[Cooker] fix uid gid for mandrake?
hi: maybe it's a stupid question but i remember it seems since mdk 8.2, mandrake add many users and groups to /etc/passwd and /etc/groupthat's a good thing for me. i never need to worry about basic uidgid (like apache) between different servers mandrake 9.2 now decide to use a simple passwd group. so even some basic user (like apache or sshd) are create online and may have different uid than mdk 9.1 does it make sense to fix basic uid and gid? (like apache, sshd, named...etc, that mandrake provide rpm packages). i know i can use ldap or nis or something to fix them, but it seems much easy and simple to do this with /etc/passwd and /etc/group.. Best Regards, tbsky
Re: [Cooker] Enterprise kernel and memory over 960Meg
hi: i have many problems with enterprised kernel. (highmem enabled). sometimes some kernel version maybe ok with ur machine , if u r lucky!! I just got a new (old) machine with a P4 1.5Ghz and I bumped the memory to 1.25 Gig because 512M stick are so cheap (PC133 SD-RAM) This is the first time I've dealt with a machine with over 768M memory and I noticed that it only recognizes 960M of the 1.25Gig I know that the Enterprise kernel supports the larger memory - but I have heard that there are stability problems with it. I have seen recommendations to stick with the standard Mandrake Kernel and forget the memory over the 960M mark. Could someone explain WHY does one need the enterprise kernel (with additional security features) for large memory? Where can I get a detailed list of differences between the regular Mandrake kernel and the Enterprise version? Will the stock Mandrake kernel eventually support more memory? I know Linux handles memory better than Winblows, but WinXP has no problem seeing the 1.25G . . . . Many thanks in advance, R.Fox
[Cooker] kernel 2.4.21.pre2.1mdk wothout xfs?
hi: i just want to try kernel-2.4.21.pre2.1mdk-1-1mdk, when doing mkinitrd, i found there are no xfs modules at new kernel. so mkinitrd failed. do i miss somthing? Regards, tbsky
[Cooker] ping behavior change..
hi: i wrote a script under mdk 8.2, and it can not run under 9.0. i found the reason is ping. assume 192.168.200.1 is a host not exist: at mdk 8.2, ping -c1 192.168.200.1 will exit after a few seconds. at mdk 9.0, it will hang there and never exit. so i must use ping -c1 -w8 192.168.200.1 to do the same thing. Regards, tbsky
[Cooker] HTB V3, kernel and iproute2 incompatiable
hi: kernel comes with mandrake 9.0 cooker include HTB V3 patch, but the userland utility tc include with iproute2 seems only patch with HTB V2. so tc comes with mandrake can not configure HTB now. maybe this can be fixed... Best Regards, tbsky
Re: [Cooker] RC3 ftp install fail..
Guillaume Cottenceau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * found network config file /tmp/ifcfg-eth0 * found network config file /etc/resolv.conf * getFile boot.img: * errOpeningFile boot.img * warning: Error reading fle boot.img at /usr/bin/perl-install/install-any.pm line 909. Pixel, any idea? no really none. can you give /proc/cmdline during install? cat /proc/cmdline initrd=network.rdz ramdisk_size=32000 root=/dev/ram3 vga=788 BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz i think it's easy to reproduce? or it's only my own problem? Regards, tbsky
Re: [Cooker] RC3 ftp install fail..
hi: sorry i didn't test it much, since i thought it's easy to reproduce. now more information below: i found if i use static ip (eg: type ip myself), then everything is fine(i can install!!). command ps shows: runinstall2 --method ftp but if i use dhcp, then a terrible thing happen. command ps can not show full command line, so i cat /proc/9/cmdline, and get runinstall2 --method ftp --kickstart boot.img now we found where boot.img come from.. but i don't know why.. maybe now u can reproduce it. in my case it is caused by using dhcp.. my dhcp server is mandrake 8.2(with all errta update) Regards, tbsky Guillaume Cottenceau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * found network config file /tmp/ifcfg-eth0 * found network config file /etc/resolv.conf * getFile boot.img: * errOpeningFile boot.img * warning: Error reading fle boot.img at /usr/bin/perl-install/install-any.pm line 909. Pixel, any idea? no really none. can you give /proc/cmdline during install? cat /proc/cmdline initrd=network.rdz ramdisk_size=32000 root=/dev/ram3 vga=788 BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz i think it's easy to reproduce? or it's only my own problem? well you are the only one reporting this bug! can you also check runinstall2 cmdline during install (use ps and give line containing runinstall2)
Re: [Cooker] RC3 ftp install fail..[resolved]
hi: the boot.img comes from dhcp server. my dhcp server is also a bootp server, when mkd 9.0 install via dhcp, it accepts that information also, so it try to locate boot.img :( now i know why. sorry for wasting everybody's time Regards, tbsky sorry i didn't test it much, since i thought it's easy to reproduce. now more information below: i found if i use static ip (eg: type ip myself), then everything is fine(i can install!!). command ps shows: runinstall2 --method ftp but if i use dhcp, then a terrible thing happen. command ps can not show full command line, so i cat /proc/9/cmdline, and get runinstall2 --method ftp --kickstart boot.img now we found where boot.img come from.. but i don't know why.. maybe now u can reproduce it. in my case it is caused by using dhcp.. my dhcp server is mandrake 8.2(with all errta update) Regards, tbsky Guillaume Cottenceau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * found network config file /tmp/ifcfg-eth0 * found network config file /etc/resolv.conf * getFile boot.img: * errOpeningFile boot.img * warning: Error reading fle boot.img at /usr/bin/perl-install/install-any.pm line 909. Pixel, any idea? no really none. can you give /proc/cmdline during install? cat /proc/cmdline initrd=network.rdz ramdisk_size=32000 root=/dev/ram3 vga=788 BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz i think it's easy to reproduce? or it's only my own problem? well you are the only one reporting this bug! can you also check runinstall2 cmdline during install (use ps and give line containing runinstall2)
Re: [Cooker] RC3 ftp install fail..
hi: ddebug.log below: * second stage install running(DrakX v1.752 built Mon Sep 16 23:19:57 2002) * found /tmp/network * found network config file /tmp/ifcfg-eth0 * found network config file /etc/resolv.conf * getFile boot.img: * errOpeningFile boot.img * warning: Error reading fle boot.img at /usr/bin/perl-install/install-any.pm line 909. Regards, tbsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi: i try http today. fail also. procedure below: 1. download 3 iso files from cooker site to my server. md5sum ok. 2. at server: mount -o loop iso1 /var/www/html/mdk/1 mount -o loop iso2 /var/www/html/mdk/2 mount -o loop iso3 /var/www/html/mdk/3 cd /var/www/html/mdk/all lndir ../1 . lndir ../2 . lndir ../3 . 3. use network.img to create boot floppy. 4. use floopy to install. either ftp or http,it can load mdkinst-stage2.bz2 (eg: it can go to step2). 5. during step2, it tell me reboot, switch alt-f2 and error below: getFile boot.img erroropeningFile boot.img warning: Error reading file boot.img at /usr/bin/perl-install/ install-any.pm line 909 I don't see any reference to boot.img in the sources.. please could you send the whole /tmp/ddebug.log file at that point? -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
[Cooker] RC3 ftp network install fail..
hi: i try using ftp to install 9.0 RC3. it finally tell me it can not load boot.img. anyone success? Regards, tbsky
Re: [Cooker] RC3 ftp install fail..
hi: i try http today. fail also. procedure below: 1. download 3 iso files from cooker site to my server. md5sum ok. 2. at server: mount -o loop iso1 /var/www/html/mdk/1 mount -o loop iso2 /var/www/html/mdk/2 mount -o loop iso3 /var/www/html/mdk/3 cd /var/www/html/mdk/all lndir ../1 . lndir ../2 . lndir ../3 . 3. use network.img to create boot floppy. 4. use floopy to install. either ftp or http,it can load mdkinst-stage2.bz2 (eg: it can go to step2). 5. during step2, it tell me reboot, switch alt-f2 and error below: getFile boot.img erroropeningFile boot.img warning: Error reading file boot.img at /usr/bin/perl-install/ install-any.pm line 909 PS: mdk 8.2 is ok with this kind of procedure... Regards, tbsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi: i try using ftp to install 9.0 RC3. it finally tell me it can not load boot.img. hum last time i checked, boot.img was a RH installation boot file :-). anyone success? 10 times a day, yes (well not ftp, rather nfs/http). -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
[Cooker] small bug about devfs /proc/partitions
hi: with normal kernel (not kernel-secure), /proc/partitions allways look like devfs is working. even with devfs=nomount, /proc/partitions look like: 3 0 30018240 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc which is wrong when there is no devfs.. Regards, tbsky
[Cooker] Re: 2.4.18-18 solve my 'certified server' problem...
tbsky == [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi tbsky thanks a lot !!! You are welcome. tbsky the certified server HP TC4100 HP LP1000R finally works tbsky at 2.4.18-18. i use ctcs to test it over 30 hours and it still tbsky fine. previous versions of kernel all suffer by What ctcs scripts are you running, please? just the ctcs software include at mandrake download edition disk3. and run it with default cd /root/ctcs;./newburn so it runs kernel compile, badblocks and memtest at the same time. kernel before 2.4.18-18 will freeze within 4 hours. tbsky serverworks+smp+highmem = freeze tbsky maybe the supported hardware database can refresh to note the fact. tbsky ps: the IDE DMA must disable or it will hang the system. tbsky myabe this should be noted at hardware database also. Humm, could you send me the output of dmidecode from http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/dmidecode.c? That way, perhaps I am able to disable the IDE-DMA by default for that server. OK. but now i have only HP LP1000R in hand. if u need more server information please tell me and myabe i can mail u other server infomation (which will hang with DMA enabled) next week. ps: red-hat 7.3 default enable DMA with LP1000R. and it hang also.. Regards, tbsky dmi Description: Binary data
Re: [Cooker] two supermount bugs maybe..
the second exist both cooker and official 8.2 kernel, and i think maybe it is supermount bug also. follow steps below to trigger the bug.. 1. put mandrake 8.2 disk 1 to cdrom, then type ls /mnt/cdrom 2. eject the cd, put disk2 to cdrom, and close the tray by hand. remember, must close the tray by hand, not by software.. 3. type eject -t;ls /mnt/cdrom 4. the ls /mnt/cdrom contents are wrong. and they will allways wrong unless ejecting the cd.. The second one is hard. I suspect eject -t basically eats up media changed flag (not intentionally, but drive cannot keep this flag forever) so supermount simply has _no_ way to find out media has been changed. Hmmm. supermount did notice the media change. the wrong content didn't mean it shows the content of previos CD. it shows content of the second CD, but wrong. u can give it a try.
Re: [Cooker] two supermount bugs maybe..
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the first is ls: .: Stale NFS file handle with cooker kernel, i think this has been asked, but sorry i don't find answer. I only notice this, if I do cd /mnt/cdrom; ls; ls /mnt/cdrom works that's right. so many programs still works..
[Cooker] 2.4.18-18 solve my certified server problem...
Hi: thanks a lot !!! the certified server HP TC4100 HP LP1000R finally works at 2.4.18-18. i use ctcs to test it over 30 hours and it still fine. previous versions of kernel all suffer by serverworks+smp+highmem = freeze maybe the supported hardware database can refresh to note the fact. ps: the IDE DMA must disable or it will hang the system. myabe this should be noted at hardware database also. Regards, tbsky
RE: [Cooker] two supermount bugs maybe..
Hmmm. supermount did notice the media change. the wrong content didn't mean it shows the content of previos CD. it shows content of the second CD, but wrong. u can give it a try. If you want a bug to be fixed please at least describe it properly. I have no idea what shows but wrong is. H.. sorry. in my case, the wrong content of ls /mnt/cdrom shows as below (the cd is Mandrake download edition disk 2): it shows byacc as a directory, and show some rpms. byacc-1.9-12mdk.i586.rpm/ bzflag-1.7e4-2mdk.i586.rpm C++2LaTeX-1.1-7mdk.i586.rpm cdlabelgen-1.5.0-3mdk.i586.rpm cdp-0.33-14mdk.i586.rpm cdparanoia-IIIa9.8-3mdk.i586.rpm cdrecord-cdda2wav-1.11-0.a15.2mdk.i586.rpm cdrecord-devel-1.11-0.a15.2mdk.i586.rpm cfengine-1.6.3-7mdk.i586.rpm chkauth-0.1-6mdk.noarch.rpm chromium-0.9.12-11mdk.i586.rpm CJK-4.2.0-5mdk.i586.rpm clanbomber-1.02-5mdk.i586.rpm cleanfeed-0.95.7b-11mdk.noarch.rpm clisp-2.27-1mdk.i586.rpm console-tools-devel-0.2.3-29mdk.i586.rpm cooledit-3.17.5-3mdk.i586.rpm cproto-4.6-9mdk.i586.rpm cracklib-devel-2.7-15mdk.i586.rpm csmash-0.6.3-2mdk.i586.rpm ctags-5.2.0-1mdk.i586.rpm cvsweb-1.112-1mdk.noarch.rpm cxhextris-1.0-27mdk.i586.rpm cyrus-sasl-1.5.27-3mdk.i586.rpm DansGuardian-2.2.7-1mdk.i586.rpm db1-tools-1.85-7mdk.i586.rpm
[Cooker] two supermount bugs maybe..
the first is ls: .: Stale NFS file handle with cooker kernel, i think this has been asked, but sorry i don't find answer. the second exist both cooker and official 8.2 kernel, and i think maybe it is supermount bug also. follow steps below to trigger the bug.. 1. put mandrake 8.2 disk 1 to cdrom, then type ls /mnt/cdrom 2. eject the cd, put disk2 to cdrom, and close the tray by hand. remember, must close the tray by hand, not by software.. 3. type eject -t;ls /mnt/cdrom 4. the ls /mnt/cdrom contents are wrong. and they will allways wrong unless ejecting the cd.. Regard, tbsky
Re: [Cooker] final: 8.2 as server fail again..
Have you tried kernel-secure, or an older kernel (for example the one provided with 8.0) ? Try to disable DMA in /etc/sysconfig/harddisk* (as suggested by John Allen). oh..yes. old kernel is okay. mdk 8.1 is ok (sorry not try mdk 8.0) red-hat 7.2 is okay. red-hat 7.3 is okay. DMA must disable. if DMA enable, under my test with a scratched CD, only red-7.2 can survive. mdk 8.1 will lock cd-rom forever until reboot. mdk 8.2 and red-hat 7.3 will hang. mdk kernel(include cooker) seems not as new as red-hat in some respects. it seems red-hat kernel already solve the problem. (original 2.4.18 + serverworks chipset + smp + highmem = freeze. it can be checked at www.kerenel.org email list archive, and this is my problem.) and redhat's megaraid driver is much faster. in my hp tc4100 server with hp net-raid 1M raid card, testing with hdparm -t /dev/sda redhat 7.3 got about 70MB/sec redhat 7.2 and mandrake 8.2 got only about 30MB/sec Stef Le Mardi 28 Mai 2002 18:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a ?crit : hi: i test hp-tc4100 with red-hat 7.3 today. it is okay after upgrade to 2.4.18-4. (2.4.18-3 kernel panic after several hours. just like red-hat said.) i also test the latest cooker 2.4.18-16 it crashed as usual. so the problem seems at mandrake kernel. hope 2.4.19 will fix it. ==tbsky : 27:05 09:34 : Incident created hi: our company buy a hp lc2000 server and try to install mdk 8.2 on it. it can not pass testing and finally we run mdk 8.1 at it. this time we buy a certified server - hp tc4100. the machine arrived today and it fail again. this machine comes with 2 cpu and 1g ram. to use the memory i must enable highmem(eg: enterprise kernel). and with highmem enabled we got crash under testing. i had report this before to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] and i saw people at list has same problem. but nobody at mandrake answer these questions. i also wrote several times to [EMAIL PROTECTED] although mdk said that email list is not for supporting, but whom should i write if the hardware database is wrong?? i'll use paid support tomorrow, but before that, i would like to post it last time for anyone who is interested..below is my experience with hp lc2000 last month. and now tc4100 kill me again. Hello: i m glad that i got ur reply :) let me describe my problem and testing procedure in details...i think the problem is causing by kernel, since redhat 7.2 is fine... and i run memtest86 to test memories, which are fine.. 1.) OSB4 DMA bug. it will cause system hang if u leave the ide dma enabled, and u try to read a scratched cd which the cdrom can not read well. redhat 7.2 is fine with dma enabled. 2.) xwindow say mtrr can not use and leave messages below in the syslog: mtrr: Serverworks LE detected. Write-combining disabled. redhat 7.2 is fine. 3.) irq conflict in the linux boot message. at bios boot screen i saw vga using irq 10, lan using irq 9. and cat /proc/pci give me the same result. but boot message say device 00:04:00(lan) want irq 10, which already has irq 9. so i try to lock lan to irq 10 at bios. bios boot screen is fine, vga using irq9, lan using irq 10, cat /proc/pci give me the same. but boot message now tell me device 00:04:00 want irq 9, which already has irq 10... :( 4.) unstable with kernel-enterprise. i test my system with ctcs that comes with mandrake 8.2. and using ctcs default, so it will run kernel making,memory testing (with memtest86),and disk testing (with badblocks) simultaneously. the system will freeze about 4 hours. the system didn't hang, just freeze, so no more new process. i can switch virtual consoles. i login 3 virtual consoles before testing, one run ctcs,one run top, and one stay at shell prompt. and when freezing: the ctcs clock is still ticking at console 1. the top process is hang at console 2. looking at time at up-left corner, i can know when the system froze. i can type command at console 3, the shell prompt, but it will hang after i hit enter if need a new process. there is a clue but i don't understand. during testing of ctcs, sometimes there is error below in the syslog: kernel: Warning: dev (04:01) tty-count(5) != #fd'(4) in tty-open the message appear about every 20-30 minutes. and after about 10 messages, the system froze. redhat 7.2 with ctcs comes with MDK 8.2 pass the testing for 12 hours... Regards, tbsky Hello: i install
Re: [Cooker] final: 8.2 as server fail again..
i don't know if the original 8.1 kernel is okay, but the updated kernel pass my testing.. and about DMA, only cdrom using ide DMA, so it seems not very important to me. just disable it and don't let it crsah my server:) I had similar problems with 8.1 too, so now i'm back to 8.0 kernel and everything works fine. What about the DMA change, do you need the latest kernel ? Stef Le Mercredi 29 Mai 2002 09:49, vous avez ?crit : Have you tried kernel-secure, or an older kernel (for example the one provided with 8.0) ? Try to disable DMA in /etc/sysconfig/harddisk* (as suggested by John Allen). oh..yes. old kernel is okay. mdk 8.1 is ok (sorry not try mdk 8.0) red-hat 7.2 is okay. red-hat 7.3 is okay. DMA must disable. if DMA enable, under my test with a scratched CD, only red-7.2 can survive. mdk 8.1 will lock cd-rom forever until reboot. mdk 8.2 and red-hat 7.3 will hang. mdk kernel(include cooker) seems not as new as red-hat in some respects. it seems red-hat kernel already solve the problem. (original 2.4.18 + serverworks chipset + smp + highmem = freeze. it can be checked at www.kerenel.org email list archive, and this is my problem.) and redhat's megaraid driver is much faster. in my hp tc4100 server with hp net-raid 1M raid card, testing with hdparm -t /dev/sda redhat 7.3 got about 70MB/sec redhat 7.2 and mandrake 8.2 got only about 30MB/sec Stef Le Mardi 28 Mai 2002 18:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a ?crit : hi: i test hp-tc4100 with red-hat 7.3 today. it is okay after upgrade to 2.4.18-4. (2.4.18-3 kernel panic after several hours. just like red-hat said.) i also test the latest cooker 2.4.18-16 it crashed as usual. so the problem seems at mandrake kernel. hope 2.4.19 will fix it. ==tbsky: 27:05 09:34 : Incident created hi: our company buy a hp lc2000 server and try to install mdk 8.2 on it. it can not pass testing and finally we run mdk 8.1 at it. this time we buy a certified server - hp tc4100. the machine arrived today and it fail again. this machine comes with 2 cpu and 1g ram. to use the memory i must enable highmem(eg: enterprise kernel). and with highmem enabled we got crash under testing. i had report this before to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] and i saw people at list has same problem. but nobody at mandrake answer these questions. i also wrote several times to [EMAIL PROTECTED] although mdk said that email list is not for supporting, but whom should i write if the hardware database is wrong?? i'll use paid support tomorrow, but before that, i would like to post it last time for anyone who is interested..below is my experience with hp lc2000 last month. and now tc4100 kill me again. Hello: i m glad that i got ur reply :) let me describe my problem and testing procedure in details...i think the problem is causing by kernel, since redhat 7.2 is fine... and i run memtest86 to test memories, which are fine.. 1.) OSB4 DMA bug. it will cause system hang if u leave the ide dma enabled, and u try to read a scratched cd which the cdrom can not read well. redhat 7.2 is fine with dma enabled. 2.) xwindow say mtrr can not use and leave messages below in the syslog: mtrr: Serverworks LE detected. Write-combining disabled. redhat 7.2 is fine. 3.) irq conflict in the linux boot message. at bios boot screen i saw vga using irq 10, lan using irq 9. and cat /proc/pci give me the same result. but boot message say device 00:04:00(lan) want irq 10, which already has irq 9. so i try to lock lan to irq 10 at bios. bios boot screen is fine, vga using irq9, lan using irq 10, cat /proc/pci give me the same. but boot message now tell me device 00:04:00 want irq 9, which already has irq 10... :( 4.) unstable with kernel-enterprise. i test my system with ctcs that comes with mandrake 8.2. and using ctcs default, so it will run kernel making,memory testing (with memtest86),and disk testing (with badblocks) simultaneously. the system will freeze about 4 hours. the system didn't hang, just freeze, so no more new process. i can switch virtual consoles. i login 3 virtual consoles before testing, one run ctcs,one run top, and one stay at shell prompt. and when freezing: the ctcs clock is still ticking at console 1. the top process is hang at console 2. looking at time at up-left corner, i can know when
[Cooker] final: 8.2 as server fail again..
hi: i test hp-tc4100 with red-hat 7.3 today. it is okay after upgrade to 2.4.18-4. (2.4.18-3 kernel panic after several hours. just like red-hat said.) i also test the latest cooker 2.4.18-16 it crashed as usual. so the problem seems at mandrake kernel. hope 2.4.19 will fix it. ==tbsky : 27:05 09:34 : Incident created hi: our company buy a hp lc2000 server and try to install mdk 8.2 on it. it can not pass testing and finally we run mdk 8.1 at it. this time we buy a certified server - hp tc4100. the machine arrived today and it fail again. this machine comes with 2 cpu and 1g ram. to use the memory i must enable highmem(eg: enterprise kernel). and with highmem enabled we got crash under testing. i had report this before to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] and i saw people at list has same problem. but nobody at mandrake answer these questions. i also wrote several times to [EMAIL PROTECTED] although mdk said that email list is not for supporting, but whom should i write if the hardware database is wrong?? i'll use paid support tomorrow, but before that, i would like to post it last time for anyone who is interested..below is my experience with hp lc2000 last month. and now tc4100 kill me again. Hello: i m glad that i got ur reply :) let me describe my problem and testing procedure in details...i think the problem is causing by kernel, since redhat 7.2 is fine... and i run memtest86 to test memories, which are fine.. 1.) OSB4 DMA bug. it will cause system hang if u leave the ide dma enabled, and u try to read a scratched cd which the cdrom can not read well. redhat 7.2 is fine with dma enabled. 2.) xwindow say mtrr can not use and leave messages below in the syslog: mtrr: Serverworks LE detected. Write-combining disabled. redhat 7.2 is fine. 3.) irq conflict in the linux boot message. at bios boot screen i saw vga using irq 10, lan using irq 9. and cat /proc/pci give me the same result. but boot message say device 00:04:00(lan) want irq 10, which already has irq 9. so i try to lock lan to irq 10 at bios. bios boot screen is fine, vga using irq9, lan using irq 10, cat /proc/pci give me the same. but boot message now tell me device 00:04:00 want irq 9, which already has irq 10... :( 4.) unstable with kernel-enterprise. i test my system with ctcs that comes with mandrake 8.2. and using ctcs default, so it will run kernel making,memory testing (with memtest86),and disk testing (with badblocks) simultaneously. the system will freeze about 4 hours. the system didn't hang, just freeze, so no more new process. i can switch virtual consoles. i login 3 virtual consoles before testing, one run ctcs,one run top, and one stay at shell prompt. and when freezing: the ctcs clock is still ticking at console 1. the top process is hang at console 2. looking at time at up-left corner, i can know when the system froze. i can type command at console 3, the shell prompt, but it will hang after i hit enter if need a new process. there is a clue but i don't understand. during testing of ctcs, sometimes there is error below in the syslog: kernel: Warning: dev (04:01) tty-count(5) != #fd'(4) in tty-open the message appear about every 20-30 minutes. and after about 10 messages, the system froze. redhat 7.2 with ctcs comes with MDK 8.2 pass the testing for 12 hours... Regards, tbsky Hello: i install mandrake 8.2 on a HP lc2000 u3 srever with 1GB ram and 2 cpu, it is unstable with enterprise kernel. i found a link which is the same as my problem: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernelm=101770689615279w=2 i also try the kernel in cooker but the same. and when i start X under 8.2, i have no experience with serverworks chipset before. does serverworks support linux? should i prevent it in the future? Yes. ServerWorks chipsets are supported. I have about 20 Dell PE 2xx0 (ServerWorks chipset based) servers, two cpus, mostly 1G RAM. All working fine, distrib kernel from mdk 8.1 and/or from mdk 8.2. One diffence: i use kernel-secure (it's based on kernel-enterprise). IMHO problem is motherboard/memmory not in chipset. All (two) my HP server are shit hardware, mandrake have healthy problems on it. Zdenek Mazanec ==
[Cooker] mdk 8.2 as server fail again.
hi: our company buy a hp lc2000 server and try to install mdk 8.2 on it. it can not pass testing and finally we run mdk 8.1 at it. this time we buy a certified server - hp tc4100. the machine arrived today and it fail again. this machine comes with 2 cpu and 1g ram. to use the memory i must enable highmem(eg: enterprise kernel). and with highmem enabled we got crash under testing. i had report this before to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] and i saw people at list has same problem. but nobody at mandrake answer these questions. i also wrote several times to [EMAIL PROTECTED] although mdk said that email list is not for supporting, but whom should i write if the hardware database is wrong?? i'll use paid support tomorrow, but before that, i would like to post it last time for anyone who is interested..below is my experience with hp lc2000 last month. and now tc4100 kill me again. Hello: i m glad that i got ur reply :) let me describe my problem and testing procedure in details...i think the problem is causing by kernel, since redhat 7.2 is fine... and i run memtest86 to test memories, which are fine.. 1.) OSB4 DMA bug. it will cause system hang if u leave the ide dma enabled, and u try to read a scratched cd which the cdrom can not read well. redhat 7.2 is fine with dma enabled. 2.) xwindow say mtrr can not use and leave messages below in the syslog: mtrr: Serverworks LE detected. Write-combining disabled. redhat 7.2 is fine. 3.) irq conflict in the linux boot message. at bios boot screen i saw vga using irq 10, lan using irq 9. and cat /proc/pci give me the same result. but boot message say device 00:04:00(lan) want irq 10, which already has irq 9. so i try to lock lan to irq 10 at bios. bios boot screen is fine, vga using irq9, lan using irq 10, cat /proc/pci give me the same. but boot message now tell me device 00:04:00 want irq 9, which already has irq 10... :( 4.) unstable with kernel-enterprise. i test my system with ctcs that comes with mandrake 8.2. and using ctcs default, so it will run kernel making,memory testing (with memtest86),and disk testing (with badblocks) simultaneously. the system will freeze about 4 hours. the system didn't hang, just freeze, so no more new process. i can switch virtual consoles. i login 3 virtual consoles before testing, one run ctcs,one run top, and one stay at shell prompt. and when freezing: the ctcs clock is still ticking at console 1. the top process is hang at console 2. looking at time at up-left corner, i can know when the system froze. i can type command at console 3, the shell prompt, but it will hang after i hit enter if need a new process. there is a clue but i don't understand. during testing of ctcs, sometimes there is error below in the syslog: kernel: Warning: dev (04:01) tty-count(5) != #fd'(4) in tty-open the message appear about every 20-30 minutes. and after about 10 messages, the system froze. redhat 7.2 with ctcs comes with MDK 8.2 pass the testing for 12 hours... Regards, tbsky Hello: i install mandrake 8.2 on a HP lc2000 u3 srever with 1GB ram and 2 cpu, it is unstable with enterprise kernel. i found a link which is the same as my problem: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernelm=101770689615279w=2 i also try the kernel in cooker but the same. and when i start X under 8.2, i have no experience with serverworks chipset before. does serverworks support linux? should i prevent it in the future? Yes. ServerWorks chipsets are supported. I have about 20 Dell PE 2xx0 (ServerWorks chipset based) servers, two cpus, mostly 1G RAM. All working fine, distrib kernel from mdk 8.1 and/or from mdk 8.2. One diffence: i use kernel-secure (it's based on kernel-enterprise). IMHO problem is motherboard/memmory not in chipset. All (two) my HP server are shit hardware, mandrake have healthy problems on it. Zdenek Mazanec
Re: [Cooker] pam maxlogin = maxlogin+1 problem
hi: i try to edit /etc/security/limits.conf to limit maxlogin users and i find that if i set maxlogin = 1, the actual limit = 2, if i set maxlogin = 2, the actual limit = 3, if set maxlogin = n , actual maxlogin = n+1 ... but if i set maxlogin = 0 , the actual limit = 0. :( so i can never set acutal maxlogin to 1.. any solution? thanks for reply Regards, tbsky since i got no reply,so i try to find at redat pam email list, and find article below, i use patch at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? func=detailaid=493294group_id=6663atid=106663 to mdk 8.1's pam and it works fine now. maybe 8.2 or cooker can fix too. ps: switch pam_limits and pam_unix didn't work for me. must patch.. pam_limits maxlogins count -Out by one Cristian Gafton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon, 1 Apr 2002 23:49:42 -0500 (EST) * Previous message: Maybe a newbie question. * Next message: Problem on pam-0.74-39 * Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Andrew Morgan wrote: Michael wrote: Two q's from me: 1) pam_limits module appears to be out by one for certain authentication methods -- In particular ssh -- Example, if I set maxlogins for a user of 1, the user is allowed 2 logins, the third fails. If I set maxlogins 0, no logins allowed. I assume someone is aware of it?? Indeed, http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=493294group_id=6663atid=106663 As a workaround solution, you might want to list the pam_limits after the pam_(unix|pwdb) session module so that pam_limits will get an updated utmp when it runs - which explains why I did not find this problem in my testing. Cristian -- -- Cristian Gafton -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Red Hat, Inc. ~~ hi: i try to edit /etc/security/limits.conf to limit maxlogin users and i find that if i set maxlogin = 1, the actual limit = 2, if i set maxlogin = 2, the actual limit = 3, if set maxlogin = n , actual maxlogin = n+1 ... but if i set maxlogin = 0 , the actual limit = 0. :( so i can never set acutal maxlogin to 1.. any solution? thanks for reply Regards, tbsky
[Cooker] pam maxlogin = maxlogin+1 problem
hi: i try to edit /etc/security/limits.conf to limit maxlogin users and i find that if i set maxlogin = 1, the actual limit = 2, if i set maxlogin = 2, the actual limit = 3, if set maxlogin = n , actual maxlogin = n+1 ... but if i set maxlogin = 0 , the actual limit = 0. :( so i can never set acutal maxlogin to 1.. any solution? thanks for reply Regards, tbsky
Re: [Cooker] Fresh cooker install - ReiserFS format broke
i use reiserfs since 7.2. and change to xfs since 8.1. if ext3,reiserfs,xfs are all stable, than i think most people would choose xfs since it is the most feature rich file system.. (sorry,i know little about jfs) xfs is not very good with 8.1, and i m very happy it is stable now with 8.2. but i m sad that mandrake people think few people using xfs. if mdk think few people using xfs, there will be less effort put on it. so no mkbootdisk, no rescue cd. i hate being along. i want to use a popular filesystem. i hope xfs is a popular filesystem at least on mdk :) On Friday 19 April 2002 02:48 am, Buchan Milne wrote: Pixel wrote: | [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: |I'll add it (since AFAIK not many people use XFS filesystem) | | really? not many people using XFS? | so what journalized filesytem mdk suggest? ext3 or ..? | | ext3 and reiserfs must be the most used. While XFS is the only FS that has ACL support in the Mandrake kernel, it will be used a lot by people running samba with win2k/winnt clients. That said, it would probably be on a data partition only, and a server would in all likelihood have a /boot. When we eventually get our new hardware for our server, we hope to upgrade to 8.2 and run XFS on our new 100GB SCSI raid array shared out by NFS and SMB. ReiserFS supposedly isn't up to NFS, and neither NFS nor ext3 have ACL support in Mandrake kernels. Buchan Same here. I was using rieser but I recently switched it all over to xfs. Rieser is quieter but other than that I wanted the extra features afforded me whe ndealing with samba. When I set up servers for clients I need a complete solution for replacing a microsoft box and xfs is it for now. The only drawback to xfs is no recovery support on the bootcd if I need to do emergency recovery. On a side note on my firewall, gateway, email, box with no samba or nfs Im using ext3 at least for now to test it out. -- -~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~- Brook Humphrey Mobile PC Medic, 420 1st, Cheney, WA 99004, 509-235-9107 http://www.webmedic.net, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Holiness unto the Lord -~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-~`'~-
RE: [Cooker] Fresh cooker install - ReiserFS format broke
hi: i install lilo to the swap partition when using XFS. and it seems ok... why lilo prevent install itself to a swap partition ? can anyone tell me why? i must change swap partition type to cheat lilo, and chage it back when lilo finished... Regards, tbsky On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 14:46, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: There should also be a warning message when XFS is chosen for / that the lilo boot loader can't be used for that partition!!! Not many people install the bootloader on the partition AFAIK... A lot more than you suspect! I use BootMagic as my bootloader and prefer to boot off the Linux partition - I suspect there are many out that do something similar. Read my previous message about the found error in fs.pm script . . . Cheers, R.Fox
Re: [Cooker] Fresh cooker install - ReiserFS format broke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Fox) writes: On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 14:46, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: There should also be a warning message when XFS is chosen for / that the lilo boot loader can't be used for that partition!!! Not many people install the bootloader on the partition AFAIK... A lot more than you suspect! I use BootMagic as my bootloader and prefer to boot off the Linux partition - I suspect there are many out that do something similar. oh, i don't care much. It's just that I wanted to avoid a warning message at diskdrake step if the guy is not going to use the xfs partition for booting. I'll add it (since AFAIK not many people use XFS filesystem) really? not many people using XFS? so what journalized filesytem mdk suggest? ext3 or ..?
[Cooker] what happen if lilo at swap partition?
Hi: since lilo can not install to a xfs partition, so i try install it to swap partition. and lilo tell me: Partition type 0x82 does not seem suitable for a LILO boot sector so i chnge to swap partition to 83, install lilo at it, and change the id back. then i install my preferred bootloader to MBR. what will happen to me? will my PC crash or can not boot someday? thanks for reply... Best Regards, tbsky
Re: [Cooker] 8.2 and serverworks problem..
Hello: i m glad that i got ur reply :) let me describe my problem and testing procedure in details...i think the problem is causing by kernel, since redhat 7.2 is fine... and i run memtest86 to test memories, which are fine.. 1.) OSB4 DMA bug. it will cause system hang if u leave the ide dma enabled, and u try to read a scratched cd which the cdrom can not read well. redhat 7.2 is fine with dma enabled. 2.) xwindow say mtrr can not use and leave messages below in the syslog: mtrr: Serverworks LE detected. Write-combining disabled. redhat 7.2 is fine. 3.) irq conflict in the linux boot message. at bios boot screen i saw vga using irq 10, lan using irq 9. and cat /proc/pci give me the same result. but boot message say device 00:04:00(lan) want irq 10, which already has irq 9. so i try to lock lan to irq 10 at bios. bios boot screen is fine, vga using irq9, lan using irq 10, cat /proc/pci give me the same. but boot message now tell me device 00:04:00 want irq 9, which already has irq 10... :( 4.) unstable with kernel-enterprise. i test my system with ctcs that comes with mandrake 8.2. and using ctcs default, so it will run kernel making,memory testing (with memtest86),and disk testing (with badblocks) simultaneously. the system will freeze about 4 hours. the system didn't hang, just freeze, so no more new process. i can switch virtual consoles. i login 3 virtual consoles before testing, one run ctcs,one run top, and one stay at shell prompt. and when freezing: the ctcs clock is still ticking at console 1. the top process is hang at console 2. looking at time at up-left corner, i can know when the system froze. i can type command at console 3, the shell prompt, but it will hang after i hit enter if need a new process. there is a clue but i don't understand. during testing of ctcs, sometimes there is error below in the syslog: kernel: Warning: dev (04:01) tty-count(5) != #fd'(4) in tty-open the message appear about every 20-30 minutes. and after about 10 messages, the system froze. redhat 7.2 with ctcs comes with MDK 8.2 pass the testing for 12 hours... Regards, tbsky Hello: i install mandrake 8.2 on a HP lc2000 u3 srever with 1GB ram and 2 cpu, it is unstable with enterprise kernel. i found a link which is the same as my problem: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernelm=101770689615279w=2 i also try the kernel in cooker but the same. and when i start X under 8.2, i have no experience with serverworks chipset before. does serverworks support linux? should i prevent it in the future? Yes. ServerWorks chipsets are supported. I have about 20 Dell PE 2xx0 (ServerWorks chipset based) servers, two cpus, mostly 1G RAM. All working fine, distrib kernel from mdk 8.1 and/or from mdk 8.2. One diffence: i use kernel-secure (it's based on kernel-enterprise). IMHO problem is motherboard/memmory not in chipset. All (two) my HP server are shit hardware, mandrake have healthy problems on it. Zdenek Mazanec
Re: [Cooker] 8.2 and serverworks problem..
Hello:
i install 8.1 at hp lc2000 yesterday. and i found that hp lc2000
is mandrake 8.1 certified hardware. there are less than 30 servers
that are certified hardware. so i think it should work well with MDK.
but the OSB4 DMA bug is there,too. when read a scrateched cd, message
below appear endless:
hda: irq timeout: status = 0xd0 {Busy}
hda: ATAPI reset complete
i can not kill the process which access the cd, can not eject the cd,
the only way to get my cdrom back is reboot.
and when start X 4.1.0, syslog tell me your processor didn't support
mtrr write-combining. like the 8.2 behavior.
and with mandrake 8.1 i don't see any irq conflict, the system
seems stable. i run ctcs for 18 hours, and no error message.
Regards,
tbsky
1.) OSB4 DMA bug. it will cause system hang if u leave the ide dma
enabled,
and u try to read a scratched cd which the cdrom can not read well.
redhat 7.2 is fine with dma enabled.
2.) xwindow say mtrr can not use and leave messages below in the syslog:
mtrr: Serverworks LE detected. Write-combining disabled.
redhat 7.2 is fine.
vga using irq 10, lan using irq 9. and cat /proc/pci give me the same
result. but boot message say device 00:04:00(lan) want irq 10, which
already has irq 9.
so i try to lock lan to irq 10 at bios. bios boot screen is fine, vga
using irq9, lan using irq 10, cat /proc/pci give me the same. but
boot message now tell me device 00:04:00 want irq 9, which already
has irq 10... :(
comes with mandrake 8.2. and using ctcs default, so it will run
kernel making,memory testing (with memtest86),and disk testing
(with badblocks) simultaneously. the system will freeze about 4
hours. the system didn't hang, just freeze, so no more new process. i
can switch virtual consoles. i login 3 virtual consoles before
testing, one run ctcs,one run top, and one stay at shell prompt.
and when freezing:
the ctcs clock is still ticking at console 1.
the top process is hang at console 2. looking at time at up-left
corner, i can know when the system froze.
i can type command at console 3, the shell prompt, but it will hang
after i hit enter if need a new process.
there is a clue but i don't understand. during testing of ctcs,
sometimes there is error below in the syslog:
kernel: Warning: dev (04:01) tty-count(5) != #fd'(4) in tty-open
the message appear about every 20-30 minutes. and after about 10
messages, the system froze.
redhat 7.2 with ctcs comes with MDK 8.2 pass the testing for 12
hours...
Regards,
tbsky
Hello:
i install mandrake 8.2 on a HP lc2000 u3 srever with 1GB ram and 2
cpu,
it is unstable with enterprise kernel. i found a link which is
the same as my problem:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernelm=101770689615279w=2
i also try the kernel in cooker but the same.
and when i start X under 8.2,
i have no experience with serverworks chipset before.
does serverworks support linux? should i prevent it in the future?
Yes. ServerWorks chipsets are supported. I have about 20 Dell PE 2xx0
(ServerWorks chipset based) servers, two cpus, mostly 1G RAM. All
working fine, distrib kernel from mdk 8.1 and/or from mdk 8.2.
One diffence: i use kernel-secure (it's based on kernel-enterprise).
IMHO problem is motherboard/memmory not in chipset. All (two) my HP
server are shit hardware, mandrake have healthy problems on it.
Zdenek Mazanec
[Cooker] 8.2 and serverworks osb4 dma bug..
Hello: under Mandrake 8.2 and HP lc2000-u3 server, when coping files from cdrom, if can not read the files BC4 of scratches on CD, server hangs and give message below: Serverworks OSB4 in impossible state. Disable UDMA or if you are using seagate then try switching disk types on this controller. Please report this event to [EMAIL PROTECTED] OSB4: continuing might cause disk corruption. mandrake 8.2 kernel version: 2.4.18-6mdk. cdrom is liton48x and connect to /dev/hda nothing connect to /dev/hdb dma is enable by default. after disabling dma, it seems OK. when coping fail, it will report and not hang the server. i try to mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], but the email address is dead. and i also try install redhat 7.2 on the same machine. 7.2 seems ok with dma enabled by default. sorry i didn't try MDK 8.1.. Best Regards, tbsky
[Cooker] 8.2 and serverworks problem..
Hello: i install mandrake 8.2 on a HP lc2000 u3 srever with 1GB ram and 2 cpu, it is unstable with enterprise kernel. i found a link which is the same as my problem: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernelm=101770689615279w=2 i also try the kernel in cooker but the same. and when i start X under 8.2, i have no experience with serverworks chipset before. does serverworks support linux? should i prevent it in the future? Regards, tbsky
Re: [Cooker] Re: [expert] XFS and Linux-Mandrake
hi: 8.1 with xfs is bad, unclean shutdown broke normal files. but 8.2 seems good to me. i shutdown my pc unclean several times a day, and only files *supposed to be broken* are broken. eg: files that not written to disk may be broke. but normal files won't broke under 8.2 in my case... Bryan Whitehead wrote: On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 04:04, Guy Zelck wrote: You obviously haven't followed my lead : read the 'w ich is better choice ext3 or ...' thread. A lot of detail is in there. I can reproduce it any time by just doing un unclean shutdown or when I have to when the system hangs. But maybe it has something to do with my SCSI card which is not 100%. I'm getting closer. Guy. I should have mentioned I read the thread. We have had problems on machines that shutdown cleanly Files end up with null's in them instead of data. I can reproduce the error on basically any of our machines (around 20 Dell machines with onboard scsi). The problem never comes up with other FS's. (well, at least ext2) On very heavily loaded machines we've had entire directories disappear. Running any of the xfs tools does not restore missing directories or fix files that are full of null characters. If anyone would like instructions on how we trigger the problem about 30% of the time (for null characters), I can give detailed instructions and some scripts. It would be nice to have this resolved. We've had to switch back to ext2 since the problems were discovered. Strange isn't it how important problems seem to be ignored sometimes. I've got the same problems in md8.1 kernel 2.4.8. I don't need scripts to provoke it, any unclean shutdown does it. Although my system disk is on an ide channel I also had a chain of scsi disks. I took out the scsi adapter alltogether thinking maybe there was a conflict and hoping the pb might disappear but no, it's not that either. I'm now on the verge of trying the the latest xfs release or the latest kernel 2.4.18. I took a look on the www.sgi.com site about xfs and there's nothing about this, strange. Also SGI is a serious company which makes it hard to believe the code would be so broken. It must be a combination of factors. Greetings, Guy.
[Cooker] intel gigabit nic (e1000.o) can not load..
Hi: i try both 2.4.18.6 2.4.18.7, and e1000 can not load. anyway i download e1000-4.1.7.tar.gz from intel, it complies and load OK. so maybe cooker can update :) Regards, tbsky
[Cooker] kudzu hangs if change NIC
HI: i use Mandrake 8.2. if i remove my network card and put a new one, when booting kudzu will ask me if i want to migrate existing configuration . i choose yes and then screen become black. i also try the kudzu at cooker kudzu-0.99.47-1mdk. the same result. Best Regards, tbsky
Re: [Cooker] Mandarke 8.2 first impressions
Hi:
i remember there was a modified mkbootdisk, which would make 1.7 mb
boot disk for XFS(at sgi xfs faq).
will this put to Mandrake in the update or future release?
Pixel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Juan Quintela [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
falcarz Problems:
falcarz 1) Start floppy: a warning when preparing it: due to XFS
root falcarz partition perhaps to big to make a start floppy.
Finally: error.
No way to make a boot floppy with xfs, not enough space :(
Perhaps installer should detect that, Pixel?
i don't remember why it was not done in 8.2, gc?
it is done
[gc@obiwan ~/cvs/gi/perl-install] grep -5 XFS
install_steps_interactive.pm work with your hardware configuration. A
custom bootdisk can also be used with the Mandrake rescue image, making
it much easier to recover from severe system failures. Would you like
to create a bootdisk for your system?
%s, isThisFs('xfs', fsedit::get_root($o-{fstab})) ? _(
(WARNING! You're using XFS for your root partition,
creating a bootdisk on a 1.44 Mb floppy will probably fail,
because XFS needs a very large driver).) : '')),
$o-{mkbootdisk}) or return $o-{mkbootdisk}
= '';
$o-{mkbootdisk} = $l[0] if !$o-{mkbootdisk} ||
$o-{mkbootdisk} eq 1;
} else {
@l or die _(Sorry, no floppy drive available);
--
Guillaume Cottenceau - http://www.frozen-bubble.org/
[Cooker] 8.2 rpm package kernel name wrong.
Hi:
when using 8.2 i found something interesting.
type rpm -q kernel and get
package kernel is not installed
and i found what i installed is kernel-2.4.18.6mdk-1-1mdk.
it seems the reversion info run into the package name.
after doing rpm -qa --queryformat %{NAME}\\n
i found that packages i installed only kernel has this problem. so
the kernel package has no version information.
will this cause trouble if i want to update kernel later?
Best Regards,
tbsky
Re: [Cooker] What about a new 'distribution' mode ?]
for me it sounds really a good idea. after downloading and installing iso version, if i know that the boxed version will fix some errors i met, i'll buy it:) Hello cookers, What about a new mode of Mandrake Linux distribution mode : - Now : we have a 3 stages of validation (QA process) for the distribution : * One two or three betas after the cooker work. * One, two or maybe three release candidate with a deep freeze in cooker tree * The final step is the announce (on that ever media) and, I think, the transfert of the final master to the printing packaging departement + the mirroring to the ftp sites. - Proposal : why not add a step at the end following this pattern : * One two or three betas after the cooker work. * One, two or maybe three release candidate with a deep freeze in cooker tree * The final step is the announce (on that ever media) and make available on the FTP site the GPL cds * wait one more couple of days to squizze the last bugs that apeears with the final rush and then transfert of the final master to the printing packaging departement + the mirroring to the ftp sites. This way has some big advantages : - the boxed version could be more stable. - the 3 CDs are for internet people and not the average people who could wait a little more to have their box. - no more offficial update just after the launch of the boxed version. - a more professionnal approch (less on the bleeding edge, more safe you are) - you will be more covered by the media (one article for the GPL CDs, one for the box version) - You could do a two distribution ways : * sell the GPL CDs without _any_ stuff (including books, ...) for people who want to be the first. * sell the boxed version a few weeks after with the corrected version nd the books, the support, ... People who use the first version will have to update their distribution when the boxed version is ready via internet, that's all. Please ask if I am not clear enough. Bye, Laurent -- Penser pour un bon nombre de femmes est plutot un accident heureux qu'un etat permanent. E.Stern --- Envoy
[Cooker] lilo and console drakboot seg fault..
Hi: i run drakboot at console text mode to config lilo. and i found that if lilo.conf contain the line with vga= then drakboot will seg fault when i press down. if lilo.conf has no vga= line, console drakboot seems work well. Best Regards, tbsky
[Cooker] setup 8.2 boot screen
Hi: after installing 8.2, i found that there are no text penguin at the virtual console like before. and there are no Aurora anymore... so i try to setup bootsplash, i must setup lilo and mkinitrd again. (bootsplash is disable default, why??) i miss the mandrake text penguin at virtual console. how can i find it back or i must hack something myself? thanks for help!!! Best Regards, tbsky
Re: [Cooker] 8.2 major problem: kde-i18n-da missing
Hi: i use traditonal chinese and i notice the same thing. besides locales-zh, the locales-de was chosen and installed.. I got 8.2 installed now! I noticed that my kde menus were not in danish, and I looked at the cds and kde-i18n-da is not there! Major problem in Denmark. I also noticed that when I chose the Danish keyboard kde-i18n-de was chosen. Uh! German and Danish are different languages! German is de, Danish is da Kel
[Cooker] beta4 install from network fail at X
hi: i try to install beta4 via ftp. and almost ok but fail when install X at last step. it just hang there and can not get files.(log says get file XXX and hang there) Regards, tbsky
[Cooker] network install from iso file?
hi: i have two 8.2 beta3 iso file at the server. i mount the two file at 2 directory (/mnt/disk/1 /mnt/disk/2) with loop device. and i make a network boot disk, try to install via ftp. i tried this before, and i can only install files at disk1, the install script didn't ask me where is the disk2. i search the google and find that i can make a shadow dir of these two disks via lndir, but i wonder if there is a better way to do this. i found that if disk1 have an empty RPMS2 directory, than i can remount disk2 as part of disk1, eg: mount --bind /mnt/disk/2/RPMS2 /mnt/disk/1/Mandrake/RPMS2 can this be done? or there is a better way to make network install from iso more easily? Best Regards, tbsky
