Re: [expert] Corrupted RPM database (need help)
> >I know this has come up before, but I can't seem to find > >the solution in the archives (other than re-installing). > > > >My RPM database seems to have gotten corrupted. > >If I do: rpm -qa > > > >it hangs after listing most (but not all) of my installed packages. > > > >I tried to do: rpm --rebuilddb > > You might look at this: http://www.informatimago.com/linux/rpm-rebuilddb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] anyone have Hp 820cse working in MDK9?
On Thursday 26 December 2002 08:11 pm, mycal62 wrote: > have tried these as well and nothing. only has a parallel port. > > something else is obviously messed up , I just can't figure it out. > > may go in and remove all all of cups and related stuff and go back with > the earliest cups and drivers > I can get to work with 9.0 . > > thanks anyway > > I'm assuming , you don't have this model ' 820cse ' running since you > said yours has usb port. > > I was looking for someone who has this EXACT printer working in MDK 9.0, > not general printer help. I have the 712 which is also a PPA printer. One thing right off, /etc/pnm2ppa.conf has to be edited and your model type uncommented. I have a 9.0 install on a small hardrive that prints, after I set up the raid I copied the system from the small drive to the raid. I have not been able to get it to print when booting from the raid. I did discover the test_ppa command works, so I know its in cups or foomatic. MCC can not even print a test page. At one time I downloaded the PPD file and Open Office would print but still not cups. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity
On Tuesday 17 December 2002 10:18 pm, Joseph Braddock wrote: > > No, I don't think so. It is a brand new motherboard. however... it DID > > come with a special ide controller card. Seems that WD drives are junk > > based on another thread. :( > > Do you know the make of the special IDE controller card? Also, besides the > card is there an on-board IDE? If you are using the card, is the on-board > IDE disabled? Finally, if you are using the card, what happens if you > remove it and use the on-board ide (or vice versa if you are using the > on-board)? When I got all my new hardware and started building the system, I do remember having problems with the western digital drives the first day or two. I had used the first ide cables I had laying around and they were the old type. I had to use the newer UDMA type that I got with the hardware. From what I understand each signal line has its own ground line, maybe the western digitals have crappy electronics that are bad abt crosstalk. This system was built for over clocking and has plenty of fans and air flow, the power supply has plenty of power. I know some of the geforce 4 cards have had problems when the power supplies were not sufficient. Jack Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Fwd: Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 02:29:30 -0600 From: Jack and Melissa McSwain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Monday 16 December 2002 09:01 pm, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: > Seems clear as far as WD is concerned. Personally, I have used their drives > for many years with no problems at all. I currently have two 40 GIG, a 6 > GIG and a 10 GIG WD drive. Also, a Seagate 40 GIG drive, which also works > well but has always been very noisy. All Maxtor drives I have tried in the > past have failed the first day I used them, all with unrecoverable bad > sectors. > > Cheers, I have a pair of wd300bb's on a highpoint controller in raid0 configuration and I have had absolutely no problems in linux (mandrake 8.1 and 9.0) or any of the winblows O/s's. Maybe its the class of drive ie protege or caviar and possibly a combination of ide chipset. I have a small 8.4gb WD or Maxtor on the SIS5513 chipset on board and I do have problems with it if dma is enabled. Its hard to tell with these things. I see people having problems with the NVidia drivers and every release I have used is rock solid. After messing around with WIn98 on this new hardware I have come to appreciate just how good Linux is. I have pretty much dumped Mickey Soft. I still have a 98 partition to boot incase I run across something I cant do in linux, but that hasnt happened yet. When I tried Max Payne under WineX, MS was history. Jack --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CD Database
> On Friday 29 November 2002 20:22, John McQuillen wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Does anybody know of good database applications for cataloging CD's > > > under ML 9.0? Thats what GTKtalog is for, its in the 9.0 distibution under archiving>other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Faq website from a few days ago
A few days ago someone posted a website that had 10-15 really good FAQ's on it. In particuliar there was one on Nvidia twinview configurations. If someone could point me in that direction I would be depply appreciative. Thank You Jack Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] network goes dead
On Wednesday 20 November 2002 09:45 am, Mark Weaver wrote: > >Jack and Melissa McSwain wrote: >> > > BTW has anyone noticed a dramatic increase in hack attempts in the last 2 > > to 3 weeks? Port scans show all the ports are stealth, and I have no > > servers running or installed, but they still manage to find the box. > > Win98 with norton personal firewall seems to be a little more stealth. > > Also Shorewall is set to drop instead of reject packets. On Tuesday 19 November 2002 12:29 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: > > What adjustments to shorewall did you make? > I started with the example scripts from the shorewall homepage, /etc/shorewall/common.def was either missing or empty on stock install there are 9 ip-tables rules in it for various things. In interfaces I added norfc1918,routefilter,noping,routefilter,dropunclean,logunclean I didnt have any of these before. The file rfc1918 was not present before (came from examples on shorewall) In Shorewall.conf I turned off IP forwarding, turned on route filtering, turned off forward ping, and NEWNOTSYN=NO Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] network goes dead
On Tuesday 19 November 2002 12:29 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: > Hi List, > > has anyone else noticed the network connectivity in Mandrake 9.0 goes > dead periodically? It's very annoying and it seems to be linked to > Shorewall firewall system. > > Mark It has happened to me recently, but it looked like it was directly related to hack attempts. IFDOWN and IFUP would not restore ETH0 , only reboot would fix it. Sometimes they managed to lock the whole system up. After re-configuring shorewall, none of thier attempts have bothered the machine. BTW has anyone noticed a dramatic increase in hack attempts in the last 2 to 3 weeks? Port scans show all the ports are stealth, and I have no servers running or installed, but they still manage to find the box. Win98 with norton personal firewall seems to be a little more stealth. Also Shorewall is set to drop instead of reject packets. Jack Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Two different log out sequences
On Tuesday 19 November 2002 03:38 am, Alan Shoemaker wrote: > Jack and Melissa McSwain wrote: > > I am trying to figure out where the automatic login and the > > kdm login are different so I can change the logout part. I > > am guessing it has something to do with the way kdm starts > > kde and the involved scripts, but poking around the scripts > > and config files I am not seeing where this happens. > > > > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > > > > Jack > > try this (i think it's what you want): > > open the 'mandrake control center" and in 'boot' choose to > disable autologin > > then > > open the 'kde control panel' and in 'system', 'login manager', > open the 'convenience' tab and in 'administrator mode', > enable the 'automatic login' feature. :) Thank you very much, that did the trick. I was a little leary of lilo writing on the boot sector that often and too lazy to log back in and log out to restart. :) Jack Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Two different log out sequences
Hello, I am running on 9.0 and I let kdm automatically log in the user "me" at boot time. When I log out from this session I get a text box that says "End Session for user me" with two buttons, Logout and cancel. If I log out, then log back in, I get a different prompt when I hit logout: This prompt has a little green dragon, again titled End Session for User Me, Then the statement What do you want to do next? There are three options that have a circle next to them, that you click to select. The options are Login as different user, turn off computer, and restart computer. I would like this option to restart computer on the automatic login, because if you logout and then choose reboot from the kdm greeter, it writes the selected boot option to lilo and reboots, bypassing lilo. I am trying to figure out where the automatic login and the kdm login are different so I can change the logout part. I am guessing it has something to do with the way kdm starts kde and the involved scripts, but poking around the scripts and config files I am not seeing where this happens. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Jack Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
