[newbie] Installing a bootloader after the fact
I installed Mandrake 10.1 via ftp on a second drive configured as a slave. It would be accessed in a multiboot environment using a boot manager like GAG. So I didn't install a boot loader thinking that GAG would handle this. But when GAG identifies the Mandrake / partition on this drive and I attempt to boot from it, I get an error stating: Boot sector not found or invalid. So my question is, without reinstalling, can I go back and install a boot loader on the / partition of the Mandrake install on the second disk? Thanks. -- Cheers, Trey --- Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. -- G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday 10:41AM up 30 mins, 0 users, load averages: 0.05, 0.14, 0.15 FreeBSD salamander.thesizemores.net 5.3-STABLE i386 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] [OT] sylpheed-claws gtk2 cvs
On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 19:50:19 -0400 Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 18:13:12 -0500 John Drouhard wrote: The *only* thing wrong with it at this point is that it doesn't compile with pgpmime or gnupg correctly. You need to use libgpgme03_6-devel Charles I'm getting the following error on 'make' when installing the CVS version of claws (gtk2 on Mandrake 10.1 beta): matcher_parser_lex.o matcher_parser_lex.c; \ then mv -f .deps/matcher_parser_lex.Tpo .deps/matcher_parser_lex.Po; else rm -f .deps/matcher_parser_lex.Tpo; exit 1; fi In file included from matcher_parser_lex.l:26: matcher_parser_parse.h:90: error: conflicting types for 'YYSTYPE' matcher_parser_parse.h:90: error: previous declaration of 'YYSTYPE' was here matcher_parser_parse.h:91: error: conflicting types for 'matcher_parserlval' matcher_parser_parse.h:91: error: previous declaration of 'matcher_parserlval' was here matcher_parser_parse.h:91: error: conflicting types for 'matcher_parserlval' matcher_parser_parse.h:91: error: previous declaration of 'matcher_parserlval' was here make[4]: *** [matcher_parser_lex.o] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/trey/sylpheed-claws/src' make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/trey/sylpheed-claws/src' make[2]: *** [all] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/trey/sylpheed-claws/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/trey/sylpheed-claws' make: *** [all] Error 2 I have recently installed yacc and flex per earlier error messages, but I'm confused here as to what the issue might be. Any ideas? -- Cheers, Trey The climate of Bombay is such that its inhabitants have to live elsewhere. Linux salamander 2.6.8-6cvs20040902123957-default #1 Thu Sep 2 12:39:57 UTC 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux 12:48pm up 1 day 14:23, 3 users, load average: 0.06, 0.16, 0.16 pgpbn0j0e3Wro.pgp Description: PGP signature
[newbie] Change time from UTC to local
I've noticed that when I'm logged in to my MDK 10.1 beta desktop, the time appears to be 4 hours behind the actual EST timezone. I assume this is because it thinks the computer time is UTC versus local. However, I don't see where to go change this. I looked at drakconf, and although I can change the time and set the timezone, I don't see the option to choose the hardware clock is local time vs. UTC. Can someone shine a light here? Thanks. -- Cheers, Trey --- At a given moment I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing. - Ugo Betti 6:10pm up 0:08, 2 users, load average: 0.30, 1.09, 0.85 Linux linux 2.6.7-4cvs20040813134657-default #1 Fri Aug 13 13:46:57 UTC 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] Change time from UTC to local - SOLVED
On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 19:24 -0400, Trey Sizemore wrote: I can change the time zone, that's not the problem. MDK thinks the hardware clock is UTC and not local time. That's what I have to change. I'm dual booting with another *nix and that throws the time off because my system clock keeps getting reset. One OS correctly interprets the time as local and the other (MDK) as UTC. Changing just the time in one throws the other off. Replying to my own post. Solved this by changing the line to 'UTC=false' in /etc/sysconfig/clock. -- Cheers, Trey --- Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. -- Henry Fielding 8:33pm up 2:31, 2 users, load average: 0.32, 0.20, 0.12 Linux linux 2.6.7-4cvs20040813134657-default #1 Fri Aug 13 13:46:57 UTC 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[newbie] Can't install jpackage sources
I've got Mandrake 10.1 beta1 installed and am in the process of doing some upgrades. I've managed to get main, contrib, and PLF sources installed, but I'm having some issues getting jpackage. I think this is where I get the java packages from. Here's the error I'm getting (I've tried several jpackage mirrors with the same result): [EMAIL PROTECTED] trey]# urpmi.addmedia jpackage ftp://ftp.uio.no/linux/Mandrakelinux/devel/cooker/i586/media/jpackage with media_info/hdlist.cz added medium jpackage examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.plf.cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.contrib.cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.main.cz] retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of jpackage... ftp://ftp.uio.no/linux/Mandrakelinux/devel/cooker/i586/media/jpackage/media_info/hdlist.cz ...retrieving failed: curl: (9) Couldn't cd to media_info retrieval of source hdlist (or synthesis) failed no hdlist file found for medium jpackage examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.jpackage.cz] problem reading synthesis file of medium jpackage unable to update medium jpackage Is this a problem with the mirrors or can I do something different? Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Adding another Linux distro to MDK lilo.conf
I originally had on SUSE 9.1 installed on my HD. When I added MDK 10.1, I chose not to install the bootloader as I was going to make an entry in the SUSE grub.conf to boot MDK 10.1. For some reason, MDK overwrote the MBR anyway and now I have lilo with MDK options and I'd like to add SUSE as an option (currently on hda1). It's been a while since I played with lilo. Do I need to first make an entry in /etc/fstab for SUSE on /dev/hda1 and *then* add an entry in lilo.conf for SUSE? This is what I changed in the MDK lilo.conf file: default=linux boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map keytable=/boot/us.klt prompt nowarn timeout=100 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda8 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda7 splash=silent vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hda8 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda7 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hda8 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=failsafe acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda7 devfs=nomount read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.5-25cvs20040728163444-default label=SUSE root=/dev/hda1 read-only but the issue is that there's no such thing as /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.5-25cvs20040728163444-default as far as MDK is concerned. I'm brain-farting here. Could someone lend a hand? Here's my current /etc/fstab file as well: /dev/hda8 / reiserfs notail 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda9 /home reiserfs notail 1 2 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hda8 and /dev/hda9 are MDK / and /home respectively. SUSE has /dev/hda1, /dev/hda5, and /dev/hda6 as /, /usr, and /home respectively. Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kopete Questions
On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 19:15, Sevatio wrote: Hi everyone, How do you make Kopete Chat send your line of text upon hitting the Enter Key instead of having to hit Ctrl-Enter? 2nd Question: How do you restore the menu on Kopete Chat? Thanks, Sevatio For your first question, it's Settings - Configure Shortcuts (The one you want to change is Send Message). Choose 'Custom' then the 'Enter' key. I'm not sure what you're asking in the second question. Please clarify. -- Cheers, Trey --- No lake so still but that it has its wave; No circle so perfect but that it has a blur. I would change things for you if I could; As I can't, you must take them as they are. -Han fei Tzu 11:03:17 up 5 days, 3:53, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.02 Linux salamander 2.6.5 #1 SMP Mon Apr 5 01:03:13 PDT 2004 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[newbie] Updates to MDK 10 Community
I've got Mandrake 10 Community installed on my box and want to check for upgrades. Using the Easy URPMI site for Cooker sources, I get a lot of erroneous results (such as packages tagged installed but outdated). Is there a better source to use for updates to the Community Release? Thanks, -- Cheers, Trey --- There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has not yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day. - Friedrich Nietzsche 09:51:50 up 3 days, 2:47, 1 user, load average: 0.15, 0.09, 0.09 Linux salamander 2.6.4 #1 SMP Wed Mar 10 23:59:57 PST 2004 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[newbie] Adding entry to lilo.conf
I currently have both Windows and Mandrake 10 RC-1 installed on my HD using lilo to dual boot. I have added Arch Linux 0.6 to the mix and want to be able to boot this from lilo. Before I hose something up, I just wanted to ask the correct way to add this to lilo. Is it as simple as adding an entry like 'image-/dev/hda9' and 'label=Arch' to my /etc/lilo.conf. If I want to access the Arch drives from Mandrake, would I also need to add the entries to my fstab? Attached are my existing lilo.conf and fstab files. The Arch root partition is on /dev/hda9. Thanks for the input. /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda8 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,umask=0,exec 0 0 /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,umask=0,exec 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda7 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 none /mnt/hd supermount dev=/dev/sda1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850 0 0 # File generated by DrakX/drakboot # WARNING: do not forget to run lilo after modifying this file boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map default=linux keytable=/boot/am_old.klt prompt nowarn timeout=100 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount acpi=ht read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6 label=262-3 root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.img append=devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=failsafe acpi=ht devfs=nomount read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=windows table=/dev/hda other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do I install Mandrake and 'triple boot'?
On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 09:42, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2004 09:27 am, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2004 05:20 am, Johan wrote: On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 01:17:40 -0500 Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 00:33, Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: snip As far as I know, Grub should be ok with this, but don't hold me to it. What should I say to the bootloader option when installing Mandrake? MBR? The MBR = yes NO, NO, NO You want to install mandrake bootloader in partition, not on MBR. You will not be able to boot SuSE if you do this. You want to chainload Mandrake bootloader just like windows. Install Mandrake's bootloader in the root partition and then boot to linux and add a stanza to Grub's menu.lst kind of like the windows one title WindowsXP root (hd0,0) chainloader +1 title Mandrake root (hd0,7) == Put the drive partition number that you installed chainloader +1 Mandrake on here. Remember that 1st partition is zero. As a follow up, you can make Grub boot Mandrake directly off of the MBR, but you have to let one of the Linux distros be the Grub master so to speak. Once you get all three booting using the chainloader, you can try booting to Suse and then adding a stanza to boot mandrake right off of its own partition. This is the way I do it, my Grub menu.lst This may be beyond the realm of my current understanding. Here's my current /boot/grub/menu.lst in SUSE: ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title Linux kernel (hd0,6)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda7 vga=0x314 splash=silent desktop hdd=ide-scsi hddlun=0 showopts initrd (hd0,6)/boot/initrd ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows### title Windows root (hd0,0) chainloader +1 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: floppy### title Floppy root (fd0) chainloader +1 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe### title Failsafe kernel (hd0,6)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda7 showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off vga=normal nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 3 initrd (hd0,6)/boot/initrd ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: memtest86### title Memory Test kernel (hd0,6)/boot/memtest.bin And my filesystem setup (although swap doesn't appear to be displayed??): linux:~ # df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda7 65G 7.9G 57G 13% / /dev/hda1 5.9G 2.5G 3.4G 43% /windows/C tmpfs 252M 0 252M 0% /dev/shm So I guess I still don't understand: 1) Will Mandrake offer the ability to resize my ReiserFS SUSE partition? 2) Will Mandrake share utilize the existing SWAP partition already setup for SUSE? 3) What should I choose at the bootloader step to get Mandrake to appear as an option in my current bootloader menu? Thanks again for your patience and replies! -- Cheers, Trey --- Do not seek death; death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment. --Dag Hammarskjold Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How do I install Mandrake and 'triple boot'?
I have a machine currently setup with Win2000 (6GB) and SUSE 9.0 taking up the remainder of an 80GB hard drive. I downloaded the ISOs for Mandrake 10 Beta 2 and wanted to give it a try on this machine. I'm currently using GRUB as my bootloader. How would I go about installing Mandrake such that I have a triple boot environment? Will it natively offer to resize the SUSE partition to make room or should I use something like Partition Magic to resize them? Once done, how should the bootloader be handled so that I can choose any of the three to boot into? If someone has done something like this before, I'd appreciate the input! Thanks. -- Cheers, Trey --- The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper. - Aristotle Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How do I install Mandrake and 'triple boot'?
On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 00:33, Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: snip As far as I know, Grub should be ok with this, but don't hold me to it. What should I say to the bootloader option when installing Mandrake? MBR? Thanks -- Cheers, Trey --- No lake so still but that it has its wave; No circle so perfect but that it has a blur. I would change things for you if I could; As I can't, you must take them as they are. --Han fei Tzu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] No sound with onboard VIA VT8233 sound card
I have a new motherboard with an onboard VIA VT8233 sound card. I have installed MDK 10 beta 2. Looks great, runs fast, but no sound. I have run alsamixer to ensure volumes are up (although I didn't see a 'master' volume category.). I've also looked at kmix to see if the volume levels are right there, and that it is not muted. The MCC Hardware section shows the card, and it's using the snd-via82xx driver. Not sure what else to check (the speakers are plugged in and this is a dual-boot machine currently with Win2000 where I can get sound). Hoping that someone else had similar onboard sound and could point me in the right direction. Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Is Easy URPMI site down?
Can't access the site and wanted to install sources to use URPMI. Thanks. Trey Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] nVidia GeForce4 MX440 drivers
Just got a new machine and want to install the new Mandrake 10 Beta 2. I have an nVidia GeForce4 MX440 card on this machine (Pentium 4) and was wondering what is the best way to get it working. Should I be looking at the nVidia site for drivers or use the Open Source alternatives? In either case, what specific driver? I don't know that I'll be using the machine much for gaming (and therefore 3D support not such a big deal). Thanks for your advice and experience with these drivers. -Trey -- Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KDE Kmenu list of programs
Is there a file that I can go to (and better yet print) that shows the structure/hierarchy of programs in my KDE menu? I want to make sure that I can replicate this structure in future installs (Mandrake other). -- Cheers, Trey --- There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another which states that this has already happened. -- Douglas Adams signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] KDE Kmenu list of programs
On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 19:27, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 21 Dec 2003 11:58 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: Is there a file that I can go to (and better yet print) that shows the structure/hierarchy of programs in my KDE menu? I want to make sure that I can replicate this structure in future installs (Mandrake other). The structure of your menus is automatic and is defined by the packager of the RPMS you install. Every time you install a Mandrake RPM the RPM package will place a file in the directory /usr/lib/menu This file dictates which menu section it will appear in. If you want an application to appear in a different section you can override the default by editing /etc/menu-methods/kde3 See 'man update-menus' for a full description. You can also set menudrake to use 'user' menus instead of 'system' menus and use the GUI to define where applications appear in your menu. These settings will be stored in your /home directory and should survive a future install (So long as you do not format /home). derek I appreciate the explanation. I like the way my menu is currently organized and assuming the same packages are installed I want to be able to go to Applications - Archiving - Cd burning to find Arson, k3b, and others. I just want to be able to print the way its set up now so I can set it up like this in other environments/distributions for consistency. Is there a way to see this or am I out of luck? -- Cheers, Trey --- There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has not yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day. - Friedrich Nietzsche signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] KDE Kmenu list of programs
On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 19:54, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 22 Dec 2003 12:44 am, Trey Sizemore wrote: On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 19:27, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 21 Dec 2003 11:58 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: Is there a file that I can go to (and better yet print) that shows the structure/hierarchy of programs in my KDE menu? I want to make sure that I can replicate this structure in future installs (Mandrake other). The structure of your menus is automatic and is defined by the packager of the RPMS you install. Every time you install a Mandrake RPM the RPM package will place a file in the directory /usr/lib/menu This file dictates which menu section it will appear in. If you want an application to appear in a different section you can override the default by editing /etc/menu-methods/kde3 See 'man update-menus' for a full description. You can also set menudrake to use 'user' menus instead of 'system' menus and use the GUI to define where applications appear in your menu. These settings will be stored in your /home directory and should survive a future install (So long as you do not format /home). derek I appreciate the explanation. I like the way my menu is currently organized and assuming the same packages are installed I want to be able to go to Applications - Archiving - Cd burning to find Arson, k3b, and others. I just want to be able to print the way its set up now so I can set it up like this in other environments/distributions for consistency. Is there a way to see this or am I out of luck? Like I said. Future installs will put the apps in exactly the same place they are now. If you like the way it is you do not have to do anything. If you want it different use menudrake in user mode. derek But if I use a distribution other than Mandrake, this will not be the case. For example, if I want to mimic the KDE menu currently in use on my Mandrake box on a Debian box or Fedora box. I want to recreate the ordering as I have it now, but I need a snapshot of the current organizational structure with the associated programs. -- Cheers, Trey --- There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another which states that this has already happened. -- Douglas Adams signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] Can't login to X due to no room on root (/)
Lee Wiggers wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 11:19:59 +0200 robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 16 Dec 2003 4:24 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: Computer was working like a champ a few days ago. Tried to start backup yesterday and saw one of the messages during boot up say something tothe effect of (sorry not in front of the machine now): No room on / [0] expecting [2] I haven't done anything new to the setup or installed/upgraded anythingnew. Something I thought was weird (and I'm sure it's just my understanding),but when I did an 'ls -al' on my /home directory, I remembered that Istill have a couple of .iso images taking up some space (this is a 25GBdrive). So just out of curiosity I deleted them freeing up a couple ofgigs. But when I restarted the machine I got the same message aboutroot (/) being full then taking me to the CLI login after some failedattempts to start X. Just looking for some next steps and ultimately finding out why thishappened. Thanks. If those iso images were on a different partition that could explain why deleting them did not help. There could be a few things using up your / partition. You may have some core dumps. Look in /root, / , or /home for any file beginning with 'core' They may be safely deleted. It could also be your logs have reached a vast size. Look in /var/log for huge log files. To stop your log files becoming huge install the anacron package. It will make the 'logrotate' job run daily to compress and delete old logs. It's worth checking /tmp as well. Running tmpwatch (as root) will clean up files in /tmp that are older than a time you specify e.g. tmpwatch -vs 5 /tmp will clean up any files older than five hours which aren't currently open and print a list of deleted files. Sir Robin -- Certitude is possible for those who only own one encyclopedia. - Robert Anton Wilson Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin For future ref try kdirstat. I run it now and then to get an idea how the file system is shaping up. I just ran it and noticed that OpenOffice is a little piggy. Lee I have gotten rid of some large files in /var/log, /tmp is empty and I still have my 5.9G of / used up. Until I can track down where the excessively large file(s) is/are, I wanted to 'reallocate' some of my /home partition (currently using 14%) to give to / so I can boot into X (then KDE). I understand from some research that parted can be used for this, but was unsure of the command(s) to essentially give 2G to the / partition. Would anyone be able to help? Thanks a lot. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't login to X due to no room on root (/) - FIXED
Trey Sizemore wrote: Lee Wiggers wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 11:19:59 +0200 robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 16 Dec 2003 4:24 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: Computer was working like a champ a few days ago. Tried to start backup yesterday and saw one of the messages during boot up say something tothe effect of (sorry not in front of the machine now): No room on / [0] expecting [2] I haven't done anything new to the setup or installed/upgraded anythingnew. Something I thought was weird (and I'm sure it's just my understanding),but when I did an 'ls -al' on my /home directory, I remembered that Istill have a couple of .iso images taking up some space (this is a 25GBdrive). So just out of curiosity I deleted them freeing up a couple ofgigs. But when I restarted the machine I got the same message aboutroot (/) being full then taking me to the CLI login after some failedattempts to start X. Just looking for some next steps and ultimately finding out why thishappened. Thanks. If those iso images were on a different partition that could explain why deleting them did not help. There could be a few things using up your / partition. You may have some core dumps. Look in /root, / , or /home for any file beginning with 'core' They may be safely deleted. It could also be your logs have reached a vast size. Look in /var/log for huge log files. To stop your log files becoming huge install the anacron package. It will make the 'logrotate' job run daily to compress and delete old logs. It's worth checking /tmp as well. Running tmpwatch (as root) will clean up files in /tmp that are older than a time you specify e.g. tmpwatch -vs 5 /tmp will clean up any files older than five hours which aren't currently open and print a list of deleted files. Sir Robin -- Certitude is possible for those who only own one encyclopedia. - Robert Anton Wilson Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin For future ref try kdirstat. I run it now and then to get an idea how the file system is shaping up. I just ran it and noticed that OpenOffice is a little piggy. Lee I have gotten rid of some large files in /var/log, /tmp is empty and I still have my 5.9G of / used up. Until I can track down where the excessively large file(s) is/are, I wanted to 'reallocate' some of my /home partition (currently using 14%) to give to / so I can boot into X (then KDE). I understand from some research that parted can be used for this, but was unsure of the command(s) to essentially give 2G to the / partition. Would anyone be able to help? Thanks a lot. After doing a 'find / -mount -size +50k -print' I found a /backup directory that contained the Mandrake 9.2 3-disk set. I moved them to my home partition and now all seems well. With the freely allocated space available, I am now able to start the X server. Thanks to everyone for their helpful suggestions! Yippee! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Can't login to X due to no room on root (/)
Computer was working like a champ a few days ago. Tried to start back up yesterday and saw one of the messages during boot up say something to the effect of (sorry not in front of the machine now): No room on / [0] expecting [2] I haven't done anything new to the setup or installed/upgraded anything new. Something I thought was weird (and I'm sure it's just my understanding), but when I did an 'ls -al' on my /home directory, I remembered that I still have a couple of .iso images taking up some space (this is a 25GB drive). So just out of curiosity I deleted them freeing up a couple of gigs. But when I restarted the machine I got the same message about root (/) being full then taking me to the CLI login after some failed attempts to start X. Just looking for some next steps and ultimately finding out why this happened. Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't login to X due to no room on root (/)
Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 16 Dec 2003 4:24 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: Computer was working like a champ a few days ago. Tried to start back up yesterday and saw one of the messages during boot up say something to the effect of (sorry not in front of the machine now): No room on / [0] expecting [2] I haven't done anything new to the setup or installed/upgraded anything new. Something I thought was weird (and I'm sure it's just my understanding), but when I did an 'ls -al' on my /home directory, I remembered that I still have a couple of .iso images taking up some space (this is a 25GB drive). So just out of curiosity I deleted them freeing up a couple of gigs. But when I restarted the machine I got the same message about root (/) being full then taking me to the CLI login after some failed attempts to start X. Just looking for some next steps and ultimately finding out why this happened. Thanks. If those iso images were on a different partition that could explain why deleting them did not help. There could be a few things using up your / partition. You may have some core dumps. Look in /root, / , or /home for any file beginning with 'core' They may be safely deleted. It could also be your logs have reached a vast size. Look in /var/log for huge log files. To stop your log files becoming huge install the anacron package. It will make the 'logrotate' job run daily to compress and delete old logs. derek It says that root (/) is full, and the iso images were in /home/trey so doesn't that count against root or am I having a conceptual error here. When I get back I'll try to isolate where the space hogs are using df and du again. I think it was the du command that showed file sizes but if there was a directory I would no see the sizes of files within the directory. It may be log files and I'll check into that as well. Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Konqueror not using installed Flash Java
I'm running MDK 9.2 with KDE 3.1.4. Mozilla, Firebird, and Galeon use the installed Java and Flash with no problem. I thought Konqueror was supposed to use the same plugins if they're installed, but mine doesn't. Can't seem to get Java and Flash working with Konq. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Epson Stylus C84 Colour Inkjet printer
On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 09:06, John Richard Smith wrote: Anyone had any experience with Epson Stylus C84 Colour Inkjet printer under Mandrake ? John Can't answer specifically about the C84, but if it helps I'm using the C82 model and it works great. Great print quality using CUPS Gimp-Print and with mtink I'm able to see the ink levels. Maybe trivial, but I like it ;-) -- Cheers, Trey --- Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. -- G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[newbie] Adding SCSI emultation to a second drive
I have a CD-RW drive as well as a plain CD drive (both IDE). When setting up k3b for CD burning, k3b automatically enables the CD-RW for SCSI emulation and makes the appropriate changes in /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf. Now I want to add SCSI emulation to the CD drive so I can copy from CD to CDRW. From what I have gathered from searching the archives I would need to make the following changes to these files: - in /etc/fstab, change /dev/hdd to /dev/scd1 - in etc/lilo.conf add to the append line 'hdd=ide-scsi' (without the quotes). Then run lilo to have the change take effect. Assuming all this is correct, would I then need to reboot in order to see the changes and begin using the CD drive in k3b? In input or corrections/additions are appreciated. Also noticed that in /etc/fstab I have 2 entries for the CDRW: /mnt/cdrom and /mnt/cdwriter. Is it worth correcting this, and if so which should be removed? Thanks. -- Cheers, Trey --- There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has not yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day. - Friedrich Nietzsche /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/camera auto user,exec,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto codepage=850,ro,user,nosuid,iocharset=iso8859-1,nodev,noauto 0 0 /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto codepage=850,ro,user,nosuid,iocharset=iso8859-1,nodev,noauto 0 0 /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/cd /mnt/cdwriter auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto sync,codepage=850,user,nosuid,nodev,noauto,unhide,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,codepage=850,exec,kudzu 0 0 boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map default=linux keytable=/boot/us.klt prompt nowarn timeout=100 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off quiet vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=nomount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off failsafe read-only other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] KDE Desktop sharing through a router
julian wrote: On Saturday 15 November 2003 10:02 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: I want to use the KDE Desktop sharing application, but have a Linksys router installed. So the IP address that the desktop sharing gives me is my internal IP. What do I need to do to authorize desktop sharing on the machine. I suppose I first need to find the IP assigned by my IP (in the Linksys router setup?). How then do I authorize a connection through the router to my machine? Thanks, You will need to open a port on your router. The details on this depend on the router. Typically you tell it what port you want to open, and the lan IP of the computer to which traffic on that port should go. You can set the port here: control center-internetnetwork-destop sharing-network tab It looks like it uses port 5900 by default, so try opening that first. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I'll try this...thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KDE Desktop sharing through a router
I want to use the KDE Desktop sharing application, but have a Linksys router installed. So the IP address that the desktop sharing gives me is my internal IP. What do I need to do to authorize desktop sharing on the machine. I suppose I first need to find the IP assigned by my IP (in the Linksys router setup?). How then do I authorize a connection through the router to my machine? Thanks, -- Trey pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[newbie] Organizing bookmarks
I have accumulated bookmarks in each of 3 browsers (Mozilla, Firebird, and Galeon) over time and I'm ready to clean house. I'm looking to either import from one into another or find some way that they can all 3 share a common set of bookmarks. I tend to use Firebird the majority of the time, so I wouldn't mind just consolidating there. I'd appreciate any ideas from someone who's done this. -- Cheers, Trey --- There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has not yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day. - Friedrich Nietzsche signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[newbie] Looking for good digital image manager
I'm looking for something like PixiePlus for categorizing and editing digital photos. PixiePlus is pretty good, but I'm looking at alternatives. I've also tried GQview. So what are the favorites out there? Thanks. -- Cheers, Trey --- signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[newbie] Looking for Squid How-To
Anyone have a good starting point for a Squid newbie. The website left a little to be desired and google didn't turn up much of use. Thanks -- Cheers, Trey --- At a given moment I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing. - Ugo Betti signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] Problems accessing hard/removeable drives
deedee wrote: On 10/17/2003 7:03:19 PM EDT, Trey Sizemore wrote: I am getting error message 'Could not enter /mnt/zip' (or any other drive) when I select the icon from the desktop. I can run 'mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip' as root and then access the drive, but was looking for the convenience of selecting the drives (CD, CDRW, Zip, etc.) as needed with desktop icons. I don't know if you've gotten any help with this so far. I have another 200 or so messages from the Mandrake lists to read yet :^). So in case you haven't, the problem that I see is the lack of user in the /etc/fstab. The following entries need to be and have been changed to allow for users to mount and unmount the components. none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,user,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/hdd,fs=auto,user,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,user,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/removable supermount dev=/dev/sda1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,user,codepage=850,kudzu,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 none /mnt/zip supermount dev=/dev/sda4,fs=ext2:vfat,--,user,kudzu,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/zip2 supermount dev=/dev/sdb4,user,fs=ext2:vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,kudzu 0 0 none /mnt/camera supermount dev=/dev/sdb1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,user,codepage=850,kudzu 0 0 The other entries either have user included already or don't need it for user access. deedee Registered Linux User #327485 Visit WordStar GNU/Linux http://www.wordstar2.com Also, see the WordStar Users Group http://www.wordstar2.com/cbabbage/wordstar Thanks...I'll give this a try when I get back today. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Problems accessing hard/removeable drives
On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 09:49, John Richard Smith wrote: But I think he has all his devices supermounted like this, none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/hdd,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/zip supermount dev=/dev/sda4,fs=ext2:vfat,--,kudzu,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/zip2 supermount dev=/dev/sdb4,fs=ext2:vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,kudzu 0 0 If so , you will not be able to right mouse click, on desktop, down to create new (whaterver) device and set a desktop Icon up this way.The devices don't show up in the dropdown list of the Icon properties, with supermounted devices. Don't you have to set desktop icons for supermounts in either MCC or kdeCC, cannot remember which by putting an |X| in your choice of desktop Icon, and likewise remove an Icon in the reverse method. John Does the fstab look right at least?: dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/hdd,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/cd /mnt/cdwriter auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/removable supermount dev=/dev/sda1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,codepage=850,kudzu,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 none /mnt/zip supermount dev=/dev/sda4,fs=ext2:vfat,--,kudzu,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/zip2 supermount dev=/dev/sdb4,fs=ext2:vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,kudzu 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 none /mnt/camera supermount dev=/dev/sdb1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,kudzu 0 0 -- Cheers, Trey --- At a given moment I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing. - Ugo Betti signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] Problems accessing hard/removeable drives
On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 14:20, John Richard Smith wrote: Well, I'm not wishng to be a wet blanket, but I have exactly the same Desktop Icon setup problem with Supermount, and gave up , in favour of automount in the end. I tried getting the supermount desktop Icons created in MCC to work and failed. John How would I go about setting up automount in favor of supermount. I know how to disable supermount, just wanted a pointer to using automount. Thanks -- Cheers, Trey --- Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. -- G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] quick question
Dale Kosan wrote: I just moved over from Red Hat now that it is Fedora, I did not like the direction they are heading. When I used Red Hat I had apt and yum, now I guess I need to use urpmi? I am trying to add the contrib directory but I have now idea how or what I am supposed to do. I have found the easy urpmi site but need some help. Can someone post there urpmi config file that has contrib in it? So far Mandrake rules, I have not used it since 7.2 and what a major change! I am running 9.2 rc2 since the iso's for the final are not out. Does mandrake support apt? Thanks in advance There are a couple contrib sources. You can use cooker (more cutting-edge packages - like testing and unstable in Debian) or 'strict' 9.2 sources. I have been using Cooker, so at the EasyURPMI page I say that at the top and then choose my mirror locations from the drop-down menus. In step three, it gives me the exact commands to enter as root at a CLI to add these to my conf file. From there I just type: 'urpmi.update -a' (without quotes) to update the packages from the mirrors. I can then 'urpmi evolution' for example to install the package. You can also use Mandrake's graphical interface for this. Just go to Configuration - Packages - Install software (I think...) to see what's available. HTH and good luck. -Trey Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Problems accessing hard/removeable drives
I am getting error message 'Could not enter /mnt/zip' (or any other drive) when I select the icon from the desktop. I can run 'mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip' as root and then access the drive, but was looking for the convenience of selecting the drives (CD, CDRW, Zip, etc.) as needed with desktop icons. I have 2 IDE CD drives (1 CD and 1 CDRW), a digital camera I mount occasionally, a USB Zip 250 drive, and my IDE hard disk with Mandrake. I have attached my /etc/fstab in the hopes someone might be able to help with the desktop icon issue. Thanks for any input. -- Cheers, Trey --- At a given moment I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing. - Ugo Betti signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] Problems accessing hard/removeable drives
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 18:23, Trey Sizemore wrote: I am getting error message 'Could not enter /mnt/zip' (or any other drive) when I select the icon from the desktop. I can run 'mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip' as root and then access the drive, but was looking for the convenience of selecting the drives (CD, CDRW, Zip, etc.) as needed with desktop icons. I have 2 IDE CD drives (1 CD and 1 CDRW), a digital camera I mount occasionally, a USB Zip 250 drive, and my IDE hard disk with Mandrake. I have attached my /etc/fstab in the hopes someone might be able to help with the desktop icon issue. Thanks for any input. Sorry...here's the /etc/fstab file. -- Cheers, Trey --- At a given moment I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing. - Ugo Betti /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/hdd,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/cd /mnt/cdwriter auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/removable supermount dev=/dev/sda1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,codepage=850,kudzu,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 none /mnt/zip supermount dev=/dev/sda4,fs=ext2:vfat,--,kudzu,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/zip2 supermount dev=/dev/sdb4,fs=ext2:vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,kudzu 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 none /mnt/camera supermount dev=/dev/sdb1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,kudzu 0 0 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[newbie] Can't find a file
A program references the /etc/network/interfaces file, but I don't see this in mandrake...where would this file be? It contains info such as: iface usb0 inet static address 192.168.0.200 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.0.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 -- Cheers, Trey --- Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. -- G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] Help with /mnt/removable
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 03:14, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Monday 13 October 2003 01:27, Trey Sizemore wrote: When I plug in my Nikon CoolPix 885 digital camera via a USB connection, I get a /mnt/removable icon on my KDE 3.1 desktop. However, neither my user account or the root account can access the drive. I get a message saying the drive is not accessible. Is this something that needs to be fixed concerning an etc/fstab entry? I can access my Zip 250 USB drive with no problem and the permissions appear to be identical. Thanks for any input. See if there's an entry in /etc/fstab with /mnt/removable that (probably) points to /dev/scd0it should be there! If there isn't, just type sudo mount /dev/scd0 /mnt/removable after which you should be able to access it. Good luck, HarM /dev/scd0 is my CDRW drive and I am getting a message that /dev/scd1 does not exist. Too add to what I mentioned previously, I am using defsd and and Mandrake 9.2 RC2. I will post the output of my dmesg and my fstab file below. hub.c: new USB device 00:04.2-1.2, assigned address 6 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 58 scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Vendor: Nikon Model: Digital CameraRev: 1.00 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 SCSI device sdb: 251904 512-byte hdwr sectors (129 MB) sdb: Write Protect is off /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured USB Mass Storage device found at 6 ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A udf: registering filesystem usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:04.2-1.2 address 6 hub.c: new USB device 00:04.2-1.2, assigned address 7 WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured USB Mass Storage device found at 7 FSTAB: /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/hdd,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/cd /mnt/cdwriter auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/removable supermount dev=/dev/sda1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,codepage=850,kudzu,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 none /mnt/zip supermount dev=/dev/sda4,fs=ext2:vfat,--,kudzu,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/zip2 supermount dev=/dev/sdb4,fs=ext2:vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,kudzu 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 none /mnt/removable2 supermount dev=/dev/sdb1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,kudzu,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 I'm unclear as to why some devices, like my Zip 250 USB drive are appearing twice. I have a CD drive, along with a CDRW (scsi emulation via k3b), the Zip drive, and occasionally the camera (not always attached). Apppears as if fstab is somewhat hosed. I have used this camera before on Mandrake with supermount and had no problems. Thanks again. -- Cheers, Trey --- Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. -- G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with /mnt/removable (supermount?)
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 13:08, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Monday 13 October 2003 17:51, Trey Sizemore wrote: I'll try this when I get back today. I have been thinking of disabling supermount. Thought some of these issues would go away...anyone had any issues with supermount? How about autofs? -- Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] No, not on 9.2 I haven'tsupermount's rock solid. Good luck, harM I was able to launch Konq as root from a terminal window and the open 'file:///mnt/camera' but was not able to do this from Konq as a normal user. Nor could I use the shortcut on my desktop (from fstab?) for /mnt/camera. I belong to the USB group. Is there something else to check that would prohibit access to the drive? Thanks -- Cheers, Trey --- There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another which states that this has already happened. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Adding files to CD-RW with k3b
I have burned some data (.mp3 files) on a CD-RW using k3b. It only used about half of the disk. Now I want to add some additional files to it (new session?) but can't seem to find a way to take more files and add to the existing CD-RW disk. Am I missing something. Should I have saved the first burn as a session? Thanks. -- Cheers, Trey --- There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another which states that this has already happened. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[newbie] Hopefully a simple SAMBA question
Setting up SAMBA to transfer files from a Windows 2000 laptop to my Mandrake box. SAMBA is running and in smb.conf I've made an entry for a [temp] directory (/tmp), writeable and guest ok = yes. To test the connection to this shared folder on my Mandrake box, I run 'smbclient //localhost/temp. The interface is added ok, I hit 'Enter' for the password prompt, and then I get the following output: Anonymous login successful Domain=[MDKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.2.8a] tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME What did I not do that would be causing this error? My Win2000 laptop sees the Mdkgroup domain, but cannot see the temp folder below it. Thanks. -- Cheers, Trey --- The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper. - Aristotle Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hopefully a simple SAMBA question
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 18:52, Trey Sizemore wrote: Setting up SAMBA to transfer files from a Windows 2000 laptop to my Mandrake box. SAMBA is running and in smb.conf I've made an entry for a [temp] directory (/tmp), writeable and guest ok = yes. To test the connection to this shared folder on my Mandrake box, I run 'smbclient //localhost/temp. The interface is added ok, I hit 'Enter' for the password prompt, and then I get the following output: Anonymous login successful Domain=[MDKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.2.8a] tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME What did I not do that would be causing this error? My Win2000 laptop sees the Mdkgroup domain, but cannot see the temp folder below it. Thanks. Turns out it was a typo in the smb.conf file (tmp should have been temp). So I can now see the samba shares on the server itself, but not with my Windows2000 client (laptop). It sees the Mdkgroup workgroup, but does not show the temp folder. Now to try to sort this out. -- Cheers, Trey --- The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper. - Aristotle Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hopefully a simple SAMBA question
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 20:03, Trey Sizemore wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 18:52, Trey Sizemore wrote: Setting up SAMBA to transfer files from a Windows 2000 laptop to my Mandrake box. SAMBA is running and in smb.conf I've made an entry for a [temp] directory (/tmp), writeable and guest ok = yes. To test the connection to this shared folder on my Mandrake box, I run 'smbclient //localhost/temp. The interface is added ok, I hit 'Enter' for the password prompt, and then I get the following output: Anonymous login successful Domain=[MDKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.2.8a] tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME What did I not do that would be causing this error? My Win2000 laptop sees the Mdkgroup domain, but cannot see the temp folder below it. Thanks. Turns out it was a typo in the smb.conf file (tmp should have been temp). So I can now see the samba shares on the server itself, but not with my Windows2000 client (laptop). It sees the Mdkgroup workgroup, but does not show the temp folder. Now to try to sort this out. Should also mention that the laptop is my work one and is used to log onto the workgroup there already. Don't know if this causes any issues, but thought it worth mentioning. -- Cheers, Trey --- The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper. - Aristotle Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hopefully a simple SAMBA question
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 22:06, Brian Parish wrote: This is undoubtedly the wrong way to do it, but it's easy and works every time. If you are happy to have no security on this at all, set guest only access and make the guest account root (presumably this is the owner of /tmp). Also set samba to use share level access instead of user level. This makes it wide open to any client machine on your LAN, but that seems to be what you want anyway. HTH Brian You're right, I just want to briefly transfer a number of files over. I think I have it set up now as you mentioned above, but still cannot browse below the workgroup from the Win2000 machine. These are the relevent sections of smb.conf I have. Any issues? [Global] null passwords = yes dns proxy = no socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 security = share os level = 65 map to guest = bad user max log size = 50 read only = no path = /tmp guest only = yes encrypt passwords = yes printer admin = @adm workgroup = MDKGROUP printcap name = cups log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m printing = cups preload = global homes printers server string = Samba Server %v guest account = root default service = global username map = /etc/samba/user.map guest ok = yes snip [temp] comment = Temporary file space path = /tmp read only = no guest ok = yes -- Cheers, Trey --- At a given moment I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing. - Ugo Betti Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Unable to read Zip 250 disks
I have an Iomega Zip 250 drive that will read/write to 100MB disks in Mandrake without problem. But if I put a 250MB disk in there, I get I/O errors when trying to read. Seem odd. Why would this be? -- Cheers, Trey --- The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper. - Aristotle Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Clock set to UTC instead of EDT
Having a problem with timezones...for some reason, my clock in KDE is displaying time in UTC instead of EDT (America/New York). When I attempt to change the timezone via the KDE clock, I get an error saying 'error setting new timezone'. I can go into MCC and make changes there, but that throws the clock in KDE off more. How do I go about getting this straightened out? -- Cheers, Trey --- At a given moment I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing. - Ugo Betti Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Clock set to UTC instead of EDT
Do you then have to relogin or restart for this to take effect? I just copied the Eastern file from the US folder in timezones and renamed both the file and the original localtime folder (called it 'localtime2' and the Eastern file 'localtime'). Thanks. On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 16:12, Derek wrote: On Saturday 27 Sep 2003 3:09 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: Having a problem with timezones...for some reason, my clock in KDE is displaying time in UTC instead of EDT (America/New York). When I attempt to change the timezone via the KDE clock, I get an error saying 'error setting new timezone'. I can go into MCC and make changes there, but that throws the clock in KDE off more. How do I go about getting this straightened out? Are you running 9.2 RC2? I reported this as a bug in 9.2. Your Timezone is controlled by a file called /etc/localtime This is a binary file used to describe your timezone. But in 9.2RC2 /etc/localtime is a directory which contains the 'localtime' files for different timezones around the world. To get mine working I had to rename the /etc/localtime directory, and then copy the timezone file for my region out of that renamed directory to the file /etc/localtime. HTH derek -- Cheers, Trey --- Today's Affirmation (selected automatically just for you): At a given moment I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing. - Ugo Betti Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Update to Cooker how-to?
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 19:35, Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 20 September 2003 03:56 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: Anyone successfully running a box exclusively from Cooker sources? What is the command to update a machine to Cooker? Tom B. had a good script for this urpmi.update -a -f --wget urpmi --wget --no-verify-rpm --auto-select -v . Use a good cooker mirror for source and it works like a champ. HTH I used this and it worked pretty well. However, it seemed to choke toward the end with some conflicts due to some texstar packages I had installed. Is there a way to force removing or overwriting these packages with those from the Cooker sources I'm now using? Thanks. -- Cheers, Trey --- The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper. - Aristotle Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Update to Cooker how-to?
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 11:29, Trey Sizemore wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 19:35, Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 20 September 2003 03:56 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: Anyone successfully running a box exclusively from Cooker sources? What is the command to update a machine to Cooker? Tom B. had a good script for this urpmi.update -a -f --wget urpmi --wget --no-verify-rpm --auto-select -v . Use a good cooker mirror for source and it works like a champ. HTH I used this and it worked pretty well. However, it seemed to choke toward the end with some conflicts due to some texstar packages I had installed. Is there a way to force removing or overwriting these packages with those from the Cooker sources I'm now using? Thanks. The majority of the conflicting packages are KDE related from the texstar respository. Anyway to have urpmi automatically uninstall the conflicting packages instead of having to manually uninstall all of them? -- Cheers, Trey --- At a given moment I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing. - Ugo Betti Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Can't connect to Cooker sources
Today's Affirmation (selected automatically just for you): Anyone here having problems connection to Cooker sources via urpmi. I can't seem to connect succesfully to any of them currently, domestic or otherwise. Big changes going on? -- Cheers, Trey --- At a given moment I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing. - Ugo Betti Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't connect to Cooker sources
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 14:11, Charlie M. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 20, 2003 11:27 am, Trey Sizemore wrote: Today's Affirmation (selected automatically just for you): Anyone here having problems connection to Cooker sources via urpmi. I can't seem to connect succesfully to any of them currently, domestic or otherwise. Big changes going on? Which ones Trey? I'm in the process of rsync'ing my local cooker mirror at the moment from uninett (main cooker mirror) at the moment. It's a bit slower than usual (roughly 100 K/second vs the usual 200+) but it is running. Don't forget the Official Release date for 9.2 is supposed to be Monday. The ISOs, and the 9.2 trees will need to be built, and the mirrors will need to synchronize. That will slow things considerably. On a related but side issue, my stream from Virgin Radio keeps cutting in and out as though all the bandwidth were being hogged between here and the U.K.. Probably by those *loverly freakin' Windows Worm Servers.* Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-10mdk 11:59:39 up 1:18, 2 users, load average: 0.47, 0.23, 0.20 Information Processing: What you call data processing when people are so disgusted with it they won't let it be discussed in their presence. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/bJh4G11CaRuZZSIRAsepAJ4jWoZq996oqh1/q58zBxO4K91+RACfcD18 JzJl5cSdC54WreMwkLLIEj8= =Kvx3 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Tried the Norway sources you mentioned and seems to sync ok now. Thanks. Cheers, Trey --- The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper. - Aristotle Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Update to Cooker how-to?
Anyone successfully running a box exclusively from Cooker sources? What is the command to update a machine to Cooker? -- Cheers, Trey --- At a given moment I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing. - Ugo Betti Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] IP address of DNS?
On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 11:45, Miark wrote: On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 21:23:22 -0400, Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I find the IP address of a DNS? If you know it's name you can do host ns1.your.ip.com from the commandline. If you're logged on and want to know your current DNS, you'll find it in /etc/resolv.conf The IP of your e-mail host's DNS is 66.111.4.61 Miark __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Thanks a lot! -- Cheers, Trey --- At a given moment I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing. - Ugo Betti Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Apache woes...
I had Apache2 working on my 9.1 box, but just had to go and upgrade it from Cooker. Now it will not start. I should say that MCC says it's running (set to start at boot), but pointing to http://localhost takes my to the clever Australian hosting company. When I stop and restart via MCC, a message is displayed that a verifiable hostname could not be found. I have looked at the http.conf file and it has localhost set as the server name. Where else should I be looking to ensure that everything is set correctly. An explicit Apache2/PHP4/MySQL tutorial would be good (emphasis on Apache2 as it's changed quite a bit since 1.3.x). -- Cheers, Trey --- At a given moment I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing. - Ugo Betti Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Apache woes...
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 18:24, HaywireMac wrote: On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 18:00:54 -0400 Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I had Apache2 working on my 9.1 box, but just had to go and upgrade it from Cooker. I think that was a bad idea. The Apache Cooker packages would depend on other Cooker packages, no? I'm surprised it even did the install without a complaint...you know, the whole dependency thing. Or are you saying you upgraded your whole system from cooker? No, but perhaps I'll give it a try. What's the command again to update everything if I have Cooker sources? Thanks. -- Cheers, Trey --- The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper. - Aristotle Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] IP address of DNS?
How do I find the IP address of a DNS? -- Cheers, Trey --- The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper. - Aristotle Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Apache woes...
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 22:49, ed tharp wrote: On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 18:00, Trey Sizemore wrote: I had Apache2 working on my 9.1 box, but just had to go and upgrade it from Cooker. Now it will not start. I should say that MCC says it's running (set to start at boot), but pointing to http://localhost takes my to the clever Australian hosting company. When I stop and restart via MCC, a message is displayed that a verifiable hostname could not be found. I have looked at the http.conf file and it has localhost set as the server name. Where else should I be looking to ensure that everything is set correctly. An explicit Apache2/PHP4/MySQL tutorial would be good (emphasis on Apache2 as it's changed quite a bit since 1.3.x). what does your /etc/hosts file say for localhost? 127.0.0.1 localhost -- Cheers, Trey --- At a given moment I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing. - Ugo Betti Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] TV viewing with ATI All-In-Wonder 128 card
I have an ATI All-in-Wonder 128 card that I want to use to watch tv on my Mandrake 9.1 box. I have successfully used it for this very purpose when I had a Debian box by apt-getting the Gatos drivers. Does anyone have this card and gotten it to work under Mandrake? Harddrake does not see it when I probe for TV cards :-( -- Cheers, Trey --- The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper. - Aristotle Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Just bragging.
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 20:47, yankl wrote: By the chance what is, in my case 8:11 mean? In this case, up 502 days, 8 hours, 11 minutes. -- Cheers, Trey --- At a given moment I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing. - Ugo Betti Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Sound settings not preserved
On my Mandrake 9.1 system (using KDE), my sound settings (module actually) are not being preserved. I have a Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 PCI card that MDK mistakenly loads the audigy() module for. I log in (not SU) as root in IceWM (because it loads faster), and change this to emu10k1 via the Mandrake Control Center. I then log in as a normal user and sound works great. However, if I shut down (it's an older P2 400 that I don't like to leave on for long periods of time) and then log back in, sound doesn't work and I notice the module is back to audigy(). Is this a known issue, or is there something I can do to get this maintained? Thanks. -- Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] locking the screen
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 19:58, Anarky wrote: Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 06 September 2003 01:50 pm, Anarky wrote: is there another way to lock the screen other than xlock? I've left Blender rendering an animation ... and I'd want something that simpy locks ... nothing to take cpu power. If you pick something like the Mandrake slide show (non 3D stuff) it shouldn't take much to run. Set it to use the password option, should work. but how do I pick something? __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Assuming KDE... Right-click on desktop - Configure Desktop - Screensaver - select the one you want and check the box for 'Require Password to stop screen saver'. HTH, -- Cheers, Trey --- Today's Affirmation (selected automatically just for you): At a given moment I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing. - Ugo Betti Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] GPG use question
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 08:34, Charles A Edwards wrote: If you still have the other machine avaiable then copy ~/gnupg from your old machine to the new machine. Charles -- I don't...reformatted the hard drive...will I have to revoke the key and start over? Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KDE 3.1.3 not remembering Kicker applets
Each time I set my applets in the Kicker panes (KSysGuard, KWeather, etc.) then log out and log back in, the spaces where they were on the panel are there, but the applets don't load. KWeather even remembers my weather station when I add it back again, but doesn't load by default each time I log back in. Is this a known issue or is there some setting I need to change? Running Mandrake 9.1 with KDE 3.1.3 from Texstar. Thanks, Trey Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ALSA
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded a whole lot of alsa rpm files, I installed all of them but whenever I try and use ALSA it tells me that there are no sound cards. I have a SB Audigy card. I dug around it the directories and did find a audigy.conf file, But i can't figure out how to tell ALSA to use it. Can anybody please help. Thanks Tsyko What version of Mandrake are you running...did you just do a fresh install/upgrade...was it ever working on this machine? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] GPG use question
Dumb question, but I created a GPG key pair a while back and have since moved to another machine. I have both the original .asc file and revoke.asc file backed up to a zip disk. I want to use the key again for email and such. How do I make it so that I can sign emails (Evolution, KMail) with this key. If I know the number and put it in Evo, for example, I have been getting errors: gpg: skipped `E676E7E8': secret key not available gpg: signing failed: secret key not available and it never prompts me for the password. I feel I should enter some gpg command at the command line to get this machine to recognize it...or am I way off? --- Cheers, Trey --- Today's Affirmation (selected automatically just for you): The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper. - Aristotle Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Using KDE when updating KDE via URPMI
Is it advisable to update KDE while using KDE? Or should I be using Gnome, IceWM, etc. to do updates to KDE via URPMI. It just seems that it would be difficult to do the update if it's currently in use. Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Using KDE when updating KDE via URPMI
Is it advisable to update KDE while using KDE? Or should I be using Gnome, IceWM, etc. to do updates to KDE via URPMI. It just seems that it would be difficult to do the update if it's currently in use. Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Strange behavior of KDE 3.1.3
I updated KDE to 3.1.3 via URPMI...everything appeared fine, but when I logged out and logged back in, the kicker bar at the bottom of the screen was gone. I then logged in as root and deleted the ~/.kde directories for all users and then logged back in as a user to KDE. Now I have no applications to select from in the menu. And neither does the root account. I used Menudrake to try and make changes but they have no effect for either user or root. The applications are obviously there and I can acces them when using Gnome, for example. Also, right clicking on the kicker bar and selecting the option to configure does not bring up the configure screen. I hope this is a simple fix, as everything else appears in working order. Any ideas? Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Messed up my fonts! Help!
I somehow managed to mess up my fonts (noticed this in Evolution), currently using 1.4.4 in Gnome 2.2. Could someone tell me what the defaults are so I can change this back (and where to change it, again). Also, while I'm on fonts, whenever I receive HTML formatted email that contains apostrophes (or other special punctuation), my fonts render these as 'octals' (at least that's what it looks like). Where can I change this as well? Thanks a lot! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Messed up my fonts! Help!
I installed an updated xft2 and some Microsoft fonts via URPMI (Texstar)...since then...well...seems Gnome apps are hosed. I don't know what the defaults were (which looked good), or how to change it. Any help is appreciated. Thanks. On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 21:55, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 11:38, Trey Sizemore wrote: I somehow managed to mess up my fonts (noticed this in Evolution), currently using 1.4.4 in Gnome 2.2. Could someone tell me what the defaults are so I can change this back (and where to change it, again). Also, while I'm on fonts, whenever I receive HTML formatted email that contains apostrophes (or other special punctuation), my fonts render these as 'octals' (at least that's what it looks like). Where can I change this as well? Thanks a lot! I just saw your cross-post in the Evo group; have you mucked with something - or did Gnome do this on it's own? Have you tried to go to TOOLS / SETTINGS / MAIL PREFERENCES and make sure that Evo is using the same fonts as the other applications...??? stephen kuhn == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * - Why be difficult when, with a bit of effort, you could be impossible? __ 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] UI for removing URPMI sources?
What is the UI (I've used it before, but don't remember) for adding/removing URPMI sources? I want to take my CD media out of the source list. Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Location of CD device
How can I tell the location of my IDE CD drive (i.e. /dev/???)? I have 2 IDE drives (one with SCSI emulation as set up by k3b). I want to play an audio CD with XMMS using the plug-in that allows for playback without having a direct physical connection to the sound card. It will not play by pointing to /mnt/cdrom, it will only work by pointing to /dev/??? Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] UI for removing URPMI sources?
Thanks to all. urpmi.setup was what I had used previously. I got it installed and it works great. On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 17:46, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Saturday 30 August 2003 05:05 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: What is the UI (I've used it before, but don't remember) for adding/removing URPMI sources? I want to take my CD media out of the source list. Thanks A very nifty tool - actually a bit better than the default one in Mandrake Control Center - is *urpmi.setup*. If you currently have urpmi working (you really should have) , just (as root) issue the command : urpmi urpmi.setup This will install it. Then run it. It's quite obvious from here. If you don't have access to the source where *urpmi.setup.rpm* is hosted (I can't remember where), holler, and I will mail it to you off-list. HTH Kaj Haulrich. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] abcde for 9.2 beta 2
Anyone know where I can get abcde if I'm running 9.2 beta 2? Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Location of CD device
Thanks, it was /dev/hdd On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 17:56, Miark wrote: Trey, IDE devices will be /dev/hdX where X is a, b, c, d (on most systems). SCSI devices will be /dev/scdX where X is 0, 1, 2, etc. I too use this to play CDs digitally. Miark On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 16:26:21 -0400, Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I tell the location of my IDE CD drive (i.e. /dev/???)? I have 2 IDE drives (one with SCSI emulation as set up by k3b). I want to play an audio CD with XMMS using the plug-in that allows for playback without having a direct physical connection to the sound card. It will not play by pointing to /mnt/cdrom, it will only work by pointing to /dev/??? __ 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] OpenOffice 1.1
Is there a way to get OpenOffice 1.1 via urpmi? If so, what is the repository? Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How do I use all buttons on MS Explorer mouse?
I have a MS Intellimouse Explorer wireless USB mouse and want to be able to use the side buttons as well (previous web page, forward page, etc.). Has anyone successfully gotten this to work? What are the changes to make in XFree86 (I assume)? Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Solving needed packages
Still no go...also, I've noticed last night and today that when I urpmi.udate -a that some or the sources (main, contrib, updates) are failing. Has anyone else experienced this lately? On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 06:49, JoeHill wrote: On 09 Jun 2003 00:37:49 -0400 Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: How do I either satisfy the needed files or exclude these from a urpmi --auto --auto-select. I have tried the --allow-nodeps argument to no avail. first do this: urpmi.update -a then try again. don't do nodeps. bad medecine. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] CD drive paths messed up
How do I use the Link to Location (URL) in XMMS to point to the CD icon? What do I enter in the field expecting a URL? Thanks On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 01:59, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Saturday 07 June 2003 06:53 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: I am assuming a recent upgrade of KDE from 3.1 to 3.1.2 may have caused some undesired changes. Before the desktop shorcuts for my CD drive and CD-RW drive functioned as expected, CD players saw CD's in my drive, abcde ripped and encoded CDs placed in the CD drive, etc. Now, these shortcuts no longer work and point to nothing. HardDrake has the drives identified as /dev/hdd (CD drive) and /dev/scd0 (CD-RW). I never really had to reference the devfs device names. Also, file managers say I (as a user) do not have permission anymore to these devices. AAHHH!! What is the most effective way to fix this? I'd like to easily play CD's again and use abcde. Here is my fstab. I would assume changes should be made here?: /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/cd /mnt/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/hdd,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 In this list, the CDRW is getting mounted as cdrecorder (from K3B) and then is listed to be mounted by none if a disk is put into it to be read. I bet that causes an error already mounted, so the drive can't be read. Now, cdrom2 seems to be fine. You also have soupermount running, and links from the desktop for CD drives will be auto mounted, and thus not allowed to be mounted from the CD/DVD ROM Device file, try the link called Link to Location (URL), and give it the CD icon. That's what I do to not interfere with supermount. I hope this helps. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] CD drive paths messed up
Yes, tried /mnt/cdrom and /mnt/cdrom2...neither works. XMMS just sits there even though there's an audio CD in the drive. On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 11:57, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 08 Jun 2003 4:09 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: How do I use the Link to Location (URL) in XMMS to point to the CD icon? What do I enter in the field expecting a URL? Have you tried /mnt/cdrom? That's what I use. Anne __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] CD drive paths messed up
Still nothing. When I right-click the desktop icon (that used to work) and select Properties, the path next to the icon now says 'nonemntcdrom2' (without the quotes). I think this may be part of the issue. On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 12:32, Anne Wilson wrote: I think you are seeing the dialog that expects a file on your hdd. Try it the way I use it. On the extreme left hand side, there is a symbol in the top corner. From that select Play Location, and enter /mnt/cdrom. Anne signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] CD drive paths messed up
Thanks...I think the bigger problems are the issues with my CD devices and how they are appearing in fstab and permissions to them. Again, they have been acting buggy only recently. I don't know if it was a urpmi upgrade recently that did it, but abcde can no longer reference my CD drive to rip songs where it once did, my CD players and XMMS no longer point to the right devices... I'm just trying to get everything back as it was...the XMMS thing is just a symptom to the underlying problem. :-( On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 14:07, Anne Wilson wrote: Mine says 'xmms /dev/cdrom' Anne On Sunday 08 Jun 2003 5:44 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: Still nothing. When I right-click the desktop icon (that used to work) and select Properties, the path next to the icon now says 'nonemntcdrom2' (without the quotes). I think this may be part of the issue. On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 12:32, Anne Wilson wrote: I think you are seeing the dialog that expects a file on your hdd. Try it the way I use it. On the extreme left hand side, there is a symbol in the top corner. From that select Play Location, and enter /mnt/cdrom. Anne __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] CD drive paths messed up
It is appearing in HardDrake as /dev/hdd (this is my CD drive as opposed to my CD-RW drive that is showing as /dev/scd0)...I have tried this and still no luck. On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 14:20, Miark wrote: On 08 Jun 2003 12:11:53 -0400 Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, tried /mnt/cdrom and /mnt/cdrom2...neither works. XMMS just sits there even though there's an audio CD in the drive. Try /dev/scd0 or whatever the device is. Miark On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 11:57, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 08 Jun 2003 4:09 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: How do I use the Link to Location (URL) in XMMS to point to the CD icon? What do I enter in the field expecting a URL? Have you tried /mnt/cdrom? That's what I use. Anne __ 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 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] CD drive paths messed up
Here it is... [EMAIL PROTECTED] trey]# ls -l /mnt total 8 drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 May 17 08:48 camera/ drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 May 25 18:08 cdrecorder/ drwxrwxrwx1 root root0 Jun 8 10:37 cdrom/ drwxrwxrwx1 root root0 Jun 8 12:59 cdrom2/ drwxrwxrwx1 root root0 Jun 8 10:37 floppy/ drwxrwxrwx1 root root0 Jun 8 10:37 zip/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] trey]# On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 16:35, JoeHill wrote: On 08 Jun 2003 15:59:44 -0400 Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: It is appearing in HardDrake as /dev/hdd (this is my CD drive as opposed to my CD-RW drive that is showing as /dev/scd0)...I have tried this and still no luck. this is the correct configuration, no problems at all. I believe you had it right when you saw this as a permissions issue. if you do ls -l /mnt, what do you see? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] CD drive paths messed up
Yes, 2 drives as you've said. I'm pretty sure the cdrecorder line was added by k3b (SCSI emutlation for CD burning. It has worked in the past with that line OK...that's what's weird now. On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 17:01, JoeHill wrote: On 08 Jun 2003 16:50:12 -0400 Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 May 25 18:08 cdrecorder/ drwxrwxrwx1 root root0 Jun 8 10:37 cdrom/ drwxrwxrwx1 root root0 Jun 8 12:59 cdrom2/ You only have the two CD drives, correct? CDROM and CDRW? if so your problem is that cdrecorder line, I would bet. I have never seen that before...so I am at a loss to offer an explanation. If someone like Stephen can't help later on, I would definitely try the Mandrake Expert list. My best *guess* is to comment out the line in your fstab with cdrecorder and reboot, but it's only a guess, so wait a bit for a second opinion on that if you are concerned. Here's my fstab (cd drives only), which is why I think that is the prob: none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/hdd,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net 16:52:46 up 5 days, 14:56, 4 users, load average: 0.04, 0.04, 0.00 __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] CD drive paths messed up
I have modified this to many devices in order to find one that works...still no luck. On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 17:00, LtCdData wrote: does the player you are using to play the music know what device the cd is in as it might default to your cdrw and not the cdrom... as i have here On Sunday 08 Jun 2003 20:59, Trey Sizemore wrote: It is appearing in HardDrake as /dev/hdd (this is my CD drive as opposed to my CD-RW drive that is showing as /dev/scd0)...I have tried this and still no luck. On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 14:20, Miark wrote: On 08 Jun 2003 12:11:53 -0400 Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, tried /mnt/cdrom and /mnt/cdrom2...neither works. XMMS just sits there even though there's an audio CD in the drive. Try /dev/scd0 or whatever the device is. Miark On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 11:57, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 08 Jun 2003 4:09 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: How do I use the Link to Location (URL) in XMMS to point to the CD icon? What do I enter in the field expecting a URL? Have you tried /mnt/cdrom? That's what I use. Anne _ _ 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 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] CD drive paths messed up [SOLVED]
Somehow the permissions were changed to the drives...I added myself to the disk group and changed the lines where abcde was pointing in the .abcde.conf file to /dev/hdd and everything appears to be working OK now. Thanks to everyone for their advice and feedback! On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 17:38, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 08 Jun 2003 9:02 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: Thanks...I think the bigger problems are the issues with my CD devices and how they are appearing in fstab and permissions to them. Again, they have been acting buggy only recently. I don't know if it was a urpmi upgrade recently that did it, but abcde can no longer reference my CD drive to rip songs where it once did, my CD players and XMMS no longer point to the right devices... I'm just trying to get everything back as it was...the XMMS thing is just a symptom to the underlying problem. I don't remember how this thread started. Have you posted your fstab and mtab here? Why not start again, with a run down of your physical drives - what and where they are. Then attach fstab and mtab. Anne __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[newbie] urpmi updates - Bad signatures
Trying to update my system using 'urpmi --auto --auto-select' and I'm getting the message on several packages: The following packages have bad signatures: --Lists of packages If I suspect these are actually good packages, is there a way to get them installed? They are from Cooker and Texstart mostly (GAIM, Apache2, etc.) Thanks. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[newbie] Solving needed packages
When performing a system update via urpmi, I encounter the following message: Installation failed: perl(Bit::Vector) is needed by perl-Date-Calc-5.3-2mdk perl(LWP::Parallel::UserAgent) is needed by squidGuard-1.2.0-6mdk librpm-4.0.4.so is needed by gnorpm-0.96-12mdk librpmdb-4.0.4.so is needed by gnorpm-0.96-12mdk librpmio-4.0.4.so is needed by gnorpm-0.96-12mdk How do I either satisfy the needed files or exclude these from a urpmi --auto --auto-select. I have tried the --allow-nodeps argument to no avail. Thanks. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[newbie] CD drive paths messed up
I am assuming a recent upgrade of KDE from 3.1 to 3.1.2 may have caused some undesired changes. Before the desktop shorcuts for my CD drive and CD-RW drive functioned as expected, CD players saw CD's in my drive, abcde ripped and encoded CDs placed in the CD drive, etc. Now, these shortcuts no longer work and point to nothing. HardDrake has the drives identified as /dev/hdd (CD drive) and /dev/scd0 (CD-RW). I never really had to reference the devfs device names. Also, file managers say I (as a user) do not have permission anymore to these devices. AAHHH!! What is the most effective way to fix this? I'd like to easily play CD's again and use abcde. Here is my fstab. I would assume changes should be made here?: /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/cd /mnt/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/hdd,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/zip supermount dev=/dev/sda4,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 Thanks in advance for any assistance! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Display manager issues
When starting Mandrake 9.1 now, I get the following message during boot up: ldm_validate_partition_table: Disk read failed If I boot in failsafe mode, soon after this message has passed, I get a prompt asking if I want to change the owner of / to root:root. I have been saying yes each time, but each time I restart the system, I have to restart in failsafe mode and I get the same as above. Also, I notice on shutdown that the shutting down of the display manager (dm) fails. Any ideas as to what may have caused this and more importantly how to fix? Thanks, Trey signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 bootup, 'acpi' failed
Just type 'q' (without quotes) to exit the man pages. On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 21:16, The Other wrote: 06/06/03 When Mandrake 9.1 is booting up, the list of services and whatnot scrolls by with everything as OK, with the one exception of 'acpi' FAILED. It hasn't done this before. Is this a problem to be concerned about? And for the second question: I understand how to read a 'man' page by executing 'man *program/command*' What I've yet to figure out is HOW TO GET OUT OF 'MAN' !([EMAIL PROTECTED] [I'd be happy to 'man acpi' if I could get out of the man pages.] What is the special keystroke sequence to gracefully exit the 'man' system? Thanks All, The Other (much calmer now) __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
