Re: Re: [expert] something very weid with 8.1
From: Tom Badran [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2001/10/27 Sat AM 11:28:06 EDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] something very weid with 8.1 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 27 Oct 2001 4:13 pm, you wrote: HI list, After many painful attempts at getting Mandrake 8.1 to install on my old AMD system at home, the strangest thing i've ever seen has happened. No matter what i do, and mean that literally, cause i think i've tried everything i can think of, i can not log into the mailserver and get my mail. that would be the mail server on the machine itself and not the one at my ISP. I've been doing mail like this ever since i started using Linux. i just like it that way. anyhow, this one has really got me stumped. And to make matter worse it lost my CD-RW drive and i can't remember just how to go about setting that back up so i can use it. otherwise i would just reinstall the imap package to get the mail going again. the consistant error i'm getting back when i attempt to get my mail from the system mailserver is an authentication error. and yes, i checked to make sure it was running. as far as i could tell it was. things like this are quite a bit different then they were/are in Mandrake 7.2 so it's going to take a bit of time for me to get used to where they've put everything. as always, any and all suggestions and or flames are graciously accepted. Probably not what you wanted to hear, but i couldnt get imap to work in 8.0, and havent tried since. Im suprised you lost your cd-rw as mandrake is very good at auto detecting these. Have you loaded to ide-scsi module? And you can just collect your mail locally from /var/spool/mail/username , and i think thats the only place pine/mutt/mail look. And is also easy to setup in kmail Hi Tom, Thats the really weird thing about it all - as far as the mail is concerned. It had been working. I've only had 8.1 setup and running on the machine for a few days. It had been working beautifully. In fact, I had imap AND pop3 accounts working using Sylpheed that were being accessed on my machine. None of the mail clients on my machine can connect to the mailserver and get the mail. i know where it is, just can't get from there here. know what i mean? As for the CD-RW thats the only CDROM device on the machine and that what i loaded the system with. then, last night when i realized what was actually wrong with the mail server - imapd either is broken or won't stay running - i slammed CD1 into the drive and promptly told that that device wasn't recognized by the system. I guess at this point I should mention that the version of Mandrake is 8.1beta3. Still, it is all very perplexing. while I would very much rather NOT go back to 7.2 simply because i want to be able to run glibc-2.2.x i'm going to try and load the final release of 8.1 onto the system. i've got that one running here at work and so far it seems to be ok. Still...what in the world happened to cause this? Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [expert] something very weid with 8.1
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As for the CD-RW thats the only CDROM device on the machine and that what i loaded the system with. then, last night when i realized what was actually wrong with the mail server - imapd either is broken or won't stay running - i slammed CD1 into the drive and promptly told that that device wasn't recognized by the system. I guess at this point I should mention that the version of Mandrake is 8.1beta3. Still, it is all very perplexing. while I would very much rather NOT go back to 7.2 simply because i want to be able to run glibc-2.2.x i'm going to try and load the final release of 8.1 onto the system. i've got that one running here at work and so far it seems to be ok. I was having some problems in RC1 still, and most of them seemed to be fixed by 8.1 final, so i guess that might fix them. Specifically, i was using very odd combinations of filesystems, and having many partitions seemed to screw RC1 sometimes, but everything was working in that regard with final. Also, i notice that turning of devfs (passing nomount to the kernel) gives alot of errors when programs expect /dev/cdrom* devices, that then need to be created manually. Maybe that will fix your problem with the cdrom. - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Imperial College Dept of Computing - - PGP Public key available from: certserver.pgp.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE72u43XCpWOla2mCcRAutmAJ9KSMZi9RkwcG5/AMGpjvDRL3d3RgCgkWJb SG7uJ+JnXoiTTZRkdyko9cA= =DH3d -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [expert] something very weid with 8.1
Well...i finished with the install of 8.1 final and so far everything appears to be working nicely. guess i'll keep my eye on this one for a while before i'm confident that it will be worry free. RC1 was nice, but it was flaky. as was beta3. but thats why they call it beta. i'm curious about something though. why'd they release RC1 and then not a week later the final release of Mdk 8.1 was on the servers? Mark From: Tom Badran [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2001/10/27 Sat PM 01:26:14 EDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: [expert] something very weid with 8.1 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As for the CD-RW thats the only CDROM device on the machine and that what i loaded the system with. then, last night when i realized what was actually wrong with the mail server - imapd either is broken or won't stay running - i slammed CD1 into the drive and promptly told that that device wasn't recognized by the system. I guess at this point I should mention that the version of Mandrake is 8.1beta3. Still, it is all very perplexing. while I would very much rather NOT go back to 7.2 simply because i want to be able to run glibc-2.2.x i'm going to try and load the final release of 8.1 onto the system. i've got that one running here at work and so far it seems to be ok. I was having some problems in RC1 still, and most of them seemed to be fixed by 8.1 final, so i guess that might fix them. Specifically, i was using very odd combinations of filesystems, and having many partitions seemed to screw RC1 sometimes, but everything was working in that regard with final. Also, i notice that turning of devfs (passing nomount to the kernel) gives alot of errors when programs expect /dev/cdrom* devices, that then need to be created manually. Maybe that will fix your problem with the cdrom. - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Imperial College Dept of Computing - - PGP Public key available from: certserver.pgp.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE72u43XCpWOla2mCcRAutmAJ9KSMZi9RkwcG5/AMGpjvDRL3d3RgCgkWJb SG7uJ+JnXoiTTZRkdyko9cA= =DH3d -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
