Re: [expert] keeping 9.2 rc1 current
Felix Miata wrote: Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Try this. I don't know if it will work or not. I don't want to screw up my configuration by testing it. I find it is easier to use the command line to add sources, but you're not me...so...here goes: -KDE Menu =Configuration = Packaging = Software Sources Manager -If there is a sources named updates click on it and click on Remove to remove it (obvious, I know). -Click on Add... -Click on Local files -Name the source updates -Browse to the local directory with all of the cooker files. Everything went seemingly swimmingly to this point. -Click OK What about the checkbox for relative path to hdlists? I checked that, but no matter what I entered in the box, I'd always get an error message after it rattled the disk a while, either about not finding the hdlist file it wanted, or trouble parsing it. That should do it. If it doesn't let me know. For tonight, I'm going to try cli, if that doesn't work, again via floppy installation boot update. Maybe tomorrow with more info I can get it to work. You need to download the base directory in addition to the RPMS directory. base and RPMS are both in the same cooker directory on the server. Then put ../base/hdlist.cz as the path for the hdlist. -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Linux user #322847 | Linux machine #207465 | http://counter.li.org/ AMD Duron 1.3GHz | Mandrake 9.1 | Kernel 2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk KDE 3.1.3 | Mozilla 1.4 Mail Client Uptime: 02:35:00 up 2 days, 13:51, 1 user, load average: 0.30, 0.36, 0.21 ___ All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] keeping 9.2 rc1 current
Felix Miata wrote: Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Felix Miata wrote: Surely someone must know. Why does the X tool even exist if it can only get the job done for the person who wrote it, if even then? I don't mind using cli at all, but my goal was to figure out the X tool. I've gotten nowhere with that? This tool is not meant for cooker use. It is meant for keeping a So how does it get tested during cooker/beta/rc to ensure that it works with GA? I agree with you on this. I've asked myself the same thing. released version up-to-date. It is assumed (possibly incorrectly) that if you are using a cooker version of Mandrake that you are aware of this and know how to keep the machine up-to-date. Everyone who does had to get there somehow. Unless I'm missing something, no one is born knowing how. My child will. ;-) Are you new to Linux or Mandrake? If so, you're diving in pretty deep Define new? My first Linux install was RedHat 5.2. My first Mandrake install, 7.1. My first Mandrake beta testing, 8.0. My first cooker, last Friday, after rc1 wouldn't install except as upgrade from 9.1. Unless I'm reading it wrong, and every version of Linux in the paragraph above reads Mandrake Linux 9.1, we both know what new is. by running a test version of anything Linux. It may be better to run something that is ready for those that are experiencing Linux or Mandrake Linux for the first time. If not, knock yourself out. :-) I cobbled the box purely for testing Mandrake cooker/beta/rcx. I learned over the past several Mandrake beta versions that if I want to actually use Mandrake for normal things, to only use releases, and to experiment with something else. So, I have this box running OS/2 24/7; a box with W98, OS/2, RedHat 9 used mostly for W98; a box with W98, OS/2 RedHat 6.2, used for little more than my EPROM burner; a box with DOS, W2K, OS/2, Mdk 7.1, Corel 1.1, RedHat 7.3 Mdk 9.1, used mostly for Mdk; and the new (slow, 200 MHz) box for cooker. Lots of info, yet no answer. So are you new or not? ;-) -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Linux user #322847 | Linux machine #207465 | http://counter.li.org/ AMD Duron 1.3GHz | Mandrake 9.1 | Kernel 2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk KDE 3.1.3 | Mozilla 1.4 Mail Client Uptime: 02:50:00 up 2 days, 14:06, 1 user, load average: 0.21, 0.50, 0.35 ___ All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] keeping 9.2 rc1 current
Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Felix Miata wrote: What about the checkbox for relative path to hdlists? I checked that, but no matter what I entered in the box, I'd always get an error message after it rattled the disk a while, either about not finding the hdlist file it wanted, or trouble parsing it. That should do it. If it doesn't let me know. For tonight, I'm going to try cli, if that doesn't work, again via floppy installation boot update. Maybe tomorrow with more info I can get it to work. You need to download the base directory in addition to the RPMS directory. base and RPMS are both in the same cooker directory on the server. I rsync'd ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/ Then put ../base/hdlist.cz as the path for the hdlist. Did that. Didn't work. Also unsuccessfully tried ../base/hdlists and ../base. -- ...[B]e quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry James 1:19 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] keeping 9.2 rc1 current
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 9, 2003 01:09 am, Felix Miata wrote: whack I rsync'd ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/cooker/i586 / Then put ../base/hdlist.cz as the path for the hdlist. Did that. Didn't work. Also unsuccessfully tried ../base/hdlists and ../base. The command I used to first rsync with the same mirror; lifted from /root/.bash_history: rsync -avrt --progress --delete --exclude alpha/ --exclude amd64/ - --exclude ia64/ --exclude others/ --exclude SRPMS --exclude jpackage - --exclude ppc/ --exclude unsupported/ ftp.sunet.se::Mandrake-devel/ /store/Mandrake-devel/ When I say I mirror I actually mean only the relevant parts and I don't need any of the excluded stuff. Yet. You can make an exclude list to use, rather than individually typing all of the directories you don't want but as I wrote, I used this one for the first rsync 'cause I'd never done it before. HTH Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-6mdk 01:14:13 up 1 day, 2:43, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.13, 0.20 The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/XX9SG11CaRuZZSIRAuW3AJ9MdHydyb5hdfuELg/cdIHbfVRa9ACeICVC VxyAzrUCflix3bebAhFvRNA= =+WWA -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] keeping 9.2 rc1 current
Charlie M. wrote: The command I used to first rsync with the same mirror; lifted from /root/.bash_history: rsync -avrt --progress --delete --exclude alpha/ --exclude amd64/ - --exclude ia64/ --exclude others/ --exclude SRPMS --exclude jpackage - --exclude ppc/ --exclude unsupported/ ftp.sunet.se::Mandrake-devel/ /store/Mandrake-devel/ When I say I mirror I actually mean only the relevant parts and I don't need any of the excluded stuff. Yet. You can make an exclude list to use, rather than individually typing all of the directories you don't want but as I wrote, I used this one for the first rsync 'cause I'd never done it before. I use this file: http://members.optusnet.com.au/ronst/rsync-plus/rsync_exclude and this script: /usr/bin/rsync -av --delete --exclude-from=rsync_exclude ftp.sunet.se::Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/ /mnt/mandrake/cooker | tee -a cooker.log -- ...[B]e quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry James 1:19 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] keeping 9.2 rc1 current
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 9, 2003 01:28 am, Felix Miata wrote: Charlie M. wrote: The command I used to first rsync with the same mirror; lifted from /root/.bash_history: rsync -avrt --progress --delete --exclude alpha/ --exclude amd64/ - --exclude ia64/ --exclude others/ --exclude SRPMS --exclude jpackage - --exclude ppc/ --exclude unsupported/ ftp.sunet.se::Mandrake-devel/ /store/Mandrake-devel/ When I say I mirror I actually mean only the relevant parts and I don't need any of the excluded stuff. Yet. You can make an exclude list to use, rather than individually typing all of the directories you don't want but as I wrote, I used this one for the first rsync 'cause I'd never done it before. I use this file: http://members.optusnet.com.au/ronst/rsync-plus/rsync_exclude and this script: /usr/bin/rsync -av --delete --exclude-from=rsync_exclude ftp.sunet.se::Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/ /mnt/mandrake/cooker | tee -a cooker.log Hmmm... The rsync exclude looks like what I use now, but I can't tell from looking at it whether the script you use pulls the contrib directory. Other than the stuff I showed as excluded my /store/Mandrake-devel directory locally is identical to what's on sunet.se and uninett.no. Cooker and contrib are rsynced in one pass. The command I used to add the local tree to the software manager probably won't help figure this out, but likely won't hurt either. ;) cooker urpmi.addmedia localcooker file://store/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.cz contrib urpmi.addmedia localcontrib file://store/contrib/i586/ with ../../cooker/i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz It worked as expected here. Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-6mdk 01:30:28 up 1 day, 2:59, 1 user, load average: 0.17, 0.27, 0.26 You know, we've won awards for this crap. - -- David Letterman -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQE/XYRIG11CaRuZZSIRApq1AKCHUgUyIuZAsS6ZyOrAZHT+tbjsrACXaDpw gXQ0QBroo9pvB5W5kukWWg== =Vfxv -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Re: Re: Approved
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[expert] CLI for monitoring
Over a long period I have seen commands given for finding informationabout a system, for instance this morning there was cat /proc/bus/usb/devices. It seems to me that those of us with aging grey cells, and maybe others as well, would be glad of a list of these really useful commands. Could someone either put a list on the TWiki site, or post a list here that I could add? Thanks Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I need to update my mandrake box but my connection is expensive and pretty slow. What can i do ?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Luis Duran wrote: Hello fellas, i would like to update all my packages of Mandrake, one week ago i tried to do it but the files size are quiet long, i have a dial-up connection that is expensive and way slow. I got this idea, take my computer to a cyber cafe but that people didn't not like the idea. i have this question, Has Mandrake an iso image with all the updates that i could download from a cyber cafe without taking my computer there ? i will appreciate if you let me know about this. I use to haul my laptop down to the local, wired, micro-brewery and download the updates directory from a server to take home, and then run updates on the laptop. People are always hauling boxes and monitors into this place. The local Linux Users group meets there once a month. If you need to do more than just update the box you are dragging up there, set up a mirror and a small ftp server on your laptop (or box), use rsync to update the mirror on the laptop each time you hook-in. Then the laptop can be the updates source for itself and any other boxes at home on your LAN. The rsync goes pretty fast once you have the files all copied over the first time. What is the policy of the cyber-cafe? I used one in London that always charged me a little extra because I used my laptop, instead of using one of their windows boxes. How would your's react to you taking your machine in? - -- KevinO If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library? - -- Lily Tomlin -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/XaZdWOfRC7Rnmv8RAhmzAJkBFzs91XLoHcVdb5D01ZnyX0AvcACeLKlx By4tE41bkwZ5PS8nAzDxv3U= =NwSD -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] this one is harmless?
On Tuesday 09 Sep 2003 5:55 am, Charlie wrote: Is someone interested in ancestry of :- linux, Linux Mandrake or ? Interesting one, that. Coming through with the Approved subject line I was immediately suspicious, but ancestry.com appears to be a genuine genealogy site for USA, and rightnowtech.com looks genuine enough, so the only question is why mandrake? Could it be that one of these sites has been hacked to include a trojan? This is way beyond me. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CLI for monitoring
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anne Wilson wrote: Over a long period I have seen commands given for finding informationabout a system, for instance this morning there was cat /proc/bus/usb/devices. It seems to me that those of us with aging grey cells, and maybe others as well, would be glad of a list of these really useful commands. Could someone either put a list on the TWiki site, or post a list here that I could add? Thanks Anne Where would you start? The command line is where it's at. It is where everything is. There have been whole books written about the proc filesystem, learning Bash, books on common filters like sed, grep, awk etc.. There is so much that you can do, where would you start. I have used single command lines to download and parse an XML file, and generate a w3c compliant XHTML file and stick it on a webserver. On one line, without any external temp file storage or data files. (It is a long line, output is here) http://www.kevino.org/slashdot.html You find things out by looking at how the system is running, by looking at the parts of the operating system. Just listing where things(files) are kept would be daunting. Open a terminal window, or go to a virtual console, and at the prompt type a tab key: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:50am-Intel_2011 Display all 3401 possibilities? (y or n) That's 3400 commands, not combinations of commands, or options, etc.. - -- KevinO If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library? - -- Lily Tomlin -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/XbEfWOfRC7Rnmv8RAu00AKCEvRny0nTu3WMCs+gmv1wRJWhJowCfTDzN UGXsVa2iSt76CmpGb1m7hH0= =86CV -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CLI for monitoring
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 06:53, KevinO wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anne Wilson wrote: Over a long period I have seen commands given for finding informationabout a system, for instance this morning there was cat /proc/bus/usb/devices. It seems to me that those of us with aging grey cells, and maybe others as well, would be glad of a list of these really useful commands. it would like this if you want to see all the commands available to a user login a text console and, hit tab. Could someone either put a list on the TWiki site, or post a list here that I could add? Thanks Anne Where would you start? The command line is where it's at. It is where everything is. There have been whole books written about the proc filesystem, learning Bash, books on common filters like sed, grep, awk etc.. There is so much that you can do, where would you start. I have used single command lines to download and parse an XML file, and generate a w3c compliant XHTML file and stick it on a webserver. On one line, without any external temp file storage or data files. (It is a long line, output is here) http://www.kevino.org/slashdot.html You find things out by looking at how the system is running, by looking at the parts of the operating system. Just listing where things(files) are kept would be daunting. Open a terminal window, or go to a virtual console, and at the prompt type a tab key: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:50am-Intel_2011 Display all 3401 possibilities? (y or n) That's 3400 commands, not combinations of commands, or options, etc.. - -- KevinO If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library? - -- Lily Tomlin -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/XbEfWOfRC7Rnmv8RAu00AKCEvRny0nTu3WMCs+gmv1wRJWhJowCfTDzN UGXsVa2iSt76CmpGb1m7hH0= =86CV -END PGP SIGNATURE- __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Mozilla Aqua theme?
I would assume that would include Mozilla - regardless of theme? I went to the location you described and tried to change the Menu Translucency type to Software Blend. But it must not be allowed in Mosfets High Performance Liquid since I received an error when I tried to apply. Any idea to get around this? Also tried a different style, and applied the menu translucency. Still, the File, Edit, etc menus of Mozilla were not translucent. Any ideas on this one? Thanks, Tango -Original Message- From: James Sparenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 2:24 PM To: Expert List Subject: RE: [expert] Mozilla Aqua theme? On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 04:50, Tango Echo wrote: Wow, nice theme. I'm assuming that they don't have translucent menus, though, huh? I like Mosfet's Liquid theme for KDE. Especially those translucent menus! To bad more apps (like mozilla) didn't have support for that... You've got total (as in all app) translucent Menus in KDE. In the Style section of lookNFeel in kcontrol use the effects Tab. Most of the styles support Software tint software blend and/or Xrender Blend for this. James -Original Message- From: James Sparenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 3:58 AM To: Expert List Subject: Re: [expert] Mozilla Aqua theme? On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 20:08, Jeremy Gregorio wrote: Anyone know if such a thing still exists? I know apple forced a cease and desist before, but there are several KDE Aqua theme projects (I'm running one now) that have gone untouched. Seems weird. Jeremy Gregorio AquaMoz is the theme you want but it appears the original site is down. http://www.fiftysecondstreet.net/aquamoz/ and the site that had it deskmod.com is going away as well.. James __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] SCSI, Scanner... How?
Hi folks, I hope someone can assist here... I recently (last Friday) got an old Umax Vista T-630 scanner. Uses an 8 bit ISA NCR 53c400 SCSI card. Main problem is, I can't seem to configure the card. It is not detected at all, and attempting to modprobe the module freezes the computer totally. I'm running Mandrake 9.1 on a Celeron 366, custom 2.4.21 kernel. RAM is 384 MB, I have a CD burner and a CD reader, both configured as ide-scsi, and using the sr module. I compiled the module as port mapped, the card uses a DIP switch for the addressing (set to 0x300). SCSI support is entirely modular (originally had it compiled in, but changed that on Saturday). If I can get the card working, then I should be able to use the scanner. If not, well, I can probably return it... So I'm open to advice and suggestions... (I think I might have to edit modules.conf, but not too sure of what I need to put in there..). -- Alex Fisher OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Community Contact, Australia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CLI for monitoring
On Tuesday 09 Sep 2003 12:08 pm, ed tharp wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 06:53, KevinO wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anne Wilson wrote: Over a long period I have seen commands given for finding informationabout a system, for instance this morning there was cat /proc/bus/usb/devices. It seems to me that those of us with aging grey cells, and maybe others as well, would be glad of a list of these really useful commands. it would like this if you want to see all the commands available to a user login a text console and, hit tab. Ed, overkill is as bad as no info at all when you're in a stress situation - and troubleshooting soon gets that way g I wasn't meaning *all* commands available, just the ones that are often given as help in troubleshooting. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files
On Monday 08 September 2003 08:03 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: lorne wrote: I know that previous version of Mandrake did have an editor. Darned if I can find one now. I have some wave and mp3 files I want to burn to CDrom and some of them have a VERY annoying screech at the beginning I want to clip off. you'd think this easy to find... am I just having a brain fart? I don't have much experience with this but you might want to take a look at hackaudacity in 9.1/contrib/. There was some bug in audacity that made hackaudacity a better choice, at the time I looked at it. Here is the qip: I take it that /contrib is NOT the 3rd disk then? I didn't find it. I'll go out and google for it. I guess since I'm no longer contributing I do not have acess to it. Thanks anyhow. Audacity is a program that lets you manipulate digital audio waveforms. In addition to letting you record sounds directly from within the program, it imports many sound file formats, including WAV, AIFF, MP3 and Ogg/Vorbis. It supports all common editing operations such as Cut, Copy, and Paste, plus it will mix tracks and let you apply plug-in effects to any part of a sound. It also has a built-in amplitude envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode and a frequency analysis window for audio analysis applications. Rolf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Re: SCSI, Scanner... How?
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 10:15:22PM +1000, Alex Fisher wrote: I recently (last Friday) got an old Umax Vista T-630 scanner. Uses an 8 bit ISA NCR 53c400 SCSI card. Main problem is, I can't seem to configure the card. It is not detected at all, and attempting to modprobe the module freezes the computer totally. Several things come to mind: - Have you googled for that card + Linux to see whether this problem has been encountered (and maybe solved) by others? - You could also search the archives of the Sane mailing list, as sane is the scanner software used on Linux. - Do you know whether that card has any possibilities to assign IRQ/IO port? If so, have you played with that? - Have you tried without the CD reader/burner (especially without their module)? That's all I can think of at the moment... Cheerio, Thomas -- - Thomas Ribbrockhttp://www.ribbrock.org You have to live on the edge of reality - to make your dreams come true! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] this one is harmless?
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 11:24:05 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Interesting one, that. Coming through with the Approved subject line I was immediately suspicious, but ancestry.com appears to be a genuine genealogy site for USA, and rightnowtech.com looks genuine enough, so the only question is why mandrake? Could it be that one of these sites has been hacked to include a trojan? This is way beyond me. no, they're infected. if you see the post down a bit, it has the subject wicked screensaver, which was one of the subjects I was getting with the .pif attachments previously. this is getting bad. I want Bill Gates dead. I want Steve Ballmer dead. I want Microsoft dead. and I want it *now*. -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: nodex.sytes.net ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ I know not how I came into this, shall I call it a dying life or a living death? -- St. Augustine Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files
On Monday 08 September 2003 08:32 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 08 September 2003 10:55 pm, lorne wrote: I know that previous version of Mandrake did have an editor. Darned if I can find one now. I have some wave and mp3 files I want to burn to CDrom and some of them have a VERY annoying screech at the beginning I want to clip off. you'd think this easy to find... am I just having a brain fart? Rezound is pretty good. You can easily edit MP3 files but you have to have Lame installed. You can d/l it at: http://rezound.sourceforge.net/ Thank you for the info! One question... it installs fine, but doesn't recognize the sound driver I'm using. In the registry.dat file it has used /dev/dsp. I changed it to /dev/sound/dsp, but still no go. Was there any tricks you used to get it working? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files
On Monday 08 September 2003 10:17 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Monday 08 September 2003 07:55 pm, lorne wrote: I know that previous version of Mandrake did have an editor. Darned if I can find one now. I have some wave and mp3 files I want to burn to CDrom and some of them have a VERY annoying screech at the beginning I want to clip off. you'd think this easy to find... am I just having a brain fart? Audacity will work very well for you. Just be ready to provide generous temp file space if the files are big, lots of RAM helps too. I use it for just the reasons that you mention, and it works great! Just urpmi audacity I guess I need to add more sites or something to my urpmi, I get not found for most everything. :( Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] this one is harmless?
On Tuesday 09 Sep 2003 1:47 pm, HaywireMac wrote: On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 11:24:05 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Interesting one, that. Coming through with the Approved subject line I was immediately suspicious, but ancestry.com appears to be a genuine genealogy site for USA, and rightnowtech.com looks genuine enough, so the only question is why mandrake? Could it be that one of these sites has been hacked to include a trojan? This is way beyond me. no, they're infected. if you see the post down a bit, it has the subject wicked screensaver, which was one of the subjects I was getting with the .pif attachments previously. this is getting bad. Hmm - Imissed seeing that on Charlie's. I have had two, one with 'Approved' and the other with 'Details' in the subject line, but there doesn't appear to be any attachment, or anything else suspicious showing up when you open up the full headers, for instance, nor when I opened them in POPFile to examine them. Surely they can't be running an executable in the subject line, can they? Here are the headers from one of mine: Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from smtp.mandrake.org (212.43.244.24) by mk-cpfrontend.uk.tiscali.com (6.7.018) id 3F5876A60065BE71 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 9 Sep 2003 02:49:39 +0100 Received: from smtp.mandrax.org (smtp.mandrax.org [80.67.180.169]) by smtp.mandrake.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B5D54A9E82; Tue, 9 Sep 2003 03:56:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: by smtp.mandrax.org (Postfix, from userid 0) id CA4B456A2F; Mon, 8 Sep 2003 22:04:03 +0200 (CEST) Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from utilnj01.rightnowtech.com (utilnj01.rightnowtech.com [63.240.89.31]) by smtp1.mandrax.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EB3E13664 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 8 Sep 2003 21:06:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: from rntnj (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by utilnj01.rightnowtech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id h890pt821203 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 8 Sep 2003 20:51:55 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 18:51:55 -0600 (MDT) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: Multipart/Alternative; boundary=Boundary-00=_J29XQADPJDU1VA40 X-Loop: expert@ X-Sequence: 379 Precedence: list X-Validation-BY: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Re: Re: Details Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Text-Classification: spam Status: R X-Status: N X-KMail-EncryptionState: X-KMail-SignatureState: And if ancestry.com and rightnowtech.com are genuine, perhaps someone should alert them as to what's happening? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Re: SCSI, Scanner... How?
T. Ribbrock wrote: On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 10:15:22PM +1000, Alex Fisher wrote: I recently (last Friday) got an old Umax Vista T-630 scanner. Uses an 8 bit ISA NCR 53c400 SCSI card. Main problem is, I can't seem to configure the card. It is not detected at all, and attempting to modprobe the module freezes the computer totally. Several things come to mind: - Have you googled for that card + Linux to see whether this problem has been encountered (and maybe solved) by others? The kernel source has the code for this card, and I have complied it as a module. Only problem is, it may be compiled for either port mapping or memory mapping, but not both... - You could also search the archives of the Sane mailing list, as sane is the scanner software used on Linux. The Sane backend is installed on the system. It is a supported scanner... - Do you know whether that card has any possibilities to assign IRQ/IO port? If so, have you played with that? Not IRQ as far as I can tell, but the I/O port is settable by switches on board. I've left it at the default (0x300), as that is not currently in use on my system (it was before I upgraded the network card...). - Have you tried without the CD reader/burner (especially without their module)? No, because if I do that, I won't be able to use the burner... That's all I can think of at the moment... Thanks for the suggestions... I'll keep plugging away... Cheerio, Thomas -- Alex Fisher OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Community Contact, Australia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 06:00 am, lorne wrote: On Monday 08 September 2003 10:17 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Monday 08 September 2003 07:55 pm, lorne wrote: I know that previous version of Mandrake did have an editor. Darned if I can find one now. I have some wave and mp3 files I want to burn to CDrom and some of them have a VERY annoying screech at the beginning I want to clip off. you'd think this easy to find... am I just having a brain fart? Audacity will work very well for you. Just be ready to provide generous temp file space if the files are big, lots of RAM helps too. I use it for just the reasons that you mention, and it works great! Just urpmi audacity I guess I need to add more sites or something to my urpmi, I get not found for most everything. :( One thing sadly lacking imho is the urpmi gui interface. There is only blank spaces with locations for url and relative path to synthesis/hdlist: ?? Of course if you don't enter the information exactly correct, it fails. With no hints on what is wrong. There needs to be some polishing of this idea in my thoughts. A way to browse around a ftp site and select where you want it to point to, or at least an error code telling you what is wrong. I've even tried the http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon site which has worked for me in the past. My 9.1 mdk doesn't seem to like the syntax he is suggesting I use. Very frustrating. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files
lorne wrote: On Monday 08 September 2003 08:03 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: lorne wrote: I know that previous version of Mandrake did have an editor. Darned if I can find one now. I have some wave and mp3 files I want to burn to CDrom and some of them have a VERY annoying screech at the beginning I want to clip off. you'd think this easy to find... am I just having a brain fart? I don't have much experience with this but you might want to take a look at hackaudacity in 9.1/contrib/. There was some bug in audacity that made hackaudacity a better choice, at the time I looked at it. Here is the qip: I take it that /contrib is NOT the 3rd disk then? I didn't find it. I'll go out and google for it. I guess since I'm no longer contributing I do not have acess to it. Thanks anyhow. 9.1/contrib/ is on the same mirrors that host the download isos. I see by your other post that you have tried Easy urpmi at PLF and it might be the problem with that is the mirror being busy; 9.2 rc2 is starting to get downloaded and you might try different mirrors, time of day to get through. Audacity is a program that lets you manipulate digital audio waveforms. In addition to letting you record sounds directly from within the program, it imports many sound file formats, including WAV, AIFF, MP3 and Ogg/Vorbis. It supports all common editing operations such as Cut, Copy, and Paste, plus it will mix tracks and let you apply plug-in effects to any part of a sound. It also has a built-in amplitude envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode and a frequency analysis window for audio analysis applications. Rolf 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] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files
lorne wrote: On Tuesday 09 September 2003 06:00 am, lorne wrote: On Monday 08 September 2003 10:17 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Monday 08 September 2003 07:55 pm, lorne wrote: I know that previous version of Mandrake did have an editor. Darned if I can find one now. I have some wave and mp3 files I want to burn to CDrom and some of them have a VERY annoying screech at the beginning I want to clip off. you'd think this easy to find... am I just having a brain fart? Audacity will work very well for you. Just be ready to provide generous temp file space if the files are big, lots of RAM helps too. I use it for just the reasons that you mention, and it works great! Just urpmi audacity I guess I need to add more sites or something to my urpmi, I get not found for most everything. :( One thing sadly lacking imho is the urpmi gui interface. There is only blank spaces with locations for url and relative path to synthesis/hdlist: ?? Of course if you don't enter the information exactly correct, it fails. With no hints on what is wrong. There needs to be some polishing of this idea in my thoughts. A way to browse around a ftp site and select where you want it to point to, or at least an error code telling you what is wrong. I've even tried the http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon site which has worked for me in the past. My 9.1 mdk doesn't seem to like the syntax he is suggesting I use. Very frustrating. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Actually you have urpmi.setup as a GUI for adding sources (same team than nanardon) Eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] this one is harmless?
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 11:24:05 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 09 Sep 2003 5:55 am, Charlie wrote: Is someone interested in ancestry of :- linux, Linux Mandrake or ? Interesting one, that. Coming through with the Approved subject line I was immediately suspicious, but ancestry.com appears to be a genuine genealogy site for USA, and rightnowtech.com looks genuine enough, so the only question is why mandrake? Could it be that one of these sites has been hacked to include a trojan? This is way beyond me. It could be that one of the infected members of our list uses ancestry.com so sobif spoofed ancestry and sent to mandrake. No payload is strange, but maybe an isp got smart and started blocking .pif's? -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Join the content organization discussion: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/NewIndex Join the General Wiki Development discussion: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/DevelopingTheMandrakeCommunity#Discussion Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 08:59 am, lorne wrote: Thank you for the info! One question... it installs fine, but doesn't recognize the sound driver I'm using. In the registry.dat file it has used /dev/dsp. I changed it to /dev/sound/dsp, but still no go. Was there any tricks you used to get it working? Nope, it worked out of the box here on my onboard sound with a Soyo Dragon Plus motherboard. What kind of sound setup do you have? I thought almost everything defaulted to /dev/dsp. Did you try making a symlink from /dev/sound/dsp to /dev/dsp instead? Just a thought. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] this one is harmless?
I'm fuzzy on the list mechanism. Do you have to be a subscriber to the list to send something to it? Or does subscribing only allow you to receive messages? And since we have to confirm all messages that come to the list, how is it that any automated message could make it through to us? Miark On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 08:31:39 -0700, Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It could be that one of the infected members of our list uses ancestry.com so sobif spoofed ancestry and sent to mandrake. No payload is strange, but maybe an isp got smart and started blocking .pif's? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [expert] this one is harmless?
Hello Anne, Tuesday, September 9, 2003, 6:03:41 AM, you wrote: Interesting one, that. Coming through with the Approved subject line I was immediately suspicious, but ancestry.com appears to be a genuine genealogy site for USA, and rightnowtech.com looks genuine enough, so the only question is why mandrake? The subject lines are from the SoBig virus. Possibly ancestry.com got them from spoofed [EMAIL PROTECTED], ID'd it as a virus, and bounced it after removing the virus attachment.? I didn't get the attachment in the ones I received. -- rikonamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Followup: [expert] ref to the kickstart file via nfs or tftp
Annybody, I don't believe that Mandrake has narrowed the possibility to make an automated install this much. Any idea of an solution or an suggestion to a .cfg syntax is appreciated. current cfg label mdk KERNEL img/mdk9.1/vmlinuz append kickstart=../mdk_minimal.cfg automatic=met:nfs,ser:172.16.255.4,dir:/inst/dist/mdk9.1,netw:static,ip:172.16.255.45,netm:255.255.255.0,gat:172.16.255.2,dns:172.16.255.2,ramdisk_size=6 initrd=img/mdk9.1/network.rdz root=/dev/ram3 vga=788 /Kasper On Thursday 04 September 2003 13:16, Kasper Fock wrote: I am trying to make an automated install via PXE. My problem is that the installation can't load my kickstart file via NFS or TFTP. (8.2 could??). I succeeded in the install of Redhat and Suse, using this configuration, but I would be very interested in making the same type of install for mandrake. As I see at the page http://members.shaw.ca/mandrake/drakx/9.0/HTML/section6.html#The_auto_instc fg_File_Location the support for NFS, FTP, TFTP and HTTP has bean removed for Mandrake 9.0+ is this right ore is it just not documented here? I know the path to ks file can be a relative path from the install dir (ie. via NFS) but it can't go up level (../../conf/auto_inst.cfg) Can anyone tell me how the obtain the kickstart file via the NFS, TFTP or FTP? Thanks in advantage Kasper Fock EasySpeedy ApS ___ European Dedicated Server Hosting Extremely low prices, secure, and reliable Linux and BSD distributions only ___ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Re: Desktop Entries
Hi, Sorry, if I was not precise enough. All entries above Bookmarks on the KDE menu are gone (e.g., Application, Configuration, Documentation, Networking, Terminals, ..., etc.). And the shortcuts that I created on the toolbar now only displays the KDE gear icon. If I click on it, it would say the serivce not found. (e.g., Could not finnd service Terminal/kconsle.desktop). Would someone please tell me how to recover the settings? Norman one question did you restart X ... not just logout log back in but restart X? (ctrl-alt-backspace will restart X) I rebooted my server. But the shortcuts and desktop icons are still missing 8( Is there a directory that keeps these settings. Second thing would be to look for files ending in .rpmsave These are new configuration files that rpm sets to the side (so it doesn't destroy your old preferences.) you'd then want to manually move the ones that don't affect you to the non .rpmsave filename. Thanks. I will do a slocate for .rpmsave files. And start manually tracking for changes. 3rd idea ... change icon set. Then change back to the one you prefer. It's possible that Linux forgot where to find your icons and needs to be reminded. May I ask how do I change my icon set? Which files do I edit? I have no more shortcuts in the GUI interface. Would it help if I change to Gnome desktop then back to KDE? Regards, Norman I updated the following packages of my LM9.0 box. Now my desktop menu is gone (the program shortcuts) and desktop icons are gone. I tried logging as a different user, the same thing happens. Has anyone seen this strange behavior? How do I revert the changes? Package name: gdm Date: August 21st, 2003 Advisory ID: MDKSA-2003:085 Affected versions: 9.0, 9.1, Corporate Server 2.1 Synopsis: Updated gdm packages fix vulnerabilities Package name: perl-CGI Date: August 20th, 2003 Advisory ID: MDKSA-2003:084 Affected versions: 8.2, 9.0, 9.1, Multi Network Firewall 8.2, Corporate Server 2.1 Synopsis: Updated perl-CGI packages fix cross-site scripting vulnerabilities Package name: unzip Date: July 7th, 2003 Advisory ID: MDKSA-2003:073 Affected versions: 8.2, 9.0, 9.1, Multi Network Firewall 8.2, Corporate Server 2.1 Synopsis: Updated unzip packages fix vulnerability Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 20:00, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Hi, I just tried 3 times to d'l the first ISO of RC2. First I used the browser (Mozilla) with a German mirror (ftp.vat.tu-dresden.de). The download stopped at 50KB left(!) and tiemd out. Trying to resume failed because the browser told me that the files are identical. md5sum check failed! Then I used pure ftp, opened a US server (mirrors.usc.edu) and failed again with the same behaviour! Then I used ncftp (my normal ftp app) and failed again! Each time with just 50KB left and ncftp tells me that the local file appears to be the same as the remote file, no transfer necessary. And, yes, I switched explicitely to binary transfer! Wasted 2.5 hours and 1.8GB of my 5GB-limit! Arrgh! wobo wobo, Say aye and give me your adress I'll send you a copy of CD1 and 2 (didn't dwl CD3 -sorry). No problem whatsoever. From NL it should be at your adress on Thursday or Friday at the most. BTW I dloaded from the dutch surfnet mirror simply using konqueror with double pane and dragging dropping the iso's to my /home/triade directory. Did take all Sunday afternoon though. I even cancelled and resumed a few times:o) Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Failed downloads of RC2
Hi, I just tried 3 times to d'l the first ISO of RC2. First I used the browser (Mozilla) with a German mirror (ftp.vat.tu-dresden.de). The download stopped at 50KB left(!) and tiemd out. Trying to resume failed because the browser told me that the files are identical. md5sum check failed! Then I used pure ftp, opened a US server (mirrors.usc.edu) and failed again with the same behaviour! Then I used ncftp (my normal ftp app) and failed again! Each time with just 50KB left and ncftp tells me that the local file appears to be the same as the remote file, no transfer necessary. And, yes, I switched explicitely to binary transfer! Wasted 2.5 hours and 1.8GB of my 5GB-limit! Arrgh! wobo -- ... and anyway, html can't carry a virus. (Aug 2001, Usenet) --- GnuPG Public Key on http://www.wolf-b.de/misc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2
Hello. Am Dienstag, 9. September 2003 20:00 schrieb Wolfgang Bornath: I just tried 3 times to d'l the first ISO of RC2. First I used the browser (Mozilla) with a German mirror (ftp.vat.tu-dresden.de). The download stopped at 50KB left(!) and tiemd out. Trying to resume failed because the browser told me that the files are identical. md5sum check failed! I took my Mozilla and downloaded from a server in the Netherlands [1], did a fine job. Regards, Thorsten [1] ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrake/Mandrake-iso/i586 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Re: Re: Desktop Entries
Hi, Sorry, if I was not precise enough. All entries above Bookmarks on the KDE menu are gone (e.g., Application, Configuration, Documentation, Networking, Terminals, ..., etc.). And the shortcuts that I created on the toolbar now only displays the KDE gear icon. If I click on it, it would say the serivce not found. (e.g., Could not finnd service Terminal/kconsle.desktop). Would someone please tell me how to recover the settings? That sounds strange, I have lost the /home icon use in Red Hat in panel, menu and on the desktop and could only get it through the run command in the menu and type /home to have it come up. But everything showed that it was right in kmenuedit. You could try that. You might try Menudrake as well, they might still be there? Strange indeed. I tried kmenuedit and menudrake in the console. kmenuedit does show any entries. But menudrake has the regular application groups and shortcuts showing on the left pane. So it is safe to add them to the system menu again? I'm doing cautiously as this is my working file server 8( Please advise. Regards, Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] this one is harmless?
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 11:48, Miark wrote: I'm fuzzy on the list mechanism. Do you have to be a subscriber to the list to send something to it? Or does subscribing only allow you to receive messages? And since we have to confirm all messages that come to the list, how is it that any automated message could make it through to us? Miark ahhh, I do not have to confirm any messages On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 08:31:39 -0700, Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It could be that one of the infected members of our list uses ancestry.com so sobif spoofed ancestry and sent to mandrake. No payload is strange, but maybe an isp got smart and started blocking .pif's? __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 9, 2003 12:00 pm, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Hi, I just tried 3 times to d'l the first ISO of RC2. First I used the browser (Mozilla) with a German mirror (ftp.vat.tu-dresden.de). The download stopped at 50KB left(!) and tiemd out. Trying to resume failed because the browser told me that the files are identical. md5sum check failed! Then I used pure ftp, opened a US server (mirrors.usc.edu) and failed again with the same behaviour! Then I used ncftp (my normal ftp app) and failed again! Each time with just 50KB left and ncftp tells me that the local file appears to be the same as the remote file, no transfer necessary. And, yes, I switched explicitely to binary transfer! Wasted 2.5 hours and 1.8GB of my 5GB-limit! Arrgh! wobo Howdy; Have you a set of ISOs from the last release still? If so you can rename them and rsync them with the mirror of your choice to save at least some bandwidth. Greg Meyer did a mini tutorial on doing that. A link can be found on the cooker TWiki, or at his page: http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/rsync-mandrakeiso.html http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MandrakeLinux If not; and it seems the connections everywhere are dragging along like molasses in January, you may want to try the bit torrent. I'm feeding it back up from here at roughly 60 kilobytes per second from the set I rsynced from sunet.se last night. Md5sums checked, clean downloads. The main torrent page for triggering the download from a browser: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/torrent/MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2.torrent or open a terminal in the directory you want the ISOs in and use this: btdownloadcurses.py --url http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/torrent/MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2.torrent - --saveas MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2 I hope you can grab them one way or another without too much more trouble. If you use the torrent please leave it running for a while after completion to ease the traffic jam on the mirrors? I'll leave mine up for probably another 12 hours or so. Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-6mdk 13:29:42 up 1 day, 14:59, 1 user, load average: 0.29, 0.23, 0.28 Elvis is my copilot. - -- Cal Keegan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Xi6ZG11CaRuZZSIRAo5DAJ9Zw5bmXCne5sbicni3V+nqPwjeJACggffk /Va9fJHItkej04WWjGueSQA= =+jY8 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 20:48, Charlie M. wrote: Howdy; Have you a set of ISOs from the last release still? If so you can rename them and rsync them with the mirror of your choice to save at least some bandwidth. Greg Meyer did a mini tutorial on doing that. A link can be found on the cooker TWiki, or at his page: http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/rsync-mandrakeiso.html http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MandrakeLinux If not; and it seems the connections everywhere are dragging along like molasses in January, you may want to try the bit torrent. I'm feeding it back up from here at roughly 60 kilobytes per second from the set I rsynced from sunet.se last night. Md5sums checked, clean downloads. The main torrent page for triggering the download from a browser: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/torrent/MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2.torrent or open a terminal in the directory you want the ISOs in and use this: btdownloadcurses.py --url http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/torrent/MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2.torrent - --saveas MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2 I hope you can grab them one way or another without too much more trouble. If you use the torrent please leave it running for a while after completion to ease the traffic jam on the mirrors? I'll leave mine up for probably another 12 hours or so. Regards; Charlie Charlie, You're lucky Anne is just looking away or she'd be asking you to put this up on the wiki:o) Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CLI for monitoring
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 09 Sep 2003 11:53 am, KevinO wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: As a side-issue, I have to get close to the page and squint to read that page, Kevin. For those with less than perfect vision, dark blue text on black is not easy. Sorry about that. The color has been changed. Thanks for the comment. - -- KevinO If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library? - -- Lily Tomlin -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/Xj3yWOfRC7Rnmv8RAouOAJ4jyGfXI1V+MpNerBcV1Su/9/fiewCdGCqQ bW43mVmktf/HYDw3TdymaUE= =X2lI -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2
On Tuesday September 9 2003 01:34 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: From NL it should be at your adress on Thursday or Friday at the most. OOps, withdrawing that: I dloaded RC1. Sticking head in toilet and flushing.. Good luck, HarM There's been a sh!+load of updates since RC2. Just update RC1, probly easier than re-getting RC2. urpmi.update -a -f --wget urpmi --wget --no-verify-rpm --auto-select -v, on the main mirrors. At least they didn't play bittorrent games this time. Best way to turn broadband into a 14,4K dialup connection IMO. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 9, 2003 01:55 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Tuesday 09 September 2003 20:48, Charlie M. wrote: Howdy; Have you a set of ISOs from the last release still? If so you can rename them and rsync them with the mirror of your choice to save at least some bandwidth. Greg Meyer did a mini tutorial on doing that. A link can be found on the cooker TWiki, or at his page: http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/rsync-mandrakeiso.html http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MandrakeLinux If not; and it seems the connections everywhere are dragging along like molasses in January, you may want to try the bit torrent. I'm feeding it back up from here at roughly 60 kilobytes per second from the set I rsynced from sunet.se last night. Md5sums checked, clean downloads. The main torrent page for triggering the download from a browser: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/torrent/MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2.torrent or open a terminal in the directory you want the ISOs in and use this: btdownloadcurses.py --url http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/torrent/MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2.torrent - --saveas MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2 I hope you can grab them one way or another without too much more trouble. If you use the torrent please leave it running for a while after completion to ease the traffic jam on the mirrors? I'll leave mine up for probably another 12 hours or so. Regards; Charlie Charlie, You're lucky Anne is just looking away or she'd be asking you to put this up on the wiki:o) Good luck, HarM Don't give her any ideas HarM! She'll probably be nice to me 'cause she knows I haven't slept in about 65 or 66 hours. It's been one of those weeks, and it's only Tuesday. I think 'Course if I do it again she'll probably have me flogged around the square or something. g You can copy and paste anything that may be of any use to the Community TWiki, can't you Anne? Pretty please? With sugar on it? Sprinkles? Chocolate sauce? lol I just noticed the fortune on this message. My system is insane; which is OK since apparently I am too. Gotta hurry away again so I can get close enough to started so that I'll feel I'm making at least _some_ headway. Some *hobby* I picked. Peace; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-6mdk 14:59:49 up 1 day, 16:29, 1 user, load average: 0.23, 0.22, 0.13 Anything that is good and useful is made of chocolate. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/XkHWG11CaRuZZSIRAlX4AJ9milZdNgwJoIHo9uvntQ6+BequzACfZRji m+LTdDoqh8L+1ykn26zAvOE= =cgLA -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 23:10, Charlie M. wrote: Gotta hurry away again so I can get close enough to started so that I'll feel I'm making at least _some_ headway. Some *hobby* I picked. Peace; Charlie Heheheh, Charlie buy yourself a boat, get grounded (accidentally) at high tide and enjoy the peace and quiet (and if you took some meat along: the barbecue). I can recommend it:o) Don't do it in the hurricane season though! Good luck (and night), HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 9, 2003 03:02 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday September 9 2003 01:34 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: From NL it should be at your adress on Thursday or Friday at the most. OOps, withdrawing that: I dloaded RC1. Sticking head in toilet and flushing.. Good luck, HarM There's been a sh!+load of updates since RC2. Just update RC1, probly easier than re-getting RC2. urpmi.update -a -f --wget urpmi --wget --no-verify-rpm --auto-select -v, on the main mirrors. At least they didn't play bittorrent games this time. Best way to turn broadband into a 14,4K dialup connection IMO. We did (are doing) the torrent thing Tom, just not limiting the downloads to the torrent. I'm still feeding a 60 kilobyte stream back up even though I rsynced the RC1 ISOs from sunet rather than waiting forever for the torrent to do anything. I tried it (briefly) just for grins and giggles and the download speed was actually acceptable this time. I set max-upload at 500 and was tripping 40 to 55 KB both ways. Not fast but not bad. Will that command you provided above work against my local (hdb5) cooker? It should right? Thank you. Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-6mdk 15:40:47 up 1 day, 17:10, 1 user, load average: 0.78, 0.48, 0.29 Consider well the proportions of things. It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise. -- Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/XknpG11CaRuZZSIRApypAJ0ZyAH0ClhMifSunLQ9j6GFzUawxACdF1Bx mTUmc1rCZ2X59sRHiwmO8uI= =p9RL -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: WARNING(virus check bypassed): Re: [expert] CLI for monitoring
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 04:54 pm, KevinO wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 09 Sep 2003 11:53 am, KevinO wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: As a side-issue, I have to get close to the page and squint to read that page, Kevin. For those with less than perfect vision, dark blue text on black is not easy. Sorry about that. The color has been changed. Thanks for the comment. Is this the latest virus warning for the list? -- David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] removing boot themes -- lost LILO choices
Thank you for the response. Somehow LILO won't display the boot choices anymore. I have switched from LILO graphical to LILO text, but neither of them display. The bootstrap jumps right into loading the default kernel. How can this be resolved? Thanks again, James -Original Message- From: Miark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 7:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] removing boot themes You can eliminate the bootsplash mechanism with urpme bootsplash Miark On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 13:42:25 -0700 , James D. Parra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Running Mandrake 9.1 and I would like to remove the boot up themes. How can this be done? From the Mandrake control panel applet, I uncheck the use themes check box, but this doesn't work. Thank you in advance. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] this one is harmless?
Surely this is some sick joke. I have to confirm every message I send to the list. Here, I just did a test message and received this back: -- From: SYMPA [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: confirm 84a2165ddf26c947ca93500929d7a0ab Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 17:10:22 +0200 (CEST) Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To distribute the attached message in list expert : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following subject : CONFIRM 84a2165ddf26c947ca93500929d7a0ab From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Expert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: test Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 16:49:41 -0400 X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) test --- Are you telling me I'm the only one who has to do this?! Miark On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 20:39:59 +0100, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 09 Sep 2003 8:32 pm, ed tharp wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 11:48, Miark wrote: I'm fuzzy on the list mechanism. Do you have to be a subscriber to the list to send something to it? Or does subscribing only allow you to receive messages? And since we have to confirm all messages that come to the list, how is it that any automated message could make it through to us? Miark ahhh, I do not have to confirm any messages Surely we only confirm when we sign up? I seem to recall that someone said earlier that you can send a message to the list without being subscribed. You just won't receive the list messages. If it was a bounce, perhaps that's what's happening. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] removing boot themes -- lost LILO choices
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 15:04:35 -0700 James D. Parra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Somehow LILO won't display the boot choices anymore. I have switched from LILO graphical to LILO text, but neither of them display. The bootstrap jumps right into loading the default kernel. How can this be resolved? Your timeout value has either been changed or removed Edit your /etc/lilo.conf sample default=2422-7ent keytable=/boot/us.klt prompt nowarn timeout=100 message=/boot/message Add or change your timeout entry 10=1sec 100=10sec etc. Charles -- Frankfort, Kentucky, makes it against the law to shoot off a policeman's tie. - Mandrake Linux 9.2 on PurpleDragon Kernel-2.4.22-6mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com - pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] this one is harmless?
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 17:28, Miark wrote: Surely this is some sick joke. I have to confirm every message I send to the list. Here, I just did a test message and received this back: -- From: SYMPA [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: confirm 84a2165ddf26c947ca93500929d7a0ab Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 17:10:22 +0200 (CEST) Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To distribute the attached message in list expert : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following subject : CONFIRM 84a2165ddf26c947ca93500929d7a0ab From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Expert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: test Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 16:49:41 -0400 X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) test --- Are you telling me I'm the only one who has to do this?! Miark yes, try subscribing from the same address you send from Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] this one is harmless?
That's an improvement over the last time I changed addresses. Sympa wouldn't accept anything I did from anywhere. Lee On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 17:28:07 -0400 Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Surely this is some sick joke. I have to confirm every message I send to the list. Here, I just did a test message and received this back: - - From: SYMPA [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: confirm 84a2165ddf26c947ca93500929d7a0ab Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 17:10:22 +0200 (CEST) Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To distribute the attached message in list expert : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 7ca93500929d7a0ab Or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following subject : CONFIRM 84a2165ddf26c947ca93500929d7a0ab From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Expert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: test Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 16:49:41 -0400 X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) test - -- Are you telling me I'm the only one who has to do this?! Miark On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 20:39:59 +0100, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 09 Sep 2003 8:32 pm, ed tharp wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 11:48, Miark wrote: I'm fuzzy on the list mechanism. Do you have to be a subscriber to the list to send something to it? Or does subscribing only allow you to receive messages? And since we have to confirm all messages that come to the list, how is it that any automated message could make it through to us? Miark ahhh, I do not have to confirm any messages Surely we only confirm when we sign up? I seem to recall that someone said earlier that you can send a message to the list without being subscribed. You just won't receive the list messages. If it was a bounce, perhaps that's what's happening. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 02:00 pm, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: I just tried 3 times to d'l the first ISO of RC2. First I used the browser (Mozilla) with a German mirror (ftp.vat.tu-dresden.de). The download stopped at 50KB left(!) and tiemd out. Trying to resume failed because the browser told me that the files are identical. md5sum check failed! Then I used pure ftp, opened a US server (mirrors.usc.edu) and failed again with the same behaviour! Out of disk space? -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] root-tail
On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 16:41:25 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I've not used root-tail so this may not work: I'd create a named pipe and send the output of top to the pipe. You can then use root-tail on the named pipe. E.g.: mkfifo top-output nohup -b top-output root-tail +whatever parameters you need to pass Getting back to this, top-output is the name of the file created by the top -b command? -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: nodex.sytes.net ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ Life is the childhood of our immortality. -- Goethe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] root-tail
On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 18:44:56 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Duh! I meant, of course, to type top -b... Not enough caffeine yet. Gotta brew another carafe or two. oh, that's where I'm getting confused, I missed this reply. LOL! -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: nodex.sytes.net ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] root-tail
On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 15:24:32 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Awesome! That did it - instead of 'nohup -b' I did 'top -b' and it does exactly what I was hoping for. Does it show you all running processes?? No matter which way I try it, it just shows me a few of my users processes and *postfix* (?!). -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: nodex.sytes.net ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ Everything is possible. Pass the word. -- Rita Mae Brown, Six of One Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2
On Tuesday September 9 2003 04:45 pm, Charlie M. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 9, 2003 03:02 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday September 9 2003 01:34 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: From NL it should be at your adress on Thursday or Friday at the most. OOps, withdrawing that: I dloaded RC1. Sticking head in toilet and flushing.. Good luck, HarM There's been a sh!+load of updates since RC2. Just update RC1, probly easier than re-getting RC2. urpmi.update -a -f --wget urpmi --wget --no-verify-rpm --auto-select -v, on the main mirrors. At least they didn't play bittorrent games this time. Best way to turn broadband into a 14,4K dialup connection IMO. We did (are doing) the torrent thing Tom, I know. Some people like abuse ; just not limiting the downloads to the torrent. When I got up this mornin to find the RC2 iso's were on the mirrors, I was readin the cooker list. Sure enough a plea to run bittorrent. So what'a hey, I tried it for a while. Started with 30KB/s incoming, 0 to 3K upload. After ten minutes it was 0 to 3 incoming and 10 KB upload. I reckon in ten minutes I'd already d/l'd the sum of the pool that was available, an everybody else was suckin on me for all I'm worth. So I quit that worthless BS, and d/l'd the iso's from sunsite. I'd like to believe that the iso's were available from ftp at the same time as bittorcrap, after the rants me an a few others voiced the last time (see above) about the iso's not being on the mirrors, and only at first by bitchtorrent. I'm still feeding a 60 kilobyte stream back up even though I rsynced the RC1 ISOs from sunet rather than waiting forever for the torrent to do anything. I tried it (briefly) just for grins and giggles and the download speed was actually acceptable this time. I set max-upload at 500 and was tripping 40 to 55 KB both ways. Not fast but not bad. I've never had any luck with rsync. Screwed up mirrors, package version naming convention changes, can really fsck'ya. Plus I don't wanna maintain a local mirror. Like most all cookers, I stay current with urpmi --auto-select on cooker Net mirrors. As to upstream, most broadband connections here in the States like mine are very skewed. I get at 1.5Mbit, but only give at 128Kbit. (actually more like 145KBytes down, 10KBytes up). Like I say, bittorrent is a good way to turn a 145KB connection into a 10KB one (at best). P2P sucks in the first place. It's good for [EMAIL PROTECTED], if ya believe in that stuff. Will that command you provided above work against my local (hdb5) cooker? It should right? Thank you. Charlie urpmi.update -a -f --wget urpmi --wget --no-verify-rpm --auto-select -v, on the main mirrors I add sources by hand, manage them with 'edit-TabsTab' which runs Software Sources Manager, where just a click will enable/disable mirrors. Most of the time (musical cooker mirrors, which one is worth a fsck today??), I only enable one mirror. Lately I enable 2 or 3 simultaneously that I have some previous confidence in an know that mirror different primary mirrors (sunet, sunsite). 'Course you know the -a means all sources, the -f forces a hdlist (I just get synthesis) download. I've found --wget more reliable than curl. --no-verify-rpm just saves headaches over the fsck'd up signed/unsigned/wrongly signed cooker packages lately. No, it's not for updating from your local mirror. Actually all I do is type 'cook' to stay current, alias cook='urpmi.update -a -f --wget urpmi --wget --no-verify-rpm --auto-select -v'An update from a fresh RC1 install lately (yeah I got really screwed by the bad initscripts update last week), took little more than an hour. I reckon about the same to get past RC2, with a RC1 to current update now. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2
On Tuesday September 9 2003 04:54 pm, Charlie M. wrote: Never mind. I seem to have fallen into a loop of dependency hell here. kdnetwork blahbla.32 needs kdenetworkblahblah.32 Installation failed. Try a differnet mirror. I often update successfully from club-internet.fr when sunet is fsck'd up. An club mirrors from sunet! Go figure. Also, wait a while, try again. None of the mirrors are updating as frequently as they did in past times. An never had so many with 'missing files' as they are currently. Maybe the nephew got promoted ? According to urpmi I only need a grand total of 57 MB to be current. The rpms are on the hard drive, but it just keeps displaying the same errors and won't install the blasted packages. More like 1/3 to 1/4 of 57mb. urpmi reports the needed install space, not the d/l amount compressed in rpms. Sort'a useless for updating, since your only fixin to replace already installed packages for the most part anyhow. Screw it, I'll just boot to the hdinstall.img and upgrade install them. 18 hours of feeding bit torrent is enough for now. I should just quit bitchin about bittorcrap, but after ten minutes it tol' me I only had 246+ hours to go ;) The RC2 iso's were already burned 7 hours ago from an ftp d/l. Suppose I could start bittsh!+ before goin to bed, but that'd only be contributing to the mistaken delinquency and delusion of others ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2
On Tuesday September 9 2003 04:38 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: Heheheh, Charlie buy yourself a boat, get grounded (accidentally) at high tide and enjoy the peace and quiet (and if you took some meat along: the barbecue). I can recommend it:o) Don't do it in the hurricane season though! Good luck (and night), HarM HarM, post the link you posted to the 'other' list ;) No damn boat, pretty good size ship! Maybe you could contract some dredging as an affiliate venture? -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files
One thing sadly lacking imho is the urpmi gui interface. There is only blank spaces with locations for url and relative path to synthesis/hdlist: ?? Of course if you don't enter the information exactly correct, it fails. With no hints on what is wrong. There needs to be some polishing of this idea in my thoughts. A way to browse around a ftp site and select where you want it to point to, or at least an error code telling you what is wrong. I've even tried the http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon site which has worked for me in the past. My 9.1 mdk doesn't seem to like the syntax he is suggesting I use. Very frustrating. The urpmi GUI is called rpmdrake. You can enter the info there, but I find it easier to let urpmi handle the set up for me, or for looking for one little program. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Desktop Entries
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 09:42, Norman Zhang wrote: Hi, Sorry, if I was not precise enough. All entries above Bookmarks on the KDE menu are gone (e.g., Application, Configuration, Documentation, Networking, Terminals, ..., etc.). And the shortcuts that I created on the toolbar now only displays the KDE gear icon. If I click on it, it would say the serivce not found. (e.g., Could not finnd service Terminal/kconsle.desktop). Would someone please tell me how to recover the settings? Norman one question did you restart X ... not just logout log back in but restart X? (ctrl-alt-backspace will restart X) I rebooted my server. But the shortcuts and desktop icons are still missing 8( Is there a directory that keeps these settings. They are in a file in the Desktops Directory in your home directory. One question here. In KDE Control Center (kcontrol) LookNFeel-Behavior did perhaps the Enable icons on desktop box get unchecked on you when you upgraded? Second thing would be to look for files ending in .rpmsave These are new configuration files that rpm sets to the side (so it doesn't destroy your old preferences.) you'd then want to manually move the ones that don't affect you to the non .rpmsave filename. Thanks. I will do a slocate for .rpmsave files. And start manually tracking for changes. 3rd idea ... change icon set. Then change back to the one you prefer. It's possible that Linux forgot where to find your icons and needs to be reminded. May I ask how do I change my icon set? Which files do I edit? I have no more shortcuts in the GUI interface. Would it help if I change to Gnome desktop then back to KDE? Kcontrol again. LookNFeel-Icons. Choose any set which has little images show up (there are parts of some sets in mdk that do nothing for you the working ones will give you a sample when you chose them.) Regards, Norman I updated the following packages of my LM9.0 box. Now my desktop menu is gone (the program shortcuts) and desktop icons are gone. I tried logging as a different user, the same thing happens. Has anyone seen this strange behavior? How do I revert the changes? Package name: gdm Date: August 21st, 2003 Advisory ID: MDKSA-2003:085 Affected versions: 9.0, 9.1, Corporate Server 2.1 Synopsis: Updated gdm packages fix vulnerabilities Package name: perl-CGI Date: August 20th, 2003 Advisory ID: MDKSA-2003:084 Affected versions: 8.2, 9.0, 9.1, Multi Network Firewall 8.2, Corporate Server 2.1 Synopsis: Updated perl-CGI packages fix cross-site scripting vulnerabilities Package name: unzip Date: July 7th, 2003 Advisory ID: MDKSA-2003:073 Affected versions: 8.2, 9.0, 9.1, Multi Network Firewall 8.2, Corporate Server 2.1 Synopsis: Updated unzip packages fix vulnerability __ 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] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 05:42, lorne wrote: On Monday 08 September 2003 08:03 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: lorne wrote: I know that previous version of Mandrake did have an editor. Darned if I can find one now. I have some wave and mp3 files I want to burn to CDrom and some of them have a VERY annoying screech at the beginning I want to clip off. you'd think this easy to find... am I just having a brain fart? I don't have much experience with this but you might want to take a look at hackaudacity in 9.1/contrib/. There was some bug in audacity that made hackaudacity a better choice, at the time I looked at it. Here is the qip: I take it that /contrib is NOT the 3rd disk then? I didn't find it. I'll go out and google for it. Easiest way.. go here. http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php It even has setup instructions for all of cooker and MDK 7.2 forward. Just follow the bouncing instructions (*grin*) and you will have the needed line to setup your urpmi then just... urpmi audacity. James I guess since I'm no longer contributing I do not have acess to it. Thanks anyhow. Audacity is a program that lets you manipulate digital audio waveforms. In addition to letting you record sounds directly from within the program, it imports many sound file formats, including WAV, AIFF, MP3 and Ogg/Vorbis. It supports all common editing operations such as Cut, Copy, and Paste, plus it will mix tracks and let you apply plug-in effects to any part of a sound. It also has a built-in amplitude envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode and a frequency analysis window for audio analysis applications. Rolf __ 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] this one is harmless?
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 03:24, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 09 Sep 2003 5:55 am, Charlie wrote: Is someone interested in ancestry of :- linux, Linux Mandrake or ? Interesting one, that. Coming through with the Approved subject line I was immediately suspicious, but ancestry.com appears to be a genuine genealogy site for USA, and rightnowtech.com looks genuine enough, so the only question is why mandrake? Could it be that one of these sites has been hacked to include a trojan? This is way beyond me. Anne They both run winIIS server... AKA virus magnate. Need I say more. (btw to find out what a site uses www.netcraft.com and use the what's this site running box.) James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] this one is harmless?
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 08:48, Miark wrote: I'm fuzzy on the list mechanism. Do you have to be a subscriber to the list to send something to it? Or does subscribing only allow you to receive messages? And since we have to confirm all messages that come to the list, how is it that any automated message could make it through to us? Miark, Being a member should allow you to send IF you send from the same e-mail return address you receive on. For me if I send from my opencountry.org site. No problem. If I send from my work server (Nisvara.com) I have to confirm. So if you want to be able to do both without constant confirm make sure your sending and receiving server are the same. (btw reply to doesn't work) James Miark On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 08:31:39 -0700, Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It could be that one of the infected members of our list uses ancestry.com so sobif spoofed ancestry and sent to mandrake. No payload is strange, but maybe an isp got smart and started blocking .pif's? __ 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] CLI for monitoring
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 03:06, Anne Wilson wrote: Over a long period I have seen commands given for finding informationabout a system, for instance this morning there was cat /proc/bus/usb/devices. It seems to me that those of us with aging grey cells, and maybe others as well, would be glad of a list of these really useful commands. Could someone either put a list on the TWiki site, or post a list here that I could add? Thanks Anne Anne it's been there for a while!... See my page http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/QuikTips or the Tips and Tricks from the experts group page. http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/TipsAndTricks James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Mozilla Aqua theme?
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 04:33, Tango Echo wrote: I would assume that would include Mozilla - regardless of theme? I went to the location you described and tried to change the Menu Translucency type to Software Blend. But it must not be allowed in Mosfets High Performance Liquid since I received an error when I tried to apply. Any idea to get around this? Mosfet does his own transparency... and I just discovered it doesn't always work on GTK apps (like evolution.) Sorry. Also tried a different style, and applied the menu translucency. Still, the File, Edit, etc menus of Mozilla were not translucent. Any ideas on this one? Thanks, Tango -Original Message- From: James Sparenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 2:24 PM To: Expert List Subject: RE: [expert] Mozilla Aqua theme? On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 04:50, Tango Echo wrote: Wow, nice theme. I'm assuming that they don't have translucent menus, though, huh? I like Mosfet's Liquid theme for KDE. Especially those translucent menus! To bad more apps (like mozilla) didn't have support for that... You've got total (as in all app) translucent Menus in KDE. In the Style section of lookNFeel in kcontrol use the effects Tab. Most of the styles support Software tint software blend and/or Xrender Blend for this. James -Original Message- From: James Sparenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 3:58 AM To: Expert List Subject: Re: [expert] Mozilla Aqua theme? On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 20:08, Jeremy Gregorio wrote: Anyone know if such a thing still exists? I know apple forced a cease and desist before, but there are several KDE Aqua theme projects (I'm running one now) that have gone untouched. Seems weird. Jeremy Gregorio AquaMoz is the theme you want but it appears the original site is down. http://www.fiftysecondstreet.net/aquamoz/ and the site that had it deskmod.com is going away as well.. James __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.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] Failed downloads of RC2
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 11:00, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Hi, I just tried 3 times to d'l the first ISO of RC2. First I used the browser (Mozilla) with a German mirror (ftp.vat.tu-dresden.de). The download stopped at 50KB left(!) and tiemd out. Trying to resume failed because the browser told me that the files are identical. md5sum check failed! Then I used pure ftp, opened a US server (mirrors.usc.edu) and failed again with the same behaviour! Then I used ncftp (my normal ftp app) and failed again! Each time with just 50KB left and ncftp tells me that the local file appears to be the same as the remote file, no transfer necessary. And, yes, I switched explicitely to binary transfer! Wasted 2.5 hours and 1.8GB of my 5GB-limit! Arrgh! wobo wobo, sounds like the iso is 50mb short on the mirrors. You might need to ask Warley or one of the others at cooker what's the buzz. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 07:36 am, Rolf Pedersen wrote: 9.1/contrib/ is on the same mirrors that host the download isos. I see by your other post that you have tried Easy urpmi at PLF and it might be the problem with that is the mirror being busy; 9.2 rc2 is starting to get downloaded and you might try different mirrors, time of day to get through. What is interesting is that when you use the gui to add a site... it apparently does 3 connect attempts. If the ftp server doesn't respond. Poof. It is done. ?? What is up with that? Why wouldn't it continue for say a period of time? The packet trace showed 3 syn packets with no answer. That was it! ??? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 07:30 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Easiest way.. go here. http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php It even has setup instructions for all of cooker and MDK 7.2 forward. Just follow the bouncing instructions (*grin*) and you will have the needed line to setup your urpmi then just... urpmi audacity. See my previous post. All it get is no reply. I'm not even getting a response. It seems that I should have gotten a server busy packet or something. ?? It must be just buried right now. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 12:55, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Tuesday 09 September 2003 20:48, Charlie M. wrote: Howdy; Have you a set of ISOs from the last release still? If so you can rename them and rsync them with the mirror of your choice to save at least some bandwidth. Greg Meyer did a mini tutorial on doing that. A link can be found on the cooker TWiki, or at his page: http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/rsync-mandrakeiso.html http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MandrakeLinux If not; and it seems the connections everywhere are dragging along like molasses in January, you may want to try the bit torrent. I'm feeding it back up from here at roughly 60 kilobytes per second from the set I rsynced from sunet.se last night. Md5sums checked, clean downloads. The main torrent page for triggering the download from a browser: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/torrent/MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2.torrent or open a terminal in the directory you want the ISOs in and use this: btdownloadcurses.py --url http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/torrent/MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2.torrent - --saveas MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2 I hope you can grab them one way or another without too much more trouble. If you use the torrent please leave it running for a while after completion to ease the traffic jam on the mirrors? I'll leave mine up for probably another 12 hours or so. Regards; Charlie Charlie, You're lucky Anne is just looking away or she'd be asking you to put this up on the wiki:o) He's lucky since it's on the main MDK twiki he's cleared *grin* James Good luck, HarM __ 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] Login problem
Hi folks. Question about MDK 9.1. I've been running 9.1 since it came out, with few major problems. However, when I've booted my computer the last 2 nights it makes it's way to the graphical login screen with no noticeable problems, but the mouse won't move and the caps lock and scroll lock lights are flashing as I'm prompted to log in. The numlock light is not flashing nor is it lit at this time. Oh yeah, keyboard doesn't work either. Now, since I'm the consumate Linux genius I hit the reset button to reboot (can't get to another terminal). System wants to run fsck, you know, press Y in 5 seconds. So I press Y and after a few minutes I'm left at a term window because system says can't fix file system. No graphics or X. I wonder what I should have done. I ran drakxconf and checked the display config. Everything seems ok, so get out of there and reboot again. This time all is well and I make it to KDE. No prob for the rest of the night. Tonight the same thing, i.e., mouse frozen, lights flashing, no keyboard, hit reset. Computer reboots, sez to hit Y again to run fsck, but I pass on the offer. Again all is well and here I am in KDE land. Any ideas what causes this behavior guys and gals? The computer's behavior, not mine. :) TIA -- Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake Linux v9.1 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 08:51 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 09 September 2003 08:59 am, lorne wrote: Thank you for the info! One question... it installs fine, but doesn't recognize the sound driver I'm using. In the registry.dat file it has used /dev/dsp. I changed it to /dev/sound/dsp, but still no go. Was there any tricks you used to get it working? Nope, it worked out of the box here on my onboard sound with a Soyo Dragon Plus motherboard. What kind of sound setup do you have? I thought almost everything defaulted to /dev/dsp. ?? My system . oops. Well yes and no. I have a lnk /dev/dsp that points to /dev/sound/dsp. Inside of /dev/sound is dsp and mixer. Did you try making a symlink from /dev/sound/dsp to /dev/dsp instead? Just a thought. So in reality it seems that the tool you suggested should work pointing to /dev/dsp! It should also work as /dev/sound/dsp, so dunno... maybe it is looking for something else. Or maybe I have something else already installed that is conflicting? Nah... that doesn't seem right. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I need to update my mandrake box but my connection is expensive and pretty slow. What can i do ?
Hi Kevin, Thanks for answer. When i went to faster cybers here in my town (Acarigua, Venezuela) with my computer tenders get crazy and said that they can not receive customers property inside their local, i void to argue for hours with 'em. But i am interesting in know: How can i download all updates packages for Linux Mandrake 9 version, i never have updated my system and i would like it. What URL (ftp or http) can i go ? Thanks in advance and Best regards Luis Duran On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 06:07, KevinO wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Luis Duran wrote: Hello fellas, i would like to update all my packages of Mandrake, one week ago i tried to do it but the files size are quiet long, i have a dial-up connection that is expensive and way slow. I got this idea, take my computer to a cyber cafe but that people didn't not like the idea. i have this question, Has Mandrake an iso image with all the updates that i could download from a cyber cafe without taking my computer there ? i will appreciate if you let me know about this. I use to haul my laptop down to the local, wired, micro-brewery and download the updates directory from a server to take home, and then run updates on the laptop. People are always hauling boxes and monitors into this place. The local Linux Users group meets there once a month. If you need to do more than just update the box you are dragging up there, set up a mirror and a small ftp server on your laptop (or box), use rsync to update the mirror on the laptop each time you hook-in. Then the laptop can be the updates source for itself and any other boxes at home on your LAN. The rsync goes pretty fast once you have the files all copied over the first time. What is the policy of the cyber-cafe? I used one in London that always charged me a little extra because I used my laptop, instead of using one of their windows boxes. How would your's react to you taking your machine in? - -- KevinO If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library? - -- Lily Tomlin -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/XaZdWOfRC7Rnmv8RAhmzAJkBFzs91XLoHcVdb5D01ZnyX0AvcACeLKlx By4tE41bkwZ5PS8nAzDxv3U= =NwSD -END PGP SIGNATURE- __ 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] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 07:19 am, Eric Fernandez wrote: Actually you have urpmi.setup as a GUI for adding sources (same team than nanardon) The gui is what I'm referring to. I'd do screen shots to demonstrate, but I don't think those pass through. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 07:00 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: One thing sadly lacking imho is the urpmi gui interface. There is only blank spaces with locations for url and relative path to synthesis/hdlist: ?? Of course if you don't enter the information exactly correct, it fails. With no hints on what is wrong. There needs to be some polishing of this idea in my thoughts. A way to browse around a ftp site and select where you want it to point to, or at least an error code telling you what is wrong. I've even tried the http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon site which has worked for me in the past. My 9.1 mdk doesn't seem to like the syntax he is suggesting I use. Very frustrating. The urpmi GUI is called rpmdrake. You can enter the info there, but I find it easier to let urpmi handle the set up for me, or for looking for one little program. I guess I wasn't clear. It IS the GUI I'm complaining about. I expect the command line to be just what it is. I guess that is why I like it better. Although right this minute I'm having zero sucess with either. I understand that the sites are getting hammered with RC2? Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 19:53, lorne wrote: On Tuesday 09 September 2003 07:30 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Easiest way.. go here. http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php It even has setup instructions for all of cooker and MDK 7.2 forward. Just follow the bouncing instructions (*grin*) and you will have the needed line to setup your urpmi then just... urpmi audacity. See my previous post. All it get is no reply. I'm not even getting a response. It seems that I should have gotten a server busy packet or something. ?? It must be just buried right now. Doh!... if you are running 9.1 try urpmi.setup available from texstar here. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/mandrake/9.1/rpms/ Does the same thing as the easy-setup page but it also configures things for you nice program works really well. James __ 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] Failed downloads of RC2
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 11:00 am, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Hi, I just tried 3 times to d'l the first ISO of RC2. First I used the browser (Mozilla) with a German mirror (ftp.vat.tu-dresden.de). The download stopped at 50KB left(!) and tiemd out. Trying to resume failed because the browser told me that the files are identical. md5sum check failed! Then I used pure ftp, opened a US server (mirrors.usc.edu) and failed again with the same behaviour! Then I used ncftp (my normal ftp app) and failed again! Each time with just 50KB left and ncftp tells me that the local file appears to be the same as the remote file, no transfer necessary. And, yes, I switched explicitely to binary transfer! Wasted 2.5 hours and 1.8GB of my 5GB-limit! Arrgh! My experience over the last 2 years has been almost identical. It appears there is some sort of bug in the way the file is transferred to the mirrors or something. Do NOT try to download again from the one that gave you a bad one. That is my advice. Go to another until you find a good site. I honestly believe it is the mirror, NOT the download itself. IT IS identical from the one you downloaded. Too bad there wasn't a way to do a crc check BEFORE you downloaded eh? Or is there? wobo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] I need advice: migrating Win98 users to Mandrake9.1(server is already linux)
OK, so I have my web/mail/webmail server running RedHat9.0 (will be switching to mandrake in two weeks), fileserv/database is sitting on RedHat7.1 (haven't touched the system for a year). All clients are Win98 with MSOffice/MSAccess. My plan is to move all workstation to Mandrake9.1 with OpenOffice and MSAccess running via CrossoverOffice(Wine). All workstations will be identical in setup, so I can just do one image and copy it on all the drives. Here is what I want to achieve: 1. When wokrstations power up, they get an IP address from DHCP. DHCP only gives you and IP if your MAC address matches the mac assigned to you together with IP on the DHCP (already have this working). I would like the users to see Initlevel 5, so they have graphic log-on 2. I want the inside server (fileserv/database server) to hold all authentication (the simpler process, the better),common folders (and serve them via something native, would NFS do?, where can I get a HOW-TO?). All employees use same folders. Can this all be done from the moment user logs in? 3. Key is, as much automation and as little time as possible for administration I have been working on the mixed environment and I think it is time to put in some more authentication and also stop using Windows, so we are all more motivated to adapt Linux software in the office. Thanks in advance for all of your advice! Apollo - Visit CARMEL MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT website http://carmelme.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Login problem
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 16:23, Glenn Johnson wrote: Hi folks. Question about MDK 9.1. I've been running 9.1 since it came out, with few major problems. However, when I've booted my computer the last 2 nights it makes it's way to the graphical login screen with no noticeable problems, but the mouse won't move and the caps lock and scroll lock lights are flashing as I'm prompted to log in. The numlock light is not flashing nor is it lit at this time. Oh yeah, keyboard doesn't work either. that's a kernel panic. If you had access to a console, it would be saying AIIEE!!! killed interrupt handler at and a whole bunch of illegible stuff. Now, since I'm the consumate Linux genius I hit the reset button to reboot (can't get to another terminal). System wants to run fsck, you know, press Y in 5 seconds. So I press Y and after a few minutes I'm left at a term window because system says can't fix file system. No graphics or X. if you have ext3 or one of the other journalling filesystems, you do not need to say Y here. I wonder what I should have done. I ran drakxconf and checked the display config. Everything seems ok, so get out of there and reboot again. This time all is well and I make it to KDE. No prob for the rest of the night. Tonight the same thing, i.e., mouse frozen, lights flashing, no keyboard, hit reset. Computer reboots, sez to hit Y again to run fsck, but I pass on the offer. Again all is well and here I am in KDE land. Any ideas what causes this behavior guys and gals? The computer's behavior, not mine. :) well, something is causing the kernel to panic, and that's usually a sign of flaky hardware. The first time you boot, are you a) rebooting from Windows or b) cold-booting from power-off? If so, flaky hardware goes way high on the list of possibilities. less /var/log/messages and look for the stuff that you see when it reboots, then scroll up from there and you'll see if there was anything troublesome logged. Usually bad hardware just pulls the rug out before Linux can write anything to the log, but sometimes you get lucky and there'll be warning messages there. TIA -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] USB key drives and linux
From the Why I like Mandrake column Saw this over on extreme tech http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1256768,00.asp a 3 page convolution aka tutorial on how to setup usb mass storage devices on Red Hat 9 wow. am I ever glad I use MDK ... boss handed me the first one I'd ever used the other day. Plugged it in. Typed in mount /mnt/scd0 /mnt/disk... and poof I was off and running. Wow and to think that I actually should have done so much more *grin* James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 08:05 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 19:53, lorne wrote: On Tuesday 09 September 2003 07:30 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Easiest way.. go here. http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php It even has setup instructions for all of cooker and MDK 7.2 forward. Just follow the bouncing instructions (*grin*) and you will have the needed line to setup your urpmi then just... urpmi audacity. See my previous post. All it get is no reply. I'm not even getting a response. It seems that I should have gotten a server busy packet or something. ?? It must be just buried right now. Doh!... if you are running 9.1 try urpmi.setup available from texstar here. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/mandrake/9.1 /rpms/ Does the same thing as the easy-setup page but it also configures things for you nice program works really well. I see urpmi-4.2-34.1mdk.no, urpmi-parallel-ka-ru, urpmi-parallel-ssh-4. What is the name of what I'm looking for? If you already said, I apologize up front. Sometimes I'm thick. I just did an ftp to ftp.stealth.net and nothing. It is like it is either off the air or so overwhelmed it can't even answer to a ping or an ftp attempt. James __ 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] Re: Re: Desktop Entries
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 03:31 am, Norman Zhang wrote: Hi, Sorry, if I was not precise enough. All entries above Bookmarks on the KDE menu are gone (e.g., Application, Configuration, Documentation, Networking, Terminals, ..., etc.). And the shortcuts that I created on the toolbar now only displays the KDE gear icon. If I click on it, it would say the serivce not found. (e.g., Could not finnd service Terminal/kconsle.desktop). Would someone please tell me how to recover the settings? That sounds strange, I have lost the /home icon use in Red Hat in panel, menu and on the desktop and could only get it through the run command in the menu and type /home to have it come up. But everything showed that it was right in kmenuedit. You could try that. You might try Menudrake as well, they might still be there? Strange indeed. I tried kmenuedit and menudrake in the console. kmenuedit does show any entries. But menudrake has the regular application groups and shortcuts showing on the left pane. So it is safe to add them to the system menu again? I'm doing cautiously as this is my working file server 8( Please advise. Regards, Norman .Nothing strange to me !!! I went through 3 months of constantly losing the Apps menu, and fixing it, until I found the culprit - or at least enough of the culprits to fix the issue. Quick fix: log out of Xwindows cd ~ mv .kde kdestuffed (or whatever epiphet feels good!) startx You will then have a generic, first time log in again Now log out of Xwindows and start copying stuff selectively from the old kdestuffed to the newly created .kde. Stuff you most probably want lives in the share folder, and its subfolders including the kmail resources ad configs, knode, etc etc. Remember to copy the resources and configs, so that if the thing goes belly up again, you can just erase the whole .kde folder and start again. In my case, I was using xscreensaver as my screensaver (duh!) by disabling the inbuilt kde saver, (cause the random module never worked for me) by making a link in the .kde/Autostart directory. Once I had recreated all my kde settings and left this out, all is well with the menus again!! hth -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.25mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Login problem
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 16:23, Glenn Johnson wrote: Hi folks. Question about MDK 9.1. I've been running 9.1 since it came out, with few major problems. However, when I've booted my computer the last 2 nights it makes it's way to the graphical login screen with no noticeable problems, but the mouse won't move and the caps lock and scroll lock lights are flashing as I'm prompted to log in. The numlock light is not flashing nor is it lit at this time. Oh yeah, keyboard doesn't work either. Now, since I'm the consumate Linux genius I hit the reset button to reboot (can't get to another terminal). System wants to run fsck, you know, press Y in 5 seconds. So I press Y and after a few minutes I'm left at a term window because system says can't fix file system. No graphics or X. I wonder what I should have done. I ran drakxconf and checked the display config. Everything seems ok, so get out of there and reboot again. This time all is well and I make it to KDE. No prob for the rest of the night. Tonight the same thing, i.e., mouse frozen, lights flashing, no keyboard, hit reset. Computer reboots, sez to hit Y again to run fsck, but I pass on the offer. Again all is well and here I am in KDE land. Any ideas what causes this behavior guys and gals? The computer's behavior, not mine. :) TIA I can think of a number of things not least of which is heat. (bad fan) or bad memory. is there anything in /var/log/messages to indicate a problem. Have you opened up the box and Gently (as in no harder than your lungs can blow) blown the dust out. (Dustpuppy LIVES!) If fans and dust are all good to go.. try putting a desktop style fan blowing on the open side. If this seems to make things happy then it's definitely the fans Replace they CPU fan with a better quality one (They do wear out.) Also be sure to use some really high quality heat grease (Artic Silver comes to mind... but get the best you can find.) between the fan and CPU. If it doesn't improve things move to testing memory. Run something like memtest86 (freely available) overnight. In the morning you'll know if you've a bad stick. (it's a long and very complete test.) This really sounds like a hardware problem. Not software. james Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 20:29, lorne wrote: On Tuesday 09 September 2003 08:05 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 19:53, lorne wrote: On Tuesday 09 September 2003 07:30 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Easiest way.. go here. http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php It even has setup instructions for all of cooker and MDK 7.2 forward. Just follow the bouncing instructions (*grin*) and you will have the needed line to setup your urpmi then just... urpmi audacity. See my previous post. All it get is no reply. I'm not even getting a response. It seems that I should have gotten a server busy packet or something. ?? It must be just buried right now. Doh!... if you are running 9.1 try urpmi.setup available from texstar here. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/mandrake/9.1 /rpms/ Does the same thing as the easy-setup page but it also configures things for you nice program works really well. I see urpmi-4.2-34.1mdk.no, urpmi-parallel-ka-ru, urpmi-parallel-ssh-4. What is the name of what I'm looking for? If you already said, I apologize up front. Sometimes I'm thick. I just did an ftp to ftp.stealth.net and nothing. It is like it is either off the air or so overwhelmed it can't even answer to a ping or an ftp attempt. James Man I'm having a lousy day helping you out... texstar changed things on me... but I found it again. http://mandrake.secsup.org/Mandrake/9.1/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/urpmi.setup-0.4.4-4mdk.noarch.rpm That's a direct link to the rpm. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files
On Monday 08 September 2003 08:03 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: lorne wrote: I know that previous version of Mandrake did have an editor. Darned if I can find one now. I have some wave and mp3 files I want to burn to CDrom and some of them have a VERY annoying screech at the beginning I want to clip off. you'd think this easy to find... am I just having a brain fart? I don't have much experience with this but you might want to take a look at hackaudacity in 9.1/contrib/. There was some bug in audacity that made hackaudacity a better choice, at the time I looked at it. Here is the qip: Audacity is a program that lets you manipulate digital audio waveforms. In addition to letting you record sounds directly from within the program, it imports many sound file formats, including WAV, AIFF, MP3 and Ogg/Vorbis. It supports all common editing operations such as Cut, Copy, and Paste, plus it will mix tracks and let you apply plug-in effects to any part of a sound. It also has a built-in amplitude envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode and a frequency analysis window for audio analysis applications. Rolf hey Rolf, The ONLY place I'm seeing that file is in mandrakes contrib? Is that true, or is there another site you know where it is? My guess is that I'm going to have the same problem with any. Audacity and another one (I forget the name right now) are having trouble with sound. The preferences pull down shows no devices at all and no way to add one that I can see. Since I run sound constantly I know I'm having now problems with it. I'm a little perplexed. about what could be wrong. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Login problem
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 08:38 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 16:23, Glenn Johnson wrote: Hi folks. Question about MDK 9.1. I've been running 9.1 since it came out, with few major problems. However, when I've booted my computer the last 2 nights it makes it's way to the graphical login screen with no noticeable problems, but the mouse won't move and the caps lock and scroll lock lights are flashing as I'm prompted to log in. The numlock light is not flashing nor is it lit at this time. Oh yeah, keyboard doesn't work either. Now, since I'm the consumate Linux genius I hit the reset button to reboot (can't get to another terminal). System wants to run fsck, you know, press Y in 5 seconds. So I press Y and after a few minutes I'm left at a term window because system says can't fix file system. No graphics or X. I wonder what I should have done. I ran drakxconf and checked the display config. Everything seems ok, so get out of there and reboot again. This time all is well and I make it to KDE. No prob for the rest of the night. Tonight the same thing, i.e., mouse frozen, lights flashing, no keyboard, hit reset. Computer reboots, sez to hit Y again to run fsck, but I pass on the offer. Again all is well and here I am in KDE land. Any ideas what causes this behavior guys and gals? The computer's behavior, not mine. :) TIA I can think of a number of things not least of which is heat. (bad fan) or bad memory. is there anything in /var/log/messages to indicate a problem. Have you opened up the box and Gently (as in no harder than your lungs can blow) blown the dust out. (Dustpuppy LIVES!) If fans and dust are all good to go.. try putting a desktop style fan blowing on the open side. If this seems to make things happy then it's definitely the fans Replace they CPU fan with a better quality one (They do wear out.) Also be sure to use some really high quality heat grease (Artic Silver comes to mind... but get the best you can find.) between the fan and CPU. If it doesn't improve things move to testing memory. Run something like memtest86 (freely available) overnight. In the morning you'll know if you've a bad stick. (it's a long and very complete test.) This really sounds like a hardware problem. Not software. I agree with James. Flashing like that could be OS related, but... based on the way you explained it, I'm thinking hardware. What happens if you boot to floppy or if you throw another HD in it and run winbloze? james Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files
Okay, I admit it. I'm sometimes a thick headed stubborn old cute. I finally decided to give up on my once favorite rpm site and tried another that I'd never tried before. It actually responded and now I can join the elightened masses and install again via urpmi. It IS a hell of an idea and if they polish it a little more, it could be king of the hill with a little marketing. I mean I know it is basically a script file but pure simple genius. Thanks for the suggestions, now that I'm back out of dependency hell and able to install a few things, I'm off. Just installed audacity and it is all kind of pissed off. (audacity:23601): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gsignal.c: line 1745 (g_signal_connect_closure_by_id): assertion `signal_id 0' failed (audacity:23601): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gsignal.c: line 1745 (g_signal_connect_closure_by_id): assertion `signal_id 0' failed ** (audacity:23601): CRITICAL **: file pango-layout.c: line 266 (pango_layout_new): assertion `context != NULL' failed ** (audacity:23601): CRITICAL **: file pango-layout.c: line 543 (pango_layout_set_font_description): assertion `layout != NULL' failed ** (audacity:23601): CRITICAL **: file pango-layout.c: line 727 (pango_layout_set_text): assertion `layout != NULL' failed I'll go ahead try another, but if anyone knows in advance with out doing research what is wrong with the above I'll attempt fix. Don't research it though, unless you really want to. :) On Tuesday 09 September 2003 05:56 am, Charlie M. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 9, 2003 06:42 am, lorne wrote: On Monday 08 September 2003 08:03 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: lorne wrote: I know that previous version of Mandrake did have an editor. Darned if I can find one now. I have some wave and mp3 files I want to burn to CDrom and some of them have a VERY annoying screech at the beginning I want to clip off. you'd think this easy to find... am I just having a brain fart? I don't have much experience with this but you might want to take a look at hackaudacity in 9.1/contrib/. There was some bug in audacity that made hackaudacity a better choice, at the time I looked at it. Here is the qip: I take it that /contrib is NOT the 3rd disk then? I didn't find it. I'll go out and google for it. I guess since I'm no longer contributing I do not have acess to it. Thanks anyhow. Audacity is a program that lets you manipulate digital audio waveforms. In addition to letting you record sounds directly from within the program, it imports many sound file formats, including WAV, AIFF, MP3 and Ogg/Vorbis. It supports all common editing operations such as Cut, Copy, and Paste, plus it will mix tracks and let you apply plug-in effects to any part of a sound. It also has a built-in amplitude envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode and a frequency analysis window for audio analysis applications. Rolf Look on any of the mirrors for the contrib directory Lorne, or go to the http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/ page and use the Easy Urpmi set-up to add contribs to your software manager. Or install urpmi.setup same thing but you don't have to type in a terminal. g Contrib isn't the third disk but some of the stuff is on the disks. Space limitations and all that ya know. Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-6mdk 06:52:29 up 1 day, 8:21, 1 user, load average: 0.50, 0.65, 0.43 Money may buy friendship but money cannot buy love. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Xc30G11CaRuZZSIRAlAMAJ0YWCWwxHSI5wixAVmCQn5D4j0+jwCePucA Gcdawibml5do4f3CTrhBTTQ= =jucR -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2
*** Greg Meyer Tue, 9 Sep 2003 20:07:43 -0400 : On Tuesday 09 September 2003 02:00 pm, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: I just tried 3 times to d'l the first ISO of RC2. First I used the browser (Mozilla) with a German mirror (ftp.vat.tu-dresden.de). The download stopped at 50KB left(!) and tiemd out. Trying to resume failed because the browser told me that the files are identical. md5sum check failed! Then I used pure ftp, opened a US server (mirrors.usc.edu) and failed again with the same behaviour! Out of disk space? Nope, 27GB left on the partition! It's my d'l repository. And, yes, /tmp has more than 6GB left, too. wobo -- ... and anyway, html can't carry a virus. (Aug 2001, Usenet) --- GnuPG Public Key on http://www.wolf-b.de/misc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I need advice: migrating Win98 users to Mandrake9.1(server is already linux)
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 20:15, Apollo (Carmel Entertainment) wrote: OK, so I have my web/mail/webmail server running RedHat9.0 (will be switching to mandrake in two weeks), fileserv/database is sitting on RedHat7.1 (haven't touched the system for a year). All clients are Win98 with MSOffice/MSAccess. My plan is to move all workstation to Mandrake9.1 with OpenOffice and MSAccess running via CrossoverOffice(Wine). All workstations will be identical in setup, so I can just do one image and copy it on all the drives. Here is what I want to achieve: 1. When wokrstations power up, they get an IP address from DHCP. DHCP only gives you and IP if your MAC address matches the mac assigned to you together with IP on the DHCP (already have this working). I would like the users to see Initlevel 5, so they have graphic log-on 2. I want the inside server (fileserv/database server) to hold all authentication (the simpler process, the better),common folders (and serve them via something native, would NFS do?, where can I get a HOW-TO?). NFS or SMB, whatever is easier for you to work with. See http://www.tldp.org All employees use same folders. Can this all be done from the moment user logs in? Cake, just set up groups and make the shared directories group-writable as necessary. Make sure you edit msec's policy so it doesn't undo your work :-) 3. Key is, as much automation and as little time as possible for administration LDAP is a good thing for central authentication, but it's also a lot of work to set up. You might be better off with synchronized passwords to start with. Automation is best set up by running the system for a while -- if you find yourself doing things over and over again, find a tool or write a script to do it for you. I have been working on the mixed environment and I think it is time to put in some more authentication and also stop using Windows, so we are all more motivated to adapt Linux software in the office. Thanks in advance for all of your advice! Apollo - Visit CARMEL MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT website http://carmelme.com __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files
lorne wrote: On Monday 08 September 2003 08:03 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: lorne wrote: I know that previous version of Mandrake did have an editor. Darned if I can find one now. I have some wave and mp3 files I want to burn to CDrom and some of them have a VERY annoying screech at the beginning I want to clip off. you'd think this easy to find... am I just having a brain fart? I don't have much experience with this but you might want to take a look at hackaudacity in 9.1/contrib/. There was some bug in audacity that made hackaudacity a better choice, at the time I looked at it. Here is the qip: Audacity is a program that lets you manipulate digital audio waveforms. In addition to letting you record sounds directly from within the program, it imports many sound file formats, including WAV, AIFF, MP3 and Ogg/Vorbis. It supports all common editing operations such as Cut, Copy, and Paste, plus it will mix tracks and let you apply plug-in effects to any part of a sound. It also has a built-in amplitude envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode and a frequency analysis window for audio analysis applications. Rolf hey Rolf, The ONLY place I'm seeing that file is in mandrakes contrib? Is that true, or is there another site you know where it is? My guess is that I'm going to have the same problem with any. Audacity and another one (I forget the name right now) are having trouble with sound. The preferences pull down shows no devices at all and no way to add one that I can see. Since I run sound constantly I know I'm having now problems with it. I'm a little perplexed. about what could be wrong. I am not sure if you installed audacity or hackaudacity. They are both in contrib/: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2]$ urpmq --sources audacity file://back/contrib/audacity-1.0.0-3mdk.i586.rpm [EMAIL PROTECTED] MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2]$ urpmq --sources hackaudacity file://back/contrib/hackaudacity-1.1.0-4mdk.i586.rpm If you are having trouble with audacity, you might urpme that and urpmi hackaudacity, or vice versa. I think I tried audacity first, which didn't work for me, then, since, like I said, I had read about a bug in audacity, I tried hackaudacity, which got rolling and let me play with some editing. I didn't use it extensively, however, and don't remember what version I was using. Try hackaudacity. The two packages have conflicting files, so uninstall audacity first. Sorry I don't know more than that about it. Rolf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2
*** H.J.Bathoorn H.J.Bathoorn Tue, 9 Sep 2003 20:28:01 +0200 : Say aye and give me your adress I'll send you a copy of CD1 and 2 (didn't dwl CD3 -sorry). No problem whatsoever. From NL it should be at your adress on Thursday or Friday at the most. BTW I dloaded from the dutch surfnet mirror simply using konqueror with double pane and dragging dropping the iso's to my /home/triade directory. Did take all Sunday afternoon though. I even cancelled and resumed a few times:o) I'm just d'ling CD1+2 from the NL mirror which Thorsten reported to be ok (nluug). Both downloads are running at 90.1kB/s right now and I'm going to have a big breakfast in my favourite café, read the morning paper and say Hallo to a new day! Funny thing is: I'm using one machine with ncftp and the other (this one here) with Mozilla. ncftp shows a speed of 91.56 and Mozilla shows 90.2 at the moment. This is ok for my connection. But gkrellm only shows 2.2kB/s instead of 90! Thanks for the offer, HarM. If this one also fails, I might get back to you or ask Thorsten to send 3 CDs over as he's in Germany, too. wobo -- ... and anyway, html can't carry a virus. (Aug 2001, Usenet) --- GnuPG Public Key on http://www.wolf-b.de/misc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 02:56, Tom Brinkman wrote: HarM, post the link you posted to the 'other' list ;) Here it is: http://people.zeelandnet.nl/triade/grounding.html have fun:o) No damn boat, pretty good size ship! Maybe you could contract some dredging as an affiliate venture? How about a nice old fashioned tug with a big chimney? -- Tom Brinkman Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
