[expert] Id x respawning too fast, throttled for 5 minutes
After upgrading a machine to 8.0 (I chose the upgrade button during install), I'm getting this message, Id x respawning too fast the interesting thing is, it's really an x, not an ID number or anything! So, how can I tell which process is respawning too fast? Many 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: [expert] Nvidia Drivers 1.0 and X 4.1.0
Aw man Any idea why or if it will ever work... is it Nvidia's, XFree86's or the kernel's job to fix? I guess I'll downgrade for now... Thanks again, -- Davy Jose M. Sanchez wrote: The Nvidia drivers will not start up with the 2.4.6 kernel... :-( You do need to perform a full power off. 20 secs will do fine.
[expert] Fwd: Upgrading GLIBC-2.1.3-18.3mdk to 2.2.2-5mdk
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Upgrading GLIBC-2.1.3-18.3mdk to 2.2.2-5mdk Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 15:10:44 -0500 From: Craig Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Looking for some insight: I currently have a DNS machine (bind-8.2.3-1.1mdk) serving my network, and I would like to upgrade this server to version bind-9.1.1-1mdk. As you may know, this move would require the glibc-2.2 version to be installed. I am currently running LMDK7.2 with glibc-2.1.3-18.3mdk installed. Because of all of the dependencies that come with the glibc shared libraries, I am reluctant to hack my way through an upgrade of glibc. It should be noted that all of these dependencies are related to other non-bind applications. With this in mind, my query comes down to just a couple of questions: 1) Could I just force the glibc upgrade, or would this break all the other applications that are dependent on the glibc-2.1.3 libraries? (that is to ask, are LMDK7.2 applications even compatible with the newer glibc-2.2?) 2) Would the better approach be to grab the current bind tar ball source off of the bind page, and do my own compile and install? Would this approach even work on a LMDK 7.2 platform? Come to think of it, what is the best way to upgrade glibc files on Linux? Thanks so much for your patience in this matter, and any insight will be most appreciated.. Craig Woods UNIX SA --- Well, Since I didn't get much of a response on this isssue, I'll try another approach. Would someone kindly point me in the direction for obtaining some documentation on why you would prefer a src.rpm file as opposed to a standard .rpm file, and what is it that you do to a src.rpm file. I have looked high and low, and found a plethora of info on building rpms but not much on working with src.rpms. It may come as a surprise to many of the linux users but, after over ten years as a SA (AIX, solaris, HP), I have seldom used rpms (asseverated with tongue in cheek). As always, all assistance is appreciated. Craig Woods UNIX SA
[expert] Dial-up error pppd daemon died expectedly modem settings
This email was delivered to you by The Free Internet, a Business Online Group company. http://www.thefreeinternet.net I wrote earlier about receiving a dial-out error message "pppd daemon died unexpectedly" every time I dial out using either KDE-kppp or Gnome using my Linux Mandrake 7.0 PC and 56k MRI external modem. My \etc\resolv.conf has my ISP's DNS settings. My \etc\ppp\options file previously was just noauth lock I have amended this file tonow look like locknoauthdefaultrouteipcp-accept-remoteipcp-accept-localidle 300 but still receive the "pppd daemon" died error. I have included my Modem's settings in this email (please see below). The only changes I have made are in the Guard Time from 50 to 255 and in the Initialization String by adding D2C1K0M0 after ATZ. This is what my Modem settings look like Device optionsModem Device /dev/ttyS1Flow Control NoneLine Termination CR/LFConnection Speed 57600Use Lock file - disabled (I have tried with Lock File enabled)Modem timeout 600 seconds Modem optionsBusy Wait set to 30 seconds Modem volume set to middle option Modem CommandsPre-Init Delay (sec/100) set to 300Initialization String ATZD2C1K0M0Post-Init Delay (sec/100) set to 300Init response set to OKDial String ATDTConnect Response CONNECTBusy Response BUSYNo Carrier Response NO CARRIERNo Dialtone Response NO DIALTONEHangup String +++ATHHangup Response OKAnswer String ATARing Response RINGAnswer Response CONNECTEscape String +++Escape Response OKGuard Time (sec/50) set to 255Volume off/low/high M0L0 M1L1 M1L4 PPP optionspppd Timeout set to 200 seconds (I have tried using lower values)options enabled are Show Clock, Disconnect X-server, and Minimize Windows I would be grateful if anyone could point out any errors in these Modem settings or anything else that may help me. Minhaz
Re: [expert] Accessing French German ASCII Characters? How?
* Stardate: 2001-07-15 03:51 * Incoming subspace signal from Sevatio [EMAIL PROTECTED] : I'm rewording my question in hopes of getting an answer. LM8.0 question: How do you type out French and German letters that aren't normally available in the English alphabet? -TIA Sevatio Diacritical characters are a problem in Linux I guess. I have tried to get it working in the console and in Midnight Commander, but I didn't find a workable solution yet. There is information on this subject in /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO.html Please let us know if you get it working. -- Best regards, M@X. * Climate Control Psychedelic Soundscapes - http://go.to/cchq/ * Linux Shell Scripts RPM Software Packages - http://go.to/conmen/
[expert] APM
Can someone please help me with the Advanced Power Management as implemented in LM8? I can't find any documentation on this. I want to control my monitor sleep and off timings, and spin down the hard drive after a period of idleness. I know that KDE has a Energy item. I don't use KDE at all, but I have found I can access this GUI control with command 'kcmshell energy'. Of course, this has to run a bunch of KDE resources so is very slow, and I cannot find the config file where these settings are stored to edit it manually. Additionally, the results of using this are unpredictable and not as expected; and seem to affect only the monitor. I found a package called Linux APM Daemon at http://www.worldvisions.ca/~apenwarr/apmd/ - would this work? Thanks, Bob
Re: [expert] netflow-like tool under linux???
jose orlando t. ribeiro wrote: Hi! there is some network tool like Cisco's Netflow for Linux? Dunno... but more importantly, has Cisco not started porting its appls to Linux...? In my days there, the operative phrase was we are foo agnostic, meaning Cisco would generally provide all protocols, interfaces, etc as user choices even if they did not think one was a good solution. It surprises me that you can't get NM apps on Linux... then again, knowing some dirty little secrets; I'm not surprised. Your best bet is to hound them for a Linux port, and lobby other users to do likewise. Sorry I couldn't be of more help. Pierre
Re: FW: [expert] INETD hangs fix
Steve wrote: On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: BTW: This is what I got back [EMAIL PROTECTED] SMTP error from remote mailer after end of data: host mx1.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.129.12]: 554 delivery error: dd Sorry, your message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] cannot be delivered. This account is over quota. - mta539.mail.yahoo.com Yes I've been getting these with each e-mail sent to the newbie list over the past few days. Could one of the e-mail administrators remove this user from the mail-list until they have their account under control?? Maybe it's a conspiracy to keep us from posting as much. g Sadly, I've tried several times to remove this user from the list; but it never seems to take... IIRC, there was another address in some of the headers; trying to remove that also does not help. I've suspected that this address could be the result of another user .forward'ing to dascore... Maybe Denis or whoever is handling the mailer can help...? Pierre -- Cheers, Steve - ICQ 35454764 Toronto
Re: [expert] Accessing French German ASCII Characters? How?
* Stardate: 2001-07-15 23:28 * Incoming subspace signal from Francisco Alcaraz Ariza [EMAIL PROTECTED] : What characters? Diacritic, diacritcal, whatever. I mean something like an n with a ~ on top of it. Like in the spanish nino. have you tried combination with ALTGR?; for example ALTGR + S writes ß in my Spanish keyboard It writes a plain s on my US keyboard. Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) El Dom 15 Jul 2001 23:20, escribiste: * Stardate: 2001-07-15 03:51 * Incoming subspace signal from Sevatio [EMAIL PROTECTED] : I'm rewording my question in hopes of getting an answer. LM8.0 question: How do you type out French and German letters that aren't normally available in the English alphabet? -TIA Sevatio Umm.. correction.. DIACRITIC characters. -- Best regards, M@X. * Climate Control Psychedelic Soundscapes - http://go.to/cchq/ * Linux Shell Scripts RPM Software Packages - http://go.to/conmen/
[expert] Mozilla Toolbar Font Size - How To Change?
I'm using LM8.0 Mozilla 0.9.2 . How do you change the font size on the toolbar? TIA, Sevatio
Re: [expert] Dial-out error message pppd daemon died unexpectedly
Are you able to connect as root? Salu2, óscar. El Dom 15 Jul 2001 14:36, escribiste: I am using Linux Mandrake 7.0 and am having problems dialling out using a US Robotics 56k external modem. I can hear the modem dial out using both Gnome and KDE dial-outs, but I still get the same error - pppd daemon died unexpectedly My etc\ppp\options file says noauth lock and nothing else. My \etc\resolv.conf file says the name of my ISP's DNS and its DNS IP servers and nothing else. I changed my US Robotics 56k modem (which works on my Win98 PC) with a different external modem - an external 56k MRI modem (which works fine on my Linux RedHat 6.1 PC) but still receive this pppd daemon died unexpectedly message. I can use the same ISP on my Linux RedHat 6.1 PC with no problems. Any suggestions would be helpful. Minhaz Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1; name=Adjuntos: 1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description:
Re: [expert] Accessing French German ASCII Characters? How? -- Answer
It's easy. You select the US keyboard (international) in the Mandrake control center - hardware - keyboard. Then you can make use of deadkeys to type characters like ä (single quote followed by a), è (backquote followed by e), é (single quote followed by e), ç (second alt, equals sign, c -- took me a little while to find this one), and ê (shift 6 followed by e). Download xkeycaps if you want to explore it in more detail. -- Stephen On Saturday 14 July 2001 11:51 pm, Sevatio wrote: I'm rewording my question in hopes of getting an answer. LM8.0 question: How do you type out French and German letters that aren't normally available in the English alphabet? -TIA Sevatio
Re: [expert] Running two monitors
On Sunday 15 July 2001 14:13, you wrote: On Saturday 14 July 2001 04:08 pm, Bill Beauchemin may or may not have written: Well that worked except for one thing I cnat get anything to run. I click on something like xterm and it wont come up. Do you get a window manager? Which one do you use? Hoyt I get KDE 2 on both screens. Screen one has all my normal desktop icons, links and the menu bar at the bottom. Screen 2 only has a trash icon and a menu bar at the bottom. Maybe i should try a differant WM like Window Maker. If I need to change managers how do I change to window maker from KDE 2 in Mandrake 8.0? Bill Unemployed Sys. Admin
[expert] Painless Upgrade for LM72 sshd?
All, I've recently installed freq-1 on my client machine. My server is still running LM72. Normally I use ssh for all remote access stuff. However, the newer version of ssh (client) refuses to connect to the older LM72 sshd server. To clarify, I have the following installed: Server openssh-2.2.0p1-7mdk openssh-askpass-2.2.0p1-7mdk openssh-server-2.2.0p1-7mdk openssh-clients-2.2.0p1-7mdk Client openssh-clients-2.9p1-3.1mdk openssh-askpass-2.9p1-3.1mdk openssh-server-2.9p1-3.1mdk openssh-2.9p1-3.1mdk openssh-askpass-gnome-2.9p1-3.1mdk Since the freq-1 version of ssh requires glibc2.2, I cannot simply upgrade the packages on the server. Is there an earlier version of ssh that will install on LM72 but that is compatible with the newer 2.9p1 version of ssh? John LeMay Jr. Senior Enterprise Consultant NJMC, LLC.
Re: [expert] Painless Upgrade for LM72 sshd?
John, A copy of the 2.9.x rpms for Mandrake 7.2 should be available from the 7.2 updates directory on the ftp sites. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 08:19 PM 07/15/2001 -0400, John J. LeMay Jr. wrote: All, I've recently installed freq-1 on my client machine. My server is still running LM72. Normally I use ssh for all remote access stuff. However, the newer version of ssh (client) refuses to connect to the older LM72 sshd server. To clarify, I have the following installed: Server openssh-2.2.0p1-7mdk openssh-askpass-2.2.0p1-7mdk openssh-server-2.2.0p1-7mdk openssh-clients-2.2.0p1-7mdk Client openssh-clients-2.9p1-3.1mdk openssh-askpass-2.9p1-3.1mdk openssh-server-2.9p1-3.1mdk openssh-2.9p1-3.1mdk openssh-askpass-gnome-2.9p1-3.1mdk Since the freq-1 version of ssh requires glibc2.2, I cannot simply upgrade the packages on the server. Is there an earlier version of ssh that will install on LM72 but that is compatible with the newer 2.9p1 version of ssh? John LeMay Jr. Senior Enterprise Consultant NJMC, LLC.
Re: [expert] adding a contrib directory to Software manager
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 04:09:12PM +, civileme wrote: On Sunday 15 July 2001 00:05, Glenn Johnson wrote: How do I go about adding a Mandrake 'contrib' directory on an FTP site to the list of sources for the Software Manager of Mandrake 8.0? Add it as an ftp site named something creative like contrib_site_added What do I do about the path to hdlist? I can add the proper relative path but then Software Manager lists the distribution files as opposed to the contrib files. Thanks. -- Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[expert] Multiple sendings
Why did my previous message generate 3 copys? I replied as usual to reply to all.. Is the mail list messed up?? -- Ken Thompson Payette, Idaho.
Re: [expert] netflow-like tool under linux???
Hello Pierre! Netflow works only under Solaris... maybe under HPUX... I don't have a Sun machine hanging around... much less a HPUX :-) I think that Cisco don't ported NetFlow to Linux (or FreeBSD or any open-source OS) cause they charge a lot for it... at least in Brazil... I think they charge US$30.000 for the software... plus the workstation... plus the consulting firm tha will implement it... nor cheap or fast... I found a tool (cflowd, from caida.org ) that seems to be what I want... I'll try to test it this week... orlando Pierre Fortin wrote: jose orlando t. ribeiro wrote: there is some network tool like Cisco's Netflow for Linux? Dunno... but more importantly, has Cisco not started porting its appls to Linux...? In my days there, the operative phrase was we are foo agnostic, meaning Cisco would generally provide all protocols, interfaces, etc as user choices even if they did not think one was a good solution. It surprises me that you can't get NM apps on Linux... then again, knowing some dirty little secrets; I'm not surprised. Your best bet is to hound them for a Linux port, and lobby other users to do likewise. Sorry I couldn't be of more help. Pierre
[expert] xfs problem...
Hi all, I just sent this to the newbie list, then figured it borders onto expert territory.. so I decided to post it here as well I am setting up a dialup server for a company, and they want x... so I give them ice... (not enough resources for KDE or Gnome, so ICE it is..) unfortunatly, the problem below is hampering me somewhat... having lots of xfs problems, and its killed X... /etc/rc.d/init.x/xfs start gives the OK message. /etc/rc.d/init.x/xfs stop gives a failed message immediatly after the first one. /etc/rc.d/init.x/xfs status gives: xfs dead but subsys locked.. I hashed out my fontpath in the XF86Config to see if that would at least startx,,, but made no diference... so I added the paths manually.. ie FontPath/usr/X11R6/lib?X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled did the same for all the other font dirs.. all the font dirs have the mkfontdir thingy done in them... and I am still not able to get it running.. anyone had this problem? anyone know what to do apart from reloading? details Mandrake 7.2 straight off the CD. (I think I messed it up by loading drakefont...) any suggestions would be much appreciated. regards Frank
Re: [expert] am I the only person this is happening to? (Wandering very OT)
Well, just to weigh in on the problem, I got two of the following message. (Maybe there are Gremlins in Rusty's box?) Rusty Carruth wrote: lord icon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: htmlDIVI am at the cottage with the linux box, however, the phone line uses the old pulse dialing system instead of the tone dialing, any idea how to get mandrake 8 to dial using pulse dialing instead of tone? (if you could please send in non-html that would be better) instead of saying 'atdt' to the modem say 'atdp' 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 -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. ASEL -- Instrument Nacogdoches, Texas N31 34.7 W094 42.6 355 MSL
Re: [expert] Painless Upgrade for LM72 sshd?
** Reply to message from Michael D. Viron [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 15 Jul 2001 19:46:22 -0500 John, A copy of the 2.9.x rpms for Mandrake 7.2 should be available from the 7.2 updates directory on the ftp sites. Michael Thanks Michael, except that it looks like all of the mirrors I've tried with MandrakeUpdate (on the 7.2 machine) have flushed their 7.2 updates. I receive a list of files, but I cannot seem to find the actual rpm files. MU fails on every file I've tried to grab. John LeMay Jr. Senior Enterprise Consultant NJMC, LLC.
Re: [expert] Desktop freezes - any ideas?
The same thing happens to me (M7.2), but it doesn't take all night to do it. It's very sporadic in my case: it can lock up after 5 minutes of use, after several hours of use, or not lock up at all. The mouse and keyboard are definitly dead... except for Ctrl-Alt-SysReq sequences. Instead of turning off the system at the switch, try Ctrl-Alt-SysReq-B. It saves wear and tear on the on/off switch. Ctrl-Alt-SysReq-O works too :) I've tried everything I can think of to fix it: removed daemons, not run certain programs, see if running certain programs contribute to the lockups, etc. Nor can I find any error messages in the logs. I'm running a Gateway Select, 850MHz AMD, 128MB, so it's not like I'm under powered grin. I'm beginning to suspect it's an IRQ conflict of some sort... that or bad RAM -Al On Sunday 15 July 2001 03:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I wonder if anyone has any ideas please: I have an old Pentium 133 with 32 MB ram with Mandrake 7.2 that seems to run OK, but when I leave it on running the KDE desktop at night the whole thing gets stuck with the mouse not moveable and no keys having any effect - so I have to turn it off at the switch. I have looked at the bios for power saving and that all appears to be off. Any ideas on what could be 'stuffing things up' ? (No I'm not trying to run KDE under windows). Thanks, Daniel.
Re: [expert] Painless Upgrade for LM72 sshd?
** Reply to message from Michael D. Viron [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 15 Jul 2001 19:46:22 -0500 Well, I went and looked at a couple of mirrors (sourceforge2 in boston as well as the primary rpmfind ftp server) and the packages were there. No idea why MU can't find them. Anyhow, I'm now all updated but I still have a problem connecting. In the process of trying a quick tcpdump trace, I found that the connection between client and server does happen, but there is a 20 second delay. Has anyone else seen this delay when using ssh with the newer versions (2.9) of ssh? John LeMay Jr. Senior Enterprise Consultant NJMC, LLC.
[expert] Fwd: Viavoice under Mandrake 8.0
Dear folks, I am trying to run viavoice under mandrake 8.0. I have downloaded the packages from the IBM web page and installed without problems. I have created an user (Francisco) and put it them as default user. I have also installed java from sun, but. The problems start when I try to run any of the main programes; for example these are the results for vvstartenrollment: # vvstartuserguru Francisco Starting ViaVoice User Guru Java must be installed for ViaVoice User Guru to work. Please wait while Java initializes... Exception occurred in main() of java.applet.Applet java.lang.NullPointerException at com.ibm.speechapps.userwizard.UWiz.main(UWiz.java:123) Any idea? Thanks in advance for your help. Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) ---
Re: [expert] adding a contrib directory to Software manager
Alexander Skwar wrote: Easy! Just find the full URL to the contrib folder on your favoutite mirror and add it to the 'Define Sources' Button of the Software Manager. Uhm, like how? Since there's NO hdlist.cz on the server, I don't know how to add it. Please tell us how you did that! Without downloading the whole contrib dir, and then working on local files which you can add without a hdlist.cz file. Yes, my 8.0 Software Manager only ever works from local trees (Contrib, 8.0, updates, unsupported are all defined sources, as they should be for everyone - everything is at your fingertips). And very fast it is, too! Contrib from a mirror is only a list of RPMs so should work the same way whether local or remote. ??? As I understand it, hdlist.cz is a _system_ installer artifact, therefore irrelevant to Software Manager. Software Manager is only an _RPM_ installer. -- Ron. [au]
Re: [expert] Accessing French German ASCII Characters? How?
* Stardate: 2001-07-15 03:51 * Incoming subspace signal from Sevatio [EMAIL PROTECTED] : I'm rewording my question in hopes of getting an answer. LM8.0 question: How do you type out French and German letters that aren't normally available in the English alphabet? -TIA Sevatio Umm.. correction.. DIACRITIC characters. -- Best regards, M@X. * Climate Control Psychedelic Soundscapes - http://go.to/cchq/ * Linux Shell Scripts RPM Software Packages - http://go.to/conmen/
Re: [expert] Modifying Printer Settings for CUPS
* Stardate: 2001-07-14 19:48 * Incoming subspace signal from [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Hi Everyone, Quick question -- I have an HP DeskJet 870Cse printer that CUPS sets up with a 600X600 resolution that I need to reconfigure for 600x300. This is fine for high quality black but the colour setting maxes out at 600X300. Since I don't wish to waste ink I would like to know in what file do I edit the configuration to make it consistent with the printer manual: Black Resolution: Best: 600 x 600 dpi Normal: 600 x 600 dpi EconoFast: 300 x 300 dpi Color Resolution: Best: 600 x 300 dpi C-REt Normal: 300 x 300 dpi C-REt EconoFast: 300 x 300 dpi Any suggestions/advice greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Cheers. -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Time: 19:42:25 This message was sent by XFMail -- Point your browser at http://localhost:631/ -- Best regards, M@X. * Climate Control Psychedelic Soundscapes - http://go.to/cchq/ * Linux Shell Scripts RPM Software Packages - http://go.to/conmen/
