On Sun, 18 May 2008 22:03:26 -0400, stef wrote:

I'm curious. Given that most of the init scripts, etc., that come with
Mandriva are designed to run under bash, why have you chosen to use zsh?

Regards, Dave Hodgins

stef wrote:

On Mon, 19 May 2008 02:03:26 GMT, stef wrote:

No, alias edt=$EDITOR would be the way to alias edt to run whatever is
in $EDITOR

Hi, Mandriva 2008.1 free DVD clean install. During install I set
clock to local time and not GMT as always, but after booting I
regularly find my clock is 10 hours fast. My local time is Brisbane,
Australia which is 10 hours ahead of GMT. I have reset time details in
MCC but problem persists. I notice this message in:
/var/log/prcsys.log

Starting rpc.mountd
[ OK ]
Starting HAL daemon:
[ OK ]
Syncing time for ntpd: Error : Temporary failure in name resolution
Error : Temporary failure in name resolution
Error : Temporary failure in name resolution (REPEATED 12 TIMES)

(Added: Mandriva 2008.0, all updates)
As a training exercise, I was trying to install the latest version of
the Gnome Tool Kit (GTK+) from the latest sources:
pkg-config-0.23, glib-2.16.3, pango-1.20.2, gtk+-2.12.9
following the recommended procedure in the GTK documentation.
However, "Make" exited with an error when making Pango; the last few
lines of output are
creating libharfbuzz-1.la
(cd .libs && rm -f libharfbuzz-1.la && ln -s ../libharfbuzz-1.la
libharfbuzz-1.la)
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I . -I
/local/opt/gtk/include -g -O2 -Wall -MT harfbuzz-dump.o -MD -MP -MF
.deps/harfbuzz-dump.Tpo -c -o harfbuzz-dump.o harfbuzz-dump.c
mv -f .deps/harfbuzz-dump.Tpo .deps/harfbuzz-dump.Po
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I . -I
/local/opt/gtk/include -g -O2 -Wall -MT harfbuzz-dump-main.o -MD -MP
-MF .deps/harfbuzz-dump-main.Tpo -c -o harfbuzz-dump-main.o
harfbuzz-dump-main.c
mv -f .deps/harfbuzz-dump-main.Tpo .deps/harfbuzz-dump-main.Po
/bin/sh ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -g -O2 -Wall -L ...

As a training exercise, I was trying to install the latest version of
the Gnome Tool Kit (GTK+) from the latest sources:
pkg-config-0.23, glib-2.16.3, pango-1.20.2, gtk+-2.12.9
following the recommended procedure in the GTK documentation.
However, "Make" exited with an error when making Pango; the last few
lines of output are
creating libharfbuzz-1.la
(cd .libs && rm -f libharfbuzz-1.la && ln -s ../libharfbuzz-1.la
libharfbuzz-1.la)
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I . -I
/local/opt/gtk/include -g -O2 -Wall -MT harfbuzz-dump.o -MD -MP -MF
.deps/harfbuzz-dump.Tpo -c -o harfbuzz-dump.o harfbuzz-dump.c
mv -f .deps/harfbuzz-dump.Tpo .deps/harfbuzz-dump.Po
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I . -I
/local/opt/gtk/include -g -O2 -Wall -MT harfbuzz-dump-main.o -MD -MP
-MF .deps/harfbuzz-dump-main.Tpo -c -o harfbuzz-dump-main.o
harfbuzz-dump-main.c
mv -f .deps/harfbuzz-dump-main.Tpo .deps/harfbuzz-dump-main.Po
/bin/sh ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -g -O2 -Wall -L
/local/opt/gtk/lib -o harfbuzz-dump harfbuzz-dump.o harfbuzz-dump-main.o ...

Have a brand new 2008.1 free system installed and updated sadly the
permission problem persists. See previous post, I retried the suggestions
offered there to no avail.

I still get the message

"Unable to open device file "/dev/lp0": Permission denied"

ls -l /dev/lp0
crw------- 1 root root 6, 0 2008-05-18 21:24 /dev/lp0

I have trawled the web but unable to come up with a conclusive answer.
Is this a bug, is any one else having the same problem?

Any help much appreciated

Regards peta

In 2008.0, console-kit-daemon was started by the service script in
/etc/rc.d/init.d/consolekit.

In 2008.1, there is no such file, yet the daemon is being started.
Took me a while to figure out, how it's being started. Looks like
it's being started by dbus (aka /etc/rc.d/init.d/messagebus), at
some point, based on the entry in /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/

I suspect the applications specified in that directory, are only
started when another application tries to use dbus to communicate
with the process, as not all of the applications in that directory
are being started.

I really wish stuff like this would be clearly documented, in an
easy to find location.

Does anyone know where this is documented?

Regards, Dave Hodgins

The ~15 partition limit on /dev/sda bites.
I have no desire to patch as a solution since I only want to run
supported packages.

Just finished up trying to run Logical Volume Manager to solve the
partition problem. Found out lilo will not let me add/use a second LVM
stanza. Bug report submitted to Mandriva.

System did not come with Micro$not OEM disk, so the VM I install
needs to allow me to still dual boot. Now that I have 2008-1 good enough
as my production boot. I am ready to try a Virtual Machine (VM).

Played with Vmware Player. It does allow me run other distributions
but I would need the vmware tools to create a virtual install package.

Since I am without income, VM has to be pretty cheap, (read free).

Running a AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+ with a gig of memory.

Looking for some suggestions from someone running a VM on Mandriva.

I uninstalled ClamAV, but with both my and my wife's Windows XP
installations having problems, I put it back. It found a heap of "broken
executables." I Googled for what they meant.

According to the ClamAV forum, it doesn't mean a thing. It means that
ClamAV put the file in the "too hard" basket. They recommend to turn that
warning off.

ClamAV also found an old Trojan that CA Antivirus didn't. I am wondering
whether ClamAV has any value at all. They use Kaspersky's database to
describe viruses.

Doug.