Re: [expert] Why is it so difficult to get a wireless card to work in linux????

2002-11-09 Thread HoytDuff
On Saturday 09 November 2002 06:31 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled in crayon on 
a yellow legal pad:
 why is it so difficult to get a wireless card to work
 under linux?

Same reason as other stuff: inadequate device driver support.

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Re: [expert]

2002-11-08 Thread HoytDuff
On Friday 08 November 2002 02:13 pm, Piero Piutti scribbled in crayon on a 
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 Time to buy a GeForce 4 MX 440...

Skip the MX cards unless you don't have the money. And you _have_ to have an 
AGP card.

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Re: [expert]

2002-11-07 Thread HoytDuff
On Wednesday 06 November 2002 11:35 pm, Piero Piutti scribbled in crayon on a 
yellow legal pad:
 Xlib:  extension XiG-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD missing on display :0.0.
 OpenGL renderer relies on DXTC/S3TC support.

The answer was no farther away than the README.Linux file found in your 
installation of UT2003.

Q: I get the following text on my console when I run the game:
  Xlib: extension XiG-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD missing on display :0.0.
 Is this a problem?
  A: No. This means you aren't using an X server from Xi Graphics.
 That message means we're looking for the X11 extension they use to
 change screen resolutions, and having a non-XiG X server, you
 don't have it. THIS IS NOT A UT2003 BUG. It's not a bug at all.
 Xlib prints that error, but we handle it gracefully.

So if you are having a problem (I'm running UT2003 OK here on Mandrake 9.0), 
check out the UT2003 newsgroup. 

But it may be that your video card is not supported, since it must supply S3TC 
support. 

All nVIDIA, no Radeon (unless you have an XiG X server), and no others.

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Re: [expert] where's pine?

2002-11-04 Thread HoytDuff
On Sunday 03 November 2002 02:02 am, Todd Lyons scribbled in crayon on a 
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 No room.  Especially for a statically compiled binary.  Build it
 statically and let me know how big it is (just curious, I don't actually
 have any say in it).

 Blue skies... 

The one used in FREESCO was pretty small, but I can't find a link to it now.


  Todd

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Re: [expert] How Do I Add a Scanner to scannerdrake?

2002-11-04 Thread HoytDuff
On Sunday 03 November 2002 10:00 pm, Igor Izyumin scribbled in crayon on a 
yellow legal pad:
  but the scanner does not show up in the displayed list in drakconf.

 Are you trying to configure the scanner or modify scannerdrake to support a
 scanner it doesn't already? If you want the latter, I would suggest the
 Cooker list.  You may want to download the source for scannerdrake if you
 seriously want to tweak it.

 If you just want your scanner to work, ditch scannerdrake and read the SANE
 docs.


Modify scannerdrake. I have to subscribe to yet _another_ high volume list?. 
I'll pass.

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[expert] How Do I Add a Scanner to scannerdrake?

2002-11-03 Thread HoytDuff
How do I add a scanner to scannerdrake?

In other words, where is the database file that the list shown in drakconf 
when you attempt to configure a scanner? ANd how do I get drakconf to 
recognize it?

I added the appropriate line to /usr/share/ldetect-lst/usbtable:

0x04a9  0x2206  scanner   Canon Inc.|CanoScan N650U

and then ran

# scannerdrake --update-usbtable

but the scanner does not show up in the displayed list in drakconf.


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Re: [expert] where's pine?

2002-11-01 Thread HoytDuff
On Friday 01 November 2002 09:42 am, logic7 scribbled in crayon on a yellow 
legal pad:
 MC is a command line tool. Doesn't need X at all. I make sure it's
 installed on every linux box I have primarily because of the editor.


Yes, and a statically compiled version would be a nice addition to the rescue 
disk. Hint. Hint.

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Re: [expert] Putting Mandrake 9.0 on a LAN for FTP installs

2002-11-01 Thread HoytDuff
On Thursday 31 October 2002 05:23 am, HoytDuff scribbled in crayon on a yellow 
legal pad:
 I would like to put the three CDs on my private FTP site to do local
 installations. I copied the contents of the first CD to a publically
 accessable directory and then added the RPMs from the second and third CDs
 to the RPM directory


OK, my bad for dumping them all in the same directory. I re-copied them in as:
/var/ftp/pub/9.0/RPMS
/RPMS2
/RPMS3

and added

/RPMS4 for my stuff.

Then I ran gendistrib, IIRC. The directory I point the installer to is

/pub/9.0/

It all seems to work fine now. 8)

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[expert] Putting Mandrake 9.0 on a LAN for FTP installs

2002-10-31 Thread HoytDuff
I woudl like to put the three CDs on my private FTP site to do local 
installations. I copied the contents of the first CD to a publically 
accessable directory and then added the RPMs from the second and third CDs to 
the RPM directory.

Obviously this was not correct sinec I can't install from there. Do I need to 
genereate a new hdlist file?

I would like to add the updates and some custom RPMS as well.

Is there a HOWTO for this kind of thing available?

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Re: [expert] Help! X and HP Pavilion

2002-10-29 Thread HoytDuff
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 10:54 am, D. R. Evans scribbled in crayon on a 
yellow legal pad:
 Ah! That wasn't the answer, but to find out what chip it uses (since it
 sure ain't obvious on the mobo) I went to the HP web site and there saw a
 reference to ProSavageDDR KM266 graphics. So I switched from vesa to
 savage, and it now works.

I have the same chip in my HP1210 laptop. Mandrake 9.0 autodetected the chip, 
but not the display; the generic 1024x768 LCD display works fine. No 3D 
support drom XFree86, however. There is a variant of the driver available at 
http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html that I have not yet tried. They 
provide a binary driver and other interesting stuff there.

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Re: [expert] HP Pavilion and hibernation

2002-10-29 Thread HoytDuff
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 05:03 pm, Jan Hendrik Mangold scribbled in crayon 
on a yellow legal pad:
 I am dying to not have to boot into XP anymore, so please throw me a
 bone here ... :)

Try the newest Cooker kernel. I hear that it features ACPI support.

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Re: [expert] Acomdata 40GB USB 2.0 hard drive

2002-10-21 Thread HoytDuff
On Monday 21 October 2002 06:23 pm, Todd Lyons scribbled in crayon on a yellow 
legal pad:
 Larry Nguyen wrote on Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 05:18:49PM -0500 :
  Thanks for the quick reply, Todd. I'm thinking of buying one. $99 at my
  local CompUSA store.  
  It's USB 2.0 so it should work rite? Any trick?

 A definite maybe. 
 devices that work.  Barring that, I'd say your chances are slim due to
 two reasons:
 1) it's brand new (or appears to be)
 2) it's on sale for such a cheap price


I picked up one. It is detected as /dev/sda

It needs to have a prtition table created and a fileystem installed.

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Re: [expert] mount -o loop mandrake 9.0

2002-10-16 Thread HoytDuff

On Tuesday 08 October 2002 10:26 pm, Barry Michels scribbled in crayon on a 
yellow legal pad:
 Well, Windows has a limit of 23 usable drive letters and I
 know of no way to mount an ISO to a directory like in Linux...

Paragon CD Emulator.
http://www.paragon-gmbh.com
You have access to more than 20 virtual CD-ROM drives simultaneously. Creates 
compressed images from your CD disks and stores them on any local or remote 
hard disk (network drive). 

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Re: [expert] shareable mails kmail-evolution ?

2002-10-01 Thread HoytDuff

On Tuesday 01 October 2002 10:24 am, Randy Kramer scribbled in crayon on a 
yellow legal pad:
 Watch this page:

Steatlh page, Randy? 8)
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[expert] Mandrake 9.0 (dolphin) and X configuration errors

2002-09-25 Thread HoytDuff

I'm using 9.0 (doplhin) with two Voodoo3 PCI cards. 

The auto X config during installation assigns an option of AGPMode true to 
the primary card  -- it's a PCI card, not an AGP card.

Aslo, the monitor for the second card is not detected at all. If I cut and 
paste the following lines from monitor onw ino monitor two, everyrthing works 
OK.

 VendorName Plug'n Play
ModelName ViewSonic PS775-2
HorizSync 30-95
VertRefresh 50-180

Nice product, guys.

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Re: [expert] Bad signatures on 9.0rc3 RPMS?

2002-09-23 Thread HoytDuff

On Monday 23 September 2002 11:26 pm, PlugHead scribbled in crayon on a yellow 
legal pad:
 Is it just me?  I'm seeing alot of things like:

 [root@jack-in etc]# urpmi chkrootkit
 The following packages have bad signatures:
 /mirror/sunet/cooker/RPMS2/chkrootkit-0.37-1mdk.i586.rpm
 Do you want to continue installation ? (y/N) N

 Anyone else seeing this?  Does anyone know what's going on here?  (That
 /mirror/sunet/cooker is rsync'd from sunet.se... pretty much daily...  But
 I've seen the same thing from the mandrake club as well.)

 Thanks,
 -Jason

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Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-07 Thread HoytDuff

On Saturday 07 September 2002 01:53 am, James Sparenberg scribbled in crayon 
on a yellow legal pad:
 Does anybody else here
 know how to use a sliderule? (or maybe I shoud say did.. been so long
 I've probably forgotten.)

sliderule joke
Yes, and I can even subtract on a sliderule.
/sliderule koke
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Re: Re[2]: [expert] a stooooooooopid question -(getting offtopic)

2002-09-07 Thread HoytDuff

On Saturday 07 September 2002 02:18 am, Colin Jenkins scribbled in crayon on a 
yellow legal pad:
 Hello Alastair,

 Saturday, September 07, 2002, 6:42:50 AM, you wrote:


 AS Considering DOS, I began with 5.25 floppy disks on IBM ATs, which were
 AS built like tanks - green screens, enormously thick case metal and the



 my first was a kit (microbee z80 processor, 16k ram) upgraded to 64k
 to run msdos. used a cassette recorder for storage. think the first
 floppys I saw were 8

Ah, more memories.

My first IBM-PC has 256k of memory (Sales guy: You can install 640k, but no 
one will ever need that much!). Two full height 5.25 drives and a Davong 
10MB hard drive (with an external p/s the size of a shoebox). The hard drive 
was partitioned to use DSS/F, a goal-seeking spreadsheet (Visi-calc was the 
reigning spreadsheet app at the time). The DSS/F was written in F-code (it 
was Pascal, IIRC) and the spreadsheet had to be compiled before each run. Fun 
stuff.


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Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-06 Thread HoytDuff

On Friday 06 September 2002 11:05 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled in 
crayon on a yellow legal pad:
 ASR teletype

These were very nice; wished I had one at the time to relace my Model 19.

 paper tape

Chadless paper was a major improvement.

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Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question -(getting offtopic)

2002-09-06 Thread HoytDuff

On Friday 06 September 2002 03:47 pm, James Sparenberg scribbled in crayon on 
a yellow legal pad:
 Used to

  play a game called star-trek; with an E for the Enterprise, a K for
  the Klingons, an * for photon torpedoes, etc etc.
 
 
  Ken

 Ken,


I know the guy who wrote that one... it was written originally on
 paper tape ... and lots of scotch tape.  


 James

First computer game I ever played. Pong was my first console game.

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Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-06 Thread HoytDuff

On Friday 06 September 2002 04:40 pm, James Sparenberg scribbled in crayon on 
a yellow legal pad:
 Bummmer, Guess this means I don't spend the $10 US on a new
 copy...Unless I can find DOS 6 somewhere.  I guess I need to start
 looking...

http://www.paragon-gmbh.com/f_dos.htm

US$14.95

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Re: [expert] X display resolution problem

2002-09-04 Thread HoytDuff

On Wednesday 04 September 2002 10:45 am, Tony S. Sykes scribbled in crayon on 
a yellow legal pad:

 how can i change resolution of X to load linux??
 that's all, see ya...


http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/troubles/index.html

That should provide some tools to troubleshoot the problem.

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Re: [expert] requests for update 8.0 to 9.?

2002-09-04 Thread HoytDuff

On Wednesday 04 September 2002 03:38 pm, James Sparenberg scribbled in crayon 
on a yellow legal pad:
I wouldn't recommend doing it as an upgrade from even 8.1 to 8.2
 upgrades tend to cause more problems than they solve.  However if your
 /home directory is on a separate partition.  Then re-install to the
 /boot / or whatever other partitions you have.  Save off config files
 that are really important and can't be easily retyped (httpd config
 files samba e-mail aliases etc etc.) and then put them back after the
 re-install.  

I agree. As well, archive the .kde directory if you use KDE since there are 
some incompatibilities when upgrading to 3.X.

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Re: [expert] new kernel doesn't leave boot messages

2002-08-18 Thread HoytDuff

On Sunday 18 August 2002 06:06 pm, Darren King scribbled in crayon on a yellow 
legal pad:
 I've got a few kernels running now for different things.  If I boot from
 the standard 8.2 kernel, I can use dmesg to see how the boot went and
 any messages that came up during the boot.

 When I boot from the cooker kernel, however, dmesg still displays the
 result of the last standard 8.2 kernel boot.  How do I get the cooker
 kernel to write the boot messages so I can see them with dmesg?

 Darren

Isn't that the quiet LILO/GRUB option at work? If so, remove it. 

IIRC the hidden messages are displayed if you press Alt-Ctrl-F12 ?

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Re: [expert] setting IRQ on a pci card

2002-08-11 Thread HoytDuff

On Friday 09 August 2002 04:09 pm, James Sparenberg scribbled in crayon on a 
yellow legal pad:
 Fingers crossed for you.  *grin*


 James


Seems to be holding so far. 8) !!!

Now I just need to apply the Win4Lin patches and do the same thing,

Where did you stumble upon this bit of advice? And to whom do I direct a 
request for a more reasonable fix?

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Re: [expert] setting IRQ on a pci card - Instability problem solved

2002-08-11 Thread HoytDuff

On Sunday 11 August 2002 02:50 am, James Sparenberg scribbled in crayon on a 
yellow legal pad:
  Don't know who to tell about this or where to
 place a bug report.  It seems to be inherent in the kernel not
 Mandrake.  I installed RH 7.3 and FreeBSD on partitions on this
 box and RH is even flakier than Mandrake.  

I'm using RH 7.3 and 8.0beta as well and can report the same #$% flakiness in 
them.

Here are my chipsets for this TYAN MP S2466 mobo:
# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 MP [IGD4-2P] System 
Controller (rev 11)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 MP [IGD4-2P] AGP 
Bridge
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] ISA (rev 04)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] IDE (rev 
04)
00:07.3 Bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] ACPI (rev 03)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-768 [Opus] PCI (rev 04)
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP (rev 82)
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 
78)

 Don't know who to tell about this or where to place a bug report. 

I suspect that DRM would be an XFree86 problem? You appear more technically 
atute than I in this matter (and have arrived at a solution), so would you do 
the bug report? I doubt that it is something that Mandrake would handle other 
than perhaps placing an eratta on the 8.1/8.2/9.0 lists.

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Re: [expert] rpm --rebuild

2002-08-11 Thread HoytDuff

On Sunday 11 August 2002 02:44 pm, Gary Montalbine scribbled in crayon on a 
yellow legal pad:
 I am using the commercial 3 CD set of LM 8.2. I have tried to do a rpm
 --rebuild of rpmfind and a rpm --rebuild of db3...src.rpm. I keep
 getting errors in the g++, gcc and cpp0 links. Apparently there are two
 versions installed and they are intermixed. I doubt that I am the only
 one having this problem. Is there a patch or other fix for this problem?
 I cannot find anything in the archives or elsewhere.

 Thanks,
 Gary


Look at the links in /etc/alternative and soo if that helps.

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Re: [expert] rpm --rebuild

2002-08-11 Thread HoytDuff

On Sunday 11 August 2002 03:48 pm, Gary Montalbine scribbled in crayon on a 
yellow legal pad:
 I can not find a libgcc3.2. I have libgcc3.0.4 installed which matches
 the g++, gcc and cpp files.

Did you try to symlink those two?

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Re: [expert] setting IRQ on a pci card

2002-08-09 Thread HoytDuff

On Friday 09 August 2002 01:54 pm, James Sparenberg scribbled in crayon on a 
yellow legal pad:
  I had to build a new kernel.  Under character devices there is
 an option to build DRM with old (4.0) drivers (as apposed to the
 new 4.1 versions)

It's sure worth a try. Everything else has failed to produce lasting results.

I'll let you know how it does.

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[expert] setting IRQ on a pci card

2002-08-08 Thread HoytDuff

How can I set the IRQ on a pci card? I have a conflict between an on-board 
ethernet device and a PCI soundcard: both want IRQ 5.

I have attempted to use pirq=, but no luck there. Any advice?

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Re: [expert] setting IRQ on a pci card

2002-08-08 Thread HoytDuff

On Thursday 08 August 2002 07:46 pm, et scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal 
pad:
 do you have a cd or floppy that came with either the mother board, or the
 sound card? 

No. Sound card is a SoundBlaster with aCreative CT5880

 can you move the sound card to a different slot on the
 motherboard?

Yes. Worth a try.

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Re: [expert] setting IRQ on a pci card

2002-08-08 Thread HoytDuff

On Thursday 08 August 2002 08:01 pm, Chuck Shirley scribbled in crayon on a 
yellow legal pad:
 What about adjusting the irq of the onboard NIC in the manboard BIOS?

The Tyan Tiger MP S2466 I am using does not have such an option. 8(

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Re: [expert] setting IRQ on a pci card - some error messages

2002-08-08 Thread HoytDuff

On Thursday 08 August 2002 08:36 pm, Jose M. Sanchez scribbled in crayon on a 
yellow legal pad:
 When there is a conflict, it is because both slots share the same
 signaling lines to the CPU.


 If you change one in the bios, you change the other as well.


 He'll need to move one of the devices to another slot instead.

Well, I removed the card rather than just switching slots and now have no IRQ 
conflicts, but I still get X11 crashes. They're mostly associated with KDE3's 
kmail, but konqueror and konsole crash as well. 

The X errors look like:

select returned 0

and 

ICE default IO error

but nothing specific.

I just now managed to finally catch something happening:

Aug  9 00:42:23 titan kernel: kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:131!
Aug  9 00:42:23 titan kernel: invalid operand: 
Aug  9 00:42:23 titan kernel: sr_mod soundcore mga agpgart Mvnetd Mvnet 
Mvnetint Mvw Mvmouse Mvkbd Mvgic Mvd
Aug  9 00:42:23 titan kernel: CPU:0
Aug  9 00:42:23 titan kernel: EIP:1010:[free_swap_and_cache+106/160]
Tainted: PF
Aug  9 00:42:23 titan kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286
Aug  9 00:42:23 titan kernel:
Aug  9 00:42:23 titan kernel: EIP is at __free_pages_ok [kernel] 0x11a 
(2.4.18-5smp)
Aug  9 00:42:23 titan kernel: eax: 0020   ebx: c180f6d0   ecx: c02f00e0   
edx: 2f2d
Aug  9 00:42:23 titan kernel: esi:    edi: c130   ebp:    
esp: da233e68
Aug  9 00:42:23 titan kernel: ds: 1018   es: 1018   ss: 1018
Aug  9 00:42:23 titan kernel: Process kdeinit (pid: 3485, stackpage=da233000)
Aug  9 00:42:23 titan kernel: Stack: c024566e 0083 c17f7720 c17f7758 
c1038030 c02f16c4 0213 
Aug  9 00:42:23 titan kernel:00011aae c037c82c 002f 00a8 
c17f2c88 c012cb9c c180f6d0 000ae000
Aug  9 00:42:23 titan kernel:00a8 000ae000 00a8 0810 
db85a084 0840 c037c760 00a8
Aug  9 00:42:23 titan kernel: Call Trace: [handle_mm_fault+172/352] 
do_zap_page_range [kernel] 0x37c
Aug  9 00:42:23 titan kernel: [clear_IO_APIC_pin+160/176] flush_tlb_all_ipi 
[kernel] 0x0
Aug  9 00:42:23 titan kernel: [vm_enough_memory+144/208] zap_page_range 
[kernel] 0x50
Aug  9 00:42:23 titan kernel: [drop_behind+187/192] exit_mmap [kernel] 0xdb
Aug  9 00:42:23 titan kernel: [find_resource+49/192] do_getitimer [kernel] 
0xa1
Aug  9 00:42:23 titan kernel: [.text.lock.exec_domain+64/73] mmput [kernel] 
0x37
Aug  9 00:42:23 titan kernel: [do_softirq+162/208] do_exit [kernel] 0xf2
Aug  9 00:42:23 titan kernel: [fsync_super+153/192] sys_write [kernel] 0x19
Aug  9 00:42:23 titan kernel: [do_sigpending+2/144] sys_alarm [kernel] 0x32
Aug  9 00:42:23 titan kernel: [show+107/384] system_call [kernel] 0x33
Aug  9 00:42:23 titan kernel:
Aug  9 00:42:23 titan kernel:
Aug  9 00:42:23 titan kernel: Code: 0f 0b 5f 5d c6 43 24 05 8b 43 18 89 f1 89 
dd 83 e0 eb 89 43


Now if only I knew what all that meant, I might be able to do some detective 
work and get it fixed.

Thanks,

Hoyt




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[expert] Weird X crashes

2002-08-02 Thread HoytDuff

I am experiencing very weird X crashes. Here is my .xsessions-error file. Can 
anyone point me in the right directoion ofr more debugging?

10
DCOPServer up and running.
Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2
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36
41
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52
58
63
69
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ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 2929, errno = 2
ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 2931, errno = 0
kdeinit: Communication error with launcher. Exiting!
Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2
QDir::readDirEntries: Cannot read the directory: /root/.kde/lib
DCOPServer up and running.
ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 2938, errno = 32
DCOP Cleaning up dead connections.
Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2
Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2
Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2
kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: KLibrary: /opt/kde3//lib/libkdecore.so.4: 
undefined symbol: init_fonts
Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource busy
Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource busy
Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2
mcop warning: user defined signal handler found for SIG_PIPE, overriding
Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2
Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2
Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2
Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2
Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2
Fatal communication error with a client
  Authentication of this client was not successful
  Connection dropped
pure virtual method called
KCrash: crashing crashRecursionCounter = 2
KCrash: Application Name = knotify path = unknown pid = 2974
Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2
Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2
mcop warning: user defined signal handler found for SIG_PIPE, overriding
Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2
KDirWatch: /etc/security/fileshare.conf is a file. Use addFile!
Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2
Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2
KDirWatch: /etc/security/fileshare.conf is a file. Use addFile!
QWidget::setMinimumSize: The smallest allowed size is (0,0)
QWidget::setMaximumSize: (unnamed/DigitalClock) Negative sizes (2,-4) are not 
possible
QWidget::setMinimumSize: The smallest allowed size is (0,0)
QWidget::setMaximumSize: (unnamed/DigitalClock) Negative sizes (2,-4) are not 
possible
Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2
Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2
kio (KLauncher): ERROR: KLauncher: KDEInit communication error! Commiting 
suicide!
Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource busy
undecodable token: \001b(hex)[36l
ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 2986, errno = 17
ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 2983, errno = 2
ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 2979, errno = 0
ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 2982, errno = 2
ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 2978, errno = 0

-- 
Hoyt

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Fix it until it breaks.



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