eroica

November 5, 2006

hello,

i've just finished installing mandriva 2007 and went to look for kaffeine to install in MCC but got nothing back on search. I've added all the repo's as usual and did all updates no problem.I can do a urpmq from cli and get back kaffeine as a result. Anybody figured out how to get a listing of all installable packages like u could w/2006 in Control Center?

September 27, 2006

hello,

i've been trying to add my printer which is atached on winxp w/samba. The print wizard see's the printer a hp-750 and when i select ok the process fails w/cryptic "Failed to configure printer". I've tried several times and always the same result. I tried loooking thru the cups error log but could not see anything. I dont even know if problem is w/cups or mandriva. I updated to 1.2.1-4.mdk2006.0.mde but that hasnt helped. i attached the error log if someone has suggestions on how to troubleshoot this would be much appreciated.thanx

ps- sorry about the size of error_log but i turned on diagnose mode in cups and this is what i get...

error_log.txt

September 13, 2006

just for record adding rpmdrake package back solved problem.thanx everyone for responses...

September 12, 2006

yeah youre right here is cd line:/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0

I feel like i keep being sent to the principal's office the way u keep moving my post's since I did mod |:)

September 12, 2006

yeah i did. but silly me went and updated kernel (2.6.17) & hal from mde repo and problem started again and killing kde service does not work in solving problem anymore. I'm not at my laptop now to check fstab so i'll get back to you.

September 12, 2006

/usr/bin/hal-device-manager is the program i'm refering to. i believe it is derived from gnome but i've used it for awhile under kde 3.4.1. i'm sorry but how does one tell if dvd is using supermount. i know mdv 2006 changed out of the fstab file to udev i believe or something like that in the udev.d directory??

September 11, 2006

hello,

i'm getting constant activity on my cd/dvd laptop player and see in Device manager that the value "storage.media_check_enabled" is set to true. I want to toggle to false in hopes it will kill activity light. I tried this custom.fdi file:

?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<merge key="storage.media_check_enabled" type="bool">false</merge>

</match>

</device>

</deviceinfo>

but alas on reboot key is still true. I have put this file in /usr/share/hal/fdi/95userpolicy. Any ideas on how to toggle this value.

thanx...

September 11, 2006

hello,

problem here is since i upgraded kernel to 2.6.17 & hal to 0.5.7-12.mdk2006.0.mde on bootup my Intersil Prism2 mini-pci wireless card running Mandriva 2006 on Toshiba Satellite 1410 is recognized only about 1/2 the time. The other half I see that it refers to my wireless card as eth1 instead of eth0 and says cant find ant config file for device.I see a listing for pcmciautils-007-4mdk. Is this an update to pcmcia-cs that might solve my problem? The reason i say this is in /messages log i see this entry:

localhost kernel: pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0
Sep  3 17:24:40 localhost kernel: pcmcia: Detected deprecated PCMCIA ioctl usage from process: cardmgr.
Sep  3 17:24:40 localhost kernel: pcmcia: This interface will soon be removed from the kernel; please expect breakage unless you upgrade to new tools.
Sep  3 17:24:40 localhost kernel: pcmcia: see [url=http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/pcmcia.html]http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kern...cia/pcmcia.html[/url] for details.
Sep  3 17:24:40 localhost kernel: cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcff: clean.
Sep  3 17:24:40 localhost last message repeated 2 times
Sep  3 17:24:40 localhost kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x4ff: excluding 0x378-0x37f 0x408-0x40f 0x480-0x48f 0x4d0-0x4d7
Sep  3 17:24:40 localhost last message repeated 2 times
Sep  3 17:24:40 localhost kernel: cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
Sep  3 17:24:40 localhost last message repeated 2 times
Sep  3 17:24:40 localhost kernel: cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
Sep  3 17:24:40 localhost kernel: pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0
Sep  3 17:24:40 localhost kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Sep  3 17:24:40 localhost kernel: FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Sep  3 17:24:40 localhost kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 17
Sep  3 17:24:40 localhost kernel: eth0: New link status: Disconnected (0002)
Sep  3 17:24:40 localhost kernel: eth0: New link status: Connected (0001)

It says interface will be removed unless upgrade to new tools

See also boot log:

Sep  2 18:17:30 localhost network: Shutting down interface eth1:  succeeded
Sep  2 18:17:31 localhost network: Shutting down loopback interface:  succeeded
Sep  2 18:17:31 localhost network: Disabling IPv4 packet forwarding:  succeeded
Sep  2 18:17:31 localhost network: Setting network parameters:  succeeded
Sep  2 18:17:31 localhost network: Bringing up loopback interface:  succeeded
Sep  2 18:17:31 localhost ifup: /bin/true
Sep  2 18:17:31 localhost ifup: e100 device eth0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.
Sep  2 18:17:32 localhost network: Bringing up interface eth0:  failed
Sep  2 18:17:32 localhost network: Bringing up interface eth1:  succeeded
Sep  2 18:17:32 localhost network: Bringing up interface sit0:  succeeded
Sep  2 18:27:23 localhost network: Shutting down interface eth1:  succeeded
Sep  2 18:27:23 localhost network: Shutting down loopback interface:  succeeded
Sep  2 18:27:23 localhost network: Setting network parameters:  succeeded
Sep  2 18:27:23 localhost network: Bringing up loopback interface:  succeeded
Sep  2 18:27:24 localhost ifup: /bin/true
Sep  2 18:27:24 localhost ifup: e100 device eth0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.
Sep  2 18:27:24 localhost network: Bringing up interface eth0:  failed
Sep  2 18:27:24 localhost network: Bringing up interface eth1:  succeeded
Sep  2 18:27:24 localhost network: Bringing up interface sit0:  succeeded

why does it refer to e100 driver for wireless eth0 interface?

Any other suggestions welcome ...thanx

September 3, 2006

# rpmdrake

can not find function c::bind_textdomain_codeset

c::AUTOLOAD() called from /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7/rpmdrake.pm:91

(eval)() called from /usr/sbin/rpmdrake:50

main::BEGIN() called from /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7/rpmdrake.pm:0

(eval)() called from /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7/rpmdrake.pm:0

Compilation failed in require at /usr/sbin/rpmdrake line 50.

BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/rpmdrake line 50.

uname -r

2.6.17-1mdk

from the mde repo's.

a little backround. I was trying to update libdbus from mde repo and that was causing a cups error so I went to revert back to stock libdbus and it removed a whole bunch of packages that i thought would be reinstalled when i reinstalled stock libdbus. that's when MCC disappeared altogether. I've been able to reinstall most of drakx but not software. I assume i must have some kind of mismatch between mde packages & stock mdk packages....

September 3, 2006

hi,

i've hosed my setup tryiing to upgrade kernel. now i cant use the software module in MCC. i tried urpmi.removemedia -a and readded repo's but still when i click on anything in software it exits w/o screen appearing. I have the mde drakconf module installed. any idea's howto get Software working again w/o reinstall???

thanx

April 25, 2006

when i do a urpmq kernel i get a whole bunch of 2.4 kernels available(enterprise,secure etc). which do i choose. i dont get any choice of a 2.6 kernel. Also in reading it seems that all that is changed is a new vmlinuz & image file. is that correct? Also I tried running newer mdv version w/fluxbox & icewm. but i just didnt like that wm's. I'd rather stick w/kde 3.1. I just thought from a security perspective it might be wise to do an upgrade. But how much woch would i be gaining going from 2.4.22-10mdk to 2.4.22.41mdk? That's the one i would assume i would update to...

April 25, 2006

hello,

I have an old machine running mdk 9.2 w/kernel 2.4.22-10mdk. Upgrading to newer mandriva is out of the question because of hardware constarints. How difficult would it be to upgrade the kernel via urpmi. Has anyone upgraded like this b4. How did it go,what pitfalls etc. Are there any good guides to doing this.Would it be worth while?

thanx,

alan

April 25, 2006

yeah i had pretty much done as u suggested. I thoght maybe urpmi had a better way to regress back to a previous version. the man page didnt specify anything but there are many undocumented switches so i thought there might be a one step command. that's all....

April 24, 2006

hello,

i had a quick ?. tried last night to update mandi daemon and did not go well. Is there a better way way then removing updated packages and then removing the repository where I got the rpm(SoS) and then updating repositories w/official mandriva site again. I guess what i'm saying is there a command to revert back to an older package that you've discovered does not work...

alan

April 6, 2006

thanx. i got kde back up. now what order and what files shoud i start doing. or is it pretty much potluck

April 6, 2006

note i deleted all files in ~/.kde/share/apps/session thinking that might be holding it up. now i get 100% and screen says "kde is up and running"unfortunetly screen freezes there..

April 6, 2006

hello,

hosed kde 3.4.2 by trying to install the big menu improvement from kde-look. once i changed the kickerrc program and did a killall sigup kickerrc i lost the my customized panel settings. So i decided to restart kde w/some apps open.now when i restart kde i get stuck @ point of"Restoing session" 83%. i have booted to a prompt and restored the original kickerrc file but still when i start kde it hangs on restoring session. any suggestions on how i can unhose my install. I'm using mandriva 2006.thanx...

alan

March 1, 2006

hello,

i've installed winetools and want to install arial fonts etc. however i'm behind a proxy. is there a way to add proxy info to winetools?

February 23, 2006

ok i will try that w/my '06 install. w/the 9.2 box i installed the rpm from sourceforge dated 031005 and i can run notepad etc ok. i downloaded and installed winetools 2.1.2(site said good foe wine b4 200506). I deleted drive_c from my ~ directory but all i get when launching wt2 is this @ command:

$ /usr/local/bin/./wt2

Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server

Xlib: No protocol specified

/usr/local/winetools/Xdialog: Error initializing the GUI...

Do you run under X11 with GTK+ v1.2.0+ installed ?

LD_PRELOAD=

found gettext in /usr/local/winetools