Re: [Cooker] Reprint of business suggestions for Mandrake *It's a good Idea*

2001-07-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »SI Reasoning« am 2001-07-22 um 17:41:47 -0700 : > > I like having a single distro... but each of these > options could be part of the installation choices Yep, me too. That's how I feel! And then there should be some kinda tool that let's you select that you now need a backup server

Re: [Cooker] Usability Suggestions for LM

2001-07-22 Thread Blue Lizard
Robert L Martin wrote: > I would suggest that any WinXP timed LINUX parties have a few cases of > Mountian Dew Code Red (r) [for the unknowing its basically cherry MD] > and cds marked The Ulitmate MS IIS Patch (with the latest stable LM ) > > -- > Robert LaurenceMartin > > > > > I like yo

Re: [Cooker] FTP question

2001-07-22 Thread Blue Lizard
wrong list buddy. check out [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], and their associated mail-archives (www.mail-archive.com/[list]).

Re: [Cooker] Netmeeting

2001-07-22 Thread Gary Lawrence Murphy
> "D" == David Walluck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: D> I said "combine existing standards". I said nothing about D> "Microsoft extensions". So you quote me in your reply but it D> doesn't seem to be in reference to anything I said. My fault; my message was a somewhat mixed messag

[Cooker] FTP question

2001-07-22 Thread Gueorgui Mihaylov
Hi there, I tried to FTP my computer with LM 8.0 installed. Anonymous login works, but when I tried to do it as user I got "incorrect password" message. My "ftpaccess" file points to /ect/password and /ect/shadow __ Do You Yahoo!? Make internation

[Cooker] ohphone

2001-07-22 Thread David Walluck
ohphone: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libh323_linux_x86_r.so.1: undefined symbol: SetConstraintBounds__11PASN_ObjectQ211PASN_Object14ConstraintTypeiUi Looks like ohphone needs to be recompiled against the latest openh323 libraries. BTW, what's with the odd openh323_1 (_1) n

[Cooker] weirdness

2001-07-22 Thread Armisis Aieoln
Ok, several of my programs segfault when users are running them but work fine when root runs it... best example i have is tux_aqfh or flightgear... anyideas? Dave

Re: [Cooker] RPM Segfaulting

2001-07-22 Thread Armisis Aieoln
Dident make any differance... Dave On Monday 23 July 2001 00:13, you wrote: > So sprach ;Armisis Aieoln+ am 2001-07-23 um 00:53:26 +0100 : > > how? > > unset LANG, LC_. > > maybe 'LC_ALL=C' would help as well. > > BTW: No fullquotes! > > Alexander Skwar

Re: [Cooker] RPM Segfaulting

2001-07-22 Thread Gary Lawrence Murphy
I had the same dilemma for a week; The voodoo that worked for me was to use my old rpm3 to --rebuilddb, which seemed to give me partial abilities to install packages. I then manually installed all of the rpm* menu-* db3-* locales-* and grpm/urpmi packages from the very latest (yesterday) cooker

Re: [Cooker] Reprint of business suggestions for Mandrake *It's a good Idea*

2001-07-22 Thread Gary Lawrence Murphy
> "S" == SI Reasoning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: S> I like having a single distro... but each of these options S> could be part of the installation choices I'd second that; the current list of options don't seem to have parallels in my work experience -- the concept is sound, but th

Re: [Cooker] Reprint of business suggestions for Mandrake *It's a good Idea*

2001-07-22 Thread S N
SI Reasoning, I completely agree. When you install Red Hat 7.1 there is a server as well as a laptop option during install. The reason I suggested a separate distro is so Mandrake can make a few extra bucks. Business don't care how much something costs. And most end users don't have a need for c

Re: [Cooker] Reprint of business suggestions for Mandrake *It's a good Idea*

2001-07-22 Thread SI Reasoning
I like having a single distro... but each of these options could be part of the installation choices dedicated email server ... could be one choice and that focuses the rest of the installation choices. thin client could be another with options for enough info for a floppy per client or ma

[Cooker] Reprint of business suggestions for Mandrake *It's a good Idea*

2001-07-22 Thread S N
Cooker, I've been reading what everyone's have been writing about how to make Mandrake better. Ie. fonts, icons, how to place graphics and general logical flow of the whole distribution. I thought is would also be nice to provide Usability Suggestions from a business point of view. As well as pro

Re: [Cooker] Network problem when running self-compiled kernel.org

2001-07-22 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 20010721 Sami Nieminen wrote: >Jul 20 21:57:00 butthead ifup: Cannot send dump request: Connection >refused >Jul 20 21:57:00 butthead ifup: modprobe: Can't locate module lo >Jul 20 21:57:00 butthead ifup: Device does not seem to be present, >delaying lo initialization. > Are you using a cable

Re: [Cooker] Usability Suggestions for LM

2001-07-22 Thread Robert L Martin
I would suggest that any WinXP timed LINUX parties have a few cases of Mountian Dew Code Red (r) [for the unknowing its basically cherry MD] and cds marked The Ulitmate MS IIS Patch (with the latest stable LM ) -- Robert LaurenceMartin

[Cooker] gdm doesn't startup

2001-07-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hello I just updated a bunch of packages (wish I could tell ya which ones... see urpmi thread...) and now gdm doesn't start up anymore. I suppose I also updated gdm to gdm-2.2.3.1-1mdk, but don't know for sure. I also just tried kdm. This one starts up fine, but it only has a session for kde a

Re: [Cooker] RPM Segfaulting

2001-07-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »Armisis Aieoln« am 2001-07-23 um 00:53:26 +0100 : > how? unset LANG, LC_. maybe 'LC_ALL=C' would help as well. BTW: No fullquotes! Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com |

Re: [Cooker] urpmi: Missing information/Hiding *WAY* too much - what's it doing?

2001-07-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »Stefan Siegel« am 2001-07-23 um 00:23:36 +0200 : > ls -l /var/log/urpmi* I know - it contains the same useless output that urpmi prints on the console: ### [ 74%] mkfontdir: unable to proce

Re: [Cooker] RPM Segfaulting

2001-07-22 Thread Armisis Aieoln
how? On Sunday 22 July 2001 23:24, you wrote: > Armisis Aieoln <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It segfaults when I try to install it... > > Have you tried to unset all the i18n environment variables ? > > > On Saturday 21 July 2001 20:08, you wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Armisis Aieoln) writes

[Cooker] FAM error messages

2001-07-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hi! Since right now, I'm getting quite a lot of these messages in the syslog: Jul 23 00:39:51 teich fam[3705]: fd 4 write error: Broken pipe Should I worry? Using current cooker. Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage: ht

Re: [Cooker] urpmi: Missing information/Hiding *WAY* too much - what's it doing?

2001-07-22 Thread Stefan Siegel
Hi Alexander, Am 2001-07-22, um 23:03:20 (+0200) also vor ¾ Stunde schrieb Alexander Skwar: >[...] > Also I'm missing a log of updated packages. It used to be the case that > syslog contained entries like "rpm installed foo.rpm" and "rpm removed > bar.rpm". Where did those go? ls -l /var/log/u

Re: [Cooker] RPM Segfaulting

2001-07-22 Thread Frederic Lepied
Armisis Aieoln <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It segfaults when I try to install it... > Have you tried to unset all the i18n environment variables ? > > On Saturday 21 July 2001 20:08, you wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Armisis Aieoln) writes: > > > Anytime I try to run rpm to -Uvh any large f

Re: [Cooker] Usability Suggestions for LM

2001-07-22 Thread Blue Lizard
I see what you are saying and it makes sense. Don't let any resources flow away from the original. Let the specialized mini-distro be taken from the main, in addition to any proprietary code included. Let it be CHEAPER, not more expensive, than the others. following this code... And then yo

Re: [Cooker] Usability Suggestions for LM

2001-07-22 Thread S N
Blue, I hear what you are saying when you talk about dependencies and other issues that occur. Although Mandrake itself has released a single purpose distro. (Ie. Firewall) I'm just trying to provide a business perspective. What would be the downside of creating a version of Mandrake for server

[Cooker] urpmi: Missing information/Hiding *WAY* too much - what's it doing?

2001-07-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hi! I'm right now doing a "urpmi --auto-select". While it does something, it prints: ### [ 50%] Now, that's BY FAR not enough information. urpmi used to print the name of the current package - why

Re: [Cooker] Usability Suggestions for LM

2001-07-22 Thread Blue Lizard
> If you make a sindle use "distro" you need it to make it work much beter. This > include making it work easy with exceptions you never tought of. Which means a > lot more testing and such > > > you worded that so much better than i did.

Re: [Cooker] RPM Segfaulting

2001-07-22 Thread Armisis Aieoln
It segfaults when I try to install it... dave On Saturday 21 July 2001 20:08, you wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Armisis Aieoln) writes: > > Anytime I try to run rpm to -Uvh any large file it segfaults... > > ive even ran --rebuilddb > > > > any ideas? > > are running the vey last rpm from cook

Re: [Cooker] Usability Suggestions for LM

2001-07-22 Thread andre
> > S N wrote: > > > Creative thoughts, but I feel a little uncomfortable with it. In fact, > the other day (yesterday) I was pondering a distro that wasnt a distro. > Just a platform, and a base off which to install stuff from other > sources. Was pondering the way ximian's stuff worked,

Re: [Cooker] Usability Suggestions for LM

2001-07-22 Thread Blue Lizard
S N wrote: > Creative thoughts, but I feel a little uncomfortable with it. In fact, the other day (yesterday) I was pondering a distro that wasnt a distro. Just a platform, and a base off which to install stuff from other sources. Was pondering the way ximian's stuff worked, was studying

[Cooker] Usability Suggestions for LM

2001-07-22 Thread S N
Cooker, I've been reading what everyone's have been writing about how to make Mandrake better. Ie. fonts, icons, how to place graphics and general logical flow of the whole distribution. I thought is would also be nice to provide Usability Suggestions from a business point of view. As well as pro

Re: [Cooker] df always shows Use% 100% even when 1GB free

2001-07-22 Thread Marcel Pol
On Sun, 22 Jul 2001 13:44:22 -0230 Juhan Leemet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recently ran out of space, and got a few error messages that programs could > not write output files. So I deleted a bunch, and cleared /var/tmp/ and /tmp. > At that point the machine hung?!? Now, when I use the df c

Re: [Cooker] rpm find-provides

2001-07-22 Thread Marcel Pol
On 22 Jul 2001 17:38:12 +0200 Frederic Lepied <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marcel Pol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > When building a src.rpm from specfile i get this: > > > > Finding Provides: (using /usr/lib/rpm/find-provides)... > > > > error: line 114: Dependency tokens must begin with a

[Cooker] df always shows Use% 100% even when 1GB free

2001-07-22 Thread Juhan Leemet
I recently ran out of space, and got a few error messages that programs could not write output files. So I deleted a bunch, and cleared /var/tmp/ and /tmp. At that point the machine hung?!? Now, when I use the df command I always get the output: bash-2.05# df Filesystem 1k-blocks

Re: [Cooker] rpm find-provides

2001-07-22 Thread Frederic Lepied
Marcel Pol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 20 Jul 2001 21:26:45 +0200 > Frederic Lepied <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Marcel Pol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > When building a src.rpm from specfile i get this: > > > Finding Provides: (using /usr/lib/rpm/find-prov

Re: [Cooker] Usability Suggestions for LM

2001-07-22 Thread JoAnne
On Saturday 21 July 2001 02:17 pm, you wrote: > On 21 Jul 2001, Scott Swaim wrote: > > [usability] > > >(3) Programs of a like nature should be grouped together, rather than > >divided into different groups. For instance, Gnapster and Gnome-napster > > Wouldn't it be better to just pick a *single

Re: [Cooker] sane + Mustek SE 12000 = SOLVED!

2001-07-22 Thread Vincent Meyer
Would be better if "sane-find-scanner" created this link, that way if a scanner is added after the install, it is still taken care of. V Claudio wrote: > > Lately I said that Mustek ScanExpress 12000 didn't work, even if recognized > by kernel. Now it works again, and I have to say sorry for my

Re: [Cooker] trouble with CDROM on Mandrakefr 8.0

2001-07-22 Thread L. A. Lawless
David Walluck wrote: > L.A.Lawless wrote: > >> On Saturday 21 July 2001 5:25 pm, you wrote: >> >> This brings me to a problem that I encountered with Madrake Freq. I >> find that often /mnt/cdrom is a locked directory and I cannot get >> access even as root. To be told that root has insufficie

Re: [Cooker] www.mandrakeexpert.com

2001-07-22 Thread Blue Lizard
David Walluck wrote: > Scott Swaim wrote: > >> On 21 Jul 2001 22:01:45 -0400, Blue Lizard wrote: >> >>> WORKSFORME, cookies and limited cookies. >>> >> >> I've had a similar problem to what he describes: >> >> Sometimes, if I enter text into MandrakeExpert, or post a message on >> MandrakeForum

Re: [Cooker] Usability Suggestions for LM

2001-07-22 Thread Blue Lizard
Scott Swaim wrote: > On 21 Jul 2001 22:03:49 -0400, Blue Lizard wrote: > >>eh...xpdf is under publishing under applications too. >> >> >> > > Huh? Could it be different under KDE than it is under Gnome? > > I haven't checked KDE, but under Gnome I have it in Office, and I don't > believe I mo

Re: [Cooker] Re: evolution

2001-07-22 Thread Blue Lizard
With that particular release (of all those components), even though the number seemed rather minor, that was merely ximian and others' semantics because in truth, as i had said, in addition to a number of huge bug fixes, there were also some additional features. For instance, you could actual

[Cooker] sane + Mustek SE 12000 = SOLVED!

2001-07-22 Thread Claudio
Lately I said that Mustek ScanExpress 12000 didn't work, even if recognized by kernel. Now it works again, and I have to say sorry for my stupidity. The fact is that with "sane-find-scanner" I could see the scanner, but "scanimage -L" (or xsane) didn't see it. Well, I only had to "ln -s /dev/sg

Re: [Cooker] Usability Suggestions for LM

2001-07-22 Thread David Walluck
Scott Swaim wrote: > On 21 Jul 2001 22:03:49 -0400, Blue Lizard wrote: > >>eh...xpdf is under publishing under applications too. >> >> >> > > Huh? Could it be different under KDE than it is under Gnome? > > I haven't checked KDE, but under Gnome I have it in Office, and I don't > believe I mo

Re: [Cooker] www.mandrakeexpert.com

2001-07-22 Thread David Walluck
Scott Swaim wrote: > On 21 Jul 2001 22:01:45 -0400, Blue Lizard wrote: > >>WORKSFORME, cookies and limited cookies. >> > > I've had a similar problem to what he describes: > > Sometimes, if I enter text into MandrakeExpert, or post a message on > MandrakeForum using Mozilla, and click the "sub

Re: [Cooker] Usability Suggestions for LM

2001-07-22 Thread Scott Swaim
On 21 Jul 2001 22:03:49 -0400, Blue Lizard wrote: > eh...xpdf is under publishing under applications too. > > Huh? Could it be different under KDE than it is under Gnome? I haven't checked KDE, but under Gnome I have it in Office, and I don't believe I moved it there. RSS