Re: [expert] Fwd: memory leak

2002-08-11 Thread James Sparenberg
Haven't tried it yet but just found it on my install disks. The rpm is insure++5.2-1mdk and it's supposed to aimed right at memory leaks in C/C++ programs. James On Sat, 10 Aug 2002 18:43:12 -0700 gene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Grabed a keyboard and said: > > Does anyone have advice for tracking

Re: [expert] Software RAID using scsi controller bussed boxes.

2002-08-11 Thread g
civileme wrote: > > Mark Lucas wrote: > >>I've set up a software RAID 0 on my 8.2 system and it works very well. >>Until, that is, I need to restart at which point the system won't mount >>/dev/md0 and complains of 'invalid file type'. I don't have to restart very >>often (thankfully) but when I d

[expert] Bad Copies of 9.0Beta2

2002-08-11 Thread Dale Huckeby
When I try to move downloaded copies of CD2 I get input-output errors and if I try to burn a CD I get a coaster. I got good copies of the 1st and 3rd CDs (bad copies first try at a Russian mirror) when I went to a mirror in Hawaii. I've tried three times to download a copy of CD2 that works a

Re: [expert] Software RAID

2002-08-11 Thread Mark Lucas
Thanks for this help but: > ... basically you need a non-RAID > /boot partition with an initrd that loads the RAID modules. how do I do this? I have /boot on my non-RAID disk. My RAID is mounted at /home. How do I set up the initrd to load RAID modules? Mark Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] Bad Copies of 9.0Beta2

2002-08-11 Thread Chuck Shirley
On Sunday 11 August 2002 07:31, Dale Huckeby wrote: > > When I try to move downloaded copies of CD2 I get input-output errors >and if I try to burn a CD I get a coaster. I got good copies of the >1st and 3rd CDs (bad copies first try at a Russian mirror) when I went >to a mirror in Hawaii. I've

Re: [expert] Software RAID

2002-08-11 Thread civileme
Mark Lucas wrote: >Thanks for this help but: > >>... basically you need a non-RAID >>/boot partition with an initrd that loads the RAID modules. >> > >how do I do this? > >I have /boot on my non-RAID disk. My RAID is mounted at /home. >How do I set up the initrd to load RAID modules? > >

Re: [expert] Software RAID

2002-08-11 Thread Mark Lucas
Thanks for this, I'll have another go. To save confusion my system is as follows: 17Gb IDE drive with partition 1 mounted as root 40Gb IDE drive, single ext3 partition mounted on /data 4Gb SCSI drive with various ext2 partitions 2x9.1Gb SCSI drives with RAID 0 partitions to give /dev/md0 mounted

Re: [expert] install hamr 5600 modem

2002-08-11 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Friday 09 August 2002 04:09 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > - Mensagem reenviada de [EMAIL PROTECTED] - > Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 18:17:38 +0100 (WEST) > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: install hamr 5600 modem > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Boas > > H

Re: [expert] Re: Sound Is Impossible

2002-08-11 Thread Daryl Johnson
On Sunday 14 July 2002 02:48, you wrote: An addendum to my sound card problems of 6 weeks ago. I have sound using OSS but not ALSA, it's not uncommon to get sound server error messages when I forget and try and use a KDE sound app. Clearly artsd is missing the boat somewhere. As a rare occas

Re: [expert] Re: Sound Is Impossible

2002-08-11 Thread Chuck Shirley
On Sunday 11 August 2002 12:34, Daryl Johnson wrote: >On Sunday 14 July 2002 02:48, you wrote: > >An addendum to my sound card problems of 6 weeks ago. > >I have sound using OSS but not ALSA, it's not uncommon to get sound server >error messages when I forget and try and use a KDE sound app. Cle

[expert] testing USB

2002-08-11 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Hi list, I have, at home, a old PII 300, mobo from zida (Tomato), with 2 USBs that I've never tested. Now I got a USB mouse and when I connect it I got that from 'dmesg': usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.259 $ time 17:30:17 Sep 23 2001 usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled PCI: Found IRQ 9 f

Re: [expert] setting IRQ on a pci card - Instability problem solved

2002-08-11 Thread HoytDuff
On Sunday 11 August 2002 02:50 am, James Sparenberg scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: > Don't know who to tell about this or where to > place a bug report. It seems to be inherent in the kernel not > Mandrake. I installed RH 7.3 and FreeBSD on partitions on this > box and RH is even f

Re: [expert] traverse_tag

2002-08-11 Thread daRcmaTTeR
James Sparenberg wrote: > On Wed, 07 Aug 2002 23:40:50 -0400 > daRcmaTTeR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>user wrote: >> >>>bug report >>> >>>Mandrake Linux 9.0beta2i586 >>>on >>>Machine: >>> amdk-2-450 256mb >>> matrox mill 2 >>> 20 gig >>> modem >>> >>> after completion co

Re: [expert] trouble with libopenssl0 upgrade

2002-08-11 Thread engage
On Sunday 11 August 2002 01:05 am, James Sparenberg wrote: > Two thoughts. > > 1. Don't use Fvh or Uvh with a kernel do ivh always install > never upgrade. 2 Did you get a httpd.conf.rpmnew when you > upgraded ssl? I don't run apache on a Mandrake box so I don't > know if it happens. If y

Re: [expert] Re: Sound Is Impossible

2002-08-11 Thread Daryl Johnson
On Sunday 11 August 2002 17:46, you wrote: [...] > Are you running the /usr/bin/artswrapper suid-root? I'm sure there are yup -rwsr-xr-x root root ... > many who would frown heavily on doing this, but I run it suid (mode 4755), > and have had much better sound quality as a result. If yo

Re: [expert] trouble with libopenssl0 upgrade

2002-08-11 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 11 Aug 2002 12:08:50 -0600 engage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW, MandrakeUpdate shouldn't allow kernel updates since a newbie > won't know any better. Beginning prior to the 8.2 release rpmdrake and urpmi Will install kernels not update them. If the common after installation checks ar

Re: [expert] setting IRQ on a pci card - Instability problem solved

2002-08-11 Thread J. Craig Woods
HoytDuff wrote: > > > I suspect that DRM would be an XFree86 problem? You appear more technically > atute than I in this matter (and have arrived at a solution), so would you do > the bug report? I doubt that it is something that Mandrake would handle other > than perhaps placing an eratta on th

Re: [expert] testing USB

2002-08-11 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 11 Aug 2002 14:35:02 -0300 (BRT) Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now only USB is missing to make system complete (at least by now > :). Perhaps I must say that in Winblows 2k it didn't worked either, > but, actually, I don't care about winblows. Go through your

[expert] rpm --rebuild

2002-08-11 Thread Gary Montalbine
I am using the commercial 3 CD set of LM 8.2. I have tried to do a rpm --rebuild of rpmfind and a rpm --rebuild of db3...src.rpm. I keep getting errors in the g++, gcc and cpp0 links. Apparently there are two versions installed and they are intermixed. I doubt that I am the only one having thi

Re: [expert] rpm --rebuild

2002-08-11 Thread nDiScReEt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 11 August 2002 1:44 pm, Gary Montalbine wrote: > I am using the commercial 3 CD set of LM 8.2. I have tried to do a rpm > --rebuild of rpmfind and a rpm --rebuild of db3...src.rpm. I keep > getting errors in the g++, gcc and cpp0 links. Appa

Re: [expert] rpm --rebuild

2002-08-11 Thread HoytDuff
On Sunday 11 August 2002 02:44 pm, Gary Montalbine scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: > I am using the commercial 3 CD set of LM 8.2. I have tried to do a rpm > --rebuild of rpmfind and a rpm --rebuild of db3...src.rpm. I keep > getting errors in the g++, gcc and cpp0 links. Apparently th

Re: [expert] rpm --rebuild

2002-08-11 Thread Gary Montalbine
etc/alternatives was were I changed the symlinks. That seemed to correct the symlink problem. Everything went fine until I got to the g++ -c error near the end of the build. I can not find a libgcc3.2. I have libgcc3.0.4 installed which matches the g++, gcc and cpp files. HoytDuff wrote: >>

Re: [expert] rpm --rebuild

2002-08-11 Thread HoytDuff
On Sunday 11 August 2002 03:48 pm, Gary Montalbine scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: > I can not find a libgcc3.2. I have libgcc3.0.4 installed which matches > the g++, gcc and cpp files. Did you try to symlink those two? -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com "Fix it until it breaks."

[expert] Mandrake 8.2 PPC panic on 8600

2002-08-11 Thread David Casti
Hello, I have been using PPC Linux on an Macintosh 8600 for a few years, but the rest of my network has moved to Mandrake 8.2 for Intel. Recently, I took the plunge and converted the 8600 to Mandrake also. The install was a little bumpy, but after a few tries, I managed to get things up and

[expert] LM SOftware Manager ports

2002-08-11 Thread Sridhar G
I am trying to open the ports in my firewall for SOftware Manager, anyone know what ports it uses.   Cheers Sridhar  

Re: [expert] Bad Copies of 9.0Beta2

2002-08-11 Thread Dale Huckeby
On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, Chuck Shirley wrote: > On Sunday 11 August 2002 07:31, Dale Huckeby wrote: >> >> When I try to move downloaded copies of CD2 I get input-output errors >>and if I try to burn a CD I get a coaster. I got good copies of the >>1st and 3rd CDs (bad copies first try at a Russian

Re: [expert] trouble with libopenssl0 upgrade

2002-08-11 Thread engage
The problem turned out to be with mod_ssl-2.8.5-3.1mdk. I uninstalled 2.8.5-3.1mdk and reinstalled 2.8.5-2.1mdk and that got the server running again. I don't know why the upgrade crashed the server. I'm running 1.3.22-10.1mdk of the Apache server. rpm -qa | grep apache yields: apache-1.3.22-1

[expert] LM Software Manager ports

2002-08-11 Thread Sridhar G
I am trying to open the ports in my firewall for SOftware Manager, anyone know what ports it uses. Cheers Sridhar Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] LM Software Manager ports

2002-08-11 Thread James Sparenberg
My understanding is that it is using the standard ftp ports. Opening them should solve your problem. James On Sun, 11 Aug 2002 15:30:16 -0700 "Sridhar G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Grabed a keyboard and said: > I am trying to open the ports in my firewall for SOftware > Manager, anyone know what po

Re: [expert] Fwd: memory leak

2002-08-11 Thread gene
On Saturday, August 10, 2002, at 07:01 PM, Michael Scottaline wrote: > On Sat, 10 Aug 2002 18:43:12 -0700 > gene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribbled intuitively: > >> >> Does anyone have advice for tracking down a memory leak? >> >> I'm getting down to 2M of RAM. Running 'top' doesn't show anything

Re: [expert] Fwd: memory leak

2002-08-11 Thread dfox
> total used free sharedbuffers cached > Mem: 753750 2 0 11504 > -/+ buffers/cache:234518 > Swap: 784 0784 Well, that seems reasonable. Cached RAM is pretty high, bu

Re: [expert] Bad Copies of 9.0Beta2

2002-08-11 Thread Dale Huckeby
On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, Chuck Shirley wrote: > On to your problem. It is a good idea to check your iso filesytem > images for errors before you burn them. You can run `md5sum` on the > iso image file, for example. Compare this with the md5sum that > Mandrake has published for the image you are do

Re: [expert] trouble with libopenssl0 upgrade

2002-08-11 Thread J. Craig Woods
engage wrote: > > The problem turned out to be with mod_ssl-2.8.5-3.1mdk. I uninstalled > 2.8.5-3.1mdk and reinstalled 2.8.5-2.1mdk and that got the server running > again. I don't know why the upgrade crashed the server. I'm running > 1.3.22-10.1mdk of the Apache server. rpm -qa | grep apache yi

Re: [expert] Software RAID

2002-08-11 Thread civileme
Mark Lucas wrote: >Thanks for this, I'll have another go. > >To save confusion my system is as follows: > >17Gb IDE drive with partition 1 mounted as root >40Gb IDE drive, single ext3 partition mounted on /data >4Gb SCSI drive with various ext2 partitions >2x9.1Gb SCSI drives with RAID 0 partitio

Re: [expert] setting IRQ on a pci card

2002-08-11 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 11 Aug 2002 21:14:05 -0400 HoytDuff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Grabed a keyboard and said: > On Sunday 11 August 2002 06:19 pm, you wrote: > > Hoyt, > > thanks could you send me links to that thread? RH suffers > > even > > more than Mandrake does on these boxes and I'd love a solid > > fix

Re: [expert] LM Software Manager ports

2002-08-11 Thread Sridhar G
I looked at my syslog and found that the mirror site was contacted on different destination ports on different times, ie each time the software manager tries to refresh the list from the mirrors it seems to use a different destination port. I've set up my firewall to open up ports 80, 21, 20 & 22

Re: [expert] setting IRQ on a pci card

2002-08-11 Thread civileme
James Sparenberg wrote: >On Sun, 11 Aug 2002 21:14:05 -0400 >HoytDuff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Grabed a keyboard and said: > >>On Sunday 11 August 2002 06:19 pm, you wrote: >> >>>Hoyt, >>> thanks could you send me links to that thread? RH suffers >>> even >>>more than Mandrake does on these boxes a

[expert] /bin/su Segmentation fault

2002-08-11 Thread Daniel Woods
Not sure what has happened, but I seemed to have a new problem after upgrading to the newest kernel put out by Mandrake to fix security holes. Regular users can su into root and other accounts. However, root causes these errors... --- as root user # su - newuser Segmentation fault # su - Seg