It seems I can not sort out my raid array boot issue, so I'll have to settle on a work around.

I need to run 2 commands each boot. These are:

# Raid array discovery and activation
dmraid -ay

# Mount arrays for access
mount /dev/mapperxxxxxxxx /mnt/mount_point

Is it as simple as creating a bash script and then placing it somewhere so as to be executed or is there another process? All this in new to me.

Thanks

Mandriva 2011

I am looking for the script(syntax) that will find all the hard links in the "/sbin" directory.

The commands should include...find, grep, | (pipe), and search the inodes.

This is a disposable installation that is on it's own hard drive and I have a lot of work to do exploring the file system. It would be really nice to log in to the GUI as "root:UID-0" for this work. I know this is not recomended (to say the least) for a newbe that cares about security and stability of the system. imagine...su root(password) cd / rd -r /* :-) I can't find the active kdmrc file :-(

Thanks

Update I found it It is at...

Mandriva 2011

/usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc change to "allowrootlogin=true"

"""WARNING""" Other users are right this feature makes it so easy to instantly shoot yourself in the foot, you can literally delete the operating system right out from underneath you. I dare you to login as root GUI--open Dolphin file manager--right click on the boot directory-choose move to trash--confirm--then restart system :D Hope you have Mr backup or are prepared for a nightmare. Also root GUI login leaves the system exposed to cyber attacks. The best policy when using this feature is """GET IN--BE CAREFULL--GET OUT"""

The easiest way is to open up a terminal and authenticate as root "su root". navigate to the directory "cd /usr/share/config/kdm/" then to be on the safe side I made a backup

"cp kdmrc kdmrcbak" then execute the extrnal program authenticated as root by typing "kwrite"

within kwrite navagate to the directory and and choose open kdmrc. Make the modification and choose save. Just for pickyness kwrite creates a temp file that it does not remove, you can remove it from the terminal or from dolphin file manager once you login as root GUI.

$ xset dpms 50000 55000 60000

Whether it's in root or not, doesn't matter. Anyway to make such changes permanent? Also, what command would be best, because I just randomly choose 50000 55000 and 60000.

Thanks,

Kieth

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checking for LIBJACK... no
configure: error: Package requirements (jack >= 0.98.0) were not met:

No package 'jack' found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables LIBJACK_CFLAGS
and LIBJACK_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

I have confirmed the existence of libjack

locate libjack
/usr/lib/libjack.so.0
/usr/lib/libjack.so.0.1.0
/usr/lib/libjackserver.so.0
/usr/lib/libjackserver.so.0.1.0

I tried going through the pkg-config man pages, but seemed a bit odd about setting the libjack.

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I have a file(File1) which has the contents as below:

Oct 25 21:06

Oct 25 22:17

Oct 25 22:39

Oct 25 22:41

Oct 25 22:51

Now I have to write to another file(File2) everything in File1 and have to add additional data as below:

Oct 25 21:05

Oct 25 21:06

Oct 25 21:07

Oct 25 22:16

Oct 25 22:17

Oct 25 22:18

Oct 25 22:38

Oct 25 22:39

Oct 25 22:40

Oct 25 22:40

Oct 25 22:41

Oct 25 22:42

Oct 25 22:50

Oct 25 22:51

Oct 25 22:52

So, I am adding the previous time and also one minute before and one minute after to the new file.

Can someone help me with this ? I can later remove the duplicates with the uniq.

Please help

#!/bin/bash

sh -c "password" | ssh -L 6700:127.0.0.1:4888 user@sshtunnel.net

#!/bin/bash

ssh -L 6700:127.0.0.1:4888 user@sshtunnel.net

sh -c "password"

I tried 'echo "password" | ssh -L 6700:127.0.0.1:4888 user@sshtunnel.net' but this only works where password characters are displayed.

The technical support guy said that the ssh server won't allow public-key placement because of vulnerabilities of openssl.

Incidentally, it always says "#!/bin/bash: no such file". I checked: it is there.

I also tried to change the algorithms:

ssh -c aes128-ctr, aes192-ctr, aes256-ctr, aes128-cbc, cast128-cbc, arcfour128, arcfour256, arcfour, aes192-cbc, aes256-cbc, 3des-cbc

but it always says there's a problem resolving the second algorithm.

Every night i use a bash scritpt to backup up my files form Drive A to Drive B.

Also there will be created a log file.

In this log file i like to see some info about a directory.

For example:

I start this command before the backup on my Freenas 7.x

echo " Web - Files :`find $SOURCE_WEB_F -type f | wc -l`" " /`find $DEST_WEB_F -type f |wc -l`" >>$LOG

After the backup i run this line again so i can see that all the files are on the backup disk

So what i like is the info after the backup in one line

Backup files - Source files - Files after backup

web 200 300 300

I like it this way but how can i see this info in one line after the backup (in the log file) :unsure: ??

Thanks for helping.

Vriendje

Basically what I am looking for is how to store am a 8 bit binary number, say 0110110, in a variable. The best that I have found so far would be to do something like this:

#define BYTE char

BYTE myBinaryNo = 0x0110110;

Would this be correct though? I thought the 0x notation was for hex numbers.

I have 4GB memory on my computer. After installation I see all 4 GB.

But after installing of kernel-desktop-latest and restarting I see

    # uname -a
   Linux localhost 2.6.33.7-desktop-2mnb #1 SMP Mon Sep 20 19:00:25 UTC 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

    # free
                total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
   Mem:       3112588    2805048     307540          0     774308    1442424
   -/+ buffers/cache:     588316    2524272
   Swap:      2096440          0    2096440

It looks like desktop version of Mandriva does not understand more 3GB memory?

I tried to work on server version of Mandriva, but encountered problems with some applications like smplayer, vlc – when playing movies they make some pauses, which I do like at all.

Can desktop version of Mandriva work with 4GB Memory, something like PAE in Fedora ?

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I need to replace some text, the first 6 - 9 characters are numbers. Then there are two letters, of which then follow four more characters which are a mix of numbers. There is a possibility that the two letters that proceed the first 6 - 9 characters could occur in the last four, so need to make sure I only replace the first instance that follows the first 6 - 9 characters. I'm thinking of sed, but I'm not sure exactly how I can get it to find the 6 - 9 characters, and then replace the two letters with a new string.

Any ideas?

In Mandriva 2010.2 with KDE in console there is menu "Bookmarks->Add bookmark". Selecting it current directory

1) Is not saved if I am logged in console as root. I mean opening "Bookmarks=>EditBookmarks" menu I see empty items.

2) saved ok if I am logged as not root user

Can I fix it?

uname -a
Linux localhost 2.6.33.7-desktop-2mnb #1 SMP Mon Sep 20 19:00:25 UTC 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

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Over on my 32-bit desktop computer, running a 32-bit version of Mandriva 2010.2, the command "rec new-file.wav" works fine. Recording for 1 minute produces 1 minute of recorded audio, and sox doesn't use a significant amount of CPU time.

What could be the problem with sox on my laptop?

starting installing packages
created transaction for installing on / (remove=0, install=0, upgrade=9)
Preparing...                     ##################################################################################################################
     1/9: mozilla-thunderbird   ##################################################################################################################
Warning in file "/usr/share/applications/mandriva-mozilla-thunderbird.desktop": usage of MIME type "x-scheme-handler/mailto" is discouraged (the use of "x-scheme-handler" as media type is strongly discouraged in favor of a subtype of the "application" media type)
Error in file "/usr/share/applications/writer.desktop": "zz-application/zz-winassoc-wps" is an invalid MIME type ("zz-application" is an unregistered media type)
Error in file "/usr/share/applications/kde4/nepomuksimpleannotator-app.desktop": "all/all" is an invalid MIME type ("all" is an unregistered media type)
Error in file "/usr/share/applications/kde4/kfontview.desktop": "fonts/package" is an invalid MIME type ("fonts" is an unregistered media type)
     2/9: lib64xulrunner1.9.2.18
                                ##################################################################################################################
     3/9: xulrunner             ##################################################################################################################
     4/9: gnome-python-extras   ##################################################################################################################
     5/9: firefox               ##################################################################################################################
     6/9: yelp                  ##################################################################################################################
     7/9: gnome-python-gtkmozembed
                                ##################################################################################################################
     8/9: mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail
                                ##################################################################################################################
     9/9: firefox-en_GB         ##################################################################################################################
removing upgraded package mozilla-thunderbird-0:3.1.10-0.1mdv2010.2.x86_64
Warning in file "/usr/share/applications/mandriva-mozilla-thunderbird.desktop": usage of MIME type "x-scheme-handler/mailto" is discouraged (the use of "x-scheme-handler" as media type is strongly discouraged in favor of a subtype of the "application" media type)
Error in file "/usr/share/applications/writer.desktop": "zz-application/zz-winassoc-wps" is an invalid MIME type ("zz-application" is an unregistered media type)
Error in file "/usr/share/applications/kde4/nepomuksimpleannotator-app.desktop": "all/all" is an invalid MIME type ("all" is an unregistered media type)
Error in file "/usr/share/applications/kde4/kfontview.desktop": "fonts/package" is an invalid MIME type ("fonts" is an unregistered media type)
removing upgraded package xulrunner-1.9.2.17-0.1mdv2010.2.x86_64
removing upgraded package gnome-python-extras-2.25.3-18.11mdv2010.2.x86_64
removing upgraded package yelp-2.30.1-4.11mdv2010.2.x86_64
removing upgraded package firefox-0:3.6.17-0.1mdv2010.2.x86_64
removing upgraded package gnome-python-gtkmozembed-2.25.3-18.11mdv2010.2.x86_64
removing upgraded package mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail-0:3.1.10-0.1mdv2010.2.x86_64
removing upgraded package firefox-en_GB-3.6.17-0.1mdv2010.2.x86_64
unlocking urpmi database
unlocking rpm database

Yesterday I booted my computer (Mandy 2008.1) and logged in. The computer was wicked slow and sluggish. Watching gkrellm, it was apparent that there was no network traffic, the CPU's were down at ~5%, and the disk indicator showed idle, but the computer took forever to do anything. It took half a minute to post the Start menu or run a command window.

The access light on the front of the case showed the hard disk being hammered by something, but I could not figure out what it was. The disk activity was not indicated in the gkrellm display...???.. The KSysGuard process monitor showed the processes as mostly idle; nothing showed up as hogging any CPU time. There was zero swap in use, and about 700Meg of my 2 Gig in use..... basically lots of resources were available.

After a few minutes it went away and was fine. I am baffled. It was almost like running my fnWindows box at work, which spends the first 20 minutes after it boots scanning the whole disk for bad guys.

Today the computer booted OK no problems. It is as fast and crisp as usual.

I am running the ext3 file system and thought that maybe it was doing a disk check or something, but it usually does that during the bootup, not after I am using it.

Anybody out there have any idea what might have caused such a thing?

Thanks

Banjo

(_)=='=~

Is there anyway of getting this information with a simple command form within a shell? I realize that I can open Konquerer and right click on a directory, but there must be a way of doing this from within the shell.

Thanks.

I'm tired of having to modify bashprofile files for every single user to be able to run programs from commandline without having to type the entire path. So I discovered that by placing a symbolic link in /usr/local/bin, all users (including root) can run the program easily. Is this evil? Am I breaking the system?

Thanks

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Crond is running according to mcc - so what is the deal?

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1 - I have 2 NTFS partitions mounted in /mnt/windows and /mnt/data.

2 - When I umount both partitions, everything goes well.

3 - If I use mount /mnt/data as root the partition is successfully mounted.

4 - If I use mount /mnt/windows I get this error "mount: couldn't find /mnt/windows in fstab or mtab"

5 - If I use mount /dev/sda2 instead of mount /mnt/windows, the partition is successfully mounted.

6 - Both entries appear in fstab.

The problem seems to be the name. If I tell mount to mount the folder /mnt/windows, it doesn't work, but if I call it /dev/sda2 it works. Also, the entries in fstab are identical for both partitions.

What could the problem be?

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I have been amazed at the abilities of some small hand held media players that can play DivX files and HD content on bright little touchscreens with small (< 1GHz) processors inside. I have also been amazed to read that many of these players are Linux-based. I also understand that most of them have been built from the ground up to be able to play multimedia. However, should it not be possible to use "excess" processing power on larger boards and achieve similar results?

I am interested in building a version of MDV2010 that uses a kernel that is optimized for multimedia playback on lower-end PCs. Specifically, I would like to be able to play DVDs and DIVX files on Via EPIA motherboards. Most (if not all) of Via's motherboards have Via CPUs on them such as their C3, C7 and Nano processors, and processor speeds are usually in the 500MHz to 1.5GHz range. Some of these boards also have MPEG2/4 hardware acceleration however, the support for this in Windows and Linux is really spotty and limited to boards with the CLE266 chipsets (a few others, but none of the newer models).

However, I do not want to use the stock versions of most distros as they have kernels that are made to run on most hardware and contain tons of unneeded apps and services. I've recompiled kernels before however, I've never gotten to the point of changing major parts of the kernel configuration for optimization.

Can anyone provide some recommendations on how to optimize a kernel for multimedia playback on Via processors?

I was using vim last night to edit some programs and accidently typed in '/y'. Now the program is highlighting every y on the page. And to make things worse, this pattern matching persists beyond closing the program.

I am a vim newbie, how do I turn this off?

Here's a hard one :-)

How do I start multiple tabs in one (!) konsole from a script? I looked everywhere, but didn't find a solution.

if i do

#!/bin/bash
konsole -e command1 &
konsole -e command2 &

I get two seperate konsole windows, not two tabs in one window...

And "konsole -e command1 -e command2" doesn't work, too.

And to make the question more complex:

How do I start multiple tabs with some being root and some being user while only entering the root-pw once... Why? Because I got a loooong and secure root pw and when I login on our company server I want to have "tail -f" on about 5 logs as root, have one root shell to work and two user shells to work as user... :-) And it would be nice to have all those terminals as tabs in a konsole (or any other terminal that supports tabs)

Or - if it won't work in a script: how do I spawn a new tab from the current one with a command (keeping the user! As I mentioned, I wouldn't like to re-enter my root pw that often...)

Thanks for your help.

Panic. (No, not you, me.)

I have run into a problem here:

I got this Win32:parite virus which infects executable files. It has infected my Linux installation via Wine (didn't know a virus could spread via Wine). All of the .exe files I have are infected. Now, I know that this virus will never be able to infect any Linux executable, but the problem is that this is a server here, and it's going to infect other machines running Windows via SAMBA. So I'd like to remove all the executables and replace them with new uninfected files.

I found the file that briught the virus in, but it has spread all over, so I need to delete all .exe files first.

Is there a search program which is as effective as Windows' tools? I don't care if it is a command, I just need a reliable way of locating any *.exe files. I have located most of them, but I need to make sure there are no more exe's in my Linux.

Thanks in advance, I know this is quite simple.

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See this link for more details on the problem.

I have determined that

I have confirmed CONFIG_DYNAMIC_USB_MIRRORS is turned on in stock kernels, at least the ones I have installed.

I want to know if it possible to recompile a stock kernel, and turn off CONFIG_DYNAMIC_USB_MIRRORS. I have figured out how to edit kernel source, and change this option.

I am not at all sure if the Nvidia drivers, and drivers for Virtual Box will load into a reconfigured kernel.

Your thoughts on how to proceed?

Would I be better off getting the latest kernel source, and compiling it? If I go that route, I have very little experience, so I have no idea how to handle Nvidia or V-box stuff.

I know if I get the latest source, the patching Mandriva does would be gone, and it would have an impact on the built in tools, not sure what else.

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I'm a complete Linux newbe and have loaded Mandriva onto an old PC. I fitted a Wifi card to the PC and dragged up a driver for it in the form of a .tar.gz file. Managed to figure out how to access the tar files but have run into a complication.... There doesn't appear to be any make command and also no compiler loaded.???????

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What is the trick?

I have tried:

ln -s --target-directory=linux-2.6.33.7-desktop-1mnb 
ln: missing file operand
Try `ln --help' for more information.

Operand is missing? O.K. so I tried,

ln -s --target-directory=linux-2.6.33.7-desktop-1mnb linux

This didn't work as I expected either. It created a link called 'linux' in the target directory, not in the directory I was in.

I need a command that will create a sym link to the target, called linux, in the directory I'm in. The old link is pointing to the wrong source for the current kernel, and I can not get vboxdrv to compile.

Your help is always appreciated...

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I've got a java program, and one of the things it should be able to do is play sound files. Now, I can play some wavs directly from java, but not all wavs (UnsupportedAudioFileException) and not oggs or mp3s. I can add a bunch of libraries to let me play oggs, but I can't guarantee that people have those libraries and don't want to include them all myself. So I figure why not just launch the system's media player and pass the file over?

So I tried using "Desktop.getDesktop().open(soundFile)" and it certainly launches Totem, but Totem just says "Location not found" and the java program spits out the following error to the console:

** Message: Error: Resource not found.
gstfilesrc.c(977): gst_file_src_start (): /play/source:
No such file "/home/neddie/code/test/file:/home/neddie/sounds/test.wav"

I can print out the file's path, and check that it exists and is readable, but somehow it seems to be passing a file:/ url (to the absolute file path) which is then getting misinterpreted as a relative url (appended to the current path) and obviously then it doesn't work. Note that I can double-click on the file in Nautilus and Totem plays the file no problem.

Does anyone know, is this a Totem problem, or just a misconfig of my system, or what? If I do the same thing with a text file then it opens gedit ok, if I use a jpeg it opens the picture player ok, and if I change the default wav-file handler to either mplayer or VLC then they also work. So it must be specific to Totem I guess.

Or does anyone know if there's a more reliable method for launching a sound player in a cross-platform way?

And while I'm here, does anyone know an easy way to determine the duration of a sound clip, whether it's wav or ogg or mp3 or whatever? Preferably without my program having to understand all the audio formats and preferably without having to read the whole file into memory? I see that Nautilus is able to show the length of audio files on the "audio" tab, but is there any way for a java program to access that meta-information?

please can anyone help me with this,

I need to read a matix which is stored in data file,

here is how I generate the matrix from FORTRAN

do i=1:500

do j=1:500

write(*,*) X(i,j)

end do

end do

the problem I do not how to read the matrix from the data file using MATLAB,

i want to know how to read the data file and then stored in a matrix,

below what I did to read the element form the data file; then stored in X(i,j)

fid = fopen('fort.dat', 'r');

for i=1:500

for j=1:500

X(i,j) = fscanf(fid, '%g );

end

end

here is the error message after run these lines..

[Fatal Error] :-1:-1: Premature end of file.

??? Error: File: PlotContour.m Line: 12 Column: 30

A MATLAB string constant is not terminated properly.

Edited: from a console screen. I do not have a workstation, therefore I have no MCC.

Re-edited: Actually, I am trying to urpmi.addmedia --distrib --mirrorlist. I received an error that stated "retrieval of [ftp://mirror...] failed (md5sum mismatch) problem reading synthesis file of medium "Main""

I have tried many other mirror sites, but I receive the same error. I have also attempted urpmi.removemedia but it says that there is no media.

Again, I have no workstation. I am working strictly on a console.

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I'm working on a Java app that uses Apache/Tomcat and to which the users sometimes upload files. I know that Apache can be configured with a maximum file upload size, but this application needs to allow some users to upload certain file sizes and others a different size.

The request header contains a content-length attribute that can be used to check the request size. The problem is that by the time the servlet is processing the request and can look at this information, the entire file has been uploaded. So a user might upload a huge file and then, after waiting, be told that his file is too big and has been discarded. What I'd really like is to peek at the request header as the request first starts coming in and close the connection if the file is too big.

I considered writing a custom Valve for Tomcat, but it looks to me like a Valve also does not process a request until the entire request has been received.

My next thought is to customize some kind of proxy between Apache and Tomcat. Is there any way that a Java component can be put in the pipeline to sniff out request headers and parse the content-length? (I'm assuming that Apache pipes requests through to Tomcat as they come in, rather than waiting for the entire request body and then passing it on. I think that's a reasonable assumption but really don't know.)

[root@localhost urpmi_stuff]# urpmi.addmedia --distrib --mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST'
adding medium "Main"
adding medium "Main Updates"
adding medium "Main32"
adding medium "Main32 Updates"
adding medium "Main Testing" (ignored by default)
adding medium "Main Backports" (ignored by default)
adding medium "Main debug" (ignored by default)
adding medium "Main Updates debug" (ignored by default)
adding medium "Main Testing debug" (ignored by default)
adding medium "Main Backports debug" (ignored by default)
adding medium "Contrib"
adding medium "Contrib Updates"
adding medium "Contrib Testing" (ignored by default)
adding medium "Contrib Backports" (ignored by default)
adding medium "Contrib debug" (ignored by default)
adding medium "Contrib Updates debug" (ignored by default)
adding medium "Contrib Testing debug" (ignored by default)
adding medium "Contrib Backports debug" (ignored by default)
adding medium "Non-free" (ignored by default)
adding medium "Non-free Updates" (ignored by default)
adding medium "Non-free Testing" (ignored by default)
adding medium "Non-free Backports" (ignored by default)
adding medium "debug_non-free_release" (ignored by default)
adding medium "debug_non-free_updates" (ignored by default)
adding medium "debug_non-free_testing" (ignored by default)
adding medium "debug_non-free_backports" (ignored by default)
   $MIRRORLIST: media/main/release/media_info/20100603-165332-synthesis.hdlist.cz
...retrieving failed:        0B/s|/var/cache/urpmi/partial/20100603-165332-synthesis.hdlist.cz
...retrieving failed:        0B/s|/var/cache/urpmi/partial/20100603-165332-synthesis.hdlist.cz
...retrieving failed: aria2 failed: exited with 3
problem reading synthesis file of medium "Main"
[root@localhost urpmi_stuff]#

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Hi, can I call a subroutine inside another subroutine in Fortran 77???, also can I call a function in a subroutine???

Best

Stephani

While searching the web I found a program called "ufiformat" which is supposed to do the job, however ufiformat does not seem to be in the Mandriva repositories.

fbi - open images in console
fbgrab - take a snapshot 
fbgs - open *.pdf documents in console

So i tried them out and none works as they should:

[paullik@localhost ~]$ fbi pic.png
using "DejaVu Sans Mono-16", pixelsize=16.67 file=/usr/share/fonts/TTF/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf
ioctl VT_GETSTATE: Invalid argument (not a linux console?)
[paullik@localhost ~]$ fbgs document.pdf

### rendering pages, please wait ... ###

GPL Ghostscript 8.64 (2009-02-03)
Copyright (C) 2009 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
Processing pages 1 through 1.
Page 1
Loading NimbusSanL-Bold font from %rom%Resource/Font/NimbusSanL-Bold... 2770384 1077304 9361800 8057179 3 done.
using "DejaVu Sans Mono-16", pixelsize=16.67 file=/usr/share/fonts/TTF/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf
ioctl VT_GETSTATE: Invalid argument (not a linux console?)
[paullik@localhost ~]$ fbgrab con.png
Converting image from 16
Now writing PNG file

So in gwenview I can see the pic.png, in Okular I can read document.pdf -but you can see what errors i get when i try to open them in console.

And about fbgrab, it grabs my console but the image looks like that:

Its the same if its *.jpg or whatever...

I'm running Mandriva 2009.1 Spring, x86.

MB:Asus P5VD2-MX SE

Video: Ati X1600 Series

[paullik@localhost ~]$ uname -a
Linux localhost 2.6.29.1-desktop-4mnb #1 SMP Mon Apr 20 18:57:56 EDT 2009 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.00GHz GNU/Linux

Thanks in advance!

PS:

I'm not a native English speaker, so excuse my mistakes!

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Sorry, I tought this area is for advanced users and I didn't read the rest of the categories.-PauLLiK

xine dvd://1'#save:dvd-video'

I encountered the following error message:

Security message: "xine is not allowed to save from this source. (possibly copyrighted material?)"

I tried two (not copyrighted) DVDs but encountered the same error each time.

Is there a way to rip a DVD using xine, maybe a PLF version of xine?

(sorry if this is in the wrong section, move at your will)

this isn't really a problem - at least i don't think it is, but its an annoyance

i'm running mandriva 2010.0 one, fully updated and working as it should,

the annoyance is i have a fixed ntfs storage drive which is owned by root, when i transfer file to it i get a message saying

"could not change permissions for /media/sdb2/any.file"

i have to click 'ok' for the message to go, its a bit annoying if i'm transfering, say, 10 files,

now as an experiment i opened konqueror as root and changed the owner manualy to a folder that is on sdb2 - wouldn't change,

so i typed in a root terminal

chown -r dave /media/sdb2/foldername

still no change,

do i need to change ownership of the whole partition ?, can i do it editing fstab ?

here is the line in my fstab

UUID=2A1C807A1C8042B5 /media/sdb2 ntfs-3g defaults,umask=000 0 0

i don't know whether this will help

[dave@localhost ~]$ cd /media/sdb2
[dave@localhost sdb2]$ ls -l
total 10456
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root     4096 2010-06-20 19:41
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root    16384 2010-06-19 00:04
[dave@localhost sdb2]$

(i've removed file names and file entries as they all say drwxrwxrwx 1 root root)

thanks for any help

urpmi.addmedia --distrib --mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST'

urpmi.addmedia --distrib --mirrorlist 'http://plf.zarb.org/mirrors/$RELEASE.$ARCH.list'

I find that 'Non-free' and 'Non-free Updates' are not active.

How can I activate the 'Non-free' and 'Non-free Updates' repositories from command line?

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then make static library from it

 
gcc -Wall -c swap.c
ar -cvq libswap.a swap.o

Then I write 2 program to test this library: test_swap.c and test_swap.cpp

I compile

$ gcc -Wall -o testc test_swap.c libswap.a
$ ./testc
a = 100 | b = 1
$ g++ -Wall -o testcpp test_swap.cpp libswap.a
/home/user/tmp/cc2Lcf8G.o: In function `main':
test_swap.cpp:(.text+0x2b): undefined reference to `swap_int(int*, int*)'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

What's wrong with this in C++?

Here the source code

+ swap.h

#ifndef __SWAP_H__
#define __SWAP_H__

void swap_int( int *, int * );

#endif // __SWAP_H__

+ swap.c

#include "swap.h"

void swap_int( int *a, int *b )
{
int tmp = *a; *a = *b; *b = tmp;
}

+ test_swap.c

#include <stdio.h>
#include "swap.h"

int main ( )
{
int a = 1, b = 100;
swap_int( &a, &b );

printf("a = %d | b = %d\n", a, b );

return 0;
}

+ test_swap.cpp

#include <iostream>
#include "swap.h"

int main( )
{
int a = 1, b = 100;
swap_int( &a, &b );

std::cout << "a = " << a
		  << "b = " << b
		  << std::endl;

return 0;
}

Now I want to put mylib.h into : /usr/include/mydir/mylib.h

And I create a static library: libmylib.a, and put into the folder: /usr/lib/mydir/libmylib.a

Then I compile: $ gcc -o main main.c

Then I got linking error

main.c:(.text+0x3e): undefined reference to `extract_v1'
main.c:(.text+0x7b): undefined reference to `modify_v1'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

So I try with -l options: $ gcc -o main main.c -lmylib

I still got error

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lmylib
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Any idea about this?

Also, I want to ask about: how to create my own header and library to put into /usr/include/mylib/ and /usr/lib/mylib/, so when I use function in my program, the compiler will automatically link to library.

It's like when you #include <stdio.h>, and you compile: $ gcc -o program program.c, you don't need to specify any linking folder or library.

I added the following code to the startup file (~/.bashrc):

PATH=/usr/local/jdk1.6.0/bin:

export PATH

I just typed in this code at the end of the file, saved it, and logged out and back in. When I logged back in, no commands like ls or man will work anymore.. Does anyone know a solution to this?

Thanks

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When I try to use kdesu to load say Dolphin in ICEWM or WMaker etc ,I get error "kdesu: command not found".

Where can I possibly fix any of these as at least for using Sudo I could have gone to the etc/sudoers file but its not there that I can see .

Thanks AnyOne

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set -e; for d in src doc man etc; do make -C $d ; done

make[1]: Entering directory `/home/ryan/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre26/src'

set -e; for d in mkmeta p80211 prism2 shared wlanctl wland nwepgen wlancfg; do make WLAN_SRC=/home/ryan/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre26/src/ -C $d ; done

make[2]: Entering directory `/home/ryan/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre26/src/mkmeta'

mkdir -p obj

make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ryan/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre26/src/mkmeta'

make[2]: Entering directory `/home/ryan/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre26/src/p80211'

if test ! -d /home/ryan/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre26/src//.tmp_versions; then \

if test -d /usr/src/linux/.tmp_versions; then \

cp -rf /usr/src/linux/.tmp_versions /home/ryan/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre26/src/p80211/../ ; \

fi ; \

fi

if test ! -e /home/ryan/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre26/src/p80211/Module.symvers ; then \

cp /usr/src/linux/Module.symvers /home/ryan/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre26/src/p80211/../ ; \

fi

cp: cannot stat `/usr/src/linux/Module.symvers': No such file or directory

make[2]: *** [default] Error 1

make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ryan/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre26/src/p80211'

make[1]: *** [all] Error 2

make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ryan/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre26/src'

make: *** [all] Error 2

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So it is saying that "Modules.symvers" is missing from /usr/src/linux.

I tried looking for that file in /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdk/build but it isn't there either.

I think I might have accidentally deleted it when I did "make mrproper" in /usr/src/linux.

Anyone know how I can create that file, or what I should do?

Thanks,

netburn

OS: Mandrake 10.1 Community

Kernel: 2.6.8.1-12mdk

I tried to reinstall grub from a live cd, but I get the following error: "Bad file or directory type"

What I typed:

grub> root (hd0,4)
grub> setup(hd0)

What I got:

Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no
Checking if "/grub/stage1"exists... no

Error 15: File not found

find command does not find it either and I don't see any stage1 in /boot or /boot/grub with any file manager.

/boot/grub only contains menu.lst.example or something like that.

hd0,4 (sda5) is the / partition, but it is a logical partition. Could that be the problem?

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From reading the Wiki... I am trying to install from source.

Step 1

 

For most applications, step 1 is accomplished by running the command ./configure in the top level of the source code directory.

I'm running mandriva 2009.Spring but when I run the ./configure I get "bash: configure: command not found"

What am I doing wrong?

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Hi everyone. I want to install g77 compiler in Mandriva 2010.0 pwp.

but I cant find the package g77 which is supposed to contain it. Is g77 installed by other package under Mandriva 2010.0,

how can i install g77 ?

please send me to : fard792@gmail.com

Thanks in advance for the support,

2010/03/05

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[root@localhost Desktop]# rpm -qa | grep gcc

manbo-mandriva-files-gcc-gfortran-4.4.1-1mnb2

gcc-4.4.1-4mnb2

gcc-gfortran-4.4.1-4mnb2

gcc-c++-4.4.1-4mnb2

manbo-mandriva-files-gcc-java-4.3.2-1mnb2

manbo-mandriva-files-gcc-c++-4.4.1-1mnb2

manbo-mandriva-files-gcc-4.4.1-1mnb2

opera-10.10-4742.gcc4.shared.qt3

libgcc1-4.4.1-4mnb2

gcc-cpp-4.4.1-4mnb2

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but :

[root@localhost Desktop]# rpm -qa | grep g77

*** no result ! ***

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usb 2-3.3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
usb 2-3.3: New USB device found, idVendor=11ba, idProduct=1101
usb 2-3.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
usb 2-3.3: Product: USB HDTV-GT(1.1)
usb 2-3.3: Manufacturer: OnAirSolution
usb 2-3.3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

A kernel module is supposed to load after those 6 lines from the USB stack, problem is it's not loading. The module that's supposed to load is

/lib/modules/2.6.31.12-desktop586-1mnb/kernel/drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2.ko.gz

Where should I begin to debug this problem?

By the way, are Mandriva's kernel modules normally in .gz form when on disk?

I am using Mandriva 2010 and have made the error of trying to switch from KDM to GDM, now when I boot up in Mandriva I just get the little blue circle going around and around and around. When I try safe mode it loads until it says single user and then the following comes up sh-4.0#. I know I have done something pretty stupid, how do I get my system back to normal? I have tried putting in startx but that gives me a red screen with the little blue circle going round and around! There is probably a very simple answer, as there always is.

Confused

I would like to know how to find out the users, who are currently usining (locking) the shared object files. Since smbstatus -L or smbstatus -S dont show me the full info of the users openning the files. Any clue. Thanks in advance.

Fahd

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