uralmasha

Perhaps there is some little man in your pc that is eating kqemu.

Is that the same little man that doesn't allow me to install XP, because "the partition is not suitable" It cannot make a partition on the assigned space. I made it a 3 Gig on a sata drive. I haven''t installed kqemu, though, as plf doesn't have x86-64 version yet.

NB: it has i586 version though.

Charming is that the ad place on the page is occupied by "Windows server system"

About the swap size,

I thought I saw it somewhere on a linux board that the swap still should be as big as RAM + something, if you want software suspend.

Has anyone an idea whether this is indeed so?

I had this same phenomenon. I just removed .gnome2 folder, and this helped. I am not sure if removing this folder is safe if you have some filters, palettes or whatever customised stuff in gimp, as you are likely to loose it.

I briefly examined the doc page of Lineak (it is included into mdv distribution), and my first problem is that the keyboard's signals are not recognized by e.g. xev. To configure keys, their signals should be caught. Any ideas about how to do it?

Meantime, plugging only USB port doesn't make a difference compared to ps/2.

Scrolling wheel on the left saves great deal of mouse shifting. Looks very interesting to me. Also the music control with fancy keys is usefull if PC is your main source of music. :)

Ixthusdan,

It is a wireless thingy, the radio piece has 2 wires plugged into the PC: ps/2 port for the keyboard and usb/ps2 (with a converter) for the mouse.

Whether the mouse is USB or ps/2, Mandriva indeed doesn't make a difference. The mouse wasn't working properly (but then it was cooker) up till the moment I installed rpms for xev, this magically solved the problem :) .

I am not sure about the keyboard, whether it is "emulated" or not. BenQ, as i see it (i may be wrong), is a budget-gadget brand, so I'd expect the KB be something like a generic drug... A copy of a bigger brand ... At least the keycodes that it sends to xev from the working fancy keys correspond to those of logitech iTouch (i.e. "mail" button indeed tries to start mail program). But setting the keyboard type to "iTouch" or whatever else in MCC/Hardware doesn't make those keys "work" in the user interface. I have to run "hotkeys -t itouch" in the console, to be able to, e.g. mute sound from keyboard.

I have this keyboard with all fancy extra-keys, it's a BenQ make (it's not listed in mdv keyboarddrake).

At present i manually start hotkeys when I want (some of) the fancy keys enabled. However, some of them don't work and, according to xev, don't send any signal.

Is there a way to enable them? I am interested in the scroll weel + 2 buttons, look like the mouse duplicate on the left side of the KB. I googled around but all I could find is "tried something and now my j-k keys scrol" (and ZZ closes windows, I guess :) )

Anyway, has anyone that thing working?

I have a free version of x86-64 Mandriva 2006, "community" upgraded to "official" via urpmi. Kernel 2-6-12-12smpmdk.

Yes it does.

Update:

This behaviour/bug seems to fixed in the official release of mandriva.

uname -r
2.6.12-12mdksmp

I noticed that ntp demon complains about timing:

ntpd[6050]: frequency error -504 PPM exceeds tolerance 500 PPM

I googled it, bu no particular discussion came up.

I observe extremely fast clock on my Mandriva RC2 box. Within 3 hours it is half an hour ahead of time! I enabled NTP synchronization, and changed servers couple of time, and even the timezone back and forth, but this doesnt' seem to help... I thought it would synchronize itself often enough to forget about it, but no.

I also see sometimes negative execution time reported in the database, which is likely the consequence of wrong ticking.

I don't know what could be the reason for such behaiviour, perhaps the fact that I have CPUfreqd running?

Unfortunately, I don't have something to compare to: this is my new AMD 2X box that has only seen mdv-community 2006.0 (installed as RC2).

Anyone came across it, too?

Random Destruction,

It depends on what kind of software you would like to run. I managed to install and run some 32-bit apps with the following procedure:

(you are supposed to be root)

(1) Setup an i586 media in urpmi, with some prefix, say, 586- (Use easyurpmi.zarb.org site for that if you wish)

(2) Find out which packages you need that contain the missing 32-bit libraries:

urpmf <missing_lib_name_from error message> --media <list of the setup 586 media>

This wil give you the list of packages that contain the library you want, like (imagine you are missing missinglib.so.6 library), using the media for i586 architecture:

[opex@kokoc ~]# urpmf missinglib.so.6 --media 586-main,586-contrib,586-update
mislibpkg6:/usr/lib/missinglib.so.6
mislibpkg6:/usr/lib64/missinglib.so.6

This tells you which package(s) to install to obtain the needed library in /usr/lib/ , namely, the package mislibpkg6. Install it using urpmi or graphic interface in MCC.

I prefer to delete the i586 install media afterwards, otherwise you have to exclude it every time you install new software:

urpmi <pakage> --excludemedia 586main,586contrib, etc

Make sure you don't install from 586 media what you need in 64-bit, it won't work ... may not work properly.

This is a tedious process if you have meny libs missing, though. Hope this helps, otherwise wait until someone experience wakes up (I am in no way an experienced user). Please see the urpmi related help in this board, if you are not familiar with urpmi.

Update:

I would like to note, that this method is usefull for installing some missing libraries. You cannot install a whole 32-bit system like that. Make sure that you don't overwrite installed sofware.

I know it is claimed that Opera never crashes but the principle still applies.

AussieJohn

though I like Opera (and suffer greatly from missing 64-bit version for linux), I have to admit I know the way to hang Opera :-)

cheers,

u.

hey, hary000,

I'd still stick to a "normal" user account. Its no good to hjave root as the main user.

If you don't want/cannot setup sudo for your user, you can just keep one root console always open.

I usually have one on one of the workspaces, and start all root applications from there (you can start also graphical ones, like mcc or konqueror).

You can put the app in background mode by using an & at the end of the command line (to make the command line available for the next application), but many apps like mcc go in the background themselves. Then you don't have to use the root password every time you need to urpmi, just once for this root console window .

You can copy /home/yourlogin/.kde to /root (that's the root home dir) then all yor decorations will be copied, too.

Though if you are prepared to reinstall a 100 times, I wonder if you will be willing to "decorate" everyting again after, say, 15th .... :D

The two sets are exclusive. You can either see the software in the "browse installed" or in "install", but not in both. Entries that look similar may have e.g., different versions.

wilcal, but have you managed to get your user directory pages accessible?

BTW,

I am not entirely sure it is a bug, as this behaviour (no user-dir module and configuration by default, simple test page "it works") is in fact mentioned on the release notes... The question is, who ever reads release notes....

(ah, I see the same reaction on bugzilla).

Wilcal,

By "install" I meant

urpmi  apache-mod_userdir

That's the best way to install things on Mandriva (before another installer, "smart" comes true). After that you'll have to add some lines to httpd.conf fille, like those I posted above.

You may need to add the following line as well, better next to other "loadModule" commands:

LoadModule userdir_module modules/mod_userdir.so

(although I have it commented, still user_dir does get loaded :unsure: )

You'll have to do

service httpd restart

before you'll see the changes.

Murda,

This thread is about your problem (look at my last post there). Works great.

After X attempts to log in within time period Y, the firewall ignores that IP for time Z (X, Y and Z to your taste). I set up that after 6 attempts in 1 minute the IP is blocked for 30 minutes. I never saw an attack return the same day.

This, however, does not see difference between successfull or failed logins. It just has to be so-many-attempts from the same IP.

A few lines about the router. I have another make, but the NAT section seems similar. Citation from my router setup page:

Special Applications

Some applications require multiple connections, such as Internet gaming, video conferencing, Internet telephony and others. These applications cannot work when Network Address Translation (NAT) is enabled. If you need to run applications that require multiple connections, specify the port normally associated with an application in the "Trigger Port" field, select the protocol type as TCP or UDP, then enter the public ports associated with the trigger port to open them for inbound traffic.

This has nothing to do with the virtual server, and e.g. my web-server is accessible without setting anything there. (and it is accessible with "high" security level, btw).

Anyway, In the screenshots I saw a checkbox checked in the "Special application" section.

If what ianw74 suggests about trigger- and public- ports doesn't help, perhaps, you should uncheck it at all.

photoworks,

BTW, have you not accidentally enabled the router's own firewall? If you redirect port 22 of ssh to the same machine (192.168.2.13), and ssh demon is running, can you ssh to your 82.xx.xx.xxx IP address?

photoworks,

I don't think interactive firewall exists in LE2005, at least it is not activated by default in there. So no need to touch /etc/shorewall/start

Now, have you tried to see traces of shorewall activity in the /var/log/messages ? Do you see anything there dropping connections, looks like this:

Sep 22 22:50:45 photoworks kernel: Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.2.13 DST=224.0.0.251 LEN=6 7 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=4 DF PROTO=UDP SPT= DPT=80

If not, then it is not firewall that block it... You can also check in MCC-> security ->firewall that web traffic is allowed to flow in.

If you're sure you haven't touched the router, I don't know what else should be checked :-(

Well, the best way to check for you if the firewall is running is to go to Mandriva Control Center and see there what are the options for the Firewall which is called Shorewall.

As you will open MCC application anyway, check which level of security you have, could that be it is set to smth like "paranoid" ? If so, set it to "High" (i.e. make it a lower level of security), that should be enough for a personal web-server.

These all are in the Security section of MCC, if I remember correctly. You may need to switch to "expert mode" in the MCC menu, to see entries to setup levels of security.

As for disabling the "interactive personal firewall", I commented out these lines:

INCLUDE /etc/ifw/start

INCLUDE /etc/ifw/rules

iptables -I INPUT 2 -j Ifw

in /etc/shorewall/start . But bear in mind that this is in a cooker (not released yet) version of 2006, thus (1) not applicable to 10.1 that you seem to have (2) off-topic in a non-coocker forum branch.

Hi, photoworks!

a few remarks while ianw1974 studies the Belkin router manual...

have you checked system logs of the router and the host? If the router blocks something, it should (normally) log it somewhere. Mine does (another make, though). Same for the Mandriva.

For the router you'll have to find out yourself, and for Marndriva I suggest that you check

/var/log/messages | grep -i drop

or just eye-examine /var/log/messages right after you've failed to access the web page.

There may be lines looking like (not exactly as below, but you get the idea)

Sep 22 22:50:45 photoworks kernel: Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.2.13 DST=224.0.0.251 LEN=6 7 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=4 DF PROTO=UDP SPT= DPT=80

This indicates that your firewall is blocking incoming traffic from outside...

In 2006-version there is also an "interactive firewall" that I couldn't make let the inbound (ssh) traffic trough in other way than disabling it.

mind you, I am a newbee.

Ixthusdan,

if I may ask, how did you get so nice wide window bars on the panel?

If I make the panel 48 pixels large, I get all open windows bars ~ 16px high, stacked in columns of tree. Ugly. On a 36-panels they stack with 2 bars in a column. If I increase the font size, the letters simply do not fit in the window-bar box

I also have KDE 3.4, on a x86_64 installation.