Re: [expert] Howto add Update Sources (Mandrake Update)?
On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 19:15, Jeremy Mereness wrote: > I was installing Mandrake 9.0 on a really small (32 Meg) PC. Usually, ... archives. today. subject is "Re: Installing mdk9.0 / drakx kickstart problems" Reply-to: is annoying. My apologies if I created a duplicate thread. I wasn't so much interested why it happened, but how make the cd's available later. The Software Sources Manager in Mandrake's Software Management isn't clear what values to use for the other 2 installation cd's (what the heck to put for the path to synthesis/hdlist, anyway?). Regardless, Sources Manager was failing due to supermount. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Howto add Update Sources (Mandrake Update)?
I was installing Mandrake 9.0 on a really small (32 Meg) PC. Usually, the install asks what Mandrake cd's you have available, but each time I tried with a low-resource PC, this was skipped. In the end, Mandrake was only aware of the first cd. I tried to use the Configure Sources tool in Mandrake Update to add the two other download cd's, but couldn't get it to work. The tool would always fail with "could not update media", even when I copied the correct values from another, working installation. The package management tools are one of my favorite features of Mandrake. How can I get this to work if the system doesn't pick up my cd's at install? -- j Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Re: X eating memory
I'm running MDK 9.0 and had KDE with a few Galeon's open, and the workstation had been up for several days. One night, memory consumed by the X process reached over 200 MB and the system started to swap for everything. I had never seen this before. X is configured using the stock nv driver, 24-bit color. I understand how a process like Galeon might run away, but what causes X itself to bloat up? If it's an application, how do you figure out which one? -- j Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] X eating memory
What can one do when X eats up more memory the longer it runs? Please help. --j Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Help! X11 Memory Leak
I'm running MDK 9.0 and the stock nv driver. I have 256 MB RAM so it took several days before X brought my system to the breaking point. On my older system with a VESA driver 16-bit color, the X process clocks in at 24 MB (the "size" column in top). On the nv system with 24 bit color, X begins (!!!) 69 MB! Overnight, it popped up to 77MB, and climbed to 80 over the half-hour I was working with it. It was up over 200 when it brought my PC to its knees. I'm running KDE with a lot of toys (e.g., transparent menus, news ticker) but they shouldn't send X through the roof, should it? How would I go about fixing this? -- j Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] CUPS/foomatic printing problem
I've traced down my printing problems to a foomatic error in MDK 8.2. I am printing to a Samba-based printer on a remote host, but the Samba connection is ok. The bad foomatic line ends with 'sOutputFile=/dev/fd/3' '/dev/fd/0' 3>&1 1>&2 and the error I get is... "Unable to open the initial device, quitting." /dev/fd/0 is a symlink to /dev/pts/1, and so is /dev/pts/0 and /dev/pts/2, but /dev/fd/3 does not exist! How should I fix this? Anyone know what are these links about and what creates them? I'm running with a high-security installation and the permissions for /dev/fd are r-x for root. Maybe Mandrake Control Center was supposed to create something here when I set up the printer, but was prevented somehow? -- j Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] what to do when "Socket in use"?
I'm trying to print to a Windows printer over SAMBA on Mandrake 8.2. When I add the device, the first notable error in the CUPS error_log is LoadDevices: Added device "smb"... StartListening: NumListeners=3 StartListening: address=7f01 port=631 Unable to bind to socket - Address already in use. Later on, while trying to print something, I get... foomatic-gswrapper: gs '-dBATCH' -dSAFER' etc. etc. etc. Unable to open initial device, quitting. Assuming these two events are related, what can I do about a socket "already in use"? What do I do to diagnose which socket and what's locking it up? -- j Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] printing problem - SAMBA socket in use?
I'm trying to print to a Windows printer over SAMBA on Mandrake 8.2. When I add the device, the first notable error in the CUPS error_log is LoadDevices: Added device "smb"... StartListening: NumListeners=3 StartListening: address=7f01 port=631 Unable to bind to socket - Address already in use. Later on, while trying to print something, I get... foomatic-gswrapper: gs '-dBATCH' -dSAFER' etc. etc. etc. Unable to open initial device, quitting. Assuming these two events are related, what can I do about a socket "already in use"? Why would it be in use, assuming I'm not running anything unusual? If SAMBA is messed up, why am I still able to mount a SAMBA drive (off the same Windows box) without a hitch? -- j Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Pinging Secure Mandrake
Thank you for all the replies. This is, indeed, the answer. I am going to dig a little deeper and find where the boot routines put /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all to 1. I know it's not simple. Mandrake's boot sequence covers a lot of ground. -- j "JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1)" wrote: > If you would like to enable pingnig, try putting this into your firewall > script: > > echo "0" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all > echo "0" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts > > HTH > > David > > -Original Message- > From: Jeremy Mereness [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 7:59 PM > To: Expert Mandrake List > Subject: [expert] Pinging Secure Mandrake > > The table on http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/msec.php shows that > Security Level 4 and higher causes ICMP Echo (ping) packets to get > dropped. > > How is this accomplished? Is it in the kernel itself? I thought it might > have been a pre-defined IPtables rule executed by an msec script, but my > IPtables are empty. Yet pings still get dropped. > > Thanks! > > -- j # # # # # # # # # Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Printing to Win2K fails
I'm having a terrible time printing from my Mandrake 8.2 system to an OfficeJet K60 spooled on Win2K. I use SMB to print. Sometimes it works, sometimes it just doesn't; the pattern has been completely random. When it doesn't work, the document will appear briefly in my Win2K queue but disappears with no printer activity before any page or size data comes in. As best I can tell from my packet sniffer, the connection is established but no actual data passes through. I expect Win2K to give me little or no diagnostics, and it doesn't. But neither does the Samba system on Linux. All I (sometimes) get is the Cupsomatic filter stopping with "status 32" just after the samba backend starts up. When printing DOES work, however, it performs brilliantly, and I do everything reasonable to maintain whatever settings and configurations I made to accomplish it. But a week and a restart later, nothing. SMB works fine for file sharing, however. Absolutely no problems reading-writing a shared directory on the Win2K pc. And I tried going the other direction: setting up Win2K to accept LPD connections from Unix. That didn't work either;. Win2K complains Linux sends it "illegal instructions" over the port and rejects the job. Any ideas? -- j Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Pinging Secure Mandrake
The table on http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/msec.php shows that Security Level 4 and higher causes ICMP Echo (ping) packets to get dropped. How is this accomplished? Is it in the kernel itself? I thought it might have been a pre-defined IPtables rule executed by an msec script, but my IPtables are empty. Yet pings still get dropped. Thanks! -- j Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] file permissions in secure mandrake
When a secure mandrake boots up, it appears to check through the system and set permissions on files and directories throughout the system according to some pre-defined criteria. Where is this criteria set so I can customize it? -- jeremy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Change default Konqueror dimensions?
How can you change the default size of the Konqueror window? I'd like to rig it so it's full-length when it appears on the screen so I don't have to resize it manually. -- j Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] X-apps under HIGHER security setting
What it is about building Mandrake 82 under the HIGHER security setting that would prevent ghostview from working properly? The ghostscript renderer fails inside ghostview and KDE's previewer with an X11 error. But it works if I telnet in from another host and xhost. It also works fine on my host built under the the MEDIUM security setting. So far, this is the only app I've found to behave this way. Any ideas what I should do to get it working? -- j Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] ghostview help please!
I have two systems running MDK 82, built nearly identically except for
different security settings. The one running under normal ("high", I
think) security runs ghostview just fine. But the one with security set
to "higher" gets an X error when the renderer tries to start.
The message is
X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
Major opcode of failed request: 72 (X_PortImage)
Serial number of failed request: 27
Current Serial number in output stream: 34
What can I do to fix this? ghostscript -sDEVICE=x11 works fine. But
without gv working, print preview in KDE apps don't work.
-- j
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[expert] ghostscript broken in MDK 82?
I can't get anything to render thru the ghostscript engine. So, nothing of the sort works, even Print Previews in KDE. I can't even render the examples in /usr/share/ghostscript/6.53/examples. The error I always get is Error: /invalid fileaccess in --.outputpage-- Operand stack: ... etc. Anyone else seen this? I'm running under secure level 4, Mandrake 8.2. -- j Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Wizard Documentation?
How can I find out what the various "wizards" in Mandrake 8.2 do? I can't find any documentation on 8.2 at Mandrake's web site. I'd like to know what files are modified by any given wizard. --j Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Can Frame Buffer be shut down?
I boot into Mandrake with the Frame Buffer option so I have a nice, huge console screen available. Is there some way to break out of the Frame Buffer to the VGA text screen as one of the last steps of a shutdown? It appears that my video adapter, an STB Velocity 128 AGP OEM (or maybe it's my Micronics motherboard) hangs the system from completely powering off while it's in a graphics mode. Thus, if I shut down linux w/o the frame buffer, the computer shuts off. If I have the frame buffer (or I'm using Win2K) a shutdown -h will spin down the drives but won't power off the motherboard. Anybody else ever see something like this? -- j Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] screen jiggles w/disk access (seriously!)
Do you know what makes this happen? Somewhere I find out more? I swear it's the most bizarre thing. And it's incredibly irritating. The mb is a Micronics based on the Intel 440-LX chipset with a Pentium-II 233, two IDE drives, and an STB Velocity 128 in the AGP. Sounds simple enough, doesn't it? -- j civileme wrote: > Jeremy Mereness wrote: > > >I have a system where the screen jiggles and shakes, apparently when the > >disk is being accessed. It occurs in frame-buffer and X but not in > >straight VGA text. > > > >The weird part: it does NOT occur if I boot the same PC into Windows. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > If it is an on-board ProSavage, it is a known kernel problem with that > particular chipset and the current 8.2 kernel. Look for an update shortly. > > Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MDK 82 does not power system off
Do you know how the power-down thing works? I'd like to diagnose the problem, isolate just what tells the motherboard to cut power, but I can't find information about it anywhere. I don't THINK any processes or mounts are hanging and keeping it running. I can't find a shutdown log. The drives most certainly spin down once the Power Down message appears. It's strange because dual-booting into Win2K does the same thing (power down drives but leave mb running). But previous Mandrake releases shut the system off just fine. -- j civileme wrote: > Jeremy Mereness wrote: > > >How come Mandrake 8.2 doesn't switch off my computer after a shutdown? > >apmd is installed and executing, and I can hear the drives turn off, but > >the PC stays running. Previous versions of Mandrake shut the power off > >completely. The only thing different about this build from my older ones > >is I've raised the security level to "higher". > > > >Something I've missed? I've tried the explicit /sbin/poweroff command > >but get the same results. > > > >-- j > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > Most likely some resource is reading as busy and not unmounting. Check > the logs and check the powerdown messages. If you have Samba mounts > with a character set that uses 16 bit or higher encoding, this will happen. > > Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] MDK 82 does not power system off
How come Mandrake 8.2 doesn't switch off my computer after a shutdown? apmd is installed and executing, and I can hear the drives turn off, but the PC stays running. Previous versions of Mandrake shut the power off completely. The only thing different about this build from my older ones is I've raised the security level to "higher". Something I've missed? I've tried the explicit /sbin/poweroff command but get the same results. -- j Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] screen jiggles w/disk access (seriously!)
I have a system where the screen jiggles and shakes, apparently when the disk is being accessed. It occurs in frame-buffer and X but not in straight VGA text. The weird part: it does NOT occur if I boot the same PC into Windows. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MDK 8.2 Install Bug
No question, actually. Just a bug report, or just wanted to know if anyone had ever encountered this but me. So, if you install MDK and set the / partition under 70 MBytes, the package install several steps down will barf. Even though you've made all the other partitions incredibly big and / will only contain 45 MB (or less) when it's all over. -- j Jason Guidry wrote: > Jeremy Mereness wrote: > > Just something I've seen in Mandrake Install (DrakInstall?) over the > > past several releases of Mandrake. > > > > There needs to be an intelligent check on the size of the partitions. If > > "/" is too small, say under 80 MBytes, you will get strange errors down > > the road when packages start loading. Packages just fail, no > > explanation, and you are forced to start all over again. > > > > Is there a question here? If you could be more specific, perhaps we > could provide a workaround, but I have not experienced this and I've > done more partitioning than I care to remember (since 7.0). Wouldn't > this be _less_ of a problem if you partition with a /usr partition? > > maybe i'm just confused. I am, after all, on vacation. > > -- > Jason Guidry > http://www.gmaestro.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mandrake 82 lilo.conf
My system has WinNT on hda and MDK on hdb. Not until Mandrake 8.2 have I found these lines put into my lilo.conf: disk=/dev/hda bios=0x81 disk=/dev/hdb bios=0x80 ... other=/dev/hda1 label=windows table=/dev/hda map-drive=0x80 to 0x81 map-drive=0x81 to 0x80 I understand what these bios/drive lines are up to, but why? My system works just fine without them. Furthermore, since I boot with ntldr in my MBR (ok, it's a little weird) and lilo in /dev/hdb, the above lines kill ntldr's ability to boot lilo. So, each time Mandrake's System Tools creates a new lilo.conf, I have to remove those lines. No Mandrake before 8.2 did this on this system. What gives? -- j Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] MDK 8.2 Install Bug
Just something I've seen in Mandrake Install (DrakInstall?) over the past several releases of Mandrake. There needs to be an intelligent check on the size of the partitions. If "/" is too small, say under 80 MBytes, you will get strange errors down the road when packages start loading. Packages just fail, no explanation, and you are forced to start all over again. You'll only see this, of course, if you're like me and like to partition /usr and /var and /home separately, and / winds up being fairly empty (48MB, typical) when all is said and done. But the Installer apparently needs more space there to move around. -- j Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] NVIDIA Drivers & Install under 8.2
If you decide to go for the NVidia drivers from NVidia, do you I need to EXPECT to
recompile openGL stuff like xscreensaver ('cause they never work from the mdk RPM's
with
the 3rd party driver running)? Should you NOT install Mesa and Mesa-demos at all if
you intend to use NVidia drivers?
-- j
Charles A Edwards wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 10:24:41 -0800
> joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have experience with the NVIDIA drivers under 8.2.
> >
> > The latest drivers I used, v2313, worked fine under 8.1, but I had some
> > reviously pretty ugly experiences.
> >
> > This time, I'd rather not charge ahead too recklessly.
>
>
> I have used both the v23 and the v28, all built from source, and mostly without any
>problem, other than those occasioned by the 'idiot in front of the keyboard' syndrome.
>
> I do find that on my system using a GeForce3 Ti500 that it is beneficial to # out
>the v41 module in XF86Conf-4.
>
> Charles
>
>
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[expert] RPM bug MDK 8.1?
Has anyone else seen this problem n MDK 8.1? su'd as root, occasionally RPM will start locking up, I think reading its database. So, if I do "rpm -qa" for example, I'll get half the list and it stops. It's hung until I break it. As soon as it happens once, it keeps happening on subsequent tries. When it's acting up, other operations like "rpm -Uv" will also hang. The strange part? In another window, as regular user, do the same "rpm -qa", everything works fine. I think it's ok if I login as root from console. Only under an su, both "su" and "su -" have I seen this happen. --j Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Font Appearance MDK 8.1
At the risk of bringing up a tired topic... Why do fonts behave so strangely in Mandrake 8.1, such as in KDE apps? Simply put, the font pull-down menu is full of typefaces, but I highlight some text and select something new, nothing happens to the text. Except once in a while; a few fonts will display on the KWord work area (they appear fine in the menu or KDE Character Map) but mostly it just sits as helvetica or times. It gets weirder if I choose to turn on anti-aliasing. Then my font selection list reduces dramatically, and the appearance goes way wrong. Is there an FAQ on getting fonts to look good in MDK? It seems I'm always fighting with it soon after a build to get Konqueror, Netscape, or whatever to look good. Netscape drove me crazy until I removed the Mozilla font family and it (magically) started looking right. Another time I gave up and rebuilt Mandrake from scratch because the X Font Server suddenly decided it wouldn't start anymore. -- j Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Conflicts when Upgrading Apps
I would like to upgrade the applications on my Mandrake 8.1, like Galeon for example. But usually, grabbing an RPM from the net somewhere only leads to a mess of dependency problems. I always try to chase down the dependencies at least once or twice, but they often lead to more problems until I might as well wait for Mandrake 8.2! I know RPM has its limitations, but it would seem that MDK builds posted to rpmfind and other sources are so dependent on the Cooker/beta Mandrake there's no chance to get it installed on a release version. Am I doing something wrong? Packages like Nautilus, Evolution, Mozilla, Galeon, and a lot of KDE stuff have come a long way since 8.1 was frozen. -- j Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] MouseWheel Weirdness
I've gotten really hooked on using the wheel to scroll. In KDE 2.0/Mandrake 7.2, wheel-scrolling works in Netscape Navigator until the first time I try the same thing in Konqueror. Then it dies. Still works in Konqueror, but no longer in Netscape. Also, I know I set the system up for a Microsoft Intellipoint Wheel when I installed Mandrake, but HardDrake reports my mouse as "unknown" and it stays "unknown" no matter how I tell it otherwise. Known bug? Fixed in KDE 2.1? jeremym at erols.com
