigns an address 2*) Mozilla and konqueror graphics are completely corrupt using Xfree86 4xxx on a Matrox G200 AGP. Desktop icons and xterms are fine. For example, the default linux-mandrake start page shows the mandrake star clearly, but everything else is garbled in random colors and stripes. The image in Mandrake console is also fubar. 3) Apache won't start with the error "cannot load shared object: no such file or directory" - no mention of which module in any log 4) mkcds is still broken. You need to add mdkinst/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1 (w/o i386-linux) to the include path to get strict.pm Thanks, Todd
Re: [Cooker] RAID creation fails
Actually, this machine had 512 MB and I forgot to create a swap partition the first time. When I attempted another install with swap and w/o raid(to debug my problem), mounting the swap partition failed just after reformat. Todd - Original Message - From: Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2001 6:11 AM Subject: Re: [Cooker] RAID creation fails So sprach Todd Richmond am Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 06:42:28PM -0700: Any ideas (including a better config)? Yep. Also split the SWAP parition into two 100 MB partitions and place them on both disks 100 MB SWAP disk1 100 MB SWAP disk2 In /etc/fstab, make sure that both SWAPs are mounted with the same priority. This way, you'll get another performance increase as the kernel does 'RAID0' on the swaps automatically in this case. Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com | http://www.iso-top.de iso-top.de - Die günstige Art an Linux Distributionen zu kommen Uptime: 1 day 8 hours 57 minutes
[Cooker] mkcds broken
1) mkcds references .../lib/perl5/5.6.0 instead of 5.6.1 2) Fixing that results in /lib/ld-linux.so.2: version `GLIBC_2.2.3' not found (required by ...Mandrake/mdkinst/lib/libc.so.6) This is running on a Cooker version from about 2 months ago. I was able to build cds about 2 weeks ago, but that was when CD1 was 700MB and unburnable Todd
[Cooker] RAID creation fails
I am trying to create a LINUX RAID system using two 9GB SCSI drives on and adaptec motherboard(tyan thunderbolt) controller. The setup is: 100MB ext2 /boot on disk0 200MB swap on disk1 4000MB RAID on each drive combined to 8000MB md0 Reiserfs / 4500MB RAID on each drive combined to 9000MB md1 Reiserfs /home I have a similar cooker config built a 2 months ago on a tyan serverworks motherboard that worked fine. That was after a clean 8.0 install failed and so something must have been fixed at one time. Now I am getting mkraid failed with today's cooker. The only other thing different is that I am now doing an FTP install because mkcds is broken Any ideas (including a better config)? Thanks, Todd
Re: [Cooker] Configure a G450 with XFdrake.
I agree completely. The convoluted steps needed to install a g4x0 at 1600x1200 resolution is incredible. Every time I re-install cooder there seems to be different bugs that prevent me from choosing 1600 cleanly (1280 max). I usually have to use expert mode and re-choose the X configuration after it skips either the monitor or resolution page, but sometimes even that does not work. Todd - Original Message - From: Mattias Dahlberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 2:40 AM Subject: [Cooker] Configure a G450 with XFdrake. Hi! I click on Display in DrakConf. I choose 'only 1:1 G450, no Xinerama' and then select the G450 from the gfx cards list. Now I get a gray window with nothing on. To be able to configure my G450 I have to trick XFdrake, by selecting cancel at the Xinerama question. Then click on Expert Mode (because of the known problem with only a few resolutions to chose from). I then go through the same thing: Choosing '1:1', selecting G450 from the list and now it proceeds - the next dialog is the 'select XFree 3 or 4', which never came up the first time. After configuration it returns me to the main XFdrake screen, but now I have to be sure to click Cancel, because an OK would tell XFdrake to start over again, since it states '800x600x32', which is nowhere near what I actually got and just configured. Please, take a few days to really think about improving XFdrake. The wizard thing actually makes it harder to use. One screen with: Monitor: Card: Resolution: Color depth: each having its own pull down menu, would actually be easier. For beginners and advanced users alike. My ?0.02. Regards, Mattias
[Cooker] usb lockup and other install issues
The current usb service hangs my bootup sequence on the latest cooker build(new abit vp6 dual PIII mb). I rebooted in safe mode and turned off usbd to solve the problem Apmd finally seems to stay running in the -13 kernel build and suspend works fine! Package selection list seems to change every time I re-install. Today mkisofs and cdrecord are missing, yesterday, fmirror was gone along with kernel sources. Installing by hand is the obvious workaround but I would think this was settling down around now... CRITICAL issue - you need to wait several more seconds before rebooting after install is complete so that RAID cards can flush their caches. My AMI card was set to a 6 second flush interval which caused it tohave acorrupt filesystem every other time I installed. I turned the interval down to 2 seconds and always switch screens to sync;sync before rebooting, but that won't be obvious to others(or guaranteed to work) Definitely getting closer to a releaseable version... Thanks, Todd
Re: [Cooker] e100.o vs. eepro100.o on install?
Last nights cooker install no longer finds the intel pro 100+ automatically either. Manual selection did work Todd - Original Message - From: "Christian Bricart" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 8:02 AM Subject: [Cooker] e100.o vs. eepro100.o on install? Hi, is there any special purpose why the eepro100 driver changed from eepro100.o to e100.o in autoprobe stage1 ...? The reason why I ask is that mine does not work any more during install :-) (insmod failed: no e100.o in modules.cz) Christian -- Things that make you go "Hmmm": "If a train station is where the train stops, what is a workstation?"
Re: [Cooker] mkcd.pl still broken
Thanks. Since I had blown out my original system in the aborted 8.0 beta try, I just tried using the hard disk boot floppy and the install completed successfully! Now I am on track... Here are a few things I found: 1) AMI driver works fine in cooker 2) Still fails to ask for X windows screen resolution and boot floppy after setting the monitor type. I filed a bug on that one before 3) Mandrake config tool exits after selecting a sub-component such as mouse or networking - I also had a couple of crashes when selecting. 4) I cannot set my mouse type. I used a generic 3 button wheel mouse during install but the config tool falls back to generic ps/2 mouse no matter what I choose 5) I does not seem to install power management features on my Abit dual PIII VP6 which has ACPI turned on. Definitely no kapmd and no power controls in the kde control panel. Any quick workaround for California's power starved users or am I just missing something painfully obvious :) I'll play around more tonight... Thanks, Todd - Original Message - From: "Warly" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 3:32 AM Subject: Re: [Cooker] mkcd.pl still broken You are right, mkcd.pl at present doest not work properly on a glic 2.1 system, I need to recompile everything statically, but have not done it yet. -- Warly
[Cooker] mkcd.pl still broken
After my failed 8.0 beta install, I remirrored cooker and tried to cut another cd that is supposed to fix the ami scsi driver problem. Now mkcd.pl cannot find librpmio.so.0. This is a perfectly clean 7.2 system(full reformat install)and slocate does not show that file anywhere except for the glibc2.2 dependent version in the cooker/Mandrake/mdkinst subdir. Any steps to work around this? Thanks, Todd
Re: [Cooker] mkcd.pl still broken
Thanks, but this does not work on the current mkcd.pl script. Previous versions had rpm2header problems but the new one dies imediately on line 18 attempting to load rpmtools.so because IT is glibc2.2 dependent. I even tried copying the 7.2 rpmtools.so, but that fails to load with a version mismatch. I have been spinning on this for a couple of weeks and there seems to have been significant changes(ex. static rpm2header) but still no luck on a stock 7.2 system. Any other tricks to try? Thanks, Todd - Original Message - From: Pete To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 3:50 PM Subject: Re: [Cooker] mkcd.pl still broken You can try to edit the rpmtools.pm file in the cooker/misc dir. Search the file for a line that has rpm2header in it. It has changed lately, it used to be $rep/misc/rpm2header, now I think it is just rpm2header. Anyway, change the script so that it points to /usr/bin/rpm2header. This will use the rpm2header from your version of rpm, instead of the 4.0 version that comes with cooker and should not try to load librpmio.so.0.This has worked for me. Although I think they are changing the scripts and possibly trying to statically link the libraries, so this could be broken also. PeteTodd Richmond wrote: 12af01c0a416$ffc59af0$0200a8c0@elise" type="cite"> After my failed 8.0 beta install, I remirrored cooker and tried to cut another cd that is supposed to fix the ami scsi driver problem. Now mkcd.pl cannot find librpmio.so.0. This is a perfectly clean 7..2 system(full reformat install)and slocate does not show that file anywhere except for the glibc2.2 dependent version in the cooker/Mandrake/mdkinst subdir. Any steps to work around this? Thanks, Todd
[Cooker] invalid AMI megaraid driver
Sorry if this is a repeat, but several of my messages were lost last night. I tried to install the 8.0 beta but the ami megaraid driver cannot find "scsi_hostlist_xxx" and a few other symbols. I booted of the cd and the install paused for confimation when it could not load the driver. Pressing enter allowed the entire install to complete, including disk partitioning, but the kernel panics after rebooting. This system has a 2 drive RAID0 set and and IDE cd and was running 7.2 though I reformated all partitions. Is there any workaround for this problem? Todd
Re: [Cooker] mkcd.pl errors
This is a catch-22. You now have to have cooker(w glibc2 and rpm4) to build cooker cds, unlike the previous mkcd.pl. Todd - Original Message - From: "Warly" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 10:04 AM Subject: Re: [Cooker] mkcd.pl errors Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sunday 18 February 2001 10:10, Warly wrote: Ed Wilts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Saturday 17 February 2001 11:20, you wrote: it should be fixed with the latest now (version 0.1.0, type ./mkcd.pl to check the version) This script fails to create ISO image # 1. I've cut out a hunk of the log file: /home/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/linuxconf-lang-sk-1.21r5-7mdk.i586.rpm /home/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/linuxconf-lang-zh-1.21r5-7mdk.i586.rpm [...] /backup/tmp/.build_hdlist/hdlist2.cz -rw-r--r--1 root root 1492400 Feb 17 12:51 /backup/tmp/.build_hdlist/hdlist3.cz It does create the other 2 isos. It is very strange it works for me (well, at least it creates the 3 isos, I have not tested them yet)... Could you give me your command line ? [17:41 peter@penguin:/mnt/downloads/mandrake-devel/cooker/misc]$ perl ./mkcd.pl /mnt/downloads/mandrake-devel/cooker /usr/local/iso Can't locate auto/rpmtools/build_hdlis.al in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at ./mkcd.pl line 81 have you installed the latest rpmtools ? -- Warly
Re: [Cooker] Installation problems. Was: Cooker, Next LM Release, When?
Is there any way that someone can build and sanity test a cooker iso and deposit it on a mirror site somewhere? I have burned 3 cds in the last week and all failed with different ldconfig.rpm and hdrlist.* errors. There does not seem to be any way to get any version of cooker onto a clean machine, making it impossible for new users to test the system. I don't mind jumping through some hoops to get up and running and would prefer cooker over fisher, but I can't wait too much longer. Todd - Original Message - From: "Van Holland" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 1:07 PM Subject: RE: [Cooker] Installation problems. Was: Cooker, Next LM Release, When? My $.02: Saying this as a bleeding edge user, and not a programmer, I don't see this product close to an ISO beta yet. I tried four different installation methods last night (ISO, FTP w/ my mirror, FTP from an official mirror, and HD). None of them worked and my mirror was synched. A large part of that, I think, was due to a kernel update, and I see another around the corner. Add to a kernel which is keeps changing rev numbers, and the installation issues, the fact that Drakconf sounds like it's in alpha testing, I don't see a code freeze happening real soon. However, having said all that, maybe installation methods should get on a to do list? I don't see it discussed very much so let me throw out what I saw last night: ISO installation is not finding hdlist1.cz in /Mandrake/base. Isn't even looking in Mandrake/base for some reason. FTP installation (both with a local mirror and an official mirror) is looking for wrong version numbers including but not limited to Kernel-2.4.1-?mdk. HD installation bombs when trying to install ldconfig. I don't code (but I do do Windows;) ) but this can't all be me. --- Van Holland; MCSE+I, Master CNE Public Key: 0xDDB2572D [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Doug Roberts Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 2:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Cooker] Cooker, Next LM Release, When? I've been watching the daily message traffic for weeks now, and I'd like to express an opinion. Opinion: It's about time to freeze and make a new release. Kernel 2.4.1 is out, and KDE 2.1 is in Beta. I think it's time gear up for a release, to be timed on KDE 2.1 final. --Doug -- == Douglas Roberts, TSA-SA| Los Alamos National Laboratory | All good work is done in defiance [EMAIL PROTECTED] | of management. -- Bob Woodward (505)667-4569 | ==
Re: [Cooker] Installation problems. Was: Cooker, Next LM Release, When?
I would, but I am trying this on a machine w/o a nic(actually an RTL6xxx nic that fails is recognized as an ne2k clone but fails to work properly). There is no way that I am going to blow up my good system until I have at least one semi-successful test install. Also, I think another person on this list has tried a disk install (among other attempts) and ran into the same sorts of errors that I did(ldconfg and hdlist*) A new mkcd.pl script the wa uploaded other day and so someone, somewhere must have at least TRIED to use an ISO or else they are just winging it with the new file ... Todd - Original Message - From: "Ron Stodden" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 7:28 PM Subject: Re: [Cooker] Installation problems. Was: Cooker, Next LM Release, When? Todd Richmond wrote: There does not seem to be any way to get any version of cooker onto a clean machine, making it impossible for new users to test the system. Have you not heard of downloading the cooker tree to your hard disk (which you must do to make CDs anyway), and installing direct from that hard disk partition using a floppy made from /images/hd.img? This is the standard procedure and has been for years. -- Regards, Ron. [au]
Re: [Cooker] What's wrong with this script?
Title: What's wrong with this script? I changed my copy of mkcd.pl to use the system rpm2header, but don't bother cutting a cd until the installer is fixed - otherwise you will get through formatting your drives and it will blow up on an invalid file list(my copy did). Any eta on a fix? I will try it immediately Todd - Original Message - From: Van Holland To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 3:43 PM Subject: [Cooker] What's wrong with this script? Okay, I'm stumped, my mirror is totally up to date with the cooker on rpmfind.net. My perl version is 5.600-17mdk and my rpmtools is version 1.2.11mdk. Afterstep'and every other rpm in the RPMS directory looks okay. I'm running 7.2 with the glibc upgrade from the cooker and this is what I get when I run the perl mkcd.pl script... [root@phnx fantan]# perl mkcd.pl /build/Mandrake-devel/cooker /winme/Linux/ /build/Mandrake-devel/cooker/misc/rpm2header: error while loading shared libraries: librpmio.so.0: cannot load shared object file: No such file or directory bad rpm /build/Mandrake-devel/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/AfterStep-1.8.8-1mdk.i586.rpm Any help would be appreciated. -- Van Holland; MCSE+I, Master CNE Public Key: 0XDDB2572D [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Cooker] iso problems revisited
I cut an iso using mkcd.pl and now it fails early in the install because it cannot find /mnt/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.cdrom1.cz. Only Mandrake/base/hdlist[1-3] exists. I was using a boot floppy made from this cd on an old pentium pro test machine with a non-bootable scsi cd Any ideas? Thanks, Todd
Re: [Cooker] New mkcd.pl script
This has the filename fixes, but how do I get it to use the mdkinst perl library and what about the hdlist.cdrom?.cz bug? Todd - Original Message - From: "Warly" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "Alix Guillard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 3:52 PM Subject: [Cooker] New mkcd.pl script A new version of the mkcd.pl script is available for the last cooker version. It will be available soon on the website. Here it is: -- Warly
[Cooker] Building cooker isos w/ mkcd.pl
I had a few problems attempting to build cooker ISOsusing mkcd.pl and want to know if this is known, fixed or otherwise. This is my first attempt using today's mirror from sunsite 1) mkcd.pl does not use the perlbinary and lib in the mirror directories. I had to copy one .pm file(can't remember which one)to my regular 7.2 library directory 2) misc/rpm2header depends on a new shared library. Using the system version seems to work fine 3) mdkinst_stage2 and rescue_stage2 are now bz2 files instead of gz. Is there anything else missing in this list(other bz2 files in the same directory)? I seemed to get 3 complete isos after fixing these problems, but is the system useable? Are there any other instructions or scripts for building these or pre-built isos somewhere? Thanks, Todd Richmond
