Please bear with me !
I am soon to loose my Cable-modem connection
due to relocation to interior Alaska and need
some advice or ?
There had been some discussion of hd img installation
and problems. Is that still true?
Basically in two-three weeks I will be back to model T status
and would like
I may have seen a thread recently but it now elludes me
I experienced this problem several months ago
with an 'oxygen' variation and now with 7.0/Cooker
It has just occurred and even 'three-fingers' gets:
"no authorized users logged in"
I do not know which new rpm, in Cooker or contribs might
Recent attempt to alter msec settings in
7.0/Cooker
I also cant find the custom.sh setting file
I once had? I have been out of touch for a while
so probably I am totally missing the obvious again?
[root@mentastacenter /root]# DrakConf
Can't load '/usr/lib/libDrakX/auto/c/stuff/stuff.so' for
Pixel wrote:
WH Bouterse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
/usr/lib/libDrakX/auto/c/stuff/stuff.so: undefined symbol: fdio at
upgrade your rpm
I continue to be amazed. I also missed the
switch of 'custom.sh' to /usr/share/msec and
was looking for it in the /etc/security/msec
A few days
XFree86
#unpacking of archive failed
on file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rstart: cpio: unlink failed - Bad file
descriptor
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Its interesting. All the others in Contrib
XFree86-4.0-3mdk did the -Uvh okay.
What
Since my original post which did generate
some feedback, I am now to the point of:
Has anyone successfully installed the
mdkrpms from the Contrib sites? (With no probs?)
My X system is totally screwed up and trying
the 'XF86Config' from the command line did not
"do it" for me. I am about
Thierry Vignaud wrote:
You want to test beta software (yes beta as XFree86-4 is (at this
moment) not as well tested as 3.3.x releases, which requires time,
people and hardware). So you should have known that there may be bugs or
problems.
Yes absolutely and thats why its on my favorite
[root@mentastacenter bill2]# rpm -Uvh autoirpm-0.3-2mdk.i586.rpm
autoirpm
##
Died at /usr/sbin/autoirpm.uninstall line 8.
execution of script failed
This paticular message is a new one for me !
William Bouterse
Alaska
Hangs on reboot at 'Starting X Font Server' with
:(su) session opened for user xfs by (uid=0)
:_FontTrans
:SocketINETCreateListener: Unable to get service for -1
:_FontTransMakeALLCOTSServerListeners: failed to create listener for tcp
:FontCachInitialize:hi=1048576, lo=786433 bal=70
HOWEVER, I
geoffrey lee wrote:
re:xsane
gtk based program it seems...have you ever tried it out before?
geoff.
I have used xsane with several versions of Mandrake and RH for over 2
years.
It works very well for me with gimp and vintage ScanMaker E3 with scsi.
The features in the latest versions are
Chmouel Boudjnah wrote:
Alex Adriaanse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Will XFree86 4.0 be included with the next version of Mandrake?
Right now we have only in the contrib. XFree86 change a lot of
things.
Getting the XFree 4 rpms from Contrib/Cooker 3/13/00
Attempting the basic rpm -Uvh
Did the -Uvh thing for
hackgimp-1.1.18-2mdk and sane-1.0.2-1mdk
They all installed flawlessly, Good job.
Now to see if Xsane integrates properly.
Has anyone considered an mdk rpm for it?
I'm "code challenged" or would attempt it.
http://www.wolfsburg.de/~rauch/sane/sane-xsane.html
The
Nitin Raja Bhatia wrote:
use the --nodeps
Okay so far so good even with boocoo messages
Will scream for help if the water gets too deep :)
[root@mentastacenter bill2]# rpm --force --nodeps -Uvh XFree*
XFree86-libs
##
geoffrey lee wrote:
hi,
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Camille Begnis
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2000 8:19 PM
To: cooker liste
Subject: [Cooker] Feature freeze mdk-rpm now online
Hi all,
On a more mundane note;
For
hackgimp-1.1.18 + dev + libgimp all installed
over 1.1.17 but it took a --force and --nodeps this time.
Attempting to rpm -Uvh sane-1.0.2-1mdk* gives me...
"libgimp.so.1 is needed by sane-1.0.2-1mdk"
What would be the next step for me?
(yeah I know quite hacking around with non-standard rpms)
Alexandre Dussart wrote:
Hi,
New version of Lothar available.
Lothar 0.6.2
I am spacing it?
No new lothar at cooker sites that
I can find. Or Whats happening to my
cognitive abilities?
Where is lothar?
William Bouterse
from.
Does that help?
Don Head
Linux Mentor
Wave Technologies, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[AIM - Don Wave][ICQ - 18804935]
[IRC - EFnet, #WaveTech, Don-Wave]
-Original Message-
From: WH Bouterse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 3:58 PM
To: [EMAIL
Pablo Saratxaga wrote:
Kaixo!
On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 09:28:59AM -0900, WH Bouterse wrote:
"cannot remove /usr/lib/rpm directory no empty"
I get these now and them with other rpm -Uvh
That is due to an rpm pckage owning a given directory, and its update
not owning it (
David Faure wrote:
On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 11:27:35AM +1100, Ron Stodden wrote:
I have been using
ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake-devel/contrib/
Unfortunately, that site will not accept kfm as a browser.
Really ? Sounds like a bug to me...
What does kfm print in the
The fsv-0.9-1.i386.rpm works (albiet slowly)
on my oldest, slowest machine with LM-6.1 and extras
The fsv-0.9-1mdk rpm from contribs on my faster machine
with LM7.0x/Cooker does not perform as well.
It gave no error messages while installing.
My initial attempt to install the non-mdk rpm
on
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Try getting the cooker (development version of Linux-Mandrake distribution)
version of ghostscript, it is 5.50 (the GNU one) including driver for
HP850. This means the next version of Linux-Mandrake will have it.
I tried this out on my hybrid cooker/7.0 machine.
To
Thanks for the help and info
ghostscript-5.50-4mdk
shostscript-fonts
ghostscriptBoth
all appear to have installed correctly on
both my 7.0/cooker and LM 6.1 machines.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do upgrade one by one, there is an error for ghostscript-5.50-4mdk.i586.rpm, try
checking the
I got the spec rpm installed alright with
latest 2/28 version from cooker, the
earlier one refused to obey
Still gave the "does not appear to be an rpm"
but installed anyway!?
The rpm -Uvh rpm* following got the
rpm-3.0.4-0.4mdk group installed afterwards but...
"cannot remove
I attempt to rpm -Uvh DrakConf-0.34-2mdk
I get the "DrakConf-0.34-12mdk is newer" message.
Should I go ahead and --force ?
William Bouterse
Okay I guess I must speak out about this too :\
Of all the lists I subscribe to the
Mandraksoft related ones seem to garner the award
for most SPAM per week.
I have become an outspoken supporter
of Linux_Mandrake and it is somewhat
embarassing to try and answer others questions
about the
Well from "clueless in Juneau"
The netscape 4.72-1mdk common and communicator rpms
installed and ran okay on my test hybrid 7.0/cooker
No messages of any kind !?
So far so good at that machine anyway !
William Bouterse
Juneau Alaska
about ??
--
.. Tom Brinkman,
I have actually had decent success with the last Opera release
as well. Would like to try that cvs semi-stable version of Mozilla.
The M13 tgz was much worse than M12 on my machine
"Brian J. Murrell" wrote:
from the quill of WH Bouterse [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Here in Juneau we have cable modem access
so downloading massive files quickly is not so
much a problem. However;
We may be relocating to the interior in a more
remote area which has only a 2.2kps connection
if you are lucky. Others who are much more
knowledgable than I are in this same
Using DrakConf-0.34-12mdk for the first time in
a couple of weeks I noticed that the 'mousedrake'?
button is missing.
I do have /usr/bin/mousedrake
And 'mouseconfig' works as well.
Is it hiding out somewhere on my machine?
Somewhere in the Alaskan bush perhaps?:)
I was going to do an rpm -e and
Thanks ! Sorry I missed that one :o/
Pixel wrote:
WH Bouterse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Attempting to rpm -Uvh icewm*
gives me missing '/usr/sbin/install-menu' ?
I have no such item in /usr/sbin
this is a some new stuff added by fredl, you need package menu
'menu-2.1.5-2mdk needs libpopt.so.0'
Now what did I miss this time.
Three days away from the techno-world
and I become even more clueless:)
I thought I checked everything !?
in rpmfind.net-cooker.
Also ChangeLog-List?
WH Bouterse
, geoffrey lee wrote:
On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, WH Bouterse wrote:
Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
as soon as we
finger something out for the space
problem we'll let you know (aka, plead
for drakx testers ;)
Is this an "inter-office" effort or a
call to cooker-people?
to the cooker and d
I remember seeing the openssl and/or SSLeay? rpms that
work with webmin-0.77-1mdk of "Cooker-Contrib" to get it
to do the https "thing".
Anyone got these working properly together?
(And point me to their location?)
Using hybridized Cooker/L-M7.0x
Thanks
William Bouterse
Juneau Alaska
Works for me ! :o)
Good Work!!
A couple questions;
I noticed the Soundcard Icon doesn't show
anything on my setup?
The Disk Icon recognizes my Maxtor and ID#
but not the 12-13 gigs.?
Is this all normal?
Anyhow Looking good these days, the GUI will
be a great help to "show and tell" for
All is available here:
ftp:/ftp.mandrakesoft.com/pub/lothar/RPMS/i586 (rpms for i586)
ftp:/ftp.mandrakesoft.com/pub/lothar/SOURCES(for sources n tar.bz2)
ftp:/ftp.mandrakesoft.com/pub/lothar/SRPMS (source rpm)
Please test them, and reports any bugs/suggestion/corrections here.
# This report has been generated by detect 0.9.34
#
Lothar still core dumps whether isa skip or not
It does start to bring up a window this time before crash.
# This report has been generated by detect 0.9.34
CPU: GenuineIntel: Pentium MMX:233:HAS_FPU:HAS_MMX:NO_3DNOW: 466.94:f00f
What's detect output?:
root@mentastacenter lothar# detect
detect 0.9.33
tried it as user with root password
tried it as root both from;
commandline 'lothar'
and from gnome menu
and from kde terminal and xterm
All attempts whether skipping isa detect
or choosing isa detect
gets to
Controller:1.44MB 3"5:/dev/fd0
CDROM:ATAPI/IDE:FX120T:/dev/hdb
VIDEO:PCI:Cirrus Logic:GD 5464 [Laguna] :SVGA:256:(null):(null)
ETHERNET:ISA:Xerox Corporation:SN2000:ne
MOUSE:PS/2:/dev/psaux
Port: /dev/lp0 (dos: LPT0) Type: Parallel
WH Bouterse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
tried it as
Just curious why XSane is not included with
Cooker/Mandrake. Its a very well designed
front end for SANE and the designer/programmer
is quite helpful. I have been using it for
a couple of years now and its latest
incarnation is EXCELLENT !!!
It makes my old Microtek E3 perform nicely.
A question brought on by recently installing
L-M on a new users system, a recent convert
from the "Empire". How to make a basic, no
recompile "clickable" kernel from the "update" icon
on desktop; whereas no compiling,pointing to /boot,
sustem-map,new,old, lilo-hand editing etc.
would be
I presently have my hybridized
L-M 7.0+Cooker+kde1+kde2 functioning
in a somewhat reasonable manner. Have recently
down an upgrade of the latest rpms except
for kernel, kde1 and XFree86.
This has been a "slash and burn" some force/nodeps,
but all in all produces decent results.
For example I am
Use ssh2 if you are able.
sftp works in sync with ssh2 and
you must be root or su to run it.
Works well for me. A little slow over
modem connection due to 102x bit encryption
but what the heck. Cable modem or lan isnt bad.
Would really be nice to see some how to's on how i can do a remote
I don't usually do "straight comments"
on techo-issues being the "Clue-less-One" but
seeing that even staff of MandrakeSoft have a
varience of opinions is a good sign in my opinion.
Many of you have helped me out at one time or another,
as I progressed from 6.0-6.1-7.0bOxygen-7.0Air-
Working with Cooker and Contribs;
A reboot has given me a working version
of kde2 and koffice and konquerer. Everything is not totally
spiffo of course but I can access the basic functions
though some icons are missing due to who knows what.
All in all I am impresed, especially not being a
kde
David! You said,
It's because of msec I believe.. may have been the SysVinit
package too.
find is searching for modified files which could indicate
files with
a trojan in them... personally i hate it, which is why i do
custom...
I was interested in your comment about
'find' and 'custom'.
The last week or two with 6.1 evolving
into 7.0b and now 7.0 I can see as many
as 6-8 'finds' running during a 'top' session
periodically. Theres a big hit on cpu then
all quiets down and is "normal" again.
I don't ever remember this happening with 6.0 or 6.1?
Is it due to my 'msec'
telinit 6
will take it down, at least it did for me!
I had the same prob a couple weeks ago with
one of the 7.0b versions but a newer version
rpm cured it for me. Just wish I could
remember which rpm it was!?
By the way at least several people had the same problem,
in earlier releases of 7.0b
Okay I'll quit struggling and ask:
Cannot install the latest netscape 4.70-6mdkrpm
on L-M7.0b-5? To my knowledge All lib-rpms
are installed from 7.0b.
I read about this problem somewhere else ?
It's the ol-compat-glib 5.3-2.0.7.4 needed and not found.
Have not had this kind of problem with
# rpm -Uvh compat-glibc-5.3-2.0.7.5mdk.i586.rpm
# compat-glibcunpacking of archive failed
on file /usr/i386-glibc20-linux:
cpio: unlink failed - Is a directory
'rpm --force --nodeps -Uvh compat-glibc-5.3-2.0.7.5mdk.i586.rpm'
had the same results. Also 'ivh' no luck
I got the rpms from
Well evidently due to some new legal snafu's
The formal 7.0 release now has ;
MySQL_GPL-3.20.32a-1
While contribs has;
MySQL-3.22.25-6
So I am really in the North now ToTo?
Duh, you got me again on this one :o)
Could some gifted MySQL person offer
some suggestions to less evolved
Mandrake
Xconfigurator-4.2.10-3mdk
mouseconfig-4.1-5mdk
setup -2.0.6-15mdk
XFree86-3.3.6-4mdk
XFree86-SVGA-3.3.6-4mdk
This is L-M 6.1 7.0b upgrade
rpm by rpm. Everything major
has settled down but continuing
to have Xconfigurator probs.
No probs with 6.1 with screen rez and mouse
#Xconfigurator
The Modem itself is a ComPort 21
my ISP and Cable Modem Provider is anchorageak.net
a subsidiary of gci.net
I do not know their specific "protocol"?
I could ask if more info is needed,
just would need to know "what to ask!?"
This is the provider I have often lambasted
in the Linux-Mandrake
Trying MouseDrake with several WM's
I continue to find it freezes up and I have to
ctrl-alt-BackSpace
However 'mouseconfig' works fine and recognizes mouse.
'Mouse Systems serial'
The 'emulate three button' is checked
I have a three button one and whether I
leave it checked or unchecked it
I have mouseconfig-4.1-5mdk rpm installed
It's a Mouse Systems serial three button, usually works fine BUT;
Attempting to access MouseDrake locks it up
Also at different resolutions the curser disappears
i.e. lets say #startx -bpp24 -- :3
ctrl-alt+or-
The finer resolution lets say 1024x768
make
I'm hitting the "no authorized user logged in"
message on a hybrid L-M6.1 with 7.0Beta Upgrade.
Looking in the archives I saw the add
/etc/shutdown.allow then the 'shutdown -a'
command, but it only got me to a single user shell.
I still had to do a 'telinit 6' to actually
shutdown and
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