Re: [expert] fdisk limited to 16 partitions

2002-10-22 Thread Felix Miata
David Lerner wrote: The util-linux RPM includes fdisk. The original fdisk allows a maximum of 60 partitions, but Mandrake has patched it to handle a maximum of 16 partitions. It will truncate the partitin table to 16 partitions if you have created more than 16 partitions with a different

RE: [expert] Suggestions for Mandrake 9.1

2002-10-22 Thread Franki
Suggestions for Mandrake 9.1 5. I don't know... I like some new stuff to play with, I'd prefer they were made an option and then put in a beta or experimental menu option. doing that helps the developers because they will likely get more bug reports... if no-one ran beta stuff, it would stay beta

[expert] RE: LM9.0 gdb, threads and SIG32

2002-10-22 Thread Colin Walker
Hello I posted this message a couple of weeks ago without a response. I would really like to move on to mandrake 9.0 on my development machine but am unable to debug threaded applications, seemingly due to stripped libraries. LM8.* works fine Can anybody help. Its all outlined below. Colin

Re: [expert] Where is libncurses.so.4?

2002-10-22 Thread Robin Ballantine
On Tuesday 22 October 2002 3:51 am, Jim Hubbard wrote: When I try to install a 3rd party app on MDK9, I get this message: /tmp/INcarbin-2129: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory After some checking, I discovered

Re: [expert] Where is libncurses.so.4?

2002-10-22 Thread Robin Ballantine
ps: I forgot to mention running ldconfig after making the link. On Tuesday 22 October 2002 10:46 am, Robin Ballantine wrote: On Tuesday 22 October 2002 3:51 am, Jim Hubbard wrote: When I try to install a 3rd party app on MDK9, I get this message: /tmp/INcarbin-2129: error while loading

[expert] hylafax in Mdk 9.0

2002-10-22 Thread Steffen Barszus
I've tried to install hylafax /hylafax-server under 9.0. While doing this I have some problems: 1.) Vorbereiten ... ## 1:libhylafax4.1.1## 2:mgetty

[expert] Wish for 9.1

2002-10-22 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
Do you know the wonderfull guides for mandrake 9.0 dvd an music in trylinuxsd? http://www.trylinuxsd.com/dvd/ http./www.trylinuxsd.com/music/ I would like that Mandrake 9.0 had similar guides included in the manual; lots of newbies would be very happy to see such a manual. And, without doub,

Re: [expert] Wish for 9.1

2002-10-22 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 14:53 +0200, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: Do you know the wonderfull guides for mandrake 9.0 dvd an music in trylinuxsd? http://www.trylinuxsd.com/dvd/ http./www.trylinuxsd.com/music/ I would like that Mandrake 9.0 had similar guides included in the manual;

Re: [expert] Acomdata 40GB USB 2.0 hard drive

2002-10-22 Thread Larry Nguyen
HoytDuff wrote: On Monday 21 October 2002 06:23 pm, Todd Lyons scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: Larry Nguyen wrote on Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 05:18:49PM -0500 : Thanks for the quick reply, Todd. I'm thinking of buying one. $99 at my local CompUSA store. It's USB 2.0 so it should work

Re: [expert] iptables : bad option ...

2002-10-22 Thread Daniel J. Cody
Hi Hans - What you're trying to do is actually a pretty common setup, which is good, cus there are lots of examples. To save yourself some time, there is a program that ships with mandrake called 'draknet' and could be really helpfull for you. Its a nice utility that will walk you through

[expert] Mandrake Documentation glitch

2002-10-22 Thread Sandeep Khanna
Hi All, I am not sure if this is the right list to send this. But, I would really appreciate if anyone could forward this to the right list meant specifically for Linux documentation, Mandrake in particular. I came across the following while reading the Mandrake Quick Server Setup

[expert] busybox kernel panic can't boot anymore

2002-10-22 Thread Jan Hendrik Mangold
Experts yesterday I tried to integrate the swsusp beta14 into the 2.4.19-16mdk kernel (Mdk9.0). The coompilation went well, but when I tried to boot the new kernel I get a busybox: unresolved symbol refrigerator and then insmod failes apparently for ext3 and modprobe fails to exec and the

Re: [expert] RE: LM9.0 gdb, threads and SIG32

2002-10-22 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Colin Walker wrote: Hello I posted this message a couple of weeks ago without a response. I would really like to move on to mandrake 9.0 on my development machine but am unable to debug threaded applications, seemingly due to stripped libraries. LM8.* works fine Can anybody help. Its all

[expert] autofs not unmounting

2002-10-22 Thread Milos Prudek
Hi, I was looking forward to use supermount but it does not work very well in Mandrake 9.0. Details in separate post. So I tried autofs. Autofs in Mandrake 9.0 mounts drives automatically, but does not unmount them when timeout expires. They must by umounted manually. auto.master: /mnt

[expert] supermount unreliable

2002-10-22 Thread Milos Prudek
Hi all, is supermount working flawlesly for anyone? It works for every media and drive, but only for a few accesses. After a few minutes directories cannot be listed. When I disable supermount and mount everything manually, it works without a hitch. Anyone else is experiencing this? --

RE: [expert] supermount unreliable

2002-10-22 Thread Jane Gray-Luhr
Yes we have seen this as well. On Mandrake 8.2 as well. The manual mount clears the problem. -Original Message- From: Milos Prudek [mailto:milos.prudek;tiscali.cz] Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 8:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] supermount unreliable Hi all, is

Re: [expert] Disable KDE screensaver from the console?

2002-10-22 Thread zephod
It does disable the KDE screensaver. I use it for watching DVD's with mplayer. On Monday 21 October 2002 23:14, Barry Michels wrote: All that does is return the word 'true', but it doesn't actually do anything... On Monday 21 October 2002 01:53 pm, zephod wrote: try this: dcop kdesktop

Re: [expert] supermount unreliable

2002-10-22 Thread Milos Prudek
Yes we have seen this as well. On Mandrake 8.2 as well. The manual mount clears the problem. Absolutely. Is there no way to make supermount work? -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Mandrake Documentation glitch

2002-10-22 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 10:40 -0400, Sandeep Khanna wrote: Hi All, I am not sure if this is the right list to send this. But, I would really appreciate if anyone could forward this to the right list meant specifically for Linux documentation, Mandrake in particular. I came across the

Re: [expert] Disable KDE screensaver from the console?

2002-10-22 Thread zephod
On Tuesday 22 October 2002 18:55, you wrote: When I type that in, it comes back with 'true' at the console. Then, I go to Configure Desktop and the screensaver is still enabled. After waiting 10 minutes, the screen goes blank. that's screenblanking (not related to your screensaver) of your

[expert] Problems with DHCP client on Mandrake 9.0?

2002-10-22 Thread Jim Dawson
I recently upgraded to Mandrake 9.0 (actually a fresh install, I took the opportunity to replace my hard drive as well.) and ever since I have been having trouble with my computer 'forgetting' it's IP address. I haven't been able to confirm this (as I don't know where the appropriate logs are

Re: [expert] Problems with DHCP client on Mandrake 9.0?

2002-10-22 Thread Sandeep Khanna
man dhcpcd Cheers, Sandeep Jim Dawson wrote: I recently upgraded to Mandrake 9.0 (actually a fresh install, I took the opportunity to replace my hard drive as well.) and ever since I have been having trouble with my computer 'forgetting' it's IP address. I haven't been able to confirm this

Re: [expert] Acomdata 40GB USB 2.0 hard drive

2002-10-22 Thread Todd Lyons
Larry Nguyen wrote on Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 08:50:55AM -0500 : Thanks for the quick reply, Todd. I'm thinking of buying one. $99 at my local CompUSA store. I picked up one. It is detected as /dev/sda Thanks Hoyt. I'll pick up one later. Can't resist since it's just a Same here. I plan

Re: [expert] supermount unreliable

2002-10-22 Thread Praedor Tempus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 22 October 2002 11:53 am, Milos Prudek wrote: Yes we have seen this as well. On Mandrake 8.2 as well. The manual mount clears the problem. Absolutely. Is there no way to make supermount work? Since it works fine for me on 8.2

Re: [expert] supermount unreliable

2002-10-22 Thread Todd Lyons
Milos Prudek wrote on Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 06:53:37PM +0200 : Yes we have seen this as well. On Mandrake 8.2 as well. The manual mount clears the problem. Is there no way to make supermount work? The code for supermount itself is fairly clean and straightforward. But how to make the kernel

RE: [expert] supermount unreliable

2002-10-22 Thread Franki
if it is that hard, how did losers like microsoft get it working in their OS..??? I mean in 95 it had some issues with floppies constantly being seeked and stuff, but they ironed it out for later versions.. I guess we'll never know what klugge they used, the curse of open source... rgds Frank

[expert] SPARC Mandrake 7.1/corporate fails during install on Sun Ultra30

2002-10-22 Thread Jose Orlando T. Ribeiro
Hello! I'm trying to install LM (7.1 or corporate 1.0) on a SUn Ultra 30 workstation that we didn't use anymore. The cd boots ok (I'm using STOP+A to acces the open boot prom, then boot cdrom at the ok prompt), I select keyboard, mouse, disk partitioning, but when the packages are supposed to

Re: [expert] Problems with DHCP client on Mandrake 9.0?

2002-10-22 Thread Vox
This time Jim Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes daring and writes: *Please* make your mail client wrap at 78 columns! I recently upgraded to Mandrake 9.0 (actually a fresh install, I took the opportunity to replace my hard drive as well.) and ever since I have been having trouble with my

Re: [expert] Wish for 9.1

2002-10-22 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
Wobo, Forget the concrete example you have mentioned; I was talking about the way to explain things in the manual, those mentioned are an example or clarity in the explanation. Programs and other things which cannot be included in the distribution are not subject of the manuals. wobo

Re: [expert] Help patching?

2002-10-22 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Dimarts 22 Octubre 2002 05:10, en Jack Coates va escriure: So what are the combinations I should try? Acpi patch? Swsusp patch? But not both? 8-? If the first two (alone) should work I don't why they don't in my laptop 8( I don't know

Re: [expert] Wish for 9.1

2002-10-22 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 21:01 +0200, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: Wobo, Forget the concrete example you have mentioned; I was talking about the way to explain things in the manual, those mentioned are an example or clarity in the explanation. I see. Misunderstanding. How about writing

[expert] DNS problems on 9.0

2002-10-22 Thread Jim C
For project reasons I've installed a DNS server on my gateway/router using techniques that worked on the previous version of Mandrake. Specifically I'ld been following the instructions in O'Reilly's book on DNS BIND. Now that I've installed Mandrake 9.0 on the server my cleints can no longer

Re: [expert] Wish for 9.1

2002-10-22 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
And perhaps, a unoficial web with documentation for those whole guides, as plf for unoficial rpms, could be great. El Mar 22 Oct 2002 21:01, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza escribió: Wobo, Forget the concrete example you have mentioned; I was talking about the way to explain things in the manual,

[expert] Re: DNS problems on 9.0

2002-10-22 Thread Jim C
Jim C wrote: For project reasons I've installed a DNS server on my gateway/router using techniques that worked on the previous version of Mandrake. Specifically I'ld been following the instructions in O'Reilly's book on ... the clients. I'm thinking that the wizard is not properly setting

Re: [expert] Re: DNS problems on 9.0

2002-10-22 Thread Jose Orlando T. Ribeiro
just to be sure, have you tried do edit that file using VI? bind is (or used to be...) somewhat picky about control characters at the end of lines. HTH orlando Jim C wrote: Jim C wrote: For project reasons I've installed a DNS server on my gateway/router using techniques that worked on

Re: [expert] Re: DNS problems on 9.0

2002-10-22 Thread Todd Lyons
Jim C wrote on Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 12:22:11PM -0700 : For project reasons I've installed a DNS server on my gateway/router using techniques that worked on the previous version of Mandrake. Specifically I'ld been following the instructions in O'Reilly's book on Now understand that I have

Re: [expert] OpenOffice crashes

2002-10-22 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Dimarts 22 Octubre 2002 02:54, en Pierre Fortin va escriure: If there are no other OO processes running, delete the /tmp/OSL... file. That's what kept mine from starting the other week. It has worked for me. Thanks ;) - -- Joan Tur.

Re: [expert] Re: DNS problems on 9.0

2002-10-22 Thread Jim C
Uh, oh. Actually I have. What should I use instead? Jose Orlando T. Ribeiro wrote: just to be sure, have you tried do edit that file using VI? bind is (or used to be...) somewhat picky about control characters at the end of lines. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [expert] Re: DNS problems on 9.0

2002-10-22 Thread Jose Orlando T. Ribeiro
use VI, but go to the end of lines, delete the control characters... As far as I remember you cant use CR+LF, just CR. VI does only CR, some editors put CR+LF (DOS EDIT.COM style) and it cause some erros in *NIX control files. orlando Jim C wrote: Uh, oh. Actually I have. What should I use

Re: [expert] Re: DNS problems on 9.0

2002-10-22 Thread Jim C
Also note that just pinging the server may not work if you are blocking icmp. I realize that you said you aren't running a firewall, but I want to be *SURE*. I agree. My specialty is clustering not security, mainly because the organizational computing overlords are pretty territorial about

Re: [expert] Wish for 9.1

2002-10-22 Thread Jim C
Several versions ago there was this great little search tool for the docs built into Mandrake Help center... man do I miss that. I see. Misunderstanding. How about writing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? This is the official mail address of the Mandrake Linux Documetation Group. I don't know whether one

Re: [expert] Re: DNS problems on 9.0

2002-10-22 Thread Jim C
What about nedit? Jose Orlando T. Ribeiro wrote: use VI, but go to the end of lines, delete the control characters... As far as I remember you cant use CR+LF, just CR. VI does only CR, some editors put CR+LF (DOS EDIT.COM style) and it cause some erros in *NIX control files. orlando Jim C

Re: [expert] Re: DNS problems on 9.0

2002-10-22 Thread Alice Lafox
On 22 ïËÔÑÂÒØ 2002 23:43, Jim C wrote: It seems to me that here is your problem: level 6 prefix `Shorewall:FORWARD:REJECT:' reject all -- 0.0.0.0/00.0.0.0/0 When I've installed Shorewall, I've got the same problem. You may or setup correctly Shorewall (I don't know how yet:/)

Re: [expert] OpenOffice crashes

2002-10-22 Thread Christopher Cali
Nothing has fixed the problem yet. Here's what happened after I did the auinix build (which someone recommended) $./soffice ... ... + plugin_mode=false + '[' X = Xrsh ']' +

Re: [expert] Re: DNS problems on 9.0

2002-10-22 Thread Todd Lyons
Jim C wrote on Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 01:43:06PM -0700 : udp0 0 192.168.1.254:530.0.0.0:* udp0 0 208.152.4.88:53 0.0.0.0:* udp0 0 127.0.0.1:530.0.0.0:* Good, this means it is listening on localhost and both ethernet cards.

[expert] LCD/CRT question

2002-10-22 Thread ccosse
Hello, i'm in a bit of a bind: i've upgraded to 9.0 and just discovered that my crt/lcd toggle on my laptop no longer works. I have to give a presentation this week and need to project onto a screen. It used to work with 8.2. Can anyone shed some light on this problem? (it's a Gateway solo 5350

Re: [expert] Wish for 9.1

2002-10-22 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 13:45 -0700, Jim C wrote: Several versions ago there was this great little search tool for the docs built into Mandrake Help center... man do I miss that. What do you mean? Which 'help center' ? wobo -- If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask

[expert] Re: LCD/CRT question

2002-10-22 Thread ccosse
Please disregard this for now -- just tried with anothher windows laptop known to work and the projector also does nothing there. Thanks, C ccosse wrote: Hello, i'm in a bit of a bind: i've upgraded to 9.0 and just discovered that my crt/lcd toggle on my laptop no longer works. I have to give

Re: [expert] Acomdata 40GB USB 2.0 hard drive

2002-10-22 Thread Todd Lyons
HoytDuff wrote on Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 01:57:44AM -0400 : Thanks for the quick reply, Todd. I'm thinking of buying one. $99 at my local CompUSA store. It's USB 2.0 so it should work rite? Any trick? I picked up one. It is detected as /dev/sda It needs to have a prtition table created

[expert] proftpd doesn't work ?

2002-10-22 Thread Rodrigo Sanchez Olavarria
Hi experts ! I have been trying to install ProFTPD from my new MDK9.0 distribution, but it doesn't work ... When I used gnome RPM to verify proftpd-1.2.5.. , one problem was found in /etc/rc.d/init.d/proftpd file ...: md5, file size, modification time When I shutdown or reboot my computer,

[expert] hot-swap breaks raid-1

2002-10-22 Thread Norman Zhang
Hi, I took out a hot-swap SCSI HD and re-insert it back in. But RAID-1 breaks. The following were found in /var/log/kernel/errors Oct 22 10:58:29 testsamba kernel: md: superblock update time inconsistency -- using the most recent one Oct 22 10:58:29 testsamba kernel: raid1: md0, not all disks

Re: [expert] proftpd doesn't work ?

2002-10-22 Thread Todd Lyons
Rodrigo Sanchez Olavarria wrote on Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 08:58:43PM -0300 : Hi experts ! I have been trying to install ProFTPD from my new MDK9.0 distribution, but it doesn't work ... When I used gnome RPM to verify proftpd-1.2.5.. , one problem was found in /etc/rc.d/init.d/proftpd file

Re: [expert] hot-swap breaks raid-1

2002-10-22 Thread Todd Lyons
Norman Zhang wrote on Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 06:10:55PM -0700 : Hi, I took out a hot-swap SCSI HD and re-insert it back in. But RAID-1 breaks. The following were found in [rootfiji ~]# urpmf raidtools raidtools:/sbin/mkpv raidtools:/sbin/mkraid raidtools:/sbin/raid0run

Re: [expert] Re: DNS problems on 9.0

2002-10-22 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 16:43, Jim C wrote: Kwan, that command errored saying ambigous output redirection so i output strace to stdout strace oowriter and got the last half in the file i'm attaching. See what you think..What happened was the frame opened then closed out immediately.

Re: [expert] What is wrong with knotes?

2002-10-22 Thread Aleksey Naumov
Thanks, Igor, replacing old .kde folder did it, knotes works again. Aleksey On Friday 18 October 2002 02:13 pm, Aleksey Naumov wrote: Hi all, I am having trouble with KDE's knotes application (yellow sticky notes). I used it alot for keeping miscellaneous information, but now I keep

[expert] ML 9.0 SMP and Santa Cruz Soundcard

2002-10-22 Thread Larry Sword
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hardware: 1. Motherboard, Abit VP6VIA Apollo Pro 133A chip-set 2. CPU, 2x1GHz Intel Pentium 3 3. Memory, 512 MB PC133 SDRAM 4. Slots: ~AGP, Matrox G559: Dual Head DDR 32 MB IRQ 16 ~PCI 1 - open ~PCI 2 - open ~PCI 3 Soundcard Turtle