Re: [newbie] Urpmi database locked
Lee Wiggers wrote: I closed a shell in the middle of an urpmi update. (Don't ask) Now I get 'urpmi database locked' when I attempt to update. How do I get myself out of this one? Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Reboot your computer... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Buying notebook: tough decision. Help.
I was about to ask the same thing. I'm using a Dell 1100 el cheapo with great satisfaction with mdk 9.2 and win2k in VMware. Love it. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I'm running off of a Dell Inspiron 4150, I've had no prolems. Other than a few routine _fixable_ or known issues with most laptops... ACPI support is one. I still can't plug-in/un-plug my power nor can I close the lid, so to speak. Without Linux freezing. But apparently those two issues are completely fixable, there are a couple of mailing lists and forums, specifically, for linux on laptops... some informational websites ect ect I'm sure if you google the laptops names that you are choosing from you will find a couple of people that maintain that same type of install that you do or that you plan to do. I was lucky enough to contact someone that had the exact same laptop and is a Linux power user of sorts. He helped me greatly. This type of buddy buddy attitude can only be found by the people that know your exact situation. Kind of like It's a Jeep thing you wouldn't understand, same idea. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Konsole Logs? Is there another way to view the details of root sessions... and if so? Where are the elusive little buggers!
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Re: [newbie] Re: Where's my mail?
I have no idea why your messages aren't showing up, but you can find the messages in your home directory. All the mozilla stuff is in a directory in your home directory called .mozilla, so if you're browsing in Konqueror, set it to view hidden files; if you're doing this from the command line, use the command ls -a (without the quotes, of course) rather than plain ls. Inside that directory, there will be a directory for each of your profiles. change to that and you'll see a directory with an incomprehensible name like ivj8x58h.slt. Inside that is your Mail directory which contains your Inbox and any other mail folders you have created. These are stored as humungous text files, so just open the apropriate one in a text editor like Kwrite and use Find with a word that's likely to be in the mail you're looking for. Tedious, I know, but useful for emergencies like this. BTW, I always set Mozilla Mail to only delete messages on the server when I delete them in Mozilla - that way any mail I don't delete is safely sitting on the server (this feature is also very useful if you're connecting from more than one computer - in fact it's the main reason why I use Mozilla rather than KMail). Sir Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Either that, or you can copy and paste everything from Linux in the mail folder of your Mozilla profile. Onto a disk/cd-r or a windows based partition and move it over to a windows based computer/OS. Simply Place the files that you copied over in a fresh profile of mozilla following the directions from the previous poster above. The profiles work and act _ALMOST_ exactly the same between the two operating systems. So if you have a dual booting system you can share the same profile if needed. So it should work if the messages are actually there. Regards, Brandon Erik Bertelsen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I'm baaaaaaacccckkkkk!
Whoa... your doing homework... 'some' people are really anal about the reply-to settings. Deal, I look before I post so should you ;) If the guy says he can't do it, HE CAN'T DO IT stop harrasing the poor man. JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 08:26:48 -0800 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But, in all seriousness, the reply-to screws up people on mailingg lists. If your isp makes you fill it in, is there anyway you could set it to whatever list you are posting to? I just communicated with another IStop user, there is no such requirement, and they've never encountered anything like what lanman is referring to. 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
[newbie] Resetting media sources to the original ISO's mdk9.2
How would one go about setting up the urpmi sources as that of what was originally offered through the mandrake ISO's, you see, I'm having issues with the Easy URPM site, and of course after little reading I blasted the original media that I had on my distro. By typing in the wonderful urpmi.removemedia -a However, now when I try to 'addmedia' it tells me that 'it cannot update medium 'whicheveroneIwastryingtoupdate' Regards, Brandon Erik Bertelsen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Resetting media sources to the original ISO's mdk9.2
Worked like a charm thanks! Johan wrote: On Saturday 06 December 2003 21:43, Brandon Erik Bertelsen wrote: How would one go about setting up the urpmi sources as that of what was originally offered through the mandrake ISO's, you see, I'm having issues with the Easy URPM site, and of course after little reading I blasted the original media that I had on my distro. By typing in the wonderful urpmi.removemedia -a However, now when I try to 'addmedia' it tells me that 'it cannot update medium 'whicheveroneIwastryingtoupdate' Regards, Brandon Erik Bertelsen *** If you have removed all your media like in... urpmi.removemedia -a You will find that your installation CD's are missing from the list To re-add your cd sources do:. Put CD1 in the drive and in root terminal type: urpmi.addmedia --distrib cdrom removable://mnt/cdrom 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: [newbie] Missing Screensavers
Patrick Coffey wrote: Hello, I just installed a fresh copy Mandrake 9.2 with KDE, when I go to Configure Desktop and go under screensavers there are none listed. I've installed just about every KDE rpm I could find and I couldn't find a solution that worked in the archives. Does anybody have an idea? --Pat _ Take advantage of our best MSN Dial-up offer of the year six months @$9.95/month. Sign up now! http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com When you update, they show up. It worked for me :). It's in the Mandrake Control Center... -- Software Packages ( or something like that ) --- Update Packages ( or something like that ) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 9.2. Many proprietary apps gone...
Everything for Mandrake and Gnome are gone. I still have KDE so I can still activate things and use the OS to a degree. But things like... Mandrake Control Center 9.2, Configure your computer, HardDrake, DrakConf ( sorry if I'm repeating things these are just my visual methods of reaching a goal.. so I'm listing what I would usually use to accomplish such a task ) Evolution, ect... all gone... I seriously don't understand what happened. The only major changes that I have made was to update urpmi @ http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php and installed Never Winter Nights ( and played a little ) It seems that everything is fine EXCEPT all the mandrake stuff that makes the operating system so valuable. I still have internet access and the computer functions properly, imagine in windows, you just LOSE the 'add/remove programs', or for that matter the entire control panel... and all applications that came with the disks... Thanks in advance, Brandon Erik Bertelsen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How do I cause all activated hyperlinks to be opened with the same browser?
So far I've used the KDE Control Menu to raise the priority of my browser of choice, specifically, Mozilla Firebird. However, I'm still noticing a few incidences where other programs direct hyper links to a different browser. For example, Evolution, opens Galleon. So I un-installed Galleon ;).. Then it started using Mozilla, so I un installed it ( which caused problems with my ability to view flash media, so I re-installed it ) While Mozilla was un-installed Evolution pointed to Konqueror... It seems I can't win with this program. Also, Kopete, does something similarly annoying, it does use my first choice browser, however, it downloads the link locally, and if there are any relatively referenced hyper links in the page I can't continue navigation without copypaste, which is slightly agitating. Is there any way to fix these programs, such that they deal with hyper links in a manner that would be expectable? Thanks in advance, Brandon Erik Bertelsen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] using a shortcut to gain access to a PPOE connection to the internet
Greetings all, I am using a PPOE connection to the Internet. The connection works perfectly, however, I would like to create a shortcut on my desktop that initializes the connection. So far the only way that I can create the connection is through: Configure Your Computer ( Mandrake Control Center, which requires root access ) -- Network Internet -- DrakConnect -- and Pushing the connect button in the dialogue window. Subsequently, another method is to create the connection in a manner that accesses the connection at boot up. Which, takes a very long time in my opinion. Does anyone know of a way to create a shortcut to a specific connection profile on the desktop, without having to use root access and without loading the connection at boot. Regards and Thanks in advance, Brandon Erik Bertelsen www.Bertelsen.ca - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Distribution: Mandrake Linux 9.2 Dell Inspiron 4150, 1.7 P4-mobile, 256 MB ram, ATI 7500 32 MB, 30 GB HDD Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Connecting From 9.2
Hi all.
I finally got 9.2 installed yesterday. It has so many changes it's
almost like learning a new distro. I'm sure I'll have many questions in
the coming weeks, but for now my question is: How do I connect to the
Internet from my desk top. At this point my only choice is to open the
Mandrake Control Center select Networking and click on the
connect/disconnect button. There just has to be an easier way.
Thanks again for the help.
LTR }}:{(
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On Sunday 23 November 2003 11:05 am, Brandon Erik Bertelsen wrote:
Greetings all,
I am using a PPOE connection to the Internet. The connection
works perfectly, however, I would like to create a shortcut on
my desktop that initializes the connection. So far the only way
that I can create the connection is through:
Configure Your Computer ( Mandrake Control Center, which
requires root access ) -- Network Internet -- DrakConnect
-- and Pushing the connect button in the dialogue window.
Subsequently, another method is to create the connection in a
manner that accesses the connection at boot up. Which, takes a
very long time in my opinion.
Does anyone know of a way to create a shortcut to a specific
connection profile on the desktop, without having to use root
access and without loading the connection at boot.
Regards and Thanks in advance,
Brandon Erik Bertelsen
www.Bertelsen.ca- [EMAIL PROTECTED]- Distribution: Mandrake
Linux 9.2 Dell Inspiron 4150, 1.7 P4-mobile, 256 MB ram, ATI
7500 32 MB, 30 GB HDD
I always use rp-prpoe instead of drakconnect. You'll need
rp-pppoe-gui-3.5-3mdk
rp-pppoe-3.5-3mdk
(those are on a 10.0 system, you might have older versions on
your CD's. They may have even already been installed.)
After those are installed, run (as root) 'adsl-setup' which
asks you about 6 or 7 questions. It's very easy. Then (as root)
run 'tkpppoe'. That should bring up a little GUI, already
configured for your connection. Click on the tabs on top and
about all you need to change is to check the box by allow use by
non-root users.
When you installed rp-pppoe-gui it should have added a menu
item under Networking | Remote access | Tkpppoe Clicking on
that will start the GUI, with Start, Stop, Exit buttons. You
should be able to start your connection as user by clicking on
Start. There's a little window in the upper left that turns green
when you're connected, turns yellow under data load. If you want
a desktop icon all you need to do is create one pointing
to /usr/bin/tkpppoe . I just start it from the menu, and after
the connection is made, minimize it to the taskbar.
You might wanna watch it for a little while, just under the
little 'green' window there's a moving graph, and numerical
readouts of up and down speeds. 'Course if you minimize it to
the task bar you can bring it back up at any time to check
connection speed.
Now that's all from memory, so before you start, after the
rpms are installed, paste file:/usr/share/tkpppoe/tkpppoe.html
into any browser and read the docs. They're very clear and
simple, even has screen shots ;) If you want even more info
http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/rp-pppoe/index.php
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Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
