Problems booting Debian on an external USB disk on a MacBook
Hi! I am trying to install Debian Lenny on my MacBook, by way of an external USB hard disk and Refit. I have followed the instructions given in http://ghaint.no-ip.org/~k2/debian/mbp-usb.html and succeeded in booting from the i386 net-install for Lenny Beta 2, created partitions and installed the system. The problem is that I am unable to boot into the Linux system afterwards. At the Refit prompt, I do get three OS icons (Mac OS, Windows and Linux). I have Mac OS and Windows installed on the internal harddisk, these boot fine. The problem is that when I try to boot from the external disk, chosing the Linux icon, it boots into Windows anyway. Does anyone have an idea on what I might be doing wrong? -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No keyboard in X after upgrading to Etch
Hans Vogelsberger: > Perhaps the reason is a difference between your old and your new file > /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/fi. I'm not sure if it's an error in those files, I tried also selecting "se", the Sweden keyboard (which should be identical, but traditionally the Finland keyboard has worked better in Linux), with the same result. -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No keyboard in X after upgrading to Etch
Orestes Leal: > yeah, happens to me with gdm-2.14, but, does CTRL + ALT + F1 works ? No, that doesn't work either. > I suggest you that start a session from the command line with the > startx command and if this way donÂt work do a 'Xorg -configure and > the CLI and follow the steps suggested, good luck. I'll have a go at that and see if it makes any difference. -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No keyboard in X after upgrading to Etch
Hi!
I am having problems after upgrading a machine from Sarge to Etch (the
machine was originally a Progeny Debian install, which has since been
upgraded). After the upgrade, the keyboard does not respond under X (at
least not from GDM, but I can't get to anywhere else without the
keyboard). It works fine from the console.
I can't see anything strange in the Xorg log:
(II) LoadModule: "kbd"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/kbd_drv.so
(II) Module kbd: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 7.1.1, module version = 1.1.0
Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 0.6
and
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Generic Keyboard" (type: KEYBOARD)
xkb_keycodes { include "xfree86+aliases(qwerty)" };
xkb_types{ include "complete" };
xkb_compatibility{ include "complete" };
xkb_symbols { include "pc(pc105)+fi+altwin(meta_win)" };
xkb_geometry { include "pc(pc105)" };
and the xorg.conf file looks fine as well:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "fi"
Option "XkbOptions""altwin:meta_win"
EndSection
Does anyone have any good suggestions?
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Computer keeps hanging
Hi! I am having problems with my machine, it keeps hanging. First I thought it was the graphics card, an ATI card using the ATI driver. I upgraded from Sarge to Etch, then switched to an Nvidia card, both with the Nvidia and ATI drivers. Today I managed to capture the crash message, by watching the syslog from a remote terminal. This is the crash message, at least the end of it (the rest got lost in the scrollback, when I tried capturing it, but I did take some photos of it with my digital camera in case there is something I need to reproduce: kernel: Stack: dbdfc000 b01f3701 d8e85be8 da7f6e60 0300 d8ca8f20 0003 0008 kernel:d8e85e54 d8e85e58 003fff8a 003fff8a kernel: Call Trace: kernel: tty_poll+0x21/0x60 do_select+0x223/0x3c7 kernel: __pollwait+0x0/0xb2 default_wake_function+0x0/0xc kernel: default_wake_function+0x0/0xc default_wake_function+0x0/0xc last message repeated 7 times kernel: default_wake_function+0x0/0xc do_sock_write+0xa3/0xaa kernel: core_sys_select+0x28a/0x2a7 convert_fxsr_to_user+0xef/0x143 kernel: save_i387+0xf4/0x106 setup_sigcontext+0x107/0x18e kernel: do_notify_resume+0x4d5/0x5be __remove_hrtimer+0x1d/0x26 kernel: hrtimer_try_to_cancel+0x38/0x3e convert_fxsr_from_user+0x15/0xd5 kernel: sys_select+0x9f/0x180 do_gettimeofday+0x19/0x9b kernel: sysenter_past_esp+0x54/0x75 kernel: Code: 00 00 20 58 8b 83 30 01 00 00 5b c3 85 c0 53 89 c3 75 18 8b 42 38 51 89 c2 c1 e8 14 81 e2 ff ff 0f 00 52 50 68 7a ab 29 b0 eb 20 <31> c0 81 3b 01 54 00 00 74 23 8b 42 38 51 89 c2 c1 e8 14 81 e2 kernel: EIP: [] tty_paranoia_check+0x1f/0x4e SS:ESP 0068:d8e85b78 I am using a stock kernel from Debian: Linux version 2.6.17-2-k7 (Debian 2.6.17-9) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.2 20060901 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-13)) #1 SMP Wed Sep 13 17:18:46 UTC 2006 Does anyone have any ideas what the problem might be? Should I file a kernel bug? -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian, X and ATI Radeon X1300
Kelly Clowers: Your mail came out almost unreadable: > On 4/10/06, Peter Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> Hi!>> The graphics > card in my Debian machine died a couple of weeks ago, and> I had to buy a new > one. I ended up with a ATI Radeon X1300, since I> have had good experiences > with ATI cards and Debian before.>> :01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: > ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 7146> :01:00.1 Display controller: > ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 7166>> But it didn't work. Neither > XFree86 from Sarge nor Xorg from> backports.org find the card, so I'm > currently using the "vesa" driver,> which isn't very optimal. Is there any > version of X that works with> X1300?>> I tried downloading ATI's drivers, but > they give an error while trying> to build the module.>> make.sh: line 1: > gcc-2.9: command not found> make.sh: line 54: [: !=: unary operator > expected> ATI module generator V 2.0> ==> > initializing...> cleaning...> patching 'highmem.h'...> probing for VMA > API versi! on...> check results are inconsistent!!!> none of the probed versions did succeed.> aborting module build.>> --> \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ > As Vitaliy said, the ATI binaries do not support r5xx chips (X1xxx)and > unfortunately, neither do the open source drivers. > Seehttp://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon for details (bottom of thepage). Ok, I guess I have to wait for ATI to update their drivers, then. :-( Or switch the card over to the Windows box, which has an older, supported, ATI card. -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian, X and ATI Radeon X1300
Hi! The graphics card in my Debian machine died a couple of weeks ago, and I had to buy a new one. I ended up with a ATI Radeon X1300, since I have had good experiences with ATI cards and Debian before. :01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 7146 :01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 7166 But it didn't work. Neither XFree86 from Sarge nor Xorg from backports.org find the card, so I'm currently using the "vesa" driver, which isn't very optimal. Is there any version of X that works with X1300? I tried downloading ATI's drivers, but they give an error while trying to build the module. make.sh: line 1: gcc-2.9: command not found make.sh: line 54: [: !=: unary operator expected ATI module generator V 2.0 == initializing... cleaning... patching 'highmem.h'... probing for VMA API version... check results are inconsistent!!! none of the probed versions did succeed. aborting module build. -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [question] debian where two AMD cpus...
정재영: I want to know whether Debian is proper to my system? Linux does support dual-CPU systems just fine. Moreover, which debian (woody or potato) is proper? Woody is the newest one of the two, Potato is no longer supported. However, I can not find any information about adaptation on debian on your homepage. What, exactly, is it you are looking for that is lacking from the home page? Information about the Woody release of Debian can be found at http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/> -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ I do not read or respond to mail with HTML attachments. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mach64 framebuffer on a 2.2.25 kernel
Hi! I have an old Pentium 90 that I use as a router/etc machine between my intranet and the cable tv network. It has an integrated Mach64 graphics card, on which I am trying to run a framebuffer. I am using a 2.2.25 kernel, mostly because 2.2 has worked great so far, and 2.4 is bigger (it only has 32 Mbyte of RAM). Anyway, I can get the Mach64 framebuffer to start, but only in 640×480 mode. I want to use 800×600 so that I get 100×40 columns (although 80×30 is better than 80×25). However, I cannot get the driver to respond to my configuration attempts. I've tried adding both vga=0x303 and append="video=atyfb:mode:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" without any success. The VESA fb driver does not work on the machine. I tried googling for any info, but the only thing I found was I question I wrote in 1999 about the other Mach64 card I have (for which the VESA fb *does* work). According to the framebuffer driver, I have this card: mach64CT (ATI264CT) [0x4354 rev 0x00] 1M DRAM, 14.31818 MHz XTAL, 135 MHz PLL, 60 Mhz MCLK Any help would be appreciated. -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ I do not read or respond to mail with HTML attachments. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gifs, the Gimp, various viewers, and Impress
Chris Halls: but on 1.1rc I get the option to export the graphics as JPG, which should be better quality and should actually work. Why not PNG? For navigational buttons, PNG would be the obvious choice. JPEGs have a tendency to distort that kind of images quite a lot. -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ I do not read or respond to mail with HTML attachments. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Infra-red with Casio PAD-2?
Hi! With the (now broken) Casio watch I bought a few years back, I got an infra-red transceiver (since it was one of those watches with built-in calendaring and stuff, which I quickly fell to not use since I got a PDA at about the same time...) Anyway, the only drivers that came with the IR transceiver was for use with the watch, and only for Windows 9x. I was wondering if anyone knows about any way of getting this working under Linux, as a regular IR device? That would be very nice. It connects to a standard serial port, but I don't know anything about what kind of protocol it speaks to the PC with. The full model name is "Casio PAD-2", and according to the sticker at the bottom it is "Made in Malaysia" by "Extended Systems, Inc.". I tried googling for the name, but I couldn't find anything appropriate. Any help would be appreciated. -- Använder M2, Operas revolutionerande e-postklient: http://www.opera.com/m2/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Update cd image for Woody?
Kevin McKinley: > CD #1 of Woody 3.0r1 is available here (among other places): > ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian-iso/ I don't want to update to 3.0r1 cd images, I want an update cd (3.0->current) to be used in *addition* to the current set. Basically something with everything from security.debian.org for Woody (bit arranged as a cd). Does such a thing not exist? (Please Cc replies, I do not read this list directly) -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ I do not read or respond to mail with HTML attachments. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Update cd image for Woody?
Hello! Is there any cd image available with all the updates made since the initial release (security stuff mainly)? I have made Woody cds, and I want to update a non-broadband machine with the security updates without hogging a modem for several hours (expensive!) TIA, -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ I do not read or respond to mail with HTML attachments. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Frame buffer support for GeForce 4 Ti4600?
Hello! Does anyone know how to get frame buffer support to work on a GeForce 4 Ti4600 card? I have recently switched computers, and in my old computer vesafb (in a 2.2 kernel) worked just fine with my old GeForce 2MX, but neither vesafb nor rivafb (in 2.4.20) works with my new card. Does anyone know how to get it running? I want to run the frame buffer in 800×600 to get 100×40 text (80×25 gives too little text, 132×44 is too small...) vesafb throws this error message on boot (I tried several VESA modes, and they all give the same message): vesafb: abort, cannot ioremap video memory 0x800 @ 0xd000 and fails to show anything (the computer boots up into X just fine, though). Rivafb doesn't warn me, AFAICT, but I couldn't get it working with "video=rivafb:800x600-256". I might be using the wrong command line for rivafb, it's poorly documented. X works just fine with nVidias Linux drivers (I cannot use the XFree86 drivers, on Woody they do not support my card), but I want a working console mode as well. Please Cc replies to me, due to the volume I do not read this list. -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ I do not read or respond to mail with HTML attachments. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Transition problems Qt2->Qt3
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Transition problems Qt2->Qt3
Hello! I am trying to recompile a program of mine which uses Qt (package "turqstat"). Since the new version isn't done yet, I am just trying to recompile with GCC 3.2 and libqt3. After fixing the configure.in I get compiling, and get a lot of warnings due to change of include files (I'll have to fix those later). However, the big problem comes after the binaries have been built, when I try to build the QM files for the Qt translations. The Qt3 packages does not seem to contain the msg2qm program required to transform the PO file into a QM file. Does anyone know where I can find msg2qm, or a replacement, so that I can build the QM files properly? (Please Cc replies to me, I do not read this list due to the volume.) -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ I do not read or respond to mail with HTML attachments. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dosemu
Hello! I have installed Dosemu (1.0.2.1, the version that is included in Debian 3.0), and have some problems getting my Swedish keyboard to work. I have tested some different configuration, and with this: $_rawkeyboard = (0) $_layout = "finnish-latin1" $_keybint = (on) I get Swedish characters to work in xdosemu, but not in a console or an xterm, when I run there nothing happens when I press the Swedish keys. Furthermore, in console mode I get "emulated" PC8 graphics. When I ran Dosemu earlier (several years ago, and obviously two configuration file fornmats earlier) I could configure Dosemu to open a new virtual console and use a PC8 font there. I cannot find that optin in 1.0.2.1, does anyone know if it is possible? It's not that important, I can survive with the ugly line-drawing symbols, the important thing is that I get the keyboard working. Please Cc replies to me, I do not subscribe to this list. -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ I do not read or respond to mail with HTML attachments. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2.4.20 kernel crashes while scanning partition list (fwd)
I am installing Debian Linux on my new Athlon XP PC, and I have
problems with the 2.4.20 kernel crashing on boot. I can successfully
boot using the 2.4.18 kernel build that is included with the Debian 3.0
install cds.
The problems seems to stem from my use of Promise FastTrak133 RAID
controller (yes, I know they say it sucks, but it's what is integrated
on the MB). In 2.4.18, I can get ataraid working, although I have to
specify the address to the IDE controller manually. 2.4.20 picks that
up automatically, but crashes when enumerating the HD partitions
(reproducible every time).
The crash output looks like this (I had to write it down by hand, hopefully
there will be no typos):
{{{output from enumerating partitions on /dev/ataraid/d0}}}
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 000
printing eip:
*pde =
Oops:
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<>] Not tainted
EFLAGS: 00010282
eax: ebx: ecx: c038c740 edx:
esi: f7e80f40 edi: 0040f5c8 ebp: 06ed3cf9 esp: c1c17d94
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process swapper (pid: 1, stackpage=c1c17000)
Stack: c01e5ddc c038c740 f7e80f40 0002 f7e80dc0 c1a7b3d0
c01e5e3e f7e80f40 0006 c01351b0 f7e80f40
c1a7b3d0 d7fbcdb4 f7ed0d30 1000 0004 0400 f7e80f40
Call trace: [] [] [] [] []
[] [] [] [] []
[] [] [] [] []
[] [] [] [] []
[] [] [] [] []
Code: Bad EIP value.
<0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
The corresponding System.map file can be downloaded at
http://www.softwolves.pp.se/tmp/2.4.20/System.map-2.4.20> and a
partition list from sfdisk -l can be found at
http://www.softwolves.pp.se/tmp/2.4.20/partlist.txt>.
The motherboard is a MSI KT3Ultra2 ("VIA KT333 chipset based"), the CPU
is an Athlon XP2200+, and the machine has 1 Gbyte of RAM.
Any help in getting this resolved would be greatly appreciated! I
really would like to move on from my old K6 machine...
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volume.
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Re: Promise RAID install problems
Meir Kriheli: > The raid device is used via a different node, e.g: > /dev/ataraid/d0p1 Indeed! I did have a look around in /proc but couldn't find any information there, should've of course have looked there. *slaps forehead* Thank you! This seems to work just fine. Now just to figure out what makes LILO so confused about the setup... > Yep, I guess that's an option :-) But now that I actually got the stuff working with the Linux drivers (which unlike the supplied RedHat drivers doesn't give me hoards of mirrored fake-SCSI disks in the list), I'd rather go ahead and use it. -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ I do not read or respond to mail with HTML attachments. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Promise RAID install problems
Meir Kriheli on 2002-11-14: > I've answered similar question some time ago. See this thread in the archives: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200208/msg00953.html Thank you! I finally had time to try the installation again (interference from real life)... Quoting the referenced mail: > Write down the numbers, reboot the install cd again and at the boot > prompt write: > bf24 ide2=0x(a),0x(b+2) ide3=0x(c),0x(d+2) > b+2 means the value of b incremented by 2, and same applies to d+2. > Now the controller and raid should be detected. This seems to work. However, this identifies the two disks in the RAID systems as two different disks (hde and hdg), with identical contents; it does not identify them as one [mirrored] RAID disk. If I would continue to install on one of this disks, I assume that this would not mean that the contents will be mirrored, so I don't think this can be used. > I was very disappointed by it. While working I pulled the plug on one > of the hd's (RAID1 config) to simulate a dying HD, lot of timeout > message started appearing and the systems froze. Once restarted the > system didn't boot. As far as I can tell from the specs, this seems to be the documented behaviour, it will not run on only one disk, and once restarted a new disk must be inserted and the array be rebuilt before it is possible to continue... Maybe I should just give up, put the two disks on the standard IDE controllers and just run software RAID instead? Please Cc me, I do not have the time to follow this list. -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ I do not read or respond to mail with HTML attachments. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Promise RAID install problems
Meir Kriheli: > I've answered similar question some time ago. See this thread in the > archives: Thanks! Somehow that didn't show up when I searched for info earlier. -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ Statement concerning unsolicited e-mail according to Swedish law: http://www.softwolves.pp.se/peter/reklampost.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Promise RAID install problems
Eduard Bloch: > Not true, there are lots of boards with Highpoint controllers. I've learned to loathe Highpoint controllers from other machines I've been working with, but perhaps support has been improved since (that was in 2000). > Thanks for reminding me, I have just updated the Woody Preload Floppy > with this driver. Please report success or failure. Promise RAID driver? Where can I download your updated version, I'd love to try it. I did get the system installed, but I haven't done any customizations on it yet, so it doesn't bother me much to wipe everything. I did burn the 7 cd set to be able to install multiple times anyway... And if I can get the array up and running using Linux' own drivers instead of the ones from Promise, I'd be even happier. Please Cc me, I do not subscribe to this list due to its volume. -- \\// Peter - I do not read or respond to mail with HTML attachments. Statement concerning unsolicited e-mail according to Swedish law: http://www.softwolves.pp.se/peter/reklampost.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Promise RAID install problems
nate: Thanks for your reply. > these are really bad cards to use with under Linux. I noticed that. The problem is that it is hard to get motherboards with other built-in RAID controllers... :-/ > it looks to only support raid0, Too bad, the only reason I use RAID is to do mirroring. Anyway, I have now actually gotten the drivers from Promise to work (the drivers for "Red Hat"). It does some weird things - the array shows up multiple times in the disk list - but at least I was able to install the system and boot into it properly. What I did was to go to Promise, download their drivers, extract the relevant zip file (for FastTrak 100, RedHat uniprocessor), find the driver that most closely matched my setup (2.4.18-3/FastTrak.o) and put it on a vfat floppy as per the Debian installation instructions. I then loaded this module into the installation system, which made it find my array. I am going to try the native drivers from a newer 2.4 kernel later. For now I'm happy that I got it working so far. My problem now is that I cannot get LILO to boot my Windows installation. The only thing that happens is that I get an error message from NT saying that it cannot find the kernel. Does anyone know if I can do some special tweaking to get this to work? I'm booting NT from an NTFS partition, and Linux from a ext2 partition, which are the two first partitions on the array (sda1 and sda2). I put LILO in the MBR. Please Cc me, I do not subscribe to this list due to the volume. -- \\// Peter - I do not read or respond to mail with HTML attachments. Statement concerning unsolicited e-mail according to Swedish law: http://www.softwolves.pp.se/peter/reklampost.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Promise RAID install problems
Hi! I am trying to install Debian 3.0 on my new PC which has a Promise FastTrak133 RAID controller to which I have attached two disks to use for mirroring. Accessing these disks from MS-DOS works fine. When I try to boot the install cd (using the bf24 flavour), the installer claims that it does not find any FastTrak RAID controller, which makes a bit hard to install anything. The errata for Woody points to a disk with RAID drivers, but it seems to not include any for this controller (but I might be mistaken, if so, please correct me). The RAID controller is a Promise 20276 integrated on the motherboard. Please Cc me, I do not subscribe to this list due to the volume. -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ I do not read or respond to mail with HTML attachments. Statement concerning unsolicited e-mail according to Swedish law: http://www.softwolves.pp.se/peter/reklampost.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Netscape icon in Gnome
Hi! Previously there was a Netscape icon included somewhere with the Gnome packages (the Netscape logo mapped onto a cube). It also was automatically added to the panel on first run. Now, however, when I upgraded to the latest testing sources, the icon disappeared. Do I need to install another package that was not added by apt-get dist-upgrade, or is the icon lost forever? Please Cc me on your replies, thanks. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ I do not read or respond to mail with HTML attachments. Statement concerning unsolicited e-mail according to Swedish law: http://www.softwolves.pp.se/peter/reklampost.html
stopped working in X
Hi! After I yesterday updated some packages to be able to install KDE base from unstable, my key seems to have stopped working properly. It used to work in most places, but now it does some really weird things in several programs (most notably ncurses program and the bash shell). In my Xmodmap (I have a severly modified keymap) I have keycode 0x61 = Home so it should work properly. Has anything with this changed recently? Which package is most proper to file a bug against? xfree86-common? Please Cc replies to me, I don't subscribe to this list. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ Statement concerning unsolicited e-mail according to Swedish law: http://www.softwolves.pp.se/peter/reklampost.html
Changing bug origin
Hi! Is it possible to change the submitter address on bug reports? I have several open reports submitted under obsolete addresses that I would like to update my address for. Please Cc me, I do not subscribe to this list. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ Statement concerning unsolicited e-mail according to Swedish law: http://www.softwolves.pp.se/peter/reklampost.html
IDE problems
Hi!
I just found my machine had crashed with some weird hard-disk related
messages. When hard-disk has actually crashed on me, I have gotten
other errors than these, and just pressing reset helped. Do the
messages indicate a kernel bug, or should I try to get the ahard-disk
replaced on warranty?
(Please Cc replies to me, I don't have time to follow this list :-/)
Feb 26 20:10:08 perkele kernel: hdc: status error: status=0x00 { }
Feb 26 20:10:08 perkele kernel: hdc: drive not ready for command
Feb 26 20:10:08 perkele kernel: hdc: status error: status=0x00 { }
Feb 26 20:10:08 perkele kernel: hdc: DMA disabled
Feb 26 20:10:08 perkele kernel: hdc: drive not ready for command
Feb 26 20:10:39 perkele kernel: ide1: reset timed-out, status=0x80
Feb 26 20:10:39 perkele kernel: hdc: status timeout: status=0x80 { Busy }
Feb 26 20:10:39 perkele kernel: hdc: drive not ready for command
Feb 26 20:11:23 perkele kernel: ide1: reset timed-out, status=0x80
Feb 26 20:11:23 perkele kernel: hdc: status timeout: status=0x80 { Busy }
Feb 26 20:11:23 perkele kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:01 (hdc), sector
65680
Feb 26 20:11:23 perkele kernel: hdc: drive not ready for command
Feb 26 20:11:23 perkele kernel: clm-2072: Failed to update journal header block
The only partitions I have on the disk is my /home partition, which is
reiserfs (explaining the "journal header block") and swap (which
probably explains why the machine froze).
To me, it just seems that something got stuck, somehow.
Any help appreciated,
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Problems apt-get'ing
Hi! I'm having a problem with apt-get: # apt-get install gnome-session Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: [...] 27 packages upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 91 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/16.1MB of archives. After unpacking 16.0MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration No matter what I try to install, I get the error. Also, I am currently unable to run startx (after a previous woody upgrade). But that might be a Helix GNOME thing (that's why I'm trying to install woody's gnome-session): gnome-session: error in loading shared libraries: libgnomecanvaspixbuf.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory waiting for X server to shut down (Please Cc me on replies) -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ Statement concerning unsolicited e-mail according to Swedish law: http://www.softwolves.pp.se/peter/reklampost.html
lockd problems
Hi! Lately, I've gotten Starting NFS common utilities: statd lockdportmap: server localhost not responding, timed out portmap: server localhost not responding, timed out lockd_up: makesock failed, error=-5 portmap: server localhost not responding, timed out lockdsvc: Input/output error . when I start up my machine. The only thing I changed was to use DHCP for a while, but I changed that back now, but I still get this. I even tried to change my settings over to the new /etc/network/interfaces stuff, and put a "exit 0" in my old /etc/init.d/network without success. My new /etc/network/interfaces contains: iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet static address 10.1.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 10.1.1.42 And my localhost device is configured: $ ifconfig lo loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1 RX packets:114 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:114 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 Can anyone help me? >Please Cc any replies to me, as I do not subscribe to this list due to the volume. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ Statement concerning unsolicited e-mail according to Swedish law: http://www.softwolves.pp.se/peter/reklampost.html
Re: Potato inconsistency
Santiago Vila Doncel: > Yes, it has been reported 14 times(!). I almost thought it would be, so I didn't file a bug report myself... > I'm very sorry for the inconvenience. base-files_2.1.12 fixes it. Yup, worked fine with that one! -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
Re: MTA
Dave Sherohman: > I use exim and diald. They handle mail for me without any problems, although > exim (by default, at least) wants to send out all mail immediately. That's what I don't want, since I'll be running dial-up. It'd be nice if I could have it call and send/receive mail at pre-determined times of day, though. -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
MTA
Hi! I'll be moving and will lose my direct Internet connection, and will have to resort to dial-up. To prepare for this, I am switching over to doing mail and news offline (slrnpull, fetchmail), but I need some ideas on what to use for outgoing mail. I've had sendmail die on me when I'm not connected to a network (not in Debian, though, haven't tried sendmail in Debian), so I wonder what the best setup is for outgoing mail when it is only to send mail when I connect to the ISP (and directly when I do that, preferrably without manual intervention). -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
Potato inconsistency
Got this during today's apt-get dist-upgrade: Preparing to replace base-files 2.1.10 (using .../base-files_2.1.11_all.deb) ...Unpacking replacement base-files ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_2.1.11_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/etc/inputrc', which is also in package libreadlineg2 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_2.1.11_all.deb E: Sub-process returned an error code (1) Known problem? -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
apt-get dist-upgrade replacing self-built archives
Hi! How come that "apt-get dist-upgrade" "upgrades" packages that I have compiled myself (from the sources), although the version in the Debian archive is the same as the one I have compiled myself? -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
Re: Ispell module for html files
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira: > Anyone knows about a module of ispell to fix errors in html files? The current version (since 3.1.20-2) of ispell in potato has a patch applied that provides support for spellchecking html files. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
Re: Finding left-over libraries
Brian Servis: > Unforunately there is no way to do this cleanly now. That's too bad. > One of the issues to be concerned with is on a machine used for > development where nothing directly depends on a lib*-dev package except at > build time when you need to link to the headers. Yeah, well, all I want is a *report* on what is installed that nothing depends on. I don't want it to automatically purge everything for me... > There is a Debian package called cruft that can do some system searching > and can give you a very rough idea of file usage. I couldn't get it to work. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
Finding left-over libraries
Is there any way in Debian to find out what packages no other packages depend on? When I install a couple of packages, all the libraries they depend on are installed as well, which is quite nice, but the reverse doesn't hold - when I remove packages, unnecessary libraries are not removed. Because of this, I would like to get a list of packages that no packages depend on (restricted, for instance, to packages starting with lib). -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
Re: LILO boot partition question. Thank you
> But isn't the map installer run when I run the lilo command after > editing my lilo file ??? It should be. -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ When answering to mailing list or news posting, please do not Cc me personally. Thanks.
Re: LILO boot partition question. Thank you
Robert J. Alexander: > if I try installing a lilo.conf with boot=/dev/sda2 as I would like the > LILO process aborts after writing > > LIL- > > as the prompt. According to the documentation: LIL- The descriptor table is corrupt. This can either be caused by a geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/map without running the map installer. -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ When answering to mailing list or news posting, please do not Cc me personally. Thanks.
Re: Latest potato killed X: could not open default font 'fixed'
Dwayne C . Litzenberger: > I'm getting that idiot fatal server error, "could not open default font > 'fixed'", again. My FontPath is /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc and I did a > fresh mkfontdir in that directory. Still no go. I have both xfs and > xfstt running, and nothing. What just happened? Are your fonts still there? Is you xfonts-base package correctly installed? > I assume this has happened to others who upgraded to potato 1999-Nov-21. > Anyone got it fixed? I just did an apt update a few minutes ago, and X works fine here. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
Re: Installing from CD-ROM: problems
Michelle Konzack: > If you run dselect, choose teh accessmetode multicd2 > (or like this, because I do not know exactly). We changed it to apt (setting up with apt-cdrom, but it didn't find all the lists) > +--+ .~. > | Michelle's Internet Service | /V\ That signature of yours is *very* big... Please consider trimming it down. A lot. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
Installing from CD-ROM: problems
Hi! A friend of mine is installing Debian from cd-roms (from a machine without Internet connectivity), and since I have never done that myself, I'm a bit at a loss to why it won't work correctly. Here's the problems: * The initial dselect install only installed from the first cd, it seemed not to care about the second. The cds are the official ISOs, downloaded from Debians ftp site. * We downloaded some additions, and we can get apt-cdrom to recognize that we have non-free and non-us on the disk, but not the other updates that were on it, namely october GNOME, y2k updates and XFree86 3.3.5. The non-free and non-us are downloaded directly from the ftp site, and the other updates were downloaded from the web (don't remember the exact url, but it was a ~ directory on www.debian.org, linked via www.gnome.org). The Packages.gz files are as follows (relative to the cd root directory): $ find . -name "Packages.gz" ./dists/slink/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz ./dists/slink/non-US/binary-i386/Packages.gz ./dists/slink/october-gnome/binary-i386/Packages.gz ./dists/slink/y2k-update/binary-i386/Packages.gz ./dists/slink/xfree-update/binary-i386/Packages.gz Why does apt-cdrom only find the first two? -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
What replaces netdate in potato?
I noticed that netdate has been removed from potato. What should I use instead? -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
Getting apt-get to explain things
How can I get apt-get to explain *why* it wants to remove a package? I can't find any reasoning why it want to remove one of the packages I have installed, especially since it is not in the main distribution, and does not depend on any package from it. I would like apt-get to explain to me somehow, how the package ended up on the remove list when doing a "apt-get dist-upgrade". I have read the reasoning why it usually does it, but in this case I can't find any reason for it to remove the package. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
Re: Creating contrib/non-free/non-us cd
Peter S Galbraith: > contrib is on the official CDs. Hmmm, okay. > You can fetch the non-free and non-us structure using a tool such > as wget. Yes, but will it then be in a way that can be used in a simple way together with dselect/apt? -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
Creating contrib/non-free/non-us cd
Hi! Since the official cd images only contain the 'main' archive, I would like to create a similar cd, useable by dselect/apt, for the contrib, non-free and non-us parts of Debian, since the machine that Debian is to be installed on does not have a network connection. How do I go about to do this? I have access to machines with direct Internet connection to download the files, but I gather they need to be arranged in some special way to be useable, right? Thanks in advance, -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
Sharing apt-gets cache dir
I thought it be a good idea to share the apt-get cache dir between my computers, so that I need not to re-download each package for each machine that I update. I'm exporting it over NFS, however, I cannot get this to work - it refuses to lock: E: Could not get lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open (13 Access denied) E: Unable to lock the download directory I have it exported like this in /etc/exports: /var/cache/apt/archives 10.10.10.8(rw,no_root_squash) Any ideas? -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
Re: Pine question
Johann Spies: > I get the following error mentioned in the subject line when I want to > read or save a html-attachment from a local electronic newspaper: > > [Error: Formatting error: Non-hexadecimal character in QP encoding] What does the string in question look like in "real life"? It might really be bogues, and if so, Pine is correct in complaining. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
Re: apt-get fails
Martin Fluch: > Install this package manualy with dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/debconf* > and apt-get upgrade should do. That seems to cure the problem, but why did it appear in the first place? # dpkg --install /var/cache/apt/archives/debconf_0.2.1_all.deb (Reading database ... 51889 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace debconf 0.1.71 (using .../archives/debconf_0.2.1_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement debconf ... Setting up debconf (0.2.1) ... -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
apt-get fails
Today when I tried running apt-get dist-upgrade, it failed on me... Anyone have ideas? # apt-get dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: sgmlspm The following NEW packages will be installed: libforms0.89 libsgmls-perl sgmlspl The following packages have been kept back kbd samba samba-doc smbfs 64 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 1 to remove and 4 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/21.6MB of archives. After unpacking 362kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 100% [Scanning packages] Configuring packages ... /tmp/fileK7MiKx: /usr/share/debconf/confmodule: No such file or directory E: Sub-process dpkg-preconfig --apt returned an error code (1) E: Failure running script dpkg-preconfig --apt This is repeatable. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
Re: mixing slink and potato?
Stefan Langerman: > Is it possible to install those packages (preferably with dselect or > apt-get) without updating the whole system to potato? Yes, you can do it directly with apt-get by: * Pointing your sources.list to potato * Running 'apt-get update' * Running 'apt-get install packages' where packages are the ones you want to install. * Pointing your sources.list back to slink * Running 'apt-get update' This should only upgrade tha packges needed to meet the dependencies. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
Re: DISPLAY
Brian May: > Check that DISPLAY isn't being set by one of your login scripts. It's not, I checked both /etc/profile and my .bash* files, nothing there sets it. > Are you using screen? It occurs whether I'm using screen or not. > What Debian version are you using slink (stable) or potato (unstable)? I'm following the unstable distribution. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
DISPLAY
For some reason, my Debian installation has started providing me with a DISPLAY variable even in console logins (and when logging in over the serial line...), which renders my scripts that use DISPLAY to check whether to fire up a X program or a console programs non-working. Why? And is there any better way to check whether you're actually running X or not? -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
Re: cvs
Micha Feigin: > I am looking for a tutrial about cvs beyond the very basic work. Install the cvs-doc package, or point your browser at http://www.gnu.org/manual/cvs/html_mono/cvs.html -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
Re: Warning: Q < 10.66666667
Sebastian Stark: > what means Q in the last lines ?? I use debian 2.1 I get the same thing, but it works anyway. Some kind of incompatibility. I filed a bug report about it some time ago (#43685), but haven't got any response as of yet. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
Re: a2ps margins (solved)
Dave Thayer: > N.B. this is for US letter size paper. Assuming that you are using european > standard paper sizes in Sweden, you will need to look around for the > corresponding medium commands for A4(?) paper. A4dj worked fine. And, yes, it's a DeskJet clone that I have, an Olivetti JP150W. Thanks also to David J. Kanter and Joe Bouchard -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
a2ps margins
How do I set the a2ps margins? When using the two page default layout, it prints just about outside of what my printer accepts, making the leftmost column unreadable. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
SVGA Ghostscript
Is there any way to get ghostscript to display postscript documents on the console (using SVGALIB or the framebuffer)? -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
Re: Lynx and APT with http proxy
Richard Clarke: > Could somebody please suggest to me how I can use APT and lynx when I > have to use a http proxy with my university. If the proxy is located at someserver.somewhere on port : export http_proxy=http://someserver.somewhere:/ at a prompt, or in your .bashrc or /etc/profile -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
Re: Remote printing?
peter karlsson: > But, when I try to print, it says that "Jobs queued, but could not start > daemon", which is strange, because lpd is running. And I have added a line > with its IP number in the "/etc/hosts.lpd" on the machine that has got the > printer. I solved the problem now, seems that the printer spool directory somehow got the wrong permissions, which blocked lpd from doing remote printing. After changing it so it had the same permission as on the other machine, I got remote printing to work under Debian as well. Now, if I can find out how to do remote printing under OS/2, I'd be very happy... :) -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
Remote printing?
Okay, got local printing (with lpr and magicfilter) to work, but I can't seem to get remote printing (from the other Debian box) to work. I ran magicfilterconfig on that one, saying the same thing, except for entering the host name of this machine as the printer device. That seemed okay. But, when I try to print, it says that "Jobs queued, but could not start daemon", which is strange, because lpd is running. And I have added a line with its IP number in the "/etc/hosts.lpd" on the machine that has got the printer. Anyone care to enlighten me? -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
nntp-inews
Hi! I'm looking for an inews program that can post via nntp (for use with uqwk without needing a local news server), but I can't seem to find any. Slackware does have one which I have hacked around a bit in at the moment, but it does have "no monetary gain"-licensing in part, which means that it can't be easily be included in Debian. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
How to setup a printer?
What program do I use to configure printers on a Debian system? I installed 'printtool' (mainly because it's the only Linux program I've ever used before to set up printers, on a RedHat system), but it just complains about "startup encoding not set", and that doesn't help me much. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
Re: console cd player? pleace CC me
Ari Sigurðsson: > Hello, I have debian 2.0 and I am trying to play cd from the console, so > far I have tryed to compile 2 different cd players with no luck. nothing > but errors and warnings. the ones I have tried are. Try installing "workbone" or "cdtool". They are available in the Debian distribution (there are more, but those are the ones I have installed here). -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
Re: Commercial Debian - For those that requested a link
> http://linuxtoday.com/stories/11071.html Or even http://www.debian.org/News/1999/19991012 -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World >& World.log &
Re: http://www.debian.org/contact
> Is there some secret mode in console-apt that makes it tell you what > *other* packages it's going to upgrade or remove as a result of > upgrading a particular package (because they're dependencies, or > conflicts), like dselect does? I don't think so. I was thinking about filing a wishlist bug report against that, but just haven't gotten around to do that... > Also, is there any concept of `hold', since the help screen doesn't say. The help screen in console-apt isn't very useful at all :-/ -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World >& World.log &
Re: APT strangeness
> Use 'apt-get dselect-upgrade' to have apt get along with your dselect > selections. I don't use dselect any longer... I use apt-get + console-apt -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ When answering to mailing list or news posting, please do not Cc me personally. Thanks.
APT strangeness
How is it that, sometimes, during a 'apt-get dist-upgrade', apt wants to remove packages that I have selected to install, and *not* said that I want to remove? # apt-get -s dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... The following packages will be REMOVED: ae gimp lynx-ssl modconf newt0.25 newt0.30 whiptail [...] I have not asked for any of the programs listed to be removed. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World >& World.log &
Re: Microsoft posts Linux myths
> I found a Wired article with a link to this Microsoft document, > titled "Linux Myths": > http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/news/msnw/LinuxMyths.asp Old news :-) Anyway, see http://enlightenment.org/rant.html for a rebuttal. -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
Re: how to print RTF ?
> What program can print RTF ? Pathetic Writer (xpw). -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World >& World.log &
Re: slink --> potato, no rlogin?
> I upgraded to potato yesterday and most things seem okay, but I don't seem > to have rlogin installed anymore!?! What package is rlogin in? It has moved out of netstd (I think) to its own packages: rsh-client and rsh-server -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World >& World.log &
Re: latex french.sty
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> when i compil a file.tex this message happen: "french.sty" file not found
> where can i find this one?
Are you using \usepackage{french} instead of \usepackage[french]{babel} ?
Have you run texconfig?
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Latest netstd and xinetd
Hi! Is anyone here using xinetd and also having problems with the latest netstd update? I get this: # dpkg --pending --configure Setting up netbase (3.16-3) ... update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/inetd: file does not exist dpkg: error processing netbase (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: netbase Does anyone have a cure? -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World >& World.log &
Re: HTML spell?
> I found a patch to ispell to do this a long time ago. > See http://www.cmc.net/~bem/vile/ispell-html-mode.patch for a copy. Thanks! Works like a charm! -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World >& World.log &
Re: HTML spell?
> Netscape composer has a spell checker. Just open the page with Netscape > and select File->Edit Page. Yeah, but then if I were to save the file again, it will break the page completely. Besides, I would also have to start X and Netscape, which would take far too long :-/ -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World >& World.log &
HTML spell?
Is there any program like ispell that works with the same dictionaries, but knows HTML and don't try to correct spelling of HTML tags? -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World >& World.log &
Re: Urgent help
> Is there any tool/program to create/format a FAT16 or FAT32 partition ? To create FAT file systems, use mkdosfs from the dosfstools package. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World >& World.log &
RE: make-kpkg and apt-get updates
> kernel-package is the way to go. Name your revisions like > .-, and you'll not have problems > (I haven't, anyway :) One problem is how do I have several compilations of the same kernel version installed? Right now, I have two 2.2.12 compilations installed, for instance. How do I do that with make-kpkg? -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World >& World.log &
Re: make-kpkg and apt-get updates
> Use epochs for your revision= when using make-kpkg: > make-kpkg --revision=1:custom.1.0 kernel_image > (see /usr/doc/kernel-package/README.gz) Hmm, sounds good. Any way to get it to do that without me having to remember to add that each time? I couldn't find any parameter I could put in the configuration file about it, but I might have overlooked it... -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World >& World.log &
RE: make-kpkg and apt-get updates
> you can use dselect and use "H" on the package. This will hold the package > and prevent "accidental" upgrading. Yeah, but that's not a very good solution, especially since I need to remember to do that manually each time I compile a new kernel. Plus that I have to go into dselect, which I don't like (the feeling seems mutual, as it does not like my selections either). -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World >& World.log &
make-kpkg and apt-get updates
I compiled and installed a kernel with make-kpkg, but now apt-get seems to want to overwrite it with one from the archive. I do not want that to happen, how do I tell apt-get to keep its hands off it? -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World >& World.log &
Re: Upgradeing to 2.2 kernel broke X
> I just upgraded to a 2.2 kernel (from 2.0.38), running a virtual framebuffer > (ATI Mach64), and now my X Windows doesn't work, the picture is *extremely* > distorted. Console mode (which also is graphics now) works just fine. I switched to the VESA framebuffer, and now it works. But does anyone know why the heck the cursor suddenly became a block instead of just an underscore, and how I change that? -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World >& World.log &
Upgradeing to 2.2 kernel broke X
Hi! I just upgraded to a 2.2 kernel (from 2.0.38), running a virtual framebuffer (ATI Mach64), and now my X Windows doesn't work, the picture is *extremely* distorted. Console mode (which also is graphics now) works just fine. I'm running on a PC, and my card is, according to SuperProbe: First video: Super-VGA Chipset: ATI 264GT-IIc (3D Rage IIc) (Port Probed) Memory: 4096 Kbytes RAMDAC: ATI Mach64 integrated 15/16/24/32-bit DAC w/clock (with 8-bit wide lookup tables) (programmable for 6/8-bit wide lookup tables) Attached graphics coprocessor: Chipset: ATI Mach64 Memory: 4096 Kbytes I like the framebuffer and stuff, but it seems like if I should switch back to 2.0.38 :-/ -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World >& World.log &
make-kpkg questions
Hi! Just learned to use make-kpkg, *but*, I want to do some things differently: 1. How do I tell it not to create a /vmlinuz symlink in the root directory? I want my root directory clean (i.e no files at all) (Also, it complained when there wasn't a /vmlinuz already, thought I was doing a new install) 2. How do I tell it to use another name for my kernels image file (I've never really liked "vmlinuz" anyway)? -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World >& World.log &
Re: su username w/o password in potato
> However, with the new PAMified packages, I cannot replicate this > functionality, and I can't find information about how to do it... anyone? /etc/pam.d/su: # This allows root to su without passwords (normal operation) auth sufficient pam_rootok.so -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World >& World.log &
Re: Environment Variable weirdness
Salman Ahmed: > But where is this env. var being set from ? It's not even an environment variable, but rather an internal bash variable. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World >& World.log &
Re: Language of www.debian.org.....
> Stranger - www.debian.org brings up the 'elvish' (Turkish...) version, yet > www.debian.org/index.html brings up the english version.. > er what? An old Apache bug. It is in the process of being fixed. -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ When answering to mailing list or news posting, please do not Cc me personally. Thanks.
Re: xinetd problems
> No, there are two different things: > - service_name - tag: service > - service id - attribute tag: id Ah! Now I see. Works fine, thanks! -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World >& World.log &
Re: [DISASTER] Latest update broke my system entirely
Seth R Arnold: > Peter -- even if the paths are correct? I am a little reluctant to play > around with mine, since my system works... Jonas Steverud: > The message said the pathes had to be relative and mine where absolute. > Since they looked ok and I didn't know what to change them too I let them > be. It worked until I updated last Thursday. I have removed all the paths from the files in /etc/pam.d, and it works flawlessly. The ones I'm talking about are those to the .so files, just to make sure we talk about the same thing. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World >& World.log &
Re: xinetd problems
> > I can't specify the service twice (it complains about duplicats), > Use `id' tag - different in any service definition Well, the problem is that the id number is the port from /etc/services, and there is only one id per port. > This is socket interface limitation (not only xinetd) you can bind *any* or > *one* address only. Okay. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World >& World.log &
Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError
B. Szyszka:
> I've reinstalled Debian to try to get a cleaner setup going, but am
> running into some error messages:
> hdb: write_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hdb: write_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
That's *usually*¹ a sign that your hard disk is about to die on you. Do a
backup, buy a new drive, and copy the stuff over to that one.
--
\\//
peter
¹ It has been each time I've gotten them.
Re: [DISASTER] Latest update broke my system entirely
Jonas Steverud: > (none) login: root > login[10]: PAM unabvle to resolve symbol pam_sm_authenticate > login[10]: PAM unabvle to resolve symbol pam_sm_setcred > login[10]: PAM unabvle to resolve symbol pam_sm_authenticate > login[10]: PAM unabvle to resolve symbol pam_sm_setcred My guess is that you didn't notice the message that was included when you upgraded pam-modules (or something like that). It complained about the pam modules having changed paths, and that some of the configuration files in /etc/pam.d still contains the old path. The paths should be eradicated completely from the configuration files there. -- \\// peter - (Small ad: there is a debian-user-swedish nowadays)
slrn and newsgroup descriptions
How do I get slrn to show the newsgroup descriptions? I have set % if non-zero, show description of newsgroup if available set show_descriptions 1 % column where group descriptions start set group_dsc_start_column 40 in my .slrnrc, but they won't show up when I run slrn. I have descriptions in /var/lib/slrn/newsgroups.dsc which were created by the cron job installed. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World >& World.log &
xinetd problems
Hi! I'm using xinetd because it can bind services to certain network interfaces. BUT, I'm not able to get it to bind *one* service to *two* interfaces (out of three). How do I do that? I can't specify the service twice (it complains about duplicats), nor can I have two "interface" lines, or two attributes to "interface". Any ideas are welcome. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World >& World.log &
Re: daemon/initd
> There is also this thingy: > rinetd - Internet redirection server > > I don't know if it can replace inetd or not.. No, it justs allow you to specify that certian ports on your machine should be forwarded to other machine. Quite useful for making machines behind a firewall available outside it, actually. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World >& World.log &
Re: garbled characters in vim
> $: env > LANG=C > LESSCHARSET=latin1 Try setting "LC_ALL=sv_SE.ISO8859-1". That ought to fix it. You might also want to try to set "LANG=sv". This also makes some of the programs speak Swedish, which is quite nice. PS. There is now also a debian-user-swedish list which you might want to subscribe to. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World >& World.log &
One-time password for PPP dialup
What's the best way to deal with one-time password for dialup (PPP) accounts? I generate new codes for each time I dial-in to work, and as of now I have written a small Perl wrapper that manually edits the PPP password file each time I call, but I was wondering if there's a better way? I've configured the dialup with pppconfig and is calling with pon. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World >& World.log &
Re: mail and security
> Which reminds me -- why does debian still use the gnu locate, rather than > slocate (secure locate) -- It's there all right: slocate 2.0-1 H 25KB 59KB utils +-[slocate]---+ | a secure locate replacement | | This locate shows all files on your system that you have access to. locate | | only does the files it has access to(usually the ones nobody has access| | to). If you install suidmanager this pkg will use suidregister.| +-+ -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World >& World.log &
Re: telnetd-ssl
The problem has been found. The telnet daemon was set in inetd.conf to be started as user telnetd, which was something that telnetd-ssl didn't grok. After resetting it to root, it works just fine. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World >& World.log &
