[expert] urpmi and autofs

2002-12-12 Thread Milos Prudek
Hi, Instead of supermount, I use autofs. It works great. Except for urpmi and rpmdrake. Both urpmi and rpmdrake fail with similar error message about "device automount(pid1474) not found". pid1474 is the PID of automount process. -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your Pack or Ser

[expert] rpmdrake and urpmi config broken

2002-12-11 Thread Milos Prudek
} Autofs works fine for all other programs. /dev/scd0 is automounted on /mnt/vypal. Is there a way to make urpmi work with autofs? -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] display processes keeping a drive locked

2002-11-23 Thread Milos Prudek
, and I should have been looking for /mnt/burner. Thanks, Larry! Now I can optimize my Linux for my girlfriend who complains loudly when CDROM can't eject. -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] display processes keeping a drive locked

2002-11-23 Thread Milos Prudek
I know about lsof, but I failed to find parameters that would list these processes. Below is a result of /usr/sbin/lsof|grep dev (I have /dev/scd0 mounted on /mnt/burner). There is no line about /dev/scd0 there. lsof On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 00:39, Milos Prudek wrote: Is there a utility that

Re: [expert] Mandrake Documentation glitch

2002-11-23 Thread Milos Prudek
Didn't you find the scandisk message "shut down your computer properly next time to avoid this message" infuriating, because you could not shut down Windows properly because it locked up for fourth consecutive time in a row? I believe that you must have used Windows very little if yo

[expert] kdm failsafe

2002-11-23 Thread Milos Prudek
r and create a default kdm config, but it did not help. I also tried to delete the entire contents of /tmp, with no effect. There is no relevant information in .xsession-errors. -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] display processes keeping a drive locked

2002-11-23 Thread Milos Prudek
Is there a utility that would list processes which keep a drive locked, i.e which prevent unmounting ? -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] [newbie] kdm fails back to failsafe

2002-11-22 Thread Milos Prudek
Is there a log file I could investigate, or any other way to troubleshoot this, short of uninstalling kdebase.rpm ? Maybe it doesn't help, but I suggest you take a look at .xsession-errors Unfortunately there is no relevant information in that file. -- Milos Prudek Want to buy

[expert] [newbie] kdm fails back to failsafe

2002-11-22 Thread Milos Prudek
r and create a default kdm config, but it did not help. I also tried to delete the entire contents of /tmp, with no effect. Is there a log file I could investigate, or any other way to troubleshoot this, short of uninstalling kdebase.rpm ? -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your Pack or Services

[expert] menudrake and WindowMaker sync

2002-10-26 Thread Milos Prudek
menudrake does not synchronize with WindowMaker. Is there a simple fix? -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] menudrake and WindowMaker

2002-10-26 Thread Milos Prudek
I had that problem on one of the 3 Mandrake 9.0 installs that I performed. If I recall correctly the fix was very simple. As root cd to /etc/alternatives then execute the following command: ln -s /usr/bin/cpp-3.2 lib_cpp Yes it helped! Thank you very much. -- Milos Prudek Want to

[expert] WindowMaker

2002-10-25 Thread Milos Prudek
artx". The same error. So I read console output and also /var/log/XFree86.*.log, but it only contains XFree86 related data. Nothing about WindowMaker. Where can I find WindowMaker console output? -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] WindowMaker

2002-10-24 Thread Milos Prudek
Alan Carbutt wrote: Not broken as far as I can tell. Happily using it since my upgrade a few weeks ago. Broken on a vanilla Mandrake 9.0. I agree it is not broken on an upgrade. -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] autofs not unmounting

2002-10-24 Thread Milos Prudek
I have no problems whatsoever with autofs unmounting after the timeout. My auto.master file is as below: /mnt/etc/auto.misc --timeout=10 /net/etc/auto.net --timeout=10 That's strange. I had to delete the "equal" sign to make it work. -- Milos Prudek Want to b

[expert] WindowMaker

2002-10-24 Thread Milos Prudek
Hi, WindowMaker is broken in Mandrake 9.0. Someone told me that I must create a symlink and WindowMaker will work. Which symlink is it? -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] autofs not unmounting

2002-10-24 Thread Milos Prudek
Ignore bropken man pages and do this: /mnt/etc/auto.drives --timeout 20 the = doesn't work. use a space. Yes! It works. Thank you, Bryan! -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

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

[expert] supermount unreliable

2002-10-22 Thread Milos Prudek
? -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] autofs not unmounting

2002-10-22 Thread Milos Prudek
problem did not appear in my previous Linux systems. Anyone else can confirm this? -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com