RE: [expert] [OT] differences between sparc64 and i386

2000-07-07 Thread Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.)
I don't have any experience with R but I was heavy into S (the S Plus commercial version) for 2 years. If the memory management is similar, then the experience you are having is normal. The calloc and free functions are actually using the interpreter's version of those functions. If you've got

[expert] Problem with RPM hanging...

2000-07-07 Thread spam
I've noticed that when I invoke: rpm -ivh package.somerpm.rpm that the rpm binary hangs and keeps processing forever (until I reboot). Any ideas on this one? It seems to eat up my resources too; I can't even login on another terminal to monitor what's happening. --Matt

[expert] Problems with kdesupport package...

2000-07-07 Thread spam
Package kdesupport-1.1.2-17mdk does not include the necessary include files (QwSpriteField.h, for example). When I tried to compile kmp3, it would not complete the install. As a result, I had to install kdesupport myself. Again, this is just a heads up. --Matt

Re: [expert] Deleted /tmp now X won't start

2000-07-07 Thread Daniel Woods
> don't delete while running X server but you safely delete them before > running X (and it's what we do in the initscripts). What should the permissions be inside /root/tmp for X stuff ? Mine looks like this... [root: ~/tmp]# ll -d . drwx--2 root root 2048 Jul 6 11:31 ./ [r

[expert] Problem with g++/c++ not having the c++ includes...

2000-07-07 Thread spam
This has probably been reported, but the rpm's for c++/g++ do not contain any c++ include files. I had to re-compile the gcc-2.95.2 package from scratch to get any decent compiling. I fixed it, which is what being an expert is about, but I just thought I should mention the problem.

Re: [expert] Webmin

2000-07-07 Thread Civileme
Jarmo wrote: > Hi > > Just curious trying webmin,when saw couple of messages > of it. > Tried to connect http://localhost:1,but got answer file > does not exist or acces denied. > I can see webmin running,so twisted model please.. > What I have to do to get connected...i.e do I need add some

[expert] Sparc

2000-07-07 Thread Bas van Schooten
Hi all, I am trying to install Sparc Mandrake on an Ultra Enterprise 1. The problem is that after the bootp/rarp requests timout, it has a problem with /dev/tty1. It just reports: failed to open /dev/tty1failed. I can't recover from this. I only have a terminal via serial link installed. Does it

Re: [expert] Mailing List

2000-07-07 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 05:23:10PM -0400, TaLinux wrote: > yap...sometimes 24-36 hours... But that's not only true for this mailing list, but at least also for the cooker ML. Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com Sichere Mail? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] fuer GnuPG K

[expert] esd not terminating

2000-07-07 Thread Juan A. Magallon
Hi, everybody... I have recently noticed some problems with esd (esound daemon). I use Mandrake 7.1, with HelixGNOME, but swapping from helix packages to mdk ones when they appear at rpmfind-cooker. I have both root and normal users Gnome sessions with esd auto-start, but esd seems not to termin

[expert] lockd problems

2000-07-07 Thread Lee Burnside
Anyone else having problems with rpc.lockd not starting at boot time? There's a check in the /etc/rc.d/init.d/nfslock file, in the form # don't start lockd if kernel-linus. if ! grep -q mdk /proc/version;then echo -n "Starting NFS lockd: " daemon

Re: [expert] Helium Setup hangs..

2000-07-07 Thread Torben Tretau
Hi! Thanks for the suggestion, tried it but still hangs.. Dunno, if I was wrong before with hanging on ide-scsi, but now it hangs on SCSI detection.. When I ran setup in expert mode it hangs after the kernel has set up ide-controller.. Anyone out there had similar probs with HPT 366? bye,

[expert] Promise66

2000-07-07 Thread Unikh
Hi All, Does anybody run Promise66 card (ATA-66) with mandrake 7.1? If so, did you have to push it or it worked out of the box? I managed to install Caldera's eDesktop 2.4 with it, but it took me a while. TIA -- Best regards, Unikh __

Re: [expert] Where is SuperUser in LM 7.1?

2000-07-07 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 08-Jul-00 by Benjamin Sher: > Dear friends: > > Recently I tried LM 7.1 (by downloading it by FTP). I liked some things > and did not like others. > > ONE QUESTION: Have I missed something, or is it not true that LM 7.1 > does NOT have a GRAPHICAL SuperUser option on its menu as LM 7.0

[expert] Where is SuperUser in LM 7.1?

2000-07-07 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: Recently I tried LM 7.1 (by downloading it by FTP). I liked some things and did not like others. ONE QUESTION: Have I missed something, or is it not true that LM 7.1 does NOT have a GRAPHICAL SuperUser option on its menu as LM 7.0 does (under K, System, FileManager SuperUser Mode).

Re: [expert] compiling kernel modules

2000-07-07 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 07-Jul-00 by Daniel Woods: > So now I wanted to be able to compile only the required > modules for ip_masq_ipsec. *** How do I do that ? > I ran 'make modules' which took 45 minutes, and then > ran 'make modules install'. Is there not a way to just > compile the modules I want and then

Re: [expert] wu-ftp problem

2000-07-07 Thread Patrick Erler
p.s. here is an extract from /var/log/messages Jul 7 23:14:20 orbit ftpd[3768]: FTP session closed Jul 7 23:14:40 orbit ftpd[3981]: USER qno Jul 7 23:14:43 orbit ftpd[3981]: PASS password Jul 7 23:14:44 orbit ftpd[3981]: failed login from localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] Jul 7 23:14:44 orbi

[expert] wu-ftp problem

2000-07-07 Thread Patrick Erler
hallo MANDRAKE! i'm desperate... i administer my mandrake 7.1 box with webmin (mainly). the problem i have is, that users i add doesn't have ftp-access, their password gets rejected.. the only user which can connect is the user i created when installing mandrake... any ideas? thanks in advance..

Re: [expert] compiling kernel modules

2000-07-07 Thread Daniel Woods
> *** Another thing, how to compile a *secure* kernel version ? > Looking at /usr/linux/Makefile > VERSION = 2 > PATCHLEVEL = 2 > SUBLEVEL = 16 > EXTRAVERSION = -9mdk > So how this is not the -9mdksecure version. How upgraded > from 2.2.15mdk to 2.2.16mdk-secure via MandrakeUpdat

Re: [expert] Sound Device

2000-07-07 Thread Philomena
Try here: www.opensource.creativelabs.com this site has driver updates for emu10k1 driver , AWE32/64, and Dxr2 cards. cheers, phiomena At 12:42 PM 7/7/00 -0400, you wrote: >Well, I had a few things going on with my new install, so I just >re-installed from disc. I still am having problems wit

[expert] Problems With Kernel Upgrade!

2000-07-07 Thread bobby dowling
After trying to go from the stock 2.2.15-4mdk kernel to 2.4.0-test2, I get a "Fatal: empty map section" after doing a /sbin/lilo. I have upgraded kernels before with mandrake and had no problem, but never using reiserfs or an initial ramdisk. Could it be a problem with these two? I am doing

[expert] compiling kernel modules

2000-07-07 Thread Daniel Woods
3 important questions are preceeded with *** I have had the need to learn how to build a new kernel (ok, not so bad at all) for using VPN masq, to allow LAN client access to work VPN. I grabbed the 2.2.15 patch for VPN, and had 3 error hunks after the patch. Ok, no problem since they were easy

RE: [expert] Strange screen on console

2000-07-07 Thread McDonald, John GSM1 (SIMASD)
It sounds like your keymap got hosed. Can you log in as Linux single? Or into emergency mode? If so check your keymap, if I remember correctly it's /etc/keymap. I am at work currently. If you want I can send you a copy of my key map. Just send your request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mac -Original

Re: [expert] IDE RAID

2000-07-07 Thread heikohuth
this i cut from promise homepage. this means no support right now (only promise ultra66, not raid is supported i think) SUSPECT: Linux Support, RedHat, FastTrak66 QUESTION: Will the FastTrak66 work in Linux? ANSWER: There is no support for the FastTrak66 in the Linux OS. At this point, there

Re: [expert] IDE RAID

2000-07-07 Thread Cecil Watson
Just got a Promise, but I did a clean install w/ 7.1 didn't have to do anything. - Original Message - From: Michael Lapa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Expert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 3:46 PM Subject: [expert] IDE RAID > Hello all, > > I would like to know if anyone has g

[expert] Strange screen on console

2000-07-07 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hi all! I've got a weired problem. When I press a on a bash prompt, bash lists all the files starting with a. But the output is not nice and orderly in 2 or maybe 3 columns, but instead it looks like this: (attention: VERY long lines!) --

[expert] IDE RAID

2000-07-07 Thread Michael Lapa
Hello all, I would like to know if anyone has gotten the Promise FastTrak66 IDE RAID controller to run under Mandrake Linux v7.0 using 2.2.14 kernel. If so, could you please attach whatever drivers/kernel mod files you used? Thanks, Michael Lapa System Support Specialist Xprima.com Corporation

Re: [expert] adding themes w/sawfish and helixgnome

2000-07-07 Thread David Talbot
I personally am estatic that gnome dumped enlightenment. It seemed like it was always competing with gnome (IE another screen panner, desktop background, ect ect) From the first time I used "The Windowmanager Formerly Known as Sawmill" I was in love. The themes are just as cool as enlightenment's,

[expert] MDK for Sparc

2000-07-07 Thread Michael R. Batchelor
I noticed that the MDK for SPARC is labeled as being for an UltraSPARC platform. Anybody know if it will install on a plain Jane SPARCStation 2? (For that matter, will any Linux distribution run on them?) I've got several of those old guys around here and I sure would like to squeeze a few more ye

[expert] Webmin

2000-07-07 Thread Jarmo
Hi Just curious trying webmin,when saw couple of messages of it. Tried to connect http://localhost:1,but got answer file does not exist or acces denied. I can see webmin running,so twisted model please.. What I have to do to get connected...i.e do I need add something to inetd.conf and servi

Re: [expert] RH and other distro users

2000-07-07 Thread Roberto A. F.
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Re: [expert] Star Office 5.2

2000-07-07 Thread Roberto A. F.
Civileme wrote: > ATOisdn wrote: > > > I had to erase the (html?)attachment to reply. > > What library error? I am not able to duplicate any SO 5.2 > install errors on either 7.0 or 7.1 platforms here. > > I need more information just to hazard a guess. If you use MDK for Sparc (SUN) it's norma

Re: [expert] Vi editor package

2000-07-07 Thread Roberto A. F.
Steve Browne wrote: > >> Submitted 05-Jul-00 by ATL Oledog: > >> > I have Redhat installed on my box, but there is no vi. What package > >> > contains it? > > > If you are using RedHat per se, why are you in this list? Mandrake has > vi and vim. And RH have vi too (I've installed MDK and RH too

Re: [expert] NFS mounts fail

2000-07-07 Thread Manuël Beunder
On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, you wrote: > "Manuël Beunder" wrote: > > > I seem to have a problem between two NFS server, mounting each others stuff, > > the one is a SuSE6.1 machine running 2.2.16 (same with 2.2.13) and the other a > > Mandrake 7.0 machine, running 2.2.16 (same with 2.4.0test2) as well.

Re: [expert] NFS mounts fail

2000-07-07 Thread Manuël Beunder
On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, you wrote: > On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, you wrote: > > I seem to have a problem between two NFS server, mounting each others stuff, > > the one is a SuSE6.1 machine running 2.2.16 (same with 2.2.13) and the other a > > Mandrake 7.0 machine, running 2.2.16 (same with 2.4.0test2) as w

[expert] Gnome-Pilot missing conduits?

2000-07-07 Thread Andrew George
Hi, This could be another just me but. Tried Gnome-pilot yesterday and noticed while it works a treat, Synching won't transfer any data because it cannot find any conduits Some poking around the Gnome-pilot site grabbed me a seperate TAR called gnome-conduits which I guess what I'm after (

[expert] FIC AZ11 Duron 600

2000-07-07 Thread Civileme
OK here it is. FIC AZ11 with KT133 Chipset (ATA-66 capable) IBM ATA/100 15GB 7200 rpm drive ATA/100 Certified Cable Creative DVD-RAM on Advansys SCSI-2 Card NEC PD Drive as /dev/hdd Voodoo3 2000 Generic AGP 2x 128M SDRAM PC133 Certified running at 104MHz FSB with dual memory port capability ru

Re: [expert] Book Recommendation

2000-07-07 Thread Camille Bégnis
Wizaerd a écrit : > > I am looking for some book recommendations in regards to setting up an Linux > based webserver, with security, email (smtp and pop3), and a secure SSL > certificate. I would want to use Apache, an email application usable with > PHP, mySQL, etc Hi, Wait and look for t

Re: [expert] Star Office 5.2

2000-07-07 Thread Civileme
ATOisdn wrote: > I had to erase the (html?)attachment to reply. What library error? I am not able to duplicate any SO 5.2 install errors on either 7.0 or 7.1 platforms here. I need more information just to hazard a guess. Civileme

[expert] Star Office 5.2

2000-07-07 Thread ATOisdn
Hi, I have been trying to install Star Office 5.2 on M7.1 and I am getting a strange library error. Anybody has a way around the problem?   Vincent Roy   [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Technical Manager Tax Reform Australian Taxation Office

Re: [expert] adding themes w/sawfish and helixgnome

2000-07-07 Thread Alan N.
Matthias Richter wrote: > > Armand wrote on Fri Jul 07, 2000: > > "Alan N." wrote: > > > > > > Has anyone had any problems adding new themes to sawfish after > > > installing helixgnome? > [...] > > Is sawfish the default wm for helixgnome? I don't even know! I've > > tried to use the Solaris-C

Re: [expert] adding themes w/sawfish and helixgnome

2000-07-07 Thread Alan N.
Armand wrote: > > "Alan N." wrote: > > > > Has anyone had any problems adding new themes to sawfish after > > installing helixgnome? > [snip] > > > > Alan > > Is sawfish the default wm for helixgnome? I don't even know! I've > tried to use the Solaris-CDE theme from the gtk theme package > uns