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I set my security to high in anticipation of getting HS Interent access and it now appears during the boot up messages that user and group quotas have been set. I have my bookmarks stored on a floppy and now a right click on any file in the home directory dumps me up one level refusing any attempt to change the file. I have never experienced this behaviour before. The instructions for msec are for 8.2 and it would appear that is the source of the problem. Lock was not loaded during the install so I am leaning to msec. MCC shows the level at 2 and the home file set at 755 with owner root and all of the boxes are grayed out at this level meaning you can look but not edit. I need a terminal command to overrride msec, but I can't find out what it is even with all my books. The Mandrake manuals do not answer the question when the security issue is involved. Counterspy

Is it possible and if so how does one remove this icon permanently? I have put separate icons for each and it keeps reappearing after each reboot during the install of HS Internet and ever since. Counterspy

I would find a page that attacks obscure problems that have not been solved anywhere or maybe once and then disappear in what I referred to above as post oblivion. Look at BB posts for zero responses. Comb the archives at Google groups for alt.os.linux.mandrake. Hang out in some IRC chat rooms. I'm sure you'll come with a good collection. Even check out the Mandrake Club public areas if you are not a member. Counterspy Counterspy

Did you add this link to the section at the top of the page so it won't scroll off into post oblivion? Counterspy

Could I gently suggest that you post those as separate questions so others can benefit with the dialogue as the problem is worked through. Counterspy

It strikes me that you should do some more research on raid before you commit to a particular method. IIRC, that hardware raid has a greater range of methods of implementation than software raid, but since I have never had a use for it, I have not researched the subject myself. Counterspy

There have been problems reported with Highpoint and some Promise on board raid drivers. Take a look at the cooker mailing list which can be accessed from http://www.mailarchive.com or on the Mandrake cooker page. Search here as well to check what has been posted in the past. Counterspy

There is a kernel upgrade on the mirrors now that allegedly fixes supermount. Whatever you do, DO NOT USE MANDRAKE UPDATE to install the kernel. There are instructions on the Mandrake errata page here: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/errata.php3 and in the paper called The Black Art of Updating by Vincent Danen (of msec) on http://www.mandrakesecure.net . This may address the printer driver problem since that is somewhat kernel based. Consider changing your printing system form lpr to cups and the other way around to see if that makes any difference. Another test worth considering is testing that drive on another machine to see if it works there. IIRC, you did say it works with Windows. Counterspy

I wan to see the Plan of Reorganization posted on the site for all to read. It is after all, a public document. Someone would need to translate it but in its absence, I remain a doubter, particularly when the Euronext exchange suspensded trading in Mandrakesoft stock, meaning no one really knows what its value is. If I am wrong about that, show me the evidence. A full and complete disclosure of an audited financial statement wouldn't hurt either. If we are to become partners, we should know what we are buying into. This isn't criticism, it's business. Counterspy

It will be a frosty day in hell when Mandrakesoft approaches the founders, moderators and senior members with a proposal to affiliate in any way beyond what we have now other than making us an official support board and even that might well be rejected. The key principle in our growth has been independence from Mandrakesoft where are forums are open allowing criticism where our members feel it is justified. Our moderators have been extremely judicious and only one member has been banned (for harrassment of another member) since we established this site. We have grown to offer a range of services more tightly integrated making access for our members easier and we would hope, more fulfilling than even the Club. I believe that you need to look at the nature of the Mandrake community. On every major IRC server, there is at least one Mandrake group including ours. There is an expert mailing list, a cooker mailing list and a newbie mailing list. There is one of the most active Linux newsgroups on Usenet, alt.os.linux.mandrake, averaging 200-500 posts per day. And of course there is the Club. Ever since I started with 7.0, these communities have their own atmosphere and commitment from members and with the exception of the Club, there has been little crossover. The predecessors to this board had the advantage of a direct link from mandrakeuser.org. We have a link graciously provided by the Mandrake Club and we link back. We are not growing as fast because of the availability of so many alternatives for users. As far as the forum is concerned, IMHO, they have made a mess of integrating it into the Club. They need someone with a vision to reorganize and redecorate their entire site. Denis Havlik is one small voice in what happens there and I suspect spends much of his day with tape over his mouth. Maybe the new CEO will get to the Web presence issue but it is hardly at the top of their priorities at the moment. Version 9.1 is a watershed for Mandrakesoft. If they deliver another flawed product without adequate marketing and retail distribution, they are history. And for things here, we will keep on keep on soldiering on making a better site for those who do come here. Counterspy

Now it sounds like you are a victim of the supermount bug. Remove it with the command supermount -i disable and try mounting and unmounting by hand. There is a program called automount on one of your Mandrake disks which you can use but the setup is a bit daunting. There are tutorials floating about and there are several man pages for it on your drive. Just so you don't think you are being cursed, the same problem occurs with all removable devices in V 9.0. Counterspy

Maybe. Maybe not. But it gets one source of problems out of the way. Starting close to the metal can never be a mistake. A waste of time is a possibility. And you did say it worked in 8.2 but 9.0. Do a search of this board on "zip drives" to see if others have had problems. Parallel port drives combined with other devices are something of a crude hack that works for many things sometimes but flakes out at others. Zip drives have suffered from a lack of serious attention because of their initial problems and subsequently the growth in size of hard drives. This leaves you more or less on your own unless someone else has solved the issue and seen your post or otherwise solves the problem. Counterspy

It turns out that there was a gotcha in the floppyconfig creation. If you did not have all of the radio buttons on the save page pressed, then you got the "Only root can etc. etc." Another user found this out after some futile posting and finally getting an email with the answer. The posters at the Knoppix forum are a prime example of how not to behave, and the whole site smacks of arrogant self-possession. It is worth the trouble to download as a sales pitch for Linux but I would give it an F- as a distro that can do real work. Their docs are in French and German with no English translation as yet so one is limited to a badly written faq (aren't they all) and what can be gleaned from their horrible yellow on black web site. I didn't think it was possible to pervert Phpbbs quite as bad as that. It has miles to go before I would consider trying to sell it to my local Director of Education for use in the schools, but probably has some value as a demonstrator for your friends and relatives. Otherwise don't bother. Counterspy

FWIW, there is no text. Just the blushing smiley. The other one was the same. I can't imagine anyone being able to play with the system by deleting your text. Report the problem to the moderators if you have not already done so. Counterspy

There is a packet sniffer called ethereal on one of the disks. If not on any of the first three, then it will be on contribs. You should be able to download it from a Mandrake mirror or find it with rpmfind or the new kid on the block rpmseek if you don't have Powerpack. It will require at least one dependency, libpcap, and maybe one other. Getting meaningful information from it is a daunting task but it has extremely thorough docs. There are literallly a hunded or so packet types described in detail so be judicious if you decide to print them. IIRC, the manual is in PDF form, but its been a while and I stopped printing before all of the packet descriptions were finished. Counterspy

Are you using the 3.1-4 versions of the kdebase files and the kdelib files? I cannot reproduce those errors. Counterspy

I would do exactly what you are saying from a full screen console accesed with (in my case) ctrl/alt/F3 or F4 or F5 (never F6) and you will be at a root prompt, type root, then the password. "cd" to the directory containing the file that was created by "tar -zxvf". Then execute the other commands to compile the program. You cannot execute those other commands from the desktop. You could use a terminal window, but a full screen is better for seeing the compile process if you have any errors. Counterspy

The answer to your question about why it worked in 8.2 and 9.0 is that Mandrakesoft programmers have the rather undesirable habit of frigging about with things that already work or making changes that fix some things and break others. A read of the kernel mailing list gives testimony to that. Try searching this board for "zip drives" and see if anything comes back. Also do the interrupt check again in the KDE Control Center or Info Center if you are using Texstar's 3.1. Since most modern motherboards share interrupts (particularly with PCI slots) you still may have a conflict. If you haven't already done so, change the bios settings to a standard printer port without the frills if you can do this without disabling the drive, then put them back one at a time each and then back to both. Counterspy

Did yo not load any development programs when you first configured? In my view, it would be worth your trouble to do an upgrade adding the development software. Downloading will take hours whereas updating should be less than 1/2 hour at the outside. Just make sure that things you don't want or have been upgraded already are not checked. Mandrakesoft likes to add things they think you need. Use expert mode package selection and look at every category to make sure only what you want gets installed. All dependencies are met this way as well. Counterspy

At the moment I can't find out where you can get that information in KDE. If you are still running Windows, go to Control Panel>System>Device Manager. Look down the list of devices for your two devices. If they, or any others for that matter, have a question mark or exclamaton point over them then there is a problem. Also look at the interrupts they are connected to. AFAIK, they must me on separate interrupts. You could also try changing the parallel port settings in the BIOS and see if that affects your problem. Counterspy

Do not interpret this as another RTFM message, but shorewall does have excellent documentation and anyone using ot should really read it. Counterspy

Check to see what interrupts are being used. It may be that the printer and the zip drive are trying to use the same one. Counterspy

In the interest of caution, I would run chkrootkit. It can't do any harm. Counterspy

What are you suing to partition the 60 Gb. disk? What would happen if you transferred them in ext2 format and then converted them using the appropriate toolbox? You might want to look at the Hard Disk Upgrade How-To at http://www.tldp.org. While it deals with total upgrades, it may have some useful tips. Counterspy

If you downloaded this from cooker, you should not be surprised that it didn't work. Cooker files are works in progress and in swatting one bug they may create several others and are not made for daily use. If you downloaded Texstar's version, there were problems with that as well as of yesterday. I have not looked today to see if he has fixed them. Counterspy