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So when you say "kd3" you really mean "k3b" ?

How about, wow, I'm glad I didn't upgrade before that metric boatload of issues got resolved! :o How come the errata list is already so huge, even after just a few days? Didn't the alphas / betas / RCs catch them?

Don't know, I don't use the search bar. I just type my search queries in the address bar, prefixed with "goo" for a google search, "goi" for a google image search, "gol" for a google linux search etc. Works for me.

You really think the Mandriva guys, or the KDE guys, or the OpenOffice guys would be interested in solving a bug from 2008.1 ? :unsure: Anyway I can't remember exactly what I'd changed or what to, and when I changed the theme to "Mandriva" it reset everything. I've twiddled with a few things but OpenOffice still works (for now) - so alas I can't put my finger on what broke it. But certainly something to do with the colours / fonts / window decorations. On the plus side things are looking ok and running ok now so fingers crossed and problem solved!

Wow, that's amazing, I just assumed it was from a computer game! :o

Or he read it, remembered it, realised that all you had said was "I don't know" and then assumed that in this thread you must have been talking about another post in which you provided some information (unfortunately you didn't provide a link to your earlier post in order to make it easier).

Very weird. I selected the Mandriva theme (which wiped out my desktop background and other things), and now OpenOffice doesn't crash. Very odd indeed. It's not like I'd scoured kde-look for some obscure combination of themes and theme managers etc, I'd just changed a few icons and font sizes and window decorations (from the ones already installed in Mandriva 2008.1). But apparently that was enough to upset openoffice. Guess I should be even less adventurous when customising the look of my system... :unsure: So solved I guess but now I don't like my icons or font sizes...

Yeah, it shouldn't be asking for a reboot ;)

Maybe the "Congratulations, Upgrade to Mandriva release was successful" message when nothing has been upgraded can be fixed too?

True, I had this a few weeks ago, I'd used urpmi to install one package and its dependencies (without any special options, just urpmi <package>). It successfully downloaded the big one but failed on one of the smaller ones. When I ran exactly the same command again later, it only had to download the little ones, as the ones which had already been downloaded (but not yet installed) were waiting in /var/cache/urpmi .

It's a fresh install so my .ooo-2.0 directory was new. I tried renaming it and restarting Calc, but it still crashed a few seconds later. About the themes, those posts just mention Gnome, but I'm using KDE. I haven't got a particularly dark theme but I could try and select another one to see if that helps... :unsure:

Ever since I upgraded to 2008.1 last week (I know, cutting edge), OpenOffice Calc crashes repeatedly, often within a few clicks of starting it back up again. It's completely unusable. Any idea why this might be? Even just scrolling the window with an empty document causes it to crash! I tried starting it from the command line but it just complained about missing java runtime (I have Sun's 1.6 installed from the repos) but no other information. If it's a problem with Calc itself, can I downgrade to the version I was using before with 2007.1 ?

I clicked on the blue arrow to see if it would let me switch it off (it seems like it will now nag me on every boot! :o) but then pressed cancel. As if by magic, it then immediately gave me a congratulations message! And it even spelt "successful" wrongly! Woohoo, way to go Mandriva!

Heh, you're right, the user already exists. I thought I didn't want to create the user cos then it would appear in the login list, which would be ugly. But sure enough, you're absolutely right and that chown nobody:root did the trick. Now the windows machine can write properly. Weird though, don't you think? If everybody can wrx then why should it matter which user the directory belongs to?? Anyway, problem solved, thanks for your help, Ian!

# chown -R nobody:nobody /usr/sambashare/ chown: invalid group: `nobody:nobody' # So have you already got a user and group on your system called "nobody" ?

Did you read the bit where I said "I created a new directory under /usr/ and gave everybody wrx rights." ? ;) The directory belongs to root:root but everybody has wrx rights. And normal users of the linux box can copy files to this directory. Don't think so. When I map a drive from the windows box it asks for username / password combo, and I enter "nobody" and the password I entered in the samba configuration. If the password doesn't match, I don't even get read access, so I'm pretty sure it's connecting as nobody. The linux box has no username called nobody though, that's something that only samba knows about. I'm assuming I don't have to create a user on the linux box called nobody, do I? Tried that, made no difference.

I did both those things (security is now standard, and the firewall is off), and restarted the samba server, and rebooted the windows machine, but still only read access. I read that remote machines connect as the user "nobody", so I used this as the only username in the samba config, added it to the write list, and made sure the share properties were still public:yes, writeable:yes, browseable:yes but still the windows box can only read files, not write / rename / copy / create files.

Nearly there! In the "security" section of the mcc I went into "Set up your personal firewall" and ticked the checkbox for "allow the internet to connect to windows file sharing (SMB)". Then I tried to map the network drive again and this time it worked, I can read the files from the windows machine and copy them!! Next I'd like to be able to write things too, so I can send things from the windows machine to the linux box. As I said, the directory has wrx rights for everybody, so I assumed this would work - but from the windows box I just get "access denied" when I try to copy things or even just create a new text file. From the linux box normal users can create and copy files no problem. I went into the properties of the share, and set them to public:yes, writeable:yes, browseable:yes. I wasn't sure about the user options bit but put the single username in the "write list" box anyway. Even after a samba server restart, the windows box still can't create a text file in that directory... Any idea what might be the final missing piece???

Thanks for the tips! So it sounds to me like the easiest way is to share a linux directory using samba. Now I've got 2008.1 running, with a lovely wizard in mcc to set everything up for me. I created a new directory under /usr/ and gave everybody wrx rights. Then in the wizard I specified this directory as the only share, with a user level authorization, one user and password. I wasn't sure what the "workgroup" was or whether it matters, but the wizard seemed happy with the entry. So far so good. Now I go to the windows machine, and try to map a drive to \\ip.addr.ess\external and expect it to give me a dialog for username and password. Instead, it just gives me an egg timer, and the linux box complains about a "port scan" from the windows box... odd, but ok. I click the "whitelist" button which adds the windows machine's IP address to the whitelist, but the windows machine still says "network path \\ip.addr.ess\external not found". And when I just try to browse the "entire network" on the windows machine, it just sits there... Any ideas what's wrong? Could it be this "workgroup" thing which is limiting the visibility of my share? Or could it be because my security setting is set to "high" (the default by install) ?

Thanks for the help, guys! Now I've got myself upgraded to 2008.1 and the webcam works just fine, also with Skype. And that mplayer tip is a good one, thanks Lex!

This is perhaps a dumb question, but can anyone point me towards a basic guide to sharing files between computers over a local network? What I've got, since recently, is the following: - A modem connected to the internet via cable - A router (from Netgear) connected to the modem - A Windows box connected to the router by a network cable - A linux laptop connected to the router by a network cable Both machines can now access the internet, independently and simultaneously. So far so good. Now I'd like a simple way to transfer files between the computers using the network, so what do I need to set up? The way I see it, either I need to "share" a directory on the windows machine and access it from the linux box (with read/write permissions), or I need to "share" a directory on the linux box and access it from the windows box. I don't really care which way round it is, whichever is easier. Although it would be nice to have a way which was not windows-reliant so that when (if) the windows box gets converted, the file-sharing still works. One thing I want to make sure of is that when the directory is "shared", I want to be sure that it's only shared between these two computers, not made publicly accessible or readable from the other side of the router. Is this controlled by the sharing mechanism or by some settings on the router? By the way, the router pulls an IP address automatically by DHCP, and currently both the windows and linux machines also pull IP addresses from the router.

Thanks for the suggestions! KVoctrain looks interesting, I hadn't seen that. And once I'd found that (in kdeedu) I also found KVerbos which, although spanish only, is also of interest...

Thanks for the replies! I don't think "gspcav1" is the right one for me though, Lex. # lsmod | grep uvc uvcvideo 51044 0 compat_ioctl32 1920 1 uvcvideo videodev 27136 1 uvcvideo v4l1_compat 14372 2 uvcvideo,videodev v4l2_common 15936 2 uvcvideo,videodev usbcore 122444 8 snd_usb_audio,uvcvideo,snd_usb_lib,usbhid,usb_storage,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd # lsmod | grep gspca # However, when I plug it in to 2008.1 live CD, I get an ekiga icon popping up on the desktop and it can show video (although only postage-stamp size). $ xawtv -hwscan This is xawtv-3.95, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.24.4-desktop586-1mnb) looking for available devices port 82-82 type : Xvideo, image scaler name : Intel(R) Video Overlay ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYMENU(id=134217738;index=0;name="60 Hz";reserved=3081056544): Invalid argument /dev/video0: OK [ -device /dev/video0 ] type : v4l2 name : Philips SPC 1300NC Webcam flags: capture $ But when I try just xawtv it gives a segmentation fault. And also $ ls /dev/vi* /dev/video@ /dev/video0 $ I've just tried Skype and it now seems happy and shows the picture in the (also postage-stamp-sized) test panel, although yesterday when I tried exactly the same thing, it didn't work. Maybe ekiga was still running in the background or something. So maybe it is indeed a 2007.1 / 2008.1 issue. Is there a way to test it to get a bigger picture? Take bigger snapshots with it? Maybe even record movies with it?

Has anyone any tips on good (preferably free) software for learning a new language? I've no idea what might be available, maybe offline dictionaries or vocabulary testers or verb conjugators or simple games, I've no idea. Online resources would be useful I guess but I'd prefer a locally-installed, offline solution if poss, for flexibility (eg so I can use it on trains or in other places with no wifi)

Anyone? :huh: