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I guess Greg asked about spamassasin as 'sa-update' is a spamassasin binary.

A quick google search for the error you get returns loads of hits, here is a good explanation:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=223753

The weird thing is that you don't seem to have a /etc/logrotate.d/sa-update file (at least not in the ls -la output you posted), are you sure the email is not from another machine?

it should be either /etc/logrotate.conf or one of the files under /etc/logrotate.d/

dvdauthor followed by mkisofs will certainly be able to do it, but it's command line so you need to study it's man page first.

IF by VOB files you mean you already have a valid VIDEO_TS folder dvd structure (with .IFO and .BUP files) then all you need is mkisofs:

mkisofs -dvd-video -o dvd.iso /path/to/directory/underVIDEO_TSfolder/

Once you have the iso you can use K3B to burn it to DVD or use growisofs on command line:

growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/cdrom=dvd.iso

(replace /dev/cdrom with the correct device name of your burner)

Can help you directly, but maybe if you email the person who made the package with those fading pictures (s)he will tell you how it has been done?

For example:

rpm -qf /usr/share/mdk/screensaver/flower-08.png (tells you the name of the package)
mandriva-theme-Free-screensaver-1.2.27-1mdv2008.1

then

rpm -qi mandriva-theme-Free-screensaver-1.2.27-1mdv2008.1
Name		: mandriva-theme-Free-screensaver  Relocations: /usr
Version	 : 1.2.27							Vendor: Mandriva
Release	 : 1mdv2008.1					Build Date: Tue 25 Mar 2008 15:36:03 CET
Install Date: Fri 16 May 2008 23:01:43 CEST	  Build Host: seggie.mandriva.com
Group	   : Graphics					  Source RPM: mandriva-theme-1.2.27-1mdv2008.1.src.rpm
Size		: 10191041						 License: GPL
Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Thu 03 Apr 2008 21:52:24 CEST, Key ID e7898ae070771ff3
Packager	: Frederic Crozat <fcrozatxxxx@mandriva.com>
Summary	 : Mandriva Free screensaver
Description :
This package contains the screensaver associated with the
Mandriva Free theme.

This gives you the email address of the package mantainer (I have modified it in this example to protect it from spammers harvesting it).

Do the same thing for yourself in case the email address/mantainer has changed in the version of Mandriva you are using.

IF you find out let us know too!

yawn, arctic please do lock this thread, at least that will be the end of it then!

Well I guess Tyme's suspicion about your motives is as valid as all those insinuations at Mandriva's possible motives that you certainly did not help to contain (rather helped to spread IMHO).

Anyway that's it for me about this, it's a shame when such rather small issues get built up in such a way to spread such negativity about Mandriva (who has no obbligation to even provide us with a free distro, they could just concentrate on their corporate customers which probably would be more profitable too).

I agree.

Way to much hype and debate about something that in the grand scheme of things is meaningless (other than for wobo and his compagnons and they will get over it too).

Unfortunately laptops are very hard to debug (you cant just swap out parts and test them in a different PC) so I don't know what else to suggest, but I think (as you have tried different memory modules already) you might have a motherboard problem (north bridge/memory controller).

Is the RAM shared for the graphics chip too? (as they ususally are in laptops)

That would explain the flickery dots on the screen that you see when it fails to boot.

I guess your choice is, try to live with it, or find a repair centre that doesn't charge so much that you would rather buy a new one (and more importantly gives you a free estimate first!), or buy a new laptop (will be much faster too)!

You can always sell your old laptop on ebay for spares, you will be surprised how much some people will pay for it (for example someone who cracked his screen and is looking for a replacement).

I disagree, haiving 80 staff, sales of EUR 4m and operating globally is far from small.

It fits the definition of a SME perfectly.

That has nothing to do with size and everything to do with balancing the organisation with the oppropriate skills. IIRC they just recently ditched a member of staff that had a vital marketing role. IMO it would be a lot easier to pass off coding/engineer skills to the community than marketing, I do not believe that the Linux community as a whole is endowed with enthusiastic market skills, marketing in this context is certainly not as attractive as coding.

 

That arguement is very weakl IMO, that's like calling a charity that makes surpluses a profit orientated organisation. In this context the motive to make profits is worth a lot more than actually achieving the goal of making profits.

I would guess that the high proportion of engineers among Mandriva employees is one of the main reasons why the Mandriva distro is so well put together compared to other distros. Ubuntu has 200 employees (and the advantage of a solid Debian foundation) and they still don't manage to make such a polished distro. They probably have a much larger percentage of PR and marketing types which explains their success.

But maybe you should apply as CEO at Mandriva then, as you seem to have it all worked out so well...

Mandriva is a faceless, capitalist organisation like any other, it's big enough and ugly enough to not need any mollycoddling!

I have to assume you don't mean this seriously, Mandriva has 80 employees worldwide, I would hardly call that a big ugly organisation!!!

If anything this issue is a consequence of them being too small, lacking marketing and PR staff as 50 of them are engineers.

(source: http://www.mandriva.com/enterprise/en/company/backgrounder)

And I wouldn't even call them truly capitalist given that they have never made a profit for their 'ugly' capital owners (the shareholders).

Behaviour like this is symptomatic of corporate failure. This, along with Mandriva's poor financial position and the current economic climate may indicate troubles ahead. You might argue that Mandriva's financial position has been improving, but that was on the back of a stable and growing macro-environment, I do not see Mandriva's management as having the skills necessary to maintain this through a recession nor ensure survival. I could be wrong, only time will tell.

 

I would have liked to have explored this further, looking at any other messages I could see from their site but that appears to be down for me.

Exactly, that's why I consider wobo's perpetuated campaign against Mandriva (insisting on telling everybody possible, on all possible forums and news sites about how he was let down) nothing else than an immature personal revenge campaign.

Mandriva is in difficulties already, they shot themselves in the foot (by not attending LinuxTag at the last minute), so there is no need to continue to stomp on the injured foot.

P.S: David, thanks but I know the story, I did read some of that long thread about it on the mandriva forum.

Wobo did not make a lone decision here. This a consensus statement of MandrivaUser.de forum members discussed in a 6-page forum thread.

 

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=e...3D25899%26p%3D6

Wobo is driving it and not in a very mature way, IMHO, and even in that thread there are many comments that don't completely agree with what he wanted to do.

look at Mandriva. They ask for the community to help translating things or whatever, and ask the community to do this that and the other - for free - they don't pay and if they do you're very lucky. And then, they turn around and say "thanks for all the fish" rather than embrace the community and thank them for their efforts. All they clearly seem to do is look after their own and use the community for their own ill-gotten gains.

Certainly but noone is forced to help them and in exchange everyone gets a great, well put together distro for free. Mandriva doesn't get any "fish" from anyone as all the help that they get from the volunteers benefits directly and first of all the users, not so much Mandriva (given that they don't have an effective solution to make profit out of the distro...).

Mandriva has no obligations to the users, same as users have no obligations to Mandriva.

But I don't think this is relevant here, the issue here is very specific about the events around LinuxTag.

I don't blame wobo, or anyone in the community for taking such a step if they shaft you like that. I'm sorry, but that's not how you treat people and if you do, then expect to be treated the same way. What goes around, comes around.

My comment was specifically about the last post from wobo, which to me looks like over-the-top childish revenge, the move of the mandrivauser.de communitiy to distance themselves from Mandriva is not what I criticised and is perfectly legitimate IMHO.

Did you check in the BIOS if there are any settings for the fan speed?

If you already have frequency stepping enabled then there isn't anything else that I know of that you can do from the OS to reduce heat, I have never heard of Linux utilities to change the fan behaviour.

This is gaining some momentum. linux-community.de published an article (the online portal of LinuxNewMedia, publisher of Linux Magazin and LinuxUser. Even heise.de who seldom publish such community things and who were not on the list of addresses I sent the statement to, published an article. I wonder where they learned about it - this internet is really something big and fast! :)

While I can understand that you are upset and that you wanted to cut your links with Mandriva, this is going way to far.

IMHO this is very childish revenge behaviour that doesn't benefit anyone other than your ego.

If I was a member of mandrivauser.de I would give up my membership after reading this.

What do you aim to achieve by doing this?

Think about how this reflects on you too, if I was a recruiter for a job and you applied for it, I wouldn't hire you, knowing this.

Revenge always leaves a bitter taste after the first feel-good effect has passed...

You can tell MCC what file to use? Or it will fine?

 

It just in my MCC it tells that my card is 6100 or higher. I have 9600M on my laptop, and just kind of wondering if it the same thing.

6100 or higher is correct for your card.

I tried running init 3 (after doing su and password).

But my screen was all black and didn't respond.

that's likely a x11-driver bug, I have seen that on a few PCs...

You can also edit /etc/inittab (as root) and change the line that says:

id:5:initdefault:

into

id:3:initdefault:

then reboot, your box will then come up in text mode, but you will have to subsequently edit it again and change it back to '5' to get X11 to start automatically again.

You can also force the runlevel from grub by adding 3 or 5 to the boot string on the fly at boot time but that might be too complicated unless you know what you are doing.

I downloaded a Nividia driver for Linux-32bit and tried to type sh <Nvidia-driver-name> in the Konsole.

But it asked me to do it in text mode. How do I exit X11? and go into text mode?

open a console, type "su - root", and then type "init 3"

This will change to runlevel 3 which is text mode, to change back to X11 either type "init 5" or do a reboot.

But I agree with isadora, better stick with the drivers provided by Mandriva, unless you know exactly what you are doing.

You could easily mess up your system otherwise.

Thank you.demonseth17

 

I have 2009.1 KDE4 (using CD One)

 

I was just wondering if there are any necessary for the system to be installed (for system to run etc..). When I used Ubuntu, I know I had to install some essential files package.

Everything essential for the system to run is there, otherwise your system wouldn't even run! :)

I recommend to add the PLF repositories from http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ as mentioned by demonseth17 as they contain useful stuff that Mandriva cannot officially distribute (additional media codecs, commercial movie DVD support, etc).

For DVD support install libdvdcss.

The Add/Remove Software in Mandriva is not urpmi? or is it?

'Add/Remove Software' is an application called drakrpm which is a graphical interface for urpmi.

I have the impression those stats are made from US job postings only, so Brasil and/or French jobs don't get counted.

Also as Mandriva is quite similar to Redhat/Fedora in many respects, Mandriva skills are transferable.

One of the reasons why I like Mandriva at home is because I can mostly re-use my Redhat work knowledge (unlike with Ubuntu/Debian which is quite different).

OdinJobs, the largest technology job search engine, looks at the demand and median salary for the most popular distros here.

Interesting, thanks for the link! (although the fact that Redhat dominates the corporate world is well known)

I have now build a Handbrake package for Mandriva 2009.1 too, it works fine for me, please let me know if there are any problems with it.

Available as usual here:

http://www.linuxtech.net/downloads/handbra...ndriva_rpm.html

I have just installed 2009.1 with KDE 3.5 on another PC and this is what I did to get the missing KDE multimedia packages:

- launch "Install & Remove Software" (drakrpm)

- click on "Options" then "Media Manager"

- a new window will open titled "Configure media"

- click on "File" then "Add a custom medium"

- a new window will open titled "Add a medium"

- select/input the following:

Type of medium: FTP server

Medium name: 2009.0 Main

URL: ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/mandrake/of...ia/main/release (you could use any other Mandriva 2009.0 mirror instead too)

- click on "OK"

- click on "OK" in "Configure media" window

- then type "kdemultimedia" in the "Find:" input field

- select the kdemultimedia 3.5.10 1mdv2009.0 package

(this will also select all other kdemultimedia packages)

- proceed with installation

Basically this add a 2009.0 repository and then installs kdemultimedia from there. This works fine as the packages are the same version.

Once the installation has completed remember to disable the "2009.0 Main" repository in the Media Manager to avoid installing other old 2009.0 software.

No file system can, though it may be able to claim that you won't lose your data due to problems with the FS itself. Data corruption/loss due to hardware failure and other issues outside the control of the FS is always possible.

Yeah that's what I said: "you will not experience file system related data loss with it".

for hardware failure there is RAID, that's not the job of the filesystem to prevent (although zfs takes care of that too, but sadly is not available on Linux...).

BTRFS might be even better at some point in the future but currently it's still way to unstable for production use. I know a few people who tried it and lost data with it recently.

That's a big statement to make, have you evidence to back it up that you will never ever lose your data? I don't think any filesystem can claim that.

Well it's hard to provide evidence that something will never happen, but if you research jfs on the net you won't find even a single case in at least the last 5 years or so (since JFS has been absolutely mature and the code hasn't changed anymore) were someone has experienced data loss because of JFS.

My experience confirms this too, I have used it and am still using it on multi-TByte filesystems, on machines that have experienced a few power-outages and other occasional issues (raid rebuilds etc) but the data has always stayed intact (I keep md5 checksums for a most of the static data, that's why I know for sure).

I used to use reiserfs, but switched to ext3 because of it's data recovery tools being better (also because of the OS i was using didn't support anything but this). The same goes for jfs, it has better tools, at least if you compare to reiserfs. I'm not including the new reiserfs because I simply don't know if the tools are better. ext4 seems to be a jump up from ext3 and better too for data recovery. xfs doesn't like power loss very well.

I previously used reiserfs too, but then switched to jfs as it's better suited for very large filesystems.

xfs is very good too (even faster than jfs), but it's much more resource hungry (memory and cpu load) than jfs and as you say it really doesn't like power losses, which would be a major issue for me as I cannot exclude those.

I've not lost any data with ext3 ever (or even reiserfs for that matter before I switched). I haven't with ext4 yet either even including the problem I experienced recently. But that's not to say that I won't or ever will and won't claim that either despite me being so lucky so far. Red Hat uses ext3 because it's stable and rock-solid. I expect the same with ext4 too since it's a continuation of ext2/ext3.

There is nothing wrong with ext3 with regards to stability, it's just the performance that's not as good, but it becomes only very noticeable on larger filesystems especially when they contain large files (video files, iso images etc).

Try doing a full fsck of a 1TB ext3 filesystem or deleting 100 files of 5GB each on a ext3 and you will agree with me...

These tasks are a matter of seconds on JFS.

I'm also investigating jfs a bit more, as it seems quite interesting an alternative perhaps albeit unavailable during install for Red Hat/CentOS. But, I've been using ext3 for years, so doubt I'll switch since I'm used to it, and it's stable and never given me any problems.

As long as you don't notice any issues with ext3, stick with it, it's rock solid and fine up to 20-50GB filesystems. But for anything larger you will notice it's slowness eventually.

I'm still using ext3 on smaller filesystems occasionally, but recently I tend to use JFS for everything apart from removable flash media (for compatibility).

My comparison was primarily between ext4 and jfs. Even if ext4 might beat jfs in some benchmarks, it's unproven stability (by which I mean years of absence of data corruption experiences by anyone on the net) make it unsuitable for me for storing valuable data (backups don't help when you only notice the data corruption after you have already been backing up the corrupted data and don't have older backup copies anymore...).