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Greetings there, Well i have been facing this problem for long. I use a kingston 256M data traveller, whose discovery is automatic since mdk 10.1 . Since i have upgraded to mdk 2006,the discovery part is perfect,but when it comes to working with big or small files, the operation is stalled for too long. If a small file is being moved, the mounted part shows the files,but on unmounting the drive and mounting it on a different system or same system, the files are not visible. This is too painful as i have to mail my stuff from linux and then access it on an xp notebook at home. Has anyone else faced any similar problem?How to solve it? thanks, rohit.

Greetings there, i was doing urpmi tomcat5 this is what i got as the final result(after downloading about 93M of software like ant/gcj/java/lib files) installing tomcat5-5.0.30-9.1mdk.i586.rpm from /var/cache/urpmi/rpms Preparing... ############################################# 22/22: tomcat5 ############################################# /usr/bin/build-jar-repository: error: JVM_LIBDIR /usr/lib/jvm-exports/java-gcj does not exist or is not a directory /usr/bin/build-jar-repository: error: JVM_LIBDIR /usr/lib/jvm-exports/java-gcj does not exist or is not a directory /usr/bin/build-jar-repository: error: JVM_LIBDIR /usr/lib/jvm-exports/java-gcj does not exist or is not a directory /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.87769: line 37: /usr/bin/rebuild-gcj-db: No such file or directory error: %post(tomcat5-5.0.30-9.1mdk.i586) scriptlet failed, exit status 127 [root@localhost data]# urpmi tomcat5 The package(s) are already installed [root@localhost data]# so i am in no mans land,stuck.. what next to do? Before downloading the source and doing configure/make/make install, i hope there is something that can still be done to get mandriva specific updates. thanks, rohit. [moved from Software by spinynorman]

Hello there, well i did say 'yes' to all what e2fsck wanted to fix.. but still no luck.. i am still unable to boot LE2005, so have decided to do a fresh install... on searching over the web... i got a hint about an old version of ldconfig responsible for what happened with me.... but it said replacing it when one can log into the system.. that's not happening in my case. so am re-installing .. another off-topic question.. i have 20G for all my linux work.. currently i am actively using 10G and the other half is unused.. now as i plan to reinstall..i have decided to do a more *mature* partitioning of space..so that when a fs error happens i just can reinstall the / partition.. is this possible? i'll keep mandriva as my main place to work on and play with other distro's too.. so i plan to do as follows: /boot(100M) /swap(512M) /(2G) /home(5G) /usr(4G) also as i plan to install other linux distros(atmost 2) would the above partitions work or i can still get more space for mandriva?? need your suggestions... thanks , rohit.

Hello ian, i did what you suggested but from a knoppix live cd and got the folllowing results.. for my /boot partition: root@ttyp0[knoppix]# e2fsck -cvfn /dev/hdb2 e2fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004) Checking for bad blocks (read-only test): done Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Pass 2: Checking directory structure Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity Pass 4: Checking reference counts Pass 5: Checking group summary information /dev/hdb2: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED ***** 55 inodes used (0%) 7 non-contiguous inodes (12.7%) # of inodes with ind/dind/tind blocks: 14/4/0 12261 blocks used (12%) 0 bad blocks 0 large files 37 regular files 3 directories 0 character device files 0 block device files 0 fifos 0 links 6 symbolic links (6 fast symbolic links) 0 sockets -------- 46 files root@ttyp0[knoppix]# for my root partition(/) root@ttyp0[knoppix]# e2fsck -vfn /dev/hdb8 e2fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004) Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Deleted inode 132833 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 132834 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 132835 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 132837 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 132838 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 132839 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 132840 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 132841 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 132842 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 132843 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 132844 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 132845 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 132846 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 132847 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 132849 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 132850 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 132851 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 132852 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 132854 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 132855 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 132856 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 132857 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 132858 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 132859 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 132860 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 132861 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 132862 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 132863 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 132864 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 218785 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 218786 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 218787 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 218789 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 218790 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 218791 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 218792 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 218793 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 218794 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 218796 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 218797 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 218798 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 218799 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 218800 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 218801 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 218802 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 218803 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 218804 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 218805 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 218806 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 218807 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 218808 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 218809 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 218810 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 218811 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 218812 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 218813 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 218814 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 218815 has zero dtime. Fix? no Deleted inode 218816 has zero dtime. Fix? no Inodes that were part of a corrupted orphan linked list found. Fix? no Inode 577282 was part of the orphaned inode list. IGNORED. Inode 577282 is in use, but has dtime set. Fix? no Inode 577282 has illegal block(s). Clear? no Illegal block #0 (8440192) in inode 577282. IGNORED. Inode 577283 was part of the orphaned inode list. IGNORED. Inode 577283 is in use, but has dtime set. Fix? no Inode 577283 has illegal block(s). Clear? no Illegal block #0 (8489088) in inode 577283. IGNORED. Illegal block #4 (8388608) in inode 577283. IGNORED. Inode 577284 was part of the orphaned inode list. IGNORED. Inode 577284 is in use, but has dtime set. Fix? no Inode 577286 was part of the orphaned inode list. IGNORED. Inode 577286 is in use, but has dtime set. Fix? no Inode 577286, i_blocks is 0, should be 8. Fix? no Inode 577287 was part of the orphaned inode list. IGNORED. Inode 577287 is in use, but has dtime set. Fix? no Inode 577288 was part of the orphaned inode list. IGNORED. Inode 577288 is in use, but has dtime set. Fix? no Inode 577289 is in use, but has dtime set. Fix? no Inode 577290 was part of the orphaned inode list. IGNORED. Inode 577290 is in use, but has dtime set. Fix? no Inode 577290 has illegal block(s). Clear? no Illegal block #0 (8435840) in inode 577290. IGNORED. Inode 577291 is in use, but has dtime set. Fix? no Inode 577291 has illegal block(s). Clear? no Illegal block #10 (8388608) in inode 577291. IGNORED. Inode 577292 is in use, but has dtime set. Fix? no Inode 577293 was part of the orphaned inode list. IGNORED. Inode 577293 is in use, but has dtime set. Fix? no Inode 577293 has illegal block(s). Clear? no Illegal block #0 (9488768) in inode 577293. IGNORED. Illegal block #1 (8388608) in inode 577293. IGNORED. Inode 577294 was part of the orphaned inode list. IGNORED. Inode 577294 is in use, but has dtime set. Fix? no Inode 577294, i_blocks is 8388608, should be 8. Fix? no Inode 577284 has illegal block(s). Clear? no Illegal block #0 (9619968) in inode 577284. IGNORED. Inode 577284, i_blocks is 0, should be 24. Fix? no Inode 577287 has illegal block(s). Clear? no Illegal block #0 (8498560) in inode 577287. IGNORED. Inode 577288 has illegal block(s). Clear? no Illegal block #0 (9619840) in inode 577288. IGNORED. Illegal block #-1 (8388608) in inode 577288. IGNORED. Error while iterating over blocks in inode 577288: Illegal indirect block found e2fsck: aborted root@ttyp0[knoppix]# so this is what i got ..is my system recoverable? should i allow e2fsck to fix error's... as far as i can recall, i remember seeing similar messages when i first time did a ALT+SysRq+R .. so what next..? thanks, rohit.

Hello ian, i had already done that half-heartedly.. that because, couple of my fat32 partitions sit on the same hdd as mandriva does.. i did not have any problems accessing them in win... as i am able to run a live cd.. is it possible that i atleast get some thing work for mandriva..? i can access /boot partition.. is there something i can try? thanks, rohit.

Greetings there, more on the problem.. i tried knoppix 3.6 it worked fine until i shut it down.. i got the following error at shut-down.. X-Window session terminated without error shutting down scsi0:Error on channel 0,id 0,lun 0,cdb:0x03, 00 00 00 40 00 info fld=0x2500a, current sd0b:00: sns=f03 ASC=11 ASCQ=0 raw sense data:0xf0 0x00 0x03 0x00 0x02 0x50 0x0a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x11 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 I/O error: dev0b:00, sector 606248 #the following two lines were repeated 4 times cloop:read error at pos 305962099 in field /cdrom/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX, 23997 bytes lost cloop:error -3 compressing block 13646 65536/0/23997/0 305962099-305986096 #the last line: /etc/init.d/xsession:line/80:/sbin/init:Input/output error the comments are for explanation/brevity, they were not there on my console. after the above state, i had to again hard-reboot the machine.. i doubt i have a hdd related error? please help.. regards, rohit.

Hello there, its a GUI verbose background.. the prompt is like a description of the distro(line 1) and kernel(line 2) and the next line is: (none)login: [edit 1] i tried this but does not work... i guess its a login prompt but do not know why its not asking for a password?! [edit 2] i was re-reading the ALT+SysRq tip link, so i realize.. i did not follow the sequence in order... i just did the reboot... also this happened yesterday night also, so i had an fsck where it deleted some inodes... so i hope as a non-user (yesterday & today), there is no way i could have corrupted some system files!? or could i?? thanks, rohit.

Greetings there, i was working on a java program, that included heavy compilation and has a big memory foot-print... at times, the screen did not respond to mouse/keyboard input... then i did a ALT+CTRL+SysRq+B and the system rebooted... then after that when the boot prompt came(i have mandriva/win98/winXP) when i choose mandriva.. it showed the splash screen(penguin with stars on its eyes).. then it went away for a text login. when i put in the user name, it did not ask me for a password and went back to the same prompt. i tried running in failsafe mode but the same experience.. i am unable to go past that login.. though previously i had a full-GUI login... PS: my win partitions are working fine... kindly help me get out of this problem.. regards, rohit. [moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman]

Greetings there, i was trying to uprmi.update , i got this error.. [root@localhost root]# urpmi.update the entry to update is missing (one of jpackage, Installation CD 3 (cdrom3), contrib, main, Installation CD 2 (cdrom2), update_source, Installation CD 1 (cdrom1), plf-free) [root@localhost root]# as i don know how to list uprmi media source/types at terminal,i went to GUI mode. so i did go to the GUI mode of uprmi thru.. star>system>configuration>packaging>Software Media manager following is the list of types/url/rel_url (excluded the CDROM url-rel_paths) jpackage: ftp://ftp.riken.jp/Linux/mandrake/officia.../media/jpackage media_info/synthesis.hdlist.cz contrib: ftp://ftp.riken.jp/Linux/mandrake/officia...6/media/contrib media_info/synthesis.hdlist.cz main: ftp://ftp.riken.jp/Linux/mandrake/officia...i586/media/main media_info/synthesis.hdlist.cz update_source ftp://ftp.neva.ru/Linux-Distrib/Mandrake/....1/main_updates media_info/synthesis.hdlist.cz plf-free ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/plf/mandrake/free/10.1 synthesis.hdlist.cz PS: there is a typo in man urpmi at line 192 [root@localhost root]# man urpmi| grep -n 'Yhis' <standard input>:134: warning: numeric expression expected (got `o') 192: -y Yhis is the same as --fuzzy. [root@localhost root]# instead of Yhis it should be This? does anyone else see this?? so how do i successfully update the urpmi repository?? thanks, rohit.

Greetings there, i am attaching the error file saved thru Netscape Quality Agent Reporter Application. when i double clicked "thinderbird" it asked me to send the details i did (4-5 timses untill now!) i tried uploading the attachment here... but did nt seem to work got an error stating i am not allowed to upload attachment with this extension(it was plain text) please see it here.. ThunderBird Error Log regards, rohit.

Greetings there, i am having trouble installing TB on MDK10.1 i downloaded it from mozilla's site. did the following [rohitsz@localhost software]$tar -zxvf thunderbird-1.0.2.tar.gz [rohitsz@localhost software]$ cd thunderbird [rohitsz@localhost thunderbird]$ ./thunderbird SCIM: im_module_init free(): invalid pointer 0x8dfbaf8! free(): invalid pointer 0x8dfbad0! [rohitsz@localhost thunderbird]$ i had to do CONTROL-C to quit after the two bad pointer lines. Also i got the Netsxape error reporting tool suggesting me to post the error online stating what was i doing. which i did ..now stuck with installing TB. kindly help. thanks, rohit.

Greetings there... i just started to work with CD-RW .. using K3B.. when i tried to erase an RW, i got error like this.. cdrecord returned an unknown error(code 255) Unknown error 255 please send me an email with the last output Blanking Error Sorry, no handling YET. Well i have AN LG 52x32x52 RW. it's detected fine. the RW i am using is that ofSONY. kindly help.. how do i get to work with K3B. thanks, rohit.

i have gmail account.. but this link made me start thinking otherwise ! http://www.google-watch.org never heard such thing against yahoo.. so can trust it much more than google as of now! regards, rohit.

Greetiings there, i am using MDK 10.1 here's my netstat output... [root@localhost root]# netstat -an |grep tcp tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:32768 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:3306 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:111 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:6000 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:7741 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 :::80 :::* LISTEN tcp 0 0 :::6000 :::* LISTEN [root@localhost root]# i did't have post-fix. i installed.. it got me worried.. [root@localhost root]# urpmi postfix To satisfy dependencies, the following 2 packages are going to be installed (4 MB): libpostfix1-2.1.4-2mdk.i586 postfix-2.1.4-2mdk.i586 Is this OK? (Y/n) Y Please insert the medium named "Installation CD 1 " on device [/dev/hdc] Press Enter when ready... Please insert the medium named "Installation CD 1 " on device [/dev/hdc] Press Enter when ready... installing /mnt/cdrom/media/main/libpostfix1-2.1.4-2mdk.i586.rpm /mnt/cdrom/media/main/postfix-2.1.4-2mdk.i586.rpm Preparing... ################################################## 1:libpostfix1 ################################################## 2:postfix ################################################## sendmail.postfix: warning: My hostname localhost is not a fully qualified name - set myhostname or mydomain in /etc/postfix/main.cf postalias: warning: My hostname localhost is not a fully qualified name - set myhostname or mydomain in /etc/postfix/main.cf Shutting down kernel logger: [ OK ] Shutting down system logger: [ OK ] Starting system logger: /etc/init.d/syslog: line 100: 5838 Terminated $* [FAILED] Starting kernel logger: [ OK ] [root@localhost root]# do i need to worry? currently reading the link you sent.. also i don want to read mail at my desktop. i am happy reading mails at yahoo.. but i just want the ability to send mail's thru one of my yahoo acounts! regards, rohit.

hi ian. i too have seen those prefeences... i guess i did not explicitly put in detail what i want. here it goes... when i login, i wish if i could have a silent login kind of a thing... you know i login but no one knows i am really logged in. that way 99.99% of the times i remain away without the logged in buddy knowing how many times i realyy logged in and out! hope that explains things a bit better.. regards, rohit.

Hi again ian :-) i am not using any kinda authentication for sending... also i have the yahoo's free account, so does it anyways provide sending the mails thru email clients? i do not want to receive the mail, i mean after 1GB on web, who needs to download them! so i am just wanting to set-up the sending part of it. regards, rohit.

greetings there, i got the solution to the problem after using urpmi. its a highly addictive tool...! well i did opt for the free plf files :-) one query though... How do one choose auto-away option in GAIM? i have been looking for long but have't been successful.. i had seens and tried the -w option but it does not seem to work. any GUI based work-around? thanks, rohit.

greetiings there... i was trying to configure KMail, i just need to use the yahoo acount for sending mails thru KMail. i tried filling these fields... Kontact>Settings>Configure Kmail created a yahoo account in IDENTITY In the NETWORK tab, for sending i filled these fields.. Add a account for sending General Tab Name:smtp.yahoo.com Host:smtp.yahoo.com port:25 Back in Sending Tab Default Domain:yahoo.com when i send a mail.. i get the following error... Sending failed: Connection to host smtp.mail.yahoo.com is broken The message will stay in the 'outbox' folder until you either fix the problem (e.g. a broken address) or remove the message from the 'outbox' folder. The following transport protocol was used: smtp.mail.yahoo.com help me configure yahoo's mail sending opption. thanks, rohit.

i have a dial-up connection.. but good and consistent... so i'll choose the compressed one so am gonna go for it.. thanks a lot ian, regards, rohit.

Hello again. Yaa the names are confusing... i guess i'll leave it for the time being... get to know more of it,and then add it... also if i choose compressed index, would troubleshooting,if needed later on for a specefic package, take more time? or mandriva/mandrake sites and google be enough? thanks, rohit.

Hello again, well i got my MDK from a local LUG, burnt it on cd's... so should i click for the non-free plf's? or simply stick to plf's, will the free-plf suffice? also i guess i'll be leaving prefix as i'll be getting used to this distro for some time before i moved to any-other.. what do you suggest? regards, rohit.

greetings there ian, i guess you got it right.. i have MDK 10.1 Official distribution and i got gaim for 10.0. i am currently configuring the media as you told to do... i just wanted to know what these plf-free and plf-nonfree refer do.. ? also what does prefix to be added to each package mean? thanks a lot for your help.. regards, rohit.

Greetings there, i am new to linux. am using MDK 10.1 for about 2-3 months, previously was on FC1,FC3. really like MDK, so am sticking to it. Now to the problem.. actually i have got my dial-up connection to work on linux just a couple of days ago,previously was switching to windows.. now started using GAIM.. was trying to upgrade it,downloaded the package "gaim-1.3.1-0.mdk10.0.i586.rpm", currently have "gaim-0.82.1-2mdk" tried upgrading using "rpm -U gaim-1.3.1-0.mdk10.0.i586.rpm" got the following error.. [root@localhost software]# rpm -U gaim-1.3.1-0.mdk10.0.i586.rpm warning: gaim-1.3.1-0.mdk10.0.i586.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 4c292fcc file /usr/lib/libgaim-remote.so.0.0.0 from install of gaim-1.3.1-0.mdk10.0 conflicts with file from package libgaim-remote0-0.82.1-2mdk [root@localhost software]# also when i was trying to upgrade using rpmDrake, i got error indicating signature files are not available.. kindly help.. thanks, rohit.