From David.Thomas at noaa.gov  Mon Dec  1 05:01:47 2008
From: David.Thomas at noaa.gov (David Thomas)
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:01:47 -0500
Subject: [cAos] cAos Digest, Vol 20, Issue 1
In-Reply-To: <mailman.1.1228132802.19674.caos@caoslinux.org>
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> Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:15:08 +0100
> From: "E. Aarts" <eca.ict at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [cAos] MCRYPT
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> Hello Greg,
>
> With your instructions "it was a piece of cake"
>
> The remark in phpMyAdmin that MCRYPT is not available is gone and PHP 
> info is showing very nice that MCRYPT is available.
>
> Thanks for the super service!
>
> Regards,
> Egbert Aarts
>
>
>
> Greg Kurtzer wrote:
>   
>> Egbert,
>>
>> OK, we have php-mcrypt integrated in Caos NSA 1 which is currently in
>> our testing repositories. Please do the following to test:
>>
>> # sidekick
>>    Navigate to: Packages -> Repositories -> select "nsa-testing"
>> # smart upgrade php*
>> # smart install php-mcrypt
>> # /etc/init.d/httpd restart
>>
>> Please test and let us know if that resolves your question and how
>> Caos NSA is working out for you.
>>
>> Warm regards,
>>
>> Greg
>>   
>>     
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From eca.ict at gmail.com  Mon Dec  1 10:57:56 2008
From: eca.ict at gmail.com (Egbert Aarts)
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:57:56 +0100
Subject: [cAos] CHMOD Files and Folders
Message-ID: <493433B4.6070801@gmail.com>

Hello,

I tried to figure it out but no luck. I am used to set permissions on 
files and folders (read, write, execute) but in the file manager Thunar 
I am missing execute. Do I mis something or can I check and adjust it 
another way.


Egbert






From eca.ict at gmail.com  Mon Dec  1 11:12:15 2008
From: eca.ict at gmail.com (Egbert Aarts)
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:12:15 +0100
Subject: [cAos] Highlight selection in Sidekick
Message-ID: <4934370F.3010309@gmail.com>

In a menu selection with only one option, the option is automatically 
highlighted.
I don't know if it is only me but I find it very difficult to read the text.
Is it possible to make an adjustment in font or highlight color?


Egbert


From gmkurtzer at gmail.com  Mon Dec  1 11:59:45 2008
From: gmkurtzer at gmail.com (Greg Kurtzer)
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 11:59:45 -0800
Subject: [cAos] CHMOD Files and Folders
In-Reply-To: <493433B4.6070801@gmail.com>
References: <493433B4.6070801@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <571f1a060812011159q5df1140bm9c82fa8d0c6d7ffa@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,

Yes, I agree. This is a little hidden, but Thunar has a button at the
bottom of the Properties/Permission page which says: "Allow this file
to run as a program". Selecting that checkbox will enable the execute
bit.

Otherwise, this can always be done by falling back to the command line:

$ ls -l file
-rw-r--r--  1 gmk users 0 Dec  1 11:44 file
$ chmod +x file
$ ls -l file
-rwxr-xr-x  1 gmk users 0 Dec  1 11:44 file

Regards,

Greg

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Egbert Aarts <eca.ict at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I tried to figure it out but no luck. I am used to set permissions on
> files and folders (read, write, execute) but in the file manager Thunar
> I am missing execute. Do I mis something or can I check and adjust it
> another way.
>
>
> Egbert
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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http://www.caoslinux.org/


From gmkurtzer at gmail.com  Mon Dec  1 23:53:30 2008
From: gmkurtzer at gmail.com (Greg Kurtzer)
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 23:53:30 -0800
Subject: [cAos] Highlight selection in Sidekick
In-Reply-To: <4934370F.3010309@gmail.com>
References: <4934370F.3010309@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <571f1a060812012353y3d8b630eg39b76adccbe70671@mail.gmail.com>

Egbert,

We just posted sidekick-1.3.114-1.caos which should be better. It is
available in our nsa-testing repository. Please test it with the
following command:

# smart update
# smart upgrade sidekick

Thank you and please let us know if this looks better.

Regards,

Greg


On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Egbert Aarts <eca.ict at gmail.com> wrote:
> In a menu selection with only one option, the option is automatically
> highlighted.
> I don't know if it is only me but I find it very difficult to read the text.
> Is it possible to make an adjustment in font or highlight color?
>
>
> Egbert
> _______________________________________________
> cAos mailing list
> cAos at caoslinux.org
> http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/caos
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http://www.perceus.org/
http://www.caoslinux.org/


From eca.ict at gmail.com  Tue Dec  2 03:57:18 2008
From: eca.ict at gmail.com (Egbert Aarts)
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:57:18 +0100
Subject: [cAos] Highlight selection in Sidekick
In-Reply-To: <571f1a060812012353y3d8b630eg39b76adccbe70671@mail.gmail.com>
References: <4934370F.3010309@gmail.com>
	<571f1a060812012353y3d8b630eg39b76adccbe70671@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4935229E.4060308@gmail.com>

Done!
Excellent Job!


Regards,
Egbert


Greg Kurtzer wrote:
> Egbert,
>
> We just posted sidekick-1.3.114-1.caos which should be better. It is
> available in our nsa-testing repository. Please test it with the
> following command:
>
> # smart update
> # smart upgrade sidekick
>
> Thank you and please let us know if this looks better.
>
> Regards,
>
> Greg
>   


From eca.ict at gmail.com  Tue Dec  2 04:30:30 2008
From: eca.ict at gmail.com (Egbert Aarts)
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:30:30 +0100
Subject: [cAos] CHMOD Files and Folders
In-Reply-To: <571f1a060812011159q5df1140bm9c82fa8d0c6d7ffa@mail.gmail.com>
References: <493433B4.6070801@gmail.com>
	<571f1a060812011159q5df1140bm9c82fa8d0c6d7ffa@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <49352A66.9030603@gmail.com>

Hello Greg,

I did some experimenting with it. I also found out that adding the 
Firefox Add-on FireFtp is great to CHMOD files and Directory's. What is 
missing in Thunar is available in this Add-on.  I am now experimenting 
on user level with the user and group egbert. I only have to change now 
the default permissions on egbert. If I copy files under de user egbert 
to the HTML directory all the files and folders get the permission 755. 
I want there 755 for the folders and 644 for all the other files.


Egbert



Greg Kurtzer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Yes, I agree. This is a little hidden, but Thunar has a button at the
> bottom of the Properties/Permission page which says: "Allow this file
> to run as a program". Selecting that checkbox will enable the execute
> bit.
>
> Otherwise, this can always be done by falling back to the command line:
>
> $ ls -l file
> -rw-r--r--  1 gmk users 0 Dec  1 11:44 file
> $ chmod +x file
> $ ls -l file
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 gmk users 0 Dec  1 11:44 file
>
> Regards,
>
> Greg
>   


From eca.ict at gmail.com  Thu Dec  4 12:29:04 2008
From: eca.ict at gmail.com (Egbert Aarts)
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:29:04 +0100
Subject: [cAos] CHMOD Files and Folders
Message-ID: <49383D90.9070301@gmail.com>

Hello,

I am still running into a little problem. If I create a new folder in 
the HTML directory as a user (not root) it wil get 755 (thats okay). 
When I create a html or php file with Mousepad and save it in the HTML 
directory it gets 644 (also fine).

But when I copy all the files from an CMS like Joomla! into the 
directory everything gets 755 and I want 755 for the folders and 644 for 
the files.


Regards,
Egbert Aarts


From gmkurtzer at gmail.com  Thu Dec  4 12:45:12 2008
From: gmkurtzer at gmail.com (Greg Kurtzer)
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 12:45:12 -0800
Subject: [cAos] CHMOD Files and Folders
In-Reply-To: <49383D90.9070301@gmail.com>
References: <49383D90.9070301@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <571f1a060812041245x9c6ac84x70bf8689b687fff6@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,

Can you give an example of the files before the copy (ls -l), after
the copy and the command your using to do the copy?

Thank you!

Greg


On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Egbert Aarts <eca.ict at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am still running into a little problem. If I create a new folder in
> the HTML directory as a user (not root) it wil get 755 (thats okay).
> When I create a html or php file with Mousepad and save it in the HTML
> directory it gets 644 (also fine).
>
> But when I copy all the files from an CMS like Joomla! into the
> directory everything gets 755 and I want 755 for the folders and 644 for
> the files.
>
>
> Regards,
> Egbert Aarts
> _______________________________________________
> cAos mailing list
> cAos at caoslinux.org
> http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/caos
>



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http://www.runlevelzero.net/
http://www.perceus.org/
http://www.caoslinux.org/


From eca.ict at gmail.com  Thu Dec  4 22:24:17 2008
From: eca.ict at gmail.com (Egbert Aarts)
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:24:17 +0100
Subject: [cAos] CHMOD Files and Folders
In-Reply-To: <571f1a060812041245x9c6ac84x70bf8689b687fff6@mail.gmail.com>
References: <49383D90.9070301@gmail.com>
	<571f1a060812041245x9c6ac84x70bf8689b687fff6@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4938C911.5020301@gmail.com>

Hello Greg,

I did not use the command line, I had all the Joomla files in the 
correct directory structure on an USB Stick. I copied everything after I 
was logged in as an regular user to the HTML directory. I checked now 
the permissions of the files and folders on the stick and they are all 
755. So when I copy the permissions don't change.

I also tried the following:
Zipped the whole pakkage and placed it in the HTML directory. Through 
the command line I unzipped it in the HTML directory. I get now 777 for 
the folders and 666 for the files.


Regards,
Egbert



Greg Kurtzer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Can you give an example of the files before the copy (ls -l), after
> the copy and the command your using to do the copy?
>
> Thank you!
>
> Greg
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Egbert Aarts <eca.ict at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am still running into a little problem. If I create a new folder in
>> the HTML directory as a user (not root) it wil get 755 (thats okay).
>> When I create a html or php file with Mousepad and save it in the HTML
>> directory it gets 644 (also fine).
>>
>> But when I copy all the files from an CMS like Joomla! into the
>> directory everything gets 755 and I want 755 for the folders and 644 for
>> the files.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Egbert Aarts
>> _______________________________________________
>> cAos mailing list
>> cAos at caoslinux.org
>> http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/caos
>>
>>     
>
>
>
>   

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From jhamelic at neo.rr.com  Fri Dec  5 03:37:35 2008
From: jhamelic at neo.rr.com (James J. Hamelic)
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:37:35 -0500
Subject: [cAos] CHMOD Files and Folders
In-Reply-To: <4938C911.5020301@gmail.com>
References: <49383D90.9070301@gmail.com>	<571f1a060812041245x9c6ac84x70bf8689b687fff6@mail.gmail.com>
	<4938C911.5020301@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4939127F.70301@neo.rr.com>

USB sitck!  What's the format on the stick?  If it's FAT, then it can't 
understand all the file permissions that Linux uses.  When you copied to 
the stick all the permissions probably got changed to 755 for all the files.

Unless you formatted the USB stick with ext2 or ext3 that's how it is.

Egbert Aarts wrote:
> Hello Greg,
>
> I did not use the command line, I had all the Joomla files in the 
> correct directory structure on an USB Stick. I copied everything after 
> I was logged in as an regular user to the HTML directory. I checked 
> now the permissions of the files and folders on the stick and they are 
> all 755. So when I copy the permissions don't change.
>
> I also tried the following:
> Zipped the whole pakkage and placed it in the HTML directory. Through 
> the command line I unzipped it in the HTML directory. I get now 777 
> for the folders and 666 for the files.
>
>
> Regards,
> Egbert
>
>
>
> Greg Kurtzer wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Can you give an example of the files before the copy (ls -l), after
>> the copy and the command your using to do the copy?
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> Greg
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Egbert Aarts <eca.ict at gmail.com> wrote:
>>   
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am still running into a little problem. If I create a new folder in
>>> the HTML directory as a user (not root) it wil get 755 (thats okay).
>>> When I create a html or php file with Mousepad and save it in the HTML
>>> directory it gets 644 (also fine).
>>>
>>> But when I copy all the files from an CMS like Joomla! into the
>>> directory everything gets 755 and I want 755 for the folders and 644 for
>>> the files.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Egbert Aarts
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> cAos mailing list
>>> cAos at caoslinux.org
>>> http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/caos
>>>
>>>     
>>
>>
>>
>>   
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From eca.ict at gmail.com  Fri Dec  5 07:19:32 2008
From: eca.ict at gmail.com (Egbert Aarts)
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:19:32 +0100
Subject: [cAos] CHMOD Files and Folders
In-Reply-To: <4939127F.70301@neo.rr.com>
References: <49383D90.9070301@gmail.com>	<571f1a060812041245x9c6ac84x70bf8689b687fff6@mail.gmail.com>	<4938C911.5020301@gmail.com>
	<4939127F.70301@neo.rr.com>
Message-ID: <49394684.5040306@gmail.com>

Thank you very much!
I did not formatted the stick but downloaded the Joomla! Package on the 
server and unzipped it in the HTML directory.
All permissions are now correct (755 and 644).


James J. Hamelic wrote:
> USB sitck!  What's the format on the stick?  If it's FAT, then it can't 
> understand all the file permissions that Linux uses.  When you copied to 
> the stick all the permissions probably got changed to 755 for all the files.
>
> Unless you formatted the USB stick with ext2 or ext3 that's how it is.
>   


From eca.ict at gmail.com  Mon Dec  8 02:51:07 2008
From: eca.ict at gmail.com (Egbert Aarts)
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 11:51:07 +0100
Subject: [cAos] Setting Screen resolution
Message-ID: <493CFC1B.2060307@gmail.com>

The screen resolution of my test server is not stable. I want permanent 
1280x1024. A lot of times the resolution is lower after boot. How to set 
to permanent 1280x1024.


Egbert


From gmkurtzer at gmail.com  Mon Dec  8 13:53:36 2008
From: gmkurtzer at gmail.com (Greg Kurtzer)
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 13:53:36 -0800
Subject: [cAos] Setting Screen resolution
In-Reply-To: <493CFC1B.2060307@gmail.com>
References: <493CFC1B.2060307@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <571f1a060812081353w7a9c25abk96efa83897956d0c@mail.gmail.com>

Hello Egbert,

Try to use sidekick to generate a X configuration file:

# sidekick -> Base System -> X Configuration

Other then that, I am concerned that it is switching. Sounds like
something is not working just right. Does it happen on a hard power,
or just soft resets/reboots?

Regards,

Greg


On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:51 AM, Egbert Aarts <eca.ict at gmail.com> wrote:
> The screen resolution of my test server is not stable. I want permanent
> 1280x1024. A lot of times the resolution is lower after boot. How to set
> to permanent 1280x1024.
>
>
> Egbert
> _______________________________________________
> cAos mailing list
> cAos at caoslinux.org
> http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/caos
>



-- 
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http://www.infiscale.com/
http://www.runlevelzero.net/
http://www.perceus.org/
http://www.caoslinux.org/


From caos at caosity.org  Mon Dec  8 16:13:42 2008
From: caos at caosity.org (VIAGRA ® Official Site)
Date: Mon,  8 Dec 2008 19:13:42 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [cAos] Dear (caos@caosity.org) December 84% OFF!
Message-ID: <20081209001342.E83EB25C9D3@mail.caoslinux.org>

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From eca.ict at gmail.com  Tue Dec  9 00:33:31 2008
From: eca.ict at gmail.com (Egbert Aarts)
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:33:31 +0100
Subject: [cAos] Setting Screen resolution
In-Reply-To: <571f1a060812081353w7a9c25abk96efa83897956d0c@mail.gmail.com>
References: <493CFC1B.2060307@gmail.com>
	<571f1a060812081353w7a9c25abk96efa83897956d0c@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <493E2D5B.2080706@gmail.com>

It happened only on hard power. A reset or reboot corrected it always.
I did what you told me to do and used sidekick to generate a new x 
configuration file.
Have to see what happens now, will know it in a couple of days.

Egbert


Greg Kurtzer wrote:
> Hello Egbert,
>
> Try to use sidekick to generate a X configuration file:
>
> # sidekick -> Base System -> X Configuration
>
> Other then that, I am concerned that it is switching. Sounds like
> something is not working just right. Does it happen on a hard power,
> or just soft resets/reboots?
>
> Regards,
>
> Greg
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:51 AM, Egbert Aarts <eca.ict at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> The screen resolution of my test server is not stable. I want permanent
>> 1280x1024. A lot of times the resolution is lower after boot. How to set
>> to permanent 1280x1024.
>>
>>
>> Egbert
>> _______________________________________________
>> cAos mailing list
>> cAos at caoslinux.org
>> http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/caos
>>
>>     
>
>
>
>   

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From stefan at mdy.univie.ac.at  Tue Dec  9 00:41:25 2008
From: stefan at mdy.univie.ac.at (Stefan Boresch)
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 09:41:25 +0100
Subject: [cAos] Setting Screen resolution
In-Reply-To: <571f1a060812081353w7a9c25abk96efa83897956d0c@mail.gmail.com>
References: <493CFC1B.2060307@gmail.com>
	<571f1a060812081353w7a9c25abk96efa83897956d0c@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20081209084125.GC15580@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at>

On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 01:53:36PM -0800, Greg Kurtzer wrote:
> 
> Other then that, I am concerned that it is switching. Sounds like
> something is not working just right. Does it happen on a hard power,
> or just soft resets/reboots?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Greg

Switching may not be a (serious) problem (annoying yes). Some reasons
for recent X problems I have seen here with Caos as well as other
(supposedly more end user friendly) Linuxes: (i) Do you have the
monitor *on* when you reboot or restart X for some reasons? The X
Server tries to negotiate with the monitor the "best" resolution. If
there is no monitor, it defaults to a mode it considers safe (which is
usually not the resolution you expect it to be). (ii) We have a set of
relatively old TFTs which should do 1280x1024 (and can do it fine if
told so). While the autonegotiation I just described works on 90% of
all monitors (TFT, CRT ..) we have, it fails on these. This is easily
fixed by "hardwiring" the resolution in the Xorg.conf file. (Note that
as Greg mentioned, Caos comes without Xorg.conf file ...)  (iii) The X
server (even the VESA server) doesn't understand your graphics card
(happened to me with the new Intel G45 chip set). Then you are
probably out of luck until you find a server that supports your
graphic card (in my case Greg sent me a src.rpm for a newer Intel
Server/driver, which works like a charmm).

Good luck,

Stefan

> 
> 
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:51 AM, Egbert Aarts <eca.ict at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The screen resolution of my test server is not stable. I want permanent
> > 1280x1024. A lot of times the resolution is lower after boot. How to set
> > to permanent 1280x1024.
> >
> >
> > Egbert
> > _______________________________________________
> > cAos mailing list
> > cAos at caoslinux.org
> > http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/caos
> >
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Greg Kurtzer
> http://www.infiscale.com/
> http://www.runlevelzero.net/
> http://www.perceus.org/
> http://www.caoslinux.org/
> _______________________________________________
> cAos mailing list
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> 

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University of Vienna, Waehringerstr. 17       A-1090 Vienna, Austria
Phone: -43-1-427752715                        Fax:   -43-1-427752790


From darr at ocean.washington.edu  Tue Dec  9 12:46:46 2008
From: darr at ocean.washington.edu (david darr)
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 12:46:46 -0800
Subject: [cAos] install problem
Message-ID: <6a8af7e80812091246u2923fe4dxa2e1315afa62cd69@mail.gmail.com>

I am trying to install caos on the head node of a new cluster.  I had
previously installed Centos 5 on it but have wanted to check out caos before
continuing much further. However, when I attempt to run anything (test,
autoinstall, demo) from the install disk I get "Disk Error 10, AX=4280,
drive EF" -- usually in the "Loading initrd.img" stage.

Any suggestions? -- thanks, David
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From hansvanderschaaf at hotmail.com  Tue Dec  9 13:29:44 2008
From: hansvanderschaaf at hotmail.com (Hans van der Schaaf)
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 22:29:44 +0100
Subject: [cAos] install problem
In-Reply-To: <6a8af7e80812091246u2923fe4dxa2e1315afa62cd69@mail.gmail.com>
References: <6a8af7e80812091246u2923fe4dxa2e1315afa62cd69@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi David,

  seems to me that you have a corrupt CD.
Maybe you should try to burn the CD again.
Or test the checksum of the downloaded caos image
and compare with the checksum on the site.
Don't bother trying the demo option because
that does not work at all (for me).

Greets 
Hans



Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 12:46:46 -0800
From: darr at ocean.washington.edu
To: caos at caoslinux.org
Subject: [cAos] install problem

I am trying to install caos on the head node of a new cluster.  I had previously installed Centos 5 on it but have wanted to check out caos before continuing much further. However, when I attempt to run anything (test, autoinstall, demo) from the install disk I get "Disk Error 10, AX=4280, drive EF" -- usually in the "Loading initrd.img" stage.


Any suggestions? -- thanks, David

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From darr at ocean.washington.edu  Tue Dec  9 13:43:22 2008
From: darr at ocean.washington.edu (david darr)
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 13:43:22 -0800
Subject: [cAos] install problem
In-Reply-To: <BLU137-W4F6A2227BE3E9830E6F18CFFA0@phx.gbl>
References: <6a8af7e80812091246u2923fe4dxa2e1315afa62cd69@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Hans van der Schaaf <
hansvanderschaaf at hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi David,
>
>   seems to me that you have a corrupt CD.
> Maybe you should try to burn the CD again.
> Or test the checksum of the downloaded caos image
> and compare with the checksum on the site.
> Don't bother trying the demo option because
> that does not work at all (for me).
>

Thanks Hans,

I don't think it is the CD as I did try burning it again.... and I just now
verified the md5sums for my download. So I think that pretty much rules that
out. My head node has two hard disks mirrored on a RAID controller and it
was suggested to me that that is possibly the problem. Does anyone know? I
haven't had that effect Linux installs in the past though.

thanks, David
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From mej at caoslinux.org  Tue Dec  9 17:01:18 2008
From: mej at caoslinux.org (Michael Jennings)
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 17:01:18 -0800
Subject: [cAos] install problem
In-Reply-To: <6a8af7e80812091343vb094180yba96ee7909f6dfd3@mail.gmail.com>
References: <6a8af7e80812091246u2923fe4dxa2e1315afa62cd69@mail.gmail.com>
	<BLU137-W4F6A2227BE3E9830E6F18CFFA0@phx.gbl>
	<6a8af7e80812091343vb094180yba96ee7909f6dfd3@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20081210010118.GD13451@kainx.org>

On Tuesday, 09 December 2008, at 13:43:22 (-0800),
david darr wrote:

> I don't think it is the CD as I did try burning it again.... and I
> just now verified the md5sums for my download. So I think that
> pretty much rules that out. My head node has two hard disks mirrored
> on a RAID controller and it was suggested to me that that is
> possibly the problem. Does anyone know? I haven't had that effect
> Linux installs in the past though.

If it happens at initrd load time, that's pre-disk and even
pre-kernel.

Have you run memtest86+ recently?  The disk image could be getting
corrupted due to bad RAM....  But a bad burn seems more likely to me.

Michael

-- 
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Linux Server/Cluster Admin, LBL.gov       Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org)
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  Crunch is waving farewell, when the Big One finds you, may this
  song remind you that they don't serve breakfast in Hell."
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From stefan at mdy.univie.ac.at  Wed Dec 10 01:08:49 2008
From: stefan at mdy.univie.ac.at (Stefan Boresch)
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:08:49 +0100
Subject: [cAos] Best way to add software not provided by caos
Message-ID: <20081210090849.GB18710@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at>


My setup relies heavily on autofs and nis(+), plus cfengine for
centralized management. There are no packages available for caos as far
as I can tell.

(+) No, I don't care to switch to LDAP ;-)

Another package we sort of miss is git.

On a play machine I have so far grabbed centos (v 4 or 5) src.rpms
and rebuilt them, adding as many build prerequisites as required (for
cfengine and git(*) I actually gave up and rebuilt from source directly).

(*) the executable(s) being trivial to build, but not the documentation ;-)

I'd just like to get feedback how other people handle this
situation. Should I stick to centos 4 or is 5.x better?  (5.x src.rpms
more frequently seem to have strange build requirements or fail to
build ...) Is there some "ancestry" where caos is derived from -- did
you guys start "from scratch" or did you, e.g., trim down some
RHEL/Fedora ...?

TIA,

Stefan

-- 
Stefan Boresch
Institute for Computational Biological Chemistry
University of Vienna, Waehringerstr. 17       A-1090 Vienna, Austria
Phone: -43-1-427752715                        Fax:   -43-1-427752790


From stefan at mdy.univie.ac.at  Wed Dec 10 01:13:58 2008
From: stefan at mdy.univie.ac.at (Stefan Boresch)
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:13:58 +0100
Subject: [cAos] rpcinfo
Message-ID: <20081210091358.GC18710@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at>

In connection with my previous post ...

Upon installing nis I noticed that there is no rpcinfo program installed.
Usually, this is packaged with glibc. Since because of this there is
no easy way to just rebuild this little executable, could it be included
in caos. While I need it primarily for debugging nis issues, it is a general
purpose utility to debug any service that relies on portmap, e.g., also NFS ...

Was there a specific reason to exclude it?

Alternatively, what would be a clean solution to add it ..?

Thanks,

Stefan

-- 
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Institute for Computational Biological Chemistry
University of Vienna, Waehringerstr. 17       A-1090 Vienna, Austria
Phone: -43-1-427752715                        Fax:   -43-1-427752790


From geoff at galitz.org  Wed Dec 10 01:20:29 2008
From: geoff at galitz.org (Geoff Galitz)
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:20:29 +0100
Subject: [cAos] Best way to add software not provided by caos
In-Reply-To: <20081210090849.GB18710@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at>
References: <20081210090849.GB18710@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at>
Message-ID: <3C62AB0F00354DE7A8A7EF5EF93D5DBB@geoffPC>



Where are you getting your Centos RPMs from?  If you are not doing so
already, you can get more generalized RPM packages from either RPMForge or
EPEL.  They may build more cleanly for you on alternate platforms.


https://rpmrepo.org/RPMforge
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL


Beware that you would be running packages that are not thoroughly tested in
the Caos environment by doing so.  They certainly are not built to be lean
and mean and may require an annoying number of requisite packages (some of
which you would probably need to build).  On the bright side they have a
large number of packages available and will add new ones at your request.


-geoff



Geoff Galitz
Blankenheim NRW, Deutschland
http://www.galitz.org

-----Original Message-----
From: caos-bounces at caoslinux.org [mailto:caos-bounces at caoslinux.org] On
Behalf Of Stefan Boresch
Sent: Mittwoch, 10. Dezember 2008 10:09
To: caos at caoslinux.org
Subject: [cAos] Best way to add software not provided by caos


My setup relies heavily on autofs and nis(+), plus cfengine for
centralized management. There are no packages available for caos as far
as I can tell.

(+) No, I don't care to switch to LDAP ;-)

Another package we sort of miss is git.

On a play machine I have so far grabbed centos (v 4 or 5) src.rpms
and rebuilt them, adding as many build prerequisites as required (for
cfengine and git(*) I actually gave up and rebuilt from source directly).

(*) the executable(s) being trivial to build, but not the documentation ;-)

I'd just like to get feedback how other people handle this
situation. Should I stick to centos 4 or is 5.x better?  (5.x src.rpms
more frequently seem to have strange build requirements or fail to
build ...) Is there some "ancestry" where caos is derived from -- did
you guys start "from scratch" or did you, e.g., trim down some
RHEL/Fedora ...?

TIA,

Stefan

-- 
Stefan Boresch
Institute for Computational Biological Chemistry
University of Vienna, Waehringerstr. 17       A-1090 Vienna, Austria
Phone: -43-1-427752715                        Fax:   -43-1-427752790
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From stefan at mdy.univie.ac.at  Wed Dec 10 01:29:46 2008
From: stefan at mdy.univie.ac.at (Stefan Boresch)
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:29:46 +0100
Subject: [cAos] Best way to add software not provided by caos
In-Reply-To: <3C62AB0F00354DE7A8A7EF5EF93D5DBB@geoffPC>
References: <20081210090849.GB18710@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at>
	<3C62AB0F00354DE7A8A7EF5EF93D5DBB@geoffPC>
Message-ID: <20081210092946.GE18710@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at>

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:20:29AM +0100, Geoff Galitz wrote:
> 
> 
> Where are you getting your Centos RPMs from?  If you are not doing so
> already, you can get more generalized RPM packages from either RPMForge or
> EPEL.  They may build more cleanly for you on alternate platforms.
> 
> 
> https://rpmrepo.org/RPMforge
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
> 

Thanks for the info -- no, my src.rpms so far have come directly from
the local centos repository

> Beware that you would be running packages that are not thoroughly tested in
> the Caos environment by doing so.  They certainly are not built to be lean
> and mean and may require an annoying number of requisite packages (some of
> which you would probably need to build).  On the bright side they have a
> large number of packages available and will add new ones at your request.

Understood!  Actually, I think the biggest drawback that I see with
any of these solutions is that I most likely will miss security
updates ...

Stefan

-- 
Stefan Boresch
Institute for Computational Biological Chemistry
University of Vienna, Waehringerstr. 17       A-1090 Vienna, Austria
Phone: -43-1-427752715                        Fax:   -43-1-427752790


From eca.ict at gmail.com  Wed Dec 10 02:15:40 2008
From: eca.ict at gmail.com (Egbert Aarts)
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:15:40 +0100
Subject: [cAos] Setting Screen resolution
In-Reply-To: <20081209084125.GC15580@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at>
References: <493CFC1B.2060307@gmail.com>	<571f1a060812081353w7a9c25abk96efa83897956d0c@mail.gmail.com>
	<20081209084125.GC15580@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at>
Message-ID: <493F96CC.5070608@gmail.com>

Hello Stefan,

Your remark "Do you have the monitor *on* when you reboot or restart X 
for some reasons?" made me think.

I realize now after testing for the last two days that the screen 
resolution gave me problems when I was starting the system while I was 
connected through my KVM Switch to another computer. Even setting the 
correct resolution with the sidekick administrator tool didn't work.

Up till now it seems to work when the computer communicates with the 
monitor while starting up. So I don't think in my case I have a problem 
with the chipset (945GC).


Regards,
Egbert




Stefan Boresch wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 01:53:36PM -0800, Greg Kurtzer wrote:
>   
>> Other then that, I am concerned that it is switching. Sounds like
>> something is not working just right. Does it happen on a hard power,
>> or just soft resets/reboots?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Greg
>>     
>
> Switching may not be a (serious) problem (annoying yes). Some reasons
> for recent X problems I have seen here with Caos as well as other
> (supposedly more end user friendly) Linuxes: (i) Do you have the
> monitor *on* when you reboot or restart X for some reasons? The X
> Server tries to negotiate with the monitor the "best" resolution. If
> there is no monitor, it defaults to a mode it considers safe (which is
> usually not the resolution you expect it to be). (ii) We have a set of
> relatively old TFTs which should do 1280x1024 (and can do it fine if
> told so). While the autonegotiation I just described works on 90% of
> all monitors (TFT, CRT ..) we have, it fails on these. This is easily
> fixed by "hardwiring" the resolution in the Xorg.conf file. (Note that
> as Greg mentioned, Caos comes without Xorg.conf file ...)  (iii) The X
> server (even the VESA server) doesn't understand your graphics card
> (happened to me with the new Intel G45 chip set). Then you are
> probably out of luck until you find a server that supports your
> graphic card (in my case Greg sent me a src.rpm for a newer Intel
> Server/driver, which works like a charmm).
>
> Good luck,
>
> Stefan
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From mej at caoslinux.org  Wed Dec 10 08:12:18 2008
From: mej at caoslinux.org (Michael Jennings)
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:12:18 -0800
Subject: [cAos] Setting Screen resolution
In-Reply-To: <493F96CC.5070608@gmail.com>
References: <493CFC1B.2060307@gmail.com>
	<571f1a060812081353w7a9c25abk96efa83897956d0c@mail.gmail.com>
	<20081209084125.GC15580@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at>
	<493F96CC.5070608@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20081210161218.GE15433@kainx.org>

On Wednesday, 10 December 2008, at 11:15:40 (+0100),
Egbert Aarts wrote:

> I realize now after testing for the last two days that the screen
> resolution gave me problems when I was starting the system while I
> was connected through my KVM Switch to another computer. Even
> setting the correct resolution with the sidekick administrator tool
> didn't work.
>
> Up till now it seems to work when the computer communicates with the
> monitor while starting up. So I don't think in my case I have a
> problem with the chipset (945GC).

KVM switches are known to interfere with DDC (communication with the
monitor).  I have encountered this before myself.  The best solution
is to connect the monitor to the system directly long enough to use
sidekick to generate your X configuration.  Then go back to connecting
through the KVM, and everything will work fine.

Michael

-- 
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From herrold at owlriver.com  Wed Dec 10 08:29:09 2008
From: herrold at owlriver.com (R P Herrold)
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:29:09 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [cAos] Best way to add software not provided by caos
In-Reply-To: <3C62AB0F00354DE7A8A7EF5EF93D5DBB@geoffPC>
References: <20081210090849.GB18710@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at>
	<3C62AB0F00354DE7A8A7EF5EF93D5DBB@geoffPC>
Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.00.0812101123450.8895@arj.bjyevire.pbz>

On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Geoff Galitz wrote:

> Where are you getting your Centos RPMs from?  If you are not doing so
> already, you can get more generalized RPM packages from either RPMForge or
> EPEL.  They may build more cleanly for you on alternate platforms.
    <snip>
> Beware that you would be running packages that are not thoroughly tested in
> the Caos environment by doing so.  They certainly are not built to be lean
> and mean and may require an annoying number of requisite packages (some of
> which you would probably need to build).

A curious statement; I am aware of no enhanced efforts for 
'generalized RPM packag[ings]' in that regard by either 
RPMForge or EPEL [certainly not EPEL], and frankly consider 
the recommendation flawed if on that basis.  May I have 
pointer URL to any statement from either archive's maintainers 
or policies to back up this assertion please.

I speak as a packager who DOES seek to strip away false BR's 
and manually hardcoded Req's, and DOES maintain such a SRPM 
archive.

-- Russ herrold




From gmkurtzer at gmail.com  Wed Dec 10 12:12:35 2008
From: gmkurtzer at gmail.com (Greg Kurtzer)
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:12:35 -0800
Subject: [cAos] install problem
In-Reply-To: <20081210010118.GD13451@kainx.org>
References: <6a8af7e80812091246u2923fe4dxa2e1315afa62cd69@mail.gmail.com>
	<BLU137-W4F6A2227BE3E9830E6F18CFFA0@phx.gbl>
	<6a8af7e80812091343vb094180yba96ee7909f6dfd3@mail.gmail.com>
	<20081210010118.GD13451@kainx.org>
Message-ID: <571f1a060812101212h57135cbcv5af0105a6e6fa3a0@mail.gmail.com>

I would vote for a bad CDROM drive. Can you try a USB device?



On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Michael Jennings <mej at caoslinux.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday, 09 December 2008, at 13:43:22 (-0800),
> david darr wrote:
>
>> I don't think it is the CD as I did try burning it again.... and I
>> just now verified the md5sums for my download. So I think that
>> pretty much rules that out. My head node has two hard disks mirrored
>> on a RAID controller and it was suggested to me that that is
>> possibly the problem. Does anyone know? I haven't had that effect
>> Linux installs in the past though.
>
> If it happens at initrd load time, that's pre-disk and even
> pre-kernel.
>
> Have you run memtest86+ recently?  The disk image could be getting
> corrupted due to bad RAM....  But a bad burn seems more likely to me.
>
> Michael
>
> --
> Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX)  http://www.kainx.org/  <mej at kainx.org>
> Linux Server/Cluster Admin, LBL.gov       Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org)
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>  "When the toast is burned and all the milk has turned and Captain
>  Crunch is waving farewell, when the Big One finds you, may this
>  song remind you that they don't serve breakfast in Hell."
>                                              -- Newsboys, "Breakfast"
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http://www.perceus.org/
http://www.caoslinux.org/


From gmkurtzer at gmail.com  Wed Dec 10 13:17:22 2008
From: gmkurtzer at gmail.com (Greg Kurtzer)
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:17:22 -0800
Subject: [cAos] Best way to add software not provided by caos
In-Reply-To: <20081210090849.GB18710@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at>
References: <20081210090849.GB18710@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at>
Message-ID: <571f1a060812101317y3331072dv57734979c2c2fc43@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 1:08 AM, Stefan Boresch <stefan at mdy.univie.ac.at> wrote:
>
> My setup relies heavily on autofs and nis(+), plus cfengine for
> centralized management. There are no packages available for caos as far
> as I can tell.

I am adding these to our list of packages to include. Give us some
time and we will get them in there.

Can I count on you for testing once integrated?

>
> (+) No, I don't care to switch to LDAP ;-)
>
> Another package we sort of miss is git.

Will do.

>
> On a play machine I have so far grabbed centos (v 4 or 5) src.rpms
> and rebuilt them, adding as many build prerequisites as required (for
> cfengine and git(*) I actually gave up and rebuilt from source directly).
>
> (*) the executable(s) being trivial to build, but not the documentation ;-)
>
> I'd just like to get feedback how other people handle this
> situation. Should I stick to centos 4 or is 5.x better?  (5.x src.rpms
> more frequently seem to have strange build requirements or fail to
> build ...) Is there some "ancestry" where caos is derived from -- did
> you guys start "from scratch" or did you, e.g., trim down some
> RHEL/Fedora ...?

If the packages work, then it is a good start until we get formally
supported packages into the distribution.

Caos NSA I would call from scratch, but most of the core was indeed
built from upstream packages using the best known standards (in our
opinion) from other resources. With that said, we seem to be mostly
compatible with RHEL5, but don't overly strive for it at this time.

Thanks!

Greg

>
> TIA,
>
> Stefan
>
> --
> Stefan Boresch
> Institute for Computational Biological Chemistry
> University of Vienna, Waehringerstr. 17       A-1090 Vienna, Austria
> Phone: -43-1-427752715                        Fax:   -43-1-427752790
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>



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http://www.runlevelzero.net/
http://www.perceus.org/
http://www.caoslinux.org/


From stefan at mdy.univie.ac.at  Wed Dec 10 23:53:21 2008
From: stefan at mdy.univie.ac.at (Stefan Boresch)
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:53:21 +0100
Subject: [cAos] Best way to add software not provided by caos
In-Reply-To: <571f1a060812101317y3331072dv57734979c2c2fc43@mail.gmail.com>
References: <20081210090849.GB18710@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at>
	<571f1a060812101317y3331072dv57734979c2c2fc43@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20081211075321.GL18710@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at>

Thanks, although I want to stress that I really did not imply
my mail as a wishlist!! (The most important wish is having
rpcinfo as part of some package ;-)

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 01:17:22PM -0800, Greg Kurtzer wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 1:08 AM, Stefan Boresch <stefan at mdy.univie.ac.at> wrote:
> I am adding these to our list of packages to include. Give us some
> time and we will get them in there.
> 
> Can I count on you for testing once integrated?

certainly -- at least to the degree that I utilize the respective
functionality!  Maybe just send a brief announce message to the list,
so that I know when the rpms become available.

> Caos NSA I would call from scratch, but most of the core was indeed
> built from upstream packages using the best known standards (in our
> opinion) from other resources. With that said, we seem to be mostly
> compatible with RHEL5, but don't overly strive for it at this time.

Thanks for the info/background!

Stefan

-- 
Stefan Boresch
Institute for Computational Biological Chemistry
University of Vienna, Waehringerstr. 17       A-1090 Vienna, Austria
Phone: -43-1-427752715                        Fax:   -43-1-427752790


From gmkurtzer at gmail.com  Thu Dec 11 14:35:15 2008
From: gmkurtzer at gmail.com (Greg Kurtzer)
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:35:15 -0800
Subject: [cAos] rpcinfo
In-Reply-To: <20081210091358.GC18710@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at>
References: <20081210091358.GC18710@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at>
Message-ID: <571f1a060812111435i548497fdt2b6abd9ac18f4410@mail.gmail.com>

We originally were excluding it as it now also comes with a different
package called "rpcbind". We don't have rpcbind as of now, so it has
been put back into glibc.

Right now the updated glibc is in the "nsa-testing" repository. Please
test it by doing the following and then let me know how it works:

# sidekick -> Packages -> Repositories -> select "nsa-testing" -> < OK >
# smart upgrade glibc*

Thanks,

Greg


On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 1:13 AM, Stefan Boresch <stefan at mdy.univie.ac.at> wrote:
> In connection with my previous post ...
>
> Upon installing nis I noticed that there is no rpcinfo program installed.
> Usually, this is packaged with glibc. Since because of this there is
> no easy way to just rebuild this little executable, could it be included
> in caos. While I need it primarily for debugging nis issues, it is a general
> purpose utility to debug any service that relies on portmap, e.g., also NFS ...
>
> Was there a specific reason to exclude it?
>
> Alternatively, what would be a clean solution to add it ..?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stefan
>
> --
> Stefan Boresch
> Institute for Computational Biological Chemistry
> University of Vienna, Waehringerstr. 17       A-1090 Vienna, Austria
> Phone: -43-1-427752715                        Fax:   -43-1-427752790
> _______________________________________________
> cAos mailing list
> cAos at caoslinux.org
> http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/caos
>



-- 
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http://www.infiscale.com/
http://www.runlevelzero.net/
http://www.perceus.org/
http://www.caoslinux.org/


From gmkurtzer at gmail.com  Thu Dec 11 14:45:00 2008
From: gmkurtzer at gmail.com (Greg Kurtzer)
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:45:00 -0800
Subject: [cAos] Best way to add software not provided by caos
In-Reply-To: <20081211075321.GL18710@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at>
References: <20081210090849.GB18710@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at>
	<571f1a060812101317y3331072dv57734979c2c2fc43@mail.gmail.com>
	<20081211075321.GL18710@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at>
Message-ID: <571f1a060812111445q27fdb002v93b4606bd4b82d33@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:53 PM, Stefan Boresch
<stefan at mdy.univie.ac.at> wrote:
> Thanks, although I want to stress that I really did not imply
> my mail as a wishlist!! (The most important wish is having
> rpcinfo as part of some package ;-)

Thank you for both pointing out the required features of NSA and for
being so considerate with your request. :)

Please see my other message about the glibc update.

Git is also in the nsa-testing repository right now but we didn't
include all of the docs as there are other dependencies that we are
working on for that. Please test it and let me know how it works for
you:

# smart query --available git*
# smart install .....

cfengine is on its way.

When you say you wanted NIS, I assume that is specifically ypbind,
ypserv, and yp-tools?

Thanks,
Greg

-- 
Greg Kurtzer
http://www.infiscale.com/
http://www.runlevelzero.net/
http://www.perceus.org/
http://www.caoslinux.org/


From pylon569-caosity at yahoo.co.uk  Tue Dec 16 15:40:43 2008
From: pylon569-caosity at yahoo.co.uk (pylon569-caosity at yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:40:43 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [cAos] Clarification on dual boot using NSA1
Message-ID: <265114.47050.qm@web86610.mail.ird.yahoo.com>

yo, I have trawled the archive for the following post, which is very useful.

The suggestion given is tentative.
If I select auto install is there then a manual option as suggested by the post below.
I am looking to dual boot and have vista on the other partition.

'
On Wednesday, 26 November 2008, at 14:57:22 (+0100),
Stefan Boresch wrote:

> Sorry, no answer, but I am highly interested in the answer because
> I have a related problem/question:
>
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 08:50:15PM +0800, maomao sun wrote:
> > My hardisk  are as follows:
> > 
> [snip]
> > I've already have   windows and Fedora installed and I've data on sda5(ntfs)
> > and sda6(fat).
> > Now I want to install Caos Linux NSA to replace fedora.But I want to keep
> > windows and my data,If I choose the autoinstall mode,can I achieve my goal?
> > If not,what shall I do?

I highly recommend testing my suggestion in a VM setup before you try
it on a live system, for obvious reasons.

That said, passing the "layout=manual" option to "autoinstall" should
allow you to use fdisk to create your partitions and specify your
fstab layout by hand.  Clearly this is not suitable for inexperienced
users, but it doesn't sound like you guys fit in that category. :)

We hope to improve cinch in the future with more layout options and
better manual partitioning, but for now that's the best answer we
have.  (Insert "patches welcome" comment here.)  ;-)

Michael

-- 
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Linux Server/Cluster Admin, LBL.gov       Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org)'
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From pylon569-caosity at yahoo.co.uk  Tue Dec 16 15:40:43 2008
From: pylon569-caosity at yahoo.co.uk (pylon569-caosity at yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:40:43 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [cAos] Clarification on dual boot using NSA1
Message-ID: <265114.47050.qm@web86610.mail.ird.yahoo.com>

yo, I have trawled the archive for the following post, which is very useful.

The suggestion given is tentative.
If I select auto install is there then a manual option as suggested by the post below.
I am looking to dual boot and have vista on the other partition.

'
On Wednesday, 26 November 2008, at 14:57:22 (+0100),
Stefan Boresch wrote:

> Sorry, no answer, but I am highly interested in the answer because
> I have a related problem/question:
>
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 08:50:15PM +0800, maomao sun wrote:
> > My hardisk  are as follows:
> > 
> [snip]
> > I've already have   windows and Fedora installed and I've data on sda5(ntfs)
> > and sda6(fat).
> > Now I want to install Caos Linux NSA to replace fedora.But I want to keep
> > windows and my data,If I choose the autoinstall mode,can I achieve my goal?
> > If not,what shall I do?

I highly recommend testing my suggestion in a VM setup before you try
it on a live system, for obvious reasons.

That said, passing the "layout=manual" option to "autoinstall" should
allow you to use fdisk to create your partitions and specify your
fstab layout by hand.  Clearly this is not suitable for inexperienced
users, but it doesn't sound like you guys fit in that category. :)

We hope to improve cinch in the future with more layout options and
better manual partitioning, but for now that's the best answer we
have.  (Insert "patches welcome" comment here.)  ;-)

Michael

-- 
Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX)  http://www.kainx.org/  <mej at kainx.org>
Linux Server/Cluster Admin, LBL.gov       Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org)'
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From stefan at mdy.univie.ac.at  Thu Dec 18 06:23:07 2008
From: stefan at mdy.univie.ac.at (Stefan Boresch)
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:23:07 +0100
Subject: [cAos] Small issue(s) with nvidia rpms
Message-ID: <20081218142307.GB18710@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at>

I was delighted to see the wiki entry:

As of Caos NSA 1.0, the Nvidia drivers are included in the distribution package repositories. To install them, simply type:

# smart install nvidia-kmods nvidia-libs nvidia-utils

1) For me, the automatic download didn't work; I had to get the rpms
by hand. 

2) With the rpms on the local disk

[boresch at test4 stuff]$ sudo smart install nvidia*
Loading cache...
Updating cache...               ######################################## [100%]

Computing transaction...

Installing packages (4):
  nvidia-devel-177.80-2.caos at x86_64      nvidia-libs-177.80-2.caos at x86_64
  nvidia-kmods-177.80-2.caos at x86_64      nvidia-utils-177.80-2.caos at x86_64

11.4MB of package files are needed. 37.4MB will be used.

Confirm changes? (Y/n): y

Committing transaction...
Preparing...                    ######################################## [  0%]
error: file /usr/lib64/libGL.so.1 from install of nvidia-libs-177.80-2.caos.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesalib-7.0.2-3.caos.x86_64
error: file /usr/include/GL/gl.h from install of nvidia-devel-177.80-2.caos.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesalib-devel-7.0.2-3.caos.x86_64
error: file /usr/include/GL/glext.h from install of nvidia-devel-177.80-2.caos.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesalib-devel-7.0.2-3.caos.x86_64
error: file /usr/include/GL/glx.h from install of nvidia-devel-177.80-2.caos.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesalib-devel-7.0.2-3.caos.x86_64
error: file /usr/include/GL/glxext.h from install of nvidia-devel-177.80-2.caos.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesalib-devel-7.0.2-3.caos.x86_64
error: file /usr/lib64/libGL.so from install of nvidia-devel-177.80-2.caos.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesalib-devel-7.0.2-3.caos.x86_64

whereas 

[boresch at test4 stuff]$ sudo rpm -ivh nvidia*
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:nvidia-kmods           ########################################### [ 25%]
   2:nvidia-libs            ########################################### [ 50%]
   3:nvidia-devel           ########################################### [ 75%]
   4:nvidia-utils           ########################################### [100%]

works fine.  (BTW, what is this thing about the new channel ??)

3) sidekick fails to generate an xorg.conf (chipset not recognized --
it's a nvidia 9600

lspci output is:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G71 [GeForce 7300 GS] (rev a1)

4) The good news is that after copying over an ubuntu generated xorg.conf,
everything seems to work just fine ...

Cheers,

Stefan


-- 
Stefan Boresch
Institute for Computational Biological Chemistry
University of Vienna, Waehringerstr. 17       A-1090 Vienna, Austria
Phone: -43-1-427752715                        Fax:   -43-1-427752790


From stefan at mdy.univie.ac.at  Thu Dec 18 06:30:18 2008
From: stefan at mdy.univie.ac.at (Stefan Boresch)
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:30:18 +0100
Subject: [cAos] git [was Re: Best way to add software not provided by caos]
In-Reply-To: <571f1a060812111445q27fdb002v93b4606bd4b82d33@mail.gmail.com>
References: <20081210090849.GB18710@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at>
	<571f1a060812101317y3331072dv57734979c2c2fc43@mail.gmail.com>
	<20081211075321.GL18710@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at>
	<571f1a060812111445q27fdb002v93b4606bd4b82d33@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20081218143018.GA27541@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at>

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 02:45:00PM -0800, Greg Kurtzer wrote:
> 
> Git is also in the nsa-testing repository right now but we didn't
> include all of the docs as there are other dependencies that we are
> working on for that. Please test it and let me know how it works for
> you:
> 
> # smart query --available git*
> # smart install .....

Greg,

many thanks. As often, not too much time to "play". For simplicity,
I just tried (nsa-testing is enabled)

smart install git

which, however, results in

[root at test4 ~]# smart install git
Loading cache...
Updating cache...               ######################################## [100%]

Computing transaction... error: Can't install git-1.6.0.4-1 at x86_64: no package provides libcurl

Saving cache...

So, WHO provides libcurl ;-)

Best regards,

Stefan

-- 
Stefan Boresch
Institute for Computational Biological Chemistry
University of Vienna, Waehringerstr. 17       A-1090 Vienna, Austria
Phone: -43-1-427752715                        Fax:   -43-1-427752790


From gmkurtzer at gmail.com  Thu Dec 18 13:48:50 2008
From: gmkurtzer at gmail.com (Greg Kurtzer)
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:48:50 -0800
Subject: [cAos] Small issue(s) with nvidia rpms
In-Reply-To: <20081218142307.GB18710@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at>
References: <20081218142307.GB18710@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at>
Message-ID: <571f1a060812181348j1327ad1ag3ec4acf47a3d2c03@mail.gmail.com>

Hello Stefan,

The automatic install via smart didn't work because there was a file
conflict. Smart was actually being more careful about it then RPM.
There are new packages that should fix this (nvidia-*177.80-3.caos) by
removing mesalib and mesalib-devel as required. Can you test this by
forcing an update of the nsa-testing repo (rm -f
/var/lib/smart/channels/*; smart update), and then upgrading again?

Can you send me the working xorg.conf?

Thanks!
Greg


On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 6:23 AM, Stefan Boresch <stefan at mdy.univie.ac.at> wrote:
> I was delighted to see the wiki entry:
>
> As of Caos NSA 1.0, the Nvidia drivers are included in the distribution package repositories. To install them, simply type:
>
> # smart install nvidia-kmods nvidia-libs nvidia-utils
>
> 1) For me, the automatic download didn't work; I had to get the rpms
> by hand.
>
> 2) With the rpms on the local disk
>
> [boresch at test4 stuff]$ sudo smart install nvidia*
> Loading cache...
> Updating cache...               ######################################## [100%]
>
> Computing transaction...
>
> Installing packages (4):
>  nvidia-devel-177.80-2.caos at x86_64      nvidia-libs-177.80-2.caos at x86_64
>  nvidia-kmods-177.80-2.caos at x86_64      nvidia-utils-177.80-2.caos at x86_64
>
> 11.4MB of package files are needed. 37.4MB will be used.
>
> Confirm changes? (Y/n): y
>
> Committing transaction...
> Preparing...                    ######################################## [  0%]
> error: file /usr/lib64/libGL.so.1 from install of nvidia-libs-177.80-2.caos.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesalib-7.0.2-3.caos.x86_64
> error: file /usr/include/GL/gl.h from install of nvidia-devel-177.80-2.caos.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesalib-devel-7.0.2-3.caos.x86_64
> error: file /usr/include/GL/glext.h from install of nvidia-devel-177.80-2.caos.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesalib-devel-7.0.2-3.caos.x86_64
> error: file /usr/include/GL/glx.h from install of nvidia-devel-177.80-2.caos.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesalib-devel-7.0.2-3.caos.x86_64
> error: file /usr/include/GL/glxext.h from install of nvidia-devel-177.80-2.caos.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesalib-devel-7.0.2-3.caos.x86_64
> error: file /usr/lib64/libGL.so from install of nvidia-devel-177.80-2.caos.x86_64 conflicts with file from package mesalib-devel-7.0.2-3.caos.x86_64
>
> whereas
>
> [boresch at test4 stuff]$ sudo rpm -ivh nvidia*
> Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
>   1:nvidia-kmods           ########################################### [ 25%]
>   2:nvidia-libs            ########################################### [ 50%]
>   3:nvidia-devel           ########################################### [ 75%]
>   4:nvidia-utils           ########################################### [100%]
>
> works fine.  (BTW, what is this thing about the new channel ??)
>
> 3) sidekick fails to generate an xorg.conf (chipset not recognized --
> it's a nvidia 9600
>
> lspci output is:
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G71 [GeForce 7300 GS] (rev a1)
>
> 4) The good news is that after copying over an ubuntu generated xorg.conf,
> everything seems to work just fine ...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Stefan
>
>
> --
> Stefan Boresch
> Institute for Computational Biological Chemistry
> University of Vienna, Waehringerstr. 17       A-1090 Vienna, Austria
> Phone: -43-1-427752715                        Fax:   -43-1-427752790
> _______________________________________________
> cAos mailing list
> cAos at caoslinux.org
> http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/caos
>



-- 
Greg Kurtzer
http://www.infiscale.com/
http://www.runlevelzero.net/
http://www.perceus.org/
http://www.caoslinux.org/


From gmkurtzer at gmail.com  Thu Dec 18 13:57:18 2008
From: gmkurtzer at gmail.com (Greg Kurtzer)
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:57:18 -0800
Subject: [cAos] git [was Re: Best way to add software not provided by
	caos]
In-Reply-To: <20081218143018.GA27541@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at>
References: <20081210090849.GB18710@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at>
	<571f1a060812101317y3331072dv57734979c2c2fc43@mail.gmail.com>
	<20081211075321.GL18710@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at>
	<571f1a060812111445q27fdb002v93b4606bd4b82d33@mail.gmail.com>
	<20081218143018.GA27541@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at>
Message-ID: <571f1a060812181357u15cc7b4fre11e4133dbc79f23@mail.gmail.com>

Updated in nsa-testing, can you give it another try?

Thanks!
Greg



On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 6:30 AM, Stefan Boresch <stefan at mdy.univie.ac.at> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 02:45:00PM -0800, Greg Kurtzer wrote:
>>
>> Git is also in the nsa-testing repository right now but we didn't
>> include all of the docs as there are other dependencies that we are
>> working on for that. Please test it and let me know how it works for
>> you:
>>
>> # smart query --available git*
>> # smart install .....
>
> Greg,
>
> many thanks. As often, not too much time to "play". For simplicity,
> I just tried (nsa-testing is enabled)
>
> smart install git
>
> which, however, results in
>
> [root at test4 ~]# smart install git
> Loading cache...
> Updating cache...               ######################################## [100%]
>
> Computing transaction... error: Can't install git-1.6.0.4-1 at x86_64: no package provides libcurl
>
> Saving cache...
>
> So, WHO provides libcurl ;-)
>
> Best regards,
>
> Stefan
>
> --
> Stefan Boresch
> Institute for Computational Biological Chemistry
> University of Vienna, Waehringerstr. 17       A-1090 Vienna, Austria
> Phone: -43-1-427752715                        Fax:   -43-1-427752790
> _______________________________________________
> cAos mailing list
> cAos at caoslinux.org
> http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/caos
>



-- 
Greg Kurtzer
http://www.infiscale.com/
http://www.runlevelzero.net/
http://www.perceus.org/
http://www.caoslinux.org/


From stefan at mdy.univie.ac.at  Fri Dec 19 02:54:48 2008
From: stefan at mdy.univie.ac.at (Stefan Boresch)
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:54:48 +0100
Subject: [cAos] git [was Re: Best way to add software not provided by
	caos]
In-Reply-To: <571f1a060812181357u15cc7b4fre11e4133dbc79f23@mail.gmail.com>
References: <20081210090849.GB18710@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at>
	<571f1a060812101317y3331072dv57734979c2c2fc43@mail.gmail.com>
	<20081211075321.GL18710@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at>
	<571f1a060812111445q27fdb002v93b4606bd4b82d33@mail.gmail.com>
	<20081218143018.GA27541@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at>
	<571f1a060812181357u15cc7b4fre11e4133dbc79f23@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20081219105448.GE18710@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at>

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 01:57:18PM -0800, Greg Kurtzer wrote:
> Updated in nsa-testing, can you give it another try?
> 

the git-1.6.0.4-2.x86_64.rpm packages now installs fine.

> Thanks!

Thank you!

Stefan

-- 
Stefan Boresch
Institute for Computational Biological Chemistry
University of Vienna, Waehringerstr. 17       A-1090 Vienna, Austria
Phone: -43-1-427752715                        Fax:   -43-1-427752790


From stefan at mdy.univie.ac.at  Fri Dec 19 03:03:26 2008
From: stefan at mdy.univie.ac.at (Stefan Boresch)
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:03:26 +0100
Subject: [cAos] Small issue(s) with nvidia rpms
In-Reply-To: <571f1a060812181348j1327ad1ag3ec4acf47a3d2c03@mail.gmail.com>
References: <20081218142307.GB18710@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at>
	<571f1a060812181348j1327ad1ag3ec4acf47a3d2c03@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20081219110326.GF18710@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at>

Hi Greg,

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 01:48:50PM -0800, Greg Kurtzer wrote:
> Hello Stefan,
> 
> The automatic install via smart didn't work because there was a file
> conflict. Smart was actually being more careful about it then RPM.

I understand/-stood that part; I just wanted to get the card supported ...

> There are new packages that should fix this (nvidia-*177.80-3.caos) by
> removing mesalib and mesalib-devel as required. Can you test this by
> forcing an update of the nsa-testing repo (rm -f
> /var/lib/smart/channels/*; smart update), and then upgrading again?

smart keeps confusing me ...

1) Running through the sequence:

rm -f /var/lib/smart/channels/*
smart update
smart upgrade

produces:

[root at test4 ~]# smart upgrade
Loading cache...
Updating cache...               ######################################## [100%]

Computing transaction...
No interesting upgrades available.

??? Does smart not pick up the nvidia* packages because I installed the
directly via rpm ???

2) Anyways, I then did

rpm -e nvidia-kmods nvidia-libs nvidia-devel nvidia-utils
smart install nvidia-kmods nvidia-libs nvidia-devel nvidia-utils

leading to:

[root at test4 ~]# smart install nvidia-kmods nvidia-libs nvidia-devel nvidia-utils 
Loading cache...
Updating cache...               ######################################## [100%]

Computing transaction...

Installing packages (4):
  nvidia-devel-177.80-3.caos at x86_64      nvidia-libs-177.80-3.caos at x86_64
  nvidia-kmods-177.80-3.caos at x86_64      nvidia-utils-177.80-3.caos at x86_64

Removing packages (19):
  ImageMagick-c++-devel-6.3.5-10.3.caos at x86_64
  freeglut-2.4.0-2.caos at x86_64
  freeglut-devel-2.4.0-2.caos at x86_64
  gtk+-devel-2.12.11-10.caos at x86_64
  mesalib-7.0.2-3.caos at x86_64
  mesalib-demos-7.0.2-3.caos at x86_64
  mesalib-devel-7.0.2-3.caos at x86_64
  metapkg-desktop-1.2-119.nsa1 at x86_64
  metapkg-development-1.2-119.nsa1 at x86_64
  metapkg-xdevelopment-1.2-119.nsa1 at x86_64
  metapkg-xfce-1.2-119.nsa1 at x86_64
  metapkg-xorg-1.2-119.nsa1 at x86_64
  tiff-3.8.2-1.caos at x86_64
  tiff-devel-3.8.2-1.caos at x86_64
  xfce-mcs-plugins-4.4.2-3.caos at x86_64
  xfmedia-0.9.2-1.caos at x86_64
  xine-lib-1.1.15-1.caos at x86_64
  xscreensaver-5.07-1.caos at x86_64
  xscreensaver-extras-5.07-1.caos at x86_64

11.4MB of package files are needed. 26.2MB will be freed.

Confirm changes? (Y/n): n

Saving cache...

:-( [I guess you agree that it was in my best interest here to say no ;-) ]

> Can you send me the working xorg.conf?

I send this in a separate post.

Best regards,

Stefan

-- 
Stefan Boresch
Institute for Computational Biological Chemistry
University of Vienna, Waehringerstr. 17       A-1090 Vienna, Austria
Phone: -43-1-427752715                        Fax:   -43-1-427752790


From stefan at mdy.univie.ac.at  Fri Dec 19 03:06:56 2008
From: stefan at mdy.univie.ac.at (Stefan Boresch)
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:06:56 +0100
Subject: [cAos] xorg.conf for nvidia cards
Message-ID: <20081219110656.GG18710@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at>

The following is what Ubuntu 8.04 autogenerates for single head
nvidia cards and which works fine under caos as well.

Stefan

--------------------------------------------------------------------
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister at builder3)  Tue Jan 22 19:53:46 PST 2008

# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
#   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Default Layout"
    Screen         "Default Screen" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Generic Keyboard" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Configured Mouse"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Generic Keyboard"
    Driver         "kbd"
    Option         "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option         "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Configured Mouse"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Configured Video Device"
    Driver         "nvidia"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Default Screen"
    Device         "Configured Video Device"
    Monitor        "Configured Monitor"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
    Option         "NoLogo" "True"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes      "nvidia-auto-select"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

--------------------------------------------------------------------

-- 
Stefan Boresch
Institute for Computational Biological Chemistry
University of Vienna, Waehringerstr. 17       A-1090 Vienna, Austria
Phone: -43-1-427752715                        Fax:   -43-1-427752790


From stefan at mdy.univie.ac.at  Fri Dec 19 03:37:52 2008
From: stefan at mdy.univie.ac.at (Stefan Boresch)
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:37:52 +0100
Subject: [cAos] Ad NIS [Re: Best way to add software not provided by caos]
In-Reply-To: <571f1a060812111445q27fdb002v93b4606bd4b82d33@mail.gmail.com>
References: <20081210090849.GB18710@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at>
	<571f1a060812101317y3331072dv57734979c2c2fc43@mail.gmail.com>
	<20081211075321.GL18710@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at>
	<571f1a060812111445q27fdb002v93b4606bd4b82d33@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20081219113752.GA24799@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at>

Noticed the following question only just now:

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 02:45:00PM -0800, Greg Kurtzer wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:53 PM, Stefan Boresch
> 
> When you say you wanted NIS, I assume that is specifically ypbind,
> ypserv, and yp-tools?
> 

yes, exactly!

Thanks,

Stefan

-- 
Stefan Boresch
Institute for Computational Biological Chemistry
University of Vienna, Waehringerstr. 17       A-1090 Vienna, Austria
Phone: -43-1-427752715                        Fax:   -43-1-427752790


From stefan at mdy.univie.ac.at  Fri Dec 19 05:19:42 2008
From: stefan at mdy.univie.ac.at (Stefan Boresch)
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:19:42 +0100
Subject: [cAos] cfengine rpm
Message-ID: <20081219131942.GJ18710@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at>

Just installed the rpm -- thanks.

One thing I noted, however, is that there are no man pages.  I am
afraid that the cfengine build process itself may be the one responsible,
but having the man pages would sure be nice ...
[There is an install-man target to make, but apparently it doesn't do
anything from the cfengine "root" directory, I had to issue the command
in the doc directory itself ..]

Best regards,

Stefan


-- 
Stefan Boresch
Institute for Computational Biological Chemistry
University of Vienna, Waehringerstr. 17       A-1090 Vienna, Austria
Phone: -43-1-427752715                        Fax:   -43-1-427752790


From gmkurtzer at gmail.com  Fri Dec 19 08:37:49 2008
From: gmkurtzer at gmail.com (Greg Kurtzer)
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:37:49 -0800
Subject: [cAos] Small issue(s) with nvidia rpms
In-Reply-To: <20081219110326.GF18710@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at>
References: <20081218142307.GB18710@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at>
	<571f1a060812181348j1327ad1ag3ec4acf47a3d2c03@mail.gmail.com>
	<20081219110326.GF18710@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at>
Message-ID: <571f1a060812190837m39dc1b7aoe37bb50ec0e534a2@mail.gmail.com>

OK, I will fix that.... And yes, you answered correctly. hehe



On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 3:03 AM, Stefan Boresch <stefan at mdy.univie.ac.at> wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 01:48:50PM -0800, Greg Kurtzer wrote:
>> Hello Stefan,
>>
>> The automatic install via smart didn't work because there was a file
>> conflict. Smart was actually being more careful about it then RPM.
>
> I understand/-stood that part; I just wanted to get the card supported ...
>
>> There are new packages that should fix this (nvidia-*177.80-3.caos) by
>> removing mesalib and mesalib-devel as required. Can you test this by
>> forcing an update of the nsa-testing repo (rm -f
>> /var/lib/smart/channels/*; smart update), and then upgrading again?
>
> smart keeps confusing me ...
>
> 1) Running through the sequence:
>
> rm -f /var/lib/smart/channels/*
> smart update
> smart upgrade
>
> produces:
>
> [root at test4 ~]# smart upgrade
> Loading cache...
> Updating cache...               ######################################## [100%]
>
> Computing transaction...
> No interesting upgrades available.
>
> ??? Does smart not pick up the nvidia* packages because I installed the
> directly via rpm ???
>
> 2) Anyways, I then did
>
> rpm -e nvidia-kmods nvidia-libs nvidia-devel nvidia-utils
> smart install nvidia-kmods nvidia-libs nvidia-devel nvidia-utils
>
> leading to:
>
> [root at test4 ~]# smart install nvidia-kmods nvidia-libs nvidia-devel nvidia-utils
> Loading cache...
> Updating cache...               ######################################## [100%]
>
> Computing transaction...
>
> Installing packages (4):
>  nvidia-devel-177.80-3.caos at x86_64      nvidia-libs-177.80-3.caos at x86_64
>  nvidia-kmods-177.80-3.caos at x86_64      nvidia-utils-177.80-3.caos at x86_64
>
> Removing packages (19):
>  ImageMagick-c++-devel-6.3.5-10.3.caos at x86_64
>  freeglut-2.4.0-2.caos at x86_64
>  freeglut-devel-2.4.0-2.caos at x86_64
>  gtk+-devel-2.12.11-10.caos at x86_64
>  mesalib-7.0.2-3.caos at x86_64
>  mesalib-demos-7.0.2-3.caos at x86_64
>  mesalib-devel-7.0.2-3.caos at x86_64
>  metapkg-desktop-1.2-119.nsa1 at x86_64
>  metapkg-development-1.2-119.nsa1 at x86_64
>  metapkg-xdevelopment-1.2-119.nsa1 at x86_64
>  metapkg-xfce-1.2-119.nsa1 at x86_64
>  metapkg-xorg-1.2-119.nsa1 at x86_64
>  tiff-3.8.2-1.caos at x86_64
>  tiff-devel-3.8.2-1.caos at x86_64
>  xfce-mcs-plugins-4.4.2-3.caos at x86_64
>  xfmedia-0.9.2-1.caos at x86_64
>  xine-lib-1.1.15-1.caos at x86_64
>  xscreensaver-5.07-1.caos at x86_64
>  xscreensaver-extras-5.07-1.caos at x86_64
>
> 11.4MB of package files are needed. 26.2MB will be freed.
>
> Confirm changes? (Y/n): n
>
> Saving cache...
>
> :-( [I guess you agree that it was in my best interest here to say no ;-) ]
>
>> Can you send me the working xorg.conf?
>
> I send this in a separate post.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Stefan
>
> --
> Stefan Boresch
> Institute for Computational Biological Chemistry
> University of Vienna, Waehringerstr. 17       A-1090 Vienna, Austria
> Phone: -43-1-427752715                        Fax:   -43-1-427752790
> _______________________________________________
> cAos mailing list
> cAos at caoslinux.org
> http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/caos
>



-- 
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http://www.infiscale.com/
http://www.runlevelzero.net/
http://www.perceus.org/
http://www.caoslinux.org/


From gmkurtzer at gmail.com  Fri Dec 19 09:50:33 2008
From: gmkurtzer at gmail.com (Greg Kurtzer)
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:50:33 -0800
Subject: [cAos] Small issue(s) with nvidia rpms
In-Reply-To: <571f1a060812190837m39dc1b7aoe37bb50ec0e534a2@mail.gmail.com>
References: <20081218142307.GB18710@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at>
	<571f1a060812181348j1327ad1ag3ec4acf47a3d2c03@mail.gmail.com>
	<20081219110326.GF18710@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at>
	<571f1a060812190837m39dc1b7aoe37bb50ec0e534a2@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <571f1a060812190950y14b9e4c3l4ffa4c5efefd0446@mail.gmail.com>

OK, can you give it another try? 177.80-4.caos is posted in nsa-testing.



On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Greg Kurtzer <gmkurtzer at gmail.com> wrote:
> OK, I will fix that.... And yes, you answered correctly. hehe
>
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 3:03 AM, Stefan Boresch <stefan at mdy.univie.ac.at> wrote:
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 01:48:50PM -0800, Greg Kurtzer wrote:
>>> Hello Stefan,
>>>
>>> The automatic install via smart didn't work because there was a file
>>> conflict. Smart was actually being more careful about it then RPM.
>>
>> I understand/-stood that part; I just wanted to get the card supported ...
>>
>>> There are new packages that should fix this (nvidia-*177.80-3.caos) by
>>> removing mesalib and mesalib-devel as required. Can you test this by
>>> forcing an update of the nsa-testing repo (rm -f
>>> /var/lib/smart/channels/*; smart update), and then upgrading again?
>>
>> smart keeps confusing me ...
>>
>> 1) Running through the sequence:
>>
>> rm -f /var/lib/smart/channels/*
>> smart update
>> smart upgrade
>>
>> produces:
>>
>> [root at test4 ~]# smart upgrade
>> Loading cache...
>> Updating cache...               ######################################## [100%]
>>
>> Computing transaction...
>> No interesting upgrades available.
>>
>> ??? Does smart not pick up the nvidia* packages because I installed the
>> directly via rpm ???
>>
>> 2) Anyways, I then did
>>
>> rpm -e nvidia-kmods nvidia-libs nvidia-devel nvidia-utils
>> smart install nvidia-kmods nvidia-libs nvidia-devel nvidia-utils
>>
>> leading to:
>>
>> [root at test4 ~]# smart install nvidia-kmods nvidia-libs nvidia-devel nvidia-utils
>> Loading cache...
>> Updating cache...               ######################################## [100%]
>>
>> Computing transaction...
>>
>> Installing packages (4):
>>  nvidia-devel-177.80-3.caos at x86_64      nvidia-libs-177.80-3.caos at x86_64
>>  nvidia-kmods-177.80-3.caos at x86_64      nvidia-utils-177.80-3.caos at x86_64
>>
>> Removing packages (19):
>>  ImageMagick-c++-devel-6.3.5-10.3.caos at x86_64
>>  freeglut-2.4.0-2.caos at x86_64
>>  freeglut-devel-2.4.0-2.caos at x86_64
>>  gtk+-devel-2.12.11-10.caos at x86_64
>>  mesalib-7.0.2-3.caos at x86_64
>>  mesalib-demos-7.0.2-3.caos at x86_64
>>  mesalib-devel-7.0.2-3.caos at x86_64
>>  metapkg-desktop-1.2-119.nsa1 at x86_64
>>  metapkg-development-1.2-119.nsa1 at x86_64
>>  metapkg-xdevelopment-1.2-119.nsa1 at x86_64
>>  metapkg-xfce-1.2-119.nsa1 at x86_64
>>  metapkg-xorg-1.2-119.nsa1 at x86_64
>>  tiff-3.8.2-1.caos at x86_64
>>  tiff-devel-3.8.2-1.caos at x86_64
>>  xfce-mcs-plugins-4.4.2-3.caos at x86_64
>>  xfmedia-0.9.2-1.caos at x86_64
>>  xine-lib-1.1.15-1.caos at x86_64
>>  xscreensaver-5.07-1.caos at x86_64
>>  xscreensaver-extras-5.07-1.caos at x86_64
>>
>> 11.4MB of package files are needed. 26.2MB will be freed.
>>
>> Confirm changes? (Y/n): n
>>
>> Saving cache...
>>
>> :-( [I guess you agree that it was in my best interest here to say no ;-) ]
>>
>>> Can you send me the working xorg.conf?
>>
>> I send this in a separate post.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Stefan
>>
>> --
>> Stefan Boresch
>> Institute for Computational Biological Chemistry
>> University of Vienna, Waehringerstr. 17       A-1090 Vienna, Austria
>> Phone: -43-1-427752715                        Fax:   -43-1-427752790
>> _______________________________________________
>> cAos mailing list
>> cAos at caoslinux.org
>> http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/caos
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Greg Kurtzer
> http://www.infiscale.com/
> http://www.runlevelzero.net/
> http://www.perceus.org/
> http://www.caoslinux.org/
>



-- 
Greg Kurtzer
http://www.infiscale.com/
http://www.runlevelzero.net/
http://www.perceus.org/
http://www.caoslinux.org/


From gmkurtzer at gmail.com  Fri Dec 19 14:07:20 2008
From: gmkurtzer at gmail.com (Greg Kurtzer)
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:07:20 -0800
Subject: [cAos] cfengine rpm
In-Reply-To: <20081219131942.GJ18710@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at>
References: <20081219131942.GJ18710@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at>
Message-ID: <571f1a060812191407s6e0a6816w80aac5ca9a5de6fe@mail.gmail.com>

Should be fixed in nsa-testing. Please, let me know.

Thanks!

Greg

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 5:19 AM, Stefan Boresch <stefan at mdy.univie.ac.at> wrote:
> Just installed the rpm -- thanks.
>
> One thing I noted, however, is that there are no man pages.  I am
> afraid that the cfengine build process itself may be the one responsible,
> but having the man pages would sure be nice ...
> [There is an install-man target to make, but apparently it doesn't do
> anything from the cfengine "root" directory, I had to issue the command
> in the doc directory itself ..]
>
> Best regards,
>
> Stefan
>
>
> --
> Stefan Boresch
> Institute for Computational Biological Chemistry
> University of Vienna, Waehringerstr. 17       A-1090 Vienna, Austria
> Phone: -43-1-427752715                        Fax:   -43-1-427752790
> _______________________________________________
> cAos mailing list
> cAos at caoslinux.org
> http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/caos
>



-- 
Greg Kurtzer
http://www.infiscale.com/
http://www.runlevelzero.net/
http://www.perceus.org/
http://www.caoslinux.org/