Re: [newbie] Still unable to enjoy Mandrake 9.0 on my pure-Linux machine

2003-03-29 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 09:57:58AM +, Anne Wilson wrote:
 On Wednesday 26 Mar 2003 10:28 pm, Hendrik Boom wrote:
  On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 04:54:58PM -0500, et wrote:
   what does cat /etc/hosts say? what does cat /etc/resolv.conf say is
   DNS runnig? named? ypserv?
 
  Thanks.  You have given me a few leads. Here's an incomplete reply.
  /etc/hosts:
 
  10.0.0.10   topoi.pooq.com topoi
  127.0.0.1   localhost.localdomain localhost
  172.25.1.1  topoi.pooq.com topoi
 
 This looks strange to me.  I would have thought that it was being told to look 
 in two places for topoi, which would  certainly confuse it.  FWIW I had huge 
 problems with massive delays, and it turned out to be just this sort of 
 problems, so stick with it.
 
 What IP did you give for your nic?

I removed the 10.0.0.10, no implrovement in CDROM mount time, although MCC now  starts 
up in only 45 seconds.

 
  /etc/resolv.conf
 
  nameserver 204.101.251.1
  nameserver 209.226.175.223
 
  I don't recognise these nameservers.
 
 Could they be your isp's dns?

I don't know.  I booted with the DSL modem on, got an internet connexion, and it seems 
to be defaulting to 216.138.223.134, which is not on the list, but is what my ISP 
provides.  I guess the pppoe setup provides this DNS.

-- hendrik

 
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Re: [newbie] Still unable to enjoy Mandrake 9.0 on my pure-Linux machine

2003-03-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 29 Mar 2003 9:45 pm, Hendrik Boom wrote:
 On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 09:57:58AM +, Anne Wilson wrote:
  On Wednesday 26 Mar 2003 10:28 pm, Hendrik Boom wrote:
   On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 04:54:58PM -0500, et wrote:
what does cat /etc/hosts say? what does cat /etc/resolv.conf say
is DNS runnig? named? ypserv?
  
   Thanks.  You have given me a few leads. Here's an incomplete reply.
   /etc/hosts:
  
   10.0.0.10   topoi.pooq.com topoi  
   127.0.0.1   localhost.localdomain localhost
   172.25.1.1  topoi.pooq.com topoi  
 
  This looks strange to me.  I would have thought that it was being told to
  look in two places for topoi, which would  certainly confuse it.  FWIW I
  had huge problems with massive delays, and it turned out to be just this
  sort of problems, so stick with it.
 
  What IP did you give for your nic?

 I removed the 10.0.0.10, no implrovement in CDROM mount time, although MCC
 now  starts up in only 45 seconds.

   /etc/resolv.conf
  
   nameserver 204.101.251.1
   nameserver 209.226.175.223
  
   I don't recognise these nameservers.
 
  Could they be your isp's dns?

 I don't know.  I booted with the DSL modem on, got an internet connexion,
 and it seems to be defaulting to 216.138.223.134, which is not on the list,
 but is what my ISP provides.  I guess the pppoe setup provides this DNS.

 -- hendrik

Hendrik, these nameservers are not causing your problem, and they're not 
harming you.  You can find out who they are and decide whether to keep them 
after the problem is solved.

I am convinced you have a resolution problem.  There is a file somewhere, and 
I can't remember where, that holds your domain name.  The name needs to be a 
fully qualified name, but not one that it will confuse with an internet name.  
You need to find that file.  See if you can search for that file by searching 
on part or whole of what you set your domain to be.

Anne
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Re: [newbie] Still unable to enjoy Mandrake 9.0 on my pure-Linux machine

2003-03-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 09:57:58AM +, Anne Wilson wrote:
 On Wednesday 26 Mar 2003 10:28 pm, Hendrik Boom wrote:
  On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 04:54:58PM -0500, et wrote:
   what does cat /etc/hosts say? what does cat /etc/resolv.conf say is
   DNS runnig? named? ypserv?
 
  Thanks.  You have given me a few leads. Here's an incomplete reply.
  /etc/hosts:
 
  10.0.0.10   topoi.pooq.com topoi
  127.0.0.1   localhost.localdomain localhost
  172.25.1.1  topoi.pooq.com topoi
 
 This looks strange to me.  I would have thought that it was being told to look 
 in two places for topoi, which would  certainly confuse it.  FWIW I had huge 
 problems with massive delays, and it turned out to be just this sort of 
 problems, so stick with it.

I understand.  I'm baffled, though, what IP numbers have to do CDROMs.

 
 What IP did you give for your nic?

Two network interface cards: one for the outside world, which has
pppoe running on it through a DSL modem, and whose IP number is
supposed to be irrelevant (and which I suspect has been set to
10.0.0.10 by some agent in the Mandrake installation code), and
one for the LAN, which is 172.25.1.1.

The IP number that the pppoe link provides is fixed as 216.138.195.194,
but of course that's only valid after the link is up.

Right now I don't have a DNS running on Mandrake yet.  Do you know of
any way to give a different IP number for topoi,pooq.com for users on
the LAN and users fron the rest of the world?  Or dous routing somehow
automatically know LAN packets for 216.138.195.194 hav arrived when the
arrive at 172.25.1.1 and don't have to visit the other interface?

Anyway, the proper IP number for topoi.pooq.com is 216.138.195.194, although local 
users can use 172.25.1.1

-- hendrik
 
  /etc/resolv.conf
 
  nameserver 204.101.251.1
  nameserver 209.226.175.223
 
  I don't recognise these nameservers.
 
 Could they be your isp's dns?

No.  They aren't.  I wonder where they came from.  Mind you, one of them may have been 
my ISP's DNS a long while ago; they have recently suffered a merger, and they DNSes 
they tell me about now are different from anything I've got configures anywhere on any 
OS.  So this is definitely something to change.

I'll probably have some time tomorrow to try out all this stuff.

-- hendrik

 
 Anne
 -- 
 Registered Linux User No.293302
 
 

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Re: [newbie] Still unable to enjoy Mandrake 9.0 on my pure-Linux machine

2003-03-27 Thread et
On Thursday 27 March 2003 04:31 pm, Hendrik Boom wrote:
 On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 09:57:58AM +, Anne Wilson wrote:
  On Wednesday 26 Mar 2003 10:28 pm, Hendrik Boom wrote:
   On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 04:54:58PM -0500, et wrote:
what does cat /etc/hosts say? what does cat /etc/resolv.conf say
is DNS runnig? named? ypserv?
  
   Thanks.  You have given me a few leads. Here's an incomplete reply.
   /etc/hosts:
  
   10.0.0.10   topoi.pooq.com topoi  
   127.0.0.1   localhost.localdomain localhost
   172.25.1.1  topoi.pooq.com topoi  
 
  This looks strange to me.  I would have thought that it was being told to
  look in two places for topoi, which would  certainly confuse it.  FWIW I
  had huge problems with massive delays, and it turned out to be just this
  sort of problems, so stick with it.

 I understand.  I'm baffled, though, what IP numbers have to do CDROMs.
in linux, you are really looking in the entire world to see if a file is 
available. you are not looking in for /home/document/bigone.fish/icons/trout, 
as the rest of the root is implied as 
localhost.localdomain/home/document/bigone.fish/icons/trout, but, it looks 
in the hosts file aftere looking up the name of the computer, since you don't 
really have to have localhost.localdomain localhost, since the alias of 
localhost can be defined elsewhere. real problem here is why would you want 
the world as an open door? 

 bottom line is that a correct host file is needed to  get your computer to 
look in the correct places, adn to close the outside INternet OUT. remove the 
line 172.25.1.1  topoi.pooq.com topoi
save the file, and restart the network,,, right now



  What IP did you give for your nic?

 Two network interface cards: one for the outside world, which has
 pppoe running on it through a DSL modem, and whose IP number is
 supposed to be irrelevant (and which I suspect has been set to
 10.0.0.10 by some agent in the Mandrake installation code), and
 one for the LAN, which is 172.25.1.1.

 The IP number that the pppoe link provides is fixed as 216.138.195.194,
 but of course that's only valid after the link is up.

 Right now I don't have a DNS running on Mandrake yet.  Do you know of
 any way to give a different IP number for topoi,pooq.com for users on
 the LAN and users fron the rest of the world?  Or dous routing somehow
 automatically know LAN packets for 216.138.195.194 hav arrived when the
 arrive at 172.25.1.1 and don't have to visit the other interface?

 Anyway, the proper IP number for topoi.pooq.com is 216.138.195.194,
 although local users can use 172.25.1.1

 -- hendrik

   /etc/resolv.conf
  
   nameserver 204.101.251.1
   nameserver 209.226.175.223
  
   I don't recognise these nameservers.
 
  Could they be your isp's dns?

 No.  They aren't.  I wonder where they came from.  Mind you, one of them
 may have been my ISP's DNS a long while ago; they have recently suffered a
 merger, and they DNSes they tell me about now are different from anything
 I've got configures anywhere on any OS.  So this is definitely something to
 change.

 I'll probably have some time tomorrow to try out all this stuff.

 -- hendrik

  Anne
  --
  Registered Linux User No.293302
 
 
 
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Re: [newbie] Still unable to enjoy Mandrake 9.0 on my pure-Linux machine

2003-03-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 27 Mar 2003 9:31 pm, Hendrik Boom wrote:
 On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 09:57:58AM +, Anne Wilson wrote:
  On Wednesday 26 Mar 2003 10:28 pm, Hendrik Boom wrote:
   On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 04:54:58PM -0500, et wrote:
what does cat /etc/hosts say? what does cat /etc/resolv.conf say
is DNS runnig? named? ypserv?
  
   Thanks.  You have given me a few leads. Here's an incomplete reply.
   /etc/hosts:
  
   10.0.0.10   topoi.pooq.com topoi  
   127.0.0.1   localhost.localdomain localhost
   172.25.1.1  topoi.pooq.com topoi  
 
  This looks strange to me.  I would have thought that it was being told to
  look in two places for topoi, which would  certainly confuse it.  FWIW I
  had huge problems with massive delays, and it turned out to be just this
  sort of problems, so stick with it.

 I understand.  I'm baffled, though, what IP numbers have to do CDROMs.

I think that it's because whenever your system tries to read anything, it 
quickly checks all its references, to see which ones are relevant.  In my 
case it was a hostname error that was causing the problem, but the result was 
a boot up that took 3-4 minutes, and every click on any icon or file manager 
entry took over a minute to activate.  Resolving the hostname problem cleared 
the speed problem immediately.

  What IP did you give for your nic?

 Two network interface cards: one for the outside world, which has
 pppoe running on it through a DSL modem, and whose IP number is
 supposed to be irrelevant (and which I suspect has been set to
 10.0.0.10 by some agent in the Mandrake installation code), and
 one for the LAN, which is 172.25.1.1.

 The IP number that the pppoe link provides is fixed as 216.138.195.194,
 but of course that's only valid after the link is up.

 Right now I don't have a DNS running on Mandrake yet.  Do you know of
 any way to give a different IP number for topoi,pooq.com for users on
 the LAN and users fron the rest of the world?  Or dous routing somehow
 automatically know LAN packets for 216.138.195.194 hav arrived when the
 arrive at 172.25.1.1 and don't have to visit the other interface?

 Anyway, the proper IP number for topoi.pooq.com is 216.138.195.194,
 although local users can use 172.25.1.1

I'm out of my depth here, Hendrik, because I don't have this kind of setup.  
As I read it, 216.138.195.194 is your outward facing ip address, and the 
router then redirects the packets to the appropriate lan address according to 
the table it keeps, so I'm not sure what the second nic is doing.  I don't 
know how a dsl modem works, but in my router I have the choice of enabling a 
block of ip numbers for the router to allocate as a dns server, or 
maintaining a static nat table for lan ip numbers.  Perhaps someone with a 
dsl modem could chip in here?

Anne
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Re: [newbie] Still unable to enjoy Mandrake 9.0 on my pure-Linux machine

2003-03-27 Thread et
On Thursday 27 March 2003 05:15 pm, et wrote:
 On Thursday 27 March 2003 04:31 pm, Hendrik Boom wrote:
  On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 09:57:58AM +, Anne Wilson wrote:
   On Wednesday 26 Mar 2003 10:28 pm, Hendrik Boom wrote:
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 04:54:58PM -0500, et wrote:
 what does cat /etc/hosts say? what does cat /etc/resolv.conf
 say is DNS runnig? named? ypserv?
   
Thanks.  You have given me a few leads. Here's an incomplete reply.
/etc/hosts:
   
10.0.0.10   topoi.pooq.com topoi
127.0.0.1   localhost.localdomain localhost
172.25.1.1  topoi.pooq.com topoi
  
   This looks strange to me.  I would have thought that it was being told
   to look in two places for topoi, which would  certainly confuse it. 
   FWIW I had huge problems with massive delays, and it turned out to be
   just this sort of problems, so stick with it.
 
  I understand.  I'm baffled, though, what IP numbers have to do CDROMs.

 in linux, you are really looking in the entire world to see if a file is
 available. you are not looking in for
 /home/document/bigone.fish/icons/trout, as the rest of the root is
 implied as
 localhost.localdomain/home/document/bigone.fish/icons/trout, but, it looks
 in the hosts file aftere looking up the name of the computer, since you
 don't really have to have localhost.localdomain localhost, since the
 alias of localhost can be defined elsewhere. real problem here is why would
 you want the world as an open door?

  bottom line is that a correct host file is needed to  get your computer to
 look in the correct places, adn to close the outside INternet OUT. remove
 the line 172.25.1.1  topoi.pooq.com topoi
 save the file, and restart the network,,, right now
OOOPS shut up ed till you read the whole post

that is wrong DONT DO IT




   What IP did you give for your nic?



 
  Two network interface cards: one for the outside world, which has
  pppoe running on it through a DSL modem, and whose IP number is
  supposed to be irrelevant (and which I suspect has been set to
  10.0.0.10 by some agent in the Mandrake installation code), and
  one for the LAN, which is 172.25.1.1.
 
  The IP number that the pppoe link provides is fixed as 216.138.195.194,
  but of course that's only valid after the link is up.
 
  Right now I don't have a DNS running on Mandrake yet.  Do you know of
  any way to give a different IP number for topoi,pooq.com for users on
  the LAN and users fron the rest of the world?  Or dous routing somehow
  automatically know LAN packets for 216.138.195.194 hav arrived when the
  arrive at 172.25.1.1 and don't have to visit the other interface?
 
  Anyway, the proper IP number for topoi.pooq.com is 216.138.195.194,
  although local users can use 172.25.1.1
 
  -- hendrik
 
/etc/resolv.conf
   
nameserver 204.101.251.1
nameserver 209.226.175.223
   
I don't recognise these nameservers.
  
   Could they be your isp's dns?
 
  No.  They aren't.  I wonder where they came from.  Mind you, one of them
  may have been my ISP's DNS a long while ago; they have recently suffered
  a merger, and they DNSes they tell me about now are different from
  anything I've got configures anywhere on any OS.  So this is definitely
  something to change.
 
  I'll probably have some time tomorrow to try out all this stuff.
 
  -- hendrik
 
   Anne
   --
   Registered Linux User No.293302
  
  
  
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   Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

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[newbie] Still unable to enjoy Mandrake 9.0 on my pure-Linux machine

2003-03-26 Thread Hendrik Boom


Still no joy.  The CDROM still takes ages to mount.  It almost as if
something is tying up a bunch of low-level system stuff until it expires
on a time-out. This is really interfering with using Mandrake 9.0.  I might
blame it on slow hardware (a 100MHz Pentium), except no such delays occur with SuSE 
Linux running on the same hardware (dual boot)

During boot, it takes ninety seconds to start up devFS.  Is this normal?
In case the trouble was with devFS (one of the differences between Mandrake
and the SuSE system I have no trouble with), I tries doing without devFS by
changing lilo.conf and rerunning lilo.  Except that it didn try to start up
d devFS, no difference.  It still took two minutes and twenty-seven seconds
to mount a CD.  So devFS seems not to be the problem.

Subsequent operations from the CD are slow too: 29 seconds to ls a directory,
14 seconds fo unmount the CD.

It takes over two minutes to start Mandrake Command Centre.  Most of the time
it appears to be doing nothing.  It takes a minute to get to the place where
I can turn system services on and off.

Under the curcumstances, comleting the installation of Mandrakd 9.0 is
really hopeless.

  I did this in the hope of answering Miark question:

On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 02:31:40PM -0500, Miark wrote:
 Is autofs running? If so, try turning it off with drakxservices.
 
 Miark
 

Is drakxservices the thing you get to turn services on and off from the MCC?
If so, autofs was not even listed as something to turn on or off.

It really seems as though the system is locking up for times varying from
thirty+seconds to over a minute now and then.  Mounting a CD does eventually
work (today I mounted an old OS/2 shareware CD flawlessly, except that it
took four minutes).  Now and then it does a read from the CD (as evidenced
by the drive light), with *huge* time delays.  I'm used to it doing a few
reads in less than+a second on the old SuSE system wtill running on the
same hardware (dual boot, SuSE and Mandrake) and returning immediately
afteward with a successful mount.

So I wonder what could cause the delays.  I sat and watched in boot
Mandrake 9.0+today.  The first noticeable delay was a minute and a half
or so starting devFS+demon.  Id announces that it is starting the devFS
demon, and about 90 seconds
+later (times without a clock) it announces success.

The only other delays during boot are understandable timeouts:waiting for
adsl  +to come up (the modem was off) and waiting to synchronize the clock
(again, no +net).

Is ninety-seconds a normal time to take to start up devFS?

Could startup delay with devFS be related to the slow CD mount problem?

Is it possible to reconfigure to skip devFS somehow (I suspect not, but
I'll ask+anyway.)  What does devFS do, anyway?

-- hendrik


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Re: [newbie] Still unable to enjoy Mandrake 9.0 on my pure-Linux machine

2003-03-26 Thread et
what does cat /etc/hosts say? what does cat /etc/resolv.conf say is DNS 
runnig? named? ypserv? 



 Wednesday 26 March 2003 02:10 pm, Hendrik Boom wrote:


 Still no joy.  The CDROM still takes ages to mount.  It almost as if
 something is tying up a bunch of low-level system stuff until it expires
 on a time-out. This is really interfering with using Mandrake 9.0.  I might
 blame it on slow hardware (a 100MHz Pentium), except no such delays occur
 with SuSE Linux running on the same hardware (dual boot)

 During boot, it takes ninety seconds to start up devFS.  Is this normal?
 In case the trouble was with devFS (one of the differences between Mandrake
 and the SuSE system I have no trouble with), I tries doing without devFS by
 changing lilo.conf and rerunning lilo.  Except that it didn try to start up
 d devFS, no difference.  It still took two minutes and twenty-seven seconds
 to mount a CD.  So devFS seems not to be the problem.

 Subsequent operations from the CD are slow too: 29 seconds to ls a
 directory, 14 seconds fo unmount the CD.

 It takes over two minutes to start Mandrake Command Centre.  Most of the
 time it appears to be doing nothing.  It takes a minute to get to the place
 where I can turn system services on and off.

 Under the curcumstances, comleting the installation of Mandrakd 9.0 is
 really hopeless.

   I did this in the hope of answering Miark question:

 On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 02:31:40PM -0500, Miark wrote:
  Is autofs running? If so, try turning it off with drakxservices.
 
  Miark

 Is drakxservices the thing you get to turn services on and off from the
 MCC? If so, autofs was not even listed as something to turn on or off.

 It really seems as though the system is locking up for times varying from
 thirty+seconds to over a minute now and then.  Mounting a CD does
 eventually work (today I mounted an old OS/2 shareware CD flawlessly,
 except that it took four minutes).  Now and then it does a read from the CD
 (as evidenced by the drive light), with *huge* time delays.  I'm used to it
 doing a few reads in less than+a second on the old SuSE system wtill
 running on the same hardware (dual boot, SuSE and Mandrake) and returning
 immediately afteward with a successful mount.

 So I wonder what could cause the delays.  I sat and watched in boot
 Mandrake 9.0+today.  The first noticeable delay was a minute and a half
 or so starting devFS+demon.  Id announces that it is starting the devFS
 demon, and about 90 seconds
 +later (times without a clock) it announces success.

 The only other delays during boot are understandable timeouts:waiting for
 adsl  +to come up (the modem was off) and waiting to synchronize the clock
 (again, no +net).

 Is ninety-seconds a normal time to take to start up devFS?

 Could startup delay with devFS be related to the slow CD mount problem?

 Is it possible to reconfigure to skip devFS somehow (I suspect not, but
 I'll ask+anyway.)  What does devFS do, anyway?

 -- hendrik

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Re: [newbie] Still unable to enjoy Mandrake 9.0 on my pure-Linux machine

2003-03-26 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 04:35:16PM -0500, Guy Rouillier wrote:
 Hendrik Boom wrote:
  During boot, it takes ninety seconds to start up devFS.  Is this normal?
 
 I have a slightly faster system (dual Pentium 233 MMX) and yes, DevFS 
 takes forever during boot.  Don't know why.  I've been thinking of 
 disabling it, but I haven't figured out what it does yet.
 

My system runs about as badly with and without DefFS.  It seems to be a
new way of organising device files, with symbolic links for
retrocompatibility.  It is supposed to really shine for USB
devices.  I have no such devices.

It's really easy to remove if you use lilo.  Just remove the line that
refers to it.  Only, just to be sure you don't lose everything, copy the
lilo paragraph you use and make the change in the copy.  That way you
will have a boot-time choice, and can choose the old scheme if the new
one fails.

Doing thie sped up the boot process a little, but had no effect on my real problems.

 

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Re: [newbie] Still unable to enjoy Mandrake 9.0 on my pure-Linux machine

2003-03-26 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 04:54:58PM -0500, et wrote:
 what does cat /etc/hosts say? what does cat /etc/resolv.conf say is DNS 
 runnig? named? ypserv? 
 
Thanks.  You have given me a few leads. Here's an incomplete reply.
/etc/hosts:

10.0.0.10   topoi.pooq.com topoi
127.0.0.1   localhost.localdomain localhost
172.25.1.1  topoi.pooq.com topoi

/etc/resolv.conf

nameserver 204.101.251.1
nameserver 209.226.175.223

I don't recognise these nameservers.

Looks like something I could fix.

I certainly haven't asked to have a DNS or a YP running, but I presume
installing 9.0 will have set up some kind of default.  It's certainly
my intention to have DNS running eventually, but I still haven't
configured it.  I'll check whether I'm actually running DNS, named,
or ypserv when I next get to boot Mandrake again (this machine is used
as internet gateway by a number of others, so I can't just reboot and
check it right now.

But so far, while runnung Mandrake, the net connexion is off.  Could it
be that mounting a CD requires a net connexion?

Does MCC require a net connexion?  Is it not possible to configure
a stand-alone Mandrake system?

-- hendrik

 
 
  Wednesday 26 March 2003 02:10 pm, Hendrik Boom wrote:
 
 
  Still no joy.  The CDROM still takes ages to mount.  It almost as if
  something is tying up a bunch of low-level system stuff until it expires
  on a time-out. This is really interfering with using Mandrake 9.0.  I might
  blame it on slow hardware (a 100MHz Pentium), except no such delays occur
  with SuSE Linux running on the same hardware (dual boot)
 
  During boot, it takes ninety seconds to start up devFS.  Is this normal?
  In case the trouble was with devFS (one of the differences between Mandrake
  and the SuSE system I have no trouble with), I tries doing without devFS by
  changing lilo.conf and rerunning lilo.  Except that it didn try to start up
  d devFS, no difference.  It still took two minutes and twenty-seven seconds
  to mount a CD.  So devFS seems not to be the problem.
 
  Subsequent operations from the CD are slow too: 29 seconds to ls a
  directory, 14 seconds fo unmount the CD.
 
  It takes over two minutes to start Mandrake Command Centre.  Most of the
  time it appears to be doing nothing.  It takes a minute to get to the place
  where I can turn system services on and off.
 
  Under the curcumstances, comleting the installation of Mandrakd 9.0 is
  really hopeless.
 
I did this in the hope of answering Miark question:
 
  On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 02:31:40PM -0500, Miark wrote:
   Is autofs running? If so, try turning it off with drakxservices.
  
   Miark
 
  Is drakxservices the thing you get to turn services on and off from the
  MCC? If so, autofs was not even listed as something to turn on or off.
 
  It really seems as though the system is locking up for times varying from
  thirty+seconds to over a minute now and then.  Mounting a CD does
  eventually work (today I mounted an old OS/2 shareware CD flawlessly,
  except that it took four minutes).  Now and then it does a read from the CD
  (as evidenced by the drive light), with *huge* time delays.  I'm used to it
  doing a few reads in less than+a second on the old SuSE system wtill
  running on the same hardware (dual boot, SuSE and Mandrake) and returning
  immediately afteward with a successful mount.
 
  So I wonder what could cause the delays.  I sat and watched in boot
  Mandrake 9.0+today.  The first noticeable delay was a minute and a half
  or so starting devFS+demon.  Id announces that it is starting the devFS
  demon, and about 90 seconds
  +later (times without a clock) it announces success.
 
  The only other delays during boot are understandable timeouts:waiting for
  adsl  +to come up (the modem was off) and waiting to synchronize the clock
  (again, no +net).
 
  Is ninety-seconds a normal time to take to start up devFS?
 
  Could startup delay with devFS be related to the slow CD mount problem?
 
  Is it possible to reconfigure to skip devFS somehow (I suspect not, but
  I'll ask+anyway.)  What does devFS do, anyway?
 
  -- hendrik
 
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