[newbie] grip not ripping in 10.1
Subject line says it all... Grip did work in 10.0 (and in 9.0, 9.1 etc). Now it appears to rip the audio cd, but the wavs it produces contain only null bytes. Same result using the command-line cdparanoia. I can listen to the audio cds all right with grip, and also listen to mp3 with xmms. Only ripping is not working. What changed from 10.0? Any hints as where to look for? thanks, raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] mdk for AMD64
I read on a recent MDK press release that: Mandrakelinux 10.1 for x86-64 will be available exclusively through Mandrakestore and our retail channels. Is that indicating a different strategy compared to the 32bit version, which is available for free download some time after the official release? raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] module removal
Dobrescu Mihai wrote: How could I remove/un-set a module (let say 'rivafb')? I don't want to rebuild the kernel... As root, from a terminal window: # rmmod module name To see the currently loaded modules: # lsmod For more info: # man rmmod raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] module removal
Dobrescu Mihai wrote: I've tried this all the last evening. I have got no feed-back and the module wasn't removed. No modprobe changes even. I run an 10.1C. What does lsmod report? raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Martian Source Messages
Aron Smith wrote: running dmesg i was getting a lot of packets labled martin source I did a quick fix? echo 0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/log_martians butb can anyone tell me what is a martin source packet? Martian packets: http://martian-packet.wikiverse.org/ You can make the change permanent by adding to /etc/security/msec/level.local: from mseclib import * enable_log_strange_packets (no) raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] re-initialise drive
Johan Sch wrote: Ye . for sure. The point is is trying to restore it to use-ability. Why not using linux's fdisk command line utility? I did it in the past with a Maxtor drive, I used the Maxtor troubleshooter (PowerMax.exe) to wipe the disk, then rewrote the partition table with linux's fdisk. raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Perl module
Poogle wrote: ./check-updates.pl Error: Unable to include perl module: 'HTTP::Request'. Please install this module and try re-running this script. (Hint: man CPAN) Fatal error. Exiting... I can't take the Hint as I can't find man CPAN and I can't find the appropriate RPM which includes the above mentioned module. Google would be my friend here but unfortunately the site is currently down :-( Try installing the perl-libwww-perl package (it's part of the standard MDK installation). raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] X Includes....
JRH wrote: Hi, I'm trying to compile/install something, and it's tripping up. See pasting below! checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your installation and add the correct paths! [EMAIL PROTECTED] qsstv-5.1a]$ install the libxfree86-devel package raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] only about 1/2 my hard drive is recognised
John Richard Smith wrote: Go to the mobo website and start digging , especially in the bios update sections, look up your bios version, and it invariable says something about having upgraded the bios to detect HD size XXXgigs, My bet is yours is 130Gigs, and then some time later they bring out a later bios vesion that upgrades it again to maybe 260Gigs and so on and so forth. You may be unlucky and no mention is made of the HD size limitation, if so you need to contact your mobo manufacturer support desk and ask them what the HD size limitations are on your bios version and can you upgrade. The BIOS settings is not so important to Linux. I have a disk which is set to 'none' in the BIOS, Windows doesn't see it but it works just fine with Linux! It's only important for the boot - it's the BIOS that loads LILO from the MBR. After that, Linux uses it's own code to access the disk. Before you do though look up what the bios is saying about your HD size , if it sees it all it, it ain't a bios limitation, but if it sees 130G then I would think this is where to start. Sometimes the OS itself has HD limitation but I don't think it is your case . Not for decently recent Linux kernels. For sure not an issue from MDK9.2 on. Some modern HD's also have a cap limit Jumper and yours may have it set up as limited to 130G, but that is a large cap limit in my experience. John That is a good point. If that is not the issue, then I'm afraid it's a motherboard issue, and there is no cure for that :-( What motherboard are you using, Eric? raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] no man in msec 4???
I just switched to msec 4 from msec 3, to find out that man pages are not accessible anymore to a normal user: /usr/share: drwxr-x--- 27 rpm rpm4096 May 17 10:48 man/ I already changed this with perm.local, but what's the sense in making man pages unavailable?? raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Enabling FTP
Mark Ayares wrote: How do I configure my MDK10 box to allow others FTP access? Is FTP part of the inetd service? When ever I try to ftp from another box I get a connection refused reply. I'll give you a command-line answer, I'm sure there are GUIs to do the same... inetd is not used anymore, it has been super seeded by xinetd. The ftp server (for example proftpd, but there are others) is not normally installed by default. 1. install proftpd package 2. edit /etc/proftpd.conf and set 'Server type' to 'inetd' 3. edit /etc/xinetd.d/proftpd-xinetd and set 'disable' to 'no' 4. restart xinetd (not sure it is necessary) You should now be able to ftp to your box and login with your username/password. I have also defined a 'guest' account with its own directory to share files with remote sites. If you have a firewall running, you also need to open the ftp server port. For Shorewall, it should be sufficient to add something like: # ftp server ACCEPT net fw tcp ftp in the /etc/shorewall/rules file. raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Problems with accents.
Open /etc/samba/smb.conf and uncomment the lines relative to
internationalization. Here's how my look like after the change:
# Enabling internationalization:
# you can match a Windows code page with a UNIX character set.
# Windows: 437 (US), 737 (GREEK), 850 (Latin1 - Western European),
# 852 (Eastern Eu.), 861 (Icelandic), 932 (Cyrillic - Russian),
# 936 (Japanese - Shift-JIS), 936 (Simpl. Chinese), 949 (Korean Hangul),
# 950 (Trad. Chin.).
# UNIX: ISO8859-1 (Western European), ISO8859-2 (Eastern Eu.),
# ISO8859-5 (Russian Cyrillic), KOI8-R (Alt-Russ. Cyril.)
# This is an example for french users:
dos charset = 850
unix charset = ISO8859-1
By default (i.e. after installation) the last two lines are commented
out, just uncomment them and restart the samba server.
raffaele
Flávio Henrique wrote:
hi guys.
I using Mandrake 10.0 to serve about 50 win98 clients with Samba.
My problem is:
any file or directory created by clients, that have accents (' ~ ` ^),
in the Linux (and just in the Linux server) I can't see the name
correctly... I see strange characters instead...
I need to make backups, from Linux server, so I need to resolve this,
cause the files will be stored with strange characters...
Maybe some problem with Samba, but I don't know...
Someone have a clue ?
Thank you
Flávio Henrique
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Re: [newbie] Problems with accents.
Re-reading better your mail, I see your problem is in the server, not in
the Windows clients. I am not sure my suggestion does the trick, sorry.
raffaele
Raffaele Belardi wrote:
Open /etc/samba/smb.conf and uncomment the lines relative to
internationalization. Here's how my look like after the change:
# Enabling internationalization:
# you can match a Windows code page with a UNIX character set.
# Windows: 437 (US), 737 (GREEK), 850 (Latin1 - Western European),
# 852 (Eastern Eu.), 861 (Icelandic), 932 (Cyrillic - Russian),
# 936 (Japanese - Shift-JIS), 936 (Simpl. Chinese), 949 (Korean Hangul),
# 950 (Trad. Chin.).
# UNIX: ISO8859-1 (Western European), ISO8859-2 (Eastern Eu.),
# ISO8859-5 (Russian Cyrillic), KOI8-R (Alt-Russ. Cyril.)
# This is an example for french users:
dos charset = 850
unix charset = ISO8859-1
By default (i.e. after installation) the last two lines are commented
out, just uncomment them and restart the samba server.
raffaele
Flávio Henrique wrote:
hi guys.
I using Mandrake 10.0 to serve about 50 win98 clients with Samba.
My problem is:
any file or directory created by clients, that have accents (' ~ `
^), in the Linux (and just in the Linux server) I can't see the name
correctly... I see strange characters instead...
I need to make backups, from Linux server, so I need to resolve this,
cause the files will be stored with strange characters...
Maybe some problem with Samba, but I don't know...
Someone have a clue ?
Thank you
Flávio Henrique
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Re: [newbie] 10.0 slower than 9.2?
JoeHill wrote: It seems to be sending three copies of your mail to the list, too! Maybe that's what's slowing your system down... ;-) :-) raf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Installing Java
martin brandt wrote: I'm running Mandrake 9.2 and im trying to install the package j2re-1_4_2_04-linux-i586-rpm.bin from the javasun website. I get an error when im running the rpm. Preparing packages for installation... j2re-1.4.2_04-fcs error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_04/CHANGES;40ace6 bd: cpio: mkdir failed - No such file or directory I normally install the .bin (not .rpm.bin) Java package, so I'll just try some guesses. - you are running rpm -iv as root, right? - maybe the file was corrupt dutring download, have you tried to download it again? raf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.0 slower than 9.2?
Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: I never used Mdk 9, but I can tell you I was impressed with the speed of 10.0, both CE and Official. I revived an ancient (~6 years old) NT machine, Pentium II 400MHz, graphics card so old it's no longer supported by the vendor. I was surprised how responsive it is on such an old machine - practically instantaneous. It gets sluggish only if there are heavy background processes running, but that's to be expected. I'm not saying 10.0 is slow, I'm just saying it is slower than 9.2. I believe the 2.6 kernel has been optimized for server environment, not desktop. Have you tried running top to see if there's something else chewing up your cpu? I've had some runaway kde processes a couple of times (most notably konqueror on certain web sites). 3D programs also kill my performance, because I only have s/w rendering. I use IceWM, it's much lighter than KDE or Gnome. No, nothing is eating up CPU, it's just slower. raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.0 slower than 9.2?
Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: I never used Mdk 9, but I can tell you I was impressed with the speed of 10.0, both CE and Official. I revived an ancient (~6 years old) NT machine, Pentium II 400MHz, graphics card so old it's no longer supported by the vendor. I was surprised how responsive it is on such an old machine - practically instantaneous. It gets sluggish only if there are heavy background processes running, but that's to be expected. I'm not saying 10.0 is slow, I'm just saying it is slower than 9.2. I believe the 2.6 kernel has been optimized for server environment, not desktop. Have you tried running top to see if there's something else chewing up your cpu? I've had some runaway kde processes a couple of times (most notably konqueror on certain web sites). 3D programs also kill my performance, because I only have s/w rendering. I use IceWM, it's much lighter than KDE or Gnome. No, nothing is eating up CPU, it's just slower. raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.0 slower than 9.2?
Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: I never used Mdk 9, but I can tell you I was impressed with the speed of 10.0, both CE and Official. I revived an ancient (~6 years old) NT machine, Pentium II 400MHz, graphics card so old it's no longer supported by the vendor. I was surprised how responsive it is on such an old machine - practically instantaneous. It gets sluggish only if there are heavy background processes running, but that's to be expected. I'm not saying 10.0 is slow, I'm just saying it is slower than 9.2. I believe the 2.6 kernel has been optimized for server environment, not desktop. Have you tried running top to see if there's something else chewing up your cpu? I've had some runaway kde processes a couple of times (most notably konqueror on certain web sites). 3D programs also kill my performance, because I only have s/w rendering. I use IceWM, it's much lighter than KDE or Gnome. No, nothing is eating up CPU, it's just slower. raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] archiving large files
Paul Kaplan wrote: I would like to burn CDs containing copies of virtual machine disk images. These image files are larger than 700Mb. Does anyone know of a way to archive a large file so that I can burn a portion of the file to a CD and the remaining portion onto a second CD. If I do this, how do I restore the original file. tar has options to directly split archive on several files (tapes he calls them...) that I used some time ago with success. Or you can create a single huge .tar file, then use split to ...split it and cat to reassemble. Probably the first option is better if you don't have extra space on the hd to build the whole tar image. raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.0 slower than 9.2?
John Drouhard wrote: On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 09:55 +0200, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: Simple test: same movies that in 9.2 played fine and smooth in 10.0 skip LOTS of frames What video card do you have? If it's an nvidia card, you might need to Nope, it's an ATI Radeon 7xxx (don't remember exact model). Next I will try installing the 9.2 version of mplayer into 10.0, just to rule out kernel issues. If it doesn't do the job, I'll have to go back to 9.2 :-( Don't install the 9.2 version of mplayer on 10.0, there will be dependency problems. Yes, I tried and gave up due to the dependencies issues (didn't want to spend too much time on it). Now I'm back to 9.2 :-( accessing a CD in 10.0 eats up all CPU, while in 9.2 it was only using a small fraction - like if it was not using DMA, but DMA is enabled for all drives. Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't the default mandrake kernels not include dma support? If they do, then I'm not sure what to do about the You are wrong :-) My understanding is that MDK (or the Linux kernel, not sure which) enables DMA for a drive by default, then disables it if it detects errors on drive access. On my other box, a 10.0 system, hdparm reports DMA enabled for the HDs, disabled for the CDROM (an old drive which I suspect does not support it). I remember somebody defining 10.0 speed daemon so I was quite negatively impressed by my results. Has anybody noticed such bad performance? It is a speed daemon :). No but really, its fast. Ok, demon :-). Anyway, I have to confirm my first impression. The 10.0 box is slower to react to GUI, slower to rip CDs, slower to mp3-encode them. Not much, but it can be appreciated. BTW, I got a confirmation on the first web article I googled: 2.6 better for server, equal or less than 2.4 for dektop. (http://www.2cpu.com/articles/98_1.html) bye, raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Directory Structure
David A. Ferguson wrote: The easyest thing is to have one swap partition and one partition mounted at '/'. This has the advantage of not forcing you to guess how much space to allocate to / v.s /usr. David Not very good idea. At least you should divide / and /home in separate partitions, otherwise on first opearting system update you're going to delete all your personal data. I'd suggest 3G for /, 2.5G for /home and 500M for swap (more or less). I have no experience with Fedora, but I did have MDK9.2 and W2K both installed on a 6G HD. No KDE or Gnome, though (but the complete development tools). raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] kernel 2.4 in 10.0 OE
Thomas Wilkowski wrote: The 2.4 kernel should have been automatically installed when you installed mdk10. If it was not than, yes you can install it and it will install side by side. You will also have to edit /etc/lilo.conf. But before you do please double check /etc/lilo.conf to see if the already exists a stanza for kernel 2.4.*.*mdk. No, it was not installed, but I guess it depends on the choiches you make during the instalaltion. Yes, when you install it it also updates lilo.conf. thanks, raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] 10.0 slower than 9.2?
Simple test: same movies that in 9.2 played fine and smooth in 10.0 skip LOTS of frames. I tried with mplayer, xine and totem, always the same result. Yes, it's an old mobo (AMD K6-2/550), but in 9.2 it did its job. So I successfully installed the 2.4.25 kernel provided on the 10.0 cd, but was unable to configure the ISA PNP audio card. The isapnp utility configures and enables the card without errors, but modprobe snd-azt2320 exits with an error (no azt2320 card found). Card works fine in 9.2 and 10.0 with 2.6 kernel. Next I will try installing the 9.2 version of mplayer into 10.0, just to rule out kernel issues. If it doesn't do the job, I'll have to go back to 9.2 :-( Also, while burning a CD the system does not respond to any command. It's not frozen (icewm responds fine), but application it will not even start to load it until the cd burning is finished. And, accessing a CD in 10.0 eats up all CPU, while in 9.2 it was only using a small fraction - like if it was not using DMA, but DMA is enabled for all drives. I remember somebody defining 10.0 speed daemon so I was quite negatively impressed by my results. Has anybody noticed such bad performance? raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] kernel 2.4 in 10.0 OE
Margot wrote: A new kernel will be installed side-by-side with the existing one, so you can choose to boot into one or the other. Of course, if you eventually find a perfect kernel that fulfils all your needs, you can then uninstall the old one(s) using urpme. Thanks, I will try it out. I noticed that in 10.0 movies that played fine in 9.2 are no longer smooth. I'll try with the older kernel. raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] kernel 2.4 in 10.0 OE
If I install kernel 2.4 in 10.0 Official with kernel 2.6, will it replace the 2.6 or be installed side-by-side, so that I can add a lilo entry to boot in one or the other? raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] samba configuration in 10.0
I'll install shortly 10.0 Official on my office PC, which I currently use with 9.2 as samba server to share some Linux partitions (no printers) with windows co-workers. I understand 10.0 includes samba 3.x, while 9.2 uses samba 2.x. Are there any gotchas I should be aware of for the porting of the samba configuration files, or is it painless? I am not using any graphical configuration tool for this task. thanks, raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] no /dev/dsp in 10.0
Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 10 May 2004 10:56, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: I installed 10.0 official. I have a azt2320 ISA soundcard I added to /etc/modprobe.preload the snd-azt2320 line. Sound modules are loaded correctly at boot, but /dev/dsp is not created so xmms and mplayer don't generate sound. If I manually create the /dev/dsp device, sound works ok. You may need to add the OSS emulation lines as well. See :- http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?company=AzTechcard=AZT2320chip=AZT2320module=azt2320 (BTW: You might find xmms works without having to do anything to the drivers if you configure xmms to use the ALSA output plugin ) Derek, some of the above got it working, but I am not sure of which part :-) At first I modified the modprobe.conf to add the OSS-related lines (BTW, it seems to me the syntax is the same as modules.conf, isn't it?). Reboot, no work. Then I reconfigured xmms to use ALSA instead of OSS, as you suggested. No error (previously I got no /dev/dsp error) but still no sound. So I loaded alsa-utils, unmuted sound and finally heard music. mplayer tries to open /dev/dsp, doesn't find it and switches to ALSA, so it also is working fine now. Next days I might try to remove the OSS-related part from modprobe.conf, just to see if ALSA it still works. I must say that I find the Linux sound architecture quite confusing :-[ thanks, raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] no /dev/dsp in 10.0
Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: Check /var/log/messages for any messages from the kernel concerning your sound card. If there's anything in there recommending a different driver, try that driver. If not, then, well, see if you can find out somewhere else what driver might work (try google of course). Rob, thanks, I got it working in some way. Anyway, the kernel log did not complain about the driver. I am not sure in my case it is a problem with the driver, but rather with the startup scripts which do not create the correct device /dev/dsp. I fact, if I created it manually, the driver worked fine. As I said elsewhere, I'm still confused... raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] no /dev/dsp in 10.0
I installed 10.0 official. I have a azt2320 ISA soundcard, which worked fine in 9.x and 8.x I added to /etc/modprobe.preload the snd-azt2320 line. Sound modules are loaded correctly at boot, but /dev/dsp is not created so xmms and mplayer don't generate sound. If I manually create the /dev/dsp device, sound works ok. I also tried adding alias snd-slot-0 snd-azt2320 to /etc/modprobe.conf, but it does not change, still no /dev/dsp. Is there a correct way to force the boot script to create the /dev/dsp device? thanks, raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] System not recognizing correct partition size
Terence, fdisk output looks right: /var (hda9) partition is approx. 5600Mb, /var/Music (hda14) is 6200Mb. You left approx. 40Gb of unpartitioned space on the disk, right? df output puzzles me. Like you say, /var/Music is only approx 800Mbyte large. I have no idea why this happened. I would try to format it again: from a shell, login as root and type # mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda14 (WARNING: This will wipe out the /var/Music contents!) or the equivalent for reiserfs - which I am not familiar with. Then do a # df . to make sure this time you got all the partition formatted. Regarding the /var, df shows that it's half full, while you expet it to be almost empty. Two guesses to account for the missing space: 1. you configured some application to use /var/music (instead of /var/Music) so you are filling partition 9 instead of 14 2. your log files (/var/log) are growing huge You can check where the space is bing eaten up by typing (as root): # cd /var # du -xb | sort -n good luck, raffaele Terence Golightly wrote: On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 05:53, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: Terence Golightly wrote: /var partiton 5.4BG ext3 fs 7% used (I don't know why I meant to make it reiserfs but I musta been tired when I was doing the install) /var/Music 5.9GB reiserfs as its file system (its the last partition on my system). This is how diskdrake recognizes it and is has 7% used. Could you please login as root in a terminal, type # fdisk -l /dev/hda and send the output on the list? And while you are at it, also do a Ok.. Here goes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# fdisk -l /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 764 6136798+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 765621743801222+ 5 Extended /dev/hda5 765 827 506016 82 Linux swap /dev/hda6 8281535 5686978+ 83 Linux /dev/hda715362044 4088511 83 Linux /dev/hda820452553 4088511 83 Linux /dev/hda925543261 5686978+ 83 Linux /dev/hda10 32623515 2040223+ 83 Linux /dev/hda11 35164223 5686978+ 83 Linux /dev/hda12 42244931 5686978+ 83 Linux /dev/hda13 49325440 40885116 FAT16 /dev/hda14 54416217 6241221 83 Linux # df [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 6136604200168 5936436 4% / /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 4024188 17864 3801900 1% /boot /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 5686796 3035572 2651224 54% /home /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part13 4080524 468 4080056 1% /mnt/windows /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part10 2008108 33868 1872232 2% /tmp /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part8 4088376 2383224 1705152 59% /usr /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part9 5597680 2816736 2496596 54% /var /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part14 811216651084160132 81% /var/Music /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part11 5686796 32840 5653956 1% /var/ftp /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part12 5686796 32932 5653864 1% /var/www Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] System not recognizing correct partition size
Terence Golightly wrote: /var partiton 5.4BG ext3 fs 7% used (I don't know why I meant to make it reiserfs but I musta been tired when I was doing the install) /var/Music 5.9GB reiserfs as its file system (its the last partition on my system). This is how diskdrake recognizes it and is has 7% used. Could you please login as root in a terminal, type # fdisk -l /dev/hda and send the output on the list? And while you are at it, also do a # df and send the output here? fstab and mtab are not sufficient to try a diagnosis. raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Samba / Shorewall
Klemens Arro wrote: whats with samba and shorewall? I cant use samba server or Smb4K (guess that shorewall blocks it). When I take the whole firewall down Everything (no firewall) then samba works perfectly, but then I can't share my ADSL connection. My /etc/shorewall/rules below, part relevant to samba server. It was taken from the shorewall documentation, it works for me. raffaele #ACTION SOURCE DESTPROTO DESTSOURCE ORIGINAL # PORTPORT(S)DEST # samba ports ACCEPT net fw udp 137:139 ACCEPT net fw tcp 137,139 ACCEPT net fw udp 1024: 137 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Samba / Shorewall
Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 30 Apr 2004 07:35, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: Well I hope you have another firewall further upstream from your computer, because what these lines do is to open up Windows networking directly to the Internet so anyone+dog can browse your shared folders. Yes I do, and also I use the hosts allow entry in smb.conf to limit access to a very limited set of co-workers' machines. Anyway, thanks for the tip, I admit I did not do much study on the samba/shorewall configuration. raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Griping questions
rhein wrote: 1. To get the name of the tracks do you have to be connected? I tried Yes, names are not stored on cd-audio format. When you insert an audio cd, the player (i.e. grip) calculates a 'hash' value based on the index of the cd and uses it as a keyword to retrieve the titles from e.g. freedb.freedb.org. If it manages to get them, it stores them on your local disk (typically under $HOME/.cddb) , so next time you play the cd you don't need to be connected to get the titles. 2. If I want to play the mp3 files on a music box or a TV/DVD player what riper and format shall I use? I use xmms for mp3/wav, grip to play/rip/encode audio cd. 3. What is the differences in the encoder: oggenc, mp3encoder, bladeenc, lame, l3enc, xingmp3enc, gogo, flac? You already got some answers to this. Let me add that lame is not included in the MDK cds for license issues (lame uses an encoding algo which is patented by Fraunhofer Institute). Whenever I need to install it, I download the sources from the official lame site (http://lame.sourceforge.net/) and build them. bye, raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] More sound problems.
Marc wrote: I am trying to bring a old machine back from the dead and so far it has been a 100% success with the execption of the sound. I am using a old Sony ASUS MOBO with intergrated sound, 810 intel chipset AC'97 with the snd-intel8x0 driver. The sound is very distorted and also sounds like it is playing at about 1/4 speed. Doe's anybody have any ideas how to fix this or am I better off just pluging in a soundblaster card. I'm using the same Intel 810 chipset without problems. Could distorted sound be caused by too high volume? What application are you using to play sound? What files are you playing? You are not giving many details, I'll just throw some info here: lsmod on my system gives ... i810_audio 25692 0 ac97_codec 15828 0 [i810_audio] soundcore 6340 0 [i810_audio] /etc/modules.conf contains: alias sound-slot-0 i810_audio bye, raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Searching in pdf documents?
xpdf Press 'f' to stasrt search. raffaele Jonas Claesson wrote: Hi! Anyone know a good pdfviewer WITH textsearch for linux? Can't find any searchtools in the ones included in MDK? Regards Jonas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Swap file not being used since replacing disk
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After swapping my 10gb for a 40gb disk and finally getting it working, I noted that the machine seemed really slow. When I looked in the system monitor in Gnome, it showed that 0MB of my swap file was being used and the RAM was sky high. It wasn't like that this morning. What you describe is quite normal. Linux uses all the available memory almost immediately as soon as you start using apps. Swap space usage depends on the installed RAM memory. On my 512Mbyte system, *free* RAM is currently (and normally is) less than 10Mbyte, while used swap space is less than 20Mbyte. That does not mean the system is slow. If top (or whatever the gnome monitor) correctly shows the amount of swap space you effectively allocated is available, I would not worry. Did you check /var/log/syslog for any errors in detecting the hard drive, instead? raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Modify my home directory
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But if I mount my empty space to /home MCC asked me if I want to transfer the files to the new partition... SO in that case I do not loose my user files? I guess that if MCC offered to move the files for you, you'll not loose them... but I seldom use MCC, I prefer the command line, so I don't really know. But will the amount of space add up??? If you tell MCC to use the new partition for /home, the old one will be left unused. So no, the space will not add up. But again, I am not familiar with MCC, I might be wrong. raffaele Raffaele Belardi wrote: Christophe, see below. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Me again... I tried to make my home directory bigger... I first shrinked my windows partition (hda1) to obtain 8 Gb... Then I wanted to unmount my home directory (hda8) to make it bigger... When I click on unmount nothing happens... Why? You can't unmount a /home partition on a running system, because it's in use. You need to boot into single user mode for that (no graphic environment, only a shell), or boot from the MDK rescue disk into a shell. What is the difference between /home and /user directories? /home contains the home directories of your users. Standard MDK installation doesn't have /user but /usr. /usr contains almost all the executables - including gnome, kde, X. It does not normally contain user files. What type of file system should I use if I can not modify my /home directory? Resizing the /home partition means loosing all the data there contained. A better option would be to format the freed up space as a new ext3 partition, say hda9, and then mount the new partition somewhere under /home. For example, you might dedicate it to a user (in this case you'd mount it under /home/newuser, for example), or to increase the space dedicated to an already existing user (for example, if userX needs additional space for mp3, you might create a /home/userX/mp3 directory and mount hda9 there). Thanks Christophe ps: for the moment I'm not giving up ;-) 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 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] Reclaiming Mandrake boot
Martin, It's much easier if you have the first MDK installation CD. Insert it, reboot the PC and at the splash screen hit F1, then type # rescue and press enter. After some loading, you'll be presented with a menu, where you should select 'Reinstall boot loader'. This should detect your windows and linux partitions and reinstall lilo in the MBR. What happened is pretty normal, Windows assumes it's the only OS on the disk and rewrites the MBR with it's own loader. Good luck, raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Argh i recently installed a win boot on my comp which already had my linux boot on and now all i can boot on is windows. I have two HDs HD1: 30gig Partitions: Mandrake linux, swap, home, windows FAT32 (mounted on linux) and a Windows boot HD2: 150gb just storage, ext3 formatted. I pretty sure i didnt touch any of my other partitions whilst installing windows, and i had 5gb space on my hd so i didnt need to fiddle with diskdrake. Any ideas anyone? Do i need a mandrake boot disc or something? Thanks, All help is much appreciated. Martin Brandt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Reclaiming Mandrake boot
Martin, I had already noticed that, a linux-formatted FAT32 partition was not recognized by Windows. I had to format it with DOS or Windows native tools. I don't know why, I assumed it was some slight incompatibility in the linux tools, but did not investigate. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Raffaele Belardi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks to both of you. Now i just gotta find out why my windows boot doesnt detect my FAT32 partition which i created in Linux a while ago (before i installed win boot). Ill be back with more problems soon :) Martin Brandt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Modify my home directory
Christophe, see below. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Me again... I tried to make my home directory bigger... I first shrinked my windows partition (hda1) to obtain 8 Gb... Then I wanted to unmount my home directory (hda8) to make it bigger... When I click on unmount nothing happens... Why? You can't unmount a /home partition on a running system, because it's in use. You need to boot into single user mode for that (no graphic environment, only a shell), or boot from the MDK rescue disk into a shell. What is the difference between /home and /user directories? /home contains the home directories of your users. Standard MDK installation doesn't have /user but /usr. /usr contains almost all the executables - including gnome, kde, X. It does not normally contain user files. What type of file system should I use if I can not modify my /home directory? Resizing the /home partition means loosing all the data there contained. A better option would be to format the freed up space as a new ext3 partition, say hda9, and then mount the new partition somewhere under /home. For example, you might dedicate it to a user (in this case you'd mount it under /home/newuser, for example), or to increase the space dedicated to an already existing user (for example, if userX needs additional space for mp3, you might create a /home/userX/mp3 directory and mount hda9 there). Thanks Christophe ps: for the moment I'm not giving up ;-) 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] copy of HDD
I will not cover the hardware details, I assume you are familiar with Master/Slave jumper settings and IDE channels. If not, speak up! I also assume you transfer the disk from one MDK box to another MDK box. Linux uses the following drive identifiers: /dev/hda is the Master drive connected to primary IDE channel /dev/hdb is the Slave drive connected to primary IDE channel /dev/hdc is the Master drive connected to secondary IDE channel /dev/hdd is the Slave drive connected to secondary IDE channel Once you have physically installed the drive in the new PC, boot into MDK, open a shell and, as root, type: # mkdir /mnt/newdisk to create a mount point in the new PC, then # mount /dev/hdx /mnt/newdisk to make the new disk visible under the new mount point. Obviously, you need to replace hdx with one of hda-hdd as outlined above. Now the contents of the new disk is visible to root. Depending on the MDK configuration, you might also need to type # chown youruser:yourgroup /mnt/newdisk to make the disk accessible to your regular user instead of root. It's a quick-and-dirty way, but it works fine for one time copies. No need to mess with /etc/fstab for this. If things don't work, check as root the /var/log/syslog file for kernel errors. The drive, if correctly configured, must be recognized by the kernel even if not configured in /etc/fstab. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Haiz newbie, how can I take ones HDD and add it to other machine and make it accessible without any lost of data. proble is that I have to copy large amount of data (more than 60 GB) :( I love movies ;) form one PC to another. over LAN it can get to tiresome... force, my friend, is violence! hugenots [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Martian source in Syslog
Let's see... $ cat /etc/security/msec/level.local from mseclib import * enable_log_strange_packets(0) Is this how you disabled the martian log? It made me crazy for some time after installing shorewall in MDK9.1 I'd be insterested in what you found. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, just general information. Has anyone else on the list recently started noticing a lot of martian source packets being logged from the kernel? If so, I can probably help you to track down what is causing the entries and also help you remove them. I just spent the better half of a day doing just that and since I haven't seen anyone else talk about it, didn't know if it was just me so I thought I would mention it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bad superblock
Hoyt, Let me recap to see if I understand correctly: - the grub menu presents you with two installations, 9.2 and 10.0 - when you select 10.0 the boot begins but for some reason it hangs at some point - when you select 9.2 grub loads 10.0 anyway (and ends up as above) I do not think the superblock error you see is related to the above, looks more like when you installed grub something was not done right and you ended up with two entries linking to the same kernel image (10.0). The loader I use (lilo) does not have the intelligence necessary to do the switch you suggest, I assume it is the same for grub. You could try to use the reinstall boot loader of the rescue disk: 1. boot from the MDK9.2 cd1 2. at the splash, type F1, then rescue 3. at the menu, select reinstall boot loader This should search for existing boot images on the disk and reconstruct the lilo (or grub) loader. But, I have never done it so I cannot tell you how effective it is. Another thing you can try is to select mount existing partitions under /mnt at point 3. above. This will let you access the uncorrupted partitions from the rescue disk, and then you could try to modify fstab to avoid loading the corrupt partition. But this option depends on how familiar you are with the command line, and with the linux configuration files. I don't remember where fsck is located in the rescue disk, but I am almost sure I had e2fsck in the path. Try it out, it's the same as fsck if you are using ext2 or ext3 (the default installation). It's not much, I hope others have better ideas. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Raffaele Belardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 01:42 Subject: Re: [newbie] Bad superblock Assuming you are using ext2 or ext3, superblock backup copies are stored in several places on the disk, mke2fs tells you where when you first create the filesystem. If you didn't take a note, you can find out where the backup copies are by typing # mke2fs -n /dev/hdxx (note -n, does not actually create the fs, only prints what it would do). Once you know where the backups are, you can issue # e2fsck -b block number /dev/hdxx to force fsck to use a different, possibly uncorrupted, superblock. All of this can normally be done with the rescue option of the MDK9.2 install disk (i.e. insert disk 1, reboot, hit F1, type rescue), I'm surprised that it does not work for you. Could you please give more details on your problem? Well I'll try. I installed 10.0rc1 and missed the configuration of the mouse although the mouse worked fine during the install, it didnt register that I hadnt configujred it, when I booted into the new system the mouse wouldnt even move or otherwise respond otherwise the install went well. I decided to reinstall and this time I configured the mouse. On booting into the system the mouse worked but there was another problem that requried me to correct lilo in order to boot 10.0. Well I misspelled lilo and couldnt find lilo.conf. Therefore I figured the easy way to fix lilo would be to reinstall with everything in place so I did so and selected grub instead of lilo. This worked but when I booted into 10.0 there was an error which I couldnt clear or get around so master reset was pushed to get out of the system. On rebooting to 9.2 several times I noticed scroll past on the screen a note that said bad superblock and the boot was switched to 10.0 by the computer now that is all I can boot into even though the boot process starts to boot into 9.2 it always ends up in 10.0 with the unresolvable problem. Rescue boots ok but fsck command will not execute and that is the first time I have tried to use rescue so I am at a rather sever impass. Hope this helps. Regards; Hoyt 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] OT: Port Scan?
You read it like this: for example the first line is telling you that a machine with ip address 66... is trying to connect to your machine (ip address 162) on TCP port 8980. The firewall is applying a default behavior of denying the connection. The log file shows several ICMP packets, typically used for ping. They also show TCP connection to port 6346 and 8980. From google, the first one is used by peer to peer file sharing programs (bearshare, gnutella), the other one I couldn't find. Yes, it could be a port scan, but I wouldn't worry about it as long as you have your firewall, although a better policy would be to DROP the packets instead of DENY the connection. Deny means that the firewall does not allow the other peer to connect to your machine, typically sending back a NACK packet or similar. Drop means that the firewall just ignores the packet, and does not send back any acknowledge (positive or negative). The latter is better since it does not let the other peer know that you even exist. There should also be a way to avoid logging these attempts (there _is_ in linux's firewall, iptables) if they are clogging your log file, but I cannot help with your specific router. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a D-Link DI-604 router for my small home network. I have it automatically send me the log file when it reaches a certain size. In the last few days, I've been getting a copy of a the log file several times a day. And it's always the same thing: Feb/09/2004 22:06:32 Drop TCP packet from WAN src:66.65.215.6:62986 dst:162.40.161.66:8980 Rule: Default deny Feb/09/2004 22:06:32 Drop ICMP packet from WAN src:216.176.95.198:3 dst:162.40.161.66:1 Rule: Default deny Feb/09/2004 22:06:32 Drop ICMP packet from WAN src:216.176.95.198:3 dst:162.40.161.66:1 Rule: Default deny Feb/09/2004 22:06:31 Drop ICMP packet from WAN src:216.176.95.198:3 dst:162.40.161.66:1 Rule: Default deny Feb/09/2004 22:06:30 Drop TCP packet from WAN src:24.192.222.186:4697 dst:162.40.161.66:6346 Rule: Default deny Feb/09/2004 22:06:28 Of course, the log file is MUCH bigger, but the vast majority of entries are like this. Is this a port scan of somekind? I don't know how to read firewall log files like this. Can anyone shed some light on this for me? Thanks, Chris 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] Wherfore art thou $PATH?
You can find some more scripts potentially modifying PATH under /etc/profile.d. On my system, msec.sh and local.sh (the latter modified by me) actually change the PATH. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, [EMAIL PROTECTED] fubarski]$ echo $PATH /usr//bin:/bin:/usr/bin::/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib/jre-1.4.1_01/bin I don't particularly like the fact that I the // and the :: are a part of $PATH. I can't seem to find where these are inserted, however. I use BASH and I can't find these items in /etc/profile, ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc. As far as my limited knowledge is concerned, /etc/profile is the first file to be considered, and it adds /usr/X11R6/bin, so I guess the question is where is $PATH defined before /etc/profile? I'm using 9.1. With an advance of thanks, James Henry Maiewski 20 Plain Road East South Deerfield, Massachusetts Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Testing USB
There's also a nice graphical tool, usbview, which shows the tree of USB devices currently connected. If not already installed, you can find it on disk1 of MDK9.2. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 05 February 2004 13:31, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I would like to know how to learn whether the USB connection is working properly. I have a printer connected to there and it does not work. Could somebody here please help me? Thank you a lot in advance! Paul Open a terminal, become root/su (type su then enter, enter root password and enter) and type tail -f /var/log/messages. Then unplug the printer...wath the output there, and plug it in again...and watch the output again. You should be getting messages there followed by -success:) If in doubt do service usb restart and try again. Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] problems with 160GB disk
I recently installed a Maxtor Diamond Plus 160Gb HD as hdb, MDK9.2 is on a 40Gb hda. I partitioned hdb into three partitions, 1Gb+80Gb+80Gb. I've had twice already the boot process stop with the message File system inconsistency, run fsck manually. Running fsck did find and correct litterally hundreds of errors. Has anybody had problems with large capacity disks in MDK9.2? I'm using an Asus P5A-B motherboard. thanks, raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] TV out with ATI Radeon 7000
I have an ATI Radeon 7000 with TV out connector. If I connect the TV and boot the PC, the video card puts itself in a sort of 'TV-compatible' mode (i.e. it uses 50Hz horizontal refresh rate to avoid burning the TV), so during the boot I see the MDK logo and writings on TV. The problem is that, with the 50Hz rate, X refuses to start with the message Cannot find suitable screen. I saw in the XF86Config file that there is already a modeline suitable for TV-out, but how do I enable it? thanks, raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] problems with 160GB disk
ok, I should have been more precise: in reality I have 1G+79G+80G, so that should not be the problem :-) Any other idea? raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 02 February 2004 03:02 am, Raffaele Belardi wrote: I recently installed a Maxtor Diamond Plus 160Gb HD as hdb, MDK9.2 is on a 40Gb hda. I partitioned hdb into three partitions, 1Gb+80Gb+80Gb. I've had twice already the boot process stop with the message File system inconsistency, run fsck manually. Running fsck did find and correct litterally hundreds of errors. Has anybody had problems with large capacity disks in MDK9.2? I'm using an Asus P5A-B motherboard. thanks, raffaele Is it a problem to have 161Gb of partitions on a 160 Gb drive? The addition says that is what you have. HTH Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often
I've had the same problem. I installed 9.2 download edition, then installed security and bugfixes through MCC (but not the kernel, since I don't have an LG drive), and experienced three system freezes in a row. Since other MDK releases were rock solid, and it was the first time that I tried the online upgrading process, I reinstalled 9.2 download edition and did not upgrade security and bugfixes. Now it is as stable as it should be. So I concluded there was a problem with the security and bugfixes download, or that the fixes themselves where not tested enough. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am new to the list and mandrake. More than a year ago, i tried with mandrake 9.0 for a short time and decided that i prefered suse. Recently i decided to try mandrake once again. I became a silver member of mandrake club and downlowd the powerpack 3 CD version and installed it. The installation seemed very smooth much better than 9.0 where erased the entire partion table on my machine several times. THe only wrong thing with installtion was that on default the users are not given write permision to the home directory! So i have to first log in as root and change the write permission. The sound is by default mute. I have to change the sound to advanced linux sound system to have it work and unmute the sounds! Then i did upgrading through internet. About 300MB download. Right now my main problem is that it freezes so often. It freezes when i am just in konqueror or mozilla serfing the web! The whole OS freezes. No mouse, or keyboard functioning! Even ctrl+alt+F1 to switch to run level one does not work. It freezed also once after i ran a command in the terminal to add a ftp address to the list of download mirror sites. If somebody can tell me where to look for the source of problem and what i can do in this regard, i would be very grateful. Please tell me if you are experiencing similar problems or not and if so, what you have done to remedy the situation. I am overall very happy with the speed of the OS. It is as fast as windows XP on my machine (other than the boot process!) Konqueror is now so nice and fast to use comparing to suse 8.1, redhat8.0 and libranet 2.7 and 2.8 that i have tried. It seems that they have removed some of the KDE configuration options. I hope they are not going the way of removing even more configuration options. __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca 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] Trouble mounting HDC
Schof solved his problem, but I have to disagree with HarM on the
subject of mounting disk.
Mounting the whole disk (i.e. hdc) works for cdrom, not for hard disk.
For these, you can only mount the partition (i.e hdc1).
How would the kernel know where to mount your partitions if you did't
tell explicitely?
raffaele
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 21 December 2003 23:25, John Schofield wrote:
Thanks for the quick reply!
HarM: Yes, it's cabled as master. I always welcome idiot-checks.
{smile}
You're welcome (grin)
derek: It's ide-scsi. Which I don't really understand, since it's a
standard ATA CD-ROM, but I commented-out the line anyway, which didn't
make a difference after reboot. Symptoms unchanged. I'm afraid I
don't understand what you mean when you say use /dev/hdd instead. Do
you mean I should remove the ide-scsi line I currently have commented
out and replace it with a line pointing to /dev/hdc? This doesn't seem
correct, because the CD-ROM currently works perfectly. (If it was
plugged in and the line in /etc/fstab uncommented.)
HarM: Are you sure it would be /dev/hdc and not /dev/hdc1? The HD is
partitioned into several volumes. (I have tried mounting /dev/hdc,
/dev/hdc1, /dev/hdc2, etc. with no change.) Plus DiskDrake still
doesn't show me any tab for /dev/hdc.
Yes, I'm sure...that way you mount the whole disk i.e. all partitions.
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Re: [newbie] Can't boot after erasing unneeded disk
Boot from the MDK installation disk (CD1) and, at the splash screen hit F1, then at the prompt type rescue. This will boot the system from the cdrom and present you with a menu. Select mount partitions on /mnt, then go to console. From the console, cd to /mnt/etc and edit fstab to remove the whole line containing /dev/hdb1. Save the file and reboot (without the cdrom). raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had Mandrake 9.2 running fine with two disks. (hda) has the root filesystem, (hdb) had only one directory I used for Samba. Both were ext3 fs. I suspected problems with hdb, but WDDiag test results were ok, so I wiped the hdb disk with zeros anyway using the Western Digital utilities. Now I can't boot into Mandrake 9.2 with or without hdb connected. Not sure how to make Mandrake forget about the hdb disk. I get an error Invalid argument while trying to open /dev/hdb1. The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem I know the root disk is good (hda). I had hoped Linux would boot and allow me to re-configure hdb. How can I accomplish this? Thanks. 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] mplayer 1.0 installation
I'd like to install MPlayer+MEncoder 1.0 pre3 for MDK9.2 from PLF. I have already installed MPlayer 0.91 on the same machine, should I uninstall it before proceeding? thanks, raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kernel_source
Just a guess, do you have gpg installed? To check, just type $ gpg --version from the command line. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm trying to install the kernel_source so I can run the NVIDIA driver, but when I try to use the Mandrake 9.2 software installer I get a message that the rpm has a missing signature, could not open file. It doesn't seem to matter where I get the package from, Mandrake_Updates, elsewhere - same result. I found a package from rpmfind.net, but when I ran the NVIDIA installer it complains that it is the wrong source as nvidia isn't mentioned. What exactly is the signature and is the problem at my end? Also wondering why I can (and did) install the updated the kernel to 2.4.22-21mdk, but the matching source? Any ideas? 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] where are my messages???
Maybe mozilla's junk controls are turned on? Did 1.3 _have_ junk control? raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just spent 15 minutes connected to te net to download my 147 messages of which I was expecting an important reply on one of the earlier sent ones. When I click on Inbox under Mozilla 1.3 it gives me no unread messages and even if I look at the subfolders I have creatred I cannot see the emails received. Hopefully I can read the reply!! any ideas? 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] Script in the init dir
I thought that the start and stop priority were provided by the /etc/rcx.d/ symlink names, i.e. S03iptables S10network starts iptables before network. Are those two lines relly needed by rc script, or by some other configuration utility? thanks, raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 07:50, Alexandre Aractingi wrote: I can't seem to be able to run a script when my machine boots up... I copied it in /etc/init.d/ though, and I can run it from the shell (/etc/init.d/myscript start), but it's not launched at boot time. Am I missing something here? Thanks, Startup scripts has to follow some rules. For example, it is mandatory to have a coupe of lines hinting default runlevels and priority at start up and shutdown. Something like: # chkconfig: 2345 90 20 # description: A comment to describe what this script does. You have to handle at least the cases to start and stop the service you are dealing with this script. OTOH, if you are trying to start a program, not a service, you better use rc.local. HTH 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] Shorewall - OK to accept ICMP type 8 from all?
According to google, port 17300 might be used by the W32.Weird (Kuang2) to scan for infected machines. That does not mean your machine is infected (it's a Windows trojan), but that others are searching for an infected machine to activate the trojan. http://www.freelists.org/archives/techies-discuss/06-2003/msg0.html http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=descriptionvirus_k=10213 Just to name two. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 01:01, Raffaele Belardi wrote: Thanks Raffaele. Just checked the fwlog this morning after changing shorewall to allow pings last night and only being connected to the internet for one hour - and holy shite! MANY more hits than usual on ports 80 and 17300. Strange that so many hits on port 17300 all from different source IPs when I don't even know what that port is used for??? Its not listed in /etc/services and I haven't made any rules for that port myself. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 won't install
Happened to me also with the downloaded images, more or less the same error. I powered off and tried again and it worked ok. I had to repeat the installation the day after, this time it worked immediately ok. I don't know what happened. The system is an oldish AMDK6-2/550 with 128Mbyte RAM, for what it's worth. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I just downloaded Mandrake 9.2 and tried to install. I am brought to the inital splash screen where I hit Enter to continue. Next I see the text fly by but am stopped by this error: error in exec of stage2 :-( trying to execute '/usr/bin/runinstall2' from the installation volume, the following fatal error occurred FATAL ERROR IN STAGE1: I/0 error I can't recover from this. You may reboot your system. I tried reburning the CD from the ISO and tried installing on a different computer (both are Compaqs). I'm going to guess the ISO is bad and I need to download it again. But I'd like to make sure here. Any suggestions? I for the ISO from the secsup mirror if that matters... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Shorewall - OK to accept ICMP type 8 from all?
Better not if your machine has a public static IP address. ICMP type 8 (ping) can be used to discover the IP address through ping 'storms', and then use it for attacks to higher level protocols. Also there is the ping of death attack that can crash your machine - although maybe newer TCP/IP implementations are immune. I'm sure there is a way to request IPtables not to log the rejected/dropped ping packets, but I wouldn't be able to tell you OTOH. Maybe somebody else already knows. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All Can someone please tell me if accepting all ICMP type 8 packets from all (including internet) poses much of a security threat. I previously only allowed these to/from my local network but I was getting a bit peeved at the number of entries in the logs/email which amount to hundreds of lines every day. Any advice appreciated. Sharrea 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] Mozilla - that resource hog!
Are you sure there isn't any other process eating resources in that period of time? Maybe a crond job? I run 1.5 on 9.1 24/7 (what??? :-) and never experienced that behaviour. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm running MDK 9.1 on my workstation. I usually leave it on 24/7 for the week but shut it down on the weekends. Usually between Wednesday and Friday Mozilla becomes *painfully* slow. I'm talking about writing a sentance and watching it appear over the course of 10-30 seconds... Scrolling and simply browsing is also slowed dramatically. I'm running gkrellm and it indicates that my CPU is pinned at 100% during this slow period. I thought that maybe if I upgraded Mozillia that may help. So I took out the old and installed Mozilla 1.5 XFT. Still no luck. This is going to sound silly, but the only way I've found to fix the problem is to shutdown all instances of Mozilla and start the program back up. Seems simple enough, but when I'm doing a lot of research leaving the windows open is much more convenient then book marking or history browsing... Even after I shut it down it still can spike the CPU to 80-100% - is that part normal? Any ideas here? Thanks in advance, Tango Echo __ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/ 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] Mozilla - that resource hog!
John. you already wrote this earlier and go me a bit surprised. As long as process is running, it should be listed (and it is, on my box) in top, no matter if it's idling or consuming all the CPU. In other words, my mozilla never gets out of top listing oh, now I get it, you're probably running top with -i flag (don't show idle processes), right? raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tango Echo wrote: Here is mine in M9.1, top - 13:50:36 up 1 day, 21:26, 3 users, load average: 0.01, 0.06, 0.05 Tasks: 105 total, 2 running, 103 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 16.2% user, 2.0% system, 0.0% nice, 81.8% idle Mem:515336k total, 510792k used, 4544k free, 6568k buffers Swap: 1028120k total,30604k used, 997516k free, 359000k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ Command 15963 root 15 0 35552 34m 17m S 9.9 6.9 0:14.23 mozilla-bin 1599 root 9 -10 98400 15m 3420 S 7.0 3.1 30:12.89 X 16078 root 11 0 992 992 768 R 0.7 0.2 0:00.57 top 16032 root 9 0 9636 9632 6880 S 0.3 1.9 0:00.68 gnome-terminal From the above you can see that mozilla when in actual use takes 9.9% of CPU and 6.9% of memory, but when merely open but nothing doing, mozilla drops completely out of the list. John 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] windows networking
To set up a file server for windows machines you need to install the samba server package - it's on your MDK installation disks, use Software Package Management from Mandrake Control Center. To configure samba server you should read the Samba-HOWTO, just to know what you're doing. To check if the NIC is configured correctly, open a terminal window and type: /sbin/ifconfig This will print out the current configuration of the NIC, something like this: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:22:33:44:55 inet addr:xx.xx.xx.xx Bcast:xx.xx.xx.xx Mask:xx.xx.xx.xx UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 Notice UP and RUNNING, they tell you the NIC is properly configured. Then look at the inet addr, it will tell you if the DHCP server provided you with a valid IP address. If you don't see UP and RUNNING, or the IP addresses are invalid, then you might have a problem with DHCP server. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have Mandrake Linux 9.2 up and running on a PC I hope to use as a file server. I have two additional PCs running Windows 98SE in a peer-to-peer network configuration. One of them also supplies an ADSL connection to all PCs in my network (I used to have 3 running 98). The ADSL PC runs WinRoute Lite, acting as a DHCP server, to accomplish the internet sharing. (Ultimately, I'd like the Linux PC to do that and act as a firewall as well, but one thing at a time here!) I am having a hard time getting my Linux PC on my windows network, to say nothing of getting it internet access. In the LAN configuration screen, I set my NIC to DHCP and click Activate, but I get nothing. I must be missing something... any ideas? Is there a good tutorial available somewhere that tells me how to accomplish this? Any common problems I need to be aware of? Linux is completely foreign to me!!! Thanks, Chris 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] Linux behind proxy
I've never had much luck with MDK's internet connection wizards, I find it easier to configure by hand. There are various places where to configure the proxy. For Mozilla, you go to the Edit-Preferences-Advanced-proxy and specify there the name and port of the proxy. I guess there's something similar for Galeon/Konqueror etc. For command line programs like wget/lftp you set up some shell environment variables, like ftp_proxy=http://proxy username:proxy password@proxy.name:port number (my proxy allows only ftp over http, that's why I have http there). You can put these entries in your .bashrc configuration file. I can be more precise if you need. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi people, i have installed Mandrake 9.2 and i need to use the internet access over the network. A server on the net is administrating the internet over a proxy server, and i wath to connect with it, but i can't find where to especify the port of connection. At the internet options there are an option to specifi the addresses for the http and ftp but there are no option to specify the port to use with it. Have some one any idea...??? tnx. Cdrack. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] long delay before xdm starts
In my 9.2 installation at home I experience a long delay (20sec) between the end of the initialization scripts and the start of xdm. In the meantime, the screen shows the text only login prompt. Same happens when from within an IceWM session I press logout: it takes 20sec to get back to the xdm login screen. Does anybody know why this long delay, and point me to the right direction to reduce it? thanks, raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't boot after install
Are you trying to boot from a SCSI disk? Reading various HOWTOs I had the impression that you need special attention for that, but I have no experience. Have you tried the LILO Howto or the boot+root+raid+lilo howto? Both can be found here:http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/pdf/ good luck, raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have a dual Pentium 200 cpu system with 256mb ram (8 x 32Mb 30pin) 8 x SCSI HDD 4 x 4Gb 4 x 8Gb attached to an AMI Megaraid controller with 16Mb ram Matrox Millenium 4Mb video card (ex server) I have attempted to install Mandrake 9.1 many times, each time I have done a complete hardware level format of the physical drives from the RAID controller then made 2 (two) logical drives the 4 x 4Gbs together and the 4 x 8Gbs together in RAID 5 to give me approx 13Gb and approx 26Gb. I have also attempted to install Redhat 9.0 and Mandrake 9.0 It seems to go through the install process fine. Under both wizard and expert configuration. (I'm no expert, but have worked with M$ from DOS 1.1 upwards so figured I might stand a chance of understanding some of the setup in expert) Finished install and time to reboot. Remove CD from drive and reboot. Before LILO or GRUB I get: L 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 etc.. until it freezes. Usually about 1/2 screen of 40's Then no LILO or GRUB. I've tried FDISK/MBR from a win98 bootdisk then RESCUE from the Mandrake CD1 to recreate LILO. No error messages, everything fine... But still no boot. Just L 40 40 40 40 40 etc... Any help would be appreciated. TIA Shaz 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] No Sound -- What' this error mean?
You're using an ISA PnP card? I have two ISA sound cards on the home PC, none of which was correctly set up by MDK, I had to do some manual work. From what I understood the card is detected by the kernel at boot (you see a message in the syslog) but not configured or activated. To do this you need to install the isapnp tools. pnpdump scans your ISA bus and prints to stdout a possible configuration file for your card. You edit this file selecting the settings you need, then feed it to isapnp which configures and activates the card. Now you can load the kernel drivers with insmod snd-cs4232. If you don't do the isapnp step, the insmod will fail. You can check if it worked with cat /proc/asound/oss/sndstat (or something like that), it should show the soundcard status. I'm by no means an expert, so I cannot guarantee it will work for you like it did for me. good luck, raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 24 November 2003 07:14 pm, Mike Adolf wrote: *** Sound server informational message: Error while initializing the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (no file or directory) The sound server will continue, using the null output device. *** I have no sound from CD player. Just to get information, I started the sound server. A reboot then gives the above message. It is probably the same reason my CD doesn't work?? It sounds like there is no sound driver, but harddrake says there is. A driver is also initialized in boot log. mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] madolf] More information: The sound module doesn't seem to be there! #less /etc/modules.conf | grep sound alias sound-slot-0 snd-cs4232 # /sbin/lsmod | grep snd-cs4232 nothing?? # /sbin/lsmod (shows) snd40868 0 mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MDK9.1 on P100/32Mbyte - SOLVED
I managed to install and run MDK9.1 on a P100 with 64Mbyte RAM and a 300Mbyte Conner HD. I found out that the problem I had with the installation program crashing was apparently due to the kernel turning DMA on for my drive. I solved this passing the ide=nodma argument on the linux command line (you get there by typing the F1 key at spash screen). I'm using this system only as an mp3 player (only text tools). CPU usage is around 30% while decoding, swap space (30Mb) is never used, installation takes approx 150Mbyte of disk. I'll try to reduce RAM to 32Mbyte or less, to speed up the bios boot. Keep trying, it can be done :-) raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to install 9.1 on an old P100 with 32Mbyte of RAM and 370Mb HD. I used text-install, selected no packages. The installer chooses the basic packages - less than 100 - and starts the intallation, but never finishes. It hangs in the middle of the installation process. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MDK9.1 on P100/32Mbyte - SOLVED
I wish I could :-) That bios does not have an evident way to skip the memory test. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 17 November 2003 01:10 pm, Raffaele Belardi wrote: rather than reduce the ram, why not set the bios to not count the ram at boot? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SSL disabled in Mozilla 1.4
I get a page not found at that address. I am able to connect to https://www.proyid.mcyt.es/ but that doesn't bring you anywhere (nothing clickable in sight). The lock icon shows that the secure connection is ok (except that I get a warning about the certificate being issued by an unknown entity). Are you sure the address is the right one? raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Raffaele Belardi wrote: Could it be that you are running behind a firewall that blocks SSL? I've never had problems with secure browsing with Mozilla 1.x. What's the URL of the site you can't access? https://www.proyid.mcyt.es/proyectosid raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I can't go to an online program using Mozilla because appears a message box explaining that SSL is disabled. When I double check in Preferences - Privacy Security - SSL all options where active (SSL version2, SSL version 3, TSL). What should I do to solve this problem? Thanks, Rosario Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SSL disabled in Mozilla 1.4
Could it be that you are running behind a firewall that blocks SSL? I've never had problems with secure browsing with Mozilla 1.x. What's the URL of the site you can't access? raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I can't go to an online program using Mozilla because appears a message box explaining that SSL is disabled. When I double check in Preferences - Privacy Security - SSL all options where active (SSL version2, SSL version 3, TSL). What should I do to solve this problem? Thanks, Rosario Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Audio streams
Yes, seems you are right. It was something I did not know, sound can be played from the IDE directly to the soundcard: http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue80/tag/4.html Seems there is also something to do with scsi emulation, but that's outside of my limited knowledge. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only exception to your exposition is that you state on your system you have to have an audio cable to make Grip play audio CD, it would seem I don't, I can both rip and play a CD in Grip from the DVD without an audio analogue cable, that is via the IDE cable, but then I do have my DVD scsi-emulated, possibly that is the reason ? John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] JAVA compile
Do you have the java compiler installed? I am not sure it is installed by default. javac is probably the compiler provided by SUN. raffele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am trying to compile with java but when i try from shell javac file.java i am geting bash:javac:command not found message. How could i fix this? my system is mdk9.1 thx emin __ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/ 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] kernel-tmb-2.4.22.12.tmb.1mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm
'scuse me, what's this 'tmb' kernel? raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Kaplan wrote: You could try installing both and give them each a whirl before removing the one you decide against. Lilo should be auto configed to give you the both choices (check the config using Mandrake control center to determine which entry points to which kernel). I found that the standard (mdk) kernel wouldn't accept my 1Gb RAM config no matter what I passed to it because the 4Gb memory option wasn't enabled. The enterprise kernel did. So chose the latter. HTH Paul OK will do.I cannot see any problem with that , so, kernel-tmb-source-2.4.22-12.tmb.1mdk.i586.rpm is held in case you need it, then ? John 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] grub lilo
For the differences: Lilo uses the BIOS to access the partition where the image is residing. It is file-system independent. This is accomplished at boot sector installation time, by translating the location of the kernel image into a list of disk sectors, which then LILO loads using the BIOS. As a consequence, when you change anything about the kernel (location, configuration...) you need to re-run lilo so that it can update the map. Grub incorporates a reduced version of a file system, so it uses the file system meta-information to access the kernel image at boot time. That's why you don't need to re-run grub after modifying the kernel: it gets the information it needs directly from the FS. Check Almesberger's paper Booting linux: the history and the future for a very good overview, for example at: ftp://icaftp.epfl.ch/pub/people/almesber/booting/bootinglinux-0.ps.gz raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've heard grub is experimental .. but RH uses it almost exclusively and alot of ppl say its better than LILO. True? False? I'd search google for a site detailing the differences Pros/cons of each but I don't kow where to start... I know I know, I'm usually good at research but I'm stumped on this. Can somoene gimme a pointer pls? even a google URL? thx Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] grub lilo
Sorry, I should have written Grub incorporates a reduced version of a file system _driver_ raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the differences: Lilo uses the BIOS to access the partition where the image is residing. It is file-system independent. This is accomplished at boot sector installation time, by translating the location of the kernel image into a list of disk sectors, which then LILO loads using the BIOS. As a consequence, when you change anything about the kernel (location, configuration...) you need to re-run lilo so that it can update the map. Grub incorporates a reduced version of a file system, so it uses the file system meta-information to access the kernel image at boot time. That's why you don't need to re-run grub after modifying the kernel: it gets the information it needs directly from the FS. Check Almesberger's paper Booting linux: the history and the future for a very good overview, for example at: ftp://icaftp.epfl.ch/pub/people/almesber/booting/bootinglinux-0.ps.gz raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've heard grub is experimental .. but RH uses it almost exclusively and alot of ppl say its better than LILO. True? False? I'd search google for a site detailing the differences Pros/cons of each but I don't kow where to start... I know I know, I'm usually good at research but I'm stumped on this. Can somoene gimme a pointer pls? even a google URL? thx Femme 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] Can't login as root in CLI
The file /usr/share/doc/msec-0.38/security.txt describes the security features for each level. Levels 4 and 5 disable direct root login. Disabling direct root login means that somebody has to guess two passwords to enter as root. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 05:30:44PM -0400, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 23 October 2003 04:32 pm, Adolfo A. Bello B. wrote: I just installed 9.1 with security set to Higher. When booting to runlevel 3 I can not login as root, always receiving a login incorrect message. However, I can login as a regular/normal user and then su to root without problem. The same happens when booting to runlevel 5. I can login as a normal user and from there su to root. But, If I hit Ctrl-Alt-F2 and try to login as root I get the login incorrect message. I have no idea about what is going on. Needing help to sort this out. Saludos, Adolfo I think we've seen this before in the message threads - its entirely due to your security setting AFAIK. In other words, its supposed to do that at higher settings. Thank you Ronald. I didn't know it was a security feature. Saludos, Adolfo 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] Prepare for 9.2 - partitions backups
Before upgrading I normally backup on CD-RW and use diff to verify the burning process. (diff is a command line program that compares two files or directories. I'm sure KDE or Gnome have graphical equivalents) There are several graphical front ends to burn CDs: Gnome-toaster, Xcdroast, gcombust to name some. In my opinion, none of them is really easy to use compared to the Windows counterparts. I normally boot in windows to burn CDs :-[ I never thought of using web space, but I would not be so confortable of potentially sharing my data with the rest of the internet - even if it is a private web space. I'm afraid enlarging a partition will destroy its contents. Note that you should probably also backup /etc. There is an interesting article about updating here: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/install/iupdate.html raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that I should backup /home before installing 9.2, but what is the best way to do this? I have a CD-RW drive, but have never used it except as CD-Rom! Would it be best to do backups on CD-R or CD-RW? Alternatively, I have some private web space - can I just FTP a copy of /home temporarily into cyberspace and grab it back if disaster strikes? I was told a while ago that my /home partition was too small. I assume this can be fixed when I install 9.2, but will the process of enlarging the /home partition destroy the contents? Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] wrong hd geometry in 9.1
I'll answer myself... You can pass drive geometry to the kernel with hda=C,H,S (i.e at installation screen you hit F1, then type $ linux hda=C,H,S). Unfortunately this doesn't solve any problem I had with the MDK9.1 installation, the problem must be elsewhere. Now I'm looking into DMA-related problems. Lots of interesting information on the subject in the Large disk howto v2.3. Looks like disk geometry is basically a non-issue in 99% of the cases... raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install 9.1 on a 370Mb HD taken from an old 486. The installation fails. I discovered that the kernel uses wrong geometry parameters for the drive. The drive is a Conner CFS420A, the BIOS detects it correclty (665 cylinders, 16 head, 63 head/track), but /proc/ide/hda/geometry reports 200 cylinders more than that. I tried to partition the drive manually with fdisk (you can force the cylinder number in there) and format with mkfs, then 'Use existing partitions' during the 9.1 installation, but no-go, installation still hangs. The drive is ok, I FAT-formatted and scandisk'ed it under winddows with no errors. Is there a way to pass the diwk geometry parameters to the kernel during installation? thanks, raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How long to create a large tar.gz
$ tar cvzf archive_file.tgz archive_directory/ will tar and compress the contents of archive_directory/ into a file named archive_file.tgz. v is not mandatory, but gives you the idea of the progress it's making. On my PIII/733 it takes less than 15minutes to tar and gzip more than 600Mbyte of data. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want back up a directory to an archive for my upcoming big wipe for 9.2. The directory is about 630MB, and I left it going for 4.5 hours creating a tar.bz2, still wasn't done when I got up this AM. Is it faster (but less compression) just to do tar.gz? How long should it take? I was using ROX Archive, which basically just calls the command line arguments. I read man tar but I can't for the life of me figure out what arguments to use to create a tar.gz. Do I have to specify a destination file or just: tar -cz homestuff? 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] MDK9.1 on P100/32Mbyte
I tried to install 9.1 on an old P100 with 32Mbyte of RAM and 370Mb HD. I used text-install, selected no packages. The installer chooses the basic packages - less than 100 - and starts the intallation, but never finishes. It hangs in the middle of the installation process. I am not sure it is a bug with the installer or a disk problem (I will try a check next time). In the meantime, I would like to know if anybody has ever tried an installation on such a machine with a recent distribution. I would like to stick with 9.1, I know I could try with an older kernel like 2.2 but the installation program and the supporting scripts look much easier to use in recent distributions. I am not planning to use X or network, I only need mpg123, mp3info and a couple of shell scripts. raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] multivolume tar
Yes you can :-) $ tar cf archive.tar -L N directory_to_tar/ N is the archive length in Kbytes. tar writes the first archive file, then prompts you to change volume. You rename archive.tar to archive1.tar and continue. I agree that you cannot compress at the same time as you split with tar. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Fajar Priyanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Is it possible to create a multivolume tar files with spesific size? For example I want to tar the whole hda into many 650MB's files for then burned into CDs. I notice there's the -M switch, but I can't find the option to specify the size. Thanks. - -- Fajar http://linux.arinet.org No, you can't do this. Multivolume switches in Tar are for multiple *physical volumes, not multiple volumes on disk. For this you should be using Rar for linux. Download the rpm for your version of MDK from Vincent Danen's site, rpmhelp.net. Rar will allow you to create multiple volumes of specific sizes (whatever size you want) AND also allows you to attach recovery data so that you can recover a damaged volume if one of them gets damaged after you burn everything to cd. Or if something happens to your drive and one or two volumes get whacked. Tar can't do this, and it also cannot compress it's own archives without help from the zip command. Rar does, and it's compression is better than either zip or bzip2. It also does better than just about any other compressor on multimedia files, like sound or video. LX __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com 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] MDK9.1 on P100/32Mbyte
Well, I tried because the intall.txt file on the 9.1 cd1 says 32Mbyte RAM is the minimum, I'm beginning to have doubts now! Any hint on how to make it work with that little memory? One thing I might try is to attach the drive to a bigger system, install 9.1 from there and then move the disk to the P100. That will require some /etc reconfiguring, but it should work. What do you think? raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 21 October 2003 01:57 am, Raffaele Belardi wrote: I tried to install 9.1 on an old P100 with 32Mbyte of RAM and 370Mb HD. I used text-install, selected no packages. The installer chooses the basic packages - less than 100 - and starts the intallation, but never finishes. It hangs in the middle of the installation process. I am not sure it is a bug with the installer or a disk problem (I will try a check next time). In the meantime, I would like to know if anybody has ever tried an installation on such a machine with a recent distribution. I would like to stick with 9.1, I know I could try with an older kernel like 2.2 but the installation program and the supporting scripts look much easier to use in recent distributions. I am not planning to use X or network, I only need mpg123, mp3info and a couple of shell scripts. raffaele I do not believe that 32 mb is enough to do an install with 9.1. Minimum would be 64mb. It may work on rare occasions, but not as a rule. Sorry. 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] tar CD
man tar lists: -L, --tape-length N change tapes after writing N*1024 bytes Unfortunately it seems it is not able to work together with 'z' (compress) option. If you type: tar cf test.tar -L 20 documents/ tar will create a first archive named test.tar, then stop requesting you to Prepare volume #2 for `test.tar' and hit return:. At this point you need to rename test.tar to i.e. test1.tar otherwise tar will overwrite it. Probably you could gzip the whole directory and then tar to small files as above. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have a one liner that will tar.bz to CD sized volumes. TIA 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] avi re-code
I have an AVI movie split in two disks (600Mb each). I would like to re-encode it to fit in a single 600Mb disk. Any hints on the tools I should use? thanks raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] avi re-code
thanks to all, I'm into some studying now! raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 08:25:29 +0200 Raffaele Belardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an AVI movie split in two disks (600Mb each). I would like to re-encode it to fit in a single 600Mb disk. Any hints on the tools I should use? thanks raffaele Mencoder (from MPlayer) .. but it takes quite a bit of reading to know what you are doing ... check the docs from MPlayer, as reencoding is discussed somewhere in there ;-) Greetings Ralph -- http://axljab.homelinux.org/ ...the software said Win95 or better, so I installed Linux Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mcc - security: options dun stick
I'll jump into the thread without having followed it, just to add confusion :-) My security.comf is empty, my level.local (same directory) reads: from mseclib import * enable_log_strange_packets(0) set_security_conf(MAIL_USER, [EMAIL PROTECTED]) I do get msec mails sent to the address above. I don't know what MCC shows, I did not use it to configure security, I edited level.local directly instead. Check man mseclib for details of level.local. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 08 Oct 2003 5:03 am, stormjumper wrote: Now I am getting confused too. My desktop computer has a mail address in security.conf , but I am not getting mails from it. Yet my server does *not* have a mail address defined in security.conf. Yet I *am* getting emails from msec !! Also in my server setting a mail address in mcc does not stick as you found. There is something I do not understand here, so I shall dig deeper. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ext3 vs FAT in partion table
How is it possible that fdisk (and sfdisk) report partition hda1 as Win95 FAT32 (id=0x0b), but that partition is mounted as ext3? When I formatted the drive, I left hda1 partition free for later windows installation. Then I decided to use it for linux, and I *think* I reformatted it as ext3. This morning I noticed the discrepancy between the partition table information and the fstab. It looks like the id field of the PT is not really used by the kernel. Can anyone explain this? raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kernel config
Maybe /usr/src/linux-2.4.21-0.13mdk/.config ? raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What file(s) contain the settings which the various LM 9.1 kernels were compiled against? I am interested in comparing the default and linux-enterprise kernels so as to build a custom kernel. TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kernel config
I don't have the linux-enterprise configuration, sorry. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Which file contains the config options for the 9.1 linux configuration and which contains the options for the linux-enterpriese configuration? P Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ESC in bash to clear the line
I don't know the answer to your question, but why not using CTRL-C? raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi listers ! I need the ESC key in bash session to clear the input line, i.e. the command. Could you tell me, how to set up the ~/.inputrc file ? Tom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SMS message
Thanks, I thought I was the only one to receive these... I (re-)subscribed recently, how long has it been going on? raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I decided to end my filters long enough to get one of these to save enough to check the headers and run a whois Received: from mandy.mts.ru ([81.211.47.3]) by sparrow (EarthLink SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 1a51pw3m03NZFjV0 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 04:14:18 -0700 (PDT) and this IP# (81.211.47.3) gives whois 81.211.47.3 % This is the RIPE Whois server. % The objects are in RPSL format. % % Rights restricted by copyright. % See http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/pub-services/db/copyright.html inetnum: 81.211.47.0 - 81.211.47.255 netname: SOVINTEL-MTS-NET descr:Moscow Russia descr:ID-6069, OJSC Mobile TeleSystems country: RU admin-c: VK229-RIPE tech-c: VK229-RIPE status: ASSIGNED PA mnt-by: SOVINTEL-MNT notify: [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 20030505 source: RIPE route:81.211.0.0/17 descr:EDN Sovintel origin: AS8773 mnt-by: SOVINTEL-MNT changed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 20021104 source: RIPE person: Victor Krasnov address: CJSC Mobile TeleSystems address: 4, Marksistskaia address: 109147, Moscow phone:+7 095 7653209 fax-no: +7 095 7660040 nic-hdl: VK229-RIPE changed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 19971114 source: RIPE I have already sent a mail to Victor Krasnov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and cc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] I will let you know if I hear back... anyone want to call Victor? 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] Fw: help please, hard disk lost!
As others have already stated, looks like an hw failure. Depending on the severity of the problem, there are some things you could try to recover data on the disk - provided you can boot from CDROM, otherwise I'm out of ideas. Not an easy job. Let us know if you want to try. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is my first post of this message lost? I didn't receive it myself. - Original Message - From: qhwang [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 12:59 PM Subject: help please, hard disk lost! Hi there, A Fujistu Siemens laptop (lifebook B series) only installed with MDK 8 can not boot up anymore. It's still possible to go to CMOS setup but it reports that it can not detect the hard disk. Meanwhile, a kind of click sound can be heard regularly. Does anyone have experience about this? Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance. QingHua Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Me thinks I got a virus
I think e2fschk is a front end that invokes the correct fsck.* program. If you type man fsck.ext3 you are shown the e2fschk man page. On my MDK9.1 there is no fsck.reiserfs command, only fsck.ext3. Could it be an alias? The command should output something. In my case the output is (hda1 is an ext3 partition): [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]# e2fsck -f /dev/hda1 e2fsck 1.32 (09-Nov-2002) Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Pass 2: Checking directory structure Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity Pass 4: Checking reference counts Pass 5: Checking group summary information /dev/hda1: 3914/895840 files (1.1% non-contiguous), 1553092/1791239 blocks raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 02:55, Raffaele Belardi wrote: Or bad disk.I've had two disks breaking up recently, behaviour is always _very_ strange. You could check partitions with # e2fschk -f -c /dev/hda? -f forces the check -c performs bad block scan (I've never done this, don't know how long it takes) Substitute hda? with the name of your partitions. Does that command work with Reiserfs partitions? I've tried to check /home by doing an init 1 as su and running fsck.reiserfs it doesn't display anything and the command prompt is redisplayed. I'll try the rescue disk next. Thanks, Terry snip 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] cron error
I don't know about the cron error, but regarding the mail output, man cron says: When executing commands, any output is mailed to the owner of the crontab (or to the user named in the MAILTO environment variable in the crontab, if such exists). Naturally, there must be a mailer deamon running (sendmail or other) for that to work. Sorry if I state the obvious. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get following error. Sep 30 05:29:02 lvghomepc anacron[1507]: Job `cron.daily' started Sep 30 05:29:02 lvghomepc anacron[1770]: Updated timestamp for job `cron.daily' to 2003-09-30 Sep 30 05:29:51 lvghomepc anacron[1507]: Job `cron.daily' terminated (exit status: 1) (mailing output) Oct 1 05:26:29 lvghomepc anacron[1480]: Job `cron.daily' started Oct 1 05:26:29 lvghomepc anacron[1892]: Updated timestamp for job `cron.daily' to 2003-10-01 Oct 1 05:26:30 lvghomepc ADVXctl: httpd -HUP succeeded Oct 1 05:26:33 lvghomepc last message repeated 11 times Oct 1 05:28:04 lvghomepc su(pam_unix)[6800]: session opened for user root by lvgandhi(uid=501) Oct 1 05:28:15 lvghomepc anacron[1480]: Job `cron.daily' terminated (exit status: 1) (mailing output) but var/log/cron shows no errors as given below and root also didn't show any mail . [EMAIL PROTECTED] lvgandhi]# cd /var/log/cron/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] cron]# l total 10 drwxr-xr-x2 root root 120 Sep 28 02:24 ./ drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 1152 Oct 1 05:26 ../ -rw-r-1 root root0 Sep 28 02:24 errors -rw-r-1 root root 6351 Oct 1 05:28 info -rw-r-1 root root0 Sep 28 02:24 warnings [EMAIL PROTECTED] cron]# tail info Sep 30 21:01:00 lvghomepc CROND[3262]: (root) CMD (nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.hourly) Sep 30 21:08:13 lvghomepc crond[1475]: (CRON) STARTUP (fork ok) Sep 30 21:08:17 lvghomepc anacron[1533]: Anacron 2.3 started on 2003-09-30 Sep 30 21:08:18 lvghomepc anacron[1533]: Normal exit (0 jobs run) Oct 1 05:21:24 lvghomepc crond[1425]: (CRON) STARTUP (fork ok) Oct 1 05:21:29 lvghomepc anacron[1480]: Anacron 2.3 started on 2003-10-01 Oct 1 05:21:29 lvghomepc anacron[1480]: Will run job `cron.daily' in 5 min. Oct 1 05:26:29 lvghomepc anacron[1480]: Job `cron.daily' started Oct 1 05:26:29 lvghomepc anacron[1892]: Updated timestamp for job `cron.daily' to 2003-10-01 Oct 1 05:28:15 lvghomepc anacron[1480]: Job `cron.daily' terminated (exit status: 1) (mailing output) I think exit status 1 indicates error. Where this mailed output goes. 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] marked letters in filename
I have big directories containing files with english and italian or
french filenames. Non-english filenames sometimes contain marked
letters, which are not managed well by samba or by the ISO fs.
One example of marked letter is the second 'a' in foglio-attività.doc.
Is there a way to identify filenames containing such marked letters, and
maybe convert them to english letters? I tried with a simple perl
script, but it doesn't work well:
#!/usr/bin/perl
while () {
print if !(/\p{IsASCII}/i); # no go, it does not report all the
files
}
thanks,
raffaele
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Re: [newbie] Me thinks I got a virus
I use Journalling FS too (ext3) and, according to man, e2fsck can process ext3 also: E2fsck also supports ext2 filesystems countaining a journal, which are also sometimes known as ext3 filesystems, by first applying the journal to the filesystem before continuing with normal e2fsck processing. I don't know if ReiserFS is different and requires a different tool. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oops, I'm (apparently) using Journalised FS and that seems only to be for ext2. Any ideas on checking sectors and marking bad ones bad on a harddrive which uses JFS? On Wednesday 01 October 2003 02:49 am, you wrote: You have to be root for that command. It is not in the path for normal users (it is in /sbin/e2fsck). raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not able to find that file on my harddrive, nor in the MCC installation. I get an error message that there is no such command. I'm using M9.1 here. Raffaele Belardi [EMAIL PROTECTED]@linux-mandrake.com on 09/29/2003 11:55:58 PM Or bad disk.I've had two disks breaking up recently, behaviour is always _very_ strange. You could check partitions with # e2fschk -f -c /dev/hda? -f forces the check -c performs bad block scan (I've never done this, don't know how long it takes) Substitute hda? with the name of your partitions. You need to be root and the partitions must not be mounted. The easiest way to do that is to boot from the mandrake CD1 and type F1-rescue. raffaele . Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Me thinks I got a virus
Or bad disk.I've had two disks breaking up recently, behaviour is always _very_ strange. You could check partitions with # e2fschk -f -c /dev/hda? -f forces the check -c performs bad block scan (I've never done this, don't know how long it takes) Substitute hda? with the name of your partitions. You need to be root and the partitions must not be mounted. The easiest way to do that is to boot from the mandrake CD1 and type F1-rescue. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Terence J. Golightly wrote: Are you sure no one else had access to the machine while you were away? No just me. The machine has only one account on it. Did you load any new software on the machine before going away and shutting it down that may have been compromised? No not recently. Thanks, Terry Hi Terry, It really sounds like bad RAM. Have you another stick to test with? 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] clipboard integration with Mozilla
nope, sorry. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 26 September 2003 18:14, Raffaele Belardi wrote: Try this: - highlight the link keeping left mouse button pressed - switch to mozilla - in the address bar, press mouse middle button It is an X feature (I think), it should work for all applications, though sometimes it does not with StarOffice. A secret of X revealed Raffaele. Thanks. Do you know how to get Mozilla to fire instead of Konqueror when double-clicking one of these? Lance Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RE: DHCP
Could it not be that the DHCP server of your DSL provider is assigning you a name (and an IP address) when you connect? I know that when I communicated the IP address of my machine to the network administrator for DNS and DHCP I also had to tell them the host name I wanted for my machine. I don't know of books or HOWTO (have you tried www.tldp.org?), but you can try $ man dhclient.conf $ man dhclient Also, you can read the current DHCP info typing # cat dhclient-eth0.leases Can I ask why do you want to force a particular hostname during the DSL connection? raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone point me to a comprehensive article, book, etc. for Linux and DHCP. It seems that my computer, when conected to my DSL changes the host name on my computer. When I disconnect it returns to normal. Any ideas on how I can change it so that it doesn't do it ? TIA, Maureen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
