problemilla con libc6
Hola a todos, ojala hayan pasado unas felices fiestas. En cuanto a mi, aproveche la noche da aqo nuevo para actualizar mi Bo a Hamm. Aparte de los problemas habibituales (teclado desconfigurado, no me parten las X), lo que mas me preocupa es las libc6, cuando trato de configurarlo usando dpkg, me tira un mensaje de error que realmente no dice mucho. dpkg: error processing libc6 (--configure) subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: libc6 alguien tiene alguna idea de que puede significar esto?... ya estoy empezando a ser presa del panico :) Gracias Felipe Sanchez
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Re: Problemas con ppp
Es posible que no tengas bien configuradas, posteriormente a lanzar el demonio, las rutas de tu máquina. Prueba a mirar (/sbin/route), las rutas antes y después de lanzar el 'pon'. Antes: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface localnet* 255.255.255.0 U 0 07 eth0 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 04 lo Después de contectarte deberías tener algo así como: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.5.2 * 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 ppp0 localnet* 255.255.255.0 U 0 07 eth0 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 04 lo default 192.168.5.2 0.0.0.0 UG0 05 ppp0 Lo que indica que: 1) a mi red local se accede via eth0 (mi tarjeta de red) 2) el resto del tráfico (cuando funciona el módem) va a través de éste (ppp0). Esto se activa/desactiva con la opción -defaultroute si no me equivoco en la llamada a ppp. El orden de las líneas ¡es importante! Si tuviera el por defecto antes de localnet entonces no llegaría a ella ya que toda la información se enviaría por ahí, aunque fuera a mi red local. La verdad es que depurar este tipo de problemas (si es que es éste tu problema) es complicado si no se conoce bien el rutado en TCP/IP. Prueba a mirar también cómo están configurados los dispositivos que utilizas (ppp y eth0) via 'ifconfig'. A una mala mandas todos estos datos aquí para que veamos cómo lo tienes funcionando *exactamente*. Un saludo y feliz año Javi On Sat, Jan 02, 1999 at 07:44:45PM +0100, BAP wrote: Un saludo a la lista. Después de un tiempo leyendo mensajes, aqui va mi primera pregunta. Hasta hace poco usaba slackware con un pentium 133 y Monkey linux con un 486, teniendolos conectados mediante ppp. Mediante kppp conectaba a internet sin ningún problema. Desde que me he pasado a Debian(en el pentium) y utilizo pon para conectarme me he dado cuenta que la otra conexión entre los pc's se queda como helada. No hay ni ping. En cuanto hago poff, se acaban los problemas. ¿a qué puede ser debido esto? Muchas gracias -- Benjamín Albiñana Pérez mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux User Nº78177 Espacio disponible para publicidad -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
xbase XFree86 bug 24985 ?
I am having problems with xbase. Would you help? I am having trouble installing xbase as indicated in chapter 5 of The Debian Linux User's Guide. I am using the cds that came with the book (debian 2.0). xbase version 3.3.2.2-4 I've installed a system from scratch using 'Standard' collection of packages. After that installed successfully, I told it to install xbase and fvwm2 and all packages it depended on plus SVGA support (I have a Sis 5597/5598 graphics card according to HP tech. support.). I get the following: WARNING: An error has been found in this installation of the xbase package. The file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config should exist and it does not. Please file a bug report against the xbase package reporting this fact. See /usr/doc/debian/bug-reporting.txt for information on filing bugs. When it tried to /usr/sbin/xbase-configure (XFree86 config file), it said to press Enter to switch to graphics mode. I did. The screen came up with a lot of black and white vertical lines. Next, it turned completely gray. Finally a big black vertical bar showed up which was movable by using the left/right arrow keys. That's all I got. After a long time, I did a Ctrl/Alt/Backspace (and then hit a key) to get out of there and back into text mode. Does this problem sound like it relates to the outstanding bug http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/24/24985.html (Debian bug report logs -#24985 installation of xbase_3.3.2.2-4 requests to file a bug report)? In case it matters, I have a 6330 Hewlett Packard Pavillion. Thanks, Michael
hamm, slink
Hi What are those (in subject) ? Thanx !
Re: xbase XFree86 bug 24985 ?
Hi, Michael! I am having problems with xbase. Would you help? When it tried to /usr/sbin/xbase-configure (XFree86 config file), it said to press Enter to switch to graphics mode. I did. The screen came You may want to try xf86config to set XF86Config. This is ascii mode program it'll ask you about relevant hardware (video, monitor, mouse), so be prepared to answer them. Hope that helps, Sasha.
Re: hamm, slink
Check this link out: http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ See section 6.3 Kent Darko Martic wrote: Hi What are those (in subject) ? Thanx ! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
What tools are useful for script debugging?
Hi, folks The subject says it all. -- 'til next we type... HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse
Re: Termcap and Libc5/6 with Debian Problems...
On 31 Dec 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote: Ryan Kirkpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now, how, if possible, can one get this binary running? I imagine that I need a libtermcap2 built/linked with libc6. Does such a debian package exists? Or do I need to go find the sources and built it myself? AFAIK there is no libtermcap precompiled for Debian, since we use ncurses with everything. I think your best bet is to fetch the sources for the libtermcap-compat package and attempt to build it for libc6. Yea, that is what I figured. Though I went and grabbed the source to termcap-compat, uncompressed it, ran 'debian/rules binary' in the resulting directory, and then installed the resulting debian package. The resulting library according to ldd was linked with libc6, while the one in the original termcap-compat package had been linked with lic5. After resolving a few ncurse version issues (yes, this annoying program is linked with both termcap and ncurses!), I got it to work just fine. Thanks for everyone's help! | For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. | |--- Philippians 1:21 (KJV)| | Ryan Kirkpatrick | Boulder, Colorado | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www-ugrad.cs.colorado.edu/~rkirkpat/|
Re: AMD K6-2 3D Now 300 MHz
Darko Martic wrote: Hi ! Are there any problems about using the processor from the subject with Debian linux ? I'm buying a new processor and I think I'll buy that one. Thanx ! I am using that processor on two boxen with no problems. One is a server that has been up continuously since I booted it for the first time over two months ago. -Ben
Anyone know a program to read HP690C printer status?
I have an HP 690C printer which I use. This printer supportbi-directional communications under windoze, to tell when ink cartrdiges are empty etc. Has anyone rverse engineerd this? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Westvaco Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 1999 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Re: Problems with drive usage (Debian 1.3.1)
On Fri, Jan 01, 1999 at 04:11:04PM +, Alexander Koch wrote: - Warning: Unknown PCI device (104c:3d07). This is probably no problem - you just have a pci device which is not known to your ancient kernel. No problem. - Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card. This is no problem either as long as you do not own such a scsi controller. - PPA: unable to initialize controller at 0x378, eror 2. Hopefully you not not own such a crap too - the ppa driver is for a parallel zip drive. The error messages upon partitioning/initialization: When I try to add the new partitions to the begin of the empty space, cfdisk 0.8i labels the remainder unusable, after I add the two primary partitions (/ and swap). This does not surprise me but you left out your layout on the disk. I guess you have a primary partition at the start of the disk and a an extended partition behind with all logical partitions? This way you used 2 partition slots in the master boot record of the disk. If you add 2 primary partitions you need 2 other slots and another one for the logical partitions. Resolution: The swap partition does not need to be a primary one. Just use a logical partition for it. When I try to add the new partitions to the end of the unused space, or all of them as logical partitions, cfdisk installs all of them. But as soon as I try to initialize the new partitions, the system fails to work properly when I arrive at /dev/sda16 (is the entire device, not just one partition). This might indicate a problem with kernel 2.0.29 - I am not sure if it can address more than 16 partitions per disk. Initializing the partitions in the reversed order yields: Could not stat /dev/sda18 - no such file or directory although cfdisk shows the correct entry in the partition table. This is easy. mke2fs is right - there is probably no /dev/sda18. Just create it yourself: mknod /dev/sda16 b 8 16 mknod /dev/sda17 b 8 17 mknod /dev/sda18 b 8 18 And to get the permissions right: chown root.disk /dev/sda* chmod 660 /dev/sda* What can I do to work around that problem? Try the commands I typed above. You can get a shell (command prompt) with Alt-F2 (Alt-F3?) during the installation. If mknod is not found (or chown/chmod) do the following: - format the partitions as far as it works - install the base system - use the shell to issue the commands above. You might need to prepend the path of the installed files of the base system, e.g. /mnt/bin/mknod, /mnt/bin/chown, /mnt/bin/chmod My system: OS: - DOS/Win3.1 - OS/2 Warp 4 (dual boot) - hopefully soon Debian Linux 1.3.1 (Linux kernel 2.0.29) Why don't you try Debian 2.0? 1.3.1 is really ancient now. Drives: - Maxtor 72004 (2 GB, EIDE) - IBM DGHS09 (9.1 GB UW-SCSI) - Plextor PX-6XCS 2.05 (CD-ROM, SCSI) Don't boast to much :) Any help would be greatly appreciated! Best wishes and Happy New Year to all Linux experts out there! Martin Guttenberger If only all aol users would send such good emails :) cu Torsten pgpltY5d7gsC4.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: X11 'fixed' font error
On Thu, Dec 31, 1998 at 12:03:33PM -0600, me wrote: After re-installing X11, (with all new fonts) -- 'frozen' distro, I still get the same error: could not open default font 'fixed' but: locate fixed gives /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fixed.pcf.gz. /etc/X11/XF86Config shows this path as well, so I know I have the font. What should I do? Did you try to call mkfontdir for that directory? The installation of X11 should do that automatically but there might be a bug in frozen. cu Torsten pgpvLPy8VrWmk.pgp Description: PGP signature
Edited file looses info
Hi, I'm trying to edit .netscape/prefereces.js I have edited a few files before with no problems but with this file what I've added doesn't stay in the file. I'm trying to add this line, user_pref(mailnews.reply_on_top, True); I am using joe and when I exit with 'ctrl k-x' it says that the file is saved. I am in root when doing it. I restart xdm and look at the file and the line is gone. I contacted the netscape unix news group about this but no one seems to know what is going on. What am I doing wrong? I used ls -l on the file and got -rw-rw-r-- which if I'm right that means I can read and write to the file and I understand when editing as root none of that matters so I'm clueless. Thanks, Kent
Quota stuff.
About quotas.. I have managed to set up user quotas ok (I think). However, I have been having some problems setting up a group quota. I have 6.0 gigs of space on /home. I want to reserve 300 megs of that space for things other than user accounts and directories. From what I've read, 1 block equals 1 kilobyte (1024 bytes). so 5.7 Gigabytes would eqaul 5800 megs, which would equal 5836800 kilobytes, correct? So I type edquota -g lusers and I set both the soft and the hard limit to 5836800 blocks. Then I save the info, and type quota -g lusers to see if it works. It doesn't: /home# quota -g lusers Disk quotas for group lusers (gid 100): Filesystem blocks quota limit grace files quota limit grace /dev/sda4 24970 1642496 1642496 710 0 0 Then, when I go back into edquota -g lusers the information is changed to 1642496, just like it is in quota -g lusers. How come it does not keep the info? Why doesn't it accept it? The partition is definitly large enough to support it. df reveals the following: /home# df Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/sda1 995115 20131 923578 2% / /dev/sda2 995147 219170 724569 23% /usr /dev/sda46117825 29404 5771539 1% /home so I know that there is plenty of room. any suggestions? - Amanda Shuler | I don't want to start any [EMAIL PROTECTED] | blasphemous rumours, but... -
Re:debian-user-digest Digest V99 #2
I will be out of the office on Dec. 31, 1998.
Problem on Gnome-0.30 panel
Dear Debian users, I have a question on the Gnome-0.30 panel. Since now I use hamm and haven't upgrade to slink, so I try to get all the necessary source of Gnome and other libs from the slink source tree and use dpkg-source, dpkg-buildpackage to build them. All seems OK, except the following problems: 1. The final deb packages don't have the panel program. I have traced the steps when making gnome-core-0.30, but it seems that the sub-dir panel/ in it doesn't make. When I go to that directory and type make, it gives the error message: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I. -I. -I../intl -I../intl -DGNOMELOCALEDIR=\/usr/share/locale\ -I/usr/include -I/usr/include -DNEED_GNOMESUPPORT_H -I/usr/lib/gnome-libs/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/lib/glib/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/lib/glib/include -g -O2 -Wall -Wp,-MD,.deps/orbit-applet-lib.p -c -fPIC -DPIC orbit-applet-lib.c orbit-applet-lib.c:4: orb/orbit.h: No such file or directory In file included from orbit-applet-lib.c:19: gnome-panel.h:7: orb/orbit.h: No such file or directory make: *** [orbit-applet-lib.lo] Error 1 So, what's the problem of the panel program? PS. After I finished build gnome-core, I got gnome-control-center_0.30-2_i386.deb gnome-core_0.30-2_i386.deb gnome-panel_0.30-2_i386.deb gnome-session_0.30-2_i386.deb gnome-terminal_0.30-2_i386.deb libcapplet-dev_0.30-2_i386.deb libcapplet0_0.30-2_i386.deb libpanel-applet-dev_0.30-2_i386.deb libpanel-applet0_0.30-2_i386.deb and I have installed them all. 2. This is a minor question. Originally my system has installed libjpeg6a_6a-11 package, but to make gnome, it seems that I should install libjpeg62 package. So I also build the libjpeg-progs_6b-1.2_i386.deb libjpeg62-dev_6b-1.2_i386.deb libjpeg62_6b-1.2_i386.deb and installed all of them. To install libjpeg62-dev , I should remove the package libjpegg-dev because of the conflict problem. Now I start to build others, I often encounter the warning message: ld: warning: libjpeg.so.6a, needed by /usr/lib/libtiff.so, may conflict with lib jpeg.so.62 Does it will affect the final result? Thank you very much for your help in advance. T.H.Hsieh
Grafting other kernels on Debian's rescue disks
As I am stuck on my Thinkpad with Debian, while other distributions happily boot (SuSe, Tom's RootBoot for example), I would like to know if and how can I graft the kernel on the working boot floppies on Debian's rescue. This is my last chance before sadly departing from Debian of which I have been a faithful follower since 1996. Happy 1999 to all of you. Bob Alexander
Re: Strange PPP problem
On 1 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for responce. I looked at old usenet archives and ppp-howto. It looks like I have a routing problem, either on my side or on the server side. I can talk to the dial-up server but no other hosts, even the DNS servers are unreachable. This is what I have accomplished so far... pppd options : -detach ^^^ Why do you have this in your /etc/pppd/options? It is not usually useful. routing table (after establishing ppp connection): Looks normal. Dec 31 04:39:49 debian icmplogd: destination unreachable from [209.44.32.73] I have no idea what that IP address is. It just starts pinging me once I establish a ppp session. I don't understand where this is coming from. What do your /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf look like? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 debian localhost [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf nameserver 109.144.16.5 nameserver 109.144.16.7 -- 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: LaTeX and overhead production
Simon Read [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd like to use LaTeX to produce the overhead slides for my adjunct class. I seem to have enormous problems all along the path, can anyone help me? Have a look at http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/scriptintro.html which has a link to LaTeX source for a few slides. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Larry froze. Was the bag a trap? He could see the way in, but the other end appeared to be sealed.
Used StrongARM set-top box
I have recently gotten hold of a SA-based set-top box. All I have is the box, power supply, and a digital network appliance CD. It has an SA-110s 233 CPU, a crystal lan ethernet controller, an ESS 1887 sound controller, and a few other subsystems I'm not sure of identity. Would this be a candidate for the SA port? Also, can anyone identify it by name or model? The only identifying tag on it says that it's a prototype model..
Re: Xdm on remote servers.
Johan Berglund [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have xdm installed on my server and have configured it to not start a local xserver. I also have a win98 computer with eXceed configured for XDMCP broadcast. I get the login window and it is able to authenticate me as a user and then the login window shows up again and it only loops. You might need to write your own .xsession that _doesn't_ start a window manager. Try: $ cd $ mv .xsession .xsession-old [Might get an error if you don't have one already.] $ cat .xsession #!/bin/sh exec xterm ^D [That's Control-D.] $ chmod +x .xsession And see what happens then. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Larry froze. Was the bag a trap? He could see the way in, but the other end appeared to be sealed.
Re: Changing(forcing) Alt-Fn to Ctrl-Alt-Fn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When using the VT's I'd like to block Alt-Fn from being interpreted as a change to antother VT so that the key sequence would be available to the applications. How would that be done? Have a look at /etc/kbd/default.map, and the files under /usr/share/keymaps and /usr/doc/kbd. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Larry froze. Was the bag a trap? He could see the way in, but the other end appeared to be sealed.
Can't access RAID - why?
Hi! I've tried to access a third RAID0 in a system without any success but a strange error message. I've set up /dev/md2 with # mdcreate -c8k raid0 /dev/md2 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb2 which resulted in this line in /etc/mdtab: # mdtab entry for /dev/md2 /dev/md2raid0,8k,0,0d445432 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb2 After that I added this MD device to the system: # mdadd /dev/md2 # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [2 raid0] read_ahead 8 sectors md0 : active raid0 hda2 hdb2 819312 blocks 4k chunks md1 : active raid0 hda4 hdb4 7405952 blocks 8k chunks md2 : inactive sda2 sdb2 1984818 blocks md3 : inactive This looks ok so far. However I'm unable to format this new RAID system: # mke2fs /dev/md2 mke2fs 1.12, 9-Jul-98 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 /dev/md2: Invalid argument passed to ext2 library while setting up superblock I appreciate any hin wrt fixing this. It sucks. Regards, Joey -- A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee into theorems. Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists.
Printing with gimp
Hello I'm a novice user to gimp (hamm's version 1.0.0) and got problems setting up the printer dialog for my print device. I found nothing in the GUM/ FAQ neither the manpage. Writing a line hp5l,/usr/bin/lpr -Php5l,ps2,,1,,A4,, to ~/.gimp/printrc gets overwritten every time print plug in starts and all I ca print to is a file but no printer set up in my /etc/printcap. strace-ing gimp I didn't get any further ideas what file to edit. For printing I use the lprng package as spool system. TIA -- Peter -- -- Peter Weiss, Sonnenstraße 17, D-26123 Oldenburg, Tel: 0441/ 81058 -- ---The foolish ones taught more to me than the wise ones ever could--- --
Re: Grafting other kernels on Debian's rescue disks
On Sat, Jan 02, 1999 at 08:22:53 -0500, Robert J. Alexander wrote: As I am stuck on my Thinkpad with Debian, while other distributions happily boot (SuSe, Tom's RootBoot for example), I would like to know if and how can I graft the kernel on the working boot floppies on Debian's rescue. The boot floppy uses plain FAT and syslinux; the kernel on it is named linux. It should be sufficient to replace the linux file on it with a kernel image that works for you. HTH, Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig
Re: What tools are useful for script debugging?
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, folks The subject says it all. Depends on the script language. With plain shell scripts I use sh -x script to debug. Mike. -- Indifference will certainly be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?
Re: serial mouse problem
On Fri, 1 Jan 1999, Kent West wrote: in X, and when I returned this morning, the mouse was dead. So, I killed the Xserver, restarted it. Nothing. Rebooted in Win95, which didn't pick up the mouse either. When I rebooted into Linux, gpm started as normal, You might try switching your mouse to the other serial port and see if Win95 finds it, but when I've seen this behavior before, it was a dead mouse, so you may have to replace it. Well, I have a modem on ttyS1, which still works fine. The mouse I brought to work, and it worked on another PC. I tried a different mouse on my hamm box, which didn't work either, which points to a serial port problem. Also, if your CMOS battery is weak/dead, your BIOS may have reverted to turning off your serial port, although that doesn't really make sense since the box was powered up when the mouse died. But maybe some glitch turned off the port in CMOS, so I'd at least check it out. i've looked in the BIOS setup, and everything /appears/ to be ok, and when the kernel boots up it gives me the usual message about the serail ports. thanks for the help. regards, vinny -- Vincent Murphy | 2nd CompSci Student, UCC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (086) 8397405 NT = Not Today
Re: 512 Node Cluster Germany
Hello, Anyone got some details about the 512 node Debian CLOWN cluster in English? I've seen it in the Debian news section for a couple weeks, but all of the hyperlinks are in German (at least the ones I followed), and was hoping there would be an english translation or summary. Hmmm - sorry - Yep - i did the Mini-Distribution - Boot Disks and the rest based on Debian. BTW: The (poor documented) boot disk + mini distribution etc can be found on ftp://move.mediaways.net/pub/cluster mostly under testing ... I'd like to know what kind of performance a 512 node Debian CLOWN cluster achieves. (flops, mips, how quicky the equatsions were solved, ..) You cant measure the performance like this as all Benchmarks like linpack are designed for homogenous clusters where every node has the same performance. Also they do NOT include fail recognition of nodes. We made a linpack on a 50 Node Alpha Subcluster which has been reproduced in the iX (Magazin for IT in Germany) laboratorium and they archived 31.3 GFlops as far as i remember. This has been done with LinPack. Also, this is pretty big cluster, so I'd be interested to know just where this sits in the record book relative to other clusters. We have no clue - The TV Station here in Germany which did a TV Show in whose program this was shown cared on the Guiness Book of Records - AFAIK the Guiness people meet again in March and maybe we know more then. Flo -- Florian Lohoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49-5241-470566 Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick any two (you can't have all three). (RFC 1925)
A question about 'hostid'
How can I change hostid on Debian? Please give me an answer.
Re: Grafting other kernels on Debian's rescue disks
Thank you Ray. I tried with the bzImage file on SuSe and copied it to the 2.1.4 boot floppy. The floppy obviously now boots but now the last lines of the boot log: RAMDISK . Uncompressing . VFS : Mounted root VFS : Cannot open root device 08:01 Kernel panic : VFS unable to mount and hangs there ... BTW 2.1.4 does NOT boot my old faithful Thinkpad 760 like the tecra did so just going to zImage does not appear to be enough. Any other ideas Ciao Bob. J.H.M. Dassen wrote: On Sat, Jan 02, 1999 at 08:22:53 -0500, Robert J. Alexander wrote: As I am stuck on my Thinkpad with Debian, while other distributions happily boot (SuSe, Tom's RootBoot for example), I would like to know if and how can I graft the kernel on the working boot floppies on Debian's rescue. The boot floppy uses plain FAT and syslinux; the kernel on it is named linux. It should be sufficient to replace the linux file on it with a kernel image that works for you. HTH, Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
LyX and Page Numbering
Hi, What should I do for page numbering start on other number instead of 1 !? Thanks. Best regards, Nuno Carvalho ¨¨ Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho Dep. Informatics Engineering University of Coimbra PGP key available at finger ¨¨
Re: Grafting other kernels on Debian's rescue disks
I believe that you also need to run the rdev script on the diskette, after copying the new kernel over. Also, the scripts expects that /mnt is where you have it mounted. On Sat, Jan 02, 1999 at 05:52:01PM -0500, Robert J. Alexander wrote: Thank you Ray. I tried with the bzImage file on SuSe and copied it to the 2.1.4 boot floppy. The floppy obviously now boots but now the last lines of the boot log: RAMDISK . Uncompressing . VFS : Mounted root VFS : Cannot open root device 08:01 Kernel panic : VFS unable to mount and hangs there ... BTW 2.1.4 does NOT boot my old faithful Thinkpad 760 like the tecra did so just going to zImage does not appear to be enough. Any other ideas Ciao Bob. J.H.M. Dassen wrote: On Sat, Jan 02, 1999 at 08:22:53 -0500, Robert J. Alexander wrote: As I am stuck on my Thinkpad with Debian, while other distributions happily boot (SuSe, Tom's RootBoot for example), I would like to know if and how can I graft the kernel on the working boot floppies on Debian's rescue. The boot floppy uses plain FAT and syslinux; the kernel on it is named linux. It should be sufficient to replace the linux file on it with a kernel image that works for you. HTH, Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig
Re: X11 'fixed' font error
On 1999-01-01 20:52, Torsten Landschoff wrote: On Thu, Dec 31, 1998 at 12:03:33PM -0600, me wrote: After re-installing X11, (with all new fonts) -- 'frozen' distro, I still get the same error: could not open default font 'fixed' but: locate fixed gives /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fixed.pcf.gz. /etc/X11/XF86Config shows this path as well, so I know I have the font. What should I do? Did you try to call mkfontdir for that directory? The installation of X11 should do that automatically but there might be a bug in frozen. I did but the fontdir file was not created and there was no error messages. I removed the font server entry in /etc/X11/XF86Config which seemed to fix the problems (for whatever reason). /Allan -- Allan M. Wind Phone: 781.938.5272 (home) 687 Main St., 2nd fl. Fax:781.938.6641 (home) Woburn, MA 01801Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home)
Re: What tools are useful for script debugging?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The subject says it all. Try the -x flag to bash - it's quite useful. Strace is also good, if you don't mind sifting through a lot of information. $ bash -x myscript.sh [...] $ strace myscript.sh | less [...] The above advice is based on the assumption you mean the sh/csh/tcsh/bash shells. My personal choice is to use perl. If perl scripts need debugging, the perl debugger (built into the perl interpreter) works great. Of course, if all your stars are aligned and you're blessed with both perl emacs on your system, the emacs interface to the perl debugger is the best possible solution. Amen. morgan -- VVV M o r g a n F l e t c h e rhttp://www.hahaha.org/morgan Tibi gratias agimus quod nihil fumas. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Defragging large filesystems
Eric Gillespie, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm not quite sure what you're talking about here. Seems to me fragmentation percentage would mean how much my files are fragmented. On all my other filesystems, the percentage is between 1 and 3. I can understand how the mp3 filesystem may have become so fragmented, with the constant deleting and moving around of files. And my question still hasn't been answered. How can I defragment it? There is a defrag package: Package: defrag Version: 0.73-1 Priority: extra Section: admin Maintainer: Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] Depends: libc6 Architecture: i386 Filename: dists/stable/main/binary-i386/admin/defrag_0.73-1.deb Size: 290134 MD5sum: 7e9084be2707e6e68bab23332ee7e465 Description: ext2 minix xiafs file system defragmenter As a file system is used, data tends to become more and more scattered over the disk, degrading performance. A disk defragmenter simply reorganises the data on the disk, so that individual files occupy a single sequential set of disk blocks, and all the free space on the disk is collected together in a single region. This generally means that reading a whole file is more efficient. installed-size: 715 Torsten
Non US, PGP and slink
Has anyone else had problems with the non US debian slink sites? The Packages file seems to contain pgp-us version 2.6.3a-5, but, for at least a month now, the pgp-us package itself is version 2.6.3a-4. This has caused me no end of problems with apt-get upgrade, at least until I removed the nonus site from /etc/apt/sources.list. Any ideas? Thanks, Gary
Boot disk with parallel cable connection
Because of problems installing Linux on my old notebook, would it be possible to create for me a boot disk trying to create a prallel cable connection to my other notebook with Win95? So the notebook could boot from floppy and use the CD drive from my other notebook. Would also be very practical to set up Linux on an older notebook which has only floppy drives. best regards Mosl Roland http://pege.org/ clear targets for a confused civilization
Re: Web-based email for Debian
There are quite a few. If you go to freshmeat.net and search for the words web mail, you'll find about a dozen. -- John On Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 10:35:39AM -0500, Randy Edwards wrote: I'm running a slink system w/Exim as my MTA. Does anyone know of a web-based e-mail system that would fit into a Debian system nicely? -- Regards,| Windows95 (noun): 32 bit extensions and a . | graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 Randy | bit operating system originally coded for ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | a 4 bit microprocessor written by a 2 bit http://www.golgotha.net | company that can't stand 1 bit of competition. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Non US, PGP and slink
Has anyone else had problems with the non US debian slink sites? The Packages file seems to contain pgp-us version 2.6.3a-5, but, for at least a month now, the pgp-us package itself is version 2.6.3a-4. I get the same thing about several non-existent files in non-us/slink. This was discussed a week or two ago and I had hoped that it'd soon be cleared up, but it hasn't been. -- Regards, | REDMOND, WA (API) --- MICROSOFT (MSFT) announced today . | the the official release date for the new operating Randy | system Windows 2000 will be delayed until the second | quarter of 1901 due to year 2000 problems.
Re:debian-user-digest Digest V99 #3
I will be out of the office on Dec. 31, 1998.
Re: Web-based email for Debian
John Goerzen wrote: There are quite a few. If you go to freshmeat.net and search for the words web mail, you'll find about a dozen. Thanks John. I went ahead and grabbed Ivan's imp*.deb package (http://www.tdyc.com/~rkrusty/Debian) that he's working on and that installed beautifully. -- Regards, | REDMOND, WA (API) --- MICROSOFT (MSFT) announced today . | the the official release date for the new operating Randy | system Windows 2000 will be delayed until the second | quarter of 1901 due to year 2000 problems.
Building custom install CDs
I want to burn a CD which is -basically- debian, but has two or three extra packages present and marked as necessary, and also runs a script which changes which packages are and aren't selected (depending on things such as the partition sizes) before it runs dselect. (It's for a volunteer project to install linux on old computers and donate them to people who wouldn't otherwise have a computer) I probably also want to use a custom kernel, and pre-answer some of the questions in the install script (eg: there'll never be any pcmcia or scsi devices, or a lot of the other weird stuff, so not to ever ask about it). Can I put extra 'info' screens into the install scripts too? Where do I find instructions about doing this type of stuff? I've looked in the FAQ and 16.3 says it's -possible- but not how or where to look for further info!! bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the : small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well. The : extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, : creatively and without self-delusion - in the long run those are : the only people who count. -- Heinlein, 'Time Enough For Love'
The Status Of Slink
Hi, I am planning to put together another debian based system, I was wondering if I should wait until the 2.1 version is available or will it really be that easy to upgrade from hamm? thanks, allan bart == Allan W. Bart, Jr. Strategic Analyst _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Strange PPP problem
On Sat, 2 Jan 1999, Akop Pogosian wrote:
[ snip ]
: Dec 31 04:39:49 debian icmplogd: destination unreachable from
: [209.44.32.73]
:
: I have no idea what that IP address is. It just starts pinging me once I
: establish a ppp session.
Here's who to ask if you want to find out:
bohr:/var/named/pri $ nslookup 209.44.32.73
Server: localhost
Address: 127.0.0.1
*** localhost can't find 209.44.32.73: Non-existent host/domain
bohr:/var/named/pri $ whois -h rs.arin.net 209.44.32
Savvis Communications Corp (NETBLK-SAVVIS2)
Bonhomme Suite 1000
St. Louis, MO 63105
Netname: SAVVIS2
Netblock: 209.44.0.0 - 209.44.63.255
Maintainer: SAVV
Coordinator:
Zimmerman, Gary (GZ84-ARIN) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
314.719.2423
Domain System inverse mapping provided by:
NS1.SAVVIS.NET 209.16.211.42
NS2.SAVVIS.NET 204.194.10.206
ADDRESSES WITHIN THIS BLOCK ARE NON-PORTABLE
Record last updated on 11-Feb-98.
Database last updated on 1-Jan-99 16:11:45 EDT.
The ARIN Registration Services Host contains ONLY Internet
Network Information: Networks, ASN's, and related POC's.
Please use the whois server at rs.internic.net for DOMAIN related
Information and nic.mil for NIPRNET Information.
--
Nathan Norman
MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD
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Re: modem answering to a different song?
On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 01:07:57PM -0500, Colin Telmer wrote: Has anyone been able to get a modem to answer to a distinct phone ring? My phone company allows one to have up to four numbers on one line each with a distinct ring and I would like to set up a fax server that answers only on one of these numbers. Any ideas? Cheers, Colin. Mgetty works by listening to the modem for RING on the serial line and then sending commands to the modem to answer instead of the normal getty behavior of letting the modem auto-answer. If your modem supports distinctive ring, you could probably modify mgetty to listen for RING 4 or whatever. This may involve getting the source and recompiling. If your modem doesn't support distinctive ring, you can buy external phone line fax swiches which use the ring cadence to switch the line. ISTR that Radio Shack has them, at least here in the States. Even then look into mgetty, it nicely handles incoming fax and data calls on the same line as your outgoing modem connections. your pal dave -- Dave Thayer Denver, Colorado USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
StarOffice install
How do I install Star office? I tried dpkg and install but I can't get anything to work. Yes, I did check the Debian FAQ. Or did I miss something? Any ideas to help? Thanx. Ed
Re: The Status Of Slink
On Sat, 2 Jan 1999, Allan Bart wrote: I am planning to put together another debian based system, I was wondering if I should wait until the 2.1 version is available or will it really be that easy to upgrade from hamm? Slink is pretty darn stable right now. I need to get a look at the release critical bug list to get an idea of exactly how far we are. However, the 2.1.4 install disks are pretty good (may still be in incoming, mirrored on llug.sep.bnl.gov). There are only some cosmetic changes that are needed as far as I can tell. However, if you want to use hamm, I've also heard the upgrade is going well, it just means downloading twice. Good luck, let me know if you have any problems, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter |
Re: modprobe: Cannot locate module char-major-10
Jeroen N. Witmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have searched the mailing list archives for this problem, and I understand it can be solved by aliasing module char-major-10 to off, but I would like to understand what is going on. (It is not really a problem, because in spite of the message everything seems to work.) [snip] In human language: The Debian 2.0.34 configured the serial support as a module, whereas I included it into the 2.0.36 kernel itself. It seems that, even when the serial support is included into the kernel, 'somebody' still wants to access it as a module, but I can't find who, where and why. Serial ports are on char-major-4; see ls -l /dev/ttyS0: crw-rw 1 root dialout4, 64 Feb 10 1998 /dev/ttyS0 major ^ ^^ minor char-major-10 is misc devices such as psaux, watchdog, apm and nvram - cat /proc/misc should list the ones you're using. Presumably something is trying to access one of the misc devices. You might be able to get some idea of what's happening with: $ cd /dev $ ls -ltur [...] crw-rw 1 uucp dialout4, 65 Jan 3 10:32 ttyS1 crw--- 1 root sys 10, 1 Jan 3 11:53 psaux prw-r--r-- 1 root root0 Jan 3 11:55 xconsole| [...] crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 2, 1 Jan 3 11:58 ptyp1 crw--w 1 careytty3, 1 Jan 3 11:58 ttyp1 crw--w--w- 1 root root 4, 7 Jan 3 11:58 tty7 $ -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Larry froze. Was the bag a trap? He could see the way in, but the other end appeared to be sealed.
Rescue disk fails for initial installation
I have an old IBM PC that I'm trying to install from diskettes (no CD drive). When I boot the rescue disk (most recent on the web) and hit enter, I get the following message: Loading root.bin... The boot process then hangs with the diskette light on solid, does not repond to c-t-a. I've tried commands like Linux hd=... but that doesn't change anything since it's failing on the initail load. Is there some way to track the events of the load process to see where it is hanging. I've played around with several BIOS setting, changed hdisks, but no luck. The same rescue disk works on a new PC (not the one I want to convert to Linux.). -bucky pope
Question on a purchase I am considering
Hey all, I am considering buying a Sony VIAO Superslim notebook. The URL for it is www.sony.com/pc. Has anyone had good or bad experiences with these computers (even in non-Linux OS')?? Highlights include: 1 inch thick and 2.9 lbs weight (= magnesium alloy case -- tres chic
Rescue disk fails for initial installation
I have an old IBM PC that I'm trying to install from diskettes (no CD drive). When I boot the rescue disk (most recent on the web) and hit enter, I get the following message: Loading root.bin... The boot process then hangs with the diskette light on solid, does not repond to c-t-a. I've tried commands like Linux hd=... but that doesn't change anything since it's failing on the initail load. Is there some way to track the events of the load process to see where it is hanging. I've played around with several BIOS setting, changed hdisks, but no luck. The same rescue disk works on a new PC (not the one I want to convert to Linux.). -bucky pope
Re: Grafting other kernels on Debian's rescue disks
GREAT !!! After a couple of days of sweat, headaches and the occasional fit of rage, mostly thanks to this great support group I made it. Recap: Dowload the 2.1.4 diskettes. Download tomsrtbt versio 1.7.102 (DOS ZIP) and extract the kernel Graft the kernel image from tom's (thank you tom) onto Debian as linux Boot with tom's diskette, mount the Debian Frankenstein floppy on /mnt Run the /mnt/rdev.sh script BUT . I have a deep obligation and an affectionate tie to Debian. A newcomer in my situation will probably skip to RedHat or SuSe or ... I mean that the Debian boot floppies are about the weakest link in the chain and it is a pity since most users will start from there ... Do not mean to denigrate Enrique's great effort but in my many Debian installation it is not the first time I had to fight to boot the beast. Anyway thank you again very very much. Bob
Re: Rescue disk fails for initial installation
This might not be the easiest way but ... Try downloading tom's root/boot diskette (www.toms.net/rb) and see if the box will IPL from it. If it does follow the instrucctions in the append I just made to the list ... Good luck. Bob Bucky Pope wrote: I have an old IBM PC that I'm trying to install from diskettes (no CD drive). When I boot the rescue disk (most recent on the web) and hit enter, I get the following message: Loading root.bin... The boot process then hangs with the diskette light on solid, does not repond to c-t-a. I've tried commands like Linux hd=... but that doesn't change anything since it's failing on the initail load. Is there some way to track the events of the load process to see where it is hanging. I've played around with several BIOS setting, changed hdisks, but no luck. The same rescue disk works on a new PC (not the one I want to convert to Linux.). -bucky pope -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Rescue disk fails for initial installation
On Sat, Jan 02, 1999 at 06:15:28PM -0500, Bucky Pope wrote: I have an old IBM PC that I'm trying to install from diskettes (no CD drive). When I boot the rescue disk (most recent on the web) and hit enter, I get the following message: Uh, it does have an 80386 or later processor, right? Linux absolutely, positively will not work on 8086, 8088, 80186, 80286, NEC V20, etc. Just checking the obvious possibilities first. :) -- G. Branden Robinson |Convictions are more dangerous enemies Debian GNU/Linux |of truth than lies. [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-- Friedrich Nietzsche cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | pgp93lVw67VCu.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: LyX and Page Numbering
Nuno Carvalho wrote:
Hi,
What should I do for page numbering start on other number instead of 1
!?
I already had resolved this problem thanks to Pedro Quaresma.
\setcounter{page}{n}
Best regards,
Nuno Carvalho
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Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho
Dep. Informatics Engineering
University of Coimbra
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