Re: [Cooker] question on ftp sites
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Levi Ramsey wrote: On Sun Mar 09 12:52 -0500, Greg Meyer wrote: I think that is what urpmi is good at. Set up a cooker source, urpmi audacity will fetch and install all rpms that are required. We really need to shout urpmi's praises from the rooftops. Hardly a week goes by without me running into someone on Slashdot or Kuro5hin (or other sites) who complains about manually doing RPM dependencies on Mandrake. They're always oblivious to the power and joys of urpmi. Maybe putting a Did you know? blurb in the installer (something like Did you know that urpmi simplifies installing new software; with only one command you can install anything from the rich library of MandrakeLinux packages. There's even a graphical version, rpmdrake., perhaps). Amen. I've been struggling with xmms off and on for quite awhile. No response when I click on its icon. Reinstalled, checked various odds and ends, no luck. Took your note as a reminder and just did urpmi xmms from the command line a few moments ago and am listening to Pink Floyd as I write this. Dale Huckeby
Re: [Cooker] tmdns conflicts with bind?
John Allen wrote: On Thursday 27 February 2003 17:37, Buchan Milne wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Allen wrote: On Thursday 27 February 2003 16:47, Adam Williamson wrote: I can't urpmi --auto-select ATM because tmdns -10mdk seems to conflict with bind. I currently have tmdns -9mdk installed alongside bind and it didn't complain about that, so is the conflict correct? Currently it wants me to remove bind to do an --auto-select... If you are running tmdns you should not need bind. Caching dns on a small network? Or does tmdns cache request from real DNS servers? Would they be able to run simultaneously? Yes, it caches from real servers. But if you have a real DNS on your machine why install tmdns on it as well? Because when you upgrade from b3 to rc1 it gets added by default without asking! And then needs to be removed!
Re: [Cooker] Installation
There are no errors indicated in console 4 (or 3). Console 2 shows (with ps) that the install2 process is still running. But it never gets to the point of scanning serial ports, tho'. I looked at the install2 perl script, but I'm not a perl programmer couldn't make much of it. I thought of adding echo lines to try to determine where it was, but realized I'd have to a) change the perl, b) make a new .rdz, c) burn another cdr of the result. Seemed a long way around. Is there a shorter way? More info. I only hangs in 'expert', I did a full install with the default (not hitting F1 typing expert). I see rc1 is here. I shall be burning a set of cdr's shortly and check it. Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: R. Dale Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a box that I have previously installed 9.0 from DVD. I have made major changes in disk drives DVD reader. However, now attempting an install, with the 9.0 DVD or the CD's from 9.1b3 (which I have used to install on another box, so they are OK), everything seems to go alright untill the loading of second stage, and after clearing the screen and issuing the message loading second stage it just hangs. Nothing happens at all. Any ideas what I should change? Some people seem to experience this problem. They can see I/O errors in console #4 (Ctrl Alt F4), is it your case as well? If so, I still don't know what kernel parameter you should try to workaround this problem (if any). Maybe there are trouble with your bios or with acpi/apic in our kernel :/. You may also want to try to boot off the 2.2 kernel (F1 then alt1) and tell us if that makes any difference.
Re: [Cooker] Installation
Buchan Milne wrote: On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, R. Dale Thomas wrote: I have a box that I have previously installed 9.0 from DVD. I have made major changes in disk drives DVD reader. However, now attempting an install, with the 9.0 DVD or the CD's from 9.1b3 (which I have used to install on another box, so they are OK), everything seems to go alright untill the loading of second stage, and after clearing the screen and issuing the message loading second stage it just hangs. Nothing happens at all. Any ideas what I should change? Did you change ram? Have you tested your ram recently? http://www.memtest86.com Same 2Gig as the 9.0 installation was. Only 896M recognized, although.
Re: [Cooker] Installation
It would have been handy to have also pointed to the places where it was discussed as not all of us know everything even tho' we might be experienced! et wrote: On Sunday 16 February 2003 04:07 am, Buchan Milne wrote: On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, R. Dale Thomas wrote: I have a box that I have previously installed 9.0 from DVD. I have made major changes in disk drives DVD reader. However, now attempting an install, with the 9.0 DVD or the CD's from 9.1b3 (which I have used to install on another box, so they are OK), everything seems to go alright untill the loading of second stage, and after clearing the screen and issuing the message loading second stage it just hangs. Nothing happens at all. Any ideas what I should change? Did you change ram? Have you tested your ram recently? http://www.memtest86.com there are a number of possible reasons, but may i suggest that at least here on Cooker we try and steer each of this type of question to a more appropreate list like expert or newbie, in as a polite manner as is possible? or even ask the poster to contact us personally ratehr than risk this list turning into the gab-fest that the newbie list is. and lso let's ask if the question has been asked in other forums, since this was asked in the club with in the last 24 hours also, (aand was answered, maybe not as quickly as the poster would have liked, but thern again, a search of the archives would have given as many differnet answers to try as this list and would have been even quicker.
Re: [Cooker] Installation
More info. It hangs in 'expert' mode, but not by default. Where do I find out about this? R. Dale Thomas wrote: I have a box that I have previously installed 9.0 from DVD. I have made major changes in disk drives DVD reader. However, now attempting an install, with the 9.0 DVD or the CD's from 9.1b3 (which I have used to install on another box, so they are OK), everything seems to go alright untill the loading of second stage, and after clearing the screen and issuing the message loading second stage it just hangs. Nothing happens at all. Any ideas what I should change? Dale
[Cooker] Installation
I have a box that I have previously installed 9.0 from DVD. I have made major changes in disk drives DVD reader. However, now attempting an install, with the 9.0 DVD or the CD's from 9.1b3 (which I have used to install on another box, so they are OK), everything seems to go alright untill the loading of second stage, and after clearing the screen and issuing the message loading second stage it just hangs. Nothing happens at all. Any ideas what I should change? Dale
Re: [Cooker] 9.1 Beta 2
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Warly wrote: Midnight Commander 83 (really useful ?) YES!! More like indispensable for those of us who don't like to operate without it. Why do you think so many voted for it? Dale Huckeby
Re: [Cooker] kernel 17mdk NVidia
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, rcc wrote: the driver builds but when first used the whole machine crashes and it crashes hard: no response at all, black screen, network is dead, no magic keys, all logs only contain garbage has anybody build nvidia on the new kernel? Maybe my post-install script screwed up somewhere. I'll test some more. - Mark Which driver packages are you using? If 3123, try 2960. I and several other people have had screen lockups, etc. with the newest driver. Dale Huckeby
Re: [Cooker] OSNews Review
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Combelles, Christophe (MED, ALTEN) wrote: She just goes on whining about the Mandrake Control Center for the rest of the review. OK, so she ran into some rare bug that almost nobody else encountered. What does that prove? Also, it looks to me like she is testing it on a 5-year-old machine. I have an outdated 800Mhz P3, and the login process on the console takes about half a second, while she claims that it takes 3-4 seconds. She can be right for the login, because it takes about 5 seconds on my athlon1,2G to login in the text console. Just as if there was some timeout or something. That might not be the case now, but it used to be what happened to me ONLY if I installed devfsd, which nowadays I'm very careful NOT to do. I don't know if that's the problem in your case, but it might be. I don't think that such a review must be completely rejected, but it must be correctly analyzed to find the real problems. True. Dale Huckeby
Re: [Cooker] OSNews Review
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, David Walluck wrote: Vincent Danen wrote: Can you tell me if qt requires any KDE junk installed? Ie. in order to use MCC, will a user have to install kdebase or kdelibs or is qt enough? One very good reason for using GTK is that you do not need GNOME installed. It would not be a good idea *at all* to require a bunch of KDE stuff in order to use the control center. What about server systems that only have, for example, blackbox or windowmaker installed? Are we to tell them that with 9.1 they must install a bunch of useless KDE stuff in order to use the drak* tools? With GTK, they don't have to install GNOME, so this is a step backward just to use the latest thing. The relationship between QT and KDE is the same as the relationship between GTK+ and GNOME. You *do not* need to have KDE or the KDE libraries installed in order to use QT. I feel the same way about GNOME as you do about KDE. I don't use GNOME as my desktop environment, and I recently uninstalled GNOME to save disk space, but I still continue to use a few GTK+ apps (grip, gaim, to name a few). The reason I suggested QT has nothing to do with my preferences, however. I don't know if Mandrake would even consider this. But if so, I suggest they do a poll (even on a vote on the club might be a good idea). I'm not sure I believe this. At any rate, I hope Mandrakesoft doesn't follow your suggestion, and I'll be honest and say it DOES have something to do with my preferences. KDE looks dorky and reminds me too much of windoz. Dale Huckeby
Re: [Cooker] One more opinion about Mandrake-9.0
On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Claudio wrote: Hello Mandrakers ;-) I've read many comment about latest 9.0 but just yesterday and today I could install and test this new version. I have even seen many flames, and even if I see some bugs (eg. quota won't work on ext3 fs), I have only to appreciate the great work developers have done. I like very very much this release: seems to be very stable, up-to-date and full of innovation. So, we all shouldn't forger that this is a .0 release and should instead be happy for such a wonderful work. 9.0 is the best Mandrake ever, rock solid. Gnome2 has a great look and feel. Whoever said it was a windoz breaker was right on. I put my money where my mouth is a couple of days ago and ordered the powerpack. Hope many others do the same. Mandrake is the best distro on the planet, IMHO. Dale Huckeby
Re: [Cooker] 9.0 released ?
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, [iso-8859-15] Stéphane Teletchéa wrote: Many ftp mirros have a new rc3 version ... Is it 9.0 final (they wait the official announce to rename the files), or else ? I'm sure of it : the isos don't have the same size, the creation date is newer (23/09 instead of 18/09). However, there are two versions of the third disk, 588k showing up late 9/23, and 467k about 8-10 hours later. Which is the real deal? If the latest one is the final, why is it smaller than the one that came out at the same time as disks one and two? Dale Huckeby
[Cooker] Could not uncompress 2nd stage ramdisk
Just tried to install rc3. Got the message, Could not uncompress second stage ramdisk. Then, when I clicked ok, I got: trying to execute '/usr/bin/runinstall2' from the installation volume, the following error occurred FATAL ERROR IN STAGE1: I/O error I'm running an Athlon 1800+ on an Abit KR7A-133 motherboard. Dale Huckeby
Re: [Cooker] Could not uncompress 2nd stage ramdisk
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Dale Huckeby wrote: Just tried to install rc3. Got the message, Could not uncompress second stage ramdisk. Then, when I clicked ok, I got: trying to execute '/usr/bin/runinstall2' from the installation volume, the following error occurred FATAL ERROR IN STAGE1: I/O error I'm running an Athlon 1800+ on an Abit KR7A-133 motherboard. Dale Huckeby Just burned another copy of the cd, tried again, and this time it started the install. Sorry for the false alarm. Dale Huckeby
Re: [Cooker] Shorewall kills internet connection
On 12 Sep 2002, Florin wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dale Huckeby) writes:
Installed rc2 with shorewall, configured with wizard, got no route to
host when trying to get email. Uninstalled shorewall, deleted
/etc/inet.d/shorewall, rebooted, and connection worked. I'm connected
to a router which is connected to a cable modem.
Dale Huckeby
1. configure your internet connection with draknet
2. configure your internet access with draknet
3. configure your security or internet sharing
4. try if it works
After about 3.5 hours, yes! :)
5. grep -v ^# /etc/shorewall/{zones,interfaces,policy,masq,rules} |grep -v
^$
and send us the output
/etc/shorewall/zones:netNet Internet
/etc/shorewall/interfaces:net eth0detect
norfc1918,routefilter,dhcp,routestopped
/etc/shorewall/policy:fwnet ACCEPT
/etc/shorewall/policy:net all DROPinfo
/etc/shorewall/policy:all all REJECT info
/etc/shorewall/masq:eth0 192.168.123.0 63.92.157.159
/etc/shorewall/masq:
/etc/shorewall/masq:
/etc/shorewall/rules:ACCEPTfwnet udp 53
/etc/shorewall/rules:ACCEPTfwnet tcp 53
/etc/shorewall/rules:
Changing 192.168.123.189, which is the number I saw when configuring via
the wizard (the ip address assigned to me by the router?), to x0/200
worked, and then I changed it to xx.0, the number *I* assigned my
machine, once I realized what it wanted.
6. with the sharing connection enabled, can you ping a real web IP address ?
In that case the you have name resolution problem.
Not sure what you mean by that. We just have two computers connected to
the same router. They don't interact with each other. At any rate I can
now ping addresses and reach them with my browser.
7. server named status on firewall
Sorry. Don't know what you mean.
8. cat /erc/resolv.conf on the client side
nameserver 63.64.9.11
nameserver 63.64.9.19
search
9. route -n on the client side
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface
192.168.123.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 lo
0.0.0.0 192.168.123.254 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth0
Thanks for your time, which I know you don't have much of. I'm glad to
have a functioning firewall, but I think the average person who installs
shorewall will find himself cut off from the internet and won't know why.
I did several reinstalls and lots of network reconfiguration before I
discovered it by comparing my /etc directories between rc1 and rc2. It's
probably too late now, but perhaps some warning could be put into the
install process in the future alerting the user to a possible (probable?)
source of difficulty if he installs shorewall.
Dale Huckeby
ps. But I wasn't able to send this email on the first try (No such host
as mail.sigecom.net), so will try again now that I've given the
shorewall stop command.
[Cooker] Shorewall kills internet connection
Installed rc2 with shorewall, configured with wizard, got no route to host when trying to get email. Uninstalled shorewall, deleted /etc/inet.d/shorewall, rebooted, and connection worked. I'm connected to a router which is connected to a cable modem. Dale Huckeby
Re: [Cooker] to full up, really?
On 7 Sep 2002, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2002-09-07 at 11:16, Quel Qun wrote: I am just a French native, so please allow my lack of knowledge about all you said before ;) I really did not think it would generate such a traffic. However, I carefully looked at my Harrap's and I cannot find to full anywhere. I wish one could grep these things... I tried the on-line Merriam-Webster's but the only form it knows is to fill-up. I sincerely don't want to clog the ML. Just kill me offline if I am being stupid, or let's keep the subject for a later release. As has been mentioned: this is a UK English idiomatic usage. You won't find it in US dictionaries. You won't find to full, either, since the verb is to to fill. Full up isn't a verb - to full up, I full up, you full up, etc - it's used as an adjective (it is full up). In a large UK English dictionary, I expect you'd find the usage full up, probably under the entry for fill or full. I'd check OED.com, but I can only use that when i'm at university (ahhh, lovely site licenses). Regardless; if you check archives you'll find UK English speakers saying it's fine and Americans going what the hell are you UK people on about? :) On about??? Not in the USA. :) Dale Huckeby
[Cooker] Building a small Cooker
I want to strip down a cooker to about 1 CD for some server installations here. After one has gone through a mirror of cooker to prune to the desired set of RPMS, what is the procedure to get all the dependencies provides files, etc to run gendist mkcds? Thank you. Dale --
Re: [Cooker] NVIdia solved
Bill, If you could tell me where to send some code I have the code for some wireless network cards that I would love to see drivers included for. I received the code from the manufacture so I am going to take it that they are opening up their source code for release. The cards are made by Maxtech. All I need to know is where to send the code to.?? Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: Guillaume Cottenceau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tim McKenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Guillaume, If Red Hat can set up NVidia cards as new as the GeForce2, what would be the problem with Mandrake doing the same? Is there a difference Frankly, knowing that Redhat is doing it is not enough. Hopefully they have proved a lot of times, either by words and by actions, that they support the free software movement. --=-=-= From: Bill Nottingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Updated Nvidia drivers To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 17:35:34 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: Whether these drivers are intended for the 7.0 release or not, I'd love to know if Red Hat will include Nvidia's binary only drivers in the upcoming release. We will not ship binary only drivers. Bill --=-=-= -- MandrakeSoft Inc http://www.chmouel.org Paris, France --Chmouel -- Dale Herring Internet Kansas Networking
Re: [Cooker] NVIdia solved
Exactly what part of the makefile did you place this statement in. Did this solve the problem of the blankscreen? pgeorges wrote: I managed to solve the NVdriver / agpgart module problem by adding -DNOAGPGART in Makefile of nvidia kernel drivers. Now, 3D games are what they should have always been with a Geforce :-)) I think that the setup of a Geforce 256, and other TNT*, etc. should be automatically done during installation. This is a must for Linux success. -- Dale Herring Internet Kansas Networking 785-263-0565 877-263-4667
[Cooker] Re: [Frozen-CHRPM] python-1.5.2-11mdk
Python 1.5.2 is broken. It will not work correctly in some applications. RadContext ( radius log parsing program) is one of these that I know for sure. Python 1.6 is a fully working version. Thank you, Dale Internet Kansas Networking
[Cooker] drivers for XW420 xwl430 cards
I have finally received the source code for these cards. Is there anyone that would be profecant enough to write drivers and encorperate them into the kernel? Where would be a good place to post this source code for someone to try and write the drivers? Thank you, Dale
[Cooker] where?
Okay maybe I have just missed it. But where can we download the updated packages that are announced. Thank you, Dale
[Cooker] XWL420 wireless card
Is there a project in progress to write drivers for this card ? There was a set of drivers designed for the older version but they are no longer functional with the firmware update. If anyone is interested in building drivers for thins card I would be happy to supply theem witht he sorce code.. Thank you, Dale Internet Kansas Networking
