Instalación de locale
Hola de nuevo. En primer lugar quisiera preguntaros si existe algún lugar dónde se encuentren archivados todos los mensajes que se generan en esta lista, -para no repetir demasiado las preguntas-. Concretamente sobre este tema se ha hablado no hace mucho: acentos y ñ en Potato, de buenas a primeras desaparecieron y a la vez se me generan muchos mensajes de locale not found o algo parecido, así como el siguiente aviso al configurar muchos programas: perl: warning: Setting locale failed perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LC_ALL='unset' LC_CTYPE=ISO_8859-1 LANG=spanish are supported and installed on your system perl: warning: Falling back to the standarc locale (C) Tengo la versión Debian Potato recién actualizada con el paquete locales 2.1.2-11.0.1 Tampoco me funciona setlocale ni localedef. Parece que todo esto tiene el mismo origen, por lo que os estaría muy agradecido si me ayudais a solucionar el mismo.
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Emilio Hernández Martín wrote: Hola. Muchísimas gracias a todos por vuestra ayuda y vuestra paciencia. Después de muchos intentos y muchas recompilaciones del kernel, al fin he conseguido dar con el fallo gracias a Agustín Martín Domingo que me dijo que si mi tarjeta era PCI, seguramente sería una SoundBlaster64PCI de Creative (es decir, Ensoniq) en vez de una SoundBlaster16PnP que es ISA, y así era. Tendré que ir a la tienda donde me vendieron el ordenados porque en un papel que me dieron con todas las características ponía que era una SB16PnP y yo, como un tonto, me lo creí. ;o) Dudo que ya queden de las SoundBlaster16. Creo que dejaron de fabricarlas hace algún tiempo y cuando ya escaseaban fue cuando ponían las PCI64 en vez de la SoundBlaster16. Tampoco te creas que la SB16 es una maravilla, pero por lo menos es algo más completa y tiene el sintetizador MIDI incorporado. No se si hay ventajas a favor de la PCI64, aparte de ser PCI. En principio debiera ser posible utilizar síntesis por software con una PCI64, pero no sé como hacerlo (se admiten sugerencias) Saludos, -- = Agustín Martín Domingo, Dpto. de Física, ETS Arquitectura Madrid, (U. Politécnica de Madrid) tel: +34 91-336-6536, Fax: +34 91-336-6554, email:[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://corbu.aq.upm.es/~agmartin/welcome.html
Re: Instalación de locale
Hola de nuevo. En primer lugar quisiera preguntaros si existe algún lugar dónde se encuentren archivados todos los mensajes que se generan en esta lista, -para no repetir demasiado las preguntas-. En http://www.debian.org/ tienes un link Archivos de las listas de distribución que te lleva a esta página http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/ Concretamente sobre este tema se ha hablado no hace mucho: acentos y ñ en Potato, de buenas a primeras desaparecieron y a la vez se me generan muchos mensajes de locale not found o algo parecido, así como el siguiente aviso al configurar muchos programas: perl: warning: Setting locale failed perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LC_ALL='unset' LC_CTYPE=ISO_8859-1 LANG=spanish are supported and installed on your system perl: warning: Falling back to the standarc locale (C) Tengo la versión Debian Potato recién actualizada con el paquete locales 2.1.2-11.0.1 Tampoco me funciona setlocale ni localedef. En esto ni idea, aunque si que se ha tratado. Saludos K-charro
Re: Instalación de locale
On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 07:55:22AM -, Miguel A. Abarca wrote: primeras desaparecieron y a la vez se me generan muchos mensajes de locale not found o algo parecido, así como el siguiente aviso al configurar muchos programas: perl: warning: Setting locale failed perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LC_ALL='unset' LC_CTYPE=ISO_8859-1 LANG=spanish are supported and installed on your system perl: warning: Falling back to the standarc locale (C) Yo tenía esos mismos problemas y solucioné el tema poniendo en /etc/profile : set meta-flag on# conservar bit 8 en entrada de teclado set output-meta on # conservar bit 8 en salida por terminal set convert-meta off# no convertir secuencias de escape # (Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO) export LC_CTYPE=ISO-8859-1 # Character classification and # case conversion. (man bash) export LC_ALL=es_ES# export LC_MESSAGES=es_ES # Formato de mensajes informativos # y de diagnostico, respuestas # interactivas. (man bash) export LANG=es_ES export LESSCHARSET=latin1 # Selecciona un conjunto de caracteres. # (man less) alias groff='groff -Tlatin1' # groff es usado por man. Saludos, Marcelo - __ __ _ Marcelo Ramos | \/ __| Debian 2.1 (Slink) | |_// Linux registered user #118109 |\ [EMAIL PROTECTED]|_|\/|_|\_\ __
Re: Solucionado Sonido. ¿Programa para escuchar MP3?
On lun, ene 17, 2000 at 09:52:05 +0100, Agustín Martín Domingo wrote: PCI64, aparte de ser PCI. En principio debiera ser posible utilizar síntesis por software con una PCI64, pero no sé como hacerlo (se admiten sugerencias) Instálate timidity. -- Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webs: http://www.ctv.es/USERS/viguPersonal http://www.ctv.es/USERS/vigu/linux/ ViguLinux PGP public key: http://www.ctv.es/USERS/vigu/vigu.pubkey
Re: Imagen tapiz 2.
Fernando wrote:
Emilio Hernández Martín wrote:
Hola.
Antes de nada, muchas gracias a todos los de la lista Debian por vuestra
ayuda tanto en éste como en otros asuntos.
Vamos con lo de la imagen tapiz.
Por una parte, me dijeron:
Yo tengo en mi .xsession antes del exec fvwm2 lo siguiente:
xpmroot $HOME/graficos/texturas/fondo_madera.xpm
lo que pasa es que yo no tengo ningún .xsession. Lo más parecido que tengo
es .xsession-errors en /root/, pero no creo que tenga nada que ver. ¿Puedo
crear yo un .xsession?, ¿cómo?, ¿dónde?,...
.xsesion es un script que se ejecuta cuando haces startx o creo que con el xdm
tambien.
ahi puedes poner todas las cosas que quieres en el arranque de las X, por ej.:
#!/bin/sh
# start some nice programs
xterm -sb -sl 500 -j -ls -fn 7x14 -bg lightgray -geometry +5+380
xterm -sb -sl 500 -j -ls -fn 7x14 -bg lightgray -geometry +5+5
asclock -position +958+2 -exec 'xlock'
xhost +local:
xpmroot $HOME/graficos/texturas/fondo_madera.xpm
exec fvwm2
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Vamos a ver, que no se si me aclaro o me lio mas.
Hasta donde yo se el .xsession es un gestor de arranque defecto de X.
Si uno define en .xinitrc el arranque de un Window-Manager especifico
con gestion propia (exec fvwm2, p.e.) no se procesa el .xsession sino el
.fvwm2rc p.e. Si el window-manager se define para el xdm/gdm (no startx)
entonces ni siquiera hace falta el .xinitrc. Lo que no se ahora es
exactamente donde queda definido el WM para la ejecucion desde xdm
(tendre que verlo en casa).
Porfa, que alguien me corrija si estoy equivocado.
Referente al tapiz en un entorno fvwm?. Los comandos sugeridos
funcionan todos con una linea en el fichero de inicializacion .fvwm?rc
AddToFunc InitFunction \
I Exec xsetroot -solid turquoise4 -cursor_name top_left_arrow
+ I Exec xv -geometry 1257x1024 -root -quit mikey.ras
Copiado de mi .fvwm2rc en solaris, en linux ahora lo tengo con un
xview/xloadimage y antes con el xsetroot
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Re: Imagen tapiz 2.
Roberto Lopez wrote:
Vamos a ver, que no se si me aclaro o me lio mas.
Hasta donde yo se el .xsession es un gestor de arranque defecto de X.
Si uno define en .xinitrc el arranque de un Window-Manager especifico
con gestion propia (exec fvwm2, p.e.) no se procesa el .xsession sino el
.fvwm2rc p.e. Si el window-manager se define para el xdm/gdm (no startx)
entonces ni siquiera hace falta el .xinitrc. Lo que no se ahora es
exactamente donde queda definido el WM para la ejecucion desde xdm
(tendre que verlo en casa).
Porfa, que alguien me corrija si estoy equivocado.
Referente al tapiz en un entorno fvwm?. Los comandos sugeridos
funcionan todos con una linea en el fichero de inicializacion .fvwm?rc
AddToFunc InitFunction \
I Exec xsetroot -solid turquoise4 -cursor_name top_left_arrow
+ I Exec xv -geometry 1257x1024 -root -quit mikey.ras
Copiado de mi .fvwm2rc en solaris, en linux ahora lo tengo con un
xview/xloadimage y antes con el xsetroot
He estado echando un vistazo a /etc/X11/fvwm2/system.fvwm2rc
y parece que ejecuta un script llamado /usr/bin/setup-background
que pone de fondo una imagen que previamente habra que copiar en nuestro
~/.fvwm2/background.gif
Saludos.
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The included message could not be delivered to the following invalid mail names. Please verify these names and try them again. Bad name: jcarlosh ---BeginMessage--- On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 07:55:22AM -, Miguel A. Abarca wrote: primeras desaparecieron y a la vez se me generan muchos mensajes de locale not found o algo parecido, así como el siguiente aviso al configurar muchos programas: perl: warning: Setting locale failed perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LC_ALL='unset' LC_CTYPE=ISO_8859-1 LANG=spanish are supported and installed on your system perl: warning: Falling back to the standarc locale (C) Yo tenía esos mismos problemas y solucioné el tema poniendo en /etc/profile : set meta-flag on# conservar bit 8 en entrada de teclado set output-meta on # conservar bit 8 en salida por terminal set convert-meta off# no convertir secuencias de escape # (Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO) export LC_CTYPE=ISO-8859-1 # Character classification and # case conversion. (man bash) export LC_ALL=es_ES# export LC_MESSAGES=es_ES # Formato de mensajes informativos # y de diagnostico, respuestas # interactivas. (man bash) export LANG=es_ES export LESSCHARSET=latin1 # Selecciona un conjunto de caracteres. # (man less) alias groff='groff -Tlatin1' # groff es usado por man. Saludos, Marcelo - __ __ _ Marcelo Ramos | \/ __| Debian 2.1 (Slink) | |_// Linux registered user #118109 |\ [EMAIL PROTECTED]|_|\/|_|\_\ __ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null ---End Message---
Re: Instalación de locale
On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 07:16:33AM -0300, Marcelo Ramos wrote: On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 07:55:22AM -, Miguel A. Abarca wrote: primeras desaparecieron y a la vez se me generan muchos mensajes de locale not found o algo parecido, así como el siguiente aviso al configurar muchos programas: perl: warning: Setting locale failed perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LC_ALL='unset' LC_CTYPE=ISO_8859-1 LANG=spanish are supported and installed on your system perl: warning: Falling back to the standarc locale (C) ¿Has instalado el paquete user-es? Quizás el problema es que yo he definido mal el LANG. export LC_ALL=es_ES# export LC_MESSAGES=es_ES # Formato de mensajes informativos # y de diagnostico, respuestas # interactivas. (man bash) export LANG=es_ES export LESSCHARSET=latin1 # Selecciona un conjunto de caracteres. # (man less) alias groff='groff -Tlatin1' # groff es usado por man. Con tu permiso, Marcelo, añadiré esto a user-es ¿te parece bien? Javi
Re: Modificar particiones
On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 04:42:51PM +0100, Fernando wrote: Necesito ampliar el espacio de mi particion Linux, tengo una partición Dos que no uso. ¿ Hay algun programa que permita modificar la partición sin destruirla ? Existe ext2resize, PERO, esta en versiones de desarrollo y quien sabe Haz copia de seguridad de lo importante y dale una oportunidad. Quien sabe... Si te rula, lo comentas, eh? Jordi
Re: Modificar particiones
En los CDs de debian viene una aplicación llamada FIPS.EXE. Lo que tienes que hacer es, básicamente, desfragmentar la partición DOS para que toda la información esté al principio, y duespués ejecutar FIPS para convertir el espacio que te sobra al final en una nueva partición. Yo lo he utilizado sin ningún problema, aunque ya hace mucho tiempo, y no puedo darte más detalles El día 17/01/00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] decía: Necesito ampliar el espacio de mi particion Linux, tengo una partición Dos que no uso. ¿ Hay algun programa que permita modificar la partición sin destruirla ? saludos. -- === Ley de murphy del día Si dejamos que las cosas marchen solas, suelen ir de mal en peor. -- Quinto Corolario de Murphy.
Re: Modificar particiones
At 04:42 PM 2000-01-17 +0100, Fernando wrote: Necesito ampliar el espacio de mi particion Linux, tengo una partición Dos que no uso. ¿ Hay algun programa que permita modificar la partición sin destruirla ? Puedes ver: http://www.dsv.nl/~buytenh/ext2resize/ De hecho, hay un paquete para Debian disponible. -- Ugo Enrico Albarello López de Mesa [EMAIL PROTECTED] A proud Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 User.
Re: Modificar particiones
Hola Fernando:
Creo recordar que con el FIPS se hacía algo parecido (creo que es con el
que arañé 500 MB a mi Win95 para instalar Linux)
Fernando wrote:
Necesito ampliar el espacio de mi particion Linux, tengo una partición
Dos que no uso. ¿ Hay algun programa que permita modificar la partición sin
destruirla ?
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RE: Modificar particiones
puedes utilizar partition magic 4. Con un disco de inicio de partition
magic.
Te puedes vajar la imagen del disco de inicio para pasarlo a un disket con
rawrite de:
http://web.jet.es/tomkat/extras/pm4_boot.zip
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Necesito ampliar el espacio de mi particion Linux, tengo una partición
Dos que no uso. ¿ Hay algun programa que permita modificar la partición
sin
destruirla ?
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The included message could not be delivered to the following invalid mail names. Please verify these names and try them again. Bad name: jcarlosh ---BeginMessage--- On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 05:52:17PM +0100, Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a wrote: export LC_ALL=es_ES# export LC_MESSAGES=es_ES # Formato de mensajes informativos # y de diagnostico, respuestas # interactivas. (man bash) export LANG=es_ES export LESSCHARSET=latin1 # Selecciona un conjunto de caracteres. # (man less) alias groff='groff -Tlatin1' # groff es usado por man. Con tu permiso, Marcelo, añadiré esto a user-es ¿te parece bien? Javi Pues me parece muy bien. Adelante . -- __ __ _ Marcelo Ramos | \/ __| Debian 2.1 (Slink) | |_// Linux registered user #118109 |\ [EMAIL PROTECTED]|_|\/|_|\_\ __ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null ---End Message---
Re: Modificar particiones
On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 08:28:32PM +0100, jet wrote: puedes utilizar partition magic 4. Con un disco de inicio de partition magic. Intentamos usar software libre? Para esto tenemos fips, y no es lo que Fernando quiere. Con fips cambias el tamaño de una partición fat. Fernando no tiene este problema, el espacio lo puede crear borrando la partición entera, ya que no la quiere. El problema es añadir ese espacio a su partición ya existente de Linux, y para esto está ext2resize, como le hemos dicho algunos. Aunque Fernando, quizás te convenga tener 2 particiones separadas. Usa una para /usr y el resto en la otra, o como tú lo veas, quizás las 400 megas estas para /home... La Copia de Software Propietario es Delito (y aquí al lado una calavera muy fea). (yo añado que también es más barato). La verdad, este tipo de eslóganes me parecen prehistóricos ya :) Jordi pgpe8tXx2dfmS.pgp Description: PGP signature
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Re: modem permissions
Isn't the device should be writable to the dialout group? [01:59:27 /tmp]$ ls -l /dev/ttyS2 crw-rw1 root dialout4, 66 Jan 17 01:30 /dev/ttyS2 [02:00:56 /tmp]$ --AqsLC8rIMeq19msA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable First time I`ve had to come back for a while! I`m trying to set up minicom but I can`t access the modem. Here`s the relev= ant info: bash-2.03$ minicom minicom: cannot open /dev/ttyS2: Permission denied bash-2.03$ ls -l /dev/ttyS2 crw-r-1 root dialout4, 66 Jan 16 19:23 /dev/ttyS2 bash-2.03$ groups paul mail dialout dip =20 I thought these permissions were correct for the device. Am I missing some= thing obvious?=20 --=20 Paul Walton * Powered by *=20 Cambridge* Debian GNU Linux * =20 U.K. * http://www.debian.org * * PGP Public Key: http://pgp5.ai.mit.edu/ * --AqsLC8rIMeq19msA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: cdlZSKS1LGit/17P6YuDqmSW2a6hw172 iQA/AwUBOIIcve/1FFGJgERVEQK6nQCfbb0vblfUISASU2dNoy/x6xUBTfIAoOS5 VYo5kJ3+eEql2cepMIk25rWi =JTCy -END PGP SIGNATURE- --AqsLC8rIMeq19msA-- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: stable innd is segfaulting
* Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[pid 17274] read(9, [EMAIL PROTECTED]..., 64) = 64
[pid 17274] write(17, 335\r\n, 5) = 5
[pid 17274] select(18, [4 11 13 17], [], NULL, {300, 0}) = 1 (in [17], left
{299, 98})
[pid 17274] gettimeofday({947982516, 627961}, NULL) = 0
[pid 17274] read(17, Path: news4.giganews.com!nntp2.g..., 4095) = 1019
[pid 17274] --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) ---
This post is really from someone *not having a clue*, but...
I notice that the `read(...' line above looks like a Message-ID. I
don't know the RFC for the format, but AFAIR, I have never seen one
with a Dollar-sign in it. So *maybe* that is wrong: a forbidden (or
incorrectly handled) Message-ID.
Cheers,
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Re: ppp hangup question
* Jocke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like my modem connection to hang up as soon as I get an incomming phonecall. Hmm. Do you maybe have knocking on the line enabled? (Sorry, don't know the proper word for it. It's just that you can hear that someone tries to call you if you already have a connection.) That might disturb it. -- 14. Madcatmachopsychoromantik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 09.15
Lilo Config
Hey, I'm planning on reinstalling Debian on my system today (I kind of messed a lot of stuff up, I could fix it, but I decided I'd rather just reinstall). In the past, I've always just booted Debian off of a floppy, but this time I want to use LILO to boot Debian or Win95 depending on what I want. If I want to use LILO, do I just choose 'Make bootable form hard disk' at the last step of Debian 2.1 Slink, or do I have to do something else. Is it possible to lose any information on my C: (windows) if I do install LILO on it? Thanks, Cameron Matheson
Emacs
Hey, I've noticed that installing Emacs is a big portion of installing Debian 2.1 Slink (if you choose the dialup profile). I was wondering if I needed emacs. I don't use it, because I'm satisfied with vi, but I wasn't sure if any applications required me to have emacs installed. Thanks, Cameron Matheson
Re: stable innd is segfaulting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Marquardt) wrote:
* Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[pid 17274] read(9, [EMAIL PROTECTED]..., 64) = 64
[pid 17274] write(17, 335\r\n, 5) = 5
[pid 17274] select(18, [4 11 13 17], [], NULL, {300, 0}) = 1 (in [17],
left {299, 98})
[pid 17274] gettimeofday({947982516, 627961}, NULL) = 0
[pid 17274] read(17, Path: news4.giganews.com!nntp2.g..., 4095) = 1019
[pid 17274] --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) ---
This post is really from someone *not having a clue*, but...
I notice that the `read(...' line above looks like a Message-ID. I
don't know the RFC for the format, but AFAIR, I have never seen one
with a Dollar-sign in it. So *maybe* that is wrong: a forbidden (or
incorrectly handled) Message-ID.
Nah, a $ is (or should be) OK according to RFC 822 - in fact, INN
appears to generate Message-IDs in that format. Thanks for the thought,
though.
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Re: Lilo Config
In the past, I've always just booted Debian off of a floppy, but this time I want to use LILO to boot Debian or Win95 depending on what I want. If I want to use LILO, do I just choose 'Make bootable form hard disk' at the last step of Debian 2.1 Slink, or do I have to do something else. You will have to modify your /etc/lilo.conf file and then run /sbin/lilo in order to add the DOS choice to your LILO options. On my system I have two IDE hard drives (/dev/hda and /dev/hdb) with Windows using all of /dev/hda1, Linux on /dev/hdb1, swap on /dev/hdb2, and Windows on /dev/hdb3). Here's what my /etc/lilo.conf looks like: (without the comments) boot=/dev/hda # Where I'm booting from. compact prompt # Let the user choose OS timeout=60 default=dos # Use dos by default (for my wife :) ) map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b image=/vmlinuz # Linux setup with root on /dev/hdb1 root=/dev/hdb1 label=lnx read-only other=/dev/hda1 # DOS setup with root on /dev/hda1 label=dos Is it possible to lose any information on my C: (windows) if I do install LILO on it? Yes it is, so be very careful, especially with the first line. I once put boot=/dev/hda1 instead of boot=/dev/hda. This put LILO over the partition information on my DOS disk, which meant I couldn't access the drive at all. boot=/dev/hda puts LILO in the master boot record, where it should go. Before you do anything (i.e. run /sbin/lilo) make a backup of your master boot record on a floppy: dd if=/dev/hda of=/mnt/floppy/mbr bs=512 count=1 This way if anything goes wrong you can boot Linux from your boot floppy, mount the floppy on /mnt/floppy and restore the MBR: dd if=/mnt/floppy/mbr of=/dev/hda bs-512 count=1 Also, read /usr/share/doc/lilo/Manual.txt It'll save your butt one day. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley tel: 907-474-2689 fax: 474-2643 930 Koyukuk Drive, Suite 408C email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alaska Fairbankswww.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu:8080/ Fairbanks, AK 99775 ~cswingle PGP key: http://www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu:8080/~cswingle/pubkey.asc
Re: Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp
The other poster has suggested removing setserial; is there anything bad that can result from it (i.e. what does setserial do on a laptop)? The reason the poster suggested that is because by default setserial will store and reload serial port configuration information before PCMCIA card services tries to load a serial port associated with the modem card you insert. Often what happens is setserial assigns /dev/ttyS0 - /dev/ttyS3 and irqs 3 and 4. When card services tries to allocate resources and interrupts to the PCMCIA modem card it can't find a free IRQ. I haven't tried this solution yet with 3.1.8, but I'll give it a shot tomorrow and see if I can get my Xircom modem to work with the latest PCMCIA. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley tel: 907-474-2689 fax: 474-2643 930 Koyukuk Drive, Suite 408C email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alaska Fairbankswww.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu:8080/ Fairbanks, AK 99775 ~cswingle PGP key: http://www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu:8080/~cswingle/pubkey.asc
Re: ssh2
Got it, thank's! I added deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US/main non-US/contrib non-US/non-free to my sources.list, then did apt-get update, apt-get install ssh2 Louis. On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: You have to have apt point to nonus site ie mirror.aarnet.edu.au Chanop On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 07:50:24PM +0700, Louis Larry wrote: Where can I get ssh2 for potato? apt-get install ssh2 gets: Package ssh2 has no available version, but exists in the database. Louis. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- ,-. | Chanop Silpa-Anan [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Australian National University | | Tel. +61 2 6279 8826, +61 2 6279 8837 (office hour) | | +61 2 6249 5240 (home +voice mail) | |Debian GNU Linux PGP available upon request | `-'
Re: Emacs
On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 05:50:23PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: Hey, I've noticed that installing Emacs is a big portion of installing Debian 2.1 Slink (if you choose the dialup profile). I was wondering if I needed emacs. I don't use it, because I'm satisfied with vi, but I wasn't sure if any applications required me to have emacs installed. You can safely remove it. Some applications may want it, but you'll find out which ones when you try to remove it. If you're not using emacs, then you can probably remove most programs that have a dependency on it. -- ++ | Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | ++
Re: Emacs
I don't use emacs either, and have always removed it with no problems. Sean Cameron Matheson wrote: Hey, I've noticed that installing Emacs is a big portion of installing Debian 2.1 Slink (if you choose the dialup profile). I was wondering if I needed emacs. I don't use it, because I'm satisfied with vi, but I wasn't sure if any applications required me to have emacs installed. Thanks, Cameron Matheson
Re: Emacs
Cameron Matheson writes: I was wondering if I needed emacs. You don't. Each profile installs someone's best guess at what might be needed for that task. A bunch of other stuff is 'standard' because it is believed that a Unix user would expect it to be present. I don't use it, because I'm satisfied with vi, but I wasn't sure if any applications required me to have emacs installed. That's what dependencies are for. If anything that ypu have installed needed it dpkg would complain when you tried to remove it. You might also want to remove tetex-base and tetex-bin. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin
Re: How to auto-login
On 16/1/2000 Fish Smith wrote: I'm running a machine for the lab at school and I want it to automatically login to a default user account. (i.e. instead of asking for login and password, it assumes login is user, user account having null password) How do I do this? The only accounts on the machine being root and user. (Pardoning my grammar =]) I will only need to login as root via su. I will have startx in the profile so that it will bring up the GUI automagically when powered on. sounds like a better option would be to install wdm and use its autologin feature, it lets you specify a user and password to automatically login as. Ethan
Re: Keyboard autorepeat
On 16/1/2000 Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: Where can I change this setting? /sbin/kbdrate -r 30.0 -d 250 worked for me. do it on the console though, or else it will only affect X it seems. can anyone tell me why there is a /etc/pam.d/kbdrate file that seems to do nothing? any user can use kbdrate and change the keyboard settings globally afaict. Ethan
CD-cataloguing program
Could somebody recommend a good cd-cataloguing program? It would be nice if it could handle data and audio cds, as well as read mp3 tags. Thanks! -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com 'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..' (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)
libungif3g-dev broken?
Did anyone else have trouble installing the libungif3g-dev (3.0-2.3) package? It seems to be broken. -- Andrew
Re: libungif3g-dev broken?
I get errors with that too. -Aaron Pollywog wrote: Did anyone else have trouble installing the libungif3g-dev (3.0-2.3) package? It seems to be broken. -- Andrew -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
broken pipe
In attempting to dpkg -i libgtk1.2_1.2.6-1.deb, the current potato libgtk, I'm getting the following: dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) dpkg: error processing libgtk1.2_1.2.6-1.deb) ... subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2 Could someone please clue me in to as to why this is happening? When the file was originally downloaded it stopped 6 bytes short, which I in turn did a 'reget' for and it is now complete as far as I can tell. Thanks in advance.. -cheshire
compiling dxpc
Hi, I'm trying to compile the newest version of dxpc on two different machines (one is running Deb 2.0, the other Deb 2.1). When I get to the `make' step, neither machine will compile. I appear to be missing some header files (I think, I know little of C). I don't know what packages I need to install to get the missing files. Here's the make output from both machines (slightly different on each). - start errors on Deb 2.0 box --- # make gcc -c -g -O2 -DX_DISPLAY_MISSING=1 -DACCEPT_SOCKLEN_T=int main.C main.C:1: iostream.h: No such file or directory main.C:26: X11/Xproto.h: No such file or directory In file included from main.C:36: util.H:4: fstream.h: No such file or directory make: *** [main.o] Error 1 # - end Deb 2.0 box, start Deb 2.1 box - # make gcc -c -g -O2 -DX_DISPLAY_MISSING=1 -DACCEPT_SOCKLEN_T=int main.C main.C:26: X11/Xproto.h: No such file or directory make: *** [main.o] Error 1 # -- end make errors for both boxes Any solutions ? TIA Gerald Crimp
Re: Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp
Hi Christopher S. Swingley; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: The other poster has suggested removing setserial; is there anything bad that can result from it (i.e. what does setserial do on a laptop)? The reason the poster suggested that is because by default setserial will store and reload serial port configuration information before PCMCIA card services tries to load a serial port associated with the modem card you insert. Often what happens is setserial assigns /dev/ttyS0 - /dev/ttyS3 and irqs 3 and 4. When card services tries to allocate resources and interrupts to the PCMCIA modem card it can't find a free IRQ. I haven't tried this solution yet with 3.1.8, but I'll give it a shot tomorrow and see if I can get my Xircom modem to work with the latest PCMCIA. Chris FWIW, my setserial is seeing the port ttyS1, even though it is disabled in the bios. /cat/interrupts, OTOH, does not show irq 3, which makes me think one of those information is wrong. But the fact that the modem is slow while using irq 3... and if I disable ttyS1 through setserial command, I can't get ttyS1 (now owned by pcmcia) to work at all with the card(s). damir
roadrunner cable
this may be a longshot, but is there anyone living in san diego and getting roadrunner cable? i e-mailed them to get some network information (broadcast address to use on my network, what system I should use as a DNS server, etc.) and they e-mailed me back saying that linux doesn't support roadrunner. i was wondering if anyone else had encountered this problem, and knows how to deal with it.
I messed up!
Hey, I was installing Debian 2.1 Slink, and I was trying to get through the installation process as quickly aspossible. I accidently made VGA16 as the default x server instead of SVGA. How do I make SVGA the default X server? Thanks, Cameron Matheson
Re: compiling dxpc
On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 07:19:54PM -0800, G. Crimp wrote: Hi, I'm trying to compile the newest version of dxpc on two different machines (one is running Deb 2.0, the other Deb 2.1). When I get to the `make' step, neither machine will compile. I appear to be missing some header files (I think, I know little of C). I don't know what packages I need to install to get the missing files. Here's the make output from both machines (slightly different on each). - start errors on Deb 2.0 box --- # make gcc -c -g -O2 -DX_DISPLAY_MISSING=1 -DACCEPT_SOCKLEN_T=int main.C main.C:1: iostream.h: No such file or directory main.C:26: X11/Xproto.h: No such file or directory In file included from main.C:36: util.H:4: fstream.h: No such file or directory make: *** [main.o] Error 1 # - end Deb 2.0 box, start Deb 2.1 box - # make gcc -c -g -O2 -DX_DISPLAY_MISSING=1 -DACCEPT_SOCKLEN_T=int main.C main.C:26: X11/Xproto.h: No such file or directory make: *** [main.o] Error 1 # -- end make errors for both boxes Any solutions ? Yes, you need to use g++ to compile these programs. They are C++, not C. So you need to have the relevant C++ development debs. Looks like you also need the X development debs. -- ++ | Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | ++
Re: roadrunner cable
this may be a longshot, but is there anyone living in san diego and getting roadrunner cable? i e-mailed them to get some network information (broadcast address to use on my network, what system I should use as a DNS server, etc.) and they e-mailed me back saying that linux doesn't support roadrunner. i was wondering if anyone else had encountered this problem, and knows how to deal with it. I'm not in San Diego, but while looking for RoadRunner login managers, I'm pretty sure I saw one for that area. rrlogin[d?] might have been for it or there might be one specific to it. Is there a newsgroup server for your RR's users? I'd ask about one there. RoadRunner's tech people seem to be plagued with ignorance. I bet they were thinking of the RR Manager not supporting Linux. I'm in upstate NY and we stopped needing a login program a couple weeks back. Now all I need to do is make sure my network card is setup right and then just install dhcpcd. That's it. No need to plug in any IPs or DNS servers or anything like that. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com Join AllAdvantage.com and get paid to surf the Web! http://www.alladvantage.com/go.asp?refid=ARD582
Re: I messed up!
On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 08:41:40PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: Hey, I was installing Debian 2.1 Slink, and I was trying to get through the installation process as quickly aspossible. I accidently made VGA16 as the default x server instead of SVGA. How do I make SVGA the default X server? Thanks, Cameron Matheson Change the first line in /etc/X11/Xserver to: /usr/bin/X11/XF86_SVGA -- ++ | Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | ++
Re: I messed up!
Thanks man, that worked perfectly. Cameron Matheson On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 08:41:40PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: Hey, I was installing Debian 2.1 Slink, and I was trying to get through the installation process as quickly aspossible. I accidently made VGA16 as the default x server instead of SVGA. How do I make SVGA the default X server? Thanks, Cameron Matheson Change the first line in /etc/X11/Xserver to: /usr/bin/X11/XF86_SVGA -- ++ | Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | ++ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
MTS or Escape Communications ADSL
Has anyone had any experience with either of these ADSL providers and linux? Any info would be muchly appreciated Peter Good. __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: failed ppp setup
On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 12:28:31PM -0500, John Davis wrote: Hello I need help with a partially configured ppp server. I have dial in working, but I can't get ppp to start. Currently, I can login to the proposed ppp server (via the modem from another linux computer using minicom) and get a shell. However, when I try to login as the ppp user, I get a permission deinied error and ppp doesn't start. Here's the minicom log: The normal configuration to make a ppp connection is use your normal login name with a capital P at the beginning. For instance, if you login to the shell as davis, you would login as Pdavis for ppp. login as: ppp password: /etc/motd snipped No mail. /etc/ppp/ppplogin: Permission denied --- The facts The computer/os info: Debian Linux slink (2.1 with latest patches installed.) i386 2.0.36 kernel Viking serial modem connected to COM1 (ttyS0). - The setup files and their contents - mgetty related - /etc/inittab: (relevant line only) s0:23:respawn:/sbin/mgetty ttyS0 -n1 /etc/mgetty/mgetty.config: (complete) debug 4 fax-id speed 38400 ppp related - /etc/ppp/options (complete file contents) asyncmap 0 crtscts lock modem debug proxyarp lcp-echo-interval 30 lcp-echo-failure 4 noipx lock domain johndavis.net /etc/passwd: (relevant line only) ppp:x:1003:30:ppp,,,:/tmp:/etc/ppp/ppplogin /etc/group: (relevant line only) dip:x:30:ppp /etc/shells:(relevant line only) /etc/ppp/ppplogin /etc# ls -l /usr/sbin/pppd -rwsr-xr-- 1 root dip105532 Jun 18 1998 /usr/sbin/pppd /etc/ppp/ppplogin: #!/bin/sh mesg -n stty -echo exec /usr/sbin/pppd -detach crtscts modem #exec /usr/sbin/pppd passive crtscts modem So that ppp is not started on boot, I have no_ppp_on_boot file in /etc/ppp John Davis -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY (ex-W6SWE) (RN2)[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ DM42nh QRP-L #1985 http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
Re: roadrunner cable
Looking around the web for a friend with RR cable, I stumbled upon this page: http://usmcug.usm.maine.edu/~kpesce/rr/ it may be of help to you. John - Original Message - From: David Pilz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2000 9:35 PM Subject: roadrunner cable this may be a longshot, but is there anyone living in san diego and getting roadrunner cable? i e-mailed them to get some network information (broadcast address to use on my network, what system I should use as a DNS server, etc.) and they e-mailed me back saying that linux doesn't support roadrunner. i was wondering if anyone else had encountered this problem, and knows how to deal with it. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: compiling dxpc
On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 07:47:45PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 07:19:54PM -0800, G. Crimp wrote: [snip] Yes, you need to use g++ to compile these programs. They are C++, not C. So you need to have the relevant C++ development debs. Looks like you also need the X development debs. -- Do you have any package names ? Thx, Gerald ++ | Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | ++ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp
I haven't tried this solution yet with 3.1.8, but I'll give it a shot tomorrow and see if I can get my Xircom modem to work with the latest PCMCIA. FWIW, my setserial is seeing the port ttyS1, even though it is disabled in the bios. /cat/interrupts, OTOH, does not show irq 3, which makes me think one of those information is wrong. But the fact that the modem is slow while using irq 3... and if I disable ttyS1 through setserial command, I can't get ttyS1 (now owned by pcmcia) to work at all with the card(s). My setup now works with the latest PCMCIA. My serial ports are enabled in the BIOS, setserial has been purged and I recompiled PCMCIA using the pcmcia-source package. The kernel detects a serial port as ttyS0, irq 3, but card services takes over this port somehow when I insert the modem card. IRQ 3 doesn't show up in /proc/interrupts, which seems strange, but it works. Don't know if this helps you or not. I sounds like you may have tried what I've got already. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley tel: 907-474-2689 fax: 474-2643 930 Koyukuk Drive, Suite 408C email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alaska Fairbankswww.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu:8080/ Fairbanks, AK 99775 ~cswingle PGP key: http://www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu:8080/~cswingle/pubkey.asc
Re: compiling dxpc
On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 09:24:15PM -0800, G. Crimp wrote: Do you have any package names ? g++, libc6, libstdc++2.10-dev, libc6-dev, libstdc++2.10, xlib6g-dev. There should be a README, INSTALL and possibly other files that came with the program to tell you what you need to compile it. Note: the packages listed above are for potato. The versions for Slink will be different. -- ++ | Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | ++
ntpdate and burstmode
I would like to use ntpdate in burstmode to set my sysclock when I log on to the Internet via a PPP connection. How can I do this? I cannot seem to find any documentation beyond the fact that burstmode exists. Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ldconfig and libwine.so
I am running the latest potatoe updated as of today. I have un-installed wine but now get the following warning message when running ldconfig ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libwine.so ... more ... skipping. How do I get rid of this -- when I run ldconfig -p I see no mention of libwine in the output so I gather the cache is not being updated??? I have fumbled with the various options to ldconfig from the man page but have failed to come up with the correct combination :( Thanks in advance Roy Pluschke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help -- UDMA install....
Just a few things you should check: Master/slave settings, isa card interferance, broken PCI cards, BIOS init, BIOS: NO PNP OS, broken chipsets, etc I hope this helps... Regards, Onno At 01:26 PM 1/14/00 -0600, Marc D Chapman wrote: I'm currently trying to help a friend install Linux onto his system. However, we are running into some massive problems. Whenever it gets to the point where it is checking the disk for errors, or formatting the disk (basically any large amount of disk access), the system will lock up completely. One of his drives is a UDMA with on-motherboard support for this (there are a total of 3 hard drives and 1 CD-ROM on the IDE), the drive is a Maxtor 6 GB (I don't recall the model number). We tried a number of different distributions (Debian 2.1, Redhat 6.1, Mandrake), but all do the same thing. Does anyone have any ideas as to what could be up (I checked the UDMA HOWTO, which didn't help, and also tried playing with drive settings (LBA vs. Large) also to no avail). Any help is appreciated marc Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction -Albert Einstien If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society we will soon have no art, no culture, no humour, no satire. -Erica Jong [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: ipfwadm
non - Original Message - From: George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: didier ayllon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Debian-User debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2000 10:31 PM Subject: Re: ipfwadm On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, didier ayllon wrote: when i try to do : ipfwadm -A -f The answer is : ipfwadm : setsockopt failed: Protocol not available Does anyone can help me ? Do you have ip accounting turned on in the kernel configuration? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp
Hi Brian May; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Also, this isn't the worst of my problems... If I try to bootup with the card in, or shutdown, the computer will lock up, and require a hardware reset in order to fix the problem. Inserting/removing the card after bootup seems to be OK though. When I asked about this on the linux-kernel mailing list, somebody suggested I replace the following parameter to my pcmcia.conf file with: PCIC_OPTS='pci_csc=0' however, that doesn't help :-(. A big guess, but are you guys sure you have no interrupt or similar conflicts? Nope. Checked the BIOS and /proc/interrupts, the module uses IRQ5 and this one is clean. Brian's situation might be different, but I have been using this modem for more than a year now and it used to just work. I used to run pcmcia-* from potato and simply upgraded pcmcia-cs from 3.0.9 (potato) to 3.1.something (potato) and recompiled the modules with the latest pcmcia-source (3.1.somthing from potato). There were no changes in my setup, none whatsoever. The whole thing doesn't make sense to me. I checked all config files in /etc/pcmcia and /etc/modutils and didn't find anything dubious. I might be overlooking somthing, but I just don't know what to look for. The card is definetly supported and I didn't need to pass any parameters in the past. Also, loading the modules seems to work fine, there are no error msgs. It's just that pppd fails to talk to /dev/ttyS2, but it used to work fine. This is driving me crazy. Any further ideas? -- Sent through Global Message Exchange - http://www.gmx.net
gdm, startx ... (URGENT)
After upgrading Xfree to 3.3.6, some problems arose: - gdm no longer works (/etc/init.d/gdm starts does nothing) - startx as user says X: you are not authorised to run the X server Any idea? Thanx, Alberto
hwclock --adjust in slink
Hi all, Since the BIOS clock in my PC at home is lagging behind more than 10 minutes per week, I looked into the correction mechanism of hwclock. I am able to set the BIOS clock with hwclock --set --date, and get the expected result if I try hwclock --show. The hwclock is called in a script from runlevels S, 1, and 6: $ ls /etc/rc?.d/*hw* /etc/rc0.d/S25hwclock.sh /etc/rc6.d/S25hwclock.sh /etc/rcS.d/S50hwclock.sh All these links call the script with the `start' argument, and as far as I can tell, this should adjust the clock and the system time using /etc/adjtime. Note that if hwclock.sh were called with stop|restart|reload, the BIOS clock would be set to the system time, but no K..hwclock script exists. If I reboot after a hwclock --set ..., somehow the BIOS clock gets reset to the system time, so that when the system comes up again, the BIOS clock trails as much as it did before I --set it to the right time. This is a on a slink system. Has anyone got an idea where the BIOS clock may be reset to its previous value? TIA, Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Eindhoven Univ. of Technology Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (SKA)
Re: gdm, startx ... (URGENT) (semi-SOLVED)
Reinstalled gdm: it works. However, xhost + tells: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 xhost: unable to open display :0.0 and so does any X application launched from an xterminal. Why? On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Alberto Maurizi wrote: After upgrading Xfree to 3.3.6, some problems arose: - gdm no longer works (/etc/init.d/gdm starts does nothing) - startx as user says X: you are not authorised to run the X server Any idea? Thanx, Alberto
Re: JDK says can't open /proc/xxxxx
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Werner) wrote: Thanks Nate, but I found the problem. Well, it may not be the actual problem but it lets java work for me. It just figures that I'd figure this out within 10 minutes of sending my post. Turns out that the environment variable FLAGS_CLASS=-green was being ignored. I modified /usr/lib/jdk1.1/bin/.java_wrapper (that being the script that the java commands all call) to force green threads. For what it's worth, that script doesn't appear to know anything about FLAGS_CLASS, but 'export THREADS_FLAG=green' solves the problem for me without having to edit the wrapper script. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Viewing powerpoint files
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aaron Solochek) wrote: There is a small windows app which lets you view but not create powerpoint presentations. Its free on microsofts website. Has anyone tried to run this on top of wine or the similar? Not that particular program, but I've successfully run Word in WINE not too long ago, so assuming that there's a fair bit of shared code among the various bits of Office then you shouldn't have too much trouble with it. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp
I recently upgraded my laptop to Linux 2.2.14 (from 2.0.36) with the latest pcmcia-* and modutils, too. I compiled both the kernel and the pcmcia-source myself. I don't know if the kernel upgrade is significant or the upgrade of pcmcia-*. I don't think it's the kernel. I used to run 2.2.9 (and I still do) without problems before the pcmcia-* upgrade. (I can't compile pcmcia-source for Linux 2.0.36 as my compiler is too new. Perhaps I should try and compile pcmcia-* from slink with Linux 2.2.14??? Will that work???) Don't know. Maybe I'll give it a try. There's another odd thing: the dependencies of the pcmcia-modules-2.2.9 package (for my 2.2.9 kernel) indicate that it depends on pcmcia-cs 3.0.14 and *only* 3.0.14. I didn't use the pre-built modules but compiled the pcmcia modules from source. But the source is 3.1.8, could that be the problem? Are there some pcmcia-source packages 3.1.* (but still potato) available? I didn't find any on the debian FTP server. Do you keep them around? I have a xircom combo Ethernet/28.8k Modem card. It works find with Linux 2.0.36 and pcmcia-* from slink. (sidenote: I have noticed recently that this card runs very hot - is this normal?) All I can tell you is that all of my pcmcia cards do that as well and I haven't observed any problems. The Ethernet card part works fine. lehman Jan 15 19:16:30 sirius pppd[352]: pppd 2.3.5 started by lehman, uid 1001 lehman Jan 15 19:16:30 sirius pppd[352]: tcgetattr: Input/output error(5) lehman Jan 15 19:16:31 sirius pppd[352]: Exit. I haven't tried pppd myself, but minicom cannot talk to the modem (no errors, just nothing displayed). lehman ...just as if the modem wasn't inserted at all. But when lehman inserting the modem, the output of cardmgr looks ok: lehman Jan 15 19:17:28 sirius cardmgr[109]: initializing socket 2 lehman Jan 15 19:17:28 sirius cardmgr[109]: socket 2: Serial or Modem lehman Jan 15 19:17:28 sirius cardmgr[109]: executing: 'insmod lehman /lib/modules/2.2.9/pcmcia/serial_cs.o' lehman Jan 15 19:17:28 sirius kernel: tty02 at 0x17f8 (irq = 5) is a 16550A lehman Jan 15 19:17:28 sirius cardmgr[109]: executing: './serial start ttyS2' I get that too. Curiously, with the slink pcmcia-* packages, the modem is assigned tty03, not tty02 - could that be significant? I don't remember that the tty assigned to the card changed, but then again, I didn't upgrade from slink but potato - latest potato. lehman And setserial says: lehman [lehman] ~sudo setserial -a /dev/ttyS2 lehman /dev/ttyS2, Line 2, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x17f8, IRQ: 5 lehman Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0 lehman closing_wait: 3000, closing_wait2: infinte lehman Flags: spd_normal skip_test I get similar results from setserial -a /dev/modem, but setserial -a /dev/ttyS2 just returns an error: /dev/ttyS2: pcmcia controlled device (/var/run/stab) Stale lockfile? lehman I checked /etc/pcmcia.conf and /etc/pcmcia/serial.opts and lehman didn't find anything that looks offensive to me. What's lehman going on here? I don't know how to track this down, any help lehman appreciated... Also, this isn't the worst of my problems... If I try to bootup with the card in, or shutdown, the computer will lock up, and require a hardware reset in order to fix the problem. Inserting/removing the card after bootup seems to be OK though. When I asked about this on the linux-kernel mailing list, somebody suggested I replace the following parameter to my pcmcia.conf file with: PCIC_OPTS='pci_csc=0' however, that doesn't help :-(. -- Sent through Global Message Exchange - http://www.gmx.net
XF86config
I have install Debian on my PC and startX sucessfully. However, the windows and icons are to large. Althought I could cycle the resolution by "Ctrl+Alt+Keypad-plus" , but I still want to start X at correct resolution mode. So I want to reorder the modelinein the "screen" sectionof the XF86config file. I could see the screen sections for SVGA, MONO, VGA16 and accel X-servers. I couldn't see the screen section for my X-server : XF86_3Dlabs What's the problem with it? or How to do the purpose I wanted? Phil
RE: LINUX installation - Debian Distribution
Friend, I downloaded the image-files rescue and drivers disks and a new rescue and driver disk was created using rawrite2. But, when I´ve the prompt 'boot:', I don´t know the correct command to mount root fs. When I try Install Operating System Kernel and Modules, the system display a warning that the root fs isn´t mounted. Obs - Before this point, I receive the message below: 'Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card!' Thanks for the Help, [ ] Ailton S. A. From: Paul McHale [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ailton Santos [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian-user@lists.debian.org CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: LINUX installation - Debian Distribution Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 14:10:42 -0500 Interface - Adaptec SCSI, model AHA1540CF/AHA1542CF: IRQ 11, DMA 5, ID 7 PORT 134h BIOS Revisao 2.02 Ender. Base DC000h FIRMWARE Revisao E.0 Soma Verific 4B81h HD ID 0 and PORT 80h Here is something from a previous post that might help: Assuming that you're trying to install slink (2.1, stable branch) rather than potato (unstable), I've got a set of unofficial install-disks setup specifically for this situation. You can snarf them from http://www.debian.org/~adric/aic7xxx/slink/5.1.19/. -- Paul McHale Work: 937-253-7610 Double E Solutions Mobile: 937-371-2828 4912 Effingham Fax:413-215-3232 Dayton, Ohio 45431 -- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
fdformat?
Hello, I'm trying to excute fdformat. No matter what I enter I get the following error message: floppy drive state now=13142098 last interrupt=13142098 last called handler=c0182f4c timeout_message=floppy starts: 881369470 f80369470 090369470 ' last results at 13101664 last redo_fd_request at 13101664 status=10 fdc_busy=1 DEVICE_INTR=c0181f50 fd_timer.function=c0181ebf cont=c0227970 CURRENT= command_status=-1 floppy: floppy timeout called ioctl(FDFMTTRK) I/O error ___ end of error message the command I entered was: fdformat /dev/fd0H1440 I should point out that I'm using REDHAT. The system I'm going to is Debian. I'm trying to copy some files off of my old system. TIA. Wayne-
First it works, now it doesn't : (
I got my scanner to work just by pointing apt-get to unstable and installing sane 1.0.1 at first. I've been installing quite a few other things, and now my scanner doesn't work any more. I tried installing the latest sane from Debian, as well as the new gimp, and xsane. My scanner is an AGFA 1236S. find-scanner reports it at /dev/sg1. I've modified dll.conf by commenting out everything but snapscan, and changed snapscan.conf to point to /dev/sg1, but scanimage very occasionally will scan, spitting loads of stuff to the console, but most of the time I just get segmentation fault. xscanimage give some error for gtk, sorry I don't have the error available. and xsane just reports no scanner device available. Unfortunately, Debians latest version of xsane in unstable is .49 I'm not sure if they'll include .50 before the freeze. When I get some more time with the PC, I'll see what else I can find out. It seems the problem with xscanimage might be incompatibility with a new version of gtk+, because it was working earlier. As far as scanimage and xsane, I'm not sure. I've set up dll.conf and snapscan.conf to point to the device identified by find-scanner, but the just say that the device is not available? If anyone has any ideas where I should look, it would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, John Gay
Re: Keyboard autorepeat
--- Alisdair McDiarmid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 06:53:25PM +, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: I just upgraded my machine to current potato, and the keyboard autorepeat settings have changed: delay is now 500ms instead of ~300ms as it was before. I've fixed the problem in X by editing my XF86Config file (added AutoRepeat 300 5 in the Keyboard section) but the virtual console setting is still wrong. No it's not, I'm just being stupid. By the way, where did this change in the recent upgrade? Somewhere in the X packages? Upstream in XFree86. Former versions didn't even handle the AutoRepeat option. While 3.3.6 does, it can't restore it for the console because the rate can't be inquired. Michel = Software is like sex; it's better when it's free -- Linus Torvalds If you continue running Windows, your system may become unstable. -- Windows 95 BSOD __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: netscape sharing win98/linux
--- jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i think i remember a past post about how to get netscape commicator to share the mail box between win9x/linux partiions.. what's i've done is put the mail box on the windows partition .. mount it from linux and point there.. but it doesn't seem to be working.. i have communicator 4.7 I do the same thing at Uni, with Solaris and NT, and it works (apart from the fact that the Winblows version creates some additional files which the Solaris version considers folders ;-/). What do you do exactly, and what's the problem? Michel = Software is like sex; it's better when it's free -- Linus Torvalds If you continue running Windows, your system may become unstable. -- Windows 95 BSOD __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: broken pipe
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In attempting to dpkg -i libgtk1.2_1.2.6-1.deb, the current potato libgtk, I'm getting the following: dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) dpkg: error processing libgtk1.2_1.2.6-1.deb) ... subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2 Could someone please clue me in to as to why this is happening? When the file was originally downloaded it stopped 6 bytes short, which I in turn did a 'reget' for and it is now complete as far as I can tell. Thanks in advance.. Looks like the file is broken nonetheless. Try re-downloading it. Why don't you use apt-get? It makes like so much easier. Michel = Software is like sex; it's better when it's free -- Linus Torvalds If you continue running Windows, your system may become unstable. -- Windows 95 BSOD __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Emacs not aware of Japanese fonts?
Hi there, I've been trying to type Japanese in Emacs, apparently in vain. The toggle-input-method command works, since I find myself in the situation where I can start typing phonetically. I find the same behaviour as I had way back when I had compiled and installed Emacs on my Red Hat machine: I can choose the kanji I wish to see instead of the phonetic transcription I have typed. Except that I can't see any Japanese character on my screen. Nice little boxes instead, all looking the same, none looking as a Japanese character. So I guess it's a font problem. I have installed virtually all the font packages I found, apparently without any effect. Could this be something I missed with Emacs configuration? The /usr/share/emacs/20.5/etc/PROBLEMS file says : (Snip) * Under X11, some characters appear as hollow boxes. Each X11 font covers just a fraction of the characters that Emacs supports. To display the whole range of Emacs characters requires many different fonts, collected into a fontset. If some of the fonts called for in your fontset do not exist on your X server, then the characters that have no font appear as hollow boxes. You can remedy the problem by installing additional fonts. The intlfonts distribution includes a full spectrum of fonts that can display all the characters Emacs supports. (Snip) Unfortunately, the intlfonts package is removed and no longer available (dixit dselect). Any idea? -- Roland Mas It would be hard to be deader without special training. -- in Theatre of Cruelty (Terry Pratchett)
Re: Keyboard autorepeat
Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 06:53:25PM +, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: I just upgraded my machine to current potato, and the keyboard autorepeat settings have changed: delay is now 500ms instead of ~300ms as it was before. I've fixed the problem in X by editing my XF86Config file (added AutoRepeat 300 5 in the Keyboard section) but the virtual console setting is still wrong. No it's not, I'm just being stupid. By the way, where did this change in the recent upgrade? Somewhere in the X packages? I'm having the same problems, and I think its X related. I run kbdrate on boot up, and everything is fine untill I run X. The kbd suddenly speeds up not just in virtual consoles in X, but also back in the text console terms as well. I have to run kbdrate now, every time I turn around. There is, to me, something suspicious that I haven't noticed before. The last lines of the text console after starting X now include: SetKbdSettings - type: 0 rate: 5 delay: 105 snumlk: 0 SetKbdSettings - succeeded Where is this coming from? Its NOT the AutoRepeat thing in XF86Config, this is something new thats been added recently. -- It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. -- Voltaire Ed C.
Re: roadrunner cable
On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 07:35:47PM -0800, David Pilz wrote: i e-mailed them to get some network information (broadcast address to use on my network, what system I should use as a DNS server, etc.) and they e-mailed me back saying that linux doesn't support roadrunner. i was wondering if anyone else had encountered this problem, and knows how to deal with it. Well, no, but while researching my own cable modem hookup (Cablevision) I found this page: http://www2.vortech.net/rrlinux/. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] I-Con's Science and Technology Guest of Honor in 2000 will be Geoffrey A. Landis. See http://www.iconsf.org for I-Con information.
root should be able to do anything... right???
Last week I've send a mail about a weird file, that should be a directory but it was a character device. (/usr/X11R6/include/X11/fonts). It also had weird permissions: c---r- 1 8224 10280 49, 117 Dec 1 2031 fonts Now I'm trying to remove this file, the system won't allow me (yes ofcourse I'm root). I've also tried rm -f. I've tried to chown the 'file'/'character device' to root and a chmod, the only thing I get to see is Operation not permitted. Any suggestions??? Ron
inn package changes permissions?
Before I report this as a bug, I thought I'd check others' experience. Whenever apt-get (or formerly dpkg) upgrades inn, I find that permissions in /var/lib/news and sometimes /var/log/news are changed. Some of the files are now owned by root, rather than news, meaning innd running as news can't write to them and exits. Anyone else seeing this? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] I-Con's Science and Technology Guest of Honor in 2000 will be Geoffrey A. Landis. See http://www.iconsf.org for I-Con information.
How to access tape drive ?
Dear all, I have a scsi tape drive and want to use it to backup. From the output of dmesg, i know that the tape drive is detected. However, I don't know the device file name of the drive. The output of dmesg command : scsi : 1 host. Vendor: IBM Model: DCAS-34330W Rev: S65A Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 (scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 20.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8. Vendor: IBM Model: DCAS-34330W Rev: S65A Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 (scsi0:0:1:0) Synchronous at 20.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8. Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST31200N Rev: 8648 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sdc at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0 (scsi0:0:2:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15. Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST31200N Rev: 8648 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sdd at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0 (scsi0:0:4:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15. Vendor: SONY Model: SDT-2000E Rev: E326 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 (scsi0:0:6:0) Synchronous at 5.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8. scsi : detected 4 SCSI disks total. Pls help! Thank you very much! Wilson
Re: Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Christopher S. Swingley wrote: The other poster has suggested removing setserial; is there anything bad that can result from it (i.e. what does setserial do on a laptop)? The reason the poster suggested that is because by default setserial will store and reload serial port configuration information before PCMCIA card services tries to load a serial port associated with the modem card you insert. Often what happens is setserial assigns /dev/ttyS0 - /dev/ttyS3 and irqs 3 and 4. When card services tries to allocate resources and interrupts to the PCMCIA modem card it can't find a free IRQ. I haven't tried this solution yet with 3.1.8, but I'll give it a shot tomorrow and see if I can get my Xircom modem to work with the latest PCMCIA. I (the original poster) went back to pcmcia-source 3.0.14 yesterday and everything is up and running again. pcmcia-cs is 3.1.8-4 and setserial is still installed. -- Philip Lehman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ipchains
On my network there is one linux server and some windows things, the linux server is used as a gateway (and some other things), but it doesn't work properly. When internet exploder is used, all goes fine (most of the time), but when for example someone tries to ping from within the dos box it doesn't. I think it has something to do with ipchains. Both the input as the output chain accept anything and the forward chain: ipchains -A forward -j MASQ -s 192.168.0.1 -d 0.0.0.0/0 (for every IP on the network). What can I do to fix this?? Ron
Re: Illegal isntruction
aphro wrote: its possible one of the critical libraries is not installed corecctly or is curropted(say libc)..try re-installing all the libraries that the binaries that give those errors have. also upgrade or downgrade the How can i do this if even dpkg complains about the Illegal Instruction thing kernel(to 2.0) while *I* have not heard of any of these errors reported in 2.2.1 there was network related problems and maybe there was other issues..what is hte kernel compiled for? 2.2 is more optimized then 2.0 for the specific processors and if the kernel was compiled for i686 it could cause that error(i'd imagine) on a k6. I don't think there is any problem with the kernel. It has been working for a long time, with no problems at all! -- Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://neptuno.sc.uevora.pt/~mjnf
xterm permission problems after upgrading to 3.3.6
On a potato system after upgarding xterm to 3.3.6 I am unable to start xterm as a regular user (starting as root works). The ~/.xsession-errors file says: xterm: Error 14, errno 13: Permission denied The xterm binary is: -rwxr-sr-x1 root utmp 161680 Jan 15 03:53 /usr/bin/X11/xterm And group utmp is present in my /etc/group file. Any suggestion? Attila
Remote access
Hardware: ISDN Teles 16.3 card Goal: I want to be able to let other computers log in on my server, by calling the server with a modem or isdn card. The server isn't always connected to the internet and runs a 2.2.13 kernel with debian 2.1 Can anybody tell me how I could do that. The other computers will use windows and linux. Ron
Re: XF86config
--- Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have install Debian on my PC and start X sucessfully. However, the windows and icons are to large. Althought I could cycle the resolution by Ctrl+Alt+Keypad-plus , but I still want to start X at correct resolution mode. So I want to reorder the modeline in the screen section of the XF86config file. I could see the screen sections for SVGA, MONO, VGA16 and accel X-servers. I couldn't see the screen section for my X-server : XF86_3Dlabs Try the section for accel servers. Michel = Software is like sex; it's better when it's free -- Linus Torvalds If you continue running Windows, your system may become unstable. -- Windows 95 BSOD __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Project Management
Hi I wonder if there is any open-source project-management (à lá MS-Project) tool available, even if not debianized? Thanks -- Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://neptuno.sc.uevora.pt/~mjnf
Re: unexpected end of file
Ethan you were partially correct in your reply.
When I comment out the if structure that tests for the
existence of .bashrc, and 'sources' it if it does exist,
there are no problems. That is, I can source the file
without any problems.
However the problem seems still to be elsewhere.
When I uncomment the if structure I am able to run the file as
an argument to bash, i.e bash .profile or, after changing
the files permissions, as a shell programme ./.profile.
This suggest (to me at least) that the problem is not one
of syntax.
It looks like something is broken.
I have tried creating and then sourcing simple shell scripts
and they suffer from the same problem.
Do you or anyone else have any sugestions?
TIA and thanks for your previous reply.
Its probably not as complicated as you are making it, more likely
there is just a stray or something
if there are any if then structures make sure they are terminated
with a fi, all { have a matching } and so on.
all it takes is one stray ' or ` to cause that, bash keeps looking
for the closing quote, or the fi or whatever and if it gets to the
end of file it complains.
Ethan
Re: External Serial Modem in Debian
Quoting John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): It's an external PnP 3Com 33.6 Sportser. Is it possible to get external PnP modems working? External PnP? The phrase makes no sense. If it's an external it should just work. What have you tried and what happened? Give exact details. No, but it's what they write on the box. On mine, it's part of the sticker with Free Internet Connection Kit Inside on it, so I suppose some of the boxes needed PnP and they carelessly doubled it up on the same label. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
Re: Re: ssh2
Ciao Louis Larry, I added deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US/main non-US/contrib non-US/non-free interesting! I have: deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free (unstable/non-US) while you have unstable and the 'non-US' string together main/contrib/non-free. Obviously it works the same. (my line is shorter than yours, :-))) Ciao -- Paolo Pedaletti, Como, ITALYa paolo . pedaletti @ flashnet . it
Re: Graphics tablet pen + psaux mouse
Quoting J Horacio MG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I acquired a graphics tablet and a ps/2 mouse. I wonder if it's possible to have them both working together, or whether there's another solution to it. The tablet pen specifications are: 3-button cordless (cell powered) pen and a tablet with a serial port connection. I got the ps/2 mouse in the hope that it would be feasible to connect it to the aux port and have the tablet connected to the serial port at the same time, but since the tablet box says it is the ultimate mouse replacement, I fear it won't be possible to have them both working together. So, providing the tablet works at all with Debian, what's the way to go to have them both working? This /etc/gpm.conf isn't exactly the same, but shows that gpm, for one, can run two devices at the same time: device=/dev/psaux responsiveness= type=ps2 append=-l \a-zA-Z0-9_.:~/\300-\326\330-\366\370-\377\ -M -m /dev/t tyS0 -t ms -l \a-zA-Z0-9_.:~/\300-\326\330-\366\370-\377\ (The devices are a ps2 touchpad and a serial mouse.) Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
Re: Keyboard autorepeat
--- Ed Cogburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is, to me, something suspicious that I haven't noticed before. The last lines of the text console after starting X now include: SetKbdSettings - type: 0 rate: 5 delay: 105 snumlk: 0 SetKbdSettings - succeeded Where is this coming from? Its NOT the AutoRepeat thing in XF86Config, this is something new thats been added recently. Let's repeat it: It _is_ the AutoRepeat thing. It was ignored in former versions of XFree86. Michel = Software is like sex; it's better when it's free -- Linus Torvalds If you continue running Windows, your system may become unstable. -- Windows 95 BSOD __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: root should be able to do anything... right???
Use lsattr and check the attributes on the file, if is is listed as type i (imutable) for example, you will not be able to remove the file unless you use chattr and remove the attribute first. Regards, Todd At 12:57 PM 1/17/00 +0100, Ron Rademaker wrote: Last week I've send a mail about a weird file, that should be a directory but it was a character device. (/usr/X11R6/include/X11/fonts). It also had weird permissions: c---r- 1 8224 10280 49, 117 Dec 1 2031 fonts Now I'm trying to remove this file, the system won't allow me (yes ofcourse I'm root). I've also tried rm -f. I've tried to chown the 'file'/'character device' to root and a chmod, the only thing I get to see is Operation not permitted. Any suggestions??? Ron -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: root should be able to do anything... right???
On Hai, 17 Giªng 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: Last week I've send a mail about a weird file, that should be a directory but it was a character device. (/usr/X11R6/include/X11/fonts). It also had weird permissions: c---r- 1 8224 10280 49, 117 Dec 1 2031 fonts Now I'm trying to remove this file, the system won't allow me (yes ofcourse I'm root). I've also tried rm -f. I've tried to chown the 'file'/'character device' to root and a chmod, the only thing I get to see is Operation not permitted. Any suggestions??? Have you checked the immutability bit with chattr, try a chattr -i fonts. But it looks like your hard drive is corrupted, I'd fsck it before trying to remove the directory/file. -- Ashley Clark
Re: root should be able to do anything... right???
Ron Rademaker wrote: Last week I've send a mail about a weird file, that should be a directory but it was a character device. (/usr/X11R6/include/X11/fonts). It also had weird permissions: c---r- 1 8224 10280 49, 117 Dec 1 2031 fonts Now I'm trying to remove this file, the system won't allow me (yes ofcourse I'm root). I've also tried rm -f. I've tried to chown the 'file'/'character device' to root and a chmod, the only thing I get to see is Operation not permitted. Any suggestions??? From my mailing list archive: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Clint Adams) cc: Debian User Mailing List debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: File impossible to delete Solved! Date: Fri, 08 Aug 1997 15:20:49 -0400 From: Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is one for the books! Clint Adams wrote: On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote: Somehow, I got a corrupted file on my system: bash-2.00# ls -l /root/Mail/ total 269488144 c---r- 8240 8224 8224 32, 48 Aug 2 1995 drafts I can't delete it! You're going to need to use debugfs to get rid of it. This worked (with /dev/sda3 mounted as the root filesystem): debugfs -w -R rm /root/Mail/drafts /dev/sda3 Thanks everybody! -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maurice-Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada 418-775-0852 - FAX 418-775-0546
Re: root should be able to do anything... right???
I tried to do a lsattr, when it reached fonts I got: lsattr: No such device While reading flags on ./fonts Ron On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Todd Suess wrote: Use lsattr and check the attributes on the file, if is is listed as type i (imutable) for example, you will not be able to remove the file unless you use chattr and remove the attribute first. Regards, Todd At 12:57 PM 1/17/00 +0100, Ron Rademaker wrote: Last week I've send a mail about a weird file, that should be a directory but it was a character device. (/usr/X11R6/include/X11/fonts). It also had weird permissions: c---r- 1 8224 10280 49, 117 Dec 1 2031 fonts Now I'm trying to remove this file, the system won't allow me (yes ofcourse I'm root). I've also tried rm -f. I've tried to chown the 'file'/'character device' to root and a chmod, the only thing I get to see is Operation not permitted. Any suggestions??? Ron -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
dselect/APT problems on potato
Hi All I can't seem to get my dselect and apt-get to play niceley. If I choose the apt method in dselect, and do an update, I get the following problem after the package files have been downloaded: Get:1 ftp://ftp.cdrom.com potato/main Packages [847kB] Get:2 ftp://ftp.cdrom.com potato/main Release [93B] Get:3 ftp://ftp.cdrom.com potato/contrib Packages [34.1kB] Get:4 ftp://ftp.cdrom.com potato/contrib Release [96B] Get:5 ftp://ftp.cdrom.com potato/non-free Packages [78.5kB] Get:6 ftp://ftp.cdrom.com potato/non-free Release [97B] Fetched 960kB in 7m37s (2099B/s) Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Merging Available information E: Invalid operation dumpavail update available list script returned error exit status 100. Press RETURN to continue. I'm not sure if dselect's idea of packages are getting updated or not? If I run apt-get update I don't see any error messages. Does this also update dselect? Thanks Neilen -- E-Mail: Neilen Marais [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 16-Jan-2000 Time: 00:13:53 This message was sent by XFMail --
Re: root should be able to do anything... right???
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Peter S Galbraith wrote: Ron Rademaker wrote: Last week I've send a mail about a weird file, that should be a directory but it was a character device. (/usr/X11R6/include/X11/fonts). It also had weird permissions: c---r- 1 8224 10280 49, 117 Dec 1 2031 fonts Now I'm trying to remove this file, the system won't allow me (yes ofcourse I'm root). I've also tried rm -f. I've tried to chown the 'file'/'character device' to root and a chmod, the only thing I get to see is Operation not permitted. Any suggestions??? From my mailing list archive: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Clint Adams) cc: Debian User Mailing List debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: File impossible to delete Solved! Date: Fri, 08 Aug 1997 15:20:49 -0400 From: Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is one for the books! Clint Adams wrote: On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote: Somehow, I got a corrupted file on my system: bash-2.00# ls -l /root/Mail/ total 269488144 c---r- 8240 8224 8224 32, 48 Aug 2 1995 drafts I can't delete it! You're going to need to use debugfs to get rid of it. This worked (with /dev/sda3 mounted as the root filesystem): debugfs -w -R rm /root/Mail/drafts /dev/sda3 Thanks everybody! -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maurice-Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada 418-775-0852 - FAX 418-775-0546 It worked!@
Re: root should be able to do anything... right???
i suggest running an e2fsck on the drive there may be errors in the filesystem nate On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: ron ron Last week I've send a mail about a weird file, that should be a directory ron but it was a character device. (/usr/X11R6/include/X11/fonts). It also had ron weird permissions: ron ronc---r- 1 8224 10280 49, 117 Dec 1 2031 fonts ron ron Now I'm trying to remove this file, the system won't allow me (yes ron ofcourse I'm root). I've also tried rm -f. ron I've tried to chown the 'file'/'character device' to root and a chmod, the ron only thing I get to see is Operation not permitted. ron ron Any suggestions??? ron ron Ron ron ron ron -- ron Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null ron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 7:21am up 150 days, 19:24, 2 users, load average: 0.27, 0.29, 0.33
Re: root should be able to do anything... right???
Try lsattr and chattr... Regards, Onno At 12:57 PM 1/17/00 +0100, Ron Rademaker wrote: Last week I've send a mail about a weird file, that should be a directory but it was a character device. (/usr/X11R6/include/X11/fonts). It also had weird permissions: c---r- 1 8224 10280 49, 117 Dec 1 2031 fonts Now I'm trying to remove this file, the system won't allow me (yes ofcourse I'm root). I've also tried rm -f. I've tried to chown the 'file'/'character device' to root and a chmod, the only thing I get to see is Operation not permitted. Any suggestions??? Ron -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Problem searching list archives
Like Chris Baker, I can't seem to search the list archives at http://www.de.debian.org/Lists-Archives/ No matter what I put as the search string, even stuff like `debian' which has to be in archive somewhere, I get a blank response on the page http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/searchlists If I take Howard Mann's advice and select debian-user and Jan to Mar 0 (presumably this page is not Y2K compliant because it should be 00 and this entry should appear at the top, not the bottom) I get No archives match that combination of lists and dates. which suggests that the cgi can't parse Jan to Mar 0. Despite Howard Mann's advice, of course, I shouldn't have to set either of the filters because the page advertises defaults. -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
Re: root should be able to do anything... right???
Quoting Ron Rademaker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Subject: root should be able to do anything... right??? Err, wrong. Root can ignore ownership and permissions, but that's about it. Any program that allowed root to do whatever it liked would be insane. Last week I've send a mail about a weird file, that should be a directory but it was a character device. (/usr/X11R6/include/X11/fonts). It also had weird permissions: c---r- 1 8224 10280 49, 117 Dec 1 2031 fonts Now I'm trying to remove this file, the system won't allow me (yes ofcourse I'm root). I've also tried rm -f. I've tried to chown the 'file'/'character device' to root and a chmod, the only thing I get to see is Operation not permitted. Any suggestions??? I agree with Eric. I think you've got a problem on that disk, even if it's not actually dying. It might be worth checking with fsck or examining with debugfs. I don't know much about this sort of thing, but fsck might put the directory's files into lost+found. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
Vplay
I'm looking for the vplay sound player and cant seem to locate it anywhere on the net. where do I find it??? Derek
Re: unexpected end of file
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ethan you were partially correct in your reply.
When I comment out the if structure that tests for the
existence of .bashrc, and 'sources' it if it does exist,
there are no problems. That is, I can source the file
without any problems.
However the problem seems still to be elsewhere.
When I uncomment the if structure I am able to run the file as
an argument to bash, i.e bash .profile or, after changing
the files permissions, as a shell programme ./.profile.
This suggest (to me at least) that the problem is not one
of syntax.
It looks like something is broken.
I have tried creating and then sourcing simple shell scripts
and they suffer from the same problem.
Do you or anyone else have any sugestions?
Its probably not as complicated as you are making it, more likely
there is just a stray or something
if there are any if then structures make sure they are terminated
with a fi, all { have a matching } and so on.
all it takes is one stray ' or ` to cause that, bash keeps looking
for the closing quote, or the fi or whatever and if it gets to the
end of file it complains.
IIRC I used to get the error in the Subject when I forgot to add a blank line
at the end of scripts.
Michel
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Partitioning SparcStation
I have a sun4m machine and Debian installed great on it with one exception. It will not boot correctly (or at least the way I'd like it). The first hard drive has partition 3 labelled as type Whole Disk. The hard drive is then partitioned with 500 MB for / and 500 MB for /tmp. When I reboot the computer waits at what seems to be a Sun boot prompt. I need to manually type in boot disk1:1 to tell the machine to boot from the first partition of the first disk. After doing that I proceed to the SILO prompt where the Linux boot procedure that I am familiar with commences. I really need this machine to be remotely rebootable ... can it be done? Thanks, Fraser
Re: root should be able to do anything... right???
On 17/1/2000 Ron Rademaker wrote: Last week I've send a mail about a weird file, that should be a directory but it was a character device. (/usr/X11R6/include/X11/fonts). It also had weird permissions: c---r- 1 8224 10280 49, 117 Dec 1 2031 fonts Now I'm trying to remove this file, the system won't allow me (yes ofcourse I'm root). I've also tried rm -f. I've tried to chown the 'file'/'character device' to root and a chmod, the only thing I get to see is Operation not permitted. Any suggestions??? the only thing that would stop root from doing those things is the immutability bit (or a read only filesystem but that gives a different error), see what lsattr says about it if it shows something like i--- then it is immutable, you can try to run chattr -i fonts but that might not work if something is really screwed up. (as that file looks to be) if the kernel thinks its immutable but chattr does not or won't remove the immutable bit, i have no idea how you will get rid of that thing! Ethan
