scoonma

Hi all,

I'm trying to get around this annoying error for quite some time (2008.1, see also https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=34501):

When starting my desktop from terminal mode (dm not started), everything works fine. However, when I try to use the graphical login ("service dm start" forehand), I get the annoying request to configure my computer with /usr/bin/drak3d. This is exactly what is not necessary, because everything is tuned okay here. I'm being thrown into that again and again, no matter what option I choose.

I copied one error message by hand, so it's not *exactly* the same, but you'll get it:

/etc/X11/gdm/Xsession results positively to
setup done; will execute
/etc/X11/xdm/Xsession drak3d

You see the last argument is what produces that annoying behaviour, so I looked up the calling script .../gdm/Xsession.

Is it possible to pass another argument, so that a login actually results in displaying a desktop, not some mcc component?

Kind regards,

scoonma

Some programs generate stale .pid files lying around when stopped/aborted abnormally. So it makes sense to look for <app name>.pid in the user's home dir or in the directory the application was started from.

I want to see what type of performance increase I can have by creating a stripped down kernel.

The performance gain here is about 15%.

BTW: I'm definitely NOT ashamed using Mandriva. It was recommended to me by a much more experienced user many years ago (already knew some Unixes), and I've never regretted it. Compared to SuSE i.e. it's a much better choice, and a very good distro to learn linux, too.

Hi Pindakoe,

you're right - but I always start that system at runlevel 3. Don't know what process is resetting inittab everytime. I guess some part of the security system is responsible, but haven't dug deep into that yet. So I'd be glad for any hint...

Hi there,

I need to protect /etc/inittab from being overwritten permanently on MDV 2007.1; however the FS is Reiser and chattr doesn't work here. I found this posting http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=575307 which indicates some bug. Any updates possible? I *could* patch my kernel, but rather like to circumvent this.

Please let me know your thoughts on this,

Scoonma

[moved from Software by spinynorman]

Found it:

HOW TO: Block Incoming icmp

:)

I installed flux again yesterday, and almost got everything working the way I want. Just have a couple of questions.

 

In my ~/.xinitrc file, I have a line to set the background when I log in. That works just fine, but when the flux desktop loads, it seems like it overwrites my background and I am left with a pale grey color background. If I run the command again, problem solved.

 

How do I prevent this from happening? I want it to just work and not overwrite the background. If I have to customize the theme, I will do so.

Which .rc files does fluxbox use? I'd try to use something like xsetroot. See info e.g. here:

http://www.megawebhost.com/cgi-bin/man2htm...and=xsetroot(1)

The server is unavailable for quite some hours now; updates impossible neither:

http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/

Hope for a change until tomorrow. :-)

This is probably due to the last Flashplayer plugin version. Here's from my .xsession-errors:

Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8

That's probably true. Here's only one entry,

 touch /var/lock/subsys/local

which looks quite familiar.

Thx!

Hi all,

yesterday I found a service named "local", but only displayed using interactive startup. There's no related script in /etc.d/init.d.

Does anybody know something about this service? Is it new?

Hi there,

I'm working on a longer lasting problem with Mandriva2008.1: After starting the user login chooser ("service dm start"), the menu is displayed all right. However, I cannot login using any of my users when compiz is used. Before getting a normal user desktop, I'm asked to type in my user password in order to choose drak3d for gfx display (mcc component). DM is being restarted and one should think everything is all right. However, when trying to do the next login, everything is like before, i.e. the systems asks for a password and so on.

On a freshly installed MDV2008.1 system this strange behaviour does not occur, but I'm willing to give my girfriend her own profile here. So I don't want to do a complete new install. Maybe someone has an idea here. The file .xsession-errors contains

the following:

sh: /etc/sysconfig/compositing-wm: Keine Berechtigung (means "no authorization")

Can't register passkey agent

The name org.bluez was not provided by any .service files

I found that /etc/sysconfig/compositing-wm and /etc/sysconfig/compositing-server are being recreated with limited rights, probably producing the error cited above?!?

Which version of wine do you use? You can install recent packages through the main/backports repository.

A new nvidia gfx driver is available from here. This version includes many bug fixes, mainly for GeForce8 and GeForce9 series GPUs. Recently supported are the following:

* Quadro FX 3600M

* GeForce 9800 GX2

* GeForce 9800 GTX

* GeForce 9600 GT

* GeForce 9600 GSO

* GeForce 9600 GS

* GeForce 9500M GS

* GeForce 8400

* GeForce 8400 GS

Hi Atol,

welcome to Mandriva Users!

As you seem to own a laptop, you should try kernel-laptop-2.6.24.4-1mnb first.

Good luck!

Scoonma

You can check them out here:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_173.08.html

The driver contains bug fixes and support for newer gfx hardware and notebooks.

As root do

updatedb

then do

locate -e ko.gz

As I understand it this would list all modules of all installed kernels. So my suggestion is to check your version in use, then go to the specific directory and list modules:

uname -a
cd /lib/modules/<kernel-version>
ls -al | more

When updating all packages, use "urpmi --auto-update". This fetches new description files (hdlist.cz), then all new packages.

Dark 'n Blue...

I like to see Linux in every other possible field of operation, but surely not in the military. Does anyone else still remember software disclaimers forbidding military use (mostly in early public domain realm)? This should go into GPL.

Hi all,

after last cooker updates of pulseaudio I hoped to get sound again, but no luck. I found the pulseaudio daemon logs to syslog, so maybe someone can hopefully find a clue from the latter.

Best regards,

scoonma

Feb 26 02:10:12 localhost pulseaudio[6175]: polkit.c: Cannot set UID on session object.
Feb 26 02:10:12 localhost pulseaudio[6175]: main.c: Called SUID root and real-time/high-priority scheduling was requested in the configuration. However, we l
ack the necessary priviliges:
Feb 26 02:10:12 localhost pulseaudio[6175]: main.c: We are not in group 'pulse-rt' and PolicyKit refuse to grant us priviliges. Dropping SUID again.
Feb 26 02:10:12 localhost pulseaudio[6175]: main.c: For enabling real-time scheduling please acquire the appropriate PolicyKit priviliges, or become a member
of 'pulse-rt', or increase the RLIMIT_NICE/RLIMIT_RTPRIO resource limits for this user.
Feb 26 02:10:12 localhost pulseaudio[6176]: pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting.
Feb 26 02:10:12 localhost pulseaudio[6176]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Die Operation ist nicht erlaubt
Feb 26 02:10:12 localhost pulseaudio[6176]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Die Operation ist nicht erlaubt
Feb 26 02:10:12 localhost pulseaudio[6176]: alsa-util.c: Error opening PCM device hw:0: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
Feb 26 02:10:12 localhost pulseaudio[6176]: module.c: Failed to load  module "module-alsa-sink" (argument: "device_id=0 sink_name=alsa_output.pci_1102_8_alsa
_playback_0"): initialization failed.
Feb 26 02:10:12 localhost pulseaudio[6176]: alsa-util.c: Error opening PCM device hw:0: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
Feb 26 02:10:12 localhost pulseaudio[6176]: module.c: Failed to load  module "module-alsa-source" (argument: "device_id=0 source_name=alsa_input.pci_1102_8_a
lsa_capture_0"): initialization failed.

Hi there,

maybe someone can point me in the right direction on this one: I'm building my own kernel from the latest cooker sources; all goes fine until "make install" fails because it cannot find ide_disk module. I looked into /lib/modules and indeed: the whole drivers/ide section is absent.

Any ideas please?

Dear MDV addicts,

title puts it quite clear: After some longer break, I wished to update nautilus to recent 2008.0 version (no standard icons displayed; other settings allright). While using urpmi I found a new dependancy pointing to a package named perl-Net-Telnet. An update to version 3.03-6 of that is impossible due to a wrong gpg key. Distrib-coffee is used for fetching packages.

Any hints please?

OK, here's an experiment - go into XP, change the fonts to how you want, shut down. Don't go to Mandriva. Go back into windows and see if the fonts have changed. If so, it's a Windows problem not a Mandriva problem.

That's a very good method to encircle the problem - easy and fast to perform!

Any idea which problem after vt-switching was fixed?

If you don't know what this is about, then you won't probably need this feature. ;-)

Okay, seriously again: You can switch between different 'primary' shell terminals using control key combinations. These terminals normally run in framebuffer mode, whereas the graphical desktop (X-Windows) runs in a different mode. Especially when using compiz (3D-rendering/acceleration enabled) there was a problem when switching back and forth between those mentioned 'primary' terminals (aka virtual terminals -> vt) and X-Windows mode. I've experienced this problem both with ATI and with NVIDIA. New driver generations seem to have fixed this.

I'm unable to log in as other users while a user session is running, and the research I've done about the problem has pointed to this being something very difficult to fix... basically there is no windows manager available if I try to log in as another user... Has this driver fixed that?

This is most probably no gfx driver problem.

Also, I know very little about Nvidia Drivers to begin with, except that under 2008.0 I don't seem to need them, or they are built into the kernel. Can I still use them if it will fix this problem. I'm a bit confused. Thanks

They're not built into the kernel. You still need them, but they may be loaded by urpmi/rpmdrake in the background 'automagically' for your hardware setup (-> harddrake service!).