Re: [newbie] Update to mdk 10 and problems with Mozilla 1.6
On Wednesday 28 July 2004 22:31, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 23:31, rosie wrote: I tried renaming the .mozilla directory and still Mozilla will not load, I have installed Firefox and that will not load either! Try running either from a terminal - so that way you can see what errors are being generated; methinks it's going to be a path statement... Copy/paste the errors so we can oogle them... stephen kuhn - proprietor I have tried to run it from a terminal and I get no error message and neither does it load, when I run it from root it does. -- Rosie Linux forever Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Update to mdk 10 and problems with Mozilla 1.6
On Thursday 29 July 2004 10:03, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 18:55, rosie wrote: On Wednesday 28 July 2004 22:31, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 23:31, rosie wrote: I tried renaming the .mozilla directory and still Mozilla will not load, I have installed Firefox and that will not load either! Try running either from a terminal - so that way you can see what errors are being generated; methinks it's going to be a path statement... Copy/paste the errors so we can oogle them... stephen kuhn - proprietor I have tried to run it from a terminal and I get no error message and neither does it load, when I run it from root it does. Someone had suggested that you first run it as root, then after it's successful, run it again as your normal user...have you tried that yet? stephen kuhn - proprietor Yes I have also tried this and it didn't work either. -- Rosie Linux forever Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Update to mdk 10 and problems with Mozilla 1.6
On Thursday 29 July 2004 10:41, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 19:14, rosie wrote: Ok - howzabout this: urpme mozilla (and all that that implies) - do the same with firefox, reboot, reinstall both, see what it goes like, eh? stephen kuhn - proprietor I've unistalled, rebooted and reinstalled both mozilla and firefox and still they will not load for user. I can load them from a root terminal but that is all. -- Rosie Linux forever Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Update to mdk 10 and problems with Mozilla 1.6
I have just updated 9.1 to 10 and all went well except I cannot run Mozilla 1.6. I have re-installed it via MCC but still no luck, is there a problem with this version ? Any suggestions or am I going to have to do a complete install? -- Rosie Linux forever Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Update to mdk 10 and problems with Mozilla 1.6
I tried renaming the .mozilla directory and still Mozilla will not load, I have installed Firefox and that will not load either! On Wednesday 28 July 2004 13:04, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 21:38, rosie wrote: I have just updated 9.1 to 10 and all went well except I cannot run Mozilla 1.6. I have re-installed it via MCC but still no luck, is there a problem with this version ? Any suggestions or am I going to have to do a complete install? Rename your ~/home/username/.mozilla directory and try again. (mv .mozilla .mozilla.bak) - afterwards, you can retrieve you old bookmarks from the .mozilla directory...better yet, install Firefox... stephen kuhn - proprietor __ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. The reverse side also has a reverse side. -- Japanese proverb -- Rosie Linux forever Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Telewest broadband connection - nogo
The reason Telewest insist on a windows machine is that they want to install 'spyware' software. It is supposed to help with diagnostics if you have a problem, they will be able to remotely spy on that windows machine. When they came to connect us we had 2 windows and 2 linux machines but I refused to install the spyware, the engineer was one of the senoir ones and agreed with me that he wouldn't want it either. As he was happy that I had knowledge of computers and wouldn't be phoning up help with 'noddy' questions he DID NOT install the software. My advice is stick to your guns and make a big play on how secure linux in light of all the holes highlighted in windows recently. If you don't get anywhere then why not take your complaint to OFTEL. On Wednesday 15 Oct 2003 4:21 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gave him a cup of coffee, said watch me do it, and yell whoa if you think I'll break something. LOL. That's great. When I was setting up 9.1 with my cable service it was really simple. I used Comcast and all I needed was the hostname that Comcast needed to 'see' on my system. During installation, I selected DHCP, popped in my hostname and everything has been good to go. You don't need the proprietary software (in most cases at least) that the cable company wants to install. Usually all it is is their custom version of IE and a bunch of links to go on your desktop. All Windows crap really. Anyhow, as mentioned you really only need to know how the cable company authenticates your modem, DHCP or static IP, and probably a hostname. YMMV, -A -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of H.J.Bathoorn Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 10:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Telewest broadband connection - nogo On Wednesday 15 October 2003 15:00, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 15 October 2003 05:49 am, Len Lawrence wrote: Can anybody tell me just what information would be required for a simple standalone setup? And is it true that the cable modem can only be initialized by proprietary software? I went thru something like this when I hooked up with Charter. I simply told the tech that I was willing to sign to the effect that I took all responsibility for getting the Ambit modem working with my setup. He called his supervisor and that was good enough for them. I have perused various HOWTOs without seeing exactly what kind of information is needed. IP addresses of course. Presumably I could badger Telewest to give me those in written form, but what else? The dialup connection was simple to configure because Demon provided all the relevant parameters. Hmm, once they provisioned my cable modem, all it took was a simple (as root): ifdown eth0 then ifup eth0 and it acquired everything that was needed. I'm assuming that service network restart would do the same thing. Keep us informed as to how it goes! :-) PS This link may help some: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Cable-Modem/ Happened likewise here. There was sheer panic in the eyes of the guy who came to install when he saw it was Linux;) Gave him a cup of coffee, said watch me do it, and yell whoa if you think I'll break something. He was stunned that I had it up and running before he'd even had a chance to sip his coffee. Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org -- Rosie Linux forever Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
