[expert] urpmi: get summaries, etc
Hello, How can i search the names of rpms, and show the summary and description? If i urpmf, it appears to search more. What i'd like is a command line version of what rpmdrake does: once i get it open, it very nicely shows only packages with "nmh" (for example) in the name and i can quickly see the description and summary. It also, on the same page, shows the current version i have installed, if any. Is there a line (or lines) for urpm* that i can use? Thanks, eric -- 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] e2fsck -b 8193 won't help!
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 07:05 pm, many eyes noted that Eduardo Mendes wrote: > Hello > > I was silly enough to use Partition Magic 8.0 to resize my entire linux > hard disk (windows is in another hard disk). The resizing-moving went fine > as far as Partition Magic 8.0 is concerned. On Xp I can see the contents of > all linux partitions using explore2fs. However when I try to boot my > 9,2rc1 the system returns a message about failure when mounting /dev/hdb6 > (swap) and /dev/hdb7 (/home). I tried e2fsck -b 8193 but no avail. > > My plan was to increase swap (from 136 MB to 1 Gb - My pc has 512 MB of > RAM) and to shrink /var and resize /home. > > Any ideas on how to fix this problem? > > Many thanks > > Ed I suppose that you require so much swap because you do a great deal with huge graphics and DVD and such. Otherwise I wonder why? I have used Partition magic 7.0 before I felt I was willing to risk diskdrake, but have not used it since. Unfortunately, unless PM 8 is more capable that PM 7 It does not recognize and partition other than ext2 FAT FAT32 and NTFS if you partitioned anything else, then you might have broken your Linux partitions irreparably :-( On the bright side I could be wrong. I have only ever made a new ext2fs partition with PM 7, but formatted it and everything else with whatever partitioning tool that came with the distro. Except Debian. It uses something that has some bug writeup from which I had a bit of trouble recovering, and that I never used again. I now use diskdrake exclusively. Hope I am wrong. Charlie. -- Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. Helen Keller This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.1, Kmail v1.5 and OpenOffice.org1Beta Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Using torrents behind a corporate firewall.
I lost the original thread on this but there is now a link from the real frontpage of the club with instructions on how to do the above. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...
On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 14:42, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > On Saturday 18 October 2003 23:35, James Sparenberg wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 13:30, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > > On Saturday 18 October 2003 13:48, Greg Meyer wrote: > > > > Download the rpms you want from the mirrors, burn them to cd, then add > > > > cd as urpmi source. > > > > > > Which still calls for a hdlist.cz describing the packages on that CD. It > > > will not be accepted without! > > > > > > Good luck, > > > HarM > > > > HarM > > > > Sorry I'm having a really bad day here trying to get me fingers to > > type what my mind is thinking. > > > > genhdlist --with-numbers > top of your tree. > > > > Man what a day. > > > > James > Thanks James, > I"d forgotten that one:) > > Here's a nice one to get your battered brain in gear: > > Got any tips on an easy way to keep all the other PC's on the LAN in sync > without each and everyone ftp-ing and rsyncing over the www? > It just seems a waste of bandwidth to me IMHOmind the word "easy" though;) > > Good luck, > HarM Are you refering to data or the way that MDK is installed. For data I'd look into rsync and for a frontend ksync (haven't used it much but it works.) For installs when you finish the install of box 1 click advanced and create an install disk. Then use it to "mastermind" the installs on the others. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] sound not working in opengl
Sound is not working in any of my opengl applications. Here is the output of lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400 AGP] Host Bridge 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 PCI Bridge 00:0e.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10) 00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80) 00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80) 00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80) 00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82) 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge 00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 440] (rev a3) Here is my modules.conf: alias sound-slot-0 snd-cmipci alias eth0 via-rhine probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi above snd-cmipci snd-pcm-oss alias char-major-89 i2c-dev options adm1021 ignore=0,0x18,0,0x4c,0,0x4e alias /dev/nvidia* nvidia I use ALSA. Using OSS doesn't work either. Thanks. John Drouhard -- Sat Oct 18 22:29:45 CDT 2003 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] e2fsck -b 8193 won't help!
Hello I was silly enough to use Partition Magic 8.0 to resize my entire linux hard disk (windows is in another hard disk). The resizing-moving went fine as far as Partition Magic 8.0 is concerned. On Xp I can see the contents of all linux partitions using explore2fs. However when I try to boot my 9,2rc1 the system returns a message about failure when mounting /dev/hdb6 (swap) and /dev/hdb7 (/home). I tried e2fsck -b 8193 but no avail. My plan was to increase swap (from 136 MB to 1 Gb - My pc has 512 MB of RAM) and to shrink /var and resize /home. Any ideas on how to fix this problem? Many thanks Ed Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Building ISOs with MakeCD
Charlie M. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 18, 2003 09:03 am, Joeb wrote: I've downloaded the 9.2 tree and I am attempting to build the ISO images with MakeCD. Using the commands in the README.MakeCD, the ISOs are all created, but there are a lot packages that give dependency errors and are left out. Also, I notice that the descriptions for the ISOs all refer to Cooker-Download 1 (2,3,4,etc). I'm wondering if what is out on the servers is really 9.2 or is it a cooker snapshot?Also, there is a i586/misc/doc directory that looks like it has a configuration file for 9.2, but I can't figure out how to use it. Since it takes a long time to build the ISOs, trial and error becomes very frustrating. So, has anyone else tried building the ISOs with MakeCD? Joeb p.s. if/when I get this to work, with all of the wrinkles out, I'll post it to the twiki. Hi Joe; In this part of the development cycle cooker as frozen for release is 9.2, 9.2 is cooker to all intents and purposes. The script used to generate the ISOs is slightly different but the packages are basically the same. The only ISOs I've generated are from my "local cooker mirror" and are called "Cooker Download" after generation, but after install the boot splash identifies it as "9.2 Download edition." If you're impatient for the release you could try that, I don't know if it will work still since I did this before rsync started actually pulling new packages. In other words when cooker was still frozen. Have you run gendistrib yet? I believe that's used to clean the trees before building ISOs but I could be wrong. I'm sure there are notes about it on the TWiki (cooker). http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/CookerHowTo#Running_gendistrib There are links and mini how-tos from that page to MakeCD and other tidbits. Personally I think I'll wait for the 7 disk Power Pack from the Mandrake Store. Disks only, no support, no manuals etc. But not for this box. It stays cooked. http://www.mandrakestore.com/mdkinc/index.php?PAGE=tab_6/menu_1.php&id_art=346&LANG_=en#GOTO_346 That link will probably wrap. Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-10mdk 13:49:56 up 28 days, 3:12, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat. -- Michael McShane -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/kZ18G11CaRuZZSIRAjQtAKCaLPomkCb9mwTpgkCKE3My+TMCygCgoMj9 0kblIwlOma81Q57DvC21nF0= =SvRg -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I'll probably wait for the power pack, too. I was just curious as to how to do it. The CDs I made, did boot, but I didn't try installing because of all of the dependency errors (most of them in apach2, but there were others, too, like gdm). My real reason to try was that I have a high speed connection from work, but not home. But the work connection does work with BitTorrent. So, I could ftp the 9.2 tree down and I thought I would build my own ISOs. Like I said, the process was pretty smooth (although lengthy) and I ended up with 8 CDs (I included contrib, too). But, with all of those dependency errors, I didn't want to risk screwing something up (my test linux box is temporarily in production). In reality, downloading the tree and running MakeCD was not significantly more work that ftp'ing ISOs. Oh well, the powerpack should be shipping in the next two weeks! Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...
On Saturday 18 October 2003 05:42 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > Here's a nice one to get your battered brain in gear: > > Got any tips on an easy way to keep all the other PC's on the LAN in sync > without each and everyone ftp-ing and rsyncing over the www? > It just seems a waste of bandwidth to me IMHOmind the word "easy" > though;) > You'll want to look at the urpmi --parallel switch. It's more fully explianed in the urpmi HOWTO at http://www.urpmi.org. -- /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
[expert] Orinoco gold driver problems
I have been trying to get kismet, the wlan sniffer, to work with my orinoco gold. There are patches available for the orinoco driver that allows it to go into monitor mode. The thing is, all the sources indicate that the default driver version in the 2.4.21 kernel series was orinoco 0.13b. The patches available are for 0.13b or later. I check my mandrake 2.4.21 kernel orinoco driver and it is version 0.13a. Why is the mandrake kernel behind the curve with regards to orinoco drivers? I cannot get my kernel orinoco driver patched to permit it to go into monitor mode (I need monitor mode to try to detect a possible wireless ISP from a long distance via a parabolic antenna). I cannot patch the 0.13a orinoco driver with ANY available orinoco patch as they are all for more up-to-date driver versions. I have tried and it totally screws up the orinoco driver. Can anyone tell me how I could go about upgrading my kernel pcmcia orinoco driver WITHOUT having to resort to pcmcia-cs and rebuilding my kernel, etc? Is there no way to upgrade the kernel's orinoco driver and then patch it? praedor -- Faith is the very antithesis of reason, injudiciousness a critical component of spiritual devotion. --Krakauer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Audigy 2 Support
Well. I updated the kernel, reran draksound, and to my amazement the Audigy 2 card now works. Thanks for your help Anne. Kelley On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 15:59, J. Kelley Jernigan wrote: > I'm still around. Nothing has worked. > > It looks like it may be the hardware as was posted in that bugzilla > repost. > > JKJ > > On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 04:54, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Saturday 04 Oct 2003 11:25 pm, J. Kelley Jernigan wrote: > > > P.S. > > > > > > I tried changing my sound configuration in MDK control center from > > > Audigy to snd-emu10k1. > > > > > > The problem is how do I save this change? If I go to any other part > > > of NDK Control it tell me the changed will not be saved and when I > > > click on "Configure Module" it crashes Control Center. > > > > > That must be a bug - it happened to me too. But the other button, Run > > Config Tool works fine - it runs DrakSound. I changed it there, OK, > > and so on to back out from MCC gracefully - if you short-cut at any > > stage it doesn't save. I think that the time I lost my setting was > > when I clicked on another module in MCC without quitting the current > > module. HTH > > > > Anne -- J. Kelley Jernigan - Registered Linux User # 282143 Mandrake 9.1 http://www.hovercraftersresource.com - "If what you believe does not reflect truth, then what you feel does not reflect reality." Neil Anderson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...
On Saturday 18 October 2003 22:27, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: > Ok, but I have to wait until 9.2 will be available for everyone. > > Olaf It already is and has been all along..check the mirrors. It's only the 9.2 iso's that aren't available allover (yet). Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 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] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...
On Saturday 18 October 2003 23:35, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 13:30, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > On Saturday 18 October 2003 13:48, Greg Meyer wrote: > > > Download the rpms you want from the mirrors, burn them to cd, then add > > > cd as urpmi source. > > > > Which still calls for a hdlist.cz describing the packages on that CD. It > > will not be accepted without! > > > > Good luck, > > HarM > > HarM > > Sorry I'm having a really bad day here trying to get me fingers to > type what my mind is thinking. > > genhdlist --with-numbers top of your tree. > > Man what a day. > > James Thanks James, I"d forgotten that one:) Here's a nice one to get your battered brain in gear: Got any tips on an easy way to keep all the other PC's on the LAN in sync without each and everyone ftp-ing and rsyncing over the www? It just seems a waste of bandwidth to me IMHOmind the word "easy" though;) Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 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] 9.2 start menu hosed after installing Moz 1.4
On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 12:11, Thomas Backlund wrote: > From: "James Sparenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 08:41, Thomas Backlund wrote: > > > From: "D. R. Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > Hmmm... I just discovered that I can't get a terminal -- since there's > no > > > > terminal on the menu either! > > > > > > > > And opening one using ctrl-alt-Fn doesn't work, because then I can't > run > > > X - > > > > - - so I can't run a graphical program. > > > > > > > > Doc > > > > > > > > > > So when you are at the console... > > > login as root... and do: > > > > > > #update-menus -v > > > > > > and you should be Ok... > > > > > > (you need the -v switch, or update-menus wont do anything...) > > > > > > Regards > > > > > > Thomas > > > > Actually from my experience it does do something... It just doesn't tell > > you it's doing it(without the -v switch). It dives into the background > > and if you wait a few minutes it will produce results. > > > > Are you sure? If so... everything is OK... > > There were some discussions on the Cooker ML that -v was needed > due to some bug in update-menus... but I have never needed to use > update-menus yet... so I was only posting what I learned from cooker... > > Regards > > Thomas Well up to 9.1 I never had a problem. And to test it I just did the following in 9.2. Run update-menus (user or root) then run top and watch all of the various programs it calls come up then disappear. 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] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...
On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 13:30, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > On Saturday 18 October 2003 13:48, Greg Meyer wrote: > > Download the rpms you want from the mirrors, burn them to cd, then add cd > > as urpmi source. > > Which still calls for a hdlist.cz describing the packages on that CD. It will > not be accepted without! > > Good luck, > HarM HarM Sorry I'm having a really bad day here trying to get me fingers to type what my mind is thinking. genhdlist --with-numbers Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 18, 2003 03:16 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > On Saturday 18 October 2003 22:46, Charlie M. wrote: > > Are you sure about that HarM? > > If you don't download all the rpm's in that directory, then the hdlist.cz > will not be valid anymoreyou'll have to generate a new one with the > right packages using the -f option. > If the gui does that by default...frankly, I don't know. Me and rpmdrake > don't get along;) > > Good luck, > HarM I see what you're saying. I should have mentioned that the disks are always faithful reproductions of _everything_ in the updates directory of the mirrors. I've yet to have it bite me, but since I have the synchronized updates hdlist on my hard drives I can always add it to the disk. So far so good though. It becomes painful at times sitting on this pile of horse shoes. C. - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-10mdk 15:28:49 up 28 days, 4:51, 1 user, load average: 0.19, 0.12, 0.10 Man's reach must exceed his grasp, for why else the heavens? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/kbFnG11CaRuZZSIRAjtHAJ9EbfE7cWa/mKU+T7pKUbpDmhWoegCfTF2H oH2a1VLGiiT/sZMyGsrjcqM= =iTZv -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...
On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 13:30, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > On Saturday 18 October 2003 13:48, Greg Meyer wrote: > > Download the rpms you want from the mirrors, burn them to cd, then add cd > > as urpmi source. > > Which still calls for a hdlist.cz describing the packages on that CD. It will > not be accepted without! > > Good luck, > HarM Run the program genhdlist (usage: genhdlist ) and it will output the needed hdlist.cz for you. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...
On Saturday 18 October 2003 22:46, Charlie M. wrote: > Are you sure about that HarM? If you don't download all the rpm's in that directory, then the hdlist.cz will not be valid anymoreyou'll have to generate a new one with the right packages using the -f option. If the gui does that by default...frankly, I don't know. Me and rpmdrake don't get along;) Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 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] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...
On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 16:31:03 -0400 Theo Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It was mentioned in this thread that all of the Mandrake Packs will come > with the nVidia drivers. Anybody care to pass them along to the rest of > us? Or do I have to wait until Nvidia gets them onto their site? > > - Theo I just installed the current site drivers onto Cooker 9.2 about a month ago, and have changed kernels about 4 times since then. You just have to run the nVidia installer and let it compile a module for your system. No need to wait for anyone. Tim > > Anne Wilson wrote: > > >On Saturday 18 Oct 2003 12:14 pm, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: > > > > > >>At 12.36 18/10/2003, you wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Which is where the TWiki comes in. Why not write up how you did > >>>it and make it available for everyone else? > >>> > >>> > >>But I didn't (yet): I'm not a club member and I son't have 9.2. > >>Furthermore, Steven explained me how to do, you should have > >>received his post as well. > >> > >>Olaf > >> > >> > > > >Olaf - > > > >1) I have been away, so I did not receive it. > >2) Open Source is about sharing responsibility and labour. It is not > >for me to learn in depth about a problem that you are solving in > >order for me to write an article. I am asking you to pay back the > >help you receive by helping someone else. > > > >Anne > > > > > > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > > > > -- I often read this forum on my PDA, please use plain text! _ ( ) ASCII ribbon campaign against HTML e-mail x registered Linux user # 329428 / \ GnuPG KeyID 6B5A70DF www.keyserver.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...
At 20.44 18/10/2003, you wrote: 2) Open Source is about sharing responsibility and labour. It is not for me to learn in depth about a problem that you are solving in order for me to write an article. I am asking you to pay back the help you receive by helping someone else. Ok, but I have to wait until 9.2 will be available for everyone. Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] network cards running at 10mb/s instead of 100 - why?
On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 15:49, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Friday 17 October 2003 08:31 pm, Damon Lynch wrote: > > > # mii-tool eth0 -F 100baseTx-FD > > > > has no effect. Any clues as to what I should do next? > > > IIRC, most cable and dsl modems run 10Mb/s half duplex. is eth0 the public > interface? No, that's the interface to the LAN. eth1 is to the cable modem (and you are right, it should be 10mb/s half duplex); eth2 is to the DMZ. eth0 and eth2 should both be 100 mb/s full duplex. Damon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 18, 2003 02:30 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > On Saturday 18 October 2003 13:48, Greg Meyer wrote: > > Download the rpms you want from the mirrors, burn them to cd, then add cd > > as urpmi source. > > Which still calls for a hdlist.cz describing the packages on that CD. It > will not be accepted without! > > Good luck, > HarM Are you sure about that HarM? I've written an "updates" disk for use when doing 9.1 installs from my local updates mirror directory and never had a problem. urpmi generates, or seems to, a synthesis for use when none is available. Once the source is set up it's accessible, and a hell of a lot faster than doing an internet update for new installs. Especially for the few around here that are still on dial up. BTW you can download the updates hdlist.cz from the same mirror you get the packages from and just add it to the CD. Then again I rsync everything for the current two releases (9.0, 9.1, and cooker at the moment. Soon dropping 9.0) on my local drives. Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-10mdk 14:38:30 up 28 days, 4:01, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.14, 0.13 LILO, you've got me on my knees! (from David Black, [EMAIL PROTECTED], with apologies to Derek and the Dominos, and Werner Almsberger) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/kaaJG11CaRuZZSIRAtZBAKClmqqq16htHSqZfXXo+6aHfWbmpQCff0bW dWzMo+O8UzrNy6+u6TuglUQ= =vf5q -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Saturday 18 October 2003 13:48, Greg Meyer wrote: Download the rpms you want from the mirrors, burn them to cd, then add cd as urpmi source. Which still calls for a hdlist.cz describing the packages on that CD. It will not be accepted without! Good luck, HarM You can generate the hdlist in the RPMS directory before burning with genhdlist . It's part of rpmtools. There is also an option to urpmi.addmedia but I don't know how it would work with removable media: -f Force generation of hdlist files. 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
[expert] extracting jpgs from mail dir
Did anyone find an easy way to extract all the attachments from a mail directory? I thought I recalled someone asking something similar not too long ago, but my search powers were ineffective. I'm trying to clean up my hds some, I have a mbox (copied from maildir) with at least 5000 emails and over 1/2 have attachments, mostly jpg but some png and others. I need to save the attachments to a directory, but don't want to have to do it one by one. :P Is there an easy quick way to do this? thanks, -susan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...
It was mentioned in this thread that all of the Mandrake Packs will come with the nVidia drivers. Anybody care to pass them along to the rest of us? Or do I have to wait until Nvidia gets them onto their site? - Theo Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 18 Oct 2003 12:14 pm, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: At 12.36 18/10/2003, you wrote: Which is where the TWiki comes in. Why not write up how you did it and make it available for everyone else? But I didn't (yet): I'm not a club member and I son't have 9.2. Furthermore, Steven explained me how to do, you should have received his post as well. Olaf Olaf - 1) I have been away, so I did not receive it. 2) Open Source is about sharing responsibility and labour. It is not for me to learn in depth about a problem that you are solving in order for me to write an article. I am asking you to pay back the help you receive by helping someone else. Anne 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] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...
On Saturday 18 October 2003 13:48, Greg Meyer wrote: > Download the rpms you want from the mirrors, burn them to cd, then add cd > as urpmi source. Which still calls for a hdlist.cz describing the packages on that CD. It will not be accepted without! Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 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] DOS bootdisk??
At 06.21 14/10/2003, you wrote: Is there an image of a DOS boot disk that can be made under Linux so that I can flash my bios? Now of course, I could find a winders confuser to do the job, but hey, can it be done on a Linux box? I was just poking around and found www.bootdisk.com, now which image should I use to flash it? There is another way: someone is experimenting a patch to the kernel that should allow you to flash your BIOS from linux... Are you interested? :-)) Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Building ISOs with MakeCD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 18, 2003 09:03 am, Joeb wrote: > I've downloaded the 9.2 tree and I am attempting to build the ISO images > with MakeCD. Using the commands in the README.MakeCD, the ISOs are all > created, but there are a lot packages that give dependency errors and > are left out. Also, I notice that the descriptions for the ISOs all > refer to Cooker-Download 1 (2,3,4,etc). > > I'm wondering if what is out on the servers is really 9.2 or is it a > cooker snapshot?Also, there is a i586/misc/doc directory that looks > like it has a configuration file for 9.2, but I can't figure out how to > use it. Since it takes a long time to build the ISOs, trial and error > becomes very frustrating. So, has anyone else tried building the ISOs > with MakeCD? > > > Joeb > > p.s. if/when I get this to work, with all of the wrinkles out, I'll post > it to the twiki. Hi Joe; In this part of the development cycle cooker as frozen for release is 9.2, 9.2 is cooker to all intents and purposes. The script used to generate the ISOs is slightly different but the packages are basically the same. The only ISOs I've generated are from my "local cooker mirror" and are called "Cooker Download" after generation, but after install the boot splash identifies it as "9.2 Download edition." If you're impatient for the release you could try that, I don't know if it will work still since I did this before rsync started actually pulling new packages. In other words when cooker was still frozen. Have you run gendistrib yet? I believe that's used to clean the trees before building ISOs but I could be wrong. I'm sure there are notes about it on the TWiki (cooker). http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/CookerHowTo#Running_gendistrib There are links and mini how-tos from that page to MakeCD and other tidbits. Personally I think I'll wait for the 7 disk Power Pack from the Mandrake Store. Disks only, no support, no manuals etc. But not for this box. It stays cooked. http://www.mandrakestore.com/mdkinc/index.php?PAGE=tab_6/menu_1.php&id_art=346&LANG_=en#GOTO_346 That link will probably wrap. Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-10mdk 13:49:56 up 28 days, 3:12, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat. -- Michael McShane -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/kZ18G11CaRuZZSIRAjQtAKCaLPomkCb9mwTpgkCKE3My+TMCygCgoMj9 0kblIwlOma81Q57DvC21nF0= =SvRg -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 start menu hosed after installing Moz 1.4
On Saturday 18 Oct 2003 8:11 pm, Thomas Backlund wrote: > > Are you sure? If so... everything is OK... > > There were some discussions on the Cooker ML that -v was needed > due to some bug in update-menus... but I have never needed to use > update-menus yet... so I was only posting what I learned from > cooker... > I thought that in most commands -v just means 'verbose', so you can see 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] 9.2 start menu hosed after installing Moz 1.4
From: "James Sparenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 08:41, Thomas Backlund wrote: > > From: "D. R. Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > Hmmm... I just discovered that I can't get a terminal -- since there's no > > > terminal on the menu either! > > > > > > And opening one using ctrl-alt-Fn doesn't work, because then I can't run > > X - > > > - - so I can't run a graphical program. > > > > > > Doc > > > > > > > So when you are at the console... > > login as root... and do: > > > > #update-menus -v > > > > and you should be Ok... > > > > (you need the -v switch, or update-menus wont do anything...) > > > > Regards > > > > Thomas > > Actually from my experience it does do something... It just doesn't tell > you it's doing it(without the -v switch). It dives into the background > and if you wait a few minutes it will produce results. > Are you sure? If so... everything is OK... There were some discussions on the Cooker ML that -v was needed due to some bug in update-menus... but I have never needed to use update-menus yet... so I was only posting what I learned from cooker... Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 start menu hosed after installing Moz 1.4
On Saturday 18 Oct 2003 4:52 pm, D. R. Evans wrote: > Ah! > > I realised that I could log in with IceWM, and that allows me to > create a terminal... which allows me to run menudrake. > > So, problem solved. Thanks for the pointers. > > Doc Nothing like a good dose of panic for making the brain seize up We've all been there 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] 9.2 start menu hosed after installing Moz 1.4
On Saturday 18 Oct 2003 4:06 pm, D. R. Evans wrote: > On 18 Oct 2003 at 8:49, Greg Sarsons wrote: > > Noted this before ... > > > > What I've done, there might be another way, is to run MCC. It > > the select System and select MenuDrake. > > There is no MCC any more (no System menu) :-( > > Is there a way to run MCC from the CLI? (Well, there must be, but I > don't know how :-) ) > > Doc In 9.1: mcc :-) 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] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...
On Saturday 18 Oct 2003 12:14 pm, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: > At 12.36 18/10/2003, you wrote: > >Which is where the TWiki comes in. Why not write up how you did > > it and make it available for everyone else? > > But I didn't (yet): I'm not a club member and I son't have 9.2. > Furthermore, Steven explained me how to do, you should have > received his post as well. > > Olaf Olaf - 1) I have been away, so I did not receive it. 2) Open Source is about sharing responsibility and labour. It is not for me to learn in depth about a problem that you are solving in order for me to write an article. I am asking you to pay back the help you receive by helping someone else. 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] Gramofile and Splitting Tracks
Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] Gramofile and Splitting Tracks >I have had the same prob before, some tapes have a bad sig/noise ratio >or use shorter gaps between songs (or as in the old Chicago soundtrack I >did recently, some songs had no gaps at all). Hmm. I haven't tried this with cassettes but if i remember, some tapes had a signal embedded in them - and i had a tape player years ago that had some kind of music skip feature in that it would seek to the next track. I hardly listen to anything other than cd's nowadays, though. But it brings up a thread on svlug i saw recently where people were discussing related things. Anyway, sox may be of use if you have the cassette .wav file -- there's apparently a 'silence' option that uses a threshold value and silences anything below that value. you might then have better luck in splitting the tracks. Anyway, it was years since i had a box that would do that music search thing, and it seemed to work well only on commercially-produced tapes. >My answer was to split the tracks manually, and I feathered the sound at >the end of each track down to 0 to make it sound better.. it worked IMHO it's better to do it in audacity since you can visualize the parts that are the gaps between the songs. I was planning on splitting up one big mp3 of a full album i had, but then later saw that soneone had posted the same album on usenet, with the songs split :). >Franki -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 start menu hosed after installing Moz 1.4
D. R. Evans schrieb am Sat, 18 Oct 2003 09:38:49 -0600: > This is wonderful! Can anyone spell "catch-22"? > > Just how does one regenerate the start menu when the menu is so hosed > that you can do almost nothing?!! This reminds me of a guy I once tried to show how to work on a computer. I showed him to start a program using the "start" command in a DOS-window (that was on Windows). It took me a long time to explain to him the difference between the menu and his computer. He thought that what is not on the menu or showing as icon on his desktop is just not there. You still have all these programs (terminal, console, mcc and all others), they just don't show up on the menu. There's no catch at all. You just should read up a bit about the command line. Or, if you are using KDE, read up on KDE which gives you a perfect mini command line to start applications which are not on the menu. You don't know which word to type for to start a terminal? No problem, read up on how to find files, i.e. locate, slocate, which,... There's no catch anywhere, just a lack of reading. If you are a newbie you just have to do a bit of reading to get a basic understanding of your system. If you have used the system for some time and you don't know about all this, you have started playing Bach compositions on your piano without doing the finger training part. Sooner or later it'll come back to you. This is not a kind of newbie bashing, it's just a reminder on the importance to learn the basics. wobo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 start menu hosed after installing Moz 1.4
el Sat, 18.October.2003 11:06 am, D. R. Evans escribió: > On 18 Oct 2003 at 8:49, Greg Sarsons wrote: > > > Noted this before ... > > > > What I've done, there might be another way, is to run MCC. It the > > select System and select MenuDrake. > > There is no MCC any more (no System menu) :-( > > Is there a way to run MCC from the CLI? (Well, there must be, but I don't > know how :-) ) > > Doc I observed that mcc wasn't included in the Console Apps selection at Install time; so I always look for it and check it to make sure it's installed. This is with 9.1 download edition. It's a severe lack if you have problems on the first start up. Richard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 start menu hosed after installing Moz 1.4
On Saturday 18 October 2003 12:44 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: > I also had the issue of my menus disappearing in 9.2 and found the problem > was a malformed menu entry in /etc/menu/menudrakeentry > This is a bug in the fluxbox package which compounds the menu problem. I have reported it. It has been explained to me that there is a locking problem in rpm-4.2 that is causing this problem. Apparently, when update-menus runs during the rpm installation, rpm has not yet released the lock on the package database, so update-menus cannot query it, so the package list comes up empty, and consequently the menus do too. > If you run > update-menus -d > It will highlight any malformed lines for you > > In my case the problem was a line reading > ?package(menu): needs="fluxbox" icon="applications_section.png" > section="Fluxbox/Styles/" title="" charset="utf8" > > The null "title" is not permitted. Just inserting some text here fixed it > for me after running update-menus again as root and as user Yes, this works for me too. -- /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
[expert] 9.2 strange one
Hi , just installed 9.2 well sorta !st attempt tried the upgrade...looked good, but kept throwing errors when loading the modules for the network card, tried different cards too .. 2nd attempt,, this time I installed and did'nt format my home dir. looked good but no matter what could run an app that was OK on 9.1 no digital audio input. So reconfigured the sound card and rebooted, then got something very strange as gnome started got loads of screens up with "no entry" signs on all much bigger than the main window. Went into console mode and deleted everything in my home dir that stated with ".g". Restarted X and got the first time wizard :)) got to the end of that and guess what More damn terms with no entry sins and icons that looked like scrolled paper behind them. And if you click on them a blue patch appears under them for a short time. No I hav'nt been on the wacky backy.. so its now reinstall after ftping files to another machine and hope lightning wont strike twice in the same place.The MD5 checksums were ok on the downloads. Anyone seen similar?. Richard -- Richard Bown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 start menu hosed after installing Moz 1.4
On Saturday 18 Oct 2003 4:53 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 08:38, D. R. Evans wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 18 Oct 2003 at 10:21, Avi Schwartz wrote: > > > I had a similar problem and no, I did not install Mozilla. There seems > > > to be a problem in rebuilding (or lack of) the menus in 9.2. I found > > > there is a program /usr/sbin/update-menus which when I ran it, it > > > rebuilt all menus and desktop links. > > > > No such program on my installation. > > > > This is wonderful! Can anyone spell "catch-22"? > > > > Just how does one regenerate the start menu when the menu is so hosed > > that you can do almost nothing?!! > > > > I'm amazed that this didn't happen to anyone during testing. So far, the > > _only_ thing I did with my pristine 9.2 installation was to add Moz 1.4, > > and this immediately bit me. > > > > I suppose that I can always do a complete re-install. And NOT add Moz 1.4 > > once the installation is complete :-) > > > > Doc > > Doc, > >That's because the program is in /usr/bin/ not /usr/sbin. I think > the original poster had a finger slip.(Like I haven't done this a few > hundred times myself.) To verify just type which update-menus and it > will tell you full path. Or better yet just type update-menus, and it > will run. (Warning it doesn't look like anything happens, since it > immediately returns, don't worry it runs in the background for a couple > of minutes before the menu's reappear.) The program that supplies this > is menu-2.1.5-123mdk, and this is one disk 1 of your 9.2 disks. This is > a manditory rpm so it should be already on you disk. > > james I also had the issue of my menus disappearing in 9.2 and found the problem was a malformed menu entry in /etc/menu/menudrakeentry If you run update-menus -d It will highlight any malformed lines for you In my case the problem was a line reading ?package(menu): needs="fluxbox" icon="applications_section.png" section="Fluxbox/Styles/" title="" charset="utf8" The null "title" is not permitted. Just inserting some text here fixed it for me after running update-menus again as root and as user derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Run = Alt-F2; was: Re: [expert] 9.2 start menu hosed after installing Moz 1.4
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18 Oct 2003 at 8:54, James Sparenberg wrote: > K press alt-f2 this will give you the run command. You can then type > konsole, xterm, or whatever one you like and you will get your terminal. > Man, where is this stuff documented? I have been using Mdk for years (since 7.0) and I've never known that. Doc PS Yes, I looked in the "Definitive Guide". Is there _anything_ useful in that book? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 8.0 -- QDPGP 2.70 Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBP5FmxWnXrLw2KRK4EQIqsgCg/H4hsTN2/3fqZsOI7old0BL+0QcAn1Bw 6DYxVtN8YD796+i8pblU3xU/ =5tk+ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 start menu hosed after installing Moz 1.4
On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 08:41, Thomas Backlund wrote: > From: "D. R. Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Hmmm... I just discovered that I can't get a terminal -- since there's no > > terminal on the menu either! > > > > And opening one using ctrl-alt-Fn doesn't work, because then I can't run > X - > > - - so I can't run a graphical program. > > > > Doc > > > > So when you are at the console... > login as root... and do: > > #update-menus -v > > and you should be Ok... > > (you need the -v switch, or update-menus wont do anything...) > > Regards > > Thomas Actually from my experience it does do something... It just doesn't tell you it's doing it(without the -v switch). It dives into the background and if you wait a few minutes it will produce results. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 start menu hosed after installing Moz 1.4
On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 08:33, D. R. Evans wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 18 Oct 2003 at 8:18, Rolf Pedersen wrote: > > > Type mcc. > > > > Hmmm... I just discovered that I can't get a terminal -- since there's no > terminal on the menu either! > > And opening one using ctrl-alt-Fn doesn't work, because then I can't run X - > - - so I can't run a graphical program. > > Doc K press alt-f2 this will give you the run command. You can then type konsole, xterm, or whatever one you like and you will get your terminal. James > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: PGP 8.0 -- QDPGP 2.70 > Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html > > iQA/AwUBP5FdTmnXrLw2KRK4EQJRfQCfT+EGW/NoacDuDBU3/8wDL00mSgkAnj/g > 7sqYDdlsScUwxCXh0SS+ZI8C > =MAS4 > -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] 9.2 start menu hosed after installing Moz 1.4
On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 08:38, D. R. Evans wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 18 Oct 2003 at 10:21, Avi Schwartz wrote: > > > I had a similar problem and no, I did not install Mozilla. There seems to > > be a problem in rebuilding (or lack of) the menus in 9.2. I found there is > > a program /usr/sbin/update-menus which when I ran it, it rebuilt all menus > > and desktop links. > > > > No such program on my installation. > > This is wonderful! Can anyone spell "catch-22"? > > Just how does one regenerate the start menu when the menu is so hosed that > you can do almost nothing?!! > > I'm amazed that this didn't happen to anyone during testing. So far, the > _only_ thing I did with my pristine 9.2 installation was to add Moz 1.4, > and this immediately bit me. > > I suppose that I can always do a complete re-install. And NOT add Moz 1.4 > once the installation is complete :-) > > Doc Doc, That's because the program is in /usr/bin/ not /usr/sbin. I think the original poster had a finger slip.(Like I haven't done this a few hundred times myself.) To verify just type which update-menus and it will tell you full path. Or better yet just type update-menus, and it will run. (Warning it doesn't look like anything happens, since it immediately returns, don't worry it runs in the background for a couple of minutes before the menu's reappear.) The program that supplies this is menu-2.1.5-123mdk, and this is one disk 1 of your 9.2 disks. This is a manditory rpm so it should be already on you disk. james > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: PGP 8.0 -- QDPGP 2.70 > Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html > > iQA/AwUBP5FeiWnXrLw2KRK4EQJPCwCgjQyRm3X6MXWe1EgWRoLQEoh+lzIAn00R > k5876rEWuq2EHK0n3AMNjbZz > =i+hm > -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] 9.2 start menu hosed after installing Moz 1.4
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ah! I realised that I could log in with IceWM, and that allows me to create a terminal... which allows me to run menudrake. So, problem solved. Thanks for the pointers. Doc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 8.0 -- QDPGP 2.70 Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBP5Fhw2nXrLw2KRK4EQKMtACfUFRJ76WKn2PW64he2olTEHQZdZYAn1Bs 6ce8CSuYd39oP5dMBFaMoL7i =jiLH -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 start menu hosed after installing Moz 1.4
On Saturday 18 October 2003 11:38 am, D. R. Evans wrote: > On 18 Oct 2003 at 10:21, Avi Schwartz wrote: > > I had a similar problem and no, I did not install Mozilla. There seems > > to be a problem in rebuilding (or lack of) the menus in 9.2. I found > > there is a program /usr/sbin/update-menus which when I ran it, it rebuilt > > all menus and desktop links. > > No such program on my installation. > > This is wonderful! Can anyone spell "catch-22"? > > Just how does one regenerate the start menu when the menu is so hosed that > you can do almost nothing?!! > > I'm amazed that this didn't happen to anyone during testing. So far, the > _only_ thing I did with my pristine 9.2 installation was to add Moz 1.4, > and this immediately bit me. > > I suppose that I can always do a complete re-install. And NOT add Moz 1.4 > once the installation is complete :-) > Why don't you try running an upgrade install. No packages would be installed cause everything would be the same, but the config would be reset. Also, why would you install without Mozilla to begin with? I beleive it is such a core package that it has to be installed. -- /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] 9.2 start menu hosed after installing Moz 1.4
Joeb wrote: D. R. Evans wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18 Oct 2003 at 8:18, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Type mcc. Hmmm... I just discovered that I can't get a terminal -- since there's no terminal on the menu either! And opening one using ctrl-alt-Fn doesn't work, because then I can't run X - - - so I can't run a graphical program. Doc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 8.0 -- QDPGP 2.70 Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBP5FdTmnXrLw2KRK4EQJRfQCfT+EGW/NoacDuDBU3/8wDL00mSgkAnj/g 7sqYDdlsScUwxCXh0SS+ZI8C =MAS4 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com If you aren't in X, then you should already have a command line, either log in as root or if you are already logged in, type su and enter the root password. From there, you can type mcc. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com ignore this post. I thought you ment that X wasn't running at all. You could just do the ctrl-alt-F1 and su and enter the root password and type: update-menus -v Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] spam assassin and mrtg
On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 03:56, Joerg Mertin wrote: > On Saturday 18 October 2003 06:06, James Sparenberg wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 09:59, Joerg Mertin wrote: > > > I'm still triggering my frontend Interface for MRTG. Guess it'll take > > > couple of more weeks to have it functional. It looks neat yet though :) > > > Once it is finished - I'll get over to fine tune the MRTG Part, and maybe > > > also take care of the Big Data-Files data gathering ... For that however > > > logtail is one of the greatest inventions ... > > > > > > Ah- yes - the Interface can be viewed here: > > > http://www.solsys.org/mod.php?mod=systat&op=disp_ind&host_id=1 > > > > > > It's the Index View - Click on the Images to have detailed ones. > > > There is much to do on my Todo-List though :) But this is just a Private > > > Hobby I'm coding on... still for php4.0.6 *g*. > > > > > > Cheers > > > > > > Joerg > > > > Looks very nice as in extremely.. > > Thx... But this is only the beginning. There will be some nifty feature I'm > just adding to it - that will also make it quite valuable to people who > understand something on the topic (Networking etc.) ;) That's the main reason > I do it. > > The Big tools b.e. Commercials - do not show the Network Traffic of a circuit, > and beneath it's Round-Trip-Times inkl. Packet loss - which is very important > to detect broken network devices etc. - something I call a comparison graph. > It's not yet built - but it's next on my Todo-List for the Graphing-Interface. > Right now I'm coding a little bit the backend... > So... We'll see if the OS World will provide something new to the big ones ;) > > Cheers > > Joerg The hosting company I used to work for built a monitoring system that did exactly this, and much more. It tracked about fifteen TCP/IP related statistics between our six data centers and the various regions of the world. It also had a great web server log analysis function that would use time deltas to point out performance bottlenecks in the application server code. The system is still in use, though it now monitors the corporate WAN. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 start menu hosed after installing Moz 1.4
From: "D. R. Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hmmm... I just discovered that I can't get a terminal -- since there's no > terminal on the menu either! > > And opening one using ctrl-alt-Fn doesn't work, because then I can't run X - > - - so I can't run a graphical program. > > Doc > So when you are at the console... login as root... and do: #update-menus -v and you should be Ok... (you need the -v switch, or update-menus wont do anything...) Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 start menu hosed after installing Moz 1.4
D. R. Evans wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18 Oct 2003 at 8:18, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Type mcc. Hmmm... I just discovered that I can't get a terminal -- since there's no terminal on the menu either! And opening one using ctrl-alt-Fn doesn't work, because then I can't run X - - - so I can't run a graphical program. Doc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 8.0 -- QDPGP 2.70 Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBP5FdTmnXrLw2KRK4EQJRfQCfT+EGW/NoacDuDBU3/8wDL00mSgkAnj/g 7sqYDdlsScUwxCXh0SS+ZI8C =MAS4 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com If you aren't in X, then you should already have a command line, either log in as root or if you are already logged in, type su and enter the root password. From there, you can type mcc. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 start menu hosed after installing Moz 1.4
On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 08:33, D. R. Evans wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 18 Oct 2003 at 8:18, Rolf Pedersen wrote: > > > Type mcc. > > > > Hmmm... I just discovered that I can't get a terminal -- since there's no > terminal on the menu either! Alt-F2. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 start menu hosed after installing Moz 1.4
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18 Oct 2003 at 10:21, Avi Schwartz wrote: > I had a similar problem and no, I did not install Mozilla. There seems to > be a problem in rebuilding (or lack of) the menus in 9.2. I found there is > a program /usr/sbin/update-menus which when I ran it, it rebuilt all menus > and desktop links. > No such program on my installation. This is wonderful! Can anyone spell "catch-22"? Just how does one regenerate the start menu when the menu is so hosed that you can do almost nothing?!! I'm amazed that this didn't happen to anyone during testing. So far, the _only_ thing I did with my pristine 9.2 installation was to add Moz 1.4, and this immediately bit me. I suppose that I can always do a complete re-install. And NOT add Moz 1.4 once the installation is complete :-) Doc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 8.0 -- QDPGP 2.70 Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBP5FeiWnXrLw2KRK4EQJPCwCgjQyRm3X6MXWe1EgWRoLQEoh+lzIAn00R k5876rEWuq2EHK0n3AMNjbZz =i+hm -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 start menu hosed after installing Moz 1.4
D. R. Evans wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18 Oct 2003 at 8:18, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Type mcc. Hmmm... I just discovered that I can't get a terminal -- since there's no terminal on the menu either! And opening one using ctrl-alt-Fn doesn't work, because then I can't run X - - - so I can't run a graphical program. Doc Wow. Press Alt-F2 and type mcc in the box. Return. Rolf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 start menu hosed after installing Moz 1.4
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18 Oct 2003 at 8:18, Rolf Pedersen wrote: > Type mcc. > Hmmm... I just discovered that I can't get a terminal -- since there's no terminal on the menu either! And opening one using ctrl-alt-Fn doesn't work, because then I can't run X - - - so I can't run a graphical program. Doc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 8.0 -- QDPGP 2.70 Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBP5FdTmnXrLw2KRK4EQJRfQCfT+EGW/NoacDuDBU3/8wDL00mSgkAnj/g 7sqYDdlsScUwxCXh0SS+ZI8C =MAS4 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] question on VPN's
On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 00:02, Mark Williamson wrote: > Hi James, > > Just something that I nearly forgot, since your about to play around > with IPSEC.. It's about module bug in the IPSEC and Mandrake 9.1 > hopefully it's fixed in Mandrake 9.2 > > O.K. it's a work around, from a post I spotted some time ago, and it > does work. > > > --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-04-10 22:23 --- > Confirmed bug still exists in kernel 2.4.21-0.15mdk. > > I didn't fancy recompiling the kernel so I made a workaround. > > *) Make a backup of the original module: > cd /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.XXmdk/kernel/net/ipsec/ > cp -a ipsec.o.gz ipsec.o.gz.bkp > > *) gunzip ipsec.o.gz > > *) vi -b ipsec.o (edit in binary mode) > Search for the string gcc2. Replace with gcc3. Write back the file. > > *) gzip -9 ipsec.o > > The modified kernel module should now load fine, e.g. with: service > ipsec restart > > > > Cheers > Mark Thanks! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 start menu hosed after installing Moz 1.4
D. R. Evans wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18 Oct 2003 at 8:49, Greg Sarsons wrote: Noted this before ... What I've done, there might be another way, is to run MCC. It the select System and select MenuDrake. There is no MCC any more (no System menu) :-( Is there a way to run MCC from the CLI? (Well, there must be, but I don't know how :-) ) Doc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 8.0 -- QDPGP 2.70 Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBP5FW22nXrLw2KRK4EQJxHwCg6ywsiy0LUgUlw66SVqfo/vkIjQ8AoNGE OnjdGQkxLEZ/nyfhlMXe2rHg =t5Sg -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com To run mcc from the command line, open a terminal window and type su and then enter the root password. You should get a pound sign (#) as a prompt. Then type mcc and press enter. If your goal is to run mcc to rebuild your menus, then you could just type menudrake and press enter. Once menudrake loads, hit the save button and your menus will be back. Evidently, this is a bug and will be fixed with one of the updates. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 start menu hosed after installing Moz 1.4
D. R. Evans wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18 Oct 2003 at 8:49, Greg Sarsons wrote: Noted this before ... What I've done, there might be another way, is to run MCC. It the select System and select MenuDrake. There is no MCC any more (no System menu) :-( Is there a way to run MCC from the CLI? (Well, there must be, but I don't know how :-) ) I had a similar problem and no, I did not install Mozilla. There seems to be a problem in rebuilding (or lack of) the menus in 9.2. I found there is a program /usr/sbin/update-menus which when I ran it, it rebuilt all menus and desktop links. Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 start menu hosed after installing Moz 1.4
D. R. Evans wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18 Oct 2003 at 8:49, Greg Sarsons wrote: Noted this before ... What I've done, there might be another way, is to run MCC. It the select System and select MenuDrake. There is no MCC any more (no System menu) :-( Is there a way to run MCC from the CLI? (Well, there must be, but I don't know how :-) ) Doc Type mcc. Rolf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 start menu hosed after installing Moz 1.4
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18 Oct 2003 at 8:49, Greg Sarsons wrote: > Noted this before ... > > What I've done, there might be another way, is to run MCC. It the > select System and select MenuDrake. There is no MCC any more (no System menu) :-( Is there a way to run MCC from the CLI? (Well, there must be, but I don't know how :-) ) Doc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 8.0 -- QDPGP 2.70 Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBP5FW22nXrLw2KRK4EQJxHwCg6ywsiy0LUgUlw66SVqfo/vkIjQ8AoNGE OnjdGQkxLEZ/nyfhlMXe2rHg =t5Sg -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 start menu hosed after installing Moz 1.4
Greg Sarsons wrote: Noted this before ... What I've done, there might be another way, is to run MCC. It the select System and select MenuDrake. You should now see all the menu items in MenuDrake as they should be. Now all you do is click Save and voila you menu items are back. Greg That might be the solution. If not, try running, as root, 'update-menus -v'. There is a cooker thread that might be related to your problem: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg127573.html Rolf On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 08:13, D. R. Evans wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 1. Install Mdk 9.2, selecting most of the desktop client packages. 2. After the install is complete, install Moz 1.4 (from the CDs) 3. KDE start menu loses a ton of stuff that was there before step 2. Help! How do I get all those menu items back? (For example, the only thing left under Configuration now is Hardware | Harddrake -- in other words, the menu is _really_ hosed.) Doc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 8.0 -- QDPGP 2.70 Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBP5FKjmnXrLw2KRK4EQLTNQCeJFn2QXA3NlBUEBqvwjrM8PKyp4UAmwWI mBBWivgChnZWpzLvNalUuFEd =tdjz -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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Building ISOs with MakCD
I've downloaded the 9.2 tree and I am attempting to build the ISO images with MakeCD. Using the commands in the README.MakeCD, the ISOs are all created, but there are a lot packages that give dependency errors and are left out. Also, I notice that the descriptions for the ISOs all refer to Cooker-Download 1 (2,3,4,etc). I'm wondering if what is out on the servers is really 9.2 or is it a cooker snapshot?Also, there is a i586/misc/doc directory that looks like it has a configuration file for 9.2, but I can't figure out how to use it. Since it takes a long time to build the ISOs, trial and error becomes very frustrating. So, has anyone else tried building the ISOs with MakeCD? Joeb p.s. if/when I get this to work, with all of the wrinkles out, I'll post it to the twiki. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 start menu hosed after installing Moz 1.4
Noted this before ... What I've done, there might be another way, is to run MCC. It the select System and select MenuDrake. You should now see all the menu items in MenuDrake as they should be. Now all you do is click Save and voila you menu items are back. Greg On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 08:13, D. R. Evans wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > 1. Install Mdk 9.2, selecting most of the desktop client packages. > 2. After the install is complete, install Moz 1.4 (from the CDs) > 3. KDE start menu loses a ton of stuff that was there before step 2. > > Help! How do I get all those menu items back? > > (For example, the only thing left under Configuration now is Hardware | > Harddrake -- in other words, the menu is _really_ hosed.) > > Doc > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: PGP 8.0 -- QDPGP 2.70 > Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html > > iQA/AwUBP5FKjmnXrLw2KRK4EQLTNQCeJFn2QXA3NlBUEBqvwjrM8PKyp4UAmwWI > mBBWivgChnZWpzLvNalUuFEd > =tdjz > -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
[expert] 9.2 start menu hosed after installing Moz 1.4
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 1. Install Mdk 9.2, selecting most of the desktop client packages. 2. After the install is complete, install Moz 1.4 (from the CDs) 3. KDE start menu loses a ton of stuff that was there before step 2. Help! How do I get all those menu items back? (For example, the only thing left under Configuration now is Hardware | Harddrake -- in other words, the menu is _really_ hosed.) Doc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 8.0 -- QDPGP 2.70 Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBP5FKjmnXrLw2KRK4EQLTNQCeJFn2QXA3NlBUEBqvwjrM8PKyp4UAmwWI mBBWivgChnZWpzLvNalUuFEd =tdjz -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 16 Oct 2003 at 20:59, James Sparenberg wrote: > No, the violation would be if it wasn't available at all. Since it is > available via urpmi and or the web. I couldn't find anything about obtaining the kernel sources for 9.2 in the wiki. Perhaps someone who knows could add something to the wiki when they get the chance? Otherwise it is almost certain to become a FAQ. Doc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 8.0 -- QDPGP 2.70 Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBP5FHIWnXrLw2KRK4EQJVxwCfW28tueL7oDCJBLflzPrJ+PFveP8AoPXi chv1QIyukrVsEG9rXSbM8S7E =tqGZ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] off line request
Hi would any tcl/tk guru be willing to help me off line with just 1 line of code, thanks Richard -- Richard Bown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] can't add club urpmi media
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17 Oct 2003 at 17:18, Jack Coates wrote: > You're using plf.zarb.org's script, right? I just tried and had trouble, so > I switched to MandrakeClub's script and it worked. > I don't understand the question. I went to the club site, clicked the "Downloads" box, and then the "MandrakeClub mirrors script" link (which is the first link in the text on the page), which gets me to: http://www.mandrakeclub.com/modules.php?name=Mirrors Then I click on any of the "URPMI setup" links, and cut-and-paste the command into a root terminal session... and get the errors I posted yesterday. Doc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 8.0 -- QDPGP 2.70 Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBP5FEtWnXrLw2KRK4EQLBeQCfRrlO6J3TMgYAG8kek+6X400Ak/sAnjbE 0CXQASLGX3QOzSHcsap4G3Fs =20o9 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] webmind problem: possible invader or corruption?
> In preferences/Navigator choose the smart browsing link. firebird doesn't seem to have that option... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...
At 12.36 18/10/2003, you wrote: Which is where the TWiki comes in. Why not write up how you did it and make it available for everyone else? But I didn't (yet): I'm not a club member and I son't have 9.2. Furthermore, Steven explained me how to do, you should have received his post as well. Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...
On Saturday 18 October 2003 05:55 am, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: > > I think that Mandrakesoft should explain somewhere how to build a "forth" > install CD: having the RPMs burned in a CD or having them in a CD added to > the urpmi (+GUI) sources is different... And to add the CD to the sources > there must be a hdlist.cz file. Now I know how to do (Steffen Barszus > explained it in another post), but many people don't. > Download the rpms you want from the mirrors, burn them to cd, then add cd as urpmi source. -- /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] spam assassin and mrtg
On Saturday 18 October 2003 06:06, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 09:59, Joerg Mertin wrote: > > I'm still triggering my frontend Interface for MRTG. Guess it'll take > > couple of more weeks to have it functional. It looks neat yet though :) > > Once it is finished - I'll get over to fine tune the MRTG Part, and maybe > > also take care of the Big Data-Files data gathering ... For that however > > logtail is one of the greatest inventions ... > > > > Ah- yes - the Interface can be viewed here: > > http://www.solsys.org/mod.php?mod=systat&op=disp_ind&host_id=1 > > > > It's the Index View - Click on the Images to have detailed ones. > > There is much to do on my Todo-List though :) But this is just a Private > > Hobby I'm coding on... still for php4.0.6 *g*. > > > > Cheers > > > > Joerg > > Looks very nice as in extremely.. Thx... But this is only the beginning. There will be some nifty feature I'm just adding to it - that will also make it quite valuable to people who understand something on the topic (Networking etc.) ;) That's the main reason I do it. The Big tools b.e. Commercials - do not show the Network Traffic of a circuit, and beneath it's Round-Trip-Times inkl. Packet loss - which is very important to detect broken network devices etc. - something I call a comparison graph. It's not yet built - but it's next on my Todo-List for the Graphing-Interface. Right now I'm coding a little bit the backend... So... We'll see if the OS World will provide something new to the big ones ;) Cheers Joerg -- It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame. | Joerg Mertin : [EMAIL PROTECTED](Home)| | in Neuchâtel/Schweiz : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alt1)| | Stardust's LiNUX System : [EMAIL PROTECTED](Alt2)| | Web: http://www.solsys.org: Voice & Fax: +41(0)32 / 725 52 54 | PGP Fingerprint: AF0F FB75 997B 025F 4538 5AD6 9888 5D97 170B 8B7A Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...
On Saturday 18 Oct 2003 10:55 am, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: > At 18.08 17/10/2003, you wrote: > >and looking at 9.1 Prosuite Edition CDs+DVD ONLY, > >they came with 8CD + 1DVD... > > > >the same for 9.2 is 9 + 1DVD, > >so that's 700MB of extra stuff between 9.1 and 9.2 > > ok, ok, you are right... > > >but if you can't download the extra stuff over your modem, > >you could of course go somewhere (friend / library / net-cafe), > >where you can download it, burn it to a CD, and take it home... > >and install from the cd... > > I think that Mandrakesoft should explain somewhere how to build a > "forth" install CD: having the RPMs burned in a CD or having them > in a CD added to the urpmi (+GUI) sources is different... And to > add the CD to the sources there must be a hdlist.cz file. Now I > know how to do (Steffen Barszus explained it in another post), but > many people don't. > > Thanks > Olaf Which is where the TWiki comes in. Why not write up how you did it and make it available for everyone else? 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] Problems with cdrecord...SOLVED
On Saturday 18 Oct 2003 3:53 am, James Conner wrote: > On Saturday 18 October 2003 07:44 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Saturday 18 Oct 2003 3:40 am, James Conner wrote: > > > If you want you can put this in the Twiki or I can try to > > > figure it out and put it in on Monday or Tuesday when I have > > > more time. > > > > I've a busy day ahead, but I'll try to get it done. It would be > > wise to check up on Mon/Tues, though, in case I forget (more > > frequent these days, alas ) > > > > Anne > > Ok, I sent a request to reset my password. I think I botched it, > twice. I hope that it'll be done in the next couple of days. I'll > check back and see if it is and if not, I'll make the addition when > I get my account straightened out. > > Jim OK, Jim. I see your account is now active, so I'll leave it to you. 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] Kernel source missing from 9.2 ISOs
> Exactly. > Could someone tell me how to build a 4th CD with RPMs not included in > the first 3 ISOs but available on the FTP site? Once burned the ISOs > I'd like to be able to install software without being connected to > the internet. > Download it , burn it on CD and add it with urpmi.addmedia -f or as nicer solution: d/l => save the rpms in directories that fit on one disc => go in that dir and run "genhdlist ." (The point is important). This will give you a hdlist.cz for that RPMs. If you want to download all that is available but not on the 3 cd set, one CD isn't enough (hint: contrib/plf/java/club/...). Thanks for your help! Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...
At 18.08 17/10/2003, you wrote: and looking at 9.1 Prosuite Edition CDs+DVD ONLY, they came with 8CD + 1DVD... the same for 9.2 is 9 + 1DVD, so that's 700MB of extra stuff between 9.1 and 9.2 ok, ok, you are right... but if you can't download the extra stuff over your modem, you could of course go somewhere (friend / library / net-cafe), where you can download it, burn it to a CD, and take it home... and install from the cd... I think that Mandrakesoft should explain somewhere how to build a "forth" install CD: having the RPMs burned in a CD or having them in a CD added to the urpmi (+GUI) sources is different... And to add the CD to the sources there must be a hdlist.cz file. Now I know how to do (Steffen Barszus explained it in another post), but many people don't. Thanks Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] NFS Unmounting problem
On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 18:54, Kaveh Gh wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> Recently, I've installed mdk 9.0 on a system to act
> as a server. I've selected samba-server and
> samba-winbind, too. I've installed mdk for several
> times and in those cases just I've selected general
> options(not by selecting indivitual packets and
> tools). for exapmle, by selecting Network server, LSB,
> Development,... radio-boxs, not by clicking the "
> individual". Anyway, In indivitual election,
> samba-server, by defalut, is selected but
> samba-winbind not. The installaiotn is ok but the
> problem is:
>
> When I reboot or shut down my system, After killing
> and ending all daemons and servers, I always receive
> this error message:
>
> Unmounting NFS file system: Can not MOUNTPROG RPC:
> RPC: Program not registered.
> umount2: Device or resource busy...
> umount: /net: device is busy...
>
> And system is going to be HANGED!!! By pressing ^C,
> I've received this message:
>
> " There is no active interface or server in this run
> level.. to kill"
>
> I've taken a look in Control Center, I've seen that
> in Samba status field, and in import tab, there is an
> entry:
> NFS/net{As mount point} pid:178
>
> Anyway, I could not solve the problem. So, pleaser
> help me.
>
> Regards,
>
> =
>
> Kaveh Gh.
>
> Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
Edit /etc/auto.master and comment out the /net and /misc lines.
/etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs restart
The next shutdown I think will hang but after that it should be ok.
There was a problem with automount in 9.0.
This is by memory but someone else will have a better fix.
Gary.
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[expert] NFS Unmounting problem
Dear All,
Recently, I've installed mdk 9.0 on a system to act
as a server. I've selected samba-server and
samba-winbind, too. I've installed mdk for several
times and in those cases just I've selected general
options(not by selecting indivitual packets and
tools). for exapmle, by selecting Network server, LSB,
Development,... radio-boxs, not by clicking the "
individual". Anyway, In indivitual election,
samba-server, by defalut, is selected but
samba-winbind not. The installaiotn is ok but the
problem is:
When I reboot or shut down my system, After killing
and ending all daemons and servers, I always receive
this error message:
Unmounting NFS file system: Can not MOUNTPROG RPC:
RPC: Program not registered.
umount2: Device or resource busy...
umount: /net: device is busy...
And system is going to be HANGED!!! By pressing ^C,
I've received this message:
" There is no active interface or server in this run
level.. to kill"
I've taken a look in Control Center, I've seen that
in Samba status field, and in import tab, there is an
entry:
NFS/net{As mount point} pid:178
Anyway, I could not solve the problem. So, pleaser
help me.
Regards,
=
Kaveh Gh.
Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: [expert] Problems with cdrecord...SOLVED
On Saturday 18 October 2003 07:44 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Saturday 18 Oct 2003 3:40 am, James Conner wrote: > > If you want you can put this in the Twiki or I can try to figure it > > out and put it in on Monday or Tuesday when I have more time. > > I've a busy day ahead, but I'll try to get it done. It would be wise > to check up on Mon/Tues, though, in case I forget (more frequent > these days, alas ) > > Anne Ok, I sent a request to reset my password. I think I botched it, twice. I hope that it'll be done in the next couple of days. I'll check back and see if it is and if not, I'll make the addition when I get my account straightened out. Jim -- 2:01am up 30 days, 19:01, 3 users, load average: 0.17, 0.25, 0.35 Running Mandrake 9.0 - Linux - because life is too short for reboots... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Problems with cdrecord...SOLVED
On Saturday 18 Oct 2003 3:40 am, James Conner wrote: > > If you want you can put this in the Twiki or I can try to figure it > out and put it in on Monday or Tuesday when I have more time. > I've a busy day ahead, but I'll try to get it done. It would be wise to check up on Mon/Tues, though, in case I forget (more frequent these days, alas ) 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] Problems with cdrecord...SOLVED
On Saturday 18 October 2003 07:06 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Saturday 18 Oct 2003 12:46 am, James Conner wrote: > > You can reread this thread to get up-to-date. We found the > > firmware upgrade on Dell's Europe web site and updated the firmware > > to 3.05. It didn't help. The cdrom is a NEC CDR-3000A. I replaced > > it with a Toshiba XM-6302B and it worked fine. Seems like the NEC > > CDR-3000A is written with buggy/non-standard firmware and is > > incompatible to MDK 9.1. If someone wants a more detailed > > report/summary, please let me know. > > Jim, could you write a line or two on theTWiki HardwareCompatibility > page? It might save someone a lot of heartache. Thanks > > Anne Ok, I'm tired, it's late and I think I botched my twiki registration. Here is the text that I would probably put in. ---cut--- Mandrake 9.1: If you have a NEC CDR-3000A cdrom drive or get the following error with the command: cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 2.0 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Using libscg version 'schily-0.7' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'YAMAHA ' 'CRW-F1E ' '1.0b' Removable CD-ROM cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page. 0,1,0 1) 'NEC ' 'CD-ROM DRIVE:28D' '3.03' Removable CD-ROM This error message refers to the drive following it. You will probably have difficulties doing a direct CD to CD copy as well. You can try to upgrade the firmware of the drive. This works with some didn't work this NEC. If after you upgrade the firmware and you still get this message, you have two options. 1) Rewrite or wait for a fix parts of the cdrecord package and possibly parts of the kernel. 2) Install a CDROM drive that works. I opted for number 2. I didn't have this problem with the hardware in MDK 9.0 and it hasn't been tested with MDK 9.2. This is caused by buggy/non-standard firmware for the CDROM drive. ---cut--- If you want you can put this in the Twiki or I can try to figure it out and put it in on Monday or Tuesday when I have more time. Jim -- 2:01am up 30 days, 19:01, 3 users, load average: 0.17, 0.25, 0.35 Running Mandrake 9.0 - Linux - because life is too short for reboots... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...
On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 14:07, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > On Friday 17 October 2003 11:21 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > > On Friday 17 October 2003 10:44 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > > > On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 02:52, ef2 wrote: > > > > What about splitting the kernel into source and headers, for driver > > > > compilations ? > > > > Also, kernel2.4-marcelo could be dropped, there are also 4 kernel-doc > > > > packages, one (or even none) would be sufficient. And maybe > > > > kernel-secure, which is really for professional use ? > > > > > > > > Eric > > > > > > even if it was... it wouldn't yield sufficient room. Now if Emacs was > > > dropped or perhaps all of the kde eye candy etc.. To be honest. > > > What they have done fits perfectly in with the way they are positioning > > > themselves in the market. They are THE desktop distro. > > > > Remember all the flack they took for leaving kdeartwork out of 9.1. > > Someone's always bitching. > > Kinda reminds you of the old fairy tale, doesn't it? > Momma Bear: My porridge is too cold. > Poppa Bear: My porridge is too hot. > Baby Bear: All they do around here is bitch, bitch, bitch. > -- cmg Baby Bear would like a 4th cd with source and contrib as a optional extra. Ahh thats just right :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Problems with cdrecord...SOLVED
On Saturday 18 Oct 2003 12:46 am, James Conner wrote: > You can reread this thread to get up-to-date. We found the > firmware upgrade on Dell's Europe web site and updated the firmware > to 3.05. It didn't help. The cdrom is a NEC CDR-3000A. I replaced > it with a Toshiba XM-6302B and it worked fine. Seems like the NEC > CDR-3000A is written with buggy/non-standard firmware and is > incompatible to MDK 9.1. If someone wants a more detailed > report/summary, please let me know. > Jim, could you write a line or two on theTWiki HardwareCompatibility page? It might save someone a lot of heartache. 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] question on VPN's
Hi James, Just something that I nearly forgot, since your about to play around with IPSEC.. It's about module bug in the IPSEC and Mandrake 9.1 hopefully it's fixed in Mandrake 9.2 O.K. it's a work around, from a post I spotted some time ago, and it does work. --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-04-10 22:23 --- Confirmed bug still exists in kernel 2.4.21-0.15mdk. I didn't fancy recompiling the kernel so I made a workaround. *) Make a backup of the original module: cd /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.XXmdk/kernel/net/ipsec/ cp -a ipsec.o.gz ipsec.o.gz.bkp *) gunzip ipsec.o.gz *) vi -b ipsec.o (edit in binary mode) Search for the string gcc2. Replace with gcc3. Write back the file. *) gzip -9 ipsec.o The modified kernel module should now load fine, e.g. with: service ipsec restart Cheers Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
