Re: [Cooker] Problems With Latest Cooker

2001-06-29 Thread Sebastian Dransfeld
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, David Walluck wrote: > 6.) When samba was installed it left the old version there, this is odd > behavior, probably because of a failed %post script. The %post script should be fixed since 13mdk or so. It works in 15mdk at least. seb

[Cooker] Problems With Latest Cooker

2001-06-29 Thread David Walluck
People have already mentioned some of these problems, namely: 1.) rpmdrake (MandrakeUpdate) crashes on startup, I haven't been able to figure out why, but I think rpm-devel needs rebuilding. 2.) KDE menu icons are mostly all missing. 3.) kdebase needs rebuilding as it depends on a glib version

[Cooker] Graphic log in screen in new install

2001-06-29 Thread Vincent Meyer
Hi The X based login screen lists every account, not just the good ones - without any icons. Also, where did the shutdown stuff go? V.

[Cooker] kde? please?? part 2

2001-06-29 Thread Vincent Meyer
Hi - Also, the CVS for KDE seems to indicate that 2.2 beta 1 is out, no? Are packages in the works? V.

[Cooker] Kde? please??

2001-06-29 Thread Vincent Meyer
Hello, Did another clean install, and KDE still does not work at all. I understand that people have been running it, with layered updates from previous installs, however for the last week this has been totally dead. Logging in in "failsafe" mode and executing "startkde" yields

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake still has Segmentation fault

2001-06-29 Thread Andrej Borsenkow
No in my case. I do not have rpmdrake segfault - it just silently disappears. It worked before I did update of my source (packages downloaded yesterday evening) Now it happens at different points depending on what packages are installed. Currently it disappears after "parsing cooker" (I think, it

Re: [Cooker] Installation can be easier

2001-06-29 Thread andre
> > > RPM, urpmi and friends (including apt, etc.) are the real "killer > > applications" on Linux, far surpassing anything on offer in the M$ world. > > Try comparing RPM to InstallShield - they're not just in different > > leagues; they're playing different sports! > > RPM and urpmi aren't ver

Re: [Cooker] UI - as designed decisions

2001-06-29 Thread guran
On Saturday 30 June 2001 02:38, you wrote: > frank wrote > > > > drag the XKill icon down onto the panel, and make a copy of it > > there...that way you don't have to shuffle dead netscape windows to get > > to it... > > Another way is Ctrl+Alt+Esc. Does the same thing ;) > Thanks, I have no pro

Re: [Cooker] Installation can be easier

2001-06-29 Thread Kent Nguyen
> RPM, urpmi and friends (including apt, etc.) are the real "killer > applications" on Linux, far surpassing anything on offer in the M$ world. > Try comparing RPM to InstallShield - they're not just in different > leagues; they're playing different sports! RPM and urpmi aren't very intuitive, no

[Cooker] mozilla-0.9.2-1mdk

2001-06-29 Thread Blue Lizard
no offense mr. crozat but i'm kinda surprised i havent seen it in cooker yet... btw some real big progress has been made reguarding -O2 as the default option although it isnt official yet. most of the little annoyances have been taken care of: Moving to -O2 (not -O3 or other various funky com

Re: [Cooker] UI - as designed decisions

2001-06-29 Thread Spencer
frank wrote: > > On Friday 29 June 2001 01:43 pm, guran wrote: > > In KDE there is one icon that is supposed to be used to > > kill a window, mostly Netscape. How can you do that if your window is > > hiding that icon. > > drag the XKill icon down onto the panel, and make a copy of it there.

Re: [Cooker] UI - as designed decisions

2001-06-29 Thread frank
On Friday 29 June 2001 01:43 pm, guran wrote: > In KDE there is one icon that is supposed to be used to > kill a window, mostly Netscape. How can you do that if your window is > hiding that icon. drag the XKill icon down onto the panel, and make a copy of it there...that way you don't have t

[Cooker] New Version of Aspell Dicts now Available (fwd)

2001-06-29 Thread Kevin Atkinson
If you do not wish me to send these announcement to the list please let me know. -- Kevin Atkinson kevina at users sourceforge net http://www.ibiblio.org/kevina/ -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 18:38:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Kevin Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EM

Re: [Cooker] Installation can be easier

2001-06-29 Thread Michael Brown
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, unknown unknown wrote: > Also, what do you all think about drag and drop installs, you have > a CD in the drive, you are in gnome or nautilus, and you drag the game icon > from the CD to a folder on your machine and it installs there. Possibly one of the worst ideas I've hea

Re: [Cooker] hdlist.cz?

2001-06-29 Thread Michael Brown
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Jason Straight wrote: > Is there documentation anywhere on creating the hdlist's? > I'd like to keep my own local mirror of some updates and such for many > machines and need to be able to generate my own hdlist.cz file from a > directory full of RPMS. > Thanks in advance. Ba

Re: [Cooker]

2001-06-29 Thread JoAnne
On Friday 29 June 2001 01:45 pm, you wrote: > Discussion on Ease of Installation Issues. > > > lets discuss why all linux distributions have to install manually, has > anyone thought of making an installer, which installs completely as a > backround process, for example someone pops in a mandrake

[Cooker] Can someone tell me...

2001-06-29 Thread OS
Hello, Can someone tell me which library contains the symbol fpHashFunction which is required by /usr/lib/librpm.so.0 from rpm-4.0.3-0.9mdk, or is this a problem with rpm-4.0.3-0.9mdk ? Thanks, Owen

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake still has Segmentation fault

2001-06-29 Thread OS
Maybe something to do with rpm seg faulting at the moment ? Owen On Friday 29 June 2001 20:45, you wrote: > rpmdrake > Segmentation fault > rpm -q rpmdrake > > rpm -q urpmi rpm gurpmi > urpmi-1.6-7mdk > rpm-4.0.3-0.9mdk > gurpmi-1.0-7mdk > > rpmdrake-1.3-65mdk

[Cooker] urpmi

2001-06-29 Thread Michael Reinsch
Hi! [root@nibbler root]# urpmi ImageMagick-5.3.6-2mdk perl-Magick-5.3.6-2mdk ImageMagick-lib-5.3.6-2mdk ImageMagick-devel-5.3.6-2mdk ImageMagick-devel-5.3.6-2mdk Undefined subroutine &urpm::version_compare called at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux/urpm.pm line 1017. -- Michael Reins

Re: [Cooker]

2001-06-29 Thread Pierre Fortin
unknown unknown wrote: > > Discussion on Ease of Installation Issues. > > lets discuss why all linux distributions have to install manually, has > anyone thought of making an installer, which installs completely as a > backround process, for example someone pops in a mandrake CD, and "now > load

[Cooker] Installation can be easier

2001-06-29 Thread unknown unknown
Discussion on Ease of Installation Issues. lets discuss why all linux distributions have to install manually, has anyone thought of making an installer, which installs completely as a backround process, for example someone pops in a mandrake CD, and "now loading" shows up, then some silly g

[Cooker]

2001-06-29 Thread unknown unknown
Discussion on Ease of Installation Issues. lets discuss why all linux distributions have to install manually, has anyone thought of making an installer, which installs completely as a backround process, for example someone pops in a mandrake CD, and "now loading" shows up, then some silly g

Re: [Cooker] UI - as designed decisions

2001-06-29 Thread andre
> For the newbie I would propose a smaller Tux picture on the login > console, and instead use that space to show different starting sequences > for XFree86. Something along the line of what resolutions and what > colour depths you may choose. > Also a different videodriver would be appreciated

[Cooker] rpmdrake still has Segmentation fault

2001-06-29 Thread Salane
rpmdrake Segmentation fault rpm -q rpmdrake rpm -q urpmi rpm gurpmi urpmi-1.6-7mdk rpm-4.0.3-0.9mdk gurpmi-1.0-7mdk rpmdrake-1.3-65mdk

[Cooker] UI - as designed decisions

2001-06-29 Thread guran
Hi This is about esthetic, so don't feel accused or irritated. I think it is nice that we should have different 'tastes'. I am currently using Windowmaker and I think it is a pathetic design not to use its possibility to make an intelligent choice on where a window should open. As it is now my c

RE: [Cooker] CUPS and smbspool link

2001-06-29 Thread Don Head
> > samba-client contains this link > > Thanks, guess I'm a bit to quick with the 'rm -rf' in > response to the message > could not remove directory because it's not empty. S'alright, you're forgiven. =) When I get messages like that, I either ignore them, as a little extra junk on my system

Re: [Cooker] Help needed with 8.0 install

2001-06-29 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Thursday 28 June 2001 12:14, civileme wrote: > On Wednesday 27 June 2001 21:49, Peter Ruskin wrote: > > I started this thread Wed, 20 Jun 2001 and I'm still trying. I > > can't believe it's this difficult. I made a brand new local mirror > > of > > sunsite.uio.no::Mandrake/8.0/i586/ using rsy

[Cooker] abiword missing shared libraries

2001-06-29 Thread guran
Hi VERSION (rsync ftp.sunet.se) Mandrake Linux Cooker-i586 20010629 15:16 >From Windowmaker. [guran@Archimedes guran]$ strace -o trace.it abiword ptrace: umoven: Input/output error ptrace: umoven: Input/output error /usr/bin/AbiWord_d: error while loading shared libraries: cannot open sha

Re: [Cooker] GnuCash 1.6.0 segfaults when opening an account

2001-06-29 Thread Jorge E . Gomez
On 2001.06.28 16:49:37 -0500 Renaud Chaillat wrote: > > > > There seems to be a problem with the translation files. Using the > > english version of gnucash.mo makes it work. > > > > By the way, you can start it with > LC_ALL=C gnucash & > > until this is fixed. Yes! That took care of the pro

[Cooker] 2.4.5-9 Install II pb's

2001-06-29 Thread guran
Hi VERSION (rsync ftp.sunet.se) Mandrake Linux Cooker-i586 20010629 15:16 Installation two of today with no KDE and no GNOME, because of problem to install KDE. Installation: A repeat of problem with DNS, Timezone and Bootdisk plus a refuse to load gdk-pixbuf-loaders and -canvas. I didn&#

Re: [Cooker] Kernel Updates for 8.0 planned?

2001-06-29 Thread Vincent Danen
On Fri Jun 29, 2001 at 01:14:44AM -0700, Randy Welch wrote: > Any plans for kernel updates for the 8.0 distribution considering all > the various issues (ThinkPad mouse and aic_7xxx) drivers? Yes. Can't really give you an ETA at the moment, but yes, it is in the works. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], O

Re: [Cooker] when gcc3 ?

2001-06-29 Thread john . allen
Quel Qun wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]">Blue Lizard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: JorgP wrote: My guess is not until RedHat does. Why would you want to, 2.96 is farbetter after all the patches to it, and right now 3.0 is way to buggy..JorgP I disagree, but we all know it wont be this

Re: [Cooker] ip_local_port_range.

2001-06-29 Thread R.I.P. Deaddog
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, f.v. wrote: > My point of view was to keep distribution compatibilities. most of the howto about >network say : > ip_local_port_range default values are : 1024 4999 > > My question was : why Mandrake decided to change these values ? > A lot of ipchains/iptables pre-configure

Re: [Cooker] ip_local_port_range.

2001-06-29 Thread f.v.
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001 15:38:35 +0800 (HKT) "R.I.P. Deaddog" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, f.v. wrote: > > > Are there any reasons to set the local port range to these values ? > > > > [franck@fat franck]$ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range > > 32768 61000 > > [franck@

[Cooker] Can't install Mandrake 8.0 with S3 Virge

2001-06-29 Thread quitedown
Hi,   I am currently trying to install mandrake 8. I have a s3 vrige chipset. Whenever the installation reaches the X- config the computer just freezes. I  booted into my linux,since the only thing that didn't get configured  was the X server so the rest was working fine. I tried to configur

[Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] mailcap-2.0.4-6mdk

2001-06-29 Thread David Walluck
Yves Duret wrote: > --=-=-= > Name: mailcap Relocations: (not relocateable) > Mailcap should be installed to allow certain programs to be able to > handle non-text files. > > --=-=-= > > * Fri Jun 29 2001 Yves Duret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2.0.4-6mdk > > - added suppo

Re: [Cooker] links in /boot always have to be made by hand

2001-06-29 Thread Bruce F Press
Pixel wrote: >Bruce F Press <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>I have been doing urpmi upgrades for months, every time there is a new >>kernel release I know I have to take the following actions. >> >> >>ln -sf config-mdk config >>ln -sf System.map-mdk System.map >> > >these links are created at boo

Re: [Cooker] hdlist.cz?

2001-06-29 Thread Pixel
Jason Straight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there documentation anywhere on creating the hdlist's? > > I'd like to keep my own local mirror of some updates and such for many > machines and need to be able to generate my own hdlist.cz file from a > directory full of RPMS. see prog gendistr

[Cooker] hdlist.cz?

2001-06-29 Thread Jason Straight
Is there documentation anywhere on creating the hdlist's? I'd like to keep my own local mirror of some updates and such for many machines and need to be able to generate my own hdlist.cz file from a directory full of RPMS. Thanks in advance. -- Jason Straight BlazeConnect

Re: [Cooker] links in /boot always have to be made by hand

2001-06-29 Thread Pixel
Bruce F Press <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have been doing urpmi upgrades for months, every time there is a new > kernel release I know I have to take the following actions. > > > ln -sf config-mdk config > ln -sf System.map-mdk System.map these links are created at boot time (see /etc/rc.d

RE: [Cooker] zsh or rpm?

2001-06-29 Thread Andrej Borsenkow
> After installing the new zsh I now get the following: > > [root@nibbler root]# rpm -q zsh > zsh-4.0.2-1mdk > [root@nibbler root]# rpm -V zsh > missing/bin/zsh > Looks like general RPM problem; we already had this with binutils. -andrej

[Cooker] links in /boot always have to be made by hand

2001-06-29 Thread Bruce F Press
I have been doing urpmi upgrades for months, every time there is a new kernel release I know I have to take the following actions. ln -sf config-mdk config ln -sf System.map-mdk System.map vi /etc/lilo.conf ==> remove the entry for /boot/vmlinuz-mdk lilo The links, at least, should be made auto

[Cooker] zsh or rpm?

2001-06-29 Thread Michael Reinsch
Hi! After installing the new zsh I now get the following: [root@nibbler root]# rpm -q zsh zsh-4.0.2-1mdk [root@nibbler root]# rpm -V zsh missing/bin/zsh I have: rpm-4.0.3-0.9mdk rpm-python-4.0.3-0.9mdk rpm-build-4.0.3-0.9mdk urpmi-1.6-7mdk rpmtools-3.0-6mdk rpm-devel-4.0.3-0.9mdk -- Mic

[Cooker] xtraceroute-0.9.0

2001-06-29 Thread Stéphane Genaud
Hi, there is a new version of xtraceroute out there : http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d3august/xt/ This version supports the RFC1876/DNS-lookup feature, which will greatly improve the hosts location. Unfortunately, the host command shipped with most recent bind-utils-9.2.0-0.a2.2mdk does not seem

[Cooker] Kernel Updates for 8.0 planned?

2001-06-29 Thread Randy Welch
Any plans for kernel updates for the 8.0 distribution considering all the various issues (ThinkPad mouse and aic_7xxx) drivers? -randy

Re: [Cooker] ip_local_port_range.

2001-06-29 Thread R.I.P. Deaddog
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, f.v. wrote: > Are there any reasons to set the local port range to these values ? > > [franck@fat franck]$ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range > 32768 61000 > [franck@fat franck]$ > > The common values are : 1024 4999 (like for the corporate server by the way). Mayb