Re: [Cooker] Install Report of mdk91beta

2003-01-20 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
roger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 1) [When booting with the rescue cdrom] That @#$@#$ terminal beep on the
 rescue boot of the mdk91 cdrom is turned on!

Could you try to rephrase? I don't understand.

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Re: [Cooker] Install Report of mdk91beta

2003-01-20 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Guillaume Cottenceau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 roger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
  1) [When booting with the rescue cdrom] That @#$@#$ terminal beep on the
  rescue boot of the mdk91 cdrom is turned on!
 
 Could you try to rephrase? I don't understand.

After re-reading and re-reading I finally made the right grouping
of words in your sentence, hence understood the meaning :).

Is it a new bug/feature for you? I think it's always been the
same, and it's just the default terminal beep (visual bell, or
even nothing, being options).

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Re: [Cooker] Install Report 9.0 b 1 (via cooker)

2002-07-29 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau

David Walser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Please take the Reply-To: out of your e-mail client,
 it is screwing things up.

Talking about that, please CUT the unnecessary parts of the
messages you answer to.. thanks!


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Re: [Cooker] Install Report 9.0 b 1 (via cooker)

2002-07-29 Thread Vincent Meyer, MD

On Monday 29 July 2002 07:19 am, Pixel wrote:
 David Eastcott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
  1.  When booting from a floppy (nfs install), the Advanced screen (F2)
  has a spelling error:
 
  secutiry=n   should be   seceurity-n

 fixed
I thought is was 'security'  (no second 'e')

V.




Re: [Cooker] Install Report 9.0 b 1 (via cooker)

2002-07-29 Thread David Eastcott

On Monday 29 July 2002 10:52 pm, you wrote:
 On Monday 29 July 2002 07:19 am, Pixel wrote:
  David Eastcott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
   1.  When booting from a floppy (nfs install), the Advanced screen (F2)
   has a spelling error:
  
   secutiry=n   should be   seceurity-n
 
  fixed

 I thought is was 'security'  (no second 'e')

 V.

hehehe, I can't spell either, but pixel can and he updated already, see 
Drakx1.714.

dave




Re: [Cooker] Install Report 9.0 b 1 (via cooker)

2002-07-29 Thread Pixel

David Eastcott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 1.  When booting from a floppy (nfs install), the Advanced screen (F2) has a 
 spelling error:
 
 secutiry=n   should be   seceurity-n

fixed




Re: [Cooker] Install report

2002-07-28 Thread Danny Tholen

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  I never understood why both atd and anacron have to be started as service
  automatically. They are not used by any standard programs?

 Anacron is Mandrake's preferred cron replacement; atd is necessary for
 it to work properly. cron (and anacron) are scheduling programs which
 allow other programs to be run at regular intervals. You could live
 without them, but they're very handy tools and Mandrake does use them by
 default (to build your 'locate' database weekly, for example.)

I thought all of this was done by cron only. Why not just choose either cron or 
anacron?

Danny

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Re: [Cooker] Install report

2002-07-28 Thread Chuck Shirley

On Sunday 28 July 2002 06:04, Danny Tholen wrote:

I thought all of this was done by cron only. Why not just choose either 
cron or anacron?

Danny


anacron works by relative time, ie, the amount of system uptime that
has passed since the last time it did something, that way if some task
is scheduled to happen every 24 hours, but the machine only runs 16 hours
a day, anacron will run the job when 24 hours of uptime have accummulated
since the last time it ran the job.

cron works by absolute time.  If a job is scheduled for 0400 every Sunday, 
but the machine is never turned on at 0400 on Sunday, the job will never
be run because cron doesn't worry about jobs that got missed when the
system was down, it thinks only what it needs to do next.

So...  For many desktop machines, anacron is a better choice, while for
servers and other always-on systems, cron does just fine (of course
anacron would work just as well, IMHO, on such systems...)

At least, this is the way I understand the situation to be at this time.

-Chuck

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Re: [Cooker] Install Report 9.0 b 1 (via cooker)

2002-07-27 Thread David Eastcott

Even I can not spell correctly, a.

On Saturday 27 July 2002 10:53 am, David Eastcott wrote:
 Noticed a few things,

 1.  When booting from a floppy (nfs install), the Advanced screen (F2) has
 a spelling error:

 secutiry=n   should be   seceurity-n

should be security=n

Dave




Re: [Cooker] Install Report 9.0 b 1 (via cooker)

2002-07-27 Thread Jure Repinc

On Saturday 27 July 2002 18:53, David Eastcott wrote:
 4.  On the main diag log for Printer Installation:

 a) the text: ...available for Star Office/OpenOffice.org should may
 be?? have the .org removed??

As far as I know OpenOffice.org is the official name for the offcie suite
so .org must be here.

 b) Changing the lable on the 'Quit' button to Done or OK would be
 better, more conistent with other dialogs

I agree on this. Done sounds much better.

 8.  Within the first time wizard, Konqueror seems to segfaul (11) when
 I select the '...I already have an account/thanks'  button on the
 mandrake web page.

It also happened to me.

 9.  With KOffice Suite running, I got a segfaul 11 when I exit KOffice
 with any of the applications open.  Closing the application first, then
 exiting seems OK.

Seems to work fine here.

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Re: [Cooker] Install Report 9.0 b 1 (via cooker)

2002-07-27 Thread David Eastcott

On Saturday 27 July 2002 11:12 am, David Walser wrote:
 --- David Eastcott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
  6. When the option Clean tmp is selected in the
  Bootloader dialog, an fstab
  entry gets created which mounts the tmpfs as /tmp.
  Is there a reason for
  this?

 Why object to this?

First I was just trying to understand what the reason was for this change 
(8.1 did not, 8.2 does and now 9.0), perhaps there was/is a reason that this 
is a good thing to do.

I understand the benefits of a RAM based file system over some other mass 
storage device.  However, the problem I see occurs on small memory machines 
when a number of applications are loaded and the system is begining to use 
swap.  When main memory is consumed there is little room left for the tmpfs 
to locate more when an application (via KDE) needs more or I start another 
application.  End result is there is no more main memory for the tmpfs, the 
application crashes and the console produces a warning that /tmp is full.


   Why not just let the mandrake_everytime
  script do the clean up?  The
  reason I ask is that I have had a number of
  applications crash and complain
  about the /tmp partition being full.

 What's using /tmp?  Mandrake has switched it so
 everything uses $HOME/tmp now.

KDE on a fresh install is using about 625K on /tmp with only the desktop and 
a console active.  This of course changes as I activate more applications.


  7.  With the KDE desk top, the Tip of the Day popup
  seems to be twice as wide
  as the available display area.

 What resolution are you running, 800x600?  Sorry,
 that's just not gonna be sufficient.

Actually the display I am using is 1024x768.  Besides, KDE runs just fine on 
an 800x600 display.  Only the Tip of the Day does not adjust itself for the 
display size, all other applications I have tried so far seem to work OK.


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Re: [Cooker] Install Report 9.0 b 1 (via cooker)

2002-07-27 Thread David Walser

Please take the Reply-To: out of your e-mail client,
it is screwing things up.

--- David Eastcott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Saturday 27 July 2002 11:12 am, David Walser
 wrote:
  --- David Eastcott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 [...]
   6. When the option Clean tmp is selected in the
   Bootloader dialog, an fstab
   entry gets created which mounts the tmpfs as
 /tmp.
   Is there a reason for
   this?
 
  Why object to this?
 
 First I was just trying to understand what the
 reason was for this change 
 (8.1 did not, 8.2 does and now 9.0), perhaps there
 was/is a reason that this 
 is a good thing to do.
 
 I understand the benefits of a RAM based file system
 over some other mass 
 storage device.  However, the problem I see occurs
 on small memory machines 
 when a number of applications are loaded and the
 system is begining to use 
 swap.  When main memory is consumed there is little
 room left for the tmpfs 
 to locate more when an application (via KDE) needs
 more or I start another 
 application.  End result is there is no more main
 memory for the tmpfs, the 
 application crashes and the console produces a
 warning that /tmp is full.

Like I said, nothing should be writing there.

Why not just let the mandrake_everytime
   script do the clean up?  The
   reason I ask is that I have had a number of
   applications crash and complain
   about the /tmp partition being full.
 
  What's using /tmp?  Mandrake has switched it so
  everything uses $HOME/tmp now.
 
 KDE on a fresh install is using about 625K on /tmp
 with only the desktop and 
 a console active.  This of course changes as I
 activate more applications.

Then this needs to be fixed.  Anybody?

   7.  With the KDE desk top, the Tip of the Day
 popup
   seems to be twice as wide
   as the available display area.
 
  What resolution are you running, 800x600?  Sorry,
  that's just not gonna be sufficient.
 
 Actually the display I am using is 1024x768. 
 Besides, KDE runs just fine on 
 an 800x600 display.

Until you try to run some apps.

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Re: [Cooker] Install Report 9.0 b 1 (via cooker)

2002-07-27 Thread David Eastcott

On Saturday 27 July 2002 11:31 am, you wrote:
 David Eastcott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
  5.  Old whine - what are the chances of having the selected services
  dumped to the auto_inst.cfg file?

 i'll try to do it.

Thanks
Dave




Re: [Cooker] Install Report (07/19)

2002-07-23 Thread Nelson Bartley

On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 18:08, Pixel wrote:
 Nelson Bartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
 
 [...]
 
  It appears that a stray process is being created and used on lines 331
  and 33, of my_gtk.pm dealing with the setting of locales. With the line
  still present on 331, the installer continually fails in the alt-f1
  window, resulting in the whole installer essentially crashing.
 
 which language (aka locale) did you choose?
 
 [...]

English, or rather the default language that is selected when the window
pops up.


 
  Secondly, The test 
 
 what test are you talking about?

(typo) Secondly the Text...


  in the left menu appears to be writing behind the
  main window on the left in the installer. Words like keyboard are
  written as keybo and the rest is hidden.
 
 [...]
 
  The raw devices script is still failling, it needs to change position
  from S56 to atleast S99 or rather change Devfs from S99 to something
  above the raw devices start
 
 it should work now
 
 






RE: [Cooker] Install Report (07/18)

2002-07-19 Thread Borsenkow Andrej


 On 18 Jul 2002 19:15:46 +0200
 Pixel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 
   Strangely enough, Both dvd.conf exists as does the symlink
   /dev/dvd-hdc.
   wierd. (it has been doing this for several installs now.)
 
  hum, rawdevices service may be started to soon after devfsd is run?
 
 so it seems, my rc5.d has S56rawdevices and S99devfsd, reversing that
 order and one gets [ OK ] on rawdevices
 

I bet you do 

REGISTER hdc ...

I already said once it is questionable. /dev/hdc is compatibility link
managed by devfsd and it is NEVER registered. The reason it appears to
work is when S99devfsd HUPs devfsd it walks down /dev and _simulates_
REGISTER event for every node found. But you cannot rely on it. Actually
you cannot even rely on the /dev/hdc existence.

I guess devfssymlink should resolve compatibility names and put true
devfs names in configuration, like

REGISTER  ide/...

-andrej




Re: [Cooker] Install Report (07/18)

2002-07-19 Thread Pixel

Borsenkow Andrej [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I guess devfssymlink should resolve compatibility names and put true
 devfs names in configuration, like
 
 REGISTER  ide/...

yes, but this imply having the devfs name. This should not be real
hard, but this is not done currently.

i'll have a try as soon as i'm done with the XFdrake mess cleanup





Re: [Cooker] Install Report (07/18)

2002-07-18 Thread Franois Pons

Nelson Bartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Good Day,
 
 Quick install report:
 1) DrakX installer has become horibly SLOW. System is an XP1700+ w/
 Radeon 8500. Redraw of the progress buttons on the right can take upto
 10 seconds when nearing completion. Window redraw is equally slow.

On package selection, there is simplified code now which have been uploaded some
hours ago and may not be visible directly. This changes nothing outside package
selection.

 2) With a properly mirrored mandrake-devel tree from the rsync servers I
 still get errors installing contrib packages. Packages are not found
 according to the alt-f3 window.

This should have been fixed now (above upload).

François.




Re: [Cooker] Install Report (07/18)

2002-07-18 Thread Pixel

Nelson Bartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 1) DrakX installer has become horibly SLOW. System is an XP1700+ w/
 Radeon 8500. Redraw of the progress buttons on the right can take upto
 10 seconds when nearing completion. Window redraw is equally slow.

the package step should much faster with DrakX #1.702

other steps should not have been much impacted...

[...]

 3) /dev/dvd assining raw devices during startup is erroring, saying
 dev/dvd cannot be found. (DVD drive in system is a PIONEER)

weird.  can you check:

- wether /etc/devfs/conf.d/dvd.conf exists if using devfs, if /dev/dvd
exists otherwise

- grep 'configuring DVD' /root/drakx/ddebug.log
  ?




Re: [Cooker] Install Report (07/18)

2002-07-18 Thread Nelson Bartley

On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 11:49, Pixel wrote:
 Nelson Bartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
  1) DrakX installer has become horibly SLOW. System is an XP1700+ w/
  Radeon 8500. Redraw of the progress buttons on the right can take upto
  10 seconds when nearing completion. Window redraw is equally slow.
 
 the package step should much faster with DrakX #1.702
 
 other steps should not have been much impacted...
 
 [...]
I'll have to reinstall later this evening after an rsync to test.

 
  3) /dev/dvd assining raw devices during startup is erroring, saying
  dev/dvd cannot be found. (DVD drive in system is a PIONEER)
 
 weird.  can you check:
 
 - wether /etc/devfs/conf.d/dvd.conf exists if using devfs, if /dev/dvd
 exists otherwise
 
Strangely enough, Both dvd.conf exists as does the symlink
/dev/dvd-hdc. 
wierd. (it has been doing this for several installs now.)

 - grep 'configuring DVD' /root/drakx/ddebug.log
   ?
It brings up '* configuring DVD'

 
 






Re: [Cooker] Install Report (07/18)

2002-07-18 Thread Pixel

Nelson Bartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

   3) /dev/dvd assining raw devices during startup is erroring, saying
   dev/dvd cannot be found. (DVD drive in system is a PIONEER)
  
  weird.  can you check:
  
  - wether /etc/devfs/conf.d/dvd.conf exists if using devfs, if /dev/dvd
  exists otherwise
  
 Strangely enough, Both dvd.conf exists as does the symlink
 /dev/dvd-hdc. 
 wierd. (it has been doing this for several installs now.)

hum, rawdevices service may be started to soon after devfsd is run?




Re: [Cooker] Install Report (07/18)

2002-07-18 Thread rcc

On 18 Jul 2002 19:15:46 +0200
Pixel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


  Strangely enough, Both dvd.conf exists as does the symlink
  /dev/dvd-hdc. 
  wierd. (it has been doing this for several installs now.)
 
 hum, rawdevices service may be started to soon after devfsd is run?

so it seems, my rc5.d has S56rawdevices and S99devfsd, reversing that
order and one gets [ OK ] on rawdevices

- Mark 




Re: [Cooker] Install Report (07/18)

2002-07-18 Thread Ben Reser

On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 12:49:14PM -0400, Nelson Bartley wrote:
   3) /dev/dvd assining raw devices during startup is erroring, saying
   dev/dvd cannot be found. (DVD drive in system is a PIONEER)
  
  weird.  can you check:
  
  - wether /etc/devfs/conf.d/dvd.conf exists if using devfs, if /dev/dvd
  exists otherwise
  
 Strangely enough, Both dvd.conf exists as does the symlink
 /dev/dvd-hdc. 
 wierd. (it has been doing this for several installs now.)

A couple of my cooker installs are doing this but one of them went away
and I never got around to investigating...

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Re: [Cooker] install report

2002-07-12 Thread Pixel

Oden Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 My built in AC97 soundcard were not detected (Epox 8KHA+)

i added snd-via8233 to the list of sound card modules.
(I need to add a check that modules listed in pcitable/usbtable
appears in list_modules.pm, i'll do it soon)

thanks!




Re: [Cooker] install report

2002-07-12 Thread Ben Reser

On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 11:57:33AM +0200, Pixel wrote:
 Oden Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
  My built in AC97 soundcard were not detected (Epox 8KHA+)
 
 i added snd-via8233 to the list of sound card modules.
 (I need to add a check that modules listed in pcitable/usbtable
 appears in list_modules.pm, i'll do it soon)

FYI alias sound-slot-0 snd-via8233 (which is what the cooker installer
put in) works with my AC97 on my KT333 based board.  Note that the sound
volumes are always turned down with this card.  So you'll need to set
the mixer to restore your volume preferences.

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Re: [Cooker] install report

2002-07-12 Thread Oden Eriksson

On fredagen den 12 juli 2002 17.27 Ben Reser wrote:
 On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 11:57:33AM +0200, Pixel wrote:
  Oden Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
   My built in AC97 soundcard were not detected (Epox 8KHA+)
 
  i added snd-via8233 to the list of sound card modules.
  (I need to add a check that modules listed in pcitable/usbtable
  appears in list_modules.pm, i'll do it soon)

 FYI alias sound-slot-0 snd-via8233 (which is what the cooker installer
 put in) works with my AC97 on my KT333 based board.  Note that the sound
 volumes are always turned down with this card.  So you'll need to set
 the mixer to restore your volume preferences.

Thank you very much, that seems to do the trick!

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Re: [Cooker] install report 8.2b3 , the martian invasion

2002-03-06 Thread Vincent Danen

On Tue Mar 05, 2002 at 09:38:16AM +, richard bown wrote:

  I also only make reference to the newbies here because everyone else
  seems to want to continually point out that Mandrake is for newbies,
  so those who want to use Mandrake as an expert (I guess) are stuck
  with some newbiezed software configured in a newbiezed way.
  
  (not that I believe Mandrake is just for newbies at all)
 Nor do I,
 but, and there's always a but, if you compare mandrake to the other
 distros ,ie redhat, Suse, (no personal experiance of slackware and
 debian) at the moment the install is easier and less likely to fail.
 Redhat dos'nt always detect the users harwdware, and suse's is a pain in
 the butt to install, keep changing the cd's every few mins !.
 Mandrake is not usually the first OS a newbie will try, its often the've
 tried redhat, screwed up the install, cant get something to run and end
 up with mdk on recommendation.
 
 Its at this point if some developer keeps putting his/her personal
 whims and locks out the very facilites the new user wants, the new user
 is just liable to give up and go back to winblows.
 So everyone loses !
 
 less users , more attitude by the major s/w players that its not worth
 providing products for a OS that no-one uses,, WE ALL LOSE.
 If a developer wants to be a cyber-hermit, fine let them. It's their
 choice, but please don't ram it down the throats of everyone else by
 default.
 ie . rp_filters should not be turned on by default, only at the highest
 msec level, definatly not 2 or 3.

Hmmm... not sure where this all came from... =)  Let me just say that
I do agree with you... by no means was I suggesting that we should
make Mandrake harder to use or in any other way unattractive to
newbies.  My point was that Mandrake isn't *just* for newbies... if it
was, we could probably fit everything on CD (how many newbies are
going to learn emacs or vi, configure iplog, etc.)

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Re: [Cooker] install report 8.2b3 , the martian invasion

2002-03-06 Thread Vincent Danen

On Tue Mar 05, 2002 at 05:01:32AM -0800, David Walser wrote:

  Not to sound silly or anything, but apache is a web
  server... we build
  and configure it as web server.  Our aim, with
  apache, is for it to be
  a web server.  Now, I agree that there are probably
  a million and one
  uses for apache, but really... what you do with
  apache is your
  business, right?  Just because you, and some people
  you know, use
  apache this way doesn't mean everyone uses it this
  way.  I certainly
  never have.  If I want a file manager,
 
 File *SERVER*.  Did you even understand what I wrote? 
 Tell me, what is a better, more portable file server
 on a heterogenous network when you don't admin all of
 the other client machines you use?  Not NFS, not
 Samba, and don't even try FTP, now *THAT's* a security
 hole.  http is a (relatively) secure file transfer
 protocol.  And you don't know anyone that uses it that
 way?  Been to http://sunsite.uio.no/pub/ lately?

Hmmm... yes.  Ok, I understand what you're saying.

It still makes no difference to me.  And no, I haven't been to
http://sunsite.uio.no/pub/ lately... I tend to do my file transfers
via FTP or rsync.  I really dislike downloading files via HTTP.

Anyways, this is a relatively useless discussion because I certainly
am not going to change this behaviour in apache.  If Jean-Michel
thinks it is appropriate, he can make the change since he's the
maintainer, but I hope he doesn't.

You're entitled to your opinion... I'm entitled to mine.

Thanks for your feedback.

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Re: [Cooker] install report 8.2b3 , the martian invasion

2002-03-05 Thread richard bown

On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 05:50, Vincent Danen wrote:

 
 I also only make reference to the newbies here because everyone else
 seems to want to continually point out that Mandrake is for newbies,
 so those who want to use Mandrake as an expert (I guess) are stuck
 with some newbiezed software configured in a newbiezed way
 
 (not that I believe Mandrake is just for newbies at all)
Nor do I,
but, and there's always a but, if you compare mandrake to the other
distros ,ie redhat, Suse, (no personal experiance of slackware and
debian) at the moment the install is easier and less likely to fail
Redhat dos'nt always detect the users harwdware, and suse's is a pain in
the butt to install, keep changing the cd's every few mins !
Mandrake is not usually the first OS a newbie will try, its often the've
tried redhat, screwed up the install, cant get something to run and end
up with mdk on recommendation

Its at this point if some developer keeps putting his/her personal
whims and locks out the very facilites the new user wants, the new user
is just liable to give up and go back to winblows
So everyone loses !

less users , more attitude by the major s/w players that its not worth
providing products for a OS that no-one uses,, WE ALL LOSE
If a developer wants to be a cyber-hermit, fine let them It's their
choice, but please don't ram it down the throats of everyone else by
default
ie  rp_filters should not be turned on by default, only at the highest
msec level, definatly not 2 or 3
br richard






Re: [Cooker] install report 8.2b3 , the martian invasion

2002-03-05 Thread David Walser


--- Vincent Danen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Not to sound silly or anything, but apache is a web
 server... we build
 and configure it as web server.  Our aim, with
 apache, is for it to be
 a web server.  Now, I agree that there are probably
 a million and one
 uses for apache, but really... what you do with
 apache is your
 business, right?  Just because you, and some people
 you know, use
 apache this way doesn't mean everyone uses it this
 way.  I certainly
 never have.  If I want a file manager,

File *SERVER*.  Did you even understand what I wrote? 
Tell me, what is a better, more portable file server
on a heterogenous network when you don't admin all of
the other client machines you use?  Not NFS, not
Samba, and don't even try FTP, now *THAT's* a security
hole.  http is a (relatively) secure file transfer
protocol.  And you don't know anyone that uses it that
way?  Been to http://sunsite.uio.no/pub/ lately?

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Re: [Cooker] install report 8.2b3 , the martian invasion

2002-03-04 Thread Vincent Danen

On Sat Mar 02, 2002 at 10:55:55PM -0800, David Walser wrote:

 No, not for me it's not that hard to turn on, but I
 remember the first time I used Apache, RH 5.2 days. 
 All I had to do was install it, and it was fully
 functional, it was great!  I didn't know anything
 about web servers at the time, I didn't know it would
 be that easy (thought I would have to configure it and
 stuff, not that that'd be too bad, I was configuring
 samba by hand back then).  Now think about a total
 newbie.  They install Mandrake, and Apache, and it's
 not functional.  What to do?  You even have to find
 the options in commonhttpd.conf which isn't even a
 standard thing.  Sure it wasn't that *hard* for *me*
 to do, but it still took a while to figure it out.

What are you talking about?  Enabling Indexes by default somehow makes
Apache work whereas having it off by default doesn't?

Apache works just *fine* without Indexes.  And because it is,
potentially, a security hole (through inappropriate disclosure), the
end user should be forced to enable it where appropriate... which is
exactly the case.

This has absolutely nothing to do with whether apache works or not
out of the box.

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Re: [Cooker] install report 8.2b3 , the martian invasion

2002-03-04 Thread David Walser


--- Vincent Danen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 What are you talking about?  Enabling Indexes by
 default somehow makes
 Apache work whereas having it off by default
 doesn't?

Did it ever occur to you that people use Apache for
more than serving websites?  Especially desktop users
on networks, your primary userbase?  I haven't used
floppies in all of college, I just stick files in my
public_html directory and get them when I need them, I
also use my webserver to get files to people I talk to
on the 'net.  Everybody Apache user I know (that use
it on workstations) do the same things.

 Apache works just *fine* without Indexes.  And
 because it is,
 potentially, a security hole (through inappropriate
 disclosure), the
 end user should be forced to enable it where
 appropriate... which is
 exactly the case.

It is not a security hole, and it's a joke calling it
one.  If someone's gonna put files on a public
webserver that they don't want people to get to, they
should either have to disable Indexes themselves (I
mean geez, this is a very small percentage of Apache
users, why punish everybody else?) or use htaccess
(which there's much more documentation on).

 This has absolutely nothing to do with whether
 apache works or not
 out of the box.

It absolutely does depending on how you intend to use it.

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Re: [Cooker] install report 8.2b3 , the martian invasion

2002-03-04 Thread Levi Ramsey

On Mon Mar 04 15:50 -0700, Vincent Danen wrote:
 Apache works just *fine* without Indexes.  And because it is,
 potentially, a security hole (through inappropriate disclosure), the
 end user should be forced to enable it where appropriate... which is
 exactly the case.

Yes, but every case that I can think of where a security problem was
caused by Indexes was in reality a case of putting a sensitive file in a
web-accessible directory.  The indexing itself is not a problem, imo.

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Re: [Cooker] install report 8.2b3 , the martian invasion

2002-03-04 Thread Vincent Danen

On Mon Mar 04, 2002 at 10:08:08PM -0500, Levi Ramsey wrote:

  Apache works just *fine* without Indexes.  And because it is,
  potentially, a security hole (through inappropriate disclosure), the
  end user should be forced to enable it where appropriate... which is
  exactly the case.
 
 Yes, but every case that I can think of where a security problem was
 caused by Indexes was in reality a case of putting a sensitive file in a
 web-accessible directory.  The indexing itself is not a problem, imo.

You're right.  Think of it as security through obscurity.  Not much,
in terms of security, but it does add some extra protection, which can
be useful for newbies who don't really know what they're doing.

I also only make reference to the newbies here because everyone else
seems to want to continually point out that Mandrake is for newbies,
so those who want to use Mandrake as an expert (I guess) are stuck
with some newbiezed software configured in a newbiezed way.

(not that I believe Mandrake is just for newbies at all)

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Re: [Cooker] install report 8.2b3 , the martian invasion

2002-03-04 Thread Vincent Danen

On Mon Mar 04, 2002 at 06:44:06PM -0800, David Walser wrote:

  What are you talking about?  Enabling Indexes by
  default somehow makes
  Apache work whereas having it off by default
  doesn't?
 
 Did it ever occur to you that people use Apache for
 more than serving websites?  Especially desktop users
 on networks, your primary userbase?  I haven't used
 floppies in all of college, I just stick files in my
 public_html directory and get them when I need them, I
 also use my webserver to get files to people I talk to
 on the 'net.  Everybody Apache user I know (that use
 it on workstations) do the same things.

Not to sound silly or anything, but apache is a web server... we build
and configure it as web server.  Our aim, with apache, is for it to be
a web server.  Now, I agree that there are probably a million and one
uses for apache, but really... what you do with apache is your
business, right?  Just because you, and some people you know, use
apache this way doesn't mean everyone uses it this way.  I certainly
never have.  If I want a file manager, I'll use Nautilus, or
Konqueror, or any other tool that was designed for that task.  Since
apache is a web server, when we deal with configuration issues, we
think of it as a web server.  Thus, configuration options suitable for
a web server.

  Apache works just *fine* without Indexes.  And
  because it is,
  potentially, a security hole (through inappropriate
  disclosure), the
  end user should be forced to enable it where
  appropriate... which is
  exactly the case.
 
 It is not a security hole, and it's a joke calling it
 one.  If someone's gonna put files on a public
 webserver that they don't want people to get to, they
 should either have to disable Indexes themselves (I
 mean geez, this is a very small percentage of Apache
 users, why punish everybody else?) or use htaccess
 (which there's much more documentation on).

Well, ok, perhaps security hole is not an appropriate phrase.  Maybe
security concern would be a better way to put it.  However, as you
stated before, we're looking at newbies here...  newbies who may not
know about .htaccess.  In essence, we're helping protect the newbie
apache admin.  I don't think newbies will install the apache *web
server* to act as a file manager.. if they're going to look for a file
manager, I don't think they'll be as creative as you and will use a
tool intended to be a file manager.

As far as calling it punishing everyone else, that's just as
laughable as me calling it a security hole.  I hardly see this as
punishment considering you must be savvy enough to make the necessary
changes yourself.

I really think that there is probably a low percentage of people who
decide to take the apache web server and use it as the apache file
manager.

  This has absolutely nothing to do with whether
  apache works or not
  out of the box.
 
 It absolutely does depending on how you intend to use it.

Sure.  And we intend for apache to be used as a web server and, again,
we configure it as such.  If you don't like that, I suppose you could
contribute a apache-filemgr package.

Besides, this really is a moot point since it likely will not be
changing anytime soon.  I guess you'll just have to live with that.
Sorry.

While we can't control what you use a software package for, we can
certainly control how we package it.  And we've deviced, since a long
time ago, to package apache as a web server... if you choose to use it
somehow else, then you must deal with reconfiguring it to suit your
(nonstandard) needs.

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Re: [Cooker] install report 8.2b3 , the martian invasion

2002-03-04 Thread Steven J Mackenzie

 on the 'net.  Everybody Apache user I know (that use
 it on workstations) do the same things.

I agree that this will cause annoy more people than it will help .. imho

Steven





Re: [Cooker] install report 8.2b3 , the martian invasion

2002-03-02 Thread Garrick Staples

Um, 'chkconfig iptables off'?  rpm -e msec?

Or, disable firewalling in the control center (it's under security)?



On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 10:15:29PM +, richard bown alleged:
 Hi all
 I 've had to go back to 81
 Whatever you have done with security is a disaster
 
 Telneting in to the public interface, ie the one connected to the
 internet,,impossible
 no matter what, and rules are loaded to iptables, all thats eeen is
 martin errors in the syslog
 
 I use xinetd for port redirection to another machine behind the
 firewall
 
 this did exactly the samemartian errors, and heres the worst bit
 afetr running for 10 hrs , all attempts to send mail and receive mail
 got connection refused errors,
 smtp, pop3,imap all the same, checked with the isp, 1 hr on the phone
 not at their end loaded 81 and mail again QED
 
 I dont know who is responsibe for the mandrake security MSEC and
 whatever, I suspect gated is being used, but nothing showed on a ps ax
 
 Whoever should realise that not every one want a system which can only
 work one way
 I need to be able to telnet, ssh from anywhere in the world
 This is absolutely USELESS to me if I can only use it from home
 
 Xinetd redirection works well under 81, so does bastille-firewall
 the same config scripts were used on 82, so again where is the backawrd
 or even in this case forward compatability 
 
 Ok the 3d side is good, none of the problems with the later kernels
 on 81
 
 In its currrent state 82b3 is a TOY not a working system, and as for
 comments like add to hostsallow on the remote machineshould'nt
 need to, it was fully functional before 82b3
 
 
 you guys are so paranoid over security, this time you've gone far too
 far MSEC level 99 is not required
 I logged into a machine in the States, Seattle, and tried telneting
 to all the ports that are redirectedmartian errors
 
 tried port 22 ssh,,,martian errors
 it did manage to return a ping
 I also saw tcpdump being turned on and off with ipv4 errors
 
 If any one wants something on the networking side tested no problem
 If the ipip tunnels had'nt functioned, 82 would have been off in 1/2
 hr
 
 interfaces that are labelled as internal fuctioned, as did lo
 external interfaces would not function
 Flushing iptables had no effect
 system in use 
 700MHzduron , 512M ram 10GB hd, kernels 2417-19mdk  2418-2mdk
 
 In its current state 82 could not be released as it cant be used as a
 server
 shame it looked good on the install, apart from the freeze when trying a
 live update,
 
 If a table of bug levels I'd put this one on Egyptian level
 
 BR
 Richard
 
 
 




Re: [Cooker] install report 8.2b3 , the martian invasion

2002-03-02 Thread richard bown

On Sat, 2002-03-02 at 22:23, Garrick Staples wrote:
 Um, 'chkconfig iptables off'?  rpm -e msec?
 
 Or, disable firewalling in the control center (it's under security)?
 
 
No Garrick , I prefer to manually flush iptables, then just to make sure
bastill-netfilter stop
that opens it up like a barn door
all this martian rubbish was not on 81 which worked

regards richard
 
 On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 10:15:29PM +, richard bown alleged:
  Hi all
  I 've had to go back to 81
  Whatever you have done with security is a disaster
  
  Telneting in to the public interface, ie the one connected to the
  internet,,impossible
  no matter what, and rules are loaded to iptables, all thats eeen is
  martin errors in the syslog
  
  I use xinetd for port redirection to another machine behind the
  firewall
  
  this did exactly the samemartian errors, and heres the worst bit
  afetr running for 10 hrs , all attempts to send mail and receive mail
  got connection refused errors,
  smtp, pop3,imap all the same, checked with the isp, 1 hr on the phone
  not at their end loaded 81 and mail again QED
  
  I dont know who is responsibe for the mandrake security MSEC and
  whatever, I suspect gated is being used, but nothing showed on a ps ax
  
  Whoever should realise that not every one want a system which can only
  work one way
  I need to be able to telnet, ssh from anywhere in the world
  This is absolutely USELESS to me if I can only use it from home
  
  Xinetd redirection works well under 81, so does bastille-firewall
  the same config scripts were used on 82, so again where is the backawrd
  or even in this case forward compatability 
  
  Ok the 3d side is good, none of the problems with the later kernels
  on 81
  
  In its currrent state 82b3 is a TOY not a working system, and as for
  comments like add to hostsallow on the remote machineshould'nt
  need to, it was fully functional before 82b3
  
  
  you guys are so paranoid over security, this time you've gone far too
  far MSEC level 99 is not required
  I logged into a machine in the States, Seattle, and tried telneting
  to all the ports that are redirectedmartian errors
  
  tried port 22 ssh,,,martian errors
  it did manage to return a ping
  I also saw tcpdump being turned on and off with ipv4 errors
  
  If any one wants something on the networking side tested no problem
  If the ipip tunnels had'nt functioned, 82 would have been off in 1/2
  hr
  
  interfaces that are labelled as internal fuctioned, as did lo
  external interfaces would not function
  Flushing iptables had no effect
  system in use 
  700MHzduron , 512M ram 10GB hd, kernels 2417-19mdk  2418-2mdk
  
  In its current state 82 could not be released as it cant be used as a
  server
  shame it looked good on the install, apart from the freeze when trying a
  live update,
  
  If a table of bug levels I'd put this one on Egyptian level
  
  BR
  Richard
  
  
  
 






Re: [Cooker] install report 8.2b3 , the martian invasion

2002-03-02 Thread Garrick Staples

On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 10:51:30PM +, richard bown alleged:
 On Sat, 2002-03-02 at 22:23, Garrick Staples wrote:
  Um, 'chkconfig iptables off'?  rpm -e msec?
  
  Or, disable firewalling in the control center (it's under security)?
  
  
 No Garrick , I prefer to manually flush iptables, then just to make sure
 bastill-netfilter stop
 that opens it up like a barn door
 all this martian rubbish was not on 81 which worked
 
 regards richard
 
Did you change the policies after flushing the tables?  Or perhaps
editing the bastille config file and setting things the way you want?

As long as we're just debugging this beta OS humor me and just
disable the firewalling see if that does what you want  Then maybe
provide the list with your findings, suggest some changes, etc  But please
leave the rants at the door thx


  
  On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 10:15:29PM +, richard bown alleged:
   Hi all
   I 've had to go back to 81
   Whatever you have done with security is a disaster
   
   Telneting in to the public interface, ie the one connected to the
   internet,,impossible
   no matter what, and rules are loaded to iptables, all thats eeen is
   martin errors in the syslog
   
   I use xinetd for port redirection to another machine behind the
   firewall
   
   this did exactly the samemartian errors, and heres the worst bit
   afetr running for 10 hrs , all attempts to send mail and receive mail
   got connection refused errors,
   smtp, pop3,imap all the same, checked with the isp, 1 hr on the phone
   not at their end loaded 81 and mail again QED
   
   I dont know who is responsibe for the mandrake security MSEC and
   whatever, I suspect gated is being used, but nothing showed on a ps ax
   
   Whoever should realise that not every one want a system which can only
   work one way
   I need to be able to telnet, ssh from anywhere in the world
   This is absolutely USELESS to me if I can only use it from home
   
   Xinetd redirection works well under 81, so does bastille-firewall
   the same config scripts were used on 82, so again where is the backawrd
   or even in this case forward compatability 
   
   Ok the 3d side is good, none of the problems with the later kernels
   on 81
   
   In its currrent state 82b3 is a TOY not a working system, and as for
   comments like add to hostsallow on the remote machineshould'nt
   need to, it was fully functional before 82b3
   
   
   you guys are so paranoid over security, this time you've gone far too
   far MSEC level 99 is not required
   I logged into a machine in the States, Seattle, and tried telneting
   to all the ports that are redirectedmartian errors
   
   tried port 22 ssh,,,martian errors
   it did manage to return a ping
   I also saw tcpdump being turned on and off with ipv4 errors
   
   If any one wants something on the networking side tested no problem
   If the ipip tunnels had'nt functioned, 82 would have been off in 1/2
   hr
   
   interfaces that are labelled as internal fuctioned, as did lo
   external interfaces would not function
   Flushing iptables had no effect
   system in use 
   700MHzduron , 512M ram 10GB hd, kernels 2417-19mdk  2418-2mdk
   
   In its current state 82 could not be released as it cant be used as a
   server
   shame it looked good on the install, apart from the freeze when trying a
   live update,
   
   If a table of bug levels I'd put this one on Egyptian level
   
   BR
   Richard
   
   
   
  
 
 




Re: [Cooker] install report 8.2b3 , the martian invasion

2002-03-02 Thread richard bown

On Sat, 2002-03-02 at 23:04, Garrick Staples wrote:
 On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 10:51:30PM +, richard bown alleged:
  On Sat, 2002-03-02 at 22:23, Garrick Staples wrote:
   Um, 'chkconfig iptables off'?  rpm -e msec?
   
   Or, disable firewalling in the control center (it's under security)?
   
   
  No Garrick , I prefer to manually flush iptables, then just to make sure
  bastill-netfilter stop
  that opens it up like a barn door
  all this martian rubbish was not on 81 which worked
  
  regards richard
  
 Did you change the policies after flushing the tables?  Or perhaps
 editing the bastille config file and setting things the way you want?

No Garrick , setting bastille-netfilter to stop 
puts everthing to ACCEPT, which is verified by running iptables -L

I have already given details of what was done,they are there to be read,
as I said sorry its in english
What Icant get through on this list is that if something works well on
81 kernel 217-2mdk , with the same version of iptables as in the iso
images, it is reasonable to expect the same on the next version
It is not as if I 'd taken something from MDK 70 and tried it !

Xinetd redirection works well on 81, and NO problems with iptables
on accepting a connection on the port in question
with xinetd redirection not working on 82, PREROUTING dnat was tried
with iptables, with exactly the same effect
martian errors shown in syslog
what ever inteface is used to connect to the internet is locked out, and
produces the same martian errors when a connection , whether telnet or
SSH is attempted, outgoing connections are not effected,
both telnet client and server were taken back to previous versions

I've had to go back to MDK 81 due to a mail backlog as users were
unable to gain access when I tried 82


and again in case it has'nt been understood with the same versions of
iptables,and the same bastille and xinetd scripts

richard
 
 As long as we're just debugging this beta OS humor me and just
 disable the firewalling see if that does what you want  Then maybe
 provide the list with your findings, suggest some changes, etc  But please
 leave the rants at the door thx
 
 
   
   On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 10:15:29PM +, richard bown alleged:
Hi all
I 've had to go back to 81
Whatever you have done with security is a disaster

Telneting in to the public interface, ie the one connected to the
internet,,impossible
no matter what, and rules are loaded to iptables, all thats eeen is
martin errors in the syslog

I use xinetd for port redirection to another machine behind the
firewall

this did exactly the samemartian errors, and heres the worst bit
afetr running for 10 hrs , all attempts to send mail and receive mail
got connection refused errors,
smtp, pop3,imap all the same, checked with the isp, 1 hr on the phone
not at their end loaded 81 and mail again QED

I dont know who is responsibe for the mandrake security MSEC and
whatever, I suspect gated is being used, but nothing showed on a ps ax

Whoever should realise that not every one want a system which can only
work one way
I need to be able to telnet, ssh from anywhere in the world
This is absolutely USELESS to me if I can only use it from home

Xinetd redirection works well under 81, so does bastille-firewall
the same config scripts were used on 82, so again where is the backawrd
or even in this case forward compatability 

Ok the 3d side is good, none of the problems with the later kernels
on 81

In its currrent state 82b3 is a TOY not a working system, and as for
comments like add to hostsallow on the remote machineshould'nt
need to, it was fully functional before 82b3


you guys are so paranoid over security, this time you've gone far too
far MSEC level 99 is not required
I logged into a machine in the States, Seattle, and tried telneting
to all the ports that are redirectedmartian errors

tried port 22 ssh,,,martian errors
it did manage to return a ping
I also saw tcpdump being turned on and off with ipv4 errors

If any one wants something on the networking side tested no problem
If the ipip tunnels had'nt functioned, 82 would have been off in 1/2
hr

interfaces that are labelled as internal fuctioned, as did lo
external interfaces would not function
Flushing iptables had no effect
system in use 
700MHzduron , 512M ram 10GB hd, kernels 2417-19mdk  2418-2mdk

In its current state 82 could not be released as it cant be used as a
server
shame it looked good on the install, apart from the freeze when trying a
live update,

If a table of bug levels I'd put this one on Egyptian level

BR
Richard



   
  
  
 






RE: [Cooker] install report 8.2b3 , the martian invasion

2002-03-02 Thread David Gleba

Do you mean that you didn't dual boot so you have an instant way back?
Who goes Beta in production?
The inconvienence was delivered by yourself alone.


-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of richard bown
Sent: March 2, 2002 7:49 PM
To: cooker
Subject: Re: [Cooker] install report 8.2b3 , the martian invasion


On Sat, 2002-03-02 at 23:04, Garrick Staples wrote:
 On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 10:51:30PM +, richard bown alleged:
  On Sat, 2002-03-02 at 22:23, Garrick Staples wrote:
   Um, 'chkconfig iptables off'?  rpm -e msec?
  
   Or, disable firewalling in the control center (it's under security)?
  
  
  No Garrick , I prefer to manually flush iptables, then just to make sure
  bastill-netfilter stop
  that opens it up like a barn door.
  all this martian rubbish was not on 8.1 which worked
 
  regards richard

 Did you change the policies after flushing the tables?  Or perhaps
 editing the bastille config file and setting things the way you want?

No Garrick , setting bastille-netfilter to stop
puts everthing to ACCEPT, which is verified by running iptables -L

I have already given details of what was done,they are there to be read,
as I said sorry its in english.
What Icant get through on this list is that if something works well on
8.1 kernel 2.17-2mdk , with the same version of iptables as in the iso
images, it is reasonable to expect the same on the next version.
It is not as if I 'd taken something from MDK 7.0 and tried it !

Xinetd redirection works well on 8.1, and NO problems with iptables
on accepting a connection on the port in question.
with xinetd redirection not working on 8.2, PREROUTING dnat was tried
with iptables, with exactly the same effect.
martian errors shown in syslog.
what ever inteface is used to connect to the internet is locked out, and
produces the same martian errors when a connection , whether telnet or
SSH is attempted, outgoing connections are not effected,
both telnet client and server were taken back to previous versions

I've had to go back to MDK 8.1 due to a mail backlog as users were
unable to gain access when I tried 8.2.


and again in case it has'nt been understood with the same versions of
iptables,and the same bastille and xinetd scripts

richard

 As long as we're just debugging this beta OS... humor me and just
 disable the firewalling... see if that does what you want.  Then maybe
 provide the list with your findings, suggest some changes, etc.  But
please
 leave the rants at the door. thx.


  
   On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 10:15:29PM +, richard bown alleged:
Hi all
I 've had to go back to 8.1.
Whatever you have done with security is a disaster.
   
Telneting in to the public interface, ie the one connected to the
internet,,impossible
no matter what, and rules are loaded to iptables, all thats eeen is
martin errors in the syslog.
   
I use xinetd for port redirection to another machine behind the
firewall.
   
this did exactly the same...martian errors, and heres the worst bit
afetr running for 10 hrs , all attempts to send mail and receive
mail
got connection refused errors,
smtp, pop3,imap all the same, checked with the isp, 1 hr on the
phone.
not at their end. loaded 8.1 and mail again QED
   
I dont know who is responsibe for the mandrake security MSEC and
whatever, I suspect gated is being used, but nothing showed on a ps
ax
   
Whoever should realise that not every one want a system which can
only
work one way.
I need to be able to telnet, ssh from anywhere in the world.
This is absolutely USELESS to me if I can only use it from home.
   
Xinetd redirection works well under 8.1, so does bastille-firewall
the same config scripts were used on 8.2, so again where is the
backawrd
or even in this case forward compatability .
   
Ok the 3d side is good, none of the problems with the later kernels
on 8.1.
   
In its currrent state 8.2b3 is a TOY not a working system, and as
for
comments like add to hosts.allow on the remote machine...should'nt
need to, it was fully functional before 8.2b3
   
   
you guys are so paranoid over security, this time you've gone far
too
far MSEC level 99 is not required.
I logged into a machine in the States, Seattle, and tried telneting
to all the ports that are redirected...martian errors
   
tried port 22 ssh,,,martian errors
it did manage to return a ping.
I also saw tcpdump being turned on and off with ipv4 errors.
   
If any one wants something on the networking side tested no problem.
If the ipip tunnels had'nt functioned, 8.2 would have been off in
1/2
hr.
   
interfaces that are labelled as internal fuctioned, as did lo
external interfaces would not function.
Flushing iptables had no effect.
system in use
700MHzduron , 512M ram 10GB hd, kernels 2.4.17-19mdk  2.4.18-2mdk..
   
In its current

Re: [Cooker] install report 8.2b3 , the martian invasion

2002-03-02 Thread David Walser

I agree.  Having Indexes turned off by default in
Apache is a PAIN and is useful to almost nobody.

--- richard bown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
 you guys are so paranoid over security, this time
 you've gone far too
 far MSEC level 99 is not required.

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Re: [Cooker] install report 8.2b3 , the martian invasion

2002-03-02 Thread Ben Reser

On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 10:42:40PM -0800, David Walser wrote:
 I agree.  Having Indexes turned off by default in
 Apache is a PAIN and is useful to almost nobody.

I don't think so.  It's not that hard to turn on anyway.

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Re: [Cooker] install report 8.2b3 , the martian invasion

2002-03-02 Thread David Walser

No, not for me it's not that hard to turn on, but I
remember the first time I used Apache, RH 5.2 days. 
All I had to do was install it, and it was fully
functional, it was great!  I didn't know anything
about web servers at the time, I didn't know it would
be that easy (thought I would have to configure it and
stuff, not that that'd be too bad, I was configuring
samba by hand back then).  Now think about a total
newbie.  They install Mandrake, and Apache, and it's
not functional.  What to do?  You even have to find
the options in commonhttpd.conf which isn't even a
standard thing.  Sure it wasn't that *hard* for *me*
to do, but it still took a while to figure it out.

--- Ben Reser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 10:42:40PM -0800, David
 Walser wrote:
  I agree.  Having Indexes turned off by default in
  Apache is a PAIN and is useful to almost nobody.
 
 I don't think so.  It's not that hard to turn on
 anyway.
 
 -- 
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 orphans, and the homeless,
 whether the mad destruction is wrought under the
 name of totalitarianism
 or the holy name of liberty and democracy? - Ghandi
 

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Re: [Cooker] install report 8.2b3 , the martian invasion

2002-03-02 Thread Ben Reser

On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 10:55:55PM -0800, David Walser wrote:
 No, not for me it's not that hard to turn on, but I
 remember the first time I used Apache, RH 5.2 days. 
 All I had to do was install it, and it was fully
 functional, it was great!  I didn't know anything
 about web servers at the time, I didn't know it would
 be that easy (thought I would have to configure it and
 stuff, not that that'd be too bad, I was configuring
 samba by hand back then).  Now think about a total
 newbie.  They install Mandrake, and Apache, and it's
 not functional.  What to do?  You even have to find
 the options in commonhttpd.conf which isn't even a
 standard thing.  Sure it wasn't that *hard* for *me*
 to do, but it still took a while to figure it out.

You don't even have to touch commonhttpd.conf.

echo 'Options Indexes'  .htaccess

Or any of the several other places you can turn it on.

At any rate there is tons of documentation.  Simple searches of the web
would return information on how to do this.  Various mailing lists (such
as newbie@) could answer this.

However, I really don't think most people use this functionality on
average anyway.  Most people put up index files.  And those that don't
generally are more sophisticated users that know how to turn it on
anyway.

The real reason for disabling this is to help protect (but not completly
protect) the very newbies that you are trying to help.  Many people do
foolish things.  Like putting their .htpasswd files in webaccessible
locations or putting other files they wouldn't intend to have accessible
to the web.  With Indexes on globally by default these files are there
for anyone to browse.  Even if you give these files hard to guess names
they are advertised as available to view.

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Re: [Cooker] Install report

2002-02-21 Thread Stéphane Teletchéa

Le Mercredi 20 Février 2002 10:20, Stéphane Teletchéa a écrit :
 I installed the beta 2, and as the mouse was not properly detected (a
 PS/2). (the step was skipped)
 So at the end, it selected the mouse selection step, and got this message :
 'une erreur est survenue:
 setstep selectMouse
 install-gtk::__ANON__('Gtk::DrawingArea=HASH(0x9d017ac)',
 'Gtk::Gdk::Event=HASH(0xa171b5c)') called.

 So after install (again thanks for disk in lilo.conf), i tried to use mcc,
 and fot the mouse selection i got :
 Glib_CRITICAL**: file gmain.c : line 500 (g_source_remove): asertion
 'tag0' failed.

 Stef

 Missing : XmGrace (grace) package.

Still in beta3..
Stef




Re: [Cooker] INSTALL REPORT

2002-02-21 Thread Pixel

Stéphane Teletchéa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Warning : loading /tmp/vfat.o will taint the kernel : forced load
 Warning : loading /tmp/reiserfs.o will taint the kernel : forced load
 
 Furthermore, why does it complains about kernel tainting ? (what does that 
 mean ?)

it doesn't like using -f for insmod'ing modules




Re: [Cooker] Install report

2002-02-19 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau

Olivier Thauvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 3) There are always a problem with the KDE login, there are no backgroung the 
 kdm window are transparent. All people that have report this problem, include 
 me, have an ATI rage 128.

Any change in XFree configuration that could fix the problem?


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Re: [Cooker] Install report

2002-02-19 Thread Olivier Thauvin

Le Mardi 19 Février 2002 12:29, vous avez écrit :
 Olivier Thauvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
  3) There are always a problem with the KDE login, there are no backgroung
  the kdm window are transparent. All people that have report this problem,
  include me, have an ATI rage 128.

 Any change in XFree configuration that could fix the problem?

Yesterday, or I must say this morning, I retest the cooker install.

When I install the DRI module is activate and the Kde login have this problem.
When I comment the loadmodule DRI, the kde login work fine, but of course, 
games as tuxracer are very slow, very very slow, I can't playing.
If I uncomment this line, I can play, but login is not beautiful.

Play or Login ? The choice is hard...

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RE: [Cooker] Install report

2002-02-19 Thread Meir Faraj

I've seen this problem also and also have a ATI rage 128;-)

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Subject: Re: [Cooker] Install report


Olivier Thauvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 3) There are always a problem with the KDE login, there are no backgroung
the
 kdm window are transparent. All people that have report this problem,
include
 me, have an ATI rage 128.

Any change in XFree configuration that could fix the problem?


--
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Re: [Cooker] Install report

2002-02-19 Thread Guillaume Rousse

Ainsi parlait Guillaume Cottenceau :
[..]
 Francois, don't you think you should disable DRI for this card?
It is not *only* login, but also vt-switching, etc..., where only option left 
is Raising Skinny Elephant Is Utterly Boring :-)
So unless you manage to get an hypothetical working dri kernel patch, 
disabling is not an option there.
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Re: [Cooker] Install report

2002-02-19 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau

Olivier Thauvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Le Mardi 19 Février 2002 12:29, vous avez écrit :
  Olivier Thauvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
   3) There are always a problem with the KDE login, there are no backgroung
   the kdm window are transparent. All people that have report this problem,
   include me, have an ATI rage 128.
 
  Any change in XFree configuration that could fix the problem?
 
 Yesterday, or I must say this morning, I retest the cooker install.
 
 When I install the DRI module is activate and the Kde login have this problem.
 When I comment the loadmodule DRI, the kde login work fine, but of course, 
 games as tuxracer are very slow, very very slow, I can't playing.
 If I uncomment this line, I can play, but login is not beautiful.
 
 Play or Login ? The choice is hard...

Is the acceleration -that- fast? I think the best would be to
have an acceptable login screen, even if this card is not flagged
as 3d accelerated anymore...

Francois, don't you think you should disable DRI for this card?


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Re: [Cooker] Install report

2002-02-19 Thread Olivier Thauvin

Le Mardi 19 Février 2002 15:52, Guillaume Cottenceau a écrit :
 Olivier Thauvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
  Le Mardi 19 Février 2002 12:29, vous avez écrit :
   Olivier Thauvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
3) There are always a problem with the KDE login, there are no
backgroung the kdm window are transparent. All people that have
report this problem, include me, have an ATI rage 128.
  
 Is the acceleration -that- fast? I think the best would be to
 have an acceptable login screen, even if this card is not flagged
 as 3d accelerated anymore...

 Francois, don't you think you should disable DRI for this card?

Note, I have test to watch tv with and without dri, with I can use 
grabledisplay, without only the overlay mode can really use. I have not do a 
test with a player DVD but I think there are no change. Comment de DRI in 
XF86Config does not affect performance for other application that not need 
hardware acceleration. I think disable is the best way for the moment...

Before more investigation.
Thanks.

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Re: [Cooker] Install report

2002-02-19 Thread Charles A Edwards

On 19 Feb 2002 15:52:09 +0100
Guillaume Cottenceau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Olivier Thauvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
  Le Mardi 19 Février 2002 12:29, vous avez écrit :
   Olivier Thauvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
3) There are always a problem with the KDE login, there are no backgroung
the kdm window are transparent. All people that have report this problem,
include me, have an ATI rage 128.
  
   Any change in XFree configuration that could fix the problem?
  
  Yesterday, or I must say this morning, I retest the cooker install.
  
  When I install the DRI module is activate and the Kde login have this problem.
  When I comment the loadmodule DRI, the kde login work fine, but of course, 
  games as tuxracer are very slow, very very slow, I can't playing.
  If I uncomment this line, I can play, but login is not beautiful.
  
  Play or Login ? The choice is hard...
 
 Is the acceleration -that- fast? I think the best would be to
 have an acceptable login screen, even if this card is not flagged
 as 3d accelerated anymore...
 
 Francois, don't you think you should disable DRI for this card?
 
 

No

Do not disable dri.
Once past the login screen all video function are as correct and function properly.

As to the login screen by switching back and forth between Alt+F2
and Alt+F7 login display is built to the proper level.

Let me have a chance to play around some with the background being used
before anything drastic is done.



Charles




Re: [Cooker] Install report

2002-02-19 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau

Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 No
 
 Do not disable dri.
 Once past the login screen all video function are as correct and function properly.
 
 As to the login screen by switching back and forth between Alt+F2
 and Alt+F7 login display is built to the proper level.
 
 Let me have a chance to play around some with the background being used
 before anything drastic is done.

You can always set it up manually!


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Re: [Cooker] Install report

2002-02-19 Thread Olivier Thauvin

Le Mardi 19 Février 2002 17:20, Guillaume Cottenceau a écrit :
 Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
  No
 
  Do not disable dri.
  Once past the login screen all video function are as correct and function
  properly.
[...]
  Let me have a chance to play around some with the background being used
  before anything drastic is done.

 You can always set it up manually!

to Mandrake:
What do you choose ?
Some poeple who have an ati rage 128 can be afraid by this bug. I'm remember 
I have very bad performance just after the install of 8.1 and with 8.2 
cooker, it is only the first I can play with this games. Waiting next other 
distrib for playing is not a problem for me if I know the solution.
But I think it is a good idea to inform public how to activate DRI and why it 
is not do by default

It is only my point of view. I'll see what do you do in the next cooker !

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Re: [Cooker] Install report

2002-02-19 Thread Charles A Edwards

On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 18:27:33 +0100
Olivier Thauvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Le Mardi 19 Février 2002 17:20, Guillaume Cottenceau a écrit :
  Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
   No
  
   Do not disable dri.
   Once past the login screen all video function are as correct and function
   properly.
 [...]
   Let me have a chance to play around some with the background being used
   before anything drastic is done.
 
  You can always set it up manually!
 
 to Mandrake:
 What do you choose ?
 Some poeple who have an ati rage 128 can be afraid by this bug. I'm remember 
 I have very bad performance just after the install of 8.1 and with 8.2 
 cooker, it is only the first I can play with this games. Waiting next other 
 distrib for playing is not a problem for me if I know the solution.
 But I think it is a good idea to inform public how to activate DRI and why it 
 is not do by default
 
 It is only my point of view. I'll see what do you do in the next cooker !
 

I played around with it a little more.

The distorted background happens Only if you are using kdm.
It Does Not happen if you are using gdm.
Repeat..it Does not happen if you use gdm.

To me this says that the problem Is Not dri with the r128 but with kdm.

I have a feeling that even if dri is disabled the kdm login screen as
current still will not display properly with the r128.



Charles 




Re: [Cooker] Install report

2002-02-19 Thread SI Reasoning


--- Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 18:27:33 +0100
 Olivier Thauvin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
 
  Le Mardi 19 Février 2002 17:20, Guillaume
 Cottenceau a écrit :
   Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 writes:
No
   
Do not disable dri.
Once past the login screen all video function
 are as correct and function
properly.
  [...]
Let me have a chance to play around some with
 the background being used
before anything drastic is done.
  
   You can always set it up manually!
  
  to Mandrake:
  What do you choose ?
  Some poeple who have an ati rage 128 can be afraid
 by this bug. I'm remember 
  I have very bad performance just after the install
 of 8.1 and with 8.2 
  cooker, it is only the first I can play with this
 games. Waiting next other 
  distrib for playing is not a problem for me if I
 know the solution.
  But I think it is a good idea to inform public how
 to activate DRI and why it 
  is not do by default
  
  It is only my point of view. I'll see what do you
 do in the next cooker !
  
 
 I played around with it a little more.
 
 The distorted background happens Only if you are
 using kdm.
 It Does Not happen if you are using gdm.
 Repeat..it Does not happen if you use gdm.
 
 To me this says that the problem Is Not dri with the
 r128 but with kdm.
 
 I have a feeling that even if dri is disabled the
 kdm login screen as
 current still will not display properly with the
 r128.
 
kdm does display properly without dri. But the problem
can be seen eslewhere. If you have more than 1 X
display running (:0 and :1) which can be accessed by
Ctrl + Alt + F7 (:0) and Ctrl + Alt + F8 (:1) you will
notice that there is no problem going to :0 but that
everything is screwy when go to :1. TO get it to work
right you will need to Ctrl + Alt + F9 (or F1-F6, etc)
to get a terminal, then back to Ctrl + Alt + F8 to see
it properly. As far as the kdm problem, going back and
forth between :0 and console will eventually get it to
look properly also.


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Re: [Cooker] Install report

2002-02-19 Thread RA

On Tuesday, 19. February 2002 19:48, you wrote:
 On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 18:27:33 +0100

 Olivier Thauvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Le Mardi 19 Février 2002 17:20, Guillaume Cottenceau a écrit :
   Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
No
   
Do not disable dri.
Once past the login screen all video function are as correct and
function properly.
 
  [...]
 
Let me have a chance to play around some with the background being
used before anything drastic is done.
  
   You can always set it up manually!
 
  to Mandrake:
  What do you choose ?
  Some poeple who have an ati rage 128 can be afraid by this bug. I'm
  remember I have very bad performance just after the install of 8.1 and
  with 8.2 cooker, it is only the first I can play with this games. Waiting
  next other distrib for playing is not a problem for me if I know the
  solution. But I think it is a good idea to inform public how to activate
  DRI and why it is not do by default
 
  It is only my point of view. I'll see what do you do in the next cooker !

 I played around with it a little more.

 The distorted background happens Only if you are using kdm.
 It Does Not happen if you are using gdm.
 Repeat..it Does not happen if you use gdm.

 To me this says that the problem Is Not dri with the r128 but with kdm.

 I have a feeling that even if dri is disabled the kdm login screen as
 current still will not display properly with the r128.



 Charles

For me kdm displays properly if I disable glx/dri.
And I have stability issues with enabled glx/dri, X freezes sometimes, 
probably when the load is somewhat higher (can't reproduce).

I hope that the r128 issues will be fixed before release. Otherwise Mdk 
should disable glx/dri. If so, it would be nice, if users could find a note.





Re: [Cooker] Install report

2002-02-19 Thread Charles A Edwards

On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 20:29:25 +0100
RA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Tuesday, 19. February 2002 19:48, you wrote:
  On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 18:27:33 +0100
 
  Olivier Thauvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   Le Mardi 19 Février 2002 17:20, Guillaume Cottenceau a écrit :
Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 No

 Do not disable dri.
 Once past the login screen all video function are as correct and
 function properly.
  
   [...]
  
 Let me have a chance to play around some with the background being
 used before anything drastic is done.
   
You can always set it up manually!
  
   to Mandrake:
   What do you choose ?
   Some poeple who have an ati rage 128 can be afraid by this bug. I'm
   remember I have very bad performance just after the install of 8.1 and
   with 8.2 cooker, it is only the first I can play with this games. Waiting
   next other distrib for playing is not a problem for me if I know the
   solution. But I think it is a good idea to inform public how to activate
   DRI and why it is not do by default
  
   It is only my point of view. I'll see what do you do in the next cooker !
 
  I played around with it a little more.
 
  The distorted background happens Only if you are using kdm.
  It Does Not happen if you are using gdm.
  Repeat..it Does not happen if you use gdm.
 
  To me this says that the problem Is Not dri with the r128 but with kdm.
 
  I have a feeling that even if dri is disabled the kdm login screen as
  current still will not display properly with the r128.
 
 
 
  Charles
 
 For me kdm displays properly if I disable glx/dri.
 And I have stability issues with enabled glx/dri, X freezes sometimes, 
 probably when the load is somewhat higher (can't reproduce).
 
 I hope that the r128 issues will be fixed before release. Otherwise Mdk 
 should disable glx/dri. If so, it would be nice, if users could find a note.
 

With the -16 kernel my system did nothing but freeze, so often and badly in fact that 
I pulled the r128 card and stuck in a ViperII (S3 Savage).

I put the r128 back in after installing the -18 kernel.
Using glx and dri, other than the kdm login screen, I have had no problem.
No freezes no crashes and all 3d apps run well and since using gdm no login screen 
problem.

It may be worth noting again that I am running the r128 on the -18 kernel Without fb.


Charles

 




Re: [Cooker] Install report

2002-02-19 Thread Charles A Edwards

On 19 Feb 2002 15:52:09 +0100
Guillaume Cottenceau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Olivier Thauvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
  Le Mardi 19 Février 2002 12:29, vous avez écrit :
   Olivier Thauvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
3) There are always a problem with the KDE login, there are no backgroung
the kdm window are transparent. All people that have report this problem,
include me, have an ATI rage 128.
  
   Any change in XFree configuration that could fix the problem?
  
  Yesterday, or I must say this morning, I retest the cooker install.
  
  When I install the DRI module is activate and the Kde login have this problem.
  When I comment the loadmodule DRI, the kde login work fine, but of course, 
  games as tuxracer are very slow, very very slow, I can't playing.
  If I uncomment this line, I can play, but login is not beautiful.
  
  Play or Login ? The choice is hard...
 
 Is the acceleration -that- fast? I think the best would be to
 have an acceptable login screen, even if this card is not flagged
 as 3d accelerated anymore...
 
 Francois, don't you think you should disable DRI for this card?
 

Rather than a straight disable could it not be set as was the Radeon
in 7.2 and 8.0 were the default is to install  plain 4.20 but you have 
the option, with suitable warnings, to install 4.20 With dri.


Charles




Re: [Cooker] Install report

2002-02-19 Thread Olivier Thauvin

Well, I don't want a war about this.

At time all poeple know the problem, you and me has write our point of view.
Mandrake can choose... 


Le Mardi 19 Février 2002 19:48, Charles A Edwards a écrit :
 On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 18:27:33 +0100

 Olivier Thauvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Le Mardi 19 Février 2002 17:20, Guillaume Cottenceau a écrit :
   Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
No
   
Do not disable dri.
Once past the login screen all video function are as correct and
function properly.
 
  [...]
 
Let me have a chance to play around some with the background being
used before anything drastic is done.
  
   You can always set it up manually!
 
  to Mandrake:
  What do you choose ?
  Some poeple who have an ati rage 128 can be afraid by this bug. I'm
  remember I have very bad performance just after the install of 8.1 and
  with 8.2 cooker, it is only the first I can play with this games. Waiting
  next other distrib for playing is not a problem for me if I know the
  solution. But I think it is a good idea to inform public how to activate
  DRI and why it is not do by default
 
  It is only my point of view. I'll see what do you do in the next cooker !

 I played around with it a little more.

 The distorted background happens Only if you are using kdm.
 It Does Not happen if you are using gdm.
 Repeat..it Does not happen if you use gdm.

 To me this says that the problem Is Not dri with the r128 but with kdm.

 I have a feeling that even if dri is disabled the kdm login screen as
 current still will not display properly with the r128.



 Charles

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Re: [Cooker] Install report

2002-02-19 Thread Charles A Edwards

On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 22:43:51 +0100
Olivier Thauvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Well, I don't want a war about this.
 
 At time all poeple know the problem, you and me has write our point of view.
 Mandrake can choose... 
 

Definitely no war.
Me coward.

Seriously I just wanted to have the choice and not have it done for me.

Besides it appears that the point may now be mote.
XFree86-4.20-6 with th ati2 driver is running perfectly on my r128 system, kdm login 
screen and all.


Charles






RE: [Cooker] install report bugs: 31.1

2002-02-01 Thread Borsenkow Andrej

 3.KDE:
 The first time I installed kde 2.2.2  3.0
 When logging in with default windowmanager selected i log into kde3
and
 not
 kde2.2.2. The two are not able to co-exist happily (as has been
reported on
 this list) probably because they use the same directory to store their
 config
 files. Also i can't log into kde 2.2.2, even when selecting KDE
before
 login, i always login to kde3.
 

/etc/X11/wmsession.d/11KDE

rename `KDE 3' into KDE3 (without blank). Gc you said it was useful? :-)
Chmouel it look like your patch for chksession either never made its way
into CVS or did not fix the problem. I have not tried it because I
already was happy without blank :(

 
 5. Hardware configuration:
 With my soundcard (Yamaha YMF-724) there is no out-of-the-box sound.
In
 sound
 mixer (KDE) the Asahi Kasei AK4540 mixer has following default
settings
 that need to be changed to get audio. It would be nice if these were
set up
 correctly:
 
 PCM device is muted and volume set to 0
 Master device is muted and volume set to 0
 Wave Playback Volume device (4th from the left) has volume set to  0


FWIW it seems to be default in ALSA (do you use ALSA?). Ask them why
they do it.

-andrej




Re: [Cooker] install report bugs: 31.1

2002-02-01 Thread Sascha Noyes

On Friday 01 February 2002 12:32 pm, you wrote:
 Sascha Noyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 [...]

  1. Diskdrake (during install):
  if you choose (in options) to have an encrypted filesystem, it asks for
  a password that must be at least 20 (!!) characters long. Sure this makes
  it very secure, but 20 is somewhat over the top - non?

 yes, losetup needs patching...

  2. Diskdrake (during install):
  This one i could reproduce - I tried because it seemed a somewhat strange
  bug.
 
  Conditions:
  Two harddrives (hda  hdd).
  Convert one of the partitions ( /mnt/haha - ext2 - hda5 ) to encrypted
  mode. / and /home partitions on hdd.
  click Done
  Format / and /home on hdd
 
  Error message (during formatting):
  fsck failed with exitcode 8 or signal 0

 the log you gave doesn't show wether the partition is formatted or not. Can
 you give more?

OK, here's the entire log from the step doPartitionDisks onward:

starting step 'doPartitionDisks'
warning: bad magic number at /usr/bin/perl-install/partition_table_empty.pm 
line 31
found a dos partition table on /dev/hda at sector 0
warning: bad magic number at /usr/bin/perl-install/partition_table_empty.pm 
line 31
found a dos partition table on /dev/hdd at sector 0
test_for_bad_drives (/dev/hda)
test_for_bad_drives (/dev/hdd)
missing module floppy
step 'doPartitionDisks' finished
swapon called with hdd5
swapon called with hda7
mounting hdd1 on /mnt/ as type ext2, options
running fsck.ext2 -a /dev/hdd1
fsck corrected partition /dev/hdd1
calling mount(/dev/hdd1, /mnt, ext2, -1058209792, )
running: /usr/bin/insmod_2 /dev/tty5 -f /tmp/loop.o
calling losetup -p 0 -e AES128 /dev/loop0 /dev/hda5
mounting /dev/loop0 on /mnt/mnt/haha as type ext2, options encrypted, 
encryption=AES128
running fsck.ext2 -a /dev/loop0
warning: fsck failed with exitcode 8 or signal 0 at 
/usr/bin/perl-install/fs.pm line 620



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Re: [Cooker] install report bugs: 31.1

2002-02-01 Thread Sascha Noyes

On Friday 01 February 2002 02:35 pm, you wrote:
 Sascha Noyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
   the log you gave doesn't show wether the partition is formatted or not.
   Can you give more?
 
  OK, here's the entire log from the step doPartitionDisks onward:
  [...]

 so the pb is that it doesn't get formatted. Are you sure you asked to
 format /mnt/haha? (and / isn't formatted either)

You're right! Perhaps you could configure diskdrake so it automagically 
selects a parition for formatting which was changed to encrypted mode - to 
catch stupid people like me. - Thanks

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Re: [Cooker] install report bugs: 31.1

2002-02-01 Thread Pixel

Sascha Noyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

[...]

 1. Diskdrake (during install):
 if you choose (in options) to have an encrypted filesystem, it asks for a 
 password that must be at least 20 (!!) characters long. Sure this makes it 
 very secure, but 20 is somewhat over the top - non?

yes, losetup needs patching... 

 
 
 2. Diskdrake (during install):
 This one i could reproduce - I tried because it seemed a somewhat strange bug.
 
 Conditions: 
 Two harddrives (hda  hdd).
 Convert one of the partitions ( /mnt/haha - ext2 - hda5 ) to encrypted mode.
 / and /home partitions on hdd.
 click Done
 Format / and /home on hdd
 
 Error message (during formatting):
 fsck failed with exitcode 8 or signal 0

the log you gave doesn't show wether the partition is formatted or not. Can
you give more?




Re: [Cooker] install report bugs: 31.1

2002-02-01 Thread Pixel

Sascha Noyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

  the log you gave doesn't show wether the partition is formatted or not. Can
  you give more?
 
 OK, here's the entire log from the step doPartitionDisks onward:
 [...]

so the pb is that it doesn't get formatted. Are you sure you asked to format
/mnt/haha? (and / isn't formatted either)





Re: [Cooker] install report bugs: 31.1

2002-02-01 Thread Warren Doney



Borsenkow Andrej wrote:

[...]
  PCM device is muted and volume set to 0
  Master device is muted and volume set to 0
  Wave Playback Volume device (4th from the left) has volume set to  0
 
 
 FWIW it seems to be default in ALSA (do you use ALSA?). Ask them why
 they do it.
 

IIRC I read somwhere it was changed from being on (by Mandrake) because 
people complained (sound was muted by default when I tried ALSA 
seprately some time ago).
Which leads to many newbies thinking sound is broken =]. 
If sound can be turned on, IMHO those people who want it turned off
know where the mixer can be found, but no sound is confusing for a
newbie.
A mixer icon by default on the taskbar would be a Good Thing.





Re: [Cooker] Install Report DrakX 1.625

2002-01-21 Thread Pixel

David Eastcott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 7.  Noticed that the extra groups problem with msec-/etc/group is fixed 
 (along with a couple others).  Thanks.  However, I noticed that the users are 
 no longer automatically added to the various groups.  Is this intentional? 

nope. This is a know pb with new msec. This will be be fixed ASAP.





Re: [Cooker] Install Report DrakX 1.625

2002-01-21 Thread Pixel

David Eastcott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 1.  Tried the latest and I am still getting X crashing.  Seems that the 
 contents of the directory Mandrake/mdkinst/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts is 
 missing. Copied a set of files from the directory of the 8.1 install and now 
 the GUI comes up ok.

bad mirroring. Will be fixed

 
 3.  Getting a continuous stream of GTK Warning messages about locales on 
 F1 console. 
 
 4.  See perl warning messages about locale as packages are being installed; 
 on the F1 console.  I thought that these were presented on the F3 display?  

those errors go to stderr and are only on F1.

[...]

 2.  F2 Help screen (stage1) has security spelt wrong.
[...]
 5.  No mention of the Update packages button on the Help screen for 
 Installation Class.

patch on
http://www.mandrakelinux.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/doc/manual/literal/drakx/en/drakx-help.xml
welcome




Re: [Cooker] Install Report DrakX 1.625

2002-01-21 Thread andre

Op ma 21-01-2002, om 11:02 schreef Pixel:
 David Eastcott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
  7.  Noticed that the extra groups problem with msec-/etc/group is fixed 
  (along with a couple others).  Thanks.  However, I noticed that the users are 
  no longer automatically added to the various groups.  Is this intentional? 
 
 nope. This is a know pb with new msec. This will be be fixed ASAP.
 
could those groups be given uid's around say 990 and not smack in the
middle of breathing users.




Re: [Cooker] Install report with sound pb

2001-12-11 Thread Peter Ruskin

On Tuesday 11 Dec 2001 12:52, guran wrote:
 Hi

 VERSION:  (rsync ftp.sunet.se)
 Mandrake Linux Cooker-i586 20011210 17:50
 /ChangeLog/1.607/Wed Dec  5 23:11:39 2001//

 Earlier pbs repeted i.e. kdebase, ext3=ext2.

 OBS! When installer finds a NVIDIA card, it should ask the user if he
  ^^^
Pardon me for asking, but what does OBS mean?

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Re: [Cooker] Install report with sound pb

2001-12-11 Thread guran

On Tuesday 11 December 2001 11:29 pm, Peter Ruskin wrote:

  OBS! When installer finds a NVIDIA card, it should ask the user if he

   ^^^
 Pardon me for asking, but what does OBS mean?

Sorry - I did it again, it is a swedish abreviation for the latin 
'observandum', something like a PM within a PM.

regards
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Re: [Cooker] Install Report: Mandrake Linux Cooker-i586 20010902 3:29

2001-09-02 Thread Pixel

Gary Chisholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 My cooker install issues:
 
 On a reiserfs only filesystem initrd.img was not created and network card not 
detected on network install - Ethernet controller: Standard Microsystems Corp [SMC] 
83C170QF during DrakX

more info needed (eg: /root/report.bug)