Re: [expert-it] MandrakeUpdate che non parte
Il 16:35, giovedì 14 giugno 2001, hai scritto: Ghiro wrote: Salve, ho appena installato la mandrake 8.0 in italiano. Volevo chiedere se' e' un problema diffuso il fatto che non si riesca a fare partire il MandrakeUpdate. Se avete qualche consiglio da darmi lo accetto ben volentieri ;) Lo lanci come utente normale o come root? Che messaggio di errore da'? Ciao -- =--Ghiro-- Ciao non mi da alcun mesaggio d'errore, ora mi spiego: allora io faccio partire il MU da KDE, a livello user, usando l' icona appropriata; il sistema mi chiede la password di root, poi lavora per qualche secondo e poi piu nulla, non si apre alcuna finestra. In seguito ho provato a farllo partire direttamente come root, ma non ottengo migliori risultati. Mi sapreste dire come posso provare a farlo partire da riga di comando? Grazie ancora. -- =--Ghiro--
Re: [expert-it] modem!
Il 04:47, venerdì 15 giugno 2001, hai scritto: hello! come e' possibile far capire a linux mandrake 8.0 che posseggo un modem USB? sono in grossa crisi! grazie ciao! AIUTATEMI vi prego! Aldo non vorrei darti un dispiacere, ma ho letto sulla guida della Mandrake che fra i dispositivi USB supportati non ci sono ancora i modem. Cmq cerca di essere piu' specifico, illustraci le caratteristiche del tuo modem ec..ecc... -- =--Ghiro--
[expert-it] PROBLEMI USB
CIAO Ho comperato un Fax/Modem/Voice USB (alimentato dal computer) ed una stampante USB e ho probemi con Linux (Mandrake 8). Problema modem: Spesso e volentieri, quando sono collegato ad Internet, il modem si spegne completamente (iinfatti TUTTI i led si spengono) e si blocca il sistema operativo. Problema stampante: A volte, quando accendo la stampante, questa non si inizializza e continua all'infinito tale fase di inizializzazione. Qualcuno di voi, sa dirmi come risolverli? GRAZIE CIAO
Re: [expert-it] MandrakeUpdate che non parte
On Friday 15 June 2001 14:48, Ghiro wrote: Mi sapreste dire come posso provare a farlo partire da riga di comando? Grazie ancora. MandrakeUpdate sperando ti dia qualche messaggio d'errore significtivo bye -- Devil Inside Experiment - C'era un bambino che odiava la polizia www.acidlife.com/~freefred Davide Banda Partial Arts [2000] - http://62.149.147.100/~freefred ICQ uin 5887365 - PGP key available on keyservers
Re: [expert-it] MandrakeUpdate che non parte
Il 10:57, venerdì 15 giugno 2001, hai scritto: On Friday 15 June 2001 14:48, Ghiro wrote: Mi sapreste dire come posso provare a farlo partire da riga di comando? Grazie ancora. MandrakeUpdate sperando ti dia qualche messaggio d'errore significtivo bye ecco l'errore: MandrakeUpdate: error while loading shared libraries: libcurl.so.1: cannot load shared object file: No such file or directory avete idea di che cosa posso fare? -- =--Ghiro--
[expert-it] modem!
hello! come e' possibile far capire a linux mandrake 8.0 che posseggo un modem USB? sono in grossa crisi! grazie ciao! AIUTATEMI vi prego! Aldo
Fwd: Re: [expert] two problems. one with kcontrol one with shared memory usage
Problem is still active also I tried booting in console mode, it shows 12mb free mem but again no shared memory 0kb. A kernel problem or something??Any help? Thanks... Orkunt From: Blaise St-Laurent [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Orkunt Sabuncu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] two problems. one with kcontrol one with shared memory usage Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 12:33:57 -0400 On Wednesday 13 June 2001 09:32, you wrote: Hi folks, I have just installed LM8.0 on my PC. It can be really slow (P 200 48mb ram) compared to newer PCs but I was really expecting better performance from LM8.0. I hate to say this, but if you are intending to run KDE, and (i'm assuming) you are running XFree 4.0.x, then 48 Mb of ram just won't cuting it for anything serious. XFree is using 42Mb on my system alone. Add to that another 10Mb for Kdeinit, 5 for the windowmanager, and you're in swap land faster than you can open a Konsole. I am using KDE as a desktop manager. when i use top i see that nearly all of the ram is used. At first I thought it is in fact sharing the memory but using top also says 0Kb for shared memory usage. I think it is quite strange. that is rather strange. Have you done anything strange in your configuration? how much swap do you have on the box? I usually register anywhere from 9 Mb to 2 Mb per app... related with this when i open a application lets say konsole and close it, the next time i open it i expect it loads faster but in fact it is not. It waits just as the first opening maybe more. This is quite related with shared memory usage i think. What are ur comments, I know KDE things are resource eaters but as i said i amexpecting more from it in terms of performance. You're probably right. A possible hypothesis is that since you are running entirely out of the swap memory, you won't see any noticeable performance increase. This is the first problem, the second one happened after i changed font settings in KDE control application. I installed tahoma windows font and set it to all font places where i see helvetica in Kcontrol. It worked. But maybe related maybe not after that i cannot run KDE control application from panel. It gives SIGSEGV signal , but from terminal it works ok.. strange.. I searched some logs (i think it was .xsessionerrors log); there were lines related with kcontrol saying DCOP communication error. though it wouldn't surprise me if this was related to the lack of memory, i don'thave a good answer for this. _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: [expert] Gimp crashes in LM 8.0
Hi, Steve, The package name is mandrake_desk-8.0-12.1mdk I use the mirror ftp.simauria.upv.es, but must be in other mirrors too. I thing this update is important, but maybe that isn't the problem. Try updating mandrake_desk and reinstalling gimp from CD. Salu2, Oscar. Steve Kieu wrote: Hi, I dont run Nautilus, I run Gnome + Sawfish + gmc (it is IMHO more convenient than Nautilus ..) I can not find the updated package Mandrake-desktop. In my mirror at ftp.clear.net.nz in the update directory there is nothing there like Mandrake-desktop so it is only in the cdrom I got. Regards --- Oscar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do not use Nautilus as desktop manager in gnome. Or use MandrakeUpdate to update Mandrake-desktop. I received this message from Mandrake Linux Update Advisory: Mandrake Linux Update Advisory Package name: mandrake_desk Date: June 13th, 2001 Advisory ID:MDKA-2001:010 Affected versions: 8.0 Problem Description: A problem existed with the default GTK theme for Mandrake Linux 8.0 that would cause some applications like gfloppy, xcdroast, and the GIMP to crash. This update corrects the problem with the theme. Salu2, Oscar. El Jue 14 Jun 2001 11:23, escribiste: Hi, I tried to run in the xterm to see any messages; here is [sk@steve sk]$ gimp [1] 1592 [sk@steve sk]$ LibGimp-WARNING **: script-fu: wire_read: unexpected EOF [1]+ Segmentation fault gimp It happens whenever I click the draw ink or dot pecil etc.. in the tool box. Strange ! How to fix it? may be reinstall it from CD rom? Regards, Steve = S.KIEU ___ __ http://messenger.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Messenger - Voice chat, mail alerts, stock quotes and favourite news and lots more! = S.KIEU _ http://messenger.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Messenger - Voice chat, mail alerts, stock quotes and favourite news and lots more!
Re: [expert] Playing Music CDs on LM8
Hello all, Hello George, Sound is working fine, and I can play MP3s stored on a CD from either drive. I can even rip CDs. Also, when I place a music CD in the CDRW, and start kscd, it looks like the CD is playing (the indicator light flashes) and the display in KSCD says it it playing, but no sound. Any ideas? I guess it´s more a hardware problem than a LM problem. Do you have another OS for comparison which plays AudioCDs? Maybe your CDRW and DVD-ROM are not connected properly with your audio card via an audio cable or maybe the connector has loosened a bit. You need a direct connection between your sound card and your disc drives Sounds a bit silly but I´d give it a try. Regards Tim
Re: [expert] Playing Music CDs on LM8
Agree with Tim Deessen. Also check the mixer settings :) Salu2, Oscar. George Abdo wrote: Hello all, I asked for help on another forum, but unfortunately could not get a working answer. I have a Compaq Presario 5000 (PIII) with a CDRW and a DVDROM. I have been unable to play music CDs from either drive. This is a basic LM8 install. (I have only upgraded Mozilla) Sound is working fine, and I can play MP3s stored on a CD from either drive. I can even rip CDs. Also, when I place a music CD in the CDRW, and start kscd, it looks like the CD is playing (the indicator light flashes) and the display in KSCD says it it playing, but no sound. Any ideas? Thanks George
Re: [expert] Unknown partiton table
- Original Message - From: John Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 6:06 AM Subject: RE: [expert] Unknown partiton table -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You are using fdisk from Windoze/Dos?!?! Why? Because: 1. With a brand new disk, fdisk from LM7.1 would segfault. 2. Someone on this list suggested it. 3. The tactic worked What I did was use a Win98 startup disk to boot the machine. Then, using FDISK from that startup disk, I created one primary partition, encompassing the whole disk. Then, rebooting from the first hard drive (SCSI) I was able then to use fdisk from LM7.1 to delete the partition from /dev/hdc and create Linux ext2 partitions the way I wanted them.
Re: [expert] Getting kwrite to print with CUPS?
On Friday 15 June 2001 00:32, Hoyt wrote: I'm using kwrite 2.0 and CUPS in Mabdrake 8.0. My prointer is correctly set up (I can test print), but can't get kwrite to print. There are no printers shown in the drop down list and the printer command is lpr -P%p -#%c. Isn't it different for CUPS? How should I configure kwrite to print? Hoyt Change the command to qtcups. -- Regards, Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[expert]IP Address and Apache
Hi all, I just installed LM 8 and basically it's great. But there are some problems I could not solve yet even searching in all possible archives and support sites. My environment: ADSL Router (Zyxel) which connects to the wan and, as dhcp server, leases ip addresses to our little lan consisting of two macs and my linux-box. the lan is connected by an ethernet hub. problem: When booting the linux box, it says no ip-address found, starting httpd fails (beginning with mod_perl, then all other apache-thinghs, and the ftp-deamon as well). Trying to start the apache manually after booting fails. facts: the two macs have no problems to get their ip-addresses from the dhcp-server/ router. silly: i can access websites with the browser with no problem, which means that my machine knows the ip's of the name servers of my isp, and this information comes from the router/dhcp-server as well. anyone a good idea? cheers peter
Re: [expert] / gets smaller and smaller !
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 20:01, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: I just rebootd out server, and noticed something really odd. the root partition was full before the reboot, showing 100% in use, and no free sectors in "df" . After reboot, it says its only 20% full (!) but I noticed that its creeping back up, its now at 38%, and free sectors decreasing! The machine has Mandrake 7.1 on it, and has 5 disks - 2 IDE, 3 SCSI. The SCSI disks are mounted to the root partition, like mount /dev/sda1 /scsi1 mount /dev/sdb1 /scsi2 mount /dev/sdc1 /scsi3 Any ideas? Many thanks, -turgut Just a thought, but a reboot usually clears /tmp files (can't remeber when Mandrake started with that, I noticed it in 7.-point-something though). If /tmp is mounted under root maybe something is writing there? Another thought is have you got the mother of all logging happening (webserver, squid, etc) and the cron job at startup is rotating it out
Re: [expert] / gets smaller and smaller !
Actually, I have everything in other partitions, so the / partition should, in theory, not grow at all. I have /usr , /var , /home in other partitions. Even /tmp is at /var/tmp.. Really odd.. -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr All of Turkey Online: http://find.egenet.com.tr I just rebootd out server, and noticed something really odd. the root partition was full before the reboot, showing 100% in use, and no free sectors in df . After reboot, it says its only 20% full (!) but I noticed that its creeping back up, its now at 38%, and free sectors decreasing! The machine has Mandrake 7.1 on it, and has 5 disks - 2 IDE, 3 SCSI. The SCSI disks are mounted to the root partition, like mount /dev/sda1 /scsi1 mount /dev/sdb1 /scsi2 mount /dev/sdc1 /scsi3 Any ideas? Many thanks, -turgut Just a thought, but a reboot usually clears /tmp files (can't remeber when Mandrake started with that, I noticed it in 7.-point-something though). If /tmp is mounted under root maybe something is writing there? Another thought is have you got the mother of all logging happening (webserver, squid, etc) and the cron job at startup is rotating it out
Re: [expert] Playing Music CDs on LM8
Thanks for those who replied. The summary of the suggestions were: 1) check permission in the /dev/cdrom... 2) check to see if the audio is connected on the cdrom for the permissions: I have: lrwxrwxrwx1 root root4 Jun 10 00:11 cdrom - scd0 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root3 Jun 10 00:11 cdrom2 - hddb I also can't play audio cds when logged in as root. as for the audio, playing music cds in WinME is fine so I'd say the audio cables are ok. I had a look at the mixer (kmix) and everything looks as it should. Hopefully these would shed some light. George On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 20:11, Oscar wrote: Agree with Tim Deessen. Also check the mixer settings :) Salu2, Oscar. George Abdo wrote: Hello all, I asked for help on another forum, but unfortunately could not get a working answer. I have a Compaq Presario 5000 (PIII) with a CDRW and a DVDROM. I have been unable to play music CDs from either drive. This is a basic LM8 install. (I have only upgraded Mozilla) Sound is working fine, and I can play MP3s stored on a CD from either drive. I can even rip CDs. Also, when I place a music CD in the CDRW, and start kscd, it looks like the CD is playing (the indicator light flashes) and the display in KSCD says it it playing, but no sound. Any ideas? Thanks George
Re: [expert] Getting kwrite to print with CUPS?
On Friday 15 June 2001 02:49 am, Phil may or may not have written: On Friday 15 June 2001 00:32, Hoyt wrote: I'm using kwrite 2.0 and CUPS in Mabdrake 8.0. My printer is correctly set up (I can test print), but can't get kwrite to print. There are no printers shown in the drop down list and the printer command is lpr -P%p -#%c. Isn't it different for CUPS? How should I configure kwrite to print? Change the command to qtcups. I have some progress, at least now I get unsupported option errors about the print string: qtcups -P%p -#%c I have to confess total ignorance about printing. Hoyt
Re: [expert] Getting kwrite to print with CUPS?
Just use the command xpp, you will get a windows with all the cups printers avalaibles Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) El Vie 15 Jun 2001 15:13, escribiste: On Friday 15 June 2001 02:49 am, Phil may or may not have written: On Friday 15 June 2001 00:32, Hoyt wrote: I'm using kwrite 2.0 and CUPS in Mabdrake 8.0. My printer is correctly set up (I can test print), but can't get kwrite to print. There are no printers shown in the drop down list and the printer command is lpr -P%p -#%c. Isn't it different for CUPS? How should I configure kwrite to print? Change the command to qtcups. I have some progress, at least now I get unsupported option errors about the print string: qtcups -P%p -#%c I have to confess total ignorance about printing. Hoyt
Re: [expert] Networking Expert needed!
Bob Puff@NLE wrote: HI Pierre, Thanks for the reply. Ok, here's a little more detail: DSL ISP: Machine IP: 64.65.206.24 Netmask: 255.255.255.0 (I actually have 32 IPs, but that's the mask they say to use, and it does work properly, even if I ping machines outside my own network, yet within that netmask.) Gateway IP: 64.65.206.1(which apparently is an alias for 64.65.210.162) Actually, the gw is a [Cisco] router whose primary address is .162 and you are connected to the .1 port... atm1-2-5-1004-roc-ext-cisco.choiceone.net (64.65.210.162) T1 ISP: Machine IP: 208.178.159.66 Netmask: 255.255.255.224 (I have 16 IPs) Gateway IP: 208.178.169.65 (which is my t1 router: 208.49.135.222) Topology (you were real close!): 64.65.206.24-- DSL ISP216.153.135.10 (netmask 255.255.255.0) eth1 / |(a remote user on the same ISP) LM7.1 | eth3 \ | 208.178.159.66 -- T1 ISP In this example, the box at 216.153.135.10 cannot see 64.65.206.24. So... from say 64.65.210.162, ping 64.65.206.24 is seen by LM7.1 and reply goes out T1; but reply is not seen by 64.65.210.162... if so, read on... Most likely yes. Also note from my other message that a TCPDUMP shows an error packet returning to me from 216.153.135.10, saying Admin prohibit filter or something like that. Yes... noticed that in your subsequent post. The IP addresses you have on the DSL boxes are not subject to the following: Without specific addresses, I can only suspect you are experiencing the rule which states: a packet from netX cannot be routed through netY and back to netX [EXCEPT if the final destination is netZ]* * the exception is not written up anywhere that I know of; but I did discover it circa 1989. Really? If that indeed is the case, then how do people that have multiple providers handle this situation? Between classless routing and proper network design, this is usually not a problem. That said, I'd wager that less than 1/10th of 1% of the ISP staffs remember this assuming they've even heard of it... I had to raise the possibility because this is very subtle possibility and without your other addressses, it was easy to conjure up a scenario where 216.153.135.10 *could* have been in the 64.65... space; but that's not the problem (WHEW! :^) Not too many ISP know how to properly apply traffic and/or route filters; they often apply what looks fine only to miss some subtle point... sounds like this is the case here. The ISP very likely will not tell you how the filters are setup, let alone let you pass that info to this list. Your best option is to give them the above topology info, admin packet contents and ask them politely to either fix it or contact Cisco's TAC for help... Oh... and don't keep any odd route entries you might have added during your debugging; make sure everything is as it should be (minimal route entries and defaults) so that you avoid complicating the process. Sounds to me like you have all the skills needed to sort this out; but your ISP is in need of help... :^) Bob HTH, Pierre
Re: [expert] Playing Music CDs on LM8
The summary of the suggestions were: 1) check permission in the /dev/cdrom... 2) check to see if the audio is connected on the cdrom for the permissions: I have: lrwxrwxrwx1 root root4 Jun 10 00:11 cdrom - scd0 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root3 Jun 10 00:11 cdrom2 - hddb I also can't play audio cds when logged in as root. as for the audio, playing music cds in WinME is fine so I'd say the audio cables are ok. I had a look at the mixer (kmix) and everything looks as it should. Be carefull! The Windows Media Player extracts the AudioCDs digitally, so it plays AudioCDs inserted in drives NOT connected to the soundcard via audio analog cable. (I've got such a not connected CDROM because there weren't any free connectors on my soundcard left.) Have you tried the old Windows CD-Player (cd32.exe, I think)? Best way to be sure: Open your PC and take a look. I'm pretty sure it´s the cable. Regards Tim
[expert] LinuxConf
Has anyone tried to use LinuxConf on LM8 to try and configure anything on your machine and find it does not work? For example, I always used LinuxConf to set up my ppp connections--now they simply will not dial. If I use the DrakConf tool I can connect. Since I am doing multi-link and kppp does not seem to have that option I need to use LinuxConf. Same with nic setup, no go under LC, but using DrakConf works ok. Any thoughts? -Scott
[expert] mounting a tape!
Did anyone succeed in NFS sharing a tape and mounting that share from another machine? I'm trying to make a backup from a machine that doesnt have a tape drive to another, that does. I have the tape in EXPORTS, but I get not a directory blurb when I try to mount it; it seems I need to first mount that tape locally on the machine that has the tape; but it refuses to be mounted as well :) any ideas how? Thanks, -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr All of Turkey Online: http://find.egenet.com.tr
Re[2]: [expert] Unknown partiton table
David C. Hoos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: John Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 6:06 AM Subject: RE: [expert] Unknown partiton table -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You are using fdisk from Windoze/Dos?!?! Why? Because: 1. With a brand new disk, fdisk from LM7.1 would segfault. 2. Someone on this list suggested it. 3. The tactic worked What I did was use a Win98 startup disk to boot the machine. Then, using FDISK from that startup disk, I created one primary partition, encompassing the whole disk. Then, rebooting from the first hard drive (SCSI) I was able then to use fdisk from LM7.1 to delete the partition from /dev/hdc and create Linux ext2 partitions the way I wanted them. Well, that implies that my dd trick should have worked also. If anyone else has that problem I'd be really curious if 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdx count=1 ibs=512' makes it work (obviously, you have to try this instead of using dos fdisk ;-) BEWARE - be SURE you get that x right or you just creamed the MBR of that other drive! rc Rusty E. Carruth Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: (480) 345-3621 SnailMail: Schlumberger ATE ___ FAX: (480) 345-8793 7855 S. River Parkway, Suite 116 \e/ Ham: N7IKQ @ 146.82+,pl 162.2 Tempe, AZ 85284-1825V ICBM: 33 20' 44N 111 53' 47W http://tuxedo.org/~esr/ecsl/index.html
Re: [expert] Playing Music CDs on LM8
On Sat, 16 Jun 2001 00:37, Tim Dreessen wrote: --snip-- as for the audio, playing music cds in WinME is fine so I'd say the audio cables are ok. I had a look at the mixer (kmix) and everything looks as it should. Be carefull! The Windows Media Player extracts the AudioCDs digitally, so it plays AudioCDs inserted in drives NOT connected to the soundcard via audio analog cable. (I've got such a not connected CDROM because there weren't any free connectors on my soundcard left.) Have you tried the old Windows CD-Player (cd32.exe, I think)? Best way to be sure: Open your PC and take a look. I'm pretty sure it´s the cable. Regards Tim Thanks Tim, You were right. There are no audio cables sticking out of the drives. I would not have guessed it, because under windows, Audio and DVD cds play fine. Well, all I have to do now is locate the audio jack on the all-in-one mother baord I've got in this machine. If anything, I'll be calling Compaq to see if they will point me in the right direction to connect the cables. Thanks for the help. George
Re: [expert] LinuxConf
I haven't had problems with linuxconf because I haven't been using it - because I dislike the ncurses interface. What ever happened to the gtk-based interface? I used to do linuxconf and get the nice gui but now all I get is the ugly (doesn't display well at all for some reason) text-based interface. On Friday 15 June 2001 10:56, you wrote: Has anyone tried to use LinuxConf on LM8 to try and configure anything on your machine and find it does not work? For example, I always used LinuxConf to set up my ppp connections--now they simply will not dial. If I use the DrakConf tool I can connect. Since I am doing multi-link and kppp does not seem to have that option I need to use LinuxConf. Same with nic setup, no go under LC, but using DrakConf works ok. Any thoughts? -Scott
Re: [expert] LinuxConf
On Friday 15 June 2001 10:56 am, Scott may or may not have written: Has anyone tried to use LinuxConf on LM8 to try and configure anything on your machine and find it does not work? For example, I always used LinuxConf to set up my ppp connections--now they simply will not dial. If I use the DrakConf tool I can connect. Since I am doing multi-link and kppp does not seem to have that option I need to use LinuxConf. Same with nic setup, no go under LC, but using DrakConf works ok. I had this same experience with networking; linuxconf would not work, drakxconf does. Hoyt
[expert] Getting rpm database back
Yesterday, I ran into problems after trying to upgrade my 4.0.2 rpm to 4.0.3. I could do things like rpm -qi some rpm name or rpm -qa |grep some word but if I tried to remove or install any rpm, it would segfault. This was a big problem - making it impossible to simply go back to the previous rpm via rpm. I downloaded the source tarball for rpm-4.0.2 and built and installed it. Now it works as it should BUT I have lost all my rpm database entries. Running rpm --rebuilddb doesn't do anything. Is there no way to regain my rpm database? I REALLY need to remove some things as I am running out of space on my harddrive.
[expert] Mandrake 8: shell completion problem
Hi We're running Mandrake 8 (i586) and we noticed that the shell (tcsh in a KDE terminal) completion just does not work fully; ie: there's often one subdirectory missing in the completion list, as if the shell just ignore it. Just to mention: we did not such a problem with mandrake 7.2 I've searched a lot of troobleshooting resources but sees nothing that relate to that. Is there anyone that have encountered the same problem? And is there a fix for that? Thanks, Emmanuel -- * * |Il faut avoir un chaos en soi-même pour accoucher d'une | |étoile qui danse. (Friedrich Nietzsche) | *-*---* | Emmanuel Dumont | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Digits 'n Art Software Inc. | voice: (514) 844-8448| | 305 De la Commune O., Suite 100 | fax : (514) 844-8844| | Montreal, Quebec, Canada H2Y 2E1| www : www.DnASoft.com | *-*---*
Re: Re[2]: [expert] Unknown partiton table
Well... actually, the dd trick didn't work. I tried it, and it showed one record in and one record out, but linux fdisk still segfaulted. - Original Message - From: Rusty Carruth [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 10:12 AM Subject: Re[2]: [expert] Unknown partiton table David C. Hoos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: John Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 6:06 AM Subject: RE: [expert] Unknown partiton table -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You are using fdisk from Windoze/Dos?!?! Why? Because: 1. With a brand new disk, fdisk from LM7.1 would segfault. 2. Someone on this list suggested it. 3. The tactic worked What I did was use a Win98 startup disk to boot the machine. Then, using FDISK from that startup disk, I created one primary partition, encompassing the whole disk. Then, rebooting from the first hard drive (SCSI) I was able then to use fdisk from LM7.1 to delete the partition from /dev/hdc and create Linux ext2 partitions the way I wanted them. Well, that implies that my dd trick should have worked also. If anyone else has that problem I'd be really curious if 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdx count=1 ibs=512' makes it work (obviously, you have to try this instead of using dos fdisk ;-) BEWARE - be SURE you get that x right or you just creamed the MBR of that other drive! rc Rusty E. Carruth Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: (480) 345-3621 SnailMail: Schlumberger ATE ___ FAX: (480) 345-8793 7855 S. River Parkway, Suite 116 \e/ Ham: N7IKQ @ 146.82+,pl 162.2 Tempe, AZ 85284-1825V ICBM: 33 20' 44N 111 53' 47W http://tuxedo.org/~esr/ecsl/index.html
[expert] Weird Linux CD-ROM Problem
Ok...this is a fairly strange problem that I don't even know how to begin fixing. I have Linux Mandrake 8.0 installed on my Thinkpad i1400 laptop. I initially had problem installing off of a CD that a friend burned for me, but I attributed this to a bad downloaded iso image and I downloaded the install straight to my hard drive and installed from the hard drive. Now, I think that the cd is really not corrupted and is related to a problem with my cd-rom operating in Linux. So, after working out most of the kinks in my system, I have really started to use it. My first problem relating to the CD drive has to do with a CD that I had filled with my favorite mp3 songs. In windows, this cd always played fine in Winamp and the songs worked great. However, I noticed that, in Linux, the majority of the songs get cut off anywhere from 30% to 90% of the way through. XMMS just stops playing. KDE Media player also stops in the same spot (Interesting note though, If I fast forward past that spot, the mp3 continues to play fine). I thought that the songs must have been corrupted when they were burned onto the cd, but, like I said, they work fine in windows off of the cd. To try to see if it was a corruption problem, I did a diff on one of the songs that I had on the cd with an identical song on my hard drive. The diff encountered an I/O error when it tried to do the compare. I then tried copying the song to the hard drive from the cd, but the copy stalled at about the same % as the song would stop playing in XMMS and I got a copy error. If I copy the song in windows to the hard drive, then go back into linux and do a diff, the two songs are identical. Also, the copied song plays without error. A similar problem occurs with rpm's. If I try the original burned Linux cd from my friend, most rpm's (but not all) return an error in rpmdrake. However, if I try to install the rpm from the hard drive, everything goes fine. What could be causing this problem??? I'm absolutely clueless as to how to proceed. Any help is much appreciated.
[expert] I can't hear wav and mp3 but I can reproduce beeps and cd-audio whats wrong???
Well I have xmms and I tried to hear mp3 on it but the mp3 reproduce it without sound, the same for wavs...only cd's and beeps work... I have a Sis 7018 sound chipset in a laptop with LM8 (the mixer alsamixer is all items up) Any suggestions?
[expert] Upgrading Glibc 2.1 to Glibc 2.2
Has anyone accomplished this easily? Is there a doc on the web somewhere? -- Albert E. Whale - http://www.abs-comptech.com/aewhale.html -- ABS Computer Technology, Inc. - Computer Networking Specialists Sr. Network, OpenView and Systems Consultant ANCE Managed Services, Inc. - http://www.ancegroup.com Vice President
[expert] ICP RAID Controller Detection
I'm attempting to install LM8.0 (just brought off the shelf) on a new server. The server is configed as follows: Dual 1Ghz Coppermine CPU's 9 180Gb Seagate Baracuda SCSI drives 1 internal IBM 9Gb SCSI drive 1 Onboard Adaptec aic7899 SCSI controller 1 ICP-Vortes GDT6513RS RAID Controller I've to the 9 180's in a RAID 5 array that was set up using the ICP BIOS on the card. It configured and built the array successfully. When installing LM8.0 I can't see the array (SDB). After install, using the Mandrake Control Center I can see that Harddrake autodetected a generic RAID controller which can see the array, but am unable to format/partition/anything it. It also claims the array is 99% used and is all grayed out. When installing other linux flavors, i.e. Caldera, I used an insmod gdth to allow the OS to see the array, but again, was unable to format/partition/mount it successfully. This ICP controller makes the RAID appear as a single large SCSI device to the OS. On a side note, the hardware is functioning properly with each other and the array is successfully built. A win2k ASE install both detected and was able to repartition/format the array. As win2k is useless to this is not a solution. Any suggestions? -Neil Fasteen
[expert] wv* problems
Ever since installing Mdk8, I can't use the wv* programs, such as wvHtml. When using it on a file, the whole system grinds to a halt, with this message repeated over and over: wvError: (./text.c:400) iconv failed errno: 84, to:iso-8859-15 from:UCS-2 Does anyone know what this means and/or how to solve it? TIA Jesper
[expert] 3 Hard-drive problems
Below follow three problems I've had since I installed Mdk8. Sorry to post them all in the same message, but I don't know whether or not they are related. What I did during the installation was to change (all partitions but one) to ReiserFS. But I did no repartitioning, just changed the FS from Ext2. 1. The harddrive is very slow, compared to before. A rough estimate is 3-5 times slower when reading from disk. This is also true on fairly small files, which I expected to benefit from using ReiserFS. 2. Using hdparm on the drive has no perceptible change whatsoever. I have fiddled with all the ususal settings to improve my disappointing performance, but with no effect. Doesn't hdparm work with Reiserfs? 3. The size of one of the partitions is incorrectly estimated by df. df says this: used: /dev/hda6 126M 80M 46M 64% /home but du -sh /home says this: 52M /home There seems to be about 30M missing, and this has been th case since installing. Could someone help me shed some light on these issues? TIA Jesper p.s. Here follows my /etc/fstab, if useful: /dev/hda8 / reiserfs defaults 1 1 /dev/hda5 /boot ext2 noatime 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home reiserfs defaults 1 2 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat user,exec,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0
[expert] GRUB
How do I modify the default (top listed) operating system in GRUB? Or better yet, how can I get rid of GRUB in favor of better boot loaders? If I were to use another boot loader/manager instead of GRUB, what command or program do I have to pass control to on the Linux partition to get it to continue loading... (like for DOS based, it's IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS, and in NT it's a BOOT loader app that uses BOOT.INI). What is the process for Linux??? Jason winmail.dat
Re: [expert] GRUB
So sprach Jason am Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 02:29:45PM -0700: How do I modify the default (top listed) operating system in GRUB? It's all in /boot/grub Or better yet, how can I get rid of GRUB in favor of better boot loaders? You can't - GRUB is the best. If I were to use another boot loader/manager instead of GRUB, what command or program do I have to pass control to on the Linux partition to get it to continue loading... (like for DOS based, it's IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS, and in NT it's a BOOT loader app that uses BOOT.INI). What is the process for Linux??? I don't understand you. Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com | http://www.iso-top.de iso-top.de - Die günstige Art an Linux Distributionen zu kommen Uptime: 10 hours 18 minutes
[expert] Strange install problem
All; I'm in the process of re-loading a older box. The intent is to extend the life of an older computer by using it as a firewall device. (it's an older Pentium 75). I've been running linux of varied flavors on it for years. I had LM 8.0 on it before, so I know it works. But this time, it fails to load. What happens is: I go through the first part of the install process, and through the software selection. It then loads the software. At the end of that, it pops up a window proclaiming an ldonfig error, and kicks me back to the disk partitioning window. (note: the disks were already partitioned, or it couldn't have loaded the software...). I'm baffled (which isn't hard to do actually..). The only thing that MAY be different this time is the way I was using LVM. I partitioned the disks (there are 2 of them) as: Disk0 1 128MB primary for / 2 256 MB for swap 3 extended Disk1 Not partitioned. Using LVM to create a single Volume Group encasing partition 3 on disk0, and all of disk1. Then set up logical volumes for: /usr /var /tmp . . . etc. I've run /usr under LVM in the past without problem, so I don't understand the problem. Does anyone have any suggestions? If you need more detail, let me know , and I'll send it along. Thanks!!! Ric
Re: [expert] Mandrake 8: shell completion problem
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi We're running Mandrake 8 (i586) and we noticed that the shell (tcsh in a KDE terminal) completion just does not work fully; ie: there's often one subdirectory missing in the completion list, as if the shell just ignore it. Just to mention: we did not such a problem with mandrake 7.2 I've searched a lot of troobleshooting resources but sees nothing that relate to that. Is there anyone that have encountered the same problem? And is there a fix for that? completion is rather smart... for instance, if you are trying to complete to an executable, it won't display those that don't have x permissions... is that your problem? Pierre
Re: [expert] mounting a tape!
REgret to inform you: You cannot export, and mount, a tape device like that. It's a block device, not a character device. There are however utilities out there that will allow you to acces the drive on a remote server. Most any of the better distributed back-up agents will alow this (Amanda comes to mind). If you're desperate, try accessing it via tar: tar -cvf tape_host:/dev/sd0 /home (assuming /dev/sd0 to be the tape device, and /home being the directory to be backed up. If you want to do regular backups, look into the backup agents. You set them up on all the workstations, set up the server, and then just remember to change the tapes on a regular basis. Ric Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: Did anyone succeed in NFS sharing a tape and mounting that share from another machine? I'm trying to make a backup from a machine that doesnt have a tape drive to another, that does. I have the tape in EXPORTS, but I get not a directory blurb when I try to mount it; it seems I need to first mount that tape locally on the machine that has the tape; but it refuses to be mounted as well :) any ideas how? Thanks, -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr All of Turkey Online: http://find.egenet.com.tr
[expert] kernel compile problem
Hi all, I successfully compiled the 2.4.5 kernel and rebooted. Then I went into xconfig, changed 1 option and went thru the same process. Now I get - Loading 245 Uncompressing linux... Ran out of input data -- System halted. It does this for all of my kernels (2.4.3). (I have my 2.4.5 kernel in a seperate location). Fortunately, I have a boot disk so I'm not toast. Can anyone steer me back to the path? TIA, Bill.
RE: [expert] GRUB
Thanks for the reply. However, let me ask this a different way...(because I know you have to be able to get rid of GRUB. It's not burned in permanently on the hard drive.) How do I get rid of GRUB so that I can boot directly into Linux again. Without having to select linux. And, another question would be, how do I get rid of GRUB if my LINUX partition is trashed, and I want to boot into WINDOWS only. Without having to select windows in GRUB. Assume I have two computers, each with WINDOWS on the first partition, and LINUX on the second partition, and GRUB as a boot loader on each as well. So one system I want to go back to just WINDOWS, and the other I want to go back to just LINUX, without GRUB on either. I know this should be easy on the LINUX system (can you tell me what to delete - if I delete /boot/grub, then my pc should just boot into Linux?), but on the WINDOWS system, my linux is NOT accessible anymore. How do I get rid of it and allow windows to boot normally??? Thanks!!! Jason -Original Message- From: Alexander Skwar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 2:41 PM To: Jason Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] GRUB So sprach Jason am Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 02:29:45PM -0700: How do I modify the default (top listed) operating system in GRUB? It's all in /boot/grub Or better yet, how can I get rid of GRUB in favor of better boot loaders? You can't - GRUB is the best. If I were to use another boot loader/manager instead of GRUB, what command or program do I have to pass control to on the Linux partition to get it to continue loading... (like for DOS based, it's IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS, and in NT it's a BOOT loader app that uses BOOT.INI). What is the process for Linux??? I don't understand you. Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com | http://www.iso-top.de iso-top.de - Die günstige Art an Linux Distributionen zu kommen Uptime: 10 hours 18 minutes
[expert] CD-ROM messing Linux during initialization... long post...
Hello!
Here we go again... regarding a change off boot devices that I was
trying to do, I started with that setup (I'm using LM8, Linux LM8 is
kernel 2.4.2-20mdk):
/dev/hda (master at IDE0) : 40G Quantum HD, with Win98
/dev/hdb (slave at IDE0) : 4.3 WD HD, with Linux LM8 - ReiserFS
/dev/hdc (master at IDE1) : Creative Labs CD-ROM CDRW 4224
What I wanted (Quantum is ATA 100, WD is ATA33, is slowing my
performance a little):
/dev/hda (master at IDE0) : 40G Quantum HD, with Win98
/dev/hdc (master at IDE1) : 4.3 WD HD, with Linux - ReiserFS
/dev/hdd (slave at IDE1) : Creative Labs CD-ROM CDRW 4224
I had lots of problems when (trying to) changing these devices... erros,
messages of CRC errors... until I noted that when the CD-ROM wasn't
connected at the same IDE that the Linux HD, the system worked...
Is this a bug? If it is... is from Linux, or from ReiserFS? Can be
corrected? Below are some lines from /var/log/message (relevant parts
are marked with * below the line of the error):
Jun 15 20:08:53 orlando kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for
PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
***
^^
!!
By the way... how can I change this??? I want to put my IDE at 66MHz...
Jun 15 20:08:53 orlando kernel: VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
Jun 15 20:08:53 orlando kernel: VP_IDE: chipset revision 16
Jun 15 20:08:53 orlando kernel: VP_IDE: not 100%% native mode: will
probe irqs later
Jun 15 20:08:53 orlando kernel: VP_IDE: VIA vt82c596b (rev 23) IDE
UDMA66 controller on pci00:07.1
Jun 15 20:08:53 orlando kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS
settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
Jun 15 20:08:53 orlando kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS
settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
Jun 15 20:08:53 orlando kernel: hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLlct20 40, ATA DISK
drive
Jun 15 20:08:53 orlando kernel: hdc: ST34321A, ATA DISK drive
Jun 15 20:08:53 orlando kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Jun 15 20:08:53 orlando kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Jun 15 20:08:53 orlando kernel: hda: 78177792 sectors (40027 MB)
w/418KiB Cache, CHS=4866/255/63, UDMA(33)
Jun 15 20:08:53 orlando kernel: hdc: 8404830 sectors (4303 MB) w/128KiB
Cache, CHS=8894/15/63, UDMA(33)
/dev/hda and /dev/hdc are recognized... note that there is no /dev/hdd,
the CD-ROM was with the power cable disconected, but the IDE cable
attached to it caused that mess:
Jun 15 20:08:53 orlando kernel: Partition check:
Jun 15 20:08:53 orlando kernel: hda: hda1 hda2 hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9
Jun 15 20:08:53 orlando kernel: hdc:hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 {
DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Jun 15 20:08:53 orlando kernel: hdc: dma_intr: error=0x84 {
DriveStatusError BadCRC }
DriveStatusError BadCRC }
.
.
.
Jun 15 20:08:53 orlando kernel: hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
SeekComplete Error }
Jun 15 20:08:53 orlando kernel: hdc: dma_intr: error=0x84 {
DriveStatusError BadCRC }
Jun 15 20:08:53 orlando kernel: ide1: reset: success
Jun 15 20:08:53 orlando kernel: hdc6
Jun 15 20:08:53 orlando kernel: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Jun 15 20:08:53 orlando kernel: TCP: Hash tables configured (established
16384 bind 16384)
Everything goes ok from here...
If I'm using that setup
/dev/hda (master at IDE0) : 40G Quantum HD, with Win98
/dev/hdb (slave at IDE0) : Creative Labs CD-ROM CDRW 4224
/dev/hdc (master at IDE1) : 4.3 WD HD, with Linux - ReiserFS
as a workaround, the thing goes ok:
Jun 15 20:20:37 orlando kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for
PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Jun 15 20:20:37 orlando kernel: VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
Jun 15 20:20:37 orlando kernel: VP_IDE: chipset revision 16
Jun 15 20:20:37 orlando kernel: VP_IDE: not 100%% native mode: will
probe irqs later
Jun 15 20:20:37 orlando kernel: VP_IDE: VIA vt82c596b (rev 23) IDE
UDMA66 controller on pci00:07.1
Jun 15 20:20:37 orlando kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS
settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
Jun 15 20:20:37 orlando kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS
settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
Jun 15 20:20:37 orlando kernel: hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLlct20 40, ATA DISK
drive
Jun 15 20:20:37 orlando kernel: hdb: CREATIVE CD-RW RW4224E, ATAPI
CD/DVD-ROM drive
Jun 15 20:20:37 orlando kernel: hdb: set_drive_speed_status: status=0x00 { }
*
Jun 15 20:20:37 orlando kernel: ide0: Drive 1 didn't accept speed
setting. Oh, well.
*
What those messages mean??? Can I fix this???
And beyond that all works fine too...
I'm using Soyo SY-6VBA 133 (Via Apollo chipset)... I don't know if it's
relevant... but is one more info... by the way... my CPU is a Celeron
400MHz, overclocked to 540MHz. My
Re: [expert] Networking Expert needed!
jose orlando t. ribeiro wrote: Hi Pierre, Bob! I hope that everithing is ok now :-) reading a little more about Bob's problem I had some ideas... well, Bob needs two routes, from different ISP's cause he's running a DNS server, which is tne endpoint from both ISP's... I'm not grokking... DNS servers are only endpoints for name resolution queries and there is no requirement for more than one except for redundancy. Bob is fiddling his routing configurations in case his route trough the DSL goes down he can still works trough the ISP coming from the T1. Actually, he wasn't... yet... Bob is a wayout! To discover all the routes from DSL ISP is even easy... that ISP probably is running BGP on his routers... they could configure it to propagate theirs routes to BOB... Bob only needs a router capable of doing BGP (I don't know if a linux router can do this, I think that the cheapest model from Cisco that can do this is the 4700, that has discontinued... by the way cheap in the cisco way... $$$). An easier/cheaper way would be for the ISPs to send him just a default route in a RIP packet. BGP is very complex; eBGP/iBGP needs internal routing protocols to exchange info between non-adjacent BGP nodes... The reason I didn't suggest one-way RIP is that there is no way to detect upstream failures; and even if the ISPs listened to RIP packets from Bob's machine, there is no way to tell him they stopped arriving... Another option might be OSPF; but again one of the more complex protocols. Yet another option is to use per packet load balancing; but with dissimilar speeds, that's problematic... not to mention one link failing would severely impede traffic flow... Now Bob has a new router, doing BGP, he knows ALL routes from the DSL ISP... nothing from that ISP goes to the T1... everything is fine... The T1 is the primary (faster than DSL)... this sounds like trying to avoid becoming a transit network... is that what you are saying...? If so, I didn't hear that being an issue... yet... :^) Besides, without careful configuration, he could end up with 50,000+ routes then, if both ISPs have the same upstream provider, both ISPs could feed him the same routes... then in a dark knight the DSL line goes down... what happens??? BOB stops responding requests coming from the DSL ISP's networks.. the same filtering/anti-spoof problem... can't quite grok this... What I think Bob should do? Register a second DNS, that one with an ip address from the T1 ISP... Bob would respond trough two different networks... Again, DNS has nothing to do with routing or route/packet filtering... Happy End! :-) :^) orlando Pierre PS: I was starting to forget most of my routing expertise slowly coming back... :^)
Re: [expert] L-M 8 and nslookup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 15 June 2001 15:51, Larry Sword wrote: What rpm package has the nslookup program? bind-utils-9.1.1-1mdk.rpm - --james -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7KsZ5B2UIX/PVkc0RAn/4AJ93Eapo31+VqnSCcsSFJF8/eQ+bigCfbwaT fOo0YSQ2tbZae+WAKrPwn+U= =8HAg -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[expert] Modem connections
Hi- I have Mandrake 8 up and running, but I want to get one more thing going. Multi-link using ppp. I have been scanning the net, newsgroups and Google the last few days and have not come up with anything that would help. Multi-link ppp (if your ISP supports it) allows the use of two modems, connect to them and bundle the connections so you can get up to 106K for download speed. I am currently using Windows 2000 as it is built-in. Problem with that is: if one line drops the bundle is broke and the only way to reestablish it is to reboot the machine. I have heard that this is built into the 2.4 kernel and with the version of pppd with LM8. Has anyone tried this or know where some good docs on this are? Has anyone set-up ppp without Kppp, LinuxConf or DrakConf? Thanks in advance. -Scott
Re: [expert] RPM issues
Nope... You're screwed. he heh Ok, there's a way. Go to the rpm site (rpm.com), and get the tar version. Install that in /usr/local/bin Then (while still logged in), re-arange your path to find the new rpm first: export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH Now use the good version of RPM to remove the broken bits, and re-install them. Once they're fixed, log out, and log back in to fix your path, then un-install the /usr/local version of RPM, and you should be back in business. Ric NDBartley wrote: All right boys and girls, I am in a little bit of trouble. When recently trying to update my RPM files I happened to kill rpm. EG: I began to force my way through the 4 rpms for rpm (WHICH I REALLY THINK IS SILLY!), I then got to rpm-devel and found out I needed to update my popt files. So I go get those files after having closed kpackage, and now I can't enter any form of packag instalation system, and rpm itself seg faults @ every use. Now I have all the packages I need to install and get it working, however I can't isntall them as my rpm is dead. Does anyone have any ideas as to what I could do? Thanks, NB
Re: [expert] GRUB
On Friday 15 June 2001 06:57 pm, you methodically organized electrons to state: Thanks! But how do I get Linux to boot once I delete the MBR??? (on the other machine i have) That would be where you would use your boot floppy. You know, the one you should have made. Hoyt
[expert] Playing Music CDs on LM8
Hello all, I asked for help on another forum, but unfortunately could not get a working answer. I have a Compaq Presario 5000 (PIII) with a CDRW and a DVDROM. I have been unable to play music CDs from either drive. This is a basic LM8 install. (I have only upgraded Mozilla) Sound is working fine, and I can play MP3s stored on a CD from either drive. I can even rip CDs. Also, when I place a music CD in the CDRW, and start kscd, it looks like the CD is playing (the indicator light flashes) and the display in KSCD says it it playing, but no sound. Any ideas? Thanks George
[expert] / gets smaller and smaller !
I just rebootd out server, and noticed something really odd. the root partition was full before the reboot, showing 100% in use, and no free sectors in "df" . After reboot, it says its only 20% full (!) but I noticed that its creeping back up, its now at 38%, and free sectors decreasing! The machine has Mandrake 7.1 on it, and has 5 disks - 2 IDE, 3 SCSI. The SCSI disks are mounted to the root partition, like mount /dev/sda1 /scsi1 mount /dev/sdb1 /scsi2 mount /dev/sdc1 /scsi3 Any ideas? Many thanks, -turgut -- EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr All of Turkey Online: http://find.egenet.com.tr
RE: [expert] Unknown partiton table
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You are using fdisk from Windoze/Dos?!?! Why? - -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David C. Hoos Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 6:30 PM To: jose orlando t. ribeiro; Rusty Carruth Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Unknown partiton table Well Windoze is not on this machine. I suppose I can boot up with a Win98 startup disk, e.g., and try your suggestion. I might even find out that there is some useful Micro$oft software, after all! ;) - - Original Message - From: jose orlando t. ribeiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rusty Carruth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 5:26 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Unknown partiton table Ooops! about the fdisk part... I mean... try using the fdisk from DOS/Win9x... the Linux one is failling already ;-) About your sugestion Rusty... I won't say nothing... I'm too new in Linux to understand that king of voodoo :-) By the way, thanks for your help about changing my HD from hdb to hdc... but until now... no success... I think that the damn thing wants a full reinstall... I refuse :-) Rusty Carruth wrote: jose orlando t. ribeiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: david, it seems that your new(?) HD hasn't been formated and doesn't have any partition created (as a new drive should be). Try to use fdisk to create some partition or file-system to make the system happy and let you add your drive. Thats exactly what he did, and it died. A POSSIBILITY, assuming that the other stuff is right (and beware - I have a feeling that needs to be looked at first!) is to simply say 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdc count=1' and that will intialize number zero to zero. But I'd not said that till someone else spoke up saying that the hardware setup looks good... oops, now I've said it! :-) rc Rusty E. Carruth Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: (480) 345-3621 SnailMail: Schlumberger ATE ___ FAX: (480) 345-8793 7855 S. River Parkway, Suite 116 \e/ Ham: N7IKQ @ 146.82+,pl 162.2 Tempe, AZ 85284-1825V ICBM: 33 20' 44N 111 53' 47W http://tuxedo.org/~esr/ecsl/index.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use http://www.pgp.com iQA/AwUBOynsLTwatMAhvaImEQINQQCgykJ5Arw3zRt2D0N/1lw4quhm/e0AoMOw XVRyaQtrSGvQuhTOPkrq3eZf =bikh -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [expert] Program Failure: Tracing the failure
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 05:47:04PM -0400, NDBartley wrote: Hey Guys, I'm attempting to determine why I can't access RPMdrake. I have updated to the newest RPMDrake and it worked great for 3 or 4 hours. Now I'm not sure what I installed during those 4 hours which would cause it not to work, but it just won't work. Now I figured that it might be an issue w/ a configuration script, therefore I tried to initialize the program through a text window (Gives a much better failure readout IMO). Unfortunately all it's telling me is that it had a segmentation fault, and then it dumps the core. Does anyone know of a way to determine where it errored, so I can fix the error? gdb absolute path of RPMdrake core gdb runs... where - it will give you the stack, indicating in which procedure it crashes. I think it will not be easy to understand where and why it crashes. I would REALLY like to use this program again, so I kinda need to figure this out. Thanks, Nelson Bartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Laurent. -- Laurent CREPET -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://megrapet.free.fr/
Re: [expert] 3 Hard-drive problems
On Saturday 16 June 2001 07:23, Jesper Holmberg wrote: Below follow three problems I've had since I installed Mdk8. Sorry to post them all in the same message, but I don't know whether or not they are related. What I did during the installation was to change (all partitions but one) to ReiserFS. But I did no repartitioning, just changed the FS from Ext2. 1. The harddrive is very slow, compared to before. A rough estimate is 3-5 times slower when reading from disk. This is also true on fairly small files, which I expected to benefit from using ReiserFS. 2. Using hdparm on the drive has no perceptible change whatsoever. I have fiddled with all the ususal settings to improve my disappointing performance, but with no effect. Doesn't hdparm work with Reiserfs? 3. The size of one of the partitions is incorrectly estimated by df. df says this: used: /dev/hda6 126M 80M 46M 64% /home but du -sh /home says this: 52M /home There seems to be about 30M missing, and this has been th case since installing. Could someone help me shed some light on these issues? TIA Jesper p.s. Here follows my /etc/fstab, if useful: /dev/hda8 / reiserfs defaults 1 1 /dev/hda5 /boot ext2 noatime 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home reiserfs defaults 1 2 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat user,exec,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0 If you are using a VIA chipset, the slow-down is ftom the disabling of DMA on the ide bus. The Bug was admitted just before we shipped, and we had no time to refine the crippling to the particular bad chip. Reiserfs is iffy in this latest edition. It is really affecting other parts of the kernel, particularly nfs. The only good news is that the notail partitions seem stable (probably no help for the many small files scenario.) But reiser is not generally faster on many small files. the improved storage efficiency ot the system is bought a cost of incredible code complexity. The notail takes much more storage for a host of small files, but will look them up a lot faster, because the data tree structure is not complicated by alien objects. Try installing with kernel-linus-2.4.3-2mdk off the install disk and booting with that. Of course, no reiser partitions but it should be acceptably fast. Or wait for MandrakeFreq scheduled to be out soon for a little more speed, or possibly a lot, and still with Reiser. Civileme
[expert] installed XFree 4.1 from cooker- now no DRI (mga)
I just installed the cooker XFree 4.1 RPMs onto my Mandrake 8.0 system. Went fine, although I had to back out the pam-0.75 install and revert back to pam-0.74 from CD#1 (glibc problem, don't want to update my whole system to cooker). The problem is, I no longer have DRI enabled. I think it is because the DRI versions aren't matching? My G400 was working great with DRI on XF4.0.3, is there a quick way to get it running with XF4.1 or do I have to recompile XF4.1 from source to get a working mga again? I did try to install the binary modules from the Matrox tarball, but they wouldn't install. I'm currently running the 2.4.5-ac14 kernel. -- http://www.bigfoot.com/~brihall Linux Consultant Plasma is another matter.
[expert] RPM issues
All right boys and girls, I am in a little bit of trouble. When recently trying to update my RPM files I happened to kill rpm. EG: I began to force my way through the 4 rpms for rpm (WHICH I REALLY THINK IS SILLY!), I then got to rpm-devel and found out I needed to update my popt files. So I go get those files after having closed kpackage, and now I can't enter any form of packag instalation system, and rpm itself seg faults @ every use. Now I have all the packages I need to install and get it working, however I can't isntall them as my rpm is dead. Does anyone have any ideas as to what I could do? Thanks, NB
Re: [expert] Modem connections
Scott wrote: Hi- I have Mandrake 8 up and running, but I want to get one more thing going. Multi-link using ppp. I have been scanning the net, newsgroups and Google the last few days and have not come up with anything that would help. Multi-link ppp (if your ISP supports it) allows the use of two modems, connect to them and bundle the connections so you can get up to 106K for download speed. I am currently using Windows 2000 as it is built-in. Problem with that is: if one line drops the bundle is broke and the only way to reestablish it is to reboot the machine. I have heard that this is built into the 2.4 kernel and with the version of pppd with LM8. Has anyone tried this or know where some good docs on this are? Has anyone set-up ppp without Kppp, LinuxConf or DrakConf? I've never done this; but man pppd has a fair amount of info on multilink... if no-one else can help, I can try to work this out with you... HTH, Pierre Thanks in advance. -Scott -- Support Linux development: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/donations/ Last reboot reason: 01/03/27: winter storm 6hr power outage
Re: [expert] How to make sure md5ums on download ISOs are ok
Ron, Thanks! Ron Stodden wrote: If you are using Mandrake 7.2, be careful that when your IDE CD is in use nothing else is happening on the same IDE channel as the CDROM. Seems to be fixed in 8.0. I'm using 7.2 (with MandrakeFreq update). How could I check that? In my Bios setup I have only the CDRom drive (reader) as the primary device on the second IDE channel. If you have a second CDROM reader, or access to another PC, try again in that. OK, I need to juggle partitions to get enough free space, or borrow my son's machine. (How come he has the latest machine? ;-) Make sure that the bottom polycarbonate surface is clean and undamaged. Make sure that the top label surface has not been damaged in any way (this is where the recording actually is, just under the label and very vulnerable). Everything looks good! Background: I bought some game CDs Linux games? No, Windows (for my son). and the game fails during one phase of play. The manufacturer is about to say that my CDs must be bad (no scratches, no fingerprints, have had the game for 1 1/2 years with the same problem in two different machines). I want to send him the md5 checksums and have him tell me whether they are right or wrong (before I consider paying $10 each for replacement disks). (Along with information on how to generate an md5 checksum.) Yes, do that! But there should be no charge to replace defective CDROMs within the warranty period. Yeah, but we assumed the old computer was the problem and now the warranty is over. But, it's probably worth a try anyway. PS: Shortly I will probably run some experiments -- burn a CD from an ISO, recreate the ISO from the CD, then compare the checksums, so maybe in a few hours (or days) I'll know the answer. My first experiments didn't quite work -- on my burner machine running Windows, the (windows) md5.exe (md5, md5sum, and md51) commands (tried three) just hang (on a .cif from a different, known good, CD) -- I'm trying again as I write this. (.cif is the image file for Adaptec Easy CD Creator -- I don't know whether I can actually make a .iso with Adaptec -- I'll find out soon, I hope.) This works here. You don't have to recreate the iso file from the CD, you can md5sum directly from /dev/cdrom (unmounted). Hmm, unmounted? Maybe that's my problem. Nope, just umounted and tried again. (It might have automounted somewhere along the line. Anyway, I did umount /mnt/cdrom, then umount /dev/cdrom (which gave not found -- prior to umount /mnt/cdrom it gave device busy), and then repeated the md5sum /dev/cdrom -- same result Input/output error after ~two minutes of spinning. (This is with a different (known good) CD.) Thanks again for your reply! Randy Kramer
[newbie] Router Help
How do I setup my SMC Barricade 4 Port Router on Linux Mandrake? It worksfine on Windows. I just cant figure out for the life of me how to use it onLinux.Any websites or info will help.-Thanks in advance-Alok
Re: [expert] Getting kwrite to print with CUPS?
On Friday 15 June 2001 09:26 am, Nick Thompson may or may not have written: Hoyt, When Phil said make the command qtcups, that's exactly what he meant, so drop the -P and -c options. qtcups does not need options as it will present you with a splendid GUI which will allow you to set more options than you could ever imagine. Wow! Very nice! Excellent work! Thank you. Hoyt
Re: [expert] Networking Expert needed!
jose orlando t. ribeiro wrote: Bob, Pierre is right... But Jose nailed it first! Let's not forget that Bob did a nice job of getting the filter piece of the puzzle... Nice teamwork! [more below] I was trying to trace the other machine (216.153.135.10) but I couldn't... that machine is down or filtered... but, here we go... 64.65.210.2 is your isp's router... 64.65.206.1 is the interface in that router serving as your router... my last hop before 216.153.135.10 was 64.65.210.2... the same guy that works as your router... so your machine 216.153.135.10 to 64.65.206.24... lets do a fictious trace... 216.153.135.10 traceroute 64.65.206.24 120 ms19 ms21 ms 64.65.210.2 219 ms19 ms20 ms 64.65.206.1 322 ms21 ms20 ms 64.65.206.24 (until now everything is ok! your machine replyed... lets continue...) 421 ms25 ms27 ms 208.178.159.66 521 ms32 ms85 ms 208.178.159.65 (we are leaving your network by the T1! oh my god!!!) 632 ms30 ms24 ms 64.65.210.2 (we are close now!!! very close!!! :-) but... your ISP's router says... -Hey!! that packet... it header says it comes from 64.65.206.24! That packet is coming from my network! But... if it's from my network... why it cames from the other ISP's network??? Filter!! Filter!!! The filter says: -Aha!!! A spoof!!! A spoof!! I knew it would happen!!! That freakin' bastard is trying to spoof us! DOS!! DOS! Attacks... I knew it! - Lets see the rules... the rules says... DISCARD!! lets discard the bastard!! We saved the world... So your packets never reach the other machine... Sorry... I know that the answer is colorful... but I need to stay awake... :-))) I just got up... and can say Jose pretty much nailed the scenario... The problem is that most ISPs only understand the concepts, rarely how to apply the remedies... in this case, Bob is obviously NOT the typical end-user. For one, he has TWO routes to the 'net via separate ISPs... Bob, (now that I am slowly shaking off the post-sleep groggyness... :^) you should try to have a meeting or conf call with both ISPs at the same time and have them work out a design which accomodates their anti-spoofing efforts AND allows you to operate your network with the redundancy you are paying for. [Sidebar: each ISP is not getting redundancy revenue directly; BUT *each* is getting your business, so if they argue your redundancy position, ask them if ISP#3 would like ALL your business... :^) ] My SWAG is that this will involve one or both ISPs giving you new IP addresses which will allow your traffic to circumvent their general policy filters (one tier above the home user addresses). They may want to come up with second tier policy filters (may even already have them) to make sure they satisfy their bosses' requirements for anti-spoofing; but that's a problem of the ISPs coordinating their efforts... On another topic, and to avoid future issues, you may also want to consider having the ISPs help you come up with a plan which will allow you to automatically failover to the DSL in the event of a T1 failure. This might involve them feeding you RIP default routes and you running RIP and setting the DSL administratively farther... Don't let them try to charge you for this, or you will charge them for your consulting services... :^D [snipped Bob's reply to mine which was posted before the admin filter info] Good luck, Pierre
Re[2]: [expert] / gets smaller and smaller !
Turgut Kalfaoglu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I have everything in other partitions, so the / partition should, in theory, not grow at all. I have /usr , /var , /home in other partitions. Even /tmp is at /var/tmp.. Really odd.. -turgut Is that by having /tmp be a (soft) link? If not, (and I cannot imagine how it could NOT be! but just in case) if there is a time when /tmp is not 'redirected' and something opens a file there, and then /tmp is somehow 'redirected' then you can get those symptoms. You also get the same symptoms if a process opens a file in the '/' partition somewhere and, while still keeping it open, deletes that file (or if another process deletes it). The file still occupies space on the disk,thus showing up in df, but you cannot find it ANYWHERE because the only reference is inside a program. Once that program exits your space is immediately freed - so one way to see if thats the case is to kill processes one at a time and check free space... Are there ANY directories that are not mounted? And, finally, have you looked for 'hidden' directories? (start with '.')? Just a few shots in the dark... rc Rusty E. Carruth Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: (480) 345-3621 SnailMail: Schlumberger ATE ___ FAX: (480) 345-8793 7855 S. River Parkway, Suite 116 \e/ Ham: N7IKQ @ 146.82+,pl 162.2 Tempe, AZ 85284-1825V ICBM: 33 20' 44N 111 53' 47W http://tuxedo.org/~esr/ecsl/index.html
Re: [expert] Networking Expert needed!
Bob Puff@NLE wrote: I can only suspect you are experiencing the rule which states: a packet from netX cannot be routed through netY and back to netX [EXCEPT if the final destination is netZ]* One more thought. If a http request is made from netX to a machine on netX, and the machine generates reply packets sent thru netY to netX, aren't we talking about two entirely different packets? Or are reply packets somehow tied to their request packet, sort of like what IP MASQing does? Bob Each direction is distinct and separate; though they generally follow the same path. Let's look at some examples... Topology: r2r4s2 || || s1r1r3 1) All in same net: any path combination of [s1r1r2r4s2 | s1r1r3r4s2] -- [s2r4r2r1s1 | s2r4r3r1s1] is valid; ping -R will often show the different paths if r1-r2-r4 has the same routing metric as r1-r3-r4 (unless the flow is nailed to one path; even in this last case, the to and from paths could be different depending on the router implementation. Careful examination of the ping -R outputs is required. 2) All but r3 in same [ABC] net** (your reply example): in classful routing, traffic would NEVER go through r3. In classless/classful combo (ISPs can implement this combo by accident), it depends... All classless, r3 could be used. 3) s1 in netA, r[124] in netB, r3 in netC, s2 in netD (all classful): r3 could handle traffic between s1--s2 because this is covered by the exception... depends on metrics at r[14]. ** Using [ABC] *very* loosely... really mean classful, though not necessarily restricted to /8, /16 or /24 masking... Clear as mud...? :^) Pierre
