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Locked directories - Sympathy
by KEV＠hartmann.dk 25 Oct '01

25 Oct '01

Hi Ricardo, I can't help you but I can offer sympathy. I have almost precisely the same problem as you and have hunted hi and low for a resolution without success. I am using Mandrake 8.0 and have even gone so far as to reload the whole system but still with the same problem. I thought it might have something to do with the auto mounting facility (supermount) but can't find anything that supports that theory either. I am interested to note Adam's comments and will have a look this evening to see if I can change the owner of my devices. I am literally at the point of changing back to Suse (you're right, I don't have any patience) as I know I can at least use that without fundamental problems like this. I wonder how many other people experienced the same problem. Mandrakes web site doesn't seem to make any mention of it or even tell you what a locked directory is! I suppose I may have changed something inadvertently but as a 'newbie' I tend to be very careful when 'tinkering' as I know I won't be able to rectify the result if I do screw up. I am saving my requests for help from the list until I really can't get my head round something (read- I'm afraid of making myself look a pratt!)!!!!!!!!!!! :<)) I'd be grateful to know if you do 'sort' the problem. Cheers Kevvy

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Re: [Alug] locked directories -please help!
by Ricardo Campos 25 Oct '01

25 Oct '01

> what distro are you using ?? > If Mandrake try : supermount disable > > and mount manually That I will, back to the man pages! :) <mini-rant> MDK8.0 is a pile of poo :P . </mini-rant> Ricardo "There are several codes, and I know several of them." -Mr. Precise. http://www.rscampos.net -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] locked directories -please help!
by Ricardo Campos 25 Oct '01

25 Oct '01

> Try the 'dmesg' command after trying to access one of these > device as check the output of lsmod. If these don't give you > the answer then please post the output here so we can take a gander. Ok... (brace yourself!) - these are just the hdc entries, there were none for fd0. lsmod gave 'command not found'. hdc: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1222, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdc: ATAPI 32X DVD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache, UDMA(33) hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc: command error: error=0x51 end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 64 isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=16:00, iso_blknum=16, block=32 Any help? (full o/p on request) -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] locked directories -please help!
by MJ Ray 25 Oct '01

25 Oct '01

> Ok... (brace yourself!) - these are just the hdc > entries, there were none for fd0. lsmod gave > 'command not found'. > hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady > SeekComplete Error } > hdc: command error: error=0x51 > end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 64 > isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=16:00, > iso_blknum=16, block=32 Oh dear oh dear oh dear. The last time I saw that, the back of the drive had burnt out. Sorry. MJR

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default window manager
by Ricardo Campos 24 Oct '01

24 Oct '01

I'm trying to get X up and running on my 20MB RAM, (512kb video RAM) laptop, and thinking of maybe using blackbox as a WM (although I suspect most of my work will be done in console mode). It's a RedHat 6.1 box, and currently defaults into Gnome for it's GUI. I want to ditch that in favour of a more lightweight GUI. Where is the file that determines the default GUI when you log into X? Ricardo "There are several codes, and I know several of them." -Mr.Precise. http://www.rscampos.net -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: ISP's
by MJ Ray 24 Oct '01

24 Oct '01

John Seago: > Thanks for that, unfortunately I tried Freeserve and whilst the 1616 number > downloaded into my Windows partition, i was told, (by the call centre > operator), to delete it as it was being withdrawn, [...] Don't believe them! Energis Squared techs have said (in freeserve.help.anytime) that the 1616 number will be switched on until BT have cured *all* the 0808 exchange problems. If it works for you, then you have Internet access. That Freeserve tech support operation is a joke. There appears to be some sort of information flow blockage between Energis Squared (who provide the services) and Freeserve's customer services (who are supposed to help people use the service). MJR

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Greetings from the land of Kiwi
by Martyn Drake 24 Oct '01

24 Oct '01

Kia Ora folks, (and no - it's not a tasty orange fruit drink, but rather the Maori greeting) Just wanted to drop a quick hello all the way from New Zealand. We're currently in Kaikoura at a cyber cafe having been thwarted by the weather while trying to go whale watching off the coast :( Anyway, Linux over here doesn't appear to have been welcomed with too many open arms, although I'm sure that New Zealand has a growing army of Linux fans somewhere. Firstly of all the cyber cafes we've been too, none of them had the initiative to use Linux for their terminals. Everything Windows 98 over here (and a lot of them are used by teenagers to play network games - Wellington is stuff full of such cafes). There are a few north island companies that distribute the ISO images of various distributions, but haven't found anywhere that actually sells the official box sets. Anyway, having heard that Red Hat 7.2 has been officially released, that's something I look forward to trying out when I get back to the UK next week. BTW, New Zealand is probably the most beautiful country on the face of this planet and highly recommend it to anybody. Kia Ora (also serves as a goodbye) Martyn _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

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ISP's
by John Seago 24 Oct '01

24 Oct '01

Thanks for that, unfortunately I tried Freeserve and whilst the 1616 number downloaded into my Windows partition, i was told, (by the call centre operator), to delete it as it was being withdrawn, and woe, woe, its not just BT that's affected by their exchange, Freeserve doesn't work either! Unless 25 attempts to connect, (auto dialed continuously at 35sec. intervals), wasn't a fair trial. John Seago

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locked directories -please help!
by Ricardo Campos 24 Oct '01

24 Oct '01

I can't access my cd-rom or floppy drive. In konqueror it says "you do not have enough permissions to read file:/mnt/cdrom. In the terminal I get: [ricardo@Azathoth /mnt]$ cd cdrom/ bash: cd: cdrom/: Input/output error and even as root: [root@Azothoth /mnt]# cd cdrom/ bash: cd: cdrom/: Input/output error In Konqueror, it is also described as a "locked directory". (It even has a big lock icon, just so you know!). [ricardo@Azathoth /mnt]$ ls -al total 32 drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Oct 23 22:21 ./ drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 Sep 17 18:30 ../ drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct 23 22:23 cdrom/ drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 23 22:22 disk/ drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct 23 22:23 floppy/ drwxrwxrwx 11 root root 8192 Dec 31 1969 win_c/ drwxrwxrwx 27 root root 12288 Dec 31 1969 win_d/ here's my fstab file: /dev/hda6 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount =iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat user,exec,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /dev/hda8 /mnt/win_d vfat user,exec,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0 In /dev/ I have these permissions: [root@Azothoth /dev]# ls -l cdrom lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Sep 10 16:09 cdrom -> hdc [root@Azothoth /dev]# ls -l hdc brw------- 1 ricardo cdrom 22, 0 Apr 14 2001 hdc [root@Azothoth /dev]# ls -l fd0 brw-rw---- 1 ricardo floppy 2, 0 Apr 14 2001 fd0 It does not allow root to change the permissions on hdc, fd0, /mnt/cdrom or /mnt/floppy. I'm stumped. They work in Windows (i.e. the hardware's OK), and I haven't changed anything (doing all the changes on my RH laptop- IceWM rules, btw, Owen ;-). What's going on? The same problem occurs in KDE, Gnome, Afterstep, Icewm and Blackbox. (Didn't try in Enlightenment, but somehow I doubt it is WM-specific!!!). Please help! :( Apologies for such a long e-mail, but I wanted to give as much info as possible. PS I think Mozilla did something weird with the formatting... "There are several codes, and I know several of them." -Mr. Precise. http://www.rscampos.net -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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ISP's
by John Seago 23 Oct '01

23 Oct '01

Does anyone on the list know of a reliable ISP providing unmetered access still using an 0800 dial in number? I ask as BT have changed me over from 08005879089 to 08089933004, despite knowing since May that the exchange I connect through will not connect the 08089933XXX number sets as it has not been modernised to do so. The 0800 ISP I had used since the number change, Nutshell, went belly up and ceased operating, I am therefore limited to pay-as-you-go through the mutual.net. Thanks in advance for any and all suggestions. John seago

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