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Re: Calidad de los CD's de Debian
El Sat, Oct 10, 1998, Marcelo E. Magallon... On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 02:22:59PM +0200, Antonio Castro wrote: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/scd0, or too many mounted file systems Termina escupiendolo como siempre y el sistema no sufre ningún destrozo. Ya es algo no ?? :-) Has probado: $ mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /cdrom -o nojoliet Y, por si acaso, mira lo que he leido en las news a cerca de lo mismo: -- Miguel Angel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A los que ya la teneis, ¿os funcionan los CD? Yo ya he probado SEIS (3 Como ya comenté en otro mensaje yo no he tenido ni un solo problema con la instalación de Debian 2.0 (CD de Linux Actual) y eso que he instalado todos los paquetes (haciendo pruebas,hasta ahora había usado RedHat y quería probar todo lo que había en Debian). Pero mira tú por donde hace tres días me acerqué a casa de un amigo a instalarle la debian en un 486SX 25,con un CD 2x y la cosa empezó a fallar más que una escopeta de fería,solo conseguí terminar la instalación básica pero en cuanto empecé con la instalación de más paquetes la cosa se torcio tanto que estuve a punto de instalarle el W95 ( :-O Bueno tanto no pero casi ),la cuestión es que recordé que hace unos años cuando intenté instalar la RedHat 4.1 en mi ordenador con un Creative 4x,me ocurrió algo similar y lo solucioné dandole la opción blocks=2048 al montar el CD,así que monté el CD de Debian en /mnt/cdrom con dicha opción y seleccioné instalar desde una partición ya montada y la cosa fue de gloría,oye ni un puñetero fallo y eso que la instalación se tiro cerca de una hora,sino más. Resumiendo,mirar a ver si alguno consigue con esto solucionar el asunto. ¿A alguien le sucede lo mismo o es que tengo pero que muy mala suerte? Si te ha pasado con 6,yo empezaría a pensar en otras causas... claro que todo puede ser... así que cuando vayas a viajar en avión avisame para no ir contigo. ;-DDD -- Saludos,ZeroByte. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Un saludo. Cosme [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: que pasa con smail
On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Fernando wrote: Hola: He instalado la Debian 2.0. em el PC de mi casa. He instalado netscape 4.04 y lo he configurado para que el correo saliente utilice el mailhost con smail. Tengo una conexion PPP que funciona correctamente. Cuando intento enviar un e-mail desde netscape sin estar conectado, este me da un mensaje de error y no lo procesa. En la version 1.3.1 tambien con smail el mensaje se enviaba y se quedaba en la cola de correo. Sabe alguien por que no hace ahora lo mismo. Sí, porque la nueva versión de smail intenta enviarlo siempre. Una opción que debería funcionar es activar el queuing en el fichero de configuración config (creo). Esto encola todo, incluso aunque estés conectado o el correo sea local, lo cual es una lata. Después hay que forzar la salida con smail -q. Ha salido una beta que hace que todo vuelva funcionar como antes. Saludos, Carlos. C a r l o s C o s t a P o r t e l a-- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: ccp.servidores.net Tódalas persoas maiores foron nenos antes, pero poucas se lembran. -
Re: Problemas de instalacion
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Me gustaria que me sugirieran alguna posible solucion. Puedes probar a recompilar el núcleo a ver si obtienes la señal 11. (Esto no es una solución, pero sí un bien diagnóstico). -- 42745b1e62aafd7a095b910a9db68fde (a truly random sig)
Re: linux actual 4 falla
Hola. Yo instalé dos Debian 2.0 ayer con dos CDs distintos de LA y no tuve problema. El lector de CD-ROM era un 32x en ambos casos. Solamente en uno de los casos no pude arrancar de CD, pero sospecho que es un problema del BIOS de ese ordenador concreto (al arrancar salía el mensaje típico de que hay un disco duro con tal geometría en el maestro del primer IDE, pero del CD-ROM no salía nada). -- 2031af99d693f58cc466ce89c557e737 (a truly random sig)
Re: linux actual 4 falla (fwd)
Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a decia: () Al parecer la estampadora ha entregado a la redacción un conjunto de CDs algunos perfectos y otros defectuosos (quiero creer que no lo han hecho a sabiendas), y los que habeis tenido problemas habeis tenido la mala suerte de dar con los defectuosos. También parece que, para rebajar costes las estampadoras bajan la calidad y resulta que los CDs se leen bien en lectores de baja velocidad (hasta 12x) pero a más alta empiezan a fallar. (...) Me siento tremendamente decepcionado con el trabajo de los que se suponen profesionales. Un saludo No es por consolarte pero últimamente es un mal habitual en los CDs que dan las revistas (yo tengo un CD 32x), p.e. esto mismo me ha pasado con varios CDs de la revista PC-Actual, en casa patinan pero en el trabajo con un lector 8X van como la seda :-(, con los de Debian 2 de Linux-Actual tb tengo problemas en casa (aunque son menores leyendo desde Linux que desde W95 ¿?) desde el curre todo perfecto :-( ¿De que sirve que sigan aumentando las velocidades de los CDs si cada vez se len peor los discos? -- ===NaClU2\==Ignacio= _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ ( @ @ ) _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ +-ºoO(_)Ooº-+ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/| | _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ +---+
Re: CAPTURAS EN PLENA INSTALACION???
Juan Antonio Martinez el día Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 08:51:30AM +0200 expuso lo siguiente: On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, TooManySecrets wrote: Hola! Porfavor,me gustaria que alguien me ayudara. Creo que debe de ser bastante simple, pero no tengo ni idea de como hacerlo: Como puedo sacar capturas de pantalla en pleno proceso de una distribucion de Linux cualquiera? ¿Y en un momento que no sea la instalación, esto es, en cualquier momento? Y teniendo un sólo ordenata... ¿cómo lo harias? Very facil: arrancas las X, metes el cederrom de instalacion, y desde un xterm le das a install --test ( o algo parecido, no lo tengo a mano ) , y te aparecera el programa de instalacion de redhat. luego, simplemente con el xv, das a la opcion de grab, y a capturar ventanas se ha dicho... ( Es un truco que estoy usando para capturar ventanucos, para el articulo de proxima aparicion en Linux Actual de Instalación de Eurielec Linux 2.1 ) ¡ATENCION! ¡PREGUNTA! ¿Puedo hacer yo lo mismo, o algo parecido, con Debian 2.0? Es que ya no sé dónde acudir para conseguir screenshots de la instalación. Repito: es para un artículo sobre Linux, para una revista que se sube ahora al carro linuxero; PC-Plus. Gracias por todo. -- Have a nice day ;-) TooManySecrets
Y sigue...
Resulta que una vez en el sistema (correctamente configurado) me ocurre que al cargar las X, se queda en negro y cuando me canso de esperar y corto el proceso veo lo siguiente: waiting for the X server to shunt down FreeFontPath: FPE usr/X11R6..., etc, etc. La dirección que indica es correcta y la fuente existe pero de ahí no pasa. Necesito una solución. Gracias.
Re: que pasa con smail
On Sat, Oct 17, 1998 at 12:00:13PM +0200, Carlos Costa Portela wrote: Cuando intento enviar un e-mail desde netscape sin estar conectado, [ netscape como lector de correo... aaarggg... ] Sí, porque la nueva versión de smail intenta enviarlo siempre. A mi me funciona... $ dpkg -s smail | grep ^Version: Version: 3.2.0.101-4.5 $ zgrep -4 'Default:.*sendmail' /usr/doc/mutt/manual.txt.gz 6.3.126. sendmail Type: string Default: /usr/lib/sendmail -oi -oem Specifies the program and arguments used to deliver mail sent by Mutt. Mutt expects that the specified program will read the message header for recipients. $ grep 'set *sendmail' ~/.muttrc #set sendmail=/usr/lib/sendmail -oi -oem -t #set sendmail_bounce=/usr/lib/sendmail -oi -oem Como ven lo que el Mutt hace es pasarle el mensaje a sendmail, en lugar de abrir una conexión al puerto 25 de la máquina. No sé si el Netscape puede hacer eso... Con la configuración que tengo (a continuación) me permite poner los mensajes en cola: $ egrep -v '^ *($|#)' /etc/smail/config visible_name=el_dominio_de_mi_proveedor more_hostnames=mi_maquina -domains hostnames=mi_maquina max_load_ave=5 smtp_accept_max=20 smtp_accept_queue=10 rfc1413_query_timeout=15 require_configs -second_config_file -qualify_file -retry_file copying_file=/usr/doc/smail/copyright max_message_size=10M -smtp_remote_allow -smtp_hello_verify -smtp_hello_verify_literal smtp_hello_broken_allow=localnet received_field=[muy largo para ponerlo aqui] $ ls -l /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ [...] -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 61 Jan 18 1998 mail $ cat /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/mail #!/bin/sh runq su -l -c fetchmail --daemon 900 mmagallo y como el proceso de fetchmail es mío, puedo hacer con el lo que quiera una vez que se ha establecido la conexión (despertarlo, por ejemplo) Así a cualquiera le gusta linux: simple y efectivo, ¿no? Marcelo
Re: CAPTURAS EN PLENA INSTALACION???
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 06:54:16PM +0200, TooManySecrets wrote: ¡ATENCION! ¡PREGUNTA! ¿Puedo hacer yo lo mismo, o algo parecido, con Debian 2.0? Es que ya no sé dónde acudir para conseguir screenshots de la instalación. Repito: es para un artículo sobre Linux, para una revista que se sube ahora al carro linuxero; PC-Plus. Enrique está mucho mejor calificado que yo para contestar esto, pero creo que sería posible que tomaras el paquete boot-floppies, compilas las cosas y corres el dinstall... me imagino que así debe ser como Enrique prueba las cosas... ¿Enrique? Marcelo
PPP logging?
For some reason, ppp is not being logged anymore on my hamm/slink box.. anyone else having the same results? If not, how do I fix it? I believe I upgraded ppp yesterday, as the last logged time was 2:55pm... does not even have disconnect logged. Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with pgpkey as subject. - Barney is my hero! BOOM! @#%*! NO CARRIER - Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out!
dbf Program
I'm in need of a program that can convert csv (comma seperated values) files into a dbf format file. Does anyone know of a program or script that can do this? I really don't care what operating system it runs on although linux/unix is prefered. Thanks, Chris
Re: Linux 2.0.35 slink
Subject: Re: Linux 2.0.35 slink Date: Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 11:00:12AM -0700 In reply to:Bob Nielsen Quoting Bob Nielsen([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Fri, 16 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day deb'ers I have just upgraded to slink and compiled the 2.0.35 kernel. I find a small problem with it. Dist Kernel Bigomips -- -- Debian 2.0 linux 2.0.34 149.91 Debian 2.0 linux 2.0.35 130.66 ? Slackware 3.3 linux 2.0.34 149.91 Slackware 3.3 linux 2.0.35 149.91 Slackware 3.5 linux 2.0.35 149.91 Slackware 3.5 linux 2.1.125 149.91 The above are on the same system and are booted via lilo and/or boot disks. The above are the results from cat /proc/cpuinfo. I know that Kernel-2.0.35 is in the unstable tree of Debian but doubt that this should matter.(?) Has anyone else noticed this? I will now try a non-deb kernel tarball and see if that solves the problem. No problem here with 2.0.35, I get 59.8 with all kernels (P150) Mine is compiled by make-kpkg from a tarball on a slink system (with a handful of packages held back). Whoops, you got me. I have been on Slackware too long. Ok so thanks to you I remembered make-kpkg and used that. But the results are the same 130.66. What the heck would cause that? I made the comfig file the same as all the others, same modules and all. Oh, one last question. I say an announcement for apt-0.1.7 this morning. As of yet I can't find it on debian.org or any ftp sites. How long does it usually take for the software to catch up with the announcements? The anouncement did not mention a location for the software. The update to unstable normally happens daily, much less often for stable. I usually find the new files available in the early afternoon (MST), but some mirrors are slower at updating than others. Thanks, I will look for it later tonight, when the net is quiet. Appreciate the help Bob. Any ideas as to what could cause this?? I expect you will find it in unstable/.../admin later today. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- It's not just a computer -- it's your ass. -- Cal Keegan ___ Wayne T. Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Netscape doesn't work
Dear all, I got the 4.07 version, and ran the installed. When I run it, netscape reports a bus error Help? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
svgalib and Mach64 cards
Dear all, Does svgalibwork with such cards? Mine is an ATIXpert98 Thanks, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
WORKAROUND: lowmem installation trouble
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 08:55:36PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There appears to be a bug in the installation sequence. What happens is that in effect the swap partition doesn't get activated when the system is first booted. Ouch! on a machine already low on memory! I can't remember the exact order of what happens, but this is what I make of it: After you've gone through the special lowmem steps to prepare a This was the hint I needed (having been fighting a lowmem install myself)! Here is a (relatively clean) workaround. Do the low memory installation by the numbers until you get to the point where you're given some choices about swap. None of the choices applies because you've already initialized and activated a swap partition as part of the lowmem install, and whatever you select will break something at some point in the remaining installation process. At this point use Alt-F2 to get another console, and do this: # cat /proc/meminfo It should show you (1) that you have swap available, and (2) that no swap is currently being used. If condition (2) isn't met you'll have to take Joost's route. If you're among the fortunate, do the following: # /sbin/swapoff /dev/hda3 (my swap partition, use yours, please) Another # cat /proc/meminfo should show no swap available. Now exit the second console and select Activate a Previously Initialized Swap Partition from the installation menu and do the rest of the installation by the numbers. Your /etc/fstab will be created correctly, and you should be able to reboot your low memory machine successfully when the installation is complete (at least I could, 386SX16 with 4MB). Luck, Pann -- What's All the Buzz About Linux? http://www.rdrop.com/users/pann/
Re: Apt
On 16 Oct 1998, Ruud de Bruin wrote: Is it possible to use Apt for files from the binary-all tree from Slink? The binary-all does not contain a Packages.gz file... binary-all contains files that can be used by all architectures. Relevant symlinks are made in binary-i386. Therefore, you already are using the packages from binary-all. Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with pgpkey as subject. - yip yip yip yip yip yip yap yap yip *BANG* NO TERRIER - Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out!
Re: exim and fetchmail
Change these lines in /etc/exim.conf: qualify_domain = your hostname local_domains = your hostname:localhost local_domains_include_host = true local_domains_include_host_literals = true sender_host_reject_relay = * sender_unqualified_hosts = localhost I cant remember which ones are relevant, but that makes it work. On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Russ Cook wrote: I am running exim as my MTA, and I'm using fetchmail to retrieve my mail from my ISP. My ISP account is [EMAIL PROTECTED] My local account is [EMAIL PROTECTED] My mail is not getting delivered. fetchmail knows that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is russ here, and negotiates the mail retrieval. A script of the transaction follows. Please help with pointers to look for. What should file ownership be for /var/spool/mail/russ? It currently is russ:mail. fetch retrieval Script started on Thu Oct 15 19:24:35 1998 bash-2.01$ fetchmail -v fetchmail: 4.6.0 querying mail.icon.net (protocol POP3) at Thu Oct 15 19:24:39 1998 fetchmail: POP3 +OK ns2.icon.net POP3 Server (UNIX(r) System V Release 4.0) ready. fetchmail: POP3 USER russcook fetchmail: POP3 +OK Password required for russcook. fetchmail: POP3 PASS * fetchmail: POP3 +OK russcook has 54 messages (166336 octets). fetchmail: selecting or re-polling default folder fetchmail: POP3 STAT fetchmail: POP3 +OK 54 166336 fetchmail: POP3 LIST fetchmail: POP3 +OK 54 messages (166336 octets) (message list deleted ...) fetchmail: POP3 . 54 messages for russcook at mail.icon.net (166336 bytes). fetchmail: POP3 RETR 1 fetchmail: POP3 +OK 2093 octets reading message 1 of 54 (2093 bytes) fetchmail: SMTP 220 p90.mydomain ESMTP Exim 2.04 #1 Thu, 15 Oct 1998 19:24:45 -0500 fetchmail: SMTP EHLO localhost fetchmail: SMTP 250-p90.mydomain Hello russ at localhost [127.0.0.1] fetchmail: SMTP 250-SIZE fetchmail: SMTP 250-PIPELINING fetchmail: SMTP 250 HELP fetchmail: forwarding to localhost fetchmail: SMTP MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SIZE=2093 fetchmail: SMTP 250 [EMAIL PROTECTED] is syntactically correct fetchmail: SMTP RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] fetchmail: SMTP 550 relaying to [EMAIL PROTECTED] prohibited by administrator fetchmail: SMTP listener doesn't like recipient address [EMAIL PROTECTED]' fetchmail: SMTP RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] fetchmail: SMTP 550 relaying to [EMAIL PROTECTED] prohibited by administrator fetchmail: can't even send to russ! fetchmail: POP3 QUIT fetchmail: POP3 Colin Telmer wrote: fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from mail.icon.net fetchmail: Query status=10 fetchmail: SMTP QUIT fetchmail: SMTP 221 p90.mydomain closing connection fetchmail: normal termination, status 10 bash-2.01$ bash-2.01$ exit Script done on Thu Oct 15 19:25:00 1998 fetch retrieval exim log 1998-10-15 19:08:00 Start queue run: pid=797 1998-10-15 19:08:00 End queue run: pid=797 1998-10-15 19:23:00 Start queue run: pid=802 1998-10-15 19:23:00 End queue run: pid=802 1998-10-15 19:23:08 refused relay (host reject) to [EMAIL PROTECTED] from [EMAIL PROTECTED] H=localhost [127.0.0.1] (russ) 1998-10-15 19:23:09 refused relay (host reject) to [EMAIL PROTECTED] from [EMAIL PROTECTED] H=localhost [127.0.0.1] (russ) 1998-10-15 19:24:45 refused relay (host reject) to [EMAIL PROTECTED] from [EMAIL PROTECTED] H=localhost [127.0.0.1] (russ) 1998-10-15 19:24:45 refused relay (host reject) to [EMAIL PROTECTED] from [EMAIL PROTECTED] H=localhost [127.0.0.1] (russ) 1998-10-15 19:26:01 0zTxiT-DH-00 = [EMAIL PROTECTED] U=russ P=local S=3619 1998-10-15 19:26:05 0zTxiT-DH-00 = [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=smarthost T=remote_smtp H=mail.icon.net [209.54.6.22] 1998-10-15 19:26:05 0zTxiT-DH-00 Completed exim log Using eximon, I modified the recipient of one of the messages above, to forward to my machine at work. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Russ Russell Cook, Engineering Branch WSR-88D Operational Support Facility (405)366-6520 x4237 [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with pgpkey as subject. - Don't force it, use a bigger hammer. - Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out!
Re: Help! FAT magic number corrupted!
On 16 Oct 1998, Rene Hojbjerg Larsen wrote: fsck.msdos on /dev/hda1 returns: Currently, only 2 FATs are supported, not 81. Hmm. Why does it think I have 81 FATs on one partition? It seems that the file system on /dev/hda1 is hosed :-( I would agree here, every time I see 81, 82 and 83, I instantly associate them with linux/minix Partition ID's. Since your hda1 appears to be set to 81, (Linux/MINIX) I would worry. Maybe changing it back? I dunno... Just looks that way to me. Another mention, if you have a /boot/boot.0301 file, you are in luck... I guess a probable course of action would be: 1) make sure /dev/hda1 has the correct ID 2) write /boot/boot.0301 to your MBR (cant remember how... `cat` should do it.) (`cat boot.0301 /dev/hda`??) Then try rebooting.. Might work, but dont try it till someone else says that it would work... It's a guess on my behalf. Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with pgpkey as subject. - Def: Password: The nonsense word taped to the CRT. - Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out!
Re: [Dual boot] dual boot NT and debian?
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Frank Hollmann wrote: On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Mrpeabody wrote: I currently have debian running on a ide drive on my computer and I have recently purchases a scsi drive so that I can boot windows from the scsi. Can I use lilo to tell it to boot the scsi drive up and run windows? Trying to make a dual boot machine. I only know two people running dual boot NT/linux (actually tri-boot NT/95/linux) and they inform me that lilo won't boot NT or NT need the mbr or something and so they have to use the NT bootloader and loadlin to get linux bootstraped. Nikolai Lilo can be installed in the mbr, if you use a primary partition for ms-dos. After the Installation of msdos install linux or windows nt. In this special case, the nt-loader will be installed in the primary dos-partition. lilo can no be instructed to boot NT via the dos partition. i have on my pc linux , nt and dos and all seems to coexist with no problem i installed first dos on an eide partiton , then linux on a scsi disk (all for him that's better) and the rest of the eide disk ( on PMaster) is for winnt i use nt's boot manager and i installed lilo on the partiton boot record of the linux partiton ... then i add one line to boot.ini ( nt's boot manager ) c:\bootsect.lin=Linux which mean that the first 512 byte of my linux partiotn (or something like that ) are on c:\bootsect.lin then on linux i used dd in this meaning (assuming c: is /dosc ) dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dosc/bootsect.lin bs=512 count=1 ^ my linux partiton i hope this would clear your porblem too samuele when a man lies he murders some part of the world these are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives all this i cannot bear to witness any longer cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home? (cliff burton)
Re: PPP logging?
Michael Beattie writes: For some reason, ppp is not being logged anymore on my hamm/slink box.. anyone else having the same results? If not, how do I fix it? I believe I upgraded ppp yesterday, as the last logged time was 2:55pm. What's your version? 2.3.5-2 is working fine here. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address.
Re: PPP logging?
Michael Beattie wrote: For some reason, ppp is not being logged anymore on my hamm/slink box.. anyone else having the same results? If not, how do I fix it? I believe I upgraded ppp yesterday, as the last logged time was 2:55pm... does not even have disconnect logged. AFAICT, this is caused by a faulty sysklogd. Upgrading to 1.3-28 should fix the problem (it did for me). -- /'`\ zzzZ | My PGP Public Key is available at: ( - - ) | http://home1.inet.tele.dk/renehl/ --oooO--(_)--Oooo-- Don't ya just hate it when there's not enough room to fin
Re: Help! FAT magic number corrupted!
Michael Beattie said On 16 Oct 1998, Rene Hojbjerg Larsen wrote: I would agree here, every time I see 81, 82 and 83, I instantly associate them with linux/minix Partition ID's. Since your hda1 appears to be set to 81, (Linux/MINIX) I would worry. Maybe changing it back? I dunno... Just looks that way to me. Another mention, if you have a /boot/boot.0301 file, you are in luck... I guess a probable course of action would be: 1) make sure /dev/hda1 has the correct ID 2) write /boot/boot.0301 to your MBR (cant remember how... `cat` should do it.) (`cat boot.0301 /dev/hda`??) Then try rebooting.. Might work, but dont try it till someone else says that it would work... It's a guess on my behalf. Doing this would restore the partition table and boot record on that drive to what they were prior to installing LILO. Is that what you want to do? I'd be careful here...maybe you should first use dd to make a copy of the first sector *BEFORE* trying this suggestion!? It's not reversable otherwise. Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Chuck -- Chuck Stickelman, Owner E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Practical Network DesignVoice: +1-419-529-3841 9 Chambers Road FAX:+1-419-529-3625 Mansfield, OH 44906-1301 USA
Re: PPP logging?
On 16 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Beattie writes: For some reason, ppp is not being logged anymore on my hamm/slink box.. anyone else having the same results? If not, how do I fix it? I believe I upgraded ppp yesterday, as the last logged time was 2:55pm. What's your version? 2.3.5-2 is working fine here. same... I did just upgrade sysklogd before, to 1.3-28 which may have fixed it, but i downgraded that to 1.3-26 before I tried ppp again... I'll go and fiddle a bit more. Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with pgpkey as subject. - Cat Game #10: Hide and go puke. - Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out!
Re: PPP logging?
On 17 Oct 1998, Rene Hojbjerg Larsen wrote: Michael Beattie wrote: For some reason, ppp is not being logged anymore on my hamm/slink box.. anyone else having the same results? If not, how do I fix it? I believe I upgraded ppp yesterday, as the last logged time was 2:55pm... does not even have disconnect logged. AFAICT, this is caused by a faulty sysklogd. Upgrading to 1.3-28 should fix the problem (it did for me). That was my next assumption.. although I thought it was my upgrade to -28 which broke it. I downgraded to -26, But I'll have to play around with it. Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with pgpkey as subject. - Cat Game #1: Hah - made you look! - Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out!
Re: PPP logging?
On 17 Oct 1998, Rene Hojbjerg Larsen wrote: Michael Beattie wrote: For some reason, ppp is not being logged anymore on my hamm/slink box.. anyone else having the same results? If not, how do I fix it? I believe I upgraded ppp yesterday, as the last logged time was 2:55pm... does not even have disconnect logged. AFAICT, this is caused by a faulty sysklogd. Upgrading to 1.3-28 should fix the problem (it did for me). Hmmm... could you send me your syslog.conf? Mine is missing the relevant ppp.log line TIA, Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with pgpkey as subject. - WinErr: 017 This will end your Windows session. Do you want to play another game? - Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out!
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wget, intermittant connection, and Netscape
Hello, Lets say I am running wget and downloading Communicator 4. My Internet connection times out every hour (what do you want for free). If I reconnect, say with an at job, will wget know the connection is back up? should I kill wget and restart it when the connection comes back up? Will wget time out and quit if there's no connection for so long? -- Jim Foltz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dbf Program
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Chris Hoover wrote: I'm in need of a program that can convert csv (comma seperated values) files into a dbf format file. Does anyone know of a program or script that can do this? I really don't care what operating system it runs on although linux/unix is prefered. Thanks, Chris I hate to mention it, but I believe MS-Excel can. I played around with some of that briefly just the other day. If Excel can, I bet something in Linux could also; perhaps Applixware or Star Office, etc. Sorry this isn't more definitive; probably someone else will know for sure, but I thought I'd let you know what I know. Kent
Re: unlist on your list my email is stephen.lam@shaw.wave.ca
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Re: Midnight Commander
On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, Alan Tam wrote: Hi all; Can someone please tell me where I can get the Midnight Commander package ? The package is called mc and it is in the utils directory. Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
DDP Manuals
Are the DDP Manuals, Web pages available as debs (or gz's) for offline reading ? Saisanthosh B -- All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory... (By Larry Wall)
ManPages Secton 2
Hello everyone, It seems that I do not have section 2 installed. Should it be installed separately(how?) from all main manpages or what had happend? Thank you, ZORO Take these broken wings and learn to fly... ///|\\\ 0 0 ( . )http://pages.nyu.edu/~rqf6512 - | |
Re: config printer.
If you think that everything is set up correctly (sd if lp pw...) then you can try to change the order of the line in /etc/printcap. Eventhough, the man page state that the order does not matter, in practice it DOES! Hope it helps... ZORO On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Zheng Wang wrote: Hi I have a HP 5L printer, but when I print something, the paper is running but nothing is printed. Could you help me figure out the problem? Thanks. Zheng Wang, Ph. D Department of Statistics and Applied Probability University of California, Santa Barbara E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; http://www.pstat.ucsb.edu/~zwang On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, W. Paul Mills wrote: Sounds like an irq problem. X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 11:14:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Zheng Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Mailing-List: debian-user@lists.debian.org archive/latest/21434 X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-UIDL: 03a0a4e87fe9d857fd8dd623b3c9da57 Hi, When I install the Debian base, the network is working. But when I choose to install all package from the CD. The network is disconnected. Could I get some help to solve this problem? Thanks. -- /*** Running Debian Linux *** * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish...John 3:16 * * W. Paul Mills * Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. * * EMAIL= [EMAIL PROTECTED] * WWW= http://Mills-USA.com/ * * Bill, I was there several years ago, why would I want to go back? * pgp public key emailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] */ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Take these broken wings and learn to fly... ///|\\\ 0 0 ( . )http://pages.nyu.edu/~rqf6512 - | |
Re: ManPages Secton 2
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Lazar Fleysher wrote: Hello everyone, It seems that I do not have section 2 installed. Should it be installed separately(how?) from all main manpages or what had happend? manpages-dev has many section 2 (and section 3) entries. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
scripting cvs updates
I'd like to develop a script that will automatically d/l the E cvs source each night. However, I have to login to the cvs server and provide it with a password (password is just pressing the return key). Is there a way to have the script send the return key w/o human interaction? Thanks, Chris
Re: scripting cvs updates
*-Chris Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | I'd like to develop a script that will automatically d/l the E cvs | source each night. However, I have to login to the cvs server and | provide it with a password (password is just pressing the return key). | Is there a way to have the script send the return key w/o human | interaction? Are you sure that it's necessary? If you have logged in once and checked it out, it's just a matter of cd'ing to the checked out directory and doing 'cvs (-z3) update (-dP)'. No need to log in again. -- A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee to theorems (Paul Erdøs) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [-: .elOle. :-] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CDROM ATAPI module in new Kernel?
Dear Debs, I asked this already once but with no success. Let me retry. When I boot with the standard Debian 2.0.34 kernel, I get the message CD-44 E ATAPI CDROM Drive which is correct (I have a Teac CD-44E, swappable with a floppy drive in a Thinkpad 760) and everything works with it. I had to recompile the kernel, however, (to include ISDN support for a recent card, by the way): according to the documentation (CDROM-HOWTO, Kernel-HOWTO,etc.), it is sufficient to select (with Yes) the kernel compilation options BLK_DEV_IDE, BLK_DEV_IDECD, and ISO9660_FS to have support for an IDE/ATAPI CDROM drive. I did it, but the boot message now says can't find cdrom module: indeed, there is no file.o in /lib/modules/2.0.3x/cdrom, not even cdrom.o (the module that runs when I boot with the Debian kernel). How does one get cdrom.o in /lib/modules...? Is it necessary to select at least one type of module for compilation in order to have the generic module cdrom.o? The documentaiton says NO. Thank you. Remo | Dr. Remo Badii | Paul Scherrer Institute | | Nonlinear Dynamics and | 5232 Villigen PSI | | Stochastic Processes Group | Switzerland | ||___| | badii at psi.ch | http://www1.psi.ch/~badii | ||___|
Window Maker 0.20.1 and required libs...
Hi all- I was wondering if anyone here is using version 0.20.1 of Window Maker? I have the gzipped tarred file and compiled it, but I don't have support for any graphic format other than xpm. I've installed the debian packages for the following files: libpng libtiff libjpeg and I installed libXPM via a gzipped tarball. For some reason WM can't find the debian packages I installed, but it finds the libxpm stuff just fine. If anyone else has WM installed, how did you do it? Do I need to poke around one or two of the WM files to change some paths? If so can someone enlighten me? TIA, Mark
Partition size technicalities. Re: Debian's recommendation for the size of the swap.
Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: [...] I've a machine with 64 MB ram, 1 swap partition of about 32 MB (made like that when I only had 32 MB ram) 1 swap file of 127 MB (it doesn't take 128 MB, you must put something less). [...] If you really want to know why this is (probably not), partition sizes are actually specified in cylinders. It is possible to define partition boundaries that do not lie on cylinder boundaries, but this can be very dangerous and most partitioning software only lets you do this with the 'expert options' or something similar. Most disks have a geometry that is something like num cylinders x 255 heads x 16 sectors x 512 bytes per sector. So the size of one cylinder is going to be 255x16x512, which is 2,088,960 bytes. Thus all of your partition sizes are going to be multiples of that, and the closest multiple to 128MB is 127,426,560 bytes. While not as important with ext2fs Linux and FAT32/Win, it's a good idea to size your partitions to the closest cylinder that resides under the power of 2 mark (31MB, 63MB, 511MB, etc) for minimal cluster sizes and minimal disk space wastage. Even though newer filesystems like ext2fs and FAT32 typically use 4k inodes or clusters, if you have 8GB partitions then there's going to be an incredible amount of clusters or accounting information and this will lower performance so it's good to use multiple, smaller partitions anyways for this reason and all the other reasons for using seperate /var, /tmp, etc. partitions. Christopher
data bases
Hi there, I'll try to expose this matter as concisely as possible: I'm rather new to the world of Linux, and am currently using Debian 2.0. I'm trying to take a 100% advantage on the system, so that I can finally give up using other OS's. So far so good on my home computer. But my current needs at work, on the short to medium term, are for a system with some special charcteristics: - a network made up of some low budget machines (a couple of 386's, two more 486's (one of them 486SX), and one Pentium 120mHz. I'm willing to upgrade the machines, though I'm working on a low budget. I've also thought of getting a 2nd hand unix machine (such as a sun sparc, digital,...) to make it serve as a main terminal. - a data base which allows me the following: - to store data on a personalized way, and to easily being able to retrieve it from any other connected computer, and according to a given criteria. - to link, add,... pictures (.jpg) to any given data. - to get the data, if possible, in a windowing environment (not necessarily x-windows, a set of frames called from the command prompt might be good enough), so that the different data can be viewed at one time, and linked info to parts of that data viewed in different windows (frames). In the medium to long run, I might need to remotely access to that data, be it via the internet or else (eg. with a laptop), and hopefully put it (part of it) available on the web. I've been hearing on this and other lists about SQL, mySQL, PostgreSQL..., Informix, Oracle,... and recent developments about it, but so far my knowledge is limited to the use of dbase and access to a low ground, and have never used, not even seen the above mentioned. So, I'll be grateful for any advice you may be willing to give to me, as to the use of one or another data base application, the features of them, ease of use, etc. On the how to network issue, well, I guess that's a completely different matter for now. Many thanks in advance. -- Un saludo, Horacio [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks! -- Re: Exchange root and swap partitions?
Many thanks to both Helge and Steve for their help with my problem. My solution was simpler than I thought because of the suggestions they gave me. Resized DOS. Expanded the swap. Reactivated OS/2 B.Mngr. with DOS fdisk (cfdisk's rewrite of the partition table screwed up everything--only DOS's fdisk from floppy saw two partitions being active and reset things). Made and mounted the new e2fs over the swap, and copied over from the root all dirs. and files after David's suggested reading of the Tips-HOWTO #2.6 (using tar). (Naturally I tried to move proc and several mounted partitions ... :) Changing fstab (old vs. new swapped, keeping old for backup) and rebooting confirmed a working system. New swap now done .. up and running! Concerning a few things--I couldn't simply use the expanded space--3 primaries and a logical partition prevented this. Good suggestion, but too much work to redo all my systems. The above worked wonderfully well with 48 Mb RAM and an original root partition which was maxed out at 100% usage (the tar/untar worked with no problems). Partition numbers did not change since I was shrinking one, with another soaking it up. OS/2's Boot Manager had no problems with a new menu (I had troubles once in the past with that. Now don't know why.). I am beginning to fully appreciate the Linux/Unix system of managing files and partitions. Such a move with OS/2, DOS, or WinDoze would have been a nightmare with the drive path changes! Thanks again! Kenward
Re: netscape4.x cannot read debian-user list archives
I had this problem to with an earlier Netscape. I'm using 4.06 right now (though there is 4.07) and it seems to work okay. By the way, the 4.5 final came out just today. The only time I've ever had Linux *really* crash hard was with a 4.5 beta and it crashed anyways whenever I did a lot of rapid fire email deleating. What I'd *really* like to see is a Netscape that properly supports 24bpp Christopher Jan Krupa wrote: I have installed netscape4.5b2 under debian2.0. When I try to read debian-user mailing list archives (e.g. from September, august) first time it's O.K. but next times on the same month archives netscape just hangs I have to kill it (the archives are very big). When I try to read much smaller archives (e.g. debian-changes, September) it's all right. I had the same behavior using netscape4.x, but netscape3.x reads the archives well. Does anybody have any idea what causes such behavior of netscape ? May be I have configured netscape wrong. My be I some hint what change in preferences? Jan Krupa -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Only root can play squake
DEar all, When I run squake, I get a caannot get io permission error, unless I run it as root. What do I do about this, please? -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
cd-rom installation problem
Hello, I finally bought the cd-rom distribution from dvd rent (Victoria, Australia - thanks Tyson - really great service !) but am having trouble installing the very first installation went fine but i made some config errors so rather than trying to reconfigure the system i decided to re-install from scratch the problem is that the cd-rom seems to spin down and the following errors are given : hdc: irq timeout: status = 0xd0 hdc: ATAPI reset complete hdc: irq timeout: status = 0xd0 hdc: ATAPI reset complete end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00, sector 444 (*** the sector number changes ***) the cd seems marginally readable because either a package is unpacked or a deslected package is skipped but the cd seems to be operating at 1/4 speed rather than 24X speed as it is supposed to FYI, the cd rom is a Diamond Data which i believe is manufactured by Mitsubishi. it was installed along with my sb-16 sound card. sorry - even the manual isn't any more specific !!! i have tried cold booting the machine (even leaving it overnight) and warm booting but the errors just keep on coming ! any help very much appreciated. ivan.
Re: Help!
On 7 Oct 98 21:04:22 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adrian Gudas) wrote: Help! I've installed X, and it works, but the mouse doesn't work (at all). I'm thrashing around like a spastic cat trying to get back into shell, but I can't, and without the mouse, how am I supposed to change my config? You can manually edit /etc/X11/XF86Config and change the section titled Pointer to something different. PS: The mouse is an IntelliMouse. I specified this. Any known problems/anything else I forgot to do? I've got a PS2 IntelliMouse and have had all sorts of fun and games with it. It's currently specified as IMPS/2 in XF86Config, which gives me access to the wheel and middle button. However, PS2 flips out if two programs are trying to read it, so make sure you're not running gpm in the console whilst running X. You would also need PS2 compiled into your kernel. View the file /proc/interrupts to see whether you've got an interrupt assigned to the PS2 port (probably IRQ 12). If not then you'll need to recompile the kernel. What should I use as a backup plan? Look at the manuals for the program gpm. It can be set up to read your IntelliMouse from the console, and can use trickery to pipe the input through to X. Basically, run gpm with the '-R' switch and use GPMData and MouseSystems as the entries in /etc/X11/XF86Config (if I'm remembering this correctly - check the manpages for the specifics of this method). If you've got a serial mouse... Don't know, never tried, sorry. Rob Wilderspin -- But I need it to crash once every few days - reboots are the only chance I get to sleep... --= (send replies to rob@)
Newbie installation problems
Wondering if someone could help me.I'm trying to change over from Win 95 to Debian, which would be fine if I could actually get the latter installed. I'm using a Cheapbytes CD, and BIOS is set up to boot from the CD drive. I press ENTER at the boot prompt, and a lot of technical info flashes past on the screen, before everything comes to a complete halt. No bootlog, since I can't actually get that far, so excuse my vague explanations! I did manage to write down what was on screen at the time: Ramdisk driver initialized: 16 ramdisks of 4096K size loop: registered device at major 7 hda: SAMSUNG VG34323A (4.32GB) gq033, 4124MB w/496KB cache, VHS=525/255/63 hdb: CD-ROM 24x/AKOx, ATAP CDROM drive hdc: WdC AC31000H, 1033MB w/128KB cache, CHS=2100/16/63 hdd: M1614TA, 1040MB w/64KB cache, CHS=2114/16/63 ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7, 0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177, 0x3f6 on irq 15 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC is a post-1991 82077 md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 At which point everything just stops. No reboot, no error message. I left it for 10 minutes one time, and nothing happened. My setup is: AMD K6 2 300 Samsung 4.32 GB IDE HD Western digital 1GB IDE HD (that I want to put Debian on) M1614TA IGB IDE HD Philips 24x CDROM Soundblaster clone Cirrus Logic 5436 PCI display adapter Samsung Syncmaster 3 monitor No SCSI cards/HDs, and I don't have any of the hardware mentioned in the boot help options. I checked the Linux Hardware Compatability FAQ, and I don't seem to have any hardware that could cause a problem as far as I know. What am I missing? Why does it stop straight after the md driver line? It's probably something really obvious that I'm overlooking...I'd be really grateful for any help.
Re: Only root can play squake
On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: DEar all, When I run squake, I get a caannot get io permission error, unless I run it as root. What do I do about this, please? Set /usr/games/squake.real to setuid. It is not by default because of a potential security hole. Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with pgpkey as subject. - Windows: the world's first commercially successful virus! - Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out!
Re: Newbie installation problems
Hello Rebecca: I am not a 100% certain but I think there are some problems with the cheap bytes distribution. If you can, create a boot floppy. The tools should be in the tools section of the CD you have. hint rawrite2. I have installed cheap bytes using a floppy and the provided CD. Boot from floppy Peter Rebecca Naylor wrote: Wondering if someone could help me.I'm trying to change over from Win 95 to Debian, which would be fine if I could actually get the latter installed. I'm using a Cheapbytes CD, and BIOS is set up to boot from the CD drive. I press ENTER at the boot prompt, and a lot of technical info flashes past on the screen, before everything comes to a complete halt. No bootlog, since I can't actually get that far, so excuse my vague explanations! I did manage to write down what was on screen at the time: Ramdisk driver initialized: 16 ramdisks of 4096K size loop: registered device at major 7 hda: SAMSUNG VG34323A (4.32GB) gq033, 4124MB w/496KB cache, VHS=525/255/63 hdb: CD-ROM 24x/AKOx, ATAP CDROM drive hdc: WdC AC31000H, 1033MB w/128KB cache, CHS=2100/16/63 hdd: M1614TA, 1040MB w/64KB cache, CHS=2114/16/63 ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7, 0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177, 0x3f6 on irq 15 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC is a post-1991 82077 md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 At which point everything just stops. No reboot, no error message. I left it for 10 minutes one time, and nothing happened. My setup is: AMD K6 2 300 Samsung 4.32 GB IDE HD Western digital 1GB IDE HD (that I want to put Debian on) M1614TA IGB IDE HD Philips 24x CDROM Soundblaster clone Cirrus Logic 5436 PCI display adapter Samsung Syncmaster 3 monitor No SCSI cards/HDs, and I don't have any of the hardware mentioned in the boot help options. I checked the Linux Hardware Compatability FAQ, and I don't seem to have any hardware that could cause a problem as far as I know. What am I missing? Why does it stop straight after the md driver line? It's probably something really obvious that I'm overlooking...I'd be really grateful for any help. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null begin: vcard fn: Peter Iannarelli n: Iannarelli;Peter org:GenX Internet Laboratories Inc. adr:20 Madison Ave.;;;Toronto;Ontario;M5R 2S1;Canada email;internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] title: Engineer tel;work: 1+ 416 929 1885 tel;fax:1+ 416 929 1056 note: Unix/Linux Support x-mozilla-cpt: ;0 x-mozilla-html: FALSE version:2.1 end:vcard
Re: Help!
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 02:48:15PM +, Robert Wilderspin wrote: gives me access to the wheel and middle button. However, PS2 flips out if two programs are trying to read it, so make sure you're not running gpm in the console whilst running X. This is working just fine here on my notebook. I use the psaux module, with gpm set to /dev/psaux, type=ps2, with X set to protocol PS/2, device /dev/mouse, which is a symlink to /dev/psaux. The mouse switches fine. Initially if I switched X - console - X X would be unable to get the mouse back and would exit, but seems to be working now. This works on a friend's desktop with PS/2 mouse also. I gather it's also possible to configure X to get the mouse data from gpm. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org
Re: Newbie installation problems
Hi Rebecca; I am a newbie too, I am also switching from W95 to Debian. I installed Debian from a floppy set and its smooth -- no problem at all or alternatively if you like, you can install it from your hard disk. Files to get if from floppy: (asumming your floppy is 3.5 1.44M at drive A:) 1. rawrite2.exe (a dos program for writing Debian image files to floppies) 2. resc1440.bin (boot / setup disk can be created by using the rawrite2.exe) 3. drv1440.bin (driver image) 4. base14-1.bin to base14-5.bin (base/core program files) 5. install.txt (or the Html page at http://www.debian.org/2.0/install.html) Files to get if installed from hard disk (which is also suitable for you to copy your files from your Cheapbyte CD) 1. resc1440.bin (in case you need to write a boot floppy) 2. drv1440.bin 3. base2_0.tgz (core program files) 4. root.bin 3.loadlin.exe 4. install.bat 5. linux 6.install.txt or install.html All the above files or information can be obtained in http://www.debian.org/2.0/install.html#Installation Enjoy Rebecca Naylor wrote: Wondering if someone could help me.I'm trying to change over from Win 95 to Debian, which would be fine if I could actually get the latter installed. I'm using a Cheapbytes CD, and BIOS is set up to boot from the CD drive. I press ENTER at the boot prompt, and a lot of technical info flashes past on the screen, before everything comes to a complete halt. No bootlog, since I can't actually get that far, so excuse my vague explanations! I did manage to write down what was on screen at the time: Ramdisk driver initialized: 16 ramdisks of 4096K size loop: registered device at major 7 hda: SAMSUNG VG34323A (4.32GB) gq033, 4124MB w/496KB cache, VHS=525/255/63 hdb: CD-ROM 24x/AKOx, ATAP CDROM drive hdc: WdC AC31000H, 1033MB w/128KB cache, CHS=2100/16/63 hdd: M1614TA, 1040MB w/64KB cache, CHS=2114/16/63 ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7, 0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177, 0x3f6 on irq 15 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC is a post-1991 82077 md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 At which point everything just stops. No reboot, no error message. I left it for 10 minutes one time, and nothing happened. My setup is: AMD K6 2 300 Samsung 4.32 GB IDE HD Western digital 1GB IDE HD (that I want to put Debian on) M1614TA IGB IDE HD Philips 24x CDROM Soundblaster clone Cirrus Logic 5436 PCI display adapter Samsung Syncmaster 3 monitor No SCSI cards/HDs, and I don't have any of the hardware mentioned in the boot help options. I checked the Linux Hardware Compatability FAQ, and I don't seem to have any hardware that could cause a problem as far as I know. What am I missing? Why does it stop straight after the md driver line? It's probably something really obvious that I'm overlooking...I'd be really grateful for any help. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Help! FAT magic number corrupted!
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 06:36:39PM +, Rene Hojbjerg Larsen wrote: Btw.: does anyone know why the re-read fails? AFAIR, this used to work fine on my SlackWare system some eons ago, but invariably fails on my Debian system--seemingly independant of the kernel version used. Same experience here usually. Frustrating. If any partition on the disk is mounted, you can't write to the partition table at all, perhaps that's relevant. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org
Re: Help! FAT magic number corrupted!
On Sat, Oct 17, 1998 at 02:13:33PM +1300, Michael Beattie wrote: Since your hda1 appears to be set to 81, (Linux/MINIX) I would worry. Maybe changing it back? I dunno... Just looks that way to me. The partition type doesn't actually matter, I have an ext2fs partition marked BSD/i386. I nuked my FreeBSD install one day when I needed the space and couldn't reboot to change the partition type. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org
Re: Debian on Notebooks
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 03:23:44PM +0200, Lukas Eppler wrote: I am looking for a new laptop for debian. If you run debian nicely, please let me know. I had some problems installing and running debian on my current laptop, and if I can avoid these on my next buy, I would be very glad. So please drop a note if you are happy with your installation. I would like to buy one with TFT screen 1024x789 w 32k colors in X, if possible with a nice resolution with SVGATextMode. Most information I get is on 'how can I run X on my laptop', I look for information the other way 'round. Chips and Technologies chips seem to work well. My Toshiba 310CDS runs X rather nicely. I had a lot of trouble with a friend's Acer notebook with a Neomagic chip, though. I found a hacked SVGA server on the web and used that (libc5 of course, and I didn't want to wait while it recompiled). I'm pretty happy with Linux on my Toshiba, in short. Installation hassles with the Tecra disks but otherwise it runs fine. I get fairly regular unexpected interrupts from the CD-ROM drive, and interrupts while interrupts are disabled when doing a lot of ethernet traffic, but nothing more serious than that. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org
Re: Debian on Notebooks
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 11:40:36AM -0400, Seth M. Landsman wrote: notebook. The screen is TFT 12.1 800x600, and setting up X was trivial with the NeoMagic X server. I don't use SVGATextMode, so cannot testify Really? The SVGA server in hamm admits that it doesn't really support the chip (not the NeoMagic 128 or something in a friend's Acer notebook anyway) and we had to find another SVGA server on the web. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org
Re: help w/ kerneld loading of modules
On Sat, Oct 17, 1998 at 01:50:27AM +1000, Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan wrote: Do you have a kernel with support for the auto loading of modules? Failing that just write a script whic will insmod the relevant drivers, put it in /etc/init.d set the correct ownership and permissions, and then use update-rc.d to add it to the list of things to do at boot time :) No need -- just list what you want in /etc/modules, it will insert all those at boot time. You don't need to make your own script to do it. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org
RE: Window Maker 0.20.1 and required libs...
When compiling your own versions of a program the libfoo packages are not sufficient by themselves. You need to also install the libfoo-dev packages. They provide the files necessary for compiling apps. Since most people use packaged versions the lib is enough. On 17-Oct-98 Mark Wagnon wrote: Hi all- I was wondering if anyone here is using version 0.20.1 of Window Maker? I have the gzipped tarred file and compiled it, but I don't have support for any graphic format other than xpm. I've installed the debian packages for the following files: libpng libtiff libjpeg and I installed libXPM via a gzipped tarball. For some reason WM can't find the debian packages I installed, but it finds the libxpm stuff just fine. If anyone else has WM installed, how did you do it? Do I need to poke around one or two of the WM files to change some paths? If so can someone enlighten me? TIA, Mark -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- E-Mail: Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 17-Oct-98 Time: 09:11:29 This message was sent by XFMail --
Re: Startup of X fails
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], MJ Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: || After installing 2.0 clean onto my PC, attempts to start up any || window manager fails, as does just trying to start an xterm. || || This output is from an attempt to start up fvwm2: What are you trying to do? Are you trying to run * fvwm2, * xterm, or * startx from * within an X session? * a (virtual) console? I'll assume startx from a console. || - || || || [FVWM][main]: ERROR Unknown option: `:0' || || [FVWM][main]: ERROR Unknown option: `-auth' || || [FVWM][main]: ERROR Unknown option: `/root/.Xauthority' /root/.Xauthority really should be $HOME/.Xauthority. Is $HOME /root? Is fvwm2 running as root? You say below you're not doing this as root. || Fvwm Version 2.0.46 Usage: || ||X [-d dpy] [-debug] [-f config_cmd] [-s] [-blackout] [-version] [-h] Hey? Fvwm2 seems to think $0 = X? Combined with the /root above, I think your system starts fvwm2 where it should start the X server. Check out /etc/X11/Xserver: $ head -1 /etc/X11/Xserver /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_Mach64 $ My guess is that line in your version reads /usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm2, or maybe /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc or /usr/X11R6/bin/xinit. If it's okay (i.e. it contains the X server of your choice, not a window manager), you may have symlinked X to fvwm2. Check: $ ls -l /usr/X11R6/bin/X* -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 4344 Jun 20 1997 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1617852 Nov 22 1996 /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_Mach64 $ || [FVWM][main]: ERROR can't open display || _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2 || _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2 || _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2 || _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2 || _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2 || _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2 || giving up. || xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server || xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. || || - || || Any suggestions? XF86Setup seems to go OK, though it may have been done as || root, but I'm trying to start my windows as under my userid. I'm not || trying to run xdm, just doing a startx. It could also be that your startx script is at fault. It is passing the arguments :0 -auth /root/.Xauthority to the client script (/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc or ~/.xinitrc) instead of the X server. Try to do /bin/sh -x /usr/X11R6/bin/startx 2/tmp/startx.stderr to find out what goes on. Good luck.Vincent.
repost: cd-rom installation problem - irq errors
Hello, I finally bought the cd-rom distribution from dvd rent (Victoria, Australia - thanks Tyson - really great service !) but am having trouble installing the very first installation went fine but i made some config errors so rather than trying to reconfigure the system i decided to re-install from scratch the problem is that the cd-rom seems to spin down and the following errors are given : hdc: irq timeout: status = 0xd0 hdc: ATAPI reset complete hdc: irq timeout: status = 0xd0 hdc: ATAPI reset complete end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00, sector 444 (*** the sector number changes ***) the cd seems marginally readable because either a package is unpacked or a deslected package is skipped but the cd seems to be operating at 1/4 speed rather than 24X speed as it is supposed to FYI, the cd rom is a Diamond Data which i believe is manufactured by Mitsubishi. it was installed along with my sb-16 sound card. sorry - even the manual isn't any more specific !!! i have tried cold booting the machine (even leaving it overnight) and warm booting but the errors just keep on coming ! any help very much appreciated. ivan. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: netscape4.x cannot read debian-user list archives
On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, Christopher Barry wrote: I had this problem to with an earlier Netscape. I'm using 4.06 right now (though there is 4.07) and it seems to work okay. By the way, the 4.5 final came out just today. The only time I've ever had Linux *really* crash hard was with a 4.5 beta and it crashed anyways whenever I did a lot of rapid fire email deleating. I've installed already the 4.5 final and I have the same problem: it cannot read the big archives debian-user (sept, august,...). May be I'll try 4.06 (but I've probably tried it, I don't remember). Of course I can use lynx, it works, but I am used to netscape. Christopher Jan Krupa wrote: I have installed netscape4.5b2 under debian2.0. When I try to read debian-user mailing list archives (e.g. from September, august) first time it's O.K. but next times on the same month archives netscape just hangs I have to kill it (the archives are very big). When I try to read much smaller archives (e.g. debian-changes, September) it's all right. I had the same behavior using netscape4.x, but netscape3.x The final 4.5 also cannot read debian-user archives. reads the archives well. Jan Krupa Jan
16bitX
Hello, I can't get X working in 16bit depth. In XF86Config is 16bit part ignored, it takes following 8 bit one. Parameters 16bpp and nolinear doesn't work. I have got S3Trio64V+ with 2MB VideoRam. I don't understand ramdacs, Thanks for help. Martin Saturka PS I use XDM.
Re: Window Maker 0.20.1 and required libs...
I ran into the same problem. I removed the debian packages for all my gfx libs, compiled them myself, and when I ran configure again, Window Maker recognized everything. All the needed tarballs are at ftp://ftp.windowmaker.org/pub/libs Mark Wagnon wrote: Hi all- I was wondering if anyone here is using version 0.20.1 of Window Maker? I have the gzipped tarred file and compiled it, but I don't have support for any graphic format other than xpm. I've installed the debian packages for the following files: libpng libtiff libjpeg and I installed libXPM via a gzipped tarball. For some reason WM can't find the debian packages I installed, but it finds the libxpm stuff just fine. If anyone else has WM installed, how did you do it? Do I need to poke around one or two of the WM files to change some paths? If so can someone enlighten me? TIA, Mark -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- .###. /###\## -==- ;#;# Mike's WindowMaker ;#;# http://tasteslikechicken.ml.org/windowmaker.html \# /## -==- ###'---'
Re: segmentation fault on Debian 2.0
Evan Van Dyke wrote: Jinsong Zhao wrote: This problem may have been reported. The netscape (4.05) used to work on my Debian 1.3, but it simply says segmentation fault and quit. Seems to me Netscape only delivers libc5 version. Please advise! Thanks. Jinsong -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Sure, you need to have netscape use the libc5 compats. : I set up a small script on my box to clear the LD_LIBRARY_PATH and then call netscape... so it only effects the netscape call and not the rest of the system. --Evan There *is* libc6 based Netscape software. Look on ftp.netscape.com for a subdir called 'development' instead of 'shipping'. The 'development' subdir tree will lead you to libc6 versions of Netscape 4.05, 4.06, 4.07 (at least). -- Ed C.
diald auto-dial bug/feature
I asked on the list if anyone could tell me how to find what process was
connecting to a socket. lsof looked promising but did not work as advertised
in it's documentation. However, I did some detective work and found that
diald was the culprit. Here's how it happens:
diald is started by the init process
diald reads it configuratuion files
diald does a gethostid()
diald then compares the machine's hostname against the /etc/hosts file
(because of the /etc/resolv.conf file)
It is at this point where the problem starts!!
The default configuration for local IP address for diald is 127.0.0.1
However, gethostid() returns the hostname ('westgac3' in my case)
The hostname does not match the name for IP address 127.0.0.1 (which is
'localhost' in the /etc/hosts file)
Thus diald does a DNS request to resolve the hostname! And the endless
diald-ups start!
THE SOLUTION:
1) edit the /etc/hosts file and add your hostname behind the 'localhost'
example:
old '/etc/hosts'
127.0.0.1 localhost
new '/etc/hosts'
127.0.0.1 localhost westgac3 use the name returned by 'hostname'
2) Then reboot your system.
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MTA / MUA bug
I read my email lists (such as this one) with Emacs+Gnus, and I've come across a serious bug. It seems that if a message contains a line such as the following, it bombs when incorporating new mail: from something something Note the lower-case `f' in `from'. It doesn't seem to matter what the `something's are, as long as the angle-backets are there. It would presumably have the same problem with upper-case, `From', but the MTA (smail) puts a `' before any such line, so the MUA sees it as `From ...'. But smail evidently doesn't do that for a lower-case `from'. So would this be considered a bug in emacs? or in smail? or both? I'd like to file a bug report if one doesn't already exist; or get an update that fixes it, if there is one. But I don't know where to look. Any suggestions? -- David Zelinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Copy, paste, print
Anyone, When copying and pasting from Netscape to a an editor, ie kedit, nedit, gedit. The text does not automatically format to the set column width of the editor. Therefore copy, paste, print produces a page with the right half of the text missing. What am I missing? -- Regards, Michael
kernel 2.1.xx
hy there, i tried to make a new kernel 2.1.122 with make-kpkg. i got the following error-message while i try to make a the new kernel with 'make-kpkg--zimage buildpackage' ### these are the last 2 lines from the compiler, while he tried to link the vmlinux fs/filesystems.a(proc.o)(__ksymtab+0x0): undefined reference to `proc_sys_root' make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 what can i do now? -- *** Marco Machmer email : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Um ein tadelloses Mitglied einer Schafherde sein zu koennen, muss man vor allem ein Schaf sein. Albert Einstein
kernel compiling
Dear all, I've been reading Manoj's instructions for kernel configurations, and it says that your kernel source shouldn't be in /usr/src/linux where does the kernel-source package put it (and are there some step-by-step instructions, or do I use the for the impatient ones in the kernel-package readme? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
Re: diald auto-dial bug/feature
Thomas Kocourek writes: 2) Then reboot your system. No need to reboot. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address.
Re: kernel 2.1.xx
At 08:26 PM 10/17/98 +0200, Marco Machmer wrote: ### these are the last 2 lines from the compiler, while he tried to link the vmlinux fs/filesystems.a(proc.o)(__ksymtab+0x0): undefined reference to `proc_sys_root' make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 My guess is that you didn't include /proc support, but asked it to report info(from a SCSI adapter for example) to /proc somewhere else. --Evan
Re: Motherbnoard Sound Device
On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Bert Conliffe wrote: Attached is my isapnp.conf file, so take a look at what I am using. Make sure that you're settings are the board defaults, and not what Windows has switched them too. Here's what I have for kernel options: Sound card support = M Sound Blaster (SB, SBPro, SB16, clones) support = Y /dev/dsp and /dev/audio support = Y FM synthesizer (YM3812/OPL-3) support = Y I/O base for SG Check ... = 220 Sound Blaster IRQ ... = 5 Sound Blaster DMA 0,1,3 = 1 MPU401 I/O base SB16, Jazz16, ... = 330 SB MPU401 IRQ ... = 9 Audio DMA buffer size ... = 65536 All other options are no. The only problem I have encountered is that sound doesn't play through the speakers with ASCD for some reason. I haven't gotten around to fixing that yet. Good luck! Rob Hi Robert Rati, Congradulations for your success! Now, if you'd be kind enought to share with the rest of us ( who are having similiar problems ), how it was done, we'd be most grateful. If not, your success is of no use to us, its a one man victory. Until I can get my sound device to speakto me under linux, with the setup I presently have; I'll stick with what the sages say, and look for relief elsewhere. Bert -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. === # $Id: pnpdump.c,v 1.1.1.2 1998/01/07 05:17:47 fred Exp $ # This is free software, see the sources for details. # This software has NO WARRANTY, use at your OWN RISK # # For details of this file format, see isapnp.conf(5) # # For latest information on isapnp and pnpdump see: # http://www.roestock.demon.co.uk/isapnptools/ # # Compiler flags: -DREALTIME -DNEEDSETSCHEDULER -DNEEDNANOSLEEP # # Trying port address 0203 # Board 1 has serial identifier 8d 01 00 01 00 01 00 a9 0d # Board 2 has serial identifier 00 1a 13 c8 05 00 14 49 0a # (DEBUG) (READPORT 0x0203) (ISOLATE) (IDENTIFY *) # Card 1: (serial identifier 8d 01 00 01 00 01 00 a9 0d) # Vendor Id CMI0001, Serial Number 16777472, checksum 0x8D. # Version 1.0, Vendor version 0.0 # ANSI string --CMI8330. Audio Adapter-- # # Logical device id @@@0001 # # Edit the entries below to uncomment out the configuration required. # Note that only the first value of any range is given, this may be changed if required # Don't forget to uncomment the activate (ACT Y) when happy (CONFIGURE CMI0001/16777472 (LD 0 # Multiple choice time, choose one only ! # Start dependent functions: priority preferred # Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines # Minimum IO base address 0x0530 # Maximum IO base address 0x0530 # IO base alignment 1 bytes # Number of IO addresses required: 8 #(IO 0 (BASE 0x0530)) # Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines # Minimum IO base address 0x0388 # Maximum IO base address 0x0388 # IO base alignment 1 bytes # Number of IO addresses required: 8 #(IO 1 (BASE 0x0388)) # IRQ 11. # High true, edge sensitive interrupt (by default) #(INT 0 (IRQ 11 (MODE +E))) # First DMA channel 0. # 8 bit DMA only # Logical device is not a bus master # DMA may execute in count by byte mode # DMA may not execute in count by word mode # DMA channel speed in compatible mode #(DMA 0 (CHANNEL 0)) # Start dependent functions: priority acceptable # Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines # Minimum IO base address 0x0530 # Maximum IO base address 0x0530 # IO base alignment 1 bytes # Number of IO addresses required: 8 # (IO 0 (BASE 0x0530)) # Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines # Minimum IO base address 0x0388 # Maximum IO base address 0x0388 # IO base alignment 1 bytes # Number of IO addresses required: 8 # (IO 1 (BASE 0x0388)) # IRQ 5, 7, 9, 10, 11 or 12. # High true, edge sensitive interrupt (by default) # (INT 0 (IRQ 5 (MODE +E))) # First DMA channel 0, 1 or 3. # 8 bit DMA only # Logical device is not a bus master # DMA may execute in count by byte mode # DMA may not execute in count by word mode # DMA channel speed in compatible mode # (DMA 0 (CHANNEL 0)) # Start dependent functions: priority acceptable # Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines # Minimum IO base address 0x0e80 # Maximum IO base address 0x0f40 #
Using VM with Emacs19 and XEmacs20
(Please CC: me as I'm no longer on this list.) I'm scratching my head: Have been using VM with Emacs19 for years, and as XEmacs20 supports VM as well (with its own copy), I thought I could migrate. Doesn't work (yet). Anybody have any idea? I use ii emacs19 19.34-21 The GNU Emacs editor. ii xemacs20-bin20.4-7 Editor and kitchen sink -- support binaries ii xemacs20-nomule 20.4-7 Editor and kitchen sink -- Non-mule binary ii vm 6.62-2 A mail user agent for Emacs Thanks, Dirk -- Linux is not only free; it is, arguably, a better operating system, offering a degree of stability and an ability to scale up that NT cannot match. -- The Economist, Oct 3, 1998
Re: FYI: DMA/33 and kernels
BTW, I have configured it down to one single error message that I can't
seem to shake:
hdc: write_intr: status=0xff { Busy }
ide: reset: success
This is what is leading me to believe that the driver is either attempting
a transaction before an earlier one completed ( is the drive attempting an
internal prefetch? ) or it timed out waiting for the previous command to
complete.
Something like that. I had today the same problem with Intel SE440BX
motherboard and a Fujitsu 2gig udma drive. I changed the drive to a
Quantum 3,2 gig one and it went away.
Seems to be a problem with the harddisk.
--j
Re: Dialup ISDN performance
I am using a Bitsurfer Pro on a linux box and a win 95 box. Download rates from my provider's site seem not all that exciting. With my x2 modem I can download at the rate of about 4-5 Kb/KB, with ISDN using both channels its around 6-8 KB at best. I get that with one channel, and very good ping times (about 30ms to ftp.funet.fi) This is with Teles S0 16.3 card. --j
Re: Suddenly can't send mail...
All of a sudden I can't send out mail, if I try to force exim with -qf I get 1998-10-16 19:01:26 0zUDEj-FQ-00 TCP service smtp not found (using Exim version 1.92 #1 built 13-May-1998 10:01:52) fetchmail delivers incoming mail without any trouble... Is this something on my end or is it more likely to be my ISP? (sending this throough my school account...) Check that you have a line in /etc/inet.d like : smtpstream tcp nowait mail/usr/sbin/exim exim -bs and make sure it is not commented out etc. Note that if you make any changes, you'll have to restart inetd for changes to affect. --j
Re: kernel compiling
On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: : Dear all, : : I've been reading Manoj's instructions for kernel configurations, : and it says that your kernel source shouldn't be in /usr/src/linux : : where does the kernel-source package put it (and are there some : step-by-step instructions, or do I use the for the impatient ones in the : kernel-package readme? kernel-source puts the source in /usr/src/kernel-source-`uname -r` /usr/doc/kernel-package/README.gz has instructions for the impatient and extremely detailed instructions as well. The impatient version has always worked fine for me. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
Re: lilo - booting from a device
Thanks ! This even worked for a bootable partition on hdd =:¬) (except that my bios was not then able to load from hdd |:¬( ). On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 12:16:00AM -0400, Richardson,Anthony wrote: I don't know the answer to your question, but I've got an alternative approach. Mount the boot partition of the new distribution: mount /dev/hda1 /mnt Then add the following stanza (it's based on your entry below) to lilo.conf: image=/mnt/vmlinuz label=newdistro root=/dev/hda12 Then lilo will figure out the sector to file mapping for you. Tony On Tuesday, October 13, 1998 1:32 AM, G. Crimp [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how to determine what sectors on a partition a given file is occupying ? The lilo docs state that when specifying a device name, one also has to say what sectors to map (either by giving a beginning and an end, or a beginning and an offset). Here is what I am trying to do. I want to play with different distributions just to see what they are like, but boot them from the harddrive. I currently have Deb installed to hda3. hda1 and hda2 are 5MB partitions, on which I install /boot from another distro, so that the kernel images within fall well below the 1024 cyl. limit. I am not at the machine I am doing this on, nor are they networked, so the following details may not be 100% accurate (syntax wise). This box has no DOS. Lilo is installed directly to the MBR. So, the lilo.conf looks something like --- boot=/dev/hda [prompt, delay, timeout, etc.] image=/vmlinuz label=olddistro root=/dev/hda3 -- to which I want to add something like - image=/dev/hda1 # this is the partition /w kernel of new distro label=newdistro root=/dev/hda12 #this is / of new distro sectors[or whatever the variable name is]= For floppies I've seen that it is something like 1+512, so I guess the image must start on the second sector of the floppy. there must be someway to determine the sector info for any file. Any ideas ? TIA. Gerald -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Using VM with Emacs19 and XEmacs20
(Please CC: me as I'm no longer on this list.) I'm scratching my head: Have been using VM with Emacs19 for years, and as XEmacs20 supports VM as well (with its own copy), I thought I could migrate. Doesn't work (yet). It might well be that having emacs19 and xemacs20 is causing a problem. Try upgrading emacs to 20 Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
Security.
Hello. I would like to do some RTFMing about security, and would like to have some pointers. Thanks, Liran. --- http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~liranz/
Dangerous crash bug: SVGATextmode + X11 + Matrox Millenium II. Has anyone seen this?
(I apologize for the length of this message) Versions: svgatextmode: 1.8-5.2 xserver-svga: 3.3.2.3a-1 svgalibg1 1.3.0.19980916 Matrox Millennium II 8mb PCI video card Awhile back, I loaded svgatextmode to try the 112x40 (very nice) text mode that it provides. After that, I began to see a system-stopping crash on occasion when running X. What is worse is the nature of the crash itself. I have a newer 19 monitor (1600x1200 capable) that fortunately has builtin protection circuitry against invalid timing signals. After having run svgatextmode during bootup, I then run 'startx ' after logging in. About 35% to 45% of the time, running X ends up with a window displayed on my monitor which says something like the following: Error: signal out of range +125khz, +175hz The window display comes from the monitor's own protection circuitry, it is not from Linux. In addition, the keyboard is locked up (even numlock doesn't toggle the numlock led), and Linux itself has crashed hard. I found out later that the same problem happens with SVGALib programs. At this point I have to use the hardware reset button to reboot the computer. The bootup is a lengthy process because e2fsck wants to check all the filesystems because they were not rebooted 'cleanly'. The worst of this though, is the 'signal out of range' error, because it implies I could have damaged my monitor, had I been using an old one without protection circuitry. Now to complicate matters further, I have learned from the README.Debian file in svgatextmode a workaround for this problem. The workaround in README.Debian refers to running the command 'cat /proc/pci /dev/null' before using svgatextmode to solve a problem with PCI based Matrox Millennium cards. In my case though, I can run svgatextmode without difficulty and without the need of the above workaround. However, if I bracket the invocation line for svgatextmode, svgalib programs, and x11 with the above line, e.g., cat /proc/pci /dev/null startx cat /proc/pci /dev/null I experience no more crashes. So, is it a svgatextmode problem (svgatextmode was derived from svgalib IIRC), or is it an X11 problem, or, could it be the kernel's PCI code? I'm not sure who I should be talking to about this problem. I have not seen this kind of problem mentioned in deb-user mailing list, or in comp.os.linux.x, or the bug listings for the above programs on debian.org, so for all I know I'm the only one seeing this behavior. So, is there anyone out there with a Matrox M2 PCI card and a recent monitor (with builtin protection) who is willing to try the above software combination and see if the crash occurs on more than my system? Please *don't do this* if you have an older monitor, I don't want to be sued for having damaged it. :-) Install svgatextmode and set it up for the 112x40 mode in TextConfig. Since you are using the same card is I am, you'll probably need the slightly modified 80x25 mode line below as the one in TextConfig doesn't work for us. 80x25 28.663 640 680 776 808400 412 414 449 -Hsync +Vsync font 9x16 # 31.532kHz/70.23Hz With svgatextmode installed, start running X repeatedly. If its going to crash, it will do so within the first ten or so executions. Not knowing what to do with this problem, I've put it up on the Detain User List, because of the seriousness of the bug; I feel compelled to bring this up with somebody. If there is a better place for this post, please let me know. -- Ed C.
Thanks ! [Was: Window Maker 0.20.1 and required libs...]
Shaleh, Michael, and Christopher I installed the *-dev.deb packages and everything went smoothly! Thanks again! -- __ _ Mark Wagnon-o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vista, CA/\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _\_v/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
Re: Window Maker 0.20.1 and required libs...
Michael Lankton wrote: I ran into the same problem. I removed the debian packages for all my gfx libs, compiled them myself, and when I ran configure again, Window Maker recognized everything. All the needed tarballs are at ftp://ftp.windowmaker.org/pub/libs Hey Michael, Thanks for posting. I was about to go that route and had all the gzipped sources downloaded, but I wanted to check and see if there was another way to do it so that I don't turn my installation into a mish-mash of files. I installed the development packages and everything was great...Window Maker is now up and running! -- __ _ Mark Wagnon-o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vista, CA/\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _\_v/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
Re: PPP logging?
1.3-27 is faulty. -26 or -28 should work. From: Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 17 Oct 1998, Rene Hojbjerg Larsen wrote: Michael Beattie wrote: For some reason, ppp is not being logged anymore on my hamm/slink box.. anyone else having the same results? If not, how do I fix it? I believe I upgraded ppp yesterday, as the last logged time was 2:55pm... does not even have disconnect logged. AFAICT, this is caused by a faulty sysklogd. Upgrading to 1.3-28 should fix the problem (it did for me). That was my next assumption.. although I thought it was my upgrade to -28 which broke it. I downgraded to -26, But I'll have to play around with it. -- /*** Running Debian Linux *** * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish...John 3:16 * * W. Paul Mills * Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. * * EMAIL= [EMAIL PROTECTED] * WWW= http://Mills-USA.com/ * * Bill, I was there several years ago, why would I want to go back? * * pgp public key on keyservers everywhere? */
Re: PPP logging?
W. Paul Mills wrote: 1.3-27 is faulty. -26 or -28 should work. From: Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 17 Oct 1998, Rene Hojbjerg Larsen wrote: Michael Beattie wrote: For some reason, ppp is not being logged anymore on my hamm/slink box.. anyone else having the same results? If not, how do I fix it? I believe I upgraded ppp yesterday, as the last logged time was 2:55pm... does not even have disconnect logged. AFAICT, this is caused by a faulty sysklogd. Upgrading to 1.3-28 should fix the problem (it did for me). That was my next assumption.. although I thought it was my upgrade to -28 which broke it. I downgraded to -26, But I'll have to play around with it. Uh, I *am* running sysklogd 1.3-28 and my ppp logging is still broken. ??? -- Ed C.
possible bug: fdutils doesn't install driveprm file
Looks like the fdutils package in hamm doesn't install the /etc/driveprm file. Here is the relevant part of the postinst file: if [ -e /etc/fdprm ]; then echo Fdutils-5.0 introduced two new configuration files: /etc/mediaprm and echo /etc/driveprm. They replace the old /etc/fdprm. echo Renaming old file /etc/fdprm to /etc/fdprm.obsolete ... mv -f /etc/fdprm /etc/fdprm.obsolete echo fi There is no trace of the driveprm file in the package, nor a mention on how to create it. I've tried to copy the old fdprm file in place and it seems to work. Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.1.125 #1 Fri Oct 16 23:18:57 CEST 1998 i586 unknown
Using the config file from the default kernel
Dear all, I want to recompile my kernel (to use sound support). Will moving /usr/src/linux/.config.save to /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.34/.config enable me to use the setup from the last kernel when I run make menuconfig (i.e. I can take that and modify it, rather than starting from scratch)? Thanks, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
Soundcard - where?
Dear all, I just plugged a soundcard into my machine, but can't seem to find it - pnpdump doesn't reveal much (I think), and proc/interrupts isn't much good either. included below) HOw can I find it to compile it into the kernel (it's a yamaha OPL3 card int the second ISA slot)? Matthew # # For details of this file format, see isapnp.conf(5) # # LD n = Logical device, ie write to reg 7 # IO n = IO descriptor n # BASE n = IO/Mem address # INT n = Interrupt req n # IRQ n = Interrupt level # MODE = line levels etc # ACT = Activate #(debug) #(IGNORECRC) #(READPORT 0x3bb) #(ISOLATE) #(IDENTIFY *) #(CONFIGURE DFX/1493 (LD 0 (IO 0 (BASE 0x3e8)) (INT 0 (IRQ 12 (MODE +E))) (ACT Y))) #(CONFIGURE DFX/1493 (LD 0 (REG 7 (PEEK)) (REG 0x30 (PEEK #(CONFIGURE DFX/1493 (LD 1 (REG 7 (PEEK)) (REG 0x30 (PEEK # Try to force logical device 2 (which doesn't exist)... #(CONFIGURE DFX/1493 (LD 1 (REG 7 (POKE 2) (PEEK)) (REG 0x30 (PEEK # .. hence this gives an error #(CONFIGURE DFX/1493 (LD 2 (REG 7 (PEEK)) (REG 0x30 (PEEK #(WAITFORKEY) 0: 10098377 timer 1: 802682 keyboard 2: 0 cascade 3:2436637 NE2000 8: 2 + rtc 12: 116326 PS/2 Mouse 13: 1 math error 14:1012200 + ide0 15: 0 + ide1 -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
Re: Using VM with Emacs19 and XEmacs20
Dirk (Please CC: me as I'm no longer on this list.) Dirk Dirk I'm scratching my head: Have been using VM with Emacs19 for years, Dirk and as XEmacs20 supports VM as well (with its own copy), I thought I Dirk could migrate. Doesn't work (yet). Matthew It might well be that having emacs19 and xemacs20 is causing a Matthew problem. Try upgrading emacs to 20 Matthew That would imply uninstalling vm, as vm does not work with FSF Emacs 20. So I'd loose my working setup. Hmpf. -- Linux is not only free; it is, arguably, a better operating system, offering a degree of stability and an ability to scale up that NT cannot match. -- The Economist, Oct 3, 1998
IDE message
Since switching to 2.1 I have been getting the following message at bootup: PIIX3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 PIIX3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio What does it mean, and is it affecting performance in any way? On a related note I had problems with my cdrom drive when I enabled DMA in the kernel (error messages and being able to open the drive whilst mounted), so I disabled it. Would it be a good idea to enable DMA on the two HDDs (I assume I use hdparm for that)? What options should I look at to increase performance? Where do I place the hdparm command to run at bootup? Cheers Dave
Telnet with slink
Hello, I just upgrade slink and when telnetting to me i get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ -- telnet localhost Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to computron. Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host. I realize that after upgrading telnet program were not avaible so i try to install telnet package apt installed it ok. How can i fix that? Thanks -- __ / / / Phillip Neumann / / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / _/_/
Re: Using VM with Emacs19 and XEmacs20
Dirk (Please CC: me as I'm no longer on this list.) Dirk Dirk I'm scratching my head: Have been using VM with Emacs19 for years, Dirk and as XEmacs20 supports VM as well (with its own copy), I thought I Dirk could migrate. Doesn't work (yet). Matthew It might well be that having emacs19 and xemacs20 is causing a Matthew problem. Try upgrading emacs to 20 Matthew That would imply uninstalling vm, as vm does not work with FSF Emacs 20. So I'd loose my working setup. Hmpf. :( RU sure about that? It strikes me as rather rubbish if it's true. Xemacs19? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
Re: PPP logging?
On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, W. Paul Mills wrote: 1.3-27 is faulty. -26 or -28 should work. Thanks. (To everyone else that helped also) From: Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 17 Oct 1998, Rene Hojbjerg Larsen wrote: Michael Beattie wrote: For some reason, ppp is not being logged anymore on my hamm/slink box.. anyone else having the same results? If not, how do I fix it? I believe I upgraded ppp yesterday, as the last logged time was 2:55pm... does not even have disconnect logged. AFAICT, this is caused by a faulty sysklogd. Upgrading to 1.3-28 should fix the problem (it did for me). That was my next assumption.. although I thought it was my upgrade to -28 which broke it. I downgraded to -26, But I'll have to play around with it. -- /*** Running Debian Linux *** * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish...John 3:16 * * W. Paul Mills * Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. * * EMAIL= [EMAIL PROTECTED] * WWW= http://Mills-USA.com/ * * Bill, I was there several years ago, why would I want to go back? * * pgp public key on keyservers everywhere? */ Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with pgpkey as subject. - WinErr: 007 System price error - Inadequate money spent on hardware - Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out!
