[newbie] Mandrake Update problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am new to this mail list, so, it is possible that I am asking about something that has been asked already. If so, please forgive the duplication. I am using - or, trying to use - MandrakeUpdate. When I run it, I keep getting this error: Unable to add medium, errors reported: ...retrieving failed: curl failed: exited with 9 or signal 0 retrieval of source hdlist ( or synthesis ) failed no hdlist file found for medium update source problem reading synthesis file or medium update_source I click on OK and it tells me that the list of updates is empty. What does all this mean? And, how do I fix it? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Ian MacGregor - -- - - Registered Linux User #350412 MacGregor Despite Them! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAfUv51ZEuizqPRqERAmkzAJ46cBPVdFJG4eJd2RgTLShudPoutACgxlm3 X+inBbTTbukdi1PU81XMTGY= =ac7b -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update problem
Ian MacGregor napsal(a): -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am new to this mail list, so, it is possible that I am asking about something that has been asked already. If so, please forgive the duplication. I am using - or, trying to use - MandrakeUpdate. When I run it, I keep getting this error: Unable to add medium, errors reported: ...retrieving failed: curl failed: exited with 9 or signal 0 retrieval of source hdlist ( or synthesis ) failed no hdlist file found for medium update source problem reading synthesis file or medium update_source I click on OK and it tells me that the list of updates is empty. What does all this mean? And, how do I fix it? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Ian MacGregor this feature is broken due to some changes done by mandrake. best is to wait for couple of days. -- Daniel Hrbac [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake update error
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 01:13:40 -0800 Lee B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where would I find a log entry (or ?) where I can find out which program failed to update? Probably /var/log/urpmi.log. -- 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] Mandrake Update not possible
After upgrading to Mandrake 9.1 I chosed 'Update Software' and got a list of software that I could update over the network. I selected a few ones but during the update I got messages that some libraries are needed and can't be found (it's a large list). I assumed that all the stuff needed for update should be on the server. I tried it again a few weeks later and than I got the message that the server has no files at all for Mandrake 9.1. Did you experience similar problems? Any hints? -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging more http://www.gmx.net +++ Jetzt ein- oder umsteigen und USB-Speicheruhr als Prämie sichern! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update not possible
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 09:43:08 +0200 (MEST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Did you experience similar problems? Any hints? When you upgraded to 9.1, did you make sure to install all of the same packages? (I'm assuming you did an upgrade as opposed to a clean install). Try urpmi --updates --auto-select if this doesn't work, make sure that all of your package sources are pointing to 9.1 sources and not 9.0. -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net 03:47:38 up 15 days, 9:28, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update not possible
When you upgraded to 9.1 did you delete your old 9.0 update source? That would explain why you had trouble with libraries. You can remove your old source with the source manager GUI in Mandrake control Centre, and you can select a new 9.1 source from http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php Add a source for contrib and plf while you are there:- derek On Thursday 10 Jul 2003 8:43 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After upgrading to Mandrake 9.1 I chosed 'Update Software' and got a list of software that I could update over the network. I selected a few ones but during the update I got messages that some libraries are needed and can't be found (it's a large list). I assumed that all the stuff needed for update should be on the server. I tried it again a few weeks later and than I got the message that the server has no files at all for Mandrake 9.1. Did you experience similar problems? Any hints? -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update not possible
I also recomend throwing disk 1 in the CD-ROM before you urpmi anything. On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 09:27:57 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you upgraded to 9.1 did you delete your old 9.0 update source? That would explain why you had trouble with libraries. You can remove your old source with the source manager GUI in Mandrake control Centre, and you can select a new 9.1 source from http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php Add a source for contrib and plf while you are there:- derek On Thursday 10 Jul 2003 8:43 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After upgrading to Mandrake 9.1 I chosed 'Update Software' and got a list of software that I could update over the network. I selected a few ones but during the update I got messages that some libraries are needed and can't be found (it's a large list). I assumed that all the stuff needed for update should be on the server. I tried it again a few weeks later and than I got the message that the server has no files at all for Mandrake 9.1. Did you experience similar problems? Any hints? -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update not possible
Once the sources are sorted out the first thing you should update is urpmi itself. From the command line urpmi urpmi or use the Software install GUI. derek On Thursday 10 Jul 2003 11:12 am, Michael Adams wrote: I also recomend throwing disk 1 in the CD-ROM before you urpmi anything. On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 09:27:57 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you upgraded to 9.1 did you delete your old 9.0 update source? That would explain why you had trouble with libraries. You can remove your old source with the source manager GUI in Mandrake control Centre, and you can select a new 9.1 source from http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php Add a source for contrib and plf while you are there:- derek On Thursday 10 Jul 2003 8:43 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After upgrading to Mandrake 9.1 I chosed 'Update Software' and got a list of software that I could update over the network. I selected a few ones but during the update I got messages that some libraries are needed and can't be found (it's a large list). I assumed that all the stuff needed for update should be on the server. I tried it again a few weeks later and than I got the message that the server has no files at all for Mandrake 9.1. Did you experience similar problems? Any hints? -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update not possible
On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 17:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After upgrading to Mandrake 9.1 I chosed 'Update Software' and got a list of software that I could update over the network. I selected a few ones but during the update I got messages that some libraries are needed and can't be found (it's a large list). I assumed that all the stuff needed for update should be on the server. I tried it again a few weeks later and than I got the message that the server has no files at all for Mandrake 9.1. Did you experience similar problems? Any hints? You need to update the sources - so in the Mandrake Control Center, go to Software Management = Software Sources Manager = Update - and you can update the sources; that way, when you actually try to update the system, you're getting the proper listing. You should do this every so often as the update lists change... -- Thu Jul 10 22:35:00 EST 2003 22:35:00 up 4 days, 7 min, 2 users, load average: 0.16, 0.10, 0.09 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * The instruments of science do not in themselves discover truth. And there are searchings that are not concluded by the coincidence of a pointer and a mark. -- Fred Saberhagen, The Berserker Wars Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update not possible
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 17:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After upgrading to Mandrake 9.1 I chosed 'Update Software' and got a list of software that I could update over the network. I selected a few ones but during the update I got messages that some libraries are needed and can't be found (it's a large list). I assumed that all the stuff needed for update should be on the server. I tried it again a few weeks later and than I got the message that the server has no files at all for Mandrake 9.1. Did you experience similar problems? Any hints? You need to update the sources - so in the Mandrake Control Center, go to Software Management = Software Sources Manager = Update - and you can update the sources; that way, when you actually try to update the system, you're getting the proper listing. You should do this every so often as the update lists change... I ghot the same problem, but in Add a source there's relative path to synthesis/hdlist, what is this?Could you give me a couple nice URL with their synthesis/hdlist whatever this is? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update not possible
Rosario Balboa wrote: I ghot the same problem, but in Add a source there's relative path to synthesis/hdlist, what is this?Could you give me a couple nice URL with their synthesis/hdlist whatever this is? Somebody posted a link to an excellent page with a utility that calculates the commands you need to add sources for just about anything (including Texstar and PLF) - you just have to choose your mirror, then paste the result code into a terminal. Unfortunately the bookmark is on my office computer ... Sir Robin -- A strategy is still being formulated. Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update not possible
It's http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 10:56, Robin Turner wrote: Rosario Balboa wrote: I ghot the same problem, but in Add a source there's relative path to synthesis/hdlist, what is this?Could you give me a couple nice URL with their synthesis/hdlist whatever this is? Somebody posted a link to an excellent page with a utility that calculates the commands you need to add sources for just about anything (including Texstar and PLF) - you just have to choose your mirror, then paste the result code into a terminal. Unfortunately the bookmark is on my office computer ... Sir Robin -- Registered Linux User #299730 Registered Machine #204611 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update not possible
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 18:56:39 +0300 Robin Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Unfortunately the bookmark is on my office computer ... http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net 12:11:56 up 15 days, 17:53, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update not possible
On Thursday 10 July 2003 11:56, you wrote: Rosario Balboa wrote: I ghot the same problem, but in Add a source there's relative path to synthesis/hdlist, what is this?Could you give me a couple nice URL with their synthesis/hdlist whatever this is? Somebody posted a link to an excellent page with a utility that calculates the commands you need to add sources for just about anything (including Texstar and PLF) - you just have to choose your mirror, then paste the result code into a terminal. Unfortunately the bookmark is on my office computer ... Sir Robin Was it this one? http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php Hope so, Isaac Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update not possible
Curt Tresenriter wrote: It's http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php That was the one.A very useful page. Sir Robin -- A strategy is still being formulated. Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update not possible
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 22:50:09 +0300 Robin Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: A very useful page. It should be on the newbie signup page in 50 point bold... -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net 16:12:48 up 15 days, 21:53, 2 users, load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake update
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 07:28, Silent Bob wrote: Hello, I was wondering how to use Mandrake update from command line? I think that first I have to create update source (FTP) and then what? urpmi --update? Help appreciated! Bob urpmi.update is what you need. Just entering that'll give a help message with all the options. If you just want to just add the update_source from one of the mirrors: find one close to you and add using urpmi.addmedia or the softwaretool in MCC to add the it. urpmi.addmedia update_source ftp://your-mirror/path with ../base/hdlist.cz (without the quotes) After that use: urpmi.update -a urpmi --auto-select --auto --update Good Luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake update
Thanks man. -B - Original Message - From: H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 11:41 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] mandrake update On Wednesday 22 January 2003 07:28, Silent Bob wrote: Hello, I was wondering how to use Mandrake update from command line? I think that first I have to create update source (FTP) and then what? urpmi --update? Help appreciated! Bob urpmi.update is what you need. Just entering that'll give a help message with all the options. If you just want to just add the update_source from one of the mirrors: find one close to you and add using urpmi.addmedia or the softwaretool in MCC to add the it. urpmi.addmedia update_source ftp://your-mirror/path with ../base/hdlist.cz (without the quotes) After that use: urpmi.update -a urpmi --auto-select --auto --update Good Luck, HarM 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] mandrake update
Hello, I was wondering how to use Mandrake update from command line? I think that first I have to create update source (FTP) and then what? urpmi --update? Help appreciated! Bob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake Update.
Hi, Is it ok to use the KDE Mandrake Update to update KDE? Or do I have to use URPMI for that? Thanx, Seedkum Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update.
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 19:30, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Hi, Is it ok to use the KDE Mandrake Update to update KDE? Or do I have to use URPMI for that? Thanx, Seedkum That should work alright - but if you really want to update KDE, you might want to just grab the latest RPM packages and do an upgrade over your existing KDE installation. -- Wed Jan 15 19:30:00 EST 2003 7:30pm up 1 day, 11:11, 4 users, load average: 0.05, 0.06, 0.07 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- * linux user:267497 * RH 7.3+ * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- The problem with graduate students, in general, is that they have to sleep every few days. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update.
On Wednesday 15 January 2003 12:35 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 19:30, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Hi, Is it ok to use the KDE Mandrake Update to update KDE? Or do I have to use URPMI for that? Thanx, Seedkum That should work alright - but if you really want to update KDE, you might want to just grab the latest RPM packages and do an upgrade over your existing KDE installation. I thought the KDE Mandrake Update utility does what you are recommending. Doesn't it? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update.
On Wednesday 15 Jan 2003 7:16 pm, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: On Wednesday 15 January 2003 03:21 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 15 Jan 2003 8:30 am, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Hi, Is it ok to use the KDE Mandrake Update to update KDE? Or do I have to use URPMI for that? Thanx, Seedkum Mandrake Update is just a GUI front end for urpmi There are some security updates to KDE 3.0.5a available in Mandrake Update this week. I used urpmi --update --auto-select to update mine last night - no problemo. derek I went an did it this way. There was no problem except that I cannot now re-install timidity (the subject of another thread). Seedkum Timidity has kdemultimedia as a dependency. You can either install timidity by doing 'cd' to the directory containing timidity and then rpm -ivh --nodeps timidity-blah blah.rpm It is possible that Timidity will not work properly, in which case you can remove it again, and download the .src RPM and compile it with rpm --rebuild timidity-blah.blah.src This will only work if you have the required compiler tools available, and -devel versions of the dependent RPMs (such as kdemultimedia-devel-3.0.5a ) Alternatively you may decide to undo the upgrade and reinstall the old version of kdemultimedia. My post from this morning re: kdenetwork tells you how to go about it. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update.
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 19:54:11 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is possible that Timidity will not work properly, in which case you can remove it again, and download the .src RPM and compile it with rpm --rebuild timidity-blah.blah.src That will not achieve anything. kdemultimedia has an explicit Conflicts: TiMidity++ so, even if rebuilt, you would still need to install it using -ivh --nodeps. The pkg that would need to be rebuilt, with the Conflict removed, is kdemultimedia. Charles I WILL NOT BURY THE NEW KID I WILL NOT BURY THE NEW KID I WILL NOT BURY THE NEW KID I WILL NOT BURY THE NEW KID Bart Simpson on chalkboard in episode 9F03 -- Mandrake Linux 9.1 Kernel- 2.4.21-1mdk -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake Update is stuck on one lame mirror
Somehow, after I selected a mirror to use for Mandrake Update, it is now the ONLY mirror I can get.. and more than half the time I can't download files because it says it can't resolve host. How to I reconfigure rpmdrake to look for another host?? And why isn't this a selection onr rpmdrake when I right click? Thanks for any help. james Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Mandrake Update is stuck on one lame mirror
Title: RE: [newbie] Mandrake Update is stuck on one lame mirror -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of James Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 6:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Mandrake Update is stuck on one lame mirror Somehow, after I selected a mirror to use for Mandrake Update, it is now the ONLY mirror I can get.. and more than half the time I can't download files because it says it can't resolve host. How to I reconfigure rpmdrake to look for another host?? And why isn't this a selection onr rpmdrake when I right click? Thanks for any help. james James, if you open Mandrake Control Center and choose the Software option you will see a icon for updating mirrors. They have separated the install-uninstall-mirrorselection into separate interfaces. You can add another mirror there or delete one. I am not real fond of it but it works. HTH Dennis M.
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update is stuck on one lame mirror
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 04:15:34 -0800 (PST) James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Somehow, after I selected a mirror to use for Mandrake Update, it is now the ONLY mirror I can get.. and more than half the time I can't download files because it says it can't resolve host. How to I reconfigure rpmdrake to look for another host?? And why isn't this a selection onr rpmdrake when I right click? Thanks for any help. james Open the Mandrake Control Center, got to software management and choose Software Sources Manager. Highlight update source and choose remove. click save and quit. then back at the MCC, Click on Mandrake Update and you can re-choose your mirror. Hope this helps Jerry. -- Registered Linux User #300600 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake update
On December 26, 2002 05:58 pm, Seth Williamson wrote: snip I was unable to reply immediately when I got this advice, but God bless you, because it did the trick. It would seem to be a fairly significant bug that they should have issued a patch for. However, your advice worked, and has saved me a lot of grief. Thanks very much. Seth Williamson Floyd, VA USA As long as it's working in an acceptable manner Seth who cares how long it took. :-) You are welcome. Super-mount has worked well occasionally in the past; not at all after the next update/bug-fix quite often, and for me on this old clunker anyway, flawlessly exactly once. Counting from version 7.1 of Mandrake. It may not seem to be a priority for developers but you are probably correct that it would reduce the anxiety level for new users should it always (gasp!) work. It's difficult; however, to try to convince any developer (whether the ones on the payroll, or the fine volunteers that work in their free time 'cause they love it) to chase bugs out of something that bores them to tears. Especially something a developer wouldn't likely be using anyway. I want to thank you for letting the list know that your problem has been worked around though. Too many people never let the rest of us know whether the advice given was of any use. Your doing so is a welcome change. [OT rant] Enjoy Mandrake while you can. If the doom'n' gloomers on the mailing lists, and the chilling statements in e-mails from Mandrake-Linux, have any factual basis we'll all be looking for a new distribution soon unless we help save the company. Become Club members, buy shares, or donate, in other words. In the interest of 'helping the cause,' I've bought retail box sets for every (at least) second release since 7.1. At times more than one set per release when a friend 'borrowed' but didn't return it. That wasn't possible for 9.0 (out of sequence for me) since the damned box sets weren't in stores in anything resembling a reasonable time frame here in western Canada. As soon as it's made easy and I don't have to pay double the posted price in a lump sum I'll jump right into the Club. Canadian Monopoly Money isn't the worst currency, but it sure as hell ain't US dollars. Adding the option to pay at $10 or $15 per month would make helping a real attainable probability for a lot of low income people, but there's no provision for that. Nor does it seem there's any interest at Mandrakesoft for making it so. Is Mandrake at all interested in my (and probably many others) ongoing $15 CDN per month? It would seem not. [\OT rant] Sorry about the above OT. Amazing what spews out of me when my buttons are pushed. Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Marxist Law of Distribution of Wealth: Shortages will be divided equally among the peasants. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake update
On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 16:29, Charlie wrote: I am puzzled by the behavior of the Mandrake update system. When I start it, it (seemingly) just sits there for three or four or five minutes doing nothing. The first time I tried the update, I thought the system had locked up or something and nothing was happening. But apparently, it's working, but moving very S-L-O-W-L-Y... Howdy Seth; It's looking for the 1st install CD. Put it (CD1) in the drive and you won't have such slow responses. I have no idea why but mine does the same thing and fills the logs with 'error accessing cdrom previous message repeated umpteen times' type of fluff. I ignore them of course. It's a supermount thing. Supermount is still not quite all things to all hardware configurations or all people for that matter. Just run update with the CD in the drive and grit your teeth. Regards; I was unable to reply immediately when I got this advice, but God bless you, because it did the trick. It would seem to be a fairly significant bug that they should have issued a patch for. However, your advice worked, and has saved me a lot of grief. Thanks very much. Seth Williamson Floyd, VA USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake update
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 10:29, Charlie wrote: On December 21, 2002 03:17 pm, Seth Williamson wrote: I just installed Mandrake 9.0 on my system today for the first time. I am puzzled by the behavior of the Mandrake update system. When I start it, it (seemingly) just sits there for three or four or five minutes doing nothing. The first time I tried the update, I thought the system had locked up or something and nothing was happening. But apparently, it's working, but moving very S-L-O-W-L-Y. Another two or three minutes elapses between all the other steps of determining what packages are needed, contacting the mirror sites, and finally downloading and installing the software. The downloads themselves seem to proceed at a normal rate for my connection. Then, once the software is downloaded and installed, I can't seem to kill rmpdrake. It just sits there. After it tells me the software was installed successfully, and I OK out of that little box, then I hit the quit button, but the button won't depress, suggesting that the app is locked up or just not responding. I have to kill it with xkill. Is this normal behavior? I don't have a particularly fast connection--I'm on dial-up at 56K--but coming from a Debian distro (Libranet), the whole thing seems clunky and slow to me, and it strikes me as a bad idea that newbies can't tell if the update operation is actually moving along, or if it's locked up. Howdy Seth; It's looking for the 1st install CD. Put it (CD1) in the drive and you won't have such slow responses. I have no idea why but mine does the same thing and fills the logs with 'error accessing cdrom previous message repeated umpteen times' type of fluff. I ignore them of course. It's a supermount thing. Supermount is still not quite all things to all hardware configurations or all people for that matter. Just run update with the CD in the drive and grit your teeth. Regards; On a 56k MoDem mine takes around 10 minutes to download the database of packages before i can start selecting from them. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake update
I just installed Mandrake 9.0 on my system today for the first time. I am puzzled by the behavior of the Mandrake update system. When I start it, it (seemingly) just sits there for three or four or five minutes doing nothing. The first time I tried the update, I thought the system had locked up or something and nothing was happening. But apparently, it's working, but moving very S-L-O-W-L-Y. Another two or three minutes elapses between all the other steps of determining what packages are needed, contacting the mirror sites, and finally downloading and installing the software. The downloads themselves seem to proceed at a normal rate for my connection. Then, once the software is downloaded and installed, I can't seem to kill rmpdrake. It just sits there. After it tells me the software was installed successfully, and I OK out of that little box, then I hit the quit button, but the button won't depress, suggesting that the app is locked up or just not responding. I have to kill it with xkill. Is this normal behavior? I don't have a particularly fast connection--I'm on dial-up at 56K--but coming from a Debian distro (Libranet), the whole thing seems clunky and slow to me, and it strikes me as a bad idea that newbies can't tell if the update operation is actually moving along, or if it's locked up. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake update
On Saturday 21 December 2002 04:17 pm, Seth Williamson wrote: I just installed Mandrake 9.0 on my system today for the first time. I am puzzled by the behavior of the Mandrake update system. When I start it, it (seemingly) just sits there for three or four or five minutes doing nothing. The first time I tried the update, I thought the system had locked up or something and nothing was happening. But apparently, it's working, but moving very S-L-O-W-L-Y. Another two or three minutes elapses between all the other steps of determining what packages are needed, contacting the mirror sites, and finally downloading and installing the software. The downloads themselves seem to proceed at a normal rate for my connection. Then, once the software is downloaded and installed, I can't seem to kill rmpdrake. It just sits there. After it tells me the software was installed successfully, and I OK out of that little box, then I hit the quit button, but the button won't depress, suggesting that the app is locked up or just not responding. I have to kill it with xkill. Is this normal behavior? I don't have a particularly fast connection--I'm on dial-up at 56K--but coming from a Debian distro (Libranet), the whole thing seems clunky and slow to me, and it strikes me as a bad idea that newbies can't tell if the update operation is actually moving along, or if it's locked up. Not normal behavior, but I can't say what might be wrong. Maybe uninstall rpmdrake and reinstall it from the CDs? HTH -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake update
On Saturday 21 Dec 2002 10:17 pm, Seth Williamson wrote: I just installed Mandrake 9.0 on my system today for the first time. I am puzzled by the behavior of the Mandrake update system. When I start it, it (seemingly) just sits there for three or four or five minutes doing nothing. The first time I tried the update, I thought the system had locked up or something and nothing was happening. But apparently, it's working, but moving very S-L-O-W-L-Y. Another two or three minutes elapses between all the other steps of determining what packages are needed, contacting the mirror sites, and finally downloading and installing the software. The downloads themselves seem to proceed at a normal rate for my connection. Then, once the software is downloaded and installed, I can't seem to kill rmpdrake. It just sits there. After it tells me the software was installed successfully, and I OK out of that little box, then I hit the quit button, but the button won't depress, suggesting that the app is locked up or just not responding. I have to kill it with xkill. Is this normal behavior? I don't have a particularly fast connection--I'm on dial-up at 56K--but coming from a Debian distro (Libranet), the whole thing seems clunky and slow to me, and it strikes me as a bad idea that newbies can't tell if the update operation is actually moving along, or if it's locked up. It is likely you have selected a slow server for updates. Some of them are truly dreadful. You can get a better idea of the update process if you run it from the command line instead of the GUI. You will then see a download progress indication. In a root terminal urpmi.update -a (to update the list of available updates) urpmi --update --auto-select (To update all packages for which an update is available) If you want a fast update mirror try this one. ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/updates/9.0/RPMS derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake update
On Saturday 21 December 2002 06:26 pm, you wrote: On Saturday 21 December 2002 04:17 pm, Seth Williamson wrote: I just installed Mandrake 9.0 on my system today for the first time. I am puzzled by the behavior of the Mandrake update system. When I start it, it (seemingly) just sits there for three or four or five minutes doing nothing. The first time I tried the update, I thought the system had locked up or something and nothing was happening. But apparently, it's working, but moving very S-L-O-W-L-Y. Another two or three minutes elapses between all the other steps of determining what packages are needed, contacting the mirror sites, and finally downloading and installing the software. The downloads themselves seem to proceed at a normal rate for my connection. Then, once the software is downloaded and installed, I can't seem to kill rmpdrake. It just sits there. After it tells me the software was installed successfully, and I OK out of that little box, then I hit the quit button, but the button won't depress, suggesting that the app is locked up or just not responding. I have to kill it with xkill. Is this normal behavior? I don't have a particularly fast connection--I'm on dial-up at 56K--but coming from a Debian distro (Libranet), the whole thing seems clunky and slow to me, and it strikes me as a bad idea that newbies can't tell if the update operation is actually moving along, or if it's locked up. Not normal behavior, but I can't say what might be wrong. Maybe uninstall rpmdrake and reinstall it from the CDs? HTH The upgrade is much more satisfying information-wise when done from terminal. Instead of sitting there you can watch all sorts of things happen. Some day I'll understand what's happening, but for the time being, it's just gratifying to know I've not frozen. Lee -- Registered Linux user #223705 Give me ambiguity or give me something else. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake update site
Dear Friend. I need to update my Mandrake Linux. Anyone know the mirror site for update in Asia ? Thank you in advance. Ongkie _ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake update site
On December 12, 2002 06:34 am, Sasongko Pribadi Djoko wrote: Dear Friend. I need to update my Mandrake Linux. Anyone know the mirror site for update in Asia ? Thank you in advance. Ongkie Yeah OK, what version of Mandrake? Update or Upgrade? The reason I ask is the link below is for ftp security mirror sites for updates for all supported versions. Is there a reason you don't just use Mandrake Update tools (Software manager) in the Mandrake Control Center? As long as you are connected to the 'net it should find a list of mirrors that can choose from, just look for the applicable country code in the URL, or at least the nearest one. Any of the mirrors should work but I can sort of understand the request for a local one. Or if you're really stuck for whatever reason go to the Mandrake Home Page and follow the links from here: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/ to here: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/advisories/ shows security update information. to here: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/ftp.php all ftp security mirrors for all supported versions. You'll still have to know the country code to find the closest one though. If you are looking to upgrade to version 9.0 you may want to rethink it since it's somewhat problematical for some hardware configurations and isn't always a clean/easy solution. For upgrades start at the Mandrake Home page and click the Download link. You can follow it to pages that probably have what you want. Good luck. Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can make a fool of yourself anytime. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake update site
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 00:34, Sasongko Pribadi Djoko wrote: Dear Friend. I need to update my Mandrake Linux. Anyone know the mirror site for update in Asia ? Thank you in advance. Ongkie Planet Mirror in Australia. ftp.planetmirror.com www.planetmirror.com -- Fri Dec 13 07:35:00 EST 2002 7:35am up 1 day, 23:57, 5 users, load average: 0.03, 0.10, 0.18 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having his neighbour notice it. -- Trygve Lie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake update
When I try to use the Mandrake update I get a list of different servers. If I then try to connect to one of these, there will be an error message that this server is not available. this is true for all the listed servers. The manual update from these servers however works fine. Is there somebody who had the same problem or can help me? Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake Update problems (not updating!)
Hi, On one machine I still have mdk8.1 but MandrakeUpdate (or urpmi) refuses to update...informing that I have the updated version! Which is not true! In most of the cases I still hold old version but can't update! Any help? Ricardo -- == Linux user # 102240 = Machine # 96125 = Seti@home user == http://counter.li.org/ Get Counted! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 21:01:05 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Derek - all's now well. On last question, though. When I had dial-up I used the little graph display so that I could see activity. Now I have networked adsl, and when nothing seems to move while MandrakeUpdate is fetching, I'm leeft wondering if anything is happening. Is there anything that I could use - perhaps measuring network activity? - to tell that it's on the way? gkrellm gives you a nice network meter (for ppp0 in this instance) and much else. Texstar has RPMs. Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update
Thanks - I've installed that now. Anne On Friday 11 Oct 2002 3:36 am, you wrote: knetload is a little kicker applet that I love. I haven't seen it in 9, but I know it's in 8.x. Miark Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: Thanks Derek - all's now well. On last question, though. When I had dial-up I used the little graph display so that I could see activity. Now I have networked adsl, and when nothing seems to move while MandrakeUpdate is fetching, I'm leeft wondering if anything is happening. Is there anything that I could use - perhaps measuring network activity? - to tell that it's on the way? Anne On Wednesday 09 Oct 2002 9:25 pm, you wrote: Did you choose an update source when you installed? Try opening a root terminal and typing For 9.0 urpmi.addmedia --update Updates ftp://ftp.rediris.es/mirror/mandrake/updates/9.0/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.cz This command all one line and for 8.2 urpmi.addmedia --update Updates ftp://ftp.rediris.es/mirror/mandrake/updates/8.2/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.cz That is a nice fast mirror :-) Then do your updates as normal. derek On Wednesday 09 Oct 2002 7:59 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I have been lax in updating security fixes, largely because I couldn't work out how to get the updater working. I get a wizard, which asks me to select the files I want to update - but there are no files on the list, just empty boxes, and it's obviously not an input job. So what am I doing wrong? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update
gkrellm has many neat and configurable monitors includding ppp and ethx thruput graphs On Thursday 10 October 2002 10:36 pm, Miark wrote: knetload is a little kicker applet that I love. I haven't seen it in 9, but I know it's in 8.x. Miark Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: Thanks Derek - all's now well. On last question, though. When I had dial-up I used the little graph display so that I could see activity. Now I have networked adsl, and when nothing seems to move while MandrakeUpdate is fetching, I'm leeft wondering if anything is happening. Is there anything that I could use - perhaps measuring network activity? - to tell that it's on the way? Anne On Wednesday 09 Oct 2002 9:25 pm, you wrote: Did you choose an update source when you installed? Try opening a root terminal and typing For 9.0 urpmi.addmedia --update Updates ftp://ftp.rediris.es/mirror/mandrake/updates/9.0/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.cz This command all one line and for 8.2 urpmi.addmedia --update Updates ftp://ftp.rediris.es/mirror/mandrake/updates/8.2/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.cz That is a nice fast mirror :-) Then do your updates as normal. derek On Wednesday 09 Oct 2002 7:59 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I have been lax in updating security fixes, largely because I couldn't work out how to get the updater working. I get a wizard, which asks me to select the files I want to update - but there are no files on the list, just empty boxes, and it's obviously not an input job. So what am I doing wrong? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update
Thanks Derek - all's now well. On last question, though. When I had dial-up I used the little graph display so that I could see activity. Now I have networked adsl, and when nothing seems to move while MandrakeUpdate is fetching, I'm leeft wondering if anything is happening. Is there anything that I could use - perhaps measuring network activity? - to tell that it's on the way? Anne On Wednesday 09 Oct 2002 9:25 pm, you wrote: Did you choose an update source when you installed? Try opening a root terminal and typing For 9.0 urpmi.addmedia --update Updates ftp://ftp.rediris.es/mirror/mandrake/updates/9.0/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.cz This command all one line and for 8.2 urpmi.addmedia --update Updates ftp://ftp.rediris.es/mirror/mandrake/updates/8.2/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.cz That is a nice fast mirror :-) Then do your updates as normal. derek On Wednesday 09 Oct 2002 7:59 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I have been lax in updating security fixes, largely because I couldn't work out how to get the updater working. I get a wizard, which asks me to select the files I want to update - but there are no files on the list, just empty boxes, and it's obviously not an input job. So what am I doing wrong? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update
Anne Wilson, Thursday 10 October 2002 21:01: Thanks Derek - all's now well. On last question, though. When I had dial-up I used the little graph display so that I could see activity. Now I have networked adsl, and when nothing seems to move while MandrakeUpdate is fetching, I'm leeft wondering if anything is happening. Is there anything that I could use - perhaps measuring network activity? - to tell that it's on the way? gkrellm is a very cool monitor - network activity per card, disk accesses, CPU and dozens of other monitorables. And as if that wasn't enough, it's skinnable. RichardA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 10 October 2002 1:01 pm, Anne Wilson did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Thanks Derek - all's now well. On last question, though. When I had dial-up I used the little graph display so that I could see activity. Now I have networked adsl, and when nothing seems to move while MandrakeUpdate is fetching, I'm leeft wondering if anything is happening. Is there anything that I could use - perhaps measuring network activity? - to tell that it's on the way? knetload is nice - -- ... if you're a basic PC user thinking about buying XP, don't. It's basically malware. It harangues you with nagging, fake-friendly reminders to obtain a Passport and submit to product activation, and treats you like a child when you try to do anything heretical, like install a device driver of which it disapproves. -- Thomas C. Greene, Win-XP vs Red Hat 7.2, The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk), 2001-10-30 shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9pYgpBwq+ZwvIN/oRAr9dAJ9tyT6FPNb5IQiuLd1+H0A6LtFCsgCfS0om IfCS+aU3xorvgFBKpGt1j2E= =J0Oo -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update
knetload is a little kicker applet that I love. I haven't seen it in 9, but I know it's in 8.x. Miark Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: Thanks Derek - all's now well. On last question, though. When I had dial-up I used the little graph display so that I could see activity. Now I have networked adsl, and when nothing seems to move while MandrakeUpdate is fetching, I'm leeft wondering if anything is happening. Is there anything that I could use - perhaps measuring network activity? - to tell that it's on the way? Anne On Wednesday 09 Oct 2002 9:25 pm, you wrote: Did you choose an update source when you installed? Try opening a root terminal and typing For 9.0 urpmi.addmedia --update Updates ftp://ftp.rediris.es/mirror/mandrake/updates/9.0/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.cz This command all one line and for 8.2 urpmi.addmedia --update Updates ftp://ftp.rediris.es/mirror/mandrake/updates/8.2/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.cz That is a nice fast mirror :-) Then do your updates as normal. derek On Wednesday 09 Oct 2002 7:59 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I have been lax in updating security fixes, largely because I couldn't work out how to get the updater working. I get a wizard, which asks me to select the files I want to update - but there are no files on the list, just empty boxes, and it's obviously not an input job. So what am I doing wrong? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake Update
I have been lax in updating security fixes, largely because I couldn't work out how to get the updater working. I get a wizard, which asks me to select the files I want to update - but there are no files on the list, just empty boxes, and it's obviously not an input job. So what am I doing wrong? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake Update
I'm having a problem using Mandrake Update. When I try to define sources of security updates it takes a very long time to add a source when i select a ftp site. This seems to occur regardless of whether or not i enter an anonymous login name and password (email address) in the appropriate fields. Then once i have this all properly configured and i go to download packages in Mandrake Update and get errors that the pakcages have bad file names or can't be found. I've had little trouble manually getting packages using ftp and installing them myself. I'm using Mandrake release 8.1 which comes with Software Manager 1.3-103mdk. Any idea what could be the problem? Les Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake Update won't find sites..
Hi I chose not to update mandrake during the install. Now when I go to mandrake update it won't let me search for the mirror. It just asks me what cd's I have. (which are cd 1-3 download edition i think). Is there a work around for this? or a way to reset the update program to go look for ftp sites? Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake Update Secret??
Okay, can someone fill me on the secret? I'm subscribed to the Mandrake Security mailing list and I have received notices of several updates. The e-mails tell to me to upgrade automatically, use MandrakeUpdate , but every time I run it the only thing that shows up is a kernel update. I have tried defining several different sources but it doesn't make any difference. The updates never show up.. What am I missing here... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake Update
When I tried to update some of my RPMs with Mandrake Update they failed. I noticed that under the importance column they were listed as not found. The one which had an importance listing of bugfix or security installed OK. I am using the ftp.sunet.se source. Is this something that can be fixed by finding a new security update source? If so any suggestions on a good one? Thanks in advance Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update
Ok Shane. How did the upgrade go and how did you go about doing it? I may follow your foot steps; so try not to make me fall in hole. I have downloaded the three 8.2 iso files. How can I mount them on my directory tree? I looked up the man page for mount and I am not any wiser. I would need to go into the images if I were to do a fresh install wouldn't I? I would at least need to put hd.img on a floppy wouldn't I? Thanks, Seedkum On Tuesday 19 March 2002 07:43 am, shane wrote: On Tuesday 19 March 2002 00:35, FemmeFatale opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: *smiles giggles* He said snap upgrade in the same sentence! :) I don't believe that till I see it with my own eyes. i have to admit, that is my only problem with mandrake, though it effects all distros i have tried. a fresh install _always_ works better than upgrading i am considering upgrading with 8.2 (both the test machine with 8.2 rc1 on it as well as the 8.1 machine) just to see how much damage i can do. ;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update
twice i have simply booted with the cds, and choosen upgrade. KDE generally get pretty messed up for me that way. once i simply formatted everything but /home and installed. again KDE went wild, but less so. i have _not_ yet tried any method with 8.2 as i can't get it yet. all you guys stop downloading so i can, ok? ;-) On Wednesday 20 March 2002 12:52, Seedkum Aladeem opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: Ok Shane. How did the upgrade go and how did you go about doing it? I may follow your foot steps; so try not to make me fall in hole. I have downloaded the three 8.2 iso files. How can I mount them on my directory tree? I looked up the man page for mount and I am not any wiser. I would need to go into the images if I were to do a fresh install wouldn't I? I would at least need to put hd.img on a floppy wouldn't I? Thanks, Seedkum On Tuesday 19 March 2002 07:43 am, shane wrote: On Tuesday 19 March 2002 00:35, FemmeFatale opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: *smiles giggles* He said snap upgrade in the same sentence! :) I don't believe that till I see it with my own eyes. i have to admit, that is my only problem with mandrake, though it effects all distros i have tried. a fresh install _always_ works better than upgrading i am considering upgrading with 8.2 (both the test machine with 8.2 rc1 on it as well as the 8.1 machine) just to see how much damage i can do. ;-) -- One of the surest signs of intelligent in outer space is that it hasn't contacted us yet. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update
I haven't downloaded 8.2 yet, but the release candidate suprised me with perfect recognition and configuration of my Sound Blaster Live card. I haven't had fully working sound since 8.0. Bravo! Miark On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 19:28:57 -0500, Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thusly: On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 16:37, shane wrote: twice i have simply booted with the cds, and choosen upgrade. KDE generally get pretty messed up for me that way. once i simply formatted everything but /home and installed. again KDE went wild, but less so. i have _not_ yet tried any method with 8.2 as i can't get it yet. all you guys stop downloading so i can, ok? ;-) OK, I'm done downloading!:) I upgraded from 8.1 to 8.2 without a hitch. As near as I can tell, everything is OK except Opera 6.0 is now broken, so I'm using Galeon. The new lilo didn't do away with the Windows partition drive letter reference, like it did for me in 8.1. I use Evolution as my mail client and I just realized that the spell checker now works! It never did before... Rich -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update
Be happy, I don't have sound at all. Dave On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 19:47:56 -0700 Miark said onto me: I haven't downloaded 8.2 yet, but the release candidate suprised me with perfect recognition and configuration of my Sound Blaster Live card. I haven't had fully working sound since 8.0. Bravo! Miark On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 19:28:57 -0500, Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thusly: On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 16:37, shane wrote: twice i have simply booted with the cds, and choosen upgrade. KDE generally get pretty messed up for me that way. once i simply formatted everything but /home and installed. again KDE went wild, but less so. i have _not_ yet tried any method with 8.2 as i can't get it yet. all you guys stop downloading so i can, ok? ;-) OK, I'm done downloading!:) I upgraded from 8.1 to 8.2 without a hitch. As near as I can tell, everything is OK except Opera 6.0 is now broken, so I'm using Galeon. The new lilo didn't do away with the Windows partition drive letter reference, like it did for me in 8.1. I use Evolution as my mail client and I just realized that the spell checker now works! It never did before... Rich -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- °°° Mandrake Linux 8.1 Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk KDE 2.2.1 Sylpheed 0.7.2 David L. Steiner Registered Linux User #262493 Homepagewww.davidlsteiner.com Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update
*smiles giggles* He said snap upgrade in the same sentence! :) I don't believe that till I see it with my own eyes. Sorry just had to comment... Femme 8.2 Final, it is. Hats off to the Mandrake Team. Ya'll never cease to amaze me. Beta4 installed with ease. Should be a snap to upgrade from here..right? Lee -- Registered Linux user #223705 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update
On Tuesday 19 March 2002 00:35, FemmeFatale opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: *smiles giggles* He said snap upgrade in the same sentence! :) I don't believe that till I see it with my own eyes. i have to admit, that is my only problem with mandrake, though it effects all distros i have tried. a fresh install _always_ works better than upgrading i am considering upgrading with 8.2 (both the test machine with 8.2 rc1 on it as well as the 8.1 machine) just to see how much damage i can do. ;-) -- We know what we are, but not what we may become -William Shakespeare shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake Update
When I try to add any source from the list of mirrors, I get an error An error occured when adding this source. I have tried each source listed, Cooker and Security (anticipating comments) and got the same reply. Is this an intended feature to keep me from screwing up my box again with needless upgrades? Can I or should I fix it? 8.2Beta4 on AMD 1900 Cable connect is up Lee -- Registered Linux user #223705 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update
Lee wrote: When I try to add any source from the list of mirrors, I get an error An error occured when adding this source. I have tried each source listed, Cooker and Security (anticipating comments) and got the same reply. Is this an intended feature to keep me from screwing up my box again with needless upgrades? Can I or should I fix it? 8.2Beta4 on AMD 1900 Cable connect is up Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Nope tis a bug of Beta4 that was recognized as soon as the Beta hit the mirrors and updates were offere4d but only by DLing rpms from cooker. Civileme P.S. 8.2 final is out and has no such problem Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update
On Tuesday 19 March 2002 01:32 am, you wrote: Lee wrote: When I try to add any source from the list of mirrors, I get an error An error occured when adding this source. I have tried each source listed, Cooker and Security (anticipating comments) and got the same reply. Is this an intended feature to keep me from screwing up my box again with needless upgrades? Can I or should I fix it? 8.2Beta4 on AMD 1900 Cable connect is up Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Nope tis a bug of Beta4 that was recognized as soon as the Beta hit the mirrors and updates were offere4d but only by DLing rpms from cooker. Civileme P.S. 8.2 final is out and has no such problem Thanks Civileme, 8.2 Final, it is. Hats off to the Mandrake Team. Ya'll never cease to amaze me. Beta4 installed with ease. Should be a snap to upgrade from here..right? Lee -- Registered Linux user #223705 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake Update
Every time I try to use the MandrakeUpdate and I choose something to update I get the following error every time: Some errors where encountered while checking your wishes: Bad, unreadable or not found packages Sorry, but all packages raised an error. So I can't proceed with the installation. Does anyone know why this keeps happening. Maybe I put in the wrong settings when I configured this. Any and all help is appreciated greatly, Mithrilhall Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update locks up
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 20:47:43 -0600 Aaron Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: Everytime I try to run Mandrake Update, I start it and it builds the list from CD 1, 2, 3 and when it get to the online security/updates from redbox.mandrake.. it gets to 21% then locks and I have to use Xkill to get out of it. I have let it sit there all night before and it was still locked in the morning. How can I get it to quit checking at redbox. so I can select another server? Or something so I can use it again. I am tired of updating everything manualy. I am running MDK 8.1 on an Intel PIII 500 system with 256MB of RAM. Thanks, assuming that the reference to the redbox.mandrake is named 'redbox' issue this on a commandline as root urmpi.removemedia redbox or maybe you could go to the /etc/urpmi.cfg file and do away with removing the entries related to the redbox media. i prefer the first one. if you dont know what name it is referenced then go to the cfg file and find out. hth. -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 2305 B West Tower, Philippines Stocks Exchange Center, Exchange Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update locks up
On Wednesday 13 February 2002 20:47, you wrote: Everytime I try to run Mandrake Update, I start it and it builds the list from CD 1, 2, 3 and when it get to the online security/updates from redbox.mandrake.. it gets to 21% then locks and I have to use Xkill to get out of it. I have let it sit there all night before and it was still locked in the morning. How can I get it to quit checking at redbox. so I can select another server? Or something so I can use it again. I am tired of updating everything manualy. I am running MDK 8.1 on an Intel PIII 500 system with 256MB of RAM. Thanks, At Mandrake update you can click on the update sources at the top of the gui frame and then click on new security updates and then select from the list that takes a few minutes to load by clicking the down arrow to the left of the place that says redbox.mandrake. Changes the ftp site that you are using for updates. HTH -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake update broken?....
chris huston wrote: Hi, Is there any fool proof way to get the security updates I can handle the manual way... but i m trying to help a newbie set up their computer with mandrake 8.1.. and i've yet to get mandrake update to pull a secure source update from any mirror I 've left it running for an hour or so, trying to get it to sink up with a few local mirrors... no dice when i ftp into them and grab them manually, i can snag them in seconds.. what gives??? thank you, chris That's the problem with using volunteer mirrors. Rpmdrake is sensitive to the way permissions are set up on the mirror. Many mirrors work; some don't. Keep trying and report mirror failures to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] mandrake-update
Where can I find the button under KDE for mandrake update as it doesn't seem to appear on the software manager? -- Signature for Hylton Conacher follows: Registered Linux user # 229959 Mandrake 8.0 on AMD Athlon at 1 Ghz on a K7 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake-update
Erm.. software manager IS mandrake update... If you select KmenuConfigurationMandrake Update just does the same as opening Software Manager and then pressing the 'Mandrake Update Button' derek On Sunday 23 December 2001 06:05, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Where can I find the button under KDE for mandrake update as it doesn't seem to appear on the software manager? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake-update
Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Where can I find the button under KDE for mandrake update as it doesn't seem to appear on the software manager? -- Click : K | Configuration | Packaging | Mandrake Update Merry Christmas Kaj Haulrich Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] mandrake-update service
I have tried to do some mandrake update for the first time and have experienced this (upgrading MR7.2): 1)getting ftp servers goes fine 2)getting list of updates goes fine 3) downloading files goes fine 3) preparing for install goes vvery slow 4) installing freeses everything, takes very long time (6 hrs for 10 update items - 15 MB of downloaddata) monitor goes completely black, at the end. 5) After reboot everything seems fine and (pehaps) I have been successfully updated !? I would just ask if this is normal procedure for mandrake update service to go like this, or I have to do it otherwise (I do it like the tutorial on the mandrake.com site. thanks gunner
Re: [newbie] mandrake-update service
Upgrading 7.2 to 8.0 is not really a recommended exercise, despite it being an installation option. This is because there have been many changes made between 7.2 and 8.0, so an upgrade is quite likely to break something. Upgrading also takes far longer, since your system must be analysed to see *how* it can be upgraded -- something that doesn't need to be done with a clean installation. If everything appears fine afterwards, then you should have nothing to worry about. If you go to a console screen (press ctrl+alt+F1), you should see the version number of your Mandrake displayed on the screen. On Tue, 19 Jun 2001 20:11, Gunner Carstens wrote: I have tried to do some mandrake update for the first time and have experienced this (upgrading MR7.2): 1)getting ftp servers goes fine 2)getting list of updates goes fine 3) downloading files goes fine 3) preparing for install goes vvery slow 4) installing freeses everything, takes very long time (6 hrs for 10 update items - 15 MB of downloaddata) monitor goes completely black, at the end. 5) After reboot everything seems fine and (pehaps) I have been successfully updated !? I would just ask if this is normal procedure for mandrake update service to go like this, or I have to do it otherwise (I do it like the tutorial on the mandrake.com site. thanks gunner -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie] mandrake-update service
If everything appears fine afterwards, then you should have nothing to worry about. If you go to a console screen (press ctrl+alt+F1), you should see the version number of your Mandrake displayed on the screen. I did not make myself clear. Whar I wanted to say was that I did security upDATE, not an upgrade to MR 8.0. When I try to update my system from the Software Update in DrakConf This is what happens: 1)getting ftp servers goes fine 2)getting list of updates goes fine 3) downloading files goes fine 3) preparing for install goes vvery slow 4) installing freeses everything, takes very long time (6 hrs for 10 update items - 15 MB of downloaddata) monitor goes completely black, at the end. 5) After reboot everything seems fine and (pehaps) I have been successfully updated !? I would just ask if this is normal procedure for mandrake upDATE service to go like this, or I have to do it otherwise (I do it like the tutorial on the mandrake.com site. Thanks Gunner
Re: [newbie] mandrake-update service
Oops! I just reread your question and I realise that I misunderstood it the first time. My apologies :-) A six-hour wait is not normal at all. You should be able to check through an RPM programme like gnoRPM or Kpackage, or from the command line (rpm), if your files have been installed. Just look up the package name and ensure it is the updated version. On Tue, 19 Jun 2001 22:26, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Upgrading 7.2 to 8.0 is not really a recommended exercise, despite it being an installation option. This is because there have been many changes made between 7.2 and 8.0, so an upgrade is quite likely to break something. Upgrading also takes far longer, since your system must be analysed to see *how* it can be upgraded -- something that doesn't need to be done with a clean installation. If everything appears fine afterwards, then you should have nothing to worry about. If you go to a console screen (press ctrl+alt+F1), you should see the version number of your Mandrake displayed on the screen. On Tue, 19 Jun 2001 20:11, Gunner Carstens wrote: I have tried to do some mandrake update for the first time and have experienced this (upgrading MR7.2): 1)getting ftp servers goes fine 2)getting list of updates goes fine 3) downloading files goes fine 3) preparing for install goes vvery slow 4) installing freeses everything, takes very long time (6 hrs for 10 update items - 15 MB of downloaddata) monitor goes completely black, at the end. 5) After reboot everything seems fine and (pehaps) I have been successfully updated !? I would just ask if this is normal procedure for mandrake update service to go like this, or I have to do it otherwise (I do it like the tutorial on the mandrake.com site. thanks gunner -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
[newbie] Mandrake update problems
I am running Mandrake 8.0 on my current system and I am having problems with the update program. I have had no problem using the program to update the packages that I already have. I created a update source to a local computer and it worked fine. What I am having problems with is using the program to get and install new packages. I have tried to create a source pointing to several computers but I can't get them to work. They will load the hdlist file and display all the packages but when I select one and try to install it the program errors out and says there was a problem downloading it. I know that I'm just not setting this up right. If anyone can help I would appreciate it. Thanks Keith
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update fails every time
Thanks for the suggestion, however, when I tried to uninstall some packages in order to upgrade them (cups, rpmdrake, rpm, rpmtools), a box appeared saying that all these other packages would be removed to satisfy dependencies. I clicked on ok, and software manager closed without uninstalling anything. Software Manager used to work just fine with no problems the very first time I installed 8.0 on this machine, and has ceased to do so since, even when using fdisk to wipe out the linux partiton and reinstall from scratch. Terry On Tuesday 29 May 2001 19:48, you wrote: There aren't that many packages out there for update. You need to do te following Identify the installable packages, using ONLY the update source Remove the similar packages from your current system (one session) Now cllick on the new packages and they will be moved in. There was an intermittent segfault while removing and installing packages at the same time which the already installed covers. Software Manager uses rpm -ivh or urpmi which will not install over an older version. As long as removal and installation are separate steps you will have no problem. Civileme
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update fails every time
Well this email wanted me to use the Software Manager. I tried it on the list of Security updates that I had downloaded. Software Manager did not work it hung, tried the Package Manager, it hung (would not work) tried the MandrakeUpdate, it hung (would not work), tried rpm -Uvh package name it did nothing. At this time I was thinking I really had a hosed system. I fell back to a windoze soluation, rebotted, system had only been running 7 hours, and everything worked. MY POINT Jay did you try and reboot and then try the Software Manager. It is a nice tool and makes installing very easy. One thing that I did notice though is that it does a install, not a upgrade.. i.e. the package that your replacing does not get removed as in a upgrade. Another nice tool is the urpm it is a lot like the apt-get from Debian and is really nice to use. You can find info for it on the Mandrake web page, or from www.google.com/linux do a search. --- Jay DeKing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use Mandrake Update as a reference tool only. It has never once removed the previously existing version of anything I have updated. What I do is open a terminal window and login as su, then run Mandrake Update to see what needs an upgrade; I open a browser window and go to whichever mirror Mandrake Update is looking at; download the rpm's and go to my su terminal. There I do an rpm -Uvh on the new rpms. This updates them properly, and you get usable feedback if there are conflicts or dependency problems rather than the terse update failed message that Mandrake Update gives too often. After doing the manual installs, go back to Mandrake Update and tell it to update the package list; the ones just installed will no longer be on the list. I've tried the rpm --rebuilddb command and it makes no difference, because if the older rpms are still there Mandrake Update won't notice the new ones. It looks at the oldest version currently installed. I wish I could take credit for coming up with this procedure, but I had the same problem when I first started using Mandrake and another kind list member clued me in to the limitations of the Update program. Jay Civileme wrote: You need to remove the resources you do not want to use from the lists if you want the update to work properly. Then you must specify the external source precisely. There are very few updates available as yet, but I would suspect that if it is aaying already installed on packages defnitely not there, then rpm --rebuilddb from a command line in a terminal window, logged as superuser, migth make all the differnce. If you really want to update, I recommend you use software manager to REMOVE the files that will be updated, then in a separate process, to install the new files. In some areas, rpmdrake/software manager is still very much bleeding-edge. As far as WinNT comparisons, hmmm. I wasn't aware that you could update 2000+ packages over the web with it. Civileme On Saturday 26 May 2001 06:02, Alex Potter wrote: Each time I try to update my installation, rpmdrake fails, saying the packages already exists. The installable files shown in the updates only list are all newer versions than those installed. Is there any way of forcing this program (Software Manager) to *update* rather than just perform an install? Or is it back to the command line to download/update the individual packages? TIA Alex So far, I must say, I'm not overly impressed with Linux (Mandrake 8.0), having come from a Windows NT environment, with 15 years computing experience. -- There is a fine line between 'hobby' and 'mental illness'. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update fails every time
WHOA! from the content of the last couple of emails on this I get the impression that you have mandrake 7.2 and are trying to update to 8.0 packages Simply forget it! You cannot use mandrakeUpdate in that fashion. Way WAY too much delta, plus incompatible binaries and libraries. 8.0 is backwards compatible to 7.2, but 7.2 is not forwards compatible to 8.0. We did modify library and packaging policies in 8.0 so a similar situation NEVER happens again, but this one remains--the difference in library dependencies alone is enough. Civileme
[newbie] Mandrake Update fails every time
Each time I try to update my installation, rpmdrake fails, saying the packages already exists. The installable files shown in the updates only list are all newer versions than those installed. Is there any way of forcing this program (Software Manager) to *update* rather than just perform an install? Or is it back to the command line to download/update the individual packages? TIA Alex So far, I must say, I'm not overly impressed with Linux (Mandrake 8.0), having come from a Windows NT environment, with 15 years computing experience.
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update fails every time
You need to remove the resources you do not want to use from the lists if you want the update to work properly. Then you must specify the external source precisely. There are very few updates available as yet, but I would suspect that if it is aaying already installed on packages defnitely not there, then rpm --rebuilddb from a command line in a terminal window, logged as superuser, migth make all the differnce. If you really want to update, I recommend you use software manager to REMOVE the files that will be updated, then in a separate process, to install the new files. In some areas, rpmdrake/software manager is still very much bleeding-edge. As far as WinNT comparisons, hmmm. I wasn't aware that you could update 2000+ packages over the web with it. Civileme On Saturday 26 May 2001 06:02, Alex Potter wrote: Each time I try to update my installation, rpmdrake fails, saying the packages already exists. The installable files shown in the updates only list are all newer versions than those installed. Is there any way of forcing this program (Software Manager) to *update* rather than just perform an install? Or is it back to the command line to download/update the individual packages? TIA Alex So far, I must say, I'm not overly impressed with Linux (Mandrake 8.0), having come from a Windows NT environment, with 15 years computing experience.
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update fails every time
I use Mandrake Update as a reference tool only. It has never once removed the previously existing version of anything I have updated. What I do is open a terminal window and login as su, then run Mandrake Update to see what needs an upgrade; I open a browser window and go to whichever mirror Mandrake Update is looking at; download the rpm's and go to my su terminal. There I do an rpm -Uvh on the new rpms. This updates them properly, and you get usable feedback if there are conflicts or dependency problems rather than the terse update failed message that Mandrake Update gives too often. After doing the manual installs, go back to Mandrake Update and tell it to update the package list; the ones just installed will no longer be on the list. I've tried the rpm --rebuilddb command and it makes no difference, because if the older rpms are still there Mandrake Update won't notice the new ones. It looks at the oldest version currently installed. I wish I could take credit for coming up with this procedure, but I had the same problem when I first started using Mandrake and another kind list member clued me in to the limitations of the Update program. Jay Civileme wrote: You need to remove the resources you do not want to use from the lists if you want the update to work properly. Then you must specify the external source precisely. There are very few updates available as yet, but I would suspect that if it is aaying already installed on packages defnitely not there, then rpm --rebuilddb from a command line in a terminal window, logged as superuser, migth make all the differnce. If you really want to update, I recommend you use software manager to REMOVE the files that will be updated, then in a separate process, to install the new files. In some areas, rpmdrake/software manager is still very much bleeding-edge. As far as WinNT comparisons, hmmm. I wasn't aware that you could update 2000+ packages over the web with it. Civileme On Saturday 26 May 2001 06:02, Alex Potter wrote: Each time I try to update my installation, rpmdrake fails, saying the packages already exists. The installable files shown in the updates only list are all newer versions than those installed. Is there any way of forcing this program (Software Manager) to *update* rather than just perform an install? Or is it back to the command line to download/update the individual packages? TIA Alex So far, I must say, I'm not overly impressed with Linux (Mandrake 8.0), having come from a Windows NT environment, with 15 years computing experience. -- There is a fine line between 'hobby' and 'mental illness'.
[newbie] Mandrake Update
I am trying to install glibc-2.2.2-4mdk using Mandrake Update (so I can install XFree86). The install fails with errors (lots os them). I get so many errors that the list goes off the bottom of my screen. I can find no way to scroll to the bottom of the error list. Therefore I cannot get to the 'force' or 'quit' buttons. How does one scroll to the bottom of the error list? My system: LM 7.2 AMD 500mhz 128M ram Thanks charles
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update
ai4a wrote: I am trying to install glibc-2.2.2-4mdk using Mandrake Update (so I can install XFree86). The install fails with errors (lots os them). I get so many errors that the list goes off the bottom of my screen. I can find no way to scroll to the bottom of the error list. Therefore I cannot get to the 'force' or 'quit' buttons. How does one scroll to the bottom of the error list? My system: LM 7.2 AMD 500mhz 128M ram Thanks charles charlesthe glibc-2.2.2-4mdk version is for cooker (8.0), not 7.2. Get the glibc-2.1.3.18.3mdk version that is on the 7.2 update mirror sites. Mandrake Update shouldn't be accessing the glibc-2.2.2-4mdk version if you're running 7.2. -- Alan
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update
What Alan says is basically true, but if you're brave at heart, here's a method that can enable one to upgrade to glibc 2.2 on a 7.2 install. http://www.pclinuxonline.com/Help___How_To/Glibc-2_2/glibc-2_2.html I followed these instructions here except where they say do a --force --nodeps, do a --test and get the other 2 - 4 dependencies. I haven't had a problem, yet (being the operative word) and have been using this set up for about 9 or 10 days. Oh I did upgrade my menu app tho it suggests not to. But it was necessary to that I wouldn't get an error when I upgrade-menu after installing kde2.1.1. This should keep you from getting a screen full of errors. I think you can scroll through the screens by typing tab + pgup/pgdown (or the arrows), or maybe its ctrl + arrows. H*ll, I can't remember. Experiment with those extra keys. But you can change to another console by typing F2, F3 and so on and back again. (I find that handy.) Anyway, good luck. -s On Friday 06 April 2001 01:37 pm, you wrote: I am trying to install glibc-2.2.2-4mdk using Mandrake Update (so I can install XFree86). The install fails with errors (lots os them). I get so many errors that the list goes off the bottom of my screen. I can find no way to scroll to the bottom of the error list. Therefore I cannot get to the 'force' or 'quit' buttons. How does one scroll to the bottom of the error list? My system: LM 7.2 AMD 500mhz 128M ram Thanks charles
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update
s wrote: What Alan says is basically true, but if you're brave at heart, here's a method that can enable one to upgrade to glibc 2.2 on a 7.2 install. http://www.pclinuxonline.com/Help___How_To/Glibc-2_2/glibc-2_2.html I followed these instructions here except where they say do a --force --nodeps, do a --test and get the other 2 - 4 dependencies. I haven't had a problem, yet (being the operative word) and have been using this set up for about 9 or 10 days. Oh I did upgrade my menu app tho it suggests not to. But it was necessary to that I wouldn't get an error when I upgrade-menu after installing kde2.1.1. This should keep you from getting a screen full of errors. I think you can scroll through the screens by typing tab + pgup/pgdown (or the arrows), or maybe its ctrl + arrows. H*ll, I can't remember. Experiment with those extra keys. But you can change to another console by typing F2, F3 and so on and back again. (I find that handy.) Anyway, good luck. -s On Friday 06 April 2001 01:37 pm, you wrote: I am trying to install glibc-2.2.2-4mdk using Mandrake Update (so I can install XFree86). The install fails with errors (lots os them). I get so many errors that the list goes off the bottom of my screen. I can find no way to scroll to the bottom of the error list. Therefore I cannot get to the 'force' or 'quit' buttons. How does one scroll to the bottom of the error list? My system: LM 7.2 AMD 500mhz 128M ram Thanks charles Thanks all: Yes I know that glibc-2.2.2 is development. I am just on a learning expedition. It does not matter if I destroys my LM 7.2. I can just reinstall it. I have tried every key combination I could think of. Still can not get to the bottom of the error messages. But no matter. Good old alt, ctrl f2 then kill will take care of it. But it has been a good learning experience. Charles
[newbie] Mandrake Update is broken...
My Mandrake update worked fine for a couple weeks. I used it succesfully quite a few times. Now it loads up and when I tell it to update it's list it goes through the motions but nothing ever shows up. The modem even pulls data by the looks of things. Anyone got an idea what's wrong? --Matt
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update Robot... Also pertains to thread titled Mandrake Update fails
Has anyone tried this tool? It's relatively new apparently and is on FreshMeat. Here's the link. Apparently it installs all updates and dependencies and reports on what was done to the sysadmin... I guess it is text based and will be included in LM 8.0 --Matt White Bear Lake, MN - Original Message - From: "Dave Horsfall" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 5:31 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update fails On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Dan LaBine wrote: Dave, I concur with Romna,...download the updates seperately from multiple sites if necessary. Then install them in a logical sequence. Here's a tip that saved me a few times - When installing the KDE updates, make sure that you're running Gnome, and not KDE. In Drakconf, disable as many services as possible,...keep only those absolutely required to run your PC , then do a full reboot to unload the disabled services and daemons, and then do your updates. Try using Kpackage instead of the "software-updater", and be prepared to jump on the net to grab associated libraries from www.rpmfind.net Good advice; thanks! One other thing,...if you have a CD burner, burn all the updates to CD, in case you need to re-install everything later. I've been doing this for a month or so, and it's really paid off having the updates on hand. Yeah, the thought had occurred to me, after downloading the same packages for the umpteenth time... And I pay for incoming traffic, too. -- Dave
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update Robot... Also pertains to thread titled Mandrake Update fails
My stupid email prog removed the link I had included to freshmeat... Here it is... http://freshmeat.net/projects/mandrakeupdaterobot/
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update fails
On Thursday 15 February 2001 02:41, you wrote: Dave Horsfall wrote: Mandrake 7.2 on a nondescript P133, 32Mb memory. order, instead of making a dependency tree). Anyone seen this? Try as I might, even with different mirrors, I get the same bland error message... Specifying the exact error would go a long way to solving this, like, is it my problem, or a network problem... I also found if I tried it long enough, it told me to use another site, so I guess there's a per-IP download limit? Other than that, I'm quite impressed with Mandrake, despite being in the Unix game for over 20 years... -- Dave Dave, Rather than using the update utility, I would recommend navigating to one of the many ftp sites and downloading the updates. Romna Hello, Is there anyone out there who actualy succeeded with 'live update'? I certainly didn't :o( Downloading the updates is sound advice. Have fun, Harm Bathoorn
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update fails
I have had good experiences with some things. I just do a few at a time. For instance I have no more updates listed under the category "bugfix" I had 4 and did them this lunch hour. Some have dependency conflicts and unfortunately as far as I know it has no dependency checking. I wonder if anyone has gotten their updates list down to nothing... --Matt - Original Message - From: "H.J.Bathoorn" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 11:44 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update fails On Thursday 15 February 2001 02:41, you wrote: Dave Horsfall wrote: Mandrake 7.2 on a nondescript P133, 32Mb memory. order, instead of making a dependency tree). Anyone seen this? Try as I might, even with different mirrors, I get the same bland error message... Specifying the exact error would go a long way to solving this, like, is it my problem, or a network problem... I also found if I tried it long enough, it told me to use another site, so I guess there's a per-IP download limit? Other than that, I'm quite impressed with Mandrake, despite being in the Unix game for over 20 years... -- Dave Dave, Rather than using the update utility, I would recommend navigating to one of the many ftp sites and downloading the updates. Romna Hello, Is there anyone out there who actualy succeeded with 'live update'? I certainly didn't :o( Downloading the updates is sound advice. Have fun, Harm Bathoorn
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update fails
Dave Horsfall wrote: On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Romanator wrote: Rather than using the update utility, I would recommend navigating to one of the many ftp sites and downloading the updates. Probably easier - thanks. Someone else mentioned it could be lack of memory - 32Mb can't quite cut it. -- Dave Yeah. My updater freezes guite often. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 High Energy Penguin Powered Email
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update fails
On Tuesday 13 February 2001 10:52 pm, Dave Horsfall wrote: Mandrake 7.2 on a nondescript P133, 32Mb memory. I did a "developer" install (which doesn't install everything, as I later found) and tried to get the live updates with the GUI. It picks a site at random, and I select "Update All", and over the next day or so it happily updates most things. There were some warnings about conflicts, so I played it safe and skipped them (I guess Update processes in alphabetical order, instead of making a dependency tree). However, at the end there were still many modules which cannot be updated at all, even when I select them exclusively, for example apache, kde, glibc, etc. The error is "Error accessing remote file" (or similar; I didn't write it down). Don't update things you don't use (Apache?), uninstall them. The newest glibc for 7.2 is on cooker mirrors in the /unsupported dir, same for KDE2, Xfree86, egcs, and some others. There's been so many updates to 7.2, it's better to only do 2,3,or 4 at a time rather than 'select all'. It's advised to install the 'MandrakeUpdate' update first. Also with the larger files (mb's) it's better to d/l them and install manually. Between these partial update installs it's a good idea to regularly run 'rpm --rebuilddb' -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update fails
Dave, I concur with Romna,...download the updates seperately from multiple sites if necessary. Then install them in a logical sequence. Here's a tip that saved me a few times - When installing the KDE updates, make sure that you're running Gnome, and not KDE. In Drakconf, disable as many services as possible,...keep only those absolutely required to run your PC , then do a full reboot to unload the disabled services and daemons, and then do your updates. Try using Kpackage instead of the "software-updater", and be prepared to jump on the net to grab associated libraries from www.rpmfind.net One other thing,...if you have a CD burner, burn all the updates to CD, in case you need to re-install everything later. I've been doing this for a month or so, and it's really paid off having the updates on hand. Good Luck! Dan LaBine Maximum LAN's Ltd. Registered Linux User #190712
[newbie] Mandrake update falis
Whenever I run Mandrake Update and select the programs i wan to update the hard drive's activity light goes on and my machine hangas after a minute or so. This happens every time Any ideas?
Re: [newbie] Mandrake update: fetching of mirror list failed
On Thursday 28 December 2000 04:34 pm, Dr. Trevor J. Stocki wrote: Hi, I was trying to update my Linux 7.1 using the Mandrake Update program and I got the message: fetching of mirror list failed. I'd wait till after the holidays to see if it isn't just high load on the Net due to the influx of Christmas computers. Also, a lot of the mirrors have been sporadically maintained for the last week or so. Prob'ly due to the holidays too. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] Mandrake update: fetching of mirror list failed
I got that message dozens of times, but was finally able to get all the updates for my 7.2 On Friday 29 December 2000 09:38, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday 28 December 2000 04:34 pm, Dr. Trevor J. Stocki wrote: Hi, I was trying to update my Linux 7.1 using the Mandrake Update program and I got the message: fetching of mirror list failed. I'd wait till after the holidays to see if it isn't just high load on the Net due to the influx of Christmas computers. Also, a lot of the mirrors have been sporadically maintained for the last week or so. Prob'ly due to the holidays too.
[newbie] Mandrake update: fetching of mirror list failed
Hi, I was trying to update my Linux 7.1 using the Mandrake Update program and I got the message: fetching of mirror list failed. Then it just dumped me out of the program. I can ftp to places ok but my netscape needs a http proxy in order to work. How can I fix this problem? Can I simply download the free installation from mandrake the two disks and upgrade that way? or will there be a lot of conflicts? Thank you inadvance, Sincerely, Trevor J. Stocki
RE: [newbie] Mandrake update: fetching of mirror list failed
Don't feel bad. Took me forever to get the KDE updates (and others) for 7.2. Wouldn't find the mirrors etc. I finally got everything I needed though. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dr. Trevor J. Stocki Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 5:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Mandrake update: fetching of mirror list failed Hi, I was trying to update my Linux 7.1 using the Mandrake Update program and I got the message: fetching of mirror list failed. Then it just dumped me out of the program. I can ftp to places ok but my netscape needs a http proxy in order to work. How can I fix this problem? Can I simply download the free installation from mandrake the two disks and upgrade that way? or will there be a lot of conflicts? Thank you inadvance, Sincerely, Trevor J. Stocki
[newbie] Mandrake Update
I don't appear to have drakconf in my installation of mandrake 7.1. I couldn't find anything to download off of mandrake's site. I found an older version of drakconf floating around on the internet. From what I can gather DrakConf is the mandrake update program. Can anyone point me to the directory or link on my desktop where DrakConf would be? Otherwise can someone point me to a site where I can get the latest version? Thanx in advance. Adam
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update
Adam Willcox wrote: I don't appear to have drakconf in my installation of mandrake 7.1. I couldn't find anything to download off of mandrake's site. I found an older version of drakconf floating around on the internet. From what I can gather DrakConf is the mandrake update program. Can anyone point me to the directory or link on my desktop where DrakConf would be? Otherwise can someone point me to a site where I can get the latest version? Thanx in advance. Adam I can't speak for KDE, but in Gnome, drakconf is in Start- Programs- Configuration - Other. Alternately, you could use /usr/sbin/drakxconf ... - chris
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update
Adam Willcox wrote: I don't appear to have drakconf in my installation of mandrake 7.1. I couldn't find anything to download off of mandrake's site. I found an older version of drakconf floating around on the internet. From what I can gather DrakConf is the mandrake update program. Can anyone point me to the directory or link on my desktop where DrakConf would be? Otherwise can someone point me to a site where I can get the latest version? Thanx in advance. Adam Adamyou should have an icon on your desktop pointing at the executable below: /usr/X11R6/bin/DrakConf Are you sure you're paying attention to the two uppercase letters in the name DrakConf? They're significant when you type the command. If it really isn't installed it's on your installation CD as shown below: /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/DrakConf-0.52-17mdk.i586.rpm -- Alan
[newbie] Mandrake update.
I've just installed my first Linux OS, Mandrake 7.0 which I installed form a DVD. Now I want to update it, however when I run the update program on the desktop it just displays "compiling mirror list" until it times out. I am on a LAN behind a proxy. I set up my proxy settings in netscape (which works fine) and in home=options, but the update still doesn't work. Is there somewhere else where I need to set up my proxy settings or is there any other ideas for why it doesn't work... thanks. -Tom Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Mandrake Update
Hello. I've recently found the need to update my rpms and I thought that the Madrake update tool would be good. However, when I try to update, I find that whenever I select a package, it is dependent on almost all of the others. This is fine and I don't have any quams with just updating everything (in fact I would like to). What worries me is that it ways that I should not use Mandrake update to update my kernel. It says I should update the kernel manually. Do I need to pay attention to this warning? If so, then how do I update my kernel? Then, how do I let Mandrake Update know that it's already updated so that when I go into Mandrake Update again, it won't try to update the kernel all over again? Thanks, Philip Ferguson MIT Space Systems Lab _ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com
