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Jeff Waugh | 1 Nov 2004 01:13
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Hoary discussion [Was: Why Hoary and why *now*?]

On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 09:27 -0800, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> But should Hoary's bugs/problems be discussed  on another list
> (ubuntu-devel?) than ubuntu-users  to try to keep the focus here on
> the stable version and problems users have with it?

We decided to wait and see how it turns out. If there's way too much
hoary discussion here, or the -devel list is overrun with hoary user
questions, we may make a testers list. Let's see how it goes. :-)

Thanks,

- Jeff

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Matt Zimmerman | 1 Nov 2004 01:25
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Re: cdrecord???

On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 09:53:23PM +0100, Jochem Kossen wrote:

> What if that doesn't work? I'd like to use it, but it constantly comes 
> up with a dialog saying 'Reload rewritable or blank media
> Please replace the in-drive media by a rewritable or blank media.'
> 
> (of course, there is blank media in the drive)
> 
> fortunately for me, cdrecord works fine
> 
> from dmesg:
> hdc: _NEC DVD_RW ND-2500A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
> 
> I was planning on investigating a little bit further, and then filing a 
> bugreport, but then i saw this thread coming by

You can often find more information by searching for an existing bug report:

https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2265

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David Williamson | 1 Nov 2004 02:03

Re: cdrecord???

On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 01:28 +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:

> It's kernel changes. In 2.4 and previous, the only way to send generic
> userland commands to ATAPI devices was to get the kernel to make them
> appear as SCSI devices (using ide-scsi). With kernel 2.6, ide-scsi is
> deprecated; ATAPI devices are expected to handle the SG_IO commands
> directly through the /dev/hd interface. The commands sent to the drive
> are the same in the end, but the kernel no longer invents the details
> of a SCSI bus for cdrecord -scanbus to look at.

Thanks very much - this is the kind of answer I was looking for :)
Makes sense now.

I suspect this is why another utility I used to use a lot seems to act
weird now - takes forever to start, seems to freeze, et cetera:
usbview.  It's handy to see what's connected to usb, but doesn't act
"right" in ubuntu, compared to libranet.  

Thanks for taking the time to explain things!

david w
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David Williamson | 1 Nov 2004 02:04

Re: cdrecord???

On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 14:22 +1100, andrew fries wrote:

> Try this: cdrecord --scanbus dev=ATAPI ... I don't have a burner on my 
> Ubuntu box, but this works on my other system.

Gives me this:

 #  cdrecord -dev=ATAPI -scanbus
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a29 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg
Schilling
NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an unofficial (modified) release of
cdrecord
      and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original
version.
      Please send bug reports and support requests to
<cdrtools <at> packages.debian.org>.
      The original author should not be bothered with problems of this
version.

scsidev: 'ATAPI'
devname: 'ATAPI'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Warning: Using ATA Packet interface.
Warning: The related libscg interface code is in pre alpha.
Warning: There may be fatal problems.
Error trying to open /dev/hda exclusively (Device or resource busy)...
retrying in 1 second.
Error trying to open /dev/hda exclusively (Device or resource busy)...
retrying in 1 second.
Error trying to open /dev/hda exclusively (Device or resource busy)...
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Lex Hider | 1 Nov 2004 02:41
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Re: network-admin not working for my dialup

I have appended this to bug #2352 at
https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2352

Would I be right in assuming that no ubuntu developers have dialup and
so can't test these things? If there I'd like to correspond because it
seems there are a few other things that may need ironing out.

I also had to correct my illiteracy. Now has no K.

Lex.

On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 13:56 +1000, Lex Hider wrote:
> Having set up the details for ppp in network-admin [i.e. "system
> configuration"->Networking] it won't connect.
> When I try to activate it the tick-box in the active column is ticked
> for about a second that is clears. 
> The modem doesn't respond in anyway it doesn't even check for a
> dialtone.
> 
> So I am know connected via pppconfig/pon which is working fine.
> 
> I really have no idea what the problem is but I would guess it could be
> a problem with detecting my modem. My modem is a NetComm Wave SP56.
> pppconfig fails to autodetect this modem and I have to manually
> specify /dev/ttyS1 as the modem port.
> 
> Lex.
> 
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Matthew East | 1 Nov 2004 03:19

Aterm loses transparency when resized

Hi there,

I have just upgraded ubuntu and have found that aterm now loses
transparency when the window is resized. Since aterm is in the universe
repo i have not been able to file a bug but since the problem was caused
by updating the system I thought that I would ask here for some help!
Can anyone help me out? I'd appreciate it a lot.

many thanks, Matt
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Matt Zimmerman | 1 Nov 2004 04:01
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Re: Lose ability to resolve every 60 minutes or so

On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 08:06:51AM -0500, William Ingram wrote:

> About every 60 minutes or so, I completely lose the ability to resolve,
> getting a "Temporarily Unable to Resolve Domain" error.

Read /var/log/syslog and see if the timing corresponds to your DHCP release
being renewed.  That could provide a clue.

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Nestor Hernandez Cruz | 1 Nov 2004 04:26
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mounting ntfs, and sharing files in a windows network

hello there
salutations

well
no problems in the system so far
but now I have another problem
I want to share some files in a windows network,
the campus at my school you know, so
I installed samba and nfs
but I can find a way of finding how to share a
directory
 another thing I can see other machines and files but
I can not share my files :(

The other problem is I know you already have told
about this, how to mount and ntfs files and give
permission to non root to write on the pwrtititon.

Finally, my keyboard is spanish, but I can not
configure it at all, the main symbols are ok, but I
can not find the way to use french accents ;(

Thanks guys.

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Pizbit | 1 Nov 2004 04:41
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Re: mounting ntfs, and sharing files in a windows network

On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 19:26:24 -0800 (PST), Nestor Hernandez Cruz
<nesthor <at> yahoo.com> wrote:
> hello there
> salutations
> 
> well
> no problems in the system so far
> but now I have another problem
> I want to share some files in a windows network,
> the campus at my school you know, so
> I installed samba and nfs
> but I can find a way of finding how to share a
> directory
>  another thing I can see other machines and files but
> I can not share my files :(

Add something like this to the end of /etc/samba/smb.conf
Ignore stuff after the #

[ShareName]
comment = #Blah
path = #location on YOUR computer of the share
browsable = yes #Useful:)
browseable = yes #Not sure which spell is used
public = yes #Show people the share in your listings
writable = no #Stop people from changing or deleting your files!

You can also put in to restrict the share to certain users(for each
share definition):
valid users = user1 user2
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Craig Adams | 1 Nov 2004 04:53
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Re: Lose ability to resolve every 60 minutes or so

Hi,

On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 15:16 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > Change the line to: (remove the '# ')
> > 'alias net-pf-10 off # IPv6'
> 
> This has no effect; that file is used for 2.4 kernels only.

That's what happens when you follow forum instructions without
understanding them. ;-)

> > Rename the ipv6.ko file:
> > 
> > mv ipv6.ko ipv6.ko.disabled
> 
> This will have the desired effect, but the change will be undone when the
> kernel package is next upgraded.

Yup, that is to be expected.

Can anyone point us to a better (more proper) way to disable IPV6?

Regards

Craig A.
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