This time Vincent Danen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
becomes daring and writes:
On Tuesday, November 12, 2002, at 12:04 AM, Vox wrote:
DJB writes good code. It is the arrogance I have trouble with.
Do you use openssh? Theo and co. write good code too... Theo's a
little on the arrogant side as
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 02:22, Gary wrote:
Hi all,
I just changed the video card to a nVidia NV11 (gforce 2 mx) 32mb and trying
to install avifile.
Could anyone who has installed avifile with this card let me know what files
you installed on Mdk9.
[rootsandy avifile-cooker]# rpm -i
I have shot myself in the foot. To cut a long story short I have managed
to delete my /home file system, hda8. Is there any way of recovering
from this, as I have not backed up for 3 months. I use reiserfs on MDK
9.0. I have seen an article on google that talks about recovering from
an ext2
One thing here .When you cant install MDK9 on your machine , try to set off the
Pipeline Catch Control from the Bios.I've been stopped while X Window try to enter
the package mode and then everything is OK after i shut off the pipeline control in
Bios.
Choong
Felix Miata [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hi!
i've killed my onboard soundchip, so i bought a new Creative SB Live PCI
and pluged it in. i deactivated the onboard soundchip in BIOS (which
doesn't change anything, the soundcard is still there).
now i tried to configure my pc to use the new sound card in MCC -
Hardware - Hardware List
On 12 Nov 2002 09:36:09 +
Alex Bennee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 02:22, Gary wrote:
[root@sandy avifile-cooker]# rpm -i
avifile-player-0.7.18-1mdk.i586.rpm error: failed dependencies:
libfontconfig.so.1 is needed by avifile-player-0.7.18-1mdk
Hi Marc,
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 09:12, Marc wrote:
Is it possible that customers can connect to my site while my ports are
stealthed (as in not detectable by portscans?).
No. Stealth ports mean that when one sends a SYN packet (which
initializes any TCP connection) one gets no response.
On Sunday 10 November 2002 07:25 pm, Jim Tarvid wrote:
I must admit to cheating a bit, I bought an Orinoco for this purpose.
Using MCC, I changed the SSID and set the device to channel 6 and
connected to my AP instantly.
If I had read enough, I am sure I would have screwed it up.
Which is
On Monday 11 November 2002 11:20 pm, Felix Miata wrote:
The motherboard I just installed 9.0 successfully on is not in the
database. Is there a way for a mere mortal user to report such a case
for database inclusion? I don't seem to find it on the web site.
hi everybody !
pls tell me where i can download cyrus-imapd in mandrake packages ?
i find it on ftp://ftp.linux-mandrake.com/incoming but i cant
download it from there ...
wbr ,maxx
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
On Tuesday, November 12, 2002, at 12:49 AM, Franki wrote:
sorry :-(
during working hours, I am stuck using Win2000 and Lookout2000...
not much I can do about its bad behaviour, I'm just glad it lets you
turn
off html.
I'm quite sure you can have it turn off the Reply-To settings. There
On Tuesday, November 12, 2002, at 12:59 AM, Vox wrote:
Hmmm... well, yes. Neurotic did come to mind, but I'm trying to be
nice. =) Actually, I really appreciate all that Theo has done,
despite his idiosyncracies(sp?).
I have the highest of admirations for Theo as a coder, even if I
I just built a custom 2.4.19mdk kernel on my laptop (IBM Thinkpad) and all
went well except (as seems usual) for sound. I rebooted into the new kernel
and as soon as KDE 3 starts it complains that it couldn't find /dev/dsp. The
new kernel incorporates ALSA into it but in the past alsa sources
What DM are you using? I have this problem with gdm and not kdm.
jayme
On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 15:39, Andreas Weiss wrote:
Brandon Long wrote:
I get this too, but only internittently, maybe one out of 20 shutdowns the
shutdown process will hang on shutting down dm. Have to do a hard power
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Tony S. Sykes wrote on Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 08:27:44AM - :
I have shot myself in the foot. To cut a long story short I have managed
to delete my /home file system, hda8. Is there any way of recovering
from this, as I have not backed up for 3
Did you delete the files, or the partition?
Once, being stupid, I did a cat mandrake disk image /dev/hda and blew
away my entire partition table. I was able to find a utility on the net
(thanks Google!) that scanned my disk and guessed where my partitions were
at. That utility restored my
I need to unmount my /var filesystem so that I can use diskdrake to resize
it. I've gone to init level 1 (single user mode), which kills all
processes that should be using it (like syslog), but even then, any attempt
to unmount /var gets a it's busy message. I don't know *what* it could
be
I'm getting an error when I try to run rpm on anything. The message I get is:
rpmdb: region error detected; run recovery.
error: db4 error(-30981) from dbenv-open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run
database recovery
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - (-30981)
There doesn't seem to
No I idea about recovering it (if you get to know it, please tell it
here please ;-)) but if you have enough free space on another partition
do:
dd if=/dev/hda8 | bzip2 -9 -k safe_copy_of_hda8.bz2
So you'll have a exact copy of byte map on that partition but
compressed!!!
If after trying to
Pradeor,
On my laptop (different model) /dev/dsp is a link to /dev/sound/dsp
If sound/dsp exists just do the soft link and restart kde.
James
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 09:04, Praedor Tempus wrote:
I just built a custom 2.4.19mdk kernel on my laptop (IBM Thinkpad) and all
went well except (as
Thanks, but nope, no /dev/sound/dsp.
It never ceases to amaze me that sometimes something like this comes along and
is added to the kernel - in this case sound drivers based on alsa - but upon
building and installing said kernel, it fails to complete the process
required for it to work
Just an oddball thought. What if you boot from disk 1 and then don't
mount the partitions. IF (and it should be ) diskdrake is there, then
you will have no problem with the partitions being mounted.
James
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 10:16, David Guntner wrote:
I need to unmount my /var
On Tuesday 12 November 2002 02:00 pm, Praedor Tempus wrote:
Thanks, but nope, no /dev/sound/dsp.
[...]
No dsp anywhere on my system. My /dev/sound directory is empty. My
/dev/snd directory contains nothing relating to alsa.
Also...running harddrake and trying to resetup sound fails. It
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 13:38, David Guntner wrote:
I'm getting an error when I try to run rpm on anything. The message I get is:
rpmdb: region error detected; run recovery.
error: db4 error(-30981) from dbenv-open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run
database recovery
error: cannot open
Not sure but you'll probably get it if you boot in single mode instead
of doing an init 1 once you have already booted into another level.
El mar, 12-11-2002 a las 19:16, David Guntner escribió:
I need to unmount my /var filesystem so that I can use diskdrake to resize
it. I've gone to init
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David Guntner wrote on Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:38:04AM -0800 :
There doesn't seem to be a recover option for rpm. rpm --rebuilddb gets
that same error message. Anyone know what needs to be done to repair the RPM
database?
I've seen others
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, David Guntner wrote:
I need to unmount my /var filesystem so that I can use diskdrake to resize
it. I've gone to init level 1 (single user mode), which kills all
processes that should be using it (like syslog), but even then, any attempt
to unmount /var gets a it's
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Praedor Tempus wrote on Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 02:05:45PM -0500 :
[...]
No dsp anywhere on my system. My /dev/sound directory is empty. My
/dev/snd directory contains nothing relating to alsa.
lsmod
Also...running harddrake and trying to
My Cisco PCI Wireless Aironet Card is listed in Harddrake as;
snip
Vendor: AIRONET Wireless Communications
Bus: PCI
Bus identification: 14b9:350
Location on the bus: 0:d:0
Description:
Module: airo
Media class: NETWORK_OTHER
snip
I cannot configure its wireless properties from the lan
ok, once more, very shortly: how to install a new SoundBlaster soundcard
beside the old one on ML 9.0? where can i find some instructions about this?
regards, andreas
Andreas Weiss wrote:
hi!
i've killed my onboard soundchip, so i bought a new Creative SB Live PCI
and pluged it in. i
On Tuesday 12 November 2002 01:28 pm, Andreas Weiss wrote:
ok, once more, very shortly: how to install a new SoundBlaster soundcard
beside the old one on ML 9.0? where can i find some instructions about
this? regards, andreas
Andreas Weiss wrote:
hi!
i've killed my onboard soundchip, so
OK, I tryed it but it does not allow me to redirect
http://localhost/nuke to https://localhost/nuke
I know I culd change the virtual directory... but what if someone just
removes the 's' form the 'https' and shortcuts to the correct (existing)
directory?
Am I missing something again? (My
On Tuesday 12 November 2002 02:49 pm, Todd Lyons wrote:
Praedor Tempus wrote on Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 02:05:45PM -0500 :
[...]
No dsp anywhere on my system. My /dev/sound directory is empty. My
/dev/snd directory contains nothing relating to alsa.
DrakConf cannot reconfigure this
I use kppp at home to dial my ISP. After upgrading from Mandrake 8.2
to 9.0, I found my internet connection didn't work. I checked my
firewall rules, resolv.conf, all messages files, etc. and couldn't
see anything wrong.
I eventually discovered that the default route was not being set to
point
On Tuesday 12 November 2002 01:16 pm, you wrote:
I need to unmount my /var filesystem so that I can use diskdrake to resize
it. I've gone to init level 1 (single user mode), which kills all
processes that should be using it (like syslog), but even then, any attempt
to unmount /var gets a it's
When I bought my system a couple of years ago, I got it with a
Creative Vibra 128 sound card, and disabled the onboard soundchip -
as you have done. Mandrake 7.2 happily noticed all this and loaded
the driver for card.
Since then, with all subsequent upgrades, it has always ignored the
card and
Ronald J. Hall grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
No ideas but have you tried:
lsof /var
to see whats using it?
I hadn't done this, since when running at init level 1, nothing should *be*
running which would use it. I've tried that now, and it reports nothing
back. I just get the next
[EMAIL PROTECTED] grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, David Guntner wrote:
I need to unmount my /var filesystem so that I can use diskdrake to resize
it. I've gone to init level 1 (single user mode), which kills all
processes that should be using it (like syslog), but
Todd Lyons grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
David Guntner wrote on Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:38:04AM -0800 :
There doesn't seem to be a recover option for rpm. rpm --rebuilddb gets
that same error message. Anyone know what needs to be done to repair the RPM
database?
I've seen others
ddc_prueba grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Not sure but you'll probably get it if you boot in single mode instead
of doing an init 1 once you have already booted into another level.
I expect that you're probably right. How do I go about booting it up in
that mode? There doesn't seem to be any
Hey guys, trying to get fetchmail 6.1 to download my mail, but I get the
following error messages... It seems to be some kind of SMTP error, but I
cant straigten it out. I have been to the website and have even added the
smtpname variable to the .fetchmailrc file with the same result, any
James Sparenberg grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Just an oddball thought. What if you boot from disk 1 and then don't
mount the partitions. IF (and it should be ) diskdrake is there, then
you will have no problem with the partitions being mounted.
By disk 1, are you referring to CD number
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 06:56:24 -0500, you wrote:
On 12 Nov 2002 09:36:09 +
Alex Bennee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 02:22, Gary wrote:
[root@sandy avifile-cooker]# rpm -i
avifile-player-0.7.18-1mdk.i586.rpm error: failed dependencies:
libfontconfig.so.1
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Praedor Tempus wrote on Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 04:46:57PM -0500 :
lsmod
Module Size Used byTainted: P
ppp_deflate41088 1 (autoclean)
bsd_comp4096 0 (autoclean)
lt_serial 20064
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David Guntner wrote on Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 02:55:08PM -0800 :
lsof /var
I hadn't done this, since when running at init level 1, nothing should *be*
running which would use it. I've tried that now, and it reports nothing
back. I just get
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 15:01, David Guntner wrote:
ddc_prueba grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Not sure but you'll probably get it if you boot in single mode instead
of doing an init 1 once you have already booted into another level.
I expect that you're probably right. How do I go about
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 15:03, David Guntner wrote:
James Sparenberg grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Just an oddball thought. What if you boot from disk 1 and then don't
mount the partitions. IF (and it should be ) diskdrake is there, then
you will have no problem with the partitions being
I'll check if there is any mdk90-installation-conflict-with-raid bug, if
not I'll report mine.
I'll try to upgrade manually and I'll report how it was.
Thanx.
El mar, 12-11-2002 a las 00:30, Todd Lyons escribió:
ddc_prueba wrote on Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 08:18:55AM +0100 :
This has
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 15:03, David Guntner wrote:
James Sparenberg grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Just an oddball thought. What if you boot from disk 1 and then don't
mount the partitions. IF (and it should be ) diskdrake is there, then
you will have no problem with the partitions being
when I use gedit, if I use the normal enter key it works. If for some
reason I am entering numbers and use the enter key on the num pad, I
just get squares (unprintable characters). Is there any way to bind this
key to function just as the normal enter key?
Thanks.
-Dave
Want to buy your
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 08:44:57 +1030 Brian Schroeder [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I use kppp at home to dial my ISP. After upgrading from Mandrake 8.2
to 9.0, I found my internet connection didn't work. I checked my
firewall rules, resolv.conf, all messages files, etc. and couldn't
see anything
Todd Lyons wrote:
snip
above snd-card-es1938 snd-pcm-oss
alias snd-card-0 snd-card-es1938
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
[...]
Just out of curiosity, make sound-slot-0 point to snd-card-es1938, run
depmod -a, then modprobe sound-slot-0. Look in the output of dmesg to
see if the module is
Charlie wrote:
On Tuesday 12 November 2002 01:28 pm, Andreas Weiss wrote:
ok, once more, very shortly: how to install a new SoundBlaster soundcard
beside the old one on ML 9.0?
Have you installed emu10k1? emu10k1 is on one of the disks, along with all the
alsa buttons and bells that are (IMO)
I have a mandrake 9.0 distro and a colorado 300 parallel-port primax
scanner; with previous distro's I always got it working with a standalone
driver which has lately also become a sane driver (it uses the sane net).
This time I downloaded the sources for libieee1284, compiled and
installed,
have u tried 'parted'?
it comes with a .bin file in the tarball that u can dd onto a floppy and boot
your pc with...u can the resize your partitions easily..
..dunno if it supports reiser yet but deffo ex2+3
On Tuesday 12 November 2002 6:16 pm, David Guntner wrote:
I need to unmount my /var
Brian Schroeder wrote:
When I bought my system a couple of years ago, I got it with a
Creative Vibra 128 sound card, and disabled the onboard soundchip -
as you have done. Mandrake 7.2 happily noticed all this and loaded
the driver for card.
Since then, with all subsequent upgrades, it has
Thanks, I'll try that. But why did the default change in mdk9.0?
From: Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] Mdk 9.0, kppp, and default route
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 19:03:49 -0500
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 08:44:57 +1030 Brian
This time Vincent Danen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
becomes daring and writes:
On Tuesday, November 12, 2002, at 12:59 AM, Vox wrote:
I have the highest of admirations for Theo as a coder, even if I
can't stand the personality he carries, at least on most of his
email (never had the
On 12 Nov 2002 09:36:09 +, you wrote:
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 02:22, Gary wrote:
Hi all,
I just changed the video card to a nVidia NV11 (gforce 2 mx) 32mb and trying
to install avifile.
Could anyone who has installed avifile with this card let me know what files
you installed on Mdk9.
Or linux single (without the quotes).
You're aren't on the /var partition when you are trying to unmount it, are
you?
Michael
--
Michael Viron
Project Manager / Primary Developer / Manager of Online Operations
General Education Online
At 04:00 PM 11/12/2002 -0800, you wrote:
On Tue, 2002-11-12
Without more information, I can't guarantee this will work for you, but
I got the same error and was able to resolve it by adding the following
line to my .fetchmailrc file:
mda '/usr/bin/procmail -d %T'
This will force fetchmail to send the downloaded messages to a procmail
process and procmail
Seth Zirin grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 15:03, David Guntner wrote:
By disk 1, are you referring to CD number 1? If so, are you saying that
you can boot from it in a way which *doesn't* start the installer? :-)
He is suggesting that you can boot from Install CD
Todd Lyons grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
If you do a ps ax, do any of the processes show in state D? Is the fs
type XFS? Do you by any chance have more than 768 Megs and are using
the enterprise kernel?
Just for information, to answer your questions: It's Reiser FS, smaller
than 768
Pierre Fortin wrote:
Thanks for the info... my friends' house is just up the road in the
sparsely populated SC mountains and in the same exchange; I get
50,666bps here... The x-connect boxes for the lines are just across the
highway from me... I doubt the extra 3 miles (straight shot) is
Running DevFs Daemon sits on the bottom of the screen what seems like
forever before boot proceeds further. I've installed 9.0 on other boxes,
plus 8.2. 8.2 doesn't have that long pause. How do I find out why it
takes so long, or make it boot faster?
I also get a long delay between hitting OK on
Michael Viron grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Or linux single (without the quotes).
You're aren't on the /var partition when you are trying to unmount it, are
you?
No, but it was almost as good. sheepish grin I forgot that /var/spool
would need to be umounted before /var could be
Thanks again to all whho offered information regarding my problem with
unmounting /var so that I could resize it using diskdrake. I've got a new
question now, that hopefully someone will know the answer to.
When I run diskdrake in the GUI to examing things, it shows the partition as
properly
Upon trying to run for the first time after install, I accepted its auto
selection of server to install from. Then it proceeded to Error:
couldn't connect on over half the packages. Practically nothing got
installed because of the resulting dependency failures. I tried again
and can't find a way
Felix Miata wrote:
Upon trying to run for the first time after install, I accepted its auto
selection of server to install from. Then it proceeded to Error:
couldn't connect on over half the packages. Practically nothing got
installed because of the resulting dependency failures. I tried again
On Tuesday, November 12, 2002, at 07:28 PM, Vox wrote:
Absolutely. I had the privilege of listening to Theo give a talk at
CanSec West 2000. Of course, he knocked Linux a lot (but had the
highest praise for OpenBSD, of course). It was still very
informative... and I can't say I disagree with
Hi guys,
Just a quick one...
my home server has an ADSL connection using PPPOE.. it usually takes ages to
actually get going, but once going it is fine..
Anyway, the problem is, that occasionally the connection is reset by peer
and it again takes ages to restart the connection.
I use this box
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