[expert] 8.2 EOL

2003-09-30 Thread Vincent Danen
Just a heads up to everyone.. today is the last day of support for 8.2. It will not be receiving any more security updates from this point forward. -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ Online Security Resource Book; http://linsec.ca/ lynx -source http://linsec.ca/vdanen.asc

Re: [expert] 8.2 EOL

2003-09-30 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 08:54, Vincent Danen wrote: Just a heads up to everyone.. today is the last day of support for 8.2. It will not be receiving any more security updates from this point forward. trumpet da dada da dada . da dada da dada da dada /trumpet *grin* Want to buy

Re: [expert] 8.2 EOL

2003-09-30 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 20:15, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 08:54, Vincent Danen wrote: Just a heads up to everyone.. today is the last day of support for 8.2. It will not be receiving any more security updates from this point forward. trumpet da dada da dada . da

Re: [expert] 8.2 - 9.0, msec ran and now cups unable to bindsocket

2003-03-06 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 07:35:19 + David Whiting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [06/Mar/2003:07:17:05 +] StartListening: Unable to bind socket - Cannot assign requested address. So, something is stopping it from getting the address it wants. I also noticed that named wasn't happy either: see

Re: [expert] 8.2 - 9.0, msec ran and now cups unable to bind socket

2003-03-06 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Thursday 06 March 2003 02:56 am, David Whiting wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 01:27:43PM +, Anne Wilson wrote: It looks okay to me (i.e. no garbage characters, but it could be misconfigured without me having a clue) NETWORKING=yes FORWARD_IPV4=false

Re: [expert] 8.2 - 9.0, msec ran and now cups unable to bind socket

2003-03-06 Thread David Whiting
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 08:51:52AM -0500, Pierre Fortin wrote: On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 07:35:19 + David Whiting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [06/Mar/2003:07:17:05 +] StartListening: Unable to bind socket - Cannot assign requested address. So, something is stopping it from getting the

Re: [expert] 8.2 - 9.0, msec ran and now cups unable to bind socket

2003-03-06 Thread David Whiting
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 08:51:52AM -0500, Pierre Fortin wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cups]# service named status rndc: connection to remote host closed This may indicate that the remote server is using an older version of the command protocol, this host is not authorized to connect, or the

Re: [expert] 8.2 - 9.0, msec ran and now cups unable to bindsocket

2003-03-06 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 10:03, David Whiting wrote: On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 08:51:52AM -0500, Pierre Fortin wrote: On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 07:35:19 + David Whiting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [06/Mar/2003:07:17:05 +] StartListening: Unable to bind socket - Cannot assign requested

Re: [expert] 8.2 - 9.0, msec ran and now cups unable to bind socket

2003-03-06 Thread David Whiting
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 10:17:02AM -0500, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Dave: Check your mail settings -- you have two To entries: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED], hence the double postings. -- cmg Oh, sorry! I only see one so didn't know this was happening...still learning. I'll

Re: [expert] 8.2 - 9.0, msec ran and now cups unable to bind socket

2003-03-05 Thread David Whiting
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 11:30:40PM -0800, Alan wrote: On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 01:12, David Whiting wrote: Hi, I've just upgraded from 8.2 to 9.0 (just as everyone else is getting exited about 9.1 :-) and have a printing problem. msec_find ran this morning and now cups is unable to bind

Re: [expert] 8.2 - 9.0, msec ran and now cups unable to bind socket

2003-03-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 05 Mar 2003 1:48 pm, David Whiting wrote: I get this message in /var/log/messages though. Any chance it is related? [alert] httpd: Could not determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName I don't know whether it's related or not, but have you

Re: [expert] 8.2 - 9.0, msec ran and now cups unable to bind socket

2003-03-05 Thread David Whiting
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 11:13:19AM +, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 05 Mar 2003 1:48 pm, David Whiting wrote: I get this message in /var/log/messages though. Any chance it is related? [alert] httpd: Could not determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for

Re: [expert] 8.2 - 9.0, msec ran and now cups unable to bind socket

2003-03-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 05 Mar 2003 3:08 pm, David Whiting wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 11:13:19AM +, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 05 Mar 2003 1:48 pm, David Whiting wrote: I get this message in /var/log/messages though. Any chance it is related? [alert] httpd: Could not determine

Re: [expert] 8.2 - 9.0, msec ran and now cups unable to bindsocket

2003-03-05 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 13:48:36 + David Whiting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 11:30:40PM -0800, Alan wrote: On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 01:12, David Whiting wrote: Hi, I've just upgraded from 8.2 to 9.0 (just as everyone else is getting exited about 9.1 :-) and have a

Re: [expert] 8.2 - 9.0, msec ran and now cups unable to bindsocket

2003-03-05 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 09:48, David Whiting wrote: I get this message in /var/log/messages though. Any chance it is related? [alert] httpd: Could not determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName If not, I'll worry about this one another day. It

Re: [expert] 8.2 - 9.0, msec ran and now cups unable to bindsocket

2003-03-05 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 09:27, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 05 Mar 2003 3:08 pm, David Whiting wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 11:13:19AM +, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 05 Mar 2003 1:48 pm, David Whiting wrote: I get this message in /var/log/messages though. Any chance it is

Re: [expert] 8.2 - 9.0, msec ran and now cups unable to bind socket

2003-03-05 Thread David Whiting
Welcome to the hell of 9.0 on a laptop... just for starters, I've removed shorewall and msec from mine. Reliability is so bad (I don't have the HD space to install more than one distro, and won't install 9.0 on any other system I own or support) that I'm lucky to go a week without

Re: [expert] 8.2 - 9.0, msec ran and now cups unable to bind socket

2003-03-05 Thread David Whiting
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 10:13:50AM -0400, Adolfo Bello wrote: It shows a DNS problem that might be related to your printing problem. It is not resolving the server name and it defaulting it to IP 127.0.0.1. Is the printer a local or network printer? Is it attached to the server whose name

Re: [expert] 8.2 - 9.0, msec ran and now cups unable to bind socket

2003-03-05 Thread David Whiting
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 08:51:57AM -0500, Pierre Fortin wrote: That said, have you used suspend/resume? That's the worst offender for me... so bad that I just shutdown/reboot instead... with suspend/resume, I lose sound, printer, and looking at a hard lockup within an hour or so...

Re: [expert] 8.2 - 9.0, msec ran and now cups unable to bind socket

2003-03-05 Thread David Whiting
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 01:27:43PM +, Anne Wilson wrote: It looks okay to me (i.e. no garbage characters, but it could be misconfigured without me having a clue) NETWORKING=yes FORWARD_IPV4=false DHCP_HOSTNAME=ganymede HOSTNAME=ganymede DOMAINNAME=ammp.net

[expert] 8.2 - 9.0, msec ran and now cups unable to bind socket

2003-03-04 Thread David Whiting
Hi, I've just upgraded from 8.2 to 9.0 (just as everyone else is getting exited about 9.1 :-) and have a printing problem. msec_find ran this morning and now cups is unable to bind to socket 631. I am not sure if this is a coincidence but I remember seeing previous posts about woes with msec. I

Re: [expert] 8.2 - 9.0, msec ran and now cups unable to bind socket

2003-03-04 Thread Alan
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 01:12, David Whiting wrote: Hi, I've just upgraded from 8.2 to 9.0 (just as everyone else is getting exited about 9.1 :-) and have a printing problem. msec_find ran this morning and now cups is unable to bind to socket 631. I am not sure if this is a coincidence but

Re: [expert] 8.2 cd's

2002-11-09 Thread ET
how do you know it is the cds and not the reader? On Saturday 09 November 2002 12:15 am, dfox wrote: Somebody scribbled about [expert] 8.2 cd's Has anyone else on here come across defected 8.2 cd's.. I came across a set yesterday when I purchased them at staples. Hmm. You may be better off

Re: [expert] 8.2 cd's

2002-11-09 Thread Harold Hartley
On Saturday 09 November 2002 12:06 pm, ET wrote: how do you know it is the cds and not the reader? Because I tried more than 1 cd reader and did the same with the others as well... Harold On Saturday 09 November 2002 12:15 am, dfox wrote: Somebody scribbled about [expert] 8.2 cd's Has

Re: [expert] 8.2 cd's

2002-11-08 Thread dfox
Somebody scribbled about [expert] 8.2 cd's Has anyone else on here come across defected 8.2 cd's.. I came across a set yesterday when I purchased them at staples. Hmm. You may be better off getting them at cheapbytes.com, they are pretty inexpensive. Might just be that a few of the 8.2 cds were

[expert] 8.2 cd's

2002-11-06 Thread Harold Hartley
Has anyone else on here come across defected 8.2 cd's.. I came across a set yesterday when I purchased them at staples. it stops in the middle of the boot.img being very dissapointed of not having the 8.2 standard version. I'm not able to afford the powerpack version and no broadband to dowload

Re: [expert] 8.2 cd's

2002-11-06 Thread Jim Tarvid
Working is clear, defective is elusive. Have you tried making a boot floppy diskette? If the contents will copy to your hard disk, you could try a hard disk install. This is also a time to find Linux friends in your area, It is likely at least one could help you set up a network install. Jim

Re: [expert] 8.2 cd's

2002-11-06 Thread Jim C
http://www.cheapbytes.com/ Jim Tarvid wrote: Working is clear, defective is elusive. Have you tried making a boot floppy diskette? If the contents will copy to your hard disk, you could try a hard disk install. This is also a time to find Linux friends in your area, It is likely at least

[expert] 8.2 Won't run on my machine

2002-08-21 Thread John Wheat
I have used Mandrake from version 7.1 and have never had problems installing. I have used this box with 8.0 and 8.1 with great success. Over the last few weeks I have tried version 8.2 and cannot get it to work reliably. Many times it fails durning the install wether I do graphical or text.

[expert] 8.2 Won't run on my machine

2002-08-21 Thread John Wheat
I have used Mandrake from version 7.1 and have never had problems installing. I have used this box with 8.0 and 8.1 with great success. Over the last few weeks I have tried version 8.2 and cannot get it to work reliably. Many times it fails durning the install wether I do graphical or text.

Re: [expert] 8.2 Won't run on my machine

2002-08-21 Thread John Wheat
so what does (as root, in a text console, without the quotes) cat /proc/interrupts say and can you disable apic in bios? Unfortunately I am now running Mandrake 8.1 as I could not keep 8.2 functioning. ACPI has been disabled in the BIOS already. A habit from when I ran BeOS. John

Re: [expert] 8.2 Won't run on my machine

2002-08-21 Thread Todd Lyons
John Wheat wrote on Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 06:07:33PM -0700 : so what does (as root, in a text console, without the quotes) cat /proc/interrupts say and can you disable apic in bios? ACPI has been disabled in the BIOS already. A habit from when I ran BeOS. Not acpi, apic (Advanced

Re: [expert] 8.2 Won't run on my machine

2002-08-21 Thread et
On Wednesday 21 August 2002 10:42 pm, you wrote: John Wheat wrote on Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 06:07:33PM -0700 : so what does (as root, in a text console, without the quotes) cat /proc/interrupts say and can you disable apic in bios? ACPI has been disabled in the BIOS already. A habit

Re: [expert] 8.2 Won't run on my machine

2002-08-21 Thread John Wheat
On Wednesday 21 August 2002 19:42, you wrote: John Wheat wrote on Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 06:07:33PM -0700 : so what does (as root, in a text console, without the quotes) cat /proc/interrupts say and can you disable apic in bios? ACPI has been disabled in the BIOS already. A habit from

[expert] 8.2 Won't run on my machine

2002-08-18 Thread John Wheat
I have used Mandrake from version 7.1 and have never had problems installing. I have used this box with 8.0 and 8.1 with great success. Over the last few weeks I have tried version 8.2 and cannot get it to work reliably. Many times it fails durning the install wether I do graphical or text.

Re: [expert] 8.2 Install errors

2002-07-24 Thread Randy Kramer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recertify drives if I have any doubts. What do you mean by recertify -- is this some official test, or some testing that you do? Is if for CDs or HDs or both? PS: I assume if you disable DMA in the BIOS, then the drives do not use DMA and hence, access is slower?

[expert] 8.2 Install errors

2002-07-23 Thread Jason Guidry
Trying to install 8.2 on a system with 500Mhz Celeron/192MB/20GB. Here are the consistent problems: During install, at least one package fails. Disk 2 is not accepted, even though it takes just fine on other computers. On first boot, I'll get the first L in lilo and then a repeated 2 digit

Re: [expert] 8.2 Install errors

2002-07-23 Thread tarvid
Trying to install 8.2 on a system with 500Mhz Celeron/192MB/20GB. Here are the consistent problems: During install, at least one package fails. Disk 2 is not accepted, even though it takes just fine on other computers. On first boot, I'll get the first L in lilo and then a repeated 2

[expert] 8.2 and menudrake kill multi-head display and screw up menus and clock

2002-07-14 Thread Hoyt
I'm using 8.2 with the smp kernel (Tyan S2466 2xAthlon MP1600+) and a Matrox G450 for two heads and Voodoo3 PCI for the third head. If I use menudrake to add a program, not only do I immediately drop to the dumbed down menu, I lose displays :0.1 and :0.2 after logging back in and the system

[expert] 8.2 installation problem

2002-07-05 Thread Ken Hawkins
Installing 8.2, and everything goes great until I'm configuring X. I installed from the same disks on the same machine a while ago, and everything kosher that time. I set all parameters, then go to test the X settings, and I get the following: could not open default font 'fixed' try to change

Re: [expert] 8.2 installation problem

2002-07-05 Thread Jason Guidry
Installing 8.2, and everything goes great until I'm configuring X. I installed from the same disks on the same machine a while ago, and everything kosher that time. I set all parameters, then go to test the X settings, and I get the following: 1) Send hardware info on your system 2)

Re: [expert] 8.2 installation problem

2002-07-05 Thread Ken Hawkins
Thanks, but too late, I performed another fresh re-install, and it worked this time. How would I turn off font services during an install? Ken On Fri, 2002-07-05 at 16:44, Jason Guidry wrote: Installing 8.2, and everything goes great until I'm configuring X. I installed from the same

Re: [expert] 8.2 installation problem

2002-07-05 Thread Jason Guidry
Thanks, but too late, I performed another fresh re-install, and it worked this time. hey, can't complain with that. How would I turn off font services during an install? it may only be available in expert mode, but the installer gives you a chance to turn off some of the services that you

[expert] 8.2 msec security issue

2002-06-18 Thread Dodd, David J
Mandrake 8.2 has a default security setting that leaves users' home directories world readable. I just read that you can enter other user's home directories and subdirectories and read the files. The Mandrake msec level by default choice is Standard. If you chmod each user's home dir to 700,

Re: [expert] 8.2 msec security issue

2002-06-18 Thread Michael Viron
700 is fine as long as you don't want your users to have webpages. If you don't plan to allow them to have a website (or no one uses it but yourself), then you can have it set to 700. If you have the user as a member in the apache group, and have the directory owned by the apache group, then

Re: [expert] 8.2 msec security issue

2002-06-18 Thread Jay
Go into /usr/share/msec and edit the perm.3 file /home/* to whatever permissions you like, 700 for what you are looking to do... or alternatively, use the higher security setting in the mandrake control center although using the Mandrake control center will change permissions other than your

Re: [expert] 8.2 install fails on Shuttle FV25

2002-05-28 Thread Robert Barry
I found the solution on deja. To install 8.2 on the Shuttle FV25 you need to first disable IDE Prefech in the BIOS setup. After I did that 8.2 installed without any problems. I don't know why the IDE prefech setting was causing the install to lockup. Robert --- Robert Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[expert] 8.2 install fails on Shuttle FV25

2002-05-27 Thread Robert Barry
Hi, I'm trying to install Mandrake 8.2 on a Shuttle FV25 motherboard. I'm using a FTP install. All goes well until the graphical install tries to detect IDE devices. At that point my computer locks up. Because it locks up I can't figure out what is causing the lock up. Here is my system:

Re: [expert] 8.2 install fails on Shuttle FV25

2002-05-27 Thread Robert Barry
Here is some additional info from the Shuttle site: VIA VT8606T(PN133T) / VT82C686B Chipset Socket 370, Supports Intel FCPGA Pentium III /Intel FCPGA2 Pentium III-Tualatin / Celeron / Celeron-Tualatin / VIA C3 Two 168-pin SDR DIMM PC100/PC133 SDR DIMM Onboard Savage 2D/3D Graphics Engine

Re: [expert] 8.2 and IBM ThinkPad i1250

2002-05-16 Thread Dave Sherman
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 12:41, Alfredo Cole wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi: I have now LM 8.1 PowerPack, and 8.2 DE. Is it now safe to use any of these on an IBM ThinkPad i1250? I still can not understand why I can use SuSE 7.2 and not LM 8.x. Thank you. I

Re: [expert] 8.2 and IBM ThinkPad i1250

2002-05-16 Thread James
Curios on this one. Is it possible that LM-sensors which shouldn't be run with a thinkpad regardless of distribution, being confused with LM as in Linux-Mandrake. Although I don't know what the LM in LM_sensors stands for this is for sure something you don't want to run on an IBM thinkpad.

Re: [expert] 8.2 and IBM ThinkPad i1250

2002-05-16 Thread Alfredo Cole
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was actually running version 7.2 and very happy with it, except for minor problems with my graphics card, which forced me to boot windows first, and then Mandrake. So, I asked on this list if I could upgrade to version 8.0, and civilme clearly

[expert] 8.2 and IBM ThinkPad i1250

2002-05-15 Thread Alfredo Cole
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi: I have now LM 8.1 PowerPack, and 8.2 DE. Is it now safe to use any of these on an IBM ThinkPad i1250? I still can not understand why I can use SuSE 7.2 and not LM 8.x. Thank you. - -- Alfredo J. Cole http://www.acyc.com (Accounting Systems)

[expert] 8.2 and Genius ColorPage-Vivid 4 USB scanner

2002-05-14 Thread Alfredo Cole
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi: I just bought this scanner because I saw at sane's site that it was supported. The lsusb command lists that it is connected to the USB port, but xsane and kooka both say there is no scanner installed. Has anybody gotten this scanner to work

Re: [expert] 8.2 and Genius ColorPage-Vivid 4 USB scanner

2002-05-14 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 14 May 2002 8:33 pm, you wrote: Hi: I just bought this scanner because I saw at sane's site that it was supported. The lsusb command lists that it is connected to the USB port, but xsane and kooka both say there is no scanner

[expert] 8.2 Install second ide cdrom bug

2002-05-10 Thread Keith Bambery
I am really looking for the correct place to send bug reports. Can someone please direct me to the correct place for this. I recently installed Mandrake 8.2 and my second ide dvd drive was recognised and configured except the scsi emulation was missed. I had to add it to the append=devfs= ...

Re: [expert] 8.2 Install second ide cdrom bug

2002-05-10 Thread Alastair Scott
On Friday 10 May 2002 10:07 am, Keith Bambery wrote: I am really looking for the correct place to send bug reports. Can someone please direct me to the correct place for this. I recently installed Mandrake 8.2 and my second ide dvd drive was recognised and configured except the scsi

Re: [expert] 8.2 Install second ide cdrom bug

2002-05-10 Thread civileme
Keith Bambery wrote: I am really looking for the correct place to send bug reports. Can someone please direct me to the correct place for this. I recently installed Mandrake 8.2 and my second ide dvd drive was recognised and configured except the scsi emulation was missed. I had to add

Re: [expert] 8.2 and Sony Vaio FX200

2002-05-03 Thread Al Niessner
On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 14:55, Gary Dunn wrote: On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 20:36, Alan wrote: On Friday 07 November 2036 03:21 am, Al Niessner wrote: I have Mandrake 8.2 up and running on a twin P3 desktop and now my laptop. The desktop went without a hitch because the disk was erased and

Re: [expert] 8.2 and Sony Vaio FX200

2002-05-02 Thread Alan
On Friday 07 November 2036 03:21 am, Al Niessner wrote: I have Mandrake 8.2 up and running on a twin P3 desktop and now my laptop. The desktop went without a hitch because the disk was erased and full installation was done. My laptop was much more difficult. To start with, I had to use the

Re: [expert] 8.2 and Sony Vaio FX200

2002-05-02 Thread Gary Dunn
On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 20:36, Alan wrote: On Friday 07 November 2036 03:21 am, Al Niessner wrote: I have Mandrake 8.2 up and running on a twin P3 desktop and now my laptop. The desktop went without a hitch because the disk was erased and full installation was done. My laptop was much more

Re: [expert] 8.2 bug about konqueror?

2002-04-28 Thread Damian G
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 22:36:57 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But Damian, 1) With other filemanager doesn't happen yep, i did some testing lately and it seems konqueror is the buggiest of them all. i even found ways to make it display wrong icons for directories. 2) If were true, is

Re: [expert] 8.2 bug about konqueror?, OT FileManager

2002-04-28 Thread FemmeFatale
Damian G wrote: i know that's not too much, but in windoze i couldn't get a third of that.. Anyway this Floppy issue is not a Linux problem but a KDE (Konqeuror) one. so i read a very interesting thread about filemanagers and ended up getting to know filerunner... Konq went straight to the

Re: [expert] 8.2 bug about konqueror?, OT FileManager

2002-04-28 Thread Damian G
On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 16:47:27 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Damian G wrote: i know that's not too much, but in windoze i couldn't get a third of that.. Anyway this Floppy issue is not a Linux problem but a KDE (Konqeuror) one. so i read a very interesting thread about

Re: [expert] 8.2 bug about konqueror?, OT FileManager

2002-04-28 Thread FemmeFatale
Damian G wrote: On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 16:47:27 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fwiw, I have run Konq, I hated it. I tried filerunner Found it overly complex. Civilme *Bless his little heart* Suggested Krusader. Its on the cd's you get. Wonderful program, no bugs that

Re: [expert] 8.2 bug about konqueror?

2002-04-25 Thread FemmeFatale
Damian G wrote: On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 20:03:04 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mentioned this probably bug of 8.2 in the crashtesters list, but I have the feeling that not enought attention has been given. Other crashtesters have tryed with the same badly results. Try to copy files

[expert] 8.2 bug about konqueror?

2002-04-24 Thread falcaraz
I mentioned this probably bug of 8.2 in the crashtesters list, but I have the feeling that not enought attention has been given. Other crashtesters have tryed with the same badly results. Try to copy files from the harddrive to a floppy using konqueror. You can do it with just a

Re: [expert] 8.2 bug about konqueror?

2002-04-24 Thread Damian G
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 20:03:04 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mentioned this probably bug of 8.2 in the crashtesters list, but I have the feeling that not enought attention has been given. Other crashtesters have tryed with the same badly results. Try to copy files from the harddrive

Re: [expert] 8.2 bug about konqueror?

2002-04-24 Thread Bodo Hasso Dietz
Em Qua, 2002-04-24 às 16:03, Damian G escreveu: On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 20:03:04 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mentioned this probably bug of 8.2 in the crashtesters list, but I have the feeling that not enought attention has been given. Other crashtesters have tryed with the same

Re:[expert] 8.2 bug about konqueror?

2002-04-24 Thread falcaraz
But Damian, 1) With other filemanager doesn't happen 2) If were true, is linux an stable system if a floppy with some errors can hung it? Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] 8.2 P166 and P200.....

2002-04-16 Thread nDiScReEt
Ralph Crongeyer wrote: It fails after Lilo is loaded. After the boot loader screen is loaded (and you have the chance to select Linux-Secure, Linux, Failsafe) when Linux-Secure is selected it gets about this far: Loading Linux-Secure... and then the system reboots.

Re: [expert] 8.2 P166 and P200.....

2002-04-14 Thread Kwan Lowe
Ralph Crongeyer wrote: Hi all, I have an older machine that I use as a firewall, it is a P166 with 64MB ram and a 6Gig HD. I am trying to upgrade it from SNF7.2 to SNF8.2. I installed MDK 8.2 with the minimum install as suggested from the mailing lists and it installs with no problems but on

Re: [expert] 8.2 P166 and P200.....

2002-04-14 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
It fails after Lilo is loaded. After the boot loader screen is loaded (and you have the chance to select Linux-Secure, Linux, Failsafe) when Linux-Secure is selected it gets about this far: Loading Linux-Secure... and then the system reboots. Ralph

Re: [expert] 8.2 P166 and P200.....

2002-04-14 Thread Jason Guidry
Ralph Crongeyer wrote: Hi all, I have an older machine that I use as a firewall, it is a P166 with 64MB ram and a 6Gig HD. I am trying to upgrade it from SNF7.2 to SNF8.2. snip I can find no info anywhere on SNF8.2 and I'm interested in building a firewall soon. 1st question, where is

RE: Re: [expert] 8.2 P166 and P200.....

2002-04-14 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
Jason Guidry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ralph Crongeyer wrote: Hi all, I have an older machine that I use as a firewall, it is a P166 with 64MB ram and a 6Gig HD. I am trying to upgrade it from SNF7.2 to SNF8.2. snip I can find no info anywhere on SNF8.2 and I'm interested in building a

RE: Re: [expert] 8.2 P166 and P200.....

2002-04-14 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
Jason Guidry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ralph Crongeyer wrote: Hi all, I have an older machine that I use as a firewall, it is a P166 with 64MB ram and a 6Gig HD. I am trying to upgrade it from SNF7.2 to SNF8.2. snip I can find no info anywhere on SNF8.2 and I'm interested in building a

Re: [expert] 8.2 P166 and P200.....

2002-04-14 Thread civileme
Ralph Crongeyer wrote: Jason Guidry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ralph Crongeyer wrote: Hi all, I have an older machine that I use as a firewall, it is a P166 with 64MB ram and a 6Gig HD. I am trying to upgrade it from SNF7.2 to SNF8.2. snip I can find no info anywhere on SNF8.2 and I'm

[expert] 8.2 install exited abnormally on laptop 16MB RAM. PCMCIA, NFS

2002-04-06 Thread fn ln
People have suggested that my problem may be memory-size related, but 1) non-laptop 16MB didn't have this problem, 2)I would presume when the installation script starts, it checks the amount of the available memory, and no warning appeared on screen nor in logs. We want to have the same linux

[expert] 8.2: ps2 wheel mouse crashes: SOLVED

2002-04-03 Thread falcaraz
Actually computers are a mistery! Do you remember my problem in a computer that with 8.2 didn't recognize a ps2 wheel mouse?; it had also problem with lilo to change anything: error: image not found. Whell, today I decided to do an actuallization as expert but not selecting new packages; I

[expert] 8.2 and vectra vl600

2002-04-03 Thread ingmar frey
I know this should be a certified linux compatible computer. IT install fine, it detects the matrox card, the sound. But the nic is a diferent story. Drakconf just does cant see the ethernet card. lspci cant find it either. I know that it is a 3c905c, and that it worked with windows

Re: [expert] 8.2 and vectra vl600

2002-04-03 Thread Brian Schroeder
This may help: When I did an upgrade from 7.2 to 8.1, my nic suddenly stopped working - for no apparent reason. The symptoms were similar to what you describe. I tried all sorts of things, including pulling my hair out, but nothing worked. Eventually I removed the card from the box, had a

[expert] 8.2: ps2 wheel Microsoft mouse crashes

2002-04-01 Thread falcaraz
Dear friends, I am having problems to install 8.2 in a computer that runed 8.0 without problems: Pentium III 1Ghz, 256 Mb Ram; keyboard Microsoft USB, mouse ps2 whell Microsoft. Installation: no mouse; if I have conected both, the Microsoft whell ps2 and other serial mouse it start with the

Re: [expert] 8.2: ps2 wheel Microsoft mouse crashes

2002-04-01 Thread Larry Sword
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear friends, I am having problems to install 8.2 in a computer that runed 8.0 without problems: Pentium III 1Ghz, 256 Mb Ram; keyboard Microsoft USB, mouse ps2 whell Microsoft. Installation: no mouse; if I have conected both, the Microsoft whell ps2 and other

Re: [expert] 8.2: ps2 wheel Microsoft mouse crashes

2002-04-01 Thread falcaraz
Larry First of all I try the installation with this ps2 wheel mouse attached to the computer and no mouse appeared in the installation and of course not option to install it. Secondly I try an installation with two mice attached, one serial and the mentioned ps2. The serial appeared in the

Re: [expert] 8.2: ps2 wheel Microsoft mouse crashes

2002-04-01 Thread Larry Sword
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Larry First of all I try the installation with this ps2 wheel mouse attached to the computer and no mouse appeared in the installation and of course not option to install it. Secondly I try an installation with two mice attached, one serial and the mentioned

Re: [expert] 8.2: ps2 wheel Microsoft mouse crashes

2002-04-01 Thread Lorne Shantz
I wonder if you are having an interrupt conflict of some sort that didn't show up before? Can you try moving some stuff around to free up that interrupt? Just a guess. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear friends, I am having problems to install 8.2 in a computer that runed 8.0 without problems:

Re: [expert] 8.2 Supermount - Problem

2002-03-31 Thread George Czerw
On Sat, 30 Mar 2002 16:03:57 -0800, J. Craig Woods wrote: George, your fstab lines for mounting cdrom, cdrom2 (and floppy, although you say it is working) look suspicious. They are in fact telling the os to mount none, and this seems to be the error msg you are getting too (smart errror

Re: [expert] 8.2 Supermount - Problem

2002-03-31 Thread Dianne Marie Montesa
hi george if you want to use supermount, you might as well use supermount to modify the /etc/fstab for you. # supermount -i enable the above command would help you correct the entries on /etc/fstab. hth dianne --- George Czerw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 30 Mar 2002 16:03:57 -0800, J.

Re: [expert] 8.2 Supermount - Problem

2002-03-31 Thread George Czerw
On Sun, 31 Mar 2002 08:03:06 -0800, Dianne Marie Montesa wrote: hi george if you want to use supermount, you might as well use supermount to modify the /etc/fstab for you. # supermount -i enable the above command would help you correct the entries on /etc/fstab.

Re: [expert] 8.2 Supermount - Problem SOLVED

2002-03-31 Thread George Czerw
I don't know what happed. But after several reboots, I decided to delete all desktop icons for removable devices and then recreate them as user. Now each one of them works as it should! Go figure Thanks everyone for your help. George Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[expert] 8.2 Supermount - Problem

2002-03-30 Thread George Czerw
I did an upgrade from 8.0 to 8.1 to a Cooker 8.2 and recently to the final 8.2. While the supermount is working with the floppy drive, as a user I get the following error when I try to read either of my CD-R or CD-RW drives: Could not mount device. The reported error was: mount: according to

Re: [expert] 8.2 Supermount - Problem

2002-03-30 Thread J. Craig Woods
George Czerw wrote: I did an upgrade from 8.0 to 8.1 to a Cooker 8.2 and recently to the final 8.2. While the supermount is working with the floppy drive, as a user I get the following error when I try to read either of my CD-R or CD-RW drives: Could not mount device. The reported

Re: [expert] 8.2 Install

2002-03-29 Thread Dianne Marie Montesa
--- Ric Tibbetts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: YEA! The RicMan is happy again :-) Aw.. I'm most always happy, an da Linux supporter in arenas that you wouldn't believe! Sometimes I just drink a bit too much coffee. ;) heh! dont blame it on coffee ... i love coffee and frankly, i am hurt by

[expert] 8.2 Install

2002-03-28 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Just a quick one. I installed 8.2 on my crash burn box tonight. The install went exactly how an install should. Flawless. So far, I can't see any large differences from 8.1, except that it runs smoother, and some applications have newer versions, and run faster smoother. Exactly how a point

Re: [expert] 8.2 Install

2002-03-28 Thread J. Craig Woods
Ric Tibbetts wrote: Just a quick one. I installed 8.2 on my crash burn box tonight. The install went exactly how an install should. Flawless. So far, I can't see any large differences from 8.1, except that it runs smoother, and some applications have newer versions, and run faster

Re: [expert] 8.2 Install

2002-03-28 Thread Ric Tibbetts
On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 22:28, J. Craig Woods wrote: Ric Tibbetts wrote: Just a quick one. I installed 8.2 on my crash burn box tonight. The install went exactly how an install should. Flawless. So far, I can't see any large differences from 8.1, except that it runs smoother, and

Re: [expert] 8.2: Upgrade or clean install?

2002-03-26 Thread Dennis Robertson
On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 11:25:00PM -0800, David Guntner wrote: Content-Description: Mail message body I've downloaded the 8.2 ISO files and will be burning them to a CD when I get a chance (once the 8.2 Powerpack box set is in the store, I'll be picking that up). I'm currently running 8.1.

[expert] 8.2 how to make supermount work?

2002-03-26 Thread Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes
Hello I was crasy enough to try to upgrade from rc1 to 8.2 (I said crasy because all other attempts ended up in a full install). Fortunately everything worked except for supermount. It is not working anymore. How can I fix that manually? Many thanks Ed Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [expert] 8.2 how to make supermount work?

2002-03-26 Thread Dianne Marie Montesa
hi i havent installed 8.2 yet. but i did have problems with supermount before and can share my experiences with it...1) maybe you can check if the new version of initscripts was actually updated during your upgrade. that rpm is where supermount command is bundled with. 2) you can also do a

Re: [expert] 8.2 how to make supermount work?

2002-03-26 Thread nDiScReEt
Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: Hello I was crasy enough to try to upgrade from rc1 to 8.2 (I said crasy because all other attempts ended up in a full install). Fortunately everything worked except for supermount. It is not working anymore. How can I fix that manually? Many thanks

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