Re: Unsubscribe from this list...
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Juha Ylitalo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What used to be nice WWW interface for handling all the crap like subscribing and unsubscribing from list, seems to be now broken, and I definately can't handle current volume of this mailing-list (would need system that supports threads etc.), so if postmaster is among readers, please unsubscribe me from this list. Try to get your ISP to send you the linux.* newsfeed. I'm reading this list as a newsgroup, linux.debian.user and that's *much* better than using a mailing list.. and as you can see the Mail -- news gateway is working fine so you don't have to worry about people on the mailing list never seeing your posts. Unfortunately not _all_ mailing lists are available as newsgroups, I guess I'll have to put up with that until somebody writes an integrated mail/news reader (AFAIAC mail is news is mail etc). Mike. -- + Miquel van Smoorenburg + Cistron Internet Services + Living is a | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SP6) | Independent Dutch ISP | horizontal | + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + http://www.cistron.nl/+ fall+
Graphical package management tool
I'm interested in writing a graphical package selection program for Debian. Something that runs under X Windows, maybe written in tkperl. I'm envisioning something like a cross between Debian's dselect and Red Hat's glint utility. Before I start in on it, has anyone already written anything like this? Is anything planned or in the works? Any warnings or encouragement? Thanks, -Tom --
Problems trying to install Debian
Hi, I am trying to upgrade from linux kernel 1.2.1 (Unifix 1.6) to either Debian or Slackware. I have been persuaded by all this talk about Debian system. I followed the instructions on making floppies but unfortunately the process stops after reading the boot disk with the error message: Loading ... Boot failed: Change disks and press any key I do not understand why the error? Any help will be appreciated. Secondly I have a Brother HL630 laser printer with Laserjet IIp emulation but it cuts corners of poscript files anyone have a idea of what to do?
Re: Unsubscribe from this list...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes: Unfortunately not _all_ mailing lists are available as newsgroups, I guess I'll have to put up with that until somebody writes an integrated mail/news reader (AFAIAC mail is news is mail etc). That would be any recent version of Gnus. The best mail/news reader around (at least IMHO). -- Rob
Re: Graphical package management tool
Tom Fawcett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm envisioning something like a cross between Debian's dselect and Red Hat's glint utility. Before I start in on it, has anyone already written anything like this? Is anything planned or in the works? Any warnings or encouragement? I think that Ian may have recently added some functionality to dpkg that would make this easier. You should build it on top of dpkg, and one of the problems was determining something like all the recursive dependencies of a given package. I think dpkg might do this for you now, but I'm not sure. One other place you could look for relevant code is the new perl version of dftp. It may have some useful stuff related to parsing Packages files, installing packages, etc. -- Rob
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Re: Scsi errors
In your email to me, [EMAIL PROTECTED], you wrote: It's down to 3.3... Any other settings to jack with?? Make sure you have the shortest cable possible, and good termination. Other than that, try another scsi cable. Tim Thanks to all who have replied, but nothing has helped. I've got a 4 inch cable hooked up between the drive and the card now, but that didn't do it. The drive is a SCSI-III so I believe its a self-terminating device, but I don't know... Are there any terminators that would go on the end of a 50 pin ribbon? Anyway, I don't think the cabling is a problem. I ran a media verify from the onboard bios and it went through the whole drive with no problems, except for the usual media defects. I also did a dma transfer test from the bios and it came up clean. Are there any kernels that are known to work _for_sure_ with an AHA-1542CF?? Maybe that's my problem... Mike
scsi errors
Stupid me... another symptom I've noticed is when I try and make a file system on the drive in question, when it stalls I checked another terminal and init was dead and every process that ended was zombieing. Does this point to the kernel at all?? Mike
Setting up Mail Services, Linux, Emacs, and ppp.
[I am sorry. I hit the wrong keys and sent this message before I completed it. I will try again.] (25 September 1996, 8:36 PM, waiting for Supertyphoon Yates which is quite nearby). I am able to send mail to distant sites fine, but mail to addresses at the domain of my ISP usually fails, from within Emacs (but seems to work from within Pine, at least some of the time). Actually, mail sometimes gets out from emacs to local addresses too. Invariably, when sending mail to the same domain, I receive a message from the mailer-daemon that the recipient cannot be located; even so, _some_ of these messages are received by the recipients, and I haven't successfully separated out the variables that are responsible. I note that in Pine there is a setup variable for the SMTP server, while, in Emacs, I cannot find one. Pine seems to send mail directly to the smtp server, while with Emacs mail is queued and sent out when the ppp connection is made, using, in this case, sendmail. The following facts may be of note: 1. As a matter of configuration for a ppp link, my machine shows the same name in /etc/hosts as the Domain name of my ISP, and thus of the addresses of any mail addresses local to the same ISP. I suspect that the failure messages from mailer-daemon indicate that my system thinks it is the machine upon which these recipients should be found. Note that even for local mail that Pine successfully mails, I recieve these failure messages. 2. I am using smail, though I am not sure why, or whether it is best. I would like to know whether I can configure the SMTP server name (which is not identical to the ISP domain name, but a machine on the same domain) in smail. Smail is queueing messages nicely for outgoing mail, and I hope I can keep this feature. 3. I cannot find a variable in emacs in which to specify the name of the mail server (smtp server). 4. I set SMTP=mail server name in the system environment, but this maybe didn't make any difference, unless it made it worse. 5. I am using vm in emacs. I am perplexed, and would very much appreciate help getting to where I can use mail in emacs with confidence. Heck, GNUS asked for the name of the nntp server and seems to work as promised. -- Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School [EMAIL PROTECTED] AAA 196 Box 10,001 Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands 15o 8.8'N 145o 42.5'E GMT+10 ``There is no evidence that an octopus can respond to sound, but the frequencies tried have been limited.'' ``Octopuses respond to such stimuli as shaking the tank, but the receptors responsible are probably not confined to the statocysts since the reaction continues after their removal'' ---J. Z. Young 1997---International Year of the Coral Reef
mail/new reader [was]Re: Unsubscribe from this list...
On 26 Sep 1996, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: Unfortunately not _all_ mailing lists are available as newsgroups, I guess I'll have to put up with that until somebody writes an integrated mail/news reader (AFAIAC mail is news is mail etc). Ever heard of PINE? Supports IMAP and NNTP news access. Doesn't deal with threads very well at the moment (3.95) but 4.x will address this better (AFAIK). Cheers, Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 011-81-3-3437-7967 - Tokyo, Japan -- *** Bear Stearns is not responsible for any recommendation, solicitation, offer or agreement or any information about any transaction, customer account or account activity contained in this communication. ***
Re: Scsi errors
At 07:55 PM 9/25/96 -0500, you wrote: Are there any kernels that are known to work _for_sure_ with an AHA-1542CF?? Maybe that's my problem... Mike I've been running a AHA-1542CF since the 1.x kernel series with no trouble at all. I know have two systems with them in there running 2.0.15 and 1.2.10. I did have a problem before with the scsi cable which I posted to here - basically what it kept doing was writing to the hard drive in wrong places, corrupting things when accessing the cdrom I have connected. Turned out that it was the cable and I've never had any trouble since then. Perhaps it could be the hard drive, but then again, I wouldn't know about that - both my scsi disks are SCSI-2 and yours is a SCSI-3, perhaps it doesn't like them for some reason? Regards ...Karl -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty Ltd (ACN: 072 322 760)[EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +61-9-455-3446 Fax: +61-9-455-2776 http://www.star.net.au/
Re: Disk Compression - Stacker - Drivespace, etc.
I am curious whether or not the conventional PC disk compression utilities such as Stacker and Drivespace are compatible with the Linux O/S? I heard that Stacker 4.0 for O/S2 was a compatible utility. Fact or Fantasy? The conventional utils are not compatible with Linux. I believe there is a utility to allow Linux to read DoubleSpaced systems. Linux has a filesystem-independent on-the-fly compression for Linux called DouBle, that incidentally, I am writing the documentation for :-) Check it out at http://homepage.midusa.net/~jgoerzen/DouBle -- John Goerzen | System administrator owner, The Communications Custom programming| Centre and Complete Network (complete.org) [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Free Unix shell access, 316-367-8490 w/ your modem.
Re: Scsi errors
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: device, but I don't know... Are there any terminators that would go on the end of a 50 pin ribbon? Normally, there's a switch, or jumper you have to set that terminates the drive. If the drive's not terminated, and is at the end of a scsi chain. You'll most likely have problems. I didn't think SCSI-III was special in that respect. -- Rob
Re: Scsi errors
On Wed, 25 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In your email to me, [EMAIL PROTECTED], you wrote: It's down to 3.3... Any other settings to jack with?? Make sure you have the shortest cable possible, and good termination. Other than that, try another scsi cable. Tim Thanks to all who have replied, but nothing has helped. I've got a 4 inch cable hooked up between the drive and the card now, but that didn't do it. The drive is a SCSI-III so I believe its a self-terminating device, but I don't know... Are there any terminators that would go on the end of a 50 pin ribbon? Anyway, I don't think the cabling is a problem. I ran a media verify from the onboard bios and it went through the whole drive with no problems, except for the usual media defects. I also did a dma transfer test from the bios and it came up clean. Are there any kernels that are known to work _for_sure_ with an AHA-1542CF?? Maybe that's my problem... I've been using the standard aha1542 driver as a module with 2.0.14 with no problems, but I had a lot of problems initially. My problem was termination and the symptoms sound similar to yours. My one external device is a ZIP drive. If your hard drive has resisters installed (usually near the ribbon connector area on the component side of a SCSI drive, then its got internal terminators, but they may not be enabled, or termination power to the BUS may not be set properly. You really need to get some decent documentation for the drive. I hope the SCSI driver developers or kernel developers can implement a way for things like this to have less of an impact, 1.2 never complained (neither did DOS, etc.). Apparently the driver is only able to sense what's going on on the bus when its loaded, so it can't gracefully fail to load when such a problem occurs. I'd rather see it able to run despite such a problem :-) Anyway, good luck. Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 011-81-3-3437-7967 - Tokyo, Japan -- *** Bear Stearns is not responsible for any recommendation, solicitation, offer or agreement or any information about any transaction, customer account or account activity contained in this communication. ***
Re: Scsi errors
In reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s message of Tue, 24 Sep 1996 I'll just repeat what others have already stated: it is very likely your cables and termination. I was having very similar problems which got worse with the newer kernels. I finally bought new high quality cables and active terminators (expansive), which improved the problems considerably, but did not cure them. More recently I upgraded to a new motherboard, so I bought a cheap 53c810 controller, which has now completely eliminated all problems and dramatically increased performance as well. So if you have PCI slots on your board, then you should upgrade to a $60 PCI 53c810 (or 53c815) card and sell your Adaptec card to some DOS user. Otherwise you will probably just have to check your termination and cables, but you may not be able to do much about it. On the other hand I just noticed your messages are also reporting unexpected interrupts. Have you checked to make sure that nothing else is using that interrupt? You probably should try removing all unnecessary card and see if the problem goes away. Can anyone help me here? I've got an AHA1542 with a quantum XP32150W as the only device on the chain. I keep getting errors like the following: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 198, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Write (10) 00 00 27 88 b0 00 00 76 00 scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 198, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Write (10) 00 00 27 88 b0 00 00 76 00 SCSI host 0 abort (pid 198) timed out - resetting SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0. Sent BUS DEVICE RESET to target 0 Sending DID_RESET for target 0 aha1542_intr_handle: Unexpected interrupt tarstat=0, hastat=0 idlun=10 ccb#=5 Are there any settings I need to tweak in order to rid myself of these timeout errors? Mike
dpkg-1.4.0.1
i upgraded dpkg on one of the machines here to 1.4.0.1 and i've found that dpkg-name is gone. was it intentional, or did it accidentally get left out of the package? --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be possible (simultaneously with | | automatism and other passive states) to systematize confusion | | and thus to help to discredit completely the world of reality. |
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Re: argh, NIS!
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Miquel van Smoorenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps you have setup your ethernet / localhost interfaces wrong? NIS depends on broadcasts.. If the broadcast address is wrong, it will not work. Check /etc/init.d/network. I thought that using broadcasting to find ypserver was considered a security hazard, and it was better to explicitly specify the server location? (ie, that this is what NIS+, and hence NYS was going to require)? H course, I've not read much documenation since I got my system setup nearly 2 years ago... perhaps time for a refresher... mrc -- Mike CastleLife is like a clock: You can work constantly [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time, or not work at all and be right at least twice a day. -- mrc We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen
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HELP for network setup
Since my Ethernet interface is not recoginized, I tried the following command: ifconfig eth0 192.168.3.4 netmask 255.255.255.0 I got the following message: SIOCSIFADDR: NO such device SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device I am sure there is no physical problem with my Ethernet card, since I have two of them at handy. Please help! Tianlin Wang From miss Received: from mongo.pixar.com (138.72.50.60) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 26 Sep 1996 07:34:26 - Received: (qmail 11924 invoked from smtpd); 26 Sep 1996 07:25:36 - Received: from primer.i-connect.net (HELO primer) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by mongo.pixar.com with SMTP; 26 Sep 1996 07:25:06 - Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Erick Branderhorst) Subject: Re: dpkg-1.4.0.1 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Romosan) Date:Thu, 26 Sep 1996 08:12:10 +0100 Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] from Alex Romosan at Sep 25, 96 10:18:41 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 PGP2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length:215 Resent-Message-ID: 0ZH5g2.0.UZ7.z6ZIo@primer Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-Reply-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Mailing-List: debian-user@lists.debian.org archive/latest/70 X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] i upgraded dpkg on one of the machines here to 1.4.0.1 and i've found that dpkg-name is gone. was it intentional, or did it accidentally get left out of the package? Isn't it in dpkg-dev right now? erick
lpr setup for postscript printer
Hello Could some kind soul help me with a setup for a postscript printer? Thank you -- John Plate [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to move the system to a new hard disk?
On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Fernando Tadeu Caldeira Brandt wrote: I am planing to install a new bigger hard disk. I will keep the old one but I would like to move Debian Linux to the new disk. Is it safe to use dd? If not, what would be the most pratical way to do that without having to remember all customization, etc? Fernando It's best to boot from floppies (to avoid endless loop of the following command), mount your old disk under, say, /mnt, and your new disk under, say, /mnttt. Well then just run the following command: cp -dpR /mnt /mnttt If you want to see which files are copied, add the switch -v. It will take a little long time :) Then, Don't Forget To Re-install Lilo! (maybe after you remove your old disk, and boot from floppy giving the kernel root=somtehing parameter, and then you maybe have to rdev /vmlinuz /dev/hda1 or something). Have fun, Vadik. ++_ Vadik V. (_`[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.arbornet.org/~vadik/ Vygonets (_.lf For PGP public key, email me with sibject get pgpkey Linux hackers are funny people: They count the time in patchlevels.
Re: HELP for network setup
I'm recently instaling Debian 1.1. from CD-ROM. I made X11 window works. Everything seems fine and I like it except that I can not make networking up. Here is my situation: I have a office-wide LAN with a hub. Currently A freeBSD and Sun workstation are communicating through hub very well. So I don't have the direct access to Internet, but I do registered my domain name as newsham.com. I do have a PPP account (with static IP 205.198.193.254) provided by the local ISP. I have NE2000 Ethernet card installed. I am using following IP numbers for my machines 192.168.3.1 ultralean.newsham.com # Sun station 192.168.3.2 supanee.newsham.com # freeBSD 192.168.3.4 xlean.newsham.com # Linux (Debian 1.1) All this IP number are not registered, they only work locally. How can I configure the network and make PPP work under Debian. Well, if you are planing to allow all three mchines to access the internett, throgh the PPP account you must either get a full domain connection from your ISP, or install a firewall on your linux system foling your ISP that there is only one machine with the IP number. If you chose the first version you'll probably have to change your local IP numbers. I guess the netmask is 255.255.255.0. Then what is the IP adddress of my network? what is the broadcastaddress to use on my network? what is the IP address of the default gateway system you should route to, if I do not have a gateway? In any case you have to configure your linux machine as a router. Which meens that it needs two IP numbers, two networkaddresses, two broadcastaddress, one for the eth0 interface and one for the ppp interface. What values to use for the PPP interface should have been provided to you by your ISP, and what to use for your eth0 interface is the same as for the rest of the machines. I would guess something like: eth0 IP=192.168.3.4 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.3.0 BROAKAST=192.168.3.255 PPP IP=205.198.193.254 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=205.198.193.0 BROAKAST=205.198.193.255 The default gateway for your linux box should be the machine at the other end of the PPP connection, but make sure to add separate routes four your local network. And if you decided to let the rest of the machines out, there default gateway should be the linux machine. You should in any case register your office IP numbers, you see, the linux machine will have no way of deciding where the send the data if there excists machines with the same IP number both on the local network and across the PPP line. Please help. I am almost desperated with Linux (I spent 3 days to install Slackware96, but Slackware96 is very buggy). Thanks in advance for any help. If you have a little time this evening and you willing to help me on networking, give me your phone number (international number is fine) I will phone you. Well, the time is 09:30 right now here in sweeden. I am just about to leave, for class and I'll be home again around 17, 18 a'clock (local time). You'll probably be able to reach me by EMail during that time, otherwise feel free to phone me before 23:00. My number is +46 46 130188.
Re: argh, NIS!
I thought that using broadcasting to find ypserver was considered a security hazard, and it was better to explicitly specify the server location? (ie, that this is what NIS+, and hence NYS was going to require)? Well, that can be done with Linux' NIS implementation as well, just put server nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn into /etc/yp.conf, that's all. Dominik -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- The text above represents my personal opinion and does not represent the official position of my employer on the issue(s) discussed. Any official statement made on behalf of my employer by me is marked as such.
/dev/MAKEDEV
The /dev/MAKEDEV in debian 1.1.4 (I dont see any mention in the ChangeLog up to 1.1.8) has not had the patch to fixed the minor device numbers for the cyclades devices. The patch is in the kernel sources drivers/char/README.cyclomY -- Bernard LeachLa Trobe Uni Melbourne Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.cs.latrobe.edu.au/~leachbj/
Re: Missing terminfo entries?
Raymond Penners writes: - Fabrizio Polacco [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - - Both TERMCAP and TERMINFO are unset. Setting TERMINFO to - /usr/lib/terminfo doesn't help either. So, IMHO, the Debian ncurses - package is broken. - - What kind of test did you do to say that? - - Perhaps not ncurses itself, but something is wrong somewhere. Several - programs such as vim (3.0-5), joe/jmacs (2.8-4) complain about a - missing termcap entries (e.g. when I set TERM=amiga). - [ stuff deleted ] Actually, what you want to install is the ncurses-term package. From the Packages file: Package: ncurses-term [...] description: Video terminal manipulation: additional terminal files This package contains all of the terminal definitions not found in the ncurses-base package. There are far too many to list here. The base ncurses package just contains a couple of basic entries which should be enough for most people. Since an amiga isn't exaclty a 'standard' linux terminal ( :) ) it's not included in the stripped down termcap file. Install ncurses-term and you'll be OK. But 'most' people don't really need the full version. -Larry -- Larry Daffner| Linux: Unleash the workstation in your PC! [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://web2.airmail.net/vizzie/ If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy. --Kurt Vonnegut
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xemacs support
I have installed xemacs a couple of times now, (without the xemacs support package) and as long as I have installed all it's dependencies like compface, libjpeg, libpngl, and zlibl everything went very well. The xemacs support package size is formidable (over 12 meg). I have been a little apprehensive in letting dpkg uncompress it into something possibly much larger, especially since I am not sure what the benefits would be. Does it contain the above xemacs dependencies? A little more elaboration in the Packages file would help. Thanks, Steve Millard
RE: Setting up Mail Services, Linux, Emacs, and ppp.
Alan Eugene Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am able to send mail to distant sites fine, but mail to addresses at the domain of my ISP usually fails, from within Emacs (but seems to work from within Pine, at least some of the time). Actually, mail sometimes gets out from emacs to local addresses too. Invariably, when sending mail to the same domain, I receive a message from the mailer-daemon that the recipient cannot be located; even so, _some_ of these messages are received by the recipients, and I haven't successfully separated out the variables that are responsible. I note that in Pine there is a setup variable for the SMTP server, while, in Emacs, I cannot find one. Pine seems to send mail directly to the smtp server, while with Emacs mail is queued and sent out when the ppp connection is made, using, in this case, sendmail. The following facts may be of note: 1. As a matter of configuration for a ppp link, my machine shows the same name in /etc/hosts as the Domain name of my ISP, and thus of the addresses of any mail addresses local to the same ISP. I suspect that the failure messages from mailer-daemon indicate that my system thinks it is the machine upon which these recipients should be found. Note that even for local mail that Pine successfully mails, I recieve these failure messages. You shouldn't be running two MTA's on the same machine. I'd ditch sendmail because smail would suit your needs and is easier to manage. You may find your problem vanishes... Does Pine really talk to the ISP's SMTP daemon directly? Is your machine really registered with the same name as your domain? If not, why the same name? If so - and the problem remains - you might consider setting your system name to something different, and using the duplicate name as an alias. Casper Boden-Cummins.
Setting up mail services
I am unable to find a good terse description of what I need to do to set up email services. Is there a good explanation out there somewhere of which debian packages I would need to install? I am trying to set up to use emacs to do my mail. It works partly, but not well. This is due to partly my ppp setup and partly my mail set up probably not being set up right. Alan Davis -- Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School [EMAIL PROTECTED] AAA 196 Box 10,001 Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands 15o 8.8'N 145o 42.5'E GMT+10 ``There is no evidence that an octopus can respond to sound, but the frequencies tried have been limited.'' ``Octopuses respond to such stimuli as shaking the tank, but the receptors responsible are probably not confined to the statocysts since the reaction continues after their removal'' ---J. Z. Young 1997---International Year of the Coral Reef
SECURITY: [linux-alert] CIAC Bulletin G-42:Vulnerability in WorkMan Program
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcey Kelley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- [ Moderator's note: Forwarded from linux-alert. :-) --liw ] [Mod: Forwarded from Bugtraq. --Jeff.] - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- __ The U.S. Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability ___ __ ___ ___ / | /_\ / \___ __|__ / \ \___ __ INFORMATION BULLETIN Vulnerability in WorkMan Program August 29, 1996 15:00 GMT Number G-42 __ PROBLEM: When the WorkMan compact disc playing program is installed set-user-id root, it can be used to make any file on the system world-writable. PLATFORM: Linux, UNIX System V Release 4.0 (and derivatives). DAMAGE:A non-privileged user can use WorkMan to make any file on the system world-writable, and then modify that file's contents. This vulnerbility can allow the user to create accounts, destroy log files, and perform other unauthorized actions. SOLUTION: Apply the patches listed in the vendor bulletin below. __ VULNERABILITY This vulnerability is becoming widely known. ASSESSMENT: __ [Begin IBM Bulletin] - - - --ERS-ALERT--ERS-ALERT--ERS-ALERT--ERS-ALERT--ERS-ALERT--ERS-ALERT-ERS-ALERT - - - ---EXTERNAL RELEASE---EXTERNAL RELEASE---EXTERNAL RELEASE---EXTERNAL RELEASE === == == === == === === === === == == === === === === === === === === === === === === = === === == = === = === === EMERGENCY RESPONSE SERVICE SECURITY VULNERABILITY ALERT 28 August 1996 18:00 GMT Number: ERS-SVA-E01-1996:005.1 = VULNERABILITY SUMMARY VULNERABILITY: When the WorkMan compact disc playing program is installed set-user-id root, it can be used to make any file on the system world-writable. PLATFORMS: Linux, UNIX System V Release 4.0 (and derivatives) SOLUTION: Remove the set-user-id bit from the workman program. THREAT: A non-privileged user can use WorkMan to make any file on the system world-writable, and then modify that file's contents. = DETAILED INFORMATION NOTE: This advisory is NOT a re-hash of the problem reported on several lists earlier this week by a group calling itself r00t. The vulnerability described by r00t is essentially a subset of the problem described in this alert. I. Description WorkMan is a popular program used for playing audio compact disks on local workstation CD-ROM drives that is widely available from many sites around the Internet. Versions of WorkMan are also included with some operating system distributions, such as Linux. On systems where WorkMan was built and installed using the procedures that are given in Makefile.linux or Makefile.svr4 (in general, this means on Linux systems and UNIX System V Release 4.0 systems), the workman program is installed set-user-id root. This means that when the program is run, it will execute with super-user permissions. In order to allow signals to be sent to it, WorkMan writes its process-id to a file called /tmp/.wm_pid. The -p option to the program allows the user to specify a different file name in which to record this information. When a file is specified with -p, WorkMan simply attempts to create and/or truncate the file, and if this succeeds, WorkMan changes the permissions on the file so that it is world-readable and world-writable. In the general case, when WorkMan is installed without the set-user-id bit set, the normal file access permissions provided by the operating system will prevent users from creating or truncating files they are not authorized to create or truncate. However, when WorkMan is installed set-user-id root,
installing emacs 19.34---is this a bug?
Installing emacs the debian way? Every file in the lisp directory was installed twice, then the second copy deleted when the set up was completed, by the installation script. It was necessary to have 8 more megabytes free for installation than was actually needed by emacs! Wow. Alan Davis - -- Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] AAA 196 Box 10,001International Year Saipan, MP 96950 of the Coral Reef Northern Mariana Islands ===15o 8.8'N 145o 42.5'E===GMT+10== ``There is no evidence that an octopus can respond to sound, but the frequencies tried have been limited.'' ---J. Z. Young --- end ---
Re: dpkg-1.4.0.1
Alex Romosan wrote: : : i upgraded dpkg on one of the machines here to 1.4.0.1 and i've found : that dpkg-name is gone. was it intentional, or did it accidentally get : left out of the package? It's in dpkg-dev now, as Ian proposed. Heiko -- email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp : A1 7D F6 7B 69 73 48 35 E1 DE 21 A7 A8 9A 77 92 finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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d. mashao wrote: : : I am trying to upgrade from linux kernel 1.2.1 (Unifix 1.6) to either Debian : or Slackware. I have been persuaded by all this talk about Debian system. nice. : I followed the instructions on making floppies but unfortunately the process : stops after reading the boot disk with the error message: : Loading ... Boot failed: Change disks and press any key Reads as if your floppy disk is demaged. Make a _new_ boot floppy. Heiko -- email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp : A1 7D F6 7B 69 73 48 35 E1 DE 21 A7 A8 9A 77 92 finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Netatalk borke in 2.06 to 2.0.20???
Netatalk is fine here with 2.0.21 2.0.18 2.0.14 etc. Reinstall the newest *deb module with netatalk. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Hello all. Netatalk does not seem to be functioning on my system since : upgrading to kernel 2.0.6. I upgraded to 2.0.20 to see if it would come back. : Everything loads fine, but the macintosh clients don't see the Linux box's file : system and printers. Nbplkup shows all the devices on the network (Mac and : Linux) and I can use the equivalent of ping to bounce packets off both Mac and : Linux boxes. Any ideas?? : : Pat Ouellette :
Problem: XEmacs(19.14.1) can't resolve symbol 'xbitmap'
Hi, today I installed xemacs.19.14.1 and all the required packages: ( compface_89.11.11-2, libpng1-0.88-1, libpng1-dev-0.88-1, xemacs-support_19.14-1, xemacs-widget_19.14-1, xemacs_19.14-1, zlib1-0.99-2, zlib1-dev-0.99-2 ) But xemacs won't start. I only got six lines showing: xemacs: can't resolve symbol 'xbitmap' The System is pure Debian 1.1.9 (upgraded today from mirror feivel in Aachen, Germany, X11 with SVGA-Server is running). Any suggestions how to fix it ? Dirk
Re: /dev/MAKEDEV
On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, Bernard Leach wrote: The /dev/MAKEDEV in debian 1.1.4 (I dont see any mention in the ChangeLog up to 1.1.8) has not had the patch to fixed the minor device numbers for the cyclades devices. Talking about MAKEDEV, does it still create /dev/ipp0 and /dev/idsnctrl0, or ippp0 and isdnctrl0? Niels -- --- - --- -- --- -- Planet Internet Holding XXTP Support Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] I do not speak for my employer - they are perfectly able to do that.
Re: Scsi errors
Make sure you have the shortest cable possible, and good termination. Other than that, try another scsi cable. Tim The SCSI spec for SCSI-III (Specifically, bus rates up to 20 Mhz) state that the total length of the SCSI bus should not exceed 3 metres when using four or less devices, and not exceed 1.5 metres with five to eight devices. (More devices, less distance on the cable to the farthest device) In all cases, no devices should be closer than .3 metres apart. Thanks to all who have replied, but nothing has helped. a 4 inch cable hooked up between the drive and the card now, but that didn't do it. The drive is a SCSI-III so I believe its a self-terminating device, but I don't know... Are there any terminators that would go on the end of a 50 pin ribbon? .3 metres is over 8 inches. It never hurts to plug in a terminator on the end of a 50 pin ribbon connector to make sure the bus is terminated, but the self-terminating drives make life much easier. Anyway, I don't think the cabling is a problem. I ran a media verify from the onboard bios and it went through the whole drive with no problems, except for the usual media defects. I also did a dma transfer test from the bios and it came up clean. Does it work under a different OS or on a different controller card? It seems that the drive is seeing the commands if you're able to send down commands to the drive in your media test. Hopefully you can get it working under one case to eliminate termination and cable problems. Usually it's the software drivers, because most people set up the SCSI bus correctly and it is forgiving in many instances. Are there any kernels that are known to work _for_sure_ with an AHA-1542CF?? Maybe that's my problem... This, I do not know. Good luck in finding someone with specific experience, perhaps there is someone at the company who makes the card using Linux. Charles
Re: mail/new reader [was]Re: Unsubscribe from this list...
Richard G. Roberto wrote: On 26 Sep 1996, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: Unfortunately not _all_ mailing lists are available as newsgroups, I guess I'll have to put up with that until somebody writes an integrated mail/news reader (AFAIAC mail is news is mail etc). Ever heard of PINE? Supports IMAP and NNTP news access. Doesn't deal with threads very well at the moment (3.95) but 4.x will address this better (AFAIK). I missed the beginning of this thread, but I use Netscape v3.0 for mail and news. The Mail reader is primitive, but the next version will be more full featured (filters, etc). The functionality is not bad now: live URL links in all mail and news: just click and the web browser window goes into action. You can drag and drop a news article to a mail folder (hey - I suggested this one to them myself!). Plus, it's available for many different platforms and looks and works more or less the same on all. And, my interpretation of the license agreement is that you don't have to pay for it anymore unless you're required to use it to perform your job in a company. -- ...RickM...
Re: How do I use longtable in LaTeX
There is a LaTeX extension called ``supertabular'' that should do exactly what you want (at least I hope so). Unfortunatly it isn't included in on of the available Debian TeX packages, but just get it from CTAN (TeX servers) and install it somewhere in /usr/local/lib/texmf (you might have to adjust the TEXINPUTS path). If you can't find the supertabular file, just drop me a note and I will send it to you (it's just a single .sty file with 10k). Cheers, Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / \\\__/ !PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \ / http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,.-.- DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN!
Re: 386 Dx-40
On Tue, 24 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A Q. Q. is anyone out there using still using a 386 dx-40 (running Linux) and if so could you let us know what problems you are having if any I am considering the purchase of one.. I'm using a 386dx33 16MB at home right now. I mainly use it as an IP- masquerading router for my home network, but it works great at that. I don't use X (mainly because I've only got a 640x480 mona-VGA monitor), but I have configured it and it works well with only one or two apps up. No problems at all. Owen
Problems with CDROM installation
Hello, I am installing Linux for the first time and am currently installing Debian 1.1.5 onto a new server that was purchased very recently by my department. The system configuration is as follows NCRPCI 2.0 GB scsi hard disk (vendor: Seagate) 32 MB RAM AHA 2940 Ultra Wide PCI-to-Ultra SCSI Host Adapter NEC CDR 512 scsi cdrom CTD 8000 DDS-2 digatal audio scsi tape drive Dell PowerEdge 5133-2 XE Pentium 133 MHz I have managed to install the Debian base system onto the server. The kernel that I have managed to install is the special kernel 2.0.12_6_i386.deb. The problem occurs when I try to mount the CDROM inorder that I may run dselect to install the Debian software packages. After typing mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/scd0 /cdrom the following message appears mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/scd0 as a block device (maybe 'insmod driver'?) During bootup The hardrive,cdrom and tape-drive are recognized but once the linux operating system is initialized only a message about the hardrive and the disk partitions is mentioned. I am certain that the kernel chosen is the right one. (It was also the only one that would work) I have tried the following: 1.I have ensured that the BIOS is enabled. The same message occurs. 2.I have tried using the mknod command to insert the sr0 device. The same message occurs 3. I have checked the /dev directory. scd0 and scd1 are located as block devices in the directory yet the kernel does not recognize them as block devices 4. I have tried to reconfigure the kernel with the 'make config' command. Since only the base system is installed, I cannot use 'make'. After reading the SCSI-HOWTO and the Hardware Compatibility-HOWTO, it seems that the hardware is supported. I have been stumped on this problem for a few days now and it is getting crucial that we install Linux so that we can get the server up and running in the next few weeks. I would appreciate any help/suggestions with this problem through postings/email. Thank you in advance. Tej Dhillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] (819) 953-7524
util-linux
I find that the clock binary in util-linux 2.5-6 still makes my real time clock go nuts. The binary from 2.5-4 works fine. Am I missing soomething? ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~ ==-- _ / / \ ---==---(_)__ __ __/ / /\ \ - [EMAIL PROTECTED] --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / / /_/\ \ \ - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ /__\ \ \ - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org \_\/
SVGAlib and a Newer Mach 64
I have been unable to get any of the console graphics games to work on my box, in any mode. I have a Mach 64 2Meg card ( I forget the exact model, I believe a CT-something or other) that required the F-beta of the XF86_Mach64 server. I can't even get it anything to come up if I force the SVGA libraries to think its a regular VGA card. It says Mode not availiable Has anyone had any luck getting a setup like this to work? I'm sorry the problem is vague, but if there is any info I can give could help I can dig up more specs. Thanks, Greg
Re: util-linux
Ervin D. Walter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I find that the clock binary in util-linux 2.5-6 still makes my real time clock go nuts. The binary from 2.5-4 works fine. Am I missing soomething? It's broken. -- Rob
Will dpkg 1.4 work under buzz?
Hello, I'm encountering some annoying (and apparently well-known) problems with dselect from dpkg 1.2.14elf (e.g. after a search the arrow keys loose their function). I wander if it is safe to install one of the 1.4 version of dpkg on my mostly buzz-fixed system. Thanks, --Amos --Amos Shapira| Of course Australia was marked for 133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st. | glory, for its people had been chosen Jerusalem 93 805 | by the finest judges in England. ISRAEL[EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Anonymous
Re: dpkg-1.4.0.1
On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Alex Romosan wrote: i upgraded dpkg on one of the machines here to 1.4.0.1 and i've found that dpkg-name is gone. was it intentional, or did it accidentally get left out of the package? I believe you will find it in dpkg-dev. Luck, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you don't see what you want, just ask -- From miss Received: from mongo.pixar.com (138.72.50.60) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 26 Sep 1996 17:15:26 - Received: (qmail 28091 invoked from smtpd); 26 Sep 1996 16:59:38 - Received: from primer.i-connect.net (HELO primer) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by mongo.pixar.com with SMTP; 26 Sep 1996 16:58:54 - Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Erick Branderhorst) Subject: Re: Will dpkg 1.4 work under buzz? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Amos Shapira) Date:Thu, 26 Sep 1996 17:42:59 +0100 Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] from Amos Shapira at Sep 26, 96 06:53:34 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 PGP2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length:445 Resent-Message-ID: cZ-om.0.A61.xWhIo@primer Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-Reply-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Mailing-List: debian-user@lists.debian.org archive/latest/96 X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm encountering some annoying (and apparently well-known) problems with dselect from dpkg 1.2.14elf (e.g. after a search the arrow keys loose their function). I wander if it is safe to install one of the 1.4 version of dpkg on my mostly buzz-fixed system. I have the most recent dpkg on my system and it works fine. I think that it is fairly save to install it on your mostly buzz-fixed system as well. But be carefull. Erick
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Re: Setting up Mail Services, Linux, Emacs, and ppp.
On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, alan davis wrote: I am able to send mail to distant sites fine, but mail to addresses at the domain of my ISP usually fails, from within Emacs (but seems to work from within Pine, at least some of the time). Actually, mail sometimes gets out from emacs to local addresses too. Invariably, when sending mail to the same domain, I receive a message from the mailer-daemon that the recipient cannot be located; even so, _some_ of these messages are received by the recipients, and I haven't successfully separated out the variables that are responsible. Perhaps it is a network configuration problem. Can you ping the machines that you are unable to send mail to from Emacs? If not, I suspect the problem is with your ISP, not with your configuration. Gerry
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This may be way off, but some of us have trouble loading Linux from floppy if the cache is turned on. Try turning off cache and see if the problem goes away. Typically, the cache issue shows up while the kernel is being decompressed, not during the initial boot. The solution given below by Heiko is more likely the correct one. Chris -)- On Sep 26, 10:51am, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: Subject: g : d. mashao wrote: : : : : I am trying to upgrade from linux kernel 1.2.1 (Unifix 1.6) to : : either Debian or Slackware. I have been persuaded by all this talk : : about Debian system. : : nice. : : : I followed the instructions on making floppies but unfortunately the : : process stops after reading the boot disk with the error message: : : Loading ... Boot failed: Change disks and press any key : : Reads as if your floppy disk is demaged. Make a _new_ boot floppy. -- End of excerpt from Heiko Schlittermann -- Christopher R. Hertel -)- University of Minnesota [EMAIL PROTECTED] Networking and Telecommunications Services
install from floppy
I have downloaded debian from Debian.1.1.8 directory and installed the base system. I got so far as to run the dselect program and stoped there as i had not downloaded more files. Now the problem is that I dont understand how dselect works. I thought that it should indicate what i have installed but when i choose Selcet it shows a * sign before things I dont have on my system. I have downloaded some *.deb files but how do I install them ? I obviously dont understand the help dpkg gives me. Have anyone done a step by step example to install a *.deb file ?? Pio 1 is to make a slip/ppp conection to my provider so i can install more over ftp. Any tips is greatly appriciated.
Re: install from floppy
On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, Kenneth Johansson wrote: I have downloaded debian from Debian.1.1.8 directory and installed the base system. I got so far as to run the dselect program and stoped there as i had not downloaded more files. Now the problem is that I dont understand how dselect works. I thought that it should indicate what i have installed but when i choose Selcet it shows a * sign before things I dont have on my system. I have downloaded some *.deb files but how do I install them ? I obviously dont understand the help dpkg gives me. Have anyone done a step by step example to install a *.deb file ?? Pio 1 is to make a slip/ppp conection to my provider so i can install more over ftp. Any tips is greatly appriciated. You will need the packages: netstd, netbase, and ppp. They will all fit on a floppy, but you don't need to do that if you downloaded them on the same machine (using DOS?). You can just mount your dos partition and install them from there. To install a package without using dselect type: dpkg -i /path-to-package-file/package.deb Dpkg will inform you if you need other packages to make the package being installed work properly. (you will not need any other packages for netstd, netbase, and ppp) When you download the rest of the packages, be sure to include the Packages files if you wish to use dselect (it needs information from this index file). Also, the Contents file (at the top of the tree) is useful for help in finding which package a particular program belongs to. If you need more help, just contact me in private e-mail. I will be happy to give assistance. Luck, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you don't see what you want, just ask --
Re: argh, NIS!
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dominik Kubla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought that using broadcasting to find ypserver was considered a security hazard, and it was better to explicitly specify the server location? (ie, that this is what NIS+, and hence NYS was going to require)? Well, that can be done with Linux' NIS implementation as well, just put server nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn into /etc/yp.conf, that's all. Nope, that doesn't work. I replaced ypbind-2.99 with a hacked version of the BSD ypbind. The Linux ypbind-2.99 tends to die when it wants to switch servers, which is a problem if you have more then one NIS server and the one you're currently listening goes down. Also, if it doesn't die it will return an error to the getpwXXX operation in operation, which is also troublesome. That can cause things like mail getting lost etc. No other distribution has picked this up yet I think. We have the most stable NIS environment of all Linux distributions at the moment ! :) Disadvantage is that ypbind is a bit less flexible. Mike. -- + Miquel van Smoorenburg + Cistron Internet Services + Living is a | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SP6) | Independent Dutch ISP | horizontal | + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + http://www.cistron.nl/+ fall+
Two serious csh bugs
I found not one but two rather gross bugs in /bin/csh. The incredibly bizarre symptom (on my system) is that if you try to run csh while cd'ed to a subdirectory of your home directory whose full pathname is exactly 28 characters long, csh dies with a segmentation fault. Thanks to Bruce Perens' wonderful Electric Fence utility, it was pretty quick to track this down to a problem with s_strncmp (strncmp for short strings) which causes it to return no match for the case where the first string is an initial substring of the second, plus a malloc in dcanon that allocates one Char fewer than it should. Here are the fixes: *** /tmp/str.c.orig Thu Sep 26 12:35:25 1996 --- /tmp/str.c Thu Sep 26 12:35:25 1996 *** *** 338,343 --- 338,345 * negative collate low against normal characters but high against the * end-of-string NUL. */ + if (n == 0) + return(0); if (*str1 == '\0' *str2 == '\0') return (0); else if (*str1 == '\0') *** /tmp/dir.c.orig Thu Sep 26 12:35:59 1996 --- /tmp/dir.c Thu Sep 26 12:35:59 1996 *** *** 876,882 */ p2 = cp + Strlen(p2); sp = newcp = (Char *) xmalloc((size_t) ! ((cc + Strlen(p2)) * sizeof(Char))); while (*p1) *sp++ = *p1++; while (*p2) --- 876,882 */ p2 = cp + Strlen(p2); sp = newcp = (Char *) xmalloc((size_t) ! ((cc + Strlen(p2) + 1) * sizeof(Char))); while (*p1) *sp++ = *p1++; while (*p2) These patches are relative to the sources on the I-Connect Debian 1.1 CD. It seems likely that these bugs are present in standard versions of csh on many systems, not just Debian and perhaps not just Linux. Is there a good place to forward this bug report in addition to the Debian list? -Randy -- http://cogsci.ucsd.edu/~gobbel/ NOTICE: I DO NOT ACCEPT UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL EMAIL MESSAGES OF ANY KIND. I CONSIDER SUCH MESSAGES PERSONAL HARRASSMENT AND A GROSS INVASION OF MY PRIVACY. By sending unsolicited commercial advertising/solicitations (or otherwise on or as part of a mailing list) to me via e-mail you will be indicating your consent to paying John R. (Randy) Gobbel $1,000.00 U.S.D./hour for a minimum of 1 hour for my time spent dealing with it. Payment due in 30 days upon receipt of an invoice (e-mail or regular mail) from me or my authorized representative.
fvwm2 middle button
I just installed Debian 1.1 on a machineand need some help on a problem: I am using fvwm2 as the window manager and have a 3 button logitech mouse (serial, mouseman). The icon triggered by the middle button sticks to the mouse arrow so that the arrow cannot select from that icon's menu. Is there a simple fix? Richard
Re: dpkg-1.4.0.1
thanks for everybody who responded regarding dpkg-name. when i upgraded dpkg to 1.4.0.1 i forgot to also upgrade dpkg-dev. now everything is back to normal. thanks. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be possible (simultaneously with | | automatism and other passive states) to systematize confusion | | and thus to help to discredit completely the world of reality. |
more on csh bug
After further investigation, it appears that the bugs I reported in my earlier message exist only in the Linux version of csh. tcsh and the FreeBSD version of csh do *not* have the bugs. -Randy -- http://cogsci.ucsd.edu/~gobbel/ NOTICE: I DO NOT ACCEPT UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL EMAIL MESSAGES OF ANY KIND. I CONSIDER SUCH MESSAGES PERSONAL HARRASSMENT AND A GROSS INVASION OF MY PRIVACY. By sending unsolicited commercial advertising/solicitations (or otherwise on or as part of a mailing list) to me via e-mail you will be indicating your consent to paying John R. (Randy) Gobbel $1,000.00 U.S.D./hour for a minimum of 1 hour for my time spent dealing with it. Payment due in 30 days upon receipt of an invoice (e-mail or regular mail) from me or my authorized representative.
Re: Problem: XEmacs(19.14.1) can't resolve symbol 'xbitmap'
Hi, today I installed xemacs.19.14.1 and all the required packages: ( compface_89.11.11-2, libpng1-0.88-1, libpng1-dev-0.88-1, xemacs-support_19.14-1, xemacs-widget_19.14-1, xemacs_19.14-1, zlib1-0.99-2, zlib1-dev-0.99-2 ) But xemacs won't start. I only got six lines showing: xemacs: can't resolve symbol 'xbitmap' The System is pure Debian 1.1.9 (upgraded today from mirror feivel in Aachen, Germany, X11 with SVGA-Server is running). Any suggestions how to fix it ? Dirk I had the same problem, and I filed a bug report (#4592). Sorry, it's not filed under xemacs in the filing system because I screwed up the header. :-( Here's the response: -- Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Jim Pick [EMAIL PROTECTED], Guy Maor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bug#4592: xemacs: can't resolve symbol 'xbitmap' References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Darren/Torin/Who Ever... [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: Jim Pick's message of Wed, 25 Sep 1996 11:52:18 -0700 Date: 26 Sep 1996 02:33:04 -0700 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lines: 48 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.39/XEmacs 19.14 X-Filter: mailagent [version 3.0 PL44] for [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Jim Pick, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: xemacs worked until this morning, when I used dselect to upgrade some packages. Now, when I type xemacs, I get: fleming:~$ xemacs xemacs: can't resolve symbol 'xbitmap' [...] xemacs: can't resolve symbol 'xbitmap' fleming:~$ Here's what I think was upgraded: upgraded compface_1.0-1 -- compface_89.11.11-2 Here's the problem right here. Hakan Ardo hadn't noticed that I had already packaged compface and uploaded another version of the same with an unresolved symbol in the library: 1dc0 ... U xbitmap So, if you just go back to the other compface that I packaged, it'll work fine. I'm using xemacs (with compface) right now to compose this. So, Guy, could you please remove compface_89.11.11-2 and put compface_1.0-1 back in it's place? I can upload it to master again if you'd like. Darren - - -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.daft.com/~torin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Darren Stalder/2608 Second Ave, @282/Seattle, WA 98121-1212/USA/+1-800-921-4996 @ Do you have your clothes on? I probably don't. Take yours off. Feel better. @ @ Sysadmin, webweaver, postmaster for hire. C/Perl/CGI programmer and tutor. @ - -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.4, an Emacs/PGP interface iQCVAwUBMkpNyY4wrq++1Ls5AQFZdQP/Znneyr2HPMvuj1Q8TYrbUreSGYzUOci+ 07UoizoUI1y9qSEin6eWHb9E0rqQcLhXjgF+omFdU5BK61RyfqL28Ip/vl2LF7NX JD8XBlUvT5c79CUC2neMlcH14rhiamRqPzdWNDewyRUz+If/bxe1ckFXiFcZBbP8 BWNUcCOAR5w= =FmV3 - -END PGP SIGNATURE- --- End of Forwarded Message Since I no longer have access to compface_1.0-1, I'll have to wait for it to re-appear on the ftp site. Hope this helps, - Jim
need developer mailing-list requests again
I now have control over the mailing lists. If you are a Debian package maintainer and are not _currently_ getting debian-private (there were several messages today), please write to me. I also (hopefully) have fixed it so that it will handle those unsubscribe requests properly. Thanks Bruce Perens
