Re: [expert] ifup in LM 8.0
On Sunday, May 27, 2001, Luis Chardon wrote: I recently installed mandrake 8.0 on my box. After I configured the ppp dialup connection using linuxconf, I do an ifup ppp0 and it does not connect. After I do the command, it hangs up for some 15 seconds and then returns an error code 6, which on the pppd man page says that it is unable to lock the serial device. I tried to debug the scripts to see where it exactly is getting stuck and it is at the moment it calls ppp-watch. Try using the network setup in Mandrake Control Center. I found it to work better for me than linuxconf. Using linuxconf worked fine in 7.2, but I had problems with it in 8.0. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], ICQ#: 25370820, OpenPGP key at www.keyserver.net 1024D/39F0BBF4 2024 B7CB 10BF 6BE7 2ECE E0FD 1360 0181 39F0 BBF4 Current Linux uptime: 1 day 2 hours 19 minutes.
[expert] viewperf problem
Hi, I downloaded and installed viewperf from a Mandrake ftp site of unsupported files. Can any one tell me where to install the AWadvs, DRV, DX, Light, ProCDRS and MedMCAO data files? Thank, Bill -- From the shores of Khlong YaiPhuan, Bangkok, Thailand...
[expert] basic firewall setup-please help
hy! i installed mandrake 8.0 without servers. i configured tiny firewall (everything no) with the mandrake control tool. i set security high in this tool, but he doesnt remember that. when logged in as a root this is set to high. logged in as a user i type netstat -l in a xterm: result: tcp0 0 *:1024 *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:blackjack *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:dwf *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:sunrpc*:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:6000 *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:ipp *:* LISTEN udp0 0 *:1024 *:* udp0 0 *:xdmcp *:* udp0 0 *:sunrpc*:* udp0 0 *:ipp so, i have several servers running? -blackjack,sunrpc etc.. I then tried to use Bastille but it would (logged in as a root, in etc/usr and any other) display: [root@mymachine sbin]# InteractiveBastille Using Tk user interface module. Only displaying questions relevant to the current configuration. Can't locate Bastille_Tk.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/ /usr/lib/Bastille) at /usr/sbin/InteractiveBastille line 270. [root@smymachine sbin]# All i want to is to close all ports, but the ones i need to use for pop3,smtp,http,ftp,smtp,irc- no blackjack or stuff i dont know. my cableprovider does port-scans and if a user has some dangerous (spam!) server online the user would be disconnected forever... Thank you very much! Regards, Philipp
Re: [expert] basic firewall setup-please help
Hello First of all... 1. Checking which programs use which port use lsof like so: lsof -iTCP -iUDP | grep port_number 2. Closing ports you can use ipchains: ipchains -A input -d my_ip my_port -j REJECT Carreful with this... you can close yourself from the world ;) 3. Bastille - Linux Hardening if you had read the site you would had noticed that bastille misses the interface libs (point 3 of the downloads in www.bastille-linux.org). Install the rpm Perl-Tk from Mandrake . If it still doesn't work you can use CPAN: perl -MCPAN -eshell (at this point I would suggest perldoc : perldoc -q cpan, second point) my 2 cents, Rui Lapa Note: Sorry for the confusion... but expertee comes from practice... ;) mp writes: hy! i installed mandrake 8.0 without servers. i configured tiny firewall (everything no) with the mandrake control tool. i set security high in this tool, but he doesnt remember that. when logged in as a root this is set to high. logged in as a user i type netstat -l in a xterm: result: tcp0 0 *:1024 *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:blackjack *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:dwf *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:sunrpc*:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:6000 *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:ipp *:* LISTEN udp0 0 *:1024 *:* udp0 0 *:xdmcp *:* udp0 0 *:sunrpc*:* udp0 0 *:ipp so, i have several servers running? -blackjack,sunrpc etc.. I then tried to use Bastille but it would (logged in as a root, in etc/usr and any other) display: [root@mymachine sbin]# InteractiveBastille Using Tk user interface module. Only displaying questions relevant to the current configuration. Can't locate Bastille_Tk.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/ /usr/lib/Bastille) at /usr/sbin/InteractiveBastille line 270. [root@smymachine sbin]# All i want to is to close all ports, but the ones i need to use for pop3,smtp,http,ftp,smtp,irc- no blackjack or stuff i dont know. my cableprovider does port-scans and if a user has some dangerous (spam!) server online the user would be disconnected forever... Thank you very much! Regards, Philipp
[expert] Intel Anypoint Wireless USB
Hi All, I will be installing LM 8.0 on to my 2nd PC to run as a File, Mail, FTP, Web server. I will also use it for a normal desktop from time to time. My question is that I currently have an Intel Anypoint USB wireless access point attached to this machine via Windows Me for my wife's laptop. The software is only written for Windows and Intel has no plans to support Linux. Has anyone ever tried to get this to work in Linux. I will still have one gaming PC that will run Windows but I would prefer not to have the access point hogging resources on that PC. Michael
[expert] Konqueror - https 'dies unexpectedly'
Hi, Using an 8.0 system with upgraded kernel to 2.4.4-1mdk in an attempt to make reiser a little more stable (but that's another post). Whenever I try to access a secure site using konqueror the process for the https protocol 'dies unexpectedly' according to the little dialog box. Running konqueror from a terminal gives the following results: kio (KRun): ERROR: ERROR 43 https://online.lloydstsb.co.uk kio_https.so is installed happily in /usr/lib/kde2 - what is wrong? many thanks, tom -- ... The ripest fruit falls first - William Shakespeare, Richard II
Re: [expert] 2.2.19 kernel with Mandrake 8.0?
Goto the flat package list during install, I believe kernel2.2 is one of the options. --- Aaron J. Ginn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not really trying to back out of the 2.4 kernel. If I have to, I will simply reinstall Mandrake 8.0. If nothing else, I'll go back to 7.2. What I want to know is, is there an option to select the 2.2.19 kernel on Mandrake 8.0, and if so, how do I go about installing it? Thanks, Aaron John Wolford wrote: Aaron, you'll probably have to downgrade manually. You can install kernels through doing some rpm work or by installing it manually from a .tar.gz file or some such thing. There are numerous howtos for this. You shouldn't need to up/downgrade anything else to do it (does anyone else know about this?) so it should just be a simple install. %-, j --- Aaron J. Ginn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I finally installed Mandrake 8.0 last night. I intended to install the 2.2.19 kernel with it because I have a legacy application that the 2.4 kernel is incompatible with. Unfortunately, I never saw a dialog box asking me which kernel I wanted to install. I did choose expert install, but I didn't see any place where I could specify what kernel to use. Did I just miss it? How do you select the 2.2.19 kernel with Mandrake 8.0? Right now I have a nice-looking box that I really can't use because my primary application, a VPN client, won't work with it. Thanks, Aaron -- Aaron J. GinnPhone: 480-814-4463 Motorola SemiCustom SolutionsPager: 877-586-2318 1300 N. Alma School Rd. Fax : 480-814-4058 Chandler, AZ 85226 M/D CH260 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [expert] Konqueror - https 'dies unexpectedly'
Could this (http://bugs.kde.org/db/24/24259.html) be similar to your bug? It appears there are a number of outstanding bugs with Konqueror's https support. Netscape 4.x works perfectly on https (in so much as Netscape can run perfectly :)), and Mozilla/Galeon has fairly good support too. Good Luck, Darrell Whenever I try to access a secure site using konqueror the process for the https protocol 'dies unexpectedly' according to the little dialog box. Running konqueror from a terminal gives the following results: kio (KRun): ERROR: ERROR 43 https://online.lloydstsb.co.uk _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: [expert] Konqueror - https 'dies unexpectedly'
On Tuesday 29 May 2001 04:42, Tom Lawton wrote: Hi, Using an 8.0 system with upgraded kernel to 2.4.4-1mdk in an attempt to make reiser a little more stable (but that's another post). Whenever I try to access a secure site using konqueror the process for the https protocol 'dies unexpectedly' according to the little dialog box. Running konqueror from a terminal gives the following results: kio (KRun): ERROR: ERROR 43 https://online.lloydstsb.co.uk kio_https.so is installed happily in /usr/lib/kde2 - what is wrong? many thanks, Want to make Reiser more stable? Use only notail mounts. Of course that's a LOT more stable. Civileme tom
[expert] mod_frontpage + apache + LM 8.0 BROKEN!?
Hello, The advanced extranet server included in LM 8.0 proudly declares right on its homepage that it supports the frontpage server extensions. Yet, using a fresh LM8.0 install and the latest mod_frontpage (located in cooker, not included, as they claim) I cannot get a working fp server! Anyone have any luck with this yet? If so, please post a description of what you had to do. Thanks!
Re: [expert] Reiserfs stability (was: Konqueror - https 'dies unexpectedly')
Hi, Want to make Reiser more stable? Use only notail mounts. Of course that's a LOT more stable. Is this a suitable option for use on a bog standard workstation Manrdake system? I know it's more space hungry (anyone know how much?) - is it also slower? I'm imagining/hoping Reiser will get bulletproof fairly quickly - so I'm keeping close on the upgrades of kernel and tools. However, I'm getting a few bad_stat_data (x is used by at least two files) and wrong lengths reported by reiserfsck (3.x.0j-2mdk), which it refuses to fix with -x or -o, and even a --rebuild-db doesn't fix the stat_data errors! Any advice? Otherwise the system seems a lot more stable since kernel 2.4.4. thanks, tom -- ... The ripest fruit falls first - William Shakespeare, Richard II
Re[2]: [expert] Reiserfs stability (was: Konqueror - https 'dies unexpectedly')
Tom Lawton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Want to make Reiser more stable? Use only notail mounts. Of course that's a LOT more stable. Is this a suitable option for use on a bog standard workstation Manrdake system? I know it's more space hungry (anyone know how much?) - is it also slower? I'm imagining/hoping Reiser will get bulletproof fairly quickly Ok, I've been watching the discussion here for a while - and now its time for me to ask: So, there's reiser, jfs (is that the name of the journaling file system?), raid (which won't do what reiser does for you), and I thought something else. Oh - there it is - 'xfs'. (Did I miss any others?) Here's the question: If reiser has these kinds of problems I've been seeing, has anyone tried any of the others and what did they think??? Thanks! (If you want to, just reply to me and I'll 'summarize' the answers (i.e. quote just the relevant part (or maybe most of the reply ;-))) (Thus, if you reply to me and do NOT want your answers included in the 'summary' LET ME KNOW!) rc Rusty Carruth Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: (480) 345-3621 SnailMail: Schlumberger ATE FAX: (480) 345-8793 7855 S. River Parkway, Suite 116 Ham: N7IKQ @ 146.82+,pl 162.2 Tempe, AZ 85284-1825 ICBM: 33 20' 44N 111 53' 47W
Re: [expert] Re: In But Not Out Of Loop
SoloCDM wrote:
Did you pick up the script ideas from experience or a tutorial book?
yes. sorta...
If from a book, would you send the author and title?
man bash -- seriously. I hadn't yet encountered the pipeline problem when I
looked at your script; just lucky I suppose... yet, the answer was in the man
page; it jumped out at me 'cuz of the experience factor with many other
languages.
Even my preference for [ $VAR ] {...} (or ||) rather than if [ -[n|z] $VAR
]; then...fi or if [ $VAR -[ne|eq] 0 ]; then...fi is in there. I prefer
minimalist, *not* obfuscated code; just simple, easy to understand and
maintain. Yup, I prefer Python for most stuff... :
HTH,
Pierre
[expert] /var/run permission problems
On my LM7.2 systems, I'm running X4.0.3 compiled from source. When I first installed this X, xfs would not start because it was now owned by xfs.xfs (4.0.2 was root.root)... I quickly worked around this issue by changing the perms on /var/run and forgot about it. Likewise, I installed X4.0.3 on my sister's PC and everything has been fine until the other day when her X would not start up due to xfs not starting. I'm waiting for an answer as to what might have changed; but is this a problem others have run into? What is the proper fix? I doubt chmod 777 /var/run is it... Thanks, Pierre
Re: [expert] Reiserfs stability (was: Konqueror - https 'dies unexpectedly')
On Tuesday 29 May 2001 09:19, Tom Lawton wrote: Hi, Want to make Reiser more stable? Use only notail mounts. Of course that's a LOT more stable. Is this a suitable option for use on a bog standard workstation Manrdake system? I know it's more space hungry (anyone know how much?) - is it also slower? I'm imagining/hoping Reiser will get bulletproof fairly quickly - so I'm keeping close on the upgrades of kernel and tools. However, I'm getting a few bad_stat_data (x is used by at least two files) and wrong lengths reported by reiserfsck (3.x.0j-2mdk), which it refuses to fix with -x or -o, and even a --rebuild-db doesn't fix the stat_data errors! Any advice? Otherwise the system seems a lot more stable since kernel 2.4.4. thanks, tom Well with current install tools it isn't easy to do. It is FASTER, but less efficient on storage. How much less? Worst case is less than double required, and for that you need a host of files that are one block plus one byte. The B-tree overhead is the same or less. To make it happen you install a / only system with lotsa unused space. The / can be reiser--that's automatically a notail mount. Then you create /var /usr /home and other partitions manually, and format them reiser. Then you edit /etc/fstab and make them mount points like /spusr /spvar /sphome /dev/hda7 /spusr reiserfs notail 1 2 /dev/hda8 /sphome reiserfs notail 1 2 /dev/hda9 /spvar reiserfs notail 1 2 Of course the partition designations will vary with your mileage. Mount them and mount /spusr cp -a /usr/* /spusr umount /spusr mount /spvar cp -a /var/* /spvar umount /spvar mount /sphome cp -a /home/* /sphome umount /sphome Now edit /etc/fstab again and remove the 'sp' from the mount points then mv /home /oldhome mkdir /home mount /home mv /var /oldvar mkdir /var mount /var mv /usr /oldusr mkdir /usr mount /usr Delete the /oldxxx directories at your leisure, bring in urpmi or similar or just use your install CD and run Update to load the amount of system you want. Civileme Please note that if you do not use the install disk in update mode, you never even need to reboot.
Re: [expert] mod_frontpage + apache + LM 8.0 BROKEN!?
On Tuesday 29 May 2001 07:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, The advanced extranet server included in LM 8.0 proudly declares right on its homepage that it supports the frontpage server extensions. Yet, using a fresh LM8.0 install and the latest mod_frontpage (located in cooker, not included, as they claim) I cannot get a working fp server! Anyone have any luck with this yet? If so, please post a description of what you had to do. Thanks! Ummm, sorry, cooker is not for production, but for testing and development. The day cooker is without bugs will be a day when Maxwell's demons are on strike. Civileme
Re: [expert] Mouse problems on Thinkpad w/MDK8
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 10:01 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok... Been using Mandrake for quite a while now (6.x-7.2) and just upgraded to 8. I have it on a Thinkpad 760XD. When I boot, the mouse/pointer simply will not work. If I boot and wiggle the mouse around while waiting for X to come up, it works... Sometimes. What's happening here? I have a TP 760XD too. Installation went smoothly and the mouse/pointer was not found but worked after I chose PS/2 from the list during installation. Only error I get is that when I switch to a console from X using the Ctrl-Alt-Fn and then go back to X with Alt-F7 the mouse freezes and I have to reboot to get it to work again. wobo -- GPG-Fingerprint: FE5A 0891 7027 8D1B 4E3F 73C1 AD9B D732 A698 82EE For Public Key mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: GPG-Request --- ISDN4LINUX-FAQ -- Deutsch: http://www.wolf-b.de/i4l/i4lfaq-de.html
Re: [expert] Stability Concerns
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I am getting the similar problems with Linux Mandrake 8.0 in KDE and Gnome. No lockups/freezes occur when using the console, i.e. when not using X-Windows, in runlevel 3. I have been running Linux Mandrake 7.0 without lockups/freezes. In LM 7.0 sometimes the keyboard focus seems to lag by a window when I click around various windows; I can get around this by ALT-TABbing to another window and back again, but it is not ideal. In LM 8.0 I have noticed that this behaviour has become more frequent. A more serious problem is that I usually get a system lockup/freeze within about 5-10 minutes of moving windows around or bring up configuration windows etc. I can move the mouse pointer on the screen, but windows don't respond to clicks, nor will they respond to keyboard input. In LM 8.0 I did notice that xmms was still playing a couple of tracks after the X-Window display froze. So it would seem the kernel, filesystem and audio subsystems were still working. It just seems to be the X subsystem that freezes, perhaps waiting on a window refresh or something like that. I haven't been able to test whether the machine is still pingable because I am usually away from any other computers when the machine freezes. I triple boot between LM 7.0, MS Windows 98 and now LM 8.0, on different partitions (all LM partitions are ext2fs). I am sticking with LM 7.0 (rather than 8.0) until I can resolve this problem, but I would really like to use more recent libraries and applications and may install Red Hat 7.1 instead. My hardware: Sony Vaio laptop PCG-F290 192 MB RAM PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus TOSHIBA MK2016GAP, ATA DISK drive TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-C2202, ATAPI CDROM drive Standard touchpad mouse: ALPS Glidepoint? LM 7.0 kernel: 2.2.18 LM 8.0 kernel: 2.4.2 I have run the burnMMX, burnP6 and burnBX (from cpuburn-1.3) simultaneously for more than an hour in LM 7.0 running X-Windows without any obvious effects. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Stability Concerns Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 10:44:51 -0700 But I get nothing in the logs except the boot stuff when it comes back up. Ditto. Also, when you get a lockup in X, you can try hitting Ctrl-Alt-F1 to switch to the first tty, which is also your console, I believe, to see if there were any messages dumped there... I tried that and got no response. Ditto. I have yet to try the LeftALT - SysRq - [rseiu] key sequences. On Thursday 17 May 2001 09:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How is everybody finding the stability of their Mandrake 8 boxes? I've been having some problems. I've had several random lockups while in KDE. Nothing I can replicate. Somtimes it locks while I'm doing something innocuous (moving mouse, minimizing window), sometimes it's locked up over night. When this happens, there is no saving it. Keyboard mouse are completely dead, and it won't even respond to a ping over the net. This has happened maybe 6 or 8 times total over the past 2 or 3 weeks. I've also had 2 random reboots. Once was over night, and the other was during the day while I was at work. I had left the box logged in, when I get back the login screen is up and last shows a reboot. The box is on a UPS, and the other box on that UPS hasn't rebooted. There is doesn't seem to be anything interesting in the logs wrt these incidents. I'm pretty confident that its not a hardware problem. This box was rock-solid with a RedHat 6.2 variant. I am not ruling out hardware, considering that a previous post noted that the complexity of the window manager and graphics libraries has increased significantly between LM 7.0 and LM 8.0. However, it is still unusual and annoying. So any help would be appreciated. TIA, Rohan - -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]GnuPG/PGP key on http://www.keyserver.net GnuPG/PGP fingerprint: FEEE 7DED 702A 3498 285E 4F0A 8DF0 83D4 F802 DF18 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7E+ifjfCD1PgC3xgRAnRKAJ9ExswsRh/SLJ8Psme1OXwnbfXO4QCgrz2b lMVXWzPc91IhPcV+BE9UT1M= =Z35I -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [expert] Fonts in LM8.0 (a quick lesson)
I'll make this potentially simpler: edit /etc/X11/fs/config scroll down to this section : catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mdk:unscaled, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/pcf_drakfont, /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1, /usr/share/abisuite/AbiSuite/fonts, /usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives, /usr/share/fonts/ttf/western and delete the line: /usr/share/abisuite/AbiSuite/fonts, You can simply reboot and be done with it, or do the following to avoid the reboot: issue the following (restarting the font server): /etc/init.d/xfs stop /etc/init.d/xfs start Then logout of your X session. If you use gdm/xdm/kdm (graphical logins), you need to either reboot or do: init 3;init 5 from the console. It's the damn AbiSource fonts that look so horrible. Alternatively, you could simply uninstall abisuite: rpm -e abisuite If you happen to be able to make sense of the fs/config, you can play with it to see if you can create a default font load to suit your tastes, but you have to restart the xfs server and pop out of and back into X to make the changes take effect. Remember, make a backup of anyfile you edit just in case... For a quick X font lesson, fonts are choosen for X and X apps mainly in one of 3 ways: 1.) You specify the font in the application under the app's preferences menu. 2.) The app looks for all Times (or other major font family) font and grabs the first Times in the alaphabeticaly ordered list - Times (AbiSource) comes before Times (Adobe). 3.) The apps pulls the first Times (or other major font family) that it can find (the order that the fonts are listed in /etc/X11/fs/config is important here.) This *supposedly* is the default method if you haven't specified a font directly as I understand it. So from here, you might have some leeway to play with the fonts to suit your veiwing pleasure. Woody Oscar wrote: Hi. I have problems with fonts in LM 8.0. It looks horrible. You can see the example I put at http://www.ua.es/personal/oscar/fuentes/ I'm following discussion about this problem at www.mandrakeforum.com and www.mandrakeuser.org This is my solution, but It's not complete, It's only first aids: - Change the order of fonts in /etc/X11/fs/config, putting in first place 100dpi fonts. - Select lucidatypewriter in netscape, konqueror and kpanel. - Put the option -dpi 100 in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers It solves the problem, but only in part and sometimes. ? I presume the problem is in anti-aliasing (but It is OFF in KDE). I have an ATI Xpert XL. Excuse my english. Salu2, Oscar. -- Woody ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- Gatewood Green Web Developer http://www.linux.org/ The first stop for Linux info on the Net Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- All opinions expressed by me are my own and not necessarily endorsed by Linux Online, Inc. or Linux Headquarters, Inc.
[expert] changing the KDE-fixed font - how?
hy! i wonder how i can change the fixed font in the kde control center and keep X starting on bootup (cant find fixed font..) thank you! regards
[expert] LM 8.0 CUPS Server
Hi I have installed LM 8.0 and configured my printer Epson Stylus Photo 870 (USB). It worked fine and I could print the test page. I then decided to update all the packages to get the latest security fixes and so on. I did that through the Software Manager using ftp and again it worked fine. CUPS was updated. When I ran KUPS it gave me the following msg: Can't connect to CUPS server. Check your options! Also trying to change the printer from MDK Control Center results in very odd behavior, like either I cannot do anything or it allows me to configure a printer (although it does not ask me where the printer is plugged in, seems to autodetect that) and then when it starts printing the test page, it locks up my machine real hard!!! Trying from the web interface does not yield anymore success... Quite ennoying as it worked initially. Any idea on that much appreciated. I need to get this printer going on my server to setup printing through Samba for other clients, both Windows and Linux. Thanks for any help. Can provide any config files or output files if needed. note: I am a registered LM 8.0 Power pack user but although I asked this question using MandrakeExpert it did not register it... Cheers, Fred
Re: [expert] changing the KDE-fixed font - how?
At 11:50 PM 5/29/2001 -0400, mp wrote: hy! i wonder how i can change the fixed font in the kde control center and keep X starting on bootup (cant find fixed font..) It's possible that the problem lies with xfs, not necessarily with X. Can you verify that xfs is running? `service xfs status' should show you the status. If it is not running, what does it say in /var/log/messages? It has been my experience that 9 times out of 10, xfs is at fault. Another oddball thing to look at is to see if your device(s) are full. When there is no space left on a device, xfs can't create a socket to service requests. This has happened one or two times, as well. --- Craig Sprout Network Administrator Crown Parts and Machine, Inc. http://www.crownpartsandmachine.com
[expert] logrotate still stuck
Hello, I have been going through the archives regarding the broken logrotate script and see a few that have this same problem, but still can't find the fix. Maybe I missed it. So far, I have cleaned out the bad /var/log/mail and news directories. Updated logrotate and slocate and all the rest of LMdk7.1 updates and still the logrotate proc never stops. It is only happening on one of three 7.1 servers, so I figure something is corrupt, but can't figure out what. Any body have a fix for this? In case this helps: after a few minutes strace on logrotate shows these lines over and over like it's in a forever loop: 19779 mremap(0x4013d000, 606208, 606208, MREMAP_MAYMOVE) = 0x4013d000 19779 time(NULL)= 991160911 Thanks. -- Scott Taylor Systems Administrator DCT Chambers Trucking Ltd.
Re: [expert] logrotate still stuck
Hmm, the only problem I had on 7.1 servers was in the logrotate.d/syslog
configuration. It was set like this:
/var/log/mail/* {
...
}
which is wrong.
The correct entrie would be:
/var/log/mail/errors {
...
}
/var/log/mail/info {
...
}
etc.etc.etc.
The '/var/log/mail/*' was causing the previously compressed and rotated logs
to be rotated once more, causing a whole slew of rotations of rotations of
rotations of rotations, etc..
Does this help?
Scott Taylor wrote:
Hello,
I have been going through the archives regarding the broken logrotate
script and see a few that have this same problem, but still can't find the
fix. Maybe I missed it.
So far, I have cleaned out the bad /var/log/mail and news
directories. Updated logrotate and slocate and all the rest of LMdk7.1
updates and still the logrotate proc never stops. It is only happening on
one of three 7.1 servers, so I figure something is corrupt, but can't
figure out what. Any body have a fix for this?
In case this helps: after a few minutes strace on logrotate shows these
lines over and over like it's in a forever loop:
19779 mremap(0x4013d000, 606208, 606208, MREMAP_MAYMOVE) = 0x4013d000
19779 time(NULL)= 991160911
Thanks.
--
Scott Taylor
Systems Administrator
DCT Chambers Trucking Ltd.
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Re: [expert] logrotate still stuck
At 03:57 PM 05/29/01, Stephen Lawrence Jr. wrote:
Hmm, the only problem I had on 7.1 servers was in the logrotate.d/syslog
configuration. It was set like this:
/var/log/mail/* {
...
}
which is wrong.
The correct entrie would be:
/var/log/mail/errors {
...
}
/var/log/mail/info {
...
}
etc.etc.etc.
The '/var/log/mail/*' was causing the previously compressed and rotated logs
to be rotated once more, causing a whole slew of rotations of rotations of
rotations of rotations, etc..
Does this help?
Thanks, but I already figured that part out. I think this problem goes a
little deeper. A corrupt file or bad memory or some such.
Scott Taylor wrote:
Hello,
I have been going through the archives regarding the broken logrotate
script and see a few that have this same problem, but still can't find the
fix. Maybe I missed it.
So far, I have cleaned out the bad /var/log/mail and news
directories. Updated logrotate and slocate and all the rest of LMdk7.1
updates and still the logrotate proc never stops. It is only happening on
one of three 7.1 servers, so I figure something is corrupt, but can't
figure out what. Any body have a fix for this?
In case this helps: after a few minutes strace on logrotate shows these
lines over and over like it's in a forever loop:
19779 mremap(0x4013d000, 606208, 606208, MREMAP_MAYMOVE) = 0x4013d000
19779 time(NULL)= 991160911
Thanks.
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Scott Taylor
Systems Administrator
DCT Chambers Trucking Ltd.
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Scott Taylor
Systems Administrator
DCT Chambers Trucking Ltd.
Re: [expert] Anyone with M8.0 playing heretic2
I cannot play the games unless I am running KDE (and by extension, artsd). If I either kill artsd in KDE and then try to start the game or if I try to start it from another window manager or environment (Gnome), it crashes on startup. It will ONLY start up and play if artsd is running - and then I don't get soundfx. I have an Athlon 700 on an AOpen AK72 mobo with the via a686 ac97 sound dsp built in. It worked fine under Mandrake 7.2 but since upgrading to 8.0, the problem described above occurs. I doubt it is the hardware because it did work without problem under the previous Mandrake - and sound works with everything else in kde or gnome or windowmaker. Something about the new setup, the libs, the way hardware is handled, drivers...something...is preventing heretic2 and myth2 from getting soundfx working. It could be libSDL, I suppose...or the newer kernel sound drivers... On Monday 28 May 2001 09:16, Vincent Danen wrote: On Sun May 27, 2001 at 12:21:08PM -0600, Praedor Tempus wrote: This is driving me mad! (OK, not really, it is just a frickin' game) I have heretic2 from Loki. I also have M8.0 installed on my Athlon 700 system. Under 7.2, same system, I could play heretic2 without problems - WITH soundfx. Since installing 8.0, I can play heretic2 but it is without soundfx. I cannot get soundfx to work, period. Artsd wont release the sound device to the game and trying to run the game without artsd running causes it to crash. I've got Heretic2 and HoMM3 here and working, sound and everything. The only difference I can see is that I'm running them under GNOME and not KDE... have you tried to run them under a different WM to see if they work that way? This suggests to me that something in 8.0 has altered with regard to sound and sound devices such that it is not really compatible with heretic2, myth2, or terminus (those are the only linux games I presently have so are all I can comment on). I don't think so. I installed my loki games in 7.2 and carried the same install (/usr/local partition) to my 8.0 install (same machine) and without tweaking a thing, they work. All I did was re-create the icons under Nautilus. Is there anyone in the list running Mandrake 8.0, preferably on an Athlon, who actually has any one of these games AND has soundfx working? I honestly don't know what to say. Maybe I'll try firing up KDE and see if they run under KDE as well or if I get the same problem. What version of kdelibs/arts/libarts are you running? Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; charset=iso-8859-1; name=Attachment: 1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: -- Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.
[expert] rpm troubles in LM 8.0
Hello, When I install an rpm (rpm -Uvh filename.rpm) everything goes ok. But, when I go to unistall the rpm it says that the rpm does not exist? But, if I try to install it again it says that it has already been installed? I even try to update the rpm data base (rpm -i --rebuilddb) but I still cannot unistall rpms. Anyone have any idea what the problem could be? Thanks
Re: [expert] rpm troubles in LM 8.0
On Tuesday 29 May 2001 07:15 pm, Bobby Welch wrote: Bobby, It sounds like your problem is how you're calling the comands. The install command works different from the uninstall command. To install: rpm -Uvh filename.rpm To *un*install: rpm -e filename The best way to see what you have to type to uninstall an rpm is to watch what it says when it's installing. For example, if you install kdelibs-22.0alpha.i386.rpm (not a real filename, but an example), you'll see something like this: kdelibs # To uninstall, you would type rpm -e kdelibs rather than the whole filename. Hope that helps explain things. Hello, When I install an rpm (rpm -Uvh filename.rpm) everything goes ok. But, when I go to unistall the rpm it says that the rpm does not exist? But, if I try to install it again it says that it has already been installed? I even try to update the rpm data base (rpm -i --rebuilddb) but I still cannot unistall rpms. Anyone have any idea what the problem could be? Thanks
Re: [expert] Anyone with M8.0 playing heretic2
On Tue May 29, 2001 at 05:08:58PM -0600, Praedor Tempus wrote: I cannot play the games unless I am running KDE (and by extension, artsd). If I either kill artsd in KDE and then try to start the game or if I try to start it from another window manager or environment (Gnome), it crashes on startup. It will ONLY start up and play if artsd is running - and then I don't get soundfx. Ugh... that's really messed. Ignore my other message, then, asking what you just answered here. I have an Athlon 700 on an AOpen AK72 mobo with the via a686 ac97 sound dsp built in. It worked fine under Mandrake 7.2 but since upgrading to 8.0, the problem described above occurs. I doubt it is the hardware because it did work without problem under the previous Mandrake - and sound works with everything else in kde or gnome or windowmaker. Something about the new setup, the libs, the way hardware is handled, drivers...something...is preventing heretic2 and myth2 from getting soundfx working. It could be libSDL, I suppose...or the newer kernel sound drivers... Too many things that it might be. I'm assuming you did a fresh install of heretic2 and myth2? I really don't know what to say... I run heretic2 under gnome just fine with all the bells and whistles... Athlon 950 with SBLive! on an ASUS A7V m/b. I don't think it would be a hardware issue if it worked previously, but I'm not sure what else to suggest. Have you tried updating kdelibs/arts to the latest version in updates? Does it work with them? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/FE6F2AFD 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD - Danen Consulting Serviceswww.danen.net, www.freezer-burn.org - MandrakeSoft, Inc. Security www.linux-mandrake.com Current Linux kernel 2.4.3-20mdk uptime: 1 day 2 hours 19 minutes. PGP signature
[expert] shutils: env broken?
Instead of burying #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w at the top of my scripts, I usually use #!/usr/bin/env perl -w so that no matter what I've done with Perl in my path, it can still be found. Under mandrake 8.0, I get the error perl -w not found. If I try just #!/usr/bin/env perl it works find. The man page for env says it should take arguments. Anyone have any idea? -- Matthew O. Persico http://www.acecape.com/dsl AceDSL:The best ADSL in Verizon area
[expert] rpmdrake confused?
this is really odd. rpmdrake has suddenly developed amnesia about my install cdroms. i look at the list of packages available, and select one. i click on 'install/remove'. it tells me to insert the first cdrom (or the second, depending on the package). i do. i clock the ok bar. it ejects the CD and says try again. is there some kind of DB inconsistency issue here?
[expert] Re: making nautilus less obnoxious or removing ? [solved]
Regarding nautilus elbowing out access to the desktop in Window Maker upon accessing GNOME Help, I was able to resolve the situation by doing this: Run this gnome configuration tool (you can do this from Window Maker): gnome-panel-properties-capplet In Document Handlers - URL Handlers, modify the entry for Protocol ghelp, adding --nodesktop. The resulting entry appears as: nautilus --nodesktop %s Then click 'set', 'ok', close the configuration tool, and try using Help in a GNOME app (eg., Galeon). It should work properly now. -pete On Wed, 23 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got Mandrake 8.0 here. At install time, I selected Nautilus as the file manager. I had never tried it before, but thought it would be cool to check out. Now, the problem I'm having is while using my favorite window manager, Window Maker, and choose the help option in any GNOME program (eg., Galeon - Help - Galeon Manual), Nautilus takes over the desktop, hiding any programs opened before it was, and essentially disables all WindowMaker functionality. The only way I've found to recover from this is to switch to a console and kill all processes with nautilus in the process name. I've looked around a bit to see how to fix this, but haven't really come up with much. Eg., when trying to remove it in rpmdrake, all of gnome is listed as a dependency. Any suggestions on the right way of fixing this on Mandrake 8? -pete
[expert] LM 9.0 and dual cpu's
Im having a strang problem. After installing LM 8.0 it will not boot to smp. It sets up a linus-smp boot for lilo but when booting it starts to go through the boot sequence but just reboots the computer. it works fine in uniproccesor mode. Slakware 7.1 worked fine in smp mode. I cant see where it stops booting and reboots as the screens go by to fast. Bill
Re: [expert] compiled kernel hangs up...
Mark Weaver wrote: Hi list, I've got a strange thing happening that I don't seem to have a clue about. I've compiled kernel 2.4.4 for my mandrake 7.2 machine. Everything about the compile went off without a hitch. When I boot the kernel, (and I'm booting from a floppy cause I won't commit the image until I'm satisfied it not buggy) it goes through the usual stuff at boot time, recognizes reiserFS, Uhh..., I seem to recall the reiserfs that ships with 2.4 is not backwards compatible with the reiserfs that is included in the 2.2.xx kernel. Civileme posted some good information on this a few weeks ago. Check the list archives, but I think that's your problem. -- David Rankin Nacogdoches, Texas
[expert] Bastille-netfilter issues
A few problems with Bastille-netfilter:
a) it is not started a boot up, even though it is selected under
bastille-firewall in the services subsection of the system section of the
Mandrake Control Center.
b) trying to start it in the control center by pressing the start button
gives the message:
Usage: /sbin/bastille-netfilter {start|stop|status}
c) I ran the script to allow http, https, and ssh. Doing an nmap tcp scan, I
get:
Port State Service
22/tcp openssh
80/tcp openhttp
443/tcpopenhttps
631/tcpopenunknown
901/tcpopensamba-swat
6000/tcp openX11
32770/tcp opensometimes-rpc3
I'm wondering why ports 631, 901, 6000 (!), and 32770 are reported as being
open...
-- Stephen
Re: [expert] Reiserfs stability (was: Konqueror - https 'dies unexpectedly')
On Tuesday 29 May 2001 09:44 pm, Civileme wrote: To make it happen you install a / only system with lotsa unused space. The / can be reiser--that's automatically a notail mount. But, if I understand it correctly, you can have a root reiser partition mounted without the notail option if you have a separate partition for /boot. I have a separate, small /boot partition, and made it an ext2 partition, since there is no advantage to making it reiserfs. -- Stephen
[expert] compiled kernel hangs up...
Hi list, I've got a strange thing happening that I don't seem to have a clue about. I've compiled kernel 2.4.4 for my mandrake 7.2 machine. Everything about the compile went off without a hitch. When I boot the kernel, (and I'm booting from a floppy cause I won't commit the image until I'm satisfied it not buggy) it goes through the usual stuff at boot time, recognizes reiserFS, finds the root device and everything, but then something strange happens. shortly after it finds the dependencies another line comes up that says setting profile: _ and then just sits there and does nothing at all. I've never had a kernel do that before and I don't have a clue as to what profile it would even think about setting. could someone advise me on this? thanks, -- Mark * what knowledge I have managed to accumlate over the years at times becomes obscured and even hidden amidst the vast emotional onslaught of my children. You never finish being a parent. :)
