[newbie] Hmmm ... app crash after most installs?
Just a minor annoyance, but wondering if it's usual or something else is amiss. (Running MDK as below in sig.) I've noted that after installing most apps (most recently rute and gimp-2 via urpmi, but also most others I can recall), the first attempt to run that app from the KDE menu will result in an app crash. The second attempt (and subsequent runs) will work with no errors. This seems to be the case whether or not I've ended and restarted my KDE session. Do others experience this regularly/is this common? Again, just a minor annoyance and always just a solitary, nonrepeatable crash, but one of those Hmmm... things, nonetheless. -- Chuck Mattsen / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / RLU #346519 Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Community) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-4mdk 02:57:30 up 2:17, 1 user, load average: 0.12, 0.24, 0.17 Fremen add life to spice! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hmmm ... app crash after most installs?
On 03/27/2004 10:01 AM, Chuck Mattsen wrote: Do others experience this regularly/is this common? Again, just a minor annoyance and always just a solitary, nonrepeatable crash, but one of those Hmmm... things, nonetheless. Very strange. I have never had this happen in all my Linux life (which started in 1999...). I hope you can figure this out! Paul -- There is no opinion so absurd that some philosopher will not express it. - Marcus Tullius Cicero http://www.nlpagan.net/linux.htm Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hmmm ... app crash after most installs?
On Saturday 27 March 2004 03:01 am, Chuck Mattsen wrote: Just a minor annoyance, but wondering if it's usual or something else is amiss. (Running MDK as below in sig.) I've noted that after installing most apps (most recently rute and gimp-2 via urpmi, but also most others I can recall), the first attempt to run that app from the KDE menu will result in an app crash. The second attempt (and subsequent runs) will work with no errors. This seems to be the case whether or not I've ended and restarted my KDE session. Do others experience this regularly/is this common? Again, just a minor annoyance and always just a solitary, nonrepeatable crash, but one of those Hmmm... things, nonetheless. I believe it's peculiar to your system. I've run 10.0 all thru the development process to 10.0-CE, and now 10.0-OE (as of about today. Note to everybody, this is my conjecture). I read the cooker, buggzilla, and change log lists daily. I can't remember anyone mentioning such a problem. 'Bout the only thing I can suggest is to install cooker sources for RPMS/ (main) and RPMS2/ (contrib) and update to current cooker. You should then have 10.0 Official. I believe this announcement is comin next week. http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/cookerdevel.php3 You could use 'stable' and 'stable contrib' sources, but those are just symlinked to cooker. You also might miss any last minute, post 10.0-OE updates if you use 'stable'. It will be unlinked to cooker after Official is announced. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Proud to be an American Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hmmm ... app crash after most installs?
On Saturday 27 March 2004 09:03, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 27 March 2004 03:01 am, Chuck Mattsen wrote: Just a minor annoyance, but wondering if it's usual or something else is amiss. (Running MDK as below in sig.) I've noted that after installing most apps (most recently rute and gimp-2 via urpmi, but also most others I can recall), the first attempt to run that app from the KDE menu will result in an app crash. The second attempt (and subsequent runs) will work with no errors. This seems to be the case whether or not I've ended and restarted my KDE session. Do others experience this regularly/is this common? Again, just a minor annoyance and always just a solitary, nonrepeatable crash, but one of those Hmmm... things, nonetheless. I believe it's peculiar to your system. I've run 10.0 all thru the development process to 10.0-CE, and now 10.0-OE (as of about today. Note to everybody, this is my conjecture). I read the cooker, buggzilla, and change log lists daily. I can't remember anyone mentioning such a problem. 'Bout the only thing I can suggest is to install cooker sources for RPMS/ (main) and RPMS2/ (contrib) and update to current cooker. You should then have 10.0 Official. I believe this announcement is comin next week. http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/cookerdevel.php3 You could use 'stable' and 'stable contrib' sources, but those are just symlinked to cooker. You also might miss any last minute, post 10.0-OE updates if you use 'stable'. It will be unlinked to cooker after Official is announced. I don't know if you would consider it the same or simular even. After this install of 9.2, I had updated and clicked on mozilla didn't work so I tried galeon didn't work, don't remember the reason, went to kmail it worked. After that went back to mozilla and galeon and they both worked. No idea why. -- Regards; Hoyt Ignore the past and you will fail! Ignore the future and you have already failed! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hmmm ... app crash after most installs?
On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 09:03, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 27 March 2004 03:01 am, Chuck Mattsen wrote: Just a minor annoyance, but wondering if it's usual or something else is amiss. (Running MDK as below in sig.) I've noted that after installing most apps (most recently rute and gimp-2 via urpmi, but also most others I can recall), the first attempt to run that app from the KDE menu will result in an app crash. The second attempt (and subsequent runs) will work with no errors. This seems to be the case whether or not I've ended and restarted my KDE session. Do others experience this regularly/is this common? Again, just a minor annoyance and always just a solitary, nonrepeatable crash, but one of those Hmmm... things, nonetheless. I believe it's peculiar to your system. I've run 10.0 all thru the development process to 10.0-CE, and now 10.0-OE (as of about today. Note to everybody, this is my conjecture). I read the cooker, buggzilla, and change log lists daily. I can't remember anyone mentioning such a problem. 'Bout the only thing I can suggest is to install cooker sources for RPMS/ (main) and RPMS2/ (contrib) and update to current cooker. You should then have 10.0 Official. I believe this announcement is comin next week. http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/cookerdevel.php3 You could use 'stable' and 'stable contrib' sources, but those are just symlinked to cooker. You also might miss any last minute, post 10.0-OE updates if you use 'stable'. It will be unlinked to cooker after Official is announced. Actually, I've already got cooker sources in place and keep current with the updates. Again, though, it's just one of those first-time crash things, and it never happens again (for that app). I /suspect/ it might be wrapped up in the menuing or something (I should try a first run of a program from Konsole next time to see if I get the same result and/or to watch for errors, just to see). Other than this niggling little thing -- which I've come to expect now -- everything seems rock solid. thx. -- Chuck Mattsen / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / RLU #346519 Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Community) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-4mdk 11:05:18 up 7 min, 1 user, load average: 0.13, 0.36, 0.24 Television is now so desperately hungry for material that it is scraping the top of the barrel. -- Gore Vidal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] hmmm, odd
Just joined this list, but when I sent a post I got: Sorry. Your message could not be delivered to: linux-mandrake newbie,emc (The name was not found at the remote site. Check that the name has been entered correctly.) However, I received my post via the list address, [EMAIL PROTECTED], so I assume all is well. Or is it? TIA -- Pierre Final Filer Software http://www.finalfiler.com Worrigee, NSW, Australia 2540 -- Life's like a roll of toilet paper- The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hmmm, odd
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Re: [newbie] hmmm, odd
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Re: [newbie] hmmm.. two questions.
On Sat, 17 November 2001, Roy Hershberger wrote: Gina, Gimp is there but you might have to run the software manager to install it if it didn't install initially. Linux ppc should work in any PPC mac, but not in 68k. Roy On Saturday 17 November 2001 00:10, you wrote: One: Is it standard for mandrake 8.1not to come with gimp? Is it perhaps that I do not have a full set of libraries? Out of curiosity (my partner is a complete mac freak -ok so I haven't looked at osX as of YET)- Can you run linux on (I should stress) older mac architecture? Gina __ Do You Yahoo!? Find the one for you at Yahoo! Personals http://personals.yahoo.com Find the best deals on the web at AltaVista Shopping! http://www.shopping.altavista.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hmmm.. two questions.
One: Is it standard for mandrake 8.1not to come with gimp? Is it perhaps that I do not have a full set of libraries? I'm sure gimp is there - use rpmdrake to look for the gimp RPM and install it. It might not be installed by default, depending on how you decided to install your system. Can you run linux on (I should stress) older mac architecture? There are some mac systems that it will run on. You might get some information on http://www.mac.linux-m68k.org/ . Look for the following rpms: xsane-gimp-0.61-0mdk_helix_1 gimp-devel-1.1.29-0mdk_helix_1 gimp-perl70-1.1.29-0mdk_helix_1 gimp-perl72-1.1.29-0mdk_helix_1 gimp-data-extras-1.0.0-10mdk xpcd-gimp-2.08-9mdk gimp-1.1.29-0mdk_helix_1 Or similar - my gimp is from Helix gnome rather than Mandrake - but my archive of Mandrake shows that gimp, gimp-data-extras, etc., are there. Gina David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] hmmm.. two questions.
One: Is it standard for mandrake 8.1not to come with gimp? Is it perhaps that I do not have a full set of libraries? Out of curiosity (my partner is a complete mac freak -ok so I haven't looked at osX as of YET)- Can you run linux on (I should stress) older mac architecture? Gina __ Do You Yahoo!? Find the one for you at Yahoo! Personals http://personals.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hmmm.. two questions.
Gina, Gimp is there but you might have to run the software manager to install it if it didn't install initially. Linux ppc should work in any PPC mac, but not in 68k. Roy On Saturday 17 November 2001 00:10, you wrote: One: Is it standard for mandrake 8.1not to come with gimp? Is it perhaps that I do not have a full set of libraries? Out of curiosity (my partner is a complete mac freak -ok so I haven't looked at osX as of YET)- Can you run linux on (I should stress) older mac architecture? Gina __ Do You Yahoo!? Find the one for you at Yahoo! Personals http://personals.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hmmm.... LM 7.2 installation queries
On Sunday 18 February 2001 01:36, you wrote: Hi all, I've just decided to give Mandrake a go (Redhat otherwise) am having some fun getting the LM 7.2 installer to work...: 1) perl script errors on trying to mount "/" in the diskdruid (??) program. I'd set the mount point format the disk, but then trying to mount it would generate a perl script error on line 218 of some script. Perhaps it's not necessary as it does eventually get mounted anyway... just curious to know what the deal is. 2) Erroneous disk space requirements reported: Regardless of what I select on the high level package selection screen, it always reports hefty disk space requirements. Manual calculation would indicat that the selected package groups would require say 1.1GB, yet the installer would turn around stat that 2.6GB was required. why is this? How can I get around it? 3) Xserver lockups on resolution test. After successfully detecting my S3 Virge/DX video card, and having spcified my exact monitor type (Samsung 17GLi), the test of the minimal resolution I'd selected (800x600x16, or did I select any??) would just result in a permanent black screen. I've not really ever had this problem before (to my recollection) under Redhat Debian. 4) Missing files after install. After an eventual successful install (various bypasses to the problems above) some tools seem to be missing: Xconfigurator - should that not be in /usr/X11R6/bin just like XF86config is?; On boot of an older machine (installed via ftp from the newer one) init is loaded but then asks what runlevel to switch to! I've not checked, but perhaps the rc.d ( associated) directories are screwed up? I'm wondering if perhaps these files ( others) are missing due to the fact that I'd had to let the installed trim the installation base down from 2.6GB to 1.3GB, as described in point 2 above. hmmm surely these files would not get the chop so easily? Well, I like the look/feel of LM, but these issues ain't no fun. RH7.0 and DB2.2 installs went relatively flawlessly, so the impression ain't too good. I've searched the newbie expert mailing lists, found nothing much. Access to a news.mandrake.com would be nice too. Thanks, sTu. ___ Stuart Summerville [EMAIL PROTECTED] Deimus Enterprises Ph: 0412-332-074 Caulfield North, ICQ: 62258556 Vic, Australia. HI there, Check out your hdisk with fdisk (linux one) or cfdisk on what partitions you actually have. Propably mdk left old ones intact and created new ones - careful as it is on leaving other OS'es intact on installation. I found partitioning with fdisk beforehand, and choosing 'custom' or 'expert' install very helpful. Don't forget to format the new partitions though. good luck, -- Semper avanti,sailing on Linux, Harm Bathoorn Free evermore. Hoek. NL. |~ | _ ___|__.__\_|_||_... \___\_|__||_|__|__ _\_Triade__NL__/
Re: [newbie] hmmm, fat32
haha! Happy Easter to you too! Mike Dan LaBine wrote: Enough is Enough!! Have some compassion for the rest of us will ya? It's easter for God's sake! Most of us ( I hope! ) just ate a hell of a lot of ham or something, and all you can talk about is FAT??? Why not wait until tomorrow when we're all feeling real guilty about making pigs of ourselves, and then hit us with all the FAT talk ! Personally, I went WAY beyond 32 grams of Fat tonight! Grin, Grin! Happy Easter! -- The Penguins are coming!!! Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] hmmm, fat32
Just figured that with all the arguing going on in here that we could use a little humour. I will admit however, that us Linux folks are passionate about our O/S 's. What'cha gonna do, eh? Have a good one, but go easy on the chocolate bunnies! Dan ( here ends the easter comments! Let's get back to being cocky, arrogant computer geeks! Woo Hoo!) - Original Message - From: "Michael Holt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2000 2:25 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] hmmm, fat32 haha! Happy Easter to you too! Mike Dan LaBine wrote: Enough is Enough!! Have some compassion for the rest of us will ya? It's easter for God's sake! Most of us ( I hope! ) just ate a hell of a lot of ham or something, and all you can talk about is FAT??? Why not wait until tomorrow when we're all feeling real guilty about making pigs of ourselves, and then hit us with all the FAT talk ! Personally, I went WAY beyond 32 grams of Fat tonight! Grin, Grin! Happy Easter! -- The Penguins are coming!!! Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] hmmm, fat32
yes but your fstab.conf file has to have vfat as the type. Vic wrote: Just out of curiosity, I wonder if Linux (any version) can read a fat32 partition. No rush, just curious. -- Want to make some extra pocket change listening to your realplayer while you surf? http://www.radiofreecash.com/home.asp?ref=kittypuss Sign up for ClickDough and get paid to surf the web. http://secure.clickdough.com/servlets/cr/CRSignup.po?referral_id=kittypuss
[newbie] hmmm, fat32
Just out of curiosity, I wonder if Linux (any version) can read a fat32 partition. No rush, just curious. -- Want to make some extra pocket change listening to your realplayer while you surf? http://www.radiofreecash.com/home.asp?ref=kittypuss Sign up for ClickDough and get paid to surf the web. http://secure.clickdough.com/servlets/cr/CRSignup.po?referral_id=kittypuss
Re: [newbie] hmmm, fat32
Yes, most distributions come preconfigured to read and write to FAT32. Linux calls it vfat. Mike Vic wrote: Just out of curiosity, I wonder if Linux (any version) can read a fat32 partition. No rush, just curious. -- Want to make some extra pocket change listening to your realplayer while you surf? http://www.radiofreecash.com/home.asp?ref=kittypuss Sign up for ClickDough and get paid to surf the web. http://secure.clickdough.com/servlets/cr/CRSignup.po?referral_id=kittypuss -- The Penguins are coming!!! Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] hmmm, fat32
Oh wow, someone told me that fat32 was not vfat, whups. Thankx for the update. :) On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, you wrote: Yes, most distributions come preconfigured to read and write to FAT32. Linux calls it vfat. Mike Vic wrote: Just out of curiosity, I wonder if Linux (any version) can read a fat32 partition. No rush, just curious. -- Want to make some extra pocket change listening to your realplayer while you surf? http://www.radiofreecash.com/home.asp?ref=kittypuss Sign up for ClickDough and get paid to surf the web. http://secure.clickdough.com/servlets/cr/CRSignup.po?referral_id=kittypuss -- The Penguins are coming!!! Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Want to make some extra pocket change listening to your realplayer while you surf? http://www.radiofreecash.com/home.asp?ref=kittypuss Sign up for ClickDough and get paid to surf the web. http://secure.clickdough.com/servlets/cr/CRSignup.po?referral_id=kittypuss
Re: [newbie] hmmm, fat32
Yeah, when I first started with Linux (not that long ago)I assigned my windows partitions the dos file system and I couldn't figure out why all my file names were getting chopped up (dos only allows 8 char for file names and 3 for extensions). I switched to vfat and have lived happily ever after! =) Mike Vic wrote: Oh wow, someone told me that fat32 was not vfat, whups. Thankx for the update. :) On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, you wrote: Yes, most distributions come preconfigured to read and write to FAT32. Linux calls it vfat. Mike Vic wrote: Just out of curiosity, I wonder if Linux (any version) can read a fat32 partition. No rush, just curious. -- Want to make some extra pocket change listening to your realplayer while you surf? http://www.radiofreecash.com/home.asp?ref=kittypuss Sign up for ClickDough and get paid to surf the web. http://secure.clickdough.com/servlets/cr/CRSignup.po?referral_id=kittypuss -- The Penguins are coming!!! Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Want to make some extra pocket change listening to your realplayer while you surf? http://www.radiofreecash.com/home.asp?ref=kittypuss Sign up for ClickDough and get paid to surf the web. http://secure.clickdough.com/servlets/cr/CRSignup.po?referral_id=kittypuss -- The Penguins are coming!!! Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] Hmmm
On 13-Mar-2000 Wayne wrote: Sorry guys. Further to my last, I have cheked the ownership of my device (hdd1) under my /dev directory and have found that it is owned by me (wapether) and not by root, yet root owns all of the directories on it and I cannot change the attributes as root or myself. HELP! Wayne Are you talking about directories on a Windos partition? You can't change their permissions since Windos has no idea what permissions are. Try the umask entry suggested by a previous poster. Regards tom Wayne Petherick Criminology Department Bond University -- "No fun, no gain" Thomas 'tom' Berger, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) http://www.mandrakeuser.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Hmmm
Sorry guys. Further to my last, I have cheked the ownership of my device (hdd1) under my /dev directory and have found that it is owned by me (wapether) and not by root, yet root owns all of the directories on it and I cannot change the attributes as root or myself. HELP! Wayne Wayne Petherick Criminology Department Bond University
Re: [Re: [newbie] Hmmm, update downloads wont work]
Yup, My old box does keep me waiting some, but not nearly as bad as in Win95. I mostly wait for apps to load, once their loaded, things work pretty good. I am using an AMD x5-133 with 80M RAM on a 486a-VIP MB wh. a PCI bus - it was a pretty good board when I got it. A new board-CPU is on the wish list, but I got a rule about toys (this particular toy is my one great passion), I never buy them on credit, and other expences allways come first (like all those little emergencies that seem to crop up whenever you get a little extra cash saved). This way when I play, I don't need to deal with any "guilt" for the fun I have. The only bug I know of is the one with the kdelibs package conflicting with the kcmclock package. But, then again, I am a newbie just like you, and am not on the Mandrake staff so there may be other bugs. Did you try to do the work-around with kdelibs by removing kcmclock, then reinstalling kdelibs ? Ernie On Wed, 27 Oct 1999,Jaguar wrote: | FYI | When I first got L-M 6.0 home, and installed it...it was to an AST 486 - 66, | with 16 MB Ram. It installed perfectly ie: no conflicts with CPU, but was | extremely S L O W...:( | I have since put L-M on a Cyrix GM 233 Pentium system with 32 MB Ram, same | install...but much faster. | Jaguar | | "Ernest N. Wilcox Jr." [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Rick, | | I had a variety of seemingly unrelated problems when I did the update from | Mandrake 6.0 to 6.1. Most if not all of them were fixed when I removed the | kcmclock package, and reinstalled the kdelibs package. I also did some | changes | to my rpmrc file, to let rpm install the Mandrake packages on my old | 486-style | system. Maybe you should do the kdelibs fix and see if it has anything to | do | with the update tool (unless you already have)? | | If you have a 486-style system, rpm (which is used by both Mandrake Update | and | Kpackage) will by default refuse to install 586 packages on a 486 machine. | Axilon was gracious enough to give me the hack for the rpmrc file - BTW | Thanks | AX! - located on my system at /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc. Edit the file with your | favorite text editor, and modify the three related lines to match as below: | |arch_compat: i486: i386 i586 |arch_compat: osfmach3_i486: i386 osfmach3_i586 |buildarch_compat: i486: i386 i586 | | I cannot remember what information was in these lines prior to the hack, but | I | added (I think the i486) stuff to each line. | | I also modified my kdelinks for Kpackage and Mandrake Update in my normal | user | desktop so I could run them as if I was a superuser. I added "kdesu -c " | (without the quotes) to the front of the command lines in the Execute tab of | the | properties box for each link. Now Mandrake Update, RPM, and Kpackage all | work as | intended for me. | | Before the rpmrc hack, Mandrake Update would download the RPM's, then tell | me | that the packages were for a diferent architecture in an error box, and not | install anything. After hacking rpmrc, I was able to remove the kcmclock | package, which permitted me to fix kdelibs by installing the package | (Kpackage | reported that kdelibs was not installed) from the CD, and get all available | updates installed with Mandrake Update. Since these changes, I have not | found | anything which will not work on my system. I hope there is something in | here | which will be of help for you, | | Ernie | | | On Wed, 27 Oct 1999,Rick Murphy wrote: || Since re-installing Mandrake 6.1 I have a problem using the mandrake | update || program. It will call up the updates but after I sign in as root it | will not || download and update the files. Is there something I didn't install when | I || re-installed mandrake? || || Rick || || || -- || "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea," JB | | | | Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [Re: [newbie] Hmmm, update downloads wont work]
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999,Singer XJ Wang wrote: | Does Mandrake actually work with an 486/ | Yes it does! I installed both Mandrake 6.0 then 6.1 (both are Macmillan releases) without any hitches. Of course, my CPU is an AMD x5-133 and this may not exactly be a 486, but it is on a 486-style board, and all works well, just not with blinding speed. Ernie | On 27 Oct 1999, Jaguar wrote: | | FYI | When I first got L-M 6.0 home, and installed it...it was to an AST 486 - 66, | with 16 MB Ram. It installed perfectly ie: no conflicts with CPU, but was | extremely S L O W...:( | I have since put L-M on a Cyrix GM 233 Pentium system with 32 MB Ram, same | install...but much faster. | Jaguar | | "Ernest N. Wilcox Jr." [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Rick, | | I had a variety of seemingly unrelated problems when I did the update from | Mandrake 6.0 to 6.1. Most if not all of them were fixed when I removed the | kcmclock package, and reinstalled the kdelibs package. I also did some | changes | to my rpmrc file, to let rpm install the Mandrake packages on my old | 486-style | system. Maybe you should do the kdelibs fix and see if it has anything to | do | with the update tool (unless you already have)? | | If you have a 486-style system, rpm (which is used by both Mandrake Update | and | Kpackage) will by default refuse to install 586 packages on a 486 machine. | Axilon was gracious enough to give me the hack for the rpmrc file - BTW | Thanks | AX! - located on my system at /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc. Edit the file with your | favorite text editor, and modify the three related lines to match as below: | | arch_compat: i486: i386 i586 | arch_compat: osfmach3_i486: i386 osfmach3_i586 | buildarch_compat: i486: i386 i586 | | I cannot remember what information was in these lines prior to the hack, but | I | added (I think the i486) stuff to each line. | | I also modified my kdelinks for Kpackage and Mandrake Update in my normal | user | desktop so I could run them as if I was a superuser. I added "kdesu -c " | (without the quotes) to the front of the command lines in the Execute tab of | the | properties box for each link. Now Mandrake Update, RPM, and Kpackage all | work as | intended for me. | | Before the rpmrc hack, Mandrake Update would download the RPM's, then tell | me | that the packages were for a diferent architecture in an error box, and not | install anything. After hacking rpmrc, I was able to remove the kcmclock | package, which permitted me to fix kdelibs by installing the package | (Kpackage | reported that kdelibs was not installed) from the CD, and get all available | updates installed with Mandrake Update. Since these changes, I have not | found | anything which will not work on my system. I hope there is something in | here | which will be of help for you, | | Ernie | | | On Wed, 27 Oct 1999,Rick Murphy wrote: | | Since re-installing Mandrake 6.1 I have a problem using the mandrake | update | | program. It will call up the updates but after I sign in as root it | will not | | download and update the files. Is there something I didn't install when | I | | re-installed mandrake? | | | | Rick | | | | | | -- | | "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea," JB | | | | Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. |
Re: [newbie] Hmmm, update downloads won't work
Is there a way to do the auto-update with 6.0? --Drew Jackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 20177604 On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, you wrote: On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Bill Munden wrote: Are you signing in as root from within a user account that you created? I did and was having the same problem. I exited my user account and logged back in as "strictly root." I was then able to install the updates. -Bill Thanks Bills, that did the trick. I wonder what the problem is with local user. Rick -- "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea," JB
[newbie] Hmmm, update downloads won't work
Since re-installing Mandrake 6.1 I have a problem using the mandrake update program. It will call up the updates but after I sign in as root it will not download and update the files. Is there something I didn't install when I re-installed mandrake? Rick -- "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea," JB
Re: [newbie] Hmmm, update downloads won't work
Rick, I had a variety of seemingly unrelated problems when I did the update from Mandrake 6.0 to 6.1. Most if not all of them were fixed when I removed the kcmclock package, and reinstalled the kdelibs package. I also did some changes to my rpmrc file, to let rpm install the Mandrake packages on my old 486-style system. Maybe you should do the kdelibs fix and see if it has anything to do with the update tool (unless you already have)? If you have a 486-style system, rpm (which is used by both Mandrake Update and Kpackage) will by default refuse to install 586 packages on a 486 machine. Axilon was gracious enough to give me the hack for the rpmrc file - BTW Thanks AX! - located on my system at /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc. Edit the file with your favorite text editor, and modify the three related lines to match as below: arch_compat: i486: i386 i586 arch_compat: osfmach3_i486: i386 osfmach3_i586 buildarch_compat: i486: i386 i586 I cannot remember what information was in these lines prior to the hack, but I added (I think the i486) stuff to each line. I also modified my kdelinks for Kpackage and Mandrake Update in my normal user desktop so I could run them as if I was a superuser. I added "kdesu -c " (without the quotes) to the front of the command lines in the Execute tab of the properties box for each link. Now Mandrake Update, RPM, and Kpackage all work as intended for me. Before the rpmrc hack, Mandrake Update would download the RPM's, then tell me that the packages were for a diferent architecture in an error box, and not install anything. After hacking rpmrc, I was able to remove the kcmclock package, which permitted me to fix kdelibs by installing the package (Kpackage reported that kdelibs was not installed) from the CD, and get all available updates installed with Mandrake Update. Since these changes, I have not found anything which will not work on my system. I hope there is something in here which will be of help for you, Ernie On Wed, 27 Oct 1999,Rick Murphy wrote: | Since re-installing Mandrake 6.1 I have a problem using the mandrake update | program. It will call up the updates but after I sign in as root it will not | download and update the files. Is there something I didn't install when I | re-installed mandrake? | | Rick | | | -- | "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea," JB
Re: [newbie] Hmmm, update downloads won't work
Are you signing in as root from within a user account that you created? I did and was having the same problem. I exited my user account and logged back in as "strictly root." I was then able to install the updates. -Bill - Original Message - From: Rick Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 3:51 AM Subject: [newbie] Hmmm, update downloads won't work Since re-installing Mandrake 6.1 I have a problem using the mandrake update program. It will call up the updates but after I sign in as root it will not download and update the files. Is there something I didn't install when I re-installed mandrake? Rick -- "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea," JB
Re: [Re: [newbie] Hmmm, update downloads wont work]
Does Mandrake actually work with an 486/ On 27 Oct 1999, Jaguar wrote: FYI When I first got L-M 6.0 home, and installed it...it was to an AST 486 - 66, with 16 MB Ram. It installed perfectly ie: no conflicts with CPU, but was extremely S L O W...:( I have since put L-M on a Cyrix GM 233 Pentium system with 32 MB Ram, same install...but much faster. Jaguar "Ernest N. Wilcox Jr." [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick, I had a variety of seemingly unrelated problems when I did the update from Mandrake 6.0 to 6.1. Most if not all of them were fixed when I removed the kcmclock package, and reinstalled the kdelibs package. I also did some changes to my rpmrc file, to let rpm install the Mandrake packages on my old 486-style system. Maybe you should do the kdelibs fix and see if it has anything to do with the update tool (unless you already have)? If you have a 486-style system, rpm (which is used by both Mandrake Update and Kpackage) will by default refuse to install 586 packages on a 486 machine. Axilon was gracious enough to give me the hack for the rpmrc file - BTW Thanks AX! - located on my system at /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc. Edit the file with your favorite text editor, and modify the three related lines to match as below: arch_compat: i486: i386 i586 arch_compat: osfmach3_i486: i386 osfmach3_i586 buildarch_compat: i486: i386 i586 I cannot remember what information was in these lines prior to the hack, but I added (I think the i486) stuff to each line. I also modified my kdelinks for Kpackage and Mandrake Update in my normal user desktop so I could run them as if I was a superuser. I added "kdesu -c " (without the quotes) to the front of the command lines in the Execute tab of the properties box for each link. Now Mandrake Update, RPM, and Kpackage all work as intended for me. Before the rpmrc hack, Mandrake Update would download the RPM's, then tell me that the packages were for a diferent architecture in an error box, and not install anything. After hacking rpmrc, I was able to remove the kcmclock package, which permitted me to fix kdelibs by installing the package (Kpackage reported that kdelibs was not installed) from the CD, and get all available updates installed with Mandrake Update. Since these changes, I have not found anything which will not work on my system. I hope there is something in here which will be of help for you, Ernie On Wed, 27 Oct 1999,Rick Murphy wrote: | Since re-installing Mandrake 6.1 I have a problem using the mandrake update | program. It will call up the updates but after I sign in as root it will not | download and update the files. Is there something I didn't install when I | re-installed mandrake? | | Rick | | | -- | "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea," JB Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
