Re: [SLUG] KDE 3...problems
Thanks for that. The symlink has fixed kde. So simple when you know how. Krusader still has no toolbar. And my rpmdrake doesn't look anything like you describe. There's nothing about "diffs". I tried re-installing Krusader; make clean, make, make install. Amanda On Saturday 26 Oct 2002 1:15 pm, James Gregory wrote: > > Now, on to fixing the problem. > > there is a file - /etc/profile.d/10lang.sh, the /etc/profile.d/lang.sh > is supposed to be a symlink to it. According to rpm the lang.sh file > does not belong to a package (which is pretty unsurprising). I don't > know exactly which script it is that is supposed to make this symlink, > but making the symlink yourself will fix the problem. So > > su - > cd /etc/profile.d > rm -f lang.sh > ln -s 10lang.sh lang.sh > > will fix your problem. > > I don't, however have any short answers as to why it didn't do it on its > own. I would have thought that the postinstall for initscripts would > have taken care of this. Anyway, I had the same problem ages ago when I > upgraded to cooker from 8.2, which was how I knew the answer. > > I didn't have the same problem when I did a full upgrade on my other box > - this might have been luck, because it had some odd stuff installed, or > it might be a problem with the upgrade packages only thing. > > HTH, > > James. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] problem with X
> I am having trouble getting x running but unfortunately I can't see > anything in my logs that indicates why, it just seems to die. Could someone > please look at these X logs and let me know if you can find something there > which would indicate why it is failing? Nothing suspicious in the logs... how are you starting X? If you're kicking it off with startx, and you don't have a ~/.xinitrc, it will just quit out because it has nothing to do. Not a failure, but not much of a success either. ;-) Put something like the following in there: exec /usr/bin/wmaker - Jeff -- i wish i could write good flames boc: you can't win if you don't play -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] problem with X
Hi Guys and Gals, I am having trouble getting x running but unfortunately I can't see anything in my logs that indicates why, it just seems to die. Could someone please look at these X logs and let me know if you can find something there which would indicate why it is failing? Thanks Adam.rogue:~# startx warning: process set to nice value 0 instead of -10 as requested This is a pre-release version of XFree86, and is not supported in any way. Bugs may be reported to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and patches submitted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before reporting bugs in pre-release versions, please check the latest version in the XFree86 CVS repository (http://www.XFree86.Org/cvs) XFree86 Version 4.1.0.1 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6510) Release Date: 21 December 2001 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.17 i686 [ELF] Module Loader present (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Fri Oct 25 22:33:28 2002 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4" Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) ServerLayout "Default Layout" (**) |-->Screen "Default Screen" (0) (**) | |-->Monitor "Generic Monitor" (**) | |-->Device "Generic Video Card" (**) |-->Input Device "Generic Keyboard" (**) XKB: rules: "xfree86" (**) XKB: model: "pc104" (**) XKB: layout: "us" (**) |-->Input Device "Configured Mouse" (WW) The directory "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (**) FontPath set to "unix/:7100,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dp i/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" (==) RgbPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" (--) using VT number 7 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a (II) Module bitmap: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a (II) Module pcidata: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 0.1.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a (II) Module scanpci: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 0.1.0 (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a (--) PCI:*(2:0:0) NVidia Riva Ultra 64 rev 21, Mem @ 0xfd00/24, 0xf200/25, BIOS @ 0xfeaf/16 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdbe.a (II) Module dbe: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libddc.a (II) Module ddc: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libextmod.a (II) Module extmod: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libfreetype.a (II) Module freetype: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.1.9 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a (II) Module glx: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a (II) Module GLcore: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libint10.a (II) Module int10: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libpex5.a (II) Module pex5: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/librecord.a (II) Module record: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.13.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libspeedo.a (II) Module speedo: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libtype1.a (II) Module type1: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvbe.a (II) Module vbe: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libxie.a (II) Module xie: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nv_drv.o (
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Re: [SLUG] KDE 3...problems
On Sat, 2002-10-26 at 05:33, Amanda Wynne wrote: > Hi, > > I've upgraded my Mandrake system from 8.2 to 9.0, using the 3 CD set from > Everything Linux. Took the upgrade packages only route. > > The KDE desktop won't run. It quits with the error message saying that > etc/profile.d/lang.sh doesn't exist. > > I normally use IceWM as my default desktop. KDE is my default desktop for user > root. Since logging in as root and trying to startx, now my Krusader file > manager has lost its toolbar icons. (It was working OK). If you just wanted to switch the default desktop for superuser, you can do so by editing the ~/.desktop file. Get back to me on this - I have a suspicion that these two problems are related, but I could be completely wrong. > > When I unsuccessfully tried to install KDE3 on MDK8.2, I used rpmdrake to > uninstall kde3 and re-install kde2. But now rpmdrake has also lost all its > options. Like choosing sources. Or uninstalling packages. It will do installs > only. which kde 3 packages did you use? I had some issues because I was using cooker packages when I tried the same trick, but that's to be expected -- cooker is development. There was a great deal of discussion on the cooker list about rpmdrake's "new look". I didn't actually pay much attention because I always use the command line tools. So, that's your first option. The command to remove sources is urpmi.removemedia and the command to add sources is urpmi.addmedia. The other option, if you happen to be gui minded is to use mandrake control center (mcc is the command, I'm sure it's in the menus somewhere). Click on the "Software Management" "thing", and then the "Software Sources Manager" icon. The new rpmdrake is supposed to be really cool. They've got this "diff screen" thing which shows you the changes it wants to make to config files and such, and lets you edit it -- again, I've never used it. There's also a "remove software" icon in the same place. Incidently the change is because the "mandrake control center" is supposed to be a "control center" now as opposed to "a disjunct set of applications that happen to share a common launching mechanism". > > Short of wiping it and putting 8.2 back on, any other help would be greatly > appreciated. Now, on to fixing the problem. there is a file - /etc/profile.d/10lang.sh, the /etc/profile.d/lang.sh is supposed to be a symlink to it. According to rpm the lang.sh file does not belong to a package (which is pretty unsurprising). I don't know exactly which script it is that is supposed to make this symlink, but making the symlink yourself will fix the problem. So su - cd /etc/profile.d rm -f lang.sh ln -s 10lang.sh lang.sh will fix your problem. I don't, however have any short answers as to why it didn't do it on its own. I would have thought that the postinstall for initscripts would have taken care of this. Anyway, I had the same problem ages ago when I upgraded to cooker from 8.2, which was how I knew the answer. I didn't have the same problem when I did a full upgrade on my other box - this might have been luck, because it had some odd stuff installed, or it might be a problem with the upgrade packages only thing. HTH, James. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Old CD-ROMS
Hi, I have some old Windows programs on CDs that I wanted to install under Wine. I can't get them to mount - message from Nautilus/details is: "mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom, or too many mounted file systems." The relevant line from /etc/fstab is: /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 Any hints gratefully accepted. Thanks, Alan -- -- Alan L Tyree[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/~alant Tel: +61 2 4782 2670 Mobile: +61 419 638 170 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] KDE 3...problems
Hi, I've upgraded my Mandrake system from 8.2 to 9.0, using the 3 CD set from Everything Linux. Took the upgrade packages only route. The KDE desktop won't run. It quits with the error message saying that etc/profile.d/lang.sh doesn't exist. I normally use IceWM as my default desktop. KDE is my default desktop for user root. Since logging in as root and trying to startx, now my Krusader file manager has lost its toolbar icons. (It was working OK). When I unsuccessfully tried to install KDE3 on MDK8.2, I used rpmdrake to uninstall kde3 and re-install kde2. But now rpmdrake has also lost all its options. Like choosing sources. Or uninstalling packages. It will do installs only. Short of wiping it and putting 8.2 back on, any other help would be greatly appreciated. Amanda -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
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Re: [SLUG] [Fwd: [discuss] GPL Under Attack]
On Fri 25 Oct, DaZZa bloviated thus: > If you add up all the amounts M$ have donated to the US political arena in > the last 2 years, you get more than 1.8 million dollars. There's also significant amounts paid by Microsoft employees. (there's a search you can do on donators' employer) Note that there is also a big amount of "soft money" in the US which is harder to track down. According to that same site, they spent US$1.9 million in the 2002 election cycle. If you're wondering where the Australian version of this lives, see: http://search.aec.gov.au/annualreturns/ -- Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.rumble.net Send email with subject "send key pub" for public key. "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - John F. Kennedy msg27277/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [SLUG] Software RAID-5?
> Them fancypants hardware versions - especially the Compaq ones - allow > you to just chuck the drives back in in any place you want to, and they > figure it out for themselves and build the array appropriately. Speaking of the compaq ones... has anyone had troubles getting mkinitrd to finalise a kernel containing the SMART2 RAID controller without errors on kernels 2.4.18 or later? -- Paul L Danielshttp://www.pldaniels.com Linux/Unix systemsInternet Development ICQ#103642862,AOL:cinflex,IRC:inflex A.B.N. 19 500 721 806 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Software RAID-5?
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > I guess rearanging drives in RAID 5 is bad really bad, right? Like you > > can't have a,b,c and then by mistake put b,a,c > > Bad, bad, bad. :-) Only in the software versions. Them fancypants hardware versions - especially the Compaq ones - allow you to just chuck the drives back in in any place you want to, and they figure it out for themselves and build the array appropriately. It's way cool to watch. :-) DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Software RAID-5?
> Hmmm, okie, what happens if one drive fails and you don't have a spare at that > time? Can u just halt, remove the faulty drive, boot back and keep using only > 2 drives till the 3rd one comes in? Yes. You have single drive redundancy. I generally have a spare drive installed to take over as soon as there's a failure, *just* in case. > Then install the 3rd one and watch raid5 "terminator 2" itself back > together? Or does it require to have all 3 drives installed at all times? Yep. Replace the faulty one, then everything comes back and you get to watch the funky /proc/mdstat "animation". > I guess rearanging drives in RAID 5 is bad really bad, right? Like you > can't have a,b,c and then by mistake put b,a,c Bad, bad, bad. :-) > md driver doesn't have bad block relocation, is it useful at all if you can > just replace the drive that causes the problem? If I cared enough to set up RAID, I'd care enough to remove any drive that even hinted at failure... :-) - Jeff -- "The Irish were next, being the only people who could credibly be accused of lowering the tone of a society of convicts." - Guy Rundle -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] [Fwd: [discuss] GPL Under Attack]
On 25 Oct 2002, Ken Foskey wrote: > > http://www.ooodocs.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=265 > > > > The GPL has come under heavy attack in the US House of Reps. It seems that Bill > > Gates has figured out that what the RIAA can do, he can do, so he set a few > > bought and paid for reps in an attempt to blast the GPL out of existance. Wired > > has a good story, Slashdot is buzzing, and Google News has the goods from all > > over the net. > > > > Read more with links at > > http://www.ooodocs.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=265 If you follow one of the links in the one of the discussion threads on Slashdot, you come to this page http://www.opensecrets.org/ There's a search box on the side bar which reads "Look up an Individual Donor". Type "Microsoft" in the box and see what you get If you add up all the amounts M$ have donated to the US political arena in the last 2 years, you get more than 1.8 million dollars. No wonder the US government is sucking up to Bill! what chance has Linux got? DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] [Fwd: [discuss] GPL Under Attack]
-Forwarded Message- > From: Martijn Dekkers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [discuss] GPL Under Attack > Date: 25 Oct 2002 13:25:40 +0200 > > http://www.ooodocs.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=265 > > The GPL has come under heavy attack in the US House of Reps. It seems that Bill > Gates has figured out that what the RIAA can do, he can do, so he set a few > bought and paid for reps in an attempt to blast the GPL out of existance. Wired > has a good story, Slashdot is buzzing, and Google News has the goods from all > over the net. > > Read more with links at > http://www.ooodocs.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=265 > > Cheers, > > Martijn > > - > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Build RPM,s RPM seg faulting.
Heya Do #strace rpm -Uvh thatrpm.rpm and see where does it get stuck Usually it's 'cuz package wants to update the files that are not in there (rpm db, etc) and are not used in your version of rpm Upgrading to the newer(est) rpm usually fixes the problem. I had the same problem when i was using rpm from rh 7.0 to compile packages from 7.3 and they were all segfaulting on me till i upgraded to the rpm used in 7.3 Let me know if this helps :) On Friday 25 October 2002 00:18, Gareth Walters wrote: > G'day all, > > I have successfully managed to get rpm building an rpm of my source > but when I go to install it rpm Seg faults and dumps a core. > > How can it happily build the RPM then die when installing it? > > Has anyone see this problem before does anyone have any > idea what I may have done to cause this? > > TIA > > Gareth Walters -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Software RAID-5?
> keep using only 2 drives till the 3rd one comes in? Then install the 3rd > one and watch raid5 "terminator 2" itself back together? Or does it > require to have all 3 drives installed at all times? One may consider the use of RAID mirroring + LVM. Sure, okay, as posted, LVM is going to change, but, well, is there anything more flexible and redundant than a Mirroring + LVM setup? If someone does know a more 'comforting' setup then I'm interested to know... because I'll soon have to be ordering a few dozen drives. -- Paul L Danielshttp://www.pldaniels.com Linux/Unix systemsInternet Development ICQ#103642862,AOL:cinflex,IRC:inflex A.B.N. 19 500 721 806 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Software RAID-5?
Heya again :) Hmmm, okie, what happens if one drive fails and you don't have a spare at that time? Can u just halt, remove the faulty drive, boot back and keep using only 2 drives till the 3rd one comes in? Then install the 3rd one and watch raid5 "terminator 2" itself back together? Or does it require to have all 3 drives installed at all times? I guess rearanging drives in RAID 5 is bad really bad, right? Like you can't have a,b,c and then by mistake put b,a,c md driver doesn't have bad block relocation, is it useful at all if you can just replace the drive that causes the problem? Thanky again in advace for your response :) On Thursday 24 October 2002 03:06, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > a) How do you know when one of the harddrive fails? Do i have to look in > > the messages all the time for it or will it ( or can i make it) beep on > > bootup or smth like that to let me know that it failed? > > cat /proc/mdstat ... From mine (software RAID-1): > > Personalities : [raid1] > read_ahead 1024 sectors > md0 : active raid1 ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part2[0] > ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2[1] 38832576 blocks [2/2] [UU] > > unused devices: > > Those two U's mean "up". :-) It also gives you a cute little status bar > whilst the drives are syncing. Also, most distros will have a cronjob that > mails you if a hard drive has failed. > > > b) Is it CPU-intensive? I have 4 drives right now in P133 with 98MBram > > all using Promise cards and it's running 2.4.18-xfs kernel (rh7.2), and > > not sure if my setup will handle RAID-5. > > RAID is pretty simple stuff, so it's usually I/O speed that you should look > into if it's important to you. The gnome.org machines run on software > RAID-5, and we haven't had too many problems... However, if there are lot > of writes going on, it will take a fair bit of cpu / kernel time. > > > c) This is silly, but can i add more drives later to that RAID-5? Like > > another 1 or 2 drives and not loose anything, or should i be looking at > > LVM rather than raid5? > > Because of the way the data is laid out, you can't add more drives later > with RAID-5 without backing up and creating a new array. However, if you're > just interested in more redundancy, you can create a RAID-5 array of RAID-1 > arrays. This sounds silly, but sometimes it's useful. > > LVM is worth looking at, but is going to change in 2.6 anyway. :-) > > - Jeff -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Build RPM,s RPM seg faulting.
G'day all, I have successfully managed to get rpm building an rpm of my source but when I go to install it rpm Seg faults and dumps a core. How can it happily build the RPM then die when installing it? Has anyone see this problem before does anyone have any idea what I may have done to cause this? TIA Gareth Walters -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Speakers for Python Interest Group, Monday November 18
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