Reiserfs was to blame (was Re: [expert] binfmt-0000 frantically trying to load)
On the ongoing saga of these problems, it seems like it's reiserfs the one to blame for this. I got a reiserfs kernel panic starting qmail today, so i backed up the /var/qmail tree, removed it and restarted it from the file. The given file (/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-qmqpd/run) was like last time, so i had to restore it again. It seems that those warnings about qmail and reiserfs were right. Posibly i'll get a new harddisk soon and probably upgrade to 8.1 when available, and when the time comes, i won't have /var in a reiserfs partition... BTW, will 8.1 come with XFS support? it seems like that one is much better than reiserfs. --- Microsoft: Writing viruses has never been easier! Microsoft: The company that made email dangerous Microsoft: Having a false sense of security was never so expensive - Jaime Herazo Barrios/"\ jherazo at geocities dot com\ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign ICQ number: 14721935 X Against HTML Mail, Yahoo! id: jherazo_1999 / \ and News Too Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] binfmt-0000 frantically trying to load
I'm answering to my own post here. I went to runlevel 1 to check if the problem was present, but everything was working fine without binfmt or anything. So, i tried loading each one of the init.d services, and the problem appeared after loading qmail. So, i traced it to a corrupt file in my qmail installation, one of the "run" files for programs monitored by the supervise system. One thing about supervise is that it's really persistent, so when it found the corrupt file it just kept trying to load it anyway :) The file was just a very long line of CTRL-@ characters, which is just weird because it was just fine yesterday morning. The only event was a, umm, unscheduled reboot by a nosy person, so it maybe was corrupted in that moment, which would be weird too as the partition is reiserfs. After discovering it, i recovered and replaced the given file, rebooted and everything went just fine, and my cpu cycles started being wasted again :) --- Microsoft: Writing viruses has never been easier! Microsoft: The company that made email dangerous Microsoft: Having a false sense of security was never so expensive - Jaime Herazo Barrios/"\ jherazo at geocities dot com\ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign ICQ number: 14721935 X Against HTML Mail, Yahoo! id: jherazo_1999 / \ and News Too Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] binfmt-0000 frantically trying to load
Hi. I have this weird problem. Since yesterday, when i did the system pre-test for kylix open edition (it detected the loader bug so i need to upgrade the glibc, it's among some of the updates that i haven't downloaded yet because of size, about 15-16Mb on a sucky connection), the system started showing very high CPU usage (top shows between 0.0 and 0.1 idle time) all the time. Checking, i discovered modprobe running all the time, but not consuming much cpu. I then did a check on the system logs, and found this (snip of log follows): Sep 20 13:40:01 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module binfmt- Sep 20 13:40:32 localhost last message repeated 442 times Sep 20 13:41:33 localhost last message repeated 828 times Sep 20 13:42:34 localhost last message repeated 692 times Sep 20 13:43:35 localhost last message repeated 432 times It's between 400 and 900 times per minute as i've checked. The fact that it's trying to load shows that maybe a program with a non-elf file format it's trying to load, but i don't see anything like that. It's poisoning my logs and using-up the cpu time i should be wasting :) Seriously, i haven't found the cause to this, so i'd appreciate any suggestions. --- Microsoft: Writing viruses has never been easier! Microsoft: The company that made email dangerous Microsoft: Having a false sense of security was never so expensive - Jaime Herazo Barrios/"\ jherazo at geocities dot com\ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign ICQ number: 14721935 X Against HTML Mail, Yahoo! id: jherazo_1999 / \ and News Too Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] software recommendations
Hi. If you accept console tools there are lots of ncurses-based programs that are very good that fill most of your needs: * George Jones (IT) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 1. A decent text editor (Not XEmacs... I hate Emacs) Personally i like vim, but there are lots to choose from. > 2. An FTP client For a not-so-common choice try mc, you can enter ftp servers with it doing a "cd ftp://some.ftp.server/somedir"; > 3. CD player There are several, don't remember which ones right now (long time i haven't listened to audio CDs :) ) > 4. MP3/Media Player There are good frontends to mpg123, and you can always use mc :) > 5. mpeg/avi player I don't really know about those, but as there are commandlinetools for those there must be some frontends To sum it up, go to freshmeat.net and start browsing :) --- Microsoft: Writing viruses has never been easier! Microsoft: The company that made email dangerous Microsoft: Having a false sense of security was never so expensive - Jaime Herazo Barrios/"\ jherazo at geocities dot com\ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign ICQ number: 14721935 X Against HTML Mail, Yahoo! id: jherazo_1999 / \ and News Too Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Icewm desktop icons
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Dear folks, > Snipped long description of request of info on IceWM desktop icons Hola Francisco (No hablan mucho español en estas listas, eh? :) Ok. AFAIK IceWM doesn't support icons on the desktop by itself But you could use another thing that does, along with it. Typical examples are the corresponding parts of KDE or GNOME that do that, but as you appreciate the memory savings that could not be a good idea (when are they going to optimize those to run fine on a 32Mb box?). For that, check out DFM (Desktop File Manager). It imitates the look and feel of the OS/2 WPS (if you used it before you may like this), and as the name says one of it's functions is exactly that, to put icons on the desktop. It's light on memory too, and it's not hard to get used to it. I used it before, but since a hard disk crash some time ago i haven't reinstalled it, i'll do it soon :) The URL is http://www.kaisersite.de/dfm/ --- Microsoft: Writing viruses has never been easier! Microsoft: The company that made email dangerous Microsoft: Having a false sense of security was never so expensive - Jaime Herazo Barrios/"\ jherazo at geocities dot com\ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign ICQ number: 14721935 X Against HTML Mail, Yahoo! id: jherazo_1999 / \ and News Too Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] weird less problem
* Ray Warren ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I did have group permissions on the ttys showing as write permitted but I > haven't found out where it's getting set at.The umask is handled by mandrake > Security and should be set to 022 if I'm reading the file right.the group tty > appears to have a default permisions setting of 700 .This is a new area for > me so it will probably take me some time to chase it down.I tried manually > changing the permissions on a console that was already logged in and it had > no effect but I'm not sure at what point the console permissions are > checked. Well, this is a typical case of YMMV and "It works for me" :) > I do thank you for the info. No problem, happy to help :) >You might set up a script to login the rest > of the consoles after you log in to the first one and start it from .bashrc so it > would come up as soon as you logged in and prompt for what terminal you > wanted root on and what terminals you wanted a user on.It would seem to be > a security risk if you're on an exposed network so you would have to be > careful how the passwords were handled. I hadn't thought of that, sounds fine, and of course i'd have to be very careful with the security. And maybe i'll check out the code from autologin and start modifying it to fit my needs, if i get over my lazyness :) --- Microsoft: Writing viruses has never been easier! Microsoft: The company that made email dangerous Microsoft: Having a false sense of security was never so expensive - Jaime Herazo Barrios/"\ jherazo at geocities dot com\ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign ICQ number: 14721935 X Against HTML Mail, Yahoo! id: jherazo_1999 / \ and News Too Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] weird less problem
* Ray Warren ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > if I attempted to use less as a normal user,with a filename as > input,the only output I receive is ESC[14;30] and Lines 1-1/1(END).If the I've seen that before, because i mucked around on the inittab to make runlevel 4 the environment i like when i boot (consoles in all the ttys from 1 to 11 (except 7 and 8 reserved for X), all logged in on some user, 1, 5 and 6 to root and the rest to my personal username). I did that with shell scripts and "su" tricks, but as i didn't really logged in the permissions of the tty were wrong, so lots of bad things happened. I corrected that making the scripts change the owner of the given tty before letting me in (BTW, do you know of a better, proper way to do this, sorta like autologin but having the given tty and user as parameters and not in some config file?) The correct settings for the ttys are, the logged user as owner, "tty" as group, and permissions 600 (read-write for the user, nothing else). I don't really know if this helps you, but it may, so i post it. --- Microsoft: Writing viruses has never been easier! Microsoft: The company that made email dangerous Microsoft: Having a false sense of security was never so expensive - Jaime Herazo Barrios/"\ jherazo at geocities dot com\ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign ICQ number: 14721935 X Against HTML Mail, Yahoo! id: jherazo_1999 / \ and News Too Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Context of this list
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > It's my first mail to this list and I would like to know if complex > questions on XFree86 configurations are in this list or on the newbie list. Umm, check the name of the list (Expert), that should give you a hint :) Go ahead and shoot, the one that knows how to solve your problem will answer :) --- Microsoft: Writing viruses has never been easier! Microsoft: The company that made email dangerous Microsoft: Having a false sense of security was never so expensive - Jaime Herazo Barrios/"\ jherazo at geocities dot com\ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign ICQ number: 14721935 X Against HTML Mail, Yahoo! id: jherazo_1999 / \ and News Too Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] X terminal problems
Hi. I'm trying to set up an old PC as an X terminal to another. I installed the bare minimun in the client, reconfigured gpm and started it, and then ran in the client "X -query 192.168.0.1" to make it connect to the server. It just sits there in the mere start of X (the "x" mouse cursor in the center and the black-and-white line background) waiting for eternity to run out. Somebody said that it may be that the client can't get the response from the server due to being losed by tcp_wrappers, so i edited /etc/hosts.allow to add after the ALL:LOCAL line that i put there someday before (ALL:ALL in /etc/hosts.deny), the line "ALL : 192.168.0." to say that the local network gets to use anything from it. But the results were the same. Once it worked, the client showed the chooser from gdm and worked fine, allowing me to run big programs on that PC (that's pretty cool, you know? :) ), but i turned it off and the next day (today) it went back to the same state, i don't really know what i did. So, ideas on how to trace the problem and kill it? gotchas you've found on a similar setup you've tried or something? some obvious thing making faces in front of my nose and being ignored anyway? :) The "server" has 7.2 and the "client" has debian (it was suggested in almost all the faqs and i don't think mandrake runs on that machine (12 Mb RAM, for example) ). --- Microsoft: Writing viruses has never been easier! Microsoft: The company that made email dangerous Microsoft: Having a false sense of security was never so expensive - Jaime Herazo Barrios/"\ jherazo at geocities dot com\ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign ICQ number: 14721935 X Against HTML Mail, Yahoo! id: jherazo_1999 / \ and News Too Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] SNF and wget
You may try manually defining the proxy. That's controlled by 2 environment variables, i think they were http_proxy and ftp_proxy, but check the wget manpage. And then try again, and if necessary tell wget to turn on the proxies, i think it was -Y on --- Microsoft: Writing viruses has never been easier! Microsoft: The company that made email dangerous Microsoft: Having a false sense of security was never so expensive - Jaime Herazo Barrios/"\ jherazo at geocities dot com\ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign ICQ number: 14721935 X Against HTML Mail, Yahoo! id: jherazo_1999 / \ and News Too Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Reading .mov file (Codec SORENSON)
* Tom Brinkman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Anybody knows more about this? > >http://www.codeweavers.com/products/crossover/ > Thanks, i'll check that out. --- Microsoft: Writing viruses has never been easier! Microsoft: The company that made email dangerous Microsoft: Having a false sense of security was never so expensive - Jaime Herazo Barrios/"\ jherazo at geocities dot com\ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign ICQ number: 14721935 X Against HTML Mail, Yahoo! id: jherazo_1999 / \ and News Too Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Netscape & wish using up memory
* Naka Gadjov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Netscape is using much memory everywhere. In Windows, and strange NS suffers > by same problems in Linux too. I am waiting for a 5 years for a new version > that do not have memory leakage, but at the moment there is not. Strange > Mozilla have the same problem. I prefer Opera, but usually i stick with lynx :) You could check out konqueror too --- Microsoft: Writing viruses has never been easier! Microsoft: The company that made email dangerous Microsoft: Having a false sense of security was never so expensive - Jaime Herazo Barrios/"\ jherazo at geocities dot com\ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign ICQ number: 14721935 X Against HTML Mail, Yahoo! id: jherazo_1999 / \ and News Too Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Reading .mov file (Codec SORENSON)
* bernard01.chevalier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Do someone know if there is a soft (preferably RPM and > precompiled) running under Linux Mandrake, that can good read > videos .MOV (quicktime) realised with the ** SORENSON Codec ** AFAIK, there aren't any free programs that read that codec due to legal problems, but i seem to recall that there was somebody making a plugin engine to konqueror that would take all the plugins from IE and use them, and that way we could use the web plugin to see those videos. Anybody knows more about this? --- Microsoft: Writing viruses has never been easier! Microsoft: The company that made email dangerous Microsoft: Having a false sense of security was never so expensive - Jaime Herazo Barrios/"\ jherazo at geocities dot com\ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign ICQ number: 14721935 X Against HTML Mail, Yahoo! id: jherazo_1999 / \ and News Too Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Recomendations for motherboard and ALSA question
Hi. I may have the money to upgrade my mobo soon, so i'd like to ask what a not-everything-and-its-mother-in-it motherboard would be good, preferably with an ISA slot to keep using my Ultrasound. And about it, is there anybody here that knows how can i make the ultrasound to use the wavetable midi system like in other OS's, but in hardware (in software there's timidity), or that can point me to the right website? --- Microsoft: Writing viruses has never been easier! Microsoft: The company that made email dangerous Microsoft: Having a false sense of security was never so expensive - Jaime Herazo Barrios/"\ jherazo at geocities dot com\ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign ICQ number: 14721935 X Against HTML Mail, Yahoo! id: jherazo_1999 / \ and News Too Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Lightweight window managers
My machine has 32 Mb in RAM, so i have tested some. If you want the lightest wm, BlackBox is the one as others have said. But if you want to put windows users in front of it, you may want to try IceWM, as it could look more familiar to them, even if it's not so light as BB. There's Afterstep too. I haven't really used it for a long time, but as someone said it looks very good and it's comfortable. And WindowMaker, which it's not so lightweigth but it has very nice features. And there's one of the most lightweight of all those, FVWM (and 95), but i don't really like it. YMMV. But one thing i like about Mandrake is that the menu system is windowmanager independient, so all the menus will be roughly the same in all. So, at the end, you'll have to test them all anyway :) * Mitchell, Edmund ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hello all, > > I'd like to get the recommendations of the experts for a ranking of > lightweight window managers you've used, with any opinions you'd like to > share - i.e., "So-and-so wm is really light, but it's just too damn > inconvenient", or "hard or the eyes", or "isn't really light", or "doesn't > release memory properly", etc. > > Thanks, > > Edmund > --- Microsoft: Writing viruses has never been easier! Microsoft: The company that made email dangerous - Jaime Herazo Barrios/"\ jherazo at geocities dot com\ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign ICQ number: 14721935 X Against HTML Mail, Yahoo! id: jherazo_1999 / \ and News Too
Re: [expert] Stupid mail question
* Wayne Stout ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Greetings, everyone. > > I'm sure this is a really stupid question, but here goes. If I want to use > fetchmail/procmail for message retrieval and filtering, do I also have to > use Sendmail or postfix? I want to keep using my isp's mail server for > sending, but all the talk I've seen on various lists about procmail has got > me curious and I'd like to give it a try... It doesn't seem to me like a stupid question, just a not-yet-enlightened one :) Doing a test: [jimmy@localhost jimmy]$ rpm -q --requires fetchmail smtpdaemon /bin/sh (lots of other things) So, it does require an smtp daemon. I use qmail, it's just easier to configure and said to be safer. There are RPMs for Mandrake on www.freezer-burn.org and a mini-HOWTO, but be advised that after all this is a server and you should be careful with matters of security. Also, fetchmail has a GUI configuration tool that's kinda easy to use if you like that stuff. On procmail, better grab some coffee, because those waay-too-powerful things are not so easy to configure, but when you do that, you have a great power in your hands (Just to make an example, today i received one more copy of the stupid Sircam, and the filters i have installed, including John Hardin's Sanitizer, got it and defanged it before it got to my maildirs :) And if you want to subscribe to mailing lists, procmail is very handy. I'm subscribed to over 40+ lists and groups and handle them just fine (i'm the bottleneck of this system, go figure :) ) Hope that you are in the way to enlightenment (no, not the WM :) ) --- Jaime Herazo Barrios/"\ jherazo at geocities dot com\ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign ICQ number: 14721935 X Against HTML Mail, Yahoo! id: jherazo_1999 / \ and News Too
Re: [expert] wallpaper?!?! Here's the link.
* Hoyt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Everyone is so lazy. Here's the link. What's wrong with being lazy? lazy people invented perl and are the best sysadmins! :) Anyway, i was not looking for it, i prefer Anime backgrounds :) --- Jaime Herazo Barrios/"\ jherazo at geocities dot com\ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign ICQ number: 14721935 X Against HTML Mail, Yahoo! id: jherazo_1999 / \ and News Too
Re: [expert] Logging uptime
* Mads Rasmussen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Any other approaches? I've used uptimed in the past, and worked fine. http://cx.capsi.com/code-uptimed.html --- Jaime Herazo Barrios/"\ jherazo at geocities dot com\ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign ICQ number: 14721935 X Against HTML Mail, Yahoo! id: jherazo_1999 / \ and News Too
Re: [expert] wallpaper?!?! READ PLZ!
* Ron Stodden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Huh? Why?When you already have it! Erm, no. He's got a point. He's refering to the background that's shown on the snapshot, not to the snapshot itself. The snapshot probably has a lower resolution than the original, has some windows in front of it, and it's using WindowMaker, that can be a problem if he doesn't like it or can be confusing if that's what he uses (goes to click something and it's on the background and not on the desktop), like when you have 2 keyboards on the desk and sometimes you grab the wrong one (i once rebooted another computer that way, but a friend had it worse as he was formatting the one he was working on...) --- Jaime Herazo Barrios/"\ jherazo at geocities dot com\ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign ICQ number: 14721935 X Against HTML Mail, Yahoo! id: jherazo_1999 / \ and News Too
[expert] Cups and old dot-matrix epson printer problem
Hi. I have a small problem. I have a computer tat's mainly an appliance to run an old clipper-based accounting program on dosemu, and that runs fine. But there are problems with printing; the printer is an epson FX-1050, the printing system is cups and the distro version is 7.2 stock (just reinstalled due to a hard disk crash, it was running 6.0 before and an upgrade was needed, no updates have been made yet). The problem is that everything gets printed on the left half of the page, kinda compressed. Ideas about this? - Win95 /n/: 32-bit extension to 16-bit shell for an 8-bit operating system written for a 4-bit computer by a 2-bit company that can't stand 1-bit of competition!
[expert] ML 7.2 - When?
Ok. We know that the KDE 2 CVS directory is read-only since last monday (then the kde2 in the CVS will be the kde2 final unless some showstopper happens), the kernel 2.4 is delayed another 2 months, and cooker is (i think) ready. So, when can we expect the ML 7.2 ISO to be ready now that there are no chains holding it back? (i just got a CD-Burner from a friend, and i expect to be giving it back sometime this week, so i'm quite ready for that iso :) - "We will run this with the same kind of openness we have run Windows" Steve Ballmer on their new .net service Jaime Herazo B. at the Colegio Cristiano J. Vender Murphy -- Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
