Re: [Cooker] KDE 3.2 beta1 - KDM Session Type Selection

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For me it works fine if I choose "Default". Well, it depends on what you want to get for "Default". If I go through the drakfw wizard and choose GNOME, that's what I expect to get the next time. But that aside, the problem is that no matter what WM you choose expli

Re: [Cooker] KDE 3.2 beta1 - KDM Session Type Selection

Michael Lothian wrote: I'm suffering the same problem. I just installed KDE 3.2 beta 1 from Cooker (kdebase-kdm 3.1.93 -23mdk) and I have found a problem with KDM session type selection. It just doesn't work. It always starts IceWM even if I select something else. Is this a known problem? Is

Re: [Cooker] Orphan files ?

Leon Brooks wrote: Try this: rm -vf /var/lib/rpm/__db.00* rpm --rebuilddb I'll be happy to, but one of the reasons to post this was to see if anybody wanted a snapshot of the existing files that seem to cause urpmi to recognize that the package is installed but neither urpmf nor rpmdr

Re: [Cooker] Orphan files ?

Leon Brooks wrote: $ rpm -qf /usr/bin/update-menus menu-2.1.5-123mdk [EMAIL PROTECTED] ftg]# rpm -qf /usr/bin/update-menus menu-2.1.5-124mdk

Re: [Cooker] Orphan files ?

James Sparenberg wrote: An alternative. rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/bin/update-menus [EMAIL PROTECTED] ftg]# rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/bin/update-menus menu-2.1.5-124mdk

Re: [Cooker] Orphan files ?

James Sparenberg wrote: urpmf /usr/bin/update-menus will give you the package that includes that file. Michael Altizer wrote: It seems as though this should work. Using urpmf --files update-menus returns the following results: menu:/usr/bin/update-menus menu:/usr/share/man/man1/update-men

[Cooker] Orphan files ?

I'm looking for some guidance on trying to find the package which owns a file. Several times now when I've had a problem with a particular executable or one of the initialization script files, I've tried to find the owning package for purposes of filing a bug report by using rpmdrake's seach on

[Cooker] No KDE app menu entries in GNOME ?

I've just done a new installation from a Monday (Nov. 10) refresh of cooker, and I'm finding that the launcher in GNOME no longer contains any entries for KDE apps, such as Kate, KCalc, etc. I'm sure these were there in the 9.2 RCs, since I always add them to my panel. Have these disappeared b

Re: [Cooker] Test - please ignore

I have just done a "Reply" and not a "Reply All" so you can see that something is getting through. -- Regards Frank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 Quel Qun wrote: I got two successive delivery failure :(

Re: [Cooker] [9.2] misleading : Press Y within 5 seconds File system check

FACORAT Fabrice wrote: I suffer from this too. But normally this has been corrected. If you launch filesystem check, the system should reboot automatically after. There are two interpretations for "misleading" here. The original complaint was that the message gave the impression you had to f

Re: [Cooker] Boot-up speed

Buchan Milne wrote: Only load services when they're needed (or after gui is up) I think that's what WinXP does. It's not that simple. For me to be able to log in (on my desktop in a LAN), I need at least NFS (ie portmap, nfslock) and autofs up and running. For a disconnected LDAP setup (see the

Re: [Cooker] Boot-up speed

Jos wrote: I did some testing myself, working on something similar, though I still don't know what people prefer: that I hack init, or replace /etc/rc.d/rc by a binary... Is the problem that the necessary initializations take too long, or that they take too long when run serially under a sin

[Cooker] No kernels on uninett ?

I resync'd cooker with ftp.uninett.no about an hour ago, and found that all of my .15 kernels were deleted with no replacements. Sure enough, all of the cooker kernel files (except for the docs) are gone from the mirror. I've continued to check over the past hour, so this isn't a case of an u

Re: [Cooker] 9.2 cannot produce a floppy boot disk.

Randy Welch wrote: Only problem is that it will only find the first installed linux on your disk. My test installs are always in later partitions. The rescue image tends to find the first one it sees. (so on my system it would see my 9.1 install instead of the 9.2... I almost never tell re

Re: [Cooker] 9.2 cannot produce a floppy boot disk.

Ron Stodden wrote: Buchan Milne wrote: Rescue is available for network and hd installs. Have you tried it? I have used it a few times on a network install. That´s news to me. Pray tell us how rescue is initiated from an hd or network install, and where that is so unmissably documented that I

[Cooker] Incomplete 22.12 kernel move

I updated cooker this morning from uninett.no several times until I got no activity, and have been updating with no activity for several hours now, so I believe I have everything available. The rsync update deleted the .10 kernel and downloaded the .12 kernels, but when I copy hd.img to a flop

[Cooker] Isolinux broken

In current cooker (and for several days now), booting isolinux to do a hard drive install fails on my notebook. You go through specifying the drive location, get "second stage" and "probing serial ports", several lines of stuff that flies by too fast to read, and the a dead black screen. A har

Re: [Cooker] MakeCD creating 9 ISOs ?

Greg Meyer wrote: use -c switch to control number of iso's. Yes, but without knowing how the content has changed from the days when the same command produced 3 full CDs and one partially full CD, it's hard to pick the correct number.

[Cooker] MakeCD creating 9 ISOs ?

Apologies if I somehow missed this thread, but how come ./MakeCD -t /data -a /data/cooker/i586 which used to produce 4 650MB ISO images is now producing 9 ? Is mkcd including all of contrib now ?

Re: [Cooker] resigning pending

Warly wrote: For rc2, but there should not be many packages unsigned. You might want to spell that "re-signing" to avoid scaring the hell out of us

Re: [Cooker] about shorewall update

Adam Williamson wrote: Block everything is just about the most sensible default I can think of, given that there's no port that all or even most users will want open. I guess it depends upon what you're doing. In my case, the default settings blocked traffic to my gateway, both in and out, an

Re: [Cooker] about shorewall update

J.A. Magallon wrote: I think shorewall does something strange on update. I had shorewall installed on a box, but not active. After an update with urpmi, the updated package auto activated itself Shorewall has become a major pain since sometime in the 8.2 - 9.0 timeframe when somebody decided to m

Re: [Cooker] Expert install from isoliunx ?

Buchan Milne wrote: Hmmm, you should have given us this info before ... since you can't use both isolinux and lilo (they are both bootloaders, isolinux is for booting from CDs), I assume you are bootstrapping your install from lilo? If so, you need to provide the parameters isolinux would normally

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

Paul Dorman wrote: On Thursday 04 September 2003 10:19, Liam Quin wrote: 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 --auto-select running, not having to check up on it every few

Re: [Cooker] Expert install from isoliunx ?

Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: That's how I'm used to doing it from floppy image boots, but I tried twice and couldn't find anyplace in the isolinux sequence which mentioned the possibility of hitting F1. Where do I do that ? In the bootloader stage. Very first graphical image of mandrake. When

Re: [Cooker] Expert install from isoliunx ?

Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Frank Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sorry if this is a dumb question, but is there any way to do an expert install from an isolinux boot ? I can't seem to find anyplace to request it F1 then "linux expert"? That's how

[Cooker] Expert install from isoliunx ?

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but is there any way to do an expert install from an isolinux boot ? I can't seem to find anyplace to request it

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

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 necessarily going to be any ne

Re: [Cooker] Re: Main mirror BROKEN AGAIN!!!!!

David Walser wrote: Did sunet ever fix their timestamps? Last I checked (it wasn't recently) all of sunet's timestamps were off by an hour. I don't know. When I switched to it, it downloaded quite a bit, and that may be why.

Re: [Cooker] Whole Day Shot Trying HD & Network Installation

Felix Miata wrote: Eventually I got set up for NFS install, and that won't even get out of text mode. Each time, right after entering server IP and directory it just sits there, and on tty3, last line I see is 'preparing nfsmount for [IP]:[dir]', and no evidence that SCSI ever loaded. Has SCSI sup

Re: [Cooker] Main mirror BROKEN AGAIN!!!!!

Austin wrote: Is uninett.no the only server with rsync ? No, ftp.sunet.se uses it as well, and at the moment appears to be in much better shape than uninett. My sync hasn't finished yet, so I don't know how good "much better" actually is...

Re: [Cooker] More mirror madness

Adam Williamson wrote: I see about five people posting to the list moaning about the mirrors, so I don't post to the list moaning about the mirrors. Why would I? I think the point is that what you *don't* see is a single post saying "this is what's going on, and this is when we think it will be

Re: [Cooker] resigning some packages

Warly wrote: Some mirroring traffic may be generated. I guess that explains why about 400MB of RPMs disappeared in the last hour from uninett with no replacements ! :-)

Re: [Cooker] Software submission for the Mandrake distribution

Pierre Jarillon wrote: I agree too. But I have another reason : such a software on the same computer is a fantastic SECURITY HOLE ! It allows to write on protected files. I remember such a software for windows95 which allows to acces to ext2. Please don't spread this software ... and use reise

Re: [Cooker] Missing gmp, klips packages in contrib

Luca Berra wrote: the subject should have read: broken super-freeswan package in contrib. super-freeswan isn't broken unless it doesn't really need those packages. If it needs them and they aren't there, then the problem is that they aren't there. Are there guidelines/rules for coding subject

[Cooker] Missing gmp, klips packages in contrib

[EMAIL PROTECTED] i586]# urpmi super-freeswan installing /data/contrib/i586/super-freeswan-1.99_kb2c-1mdk.i586.rpm Installation failed: gmp is needed by super-freeswan-1.99_kb2c-1mdk klips >= 1.99_kb2c is needed by super-freeswan-1.99_kb2c-1mdk klips-alg >= 1.99_kb2c is needed

[Cooker] Today's urpmi woes

Autoconf 2.13-18 isn't being recognized as 2.13: The following packages have to be removed for others to be upgraded: kdevelop-2.1.5-10mdk.i586 (due to unsatisfied autoconf == 2.13) libkdevelop2-2.1.5-10mdk.i586 (due to unsatisfied kdevelop == 3:2.1.5-10mdk) (y/N) but... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ftg]$

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake vs. urpmi weirdness

Frank Griffin wrote: I'll try it on a fresh cooker install. The one I did it on was up to date for today, but the install was from a few days ago and I had been keeping it current with urpmi. Well. I will as soon as the install gets fixed so that X (and therefore rpmdrake) can be run

Re: [Cooker] Old cooker packages not being deleted ?

Rolf Pedersen wrote: I thought rsync was stating this was due to RPMS3 and RPMS4 on the mirrors: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker&m=106027621928253&w=2 also reported here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker&m=106033173610904&w=2 and here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake vs. urpmi weirdness

Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: So, the problem appears to be in the FlashPlayer RPM, Maybe you could report that to the author of the RPM then? Thanks! Happy to, but the maximum info display in rpmdrake Changelog just lists * Thu Dec 12 2002 Mandrake Linux Team

Re: [Cooker] hd.img without floppy ?

Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: Could all of that be put into a tarball with every update, or maybe in a rpm? It is easier and faster to just do everything on the harddisk, in stead of writing floppies or even burning cd's. And in the case of floppies, a had disk install can be from a bigger initrd dis

Re: [Cooker] 9.2 "MEDIAS" -> MEDIA

Adam Williamson wrote: If you were really trying to Anglify it you'd say "mediums" But that's already taken. "Medium" has several meanings in English. One is that of an underlying transport for information, in which case the plural is "media". That's the one we're talking about here. "Mediu

[Cooker] Packaging errors as of today

The following occur in today's cooker: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ftg]# urpmi --no-verify-rpm squid Some package requested cannot be installed: squid-2.5.STABLE3-2mdk.i586 (due to unsatisfied perl(Authen::Smb)) (Y/n) Everything already installed [EMAIL PROTECTED] ftg]# urpmi --no-verify-rpm mon Some packag

Re: [Cooker] Flash plugin

Adam Williamson wrote: You can't do that without nuking most of your installation, as it uninstalls the other version of libstdc++, which tons of packages depend on. Actually, I was able to do it on current cooker, but not my "stable" cooker from May 18. On current cooker, you can force it on

Re: [Cooker] 9.2 "MEDIAS" -> MEDIA

Robert L martin wrote: And to bring it to point since RED HAT wouldn't dare attempt to sell a distro with some french word misspelled i think Mandrake should extend the same "curtesy". I'm sure you've got a point here, but I obviously missed whatever it referred to... (and as requested in 4/4

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake vs. urpmi weirdness

Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Is it reproducable with another package? Here I can see no problems.. I did a fresh install this morning, went to a root command line, added the Club Commercial site as a media, and did urpmi FlashPlayer This got the same error that I reported for rpmdrake. Whe

Re: [Cooker] MDKKDM fails dependencies/ GDM mis-installed

Frank Griffin wrote: In this morning's cooker, MDKKDM fails install with the following error: mdkkdm-9.1-28mdk.i586 due to missing kdebase-kdm-config-file-3.1.3-4mdk.i586 An expert install installs GDM without indicating that MDKKDM had an error, and on reboot the resulting GDM initia

Re: [Cooker] 9.2 "MEDIAS" -> MEDIA

Pierre Jarillon wrote: IMHO, won't be fixed... for another reason: In latin, media is a plural. But we don't speak latin anymore. This word is imported in several langages. Then the word follows usual rules of its new langage. Sorry, but "media" is considered plural in English as well, with t

[Cooker] hd.img without floppy ?

Just an idle, uninformed question, but is there any way to tell a Mandrake install boot (whether from CD or floppy with maybe old hd.img on it) to "reboot-in-place" using the hd.img from a local disk cooker mirror ? The object being not to have to create new hd.img boot floppies all of the tim

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake vs. urpmi weirdness

Charles A Edwards wrote: Had you not used --allow-force urpmi would have given you the same error as did rpmdrake. That's not what I would expect. From the man page: --allow-force Allow urpmi to ask user to continue installation using no depen- dencies checkin

Re: [Cooker] How to dump current rpm db for install ?

Ben Reser wrote: Not really. However you could do: rpm -qa --qf '%{NAME}\n' > package.list Then run urpmi for each package name after the install: for package in `cat package.list`; do urpmi "$package" done You'll have some that won't exist anymore (libraries for example with changing major names

[Cooker] rpmdrake vs. urpmi weirdness

I just tried to install the MandrakeClub Commercial FlashPlayer package on today's cooker with rpmdrake, and got the error: FlashPlayer-6.0-3mdk.i586 (due to unsatisfied rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 I then went to command line and tried: urpmi --no-verify-rpm --allow-force FlashPlay

[Cooker] Error in cooker tree links

When I updated cooker this morning, I noticed that two new links were created in cooker/i586/Mandrake: RPMS3 and RPMS4. However, they were created as ../../contrib/jpackage.org/generic/RPMS/ and ../../contrib/jpackage.org/mandrake/RPMS/ whereas the RPMS2 link which points to contrib is cr

Re: [Cooker] Gnome splash takes a LONG time to disappear

Robert Fox wrote: Fresh Cooker install - tried Gnome and it works but the initial splash screen stays up for a long time (like two minutes) then disappears. What causes this? I've seen this as well. It's OK the first time (after the firsttime wizard), but on subsequent logins it not only han

[Cooker] Old cooker packages not being deleted ?

This could be my imagination, but it seems like starting either this morning or last night, rsync --delete updates from ftp.uninett.no aren't deleting any files in my local tree. Within 24 hours, my cooker RPMS directory (as reported by rsync) has gone from about 2.5 GB to 2.9GB, and I haven't

Re: [Cooker] Packaging errors as of today

One more... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ftg]# urpmi --no-verify-rpm super-freeswan Some package requested cannot be installed: super-freeswan-1.99_kb2c-1mdk.i586 (due to unsatisfied klips-alg[>= 1.99_kb2c]) (Y/n) Everything already installed [EMAIL PROTECTED] ftg]# urpmi klips-alg no package named klips-al

Re: [Cooker] Old cooker packages not being deleted ?

Rolf Pedersen wrote: Well, I added --exclude= options for RPMS3 and RPMS4 and my command (which had worked for two years) seems to be working again. Maybe whoever added these links could just fix them ? I mean, it's only been about four days since I first reported this (and others verified it).

Re: [Cooker] hdlist.cz asnd synthesis

Charles A Edwards wrote: Neither the hdlist or the synthesis has been updated on any of the mirrors since 2003.08.09. 6:00 PM for Main somewhat latter for the other mirrors. I was going to reply that I saw one today, but upon investigating it seems that a synthesis.hdlist.cz appeared today in

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake vs. urpmi weirdness

Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Is it reproducable with another package? Here I can see no problems.. I'll try it on a fresh cooker install. The one I did it on was up to date for today, but the install was from a few days ago and I had been keeping it current with urpmi.

Re: [Cooker] hd.img without floppy ?

Thanks everyone, the loopback solution on the Wiki page seems like just the thing I was looking for.

[Cooker] MDKKDM fails dependencies/ GDM mis-installed

In this morning's cooker, MDKKDM fails install with the following error: mdkkdm-9.1-28mdk.i586 due to missing kdebase-kdm-config-file-3.1.3-4mdk.i586 An expert install installs GDM without indicating that MDKKDM had an error, and on reboot the resulting GDM initializes with an error popup sayin

[Cooker] How to dump current rpm db for install ?

The current install gives you a way to save your package selections to a floppy which can then be used in later installs to avoid having to manually re-select everything. Is there any way to generate such a floppy from a running system ? In other words, once I get a particular cooker "stocked"

[Cooker] Today breakage w/splash and shutdown

Sometime during today a cooker update caused the following behavior change: 1) vga=788 no longer has a splashscreen and boots in character mode. It had a valid splash this morning. 2) selecting "reboot" in a GNOME logout actually reboots rather than going back to the DM (yay !!) 3) for some r

[Cooker] Something today broke install printer/X

Something moved to cooker today has seriously broken the install process. I've been updating continuously throughout the day, and in the morning (US/EST - GMT-5:00) installs were fine. After about 3:00PM, printer configuration during install wouldn't recognize any printers, and the X configur

[Cooker] User Management suggestion/question

I try to keep all user data on non-release-sensitive partitions (e.g. /data/user/xxx) and then have scripts to create links within /home/user to the real files. The idea is that I can create new systems or cooker systems at will, run the scripts, mount the partitions (or copies thereof), and t

Re: [Cooker] urpmi --auto-select - how to get around it?

Kim Schulz wrote: [snip] Use --keep not an option for my version of urpmi. and when I try to upgrade urpmi, then I get alot of other deps (especially alot of kde and mozilla stuff). I had similar problems on another thread, and the suggestion was to use --allow-nodeps --allow-force

Re: [Cooker] New Bootsplash

Warly wrote: Yes, I think that I will likely add one static image for the very first part of the boot with some message in the image such as "Booting, please wait" and switch to the translated version whenever the / is available. I'd also vote for retaining the progress bar even after F2 is pre

Re: [Cooker] urpmi --auto-select - how to get around it?

Kim Schulz wrote: just tried this and it wanted to install around 300 rpm's but ended up with this: Installation failed: arts = 3001:1.1.3-1mdk is needed by libarts-devel-1.1.3-1mdk arts = 3001:1.1.3-1mdk is needed by libarts-1.1.3-1mdk libxml2.so is needed by (inst

[Cooker] New Bootsplash

I like the look of the new bootsplash, but there's a slight glitch. If you use a SCSI disk driver which takes a while to initialize (both aic7xxx and aic79xx fall into this category, taking 15-30 seconds), you're left looking at a blank bootsplash with what looks like an empty textfield at the

[Cooker] Bugzilla New Bug error today

This morning, I bring up Bugzilla's main page, log in, select "Enter New Bug", and get an Internal Server Error. Got the same bug trying to get to New Bug from other pages as well. Error occurred at about 09:17 AM EST (GMT - 5:00).

[Cooker] MakeCD broken again

As of last night's cooker, cd /data/cooker/i586/misc ./MakeCD -t /data -a /data/cooker/i586 >~/tmp/MakeCDOut 2>~/tmp/MakeCDErr gives ..//Mandrake/mdkinst/usr/bin/perl: error while loading shared libraries: libperl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory It also ha

Re: [Cooker] dm - prefer kdm or gdm

Frederic Crozat wrote: Yes, I saw that yesterday on my test system (it is not related to gdm).. I'll investigate monday. You can fill a bug against gnome-session so I won't forget about it.. Actually, I've seen this happen with mdkkdm as well lately. I was waiting to get a stable cooker (wit

Re: [Cooker] dm - prefer kdm or gdm

Gary L. Greene wrote: The problem is Frédéric, is that when use the shut down option in GNOME when I have GDM as the login manager, it won't shut the system down, whereas when I used GNOME with KDM, it would. What it does now is it only drops me back at GDM, then I have to select the shutdown fr

Re: [Cooker] problems with main mirror - ftp.uninett.no

Robert Fox wrote: Just recently when I Rsync with this mirror - it's deleting files locally but not downloading new ones - is there something wrong with the sync? That happens to me occasionally, but I've always assumed that I just caught it in the middle of an rsync update from Mandrake, sinc

Re: [Cooker] troubles with cooker mirror

parag shah wrote: Since early morning 30th july i am unable to successully update cooker urpmi source i.e, sunsite.uio.no. I'm using that site with no problem, but I'm using the alias recommended by the Welcome message, i.e. ftp.uninett.no.

Re: [Cooker] Building Cooker

Buchan Milne wrote: (snip) Thanks very much for taking the time to write this. You have drastically improved my urpmi expertise (not particularly difficult, considering my level, but thanks anyway !).

Re: [Cooker] Building Cooker

Per Lindström wrote: Try to run urpmi.update to update the package lists for specified medias. urpmi.update -a updates package lists for all medias except those on removable devices. I tried a urpmi.update -a. Either that or intervening updates to cooker did make a change in what I saw (both "

[Cooker] Building Cooker

Yeah, sorry, it's me again. I've waited awhile through a large flood of cooker updates, and I am still unable to install a cooker system. The ISOs produced by mkcd still loop in "available packages", but I gather from the TODO page that Warly knows about that. If I install 9.1, define my local

Re: [Cooker] urpmi woes

François Pons wrote: If you mirror directly packages on your machine, you may want to use --virtual of newer urpmi in order to avoid using urpmi.update, because the medium will *always* be up-to-date, but it works only for local medium (ie file:// protocol). The 9.1 urpmi doesn't support --virt

[Cooker] MakeCD has taken a step backwards

We're back to this again: URPM object version 0.91 does not match bootstrap parameter 0.90 at ..//Mandrake/mdkinst/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0//i386-linux-thread-multi/DynaLoader.pm line 249. Compilation failed in require at ..//misc/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/Mkcd/Tools.pm line 12. BEGIN failed--compilat

[Cooker] gendistrib without SRPMS ?

In trying to upgrade 9.1 to Cooker from a local file mirror, I was running gendistrib and getting the message "unable to find a valid root directory which contains SRPMS". I didn't realize that this was actually causing gendistrib to abort before updating the lists. My local cooker mirror only

[Cooker] urpmi woes

Following advice from the ML to install 9.1 and use urpmi --auto-select to upgrade packages to cooker level using a urpmi source of the local cooker directory image, I have been getting the same results for about a week, except the the list of packages in the final "Installation failed" message

Re: [Cooker] split lists?

Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: There are two categories of bugs: 1- bugs on install, or hardware support. We are burried under such bugs, with the following problems: - many duplicates - many poorly qualified bugs (and reporting accurate hardware information is non trivial) - the

Re: [Cooker] split lists?

Ben Reser wrote: Of course, every time I try to run complex bugzilla searches, I get 500 Internal Server Errors If that's the case then those problems should be filed as bug reports against Bugzilla itself so Warly can fix them. If we were making full use of Bugzilla there would be a

Re: [Cooker] split lists?

Ben Reser wrote: Also, one of the problems with Bugzilla is that certain categories (like Installation) bypass sending mail to anybody at Mandrake *except* the Cooker ML. If you mean that bugs have to be voted on before they get seen by the developers then that is good and useful. Otherwis

Re: [Cooker] split lists?

Levi Ramsey wrote: On Tue Jul 08 17:26 -0400, Frank Griffin wrote: I agree, but I'd question even sending the first report. Aren't people supposed to be searching Bugzilla first ? If they run into something, searching Bugzilla seems a lot more straightforward than hoping that you

Re: [Cooker] split lists?

Buchan Milne wrote: I agree, but I'd question even sending the first report. Well, if it were a seperate list, you wouldn't have to question it. I should have pointed out that if the Bugzilla stuff went to a separate list, then my query about other ways to do this through Bugzilla would be

Re: [Cooker] split lists?

Ben Reser wrote: Back when Bugzilla was put in place I suggested that bugs only be sent to the list for the first bug report (so people see the reports) and then the rest would happen off the list. If you cared about a bug you subscribed to it. If you didn't then you wouldn't see it after the fi

Re: [Cooker] split lists?

ort of figured it was intentional :-) Thanks, Frank

Re: [Cooker] Can not install Cooker

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then it checks the partition and displays the message "Looking for available packages..." and it is completely frozen. CTRL-ALT-F1 shows the last message was "Entering step Choose Packages to Install". The cooker has been broken in this way for several weeks. Am I ju

Re: [Cooker] split lists?

Rather than split by product, I would suggest splitting out the Bugzilla mails. By definition, anybody interested in changes to bugs ought to be watching the bug (and therefore be mailed) anyway.

Re: [Cooker] Unable to install Cooker (fresh from mirrors)

Mark Draheim wrote: When I try, the install freezes at "looking for available packages" - no apparent errors in the other consoles and the CPU gets pegged to 100%. same here Check out bug 4057. Warly says this is an fpons bug which has not yet been fixed.

Re: [Cooker] PLEASE address build/install problems

images are built without error, but either stuff is missing or the dependencies are screwed, because the install hangs or loops at "looking for available packages". I have re-tried this every day or every other day since you fixed the first bug. Thanks, Frank

Re: [Cooker] PLEASE address build/install problems

Thanks, I'll make a note of the urpmi --auto-select technique, but most of the bugs I report are with the install itself, not just with this package or that. Without being able to do an install, those aren't going to get reported, and I can't tell if the old ones have been fixed (when bugzilla

[Cooker] PLEASE address build/install problems

I've been building and testing cooker systems for over a year, primarily by creating ISOs with MakeCD and burning them. I've tried harddrive and network installs, but they don't work for me (as documented in bug 3295). Recently, as documented in bug 4057, burning ISOs stopped working as well,

[Cooker] Can't install Cooker ISOs since Jun 3

I've entered bug 4057 about this, but I wanted to ask here just to see if I'm the only one experiencing this. I've been building and installing Cooker ISOs for over a year without problems. The installs are always full installs, with Custom Disk Assignment of just a root ext2 partition and a f

[Cooker] Re: Rsync Mirrors

Just what I needed, thanks.

[Cooker] Rsync Mirrors

Is there a list of rsync cooker mirrors along with the module names ? I've tried several of the regular mirrors at random, but those that respond to an rsync connect attempt seem to have inconsistent module structures. So far the ones I got to work are sunsite.uio.no and ftp.sunet.se, but as

[Cooker] MakeCD fails due to perl mismatch ?

Trying to build ISO images from today's cooker, I'm getting: URPM object version 0.90 does not match bootstrap parameter 0.81 at ..//Mandrake/mdkinst/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0//i386-linux-thread-multi/DynaLoader.pm line 249. Compilation failed in require at ..//misc/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/Mkcd/Tool

Re: [Cooker] [Bug 427] [drakxtools] Drakfont freezes the whole partition

Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: Hi, Somebody who can reproduce the problem (I couldn't) would please 'strace' drakfont and send the last 50-100 lines or put all output to some downloadable place to see where the NTFS driver hangs? You can try by starting drakfont like strace -f -e trace=file drakfont

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