Minor problems

[floyd_003]

Hello,
I managed to connect with my Mandrake 8 to Internet with DSL modem, and I am very happy x(). However, I do have
some minor problem and I would be helpful if anyone can help me solve them.

Problem 1: When I want to boot into Linux from windows loader (I setup
everything correctly by putting linux.bin in Win2K root), the boot sequence
got stucked in Starting X Font Server step, and just hangs there.

Problem 2: Therefore, I have to boot into Linux from floppy. But when I do
that, after message about starting VNC server, it hangs there until I hit
enter button and after that I got the message that password is too short
and I will have to manually login. I assume that is some service that needs
to be turned off

Problem 3: For some reason, mu Linux clock is exactly four hours after my
Windows one (Linux shows 19:23 while Windows shows 23:23). When I change
time on Linux box, it got changed on Windows as well.

Thanks for help.

Alan


:D

[gnostic]

- problem 1 -

I got that problem too with mandrake 8.0: the login sequence got stuck at the stage of starting the font server.
Did you did a expert install with individual package selection?
Some packages are mutualy exclusive and they should be choosen with care.
I found out that when I installed only the default packages, I had no such problem.
But twice I tried to do a full install by installing many packages i didn't fully understand, I got the same problem as you.

- problem 2 -

If you can, try reinstalling / and /usr. save /home and your data.
otherwise ask someone who would know better than me. I am very newbie too.

- problem 3 -

Just a question: is you time zone set up right?
Is your BIOS clock set up to GMT or to your local zone (or both)?
Have you told mandrake about this?


I hope it helps
(our world does need a lot of help at this time... every little helps...)

Anguo

[Craig McPherson]

Originally posted by floyd_003:
<STRONG>Problem 3: For some reason, mu Linux clock is exactly four hours after my
Windows one (Linux shows 19:23 while Windows shows 23:23). When I change
time on Linux box, it got changed on Windows as well.</STRONG>

I know the reason for this one.

In Windows, the CPU clock stores the local time. It's UNIX tradition, however, to store the CPU clock in GMT time (or UTC, which ever you want to call it) and then have the system adjust for your local time zone.

If you lived in England, this wouldn't cause a problem, because GMT and your local time would be the same. But you live four time zones away from GMT, so if your hardware clock is set to GMT Windows will always have the time wrong because it doesn't know to adjust the clock to your local time, and if your clock is set to your local time, Linux will get the time wrong because it expects the time to be in GMT.

Did that make any sense?

There are two things to do about this:

1. Configure Linux to not think that the CPU clock is stored in GMT. You can set this option when you compile the kernel, but there are also ways to change it in userland. Check your distro's documentation.

2. In Windows, double-click on the clock and set your Time Zone to GMT. The Windows clock will now show the correct time, even though it's set to the "wrong" time zone.

Who came up with this "time zone" nonsense to begin with, anyway?? Probably the French.

:p :p :p

[floyd_003]

Originally posted by gnostic:
<STRONG>- problem 1 -

I got that problem too with mandrake 8.0: the login sequence got stuck at the stage of starting the font server.
Did you did a expert install with individual package selection?
Some packages are mutualy exclusive and they should be choosen with care.
I found out that when I installed only the default packages, I had no such problem.
But twice I tried to do a full install by installing many packages i didn't fully understand, I got the same problem as you.

- problem 2 -

If you can, try reinstalling / and /usr. save /home and your data.
otherwise ask someone who would know better than me. I am very newbie too.

- problem 3 -

Just a question: is you time zone set up right?
Is your BIOS clock set up to GMT or to your local zone (or both)?
Have you told mandrake about this?


I hope it helps
(our world does need a lot of help at this time... every little helps...)

Anguo</STRONG>
Yeah, I did expert installation so I guess you are right. I will try with deafult one. And by the way, I fixed time problem according to your answer. Thanks. :)