Re: [expert] recover a db3-error (-30985)
Am Samstag, 28. September 2002 02:02 schrieb Vox: > rpm --rebuilddb hi, first at all thanks for your mail and help ! was running now rpm --rebuilddb and got this here : Fehler: rpmdb: damaged header instance #615 retrieved, skipping. does anyone know, what this stand for ? thanks one time more bye hans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Supermount stopped working?
On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 00:46, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Friday 27 September 2002 08:59 pm, you wrote: > > > there were zip issues with 8.2. i ended up replacing the zip > > drive line in fstab with a regular line and creating a new > > desktop icon based on the cdrom link (so it has an eject > > option on the right-click menu). it worked fine after that. > > Ditto here, except I disabled supermount (may it rest in pieces, er peace) > and I created a new icon from the floppy drive link, which also gives you the > eject option in the right-click menu. > > -- > /\ > Dark< >Lord DL, I know we've been over this before, you and I, but have you tried checking out supermount under LM90 yet? I thought I'd give it a whirl since I've got a masochistic streak. ;) Just kidding. I'd like to see it work with WineX and those games we have, to tell the truth. --LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdkEvolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mandrake 9.0 final release install issues.
Even though disk 1, disk 2 and disk 3 all have the correct CRC values, I'm having troubles with Disk 2 and Disk 3. ?? I finally gave up and said one disk only. My video has worked very well. However, in the last several releases, I can check my video to make sure it is fine, if not I can go back and redo it. Why on earth would that option be removed? With only a 1 disk install, I'm pretty hamstrung. 1280 has always worked for me. Didn't. Re-installed from scratch and tried 800x600. Same error. I see my monitor a Viewsonic A110 is still not listed even though it is a mainstream monitor and I was asked for the technical information for it months ago. ?? I'm going to try again with 3.x and see if that works. So far, I've spent 5 hours trying to install this. This is the longest I've had to work on an installation. ? 3.x bombs too and it does not ask for a test drive of the xwindows prior to moving on. BIG backwards step in my opinion. Now I have to try to remember how to manually modify Xconfig. no such thing as setup anymore. I'm trying to remember the Xconfigurator command. With 3.x it is saying Open_framebuffer: failed to open /dev/fd0. ?? Something sure seems screwy. It installed at work with no issues. ?? I'm running a P4 on a gigabyte MB. using standard IDE and SCSI drives, with a Microsoft PS2 mouse. Nothing special other than an LS120 disk, but is seems to be recognized just fine. I also have a supermount of /dev/fd0. ?? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] RE: Excluding lines starting with Csic but not Cs
Sean Moore sent me a solution (off list): ^(?!([Cc][Ss][Ii][Cc])).*mail (and ^(?!(Csic)).*mail works also, within Nedit). I'm actually trying to do the search in a TWiki, and apparently TWiki doesn't recognize the ?! syntax (or at least, it doesn't work). Anyway, thought I'd post this "for the record". PS: The ?! syntax is described on the perlre man page as: "A zero-width negative look-ahead assertion. For example "/foo(?!bar)/" matches any occurrence of "foo" that isn't followed by "bar". Note however that look-ahead and look-behind are NOT the same thing. You cannot use this for look-behind." And there is more that you should probably read if you plan to use this. Randy Kramer On Friday 27 September 2002 04:26 pm, Randy Kramer wrote: > I want a regular expression that will find every line (in the sample > data below) that includes "mail" but does not start with "Csic". > (I'm doing this in the "find" dialog of Nedit 5.2 (which is the > "current" version in Mandrake 8.2).) > > I've tried REs like the following: > > ^[^(Csic)].*mail > ^[^Csic].*mail > ^[^C][^s][^i][^c].*mail > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Supermount stopped working?
Todd Lyons wrote: > Aleksey Naumov wrote on Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 06:45:13PM -0400 : > > Todd, > > > > I recall now it started to go haywire after I installed a > > local printer with HardDrake. The printer also stopped > > working properly very soon after the installation (maybe > > when I accessed the zip...). So, the real problem must be > > some serious conflict b/w zip and printer. I'll start > > digging there... > > I think that's a good idea. Glad that you were able to > correlate the problem appearing to something that changed. > I know that there were some USB issues involving 9.0 that > was one of the contributing factors to a delayed release, > but those were all resolved to my knowledge. > > Blue skies... Todd there were zip issues with 8.2. i ended up replacing the zip drive line in fstab with a regular line and creating a new desktop icon based on the cdrom link (so it has an eject option on the right-click menu). it worked fine after that. -- Alan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2/9.0 bad cmos checksum error
Also, is there any differences between 8.1 and 8.2/9.0 in terms of accessing ROM or CMOS data that would give me these errors? Joe - Original Message - From: "Joseph Stegner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 12:32 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2/9.0 bad cmos checksum error > I've commented out the runcmd line, then even commented every part of the > clock code. No luck. > > Did 8.1 do this as well? 8.1 reboots just fine, no CMOS errors. > > Joe > - Original Message - > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 4:03 PM > Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2/9.0 bad cmos checksum error > > > > On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Joseph Stegner wrote: > > > > > Here's the problem I had with 8.2, for those who don't remember: > > > > > > For some reason, whenever I reboot from 8.2 (not the betas/RC's, the > > > 8.2 release version) or 8.2's installer after my mouse initializes and > > > the BIOS tries to initialize communication with the hard drives, it will > > > hang - the busy led tells me something is going on, but nothing happens. > > > After waiting for a minute or so, I'll get either "Bad CMOS checksum, > > > default used" or "Error System Clock" or something of that nature. > > > Sometimes it'll reset all the changes I made in BIOS. With Win2k and > > > Mandrake 8.1, nothing of that sort happens. > > > > It seems there should only be a couple places where Linux would interact > > with the PC BIOS that could possibly cause a problem: > > > > 1) /dev/nvram is enabled and something is doing something weird. But > > this would be highly unlikely. > > > > 2) /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt (called during shutdown) is causing a problem > > when it syncs the hardware clock. If this is the case you can try > > disabling the sync by commenting out the line and then doing a test > > reboot. > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- -- > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] /dev/dsp ... permission denied
On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 16:32, hans schneidhofer wrote: > hi, > after starting kde3 I always get the following message : > > Sound server informational message: > > Error while initializing the sound driver : > > device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Permission denied) > > The sound server will continue, using the null output device > > and that is, what a ls -al /dev/dsp shows : > lr-xr-xr-x1 root root9 Sep 27 16:02 dsp -> sound/dsp > > is there an eror on the rights ? Probably not. It is more likely that another sound app is grabbing /dev/dsp before KDE can get it. (such as EsounD.) Verify that that is not the case. It may not be EsounD. Check for other sound related stuff. The first place I would look would be with the "chkconfig" command. > thanks a lot for helping > bye hans > > Good Luck, LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdkEvolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Supermount stopped working?
Aleksey Naumov wrote on Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 06:45:13PM -0400 : > Todd, > > I recall now it started to go haywire after I installed a local printer with > HardDrake. The printer also stopped working properly very soon after the > installation (maybe when I accessed the zip...). So, the real problem must be > some serious conflict b/w zip and printer. I'll start digging there... I think that's a good idea. Glad that you were able to correlate the problem appearing to something that changed. I know that there were some USB issues involving 9.0 that was one of the contributing factors to a delayed release, but those were all resolved to my knowledge. Blue skies... Todd -- MandrakeSoft USA http://www.mandrakesoft.com Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible. --Larry Wall Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.0-0.3mdk Kernel 2.4.19-16mdk msg58139/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] /dev/dsp ... permission denied
hans schneidhofer wrote on Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 11:52:16PM +0200 : > hi, > here I have the /dev/sound ...dir > > crw---1 root audio 14, 3 Jan 1 1970 dsp > crw---1 root audio 14, 19 Jan 1 1970 dsp1 > crw---1 root audio 14, 2 Jan 1 1970 midi > crw---1 root audio 14, 0 Jan 1 1970 mixer Compare that to mine: [todd@fiji ~]$ vdir /dev/sound total 0 crw---1 todd audio 14, 4 Dec 31 1969 audio crw---1 todd audio 14, 3 Dec 31 1969 dsp crw---1 todd audio 14, 5 Dec 31 1969 dspW crw---1 todd audio 14, 0 Dec 31 1969 mixer crw---1 todd audio 14, 1 Dec 31 1969 sequencer crw---1 todd audio 14, 8 Dec 31 1969 sequencer2 Yours is owned by root, mine is by the user who is viewing it. It's hard to tell if that's because you had just su'd to root, or if the files really are just owned by root. Blue skies... Todd -- | MandrakeSoft USA | Security is like an onion. It's made | | http://www.mandrakesoft.com | made up of several layers and makes | | http://www.mandrakelinux.com | you cry. --Howard Chu| Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.0-0.3mdk Kernel 2.4.19-16mdk msg58138/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] /dev/dsp ... permission denied
hi, here I have the /dev/sound ...dir crw---1 root audio 14, 3 Jan 1 1970 dsp crw---1 root audio 14, 19 Jan 1 1970 dsp1 crw---1 root audio 14, 2 Jan 1 1970 midi crw---1 root audio 14, 0 Jan 1 1970 mixer think, looks not good ? how should it be ? which settings are required here ? thanks once again bye hans Am Freitag, 27. September 2002 23:32 schrieb Todd Lyons: > hans schneidhofer wrote on Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 10:32:50PM +0200 : > > Error while initializing the sound driver : > > device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Permission denied) > > The sound server will continue, using the null output device > > and that is, what a ls -al /dev/dsp shows : > > lr-xr-xr-x1 root root9 Sep 27 16:02 dsp -> sound/dsp > > is there an eror on the rights ? > > Do an ls -al /dev/sound/dsp. That will tell us more about the > permissions. However, it is odd that a symlink shows r-x for all three > groupings. Normally a symlink shows rwx. I'll assume this is an oddity > caused by devfs. > > Blue skies... Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] recover a db3-error (-30985)
hans schneidhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > think, I have to rebuild the db3 but how can I do that ? any helps or ideas > are really very welcome > bye hans rpm --rebuilddb Vox -- Pain is the gift of the gods, and I'm the one they chose as their messenger For info on safety in the BDSM lifestyle http://www.the-vox.com Think of the Linux community as a niche economy isolated by its beliefs. Kind of like the Amish, except that our religion requires us to use _higher_ technology than everyone else. -- Donald B. Marti Jr. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] recover a db3-error (-30985)
hi list, I think, I have done a mistake in trying to do an update the chkconfig-1.2.19-2mdk into a chkconfig-1.3.4-11mdk. Since I had done this I get always errormessages : rpmdb: Overflow page 3325 has bogus prev_pgno value rpmdb: Overflow page 95 has bogus prev_pgno value rpmdb: Overflow page 94 has bogus prev_pgno value rpmdb: Overflow page 93 has bogus prev_pgno value rpmdb: Overflow item incomplete on page 93 rpmdb: Page 3325 encounterd a second time on free list Fehler: db3 error(-30985) from db->verify:DB_VERIFY_BAD: Database verification failed have tried now a rpm -e chkconfig-1.3.4-11mdk --nodeps and then a rpm -Uvh chkconfig-1.2.19-2mdk from my 8.2 CD think, I have to rebuild the db3 but how can I do that ? any helps or ideas are really very welcome bye hans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] gkrellm on all workspaces?
I right click on the gkrellm that shows up in the taskbar, then go to -> To Desktop -> all Desktops On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 16:47, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > Subject tells it all: How can I get gkrellm 'sticky'? I use GNOME2 and > normal windows have a titlebar to klick on. So I can rightclick an > choose 'sticky' from the context menue. gkrellm has no title bar. > > I used it on my 8.2 installation and there was an option to show up on > all workspaces. I haven't found it in the new version. > > Do I need an extension? > > wobo > -- > If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above > ask your parents or an adult to help you. > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Control center wont start
On starting drakconf as root I get: Sat Sep 28 01:41:18 2002 Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to `GtkObject' at /usr/sbin/drakconf line 857. Can't call method "set_active" on an undefined value at /usr/sbin/drakconf line 423. There is a brief moment in which a small window says its opening and then that fades. It then returns to the commandline. Cheers, Jeroen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Supermount stopped working?
Todd, I am afraid, my problem is more serious and is not KDE-specific. Just tried Gnome and get exactly the same bundle of problems as in KDE: zip is not mounted properly, what file browsers as well as 'ls -ll' show me is NOT what's on the disk! I plug in a disk, but the file tree I see on it actually belongs to another zip disk, and it doesn't change if I try other disks. Needless to say, I can't write to the disks (all of which work fine in Win98). I recall now it started to go haywire after I installed a local printer with HardDrake. The printer also stopped working properly very soon after the installation (maybe when I accessed the zip...). So, the real problem must be some serious conflict b/w zip and printer. I'll start digging there... Thanks, Aleksey On Friday 27 September 2002 18:10, Todd Lyons wrote: > Aleksey Naumov wrote on Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 05:52:37PM -0400 : > > Dear experts, > > > > Recently I am having a problem ejecting a Zip disk. I use supermounting > > and the mounting part works ok: I can see files on the zip after I plug > > it in. However, it doesn't want to eject: the eject button is ignored > > until I log out of KDE, only then I get my disk back. It seems the > > unmounting part is not working? > > This is a KDE issue. There's nothing you can do about it because that's > the way KDE is designed. :( The only answer as you've discovered is to > exit KDE. There may be others, but I'm unaware of them. Myself, I > don't run KDE and don't have problems with any of my peripherals. > > Blue skies... Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] /dev/dsp ... permission denied
hi, after starting kde3 I always get the following message : Sound server informational message: Error while initializing the sound driver : device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Permission denied) The sound server will continue, using the null output device and that is, what a ls -al /dev/dsp shows : lr-xr-xr-x1 root root9 Sep 27 16:02 dsp -> sound/dsp is there an eror on the rights ? thanks a lot for helping bye hans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Supermount stopped working?
Aleksey Naumov wrote on Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 05:52:37PM -0400 : > Dear experts, > > Recently I am having a problem ejecting a Zip disk. I use supermounting and > the mounting part works ok: I can see files on the zip after I plug it in. > However, it doesn't want to eject: the eject button is ignored until I log > out of KDE, only then I get my disk back. It seems the unmounting part is not > working? This is a KDE issue. There's nothing you can do about it because that's the way KDE is designed. :( The only answer as you've discovered is to exit KDE. There may be others, but I'm unaware of them. Myself, I don't run KDE and don't have problems with any of my peripherals. Blue skies... Todd -- | MandrakeSoft USA | Security is like an onion. It's made | | http://www.mandrakesoft.com | made up of several layers and makes | | http://www.mandrakelinux.com | you cry. --Howard Chu| Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.0-0.3mdk Kernel 2.4.19-16mdk msg58130/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[expert] Supermount stopped working?
Dear experts, Recently I am having a problem ejecting a Zip disk. I use supermounting and the mounting part works ok: I can see files on the zip after I plug it in. However, it doesn't want to eject: the eject button is ignored until I log out of KDE, only then I get my disk back. It seems the unmounting part is not working? I use MDK 8.2 and KDE 3.0.3. Any ideas will be appreciated! Thanks, Aleksey Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] /dev/dsp ... permission denied
hans schneidhofer wrote on Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 10:32:50PM +0200 : > Error while initializing the sound driver : > device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Permission denied) > The sound server will continue, using the null output device > and that is, what a ls -al /dev/dsp shows : > lr-xr-xr-x1 root root9 Sep 27 16:02 dsp -> sound/dsp > is there an eror on the rights ? Do an ls -al /dev/sound/dsp. That will tell us more about the permissions. However, it is odd that a symlink shows r-x for all three groupings. Normally a symlink shows rwx. I'll assume this is an oddity caused by devfs. Blue skies... Todd -- ...and I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger, those who attempt to poison and destroy my binaries, and you will know my name is root, when I lay my vengeance upon thee. Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.0-0.3mdk Kernel 2.4.19-16mdk msg58128/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[expert] Som 9.0 problems
I have been able to install 9.0 in my Toshiba satellite 4090XCDT; just some problem with the screen solved using an special tdr driver. But when I open a console as normal user the prompt appear:"bash-2.05b$" and not the usual "[username@hostname francisco]$" How can I change it? I use drakprofile to have two net configurations, one for home and other for my office. I was runing fine under 8.2, but under 9.0 I can't start it as a normal user, just as root. Does anyone know a clue to do this? Anyway; 9.0 looks great!; I think than now there is not more excuses don't test linux for all those windozers that are afraid about it!! Thanks a lot in advance; yours sincerely Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] RE: Excluding lines starting with Csic but not Cs
I want a regular expression that will find every line (in the sample data below) that includes "mail" but does not start with "Csic". (I'm doing this in the "find" dialog of Nedit 5.2 (which is the "current" version in Mandrake 8.2).) I've tried REs like the following: ^[^(Csic)].*mail ^[^Csic].*mail ^[^C][^s][^i][^c].*mail ... with variations in the capitalization and in the case sensitivity (but I suspect I should stay with "not case sensitive" while I'm finding an RE). The biggest problem is that all of these exclude the line CsMandrakeFreq72Email, but they should not. (I've seen various other "anomalies" that I may be able to explain for myself once I understand what I'm doing wrong here.) Can somebody put me on the right track? thanks, Randy Kramer AvoidHTMLInEmailDiscussion 20 Aug 2001 - 14:36 - NEW RandyKramer This page "reserved" for discussion (pros and cons) of HTML in email. See about these pages . Main.RandyKramer 20 Aug 2001 AvoidHTMLinEmail 29 Aug 2002 - 21:33 - r1.8 RandyKramer HTML in email causes problems for some email clients or their users. Our purpose is to make people aware of the problems and request that they not use HTML in email ... CsMandrakeFreq72Email 30 Jul 2002 - 13:08 - r1.3 RandyKramer The results of some testing toward getting an email server working on Church100.home See AboutThesePages. Contents TOC Notes From Windows Hosts file I added the following ... CsicEMailAddressBookEntries 07 Aug 2002 - 01:59 - NEW ValHaring See AboutThesePages. ENDCOLOR BLUE E-MAIL ADDRESS BOOK ENTRIES ENDCOLOR Most e-mail programs have a feature called an ENDCOLOR RED e-mail address book ENDCOLOR . This ... CsicEMailAddressGroups 07 Aug 2002 - 02:23 - NEW ValHaring See AboutThesePages. ENDCOLOR BLUE E-MAIL ADDRESS GROUPS ENDCOLOR An ENDCOLOR RED e-mail address group ENDCOLOR is a list created by you containing several e-mail ... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] gnome 2.* for mdk-8.2 ?
hi list, was looking for gnome-2.? and was wondering about no available mdk-rpm-packages. is gnome-2.? for mdk-9 or also for 8.2 availble ? does anone about ? thanks for answers and hints bye hans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Samba printing - Help!
On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 00:10, Matthew Sutton wrote: > Brian, > > I am not sure if you have resolved your samba issue or not, > > If you have not you could try setting > > wins support = false > > > > I had this problem with my samba server too, but when I would start the > service > > > > #service smb start > > > > smbd would start but, > > nmbd would fail to start and the error messages you gave would be in my > log > > and I fixed it by setting wins support to false. > > > > Hope this helps, > > > > Matthew Sutton > > > Thanks Matthew, That sounds promising. I had just about decided to give up on it, do a fresh install with 9.0 and hope it came right in the wash, but I'll certainly give your suggestion a try. It'll have to wait until Monday as it's a client's machine. I'll report back on the outcome. thanks again Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Print to PS or PDF
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Sridhar G wrote: > I am using LM 8.2. I want to set up a pseudo printer which converts my print > jobs to PS or PDF. > > I tried with KDE Control center but was not able to. > I am using this printer as a samba printer thro' w2k client and also as > local printer to the LM box. >From KDE you can usually just specify 'kprinter' as the spooler instead of lpr. Click on the dropdown and there should be options for Print to PDF or Postscript. For the Samba printer you should only need to retrieve the spool file since it's already in PS format (providing you're using the Postscript driver on the Winders end). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] reboot into specified os
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 14:54:42 +0100 bascule <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i like being able to choose what os to reboot into from the shutdown > dialogue, prompts a question though, is there a win utilty that will tell > lilo what to reboot into? being a dual booter i sometimes need to reboot > winxp and oft i forget to pay attention and it's halfway through booting > linux before i realise that's not what i wanted:-) I think you might want this: http://www.xosl.org/ which can control everything imaginable to do with booting (and then some) ... Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] reboot into specified os
i like being able to choose what os to reboot into from the shutdown dialogue, prompts a question though, is there a win utilty that will tell lilo what to reboot into? being a dual booter i sometimes need to reboot winxp and oft i forget to pay attention and it's halfway through booting linux before i realise that's not what i wanted:-) bascule -- 'And trust no-- Trust practically no-one. All right? Except trustworthy people.' (Jingo) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] dynamic dns
Yup, thats the one Sorry, I realised that I would probably get this question just after I clicked "send". They are pretty good.. As for a linux client to update your IP, try ddclient its pretty good, easy to configure, works with more then just dyndns, can handle proxies etc etc :-) rgds franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of bascule Sent: Friday, 27 September 2002 5:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] dynamic dns hi frank, when you say 'dynamic dns', i'm not sure which service provider you are refering to :-( a google search suggests dyndns.org ? bascule On Friday 27 September 2002 3:24 am, you wrote: > I have always used dynamic dns... > > they offer free and paid for, whenever I set up a box using it, I send them > 20dollars.. (or make the people I set it up for pay $20.) > > they seem pretty good, but no good for mail servers that post to the > mandrake lists.. the mdk list server will reject messages from said boxes. > > rgds > > Frank -- 'Detectoring is like gambling,' said Vimes, putting down the clove. 'The secret is to know the winner in advance.' (Jingo) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Myster of my own.
On 26 Sep 2002 20:30:26 -0700 James Sparenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is anyone else been receiving blank e-mails from people they don't > know. I get 2 or 3 a week always blank no attachment just the header.. > never from the same address... I think this is the outpourings of a very old virus (one of the Outlook "read the address book and fire off emails from its contents" type); I remember a problem like this cropping up easily 2 or 3 years ago on one of my mailing lists. Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2/9.0 bad cmos checksum error
have you tried a 2.2.x kernel alternate image to boot from? On Friday 27 September 2002 12:32 am, you wrote: > I've commented out the runcmd line, then even commented every part of the > clock code. No luck. > > Did 8.1 do this as well? 8.1 reboots just fine, no CMOS errors. > > Joe > - Original Message - > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 4:03 PM > Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2/9.0 bad cmos checksum error > > > On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Joseph Stegner wrote: > > > Here's the problem I had with 8.2, for those who don't remember: > > > > > > For some reason, whenever I reboot from 8.2 (not the betas/RC's, the > > > 8.2 release version) or 8.2's installer after my mouse initializes and > > > the BIOS tries to initialize communication with the hard drives, it > > > will hang - the busy led tells me something is going on, but nothing > > > happens. After waiting for a minute or so, I'll get either "Bad CMOS > > > checksum, default used" or "Error System Clock" or something of that > > > nature. Sometimes it'll reset all the changes I made in BIOS. With > > > Win2k and Mandrake 8.1, nothing of that sort happens. > > > > It seems there should only be a couple places where Linux would interact > > with the PC BIOS that could possibly cause a problem: > > > > 1) /dev/nvram is enabled and something is doing something weird. But > > this would be highly unlikely. > > > > 2) /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt (called during shutdown) is causing a problem > > when it syncs the hardware clock. If this is the case you can try > > disabling the sync by commenting out the line and then doing a test > > reboot. > > --- >- > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Myster of my own.
yep, I think it is either someone "harvesting" good e-mail address (ie.; no bounce in the first min, must be a "good" address with a valid e-mail box) but I have noticed about a week later, the same domain but a different sender finds a klez or a nimda mail sent to me also, (just three attachments, one of which is an *.exe or *.pif or *.com etc) the one I liked was the second from the same address, that said "Symantec has a removal tool for Klez32", and it was Klez. On Friday 27 September 2002 12:18 am, you wrote: > Really blank... Evo shows nothing if I open it in vi it shows > nothing. Wierd. > > James > > On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 20:59, Seth Zirin wrote: > > On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 20:30, James Sparenberg wrote: > > > Is anyone else been receiving blank e-mails from people they don't > > > know. I get 2 or 3 a week always blank no attachment just the header.. > > > never from the same address... > > > > Are they really blank, or are they HTML messages with nothing but a > > dirty little JavaScript payload? Or, perhaps they are HTML messages > > with nothing but a 1 pixel image designed so the address harvester can > > cull a list... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] j2sdk just a little help ...
hmm... my j2sdk when queried with: rpm -q --scripts j2sdk only tells me that in fixes symbolic links for the manuals. then it might be an older release I have, j2sdk-1.4.0-fcs. the 'which java' points you to the kaffe-links, which is a os jvm. it is required for mandrake- wizards I think. - Original Message - From: "Mark Weaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > according to the information on Sun's site though the installation rpm's > should be setting the path to where Java can be found. something I've > noticed about 8.2 and 9.0 is that when issuing the "which java" command > one is usually presented with the following output: > > /usr/bin/java > > I also noticed that before I even installed j2sdk1.4.0_01 that I was > able to both compile .java source files, but also run them from the > commandline which indicated to me that at least the most fundamental > parts of java were already installed on the system. Heck! I'm not even > sure if I'm using them when I do work on the system that requires the > java compiler or run libs. > > Mark > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] dynamic dns
hi frank, when you say 'dynamic dns', i'm not sure which service provider you are refering to :-( a google search suggests dyndns.org ? bascule On Friday 27 September 2002 3:24 am, you wrote: > I have always used dynamic dns... > > they offer free and paid for, whenever I set up a box using it, I send them > 20dollars.. (or make the people I set it up for pay $20.) > > they seem pretty good, but no good for mail servers that post to the > mandrake lists.. the mdk list server will reject messages from said boxes. > > rgds > > Frank -- 'Detectoring is like gambling,' said Vimes, putting down the clove. 'The secret is to know the winner in advance.' (Jingo) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Serious glitches in Mandrake9.0
Hello all, I've recently decided to upgrade my laptop (IBM ThinkPad 390E, for that matter) from RH6.0 to Mandrake9.0. The reason: Laziness i.e. urpmi instead of figuring out rpm dependencies by hand and/or the "gtar; configure; gmake" mantra Anyway, so far I have some problems w/ it, some serious, some not 1) Not serious: Frame buffer fscked at boot up If I decide to boot up using linux-nofb (I'm a bitter old man, I hate change and flashy stuff), after starting S12syslog in run level 3 (but God knows what causes it) the screen changes in some weird text mode. That per-se is not such a huge problem. However, there is a problem w/ the framebuffer that makes it keep a white rectangle in top left corner of screen. Really ugly. Any hit wrt the where/whats w/ the text mode fubars? 2) (VERY) Serious: Devfs problems ? I have a 256MB CF card (digital camera mem) and a CF->PCMCIA adaptor. When I pop it in the free PCMCIA slot: - First, automount doesn't do its job and mount /dev/hde. - Much more serious: When manually trying to mount the card via e.g. via: root:~# mount /dev/hde1 /compactflash (or /dev/hde for that matter) the system goes beserk: The mount hangs, system dogged slow, doesn't shutdown except dropped from 2m high (i.e. power off). The relevant syslog excerpt: [...] Sep 27 10:47:17 begonia netconf: Checking kernel configuration Sep 27 10:47:17 begonia linuxconf: Running Linuxconf hooks: succeeded Sep 27 10:52:56 begonia kernel: cs: memory probe 0xa000-0xa0ff: clean. Sep 27 10:52:58 begonia kernel: hde: 256MB CHH, ATA DISK drive Sep 27 10:52:58 begonia kernel: ide2 at 0x100-0x107,0x10e on irq 3 Sep 27 10:52:58 begonia kernel: hde: 500640 sectors (256 MB) w/16KiB Cache, CHS=1043/15/32 Sep 27 10:52:58 begonia kernel: /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 Sep 27 10:52:58 begonia kernel: devfs_do_symlink(disc0): could not append to parent, err: -17 Sep 27 10:52:58 begonia kernel: ide_cs: hde: Vcc = 3.3, Vpp = 0.0 Sep 27 10:53:00 begonia kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device 21:00 Sep 27 10:53:00 begonia kernel: /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 Sep 27 10:53:00 begonia kernel: devfs_do_symlink(disc0): could not append to parent, err: -17 Sep 27 10:53:02 begonia kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device 21:00 Sep 27 10:53:02 begonia kernel: /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 Sep 27 10:53:02 begonia kernel: devfs_do_symlink(disc0): could not append to parent, err: -17 Sep 27 10:53:03 begonia kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device 21:00 Sep 27 10:53:03 begonia kernel: /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 Sep 27 10:53:03 begonia kernel: devfs_do_symlink(disc0): could not append to parent, err: -17 Sep 27 10:53:05 begonia kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device 21:00 Sep 27 10:53:05 begonia kernel: /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 Sep 27 10:53:05 begonia kernel: devfs_do_symlink(disc0): could not append to parent, err: -17 [... wash, rinse, repeat...] Needless to say, the operation (including the autmount ;)) works like a charm in other distros e.g. the Knoppix Linux-on-a-CD distro. Any ideas ? TIA, Florian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
