[newbie] Kind of worried

[charo]

Hi,

I'm getting at startup the following error:

ldm_validate_partition_table(): disk_read failed

very so often, which makes me realize that I don't know how to replace a 
hard disk and keep all my directories the same way as before the crash.

Then, I have the following questions:
1) How can I know which of my two HDs is almost broken?
2) How can I move all data from the broken dist to a new one?
3) Is it possible to check whether the disk is usable?
Any links or hints will be very much appreciated.

Thanks,

Rosario
P.s. I just have my data partially backuped, but not the whole system.

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Re: [newbie] SSL disabled in Mozilla 1.4

[charo]

Raffaele Belardi wrote:
Could it be that you are running behind a firewall that blocks SSL? I've 
never had problems with secure browsing with Mozilla 1.x.

What's the URL of the site you can't access?


 https://www.proyid.mcyt.es/proyectosid




raffaele

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi,

I can't go to an online program using Mozilla because appears a 
message box explaining that SSL is disabled. When I double check in 
Preferences - Privacy  Security - SSL all options where active (SSL 
version2, SSL version 3, TSL).

What should I do to solve this problem?

Thanks,

Rosario





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Re: [newbie] SSL disabled in Mozilla 1.4

[charo]

Raffaele Belardi wrote:
I get a page not found at that address. I am able to connect to 
https://www.proyid.mcyt.es/
but that doesn't bring you anywhere (nothing clickable in sight). The 
lock icon shows that the secure connection is ok (except that I get a 
warning about the certificate being issued by an unknown entity).

Are you sure the address is the right one?

raffaele

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Raffaele Belardi wrote:

Could it be that you are running behind a firewall that blocks SSL? 
I've never had problems with secure browsing with Mozilla 1.x.

What's the URL of the site you can't access?




 https://www.proyid.mcyt.es/proyectosid




raffaele

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi,

I can't go to an online program using Mozilla because appears a 
message box explaining that SSL is disabled. When I double check in 
Preferences - Privacy  Security - SSL all options where active 
(SSL version2, SSL version 3, TSL).

What should I do to solve this problem?

Thanks,

Rosario






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When I tried this address:
https://www.proyid.mcyt.es/proyectosid
I got the following message:
Could not initialize the browser's security component. The most likely 
cause is problems with files in you browser's profile directory. Please 
check that this directory has no read/write restrictions and your hard 
disk is not full or close to full. It is recommended that yopu exit the 
browser and fix the problem. If you continue to use this browser 
session, you might see incorrect behaviour when accessing security features.

This doesn't make any sense to me. I installed in my home directory 
again Mozilla 1.5 and set the profile dir to read/write by everybody. I 
got the same problem.

The address is to fill a grant propossal and you need to subscribe 
before they send you a confirmation key. I'm puzzled because I can start 
 the page with Konqueror but it crashes so frequently that I can't work.

Rosario





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[newbie] SSL disabled in Mozilla 1.4

[charo]

Hi,

I can't go to an online program using Mozilla because appears a message 
box explaining that SSL is disabled. When I double check in Preferences 
- Privacy  Security - SSL all options where active (SSL version2, SSL 
version 3, TSL).

What should I do to solve this problem?

Thanks,

Rosario


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[newbie] Very basic question, don't shoot me please

[charo]

Hi all,

I have a very long process that is systematically killed by the system. 
How can I know what is wrong with it? I know that works well because 
when I run the script with a small number of files the process exits 
successfully.

Thanks a lot,

RBC


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Re: [newbie] Very basic question, don't shoot me please

[charo]

HaywireMac wrote:
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 07:14:59 -0500
charo [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:

I have a very long process that is systematically killed by the
system. How can I know what is wrong with it? I know that works well
because when I run the script with a small number of files the process
exits successfully.


Without knowing what the process is, it's hard to say, but it could be
reaching some sort of limit, either in the script itself or a system
limit, like the size of a directory or partition, or running out of
memory.
You are rigth. It's reaching some sort of limit, but I don't know how to 
 output what was the problem. I guess I'm looking for some system call 
that could describe what happened before the process was kill. Does that 
thing exists?



When the script is killed by the system, does it exit with any kind of
error?
No



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Re: [newbie] PDF files

[charo]

My default pdf viewer is Xpdf but I cannot get it to print anything (I 
click print and it goes off into lala land). 
Try to print using command lp. Click print, in the print window there 
are two printing options, select printing using a command and type: lp, 
in the edit box. If you have a default printer, this should print right 
away.

Hope this helps,
Rosario

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[newbie] Quicktime movies

[charo]

Hello,

I know this is not the appropriate list to ask this kind of question, 
but  I couldn't get yet an answer in the adequate lists. The question, I 
guess, is:
I need to read each frame of quicktime movies to do some preprocessing, 
but I didn't find a way to export quicktime movies to any other movie or 
image format. Does anybody know a way to import/export each frame of a 
quicktime movie to an uncompressed image file format (gif, tiff)?

Thanks a lot,

charo


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Re: [newbie] best way of updating software

[charo]

Aron Smith wrote:
On Monday 28 July 2003 12:25 pm, charo wrote:

this is a long history that I will try to make shorter, but please don't
piss me off. Linux is though enough for a brand new linux user like me.
Following someone suggestions from de list I added a cron.daily file
urpmi.cron, with the content that follows:
#!/bin/sh
urpmi.update -a
urpmi --auto-select --auto --no-verify-rpms
I thought I was really smart having this feature in my box when someone
in the list wasn't sure that updating from cooker was a good idea.
Literally to me cooker was a cooking pot, so I didn't even realize what
I was going into. OK, after that I was still having the PGP signature
problems and I used another tip from this list  (Subject: Bad
signatures) and I follow that reference:
http://www.pclinuxonline.com/gpgkey.html
The problem is that I'm still having troubles with bad signatures. My
questions, I guess, are:
1) Is it safe to do that urpmi.cron in a box for real work, not for
testing? Am I really using cooker in that file?
2) Could anybody give me 2 lines info about cooker and how to stay away
from it when updating packages?
3) Are you sure this list is for brand new linux newbiers? I read
almost all messages and I feel I'm getting so much partial info that I
can see the big picture.
Any advice will be apreciated.
Rosario
I can answer #3 -- Yes we are Newbies of course some of us are more new than 
others. Normaly we hang on this list often lurking and reading posts because 
there is a lot of god infromation here . Soon enough you will jump to help 
somebody this repays what you have earned. Don't mind the humor (we are with 
the exception of Anne and Sir Robin (not too sure about SR )Twisted 
indivudals (not sick ,we just look at the world about 30 deg off center)
	Anyway just enjoy Your questions will be answered or you will figure the out  
for yourself and post them then WE will learn-- Main point Have Fun :))
Thanks a lot. I do have fun being in this list.
R

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Re: [newbie] best way of updating software

[charo]

Derek Jennings wrote:
On Monday 28 Jul 2003 8:25 pm, charo wrote:

this is a long history that I will try to make shorter, but please don't
piss me off. Linux is though enough for a brand new linux user like me.
Following someone suggestions from de list I added a cron.daily file
urpmi.cron, with the content that follows:
#!/bin/sh
urpmi.update -a
urpmi --auto-select --auto --no-verify-rpms
I thought I was really smart having this feature in my box when someone
in the list wasn't sure that updating from cooker was a good idea.
Literally to me cooker was a cooking pot, so I didn't even realize what
I was going into. OK, after that I was still having the PGP signature
problems and I used another tip from this list  (Subject: Bad
signatures) and I follow that reference:
http://www.pclinuxonline.com/gpgkey.html
The problem is that I'm still having troubles with bad signatures. My
questions, I guess, are:
1) Is it safe to do that urpmi.cron in a box for real work, not for
testing? Am I really using cooker in that file?
2) Could anybody give me 2 lines info about cooker and how to stay away
from it when updating packages?
3) Are you sure this list is for brand new linux newbiers? I read
almost all messages and I feel I'm getting so much partial info that I
can see the big picture.
Any advice will be apreciated.
Rosario


The best way to avoid cooker is to not have cooker defined as a urpmi source.
Your software source manager in Mandrake Control Centre will show you a list 
of defined sources.

May I suggest one change to your script.
You currently have 'urpmi --auto-select --auto --no-verify-rpms' which is 
going to automatically install the latest version of any package available on 
any of the sources.
Some of the online sources such as Texstar contain the very latest bleeding 
edge versions of packages. Occasionally these are 'broken'. So you could wake 
up one day to discover something important no longer works.
I prefer to use
urpmi --auto-select --auto --no-verify-rpms --update
This will only automatically update packages from sources tagged as 'update 
media' when you added them. So any official Mandrake update will take place 
automatically, while new Texstar and PLF packages can wait until I am ready 
for them.
Very good point. I did the modification. Thanks a lot.
R


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Re: [newbie] best way of updating software

[charo]

2) cooker is the developement side  of Mandrake. The rpm's in cooker are for 
testing to make sure that dependencies and file calls etc, are satisfied. 
Cooker is the bleeding edge of developement and you should not use it if you 
don't do testing or programming. That is the safe thing to do. 


Am I using a mirror of cooker?
The content of my /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg is:
$cat urpmi.cfg

plf http://mirrors.zoreil.com/www.plf.org/9.1 {
  hdlist: hdlist.plf.cz
  with_hdlist: hdlist.cz
  list: list.plf
}
main 
ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.1/i586/Mandrake/RPMS 
{
  hdlist: hdlist.main.cz
  with_hdlist: ../base/hdlist.cz
}

contrib 
ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.1/contrib/RPMS {
  hdlist: hdlist.contrib.cz
  with_hdlist: ../../i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz
}

jpackage.free ftp://ftp.pbone.net/pub/jpackage/1.5/mandrake-9.1/free {
  hdlist: hdlist.jpackage.free.cz
  with_hdlist: hdlist.cz
  list: list.jpackage.free
}
updates 
ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/updates/9.1/RPMS {
  hdlist: hdlist.updates.cz
  with_hdlist: ../base/hdlist.cz
  update
}

texstar 
ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/mandrake/9.1/rpms 
{
  hdlist: hdlist.texstar.cz
  with_hdlist: hdlist.cz
  list: list.texstar
}
plf http://mirrors.zoreil.com/www.plf.org/9.1 {
  hdlist: hdlist.plf.cz
  with_hdlist: hdlist.cz
  list: list.plf
}

main ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.1/i586/Mandrake/RPMS {
  hdlist: hdlist.main.cz
  with_hdlist: ../base/hdlist.cz
}

contrib ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.1/contrib/RPMS {
  hdlist: hdlist.contrib.cz
  with_hdlist: ../../i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz
}

jpackage.free ftp://ftp.pbone.net/pub/jpackage/1.5/mandrake-9.1/free {
  hdlist: hdlist.jpackage.free.cz
  with_hdlist: hdlist.cz
  list: list.jpackage.free
}

updates ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/updates/9.1/RPMS {
  hdlist: hdlist.updates.cz
  with_hdlist: ../base/hdlist.cz
  update
}

texstar 
ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/mandrake/9.1/rpms {
  hdlist: hdlist.texstar.cz
  with_hdlist: hdlist.cz
  list: list.texstar
}

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Re: [newbie] best way of updating software

[charo]

Anne Wilson wrote:
On Monday 28 Jul 2003 3:32 pm, Dennis Myers wrote:

1) It is safe to do the urpmi.cron if you do not have a cooker
source in your list of update sources. Texstars rpms are not cooker
per se but set up to install on the latest mandrake version. He has
them tidied up to stop conflicts etc. (that is how I understand
what he does)
2) cooker is the developement side  of Mandrake. The rpm's in
cooker are for testing to make sure that dependencies and file
calls etc, are satisfied. Cooker is the bleeding edge of
developement and you should not use it if you don't do testing or
programming. That is the safe thing to do.
You will not have the cooker source in your list unless you have put 
it there yourself - and you won't have done that by accident, so you 
should be fine.


3) Yes this list is for newbies. You just have to hang in there
and keep coming back for clarifications. It is very hard to tell
the degree of expertise that new folks have when they first come to
the list. Answers are put forth assuming  that the questioner has a
level of expertise that may not be true and you just have to keep
asking questions. Read the Man files and google and ask here. If
you are new to linux and or unix it will seem very cryptic for a
while, but slowly the light will dawn and you to will be answering
newbie questions. HTH


When I started reading it was clear to me that some were light years 
ahead of what I know - some still are - but Dennis is right - keep 
reading and it will gradually start to make sense.  Nobody minds how 
often you come back for clarification, just make your questions clear 
so that we're not answering the wrong thing.  I would suggest, too, 
that you keep a scrap book, say copy and paste into your favourite 
text editor/word processor, of the things that look as though they 
could be useful to you 'when you get a round tuit'.

Anne
Very good point. I'll take it into account.
Thanks a lot,
R


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[newbie] best way of updating software

[charo]

this is a long history that I will try to make shorter, but please don't 
piss me off. Linux is though enough for a brand new linux user like me.

Following someone suggestions from de list I added a cron.daily file 
urpmi.cron, with the content that follows:

#!/bin/sh
urpmi.update -a
urpmi --auto-select --auto --no-verify-rpms
I thought I was really smart having this feature in my box when someone 
in the list wasn't sure that updating from cooker was a good idea. 
Literally to me cooker was a cooking pot, so I didn't even realize what 
I was going into. OK, after that I was still having the PGP signature 
problems and I used another tip from this list  (Subject: Bad 
signatures) and I follow that reference:
http://www.pclinuxonline.com/gpgkey.html

The problem is that I'm still having troubles with bad signatures. My 
questions, I guess, are:
	1) Is it safe to do that urpmi.cron in a box for real work, not for 
testing? Am I really using cooker in that file?
	2) Could anybody give me 2 lines info about cooker and how to stay away 
from it when updating packages?
	3) Are you sure this list is for brand new linux newbiers? I read 
almost all messages and I feel I'm getting so much partial info that I 
can see the big picture.

Any advice will be apreciated.
Rosario






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