Re: [expert] perl modules as RPMs

1999-10-30 Thread Vincent Danen 

On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Denis Havlik wrote:

> :~>Is there a place one can get perl modules as RPMs for Mandrake?  A buddy
> :~>of mine sent me some for RedHat but they're a little dated...  I just
> :~>successfully made a new RPM for one of the newer modules I need to install
> :~>a forum thingy on my website, but I was wondering if there was a place for
> :~>Mandrake RPMs for perl modules?  Does anyone know?  If not, I may make a
> :~>bit of a project for myself...
> 
> I am using those from the rh - powertools/CPAN (second section).
> Everything seems to work OK. If you really need the newest and greatest, I
> am afraid you will have to go to cpan and do it yourself for most of the
> things.

That's what I was afraid of... does Mandrake have the equivalent in it's
powerpack?  Or is RedHat's powertools the only source for perl module 
RPMs?

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[expert] Netscape 4.7 Java freezes!

1999-10-30 Thread Benjamin Sher 

Dear friends:

I am using Mandrake 6.1 and the brand-new Oct. 29, 1999 Netscape 4.7
(all
three files) from ftp.rpmfind.net (linux/Mandrake/update/6.1).
Everything is fine, but I am having problem with the Java. On certain
sites, it starts (Java starting), then the progress bar on the left
freezes. Otherwise, Netscape works fine.

Anyone else have this problem? If so, any solution other than the
obvious one of disabling Java in Edit, Preferences, Advanced.

Thank you so much.

Benjamin
-- 
Benjamin and Anna Sher
Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sher's Russian Web
http://www.websher.net

Re: [expert] Printer problems with L-M6.1 lpr-0.43

1999-10-30 Thread Larry Sword 

V Pascal Nelson wrote:

> I am experiencing horrible (it's Halloween!) problems with my L-M 6.1. I
> have been reading the threads on printing problems. I, too, am having
> problems.
>
> I am trying to print to an Epson Stylus Color 740 on a Win98 computer
> using SMB. It has been working for months with R-H 5.2 and L-M 6.0.
> However, when I upgraded to L-M 6.1 it quit working. I did upgrade my
> lpr to lpr-0.43-1mdk. I read that that might be a problem, so I
> downgraded to lpr-0.38 (the one on the L-M6.1 CD). Didn't fix the
> problem.
>
> Here is what is happening: I have my Epson SC740 set up for 3 different
> resolutions (360/720/1440) running on lp/lp0/lp1 respectively. I usually
> use the 720 resolution on lp0. However, I can no longer print to lp0. If
> I use printtool to remove lp0, then remove the queues (rm -Rf
> /var/spool/lpd/lp0), then reinstall lp0 using printtool, I can print to
> lp0 ONCE, then all subsequent attempts fail. If I look at it with
> printqueue, I see a message that says "Warning: no daemon present".
> However, I can run "lpd status" and see that lpd is indeed running.
>
> I tried the same sequence of events with lp1. Same problem. Only lp
> works. I then changed the filter associated with lp so that it would be
> the 720 one rather than the 360 one. That works fine. It's not a problem
> with the filter. It is with lp0 or lp1.
>
> Does this make any sense to anyone? Any help that can be offered would
> be much appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Pascal

This is the same set-up I run.

Can you post a copy of your /etc/printcap file.
What version of ghostscript do you have?
What version of rhs-printfilters and printool?
Do you have  a 'status' and  'lock' in your /var/spool/lpd , lp, lp0 lp1?
What message if any show in you messages file when you experience printer
problems

Larry

[expert] Dump of some sort - kernel 2.2.12

1999-10-30 Thread John LeMay 

Since a system "crash" Friday, I've been trying to restabilize my box. I
just noticed the error below in my messages log. Thought someone may be
able to provide some insight as to a meaning. I'm hoping it leads to the
real problem here! (I posted another message captured earlier today
regarding the same problem, different error though.)

Quick background - system is a PPro 200, 128M RAM, running Mandrake 6.0
with updates and kernel 2.2.12. I accidentally sent a sigterm to X on
Friday hanging the box completely. Upon reboot, I noticed several errors
regarding deleted inode's. asclock seemed to have disappeared - no trace
of the binary. Since then, the machine has been dumping out of X and
hanging itself completely with no notice and no errors in the logs. 

This message comes about an hour or so after I completed a restore of
/usr and a couple other dirs. The system had been error free prior to
Friday.


Oct 30 22:11:45 logan -- MARK --
Oct 30 22:31:45 logan -- MARK --
Oct 30 22:45:03 logan kernel: divide error:  
Oct 30 22:45:03 logan kernel: CPU:0 
Oct 30 22:45:03 logan kernel: EIP:0010:[sys_select+1224/1336] 
Oct 30 22:45:03 logan kernel: EFLAGS: 00010246 
Oct 30 22:45:03 logan kernel: eax:    ebx: 0024   ecx:
0001   edx:  
Oct 30 22:45:03 logan kernel: esi: c72a7e2c   edi: b9bc   ebp:
   esp: c5b47f78 
Oct 30 22:45:03 logan kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018 
Oct 30 22:45:03 logan kernel: Process rxvt (pid: 583, process nr: 47,
stackpage=c5b47000) 
Oct 30 22:45:03 logan kernel: Stack: b9b4 ba3c 0001 c72a7e2c
541b  c5706c00 c5b47fa8  
Oct 30 22:45:03 logan kernel:0001 c5b46000 c72a7e20 
c72a7e20 c72a7e24 c72a7e28 c72a7e2c  
Oct 30 22:45:03 logan kernel:c72a7e30 c72a7e34 c0107994 0005
b9bc   b9b4  
Oct 30 22:45:03 logan kernel: Call Trace: [system_call+52/56]
[startup_32+43/286]  
Oct 30 22:45:03 logan kernel: Code: f3 a5 89 c1 f3 a4 89 f6 8b 54 24 48
89 54 24 14 83 7c 24 5c  
Oct 30 22:59:56 logan PAM_pwdb[487]: (login) session opened for user
root by (uid=0)
Oct 30 22:59:56 logan  --
root 


-- 
John J. LeMay Jr.
NJMC, LLC.
http://www.njmc.com

Re: [expert] ide CDRW without SCSI adapter ?

1999-10-30 Thread Alex V Flinsch 

On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> > Anyone know if one needs to have a scsi adapter installed in one's
> > system in order to run cdrecord and/or xcdroast with an ATAPI CD-RW?  
> > 
> SCSI emulation. Add the following to the end of your /etc/lilo.conf
> (I *think* this is correct) "append='ide=scsi'" (minus the
> double-quotes, but WITH the single quotes around the ide=scsi)
>   John


This is what I have in lilo.conf for a cdrw on hdd

boot = /dev/hda
timeout = 100
prompt
  default = linux
  vga = normal
  append = "hdd=ide-scsi"
  read-only
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.13-7mdk
  label = linux
  root = /dev/hdb7
  initrd = /boot/initrd-2.2.13-7mdk.img
other = /dev/hda1
  label = win
  table=/dev/hda  


It seems (to me anyway) that the ide-scsi won't work unless I have an initrd
image. If I don't, cdrecord just barfs when trying to write to a disc.

-- 
Alex

[expert] Printer problems with L-M6.1 lpr-0.43

1999-10-30 Thread V Pascal Nelson 

I am experiencing horrible (it's Halloween!) problems with my L-M 6.1. I
have been reading the threads on printing problems. I, too, am having
problems.

I am trying to print to an Epson Stylus Color 740 on a Win98 computer
using SMB. It has been working for months with R-H 5.2 and L-M 6.0.
However, when I upgraded to L-M 6.1 it quit working. I did upgrade my
lpr to lpr-0.43-1mdk. I read that that might be a problem, so I
downgraded to lpr-0.38 (the one on the L-M6.1 CD). Didn't fix the
problem.

Here is what is happening: I have my Epson SC740 set up for 3 different
resolutions (360/720/1440) running on lp/lp0/lp1 respectively. I usually
use the 720 resolution on lp0. However, I can no longer print to lp0. If
I use printtool to remove lp0, then remove the queues (rm -Rf
/var/spool/lpd/lp0), then reinstall lp0 using printtool, I can print to
lp0 ONCE, then all subsequent attempts fail. If I look at it with
printqueue, I see a message that says "Warning: no daemon present".
However, I can run "lpd status" and see that lpd is indeed running.

I tried the same sequence of events with lp1. Same problem. Only lp
works. I then changed the filter associated with lp so that it would be
the 720 one rather than the 360 one. That works fine. It's not a problem
with the filter. It is with lp0 or lp1.

Does this make any sense to anyone? Any help that can be offered would
be much appreciated.

Regards,

Pascal

[expert] Printer problems with L-M6.1 lpr-0.43

1999-10-30 Thread V Pascal Nelson 

I am experiencing horrible (it's Halloween!) problems with my L-M 6.1. I
have been reading the threads on printing problems. I, too, am having
problems.

I am trying to print to an Epson Stylus Color 740 on a Win98 computer
using SMB. It has been working for months with R-H 5.2 and L-M 6.0.
However, when I upgraded to L-M 6.1 it quit working. I did upgrade my
lpr to lpr-0.43-1mdk. I read that that might be a problem, so I
downgraded to lpr-0.38 (the one on the L-M6.1 CD). Didn't fix the
problem.

Here is what is happening: I have my Epson SC740 set up for 3 different
resolutions (360/720/1440) running on lp/lp0/lp1 respectively. I usually
use the 720 resolution on lp0. However, I can no longer print to lp0. If
I use printtool to remove lp0, then remove the queues (rm -Rf
/var/spool/lpd/lp0), then reinstall lp0 using printtool, I can print to
lp0 ONCE, then all subsequent attempts fail. If I look at it with
printqueue, I see a message that says "Warning: no daemon present".
However, I can run "lpd status" and see that lpd is indeed running.

I tried the same sequence of events with lp1. Same problem. Only lp
works. I then changed the filter associated with lp so that it would be
the 720 one rather than the 360 one. That works fine. It's not a problem
with the filter. It is with lp0 or lp1.

Does this make any sense to anyone? Any help that can be offered would
be much appreciated.

Regards,

Pascal

RE: [expert] Missing Icons

1999-10-30 Thread Ing. Sergio P. Korlowsky 

This is a candidate as one of the most frequently asked questions lately ;-)
you have to erase, delete, rename or whatever is easier to you
/etc/doc/HTML/default and run again (install) the kdelibs rpm... that will
install a new simlink for the  /default dir.  that will fix it.

sk.
- Mensaje original -
De: Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Para: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Enviado: Sábado, 30 de Octubre de 1999 12:41 p.m.
Asunto: [expert] Missing Icons


> I have been having quite a time installing Mandrake v6.1/KDE on a machine
> that has happily been using Mandrake 6.0/KDE for some time now.  It's
taken
> me a week to get a half way decent XWindows resolution, but at least that
> problem appears to be fixed.
>
> I'm down to dealing with minor annoyances.  One of these is that most of
> the icons for the icon bar for kfm and other applications don't seem to
> have been installed.  Has anyone else run into this problem, and, more
> importantly, what's teh solution?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> ---
> Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set
> Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and multivariant
> 614.486.4076
>

[expert] kernel panic after lockup

1999-10-30 Thread John J. LeMay Jr. 


(system info: Mandrake 6.0, kernel 2.2.12, i686 200MHz, 128M RAM, all
SCSI)

Friday am my system became completely hung requiring me to hit the reset
button. Unfortunately I was the cause - killed the pid for X instead of
Netscape. Anyway, once the machine came backup I logged in and started X.
I noticed that asclock had disappeared. Checking the boot log I saw that
many "deleted inode" messages had come up while booting. Anyway, I rebuilt
asclock and went on. Later in the day I noticed that X had quit - actually
crashed. I noticed console messages indicating X had lost connectivity to
the display (0.0). 

After a bit of troubleshooting and blaming one thing or another, I have
realized that the system is crashing whenever it wants, but X crashes
consistently within starting it. The system itself may still run for
several hours. I managed to capture the following message during this past
crash:

Aiee, killing interrupt handler
Kernel Panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
Interrupt handler - not syncing

I am working on implementing a "disaster recovery" type restore, but if
anyone has any ideas how I can keep the system stable while I restore
/usr, please let me know!

Re: [expert] Missing Icons

1999-10-30 Thread Alexander Kirillov 


Yes, many people had the same problem. REason? Installation of
kdelibs went wrong. Try re-install kdelibs by hand; if you get errror
messages about file conflict with kcmclock, un-install kcmclock and
try again. 
BTW: we probably should add this to FAQ.
Sasha

Re: [expert] Missing Icons

1999-10-30 Thread Sylvain GIL 

On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 02:41:10PM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote:
> I have been having quite a time installing Mandrake v6.1/KDE on a machine 
> that has happily been using Mandrake 6.0/KDE for some time now.  It's taken 
> me a week to get a half way decent XWindows resolution, but at least that 
> problem appears to be fixed.

Please take a look at
http://www.mandrakeuser.org/mailbag/mailbag2.html#Pixmaps

-- 
  Sylvain GIL - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
- Dis donc, Cortex, tu veux faire quoi cette nuit ?
- La même chose que chaque nuit, Minus: tenter de conquerir le monde!
  (choeurs) C'est Minus et Cortex, Cortex, Cortex.

[expert] Fwd: Missing Icons

1999-10-30 Thread Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. 

Oops!  Sorry I forgot to add the following to the message:

 KtoolBarButton:  pixmap is empty, perhaps some missing file

is repeated many times when I exit XWindows back to a console.

What file might be missing?


>Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 14:41:10 -0400
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>From: "Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Missing Icons
>
>I have been having quite a time installing Mandrake v6.1/KDE on a machine 
>that has happily been using Mandrake 6.0/KDE for some time now.  It's 
>taken me a week to get a half way decent XWindows resolution, but at least 
>that problem appears to be fixed.
>
>I'm down to dealing with minor annoyances.  One of these is that most of 
>the icons for the icon bar for kfm and other applications don't seem to 
>have been installed.  Has anyone else run into this problem, and, more 
>importantly, what's teh solution?
>
>Thanks in advance.

---
Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.Life is a fuzzy set
Foundation for ChemistryStochastic and multivariant
614.486.4076

Re: [expert] perl modules as RPMs

1999-10-30 Thread Stephen Carville 

Vincent Danen wrote:
> 
> Is there a place one can get perl modules as RPMs for Mandrake?  A buddy
> of mine sent me some for RedHat but they're a little dated...  I just
> successfully made a new RPM for one of the newer modules I need to install
> a forum thingy on my website, but I was wondering if there was a place for
> Mandrake RPMs for perl modules?  Does anyone know?  If not, I may make a
> bit of a project for myself...

ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/redhat/powertools/CPAN/

There seems to be a movement amongst perl people to deprecate RPM
packaging and many of the RPM perl archives have gone away.  This one
may disappear too.

-- 
Stephen Carville
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

There are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those
who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less  
competition there. 
Indira Gandhi

[expert] Missing Icons

1999-10-30 Thread Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. 

I have been having quite a time installing Mandrake v6.1/KDE on a machine 
that has happily been using Mandrake 6.0/KDE for some time now.  It's taken 
me a week to get a half way decent XWindows resolution, but at least that 
problem appears to be fixed.

I'm down to dealing with minor annoyances.  One of these is that most of 
the icons for the icon bar for kfm and other applications don't seem to 
have been installed.  Has anyone else run into this problem, and, more 
importantly, what's teh solution?

Thanks in advance.

---
Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.Life is a fuzzy set
Foundation for ChemistryStochastic and multivariant
614.486.4076

[expert] New version of DHCP client

1999-10-30 Thread Stephen Carville 

I had some problems with the DHCP client that comes with mandrake
(pump).  It defaults to a very short lease time (6 hours!) and does
not include the client hostname in the renewal request.  Both of these
were causing problems with my DHCP to dynamic DNS so I modified the
program to be a little better behaved.  (Who say having source is
useless?)  Anyone who is interested can download source or binary RPMS
from my website: http://www.cpl.net/~carville/

My question is:  Who do I contact to get these changes considered for
the next release of the program?

-- 
Stephen Carville
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

There are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those
who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less  
competition there. 
Indira Gandhi

Re: [expert] perl modules as RPMs

1999-10-30 Thread Denis Havlik 

:~>Is there a place one can get perl modules as RPMs for Mandrake?  A buddy
:~>of mine sent me some for RedHat but they're a little dated...  I just
:~>successfully made a new RPM for one of the newer modules I need to install
:~>a forum thingy on my website, but I was wondering if there was a place for
:~>Mandrake RPMs for perl modules?  Does anyone know?  If not, I may make a
:~>bit of a project for myself...

I am using those from the rh - powertools/CPAN (second section).
Everything seems to work OK. If you really need the newest and greatest, I
am afraid you will have to go to cpan and do it yourself for most of the
things.

cu
Denis
-
Mag. Denis Havlik  
University of Vienna||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Austria(@ @)   tel: (++431) 4277/51179 
---oOO--(_)--OOo-

Re: [expert] Star Office 5.1 weirdness

1999-10-30 Thread Denis Havlik 

:~>1. When you installed it as root, did you use the 
:~>   setup /net 
:~>   command?
:~>
:~>2. After it was installed, as a normal user, did you once again run
:~>   setup?  This puts the right stuff in the user's home directory. 
:~>
Sure. I keep installing the SO all the time... Not like i did it first
time. I will find the problem eventually, just wanted to know if it is a
"known" one... If not, it must be something with my instalation...

cu
Denis

-
Mag. Denis Havlik  
University of Vienna||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Austria(@ @)   tel: (++431) 4277/51179 
---oOO--(_)--OOo-

Re: [expert] Cron

1999-10-30 Thread metronumic 

On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Jim wrote:
> Greetings,
>   According to the couple of Linux books I have cron is supposed to store
> the users crontab file in /usr/spool/cron/crontab. There is no default
> directory by that name included with M6.0. Can I create that directory and have
> it work fine or is there something else I nedd to do? 
>   Also the book once again says to store the users allowed to use cron
> in  /etc/cron.d/users. Can I create this or does it go somewhere else. Perhaps
> using linuconf? 
> Cheers 
> Jim

I thought cron was located in /var/spool/cron  not /usr/spool 
I dunno though..

-alex pearsall

Re: [expert] Cron

1999-10-30 Thread metronumic 

On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> Greetings,
>   According to the couple of Linux books I have cron is supposed to store
> the users crontab file in /usr/spool/cron/crontab. There is no default
> directory by that name included with M6.0. Can I create that directory and have
> it work fine or is there something else I nedd to do? 
>   Also the book once again says to store the users allowed to use cron
> in  /etc/cron.d/users. Can I create this or does it go somewhere else. Perhaps
> using linuconf? 
> Cheers 
> Jim

Greetings Jim,
I found there is a  directory in /var/spool/cron.  I dont run cron
because im onl y 17 and on a laptop, so i dont have much use for it.  Id also
say that you should look in /usr/doc/ for crontab help if you installed the
docs.  Hope this helps.

-Alex Pearsall

[expert] cybercafe managing sofware (Linux)

1999-10-30 Thread Lang Zhi 

Hi,
I'm looking for Linux sofware that can be use to manage a cybercafe.
Like a customer book the PC for one hour, after one hour the linux box will 
automatically stop the PC access to internet ..

Is there any available script to do this ?

Thanks
-lz

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[expert] Cron

1999-10-30 Thread Jim 

Greetings,
According to the couple of Linux books I have cron is supposed to store
the users crontab file in /usr/spool/cron/crontab. There is no default
directory by that name included with M6.0. Can I create that directory and have
it work fine or is there something else I nedd to do? 
Also the book once again says to store the users allowed to use cron
in  /etc/cron.d/users. Can I create this or does it go somewhere else. Perhaps
using linuconf? 
Cheers 
Jim