[Cooker] KDesktop crash - if anyone has a bit of time...

2003-09-11 Thread Paul Dorman
Hi all, now I'm sure this will be resolved real soon, but I'm going a way on holiday next week and I *really* need to know that my users can see their floppy and cdrom icons, and their background while I'm away (and they aren't too familiar with the UN*X file system!). I believe that this

[Cooker] Tiny typo

2003-09-11 Thread Paul Dorman
Hi, when removing kernels using RPM, where there is no LILO entry (commented out for example), I get: not removing entry, entry doesn't exists -- the 's' at the end is very wrong in English. Should be: Not removing LILO entry as it doesn't exist! or something like it. Ciao, Paul.

[Cooker] OpenOffice.org-1.1rc3 performance issue

2003-09-11 Thread Paul Dorman
Hi all, has anyone notice that OpenOffice.org is very sluggish? I have: OpenOffice.org-l10n-en-1.1-0.rc3.2mdk OpenOffice.org-1.1-0.rc3.2mdk OpenOffice.org-help-en-1.1-0.rc3.2mdk OpenOffice.org-libs-1.1-0.rc3.2mdk The only thing that is not installed is the latest Bitstream Vera fonts as they

[Cooker] Printerdrake fails to configure Kyocera FS1010

2003-09-07 Thread Paul Dorman
Hi all, I'll submit a proper bug report on Tuesday, but perhaps someone can fix this before then without too much fuss. I ran printerdrake, which correctly picks up my KyoceraFS1010 laser printer (USB). It also allowed me to configure its settings (page size, etc), but when I went to save the

[Cooker] draksound - a couple of observations

2003-09-07 Thread Paul Dorman
Hi all, am I to understand that draksound is still under heavy development? The console interface is pretty ugly at the moment, and it seems to forget that I want to run ALSA and not OSS after a reboot. Cheers! Paul.

Re: [Cooker] Printerdrake fails to configure Kyocera FS1010

2003-09-07 Thread Paul Dorman
On Monday 08 September 2003 07:10, Paul Dorman wrote: Hi all, I'll submit a proper bug report on Tuesday, but perhaps someone can fix this before then without too much fuss. I ran printerdrake, which correctly picks up my KyoceraFS1010 laser printer (USB). It also allowed me to configure

Re: [Cooker] draksound - a couple of observations

2003-09-07 Thread Paul Dorman
On Monday 08 September 2003 07:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Paul Dorman wrote: Hi all, am I to understand that draksound is still under heavy development? The console interface is pretty ugly at the moment, and it seems to forget that I want to run ALSA and not OSS

Re: [Cooker] XFree86-libs - pb finding.

2003-09-05 Thread Paul Dorman
On Friday 05 September 2003 17:57, Charlie M. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 4, 2003 11:24 pm, guran wrote: Hi I can't upgrade this: ... Some package requested cannot be installed: XFree86-xfs-4.3-21mdk.i586 (due to unsatisfied XFree86-libs[==

Re: [Cooker] drakxtools and printer troubles

2003-09-04 Thread Paul Dorman
On Thursday 04 September 2003 22:39, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Paul Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I start rpmdrake from the console, I get this error on clicking the tree: Can't locate object method iter_has_child via package Gtk2::TreeIter at /usr/lib/libDrakX/ugtk2.pm line

[Cooker] nfs hang

2003-09-04 Thread Paul Dorman
Hi all, just an informal note to see if there's significance to nfs hanging my machine when I'm pulling files from it (using urpmi to update another workstation). Works for a while, then hangs, requiring a reboot. Just as an indicator of severity, the hangs occur after only 20-40 files have

[Cooker] ALSA/OSS selection

2003-09-04 Thread Paul Dorman
Hi all again! I am wondering how difficult it would be to add an audio system section to the Mandrake Control Center. It would: * Allow the user to elect OSS or ALSA as the default (configuring the correct module settings) * Automatic creation of asoundrc * Allow the user to specify how the

Re: [Cooker] drakxtools and printer troubles

2003-09-04 Thread Paul Dorman
On Friday 05 September 2003 08:36, Thierry Vignaud wrote: Paul Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm not sure why I'm still getting the following errors, as they are affecting some of my machines, but not the one I'm at now. They all have been urpmi --auto-select --auto'd from the same

Re: [Cooker] ALSA/OSS selection

2003-09-04 Thread Paul Dorman
On Friday 05 September 2003 08:53, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 21:50, Paul Dorman wrote: Hi all again! I am wondering how difficult it would be to add an audio system section to the Mandrake Control Center. It would: * Allow the user to elect OSS or ALSA

[Cooker] kdesktop crash on login.

2003-09-04 Thread Paul Dorman
Hi all, I've mentioned this before, but it hasn't fixed itself with the past few update rounds, so I thought I'd mention it again. Basically all that is happening is that kdesktop is failing to launch after I login though KDM (with LDAP authentication). I can run kdesktop from the console

Re: [Cooker] ALSA/OSS selection

2003-09-04 Thread Paul Dorman
On Friday 05 September 2003 11:59, Austin wrote: On 09/04/2003 07:43:50 PM, Buchan Milne wrote: On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Austin wrote: * Auto start up of JACK. Nobody wants jack running all the time. No, but it isn't nice for a user to start Ardour from the menu (without starting a

Re: [Cooker] urpmi --auto-select asks too many questions

2003-09-03 Thread Paul Dorman
On Thursday 04 September 2003 10:19, Liam Quin wrote: urpmi now installs RPMs in batches - generally a good improvement. However, if I'm asked, say, package has bad signature, continue anyway? I might be asked that question 10 times. The problem is that I want to leave a urpmi

[Cooker] drakxtools and printer troubles

2003-09-03 Thread Paul Dorman
Hi all, I'm not sure why I'm still getting the following errors, as they are affecting some of my machines, but not the one I'm at now. They all have been urpmi --auto-select --auto'd from the same cooker tree (my local mirror which I *hope* is pretty up to date at the moment!!!). Anyway,

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake problem

2003-09-02 Thread Paul Dorman
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 09:29, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Paul Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, I think this is a 'glitch', rather than a 'bug' :op I have two cooker machines, both up to date. On both machines I have problems with users not being able to see the icons

[Cooker] rpmdrake problem

2003-09-01 Thread Paul Dorman
Hi all, I think this is a 'glitch', rather than a 'bug' :op I have two cooker machines, both up to date. On both machines I have problems with users not being able to see the icons and background on their desktop, or have the right-click menu from the desktop. There's just the default blue

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

2003-09-01 Thread Paul Dorman
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 07:43, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 13:14, Dave Cotton wrote: 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. I mean, there's not

Re: [Cooker] More mirror madness

2003-08-28 Thread Paul Dorman
The plea is always please test, give us the means to test and we will. Well, i think that people forget that mandrake employees are working. They do not break mirrors for pleasure, and they are fully aware of the problem. Do you really think they try to slow down the test ? to annoy

Re: [Cooker] [REQUEST] OpenOffice.org 1.1 RCx inclusion

2003-08-27 Thread Paul Dorman
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 22:39, Buchan Milne wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vincent Meyer, MD wrote: Works here - we NEED this in this release if at all possible. I think (based on some previous mails) that Gwenole is probably working very hard on this, which is why he's

Re: [Cooker] Do we have or need a mime type or file associations manager?

2003-08-26 Thread Paul Dorman
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 16:42, Ben Reser wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 06:14:54PM +1200, Paul Dorman wrote: Hi all, I'm thinking that a graphical mime type manager would be incredibly useful. It could be just like Konqueror's mime type manager, but be desktop environment agnostic

KDE desktop probs -- was Re: [Cooker] kde problem with latest cooker

2003-08-25 Thread Paul Dorman
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 23:02, Bernard Varaine wrote: Since upgrading kd as of last night cooker kde doesn't start anymore get an empty desktop with no menu, no icons nothing.. icewm, enlightment work fine. Any idea on what I should look for ? Bernard My KDE starts up fine, other than a

[Cooker] Do we have or need a mime type or file associations manager?

2003-08-25 Thread Paul Dorman
Hi all, I'm thinking that a graphical mime type manager would be incredibly useful. It could be just like Konqueror's mime type manager, but be desktop environment agnostic, and capable of global and per-user operation. One of the hassles I have whenever I'm changing workstation configurations

Re: [Cooker] [REQUEST] OpenOffice.org 1.1 RCx inclusion

2003-08-25 Thread Paul Dorman
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 06:25, Jan Ciger wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Simon Oosthoek wrote: |OO 1.1 provide several interesting features and bugfixes, better office |format compatibility and seems very stable. It will be disappointed if |it is not shipped with 9.2

Re: [Cooker] Mirror madness

2003-08-21 Thread Paul Dorman
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 20:29, Warly wrote: Paul Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, I understand that mirror issues have been discussed many times before, but I would really like to get to the bottom of the current situation (and have an up-to-date cooker mirror as well!!). Yes we

[Cooker] Mirror madness

2003-08-20 Thread Paul Dorman
Hi all, I understand that mirror issues have been discussed many times before, but I would really like to get to the bottom of the current situation (and have an up-to-date cooker mirror as well!!). It looks to me like a whole bunch of rpms have disappeared from the mirrors, for example the

2.6 kernel module 8139too.ko - was [Cooker] 2.6-tips and docs

2003-08-20 Thread Paul Dorman
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 02:10, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: [...] It doesn't load 8139too, and maybe cause of that I have completely empy routing-table when I do netstat -rn not even localhost seen? Usually I see three or four entries in netstat -rn. I also see following: error, some other host

[Cooker] printerdrake crash

2003-08-14 Thread Paul Dorman
variable is not of type Gtk2::TreeIter at /usr/lib/libDrakX/interactive/gtk.pm line 217. Can someone point me to the fix? Let me know if I can supply any more information. Thankyou! Thankyou! Paul Dorman.

[Cooker] Hunting out utility

2003-07-21 Thread Paul Dorman
drop off directories where my users can dump .eps files, which are then automatically converted to .pdf files by a script I have written. I know there is a utility which does this, but I'm unable to find it. Thanks in advance for any pointers! Best regards, Paul Dorman.

Re: [Cooker] Hunting out utility

2003-07-21 Thread Paul Dorman
it automatically run when one of the users dumps a file in the 'input' directory. Ciao, Paul. On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 09:58, Buchan Milne wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Dorman wrote: Hi all, I've been hunting around the Net for a utility which automatically executes

Re: [Cooker] Hunting out utility

2003-07-21 Thread Paul Dorman
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 11:34, Gary L. Greene wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 21 July 2003 05:58 pm, Buchan Milne wrote: Paul Dorman wrote: Hi all, I've been hunting around the Net for a utility which automatically executes scripts whenever a file

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 9.1 Should be Delayed

2003-03-07 Thread Paul Dorman
Andi Payn wrote: On Thursday 06 March 2003 22:00, Paul Dorman wrote: Or what about some kind of p2p solution? Where -light machines are networked to and updated from other -light machines across the net? Checksumming and other tools could be used to address security concerns. You

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 9.1 Should be Delayed

2003-03-07 Thread Paul Dorman
Levi Ramsey wrote: On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Andi Payn wrote: A compromise might be to do a QA'd sub-release of Cooker every two months, rather than every six months. A single team can work on a project with release dates this short, spending a couple of weeks in freeze every two months. I think

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 9.1 Should be Delayed

2003-03-06 Thread Paul Dorman
Buchan Milne wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Dorman wrote: [Rant on] Whilst I am confident that the Mandrake developers can get this version pretty polished by the current release date, I do think that Tim has an important point with regards to calling these things

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 9.1 Should be Delayed

2003-03-06 Thread Paul Dorman
Andi Payn wrote: snip And no development project can stay in release mode all the time, without separate branches for blue-sky/experimental/unstable work. So really, you'd need to split Mandrake development into three branches instead of two: 9.1 upgrades, a mostly-stable pre-9.2 Cooker, and

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 9.1 Should be Delayed

2003-03-05 Thread Paul Dorman
Timothy R. Butler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to what I understand, Warly is reporting that Mandrake Linux 9.1 will be finalized no later than March 14. In my opinion, this could very well be a death sentence for MandrakeSoft. Quite frankly, Mandrake 9.1 has

[Cooker] XFree86-4.3 compilation prob

2003-02-13 Thread Paul Dorman
the true source of this so I can get this done. I recompiled XFree86 five times yesterday, and even if I use --short-circuit -bc I'm still going to wait quite a bit before I know if the bug is fixed. Thankyou very very much for your time and ... your solution! Best regards, Paul Dorman. PS Just

Re: [Cooker] What happened to the program more?

2003-01-30 Thread Paul Dorman
It was probably replaced with less, which is more or less more, but a bit more (a.f.a.i.k). Paul. Salane wrote: After seeing the program dog( as in a more powerful form of cat) in contribs I was wondering, what happened to the program more?

[Cooker] Resizing ext3 partition

2002-08-08 Thread Paul Dorman
give me the option to shrink the partition. Is this the correct procedure? What action would you recommend? Thanks in advance, Paul Dorman. Mdk9 is looking real nice, btw...

[Cooker] X in a mess. Challenge for experts...

2001-01-16 Thread Paul Dorman
luck. Any help would be really, REALLY appreciated, as I'm stuck in Windows until I get my beloved X back. Thanks so much in advance. Best regards, Paul Dorman.

Re: [Cooker] 7.2beta linuxconf broke

2000-10-11 Thread Paul Dorman
I get the same thing if I try the network configuration functions... Jason Straight wrote: linuxconf-1.21r1-2mdk When I open the graphical linuxconf from DrakConf and go into filesystems local - add it segs out. [root@jeetkunedo 1]# linuxconf Error message from remadmin :X Error of

[Cooker] profile

2000-08-23 Thread Paul Dorman
Hi there, I'm wondering why it is that changes to /etc/profile and ~/.profile don't seem to have any bearing on my environment variables. I need to be able to set these for my QTDIR and Java directories. If I have a PATH=$PATH:/some/directory and export PATH in my either one of these files,

[Cooker] Init hassle

2000-05-29 Thread Paul Dorman
runleve: 3 INIT: Entering runlevel: 3 INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel What's the story here? Is this some new take on the init process? Any assistance will be appreciated. Best regards, Paul Dorman.