[Cooker] rocksndiamonds?

2002-08-21 Thread rcc
hum, the rpm doesn't work for me. From what I gather from the strace output it seems that it chokes on sound. I've tried to put the 2.1.1 sources into the source rpm and removed/adjusted the patches but the newly built rpm shows the exact same behaviour. The homepage tells of sound related fixes

[Cooker] DrakX: unlabelled button in mouse test box

2002-08-20 Thread rcc
chose PS/2 wheel mouse in the testing box there used to be two buttons: OK and CANCEL now there's only one and that one has no label, though it works as if it is an OK button - Mark

Re: [Cooker] SiS630

2002-08-19 Thread rcc
On Mon, 19 Aug 2002 13:30:23 -0400 Jakub Pas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There was a lot of questions about sis630 chipset support in > the 9.0 distribution however there is no completly clear if this > chipset is already supported or is there a still ugly "LCD bug" on > laptops. would you mind

Re: [Cooker] DrakX: diskdrake sometimes writes bad partition tables

2002-08-18 Thread rcc
On 18 Aug 2002 17:31:01 +0200 Pixel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > the lines of "partition extends beyond physical boundaries" or > > "partition ends after end of disk". > > I'm building a text on this, see below. intersting read > > Took me a few days to find a solution to this on one of m

[Cooker] DrakX: diskdrake sometimes writes bad partition tables

2002-08-18 Thread rcc
I've run into this error once with a 9.0 cooker and there are several people over at aolm reporting similar errors with 9.0 betas and 8.2: Diskdrake sometimes creates partition tables that any other disktool (*fdisk, PM etc) will report as bad. The errors ususally run along the lines of "partiti

Re: [Cooker] krootwarning bug in beta 3

2002-08-16 Thread rcc
On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 20:43:51 +0200 laurent Montel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Perhaps either add two buttons (continue and logout) or remove the > > > text telling you to click on them? > > size of dialogbox is bad (too short ) > I will fix it monday. hmm, the krootwarning logout button d

Re: [Cooker] krootwarning bug in beta 3

2002-08-16 Thread rcc
On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 19:10:39 +0200 Hamster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The text of the warning reads "... Click on continue if you really > know what you are doing. Otherwise please click on logout and read > your manual. ..." haven't seen this in ages. Never logged in as root anyway... > Th

Re: [Cooker] Is there an answer to this?

2002-08-16 Thread rcc
On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 16:08:42 +0100 "Adam Flinton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I asked about this in a mail entitled: > M9 Beta2 Bug 1 - losing icons & menus > > & was just wondering if this is a known bug &/or what I should do > about it. did you try running update-menus from a terminal? Any

Re: [Cooker] mdk9.0 Beta3 X error init level 5

2002-08-15 Thread rcc
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 15:25:20 -0700 Bryan Whitehead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Or is gdm/kdm/xdm being > started differently now? yes, by dm service/initscript - Mark

Re: [Cooker] hotplugging usb hard drives

2002-08-15 Thread rcc
On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 00:38:41 -0400 "Vincent Meyer, MD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > later, it appears that the usb driver for disk drives loads, but no > /dev entries are created so the drive can't be mounted. did you try to mount the drive nevertheless? - Mark

Re: [Cooker] Send Info Here ?

2002-08-14 Thread rcc
> > the place to send info, ideas > > ,thoughts about the distro to the developers to make future > > improvements. what exactly do you mean by that? > > P.S. I don't mean Bug reports, but ideas give an example. please - Mark

Re: [Cooker] Penguin faces!

2002-08-14 Thread rcc
On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 12:55:41 +0200 Olivier Thauvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le Mercredi 14 Août 2002 10:29, Ben Reser a écrit : > > By popular demand: > > > > Name: faces-penguinRelocations: (not > > relocateable) > > Version : 0.1 Ven

Re: [Cooker] 9.0 Beta 2 install kernel panic on Abit Mobo

2002-08-12 Thread rcc
On 12 Aug 2002 00:56:22 +0200 Pixel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Serge Plüss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent > > Kernel Panic: Unable to mount root fs on 03:04 > > can you check lilo.conf? (if you use lilo.conf) > maybe you could diff with lilo.

Re: [Cooker] /etc/rc.d/rc.modules

2002-08-10 Thread rcc
On 10 Aug 2002 22:26:25 +0200 Pixel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > echo "alias /dev/nvidia* NVdriver" >> /etc/modules.conf > > well make it > > echo "alias /dev/nvidia* NVdriver" >> /etc/modules.devfs > > uh? good point, there was a long discussion about that over at aolm and we decided to lo

Re: [Cooker] /etc/rc.d/rc.modules

2002-08-10 Thread rcc
On Sat, 10 Aug 2002 21:31:38 +0200 rcc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10 Aug 2002 20:11:24 +0100 > David Sansome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This file should have a new line at the bottom. Without it, you get > > a nasty error on bootup after installing

Re: [Cooker] /etc/rc.d/rc.modules

2002-08-10 Thread rcc
On 10 Aug 2002 20:11:24 +0100 David Sansome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This file should have a new line at the bottom. Without it, you get a > nasty error on bootup after installing the nVidia kernel module - it > adds it's command onto the end of the final line in > /etc/rc.d/rc.modules Davi

Re: [Cooker] /usr/lib/libDrakX/detect_devices.pm bug ?

2002-08-10 Thread rcc
On 10 Aug 2002 14:21:15 +0200 Pixel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > rcc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > detect_devices.pm: > > > > 83: sub floppies() { > > 84:require modules; > > 85:eval { modules::load("floppy") }; > >

Re: [Cooker] Too infrequent updates to /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db?

2002-08-09 Thread rcc
On Fri, 9 Aug 2002 22:01:58 +0100 Alastair Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It appears (from the existence of /etc/cron.weekly/slocate.cron) that > the slocate database, in 9.0 beta 2, is updated weekly and at > extremely low priority. > > 1. Am I mistaken in believing that, in 8.2, it was up

[Cooker] Re: DrakX: missing initrd lines in lilo.conf

2002-08-09 Thread rcc
>> there are no initrd= lines in my lilo.conf. At first boot I get a >kernel> panic. >is it an upgrade? or an install on a non-formatted /boot ? >(more precisely occured when the initrd existed prior to DrakX) >i've fixed a bug that way today, will upload this evening (< 6 hours) clean instal

[Cooker] DrakX: missing initrd lines in lilo.conf

2002-08-09 Thread rcc
latest DrakX there are no initrd= lines in my lilo.conf. At first boot I get a kernel panic. If I put in the default initrd=/boot/initrd.img and run lilo all is fine. There was another user apparently having exactly the same problem with grub. Mine is a triple win98/8.2/cooker boot, he had a s

[Cooker] depmod -a returns error on new kernel's modules.description

2002-08-09 Thread rcc
I just noticed that depmod -a returns an error with the new kernel, nvidia install terminated due to this "/lib/modules/2.4.19-1mdk/modules.description is not an ELF file" - Mark

Re: [Cooker] USB devices

2002-08-04 Thread rcc
On Sun, 4 Aug 2002 06:37:27 -0400 "Murray J. Root" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is it just me or is the USB support broken? > > Must be you - all my USB devices work fine. I just patched unusal_devs.h to get my camera working as usb-storage. Else usb works fine here. - Mark

Re: [Cooker] initscripts-6.87-1mdk missing \n in rc

2002-08-04 Thread rcc
On Sun, 4 Aug 2002 00:55:39 +0200 rcc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > /etc/rc.d/rc > > lines 61 and 65 should have a \n at end of string > > because now I get: > > entering non-interactive startupstarting usb service and will your at it, do the same to halt

[Cooker] initscripts-6.87-1mdk missing \n in rc

2002-08-03 Thread rcc
/etc/rc.d/rc lines 61 and 65 should have a \n at end of string because now I get: entering non-interactive startupstarting usb service - Mark

Re: [Cooker] draktools fail without floppy

2002-08-03 Thread rcc
On Sun, 4 Aug 2002 00:33:01 +0200 rcc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you disable the floppy drive through the BIOS, does it still > > fail? > > yes, that was my first thought, too. "Onboard FDC controller - > disabled". Wait, I'll check with this com

Re: [Cooker] draktools fail without floppy

2002-08-03 Thread rcc
On 03 Aug 2002 23:24:44 +0100 Richard Burt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you disable the floppy drive through the BIOS, does it still fail? yes, that was my first thought, too. "Onboard FDC controller - disabled". Wait, I'll check with this computer, back in a minute... - Mark

[Cooker] draktools fail without floppy

2002-08-03 Thread rcc
this is cooker I know this is an unusual setup but on one of my boxes nearly all draktools fail because insmod floppy fails. Well, there is no floppy drive in that computer, just a cdrom. Drakconf, diskdrake and IIRC even drakconnect won't start. Is it possible to change that to "go on anyway"?

[Cooker] Re: kernel panic at first boot - DrakX(?)

2002-08-02 Thread rcc
On Fri, 2 Aug 2002 16:37:43 +0200 rcc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > cooker is today's > 20020806-1300GMT a hole in the space-time-continuum today is, of course, 20020802 greetings from the future - Mark

Re: [Cooker] wine config

2002-08-02 Thread rcc
On Fri, 2 Aug 2002 00:06:39 +0200 Danny Tholen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > iexplorer fails (used to start, at least), no game works (had FAKK2, > > DeusEx, RTCW running will earlier versions) > Maybe try with new CVS version? I'll wait for the August snapshot, shouldn't be too far away > >

Re: [Cooker] wine config

2002-08-01 Thread rcc
hmm, this is what I've done already: tried to remove most of the inconsistencies, like - mdkconf patched config that was actually never used instead wine.reg was copied to user's config - use patched sample config - tried to guess which option

Re: [Cooker] wine config

2002-08-01 Thread rcc
On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 23:27:56 +0200 Danny Tholen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >You want patches to wine.reg or a new > > wine.reg? > Whatever. Please cc patch/file so I can renew club rpms as well. will do. This may take a few days as I'm trying to do some cleanup (rm wine.reg, rm redhat patch,

[Cooker] wine config

2002-07-31 Thread rcc
thanks for the new wine rpm but the configs are out of sync with the samples. Why patch the sample config with mdkconf but then use wine.reg which is outdated (still lacks the WinMM section and other neat stuff)? Alright, I'll look into it. You want patches to wine.reg or a new wine.reg? - Mar

[Cooker] Re: <-latest: kernel panic VFS

2002-07-31 Thread rcc
On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 01:26:42 +0200 rcc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > cooker 30 Jul 2300 GMT > > kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:08 seems to be a problem in mdkinst_stage2 since the one from by backup (26 Jul) works > also, there's no bootsplash more

[Cooker] <-latest: kernel panic VFS

2002-07-30 Thread rcc
cooker 30 Jul 2300 GMT right at boot I get kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:08 some problem with reiser? also, there's no bootsplash - Mark

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] mplayer-skins-1.3-2mdk

2002-07-27 Thread rcc
On Sat, 27 Jul 2002 22:03:37 +0200 Oden Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Name: mplayer-skinsRelocations: (not > > How come mplayer is in contribs now, what's stripped? http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/info.html => MPlayer is GPL now. In the past it contained non

Re: [Cooker] anyone gets their burners detected with hd install?

2002-07-25 Thread rcc
On 24 Jul 2002 18:17:37 +0200 Pixel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (i don't see any difference between load_ide() and the load_category, > both should modprobe ide-cd...) well, here's what I found with load_category('disk/cdrom') I'm no expert with perl (me Watson, you Holmes ;) modules.pm line

Re: [Cooker] anyone gets their burners detected with hd install?

2002-07-24 Thread rcc
On 24 Jul 2002 18:17:37 +0200 Pixel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > any ideas what might be cause that the cdrom modules don't get > > loaded? > > (i don't see any difference between load_ide() and the load_category, > both should modprobe ide-cd...) Thought so too. Now I'm sitting here with O'R

[Cooker] anyone gets their burners detected with hd install?

2002-07-24 Thread rcc
I'm still trying to figure out why my burner is not detected. With my limited perl knowledge this is rather hard. Please bear with me if my assuptions and/or conclusions are obviously wrong. Maybe the burner isn't found because I do HD installs? I see that in detect_devices.pm /proc/sys/dev/cdr

[Cooker] missing groups

2002-07-23 Thread rcc
install.log: initscripts-6.40.2-45mdk.i586.rpm group utmp does not exist - using root group utmp does not exist - using root chown: »root.utmp«: invalid group dev-3.2-4mdk.i586.rpm group audio does not exist - using root group cdwriter does not exist - using root group x10 does not exist - usin

[Cooker] portmap: user rpc not found, reverting to user bin

2002-07-18 Thread rcc
portmap[752]: user rpc not found, reverting to user bin cooker from Jul 18 1800 I notice that some more of the system users and groups are missing. Is this my setup (heavily edited rpmsrate) or do others see the same? - Mark

Re: [Cooker] Install Report (07/18)

2002-07-18 Thread rcc
On 18 Jul 2002 19:15:46 +0200 Pixel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Strangely enough, Both dvd.conf exists as does the symlink > > /dev/dvd->hdc. > > wierd. (it has been doing this for several installs now.) > > hum, rawdevices service may be started to soon after devfsd is run? so it seems, m

Re: [Cooker] Can't install contrib packages in installer?

2002-07-15 Thread rcc
On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 14:29:03 -0700 (PDT) David Walser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [rcc@pc4 perl-install]$ ls -l install2 > > -r-xr-xr-x1 rccusers 313 Jul 11 > > 18:05 install2* > I think for the install2 thing we're actually talking > about

Re: [Cooker] Can't install contrib packages in installer?

2002-07-15 Thread rcc
evel/cooker/i586/Ma > ndrake/mdkinst/usr/bin/perl-install> ls -l install2 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 7382 usit 313 Jul 11 18:05 install2 > > you said you were using rsync? can someone try? [rcc@pc4 perl-install]$ ls -l install2 -r-xr-xr-x1 rccusers 313 Jul 11 18:05

[Cooker] DrakX: shouldn't have to clean rpm shit

2002-07-14 Thread rcc
sorry, but that's what it says ;-) anyway, I'm having numerous troubles with DrakX, in fact, I didn't get a decent install from it: the mentioned error message shows at different points with install, apparently randomly installer sometimes fetches 30 or even more rpms at a time, resulting in t

Re: [Cooker] perl pb with mkcd (cooker misc directory)

2002-07-12 Thread rcc
On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 10:16:06 +0200 "Florent BERANGER" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > $ mkcd > > > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./mkcd line 9. > > > > > Do you have perl-File-NCopy installed? It's not part of > the standard > > perl install... > > It wasn't installed. I can't install

Re: [Cooker] NFS install

2002-07-12 Thread rcc
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 18:10:14 -0700 (PDT) David Walser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I had lots of problems with nfs installs in 8.2, switched to ftp then. > error in exec of stage 2 :-( > FATAL ERROR IN STAGE 1: Permission denied well, what do the logs of the server say about that? Should be somet

Re: [Cooker] rsynced cooker

2002-07-11 Thread rcc
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 09:11:18 -0500 "Tech At Mathco Dot Com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok that one i get > > FATAL:kenel too old > > I have a 2.2.12 kernel in this system. that's fatal indeed, I think you should just trust in Mandrake and go ahead without checking. I mean, this is cooker,

Re: [Cooker] rsynced cooker

2002-07-11 Thread rcc
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 08:23:19 -0500 "Tech At Mathco Dot Com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What version of perl has to be installed. none, use the mirror environment > I have a old linux system > that I rsync my cooker with. I ran ./mkcd --check > /home/mat/cooker/i586/Mandrake try MakeCD "--che

Re: [Cooker] Urpmi.addmedia problem

2002-07-09 Thread rcc
On 09 Jul 2002 10:33:56 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (François Pons) wrote: > > perl: rpmio.c:2631: Fwrite: Assertion `fd && fd->magic == > > 0x04463138' failed. Aborted > > > > perl-URPM maybe? > > A lot of people seems to have problem here, but it is unreproduceable > for me. > > Can you disable

Re: [Cooker] Current cooker install - depslist.ordered mismatch

2002-07-07 Thread rcc
On Sun, 7 Jul 2002 18:23:50 +0100 Peter Ruskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * ignoring xmltex-1.8y-2mdk.i586 in depslist mismatch version in remove the rpm or update your local mirror an run > gendistrib --distrib /mnt/downloads/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586 again these errors show up all the t

Re: [Cooker] mkcd fails

2002-07-07 Thread rcc
On Sun, 07 Jul 2002 18:12:16 +0200 Warly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > perl: rpmio.c:2631: Fwrite: Assertion `fd && fd->magic == > >> > 0x04463138' failed../MakeCDs: line 1: 7585 Aborted > > > >> > >> Murray this is the same problem I had lasat night. mkcd fails but > >> Mak

Re: [Cooker] mkcd fails

2002-07-06 Thread rcc
On Sat, 6 Jul 2002 15:29:38 -0700 Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > perl: rpmio.c:2631: Fwrite: Assertion `fd && fd->magic == > > 0x04463138' failed../MakeCDs: line 1: 7585 Aborted > > Murray this is the same problem I had lasat night. mkcd fails but > MakeCD worked for

[Cooker] DrakX: hardware detection - modules.conf empty

2002-07-05 Thread rcc
testing the new DrakX, main issue seems to be hardware detection - modules.conf empty after install - NIC was detected but not put into modules.conf - burner not detected, missing ide-scsi - soundcard not detected, esssolo1, well haven't yet got alsa to run it anyway on a side note: the three n

[Cooker] DrakX: can't locate harddrake/bttv.pm

2002-07-05 Thread rcc
this is written manually so don't look for typos ;-) in second stage install Can't locate harddrake/bttv.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/bin/perl-install . /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1 /usr/lib/per

Re: [Cooker] building hdlists rpmio.c Fwrite Assertion error

2002-07-05 Thread rcc
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002 00:08:49 +0200 rcc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > perl: rpmio.c:2631: Fwrite: Assertion `fd && fd->magic == 0x04463138' > failed../gendistro.sh: line 3: 2606 Aborted > > It seems that gendistrib stops at a certain number of packages > pr

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