TheCrizu

Thank you, problem solved! It was my logitech dual action gamepad,when i disconnected it,the error were gone.

And,by the way,that 'upgrade' was careless use of words from me,i always clean install,when i "Upgrade".

It tooks a week to fine tune,but i can do it faster every time.... :D

Hi!

Couple of days ago,i upgraded my mandriva 2006 to 2007,and everything went rather smoothly,but there is this one problem that still remains:

-at boot,right after 'setting hostname localhost [ OK ]'

my computer freezes,sometimes.i would say 1 out of 7 boots will do this.when it is not hanging up,it will give this message,right after that abovementioned 'OK':

'udevd-event [1195]: wait_for_sysfs: waiting for: '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.3/usb4/4-1/4-1:1.0/bus/ failed'

it is the same message every time,only that udevd number changes.

It did this right after installation,when i booted for the first time.I had installed all updates available,no change.

Nothing correspondending to this is not seen anywhere in logs,not even this message.I had to scroll-lock while booting to write it up.

My hardware is not changed since the mandriva 2006.

Well,any ideas are welcome.

Thank you

Well,well,......This is such a shame :woops: :woops: Problem was solved by this:

Note: Debian users should replace /usr/bin/firestarter with /usr/sbin/firestarter in the above line.

Never have 7 - 10 windows open same time,and making configurations....

I really thought,that i tried that thing already......well,anyway it's ok now.

I just installed a firestarter firewall from mandriva rpm's,and i just liked it.now,i have encountered a problem,when i tried to make it autostart when logged in.i followed the instructions on their website:

Q: How can I get Firestarter to load automatically when I log in as a regular user?

Firestarter running in the system tray

 

Normally when you start Firestarter by clicking an icon or manually from a terminal, the system will prompt you for your root user's password. However, this is a bit of a hassle, especially if you want to run Firestarter all the time when logged in. In that case Firestarter can be loaded in the background when you log in with your regular user, without asking a password and minimized to the system tray (pictured right).

Giving the user permission to launch Firestarter without the root password

 

In order for a regular user to be able to launch Firestarter, the user must be given additional privileges. Edit your /etc/sudoers file in your favorite text editor and add the following line at the end:

username ALL= NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/firestarter

 

Note: Debian users should replace /usr/bin/firestarter with /usr/sbin/firestarter in the above line.

 

Simply replace username with whatever your login is. The specified user is now able to launch Firestarter without being prompted for a password using the command sudo firestarter.

 

A note on the security aspects: This method makes a trade off in local security for convenience. If your user account becomes compromised the attacker will be able to control the firewall. However this method is preferable to having a shared root user password in a multiuser setting. It is also preferable if the alternative is not to run Firestarter at all.

Launching Firestarter minimized to the tray on login

 

Having performed the above configuration of permissions, the system can further be set up to load Firestarter when you log in with your regular user account. Firestarter will in that case load directly into the system tray without user intervention, after which the main interface can be accessed by clicking the tray icon.

 

Using GNOME:

The GNOME sessions manager

 

Open up your GNOME menu, select Preferences followed by Sessions. Switch to the Startup programs tab, pictured right.

 

Click Add and enter

sudo firestarter --start-hidden

as the startup command. Click OK and you're done.

 

To stop Firestarter from loading on login, simply remove its entry from the startup programs listing.

 

Using KDE:

 

Open a terminal and execute the following two commands:

 

echo -e '#'\!'/bin/sh\nsudo firestarter --start-hidden' > ~/.kde/Autostart/firestarter

chmod a+x ~/.kde/Autostart/firestarter

 

Firstarter will now load automatically when KDE starts. To stop Firestarter from loading when you log in, remove the ~/.kde/Autostart/firestarter file.

I did that exactly,now i'm getting error message:

[user@user Autostart]$ ./firestarter

Sorry, user user is not allowed to execute '/usr/sbin/firestarter --start-hidden' as root on user

(replaced my username with "user",and "localhost" as well,since there reads my username instead of "localhost",i have configured network that way.)

I did that terminal session in root, and usermode,just to see if that would have different outcome.it did not.

Thank you..

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When i am starting Gnome desktop,or some of the applications from KDE,it takes about 30 seconds before anything happens.This does not apply to all apps,(when started from KDE),but some of them.

When i start,for example,gnome system monitor,it will give this error message:

** (gnome-system-monitor:6208): WARNING **: Unable load icon Failed to open file '/usr/share/pixmaps/other/Modem.png': No such file or directory

** (gnome-system-monitor:6208): WARNING **: Unable load icon Failed to open file '/usr/share/pixmaps/battstat.png': No such file or directory

** (gnome-system-monitor:6208): WARNING **: Unable load icon Failed to open file '/usr/share/pixmaps/other/Font-Capplet.png': No such file or directory

** (gnome-system-monitor:6208): WARNING **: Unable load icon Failed to open file '/usr/share/pixmaps/other/Connection-Ethernet.png': No such file or directory

** (gnome-system-monitor:6208): WARNING **: Unable load icon Failed to open file '/usr/share/pixmaps/other/MySQL.png': No such file or directory

** (gnome-system-monitor:6208): WARNING **: Unable load icon Failed to open file '/usr/share/pixmaps/other/Bird.png': No such file or directory

** (gnome-system-monitor:6208): WARNING **: Unable load icon Failed to open file '/usr/share/pixmaps/other/Envelope.png': No such file or directory

** (gnome-system-monitor:6208): WARNING **: Unable load icon Failed to open file '/usr/share/pixmaps/other/Dialog-Warning5.png': No such file or directory

** (gnome-system-monitor:6208): WARNING **: Unable load icon Failed to open file '/usr/share/pixmaps/other/SMB-Server-alt.png': No such file or directory

** (gnome-system-monitor:6208): WARNING **: Unable load icon Failed to open file '/usr/share/pixmaps/metacity-properties.png': No such file or directory

** (gnome-system-monitor:6208): WARNING **: Unable load icon Failed to open file '/usr/share/pixmaps/other/Reading.png': No such file or directory

** (gnome-system-monitor:6208): WARNING **: Unable load icon Failed to open file '/usr/share/pixmaps/other/Disks.png': No such file or directory

** (gnome-system-monitor:6208): WARNING **: Unable load icon Failed to open file '/usr/share/pixmaps/other/Tail.png': No such file or directory

** (gnome-system-monitor:6208): WARNING **: Unable load icon Failed to open file '/usr/share/pixmaps/other/WPicon2.png': No such file or directory

** (gnome-system-monitor:6208): WARNING **: Unable load icon Failed to open file '/usr/share/pixmaps/other/Find-Files2.png': No such file or directory

** (gnome-system-monitor:6208): WARNING **: Unable load icon Failed to open file '/usr/share/pixmaps/other/Control-Center2.png': No such file or directory

** (gnome-system-monitor:6208): WARNING **: Unable load icon Failed to open file '/usr/share/pixmaps/gksu-icon.png': No such file or directory

** (gnome-system-monitor:6208): WARNING **: Unable load icon Failed to open file '/usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-run.png': No such file or directory

** (gnome-system-monitor:6208): WARNING **: Unable load icon Failed to open file '/usr/share/pixmaps/other/Button-Apps.png': No such file or directory

** (gnome-system-monitor:6208): WARNING **: Unable load icon Failed to open file '/usr/share/pixmaps/other/Networking.png': No such file or directory

** (gnome-system-monitor:6208): WARNING **: Unable load icon Failed to open file '/usr/share/pixmaps/other/Proxy-Config.png': No such file or directory

After that 30 seconds,it will start normally,and so will Gnome desktop.

i think i had this after i updated from official update repository.Well,not so serious,but perhaps there is some error in some config file,that i can edit?

Thanks.

Well,i have two questions concerning this subject.First,how long,after the release of mandriva 2007,there will be a support for previous version,like security patches etc...

and secondly,how long i can expect to be able to use mandriva 2006,i mean,generally speaking,if i download softwares as source,and compile them,before their "requirements" would need newer kernel than i have,etc..

I have used mandriva 2006 about a year now,and i'm very happy with it,now,since i have learned tons of tips and tricks about how to do things,and how to fine-tune it,and so on.

I'm getting this error message,when shorewall is shutting down: Stopping shorewall: ipt_owner: pid, sid and command matching is broken on SMP.

What does it mean? and can i get rid of it,by simply fine tuning something?or upgrading some package?

It seems working properly,thought.

I'm using mandriva 2006.0.

Is there option in urpmi,if i do it in CLI,like --nodeps in rpm?That i can install RPM without deps,if i so choose?

Not a lot you can do except grin and bear that it will install all those packages whether you don't use them or not. The main package you want will require something from those packages for some reason.

But when i compiled that from source,i still had'nt them,and it worked fine.

That scilab was scientific program,used probably only in some nuclear physics lab,it CAN'T require a podracer.As it wasn't.

Is it dangerous/not recommended,concerning this issue,to have cooker repositories in drakconf,just for a case i need some more recent version from some software?i dont use them regularly,only when i need something from there.I use mandriva 2006.0

I would like to ask about package dependencies,since i think i'm having some problems.When i try to install some programs,i'm getting message "sorry,this can't be selected",that,of course,is not problems yet,but i take example:

Some time ago i tried to install "Scilab",just to see what it was,and there was a message concerning additional packages needed.There was about 35 packages,including: -Mozilla firefox,timidity++,podracer,etc...a packages definitely not needed by that program.What could "mess up" things like that? :mellow: :mellow: :mellow:

That should be possible, using Menudrake. Just give it a try with a new "test" user account.

It's such a mess...with menudrake,you just don't know what it is going to do.There is entries in menudrake,that don't show,and some entries in menus,that are not in menudrake...

Is there some "Extension" for KDE to do this with one click? B)

How can i make the kde menus to be sorted alphabetically?Some of them seem to be that way,and some not.Is there some "option"somewhere?

Thanks.

Yes,i tried that,it would not move the image position,but zooming it.If i,for example,zoom it so that whole image is seen,there would be black bars around it,and wider bar in the right,than in the left.and that is the problem.If i could center it somehow,then i would zoom it to cover the full screen.

How it is done in hardware level anyway? I mean,since those M$Win drivers are having this option,it can be done?

I remember in those ancient days,(-99) when i first tried linux,and have this problem with my main monitor,because it was a cheap svga without much of options,there was program called "xvidtune",and it did this by modifying vertical and horizontal refresh rates...

I have now succesfully configured my GeForce FX5200 tv-out to work,and i noticed,that image position in TV would need a slight adjusting,like moving it 2 inches to the right.

I am convinced,that it CAN be done,but i would need a right direction pointed,on how to proceed.

I use "nvidia-setting",and "Yanc" to configure Xorg.conf file.

I had some googling on the subject,and checked nvforum,and this forum too,but i did not found anything applicable.(For linux).

I checked nvidia´s xorg README,but i did not find any "switch" or "option" for that.

Can i use something like setting a exact refresh rate for tv-out,instead of "range"? -that would affect on image position...

I have mandriva2006,nvidia driver is 7676.

Oh..it uses different kernel in failsafe mode...? that explains a lot.

Yes,thanks for advice,that "mandriva init 3" works just fine,Problem solved now

I am having this problem: when i boot my mandriva in to failsafe mode,and change the runlevel from INIT 1 to INIT 3,i cant login,because as soon as i start to type,there will be all sorts of gibberish in the screen,like ^^[[]7^&& etc.And no capslock is on.

This does not occur in INIT 1,i can log on normally. I need INIT 3,because of massive updates on KDE,and to do those updates i need fully networked system,and everything working,except no GUI.

I can vaguely remember,that this occured even after "out-of-the-box" install of mandriva 2006,because back then,i configured my graphics card,and few times xorg crashed,back to INIT 3,and i couldnt log in,because of the abovementioned problem.

Thanks

Recently i changed my graphics card from ATI to Nvidia,and problems were finally solved.Now i would ask a bit of helping hand in configuring the tv-out.I would like to use it in "clone"mode,i.e watching videos from kplayer in tv,etc.

I know that it has to be done in "xorg.conf",and i have read "readme"file for nvidia.

Now,that example file that they provided,i didnt be able get it to work.

I would ask, if someone who has nvidia GF5200,mandriva 2006,and tv-out working,would post me their xorg.conf file,so that i may get the right direction pointed?

Thank you.

Did you try Xorg's radeon driver for ATI cards? I havent used it for a long time but I req that its 3d support improved greatly (or was it XFree86?)

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Now,i was able to get that standard driver back,it is running something like 1200.000 fps,which i think,is just fine.openGL apps are working now. I have understood,that there is these problems with all other distros too,so i will wait until ATI is going to release some decent drivers.

TheCrizu

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Reality is for those who cannot face the science fiction.

depends on your HW, 2300 FPS is not that bad. What apps did you try? glxgears works for me, but when I run the ATI version of glxgears, fire_glxgears or something, the box hangs as soon as I move the mouse. Tuxracer runs fine.

that application is Celestia astronomical software.And,as i in my first post mentioned,those other problems are still there,no matter what i do.I hope there is some Guru out there who can say something about that ATI install log.Or tell me how can i get back where i started,without installing system again.Using that original,"working" xorg.conf,openGL is not what it was,before i tried to upgrade drivers.

I have made few extra checks after reading everything they had about this driver in ATI´s site. Drivers install log looks like this:

[Message] Kernel Module : Trying to install a precompiled kernel module.

[Message] Kernel Module : Precompiled kernel module version mismatched.

[Message] Kernel Module : Found kernel module build environment, generating kernel module now.

ATI module generator V 2.0

==========================

initializing...

cleaning...

patching 'highmem.h'...

assuming new VMA API since we do have kernel 2.6.x...

doing Makefile based build for kernel 2.6.x and higher

make -C /lib/modules/2.6.11-12mdk/build SUBDIRS=/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x modules

make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.11-12mdk'

CC [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/agp3.o

CC [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/nvidia-agp.o

CC [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/agpgart_be.o

/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/agpgart_be.c: In function `__fgl_agp_init':

/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/agpgart_be.c:8166: warning: `pm_register' is deprecated (declared at include/linux/pm.h:106)

/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/agpgart_be.c: In function `__fgl_agp_cleanup':

/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/agpgart_be.c:8176: warning: `pm_unregister_all' is deprecated (declared at include/linux/pm.h:116)

/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/agpgart_be.c: At top level:

/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/agpgart_be.c:6070: warning: 'ati_gart_base' defined but not used

CC [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/i7505-agp.o

CC [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.o

/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c: In function `firegl_stub_putminor':

/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c:498: warning: `inter_module_put' is deprecated (declared at include/linux/module.h:578)

/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c:500: warning: `inter_module_unregister' is deprecated (declared at include/linux/module.h:574)

/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c: In function `firegl_stub_register':

/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c:520: warning: `inter_module_register' is deprecated (declared at include/linux/module.h:573)

/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c:551: warning: `inter_module_put' is deprecated (declared at include/linux/module.h:578)

/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c: At top level:

/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c:1921: warning: 'deferred_flush' defined but not used

LD [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/fglrx.o

Building modules, stage 2.

MODPOST

CC /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/fglrx.mod.o

LD [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/fglrx.ko

make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.11-12mdk'

build succeeded with return value 0

duplicating results into driver repository...

done.

==============================

- creating symlink

- recreating module dependency list

- trying a sample load of the kernel module

failed.

[Error] Kernel Module : Failed to install compiled kernel module - please consult readme.

-There seem to be some errors,i did not found that readme.

TheCrizu

Yes,I now managed to do it.installed latest kernel,and exactly the same source,everything working fine,installed ATI again,not working,same thing that was int the first time.

I´ve checked couple of HOWTO´s in linuxquestion forum,that addressed this issue(mandriva+ATI).everything is done accordingly.I´m now again using that original "Xorg.conf". When i launch "fglrxinfo" now,using old conf file,its like this:

display: :0.0 screen: 0

OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org

OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect

OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.2.1)

However,when i use that new,barely working conf file,everything looks ok,there is "ATI"

on those lines,when running "fglrxinfo". When launching "glxgears", with old file,FPS: 320.000 , and with new file 2300.000. It should be greater?And with new file,openGL applications crashes.

Getting back to read HOWTO´s.....

TheCrizu

Why don't you install the latest kernel AND its matching  kernel-source then reinstall the driver. Since it is the latest driver, it could also be looking for a newer kernel as well. Just make certain that the kernel and kernel-source packages have EXACTLY the same version number. I am not familiar with ATI drivers, only nvidia ones, but I suspect that both makes work on similar principles.

yes,i´m going to try that.How do i check which kernel version i´m having now? I can´t see it on RPM manager/installed sofware?

I´m having problem with configuring ATI proprietary drivers.I downloaded and installed the latest drivers from their site,did everything by the book.When i restarded my computer screen looked like quite awful,gamma settings were...off the scale or something.screen was so bright,that hardly anything could be seen.I´ve tried 4 hours to configure that "xorg.conf"file with fglrxconfig,and manually,no matter what i did,problem remains.and almost every time,when i did some changes to that file,no matter what,system would not even start,but instead there were screen full of error messages.finally i put that old xorg.conf file back,and everything works,except openGL,it looks like my old C64 is trying to run it(Slow).It´s,i suppose,because there is that new driver now.

So,do i have to configure xorg.conf manually completely?

I´m running mandriva 2005LE.Computer: P4 GigaByte 8IPE100-ProG 512MB Radeon 9200.

TheCrizu

PS.I needed those proprietary drivers because of tv-out.

PPS. I had done this whole thing before,six months ago,same mandriva,same harware,no problems,but that proprietary driver,this was newer version.I switched back to windoze,after that,but now i´m back to linux,to stay this time :D

Yess!!! Problem solved! Now,you cant believe what it was!? I had installed package called "ipv6 support for iptables", removed it, and now it is working. Well it seems,that with linux it is as old saying goes: -If it works,dont fix it.

Some time ago I had a simmilar problem, but I fixed it by reinstalling java.

Umm.. you don't happen to have two conflicting java installations?

Anyways, check for java dependencies and try reinstalling those, maybe some dep is broken thus affecting Java

 

p.s. You can do things as other user a lot quicker by simply fireing up a terminal (konsole, Eterm) and typing "su yourusername"

then type whatever program you want to launch

No need to log out/in

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How do i check dependencies?I have installed java from their website,that .bin package.perhaps i should check mdk.rpm packaged java?