Re: [Cooker] Re: Problems booting with ext3 for root partition

2003-11-06 Thread Dave Cotton
be dangerous. So if it is compiled as a module in mdk, against this advice, perhaps the maintainer(s) can give their explanation as to why this advice from the kernel team is wrong. -- Dave Cotton Directeur Linux Autrement 193 rue Marcel Cerdan 84270 Vedene 04 90 23 30 81 http://www.linuxautrement.com

Re: [Cooker] Re: Huge List of Updates

2003-10-23 Thread Dave Cotton
at mandrakesoft development planning meeting. How to get more (and happier) cooker developers and testers. And how to release less buggy (or at least less noticably buggy) distros. Couldn't have put it better myself. 100% in agreement. -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Cooker] Sane

2003-09-18 Thread Dave Cotton
According to the mirrors I've tried sane-backends and libraries are at 1.0.12-3mdk and sane-frontends is at 1.0.11-1mdk, neither kooka nor xsane allow me to scan. -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Cooker] Initscripts: many services missing

2003-09-04 Thread Dave Cotton
are missing. I see this as well... It is not confined to runlevel 3, 5 is also incorrect. -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Cooker] Initscripts: many services missing

2003-09-04 Thread Dave Cotton
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 09:12, Dave Cotton wrote: On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 08:38, Randy Welch wrote: Stefan van der Eijk wrote: Quel Qun wrote: As of tonight, many services are not started in runlevel 3 although they are listed as on by chkconfig. I had to start syslog, xinetd

[Cooker] Mirror updating

2003-09-03 Thread Dave Cotton
File:kdebase-kdm-3.1.3-59mdk.i586.rpm 214 KB 09/01/2003 06:18:00 PM File:kdebase-kdm-3.1.3-8mdk.i586.rpm 207 KB 08/05/2003 04:46:00 PM The good thing is that ftp.uninett.no seems to have got going again. -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: synchroning ftp (Was: Re: [Cooker] problems with main mirror - ftp.uninett.no)

2003-09-02 Thread Dave Cotton
at the moment then it must be questioned. If the problem isn't faced up to, there may not be a requirement for a six month cycle in the future, there may not be a future. -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Resend Re: [Cooker] How do I get the fixes?

2003-09-02 Thread Dave Cotton
worse state. Have I the latest urpmi etc I doubt it, for an explanation go to 1. -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Cooker] problems with gftp-2.0.15

2003-09-02 Thread Dave Cotton
the content. You have to select the url field and hit enter and then it will refresh and show your local directory files. my local is at the left side, the remote at the right side. So that's 3 people who have bug no 5065, so how it can be unconfirmed escapes me. -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL

Re: [Cooker] mirrors ? cannot rsync with ftp.sunet.se

2003-09-01 Thread Dave Cotton
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 07:47, Bernard Varaine wrote: get error message when trying to sync contrib IO error encountered after receiving file list According to my log nothing has been updated there for at least 24 hours in either in main or contrib. -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Cooker] Tetex-2.0.2-8mdk

2003-09-01 Thread Dave Cotton
Doing urpmi.update -a on my local mirror error: /mnt/Cooker/tetex-2.0.2-8mdk.i586.rpm: MD5 digest: BAD Expected(145bb154870b9fff3665f8a1ab7366e7) != (436e70c5041c45d282a1ce772dc7085f) unable to read rpm files from [/mnt/Cooker]: bad rpm /mnt/Cooker/tetex-2.0.2-8mdk.i586.rpm -- Dave Cotton

Re: [Cooker] mirrors ? cannot rsync with ftp.sunet.se

2003-09-01 Thread Dave Cotton
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 12:31, Adam Williamson wrote: Well, it was a Sunday yesterday... And so should have given mirrors a chance to catch up if they could. -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Cooker] urpmi problem

2003-09-01 Thread Dave Cotton
to updating problems. -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Cooker] problems with gftp-2.0.15

2003-08-28 Thread Dave Cotton
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 01:53, Abel Cheung wrote: On 2003-08-27(Wed) 09:51:11 +0200, Dave Cotton wrote: It does not refresh listings when connects to a new host. IE: connect to a host (ftp.uninett.no), see listing, select another host on the bookmarks menu (ftp.kernel.org

Re: [Cooker] More mirror madness

2003-08-28 Thread Dave Cotton
leader in specialist software used in the construction industry. If I caused this much havoc to our customers, with the financial consequences to them, I would have been hung out to dry. -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Cooker] More mirror madness

2003-08-28 Thread Dave Cotton
Mandrake in the headlines for the right reasons. By definition cooker is the test ground for that purpose. Question, how can we test something like urpmi using ftp before the customers get hold of it if the sites are not stable at any time? -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Cooker] More mirror madness

2003-08-27 Thread Dave Cotton
master to ensure that mirrors are as they should be. Sorry to say this but it should not be forgotten that Mandrake is not out of the woods yet, another 9.1 and it could be the end of the line. -- Dave Cotton Directeur Linux Autrement

Re: [Cooker] Latest? glibc

2003-08-27 Thread Dave Cotton
(LWP 3364)] 0x08122168 in ?? () -- Dave Cotton

Re: [Cooker] problems with gftp-2.0.15

2003-08-27 Thread Dave Cotton
and evolution also have problems. -- Dave Cotton

Re: [Cooker] More mirror madness

2003-08-27 Thread Dave Cotton
Dorman said in the previous post We need a mirror status page Lack of communication causes most problems. -- Dave Cotton

Re: [Cooker] Updating

2003-08-26 Thread Dave Cotton
the updates. Many of the mirrors have stale carroll in updating state files in their directory structure. The problem is how to unlock the situation, short of tracking down the updating route of mirrors? -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Cooker] Latest? glibc

2003-08-26 Thread Dave Cotton
Version glibc-2.3.2-12mdk 25/08/03 appears to have created problems for mozilla-1.4-4mdk dies without messages. evolution-1.4.4-4mdk and gftp-2.0.15-1mdk seg fault. -- Dave Cotton

Re: [Cooker] OT: on current viruses

2003-08-25 Thread Dave Cotton
. And that's regardless of what one thinks about the the value of such notifications to begin with. Perhaps the programmers are not stupid, it's their management who are doing it to spam on the back of the worm. I left a company of which I was head of RD because of management like that. -- Dave

[Cooker] Updating

2003-08-25 Thread Dave Cotton
Has anyone found a server anywhere in the world that has actually been updated today? I have tried virtually every one from Easy Urpmi and even looked at some manually. I've noticed a few have a file about update on carroll.psu.edu that looks pretty old. -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Cooker] OT: on current viruses

2003-08-24 Thread Dave Cotton
, the use of PCs around the world, your PC, your email program rather than properly reporting i.e. adding the W or M word. -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Cooker] Software submission for the Mandrake distribution

2003-08-20 Thread Dave Cotton
words for snow, because it's important to them. -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Cooker] Updated Bootsplash Design

2003-08-19 Thread Dave Cotton
to near the end of the startup sequence, now I can see when things screw up, like the current snmpd problem. Why emulate Windoz, when nothing works you have to go searching. With Linux a user can call out the reports over the phone. That's my 0.02¤ worth. -- Dave Cotton Directeur Linux Autrement

Re: resend: Re: [Cooker] OT - can someone pass this on to Andrey?

2003-08-19 Thread Dave Cotton
it. If they just use blacklists it's someone else's problem. -- Dave Cotton Directeur Linux Autrement 193 rue Marcel Cerdan 84270 Vedene 04 90 23 30 81 Internet Sheriff Technology revendeur en France http://www.linuxautrement.com IAX 17004902330

Re: [Cooker] Pbm with cooker ML

2003-08-15 Thread Dave Cotton
Windows systems ready for tomorrow :) -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Cooker] OT - can someone pass this on to Andrey?

2003-08-15 Thread Dave Cotton
Wanadoo/Oleane never check for open relays, if you complain about the problem that others are causing you they'll say they can always sell you a fixed IP at an inflated price. -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Cooker] OT - can someone pass this on to Andrey?

2003-08-14 Thread Dave Cotton
be that spam would be reduced dramatically overnight. One can dream. -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Cooker] Evolution 1.4.4-2mdk

2003-08-14 Thread Dave Cotton
Strange behaviour, if I add an attachment I get no details in the attachments window, but the attachment is actually sent. -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Cooker] need for root password (was: dm)

2003-08-14 Thread Dave Cotton
problems on the Altos unix machines they supplied to customers to run their software. They had a shell script that did chmod 777 on everything, solved the problem, perfectly. -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Cooker] An update since 1600 UTC has removed StarOffice 6.0

2003-08-14 Thread Dave Cotton
Staroffice 6.0 was operational on this machine during yesterday afternoon, today after updating the only thing it does is the splash screen, from console the message aborted is displayed. Is this urpmi --auto-select showing that it is too dangerous to use in its present form? -- Dave Cotton

Re: [Cooker] Evolution 1.4.4-2mdk

2003-08-14 Thread Dave Cotton
the bonobo foot before. Now just get Mozilla to open when I click on a link and we're away. -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Cooker] An update since 1600 UTC has removed StarOffice 6.0

2003-08-14 Thread Dave Cotton
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 10:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, Dave Cotton wrote: Staroffice 6.0 was operational on this machine during yesterday afternoon, today after updating the only thing it does is the splash screen, from console the message aborted is displayed

Re: [Cooker] Evolution 1.4.4-2mdk

2003-08-14 Thread Dave Cotton
out. -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Cooker] dm - prefer kdm or gdm

2003-08-04 Thread Dave Cotton
are thinking just about desktop machines, not multiuser/terminal based machines. Think Roots not root. -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Cooker] [Bug 4425] [xcdroast] New: Xcdroast : core dump

2003-08-04 Thread Dave Cotton
to be used? Same versions, same results, up to date with redbox.cz as of 5 minutes ago. cdrecord runs OK. -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Cooker] dm - prefer kdm or gdm

2003-08-03 Thread Dave Cotton
On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 20:51, Todd Lyons wrote: --BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-- Hash: SHA1 Buchan Milne wanted us to know: Well, with mdkkdm you can have either one or the other, but not both. You can get to user selections in the icon version by typing, but you can't log in as a user not

Re: [Cooker] dm - prefer kdm or gdm

2003-08-02 Thread Dave Cotton
considered formally correct? I've never seen any authority at all that considers a lot to be colloquial or vulgar. It's perfectly standard English. No, he wants to start l'Académie anglaise, and most of us in France know what we want to do with the 40 time wasters in the French version. -- Dave Cotton

[Cooker] urpmi --auto-select

2003-08-01 Thread Dave Cotton
-devel-3.1.3-1mdk.i586 libarts-devel-1.1.3-1mdk.i586 libkarchiver3-3.0.4-1mdk.i586 libqt3-devel-3.1.2-11mdk.i586 libgdk_pixbuf2.0_0-devel-2.2.2-5mdk.i586 XFree86-devel-4.3-13mdk.i586 libMesaGLU1-devel-5.0.1-5mdk.i586 libgtk+1.2-devel-1.2.10-37mdk.i586 libungif4-devel-4.1.0-23mdk.i586 -- Dave Cotton

[Cooker] Whatever happened to free choice?

2003-07-31 Thread Dave Cotton
. mdkkdm is an _alternative_ to kdm and some of us do not want to use it, as is our choice. Are users to get into the habit of --allow-nodeps and the lists become full of MDK sucks messages? -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Cooker] URPMI --auto-select --auto removed KDE

2003-07-23 Thread Dave Cotton
. That's just asking for trouble, on Cooker. Never use --auto; that way you get asked for confirmation. Just --auto-select on it's own has exactly the same behaviour. -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Cooker] URPMI --auto-select --auto removed KDE

2003-07-23 Thread Dave Cotton
promenance in the manual entry? -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Cooker] beta1 is out ?

2003-07-23 Thread Dave Cotton
who to talk to...) For beta 2. Great, because after it's released in the wild I've got quite a few RAID machines with boards with Promise controllers to install or update. -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Cooker] dnotify startup script

2003-07-22 Thread Dave Cotton
in /etc/rc.d/init.d/dnotify. Unless you configure dnotify args it will not start dnotify even if you have it enabled. So it's safe to add to the package and enable by default. :) Does this mean MIME-defang works? -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Cooker] now MIME-defang xas dnotify startup script

2003-07-22 Thread Dave Cotton
On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 10:31, Andi Payn wrote: On Tuesday 22 July 2003 00:30, Dave Cotton wrote: Does this mean MIME-defang works? Apparently. But is it possible to configure it to move all that text except the first sentence to the end of the message? It's a bit annoying to have

Re: [Cooker] now MIME-defang xas dnotify startup script

2003-07-22 Thread Dave Cotton
the sysconfig? I only run all this stuff to test to see if it will help those poor souls who have to use other systems. -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Cooker] Re: Compiling kernels with latest gcc

2003-07-21 Thread Dave Cotton
On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 15:02, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Really does any kernel work with 3.3.1? yes for me : [EMAIL PROTECTED]|~| cat /proc/version Linux version 2.4.21-chmou ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.1 (Mandrake Linux 9.2 3.3.1-0.6mdk

Re: [Cooker] Re: Compiling kernels with latest gcc follow up

2003-07-21 Thread Dave Cotton
On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 18:10, Dave Cotton wrote: My question was with the compiler as it was at the time of the message, (gcc version 3.3.1 (Mandrake Linux 9.2 3.3.1-0.5mdk)) #19 Sun Jul 20 08:04:21 CEST 2003, your signature indicates 0.6mdk that was not the version I was struggling with. Does

Re: [Cooker] So, is someone going to file a bug against...

2003-07-19 Thread Dave Cotton
to someone trying to take us to court. The free publicity would be well worth it. -- Dave Cotton Directeur The Avignon Institute of English

[Cooker] Compiling kernels with latest gcc

2003-07-19 Thread Dave Cotton
is 3.3.1-0.5mdk Any gurus? -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Cooker] Compiling kernels with latest gcc

2003-07-19 Thread Dave Cotton
On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 12:20, M. Ignacio Monge García wrote: Fails with 2.4.22pre7 too. Whoops behind on my updating of kernels. This problem is on Cooker GCC 3.3.1 release 1. Kernel 2.6-test1 doesn't work too. Really does any kernel work with 3.3.1? -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Cooker] Compiling kernels with latest gcc

2003-07-19 Thread Dave Cotton
people had spoken up about the major problem with Promise controllers, 9.1 may not have got out with that problem. Having just tried to install 9.1 on such a machine, I'm not to ready to keep quiet when I hit a show stopper. Dave Cotton

Re: [Cooker] Compiling kernels with latest gcc

2003-07-19 Thread Dave Cotton
someone to point you in the right direction, even if they've heard it all before. -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Graduated as a teacher 33 years ago.

Re: [Cooker] Compiling kernels with latest gcc

2003-07-19 Thread Dave Cotton
be the same with this version of the compiler? -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Cooker] Glide project is dead

2003-07-17 Thread Dave Cotton
it but is this what you want? http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Cooker] Bad package in Contribs

2003-07-16 Thread Dave Cotton
standard. -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Cooker] 2.6 kernel

2003-07-16 Thread Dave Cotton
question, but if it is to test for the kernel team, what possible use could a patched version be? -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Cooker] bad rpms still in contrib from before 5-28-03

2003-07-07 Thread Dave Cotton
/i586/xview-devel-3.2p1.4-8mdk.i586.rpm' removed `/home/Mandrake/contrib/i586/xview-clients-3.2p1.4-8mdk.i586.rpm' removed `/home/Mandrake/contrib/i586/crossfire-client-sounds-1.0.0-4mdk.i586.rpm' Still there on lip6.fr 08/07/2003 makes 'urpmi.update' -a unusable. -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake mail server - Spamassassin Razor

2003-07-02 Thread Dave Cotton
with attachments, etc.. -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Cooker] Scotty3

2003-07-01 Thread Dave Cotton
Many thanks Oden. I can now go back to a personal project that fell out of bed when tkined went belly up with the 8.3/8.4 problem. When I looked it seemed to me that the tkined project was dead. -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] kernel-2.4.21-0.0.1mdk-1-1mdk

2003-06-28 Thread Dave Cotton
. AMD Athlon XP2000 MSI K7T266 Pro2, ext3 file system. -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Cooker] Gimp + contribs

2003-06-27 Thread Dave Cotton
Latest Gimp 1.2.5-1mdk has a contribs dependency perl-File-Slurp. -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Cooker] wish for mdk 9.2: full duplex sound drivers

2003-06-27 Thread Dave Cotton
telephone, and it would be very convenient if MDK had good support for IP telephones. And again. I've got VPNs working, now I need a convincing IP phone. -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Cooker] Can anybody print pdf files in kde?

2003-06-27 Thread Dave Cotton
to print a pdf file from a directory Acroread - Kprinter Got the same long message box clicked OK, just saw another window flash on/off which said cancelled and then nothing. Hope this helps. -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Cooker] Can anybody print pdf files in kde?

2003-06-27 Thread Dave Cotton
: registering 0x820b848, number of objects = 6 That looks about the same as mine. Using the print function of kpdf does not work (As described earlier) Xpdf did work, KGhostView works Does anyone know a good paper recycler? -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Cooker] Can anybody print pdf files in kde?

2003-06-27 Thread Dave Cotton
on something, the Epson and Canon are both on the same parallel port, there is a manual switch. So really the Canon should have swallowed a load of Epson codes and printed pages of garbage. Is it the drivers? What is your printer? -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Cooker] urpmi-4.4-6mdk: can't add file:// urpmi media

2003-06-24 Thread Dave Cotton
Contribs unable to update medium Contribs -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Cooker] Everything not back up yet?

2003-06-20 Thread Dave Cotton
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 20:01, Levi Ramsey wrote: mandrake.redbox.cz missed a day, but I'm updating from there at the moment... try again? lip6.fr is just deluging me with a mass of files at the moment. -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Cooker] Evolution locks hard when a hyperlink is clicked

2003-06-19 Thread Dave Cotton
also got this, with a fully up to date machine, it started just before the Evolution 1.4 update, I'd hoped that it was just a case of something changing out of order and when 1.4 arrived it would disappear. I've been working round it by copying the link into the browser. -- Dave Cotton [EMAIL

Re: [Cooker] ppp is not ipv6 enabled

2003-06-15 Thread Dave Cotton
? -- Dave Cotton Directeur Linux Autrement

Re: [Cooker] ppp is not ipv6 enabled

2003-06-15 Thread Dave Cotton
was having problems getting the Unicorn drivers to compile on 9.1 so I was stuck using 9.0 on the Shuttle that runs the connection to ADSL. -- Dave Cotton Directeur Linux Autrement 193 rue Marcel Cerdan 84270 Vedene 04 90 23 30 81 http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?country=Franceaddress=193%20rue

Re: [Cooker] ppp is not ipv6 enabled

2003-06-15 Thread Dave Cotton
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 23:40, Jason Straight wrote: On Sunday 15 June 2003 12:12, Dave Cotton wrote: I use the Bewan ADSl PCI card and need pppoatm.so, it is also not in ppp as standard, it is in the PLF version but that pppd is not persistant, so that when the ISP drops the line no attempt

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] php-mhash-4.3.2-2mdk

2003-06-12 Thread Dave Cotton
:). And two negatives together? As Victor Borger(?) another non native English speaker said to a woman who criticised his use of English Madam, it's your language I'm just trying to use it. :-) -- Dave Cotton Directeur Linux Autrement 193 rue Marcel Cerdan 84270 Vedene 04 90 23 30 81 http