floppy problems?
Anybody seen this in 2.0.6? floppy0: disk absent or changed during operation end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 1 bread in fat_access failed cat: list: I/O error I wrote to this disk after I mounted it under Solaris x86 using vol management and when I attempt to read from it under debian 11 I get the above. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
xinetd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello Since i've noticed that there is no xinetd pkg for debian, i thought that i can maintain it. Plz tell me what you think of the idea borik ___ Boris D. Beletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nicaragua st. 3/15 Jerusalem Israel 96586 For pgp public key, e-mail me with subject get pgp-key ___ The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be. -- Lao Tsu -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia+ Charset: koi8 Comment: Boris D. Beletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] iQCVAwUBMmBDoQz8DjY6pgpxAQFlYgP+PVdm8n2hkQY4mzORLXn7CZQYqlgIj5XQ NFXmjCMVz2UResCFArI4jLQBbwVxbOlYtEyHoGIlaSHO6dOb4nBrtlM+MGHo1zym CqJB5Cc/A7OQgzY3EyXlYLdTdOWBM4a20PVzmPHl8JY45t/dVYmQi7lL/tFBKdal 9iPUfPbJP1M= =Wtla -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pcmcia ethernet cont'd
OK here's what I did. I've installed the buzz-updates disks and I have a 2.0.6 kernel now and I've added the pcmcia_cs package and the modules that go with it and my system recognises the 3c589c at boot time. However, it doesn't setup the interface for some reason and my strobe light is hard on on the card's interface. So, if I execute network manually it starts up correctly I'm guessing that when I did the install the setup scripts couldn't detect the interface and so wrote the /etc/init.d/network file but didn't create the rcn.d link. Would this be correct? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2 versions of some packages
On 12 Oct 1996, Rob Browning wrote: Christian Hudon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Then I say it's a bug in dftp. So what's the right way to handle this? Hmm. I don't really know much about dftp, but when dpkg-ftp sees that two of the files it has downloaded are different versions of the same package, it installs the more recent version and discards the older one. Can't dftp do something like that? Or maybe there's something I'm missing... Christian -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xinetd
On Sun, 13 Oct 1996, Boris D. Beletsky wrote: borik Since i've noticed that there is no xinetd pkg for debian, i thought borik that i can maintain it. I really like to have it. But I wonder how the debian scripts for the maintenance (update-inetd) of inetd.conf will fare with the different config format. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mailbox locking in debian
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Guy Maor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 12 Oct 1996, Loic Prylli wrote: So what is the proper way to lock a user mailbox ? The proper way is with the user.lock file. Policy manual 4.3 documents this. You should file bug reports against any programs that use a different method. I am about to file a lot of bugreports on programs that use the user.lock file. Only procmail gets it right; it creates a temp file and tries to lock by link(2)ing to the lockfile. Most other programs (deliver, elm etc) use O_EXCL which fails over NFS because NFS has no O_EXCL. And the main reason we use the dotlock convention is so that it works over NFS.. Mike. -- | Miquel van Smoorenburg \ The answer to Life, the Universe and Everything \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ Just reinstall windows and try again, sir. \ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: inews package conflicts with domestic convention
MvS == Miquel van Smoorenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I found Debian inews package conflicts with Japanese domestic convention about news articles. We have embedded raw ESCs without any special encodings into articles to write Japanese, and the inews package is programmed to strip these ESCs silently. So I finally removed the package and switched to the normal C News inews. MvS I think news is not required to be 8 bit clean, so that might MvS be possible It has not been `7-bit clean' either, though RFC 1036 or RFC 822 does not prohibit the use of any control characters in body. Most of Japanese believe ESCs should pass since their use in Usenet articles is not explicitly prohibited, though I doubt if it must be true. In respect to this problem, it might be good to use some MIME encoding, but the ESC convention used in Japan predates MIME and many programs are not prepared to handle such an encoding yet:-(. I wish it would be `fixed' in the future. MvS Are you talking about inews or inewsinn? If you mean inewsinn MvS (I maintain the INN package) I could fix it. inn_1.4unoff4-2 MvS is on its way. I am not sure if it is necessary to modify INN, but I believe INN and the latest C News is already 8-bit clean. BTW, I prefer C News to INN since I am familier with the C News administration and since my system is getting a very limited feed just for my needs. Should I switch to INN? -- Kaz Sasayama, a Nagoyan X68000, Linux and OS/2 user. pub 1024/5B09C385 1996/01/03 Kazuhiro Sasayama [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 53 71 54 56 FB 3D 76 0B 92 5D 32 40 C5 34 38 00 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Boot disk SCSI kernel panic
Package: boot1440.bin / aic7xxx Version: Debian 1.1 I get a kernel panic on SCSI probing on attempting to boot from the standard Debian boot disk and can go no further. My system is a 486 DX2/80 with an Adaptec AHA2842 VL Bus SCSI card. boot1440.bin was obtained from \buzz\disks-i3\current on the 3 Oct 96 Debian CD from iConnect. On looking up the SCSI driver in the F4 help, I see that aic7xxx may receive the options extended,noreset. On checking the README for the driver on another Linux system, I see no reference to extended, and the correct syntax for noreset is no_reset. The latter portion of the boot sequence output is as follows (close, I hope, since I copied it by hand): aic7xxx: (aic7xxx_isr) Encountered Spurious Interrupt qlogicisp : PCI bios not present PPA: unable to initialize controller at 0x378, error 2 scsi0: Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 3.2/3.1/3.0 scsi : 1 host aic7xxx: Scanning channel A for devices aix7xxx: (aic7xxx_isr) BRKADRINT error(0x1): Illegal Host Access Kernel panic: aic7xxx (aic7xxx_isr) BRKADRINT, error(0x1) seqaddr(0x0) I had exactly the same difficulty with the Slackware 96 boot disk, write Patrick Volkering and Walnut Creek about it and never heard a word from them. It is worth noting that this same system is successfully running Slackware Linux, manually upgraded from kernel 1.2.18 which boots from a zImage bootdisk (kernel 2.0.12, or some such) made with make zdisk and the SCSI boot operation is executed with no problem. I don't know if this is a bug, a configuration problem, or a startup parameters problem, but I assume the former since I can find no documentation which might direct me to appropriate config or startup param solutions. Has anyone any knowledge of this problem and if it can be solved at my end? I'll be happy to supply additional information if necessary. Lindsay Haisley (__) FMP Computer Services (oo)The bull [EMAIL PROTECTED]/--\/stops here! Austin, Texas, USA / ||| 512-259-1190* ||---|| * * * * * * ~~ ~~ http://www.fmp.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to interrupt the boot process?
Hello all, I just made a *BIG* mistake on my Debian Linux box resulting in not being able to boot that machine anymore... Some problems with lilo and a custom kernel not finding his modules (that also claim to have unresolved symbols). The machine boots until it hangs when trying to access non-existent devices, but after starting some user level daemons already. Falling back to a working kernel doesn't work since I made an error configuring lilo. Booting from the custom floppy resulted in going to the hard disk and then continuing with the normal boot process. Booting the stock installation floppy and getting a root shell didn't help since then I was unable to remount the hard disk as / where it should have been (e.g. to manipulate files with programs relying on shared libraries). Now I have some questions: - How can I stop the boot process half-way to get a single-user root shell? All I did in terms of ^C, ^Q@(#*$ and Alt-any-key didn't help, regardless of where in the boot process I press them. - Is there an equivalent to chroot in Debian Linux (I only can compare to BSD* here). - When having a set of kernels how do I manage to get them all have their individual System.map? - As a quick fix, could somebody of you please point me to a dpkg working under BSD*? I didn't manage to make the port yet, but that would enable me to read further documentation on the CD. Thank you! Regards, Toni. Oeko.neT Mueller Brandt GbR email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] v: +49 2261 979364 f: +49 2261 979366 Unix, networking, administration, consulting, programming, Internet services -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to interrupt the boot process?
Hi Toni, there may have been much more profound answers to your questions, bu t in case, there were none, here is what I do when in trouble: Now I have some questions: - How can I stop the boot process half-way to get a single-user root shell? At the beginning, just after your POST completes (BIOS checking the system), hit CAPS LOCK once - this is prerequisit for Lilo to prompt you for further input befor bootstraping Linux... At the Lilo: prompt, you may alter some kernel-driver parameters, as well as the init-behaviour. the keyword single at the Lilo-prompt will bootstrap Linux in single-user mode... All I did in terms of ^C, ^Q@(#*$ and Alt-any-key didn't help, regardless of where in the boot process I press them. I don't know of such keypresses, that equal the SPARC Boot Interruption...:-? - Is there an equivalent to chroot in Debian Linux (I only can compare to BSD* here). Yes there is an equal chroot. I'd better cutpast portion of the man-page :-) --- NAME chroot - change root directory SYNOPSIS chroot newroot [command] DESCRIPTION The chroot command changes its root directory to the supplied directory newroot and exec's command, if supplied, or an interactive copy of your shell. Note, command or the shell are run as your real-user-id. Note also that in the Debian GNU/Linux version only chroot(2) is called. In the original 4.4BSD-Lite version both chdir(2) and chroot(2) are called. -- - When having a set of kernels how do I manage to get them all have their individual System.map? don't know if you can...but it isn't critical during bootstraping. Hope this helps. regards, Stoyan -- Stoyan Kenderov/ NTG Netzwerk und Telematic GmbH \/ phone: +49 721 9652 220 Geschaeftsbereich/\ LINK fax: +49 721 9652 210 Vincenz-Priessnitz-Str. 3 /___ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany http://www.xlink.net/~kenderov PGP: http://www.xlink.net/~kenderov/public.key.asc -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pcmcia ethernet cont'd
I've sinced learned that I should be looking at /etc/pcmcia/network and since I changed that things started work. However, it would seem that the patch cable I'm using is incorrect because I pulled out another much shorter cable that worked but is too small for me to do anything. Does anybody have the pinouts to make a patch cable? -- They pay homage to a king who's dreams are buried in their minds. His tears are frozen stiff. Icicles drip from his eyes. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: floppy problems?
Robert Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anybody seen this in 2.0.6? floppy0: disk absent or changed during operation end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 1 bread in fat_access failed cat: list: I/O error I wrote to this disk after I mounted it under Solaris x86 using vol management and when I attempt to read from it under debian 11 I get the above. I will ad that the above only seems to occur for MS-DOS formatted floppies. During an install floppy uses worked fine. -- They pay homage to a king who's dreams are buried in their minds. His tears are frozen stiff. Icicles drip from his eyes. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2 versions of some packages
Christian Hudon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hmm. I don't really know much about dftp, but when dpkg-ftp sees that two of the files it has downloaded are different versions of the same package, it installs the more recent version and discards the older one. Can't dftp do something like that? Or maybe there's something I'm missing... Well, I'm not sure that installing the most recent one is the right answer. Take ghostscript for example. There's the GNU version in .../text and the Aladdin version in .../non-free. Now the GNU version should always be = the Aladdin version since GNU repackages the Aladdin version after it's been out for a while. People who want an all free software machine may prefer the GNU version even if it's older. I think that it might make more sense to just disallow two packages with the same name in a given Debian package tree. In this case I think we should have a virtual ghostscript package provided by both gs-aladdin and gs-gnu, or whatever. Then no one gets confused about what you mean. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PGP and ELM
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I have noticed that my elm package has some support for PGP, that is it recognizes it at least. I have been searching the FTP site for a package, but without success. The ELM documentation does not even mention PGP, so I am a bit lost. Can anyone give me a pointer? Thanks in advance, -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.7.1 Comment: Erik van der Meulen [EMAIL PROTECTED] iQCVAwUBMmF1OASsHV9rOgLdAQEgQgP/XvphX1XDaX004BDbZ3RdTqWxY5S+grU/ Xl79g1pYTG3904evdT63e87hZp6LRvUmNeDy4TlGVb6EVDu3PNEE37f2CD9FKIPa cnqRILVQYpLQq+SUVYgoNwIVH4UuMZrkH38JhAd4hJ1N2u5AutzY47QQpdzY0GeT AoO4EGo8vBY= =Psof -END PGP SIGNATURE- Erik van der Meulen [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- PGP Fingerprint = 6C 2A A6 83 4A 57 B7 95 B7 79 A6 D7 F7 16 04 5C PGP KeyID = 0x6B3A02DD -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2 versions of some packages
On 13 Oct 1996, Rob Browning wrote: Christian Hudon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, I'm not sure that installing the most recent one is the right answer. Take ghostscript for example. There's the GNU version in .../text and the Aladdin version in .../non-free. Now the GNU version should always be = the Aladdin version since GNU repackages the Aladdin version after it's been out for a while. People who want an all free software machine may prefer the GNU version even if it's older. If they do want that, they just don't select the non-free one. Then the GNU version will get installed. Or even easier, if they want just free software, they don't select the non-free section and then they never even *see* the non-free ghostscript 4.01. I think that it might make more sense to just disallow two packages with the same name in a given Debian package tree. In this case I think we should have a virtual ghostscript package provided by both gs-aladdin and gs-gnu, or whatever. Then no one gets confused about what you mean. Huh? By 'given package tree' you mean 'non-free' vs 'stable/unstable' vs 'contrib', don't you? Then there is no problem. because ghostscript 4.01 is in non-free and ghostscript 3.something in in unstable. I still don't see a problem... Unless the problem is that dftp makes no distinction between the different sections (i.e. doesn't allow people to distinguish between non-free, unstable and contrib)... but that would be a problem with dftp, IMO. Christian -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2 versions of some packages
Christian Hudon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I still don't see a problem... Unless the problem is that dftp makes no distinction between the different sections (i.e. doesn't allow people to distinguish between non-free, unstable and contrib)... but that would be a problem with dftp, IMO. Ah, now I understand. That is exactly the situation, at least as I recall. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to interrupt the boot process?
If you are using a boot loader like lilo/syslinux that is simple: just pass the '-b' switch to the kernel. Eg: LILO: vmlinux -b -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 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. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to interrupt the boot process?
On Sun, 13 Oct 1996 11:23:52 +0200 Toni Mueller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: - How can I stop the boot process half-way to get a single-user root shell? All I did in terms of ^C, ^Q@(#*$ and Alt-any-key didn't help, regardless of where in the boot process I press them. Go to the lilo prompt (press SHIFT or ALT or CTRL) when the prompt appears. Type `linux single' (or whatever name you've put) (press TAB to get a list). You should boot linux in single-user mode. Note that it will try to mount partitions. If the above doesn't work, you can try `linux emergency' which will only boot the kernel and fork a shell. No init script is called. This should always work unless your root partition is unreadable and/or you screwed something up with the shared libraries. In this last case, you can resort to using a boot/root disk. But `linux emergency' should work for you. - Is there an equivalent to chroot in Debian Linux (I only can compare to BSD* here). Yep, it's in /usr/sbin, and only root can use it. - When having a set of kernels how do I manage to get them all have their individual System.map? During the boot phase, before klogd is started, symlink it to one of your system.map-version. - As a quick fix, could somebody of you please point me to a dpkg working under BSD*? Er, don't know that one. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Device does not exist
I'm having problems with devices. I put on a clean install of the latest Debian stable release. Then I downloaded and installed mdutils.deb, since I want to have /usr span a couple partitions on 2 drives. When I use mdadd /dev/md0 /dev/hdb4 /dev/hdd3 I get a message Device /dev/md0 does not exist. Of course, it _does_ exist in the filesystem but somehow won't be found. BTW, I'm signed on as root when I try this. I had a similar problem with one of the sound devices. I've an Ensoniq Soundscape card and recreated the kernel and pertinent modules (this on a previous installation). When I tried to run ssinit (the initialization program for Soundscape), I received a similar message. Thanks in advance for any help! Vern Vernon M. Hamberg Old Republic National Title Insurance Co. Assistant Systems Specialist400 Second Avenue South (612) 371- x480 Minneapolis, MN 55401 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to interrupt the boot process?
On Sun, 13 Oct 1996, Toni Mueller wrote: - How can I stop the boot process half-way to get a single-user root shell? There was a key which I don't remember. You may type linux single from lilo prompt. Vadik. ++_ Vadik V. (_`[EMAIL PROTECTED] alias: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vygonets (_.lf For PGP public key, email me with sibject get pgpkey Behind every great computer sits a skinny little geek. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
