[Cooker] Undefined Symbol Crashes KDEINIT

2003-09-12 Thread Bill Greenwood
Tried submitting this to Bugzilla, but would not take it, do here it is: Trying to start KDE with the latest packages, XFree starts and a dialog box pops up on the top left corner stating: Could not start kdeinit After pressing Okay, crashes back to console. Three errors show, and thet are all

[Cooker] Undefined Symbol in latest libfontconfig1 crashes KDEINIT

2003-09-12 Thread Bill Greenwood
Undefined Symbol in latest libfontconfig1 (2.2.1-6) crashes KDEINIT Tried submitting this to Bugzilla, but would not take it, so here it is: Trying to start KDE with the latest packages, XFree starts and a dialog box pops up on the top left corner stating: Could not start kdeinit After

[Cooker] 2 file errors in Cooker

2002-04-23 Thread Bill Greenwood
Console output: [root@localhost RPMS]# rpm -Fvh *.rpm Preparing... ### [100%] 1:expect error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib/libexpect5.32.a;3cc7e66f: cpio: MD5 sum mismatch 1:cups-common error: unpacking of archive failed on file

[Cooker] cups-common bad

2002-04-21 Thread Bill Greenwood
cups-common-1.1.14-4mdk.i586.rpm seems to be bad on freshen. It apparently is supposed to be 436.59k in size (according to the Software Manager), and is 221,864 on the mirrors, and it won't freshen. --Bill Mandrake Club Member

[Cooker] Kprinter XSane mostly working! :)

2002-04-16 Thread Bill Greenwood
The Kprinter problem of not saving the Properties is fixed. good job! The XSane app not running is fixed... good job! The Kprinter working with XSane now at least runs, but comes up with this dialog box: Heading: Printer error - kprinter Message: Can't print from STDIN: use

[Cooker] XSane won't run - GTK problems

2002-04-15 Thread Bill Greenwood
Output from console in KDE3: Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkspinbutton.c: line 1370 (gtk_spin_button_new): assertio n `digits 6' failed. Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkwidget.c: line 3786 (gtk_widget_set_usize): assertion ` widget != NULL' failed. Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtktooltips.c: line 348

[Cooker] KDE3 kprinter / KDE3 Desktop Scanner Autolink / Latest XSane dead

2002-04-14 Thread Bill Greenwood
KDE3: Kprinter doesn't save the settings when changed under properties. Example: Run KWord and a test document. Click on print, then Properties. Paper size always comes up A4. Change the paper size to Letter, click on save, and it doesn't. Running CUPS. === Turning on my HP Scanjet

[Cooker] cdrecord -scanbus error

2002-03-17 Thread Bill Greenwood
Just thought you should know that after a system restart, running cdrecord -scanbus the first time always gives an error. Run it again and it's fine. Below are the two times running it: [root@localhost root]# cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.11a15 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C)

[Cooker] Can't Compile apps - Qt error

2002-03-17 Thread Bill Greenwood
Have tried to compile several apps, and while running configure, it crashes on Qt. Fully freshened to latest Cooker, and latest qt libs of course: libqt2-2.3.1-29mdk.i586.rpm libqt2-devel-2.3.1-29mdk.i586.rpm The error it gives is: ...snip... checking for libjpeg... -ljpeg checking for

[Cooker] OpenOffice 642 hits the Mirrors!

2002-03-14 Thread Bill Greenwood
Yes, OpenOffice 642 has hit the mirrors The mirrors page is at: http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/mirrors/ --Bill

Re: [Cooker] Andrej, behave yourself!

2002-03-06 Thread Bill Greenwood
Wow Leon, I couldn't have said it better. Excellent!! I think we should all remember that we were all newbies at one time. And we should also remember that not all of us are developers, but want to help by beta testing, and thereby submitting reports of what we see. And of course wouldn't

[Cooker] gurpmi and deps location

2002-03-05 Thread Bill Greenwood
Is it possible to *simply* make gurpmi look first in the directory that you may be in, for deps for a given file you are trying to install In other words, I don't want to have to go into rpmdrake to setup my directory locations for gurpmi to have to find deps that are right there in the

Re: [Cooker] Andrej, behave yourself!

2002-03-05 Thread Bill Greenwood
Wow Leon, I couldn't have said it better Excellent!! I think we should all remember that we were all newbies at one time And we should also remember that not all of us are developers, but want to help by beta testing, and thereby submitting reports of what we see And of course wouldn't

Re: [Cooker] Problems installing 8.2 beta 4

2002-03-04 Thread Bill Greenwood
Mike--- I suggest you burn another CD, as it looks like that one has a bad spot where it is trying to access that bit of information I suggest you burn it at a slower speed, possibly half the speed from your first one It may be that brand of CD-R as Warly also suggested Warly suggested

Re: [Cooker] Feature Request

2002-03-03 Thread Bill Greenwood
Oh brother here we go again something stupid from guran- Anyway, I have the same problem with hdimg (actually I don't think it is in hdimg that the problem is), and I have already reported it --Bill === guran wrote: On Sunday 03 March 2002 3:39 pm, Nelson Bartley wrote: heyo,

Re: [Cooker] rpm -q kernel shows nothing

2002-03-02 Thread Bill Greenwood
Or just dbl-click on it under XWC! (xwc-0914patch1-12mdki586rpm in contribs ) The best, fastest, and overall full-featured file manager out there me thinks- especially for newbies! :) Although Endeavour (in contribs) is just a few features from being almost as good -Bill ===

[Cooker] Bug in mdkinst - Mount Failed

2002-02-27 Thread Bill Greenwood
A couple of bugs I reported in Mandrake Forum on Jan 27th, and at least the top one is still broken: If you want to do an upgrade with mdkinst, either normal or packages installed only, and you have had the HD partition mounted in your running install (fstab) that has your /Mandrake/RPMS

[Cooker] MdkInst - Mount Failed

2002-02-27 Thread Bill Greenwood
A couple of bugs I reported in Mandrake Forum on Jan 27th, and at least the top one is still broken: If you want to do an upgrade with mdkinst, either normal or packages installed only, and you have had the HD partition mounted in your running install (fstab) that has your /Mandrake/RPMS

Re: [Cooker] How to make XFdrake better in 30 seconds.

2002-02-26 Thread Bill Greenwood
Maybe add some additional buttons Pixel. I believe every dialog should have a *Back* button and a *Next* or *Skip* button anyway. There are **many** times that we can't move around and get to the selection we want to get to directly. So we also need to be able to go to ANY selection, at

[Cooker] Freshen - Reboot

2002-02-25 Thread Bill Greenwood
No errors whatsoever during and after reboot except, no startup sound in KDE, checking for other KDE sound. Maybe I need to turn this back on somewhere, I will check. -Bill

[Cooker] Peter Ruskins Country Code App

2002-02-23 Thread Bill Greenwood
Many of us were asking ourselves and him what app he used to come up with this answer: [19:33 peter@penguin:~]$ country ro Country2 letter 3 letter Number --- Romania

Re: [Cooker] via-rhine broken in latest kernels

2002-02-21 Thread Bill Greenwood
Juan thanks for the effort, but I had given up and bought a new network card, and now I don't have a problem, as it uses differen't drivers. A couple of other people told me I didn't have a problem, so apparently I didn't have a problem. Anyway, you say it's fixed, I believe you. :)

Re: [Cooker] Removal from list

2002-02-21 Thread Bill Greenwood
Bruce- This is a good page to accomplish this: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/cookerdevel.php3 Everybody is pretty busy, so it probably won't happen unless you do it :) The very best, Bill === Bruce Abderholden wrote: Humbley request I be removed from mailing list.

[Cooker] XSane and KPrinter

2002-02-20 Thread Bill Greenwood
Should I be able to call kprinter from XSane. I go to preferencessetupcommand, and the only two print commands it will accept (at least that I could find) are: lpr xpp I tried: kprinter, kups qtcups, and none of these three would work--- errored out. What am I doing wrong? -Bill

[Cooker] XSane and KPrinter

2002-02-20 Thread Bill Greenwood
Should I be able to call kprinter from XSane. I go to preferencessetupcommand, and the only two print commands it will accept (at least that I could find) are: lpr xpp I tried: kprinter, kups qtcups, and none of these three would work--- errored out. -Bill

Re: [Cooker] Tar or BZip the mdkinst directory

2002-02-20 Thread Bill Greenwood
Thanks for that Ron-- will give it a try--- much appreciated. :) Using DrakSync (hope it is called mdkSync soon) and seems to work pretty well, but I think it needs a little touching up. Kind Regards, -Bill === Ron Stodden wrote: Bill Greenwood wrote: In the mean time, would you

[Cooker] XSane and KPrinter

2002-02-20 Thread Bill Greenwood
Should I be able to call kprinter from XSane. I go to preferencessetupcommand, and the only two print commands it will accept (at least that I could find) are: lpr xpp I tried: kprinter, kups qtcups, and none of these three would work--- errored out. What am I doing wrong? -Bill

[Cooker] Email Test

2002-02-20 Thread Bill Greenwood
I think cooker is broken--- emails don't seem to be getting through---

[Cooker] Suggestion: Mandrake Naming Layout Change

2002-02-19 Thread Bill Greenwood
I suggest that each of the Mandrake tools have a small change in their naming layout for the directory listing, and for other reasons. The way it is right now, each of the tools are laid out in their name just a little different, which makes it hard to easily spot a Mandrake Tool. And

[Cooker] Test email

2002-02-19 Thread Bill Greenwood
Test email

Re: [Cooker] Tar or BZip the mdkinst directory

2002-02-19 Thread Bill Greenwood
Thanks for that Ron-- will give it a try--- much appreciated. :) Using DrakSync (hope it is called mdkSync soon) and seems to work pretty well, but I think it needs a little touching up. Kind Regards, -Bill === Ron Stodden wrote: Bill Greenwood wrote: In the mean time

Re: [Cooker] Tar or BZip the mdkinst directory

2002-02-18 Thread Bill Greenwood
If rsync is fast for you good. :) Some of us just want to download the whole thing. Why not have it both ways. The directory for rsync, and the file for a full download. -Bill === Borsenkow Andrej wrote: I suggest that on Cooker that we Tar or Bzip the mdkinst directory into a

Re: [Cooker] Tar or BZip the mdkinst directory

2002-02-18 Thread Bill Greenwood
Oh barf--- it won't force you to download the same thing twice- good grief. :) I guess we'll see what Mandrake has to say. In the mean time, would you please post the command line that you use with rsync. Thank you, and good chatting with you, -Bill == Borsenkow Andrej wrote:

[Cooker] DrakSync locks up

2002-02-18 Thread Bill Greenwood
Hey, why aren't *all* the Drak tools on the MCC. Well, just trying to use DrakSync, and it locks up after putting in the password (why doesn't this have a login as anonymous button) and pressing OK. -Bill

Re: [Cooker] cdrecord don't work (Could not record!!!) , please help!

2002-02-18 Thread Bill Greenwood
Meir--- it looks like you are missing a third digit number after the dev= command. Mine is dev-0,0,0 as you can see, three digits. I suggest you run cdrecord -scanbus to see what those three digits should be. Hope this helps, -Bill === Meir Faraj wrote: I want to try the

Re: [Cooker] DrakSync locks up

2002-02-18 Thread Bill Greenwood
wrote: On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Bill Greenwood wrote: Hey, why aren't *all* the Drak tools on the MCC. Probably because DrakSync is not a configuration tool? Well, just trying to use DrakSync, and it locks up after putting in the password (why doesn't this have a login as anonymous button

Re: [Cooker] I cannot believe!!! Is it Windows or Linux?

2002-02-18 Thread Bill Greenwood
I agree with you George-- Msec is definitely one of the tools that could use a frontend, just like we have one for rsync (DrakSync). I say again too these Drak tools should all be in the 'Mandrake *Control* Center', where we can *Control* all aspects of our Mandrake system. Maybe

[Cooker] Gave up on via-rhine drivers :(

2002-02-18 Thread Bill Greenwood
Well I finally gave up on via-rhine drivers working again (unresolved symbols), even though I reported them here 2 times. This was a D-Link (DFE-530TX) network card for my DSL connection, and ran on via-rhine drivers. None of the latest kernels would get fixed. I had to keep going back to

Re: [Cooker] Scanner not found with XSane

2002-02-17 Thread Bill Greenwood
Sheesh-- I've already done that, remember? But the problem is XSane === Yves Duret wrote: Bill Greenwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks Yves--- I wasn't running devfs because it was causing problems with my CD writer not being able to play CDs. I will see if that is fixed now

Re: [Cooker] Scanner not found with XSane

2002-02-17 Thread Bill Greenwood
erroring out (if that helps any :) ). -Bill === Yves Duret wrote: Bill Greenwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok Yves here is the info you have requested--- I'm not sure why it says package kernel isn't installed because 2 are installed--- but anyway, here it is: [root@localhost root]# rpm -q

Re: [Cooker] Scanner not found with XSane

2002-02-17 Thread Bill Greenwood
help, -Bill === Bill Greenwood wrote: Yves, the dynamic icon creation on the desktop now works with devfs enabled and running, but after clicking on it it runs XSane (link name: XSane /dev/usb/scanner0), then bombs out with the same error as before: xsane: no devices available

[Cooker] Tar or BZip the mdkinst directory

2002-02-17 Thread Bill Greenwood
I suggest that on Cooker that we Tar or Bzip the mdkinst directory into a single file, and drop it into the Mandrake directory. This would speed downloading this directory of files considerably. Even on DSL, this download right now is so very slow with a gillion files and subdirectories.

Re: [Cooker] Still broken via-rhine in latest kernel 2.4.17-18

2002-02-16 Thread Bill Greenwood
=== guran wrote: On Saturday 16 February 2002 8:16 am, Bill Greenwood wrote: [root@localhost root]# insmod via-rhine Using /lib/modules/2.4.17-18mdksecure/kernel/drivers/net/via-rhine.o.gz OK, why are you running kernel-secure? I am running via-rhine with no problem but on a standard kernel

[Cooker] Scanner not found with XSane

2002-02-16 Thread Bill Greenwood
I have an HP ScanJet 5200C scanner, hooked up to the USB port, and ScannerDrake finds beautifully. ScannerDrake asks me if I want to configure it, and I click on Yes. Hard drive works for a few seconds, then nothing else. (at least it could tell me what happened :) ) I then run XSane, and

Re: [Cooker] Scanner not found with XSane

2002-02-16 Thread Bill Greenwood
: Bill Greenwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have an HP ScanJet 5200C scanner, hooked up to the USB port, and ScannerDrake finds beautifully. ScannerDrake asks me if I want to configure it, and I click on Yes. Hard drive works for a few seconds, then nothing else. (at least it could tell me what

Re: [Cooker] Scanner not found with XSane

2002-02-16 Thread Bill Greenwood
Thanks Yves--- I wasn't running devfs because it was causing problems with my CD writer not being able to play CDs. I will see if that is fixed now. I need to know the command to do a manual call to ScannerDrake please. Much appreciated, -Bill === Yves Duret wrote: Bill Greenwood

[Cooker] Still broken via-rhine in latest kernel 2.4.17-18

2002-02-15 Thread Bill Greenwood
[root@localhost root]# insmod via-rhine Using /lib/modules/2.4.17-18mdksecure/kernel/drivers/net/via-rhine.o.gz /lib/modules/2.4.17-18mdksecure/kernel/drivers/net/via-rhine.o.gz: unresolved symbol mii_link_ok_Rsmp_ba4049b4 /lib/modules/2.4.17-18mdksecure/kernel/drivers/net/via-rhine.o.gz:

[Cooker] BUGREPORT: via-rhine still broken in latest kernel

2002-02-14 Thread Bill Greenwood
# insmod via-rhine Using /lib/modules/2.4.17-17mdksecure/kernel/drivers/net/via-rhine.o.gz /lib/modules/2.4.17-17mdksecure/kernel/drivers/net/via-rhine.o.gz: unresolved symbol mii_link_ok_Rsmp_ba4049b4 /lib/modules/2.4.17-17mdksecure/kernel/drivers/net/via-rhine.o.gz: unresolved symbol

[Cooker] Suggestions...

2000-04-26 Thread Bill Greenwood
1) Would it be possible to divide up the RPMs to the 2 different directories (RPMS vs. RPMS2) for the two different CDs on all the Cooker mirror sites? This would be a BIG HELP in keeping them up to date. 2) A MakeBootDisk button on the DrakConfig control panel would be handy. 3) On the