LarryMartell

I got this working! Somehow the perms on / were 700 - on every other system they were 755. When I changed them to 755 and restarted xfs then the X server started right up! -larry

That had no effect on the problem. As I said, the issue is that xfs cannot create the /tmp/.font-unix - but why it gets permission denied on that I have no clue. -larry

I am running mandrake linux 10.1 on a system I setup about 1 month ago. I have not had any problem on the system until today when the X server suddenly crashed. When I tried to restart it, it failed with the messages: Could not init font element unix/:-1, removing from list! Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed'. I rebooted, got the same message. I ran the font server in the foreground, not as a daemon, so I could see it's output. At start up it said: _FontTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: mkdir(/tmp/.font-unix) failed, errno = 13 _FontTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to create listener for local 13 is permission denied, but why would it get this on /tmp, which is world writable: # ls -la /tmp total 12 drwxrwxrwt 3 root root 4096 Jul 27 11:04 ./ drwx------ 19 root root 4096 Jul 26 15:01 ../ drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Jul 27 11:00 .X11-unix/ Also, I am not out of disk space or inodes. Anyone have any clues? -larry Moved from Software to Terminal Shell Commands, Kernel and Programming - Artificial Intelligence

What packages do I have to install to get look and spell to work. I have installed ispell, aspell, and spellutils, but look fails with "/usr/share/dict/words: no such file or directory" and spell fails with "Can't open /usr/lib/ispell/english.hash" Thanks, -larry

I was able to find the 2.6.8.1-12mdksmp sources at nluug.nl Once I installed them I was able to build the driver. Thanks! -larry

I am trying to install a driver for some hardware (a National Instruments GBIB card). When I try to install it, it says it needs the kernel source for version 2.6.8.1-12mdksmp. I am running 10.1, which is that version: # uname -r 2.6.8.1-12mdksmp I ran urpmi kernel-source and it downloaded the source for 2.6.8.1-12mdk (no smp), but the driver would not install, saying it's not the correct sources. When I run urpmi -y kernel I don't see anything with smp on it. So what is this smp and where can I get the 2.6 sources for that? Thanks! -larry [moved from Software by spinynorman]

OK, I've got this going. I read your excellent "simple net setup" guide, and I found that the MII_NOT_SUPPORTED line in ifcfg-eth0 was set to no, and the GATEWAYDEV line in /etc/sysconfig/network was not there at all. Once I set these properly all was well - the interface now starts automagically at boot. Thank you all (especially Streeter) for all the help! I couldn't have done it without you! -larry

FYI, I have 2 10.1 systems. One is new hardware and it DOES start the interface at boot. The other, an older Dell, is the one giving me trouble. -larry

Well, I've taken a step backwards. I deleted the connection and tried to re-add it. It says it added it OK, but now I cannot bring up the interface at all. If I try to bring it up it fails with the message: eth0: no IPv6 routers present I've tried re-installing the driver, but I still get this error. What did I do and I do I un-do it? But in answer to your questions: > Are you starting networking on boot? > Type drakxservices as root (or go to system->services in the control centre) > and make sure network is being run at startup. Yes, the network is set to start on boot. > If it is: > What make/model of card is it? 3COM 3c905B > Is the module getting loaded? (type lsmod and look for the module name - if > unsure, we can tell you from the card type) The 3c59x module is loaded. > Output of ifconfig before network is started eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:04:99:4F:A2 inet addr:192.168.1.82 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::250:4ff:fe99:4fa2/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:3224 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:144 errors:0 dropped:0 verruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:2861916 (279.4 Kb) TX bytes:18921 (18.4 Kb) Interrupt:11 Base address:0x100 Thanks! -larry

The file already did have ONBOOT=YES But still the interface does not come up unless I explicitly start it. -larry

I have a system I just upgraded from 9.0 to 10.1. Now after the upgrade I find that the Ethernet interface is not automatically started when I boot the system. I have to go into Control Center->Network and Internet->Monitor Connections and click on "Connect Ethernet" each time after a reboot to bring up the network interface. I've checked in Manage Connections->Options and "Start at Boot" is selected, but it seems it's being ignored. -larry

I am on mandrake 10.1 and I am trying to build kdevelop 3.2. I believe I have all the requisite software, and I've set all the env variables: KDEDIR=/home/larrym/kde3.4/ QTDIR=/usr/local/qt LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/qt/lib:/home/larrym/kde3.4//lib: LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/qt/lib:/home/larrym/kde3.4//lib: PATH=/usr/local/qt/bin:/home/larrym/kde3.4//bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin I am in /usr/local/kdevelop-3.2.0, and as root I am issuing this command: ./configure --enable-debug=full --prefix=$KDEDIR --with-kdelibsdoxy-dir=$KDEDIR/share/doc/HTML/en/kdelibs-apidocs This is failing with: checking for KDE... configure: error: in the prefix, you've chosen, are no KDE headers installed. This will fail. So, check this please and use another prefix! Help! Thanks, -larry [moved from Software by spinynorman]

I did a clean install, and now all is well. Thanks to all who offered help. -larry

No, that didn't fix it. But thanks anyway. One thing I did notice is that in /boot System.map is linked to System.map-2.4.19-16mdk, while on all my other 10.1 systems it's linked to System.map-2.6.8.1-12mkd. In fact on the system that won't boot there is not eve a file called System.map-2.6.8.1-12mkd. The same is true for the config link, however all the other links in /boot do point to 2.6 files. I think I'll do a clean install instead of trying to upgrade. -larry

I just upgraded from 9.0 to 10.1. The upgrade did run to completion without any errors, but now the system will not boot. It fails with these messages: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-8, errno = 2 mount: error 6 mounting ext3 flags Mounted devfs on /dev Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. Help!! Thanks! -larry