Re: [expert] Re: Mozilla 0.9.8 MDI / SDI Question
Try using a temporary swapfile to increase swap and see if the problem goes away - if so your up for a re-partitioning. I regularly run out of swap with gnumeric (often uses over a gig of it) and a quick swapon saves the system from coming to an abrupt halt. Windows dynamic swap is actually a much more system friendly method of handling swap than what linux uses - yes linux is more efficient, but that goes out the window when swap hits the wall! dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024 count=1024000 of=/extraswap #put it in the root mkswap /extraswap swapon /extraswap swapon -s (for swap usage) swapoff /extraswap #turn off when not needed as it can slow the system down - will transfer data out of swap on closedown, so make sure there is room first! Downside is a noticable slowing of the system over a swap partition, but at least its still working! I keep a swapfile around for a quick swapon when needed - but I really must re-partition soon! BillK On Sat, 2002-08-03 at 20:55, Randy Kramer wrote: Just thought I'd provide a little bit of extra information -- * I have 256 MB of RAM, less 2 MB used by my on board SiS 630/730 video card (and Linux knows about the missing 2 MB), I have 500 MB + of swap. * I typically run top in a virtual terminal (but don't always pay close attention to it) * On the first crash I might have run out of RAM / SWAP, because at least once the RAM was essentially all used and so was the swap (maybe 10 MB free swap) * On the recent crash, I think it is less likely that I ran out of RAM and SWAP as I have been trying to watch it more closely. Last time I looked I had on the order of 200 MB of SWAP free (and a negligible amount of RAM) -- after the crash I had 100 MB of RAM and 400 MB of SWAP free Randy Kramer Randy Kramer wrote: PROBLEM: My problem is, twice I've had one window / instance of Mozilla crash, and each time it's closed all the open Mozilla windows. So, I guess I was not really getting separate instances of Mozilla, but they were all sharing one executable or some portion thereof. 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
Re: [expert] Re: Mozilla 0.9.8 MDI / SDI Question
No probs! BillK On Sun, 2002-08-04 at 10:43, Randy Kramer wrote: Bill, Thanks! Haven't tried it yet (have to find some space) but the instruction are very clear and will make it easy. I've taken the liberty of putting the entire post on a WikiLearn page, see: * http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/SwapFileTemporary See also: * http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/QuotedEmailsLetter regards, Randy Kramer Bill Kenworthy wrote: Try using a temporary swapfile to increase swap and see if the problem goes away - if so your up for a re-partitioning. --other good stuff snipped-- 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
[expert] drag and drop dropping the ball
Something thats driving me mad. How can I drag and drop a file onto an icon in gnome on a RH 7.0 system and have the program process the file? I have a perl script that cleans up a file for some very non-linux people so I created an icon for it on the desktop and want to be able to drag a file from the file manager onto the icon and have the script do its stuff. In KDE I just made the script read its commandline arguments and passed something like %f in the desktop file (I think, long time ago!) but gnome dont want to do that and seaching the web/reading help skips over this. Any help appreciated, BillK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Sendmail and relaying
Use something like zebedee to tunnel your mail ports (in my case 25 for
sending and 143 for imap) and feed that through httptunnel if you get
firewall problems - that way if you use the tunnel, the mail IS to all
intents coming from your home machine.
Great for laptops that travel, but cannot use the local mailserver! In
my case a work account, and my home accounts from a 3rd (and 4th ...)
location with NT domains, but I dont want to add my machine to the
domain. Also the mail is encrypted between your local and remote ends
via the tunnel which is nice if you dont trust the path.
BillK
On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 03:16, Ryan wrote:
I have sendmail working on my machine. What I'd like to do is be able to
send email from work on my home account. Comcast won't let me, because it
won't relay from my work machine. My thought was that I could have
sendmail relay the email, so from Comcast's POV it looks like the email is
coming from inside.
I can't get pop3d to work on my machine, but I thought setting the
Sendmail rules could work.
In my etc/mail/access it says:
{IP of work machine}RELAY
myname OK
This doesn't work however. Clues? Otherways of doing this? Suggestion
on why pop3d just doesn't seem to work for me?
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Re: [expert] setting up sound in 8.2
On an old sound blaster type card I had once, there were some pins for attaching the motherboard speaker output direct to the sound card. For louder beeps I guess! BillK On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 13:46, J. Craig Woods wrote: James wrote: On 08 Jul 2002 12:45:26 +1000 Darren King [EMAIL PROTECTED] said with temporary authority Really. I don't have the pc speaker hooked up. So why is is that if I put my ear to the speaker that is connected to the sound card, I can clearly hear the beep coming from there? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: linux subsystems testing WAS: Re: [expert] is 'nopentium' sameas 'mem=nopentium'?
Seti on my system (athlon 1.4 t-bird) can give up to a 10 deg C rise in temp - however, I believe burn-in is a term that is not totally related to heat - it means to to stress or exercise the CPU or other part of the system. Each of memtest, GCC and Seti stress different parts of the system (think of how many transistors on a CPU and what you would need to do to test each one!!), so if a real stubborn problem, use the lot and more! On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 02:27, FemmeFatale wrote: dfox wrote: And hardware that passes memtest86 may fail in a stressful session with gcc. :( Memtest is sequential and performs a selected set of tests on the memory, but it can't (or doesn't) simulate the somewhat random-like access to memory that gcc does. Then again, gcc doesn't randomly 'walk' all over your whole memory space, but only a small subsection of it. Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas OK insert dumb question here: But wouldn't running SETI For a week straight 24/7 have this nice burn-in effect on a CPU? Femme 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
Re: [expert] SSH and FTP logins taking much LONGER
Check your dns ... BillK On Sun, 2002-06-23 at 23:46, David Rankin wrote: Listmates: Over the past year, FTP and SSH logins are taking much longer. In the past FTP logins would take 2-3 seconds and SSH logins were almost instantaneous. Now both FTP and SSH logins take approximately 20 - 30 seconds. Uptime is 363 days and I haven't restarted either xinetd, FTP or SSH. Is there some kind of login history, or authentication log that could be causing the slowdows? Any other thoughts? -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 1329 N. University, Suite D4 Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax -- Bill Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Error from apache update on 8.1
Just installed the apache updates on 8.1 and got the following 3 errors occurred (the web server just has a few simple pages on a local lan and appears to be working): []# rpm -Fvh /home/rpm/cd/updates/* Preparing...### [100%] 1:apache-common ### [ 16%] 2:apache-manual ### [ 33%] 3:apache-modules ### [ 50%] 4:apache ### [ 66%] Shutting down httpd-perl: [ OK ] Shutting down httpd: [ OK ] Checking configuration sanity for httpd: [ OK ] Checking configuration sanity for httpd-perl: Syntax error on line 21 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd-perl.conf: Cannot load /etc/httpd/modules/mod_log_config.so into server: /etc/httpd/modules/mod_log_config.so: undefined symbol: ap_escape_logitem [FAILED] Starting httpd-perl: Syntax error on line 21 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd-perl.conf: Cannot load /etc/httpd/modules/mod_log_config.so into server: /etc/httpd/modules/mod_log_config.so: undefined symbol: ap_escape_logitem [FAILED] Starting httpd: [ OK ] Syntax error on line 21 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd-perl.conf: Cannot load /etc/httpd/modules/mod_log_config.so into server: /etc/httpd/modules/mod_log_config.so: undefined symbol: ap_escape_logitem [FAILED] Syntax error on line 21 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd-perl.conf: Cannot load /etc/httpd/modules/mod_log_config.so into server: /etc/httpd/modules/mod_log_config.so: undefined symbol: ap_escape_logitem [FAILED] 5:mod_perl-common### [ 83%] 6:apache-mod_perl### [100%] Shutting down httpd: [ OK ] Checking configuration sanity for httpd: [ OK ] Checking configuration sanity for httpd-perl: [ OK ] Starting httpd-perl: [ OK ] Starting httpd: [ OK ] []# -- Bill Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: honeyport/shutdown [was: Re: [expert] OT, my ftp site]
Mount your win32/ntfs(ro) partitions (where the files reside) and either serve from them or symlink into the path if required. BillK On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 08:11, Femme wrote: On Sat, 25 May 2002 19:43:23 -0300 WOOkY [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to make a ftp-like thing for ppl on the lists. So I can serve small files to friends list ppl here. What was suggested was using Apache for this, dumping files into a direrctory Using it that way. Unfortunately that will not work as my Linux partition is too small to hold teh files. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Screen capture with tv / xine: SOLVED
Can you put em on a web server somewhere - then all who are interested can have a peek BillK On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 02:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Larry, with ksnapshot I have the same blue window; but I solved the problem in the next way: I looked for help in the xine mailing-list, they said me run xine without xv enabled: xine -V xshm And, I thought about xawtv --help and bingo!: xawtv -novx I made the capture using: sleep 3; import mandarke822.jpg; unfortunately the mandrake mailing-list doesn't allov mesages bigger than 100 Kbs and the screenshot reach 256Kb; looks splendid with kde3, mosfet-liquid theme, crystal icons, a wallpapper from Digital-blasfemy, and runing xine (Jurasic Park III), xawtv (Antena 3, an Spanish channel) and tuxracer 1.1. If someone like to see this, I will send the jpg file to the private e-mail. Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) This message has been 'sanitized'. This means that potentially dangerous content has been rewritten or removed. The following log describes which actions were taken. Sanitizer (start=1022006746): Part (pos=2375): SanitizeFile (filename=unnamed.txt, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=2): Enforced policy: accept Part (pos=3275): SanitizeFile (filename=message.footer, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=default): Enforced policy: defang Replaced mime type with: application/DEFANGED-3346 Replaced file name with: message_footer.DEFANGED-3346 Total modifications so far: 1 Anomy 0.0.0 : Sanitizer.pm $Id: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.54 2002/02/15 16:59:07 bre Exp $ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Very bad review of Mandrake 8.2 boxed set
Mandrake has long had the problem where they ship a dirty kernel that requires a make mrproper before you are ready to compile (not sure bout 8.2, but 8.1, 8.0 etc). Also there is one or more versions where you actually had to load a setup file before you had a match between what you are running and what is to be compiled. This keeps catching out people who move from other distro's who seem to get this area more right than Mandrake does. I get the impression that Mandrake is aiming for an out-of-the-box distro, rather than expending effort in making customisation of this sort easy for newbies. i.e., not done on purpose, but kernel compiles are not part of the main effort. It appears much of his problems stem from: a) unfamiliarity with Mandrakes way of doing things b) and comeing from another distro(s) that do things in different ways, and therefore making wrong assumptions such as the kernel should make exactly what is running NOW with no re-configuration neccessary. BillK On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 04:11, Alexander Skwar wrote: »Alastair Scott« sagte am 2002-05-06 um 15:22:12 +0100 : Although it's written in the characteristic The Register style (halfway Well, it's a very bad review, indeed. In the sense, that the author should not bash Mdk for something that's only the authors fault. He complains, that the kernel .config doesn't reflect reality. Well, did he use the correct one from /boot? He doesn't say so, but I assume he didn't. This alone let's me assume that he doesn't have a clue and just wants to bash 8.2. Fine. Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage: http://www.iso-top.de |Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] iso-top.de - Die günstige Art an Linux Distributionen zu kommen Uptime: 1 day 4 hours 36 minutes This message has been 'sanitized'. This means that potentially dangerous content has been rewritten or removed. The following log describes which actions were taken. Sanitizer (start=1020716458): Part (pos=2819): SanitizeFile (filename=unnamed.txt, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=2): Enforced policy: accept Part (pos=3781): SanitizeFile (filename=message.footer, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=default): Enforced policy: defang Replaced mime type with: application/DEFANGED-604805 Replaced file name with: message_footer.DEFANGED-604805 Total modifications so far: 1 Anomy 0.0.0 : Sanitizer.pm $Id: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.54 2002/02/15 16:59:07 bre Exp $ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Raw_add: partition table full error
Use fdisk to check the partitions. On a recent install of 8.2, I slid the slider for disk size in diskdrake to the far right (allocate all disk space) and ended up with a partition that went past the end of the disk. Was the devils job fixing it. Did not think it was a Mandrake problem at the time as there was a flaky HD on hdb that seemed to glitch at the time the prob occurred - but you never know! In the end gave up on Mandrake on this machine and tried gentoo which is where I found the root cause of the problem. Will try mandrake again soon. Interestingly, win2000 installed fine, but once I tried to repartition with diskdrake for mandrake, went bad again - go figure! BillK On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 15:17, db wrote: I have been struggling with getting two linux's (Mandrake 8.1 RH 5.1) set up on my machine and have been back and forth so many times on the partitioning of this drive that apparently I filled up the partition table or something ... it won't let me finish any partitioning now ...when I try to go to the formatting stage following diskdrake, its gives me an error message: raw_add: partition table full. I tried rebooting and starting over but still the same message. Does anyon have any idea of what has gone wrong or how to fix it? This message has been 'sanitized'. This means that potentially dangerous content has been rewritten or removed. The following log describes which actions were taken. Sanitizer (start=1019805990): Part (pos=2609): SanitizeFile (filename=unnamed.txt, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=2): Enforced policy: accept Part (pos=3266): SanitizeFile (filename=message.footer, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=default): Enforced policy: defang Replaced mime type with: application/DEFANGED-96 Replaced file name with: message_footer.DEFANGED-96 Total modifications so far: 1 Anomy 0.0.0 : Sanitizer.pm $Id: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.54 2002/02/15 16:59:07 bre Exp $ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] The original (was UDMA/ATA no running at fullpotential)
Ok I'll bite - what package reference are people getting the arguments from? (0x1F0, floppy=daring etc). I would like to find out what they are before blindly adding arguments to the boot line that I dont understand! BillK On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 06:06, Hoyt wrote: On Thursday 25 April 2002 04:50 pm, Jay wrote: I was the one that originally started the thread, and although it went of on a tanget, I, and I assume many others, learned a great deal, and that is what is important, that is why we are here... But did it solve your problem? I did some experimenting and found that adding ide0=0x1f0 ide0=ata66 resulted in the best results from hdparm -t. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com I read this article that said the typical symptoms of stress are eating too much, drinking too much and driving too fast. Are they kidding? That's my idea of a perfect day. This message has been 'sanitized'. This means that potentially dangerous content has been rewritten or removed. The following log describes which actions were taken. Sanitizer (start=1019772835): Part (pos=2584): SanitizeFile (filename=unnamed.txt, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=2): Enforced policy: accept Part (pos=3317): SanitizeFile (filename=message.footer, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=default): Enforced policy: defang Replaced mime type with: application/DEFANGED-0 Replaced file name with: message_footer.DEFANGED-0 Total modifications so far: 1 Anomy 0.0.0 : Sanitizer.pm $Id: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.54 2002/02/15 16:59:07 bre Exp $ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Failing - first Boot after installation of Mdk8.2beta2 forPower PC on Mac TiBook
On 8.1, I seem to remember you could stick the cd in a windoze machine and the docs pop up in a browser. Its in the root of the cd as index.htm BillK On Mon, 2002-04-01 at 18:07, Rick Thomas wrote: I found my problem. After booting the rescue from the CD, and using it to reading the yaboot man page (where it repeatedly pointed out that the Apple_Boot bootstrap partition should _not_ be mounted on the /boot mount point) I realized that I should not have made a mountpoint (especially not /boot) for the bootstrap partition. Once I cleared that up, everything went swimmingly. Question: There does not seem to be any way of reading the Mandrake Linux man pages except by successfully getting it up and running on a computer. It would be nice if they were available as PDF's or something from the MandrakeLinux web site... Has this already been done and I'm just too blind to find it? Enjoy! Rick Rick Thomas wrote: I've installed Mandrake Linux PPC 8.2beta2 on my Mac TiBook. When I attempt to start up it refuses to boot the newly installed Linux. Here's what happens: 1) I startup with the chime, goes into the open-firmware multi-os program tasks whether I want to boot from the CD, MacOS, Linux, or Open-Firmware. I answer l for Linux (all the other options work fine, l is the only one that has problems) 2) It goes into the welcome to... ... boot: dialog. If I hit tab I get two options, one is linux, the other is rescue or something like that. I type linux or hit the C/R key. 3) It says hd:10/vmlinuz-2.4.18-6mdk: Unknown or corrupt filesystem Now, /dev/hda10 is the Apple_Boot partition that I configured for /boot. It's 80MB in size. I tried it with 1MB and the installation partition section died with a premature eof, presumably trying to write stuff to the /boot partition. I can do a rescue boot from the CD, and all the partitions look OK. The /boot partition has a file called vmlinuz-2.4.18-6mdk Anybody got any clues? Rick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com This message has been 'sanitized'. This means that potentially dangerous content has been rewritten or removed. The following log describes which actions were taken. Sanitizer (start=1017656015): Part (pos=2567): SanitizeFile (filename=unnamed.txt, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=2): Enforced policy: accept Part (pos=4728): SanitizeFile (filename=message.footer, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=default): Enforced policy: defang Replaced mime type with: application/DEFANGED-1685 Replaced file name with: message_footer.DEFANGED-1685 Total modifications so far: 1 Anomy 0.0.0 : Sanitizer.pm $Id: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.54 2002/02/15 16:59:07 bre Exp $ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Which is better choice ext3 or reiserfs for thefilesystem
Suppose I should put in a bit about reiser - I have had two problems. The minor one was an infinite directory that was fixed by reserfstools, the other more serious. I woke up one morning after leaving the machine happily downloading mdk8.2RC1cd1 overnight to a hung machine. Investigation showed nothing on one of the two 60gbyte ibm drives (with /home and /usr of course!). Thinking that it was one of the bad ibm drives, I tried repartitioning and formatting (no partitions showed!) so I could say I tried, and it came up with a good format! Required a complete reinstall and luckily I had backups, but I have no idea what caused it. The machines been stable since, and as the disk partitioning disappeared, I am not sure reiser could be the cause, but ... BillK *when I do 8.2 this weekend, it will be reiser on raid 1 across both disks! On Fri, 2002-03-29 at 18:17, Guy Zelck wrote: Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 07:26, Guy Zelck wrote: ---snip--- Interesting thread I thought to post my troubles with XFS to. When I installed md8.1 on my home system I went from reiserfs, which never gave me trouble, to using xfs which I knew from work having it on our Silicon Graphics machine. I also read a lot about it and for speed and features it seemed the best and having a high esteem for SGI I did Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] how does one reset the video mode of a virtual console?
Hi, how does one reset the video mode of a virtual console? Occaisionally I get an X crash which leaves the consoles in a weird state. X restarts ok, but all other screens show two copies of whatever console was running on it before (text is in green!) on the top half and the bottom half contains the bottom half of whatever is running in X The only way I have been able to fix it so far is to reboot! And this has happened from early Mandrake versions to currently 8.1, various xfree's, 3 different video cards and two different MB's, but I have never seen it with redhat (though I have far more experiance with mdk these days.) BillK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 8.2 cd burning issues
Just a thought - you have added the users doing the burning to the crom and cdwriter groups? BillK On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 02:03, Darren King wrote: Guess burning cd's is an obscure thing only 1 or 2 of us do. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] problems building the vmmon module
Fixed yesterday - removed the two egcs packages that were installed and
it went with 2.96. I have an idea the packages are used for kernel
compiles, so I will need to put them back eventually.
Does 8.2 (I will be upgrading in a couple of weeks) have this problem as
well?
BillK
On Sat, 2002-03-23 at 02:04, John Young wrote:
I have installed VMwareWorkstation-3.0.0-1455.i386.rpm on my ML 8.1 and
8.2 (upgraded from 8.1) without any problem. Even though the
vmware-config.pl gave a warning message for gcc-2.96 version on 8.2, the
installation was successful if I said yes after the warning. Also, you
can change the path in the vmware-config.pl to point to some other gcc
version:
3667 $ENV{'PATH'} = '/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin';
John
Bill Kenworthy wrote:
At least I am not alone! No ximian but a mixed bag of cooker stuff
compiled from srpm. Some gcc3.0 as well as I have tried (and failed so
far) to build openoffice. Looks like I will have to resort to a windoze
box :(
BillK
On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 00:32, Damian wrote:
El jue, 21-03-2002 a las 10:05, Bill Kenworthy escribió:
I am going to give vmware 3 a try but am having problems building the
vmmon module - the errors below seem to indicate something is missing
from my system but I cannot tell what. The kernel is one compiled for
an athlon using the standard mandrake sources (tried the standard
2.4.8-26 and that fails to). Cant find anything on the web or vmware
sites so hoping someone here has come across this before.
BillK
...
whoops! exactly the same happening to me too.
just a question. have you installed ximian gnome?? this
happened to me after ximian, i had vmware working just fine before,
never could get it working again,. ( however i think it will work
when i do a clean 8.2 install )
Damian
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[expert] problems building the vmmon module
I am going to give vmware 3 a try but am having problems building the vmmon module - the errors below seem to indicate something is missing from my system but I cannot tell what. The kernel is one compiled for an athlon using the standard mandrake sources (tried the standard 2.4.8-26 and that fails to). Cant find anything on the web or vmware sites so hoping someone here has come across this before. BillK make[2]: Entering directory `/root/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/driver-2.4.8-34.1Amdk' command line: warning: cpu re-asserted command line: warning: machine re-asserted In file included from .././linux/driver.c:38: /lib/modules/2.4.8-34.1Amdk/build/include/linux/malloc.h:3:2: warning: #warning The Use of linux/malloc.h is deprecated, use linux/slab.h cpp: -lang-c: linker input file unused since linking not done In file included from /lib/modules/2.4.8-34.1Amdk/build/include/linux/kernel.h:10, from .././linux/driver.c:35: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/2.96/include/stdarg.h:43: parse error before `__gnuc_va_list' /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/2.96/include/stdarg.h:43: warning: data definition has no type or storage class /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/2.96/include/stdarg.h:110: parse error before `va_list' /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/2.96/include/stdarg.h:110: warning: data definition has no type or storage class In file included from .././linux/driver.c:35: /lib/modules/2.4.8-34.1Amdk/build/include/linux/kernel.h:64: parse error before `va_list' /lib/modules/2.4.8-34.1Amdk/build/include/linux/kernel.h:64: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype /lib/modules/2.4.8-34.1Amdk/build/include/linux/kernel.h:66: parse error before `va_list' /lib/modules/2.4.8-34.1Amdk/build/include/linux/kernel.h:66: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype .././linux/driver.c: In function `Warning': .././linux/driver.c:1110: `va_list' undeclared (first use in this function) .././linux/driver.c:1110: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once .././linux/driver.c:1110: for each function it appears in.) .././linux/driver.c:1110: parse error before `args' .././linux/driver.c:1115: warning: implicit declaration of function `__builtin_stdarg_start' .././linux/driver.c:1115: `args' undeclared (first use in this function) .././linux/driver.c:1117: warning: implicit declaration of function `__builtin_va_end' .././linux/driver.c: In function `Log': .././linux/driver.c:1138: `va_list' undeclared (first use in this function) .././linux/driver.c:1138: parse error before `args' .././linux/driver.c:1143: `args' undeclared (first use in this function) .././linux/driver.c: In function `Panic': .././linux/driver.c:1176: `va_list' undeclared (first use in this function) .././linux/driver.c:1176: parse error before `args' .././linux/driver.c:1178: `args' undeclared (first use in this function) make[2]: *** [driver.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/driver-2.4.8-34.1Amdk' make[1]: *** [driver] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only' make: *** [auto-build] Error 2 make: Leaving directory `/root/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only' Unable to build the vmmon module. For more information on how to troubleshoot module-related problems, please have a look at http://www.vmware.com/download/modules/modules.html;. Execution aborted. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] problems building the vmmon module
At least I am not alone! No ximian but a mixed bag of cooker stuff compiled from srpm. Some gcc3.0 as well as I have tried (and failed so far) to build openoffice. Looks like I will have to resort to a windoze box :( BillK On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 00:32, Damian wrote: El jue, 21-03-2002 a las 10:05, Bill Kenworthy escribió: I am going to give vmware 3 a try but am having problems building the vmmon module - the errors below seem to indicate something is missing from my system but I cannot tell what. The kernel is one compiled for an athlon using the standard mandrake sources (tried the standard 2.4.8-26 and that fails to). Cant find anything on the web or vmware sites so hoping someone here has come across this before. BillK ... whoops! exactly the same happening to me too. just a question. have you installed ximian gnome?? this happened to me after ximian, i had vmware working just fine before, never could get it working again,. ( however i think it will work when i do a clean 8.2 install ) Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.1 very unstable
The EBDA too big message is usually caused by a mismatched kernel/boot sector. You need to reinstall the boot sector to match. This begs the question - what setup/extras/recompiles are you using? This could be the cause of your instability rather than Mandrake as such. Reliabilty usually comes down to hardware problems or misconfiguration. BillK On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 00:23, carl wrote: Hi, I don't like windows buit i'm really disappointed with ML8.1. My machine is a PIII 1Ghz with 384MB of RAM, i dual boot ML 8.1 and Windows 2k pro. It's been 4 months I installed ML8.1 and i keep having problems,I reinstalled ML8.1 10 times at least. Right now I have a problem when I try to boot under linux : Loading Linux EDBA too big and i can't boot normaly. I tried the boot disk but it's not resolving this issue. I think i'm gonna switch to another Linux distribution cause this one is really unstable,at least for me. I would like to say that Windows 2000 has been much more stable than Linux which is known for stability. Thanks for responding Carl -- ___ Download the free Opera browser at http://www.opera.com/ Powered by Outblaze This message has been 'sanitized'. This means that potentially dangerous content has been rewritten or removed. The following log describes which actions were taken. Sanitizer (start=1016731975): Part (pos=2691): SanitizeFile (filename=unnamed.txt, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=2): Enforced policy: accept Part (pos=3640): SanitizeFile (filename=message.footer, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=default): Enforced policy: defang Replaced mime type with: application/DEFANGED-67717 Replaced file name with: message_footer.DEFANGED-67717 Total modifications so far: 1 Anomy 0.0.0 : Sanitizer.pm $Id: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.54 2002/02/15 16:59:07 bre Exp $ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] What would cause system to just stop?
I havent seen anyone mention NVIDIA drivers yet. Are you using this card? Its a known problem, particularly if you have other openGL stuff (Mesa) around. Also, my old K6 would keel over every start of summer with dirt clogging the cpu/power supply fans that builds up over winter. First warm days and crash. The first sign is kernel opp's in the syslog/ctrl-altF12 monitor screen - time to get out the vacuume cleaner! On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 04:48, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 19 March 2002 13:13, David Guntner wrote: Tom Brinkman grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Well, I'd suspect overheating too since the ram checks out. Install lm_sensors and gkrellm if they aren't already, and constantly monitor your cpu temp. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Check for zlib via rpm
Hi, is it possible to use rpm to get a list of files/packages from the rpm database that were built using zlib? I have a lot built from src.rpm and would like to check ... BillK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Check for zlib via rpm
My question exactly - how can one tell which apps in a src rpm are staticly linked against zlib once installed. Ones such as zebedee (not a Mandrake rpm) I know about as I set it up before install, but I think someone mentioned mozilla (which I have not checked yet) - any other sleepers? BillK On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 21:51, Nick Thompson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 13 Mar 2002, Bill Kenworthy wrote: Hi, is it possible to use rpm to get a list of files/packages from the rpm database that were built using zlib? I have a lot built from src.rpm and would like to check ... It could be a start to help find packages. However, many packages may link statically against the library and will be vulnerable even if you upgrade zlib. To fix these you'll need to download the src rpm and rebuild against the fixed library. That is what Bill was asking I think. I don't think rpm can help you find out which packges use zlib statically as there is no external dependancy or provide that marks this. If executables are not stripped, then you might be able to dump symbol information from them using 'find' to track them down, see which ones have zlib symbols in and then use rpm to track those executables back to packages, but even this won't work if some or all of your executables (and libs) are stripped. Having said that you only need to worry about packages that are using untrusted zlib compressed data (e.g. ppp). You only need to prevent yourself from an exploit. Trusted data can be fixed, if and when you find a problem. Nick. This message has been 'sanitized'. This means that potentially dangerous content has been rewritten or removed. The following log describes which actions were taken. Sanitizer (start=1016027967): Part (pos=2912): SanitizeFile (filename=unnamed.txt, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=2): Enforced policy: accept Part (pos=4273): SanitizeFile (filename=message.footer, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=default): Enforced policy: defang Replaced mime type with: application/DEFANGED-84279 Replaced file name with: message_footer.DEFANGED-84279 Total modifications so far: 1 Anomy 0.0.0 : Sanitizer.pm $Id: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.54 2002/02/15 16:59:07 bre Exp $ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] BASH Scripts - Thankyou
I do not have an adsl connection, but a ppp dialup, but some of the solutions I use here may be applicable: The system I use is run from etc/ppp/ip-uplocal, a file that is run automatically when a ppp connection comes up - there are also network scripts that run when other interfaces come online: 1) The file contains $IPLOCAL and $IPREMOTE variables already set via the network scripts (by parsing ifconfig results I think) 2) uses the info to change the IP at dyndns and ods via ez-ipupdate 3) creates a simple web page containing date/time and IP numbers and ftp's it up to my webspace on the ISP's server 4) kicks ntpd which since 81 occaisionally hangs and refuses to recognise a new connection 5) restarts the firewall with the latest IP 6) same with named - not strictly neccessary, but solved some undefined, not quite working right type problems if you know what I mean!! 7) sends a smb message (winpopup) to the windoze machines attached telling them the connection is back up A similar script in ip-downlocal tells them when the ISP logs the connection off (kicker) 8) Recently I added some stuff to separate the ISP ppp connection and my laptop using another ppp connection through a serial port on the same machine From experience, I have found the redundancy of two dynamic dns systems and a separate web page is well worth while! BillK On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 00:53, Praedor Tempus wrote: Just some noiseI am late getting to this and in the past I had this desire too (to be informed every time my ip address changed) All I did was have a cronjob send me a simple email every 30 minutes (or so, depending on what I determined my renewal period was) The email didn't even need to contain any information because what I was interested in were the headers I'd get the email and check the headers see my ip address and could therefore see if my address had changed Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
Re: [expert] [OT] Burning iso's
How old/what speed is the cdrom device you are doing the install from? (apolgies if this has been covered as I have not been following this thread) I have an old unit which will either read some brands of cdrw unreliably or not all - could this be the problem (older cdroms aparently have lower powered lasers that are not up to recordable media) Another gotcha with older units is padding, bringing the records up to a defined boundary. This is normally a music format thing but does nero give you the option to do this? - some older units will not read it correctly unless it is padded And another - has the burn been fixated, i.e., the session closed? This one should be an all or nothing thing, but some older units would not read the cd unless the session had been properly closed. The last two are foibles of the firmware on older cdrom drives, though I had an 1 yr old no-name el-cheapo laptop yesterday that suffered from the last one (running windoze 98) BillK On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 06:17, Gary Bond wrote: Like I said I had the same problem and I solved it with gcombust. The CD needs to be burned with an El Torrito filesystem to become bootable. It took me a few tries but I did get gcombust configured properly and I burned my 8.1's on it. Hope this helps --- Gary Bond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had that problem as well. If you do a full install a special program is installed, I can't remember the name of it but it will burn iso's for you. I'm on my win98 side right now so I can't look it up but I'll try to get for you later tonite and post it for you. --- Brandon Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll try doing it with the data tag, but here is the site i got my original information off of. http://linuxdocs.org/sln/cdcommands/ the pertinant section: Writing an ISO to a CD-ROM using cdrecord Assuming that all you want to do is create a CD based on the ISO 9660 file system standard, you can quickly burn the CD using the following command: cdrecord -v -pad speed=1 dev=0,0,0 src.iso src.iso is the source filename of the ISO you are burning to the CD-ROM. hmm. I'll let you all know the results of cdrecord -v speed=1 dev=0,1,0 -data mandrake_file.iso Thanks. -Brandon On Fri, 2002-02-22 at 18:35, Salane King wrote: do cdrecord --scanbus first to determine the dev= numbers Brandon Dorman wrote: Hey guys, Finally got beta 3 cd 1 and cd 2 downloaded! Joy of joys! However, I've never burned an iso before in linux! I just now burnt both cd's only to disover now that they are still on there as, .iso and aren't bootable or anything! Bummer. (I'm assuming cd1 of even the mandrake beta would be bootable, after all I'm sure they want to test the installer as well. :-)) My cdrecord options look like this: cdrecord -v -pad speed=1 dev=0,1,0 MandrakeLinux-8.2beta3-CD1.i586.iso How can I modify it to expand the iso onto the cd and allow me to boot from it as if I had bought it? Again, much thanks. -Brandon cdrecord -v speed=1 dev=0,1,0 -data mandrake_file.iso should do it... -- I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradictions to the sentiments of others, and all positive assertion of my own. I even forbade myself the use of every word or expression in the language that imported a fixed opinion, such as certainly, undoubtedly, etc. I adopted instead of them I conceive, I apprehend, or I imagine a thing to be so or so; or so it appears to me at present. When another asserted something that I thought an error, I denied myself the pleasure of contradicting him abruptly, and of showing him immediately some absurdity in his proposition. In answering I began by observing that in certain cases or circumstances his opinion would be right, but in the present case there appeared or semed to me some difference, etc. I soon found the advantage of this change in my manner; the conversations I engaged in went on more pleasantly. The modest way in which I proposed my opinions procured them a readier reception and less contradiction. I had less mortification when I was found to be in the wrong, and I more easily prevailed with others to give up their mistakes and join with me when I happened to be in the right. -- Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to
Re: [expert] Re: rsync problem (was beta2 to beta3)
Ok, the easiest is to use rsync like an ls command and navigate to the directory you want if you do not know the path up front: e.g., rsync rsync://ftp.uninett.no/ will list all the top level modules (directories) available. Note the last / and no target directory - without this nothing is printed! Next add the directory you next want to list: rsync rsync://ftp.uninett.no/Mandrake/ and so on until you build the path and locate the file(s) you want. To download the whole 8.1 updates (mirror the updates), use rsync -Pcavub --bwlimit=3 --stats --exclude=kernel22\* --exclude=kernel-enterprise\* --exclude=kernel-smp\* --exclude=kernel-linus\* --exclude=kernel-pcmcia-cs\* --delete-excluded --delete rsync://ftp.uninett.no/Mandrake/Mandrake/updates/8.1/RPMS/\* . Note that I had to escape the wildcard - rsync gives the usual unix (un)informative error otherwise. Kernels I do manually so I dont accidentally destroy the system, the bwlimit is coz I use a modem and it leaves some bandwidth for use whilst the command is running. I cron it at 1:05am local. For iso's, its basicly the same,just runs for 3 or so days per cd! On Fri, 2002-02-22 at 22:16, Randy Kramer wrote: Brandon, Thanks for your comment! Yes, my explanation is not very clear, partially because I don't understand that point very well myself. Part of the issue is that the directory must be specified relative to something. I think it is relative to something like the rsync working directory, which may be different than the ftp working directory. Thus the path you specify in an rsync command may need to be different than the path specified in an ftp command. (And I may be all wrong about this -- I was very confused at the time, and, clearly, still am.) If I had to take a flying leap at this point in time, I'd try deleting /pub from the path in your command -- that seems to be what I had to do at the carroll.cac.psu.edu site. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: rsync problem (was beta2 to beta3)
The way around this is to keep a copy of the iso and tail -c +no_of_Bytes_needed+1 copy.iso rsync_truncated.iso test this out first as its late and I am too tired to check the syntax and test it!, but it works a treat. BillK On Fri, 2002-02-22 at 22:21, Randy Kramer wrote: Ron Stodden wrote: How about trying a --partial parameter. This lets you pick up the last download from where it was interrupted. Hello Ron, Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Beta2 to beta3
Check out rsync. Resumes downloads plus checks and updates what you already have. Note that you can also change beta 2 into beta 3 using it. It checksums the iso file and only downloads changes. I usually just rsync the whole iso (via a modem!), but there is a rsync script that can just download a subset of the iso cutting the amount of data still further - http://www.ains.net.au/~ronst/rsync/readme.html; - I aim to use this this time around. BillK On Fri, 2002-02-22 at 07:08, Brandon Dorman wrote: Well, the second cd quit downloading at 612 megabytes out of 648 possible, and wouldn't resume without losing it all, so I guess I answered my own question. I'll start downloading Beta 3, should finish it in 10 days... :-) -Brandon On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 13:45, Brandon Dorman wrote: Hello, I've been a fan of Red Hat for almost three years, really diving into it in the past 6 months (recompiled the 2.4.17 kernel, got my ide cd burner working, sound card working now, almost got my printer working) but recently have read some stuff that makes Mandrake sound very attractive! So I started to download the beta iso's. This was a few days ago. My campus' network connection has been very slow at times, going from 100KB/S all the way down to 4KB/S. I am about done with CD2 and noticed that Beta3 has been released. Is there a utility like up2date in RH that makes it pretty easy to upgrade once I've gotten it installed? no matter what I'll probably buy the 8.2 boxed set if I like it. But in the meantime I do like stability. :-) Thanks! -Brandon _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com This message has been 'sanitized'. This means that potentially dangerous content has been rewritten or removed. The following log describes which actions were taken. Sanitizer (start=1014333450): Part (pos=2419): SanitizeFile (filename=unnamed.txt, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=2): Enforced policy: accept Part (pos=3997): SanitizeFile (filename=message.footer, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=default): Enforced policy: defang Replaced mime type with: application/DEFANGED-12 Replaced file name with: message_footer.DEFANGED-12 Total modifications so far: 1 Anomy 0.0.0 : Sanitizer.pm $Id: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.32 2001/10/11 19:27:15 bre Exp $ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] What's the deal with kapm-idled when I run top
and also instead of just idles of nop statements, I believe that it uses instructions that minimise gate operations which reduces power consumption and hence heat production. On my Athlon 1.4 room heater it means a drop of 2-4 degrees c over a light load. A kernel complile or long mp3 encode can mean a rise of 10 degree's c above the idle level for comparison. Not a lot of advantage for a desktop, but well worth while for a laptop. BillK On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 19:08, Tom Badran wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am not a kernel expert, but I would suspect that kapm-idled fulfils the reuirement. Or perhaps there is yet another idle process buried in the kernel and kapm-idled has another purpose. Any kernel experts out there care to comment? It also does a few other things, but basically that is the jist of it. I believe there are a few ties with apm to measure system use. - -- Tom Badran Imperial College, Department of Computing - --- PGP Public key available on request -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8aPe1XCpWOla2mCcRAouiAKCpsLMavbo3SIsCDM8esNQ9DvWEZgCeOj8+ B55zSc3+md7K18pP1Bq1LE8= =Y8wp -END PGP SIGNATURE- This message has been 'sanitized'. This means that potentially dangerous content has been rewritten or removed. The following log describes which actions were taken. Sanitizer (start=1013512897): Part (pos=2835): SanitizeFile (filename=unnamed.txt, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=2): Enforced policy: accept Part (pos=3759): SanitizeFile (filename=message.footer, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=default): Enforced policy: defang Replaced mime type with: application/DEFANGED-16 Replaced file name with: message_footer.DEFANGED-16 Total modifications so far: 1 Anomy 0.0.0 : Sanitizer.pm $Id: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.32 2001/10/11 19:27:15 bre Exp $ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Whats the hassle with rsync://ftp.uninett.no
Whats the hassle with rsync://ftp.uninett.no - I have not been able to connect for a couple of days now coz max connections is reached? BillK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] missing package
Can someone tell me what package contains sys/asoundlib.h. It was on my old 7.2 system, but not on 8.1. Need it for an rpm rebuild. BillK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] missing package
Nope, not for me in this case! BillK On Sat, 2002-02-02 at 07:08, H.McM wrote: cant tell you, but if you just enter the file name into rpmfind, it will return the package name (thats rpmfind.net) Can someone tell me what package contains sys/asoundlib.h. It was on my old 7.2 system, but not on 8.1. Need it for an rpm rebuild. BillK This message has been 'sanitized'. This means that potentially dangerous content has been rewritten or removed. The following log describes which actions were taken. Sanitizer (start=1012606141): Part (pos=2627): SanitizeFile (filename=unnamed.txt, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=2): Enforced policy: accept Part (pos=3028): SanitizeFile (filename=message.footer, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=default): Enforced policy: defang Replaced mime type with: application/DEFANGED-0 Replaced file name with: message_footer.DEFANGED-0 Total modifications so far: 1 Anomy 0.0.0 : Sanitizer.pm $Id: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.32 2001/10/11 19:27:15 bre Exp $ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] missing package
Thanks, found, it was the alsalib developement package that was needed. BillK On Sat, 2002-02-02 at 07:46, David Joham wrote: It's part of ALSA. http://www.google.com/search?q=asoundlib.h gives you lots of information. There may not be a package for it, but you should be able to cobble up the sources to be able to do what you're trying to accomplish... David -Original Message- From: Bill Kenworthy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 4:40 PM To: Expert List Subject: Re: [expert] missing package Nope, not for me in this case! BillK On Sat, 2002-02-02 at 07:08, H.McM wrote: cant tell you, but if you just enter the file name into rpmfind, it will return the package name (thats rpmfind.net) Can someone tell me what package contains sys/asoundlib.h. It was on my old 7.2 system, but not on 8.1. Need it for an rpm rebuild. BillK This message has been 'sanitized'. This means that potentially dangerous content has been rewritten or removed. The following log describes which actions were taken. Sanitizer (start=1012606141): Part (pos=2627): SanitizeFile (filename=unnamed.txt, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=2): Enforced policy: accept Part (pos=3028): SanitizeFile (filename=message.footer, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=default): Enforced policy: defang Replaced mime type with: application/DEFANGED-0 Replaced file name with: message_footer.DEFANGED-0 Total modifications so far: 1 Anomy 0.0.0 : Sanitizer.pm $Id: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.32 2001/10/11 19:27:15 bre Exp $ This message has been 'sanitized'. This means that potentially dangerous content has been rewritten or removed. The following log describes which actions were taken. Sanitizer (start=1012607615): Part (pos=2061): SanitizeFile (filename=unnamed.txt, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=2): Enforced policy: accept Part (pos=3892): SanitizeFile (filename=message.footer, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=default): Enforced policy: defang Replaced mime type with: application/DEFANGED-1027 Replaced file name with: message_footer.DEFANGED-1027 Total modifications so far: 1 Anomy 0.0.0 : Sanitizer.pm $Id: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.32 2001/10/11 19:27:15 bre Exp $ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Recording vcd's
Hi, I am trying to record video (.mov format) using xawtv's streamer app but keep getting the error neither audio nor video format specified/found. Recording to avi format works fine. I suspect I am missing the quicktime4linux library but efforts to track this down have failed. Does anyone have any hints? Also what app's are used to build vcd's under linux? All the instructions I have found so far depend on xawtv to create a .mov to start the process, or have difficulties in one area or another for me - high processor usage, low frame rates etc. BillK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] SRC.RPM rebuild error
upgrade to the cooker rpm stuff. It fixed much of the probs for me. Note that mixing cooker and 8.1 can lead to big problems in some areas (libpng for one!) as well as rpm hell! BillK On Tue, 2001-12-18 at 02:21, Michael Leone wrote: Originally to: All This is a MIME-formatted message. If you see this text it means that your E-mail software does not support MIME-formatted messages. --=_tcob1.net-7247-1008635608-0001-2 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I'm trying to rebuild abiword-0.9.5 from Cooker, on 8.1. I have satisfied all dependencies, and start the rebuild. It however, errors with this message: /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.26340: fg: no job control error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.26340 (%build) RPM build errors: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.26340 (%build) I've seen this message on other rebuilds. What does it mean? A google search turns up a number of posts, but no specific answers on why, or how to fix. Some posts mention editing the SPEC file, but not what to edit out - or in. :-) Anyone seen this? -- -- Michael J. Leone Registered Linux user #201348 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ: 50453890 AIM: MikeLeone PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF PGP public key: http://www.mike-leone.com/~turgon/turgon-public-key.gpg Foreman, roving paving crew, Dept. of Roads, Hades. --=_tcob1.net-7247-1008635608-0001-2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit - Gateway Information. This message originated from a Fidonet System (http://www.fidonet.org) and was gated at TCOB1 (http://www.tcob1.net) Please do not respond direct to this message but via the list This message has been 'sanitized'. This means that potentially dangerous content has been rewritten or removed. The following log describes which actions were taken. Sanitizer (start=1010818094): Part (pos=2766): SanitizeFile (filename=unnamed.txt, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=2): Enforced policy: accept Part (pos=4443): SanitizeFile (filename=message.footer, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=default): Enforced policy: defang Replaced mime type with: application/DEFANGED-8 Replaced file name with: message_footer.DEFANGED-8 Total modifications so far: 1 Anomy 0.0.0 : Sanitizer.pm $Id: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.32 2001/10/11 19:27:15 bre Exp $ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Gnome Desktop Icons
Your right, its a mystery on what is a nice way to do this. I usually edit an existing entry and save it under a new name. If you change an entry, you need to delete the original and copy the changed entry to the directory before the changes are noted (or exit/relogin gnome!). You can set the terminal entry to true to see messages for apps that give trouble. Note also that giving the full path to the app seems to work in some cases where the app name only does not. BillK On Sun, 2002-01-13 at 08:07, Ric Tibbetts wrote: I've been digging at this for a while. There is a way to add icons to the desktop in Gnome, for starting applications. I'm part way there, but stuck. If I add a deffinition file in ~/.gnome-desktop, I can get the icon on the desk, and even start the appication, but I always get errors (the exact error depends on the applicaion I'm launching). Does anyone know the secret behind making this work? It's a piece of cake in KDE, but a bit more of a mystery in Gnome. I know it can be done. RedHat Mandrake both add their stuff to it. It's just not documented anywhere that I can find. I'd settle for being pointed at a document. Thanks!!! -- Ric Tibbetts Linux registration number: 55684 If you want to help advertise Linux - point your friends to http://counter.li.org/ This message has been 'sanitized'. This means that potentially dangerous content has been rewritten or removed. The following log describes which actions were taken. Sanitizer (start=1010880923): Part (pos=2409): SanitizeFile (filename=unnamed.txt, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=2): Enforced policy: accept Part (pos=3303): SanitizeFile (filename=message.footer, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=default): Enforced policy: defang Replaced mime type with: application/DEFANGED-1 Replaced file name with: message_footer.DEFANGED-1 Total modifications so far: 1 Anomy 0.0.0 : Sanitizer.pm $Id: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.32 2001/10/11 19:27:15 bre Exp $ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CD/RW Problem with MDK 8.1
What is the output of lsmod - looks like the scsi emulation is not loaded. For me I have (extraneous modules cut out): sg 28016 0 (autoclean) sr_mod 14208 0 (autoclean) ide-scsi8112 0 scsi_mod 90880 3 [sg sr_mod ide-scsi] and the following in modules.conf: probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi and append= hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-floppy devfs=nomount nobiospnp in lilo.conf - hdc is the cdwriter. for me, 8.1 set this all up with no problems - older releases required manual intervention! BillK On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 16:10, Ric Tibbetts wrote: Ok, a little more information: running cdrecord -scanbus: # cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.10 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver. cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root. # cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: other devices removed for clarity Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00 Vendor: YAMAHA Model: CRW8424S Rev: 1.0j Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 other deviced removed for clarity Ok, it's there. I can mount the device with a regular CD installed with no problem, but cdrecord won't recognise it. And again: It used to work. I'd really appreciate some advise on this one! -- Ric Tibbetts Linux registration number: 55684 If you want to help advertise Linux - point your friends to http://counter.li.org/ This message has been 'sanitized'. This means that potentially dangerous content has been rewritten or removed. The following log describes which actions were taken. Sanitizer (start=1010304972): Part (pos=2658): SanitizeFile (filename=unnamed.txt, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=2): Enforced policy: accept Part (pos=3696): SanitizeFile (filename=message.footer, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=default): Enforced policy: defang Replaced mime type with: application/DEFANGED-662 Replaced file name with: message_footer.DEFANGED-662 Total modifications so far: 1 Anomy 0.0.0 : Sanitizer.pm $Id: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.32 2001/10/11 19:27:15 bre Exp $ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CD/RW Problem with MDK 8.1
Ric, grab the cdwriter howto and extract the test script and modify/run it and see what it shows. I still think you are missing some modules - I believe not all not all the ones normally loaded are ide specific, but sit on top of the scsi layer (which may be real scsi or ide-scsi. The test script should find and load the modules as needed. BillK On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 03:42, Ric Tibbetts wrote: Michael Leone wrote: On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 11:32, nds wrote: Ric Tibbetts wrote: Ok, now I'm frustrated. I have a SCSI CD/RW (Yamaha). that has worked flawlessly for a long Type /sbin/lsmod and let me know what you get. If you do not see ide-scsi or any other type of scsi module then we have found your problem. Just simply add to lilo hdc=ide-scsi or what ever is the device for your cdrw and the appropriate scsi module and then all should be well. HTH It's a real SCSI device; you do *not* need ide-scsi to make it work. I have a SCSI Plextor CD-RW, and I do not load ide-scsi, and it works just fine. Ide-scsi is only for IDE drives that you want emulated as SCSI; this is not an IDE drive. [root@minas-aran turgon]# lsmod | more Module Size Used byTainted: P isofs 24544 0 (autoclean) inflate_fs 18624 0 (autoclean) [isofs] sr_mod 13656 0 (autoclean) cdrom 27872 0 (autoclean) [sr_mod] snip sound and other modules BusLogic 87868 0 sd_mod 9784 0 (unused) scsi_mod 82844 3 [sr_mod BusLogic sd_mod] You're absolutely correct. It's a real SCSI device, in a SCSI only system (no IDE on the mobo at all!). So, I do not need the ide-scsi module. However, that not withstanding, the thing still don't woik as a CD Writer. It DOES however work as a CDrom. I can put regular CDs in it, mount them up, and they work just great. Also, the sytems harddrives are on the same scsi controller, so I know the controller is working, or the thing wouldn't be running. So something very strange is happening/not happening. To reitterate: # lsmod Module Size Used by extraneous modules removed from list sr_mod 14912 1 (autoclean) aic7xxx 113324 5 sd_mod 11572 5 scsi_mod 94684 3 [st aic7xxx sd_mod] # cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: IBM Model: DORS-32160W !# Rev: WA3E Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00 Vendor: IBM Model: DORS-32160W !# Rev: WA3E Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00 Vendor: WDIGTL Model: WDE4360-1807A3 Rev: 1.80 Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00 Vendor: YAMAHA Model: CRW8424S Rev: 1.0j Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00 Vendor: ARCHIVE Model: Python 00095-001 Rev: 5.ac Type: Sequential-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 So it looks like Channel 0, id 5, lun 0 Thus, I should be able to verify the drive with checkdrive: [root@ibu root]# cdrecord -v dev=5,0 -checkdrive Cdrecord 1.10 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: '5,0' scsibus: 0 target: 5 lun: 0 cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg5'. Cannot open SCSI driver. cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root. (I have no idea what /dev/pg5 is supposed to be. It's a new error message, wasn't there yesterday). but, still, it's not recognising the drive. If I insert a prewritten CD, I can mount it. mount /mnt/cdrom executes without error. And a df reports it correctly: [root@ibu root]# df /mnt/cdrom Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/scd0 664224664224 0 100% /mnt/cdrom So... back to cdrecord: # cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.10 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver. cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root. nada. It's interesting that cdrecord -scanbus tells you to run cdrecord -scanbus... kinda circular isn't it? Any more guesses? I'm stumped! -- Ric Tibbetts Linux registration number: 55684 If you want to help advertise Linux - point your friends to http://counter.li.org/ This message has been 'sanitized'. This means that potentially dangerous content has been rewritten or removed. The following log describes which actions were taken. Sanitizer (start=1010346535):
Re: [expert] How can I shutdown a PC from telnet?
when you su to root, use su - so you inherit roots environment. BillK On Mon, 2001-12-31 at 07:27, Roger wrote: Hi, I am trying to make an old PC into a keyboardless, mouseless, monitorless server. It boots and starts up OK and I can access it from telnet and vnc, but it refuses to shutdown. If I do a shutdown -h now from telnet, it broadcasts a message but doesn't shutdown. On vnc, the logoff button doesn't show a halt or reboot option. What are my options? TIA Roger _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com This message has been 'sanitized'. This means that potentially dangerous content has been rewritten or removed. The following log describes which actions were taken. Sanitizer (start=1009755299): Part (pos=2419): SanitizeFile (filename=unnamed.txt, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=2): Enforced policy: accept Part (pos=3054): SanitizeFile (filename=message.footer, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=default): Enforced policy: defang Replaced mime type with: application/DEFANGED-66 Replaced file name with: message_footer.DEFANGED-66 Total modifications so far: 1 Anomy 0.0.0 : Sanitizer.pm $Id: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.32 2001/10/11 19:27:15 bre Exp $ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kppp == memory HOG == swap the crap out of system!
Beat you - 104megs! I have 750M memory so never noticed before ... This machine has been up and online for a few days - memory leak? BillK On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 04:46, Pierre Fortin wrote: How to get a HUGE performance boost on a low-mem dial-up machine: since this dumb little utility is only starting/stopping pppd, WTF is it doing eating so much memory... (up to 35MB() today...???!!!) Pierre Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] World Writable files
Hi, the program that does the security checks each night keeps finding the devfs files: Security Warning: World Writeable files found : - /lib/dev-state/console - /lib/dev-state/ttyp0 - /lib/dev-state/ttyp1 - /lib/dev-state/ttyp2 - /lib/dev-state/ttyp3 - /lib/dev-state/ttyp4 - /lib/dev-state/ttyp5 - /lib/dev-state/ttyp6 - /lib/dev-state/ttyp7 - /lib/dev-state/ttyp8 - /lib/dev-state/ttyp9 - /lib/dev-state/ttypa - /lib/dev-state/ttypb - /lib/dev-state/ttypc etc etc There are also the postfix mailboxs. Is it safe to remove the world writable flag from these. Also the postfix files, from memory, cause problems when their world/write flag is changed - is there a simple workaraound? BillK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kapm-idled consuming all cpu
Also on a laptop is supposed to create power savings and reduced heat output from the cpu. Anyone know where the docs are for this? man kapm-idled produces nothing - easy to find documenmtation on the system via man, info etc is getting worse as Linux grows up! BillK On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 01:31, Hoyt Duff wrote: On Wednesday 12 December 2001 11:35 am, you wrote: Hi everybody! I installed Mandrake 8.1 on my laptop compap presario 1200, apparently successfully. However, the kapm-idled is consuming 80% of my CPU! Does anyone know how to fix this problem? It's not a problem -- kapm-idled is a contrivance (aka smoke and mirrors) to assist in accounting for the idel time; it uses no resources. Hoyt This message has been 'sanitized'. This means that potentially dangerous content has been rewritten or removed. The following log describes which actions were taken. Sanitizer (start=1008178848): Part (pos=2577): SanitizeFile (filename=unnamed.txt, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=2): Enforced policy: accept Part (pos=3116): SanitizeFile (filename=message.footer, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=default): Enforced policy: defang Replaced mime type with: application/DEFANGED-21371 Replaced file name with: message_footer.DEFANGED-21371 Total modifications so far: 1 Anomy 0.0.0 : Sanitizer.pm $Id: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.32 2001/10/11 19:27:15 bre Exp $ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] problems with NE2000 compatible Ethernet PCMCIA card
On 8.0 and 8.1 I had to put an option line specifying the base address as 0x300 (the defaut) in modules.conf before either version would find it. Problem is that the driver needs to be told what its parameters are and does not seem to autoprobe for them. On 7.2 there was no such problem. box is switched off right now so I cant check the syntax. BillK On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 05:26, Asheesh Laroia wrote: /etc/init.d/pcmcia start You *did* install the PCMCIA utilities, right? If you did, can you use other PCMCIA cards? If you've done both of these and tried a simple modprobe ne and modprobe ne-pci, reply back. -- Asheesh. On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Lee Roberts wrote: Have you tried the vendor to see if they have Linux drivers? At 12:51 PM 12/3/2001 +0100, Juan Ignacio García García wrote: Hello, I have a NE2000 compatible ethernet pcmcia card. HardDrake does not recognize my card. With Suse 7.1 this card works OK (with IRQ=3 and IO=0x300-0x31f). My card is an Arowana Pcmcia Ethernet LAN Card 10M. Does anyone know what can I do to configure my card? This message has been 'sanitized'. This means that potentially dangerous content has been rewritten or removed. The following log describes which actions were taken. Sanitizer (start=1007501417): Part (pos=2672): SanitizeFile (filename=unnamed.txt, mimetype=TEXT/PLAIN): Match (rule=2): Enforced policy: accept Part (pos=3493): SanitizeFile (filename=message.footer, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=default): Enforced policy: defang Replaced mime type with: application/DEFANGED-8542 Replaced file name with: message_footer.DEFANGED-8542 Total modifications so far: 1 Anomy 0.0.0 : Sanitizer.pm $Id: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.32 2001/10/11 19:27:15 bre Exp $ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] NTP -- driving me crazy!
Be aware that some versions of xntpd have a security hole. I think you need to go back and reread the documentation for ntpd - ntpd is a daemon, used to set both the time on your machine and can act as a server for your network (I use it for both). Ntpdate is similar to rdate (which uses the time service instead of ntp for for its time information). ntpdate is a client for manual use, or for cron jobs where you may need fine control over when you check the time. ntpd is for continuous, automated updates which occur on a schedule set by the daemon depending on its hosts stability, access to servers etc. The Mandrake ntpd should work out-of-the-box as a service - even to the point where it asks for a timeserver during the OS install. Possibly your problems stem from trying to modify the ntp.conf or other files and creatying problems for yourself. Run the server as I specified before (with the original ntpd.conf changed to add a known good time server) and check syslog. Also check out the ntpq program. Attached is the relevant paragraph from the documentation: In some cases it may not be practical for ntpd to run continuously. A common workaround has been to run the ntpdate program from a cron job at designated times. However, this program does not have the crafted signal processing, error checking and mitigation algorithms of ntpd. The -q option is intended for this purpose. Setting this option will cause ntpd to exit just after setting the clock for the first time. The procedure for initially setting the clock is the same as in continuous mode; most applications will probably want to specify the iburst keyword with the server configuration command. With this keyword a volley of messages are exchanged to groom the data and the clock is set in about a minute. If nothing is heard after a couple of minutes, the daemon times out and exits. After a suitable period of mourning, the ntpdate program may be retired. Have fun, BillK On Sun, 2001-12-02 at 18:50, bascule wrote: the ntp stuff in lm now is the ntp4 release whereas xntpd uses ntp3 (4 should be backwards compatible with 3), in normal usage the only difference is that, as bill says, you need to have /etc/init.d./ntpd running and not as before, /xntpd, to all usual intents and purposes, a rename, clients running xntpd have no problem syncing with a server running ntpd and vice versa bascule On Sunday 02 Dec 2001 7:40 am, you wrote: I just went back and installed xntp3 on the server and life is good. I have no idea why xntp3 stopped being bundled and was replaced with, what IMHO, is an inferior ntp package. Can anyone shed some light on this? This message has been 'sanitized'. This means that potentially dangerous content has been rewritten or removed. The following log describes which actions were taken. Sanitizer (start=1007290658): Part (pos=2740): SanitizeFile (filename=unnamed.txt, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=2): Enforced policy: accept Part (pos=3519): SanitizeFile (filename=message.footer, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=default): Enforced policy: defang Replaced mime type with: application/DEFANGED-4120 Replaced file name with: message_footer.DEFANGED-4120 Total modifications so far: 1 Anomy 0.0.0 : Sanitizer.pm $Id: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.32 2001/10/11 19:27:15 bre Exp $ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] NTP -- driving me crazy!
On Mon, 2001-12-03 at 03:02, Charlie Bebber wrote:
Bill Kenworthy said:
So if you go through your syslog, can you find where ntpdate periodically
syncs on its own with the server you've listed in your ntp.conf? Everything
you've said makes perfect sense and it work{s,ed} for me when the server was
runn. It's just strange that a lot of people are experiencing the same
problem that I'm having.
Actually no - I changed the time with the date command and about 10 mins
later when everything was declared stable, it stepped back into time.
Note that this was reported in syslog, but the constant (and reassuring)
stream of messages in syslog that I had in Mandrake 7.2 are not reported
now.
It's not a terribly difficult thing to change the default 127.127.1.0 or
whatever it is in the ntp.conf to 10.1.1.3. And 'ntpq -p' shows everything
as it should. People on the comp.protocols.time.ntp newsgroup have even
done tcpdumps and see the requests coming in -- there's just something wrong
that no one can figure out. But you've seemed to have got it running.
Dunno.
My server ntp.conf, I have a fancier one on my laptop but thats at work
at the moment! I am also using a firewall so I turned auth off to make
it simple.
___
logconfig=syncstatus +sysevents
enable stats
server 127.127.1.0 # local clock
fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 10
server ntp.iinet.net.au prefer
server time.deakin.edu.au
server time.esec.com.au
server augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au
server ntp.adelaide.edu.au
server ntp.saard.net
driftfile /etc/ntp/drift
multicastclient # listen on default 224.0.1.1
broadcastdelay 0.008
authenticate no
_
Note that the enable stats and logconfig lines don't appear to work - I
put them in the file to check on things after your problems surfaced.
If you have changed the local clock server settings, that is a possible
cause. Note that it is 10, which allows slave servers to still sync
to the master - otherwise when it declares itself unlocked, it defaults
to 16 and slaves then ignore it - personally I think slaves should also
have this setting (i.e., local set to 16 and 10) to create a
hierarchy. A thought, your master ntp server can talk through the
firewall? Perhaps if you post the results of the peers command in
ntpq forthe master and a slave?
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Re: [expert] NTP -- driving me crazy!
I should have added this: remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter == LOCAL(0)LOCAL(0)10 l 43 64 3770.0000.000 0.015 *core-sw1.wa.iin tictoc.tip.CSIR 2 u 341 1024 377 139.913 -13.741 15.700 +sol.ccs.deakin. murgon.cs.mu.OZ 2 u 363 1024 377 209.749 -18.357 3.488 +cougar.esec.com murgon.cs.mu.OZ 2 u 385 1024 377 209.995 -13.794 36.014 -augean.eleceng. murgon.cs.mu.OZ 2 u 454 1024 377 228.644 -3.868 7.554 -huon.itd.adelai sol.ccs.deakin. 3 u 398 1024 377 230.059 -2.207 7.050 -ns.saard.nettictoc.tip.CSIR 2 u 388 1024 377 289.122 -26.200 48.720 In practise, when sync is lost (dialup drops usually), after a few minutes LOCAL becomes the source and the slaves lock back up when its declared stable (as 10). When the dialup comes online, the sync source just seamlessly shifts to the higher accuracy source. Same occurs if the current remote sync source declares itself unstable. The large offsets are because Perth is a few thousand miles from these sources in the Eastern states (Oz) - I should look for one of the University sources here and add that as well. Another thought - you are not starting ntpd with extra args (especiallly the -x one)? BillK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] NTP -- driving me crazy!
Isnt ntpdate just a client like rdate? You need ntpd runnung. try service ntpd start and see what happens. # rpm -qa|grep ntp ntp-4.1.0-1mdk # ntpd (and ntpdate) are part of the above package. Usage is the same as xntpd (and seem so similar it may just be a rename?) BillK On Sun, 2001-12-02 at 06:06, Charlie Bebber wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_1007244412-31033-738 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I had this working many moons ago, but with new upgrades/installs, it's all been lost and I can't remember what I did (but I know it's not that hard -- that's why it's driving me crazy). So here's what I've got going on: - ntp installed on all of my machines - ntp configured on fileserver to sync to external time server (doesn't stay synced, however). - ntp configured on remaining nodes to sync with fileserver who is supposed to allow that But what's happening is that the ntp on the fileserver will start up, sync with the external time server, but down the line, the time begins to drift and according to my syslog, there were never any more attempts to keep time synced (ntp-4.1.0-1mdk installed on every one of them). And on the local clients, in my /etc/ntp.conf, I've got 10.1.1.3 (the IP for the fileserver) set for the server. That never worked so I stuck it in my /etc/ntp/step-tickers and still, no love. Here's what I get: ntpdate[13387]: no server suitable for synchronization found I portscanned the fileserver and 123 isn't even open (shouldn't it be listening on that port?). When I do a 'ps auxw |grep ntp' on the fileserver, all I've got is 'ntp -A'. Should there be anything else in order to allow other nodes to sync? So what am I missing here? I'm all out of ideas. Thanks in advance, -Charlie -- GPG Key fingerprint = 4F36 EC4F 2F2C 5F59 9690 09E5 4C0F 9DB0 8623 53CE =_1007244412-31033-738 Content-Type: application/DEFANGED-5660; name=message_footer.DEFANGED-5660 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename=message_footer.DEFANGED-5660 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com =_1007244412-31033-738 Content-Type: text/sanitizer-log; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=sanitizer.log This message has been 'sanitized'. This means that potentially dangerous content has been rewritten or removed. The following log describes which actions were taken. Sanitizer (start=1007244845): Part (pos=2271): SanitizeFile (filename=unnamed.txt, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=2): Enforced policy: accept Part (pos=3800): SanitizeFile (filename=message.footer, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=default): Enforced policy: defang Replaced mime type with: application/DEFANGED-5660 Replaced file name with: message_footer.DEFANGED-5660 Total modifications so far: 1 Anomy 0.0.0 : Sanitizer.pm $Id: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.32 2001/10/11 19:27:15 bre Exp $ =_1007244412-31033-738-- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] GLX - NVIDIA drivers
Of this I am not sure - some programs modify the config fiole directly, try man xvidtune and see if it has the option. BillK On Sat, 2001-11-24 at 22:18, Jose Luis Vazquez Gonzalez wrote: Thanks a lot! I followed your instructions and TUXracer works great now! (As smooth as one might wish) Just a small question, can I make xvidtune to change my /etc/X11/XF86Config? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Ports to keep open
No one? A while ago I was forced to partially open 113 again as apparently some irc servers require an ident before allowing a connection to be established. A bit of experimentation found that they were happy with an ipchains reject, but failed if the packet was just dropped (DENY) BillK On Thu, 2001-11-22 at 01:13, Daniel Woods wrote: If it's a webserver only, then you don't need SMTP And no one has a real need for port 113 (authentication). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] transparent proxy with bastille-firewall
Hi, I have implemented squid as a transparent proxy with bastille-firewall. It is working, but where is the best spot to add the proxy redirect statement so it gets loaded when bastill-firewall is reloaded etc. (i.e., which is the standard script to add it to as bastille-firewall uses a number of them) BillK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] cups again
The bjc-250 does work without the extra lines that seem to effect the other drivers. However, there is no colour and quality is poor on a bjc-620. I have just noticed that the foomatic drivers (which I used on Mandrake 7.2) are not present in kups, qtcups, web interface etc, even though I have the foomatic-1.1-0.20011012mdk rpm installed. A forced rpm install of all the cups stuff has not made any difference, so maybe the foomatic drivers will - except they do not show up to be selected. How do I install/select these drivers? BillK On Sun, 2001-11-18 at 20:43, Tom Badran wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 18 Nov 2001 8:03 am, you wrote: The drivers I have tried either dont work, or print 4 lines of ascii on a separate page as well as the page I want to print. I cannot find any Have you tried different bjc drivers? Currently I have a bjc-250. I'm using the bj200 driver for now with foo- matic. Works fine, I don't print in color - just have bw ink cartridges. Color has worked in the past with bjc800 and other drivers, but the results haven't been stellar. Mostly, the image prints too darkly. I also have the bjc 250, and i set it up using the bjc250 / bjc600 driver.. This works in colour and black and white and gives really good results. I think i might have also told it to print at 360dpi. - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Department of Computing, Imperial College Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] X Windows Wont Run
usually wrong xserver or video card parameters. Run XFdrake and select the proper settings. If no luck, post details of what video card, monitor etc and someone may be able to be more specific. BillK On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 23:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey group, Does this error message make since to anyone? init: Id x respawing too fast: disabled for 5 min x doesnt want to boot up at all any ideas? andrew -- It's a beautiful day...don't let it get away... ~U2~ This message has been 'sanitized'. This means that potentially dangerous content has been rewritten or removed. The following log describes which actions were taken. Sanitizer (start=1006271561): Part (pos=2477): SanitizeFile (filename=unnamed.txt, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=2): Enforced policy: accept Part (pos=2813): SanitizeFile (filename=message.footer, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=default): Enforced policy: defang Replaced mime type with: application/DEFANGED-3041 Replaced file name with: message_footer.DEFANGED-3041 Total modifications so far: 1 Anomy 0.0.0 : Sanitizer.pm $Id: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.32 2001/10/11 19:27:15 bre Exp $ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] cups again
I have tried most of the gimp print drivers as well as downloaded turboprint. Still does it. Problem seems to be in cups, but a grep of the disk shows those strings in libgimpprint.so. I am lost as its a real pain. I think I'll try a forced reinstall of all the cups rpm's and see if that corrects it, as it seems no one else is having thsese problems. BillK On Sun, 2001-11-18 at 16:03, David E. Fox wrote: The drivers I have tried either dont work, or print 4 lines of ascii on a separate page as well as the page I want to print. I cannot find any Have you tried different bjc drivers? Currently I have a bjc-250. I'm using the bj200 driver for now with foo- matic. Works fine, I don't print in color - just have bw ink cartridges. Color has worked in the past with bjc800 and other drivers, but the results haven't been stellar. Mostly, the image prints too darkly. BillK David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- This message has been 'sanitized'. This means that potentially dangerous content has been rewritten or removed. The following log describes which actions were taken. Sanitizer (start=1006071160): Part (pos=2641): SanitizeFile (filename=unnamed.txt, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=2): Enforced policy: accept Part (pos=3571): SanitizeFile (filename=message.footer, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=default): Enforced policy: defang Replaced mime type with: application/DEFANGED-81506 Replaced file name with: message_footer.DEFANGED-81506 Total modifications so far: 1 Anomy 0.0.0 : Sanitizer.pm $Id: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.32 2001/10/11 19:27:15 bre Exp $ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] cups again
Thanks Andre, I tried the turboprint driver, but the problem is the same. Before every page, I get a page (for every page in the print job!) with 4 ascii lines: BJLSTART ControlMode=Common AckTime=Short BJLEND Greping the disk shows some binary files like libgimpprint.so have these lines in them, hence the search for a different driver. However, it appears to be a general cups problem, perhaps a setting, but I have no idea where it is! BillK On Fri, 2001-11-16 at 22:50, Andre Dubuc wrote: On Friday 16 November 2001 09:28, you wrote: www.linuxprinting.org is always a good place to look. This link should take directly to the a cupsomatic PPD file for the bjc620: http://www.linuxprinting.org/cups-o-matic.cgi?driver=bjc600printer=62080;. submit=Generate+CUPS+PPD You must also install the cupsomatic program also available from linuxprinting. Nick Bill Kenworthy wrote: It appears that Mandrake 8.1 doesnt support my canon bjc620 printer. The drivers I have tried either dont work, or print 4 lines of ascii on a separate page as well as the page I want to print. I cannot find any of the Foomatic drivers used on Mandrake 7.2 in the software manager so I am stuck at the moment. I did see a page on Mandrake user.org a while ago about installing a particular revision of foomatic from Mandrake 7.2 which might fix the problem, however I cannot find the page now. Can someone point me in the right direction? BillK Sorry to butt into this thread, but I had problems with the output quality from my Canon S450 using cups - foomatic, et al. I tried Turboprint and the quality is simply amazing. Perhaps you might try their free driver - your printer is supported. To the best of my recollection, it uses the cups driver interface, among others. You might luck-in and get your printer to work. URL: http://www.turboprint.de/printers.html Hope this helps! Regards, Andre -- Please pray the Holy Rosary to end the holocaust of abortion and terrorism. For a free Cenacle Scriptural Rosary Booklet -- http://www.webhart.net/csrb/ This message has been 'sanitized'. This means that potentially dangerous content has been rewritten or removed. The following log describes which actions were taken. Sanitizer (start=1005922471): Part (pos=2625): SanitizeFile (filename=unnamed.txt, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=2): Enforced policy: accept Part (pos=4351): SanitizeFile (filename=message.footer, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=default): Enforced policy: defang Replaced mime type with: application/DEFANGED-242701 Replaced file name with: message_footer.DEFANGED-242701 Total modifications so far: 1 Anomy 0.0.0 : Sanitizer.pm $Id: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.32 2001/10/11 19:27:15 bre Exp $ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Re: Mail Delivery Status Notification
I think a number of email scanners object to the method Mandrake use to attach their message. You can see by the bottom of this that Anomy does so for me, so did did the windoze based scanner system at one of my employers. Must give some people a fright tho when they see a virus warning message for Mandrake emails. One day I will get fed up enuugh with it to write a script and remove it, or maybe Mandrake will see that its bad publicity to modify emails this way and attach their message as a signature or similar, because as it is (using evolution), I dont get to see the message, just a BIG warning about it!!! It also stuffs up email clients as EVERY Mandrake message shows as having an attachment, so I cant just scan the mailbox looking for attachments. BillK On Fri, 2001-11-16 at 20:22, Dennis Myhand wrote: I got one of these things yesterday. If you look at what is causing the message to be flagged, it is the footer with the Mandrake ad in it. Looks to me like there are TWO parties at fault. The server admin, and whoever thought preaching to the choir did any good. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 4:15 AM To: Postmaster Cc: Linux-Mandrake Expert (Request) Subject: [expert] Re: Mail Delivery Status Notification Postmaster stated the following: DishnetDSL SENDER NOTIFICATION The following message: TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] DATE: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 07:00:50 -0700 Subject: [expert] No Job Control has been stripped of all/certain attachments by DishnetDSL Mail server due to security reasons. DishnetDSL allows only the following attachments: 1. .doc 2. .txt 3. .xls 4. .ppt 5. .pdf 6. .zip Message contains attachments: message.footer DishnetDSL -- Name: Message.8144DEFANGED-eml Message.8144DEFANGED-emlType: unspecified type (application/octet-stream) Encoding: 7bit The following flame is forthcoming, because it makes me irritated when their is obvious proof showing the direction of the offender *or* the innocent; that being opposite of those accused. You need to get your facts straight before you start making unsubstantiated and unfounded accusations. The original message was and only was posted on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. Where it goes from there is beyond my control and rightly so, unless you feel obliged to filter everyone's email. If you look at the To:, it has a direct address to [EMAIL PROTECTED], which would indicate that I sent it directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] How can that be if the Subject: shows [expert] as the mailing list that it pasted through, and I never sent any message with the subject No Job Control directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] byway of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list? Also, eml is a common extension. Any AntiVirus scanner would have flagged that message, even on our network's server. And, I have no idea who [EMAIL PROTECTED] is? The address is not found anywhere on our network. -- Note: When you reply to this message, please include the mailing list/newsgroup address and my email address in To:. * Signed, SoloCDM This message has been 'sanitized'. This means that potentially dangerous content has been rewritten or removed. The following log describes which actions were taken. Sanitizer (start=1005915071): Part (pos=2742): SanitizeFile (filename=unnamed.txt, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=2): Enforced policy: accept Part (pos=5451): SanitizeFile (filename=message.footer, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=default): Enforced policy: defang Replaced mime type with: application/DEFANGED-664 Replaced file name with: message_footer.DEFANGED-664 Total modifications so far: 1 Anomy 0.0.0 : Sanitizer.pm $Id: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.32 2001/10/11 19:27:15 bre Exp $ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] cups again
It appears that Mandrake 8.1 doesnt support my canon bjc620 printer. The drivers I have tried either dont work, or print 4 lines of ascii on a separate page as well as the page I want to print. I cannot find any of the Foomatic drivers used on Mandrake 7.2 in the software manager so I am stuck at the moment. I did see a page on Mandrake user.org a while ago about installing a particular revision of foomatic from Mandrake 7.2 which might fix the problem, however I cannot find the page now. Can someone point me in the right direction? BillK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] urpmi doesn't run from script
Try su - -c 'command' Normal su (and kdesu I think) inherit the current user environment, the dash tells it to spawn a new one based on root. There are differences in the default path etc when running programs in this way which can cause obscure failures. BillK On Thu, 2001-11-15 at 07:27, bascule wrote: further to this i have discovered the following: the following script will work when run from a console su'ed to root: #!/bin/sh echo DEFANGED.0 exit #!/bin/bash urpmi.update localcooker so will the following: #!/bin/bash urpmi.update localcooker /dev/null 2 /dev/null neither, when invoked ising alt-f2 and kdesu, will run, i think this is related to why i cannot get the script mentioned below to work from a root cronjob if someone could help me out here i would be very grateful, i cannot work out the difference between 'kdesu /path/to/somescript' and su'ing to root in a console and running '/path/to/somescript' clearly there is but it defeats me bascule On Monday 12 Nov 2001 8:59 pm, you wrote: i have a little script that i run every now and then as follows: #!/bin/bash #this runs rsync to update the local copy of cooker rsync -avL --delete --delete-after fr2.rpmfind.net::linux/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/ /mandrake/cooker/ /dev/null 2 /dev/null #this updates urpmi database urpmi.update localcooker /dev/null 2 /dev/null the problem is that the last line works fine if pasted into a console, and the first line clearly works since i can see both the name of the script and rsync listed in ksysguard, however, urpmi never runs when running the script, i'm probably going to kick myself when i find out what i'm missing but i just can't work out what's wrong since the same urpmi line does work when run manually help gratefully received :-) bascule p.s. anyone wishing to confirm whether i need both --delete options to only delete old files 'after' syncing them-please feel free, the man pages for rsync weren't clear on this point This message has been 'sanitized'. This means that potentially dangerous content has been rewritten or removed. The following log describes which actions were taken. Sanitizer (start=1005781766): Part (pos=2507): SanitizeFile (filename=unnamed.txt, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=2): Enforced policy: accept Defanged UNIX shell script(s). Part (pos=4308): SanitizeFile (filename=message.footer, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=default): Enforced policy: defang Replaced mime type with: application/DEFANGED-1 Replaced file name with: message_footer.DEFANGED-1 Total modifications so far: 2 Anomy 0.0.0 : Sanitizer.pm $Id: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.32 2001/10/11 19:27:15 bre Exp $ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] raid and mandrake
With the release of motherboards such as the ABIT KT7A-raid (highpoint chip) and and addons like the promise ide raid cards, will Mandrake be supporting these boards out of the box in the next version - 8.2 (that is, install and boot from the raid device) BillK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Evolution on Mdk 8.1
Works great - if you build from source and are *very* carefull which rpms you install and which you build outright (from src tarball) The one system I tried using rpm's (from cooker) is still totally screwed, with libpng problems amongst others. The tarball way is a bit tedious but eventually works great without ruining the rest of the system with incompatibilities. BillK On Thu, 2001-11-08 at 20:28, Greg Sarsons wrote: I see all these people posting saying they are using the RC for evolution. Now I'm wondering which of these people are using 8.1. Which rpms should I use as I see ximan only has the rpms for 8.0 Greg This message has been 'sanitized'. This means that potentially dangerous content has been rewritten or removed. The following log describes which actions were taken. Sanitizer (start=1005223177): Part (pos=2376): SanitizeFile (filename=unnamed.txt, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=2): Enforced policy: accept Part (pos=2675): SanitizeFile (filename=message.footer, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=default): Enforced policy: defang Replaced mime type with: application/DEFANGED-1 Replaced file name with: message_footer.DEFANGED-1 Total modifications so far: 1 Anomy 0.0.0 : Sanitizer.pm $Id: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.32 2001/10/11 19:27:15 bre Exp $ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] cups again!
Hi, I have a cups problem under mdk8.1. I am getting a single page with: BJLSTART CONTROLMODE=Common AckTime=Short BJLEND before the printjob proper. Banners are off and I cannot find any settings that would do this. The printdiver is set to BJC6200. BillK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] USB mouse
I am getting the following errors from my USB mouse (MS intellieye). It was originally on a ps2 port (via an adaptor) on anopther motherboard and would occaisionally lock up (once a fortnight). On the new board on a USB port, it locks up quite regularly (twice whilst typing this!). The fix is to rmmod the modules and run mousedrake from a console - X then picks up the change. The lockups appear to be syncronous with disk/cpu/X activity. Do I have a software problem, hardware or is this a known effect of this combination. Athlon 1.4ghz, abit KT7A-raid, mdk8.1 Nov 3 06:09:25 rattus kernel: usb.c: deregistering driver usb_mouse Nov 3 06:09:25 rattus kernel: usb.c: deregistering driver hiddev Nov 3 06:09:25 rattus kernel: usb.c: deregistering driver hid Nov 3 06:10:05 rattus kernel: usb.c: USB disconnect on device 13 Nov 3 06:10:43 rattus kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/2, assigned device number 14 Nov 3 06:10:43 rattus kernel: usb.c: USB device 14 (vend/prod 0x45e/0x25) is not claimed by any active driver. Nov 3 06:10:43 rattus kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usb_mouse Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Unable to specify cooker for software manager
Hi, I am having problems adding a cooker source to the software manager. Security sources are ok, just (any) cooker. Running from a terminal I get the following: ___ 21:42:51 (10.55 KB/s) - `/var/cache/urpmi/partial/hdlist.cz' saved [12773295] parsehdlist: invalid archive /var/cache/urpmi/partial/hdlist.pÝBÀpÝ .cz unable to parse hdlist file of pÝBÀpÝ nothing to write in list file for pÝBÀpÝ nothing written in list file for pÝBÀpÝ unable to update medium pÝBÀpÝ urpmi.addmedia returns with this value: 2 whilst downloading, /var/cache/urpmi/partial/hdlist.cz seems ok, but once complete the error is generated and /var/cache/urpmi/partial/list.??,?pÝ,?B?À?pÝ?? is all that is left in the directory. I think something is corrupt, but what? Any clues anyone? BillK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Mandrake-Linux 8.1 installation problem
Actually it quite often does fail. I installed with a serial mouse and then changed to a usb mouse when the system went into use. It was a couple of frustrated reboots before the hardware realised that the serial mouse had gone and removed it and then on the next boot it found the usb mouse. Could run harddrake/kudzu any number of times manually and it would find the usb mouse, but not do anything about it. Another possibility is changing a serial mouse for a modem on the same comport - the hardware detection does not realise the device has changed, so status quo. It would be handy if the hardware detection allowed you to manually tell it something had changed, but this does not seem to be available. Laptops are another whole can of worms when changing location/hardware configuration. BillK On Tue, 2001-10-30 at 10:40, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: There has GOT to be something wrong with your PS/2 port or I/O chipset. Linux never fails to find the PSAUX port like it's doing on yours AFAIK. Why not try a serial port instead? -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Stephen Liu |Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 9:25 PM |To: Paul Cox |Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake-Linux 8.1 installation problem | | |Hi Paul, | |Thanks for your advice. | |Try this (as root obviously =) : | |rm -fr /lib/dev-state/* |rm -fr /dev/* (ignore any errors because of files in use) | |Tried according to your advice. | |At reboot the PC hanged, screen turning blank (only dark |screen), forcing |me to reset the PC. | |Mandrake-Linux 8.1 re-started but the mouse still died. | |Re-booted second time. PC still hanged with the same warning |as follow: ... /dev/pasux : no such device or |address . | | |Tried second time | | |rm -fr /lib/dev-state/* | |rm : cannot remove '/lib/dev-state/vcs4' : Input/Output error | | |rm -fr /dev/* |same error messages as in the 1st round as follows : | |rm : cannot remove directory '/dev/md' Directory not empty |rm : canot unlink '/dev/pts/0' : operation not permitted |. etc. | |At reboot the PC hanged, screen turning black. Force re-set |brought back |Mandrake-Linux 8.1 but the mouse still died. | |B.R. |Stephen Liu | | | This message has been 'sanitized'. This means that potentially dangerous content has been rewritten or removed. The following log describes which actions were taken. Sanitizer (start=1004434091): Part (pos=2603): SanitizeFile (filename=unnamed.txt, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=2): Enforced policy: accept Part (pos=4182): SanitizeFile (filename=message.footer, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=default): Enforced policy: defang Replaced mime type with: application/DEFANGED-48300 Replaced file name with: message_footer.DEFANGED-48300 Total modifications so far: 1 Anomy 0.0.0 : Sanitizer.pm $Id: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.32 2001/10/11 19:27:15 bre Exp $ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Gigabyte GA-7ZX-1 Bad System Clock (was Re: [newbie]gigabyte GA-7ZXH)
Or use ntp! BillK On Sat, 2001-10-27 at 04:47, Sevatio wrote: Jose, I rebooted my GA-7ZX-1 to Windoze98 and have had it there for more than a day. The time remained accurate to the second. As far as I know, Windoze98 uses only the hardware clock for its timekeeping. OTOH, LM8.0 LM8.1 uses a combination of the PC's hardware clock its system clock. The system clock's time can drift away from the hardware clock's time by over an hour per day. The problem is further exacerbated when the shutdown process instructs the hardware clock to set its time to the screwed-up systemclock. Normally adjtimex can be used to adjust the drift rate of the system clock, LM8.0 LM8.1's drift rate fluctuates wildly rendering adjtimex useless. Since Wind98 and LM7.2 (pre 2.4 era) did not have this problem, I must say that this timer issue is not OS independent and is related to LM8.0 LM8.1 and perhaps any distro out there that uses the 2.4 kernel. I hope that they resolve this sometime in the near future. In the meantime, I'll abstain from purchasing suspect hardware. Sevatio On Wednesday 24 October 2001 10:25am, you wrote: The timer issue is OS independent, and is not related to Linux. 7.2 did not have the routines which attempted to fix the problem AFAIK, whereas 8.x does. -JMS 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
Re: [expert] Unable to burn SCSI CDR/W using Mandrake 8.1
Have a look at the cdwriter howto. There is a simple script in the middle of it which uses cdrecord and modprobe to setup the configuration (for me the problem has always been to load the modules without manual intervention). The error messages can point to the problem if it fails. On my 7.2 system I had to put it in rc.local to force the system to recognise and load the modules on boot as it refused to do it automaticly otherwise. BillK On Thu, 2001-10-25 at 19:44, Rexx Wilson wrote: Thanks for the suggestions. I tried them with no luck. I'm still unable to write to the CD Writer. cdrecord -scanbus (as root) still reports the same information. [root@habanero bin]# cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.10 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver. cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Now: nslookup (and RE: Software Manager)
nslookup has been deprecated (sounds painfull!) - use the host and dig commands instead. BillK On Thu, 2001-10-18 at 16:46, H McM wrote: you need a package called bind-utils. On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 01:03:40 -0600 Ralph Forsythe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I didn't have a username/passwd in the fields, but I have noticed the 6 files on the server. I was on Mandrake 8.0 fwiw, so I just downloaded and burned the ISO's to 8.1 and installed it. Much better... :) On another topic, why aren't things like 'nslookup' installed automatically? What package do I need to put on there to get that very useful little utility? Is this part of the DNS stuff? 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] terminal problem with period char
Hit the key twice and it will appear! Also other puctuation may happen similarly. Fix is to select your language and keyboard within KDE. In my case I use UK English and US int kb (am in Oz) and mdk 7.2 and 8.0 required this. Not up to that stage with my new 8.1 system so dont know if its been fixed yet. Appears to be a locale thingy BillK On Thu, 2001-10-18 at 21:33, Steve wrote: Wierd problem I'm having just recently. After my box has been up for a couple of days the period char won't appear when I type it in a terminal. Using rxvt but the same happens in xterm or aterm. Restarting Xserver fixes the problem, but of course I'd prefer not to have to do that. Any suggestions? Thanks. -- Steve - Toronto ICQ 35454764 /~\ 'If you're not a rebel when you're 20 you've got no heart; if \ / you're not establishment when you're 30 you've got no brain. X Join the ASCII ribbon campaign against HTML email/ \ 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Out of inodes
cd problem_directory
find . -exec rm -f {} \;
man find
BillK
On Thu, 2001-10-04 at 13:41, stephen wrote:
On Thursday 04 October 2001 00:34, you wrote:
On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 09:21, Dave Salovesh wrote:
My /var partiton is out of inodes on my DNS server.
I've tried variations of rm and rmdir, but they all fail for one reason
or another - too many arguments for rm, for one thing, and various
messages that I'm trying to remove a directory for another - even when I
-df it or --ignore-fail-on... it. I just want all those files gone.
How to I clear out that directory?
Did you try :
rm -rf /var/spool/mail
last time i had something similar, i ended up
deleting piecemeal, such that rm -f wouldn't
give 'too many arguments'
fixed with a logrotate update istr
stephen
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Re: [expert] closing ports
ahh ... scanning yourself from the same box is *almost* irrelevant! You need to do it from another box, preferably outside firewalls, ISP's etc to actually see what is exposed to the world, rather just *open* to itself. Whist free scans from grc.com and the like are windows biased, they can at least confirm what your machine looks like to an outside scanner as a confidence check. BillK On Sat, 2001-09-22 at 10:40, Eric Paynter wrote: On September 21, 2001 07:00 pm, you wrote: What is the URL of the self-scan page, BTW? Why not use nmap and nmapfe for scanning? It is available as an RPM in the distribution... -Eric -- arctic bears - email and name services 25 email addresses@yourdomain CA$11.95/month DNS starting at CA$3.49/month - domains from CA$25.95/year for details contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://www.arcticbears.com 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
Re: [expert] kde 2.2.1 0n 8.1
Oh great ... just rsyncing the beta3 to update it ... What (and where) is the proper one (size in bytes perhaps?)? BillK On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 04:19, Tom Badran wrote: On Wednesday 19 September 2001 4:50 pm, you wrote: So sprach »Tom Badran« am 2001-09-19 um 16:40:27 +0100 : RC1 contains 2.2.1 No, it does not. [root@teich ALT]# find /mnt -name kdebase*rpm /mnt/loop1/Mandrake/RPMS/kdebase-devel-2.2-64mdk.i586.rpm /mnt/loop1/Mandrake/RPMS/kdebase-nsplugins-2.2-64mdk.i586.rpm /mnt/loop1/Mandrake/RPMS/kdebase-2.2-64mdk.i586.rpm There are actually 2 versions of RC1 across the mirrors, the proper one does contain it -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Department of Computing, Imperial College 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
[expert] install failed
I am having problems installing mandrake 8.0 on a dell inspiron 8000 laptop. It fails to boot after the install - stopping when it gets to the filesystem. It detects its reiser or ext2 (whichever I installed at the time) and then This does not look like a reiser file system and kernel panic, no root filesystem. I have tried the 2.2.19, 2.4.3 kernels, all the same. Also, mdk7.2 failed to install(locked solid at the testing pcmcia stage) The rescue kernel on the cdrom allows the filesystem to be mounted and browsed with no problems, so I presume there is some argument to lilo needed (grub will not install). There are some items on Linux-laptop about this model, but nothing usefully mandrake specific, or mentioning this type of problem. BillK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Promise 'LI' at boot
Each letter of LILO is a stage in the lilo boot sequence. I cannot remember where I found it, but there is a list somewhere of what stage LI represents so you have a chance of finding what its hung on. BillK On Sat, 2001-09-15 at 10:17, Joan Tur wrote: Hallo! I've changed my K6-III-400 for a Gigabyte 7DXR with a Promise controller 1200 Athlon. My system is on a scsi hd and ide has to boot first in order for win to boot so i've put lilo on hde. But i get 'LI' on startup. I've checked the mail archive and found no sollution for this. Now i'm using a floppy disk to boot. And what i've tryed is: -renaming /dev/hda* to /dev/hda*.bak -ln -s /dev/hda /dev/hde (and so on) and setting the startup hd to either hda or hde 8? Any idea?? Thanks!! ;) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 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
[expert] mdk8.0 install using 2.2.19 kernel
Hi, I am trying to install mdk 8.0 and have failed, I think due to a kernel 2.4 problem. How can I do an install using the 2.2.19 kernel, or one that will install a 2.2.19 kernel instead of 2.4.3? I have tried using the floppy image (cdrom) in cdrom://images/alternative/cdrom.img but that locks up at the testing pmcia cards. Is there another method? BillK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Which Packages?
Run MandrakeUpdate and see what packages it reccomends - Done push the button to download em - do that manually. ftp the packages it lists to /tmp and then cd /tmp and rpm -ivh kernel*.rpm (note the i) and let rpm work out what's needed. It will tell you if something is missing that it needs. BillK On Sun, 2001-09-09 at 20:02, Dennis Myhand wrote: A brief question to the list. I just downloaded the 2.4.8 kernel, source, header, and documentation packages from rpmfind.net, after seeing that the 2.4.7 update was listed in my security update list. I have been reading the notes about NOT using Mandrake update and to do it manually. My question is, which packages and in what order do I install them? Thanks, Dennis in Victoria 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
Re: [expert] mandrake 8.0 on IBM t21
Hi, I have a nice shiny new Dell Inspiron 8000 an will dual boot mdk 8.0 on it in a week or so. The mdk hardware compatibility list just shows that install has been successful, not the detail. Is there a reference somewhere that shows if any special actions need to be taken - the lm-sensors warning and the fact that kde power management has been disabled are important, but nothing like this is mentioned against the T20 in the compatibility guide!!! I am aware of linux-laptop, but I think specifics like this should be mentioned in the hardware compatibility guide, at least for mainstream models mentioned in the guide. BillK civileme wrote: On Thursday 23 August 2001 17:20, Oren Gozlan wrote: Hi, did anyone installed a mdk 8.0 on IBM t21, i have problems all over.. the mouses (trackpoint and ps2) are not detected... the installation freezes at the scsi detection... HELP ??? First, use /images/alternatives/cdrom.img-2.2.19BADZ5--copy to a floppy with dd Then install kernel 2.2 and use it as your boot OR install freq2 or freq3 using that alternative image--both those kernels work with your mouse. And, DON'T EVEN THINK of installing lm_sensors or lm_utils and note that we have pulled the fangs from KDE's power management for laptops. If you circumvent our precautions successfully, your next act will be a factory return for a new motherboard. No kidding lm_sensors and the I2C bus arrangement on IBM laptops (most models since the 600) are incompatible enough to smoke the machine. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[expert] footer shows as an attachment
Has anyone else been getting the footer that is attached to expert messages as an attachment? It triggers my virus scanner, as well as every expert message showing as having an attachment in the mail list! Mandrake, if you are making it an attachment, can you make it a signature or similar, NOT an attachment! BillK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] System not successfully shutting down
Had some redhat 6.2 boxes that randomly started doing that. However, if you left it some minutes, they would successfully shut down. No error messages that I could see, just would stop for a few minutes. How long did you wait? BillK On 08 Aug 2001 13:04:47 -0300, Leonardo T. de Carvalho wrote: Praedor Tempus wrote: So far I can find no error logs to indicate what the problem/hangup is but every time I shutdown my Mandrake 8.0 system, it gets to the shutting down system logger and then just hangs and never powers down. I wait and wait but finally just kill the power. Of course, next time I boot up I have a bunch or inod errors that need fixing. Where can I look to find the problem? Any ideas what would prevent the proper shutdown? Last time I got something like this the case was that a pro gram was writing data to a directory under a mountpoint that got un mounted sucessfully... Did the syslog shotdown properly? Hope this helps. -- Leonardo T. de Carvalho Ibiz Tecnologia Frase aleatória: I demand IMPUNITY!
[expert] 8.0 X config fails
Hi, I am inthe process of installing mdk 8.0 on a machine that has successfully been running 7.1 (XFree 4.0) for more than 12 months. Started with upgrade - locked up at X configuration. OK, probably some of the old files so I'll format and start afresh. Locks up at the same point. Trying to run XFdrake with --noauto etc causes a lockup as well (these are full - a dead machine.) The card is a bog standard S3 virge. The /etc/X11/X symlink is missing so the config didnt even get that far. Any suggestions besides burning it! BillK
[expert] mdk 8.0 on a laptop
Hi, I am looking at a gettting Dell Inspiration 4000 or 8000 laptop (which ...). Only extras are 256M memory and cdrw. Has anyone installed mdk 8.0 on a similar beast, and how successful. It will have to live with win2000, at least for awhile, are there any gotchas (such as can mdk resize ntfs to make room for itself?) BillK
Re: [expert] kmail and attachements
Have a look at mimencode and uudecode BillK On 04 Jul 2001 13:00:07 +0300, Kernell32 wrote: I just got a mail from a friend and there is a picture attached but it doesnt show that to me. How can i fix that here are the first lines i see in kmail what do i have to do ??? This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part3b42c8ddb4585 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part3b42c8ddb4585 Content-Type: image/pjpeg; name=KatzeKaffee.jpg Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 /9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQEASABIAAD/2wBDAAYEBQYFBAYGBQYHBwYIChAKCgkJChQODwwQFxQYGBcU FhYaHSUfGhsjHBYWICwgIyYnKSopGR8tMC0oMCUoKSj/2wBDAQcHBwoIChMKChMoGhYaKCgoKCgo KCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCj/wAARCAHUAUQDASIA and so on ...
Re: [expert] tar question
Its a limitation of most current filesystems including ext2fs and reiserfs to do with handing 32 bit instructions within the code. Pipe the output of smbtar through split with the appropriate arguments to create a multivolume archive. BillK On 01 Jul 2001 13:38:02 -0700, Julia A. Case wrote: Is tar limited to files of 2GB? I upgraded my filesystem from ext2 to reiserfs to jfs and am still having trouble with smbtar creating a backup of a remote windows drive that is more than 2GB. Thanks, Julia -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [Ships are safe inside the harbor, ] [Programmer at large] [ but is that what ships are really for.] [ Admining Linux ] [ To thine own self be true. ] [ Windows/WindowsNT ] [ Fair is where you take your cows to be judged. ]
Re: [expert] 3com 3c90x
May not apply, but saw some problems with slow transfer rates from 3c905c cards in dell machines under redhat 6.2 at work (caused problems with timeouts on nis, automounts etc. - was a lot of slot allocation errors in /var/log/message). A kernel upgrade from 2.2.14 to 2.2.19 fixed the problem which I put down to a driver incompatibility. BillK On 13 Jun 2001 12:27:48 -0700, Aleksey Naumov wrote: Civileme, I am in the same boat with Juha, I have a 3C905B-Combo and just can't get it to work using either DHCP or static setup (but it works in both ways under Win98). civileme wrote: I have three of those cards, identical in model number and decignation 3C905C types. All three run like champs under 8.0 with fixed IPs What driver module do you use? Can you load 3c90x? I get the same problem as Juha when I try to load it. 3c59x loads fine but gets me nowhere (no network connection) One will run with dchp but not with dhcpcd, only with dhcp-client. The others seem to be allergic to dhcp. 3C905Bs have no troubles whatsoever. Are your 3C905Bs combos (i.e. 3C905B-Combo), and if so then what interface do you actually use? Aleksey
Re: [expert] Most Popular Linux Broswers
Maybe only a few ... but an important few (who obviously includes me!). Seriously, text based browsers are in use in various forms for handicapped people as well, and with Lynx you can check alt tags, and other access features etc. Also lynx/links are great if you want something very fast and can also be used for things like the initial ximian install scripts (which is probably not important for a viewable web page!). BillK On 08 Jun 2001 14:55:22 -0400, Michael Leone wrote: What is Mozilla? Mozilla is the open source/freeware version of Netscape 6. I use it sometimes, but I'm not sure how popular it is. It hasn't reached the full release yet. It's only on version 0.9. There are a number of other Linux browsers to think about. 1) Netscape (obviously) 2) Galeon Galeon uses the same engine that Mozilla uses, and so should render pages very closely to Mozilla. 3) Nautilus Nautilus calls on Mozilla to display HTML, doesn't it? It doesn't do it natively. 4) Konqueror 5) Opera Which, as a totally OT BTW, won't work on MS's suppport site - something about it not handling the VBScript there very well. (Altho that may only be the Windows version of Opera) 6) Lynx (this is obviously a worst-case scenario, as Lynx is a text-based browser). Dunno about worst; I know some folks (very few, to be sure) who use it. Of course, they always complain when they go to some site with graphics, or Flash animation, etc.
[expert] ximian mess
Hi, Ive just installed ximian and have made a right mess of it!.. Does anyone know what the configuration applet is called. I hope to be able to start it from an xterm within ximian and undo the damage. The theory is I have selected multiple windows which are overlaying the main window and as it does not have a panel I cannot get to the configuration applet toreselect single. I can get an xterm by clicking on the background, but thats all so far!
Re: [expert] I'm confused... - no space lefdt on device?
As well as this, I note you are using reiserfs. I had a related problem with a directory that contained files I could read but not write, and had size anomolies. Attempts to delete a file in this directory caused a total lockup, but I copied all data to another directory without a problem. Shut down to single user and check with reiserfsck from the reiserfs-utils package. There is an argument that does a check only to see if it can indeed fix the problem. Worked for me. BillK Nick Thompson wrote: Mark, Another way it is possible to loose disk (again, at least on Solaris) is to create a really big directory in your root partition, lets call it /var, and then mount a another partition right on top of if. Now the disk space is still used, but you have no way of seeing it in normal use. I can't think of any good way of debugging this problem, besides dropping to a lower init level and umounting a few things to see if anything is hiding under them. This maybe a bit unlikely, depending on the history of your system, but I can't think of anything else above whats already be suggested. Nick. Mark Weaver wrote: [ More info about his missing disk space]
Re: [expert] I'm confused... - no space lefdt on device?
as root, cd / and du|sort -rn|less May take a while as will list and sort every file on the disk according to size, largest at the top. Note that it will include directory totals which is ok as you can pick up large numbers of small files that way such as occurs with the logrotate and mail problems of the past (which will take forever to list/sort!). BillK Mark Weaver wrote: Craig, Thank you...that information helps me make sense of a few things, but now I'm really stumped cause all that being the case what the heck is eating up all the space on the /? I can't find any large files anywhere except there, and this whole thing started yesterday on this machine just after a run-away MySQL process took off. I had to reboot the machine to kill the process and /dev/hda1 (/) has been at 99% since then. Since this has only happened once before AND on a Mandrake system I'm really at a loss as to what to do about it.
Re: [expert] CUPS again ...
Same Deal - kups etc just mark the job as cancelled, and go's on and prints it anyway! Only seems to work if the job is in the queue behind other jobs. Once it is at the front of the queue, it WILL be printed unless I manually delete the queued data (rm -f). If I select print with the printer POWERED OFF, cancel the printjob (with kups or whatever), wait 5 minutes and then turn the printer on - it still prints. BillK Joan Tur wrote: Bill Kenworthy escribió: How does one delete a print job under cups? I have used lprm, the cups html interface etc but whilst they delete the print job, the data from the current job keeps coming! One even says print job deleted, sending xxx bytes to printer! Needless to say this is a real pain on large documents one wants to stop printing once started. BillK Try kups -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783
[expert] viewer for user-guide.ps or .mif
I am trying to read the user-guide.ps that comes with the berkely mpeg tools. None of the postscript viewers on Mandrake 7.2 will read it (it is postscript created with framemaker according to the header, a damaged file according to xpdf, others ask if it is encrypted(doubtful!), but I think it more likely an incompatible format) - has anyone had any success? There is also a .mif version but I have no idea what reads that files type. BillK
[expert] CUPS again ...
How does one delete a print job under cups? I have used lprm, the cups html interface etc but whilst they delete the print job, the data from the current job keeps coming! One even says print job deleted, sending xxx bytes to printer! Needless to say this is a real pain on large documents one wants to stop printing once started. BillK
Re: [expert] here now, gone tomorrow..
Poor me - 19-22 fps in window, 3 fps full screen - bloody sis video chip and shared memory ... will have to see if dri etc is supported now but wasnt last time I checked. BillK Praedor Tempus wrote: I assure you it DOES matter. First off, gears by default runs in a small window on your desktop. If it is only around 100 FPS at that size, then it will be below 30 FPS fullscreen. This applies to games, which is the main point of having the hardware acceleration (and a decent vid card).
[expert] Kernel 2.2.19 fails to compile
Hi I upgarded my Mandrake 7.2 system to the 2.2.19 kernel but had to return to 2.2.17 as some modules needed by my system were not present. I have just tried to compile a custom kernel and xconfig, menuconfig etc all die with two missing parts. One is net/ipsec/Config.in from freeswan which I grabbed a copy of, but this failed to satisfy it (still looks for freeswan-1.8 - will have to find another copy somewhere)and its also looking for something called security/Common.in which doesnt exist except in the config file. None of the menu programs for the kernel will run. make old-config, make mrproper etc does not clear the error. I was able to compile previous custom kernels on this system with no problems. I think I am missing a package that should have been installed that wasnt present on the older kernel - but which one? BillK
Re: [expert] xanim doest not work (Can't Open /dev/dsp device)
Actually, I thought the correct procedure was to add the user to the audio group, allowing control over who can/cant play sound. I think there is a case to have audio added as a default group to any user created though. BillK Rial Juan wrote: Permissions. I usually make /dev/dsp world writable, that solves the problem. I never understood why only root is allowed to play sound on a freshly installed system; this forces users to either work as root all the time (insecure) or modify the permissions anyway, so why don't modern distros set up the permissions right from the start and save us a couple o' keystrokes?
[expert] anyone know where libfreetype.so.6 is ?
Hi, can someone tell me what package contains libfreetype.so.6? The standard freetype rpms only seem to have the static library (.a). I am trying to install the unsupported kde 2.1.1 rpms and get the following errors: [root@Ralph kde-2.1]# rpm -Fvh *.rpm error: failed dependencies: libfreetype.so.6 is needed by kdeadmin-2.1.1-1mdk etc etc ... Also, how can I query a directory full of uninstalled rpm's for this file - grep is useless, and rpm does not seem to have this function built in, seemingly to only read installed packages. BillK
[expert] kde 7.2 unsupported.
Hi, I am running kde 2.1-2(kde-base)/unsupported. Just tried to check for an unsupported directory to see if there have been any updates but cannot find one. I think the original I used was on sunet, but cannot find that one either. Can someone give a link to an unsupported directory please? BillK
Re: [expert] BT848A and ftp client
Sounds like you you have the wrong or incorrectly set bttv modules loaded (probably tuner). Have you set up modules.conf for your tv card (particularly insmod parameters for the tuner)? If not let me know and I'll post my settings and some references. BillK Wayne Alexander wrote: All, I havea bt848a capture card and cannot get any of the linux software to work with it. None of them let me change any settings, channels etc and kwintv keeps crashing. Any ideas? Also, anyone know a good ftp client? Wayne _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: [expert] HELP: Installing a CD RW drive
Grub lilo dont interact, its either one or the other! In /boot/grub/menu.lst add something like title linux kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17-21mdk-A root=/dev/hda5 vga=791 hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-floppy initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd-2.2.17-21mdk-A.img Example is from my machine. After doing this run "sh install.sh" to write it out to the boot sector and it should work (I hope!) Note that you may need to rebuild the initrd image in some cases. BillK Steven Taetzsch wrote: I just put together a new pc with an AOpen CD RW drive in it, and installed 7.2 from the cd. It's the only CD drive in the system. Now I can't access the CD at all. The hardware configuration tool in DrakConf shows two CD's, one scsi and one ide. After a little research I did the following: - changed the /dev/cdrom link to be pointing to /dev/scd0 using ln -sf /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom - Verified that there is an 'alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi' in the /etc/modules.conf file. - Verified the 'append = 'hdc=ide-scsi' in my lilo.conf file. Is this still used? I'm not sure how grub and lilo interact. - added 'modprobe ide-scsi' to rc.local and re-booted. But I still can't access the drive. BTW, the drive works under windows. Thanks, Steve
Re: [expert] network problems
Check out the "route" command. It is possible that your gateway is the wrong device. All installs of Mandrake on my machine (and recently a laptop at work) have had the gateway default to either the wrong device or ip number (.254) which kills network function stone dead - packets go out, but nothing comes back (of course) BillK Robert wrote: Hi Tom, I've had very similar problems. When I tried this list I got no reply for an answer, so it's not solved. However, I found that if I run ifdown eth0 ifup eth0 on one machine, sometimes both, everything works fine. I might bother putting those in the rc.local. Robert On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Tom Stockton wrote:
Re: [expert] CD-RW - how do I get it working?
Can you do an "lsmod" and post the results along with those from "cdrecord -scanbus". A list of your modules.conf would also be handy. CDRW is a can of worms if you install it into an already running Mandrake system! Also have you run the script from the howto to check your setup (basicly what I requested above), and checked the /dev/cdrom[ 01] link is pointing to the correct place? I recently added a Sony 140E which now works well, but it was close to being installed in a windoze machine just to get a working setup after quite a few hours of work. BillK Praedor Tempus wrote: I recently added a sony atapi cd-rw drive to my 7.2/8.0 system. I have read the howto on this subject and as a result, recompiled my kernel to support scsi emulation and then added 'append="hde=ide-scsi"' to my lilo.conf file for the new kernel. Now, I see no evidence that the CD-RW drive is being seen as "scsi" so I still am unable to burn any CDs with it. What have I missed? This CD-RW drive is the second CDROM drive on my system. I still have my original atapi cdrom, which is handled as IDE by default. -- Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.
Re: [expert] Problem tracing kernel panics on MDK7.2
Hi, you say the problem is very large files - how large? Reiser along with most filesystems on 32 bit machines is limited to approximately 2gbytes per file. If they are trying to drop file files larger than 2gbytes onto the disk, you may need to take other measures ranging from user education, quotas or an alternative file system - upgrading existing modules probably wont help much. I have never tried to go over the limit though I regularly use audio files approaching 2 Gbytes, so what does happen to a Reiser FS when the limit is exceeded? BillK Lieven Van Acker wrote: Allright, I traced the problem down - rather a lucky coincidence - to the fact that listing a certain directory's content causes the crash! Subdirectories of this certain directory are accessible. So the problem lies in the Reiserfs filesystem modules. I consulted the users and it seems they were trying to put very large files on the server. They are not sure of this is the case for the problem dir. So, for now, we know what causes the problem, and the next thing I will try is manually upgrade the kernel and reiserfs modules / utils to see if I can recover from the problem/avoid similar problems in the future.
