crispus

Pan works fine in KDE too.

Ok I tried that and then attempted to print a test page. This is the output of completed jobs:

HPDeskjedt932-37

Test Page

26k

aborted

The output is aborted. No idea why.

-Crispus

additional info:

I've also tried rolling back the cups version to the ones on the MDK 10.1 OE disk but the problem still persists. I can print from the CLI using the lpr command and I can print from text programs like pan and any editor but not from firefox, thunderbird, or openoffice.

The only file I can't figure out how to roll back is the libcups2 file (it asks to remove too many things) to make it match the cups, and cups-common version.

After updating my sources I recently ran Mandrake update under MCC and one of the packages that was updated was CUPS to cups-1.1.21-0.rc1.7mdk.i586.rpm.

However, since then I can no longer print from my web browser (firefox) or OpenOffice. I was able to print from a text editor. I use an HP deskjet 932c via a USB connection.

The print jobs are showing up in the queue (CUPS job control) but show as aborted. All status checks of the printer show as working.

Is this a known problem? Can I just roll back the CUPS version by removing the package in MCC and reinstalling the version from the 10.1 OE disks? Will the newer version from cooker give me grief?

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Regards,

Crispus

The easiest way would be to get a livecd like knoppix or kanotix and copy the linux files over to your new hard drive after partitioning and formating the new drive in mdk. There's a lot of steps involved. You'll need to edit the fstab and lilo.conf files on the new drive to correspond to their new position on a new drive and run lilo in a chroot environment from the livecd to rewrite lilo to the mbr from your new hard drive linux install.

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Thanks for the reply. I was thinking to maybe erase everything on the 40g and use it as a secondary(slave) and do a clean install on both OS. Windows first on the 60g then run Mandrake and set "grub" on the master. Both drives bootable. I understand that "grub" will see the second drive. Would that sort of thing work?

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That what I would do. Actually, I did do that with 2x 120 GB Western Digitals. Install whatever drive you want to be the master and install Windows. Install the 2nd HD and make sure windows can see it. Before you erase it, copy over any files you want to keep. Then use XP to reformat and partition the 2nd HD (if you want separate partitions). I used XP to create a 32 MB FAT32 partition on the second drive, a 40 MB NTFS partition and then left the rest unformatted.

When I went to install Mandrake 10.1 it asked where to install and I pointed it to the unused space on the 2nd drive.

All works very well I use the 32MB FAT32 to share files and profiles between the 2 OS's.

Regards,

Crispus

Someone correct me if I am wrong but I would avoid the .35 version of SuperKaramba for 10.1 CE. I would instead use the .34 version. The .34 version is available as an rpm for 10.1 CE and 10.1 OE (at least on the mirror I use, mirrors.secsup.org under contrib).

there is a .35 rpm available under cooker but I think it uses the new perl libraries which are not backward compatible.

I've had no major problems with .34 on 10.1 OE. It hiccups a few times but generally does what I want it to do (liquid weather and a self-created system monitor).

Regards,

Crispus

Oops yes, I was going by memory as I putting this in from work.

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No responses but I think I fixed it. It turns out it was the superkaramba theme I was running. I modified it to increase or delete some of the interval settings (such as for HDD space monitoring) and it reduced the CPU usage. The theme I was running under the other account did not have these settings.

Regards,

Crispus

Oops yes, I was going by memory as I putting this in from work.

Hi,

not sure under what topic to post this but here goes...

I am running 10.1 OE. I have 3 user accounts. One for me, one for my wife and one used as a test bed for settings, software etc.

I am running kernel 2.3.8.12 with KDE 3.2.

I noticed that when I log into my account the CPU usage hovers around 28%. I run 'top' in console and 99% of the 28% is associated with X.

However, if I log into my wife's account only about 4% of CPU usage is quoted, most of which is associated with X.

The test bed account repeats the behavior of my account, 28% CPU usage with no programs running.

The only program that all accounts run at starts up is superkaramba with the same systems monitor theme, but 'top' does not indicate that this is taking up much resources, only X on 2 of the accounts.

I have no idea where to begin looking to explain this and fix it. I suspect it is something that is preloading in KDE for 2 of the accounts but not sure what. Is there anyplace I can get a list of what is being run by X? Is there a log file I can reference?

Any help is appreciated and let me know if there is any data I could post that would help.

Regards,

Crispus

See this thread:

http://mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=20710

Basically, you installed something from cooker that updated perl. My understanding is that the perl release for cooker is no longer backword compatible with mandrake 10.0 or 10.1.

I had to do a reinstall but the solution from the above thread may work.

Regards,

Crispus

Glad everything worked out and glad to help. I've been leaching of the linux community for some time now so glad to finally lend a hand myself. B) .

As for the prefs.js vs user. js I have no insight except that prefs.js can get overwritten if the program is running and it's a good way to keep track of your tweaks by having a separate file. Many of the tweaks that you set via user.js can also be set in prefs.js by typing about:config in the URL line of firefox. I've also noticed that you can duplicate some of the extensions found on the mozilla site by adding code to your user.js file.

FYI, this idea also works with thunderbird.

http://texturizer.net/thunderbird/share_mail.html

Using the same setup but with a bit more legwork I can share email profiles between XP and Linux.

Regards,

Crispus

I do this as well with great success. My only recommendation would be to get everything setup with WinXP first.

I have 2 120GB HDs. I installed the first HD and then setup WinXP exclusively on the first HD.

I then installed a second HD. I used WinXP to recognize it, then partition and format it. I split the 2nd HD into 3 partitions. 1 32MB FAT32 to be used to share between the OSs, 1 40 MB NTFS partition to store WinXP backup data and images, and I left the rest of the drive unformatted.

Then when I went to install Mandrake I asked it to install it to the unused portion of the second HD. Worked without any major hiccups.

I can then use the FAT32 partiion to share bookmarks, mail profiles (for firefox and thunderbird), data, wallpaper images, etc. between the 2 OSs

Regards,

Crispus

If I understand what you are asking this is a relatively easy thing to do.

I currently share bookmarks between my Mandrake 10.1 using Firefox and WinXP using Firefox on the same machine.

I have 2 HD. 1st HD has WinXP on 1 partition. 2nd HD has Mandrake 10.1, a separate FAT32 partition and a separate NTFS partition.

as per this link:

http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/tips#beh_bookmarks

create a user.js text file to contain the following:

// Specify which bookmarks file to use:

user_pref("browser.bookmarks.file", "C:\\Path To Netscape Profile\\bookmarks.html");

the above is what it would look like under your firefox profile in WinXP (located in a hidden directory under Documents and Settings/User/).

Also put the same file but change the path to match linux vernacular in your ~/.mozilla/firefox/xxx.default directory.

On my box I have a separate FAT32 partition (D drive for windows, /mnt/shared for linux).

Under WinXP: user_pref("browser.bookmarks.file", "D:\\User\\shared_files\\bookmarks.html");

Under Mandrake: user_pref("browser.bookmarks.file", "/mnt/shared/User/shared_files/bookmarks.html");

this setup works flawlessly for me. Bookmarks changed, added or deleted when booted in WinXP are automatically picked up when booting into linux.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Crispus

Is there any way to limit the size of the log files? Is there an option in MCC to limit the syslog and message log to only a couple of days. I've noticed that both of these log files are over a gig and have about 10 days worth of logs which coincides with when I upgraded from 10.1 CE to OE.

Just a note that this thread can be closed.

I did a fresh install of MDK 10.1 CE and then upgraded to official. All is working fine.

Yes, I have home partition. I think i'll be venturing into the reinstall territory. Right after I make a little note to myself.

Thanks for the quick replies. Unfortunately, all of those pathways are fubar. Borked is right. It looks like I need a less elegant way to remove perl and/or urpm.

-Crispuus

Ok, I made a big mistake. I am using Mandrake 10.0 official. I had set

up some cooker mirrors a couple of days ago to install superkaramba and

amarok.

I forgot to disable them when I attempted to update urpmi itself with:

urpmi urpmi

It failed and I now get an error that looks like this:

Can't locate URPM.pm in @INC (@INC contains:

/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6

/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6

/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux

/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5

/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.2

/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.1 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at

/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/urpm.pm line 17. BEGIN

failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/urpm.pm

line 17. Compilation failed in require at /usr/sbin/urpmi line 22. BEGIN

failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/urpmi line 22.

This looks pretty bad to me. Of course I now can't use urpmi to reinstall

a working version and the Mandrake package updater (rpmdrake) also no longer works.

I also cannot get harddrake or configure my computer to work. Harddrake also fails on boot.

I tried doing an upgrade install from my 10.0 official discs but that didn't fix anything.

Is there I way I can reinstall urpmi from the CDs using an rpm package? or

download an rpm from somewhere?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Crispus (with egg on his face)

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I found that the linux-509.tar.gz file is missing some pieces and that when you run the install script, it doesn't put everything where it is supposed to go.

Look for linux-506.tar.gz and all will be well.

I did this just last night.

Regards,

Crispus

Does anyone know how I can point both my Windows version of Firefox and my Linux version of Firefox to point to the same bookmarks file?

I have a FAT32 partition that I use to share data between my two OSs. Importing the bookmark file from that source does not mean that the browser used that file to manage bookmarks.

Any help is appreciated.

Crispus

Are there any differences, except for the appropriate conf file, if I am using GRUB?

I am having the same problem and have pretty much identical hardware to this thread. My freezes are random. During boot, during logon, after logon, and the time after logon before freeze is not consistent. I frozen with multiple apps open, and with none or one open.

I ran FC2 on the same box without any problems. I don't have enough linux experience to start playing with the vid drivers and such but don't want to abandon the distro because I really like it.

System:

Asus A7N8X-Deluxe

Athlon 2800

1024 DDR RAM

MSI V9560 GFX-5600

2x WD 120 GB

(Mandrake installed on 2nd HD on 40GB partition)

No USB devices installed (haven't got that far)

Boot is slow on eth0 (not active, eth1 is) and hde (which I believe is the RAID) but otherwise reconciles.

Regards,

Andrew

You need to take the following steps:

 

1. Access a file called /etc/lilo.conf

2. Find the section in there relevant to your boot image (usually called label=linux)

3. Find the append="" line in that section.

4. Add the following lines with spaces between them and other items:

 

noapic nolapic

 

Also, edit the text inline that says apci=ht to say acpi=on

 

That should do the trick.

 

5. Run lilo -v from the command line to update the boot record, and you are done. Reboot, and it will stop locking up.

 

Here is my lilo.conf for you to compare to yours.

 

    quote:

    image=/boot/vmlinuz-i686-up-4GB

    label="linux-i686-up-4GB"

    root=/dev/hde5

    initrd=/boot/initrd-i686-up-4GB.img

    append="noapic nolapic hdg=none devfs=mount acpi=on splash=silent"

    read-only

 

Try that and tell us how it worked.

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