[Cooker] [Bug 4876] [Installation] none of the translations works with fresh cooker installation
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4876 [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What|Removed |Added Status|UNCONFIRMED |RESOLVED Resolution||FIXED --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-31-08 19:37 --- It works. Thanks. -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. --- Reminder: --- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: RESOLVED creation_date: description: Whatever language one chooses the second stage of installation comes only in English. No /usr/share/locale_special/??/LC_MESSAGES/libDrakX.mo is created.
[Cooker] installation report beta2
Hello, although a bit late, here's my installation report: -there was no minimal limit when resizing NTFS (but when using disdrake there is), so I got unmontable_boot_volume when I started winxp -even if you dont select any server software you get prompted: You have selected the following servers: webmin, and no further explaination; how should the user know what webmin is? -the installer asks for graphical autologin before the X-Server is configured -when doing the network (lan) autoconfiguration it states: We are going to configure your lan connection. Press forward to continue. but the button is labelled next -when configuring the bootloader you have the option to select ACPI and APIC, but there's no help about what ACPI and APIC is at my first installation I had some problems I couldnt reproduce: -the XServer was not installed and when I tried to configure X I got: server is not available (should be in /mnt/usr/X11R6/XFree86 first boot -setprofile: setnetprofile failed after first installation I tried to update to cooker and got GPG#70771ff3 not ok other points: -K3B asks for eMovie at configuration, but there's no eMovie.rpm -rpmdrake offers zope, but it requires phyton 2.2 (mandrake ships 2.3) Thats all, Regards, Helge
Re: [Cooker] installation report beta2
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, Helge Hielscher wrote: although a bit late, here's my installation report: -there was no minimal limit when resizing NTFS (but when using disdrake there is), so I got unmontable_boot_volume when I started winxp This one is supposed to be fixed in current cooker. Szaka
[Cooker] [Bug 4876] [Installation] New: none of the translations works with fresh cooker installation
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4876 Product: Installation Component: i18n Summary: none of the translations works with fresh cooker installation Product: Installation Version: 1.822 Platform: Other OS/Version: All Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: i18n AssignedTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whatever language one chooses the second stage of installation comes only in English. No /usr/share/locale_special/??/LC_MESSAGES/libDrakX.mo is created. -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
[Cooker] [installation] packages selection
selection of eggdrop make freeze runinstall2
[Cooker] [installation] package selection
If click is too fast when confirm add dependancies, the window remains and if click again OK or cancel,drives to previous stage (quick selection)
Re: [Cooker] installation: what are the file labels
Keld Jørn Simonsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi I have a question for how the file labels under the installation are being determined. I had a problem with an error I made when installing cooker - which I have done recently say 10 times because of other problems. I may describe this in another mail. We don't use partition labels (AFAIK) because they are not available for all filesystems (AFAIK). During install, suggested mountpoints are done according to: '/' = 'etc/fstab', '/boot' = 'vmlinuz', '/tmp' = '.X11-unix', '/usr' = 'X11R6', '/var' = 'catman', -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
Re: [Cooker] Cooker installation report
Frederic Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2) Printer Configuration (Epson Stylus Photo 870, USB) I tried to print a test page bit got nothing at all The following command was issued (Ctrl-Alt-F3) * running: /usr/bin/foomatic-printjob -s cups -P ep870_cooker_ /usr/share/printer-testpages/testprint.ps with root /mnt After that (although nothing was printed) the installer GUI started to be very unresponsive... Also my connected USB hard drive had the red light on (like it was accessed) and this did not stop even when I was rebooting... I had to switch the USB HD off and back on again. Could it be there is a bad interaction between the USB HD and the USB printer or something? do you use an usb hub by any chance? seems there are some kernel problems with them when it goes to usb-keyboards, that may be related. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
[Cooker] Cooker installation report (not good)
Hi 1) Installing with Grub on a dedicated /boot partition does not work (cannot boot) Installing with Lilo (graphical) on the same dedicated /boot works perfectly fine 2) Supermount is sloo. plus every ~5s it feels the need to access the floppy drive... also only root has access to the floppy... I wish supermount was dropped from the distro. It's never been working properly on any machines I've installed Mandrake (and this goes back several distro releases). Anyway that's always the 1st thing I get rid of after installing Mandrake... 3) Missing KDE programs (eg Konsole) 4) From the MDK login manager, I cannot reboot... only halt the machine I'm not gonna start again with the login manager and it has been discussed before I believe but why not use a properly themed GDM or KDM?!?! 5) In KDE, starting Kate for the 1st time shows only a small window and the show terminal is ticked by default. Why? It's an editor. 6) Mandrake from lilo prompt to MDK login manager (110 seconds) from MDK login manager to KDE (fully logged) ( 20 seconds) Gentoo from Grub prompt to GDM login manager ( 63 seconds) from GDM login manager to KDE (fully logged) ( 16 seconds) Measured on the same box (dual P3 733MHz, 512Mb Ram, HDs with similar perf according to hdparm) 7) Trying to format my USB HD (6Gb) using: mkfs.vfat -v -c -F 32 /dev/sda I get: Aug 16 11:04:50 wallaby kernel: MSDOS FS: Using codepage 850 Aug 16 11:04:50 wallaby kernel: MSDOS FS: IO charset iso8859-15 Aug 16 11:04:50 wallaby kernel: FAT: bogus logical sector size 41488 Aug 16 11:04:50 wallaby kernel: VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 08:01. Aug 16 11:04:50 wallaby kernel: FAT: freeing iocharset=iso8859-15 Aug 16 11:05:00 wallaby CROND[3295]: (mail) CMD (/usr/bin/python -S /var/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news) Aug 16 11:10:00 wallaby CROND[3316]: (mail) CMD (/usr/bin/python -S /var/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news) Aug 16 11:10:57 wallaby kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 654 Aug 16 11:10:57 wallaby kernel: SCSI disk error : host 3 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 7 Aug 16 11:10:57 wallaby kernel: I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 429615 Aug 16 11:10:57 wallaby kernel: SCSI disk error : host 3 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 7 Aug 16 11:10:57 wallaby kernel: I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 429616 Aug 16 11:10:57 wallaby kernel: SCSI disk error : host 3 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 7 Aug 16 11:10:57 wallaby kernel: I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 429617 Aug 16 11:10:57 wallaby kernel: SCSI disk error : host 3 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 7 Aug 16 11:10:57 wallaby kernel: I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 429618 Aug 16 11:10:57 wallaby kernel: SCSI disk error : host 3 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 7 Aug 16 11:10:57 wallaby kernel: I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 429619 Aug 16 11:10:57 wallaby kernel: SCSI disk error : host 3 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 7 Aug 16 11:10:57 wallaby kernel: I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 429620 Aug 16 11:10:57 wallaby kernel: SCSI disk error : host 3 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 7 Aug 16 11:10:57 wallaby kernel: I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 429621 (about 28Mb of this crap...) 8) My USB HD is correctly recognized as /dev/sda1 but when I switched on my firewire HD enclosure I get: Aug 16 10:50:01 wallaby kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: Logged into SBP-2 device Aug 16 10:50:01 wallaby kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: Node 0-00:1023: Max speed [S400] - Max payload [2048] Aug 16 10:50:01 wallaby /etc/hotplug/ieee1394.agent: Setup sbp2 for IEEE1394 product 0x00/0x00609e/0x010483 but cat /proc/scsi/scsi does show anything and ls -la /dev/sd* still shows only sda1 (I expect sdb1 and sdb2 as I have 2 partitions on the HD in the firewire enclosure). [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# lspcidrake agpgart : Intel Corporation|82840 840 (Carmel) Chipset Host Bridge (Hub A) [BRIDGE_HOST] unknown : Intel Corporation|82840 840 (Carmel) Chipset AGP Bridge [BRIDGE_PCI] unknown : Intel Corporation|82840 840 (Carmel) Chipset PCI Bridge (Hub B) [BRIDGE_PCI] i810_rng: Intel Corporation|82801AA 810 Chipset Hub to PCI Bridge [BRIDGE_PCI] i810-tco: Intel Corporation|82801AA 810 Chipset LPC Interface Bridge [BRIDGE_ISA] unknown : Intel Corporation|82801AA 810 Chipset IDE Controller [STORAGE_IDE] usb-uhci: Intel Corporation|82801AA 810 Chipset USB Controller [SERIAL_USB] unknown : Intel Corporation|82801AA 810 Chipset SMBus Controller [SERIAL_SMBUS] Card:NVIDIA GeForce4 (generic): NVidia|GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP8X [DISPLAY_VGA] unknown : Intel Corporation|82806AA PCI64 Hub PCI Bridge [BRIDGE_PCI] unknown : Intel Corporation|82806AA PCI64 Hub Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller [SYSTEM_PIC] aic7xxx : Adaptec|7892A [STORAGE_SCSI] unknown : Texas Instruments|PCI2250 PCI-to-PCI
Re: [Cooker] Cooker installation report (not good)
On Sat 16 Aug 2003 05:23, Frederic Soulier posted as excerpted below: 3) Missing KDE programs (eg Konsole) Konsole was just split off of kdebase. It's now a separate package, kdebase-konsole, or some such. I think it should still be installed by default, but either it isn't tweaked to do so when selecting KDE yet, due the the newness of the split, or others think otherwise, it would seem -- Duncan - List replies preferred. They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin
Re: [Cooker] Cooker installation report (not good)
On Saturday 16 August 2003 22.38, Duncan wrote: On Sat 16 Aug 2003 05:23, Frederic Soulier posted as excerpted below: 3) Missing KDE programs (eg Konsole) Konsole was just split off of kdebase. It's now a separate package, kdebase-konsole, or some such. I think it should still be installed by default, but either it isn't tweaked to do so when selecting KDE yet, due the the newness of the split, or others think otherwise, it would seem This has happened for me a couple of times now, and I am afraid that someone might be trying to do the same mistake as RedHat has been doing, forcing the user away from KDE. to the slower and rigid Gnome. Pathetic, if this is the case. guran -- Mandrake Linux Cooker 9.2 kernel-2.4.22.0.6mdk-1-1mdk Only in a society that has 'a priori' defined what is the truth can the result from the evolution of life be defined false.
Re: [Cooker] Cooker installation report (not good)
On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 22:21, guran wrote: On Saturday 16 August 2003 22.38, Duncan wrote: On Sat 16 Aug 2003 05:23, Frederic Soulier posted as excerpted below: 3) Missing KDE programs (eg Konsole) Konsole was just split off of kdebase. It's now a separate package, kdebase-konsole, or some such. I think it should still be installed by default, but either it isn't tweaked to do so when selecting KDE yet, due the the newness of the split, or others think otherwise, it would seem This has happened for me a couple of times now, and I am afraid that someone might be trying to do the same mistake as RedHat has been doing, forcing the user away from KDE. to the slower and rigid Gnome. Pathetic, if this is the case. guran However, you're being paranoid and unhelpful. KDE is being split up because it makes perfect sense to split KDE up, and what you're seeing is teething troubles, and the reason you're seeing them is because this is Cooker, where teething troubles happen. Don't like 'em, go elsewhere. See, no need to panic. -- adamw
[Cooker] Cooker installation report
Hi 1) There was an error installing packages gatos-0.0.6-2001016-11mdk Isn't this one in contrib normally? 2) Printer Configuration (Epson Stylus Photo 870, USB) I tried to print a test page bit got nothing at all The following command was issued (Ctrl-Alt-F3) * running: /usr/bin/foomatic-printjob -s cups -P ep870_cooker_ /usr/share/printer-testpages/testprint.ps with root /mnt After that (although nothing was printed) the installer GUI started to be very unresponsive... Also my connected USB hard drive had the red light on (like it was accessed) and this did not stop even when I was rebooting... I had to switch the USB HD off and back on again. Could it be there is a bad interaction between the USB HD and the USB printer or something? 3) I installed cooker on a dedicated HD (hde) using the following partitioning: Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hde1 * 1 101 50872+ 83 Linux /dev/hde2 102 79780 401582165 Extended /dev/hde5 102 2181 1048288+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hde6 2182 79780 39109864+ 8e Linux LVM Inside the LVM I have: /dev/vg1/rootlv /dev/vg1/usrlv /dev/vg1/usrlocallv /dev/vg1/homelv /dev/vg1/optlv /dev/vg1/varlv /dev/vg1/tmplv /dev/vg1/vmwarelv I chose to install Grub on /dev/hde1. On my primary HD (hda) I have XOSL (www.xosl.org) installed on a small FAT16 partition (/dev/hda1) I then created a Linux Mandrake 9.2 entry pointing at /dev/hde1 to boot LM9.2 note: this is a setup I've been using for the last 2 years and has been working well. Unfortunately when I reboot and select Linuxc Mandrake 9.2 in XOSL I get GRUB displayed on the screen and then nothing else... This is what I have in /boot (/dev/hde1): - [ 13:21:18 ::root#wallaby ::/mnt/_tmp_ ] ls -la total 5999 drwxr-xr-x3 root root 1024 Aug 14 13:21 . drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 368 Jul 31 17:57 .. -rw-r--r--1 root root 619362 Aug 14 00:46 System.map-2.4.22-0.4mdk -rw-r--r--1 root root 614569 Aug 13 22:32 System.map-2.4.22-0.4mdksmp -rw-r--r--1 root root50360 Aug 14 00:46 config-2.4.22-0.4mdk -rw-r--r--1 root root49896 Aug 13 22:32 config-2.4.22-0.4mdksmp -rw-r--r--1 root root 5032 Aug 11 12:08 diag1.img -rw-r--r--1 root root16796 Aug 11 12:08 diag2.img drwxr-xr-x2 root root 1024 Aug 14 2003 grub -rw-r--r--1 root root 981420 Aug 14 2003 initrd-2.4.22-0.4mdk.img -rw-r--r--1 root root 982148 Aug 14 2003 initrd-2.4.22-0.4mdksmp.img lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 27 Aug 14 2003 initrd-smp.img - initrd-2.4.22-0.4mdksmp.img lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 24 Aug 14 2003 initrd.img - initrd-2.4.22-0.4mdk.img lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 30 Aug 14 2003 kernel.h - /boot/kernel.h-2.4.21-6mdkBOOT -rw-r--r--1 root root 441 Aug 10 18:30 kernel.h-2.4.21-6mdkBOOT -rw-r--r--1 root root6 Aug 12 12:59 kernel.h-2.4.22 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 15 Aug 14 2003 message - message-graphic -rw-r--r--1 root root96382 Aug 14 2003 message-graphic -rw-r--r--1 root root 132 Aug 14 2003 message-text -rw-r--r--1 root root 256 Aug 10 18:59 uk.klt lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 21 Aug 14 2003 vmlinuz - vmlinuz-2.4.22-0.4mdk -rw-r--r--1 root root 1334593 Aug 14 00:46 vmlinuz-2.4.22-0.4mdk -rw-r--r--1 root root 1342047 Aug 13 22:32 vmlinuz-2.4.22-0.4mdksmp lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 24 Aug 14 2003 vmlinuz-smp - vmlinuz-2.4.22-0.4mdksmp And grub/menu.lst is: - timeout 10 color black/cyan yellow/cyan i18n (hd2,0)/grub/messages keytable (hd2,0)/uk.klt altconfigfile (hd2,0)/grub/menu.once default 2 title linux kernel (hd2,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/vg1/rootlv devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off splash=silent vga=788 initrd (hd2,0)/initrd.img title linux-nonfb kernel (hd2,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/vg1/rootlv devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off vga=794 initrd (hd2,0)/initrd.img title linux-smp kernel (hd2,0)/vmlinuz-smp root=/dev/vg1/rootlv devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off vga=794 initrd (hd2,0)/initrd-smp.img title windows root (hd1,0) map (0x81) (0x80) map (0x80) (0x81) makeactive chainloader +1 title floppy root (fd0) chainloader +1 title failsafe kernel (hd2,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/vg1/rootlv failsafe devfs=nomount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off vga=794 initrd (hd2,0)/initrd.img -- Frederic Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Cooker] installation: what are the file labels
Hi I have a question for how the file labels under the installation are being determined. I had a problem with an error I made when installing cooker - which I have done recently say 10 times because of other problems. I may describe this in another mail. One of the times I forgot to deselect my /var partition from mdk 9.1, that is, because there was a /var label on that partition, the installation partitioning suggested that I mounted that partition on /var - and yes, then my rpm database for MDK 9.1 was gone... :-( I then tried to figure our how to change the file system labels, but till now to no avail. I tried e2label and reiserfstune -l but these did not change the labels that are used in drakx, and mount -l did not show these labels. When using e2label, the new labels did not show up in drakx either. Can somebody tell me how to set these mounting point labels? I like to use them. I have something like 30 partitions on different harddisks on my development system, and file system labelling looks a good way to keep track of them and it is also a good way of saving time for setting up partitioning for installing different systems, and even avoid errors like the above (and other similar or even more disastrous errors:-( If you make any changes, then please make something that would work also for RedHat, Suse etc. My take is that it would be better to use both labelling schemes, (the one available with e2label reiserfstune etc, and the apparant other scheme), with a preference to one of them. I also note that the labels seem to be restricted to 16 characters, which is somewhat short, if this is a mount path. Best regards Keld
Re: [Cooker] installation: what are the file labels
On Fri 15 Aug 2003 09:39, Keld Jørn Simonsen posted as excerpted below: I have a question for how the file labels under the installation are being determined. One of the times I forgot to deselect my /var partition from mdk 9.1, that is, because there was a /var label on that partition, the installation partitioning suggested that I mounted that partition on /var - and yes, then my rpm database for MDK 9.1 was gone... :-( I then tried to figure our how to change the file system labels, but till now to no avail. I tried e2label and reiserfstune -l I'm guessing it's simply following the path from the boot loader to root, and reading /etc/fstab to see what you currently have mounted where, then suggesting that. Unless I somehow missed something or read your post wrong, you should be able to change the labels (mount points) by changing the mount points for the various partitions either there, or by using diskdrake. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin
Re: [Cooker] installation: what are the file labels
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 10:09:00AM -0700, Duncan wrote: On Fri 15 Aug 2003 09:39, Keld Jørn Simonsen posted as excerpted below: I have a question for how the file labels under the installation are being determined. One of the times I forgot to deselect my /var partition from mdk 9.1, that is, because there was a /var label on that partition, the installation partitioning suggested that I mounted that partition on /var - and yes, then my rpm database for MDK 9.1 was gone... :-( I then tried to figure our how to change the file system labels, but till now to no avail. I tried e2label and reiserfstune -l I'm guessing it's simply following the path from the boot loader to root, and reading /etc/fstab to see what you currently have mounted where, then suggesting that. Unless I somehow missed something or read your post wrong, you should be able to change the labels (mount points) by changing the mount points for the various partitions either there, or by using diskdrake. Nah, that is not it. diskdrake does not even show labels set with e2label. I think to would be nice if it would, and then possibly both the labels available, if any. And at initial installation time there is no fstab to read, so it cannot take it from there. I think some of these labels come form some oldish redhat installation of mine. Best regards keld
Re: [Cooker] [Bug 4239] [drakxtools] Cooker installation: LVMproblem when partitioning the disk
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 16:19, Pixel wrote: [frederic] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: getFile Mandrake/mdkinst/usr/bin/lvcreate: running: lvdisplay ARRAY(0x81cb8cc) -D -c /dev/vg1/ If I then try to click on the created partition and try to delete I get lvremove failed. Changing to Ctrl-Alt-F2 and doing the lvremove manually on rootlv works which tells me that the lvcreate does work fine but somehow the lvdisplay creates this mess... In the case above shouldn't the lvdisplay line be more like: running: lvdisplay ARRAY(0x81cb8cc) -D -c /dev/vg1/rootlv (?) Just guessing... you guessed right. fixed in CVS thanks! (and sorry for the time it took to have a look) No worries ;) I'm sure you've got plenty on your plate :) @resolution=fixed -- Frederic Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Cooker] Cooker Installation Report (hd.img)
Hi Installing Grub on dedicated boot partition /dev/hde1 (I have xosl on a dedicated FAT16 partition on /dev/hda1 which I use to choose which OS to boot). I'm then presented with a screen asking me from which drive I'm booting. I don't understand the purpose of this screen... I've already indicated to the installer I want Grub on /dev/hde1 Also several packages were missing during the installation (wrong hdlist?) linuxconf-lib-1.29r3-4mdk linuxconf-1.29r3-4mdk libgucharmap3-0.8.0-3mdk tcptraceroute-1.5-0.beta3-2mdk gatos-0.0.6-0.20010216-11mdk gnome-network-1.99.0-6mdk gucharmap-0.8.0-3mdk openuniverse-1.0.0.beta3-11mdk Also something quite weird and annoying... I have 3 HDs: hda, hde hdg hde hdg are connected to a Promise Ultra100 TX2 Ultra/ATA controller. On hdg I have a LVM volume group vg2 where Gentoo is setup. On hde I'm installing cooker with LVM (not straightforward, bug#4239) using volume group vg1. I've tried twice to do a complete cooker installation and twice my gentoo had pbm rebooting because of /etc/modules.conf being completely screwed... Considering I name my volumes under LVM as etclv, homelv, varlv etc... Could it be possible that the installer messed up something having access to /dev/vg1/etclv and /dev/vg2/etclv ? This is really weird but this has happened only after attempting to install cooker! -- Frederic Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Cooker] Installation problem#2 - shadow password not used on install
When installing my non root user during install he didn't land in /etc/shadow, it used /etc/passwd to store the password, and there was no mention of the username in /etc/shadow. root - however, was in shadow fine. -- Jason Straight [EMAIL PROTECTED] icq: 1796276 pgp: http://www.JeetKuneDoMaster.net/~jason/pubkey.asc resume: http://www.JeetKuneDoMaster.net/~jason/resume.doc
[Cooker] Installation problem - external USB used to boot, bootloader install failed
As of this morning w/ updated cooker mirror: Installed from hd, used usb external floppy to boot my sony grx, when installing bootloader get: Installation of bootloader failed. The following error occured: :part_nowrite:read:: input/output error I noticed every time I did that it tried to access my floppy, so I unplugged it and lilo went right on. -- Jason Straight [EMAIL PROTECTED] icq: 1796276 pgp: http://www.JeetKuneDoMaster.net/~jason/pubkey.asc resume: http://www.JeetKuneDoMaster.net/~jason/resume.doc
Re: [Cooker] [Bug 4239] [drakxtools] Cooker installation: LVM problem when partitioning the disk
[frederic] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: getFile Mandrake/mdkinst/usr/bin/lvcreate: running: lvdisplay ARRAY(0x81cb8cc) -D -c /dev/vg1/ If I then try to click on the created partition and try to delete I get lvremove failed. Changing to Ctrl-Alt-F2 and doing the lvremove manually on rootlv works which tells me that the lvcreate does work fine but somehow the lvdisplay creates this mess... In the case above shouldn't the lvdisplay line be more like: running: lvdisplay ARRAY(0x81cb8cc) -D -c /dev/vg1/rootlv (?) Just guessing... you guessed right. fixed in CVS thanks! (and sorry for the time it took to have a look) @resolution=fixed
Re: [Cooker] [installation] printer-utills not found
Known, fixed, most over-reported bug for beta2. sorry Buchan thanks
Re: [Cooker] Installation of Bootloader failed.
Mandrake 9.2 beta2 is the OS. I recently tried booting into rescue mode on the laptop to see if I could salvage the installation of Mandrake9.2 beta 2. When I try to execute lilo, I get this error in dmesg: attempt to access beyond end of device 03:01: rw=0, want=4, (=0x4), limit=1 I'm guessing this is a problem with lilo or the kernel? -Joe Baker On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 10:39, Joe Baker wrote: This was on a Sony VAIO PCG-Z505SX Performing a network install (FTP) USB Floppy. This was next step after Add a user. I chose MBR. For some reason, the floppy disk spun up when it went to write the MBR to the hard drive then this message appeared :p part_nowrite: read:: Input/output error Next Clicking OK takes me back to the Where do you want to install the bootloader? prompt. If I keep selecting MBR the same cycle repeats. To get out of the cycle I choose skip. Then went to the Bootloader main options screen. From here also, I get the same message when trying to install the MBR to /dev/hda. -Joe Baker
Re: [Cooker] Cooker Installation Report (hd.img)
Frederic Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Installing Grub on dedicated boot partition /dev/hde1 (I have xosl on a dedicated FAT16 partition on /dev/hda1 which I use to choose which OS to boot). I'm then presented with a screen asking me from which drive I'm booting. I don't understand the purpose of this screen... I've already indicated to the installer I want Grub on /dev/hde1 Also several packages were missing during the installation (wrong hdlist?) linuxconf-lib-1.29r3-4mdk linuxconf-1.29r3-4mdk Moved to contribs. Warly is fixing ... [...]
Re: [Cooker] Installation problem#2 - shadow password not used on install
Jason Straight [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When installing my non root user during install he didn't land in /etc/shadow, it used /etc/passwd to store the password, and there was no mention of the username in /etc/shadow. oops. my fault. fixing!
Re: [Cooker] Installation of Bootloader failed.
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 12:29, Joe Baker wrote: Mandrake 9.2 beta2 is the OS. I recently tried booting into rescue mode on the laptop to see if I could salvage the installation of Mandrake9.2 beta 2. When I try to execute lilo, I get this error in dmesg: attempt to access beyond end of device 03:01: rw=0, want=4, (=0x4), limit=1 I'm guessing this is a problem with lilo or the kernel? -Joe Baker On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 10:39, Joe Baker wrote: This was on a Sony VAIO PCG-Z505SX Performing a network install (FTP) USB Floppy. This was next step after Add a user. I chose MBR. For some reason, the floppy disk spun up when it went to write the MBR to the hard drive then this message appeared :p part_nowrite: read:: Input/output error Next Clicking OK takes me back to the Where do you want to install the bootloader? prompt. If I keep selecting MBR the same cycle repeats. To get out of the cycle I choose skip. Then went to the Bootloader main options screen. From here also, I get the same message when trying to install the MBR to /dev/hda. -Joe Baker I managed to get the GRUB boot loader installed! This problem may well have been a problem with the Sony Vaio's built in Memory Stick Reader interface. I had this device turned on and it was showing up ad a corrupted partition on hdc (when I had no hdc drive). Ideally, it would be great to get support for the memory stick on the Vaio, but I know they havn't always been so cooperative with Open Source developers. For now I will just disable the memory stick reader. I'm thinking that this issue can be closed. -Joe Baker
[Cooker] [installation] printer-utills not found
I 've no printer connected yet but tried to configure printer at end of installation tty7 An error occured printer-utils rpm not found tty1 ... cannot read printrc file! tty3 ... selecting packages foomatic-db-engine foomatic-filters foomatic-db printer-utils printer-testpages nmap scli opened rpm database for examining existing packages unknow package `printer-utils' warning: printer-utils rpm not found at /usr/bin/perl-install/install_steps.pm line 348.
Re: [Cooker] [installation] printer-utills not found
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 stephlub wrote: I 've no printer connected yet but tried to configure printer at end of installation ... selecting packages foomatic-db-engine foomatic-filters foomatic-db printer-utils printer-testpages nmap scli opened rpm database for examining existing packages unknow package `printer-utils' warning: printer-utils rpm not found at /usr/bin/perl-install/install_steps.pm line 348. Known, fixed, most over-reported bug for beta2. Regards, Buchan - -- |--Another happy Mandrake Club member--| Buchan MilneMechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work+27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/ORf5rJK6UGDSBKcRAlv6AJ9ZaXZ+u6KR4E5UpkDbwsbfEKDhlACgu3Ee aiTTeMHrA41M/NGehDy8CSY= =g56b -END PGP SIGNATURE- ** Please click on http://www.cae.co.za/disclaimer.htm to read our e-mail disclaimer or send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a copy. **
[Cooker] Installation of Bootloader failed.
This was on a Sony VAIO PCG-Z505SX Performing a network install (FTP) USB Floppy. This was next step after Add a user. I chose MBR. For some reason, the floppy disk spun up when it went to write the MBR to the hard drive then this message appeared :p part_nowrite: read:: Input/output error Next Clicking OK takes me back to the Where do you want to install the bootloader? prompt. If I keep selecting MBR the same cycle repeats. To get out of the cycle I choose skip. Then went to the Bootloader main options screen. From here also, I get the same message when trying to install the MBR to /dev/hda. -Joe Baker
[Cooker] [Bug 4239] [drakxtools] Cooker installation: LVM problem when partitioning the disk
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4239 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-06-08 23:47 --- I've tried again today doing more research... running: lvcreate -size 358400k -n rootlv vg1 remove_bigseldom_used getFile Mandrake/mdkinst/usr/bin/lvcreate: running: lvdisplay ARRAY(0x81cb8cc) -D -c /dev/vg1/ If I then try to click on the created partition and try to delete I get lvremove failed. Changing to Ctrl-Alt-F2 and doing the lvremove manually on rootlv works which tells me that the lvcreate does work fine but somehow the lvdisplay creates this mess... In the case above shouldn't the lvdisplay line be more like: running: lvdisplay ARRAY(0x81cb8cc) -D -c /dev/vg1/rootlv (?) Just guessing... -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. --- Reminder: --- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: UNCONFIRMED creation_date: description: Cooker FTP install using network.img floppy. [Custom Partitioning] The installer detects the volume group vg1 on /dev/hde (on a Promise Ultra100-TX2 controller). vg1 is empty. Note: (before running the MDK installer). On /dev/hde using fdisk I created an extended partition in /dev/hde4, a 1024Mb swap partition in /dev/hde5 and the rest of the disk is /dev/hde6 as LVM (0x8e) I toggle to expert mode. I try to create a new logical volume: Size in MB: 350 Filesystem Type: Jounalised FS: ReiserFS Mount Point: / Logical Volume Name: rootlv Switching to Ctrl-Alt-F3 I can see: --- running: lvcreate -size 358400k -n rootlv vg1 remove_bigseldom_used getFile Mandrake/mdkinst/usr/bin/lvcreate: running: lvdisplay ARRAY(0x81cb8cc) -D -c /dev/vg1/ Switching back to Ctrl-Alt-F7: -- if I click on the partition just created I see the following details: Mount Point: / Device: vg1/ Type: Journalised FS: ReiserFS (0x183) Start: sector 0 Size: 0(0%), sectors Cylinder: 0 to 0 Not Formatted It seems odd the Device is vg1/ when I specify rootlv as the name (basically I'm expecting /vg1/rootlv as the device name). Also why is the size 0, it should 350Mb... If I carry on and try to create a 2nd logical volume for /usr for example with a size of 5000 then eventhough I give usrlv as the name of the logical volume I end up having vg1/ There seems to be something quite wrong here with LVM...
Re: [Cooker] Installation of Bootloader failed.
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 11:12, Buchan Milne wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joe Baker wrote: This was on a Sony VAIO PCG-Z505SX Performing a network install (FTP) USB Floppy. This was next step after Add a user. I chose MBR. For some reason, the floppy disk spun up when it went to write the MBR to the hard drive then this message appeared :p part_nowrite: read:: Input/output error Next Clicking OK takes me back to the Where do you want to install the bootloader? prompt. If I keep selecting MBR the same cycle repeats. To get out of the cycle I choose skip. Then went to the Bootloader main options screen. From here also, I get the same message when trying to install the MBR to /dev/hda. -Joe Baker Would you mind telling us which version you are using ??? Beta1? Beta2? Cooker? 9.1? - -- |--Another happy Mandrake Club member--| Buchan MilneMechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work+27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/MnpbrJK6UGDSBKcRAvuZAJ4sJDiDEDsk78AvrmxzgXmKrCu6KgCfeCkp 6oj07r5Gosh5Da4SbtgTx8I= =REl8 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Oh, so sorry. Version is: Mandrake 9.2.beta2 Thanks
Re: [Cooker] Installation of Bootloader failed.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joe Baker wrote: This was on a Sony VAIO PCG-Z505SX Performing a network install (FTP) USB Floppy. This was next step after Add a user. I chose MBR. For some reason, the floppy disk spun up when it went to write the MBR to the hard drive then this message appeared :p part_nowrite: read:: Input/output error Next Clicking OK takes me back to the Where do you want to install the bootloader? prompt. If I keep selecting MBR the same cycle repeats. To get out of the cycle I choose skip. Then went to the Bootloader main options screen. From here also, I get the same message when trying to install the MBR to /dev/hda. -Joe Baker Would you mind telling us which version you are using ??? Beta1? Beta2? Cooker? 9.1? - -- |--Another happy Mandrake Club member--| Buchan MilneMechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work+27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/MnpbrJK6UGDSBKcRAvuZAJ4sJDiDEDsk78AvrmxzgXmKrCu6KgCfeCkp 6oj07r5Gosh5Da4SbtgTx8I= =REl8 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ** Please click on http://www.cae.co.za/disclaimer.htm to read our e-mail disclaimer or send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a copy. **
[Cooker] [Bug 4239] [drakxtools] Cooker installation: LVM problem when partitioning the disk
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4239 [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What|Removed |Added Severity|major |critical Summary|Cooker FTP install: LVM |Cooker installation: LVM |problem when partitioning |problem when partitioning |the disk|the disk --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-05-08 12:44 --- It also happens using a HD installtion with hd.img This bugs prevents me from installing cooker as I want my installation to use LVM. I may be able to use a different way to install cooker on LVM but I want to make sure it works from the installer. -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. --- Reminder: --- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: UNCONFIRMED creation_date: description: Cooker FTP install using network.img floppy. [Custom Partitioning] The installer detects the volume group vg1 on /dev/hde (on a Promise Ultra100-TX2 controller). vg1 is empty. Note: (before running the MDK installer). On /dev/hde using fdisk I created an extended partition in /dev/hde4, a 1024Mb swap partition in /dev/hde5 and the rest of the disk is /dev/hde6 as LVM (0x8e) I toggle to expert mode. I try to create a new logical volume: Size in MB: 350 Filesystem Type: Jounalised FS: ReiserFS Mount Point: / Logical Volume Name: rootlv Switching to Ctrl-Alt-F3 I can see: --- running: lvcreate -size 358400k -n rootlv vg1 remove_bigseldom_used getFile Mandrake/mdkinst/usr/bin/lvcreate: running: lvdisplay ARRAY(0x81cb8cc) -D -c /dev/vg1/ Switching back to Ctrl-Alt-F7: -- if I click on the partition just created I see the following details: Mount Point: / Device: vg1/ Type: Journalised FS: ReiserFS (0x183) Start: sector 0 Size: 0(0%), sectors Cylinder: 0 to 0 Not Formatted It seems odd the Device is vg1/ when I specify rootlv as the name (basically I'm expecting /vg1/rootlv as the device name). Also why is the size 0, it should 350Mb... If I carry on and try to create a 2nd logical volume for /usr for example with a size of 5000 then eventhough I give usrlv as the name of the logical volume I end up having vg1/ There seems to be something quite wrong here with LVM...
[Cooker] Installation failure and reboot failure
Hi After a rsync at uninett I did an installation. Version: Mandrake Linux Cooker-i586 20030731 18:37 I asked for everything to the left plus firewall = 1843 MB After asking for individual packages and pressing next it wanted to install 1305 MB. I went back and rechecked the individual packages and let it install. Printer was identified as HP 710C, but wanted to give me 712C. The paper was set to USletter although I asked for added swedish language and zone c. Rebooted and gave startx, got into a blue screen with a bad window of inst.wizard. Exited X and installed Xtart = only the Microsoft-Gnome and IceWM was there. Could not reboot the box, last sentence: open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory had to use a hard reset. After that I tried to reboot my other test Cooker that was updated prior to this installation, and KDE was gone there to. regards guran -- Crux Linux 1.1 kernel-2.4.20 Only in a society that has 'a priori' defined what is true can the results from the evolution of life be defined false.
Re: [Cooker] installation and errata
On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 12:58:07AM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote: On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, Olivier Blin wrote: Hi Would it be possible to show the errata url at the beginning of the installation ? It would have been useful for Mandrake 9.1 users with more than 1GB of memory. Today, I've helped a new user that didn't know why the installation hanged. The errata url is showed at the end of Mandrake 9.1 installation, so he couldn't know that the problem was the big amount of memory. If the errata url was showed at the beginning of the installation, he could have found it himself ... Another way of doing things was to early on in the install process to ask whether errata should be installed, that is, before installing all the packages. That would mean that errors in the distribution could be remedied. I had an error with the drakx install script that it was in the wrong charset, this was highly annoying - if the script could go out and ask if errata should be applied very early then errors like these could be avoided. And it would save quite some time in a network install if you do not need to first download the erroneous packages and then the coorections. best regards Keld
Re: [Cooker] installation and errata
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Keld [iso-8859-1] Jørn Simonsen wrote: Another way of doing things was to early on in the install process to ask whether errata should be installed, that is, before installing all the packages. That would mean that errors in the distribution could be remedied. I had an error with the drakx install script that it was in the wrong charset, this was highly annoying - if the script could go out and ask if errata should be applied very early then errors like these could be avoided. Aren't these usually addressed by patch floppy images? You image a floppy, boot the installation disk, type 'patch' at the syslinux prompt, and put the floppy in later. And it would save quite some time in a network install if you do not need to first download the erroneous packages and then the coorections. Of course, it would also be useful if you could specify the updates mirror to use, or if it would also check the mirror you are installing from for the standard updates location (since that is probably the nearest/fastest mirror anyway). Regards, Buchan -- |Registered Linux User #182071-| Buchan MilneMechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work+27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 ** Please click on http://www.cae.co.za/disclaimer.htm to read our e-mail disclaimer or send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a copy. **
Re: [Cooker] installation and errata
On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 12:40:31PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote: On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Keld [iso-8859-1] Jørn Simonsen wrote: Another way of doing things was to early on in the install process to ask whether errata should be installed, that is, before installing all the packages. That would mean that errors in the distribution could be remedied. I had an error with the drakx install script that it was in the wrong charset, this was highly annoying - if the script could go out and ask if errata should be applied very early then errors like these could be avoided. Aren't these usually addressed by patch floppy images? You image a floppy, boot the installation disk, type 'patch' at the syslinux prompt, and put the floppy in later. Yes, that is true, but it would be more convenient if there was a possibility to also use the network for this. I do not think the patch possibility is well known, at least not for newbies, and it is cumbersome to make the patch floppy, and even to disseminate the information that a patch is available. And it would save quite some time in a network install if you do not need to first download the erroneous packages and then the coorections. Of course, it would also be useful if you could specify the updates mirror to use, or if it would also check the mirror you are installing from for the standard updates location (since that is probably the nearest/fastest mirror anyway). Yes, it would be nice to have the information on updates be pushed to the users. I am advocating for a secure system that is easy to install even for newbies, and automatic updating to fix security patches and such is important. Having the current install site as the default would be fine, or some mirror dependent on the languagei chosen would also be good. best regards keld
Re: [Cooker] installation and errata
On Sunday 20 July 2003 09:15 am, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 12:40:31PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote: Aren't these usually addressed by patch floppy images? You image a floppy, boot the installation disk, type 'patch' at the syslinux prompt, and put the floppy in later. Yes, that is true, but it would be more convenient if there was a possibility to also use the network for this. I do not think the patch possibility is well known, at least not for newbies, and it is cumbersome to make the patch floppy, and even to disseminate the information that a patch is available. I have had a machine that needed three of the errata patches at once. I never did figure out how to apply more than one per install when all the patch files are named patch.pl. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx
Re: [Cooker] installation and errata
B == Buchan Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: B Maybe the syslinux boot screen should tell the user to read the B docs if anything goes wrong? Or is it wrong to expect a user to B read instructions nowadays? It's likely sufficient to mention where the docs are located and would be good ettiquette to note which of the core install docs have changed since the previous release. -- Gary Lawrence Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: office voice/fax: 01 519 4222723 Business Advantage through Community Software - http://teledyn.com what I need is a job that doesn't interfere with my work -gary murphy
Re: [Cooker] installation and errata
On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, Olivier Blin wrote: Hi Would it be possible to show the errata url at the beginning of the installation ? It would have been useful for Mandrake 9.1 users with more than 1GB of memory. Today, I've helped a new user that didn't know why the installation hanged. The errata url is showed at the end of Mandrake 9.1 installation, so he couldn't know that the problem was the big amount of memory. If the errata url was showed at the beginning of the installation, he could have found it himself ... This would have to be on the syslinux splash screen? AFAIK, with the 1GB bug, you don't really seen anything but that? Of course, the errata site *is* listed in the installation instructions, easily accessible on the CD, but who would think to look there ;-). Maybe the syslinux boot screen should tell the user to read the docs if anything goes wrong? Or is it wrong to expect a user to read instructions nowadays? Regards, Buchan -- |Registered Linux User #182071-| Buchan MilneMechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work+27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 ** Please click on http://www.cae.co.za/disclaimer.htm to read our e-mail disclaimer or send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a copy. **
[Cooker] installation and errata
Hi Would it be possible to show the errata url at the beginning of the installation ? It would have been useful for Mandrake 9.1 users with more than 1GB of memory. Today, I've helped a new user that didn't know why the installation hanged. The errata url is showed at the end of Mandrake 9.1 installation, so he couldn't know that the problem was the big amount of memory. If the errata url was showed at the beginning of the installation, he could have found it himself ... -- Olivier Blin
Re: [Cooker] Installation failed: guile
Bjørn wrote: One of the following packages is needed: 1- libguile10-devel-1.4.1-4mdk.i586 2- libguile12-devel-1.6.0-4mdk.i586 What is your choice? (1-2) 2 To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed (6 MB): libguile10-1.4.1-4mdk.i586 libguile12-devel-1.6.0-4mdk.i586 libltdl3-devel-1.4.3-2mdk.i586 Is this OK? (Y/n) ftp.uninett.no::Mandrake/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/libltdl3-devel-1.4.3-2mdk.i586.rpm installing /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libguile10-1.4.1-4mdk.i586.rpm rsync://ftp.uninett.no::Mandrake/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/libltdl3-devel-1.4.3-2mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libguile12-devel-1.6.0-4mdk.i586.rpm unable to install package rsync://ftp.uninett.no::Mandrake/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/libltdl3-devel-1.4.3-2mdk.i586.rpm Installation failed: libltdl.so is needed by libguile10-1.4.1-4mdk This one shouldn't be there... I'll fix. libltdl-devel is needed by libguile12-devel-1.6.0-4mdk libltdl.so is needed by libguile12-devel-1.6.0-4mdk Bjørn Jørgensen Only the signature of libltdl3-devel seems to be screwed... # urpmi libguile12-devel-1.6.0-4mdk.i586 To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed (16 MB ): guile-1.6.0-4mdk.i586 libgpm1-devel-1.20.1-5mdk.i586 libguile12-devel-1.6.0-4mdk.i586 libltdl3-devel-1.4.3-2mdk.i586 libncurses5-devel-5.3-1.20030215.2mdk.i586 readline-devel-4.3-5mdk.i586 Is this OK? (Y/n) The following packages have bad signatures: /mirrors/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/libltdl3-devel-1.4.3-2mdk.i586.rpm Do you want to continue installation ? (y/N) y installing /mirrors/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/readline-devel-4.3-5mdk.i586.rpm /mirrors/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/libncurses5-devel-5.3-1.20030215.2mdk.i586.rpm /mirrors/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/libgpm1-devel-1.20.1-5mdk.i586.rpm /mirrors/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/guile-1.6.0-4mdk.i586.rpm /mirrors/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/libltdl3-devel-1.4.3-2mdk.i586.rpm /mirrors/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/libguile12-devel-1.6.0-4mdk.i586.rpm Preparing... ## 1:libltdl3-devel ## 2:guile ## 3:readline-devel ## 4:libgpm1-devel ## 5:libncurses5-devel ## 6:libguile12-devel ## Can you try again, perhaps --nodeps the packages and do a rpm -Va | grep dep afterwards. rpm is showing some strange behaviour lately... Stefan smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
[Cooker] Installation failed: guile
One of the following packages is needed: 1- libguile10-devel-1.4.1-4mdk.i586 2- libguile12-devel-1.6.0-4mdk.i586 What is your choice? (1-2) 2 To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed (6 MB): libguile10-1.4.1-4mdk.i586 libguile12-devel-1.6.0-4mdk.i586 libltdl3-devel-1.4.3-2mdk.i586 Is this OK? (Y/n) ftp.uninett.no::Mandrake/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/libltdl3-devel-1.4.3-2mdk.i586.rpm installing /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libguile10-1.4.1-4mdk.i586.rpm rsync://ftp.uninett.no::Mandrake/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/libltdl3-devel-1.4.3-2mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libguile12-devel-1.6.0-4mdk.i586.rpm unable to install package rsync://ftp.uninett.no::Mandrake/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/libltdl3-devel-1.4.3-2mdk.i586.rpm Installation failed: libltdl.so is needed by libguile10-1.4.1-4mdk libltdl-devel is needed by libguile12-devel-1.6.0-4mdk libltdl.so is needed by libguile12-devel-1.6.0-4mdk Bjørn Jørgensen
[Cooker] [Installation] problems
I upgraded a 9.0 to 9.1, and now the KDE toolbar and menu and drakconf (especially menudrake and keyboarddrake) are broken. Toolbar: all buttons munged. Cannot find preferences, command, icon. Menu: Some of my apps are on this menu, but a lot are missing, and a lot of other stuff has appeared. menudrake: Finds my old menu and lets me edit it. Saving has no effect on the displayed toolbar menu. keyboarddrake: Random failures and crashes. Sometimes will not run. Sometimes runs but will not change keyboard. (I got stuck in Hindi, and had to use kcharmap to enter logout command so I could reboot. That didn't fix it. I had to reinstall the keyboards.) Sometimes acts as if it is changing the keyboard, but doesn't. Sometimes locks up keyboard. It appears that some packages were inconsistently upgraded, and that different parts of the system are looking at different config files. I think a clean install is in order. -- Edward Cherlin Generalist activist--Linux, languages, literacy and more A knot! Oh, do let me help to undo it! --Alice in Wonderland
Re: [Cooker] Installation Problem
I have the following PC configuration Processor AMD Athlon 1800 HD Samsung SP 600 3H 60 GB videoSIS 650_651_M650_740 DVD 52x BDV 316C CD RW LG 48x12x48 HL-DT-ST GCE 8400B Net device SIS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter Modem HSP56 MR Controller open host sis 7001 da PCI a USBSIS 7002 USB 2.0 Enhanced host controller Controller PCI IDE SIS When I try to install Mandrake 9.0 it stop it when it check HD partition. Is this problem occur because Samsung HD is not developed by Mandrake drivers? Thank In advance _ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail
Re: [Cooker] Installation Problem
On Thu 20 Mar 2003 07:10, Enrico Galli posted as excerpted below: I have the following PC configuration Processor AMD Athlon 1800 HD Samsung SP 600 3H 60 GB [] When I try to install Mandrake 9.0 it stop it when it check HD partition. Is this problem occur because Samsung HD is not developed by Mandrake drivers? Hard drives are pretty much standardized, now. They are either EIDE or SCSI, and take fairly generic drivers, unless you have some sort of hardware RAID, which can be an issue, but that's not the hard drive, it's the RAID controller that's the issue. It may be an issue with an error on your current partitions, however. I'd suggest either erasing them and starting clean, if you don't have a Windows or other partition you want to keep, or running scandisk and defrag (assuming Windows) to make sure what you have is as error free as possible before going further. You may also wish to try something like the proprietary-ware Partition Magic. I had good experiences with them, b4 I switched off of proprietary-ware and onto software libre such as Mandrake. I'd bought another product, Partition It, which basically screwed things up, but Partition Magic was able to fix the problem without me having to know exactly what it was and get into the details. That said, this is the Cooker list, for betas, not the install help or Mandrake Expert forum. Mandrake 9.1 just came out, so cooker would be going on 9.2 now, and you are asking here about 9.0? I'd help you if I could, but I'm on this list and not the install list for a reason -- I don't know that much about install problems. Therefore, the guess above about it being an error on the current partition, with the suggestions following it, is about the best I can do. -- Duncan They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin
Re: [Cooker] Installation Problem
On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 08:15, Duncan wrote: On Thu 20 Mar 2003 07:10, Enrico Galli posted as excerpted below: I have the following PC configuration Processor AMD Athlon 1800 HD Samsung SP 600 3H 60 GB [] When I try to install Mandrake 9.0 it stop it when it check HD partition. Is this problem occur because Samsung HD is not developed by Mandrake drivers? Hard drives are pretty much standardized, now. They are either EIDE or SCSI, and take fairly generic drivers, unless you have some sort of hardware RAID, which can be an issue, but that's not the hard drive, it's the RAID controller that's the issue. It may be an issue with an error on your current partitions, however. I'd suggest either erasing them and starting clean, if you don't have a Windows or other partition you want to keep, or running scandisk and defrag (assuming Windows) to make sure what you have is as error free as possible before going further. You may also wish to try something like the proprietary-ware Partition Magic. I had good experiences with them, b4 I switched off of proprietary-ware and onto software libre such as Mandrake. I'd bought another product, Partition It, which basically screwed things up, but Partition Magic was able to fix the problem without me having to know exactly what it was and get into the details. That said, this is the Cooker list, for betas, not the install help or Mandrake Expert forum. Mandrake 9.1 just came out, so cooker would be going on 9.2 now, and you are asking here about 9.0? I'd help you if I could, but I'm on this list and not the install list for a reason -- I don't know that much about install problems. Therefore, the guess above about it being an error on the current partition, with the suggestions following it, is about the best I can do. However, I have the same problem with a laptop where 2.4.19 boots fine and there is no file system corruption (reiserfs partitions). 2.4.21 refuses to boot further than the HD check. This is a real problem since the install floppy uses the same kernel and does not boot either. There is no way I can update this machine. http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3388 -- _ _ _ _ | |_| | |_/ | | / / -_) | / / | |_\_\___|_|_\_\_| @ sbcglobal.net signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [Cooker] Installation Problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 March 2003 19:02, Quel Qun wrote: On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 08:15, Duncan wrote: On Thu 20 Mar 2003 07:10, Enrico Galli posted as excerpted below: I have the following PC configuration Processor AMD Athlon 1800 HD Samsung SP 600 3H 60 GB [] When I try to install Mandrake 9.0 it stop it when it check HD partition. Is this problem occur because Samsung HD is not developed by Mandrake drivers? Hard drives are pretty much standardized, now. They are either EIDE or SCSI, and take fairly generic drivers, unless you have some sort of hardware RAID, which can be an issue, but that's not the hard drive, it's the RAID controller that's the issue. It may be an issue with an error on your current partitions, however. I'd suggest either erasing them and starting clean, if you don't have a Windows or other partition you want to keep, or running scandisk and defrag (assuming Windows) to make sure what you have is as error free as possible before going further. You may also wish to try something like the proprietary-ware Partition Magic. I had good experiences with them, b4 I switched off of proprietary-ware and onto software libre such as Mandrake. I'd bought another product, Partition It, which basically screwed things up, but Partition Magic was able to fix the problem without me having to know exactly what it was and get into the details. That said, this is the Cooker list, for betas, not the install help or Mandrake Expert forum. Mandrake 9.1 just came out, so cooker would be going on 9.2 now, and you are asking here about 9.0? I'd help you if I could, but I'm on this list and not the install list for a reason -- I don't know that much about install problems. Therefore, the guess above about it being an error on the current partition, with the suggestions following it, is about the best I can do. However, I have the same problem with a laptop where 2.4.19 boots fine and there is no file system corruption (reiserfs partitions). 2.4.21 refuses to boot further than the HD check. This is a real problem since the install floppy uses the same kernel and does not boot either. There is no way I can update this machine. http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3388 try to disable dma, this worked for me - -- Regards, Per Øyvind Karlsen Sintrax Solutions http://www.sintrax.net - +47 41681061 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+ehFrv8F7V9JOSuURApHFAJ4hvpIBrQ89f9nWDrntEwfafEdW/QCgwkbu KDgBxU6GiSdXiFZjp91+Wlw= =Xkwi -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [Cooker] Installation Problem
On Thu 20 Mar 2003 11:02, Quel Qun posted as excerpted below: However, I have the same problem with a laptop where 2.4.19 boots fine and there is no file system corruption (reiserfs partitions). 2.4.21 refuses to boot further than the HD check. This is a real problem since the install floppy uses the same kernel and does not boot either. That's a bit interesting. I filter subjects with kernel in them as I use the stock kernel, not Mdk's, compiled myself with some stuff directly compiled, not modularized, and don't do pre's, only full releases of stable. Thus, I'm still on 2.4.20, and with all the stuff I've seen flying around about 21-pre-whatever, I'm beginning to thing that's a wise decision. As for ReiserFS, have you always used the no-tail option? Here, I dumped no-tail and initrd some time ago, with no problems so far direct booting ReiserFS on all partitions, from LILO directly to a boot partition with Reiser on it, without the no-tail option either. Of course, as I'm using Reiser native, I compiled it directly into the kernel, rather than as a module, as well. Perhaps that's it? As I said, tho, no problems whatsoever with it, here. However, it's possible that .21preX has problems, perhaps with initrd and module loading for that, perhaps related to no-tail or the lack of it, perhaps something else. I suppose that's why they call it pre, altho it could be a Mdk kernel patch conflict, rather than something in the main kernel. Has anyone looked into whether they have the same problems with the kernel.org mainline kernel, and if so, at what official pre patch level it triggers? (As mentioned, I normally filter subject lines w/ kernel in them, so don't change the subject to include that if you want me to continue following the thread. Otherwise, whatever.) -- Duncan They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin
Re: [Cooker] Installation Problem
On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 11:07, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 March 2003 19:02, Quel Qun wrote: On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 08:15, Duncan wrote: On Thu 20 Mar 2003 07:10, Enrico Galli posted as excerpted below: I have the following PC configuration Processor AMD Athlon 1800 HD Samsung SP 600 3H 60 GB [] When I try to install Mandrake 9.0 it stop it when it check HD partition. However, I have the same problem with a laptop where 2.4.19 boots fine and there is no file system corruption (reiserfs partitions). 2.4.21 refuses to boot further than the HD check. This is a real problem since the install floppy uses the same kernel and does not boot either. There is no way I can update this machine. http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3388 try to disable dma, this worked for me As I wrote in the bug report, I tried booting with ide0=nodma (I also tried ide0=notune), but it did not change anything. I don't have access to any dma setting in the BIOS. -- _ _ _ _ | |_| | |_/ | | / / -_) | / / | |_\_\___|_|_\_\_| @ sbcglobal.net signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [Cooker] Installation Problem
Quel Qun wrote: As I wrote in the bug report, I tried booting with ide0=nodma (I also tried ide0=notune), but it did not change anything. I don't have access to any dma setting in the BIOS. Don't know if it's supposed to be this way, but when I was having trouble with installing from an old CD-ROM drive and wanted to disable DMA on that IDE channel, ide0=nodma had no effect, but ide=nodma worked. Maybe nodma can only be applied across the board to all IDE channels. You could try it. Cheers, Bruno Prior
Re: [Cooker] Installation Problem
On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 16:08, Bruno Prior wrote:
Quel Qun wrote:
As I wrote in the bug report, I tried booting with ide0=nodma (I also
tried ide0=notune), but it did not change anything.
I don't have access to any dma setting in the BIOS.
Don't know if it's supposed to be this way, but when I was having
trouble with installing from an old CD-ROM drive and wanted to disable
DMA on that IDE channel, ide0=nodma had no effect, but ide=nodma worked.
Maybe nodma can only be applied across the board to all IDE channels.
You could try it.
yep, yep, yep,
That fixed it, thanks a lot.
The kernel documentation is misleading because it says:
ide?= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem : config (iomem/irq), tuning or
debugging (serialize,reset,no{dma,tune,probe}) or
chipset specific parameters.
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[Cooker] Installation
Whenever I try to install cooker from cd I get the error that there was a problem installing filesystem-2.1.3-8mdk Any clue as to what the problem is? Do I need to do something else? I have tried from 2 different sets of cds.
Re: [Cooker] Installation
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Dennis D Courtney wrote: Whenever I try to install cooker from cd I get the error that there was a problem installing filesystem-2.1.3-8mdk Any clue as to what the problem is? Do I need to do something else? I have tried from 2 different sets of cds. rpm -K path/to/filesystem*.rpm ? -- |Registered Linux User #182071-| Buchan MilneMechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work+27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
Re: [Cooker] Installation
I tried it and this is what I got: filesystem-2.1.3-8mdk.noarch.rpm: md5 gpg OK On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 15:23, Buchan Milne wrote: On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Dennis D Courtney wrote: Whenever I try to install cooker from cd I get the error that there was a problem installing filesystem-2.1.3-8mdk Any clue as to what the problem is? Do I need to do something else? I have tried from 2 different sets of cds. rpm -K path/to/filesystem*.rpm ?
Re: [Cooker] Installation
I tried it and this is what I got: filesystem-2.1.3-8mdk.noarch.rpm: md5 gpg OK Could it have something to do with my upgrading 9.1rc2 rather than a full install? On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 15:23, Buchan Milne wrote: On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Dennis D Courtney wrote: Whenever I try to install cooker from cd I get the error that there was a problem installing filesystem-2.1.3-8mdk Any clue as to what the problem is? Do I need to do something else? I have tried from 2 different sets of cds. rpm -K path/to/filesystem*.rpm ?
[Cooker] Installation
I tried a fresh install of cooker, everything installed perceftly, except filesystem It told me that there was a problem with the file. So I tried another copy I had made a few days before and received the same error. Please help! I reinstalled rc1 to get this far.
Re: [Cooker] installation report RC1
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Helge Hielscher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -rpmdrake: *proxy configuration is not easy and is not explained in the help file (how to use a ftp and an http proxy?) Well I don't know myself very much on how to use both types of proxies :). Surely florin has a test setup you can use with squid? For us, when necessary (this method does not allow exclusing lists, and we don't want updates going through our ISPs external proxy back into the local FTP server when they would charge us for it ...) we use http_proxy=http://proxy.domain.com:3128 ftp_proxy=http://proxy.domain.com:3128 I forget if DrakX allows using an http proxy server for ftp proxy, and I do not know if it is possible to proxy ftp via ftp ... This was an issue before ... (DrakX not allowing http in the ftp proxy field). Regards, Buchan - -- |--Another happy Mandrake Club member--| Buchan MilneMechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work+27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+ZHxjrJK6UGDSBKcRAsj7AJ9nlD866DoNNkxHZI36KQeL+cPMuwCgwjZc EyhV4G99w1fbhqCIq8CruzI= =16or -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [Cooker] installation report RC1
James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: *the UI is sometimes very slow *difficult to add a cooker source (there need to be some help with synthesis/hdlist) The list of cooker sources has been deliberately removed because people used to use cooker for updating their packages, that leading with broken systems. Two questions here. 1. Doesn't this violate the GPL Nothing to do with the licensing!?? First, it's not code. Second, we're talking about a feature I don't provide, this is totally disconnected to the license. 2. Don't try to protect people from themselves, it only causes ill will. Well, for your information, doing a Linux distribution involves protecting people from themselves in a vast number of places. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
Re: [Cooker] installation report RC1
Hallo Helge, On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, Helge Hielscher wrote: layer does in detail. There was no explanation of the security admin field. - often (e.g. choose how many CDs, Internet config) it sais Wählen Sie O.K.(choose OK), but the button label is Weiter ... Die Deutsche übersetzungen sind noch nicht fertig. Auch die übersetzungen sind abhängig von freiwilliger Arbeit. Also geh mal nach http://www.linux-mandrake.com/l10n/de.php3 und lese http://www.mandrakeclub.com/article.php?sid=446 Vielleicht kannst du mithelfen? freundliche gruesse, -- Reinout van SchouwenArtificial Intelligence student email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]mobile phone: +31-6-44360778 GPG public key http://www.cs.vu.nl/~reinout/reinout.asc MandrakeClub member
Re: [Cooker] installation report RC1
Am Montag, 3. März 2003, 13:07:20 Uhr MET, schrieb Reinout van Schouwen: Die Deutsche übersetzungen sind noch nicht fertig. Auch die übersetzungen sind abhängig von freiwilliger Arbeit. Also geh mal nach http://www.linux-mandrake.com/l10n/de.php3 und lese http://www.mandrakeclub.com/article.php?sid=446 Ich werde mich mal schnell um drakcronat kümmern, OK? I'll take care of the german translation of drakcronat. CU -- Götz Waschk master of computer science University of Rostock http://wwwtec.informatik.uni-rostock.de/~waschk/waschk.asc for PGP key -- Logout Fascism! --
Re: [Cooker] installation report RC1
Helge Hielscher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -rpmdrake: *proxy configuration is not easy and is not explained in the help file (how to use a ftp and an http proxy?) Well I don't know myself very much on how to use both types of proxies :). I guess this feature is, first, for experts and second, I need suggestions and tests by users to ameliorate it. *the UI is sometimes very slow *difficult to add a cooker source (there need to be some help with synthesis/hdlist) The list of cooker sources has been deliberately removed because people used to use cooker for updating their packages, that leading with broken systems. *tree with applications is not complete (e.g. foobilliard is not under games) foobillard is correctly displayed under Games/Sports in All packages, by groups sort. If you talk about Mandrake choices, as the name implies, it's a limited choices of packages considered better. Even the documentation explains it: -=-=---=-=---=-=---=-=-- Mandrake choices This sort order will present you the packages in the four groups you've already seen during the installation of your Mandrake Linux. This is the easier sort order because it focuses on a selected part of the available packages, which are considered to be the most useful of the distribution. -=-=---=-=---=-=---=-=-- -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
Re: [Cooker] installation report RC1
On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 09:10, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Helge Hielscher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -rpmdrake: *proxy configuration is not easy and is not explained in the help file (how to use a ftp and an http proxy?) Well I don't know myself very much on how to use both types of proxies :). I guess this feature is, first, for experts and second, I need suggestions and tests by users to ameliorate it. *the UI is sometimes very slow *difficult to add a cooker source (there need to be some help with synthesis/hdlist) The list of cooker sources has been deliberately removed because people used to use cooker for updating their packages, that leading with broken systems. Two questions here. 1. Doesn't this violate the GPL 2. Don't try to protect people from themselves, it only causes ill will. One statement. Ultimately it's your show so ignore me if you'd like. *tree with applications is not complete (e.g. foobilliard is not under games) foobillard is correctly displayed under Games/Sports in All packages, by groups sort. If you talk about Mandrake choices, as the name implies, it's a limited choices of packages considered better. Even the documentation explains it: -=-=---=-=---=-=---=-=-- Mandrake choices This sort order will present you the packages in the four groups you've already seen during the installation of your Mandrake Linux. This is the easier sort order because it focuses on a selected part of the available packages, which are considered to be the most useful of the distribution. -=-=---=-=---=-=---=-=--
Re: [Cooker] installation report RC1
This time James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes daring and writes: On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 09:10, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Helge Hielscher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -rpmdrake: *proxy configuration is not easy and is not explained in the help file (how to use a ftp and an http proxy?) Well I don't know myself very much on how to use both types of proxies :). I guess this feature is, first, for experts and second, I need suggestions and tests by users to ameliorate it. *the UI is sometimes very slow *difficult to add a cooker source (there need to be some help with synthesis/hdlist) The list of cooker sources has been deliberately removed because people used to use cooker for updating their packages, that leading with broken systems. Two questions here. 1. Doesn't this violate the GPL No 2. Don't try to protect people from themselves, it only causes ill will. Uhm...when I noticed they had done this, I didn't think they were protecting people from themselves...I thought smart guys, they are protecting whoever has to deal with tech support...try to deal with a user that broke his box by using cooker as an update media without knowing what cooker really is. Vox -- Think of the Linux community as a niche economy isolated by its beliefs. Kind of like the Amish, except that our religion requires us to use _higher_ technology than everyone else. -- Donald B. Marti Jr. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [Cooker] installation report RC1
On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 22:00, Vox wrote: This time James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes daring and writes: On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 09:10, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Helge Hielscher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -rpmdrake: *proxy configuration is not easy and is not explained in the help file (how to use a ftp and an http proxy?) Well I don't know myself very much on how to use both types of proxies :). I guess this feature is, first, for experts and second, I need suggestions and tests by users to ameliorate it. *the UI is sometimes very slow *difficult to add a cooker source (there need to be some help with synthesis/hdlist) The list of cooker sources has been deliberately removed because people used to use cooker for updating their packages, that leading with broken systems. Two questions here. 1. Doesn't this violate the GPL No Now I know. 2. Don't try to protect people from themselves, it only causes ill will. Uhm...when I noticed they had done this, I didn't think they were protecting people from themselves...I thought smart guys, they are protecting whoever has to deal with tech support...try to deal with a user that broke his box by using cooker as an update media without knowing what cooker really is. Which is why I said... Ultimately it's their distro Downside... it makes it darn difficult for me to find out if my problem is a bug per se or a conflict with my hardware etc. For example: the new QT3 libs in cooker stop kde from working on my laptop... but if I move back to the ones in RC1... it works fine. But since no one else is reporting this I'd love to know why it's happening for me. Without the data ... it's hard to do. Vox
[Cooker] installation report RC1
Hello, this weekend I've found some time to give 9.1RC1 a try. Here is a list of points that can be improved: Installing RC1: - when you choose the Sicherheitsebene(security layer), the help field could use a hint about where to find aditional information what each layer does in detail. There was no explanation of the security admin field. - often (e.g. choose how many CDs, Internet config) it sais Whlen Sie O.K.(choose OK), but the button label is Weiter - Do you really want to install these servers is irritating if you do a default expert workstation installation. There should rather be an explaination why these servers are installed by default. -The Window where you are asked to change the CDs is to small, you have to scroll to see all the (German) text. -when you add a user, the Weiter(next) button is not visible, I had to use the tab key and guess that there is a next button somewher to proceed -the step where you do other things, like the installation of the printer drivers and firewall config, shouldnt be called Zusammenfassung(summary). Better might be Einstellungen(configurations). -you can't activate the Firewall for all ports (no open ports) -you should be able to test if the internet works right after the configuration, to make sure that the auto update works later on Running Cooker: -mcc *some windows have no names (e.g. please wait ...) and are displayed as namenloses Fenster in the taskbar (gnome2) -rpmdrake: *proxy configuration is not easy and is not explained in the help file (how to use a ftp and an http proxy?) *the UI is sometimes very slow *difficult to add a cooker source (there need to be some help with synthesis/hdlist) *tree with applications is not complete (e.g. foobilliard is not under games) -menus *sometimes application do not show up (e.g. foobilliard) *sodipodi is under Graphics not under Vectorgraphics (BTW why is vectorgraphics under Office Programms?) *KTuberling is under amusement/card games not under amusement/misc -some packages had signature errors -gnome2: *the is no rpm of the quick-lounge-applet (http://quick-lounge.sourceforge.net) *Strg-Alt shortcuts do not work (e.g. Strg-Alt-F1 or Strg-Alt-+) *if you dont use GKB, AltGr+letter do not give special characters (,; I use locales=de_DE.UTF8) *the font which is used by default in the console cant display cyrillic characters -other *reboot doesnt work smoothly (maybe ACPI related?) Hope that my test helps a bit. Regards, Helge Hielcher
[Cooker] Installation problems
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[Cooker] Installation problems
I have tried to install Mandrake Linux 9.1 beta 3 in three differents types of computers with differents Via chipsets, but I am getting more than 20 errors after the installation of the first disk, and specially when the second cd start to install the office programs, I have 'yes' to continue with the installation, I did not have that kind of problem with beta 1, and 2. The other problem that I have is that it look that it has configured the video card, but when it reboot again the computer freeze and then I am forced to reset the computer and then I am able to login, and then it does not want to configure the Lan card, in my main computer I have an on board Brodcam 10/100 it detected as eth0 but then I am unable to go in the internet, I installed a second Realtek Lan Card but it does not detect this one that I know that the drivers are more popular than Broadcam. After all I would like to tell that it is the most beatiful and colorfull distro that Mandrake has designed it can be used by itself for my application, there is not need to have MS Windows dual boot, with all the defects it looks very nice. I had also problem with the installation of the printer, at the beginning I get a red circle and it won boot, I did reinstalled again without printer, but when I try to detect the printer,it freeze the computer. Have you tried to resolve these bugs for the final version or Beta 4? The times when I have been able to go in the internet the connection is fast and it works faster than prior versions. I would like to know why the second disk is making so many errors when it is installing the open office packages. Another problem is that sometimes it does not want to recognize the third Cd, it is asking for an international disk, I had to insert the cd several times in the cd rom and then it start to install the packages. I think it is important to have more drivers for the Viewsonic monitors since they are becoming very populars, I could not find a drivers for my ( g90ft) but Redhat has drivers on RH 8.0 for a lot of View sonic monitors and NEC you should take that into consideration, and the new land cards that are coming out in the market specially Broadcam that is pre-installed in the Asus and Supermicro motherboardsDo you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, and more
Re: [Cooker] Installation
R. Dale Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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? Well there are, but it's rather long/complicated to deploy. What are the last messages you can see on consoles 1 and 3? 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. PS : can you quote the messages the right way, a.k.a putting your comments after my sentences? it would be easier to follow the thread -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
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.
[Cooker] Installation (RC1): Missing module ataraid !?
Hmmm... In digging deeper to my installation problems, (see bug 1802 that I posted earlier tonight) - I now see that after I select ataraid as a module to load for my SCSI interface (which is really a PDC20276 MBFastTrak133), I see in ctrl-alt-f3 that it is complaining: Missing module ataraid After this, it dumps me back to the module selection screen and never finds my hard disk. Did this module get left out of the distribution!? --Alexander
Re: [Cooker] Installation
Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sunday February 16 2003 01:00 pm, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: I have the same experience, ie, loading second stage hangs, both b2 and b3, but only if I press F1 and type 'expert'. If I just hit Enter and let it do a regular install it all proceeds with no hesitation or problems. I don't remember if I also tried 'expert text'. I didn't think to report it as a bug. I just assumed it was peculiar to my system since no else seemed to be complaining. What can you see on console #4? Any I/O error? This probly won't help, sorry ;( I booted with the b3 1st CD and, F1, typed in 'expert'. it hung again. Altho the cursor is blinkin on the screen, the system will not respond to ctl-alt-F4, or anything else -F* for that matter (gave it 10 mins). If it doesn't respond to Ctrl Alt F4 it means the kernel is totally frozen :(. What if you switch to console #4 right before the freeze? (at the time it will start to load the ramdisk) Any interesting last kernel messages? On my test machine, I can see no problem booting on the CD#1 with expert option.. I mentioned in my previous post that it was 512 ram at cas2. It was also set to 4-bank interleaving, ie, aggresive timings. I tried again with cas3, interleaving disabled, even tried underclocked to 30 mhz (pci) ...same deal ... hung on 'expert' loading second stage. Regular install option has no problems. What if you choose default bios settings? FWIW, Soyo k7vta pro, 1.4 Tbird, sdram, kt133a-rev03 chipset. Ram is old but it's a quality Crucial Micron - Mosel Vitelic 8 7.5ns CL2 mix, runnin at IOv 3.4. Never been a problem or presented any test errors. The install CDr was in my Plextor 8-4-32t burner, a better reader than my old BCD CDrom. PSU is a Sparkle 300w, always rock steady spec+ voltages. IOW's, ram ain't the problem ; If it's a recent machine - we're having trouble with acpi, did you try to boot with expert acpi=off? -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
Re: [Cooker] Installation
On Monday February 17 2003 07:18 am, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This probly won't help, sorry ;( I booted with the b3 1st CD and, F1, typed in 'expert'. it hung again. Altho the cursor is blinkin on the screen, the system will not respond to ctl-alt-F4, or anything else -F* for that matter (gave it 10 mins). If it doesn't respond to Ctrl Alt F4 it means the kernel is totally frozen :(. Doesn't seem to be. If I let it sit on Loading 2nd Stage for several minutes and do a reboot, my cpu temps are still fairly normal. And as I said, the cursor is still blinking the whole time the system just sits there going nowhere. What if you switch to console #4 right before the freeze? (at the time it will start to load the ramdisk) Any interesting last kernel messages? On my test machine, I can see no problem booting on the CD#1 with expert option.. 'alt-F4', 'crtl-alt-F4', neither works. I did as you suggested and tried F4 while the 1st stage was loading. It's like the keyboard is lost as soon as 1st stage begins to load. I mentioned in my previous post that it was 512 ram at cas2. It was also set to 4-bank interleaving, ie, aggresive timings. I tried again with cas3, interleaving disabled, even tried underclocked to 30 mhz (pci) ...same deal ... hung on 'expert' loading second stage. Regular install option has no problems. What if you choose default bios settings? Default is cas3 with bank-interleaving disabled, so yes, I tried with bios defaults, tho the ram is fully capable of more aggressive timings. Has been so in several systems. If it's a recent machine - we're having trouble with acpi, did you try to boot with expert acpi=off? I tried 'expert acpi=off', 'expert acpi=off no apic', and 'expert acpi=off no apic mem=nopentium', all with the same result, the systems just sits doing nothing after the 2nd stage starts. BTW, after the system is booted normally, crtl-alt-F* does work. The system is almost two years old, ie, not recent. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
[Cooker] Installation provides no choice for DHCP client. (I need to use dhcpcd)
Also I need to use PEERYP, so the network config needs to ask about that as well. Thanks. -- John Allen, Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] MandrakeClub Silver Member.
Re: [Cooker] Installation
Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Monday February 17 2003 07:18 am, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This probly won't help, sorry ;( I booted with the b3 1st CD and, F1, typed in 'expert'. it hung again. Altho the cursor is blinkin on the screen, the system will not respond to ctl-alt-F4, or anything else -F* for that matter (gave it 10 mins). If it doesn't respond to Ctrl Alt F4 it means the kernel is totally frozen :(. Doesn't seem to be. If I let it sit on Loading 2nd Stage for several minutes and do a reboot, my cpu temps are still fairly normal. And as I said, the cursor is still blinking the whole time the system just sits there going nowhere. Cursor and temperature are independant of the kernel being frozen, AFAIK. The Ctrl Alt Fn and Num Lock and generally better indicators (though I'm not really sure for Num Lock). What if you switch to console #4 right before the freeze? (at the time it will start to load the ramdisk) Any interesting last kernel messages? On my test machine, I can see no problem booting on the CD#1 with expert option.. 'alt-F4', 'crtl-alt-F4', neither works. I did as you suggested and tried F4 while the 1st stage was loading. It's like the keyboard is lost as soon as 1st stage begins to load. Oh, do you have an USB keyboard? Then it's normal - well, not normal, it's a kernel bug (destroying the bios PS2 keyboard compatibility), but it's a known feature :). The USB keyboard will be unresponsive until the usb drivers are loaded :(. What's strange, is that in expert mode, before the first dialog the usb drivers should be loaded, bringing your usb keyboard back to life. I don't understand why that's not the case, especially since in stage2 you have access to it, that means that we do have your usb adapter listed in our pci listings :/. I mentioned in my previous post that it was 512 ram at cas2. It was also set to 4-bank interleaving, ie, aggresive timings. I tried again with cas3, interleaving disabled, even tried underclocked to 30 mhz (pci) ...same deal ... hung on 'expert' loading second stage. Regular install option has no problems. What if you choose default bios settings? Default is cas3 with bank-interleaving disabled, so yes, I tried with bios defaults, tho the ram is fully capable of more aggressive timings. Has been so in several systems. If it's a recent machine - we're having trouble with acpi, did you try to boot with expert acpi=off? I tried 'expert acpi=off', 'expert acpi=off no apic', and 'expert acpi=off no apic mem=nopentium', all with the same result, the systems just sits doing nothing after the 2nd stage starts. BTW, after the system is booted normally, crtl-alt-F* does work. The system is almost two years old, ie, not recent. Sorry, I can't figure out more.. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
Re: [Cooker] Installation
On Monday February 17 2003 12:39 pm, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Oh, do you have an USB keyboard? Then it's normal - well, not normal, it's a kernel bug (destroying the bios PS2 keyboard compatibility), but it's a known feature :). No it's a standard USA ps2 keyboard Sorry, I can't figure out more.. Don't fret 'bout me :) Only reason I spoke up at all is cause a few others on this list reported the same situation. I sent beta3 CD's to 6 others, and they're not havin the stall with 'expert' 2nd stage problem. I just as soon do a recommended install anyhow ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
Re: [Cooker] Installation
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 -- |Registered Linux User #182071-| Buchan MilneMechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work+27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
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
On Sunday 16 February 2003 4:42 am, R. Dale Thomas wrote: *snip* Same 2Gig as the 9.0 installation was. Only 896M recognized, although. Forest.Gump=impersonation I might not be a smart man, but even I know that when ya dont have all yuh memory showin up, it might mean yuh done got some bad ones /Forest.Gump -- Chuck Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Cooker] Installation
On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Chuck Burns wrote: On Sunday 16 February 2003 4:42 am, R. Dale Thomas wrote: *snip* Same 2Gig as the 9.0 installation was. Only 896M recognized, although. Forest.Gump=impersonation I might not be a smart man, but even I know that when ya dont have all yuh memory showin up, it might mean yuh done got some bad ones /Forest.Gump Except maybe if it's in the region of just under 1GB, you may want to try the enterprise kernel first ... But I have never had so much ram to play with, most we have on a single box is 768, my cooker box has 128 :-( Buchan -- |Registered Linux User #182071-| Buchan MilneMechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work+27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
Re: [Cooker] Installation
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
On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 10:42, R. Dale Thomas wrote: 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. Memory's like any other mechanical thing ever...it works for a while, then breaks. Buchan was wondering if yours had broken. :). The standard kernel doesn't support over 1G of memory, you need to use the enterprise kernel. -- adamw
Re: [Cooker] Installation
On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 14:06, 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. The fact that it seems to happen to so many people suggests to me that at least some of them are experiencing Mandrake bugs, which makes discussing it legitimate on this list. -- adamw
Re: [Cooker] Installation
On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 09:56:45 -0500 et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heck _I_ am one of the biggest reasons the newbie list is such a gab-fest, I'll agree with that (-; Charles -- Love is being stupid together. -- Paul Valery - Mandrake Linux 9.1 Kernel- 2.4.21pre4-6mdk - msg92553/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [Cooker] Installation
On Sunday February 16 2003 08:43 am, Adam Williamson wrote: The fact that it seems to happen to so many people suggests to me that at least some of them are experiencing Mandrake bugs, which makes discussing it legitimate on this list. I've only tried installing from the last two betas (2 3). My ram, 512mb cas2, passes all memtest86, mprime, and cpuburn tests. On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, R. Dale Thomas wrote: 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? I have the same experience, ie, loading second stage hangs, both b2 and b3, but only if I press F1 and type 'expert'. If I just hit Enter and let it do a regular install it all proceeds with no hesitation or problems. I don't remember if I also tried 'expert text'. I didn't think to report it as a bug. I just assumed it was peculiar to my system since no else seemed to be complaining. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
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
Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sunday February 16 2003 08:43 am, Adam Williamson wrote: The fact that it seems to happen to so many people suggests to me that at least some of them are experiencing Mandrake bugs, which makes discussing it legitimate on this list. I've only tried installing from the last two betas (2 3). My ram, 512mb cas2, passes all memtest86, mprime, and cpuburn tests. On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, R. Dale Thomas wrote: 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? I have the same experience, ie, loading second stage hangs, both b2 and b3, but only if I press F1 and type 'expert'. If I just hit Enter and let it do a regular install it all proceeds with no hesitation or problems. I don't remember if I also tried 'expert text'. I didn't think to report it as a bug. I just assumed it was peculiar to my system since no else seemed to be complaining. What can you see on console #4? Any I/O error? -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
Re: [Cooker] Installation
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. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
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
Re: [Cooker] Installation
On Sunday February 16 2003 01:00 pm, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: I have the same experience, ie, loading second stage hangs, both b2 and b3, but only if I press F1 and type 'expert'. If I just hit Enter and let it do a regular install it all proceeds with no hesitation or problems. I don't remember if I also tried 'expert text'. I didn't think to report it as a bug. I just assumed it was peculiar to my system since no else seemed to be complaining. What can you see on console #4? Any I/O error? This probly won't help, sorry ;( I booted with the b3 1st CD and, F1, typed in 'expert'. it hung again. Altho the cursor is blinkin on the screen, the system will not respond to ctl-alt-F4, or anything else -F* for that matter (gave it 10 mins). I mentioned in my previous post that it was 512 ram at cas2. It was also set to 4-bank interleaving, ie, aggresive timings. I tried again with cas3, interleaving disabled, even tried underclocked to 30 mhz (pci) ...same deal ... hung on 'expert' loading second stage. Regular install option has no problems. FWIW, Soyo k7vta pro, 1.4 Tbird, sdram, kt133a-rev03 chipset. Ram is old but it's a quality Crucial Micron - Mosel Vitelic 8 7.5ns CL2 mix, runnin at IOv 3.4. Never been a problem or presented any test errors. The install CDr was in my Plextor 8-4-32t burner, a better reader than my old BCD CDrom. PSU is a Sparkle 300w, always rock steady spec+ voltages. IOW's, ram ain't the problem ; -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
[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
[Cooker] Installation beta 3 - Servers installed
I know this was brought up before as to if we really need this screen...and I am not sure that we do...but if we are going to keep it I have a suggestion: instead of listing them like cups, proftp, ..., etc I think it would be more useful to actually list them and give a brief description of what they are used for and what packages they selected to get them installed...something like: -- You are about to install the following servers and will be turned on by default Deselect the ones you do not want installed: (x) Cups: Printer stuff blah, blah, required for printing setup (x) ProFtp: Ftp server blah, blah, | Back || Next | or something along those lines. At the very least I think we should list them and describe what they are for and what packages use them. --Brad
Re: [Cooker] Installation beta 3 - Servers installed
On Sunday 02 February 2003 03:41 pm, Pixel scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: Brad Chamberlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: instead of listing them like cups, proftp, ..., etc I think it would be more useful to actually list them and give a brief description of what they are used for and what packages they selected to get them installed...something like: what you propose is alike services configuration. Isn't services configuration enough? I think he raise a valid point. At this jucture, you are being asked to make a decision without being told (to the newbie, at least) what you must make the dicision about. (What is proftp? cups? What do they do?) Is the discussion of the different servers and what they do available in the manual? If so, then perhaps just a reference to the manual, or even its inclusion as a Help item would suffice. If not, then this is an area that needs further examination from a usability standpoint. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com A -- Top posting. Q -- What's the most annoying habit in email and usenet?
Re: [Cooker] Installation beta 3 - Servers installed
Brad Chamberlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: instead of listing them like cups, proftp, ..., etc I think it would be more useful to actually list them and give a brief description of what they are used for and what packages they selected to get them installed...something like: what you propose is alike services configuration. Isn't services configuration enough?
[Cooker] Failed Cooker installation report
If any of this should be filed in Bugzilla, let me know. Also I ran 'bug' and have that floppy, if that's useful at all. 1) Font face in the active part of the installation program is pretty inconsistent. It's spotty and very faded in spots. 2) License Agreement, Refuse is selected by default o_O 3) The install program seems slower than before 4) On the package selection screen, after toggling to flat mode and hitting the Floppy button I noticed a few things. First the screen is a mess. It looks like the header part of the window is too short, there's some image in the top left that looks like it's being cut off, and the text up there is being overlapped with some text about insert a floppy. Actually it seems text is just kinda being written in random locations. The next button has a narrower and taller Install button overlayed on top of it. The Floppy button once pressed doesn't ask Load from or Save to, it immediatly pops up the box that says Updating Package Selection, then doesn't do anything (doesn't appear to access the floppy drive) and the GUI installation program is totally frozen. I can still go to the virtual consoles. End of story :o( __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
Re: [Cooker] Installation - swap partition now a requirement
Elliott Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I decided to do a clean install of 9.1b1 and have discovered that a swap partition is now a requirement even if you do an expert install. Could the installer be made to ignore the presence of a swap partition during an expert installation as it was before? fixed: in all installs, you now get You don't have a swap partition. Continue anyway?
[Cooker] Installation - swap partition now a requirement
Hello, I decided to do a clean install of 9.1b1 and have discovered that a swap partition is now a requirement even if you do an expert install. Could the installer be made to ignore the presence of a swap partition during an expert installation as it was before? I'd hate to have the installer push me off mandrake linux :P -Elliott
Re: [Cooker] Installation - swap partition now a requirement
Elliott Martin wrote: Hello, I decided to do a clean install of 9.1b1 and have discovered that a swap partition is now a requirement even if you do an expert install. Could the installer be made to ignore the presence of a swap partition during an expert installation as it was before? I'd hate to have the installer push me off mandrake linux :P -Elliott and with a journalised file system the swap partition is actually extremely useful, it helps avoid data loss when writing to hard drive. from my quick looks at other ditro's they all require a swap partition as well, no way around it with journalised file systems.
Re: [Cooker] Installation - swap partition now a requirement
On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 22:00, J. Greenlees wrote: Elliott Martin wrote: Hello, I decided to do a clean install of 9.1b1 and have discovered that a swap partition is now a requirement even if you do an expert install. Could the installer be made to ignore the presence of a swap partition during an expert installation as it was before? I'd hate to have the installer push me off mandrake linux :P -Elliott and with a journalised file system the swap partition is actually extremely useful, it helps avoid data loss when writing to hard drive. from my quick looks at other ditro's they all require a swap partition as well, no way around it with journalised file systems. odd. well with 1GB of Ram systems, I thought swap wasn't really needed. matter of fact, my system rarely touches swap with 1GB of ram...if it even has! Yea, don't think i've ever used swap on a 1GB ram system. Basically, I try to avoid using swap at all costs. I even hate how the kernel uses up the remaining about of ram on this laptop that has 512MB ram and uses it as cache. Having to end up using swap on a laptop is somewhat power consuming! -- Roger - Verify my pgp/gnupg signature on my homepage: http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html
Re: [Cooker] installation of 9.0 beta3 fails
Gabriel Zachmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At the setup file systems stage, I get the error message I can't read your partition table, it's too corrupted ...! can you give the output of fdisk -l /dev/hda ? and also cat /proc/partitions ?
