S.O.S
El Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 02:46:07PM +0100, Emilio Hernández Martín dijo: Bueno pues estoy siguiendo tu problema y yo me digo lo siguiente. ¿ No será un sector defectuoso que falla de forma intermitente ? Ningun mail dice que se hayan buscado sectores defectuosos en las particiones bajo linux. ¿ Has probado un fsck -c /dev/lo_que_sea ? -- Saludos. Fdo: Ismael Canales de Luis =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Trantor is a debian 2.X KoreDumper 2.2.13 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
actualizar changelogs en paquetes debian
Hola! ¿Los changelogs de los paquetes Debian se actualizan a mano o hay algún programa para hacerlo? He estado buscando y no he encontrado nada... Si quieres saber cómo pertenecer a Paco Brufal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fidonet, la red de correo con más Fidonet 2:346/3.68 CALIDAD del Mundo y SIN SPAM, preguntame como. ...Hakkuh. 3 Steps Ahead. 1996 --- Pine 4.20 + Sendmail 8.9.3 * Origin: FAQ de R34.LINUX: http://www.linuxfreak.com/~r34_linux (2:346/3.68)
Re: actualizar changelogs en paquetes debian
On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Paco Brufal wrote: ¿Los changelogs de los paquetes Debian se actualizan a mano o hay algún programa para hacerlo? He estado buscando y no he encontrado nada... man dch (apropos changelog da buenas pistas ;-)
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Problemas de conexión a INTERNET
Salu2 Solicito la ayuda de algún alma caritativa que me ayude a hacer los scripts que me permitan establecer una conexión decente a mi servidor de INTERNET con LINUX. Ya he probado diferentes configuraciones del pppconfig, incluso he editado los correspondientes scripts siguiendo los ejemplos de las man pages y de los COMOs y el resultado siempre es el mismo, el servidor me echa fuera casi antes de entrar, es decir, que no acepta mi nombre de usuario (del que ya he probado todas las variantes que se me han ocurrido, con y sin el '.es' del dominio) ni mi password. Si es necesario puedo mandar los archivos /var/log/ppp.log y /var/log/messages, así como cualquier otro archivo que se me solicite, por si sirven de ayuda para determinar dónde estoy metiendo la gamba :-(( No hace falta que sea algo sofisticado, cuanto más sencillos, genéricos, y eficaces sean los scripts mejor. Gracias Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren
Re: Problemas de conexión a INTERNET
On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 04:17:50PM +0100, Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren wrote: Salu2 Solicito la ayuda de algún alma caritativa que me ayude a hacer los scripts que me permitan establecer una conexión decente a mi servidor de INTERNET con LINUX. Bueno como yo di la lata a la lista con esto hace tiempo te respondo, he conseguido conectar al ISP (es verdad que al final con el kppp). Te envio el mensaje que mandó Daniel Ferradal, en el que daba una explicación definitiva, creo }:-) Suerte --- Hola, La verdad, al final es tan dificil conectar con Uni2 como con cualquier otro proveedor, pero por si a alguien le sirve de ayuda le pongo lo que yo tengo: Archivo /etc/ppp/pap-secrets # ID y contraseña de Iddeo ret009df * contraseña # ID y contraseña de Uni2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] * micontraseña Archivo /etc/options.uni2 lock debug kdebug 1 crtscts modem passive noipdefault defaultroute asyncmap a /dev/ttyS1 115200 connect /etc/ppp/conexion.uni2 - Archivo /etc/ppp/conexion.uni2 #!/bin/sh /usr/sbin/chat -V AT\S95=44\+MS=56,0\DT900902030 CONNECT - Archivo /etc/ppp/uni2 -- ha de ser ejecutable ;) #!/bin/sh /usr/sbin/pppd user [EMAIL PROTECTED] file /etc/ppp/options.uni2 La razón por la que tengo un options.uni2, conexion.uni2, etc es porque tambien tengo una conexión igual en iddeo. En el pap-secrets si os preguntais por qué las es sencillo, si no las pones, no te chuta si tu id lleva @ o algún caracter extraño. Espero haber servidor de ayuda una vez más. Saludos -- Daniel Ferradal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usuario Registrado de Linux # 128322 http://pagina.de/tezra
Re: Me ha vuelto ha pasar
El Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 10:41:25PM +0100, Ricardo Villalba escribió: Pues me ha vuelto a pasar de nuevo y la verdad es que me estoy empezando a preocupar. Ricardo, tu problema, tal como lo describes, supera por mucho mis conocimientos, pero por si acaso, sólo por si acaso, te comento lo que me ha estado pasando a mí. Tengo linux instalado en la primera partición del segundo disco duro (hdb1). Es un disco que me llevé del trabajo porque fallaba al arrancar (windox) y supuse que quizá funcionaría bien como esclavo. En efecto así fue, arranco el ordenata desde el windox de mi primer disco duro, y con loadlin _casi siempre_ linux arranca desde hdb1 sin problemas. Me llevó un tiempo saber en qué consistía ese casi... y resultó que siempre que arrancaba bien linux había estado haciendo algo previamente en windox... o me había ido a tomar un café ;-) Conclusión: Mi hdb funciona si y sólo si se le deja calentarse unos minutos antes de pedirle nada, como un atleta de los buenos :-) Si has descartado totalmente un fallo de hard, (ne he seguido todo el hilo) este mensaje puede ir tranquilamente a /dev/null, sólo quería hacer notar que los fallos de hard pueden ser puñeteros de identificar. Un saludote, -- -- Roberto Ripio [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problemas de conexión a INTERNET
Te envio el mensaje que mandó Daniel Ferradal, en el que daba una explicación definitiva, creo }:-) Suerte Da gusto comprobar que sirve de algo lo que has puesto en esta lista alguna vez :)) Un saludo a todos y suerte al que tiene problemas con la conexión :) -- Daniel Ferradal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usuario Registrado de Linux # 128322 http://pagina.de/tezra pgpctfC4MYNuj.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Problemas de conexión a INTERNET
At 11:58 PM 1999-12-08 +0100, Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren wrote: Cree los escripts sugeridos y al ejecutar /etc/ppp/uni2 (mi srvidors es uni2) obtengo éste mensaje de error: : No such file or directoryoptions file /etc/ppp/options.uni2 ¿Tuviste algún problema parecido cuando lo probaste? He probado a cambiar los nombres de los scripts por si las mosquis (nunca se sabe cuando un punto lo escoña todo) y nasti de plasti, me da ese error con el nuevo nombre. ¿Alguna sugerencia? Renombraste /etc/ppp/options _Debes_ tener un archivo /etc/ppp/options, así esté vacío (o por lo menos eso fue lo que entendí la última vez que miré algo de pppd) Ugo Enrico Albarello López de Mesa [EMAIL PROTECTED] A proud Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 User.
Off-topic: Novo guia Linux
Terminei este final de semana a estrutura para divulgar o guia que estou desenvolvendo via Net. A primeira versão já está disponível e é voltada ao usuário iniciante. O endereço da página é: http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/disk/4410 Ele também traz explicações sobre os pontos fortes de cada distribuição, até agora somente tenho materiais sobre Debian, Corel Linux, e Libranet (as duas últimas baseadas na Debian). Em breve estarei incluindo as características das distribuições Suse e Conectiva. Inclui também uma seção sobre ajuda onde consta um sub-capítulo listas de discussão de onde o usuário pode obter ajuda e suporte no sistema linux, como se inscrever, etc. --- gleydson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ MailBR - O e-mail do Brasil -- http://www.mailbr.com.br Estamos concorrendo ao IBEST - Serviços On-Line Acesse http://ibest.mailbr.com.br e Vote!
RES: Status dos trabalhos com a Debian
Leandro Dutra escreveu: Parabéns! Não seria melhor chamar de Estados Unidos com acentos? US acentos mistura as duas línguas, dói no ouvido. US acentos foi somente como exemplo, segue abaixo os nomes corretos do idioma/teclado para localização usados no language-chooser: Brasileiro (teclado padrão US) Brasileiro (teclado padrão ABNT2) Portugal (teclado padrão) -- Padrão é a palavra correta usada em Portugal? Pelo que reparei, o language-chooser não usa ainda o código para redimensionamento automático de janelas na aprentação de mensagens (como na instalação), colocando Estados Unidos certamente a mensagem atravessaria a coluna limite da janela. No dbootstrap a seleção de teclados é feita no idioma Inglês (não me perguntem porque tiraram a seleção de teclados no idioma de origem, também fiquei sem entender nada...) a descrição ficou a seguinte: Brazilian (US layout)-- usando o mapa de teclados br-latin1 Brazilian (ABNT2 layout) -- usando o mapa de teclados br-abnt2 Portugal -- usando o mapa de teclados pt-latin1 Sugestões?!? --- gleydson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ MailBR - O e-mail do Brasil -- http://www.mailbr.com.br Estamos concorrendo ao IBEST - Serviços On-Line Acesse http://ibest.mailbr.com.br e Vote!
Re: RES: Status dos trabalhos com a Debian
On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 10:56:25AM +, Gleydson Mazioli da Silva wrote: Sugestões?!? Sim :-) concordo que ``US'' fica estranho. Brasileiro (teclado padrão US) (teclado padrão internacional) Brazilian (US layout)-- usando o mapa de teclados br-latin1 (international layout) Ou alguma abreviação que caiba na janela. Ou deixa não caber mesmo, assim eles consertam o bug ;-) []s, |alo + -- I am Lalo of deB-org. You will be freed. Resistance is futile. http://www.webcom.com/lalo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp key in the web page Debian GNU/Linux --http://www.debian.org
Re: RES: Status dos trabalhos com a Debian
Lalo Martins wrote: Sim :-) concordo que ``US'' fica estranho. Certo, eu coloquei como US para não ficar parado em uma só parte do desenvolvimento. Brasileiro (teclado padrão US) (teclado padrão internacional) Brazilian (US layout)-- usando o mapa de teclados br-latin1 (international layout) Gostei das duas :-) concordo que US fica mais estranho comparado a sua sugestão. O que vocês acham? Ou alguma abreviação que caiba na janela. Ou deixa não caber mesmo, assim eles consertam o bug ;-) :-) --- gleydson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ MailBR - O e-mail do Brasil -- http://www.mailbr.com.br Estamos concorrendo ao IBEST - Serviços On-Line Acesse http://ibest.mailbr.com.br e Vote!
Re: RES: Status dos trabalhos com a Debian
Lalo Martins wrote: Sim :-) concordo que ``US'' fica estranho. Certo, eu coloquei como US para não ficar parado em uma só parte do desenvolvimento. Brasileiro (teclado padrão US) (teclado padrão internacional) Brazilian (US layout)-- usando o mapa de teclados br-latin1 (international layout) Gostei das duas :-) concordo que US fica mais estranho comparado a sua sugestão. O que vocês acham? Ou alguma abreviação que caiba na janela. Ou deixa não caber mesmo, assim eles consertam o bug ;-) :-) --- gleydson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ MailBR - O e-mail do Brasil -- http://www.mailbr.com.br Estamos concorrendo ao IBEST - Serviços On-Line Acesse http://ibest.mailbr.com.br e Vote!
Re: Logitech Wheelmouse and Netscape
Nils-Erik Svangård wrote: Hi all! I run potato with a logitech wheelmouse (M-C48) attached to /dev/ttyS0. The wheel works just fine in X with most of the aplications not with netscape though. Is there anyway to get the wheel working in netscape? /nisse -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Are you using imwheel? Jonathan
Where to find / generate /etc/devfs.aliases ?
As the subject, really... I've worked out how the debian modutils stuff works, but /etc/devfs.aliases seems to be absent so I'm not getting the device aliases working properly; easily hacked but I'd like to do it properly. Any ideas? -- Matthew ( http://www.soup-kitchen.demon.co.uk/ )
Problem: dselect Select function stopped working, hangs
Hi, I am having a problem that makes dselect unusable: when I go to the select option, it blanks the screen and consumes all cpu but never finishes. I have run lsof and found that during this it opens the file /var/lib/dpkg/updates/tmp.i and nothing else of note. I have just performed a few (successful) apt-get operations by hand (apt-get install somepackage and apt-get update) and now dselect started acting this way. - Maybe something in the downloaded package lists confused dselect. Can I somehow purge dselect's package lists so that it works again? - I can't seem to uninstall dpkg or reinstall it either without risking to seriously break my setup. Is there another front-end besides dselect? Is there a front-end to apt? I am using debian 2.1 upgraded from the unstable section to libc 2.1. Any help will be appreciated! Regards, Serge __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
mountd on SPARC
I recently installed Debian on an sun4u machine, upgraded to 2.2.13 and potato. Every so often I see this in my syslog: Dec 7 14:55:47 foo mountd[19159]: unable to register (mountd, 2, udp). Dec 7 14:55:47 foo inetd[115]: /usr/sbin/tcpd: exit status 0x1 Dec 7 14:55:47 foo rpc.mountd[19160]: connect from 137.229.94.194 The message is repeated many times. What is strange to me is that the IP address listed is the IP address for the machine itself (foo). Why would a machine be trying to mount something on itself using rpc.mountd, which I thought was restricted to NFS mounts? /etc/fstab includes local filesystems (which are mounted just fine) and two remote filesystems, which are also mounting just fine. I am exporting one filesystem to a few remote machines, but /etc/exports contains machines other than the local machine. Anyone know what's going on? Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley tel: 907-474-2689 fax: 474-2643 930 Koyukuk Drive, Suite 408C email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alaska Fairbankswww.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu:8080/ Fairbanks, AK 99775 ~cswingle PGP key: http://www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu:8080/~cswingle/pubkey.asc
Re: Mozilla Warnings
Hi! When I start Mozilla a get the following warning: [truncated] Are these warnings to be expected or is something missing? I have installed Mozilla, as well as the rest of my system from the first of the two CDs that contains Debian v 2.1 r3. yours Hans Ekbrand Hi, The browsers that come with the last official slink release are pretty immature (except for lynx!!! it works nicely in a pinch.) I paid the $7 and purchased the latest Netscape CD. It comes with a Linux compatible version of communicator. I installed it without any problems. I was also glad that its mail reader has built in pop3 support so I didn't have to try and learn how to configure fetchmail or something like that. BN
Re: su authentication failure
On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 02:16:47PM -0800, Michael Kevin O'Brien wrote: Hola~ I finally took the plunge and pointed apt-get on to the unstable packages. So far, no major problems, wahoo. I am getting some weirdness, tho. When I run su, now, I get: % su Password: su: Authentication failure Sorry. Which I wouldn't expect with a root definition in /etc/passwd of: % grep root /etc/passwd root::0:0:root:/root:/usr/bin/tcsh I've got the following version of login: ii login 19990827-10System login tools Why would su be acting this way??? I used to have version 980403-0.3 installed, and I did not have this problem. Edit /etc/pam.d/su and add nullok to the end of the line that has auth required pam_unix.so -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: [Linux: Router] What does I need ???
Michelle Konzack wrote: Now, my Question is, WHAT DOES I NEED to install a simpel Router ??? ... Curently I must work with IP-Masquerading only... ...but it runs. OK, I have a LRP 2.9.4 box running which is based on Debian 2.1 (2.0.36). I have no knowledge from ipchains and ... If you have LRP, so what's the problem? All you need is to set it up. I have a router machine which is a 486/8MHz running Linux that I downloaded from www.linuxrouter.org. The setup is pretty simple; you need to download the kernel from the site, download the modules (according to the NICs you have), put the image on a floppy, and then boot the machine. root login will lead you to the lrcfg (a menu-based program for configuring the router); using the program you can set what modules to load, the IP addresses, etc. Don't forget to back-up the system; meaning, putting everything back to the floppy. Oki
upgrading 2.1r2 to glibc2.1
I have searched the archives for this, and have found (very surprisingly) nothing -- perhaps I searched wrong? I would like to upgrade my 2.1r2 system to glibc2.1, and dependent packages. I would like to do so such that I maintain the consistency of my package database. In otherwords, I want to upgrade only the minimum number of packages possible, and leave my dselect (apt) pointed at the stable packages lists from that point on. Any suggestions? Thanks. rjf
power off
hello i have a (for me) strange problem when i shutdown the machine, after the Power Down. sentence i get more than a page of strings, come of they say: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 886f current-tss.crt3=03d61000,%cr3 = 03d61000 *pde = Oops: CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[c010a346] EFLAGS: 00010083 . . . /etc/rc0.d/S90halt: line 16: 177 Segmentation fault halt -d -f -i -p i am using a 2.2.13 kernel, with a k6-500, a K6XV3+ DFI motherboard, 64 mb ram i have choosen for power off option in the kernel configuration the motherboard says it supports ACPI power management what does this error could mean and how could i solve it? thanks a lot erasmo
Upgrade to slink killed telnet
Please help, I just upgraded one of our servers from debian 1.3 to slink and now i telnet is broken. I get an error when trying to telnet into the box: telnetd: All network ports in use. Connection closed by ... what gives?? thanks evan
Re: Upgrade to slink killed telnet
On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Evan Moore wrote: Please help, I just upgraded one of our servers from debian 1.3 to slink and now i telnet is broken. I get an error when trying to telnet into the box: telnetd: All network ports in use. Connection closed by ... what gives?? Permissions on /dev/pt* are wrong Jason
Re: Upgrade to slink killed telnet
On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 08:05:34PM -0500, Evan Moore wrote: telnetd: All network ports in use. Connection closed by ... what gives?? IIRC slink split telnet out of netstd into its own package. You need to install telnet and telnetd. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. ---+-
locking the console
Is there a program that will lock my text consoles for me if I'm idle for a while? Something like: while !KeyboardInterrupt /* nobody's typing */ sleep 5m /* OK, they're really gone forever */ clear vlock --all Or something. xlock with the timer but without the X. Rob -- The three questions of greatest concern are -- 1. Is it attractive? 2. Is it amusing? 3. Does it know its place? -- Fran Lebowitz, Metropolitan Life
Re: locking the console
On 7/12/99 Rob Mahurin wrote: Is there a program that will lock my text consoles for me if I'm idle for a while? Something like: while !KeyboardInterrupt /* nobody's typing */ sleep 5m /* OK, they're really gone forever */ clear vlock --all Or something. xlock with the timer but without the X. this would be nice, but it would have to run in the background unattached to the tty, I don't think vlock will work properly if its started that way.. just as a quick test i tried: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ vlock and i my console was instantly being spewed with Password: prompts over and over again, I had to switch to another console and kill it :( (hint: when playing with vlock don't use -a, unless you have a way in though the network, be prepared to press the reset button and fsck your filesystems to hell) maybe if you ran a script in the foreground on another console you don't use but then it would probably see it as idle... also what would it do if you were running a interactive program like say lftp? Ethan
Re: Mozilla warnings
On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 10:55:51PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The linux-i386.tar.gz releases found at mozilla.org, what distro are they compiled for? Is is possible to run them on debian? Is is very difficult to build from source? Tom Cato I grabbed the M11 binary a little while back. It works fine on potato. Don't think it'll work on Slink (not even building from source). I needed to do two things to set it up nice: 1) export GECKO_FONT_SIZE_FACTOR=1.2 # in .bashrc to make fonts readable 2) create a startup script in /usr/local/bin consisting of: #!/bin/sh (cd /usr/local/mozilla/package ; ./mozilla /dev/null 21 ) I didn't bother with a menu entry. Note: the dhtml demo reaked havoc! -- ++ | Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | ++
Re: Why
On 7/12/99 Evan Moore wrote: I am using R5 right now on my box at home. No seg faults (except in some crappy c programs i have written). i suspect alot of the instability to due to booting with bootx and broken kernels for my hardware. aherm well, this blue G3 i try to get GNU/Linux on is a fairly large chunk of Linux hostile hardware... (ATI cards anyone?) so no you don't have to deal with finding compatible hardware your just stuck with the nice incompatible stuff you get :-) If you want to try that blue G3 again there are now drivers for it. I have tried them the results are still poor, and its not easy to try the newer kernels because the R5 compiler seems to be broken (i compile the same source with same config as a kernel BenH compiled with the R3 installer his boots my machine mine just hangs...) i have found many other things fail to compile because R5 is broken and has missing .h files all over (despite installing all the proper -dev packages.) right now i only use the R5 install to try and test the new bootloader as soon as i have that working with a kernel from BenH and i have the time to do the download i am dumping linuxppc and getting debian. the linuxppc-user list compared to the debian-ppc list speaks volumes of the problems in linuxppc. (which could partly be blamed on it being based on redhat rawhide, the redhat unstable branch i would guess...) besides that i just don't really want to run a redhat distro there are too many things that annoy me about it. one thing that really annoys me is I cannot go to kernel.org and get the latest kernel tarball, make config ; make dep ; make clean ; make whatever ; install and have it work on a PPC like you can on most other archs... i've never tried it with my linux ppc box, but i never though that would be a problem, i'm looking at the kernel source right now and here is ppc, mabye someday when i have the time, I'll get around to compiling my own kernel for my linuxppc box at home. yes there is a ppc tree in the sources and it MIGHT work for older machines but for the newer ones you have to patch the hell out of it to get them to work, and unfortunately the patches are like running unstable dev kernels (because well when patches are stable enough Linus will include them) but like I said above it looks very much like the R5 compiler is broken in regards to kernel compiling anyway Anyways after using Debian/Linuxppc/Mandrake/WinXX(super yuck)/MacOs on my boxes at home, it was my experience that Linuxppc was the easiest to install (besides MacOS). you only have to install once (usually). and for me anyway i would rather a harder install and get something that works in the end then an easy install and something broken. As for the Debian/Mandrake install on the i386, well i can't get X to run at all either because my supper crappy video card is not supported. I could not get X to run on this G3 because of the super not supported ATI card, again this has nothing to do with any distro or the archetecture. (well i did eventually get it to run, slowly(very), and unstably) I'v installed debian on many many machines at work and none of them have been as simple as linuxppc, but i have installed linuxppc on only one box, so i stand by my point that linuxppc is easy to install *only* on an 8600 maby other too. try installing redhat, you will see it is the exact same installer and thus just as easy to install even in i386 (easier in fact since you can actually do silly things like booting the OS on i386 :) ) and IMO the biggest pain in the ass OS to install is WinNT. Whenever the installer died, it never told me why, just kept on dying. a good example of why small simple console based installers are the way to go instead of big bloated pretty installers. Ethan
IP Masq not running?
I have a 2.2.12 kernel with IP Chains, IP Masq, diald, etc. I have determined that the server never dials out, when one of the workstations tries to access the internet, unless I type in the command ipmasq at the server prompt. I do have the file ipmasq in /etc/init.d (and in rcS.d, etc. as S41ipmasq), I have included the first portion of the file below. I tried adding the line /sbin/ipmasq to this file, right below the line that starts out test, but this had no effect. What do I need to do to make the dialout process automatic? IPMASQ- #!/bin/bash # # ipmasq.init Set up IP Masquerading for Debian systems # # v3.0 19 July 1998 test -x /sbin/ipmasq || exit 1 case $1 in start|restart|force-reload) ... - END --- Thanks, Steve Martin
RE: dselect quit working
On 08-Dec-1999 Pollywog wrote: Is dselect broken? Some time in the past two or three days, it quit working and it just hangs there when I enter dselect and then choose the option select. Did this happen to anyone else? (potato) I just upgraded dpkg and all is well now. -- Andrew
Broken cpan?
I'm getting this now since I'm running debian. Anyone know how to fix it without re-compiling perl? cpan install Date::Calc CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok Fetching with LWP: ftp://mirror.xmission.com/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz perl: error in loading shared libraries /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004/auto/Compress/Zlib/Zlib.so: undefined symbol: zlibVersion :wq! --- Robert L. Harris| Low quality in a product happens. Senior System Engineer |That doesn't mean it's right and at Global Commerce Systems. | and defintely doesn't mean it should \_ be accepted. Require quality. http://www.rnd-consulting.com/~nomad DISCLAIMER: These are MY OPINIONS ALONE. I speak for no-one else. FYI: perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
A bug in unstable /var/lib/dpkg/info/kbd.postinst?
[05:26:34 /tmp]# apt-get dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Setting up kbd (0.99-6) ... dpkg: error processing kbd (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10 Errors were encountered while processing: kbd [05:28:18 /tmp]# /var/lib/dpkg/info/kbd.postinst [05:29:19 /tmp]# tail /var/lib/dpkg/info/kbd.postinst fi # End automatically added section # Automatically added by dh_installdocs if [ $1 = configure ]; then if [ -d /usr/doc -a ! -e /usr/doc/kbd -a -d /usr/share/doc/kbd ]; then ln -sf ../share/doc/kbd /usr/doc/kbd fi fi # End automatically added section [05:31:15 /tmp]# Does the error is caused simply because /var/lib/dpkg/info/kbd.postinst does not return an exit code on successful exit, or is it something else? BTW: How could I have the returned code of some script being printed to the terminal?
Setting Path ENV variable
Hi, Running Linux from O'Reilly says that the search path can be set in .bashrc file, but the only .bashrc I'm finding is for a user I created, not root. Is there a bash configuration file for root? I'm trying to add some directories to the search path. I found a file named /etc/profile with a PATH statement in it, but attempts to add to that don't work. The comment at the top says it's the system-wide profile for bash(1) TIA Andy
Re: An open letter to the debian community
David Blackman wrote: I love Debian, I use Debian, I administer Debian at my school. Why do I use Debian? Because my school uses it. Why does my school use it? Because they didn't like the GUIness of RedHat, and Slackware is just too much of a hassle. Plus, they were drawn to apt-get. Yes, I like apt-get... ... Okay, I've just installed Debian/GNU Linux (Don't forget the GNU!), it only took me 3 hours to get through all those cryptic installation questions. now where's my full featured web browser? Well, either you've got small broken browsers (arena, gozilla), or a broken version of Netscape called Mozilla. Yes, I have downloade Mozilla, and it doesn't run (segfaulted). I downloaded Netscape instead. The newsreader and mailreader not included; well, I think it's still _much_ better than having to write your own browser from scratch. Now, can I edit my MS Office docs? You might be able to look at them, but definitely not edit them! What about this StarOffice thing I keep hearing about? That's a 50 meg download. Have you ever try to download MS Office (for Windows)...? (if it is downloadable at all.) ... No, we don't include the sound modules, you'll need to recompile the kernel by hand. Compiling kernel is not that difficult; make menuconfig and then make zImage. ... And my TNT2/VOODOO3/G400 will work under this X thing right? 30 megs. The X server for my ATI is about 800K. I'm wondering how many megabytes do you need for installing, say, Windows 95 (if it is downloadable at all). Get the picture? Here's approximatley 150 megs of downloads so far (kernel sources + KDE + QT + SO51 + WP8 + X335). Add on top of this the lack of a packaged, up-to-date system, (Even Slackware is up to kernel 2.2.12, X335, with KDE and GNOME, compared to Debian, this is light years ahead) with a recent version of X, or a recent kernel, and you begin to wonder why people are still using Debian. What's so difficult for apt-get'ing all those packages? All you need is to know what package to download first (eg: if you don't have your X running yet, it's not quite useful to install Gnome). It's simple -- because we're a bunch of techno-snobs. Debian's hard to use, and we like it that way. We'll leave it to Corel to make Debian easy. We don't WANT everyday users. We like Debian the way it is. We like feeling superior, adhering to a higher standard of Free, and the warm and fuzzy feeling we get from whizzing around a cryptic console in front of a newbie. Debian is easy to use, IMO. Well, the other Linux I have installed is Slackware 3.5. I don't know what progress they have in Slackware, but apt-get is much better than the tarballs (especially when the time comes for you to _remove_ some program). Lately I've been thinking about forking Debian, into DWA, meaning Debian Without Attitude. We'll drop the attitude, and the pretenses, about what Free means, and get licensing deals with Corel, Netscape, and Sun, to include Wordperfect, Communicator, and Staroffice. We'll make the install process less cryptic, include non-free on the CD and forget the Debian philosophy, that the only way to learn is by doing it the hard way. I think having a free (moneywise) OS and some applications to buy is a nice deal. Compared to, say, forking US$1K+ first and then wondering why you have to buy everything later (simple converters, viewers excluded). I'm going to get flamed for this. I know it. We don't want to think we're techno-snobs. We want to think our distribution is superior. We want to leave out KDE. We don't want Joe Blow to start with Debian, if he's not man enough to face up to Debian, he can go buy, (Ha! Buy!, we Debian snobs say) Red Hat. I haven't visited www.linuxchix.com lately; I'm just wondering whether any of them runs Debian. BTW, I'm not so clear what you are trying to compare; Linux vs. Linux or Linux vs. Windows. Oki
Re: I want secrets of net
Adriano Filipe wrote: My name is Adriano , i´m from Portugal and i wanted to now secrets of net , secrets from all types the more simples to the more complicated even does to get into web sites and chang it or go inside my best ^^ Hmm... it's no wonder why many Indonesian sites get cracked by the Portos; even the (said) newbie is intending for cracking some sites :-) friend´s cpu. Don´t get me wrong ,and don´t think that i wanna now this to make bad use , i only wanted to do a perfect use from the net . Another subjet is the searching for channels in IRC , for example where do you stay . Please don´t get me wrong . whitout any subject for now and loobing foorword for an awnser i said good buy. Well, you can start telling your friends to stop doing bad things on Indonesian sites. I think the text I was here would be sufficient (East Timor is now free after all). Oki
Re: Font in GNOME
Sven Gaerner wrote: I'm running potato with GNOME and gmc with some icons on the desktop. The font ^^^ Hi, How did you do it? I have tried to install gmc, but it complains about some libraries. (Yes, I'm running potato). Oki
Re: Setting up routing to share a modem
Stuart Ballard wrote: ... I would like to be able to share the modem when both computers are on, but have the dual-boot box able to dial up by itself also. ... There is a modem-share package in www.debian.org. I have never used it, so I can't tell you how to set it up. Oki
Re: hard drive not found
Rick Dunnivan wrote: I have a Gateway PC with a PIII 450 and a 9GB western digital hard drive. When I boot up with my Debian cd, my hard drive is not found. I see in the install documentation that IDE-SCSI drives are not supported. How do I know if this is what I have? I think by seeing the BIOS messages you have during the booting up the system would be helpful. If the disk is SCSI, usually there'll be a Press ctrlA (well, all right, if this is SCSI and Adaptec). If the disk is IDE, usually you have the size of the disk get spit out on the screen. If you are willing, just open up the case and count the cable that attached into the disk (no, not the power cables which are colored). The cable looks like a tape that consists of many small cables. If the small ones are at least 50 of them, then the disk is SCSI. This is the first time I've attempted to install an operating system of any kind, so be gentle. Am I gentle enough...? Oki
Re: scsi hdisk bootup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know you can specify which partition to boot off via lilo.conf, but i am not too sure how to tell linux to boot off a specific hard disk. OS is redhat 5.0 If the partition is on the other disk (not the one booted by the machine), then Linux will boot from that disk. Question is, why do you need to boot from a specific harddisk? Oki
Re: I didn't mean to offend
Brigette Heffner wrote: Ok, this is me...the one who posted Why... I didn't mean to offend anyone...(everyone). I really want to use Linux and It's making me nuts. We have it a school and I love it. People are complaining that Linux (or Unixes for that matter) is difficult to use (install) in the first time. Well, it is _much_ more difficult than installing DOS. But IMHO, it's okay, because it has a lot to offer (eg: Internet daemons). I have an ARM laptop with an AMD K6-3 450 Mhz processor, 196 MB RAM, 10 GB Hard Disk, 14.1 TFT XGA , ATI video with 4MB memory, Phoenix BIOS, and standart CDRom and Floppy. I don't have laptops that run on Linux, but my desktop has an ATI card on it. My X is running fine; it has Enlightenment (whoa, a click on the mouse, and you have a different look of your desktop; something that even a US$1K+ OS can't do) and Gnome. My only complaint is that the refresh-rate used by the X server is slightly lower than expected, or in other words, you have to sacrifice resolution or colors for refresh rate. On Windows NT, the card can do 1280x1024/8bpp/76Hz. Using X, it is restricted to 1024x768/16bpp/70Hz (ie: the X server can't be set on 1280x1024/even in 8bpp/70Hz). I have Mandrake, Debian 2.1, and Slackware 7 to choose from. I can boot from CD. Mandrake: does good until the end, can't config video. Slackware: Has a keyboard problem and hits a loop after booting the kernal. Debian: Didn't go there yet. IMHO, try Debian and feel the ease of apt-get. Oki
Gnome E [Re: Font in GNOME]
Adam C Powell IV wrote: It may be more helpful to file this report at bugs.gnome.org, since it will go more directly to the author that way; at bugs.debian.org it first has to go through the package maintainer. GNOME uses the Debian bug tracking system, just on a different server. I use Gnome Enlightenment and I'm wondering why Gnome doesn't recognize the virtual desktops; ie: if you have several Gnome terms on separate v. desktops and then you save the session, the next time you logged in, the terminals will be piled up on the first desktop. Is this a bug, or it just means that Gone and E don't work very well? (if you have no virtual desktop, then there'll be no problem.) BTW, have you ever drag your mouse past a screen border and see the window server scrolls the desktop pointed by the mouse? (of course, assuming that you have set up the virtual desktop wider than one). I think this is neat. Have you ever drag a window (or terminal) past a screen border and see the window server scrolls the desktop and put the window in the newly pointed desktop...? I think this is very neat. That's why I like E. I think it would be nice if what Gnome does doesn't overlap with what E (or other window servers) does. A simple example: Gnome has a feature for setting the screen background, E has too. Gnome has a concept of session, E has (something like it) too. Problem is, the features don't always work together, and the duplications make the use of X is not quite user-friendly (ie: slightly confusing). I believe if the developers are willing to talk to each other and deciding the features that are under their controls and that are not, would be great. Oki
Re: bad hdisks blocks
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there anyway to label a particular block on a scsi hdisk as being bad? I am performing a mke2fs -c, which checks for bad blocksin this particular case it has found a bad block and has aborted the mke2fs process with an error message. Hi, I had the same problem, but mkfs didn't just quit, but hung the system. I don't understand why. Long ago, I had the same experience; on Slackware 3.4 I think. The disk had more bad sectors, but the formatting was done correctly. It seems that mkfs couldn't handle the SCSI time out. Since I didn't know how to built a filesystem on this particular bad-sector'ed disk, I just skipped the block, and everything was fine. Of course, about 50MB was lost on my 300MB disk. Oki
Re: FORGET WHAT I SAID
Neil D. Roberts wrote: FORGET WHAT I SAID: I'll start again. . .The configuration I have is the following: /etc/conf.modules: alias ne0 ne alias ne1 ne options ne0 io=0x320 irq=09 options ne1 io=0x200 irq=03 /etc/modules: ne0 ne1 If you have two NICs and use modules, in /etc/modules: ne io=0x300,0x320 Assuming that those are your BIOS adresses. ... I presume that this means that it got the card, but, how do I make it as eth1 ? Do I need to configure ifconfig ? ifconfig is used for setting which IP number goes to which ethercard. If you need a particular card to become eth0 or eth1, you'd need to do it on the card's configuration program (which runs on DOS I presume); just set a BIOS address for each card, and the lower hex (?) number will become eth0 (ie: it doesn't matter if you say: ne io=0x320,0x300, because the 0x300 will be probed first and it'll be eth0. Oki
Voodoo3 and mesag3-glide
Well, after 2 days of fiddleing, compiling and recompiling, I finally got mesag3-glide to compile and installed it. Things work good. Most of the demos that come with mesa work, and q3demoTEST also works, kinda. It's a bit jerky, and I don't know why. Don't know whether it's my computer, or something else. Anyways, for those of you who might be interested, I've attached a text file describing what I did. It goes into a bit of detail, since I aimed it at newbie level, so please don't be offended if it seems to go into excrusating detail. Any comment and suggests are also welcome. Marshal 1. Download, compile, and install device3dfx-source. I have a custom kernel with both alsa and device3dfx modules. kernel-package is so nice. 2. Compile and install the Glide2x Packages. The glide3x package doesn't work with Mesa-3.0. i. Download source RPM from http://linux.3dfx.com/open_source/download/srpm/Glide_V3-2.60-10.src.rpm. ii. Have alien and rpm installed. iii. Install source rpm. rpm -i Glide_V3-2.60-10.src.rpm. This should install the sources under in /usr/src/redhat. iv. edit /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/Glide_V2-2.60.spec. a. Change the line export CC=i386-glibc20-linux-gcc to export CC=gcc b. Change the line export CC=egcs to export CC=egcc Here are my diffs. /usr/src/redhat/SPECS$ diff Glide_V3-2.60.spec Glide_V3-2.60.spec~ 36c36 export CC=gcc --- export CC=i386-glibc20-linux-gcc 42c42 export CC=egcc --- export CC=egcs v. Make sure that you have xlib6g-dev installed. vi. build the rpms. rpm -ba /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/Glide_V2-2.60.spec. vii. assuming that works (I hope I haven't forgotten anything. I didn't write it down when I did it.) you should have Glide_V3-2.60-10.i386.rpm and Glide2x_SDK-2.1-10.i386.rpm sitting in /usr/src/redhate/RPMS/i386. Debianize these with alien. alien Glide_V3-2.60-10.i386.rpm and alien Glide2x_SDK-2.1-10.i386.rpm. viii. Install the debs. dpkg -i glide-v3_2.60-11_i386.deb and dpkg -i glide2x-sdk_2.1-11_i386.deb. 3. Now download and compile the mesag3 package. i. make sure that you have as deb-src line in /etc/apt/sources.list. I have deb-src http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free. ii. get the source as root, otherwise the permissions will not be right. In fact, do all of the following as root. apt-get source mesag3 iii. cd mesa-3.0/debian iv. rename rules.bak to rules and control.bak to control. Take appropriate backup precautions. (Well, you don't have to. You can always just re-download the source. But it's good practice anyways.) mv rules.bak rules v. edit rules. remove the comments from the first three lines after ifeq ($(ARCHITECTURE), i386). Here are the diffs. /usr/src/mesa-3.0/debian# diff rules~ rules 51,53c51,53 # ( cd src make clean make linux-386-glide make clean make linux-386-glide-static ) # ( cd src-glu make clean make linux-386-glide make clean make linux-386-glide-static ) # mv lib/libMesa* lib/glide --- ( cd src make clean make linux-386-glide make clean make linux-386-glide-static ) ( cd src-glu make clean make linux-386-glide make clean make linux-386-glide-static ) mv lib/libMesa* lib/glide vi. make rules executable. chmod +x rules vii. cd .. (Change back into the mesa-3.0 directory) viii. Make mklib.glide5 executable. chmod +x mklib.glide5 ix. Make sure that you have the following package installed. lesstif-dev libc5 libc5-altdev altgcc x. compile the package. In the mesa-3.0 directory dpkg-buildpackage -b and wait. Well, on a P200MMX it's quite a wait. I get the following error at the end of all this waiting. dpkg-deb: control directory has bad permissions 2755 (must be =0755 and =0775) make: *** [binary-arch] Error 2 To fix this I changed the permissions of mesa-3.0/debian/tmp/DEBIAN to 0755. chmod 0755 debian/tmp/DEBIAN (from the mesa-3.0 directory.) To finish off you have to manually run the debian/rules makefile from the mesa-3.0 directory make -f debian/rules binary xi. Now you should have the following debs in the directory above mesa-3.0: mesag3_3.0-1_i386.deb mesag-dev_3.0-1_i386.deb mesag3-glide_3.0-1_i386.deb mesag-glide-dev_3.0-1_i386.deb
Re: An open letter to the debian community
David Blackman wrote: I love Debian, I use Debian, I administer Debian at my school. Why do I use Debian? Because my school uses it. Why does my school use it? Because they didn't like the GUIness of RedHat, and Slackware is just too much of a hassle. Plus, they were drawn to apt-get. Yes, I like apt-get... ... Okay, I've just installed Debian/GNU Linux (Don't forget the GNU!), it only took me 3 hours to get through all those cryptic installation questions. now where's my full featured web browser? Well, either you've got small broken browsers (arena, gozilla), or a broken version of Netscape called Mozilla. Yes, I have downloade Mozilla, and it doesn't run (segfaulted). I downloaded Netscape instead. The newsreader and mailreader not included; well, I think it's still _much_ better than having to write your own browser from scratch. Now, can I edit my MS Office docs? You might be able to look at them, but definitely not edit them! What about this StarOffice thing I keep hearing about? That's a 50 meg download. Have you ever try to download MS Office (for Windows)...? (if it is downloadable at all.) ... No, we don't include the sound modules, you'll need to recompile the kernel by hand. Compiling kernel is not that difficult; make menuconfig and then make zImage. ... And my TNT2/VOODOO3/G400 will work under this X thing right? 30 megs. The X server for my ATI is about 800K. I'm wondering how many megabytes do you need for installing, say, Windows 95 (if it is downloadable at all). Get the picture? Here's approximatley 150 megs of downloads so far (kernel sources + KDE + QT + SO51 + WP8 + X335). Add on top of this the lack of a packaged, up-to-date system, (Even Slackware is up to kernel 2.2.12, X335, with KDE and GNOME, compared to Debian, this is light years ahead) with a recent version of X, or a recent kernel, and you begin to wonder why people are still using Debian. What's so difficult for apt-get'ing all those packages? All you need is to know what package to download first (eg: if you don't have your X running yet, it's not quite useful to install Gnome). It's simple -- because we're a bunch of techno-snobs. Debian's hard to use, and we like it that way. We'll leave it to Corel to make Debian easy. We don't WANT everyday users. We like Debian the way it is. We like feeling superior, adhering to a higher standard of Free, and the warm and fuzzy feeling we get from whizzing around a cryptic console in front of a newbie. Debian is easy to use, IMO. Well, the other Linux I have installed is Slackware 3.5. I don't know what progress they have in Slackware, but apt-get is much better than the tarballs (especially when the time comes for you to _remove_ some program). Lately I've been thinking about forking Debian, into DWA, meaning Debian Without Attitude. We'll drop the attitude, and the pretenses, about what Free means, and get licensing deals with Corel, Netscape, and Sun, to include Wordperfect, Communicator, and Staroffice. We'll make the install process less cryptic, include non-free on the CD and forget the Debian philosophy, that the only way to learn is by doing it the hard way. I think having a free (moneywise) OS and some applications to buy is a nice deal. Compared to, say, forking US$1K+ first and then wondering why you have to buy everything later (simple converters, viewers excluded). I'm going to get flamed for this. I know it. We don't want to think we're techno-snobs. We want to think our distribution is superior. We want to leave out KDE. We don't want Joe Blow to start with Debian, if he's not man enough to face up to Debian, he can go buy, (Ha! Buy!, we Debian snobs say) Red Hat. I haven't visited www.linuxchix.com lately; I'm just wondering whether any of them runs Debian. BTW, I'm not so clear what you are trying to compare; Linux vs. Linux or Linux vs. Windows. Oki
Re: apt-get
fixed:~# dpkg -P lm-sensors dpkg: error processing lm-sensors (--purge): Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. Errors were encountered while processing: lm-sensors and when i try to reinstall it i get the depmod: QM_MODULES: function not implemented. I had a quick look at the postinst script for lm-sensors, and all it does is depmod -a /dev/null What do you see if you run depmod -a as root? depmod: QM_MODULES: Function not implemented What do you get if you grep -4 QM_MODULES /etc/conf.modules? nothing What's in /etc/modutils/lm-sensors? file doesn't exist does anyone know what QM_MODULES is and how i can get it on my system... or maybe a work around on this...
Re: I want secrets of net
Adriano Filipe wrote: My name is Adriano , i´m from Portugal and i wanted to now secrets of net , secrets from all types the more simples to the more complicated even does to get into web sites and chang it or go inside my best ^^ Hmm... it's no wonder why many Indonesian sites get cracked by the Portuguese; even a (said) newbie is intending for cracking some sites :-) friend´s cpu. Don´t get me wrong ,and don´t think that i wanna now this to make bad use , i only wanted to do a perfect use from the net . Another subjet is tX-Mozilla-Status: 0009els in IRC , for example where do you stay . Please don´t get me wrong . whitout any subject for now and loobing foorword for an awnser i said good buy. Well, you can start telling your friends to stop doing bad things on Indonesian sites. I think the text I was here would be sufficient; East Timor is now free after all (long ago, it wasn't that free). Oki
Re: Font in GNOME
Sven Gaerner wrote: I'm running potato with GNOME and gmc with some icons on the desktop. The font ^^^ Hi, How did you do it? I have tried to install gmc, but it complains about some libraries. (Yes, I'm running potato). Oki
Re: Setting up routing to share a modem
Stuart Ballard wrote: ... I would like to be able to share the modem when both computers are on, but have the dual-boot box able to dial up by itself also. ... There is a modem-share package in www.debian.org. I have never used it, so I can't tell you how to set it up. Oki
Re: hard drive not found
Rick Dunnivan wrote: I have a Gateway PC with a PIII 450 and a 9GB western digital hard drive. When I boot up with my Debian cd, my hard drive is not found. I see in the install documentation that IDE-SCSI drives are not supported. How do I know if this is what I have? I think by seeing the BIOS messages you have during the booting up the system woX-Mozilla-Status: 0009 disk is SCSI, usually there'll be a Press ctrlA (well, all right, if this is SCSI and Adaptec). If the disk is IDE, usually you have the size of the disk get spit out on the screen. If you are willing, just open up the case and count the cable that attached into the disk (no, not the power cables which are colored). The cable looks like a tape that consists of many small cables. If the small ones are at least 50 of them, then the disk is SCSI. This is the first time I've attempted to install an operating system of any kind, so be gentle. Am I gentle enough...? Oki
Re: scsi hdisk bootup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know you can specify which partition to boot off via lilo.conf, but i am not too sure how to tell linux to boot off a specific hard disk. OS is redhat 5.0 If the partition is on the other disk (not the one booted by the machine), then Linux will boot from that disk. Question is, why do you need to boot from a specific harddisk? Oki
Re: I didn't mean to offend
Brigette Heffner wrote: Ok, this is me...the one who posted Why... I didn't mean to offend anyone...(everyone). I really want to use Linux and It's making me nuts. We have it a school and I love it. People are complaining that Linux (or Unixes for that matter) is difficult to use (install) in the first time. Well, it is _much_ more difficult than installing DOS. But IMHO, it's okay, because it has a lot to offer (eg: Internet daemons). I have an ARM laptop with an AMD K6-3 450 Mhz processor, 196 MB RAM, 10 GB Hard Disk, 14.1 TFT XGA , ATI video with 4MB memory, Phoenix BIOS, and standart CDRom and Floppy. I don't have laptops that run on Linux, but my desktop has an ATI card on it. My X is running fine; it has Enlightenment (whoa, a click on the mouse, and you have a different look of your desktop; something that even a US$1K+ OS can't do) and Gnome. My only complaint is that the refresh-rate used by the X server is slightly lower than expected, or in other words, you have to sacrifice resolution or colors for refresh rate. On Windows NT, the card can do 1280x1024/8bpp/76Hz. Using X, it is restricted to 1024x768/16bpp/70Hz (ie: the X server can't be set on 1280x1024/even in 8bpp/70Hz). I have Mandrake, Debian 2.1, and Slackware 7 to choose from. I can boot from CD. Mandrake: does good until the end, can't config video. Slackware: Has a keyboard problem and hits a loop after booting the kernal. Debian: Didn't go there yet. IMHO, try Debian and feel the ease of apt-get. Oki
Re: Setting Path ENV variable
Andy Thomas wrote: Hi, Running Linux from O'Reilly says that the search path can be set in .bashrc file, but the only .bashrc I'm finding is for a user I created, not root. Is there a bash configuration file for root? To get to that file you have to be signed in as root or su to root and cd to the /root directory. I'm trying to add some directories to the search path. I found a file named /etc/profile with a PATH statement in it, but attempts to add to that don't work. The comment at the top says it's the system-wide profile for bash(1) I'm by no means an expert on this but I've found that /etc/profile effects my console sessions and not my 'X' sessions. hth, kent
Re: bad hdisks blocks
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there anyway to label a particular block on a scsi hdisk as being bad? I am performing a mke2fs -c, which checks for bad blocksin this particular case it has found a bad block and has aborted the mke2fs process with an error message. Hi, I had the same problem, but mkfs didn't just quit, but hung the system. I don't understand why. Long ago, I had the same experience; on Slackware 3.4 I think. The disk had more bad sectors, but the formatting was done correctly. It seems that mkfs couldn't handle the SCSI time out. Since I didn't know how to built a filesystem on this particular bad-sector'ed disk, I just skipped the block, and everything was fine. Of course, about 50MB was lost on my 300MB disk. Oki
Re: FORGET WHAT I SAID
Neil D. Roberts wrote: FORGET WHAT I SAID: I'll start again. . .The configuration I have is the following: /etc/conf.modules: alias ne0 ne alias ne1 ne options ne0 io=0x320 irq=09 options ne1 io=0x200 irq=03 /etc/modules: ne0 ne1 If you have two NICs and use modules, in /etc/modules: ne io=0x300,0x320 Assuming that those are your BIOS adresses. ... I presume that this means that it got the card, but, how do I make it as eth1 ? Do I need to configure ifconfig ? ifconfig is used for setting which IP number goes to which ethercard. If you need a particular card to become eth0 or eth1, you'd need to do it on the card's configuration program (which runs on DOS I presume); just set a BIOS address for each card, and the lower hex (?) number will become eth0 (ie: it doesn't matter if you say: ne io=0x320,0x300, because the 0x300 will be probed first and it'll be eth0. Oki
Re: A bug in unstable /var/lib/dpkg/info/kbd.postinst?
Shaul Karl wrote: [05:26:34 /tmp]# apt-get dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Setting up kbd (0.99-6) ... dpkg: error processing kbd (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10 Errors were encountered while processing: kbd [05:28:18 /tmp]# /var/lib/dpkg/info/kbd.postinst It's be useful if you ran that command agian and then ran echo $?. If that returns something other than 0, then you can reproduce the problem, and then running sh -ex /var/lib/dpkg/info/kbd.postinst and mailing the output in to a bug report would be useful. -- see shy jo
Gnome E [Re: Font in GNOME]
Adam C Powell IV wrote: It may be more helpful to file this report at bugs.gnome.org, since it will go more directly to the author that way; at bugs.debian.org it first has to go through the package maintainer. GNOME uses the Debian bug tracking system, just on a different server. I use Gnome Enlightenment and I'm wondering why Gnome doesn't recognize the virtual desktop and virtual screen; ie: if you have several Gnome terms on separate v. screens and then you save the session, the next time you logged in, the terminals will be piled up on the first screen. Is this a bug, or it just means that Gnome and E don't work very well? (if you have no virtual desktop, then there'll be no problem.) BTW, have you ever drag your mouse past a screen border and see the window server scrolls the screen pointed by the mouse? (of course, assuming that you have set up the virtual screens) I think this is neat. Have you ever drag a window (or terminal) past a screen border and see the window server scrolls the screen and put the window in the newly pointed screen...? I think this is very neat. That's why I like E. I think it would be nice if what Gnome does doesn't overlap with what E (or other window servers) does. A simple example: Gnome has a feature for setting the screen background, E has too. Gnome has a concept of session, E has (something not-so close to it) too. Problem is, the features don't always work together, and the duplications make the use of X is not quite user-friendly (ie: slightly confusing). I believe if the developers are willing to talk to each other and deciding the features that are under their controls and that are not, would be great. Oki ps: I believe I posted this twice with some editing.
Re: bad hdisks blocks
I managed to deal with the problem in the same way... ie. i just skipped a few blocks and voila! :) It's also interesting how when i created 3 partitions on the same device...the start block on partition 3 overwrote the end block of partition 2. I had to leave a gap in between which resulted in a few more unused blocks. thanx for the help oki etc. debian-user@lists.debian.org on 08/12/99 15:36:11 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org cc:(bcc: Zane Drysdale/Diagnostic labs/64) Subject: Re: bad hdisks blocks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there anyway to label a particular block on a scsi hdisk as being bad? I am performing a mke2fs -c, which checks for bad blocksin this particular case it has found a bad block and has aborted the mke2fs process with an error message. Hi, I had the same problem, but mkfs didn't just quit, but hung the system. I don't understand why. Long ago, I had the same experience; on Slackware 3.4 I think. The disk had more bad sectors, but the formatting was done correctly. It seems that mkfs couldn't handle the SCSI time out. Since I didn't know how to built a filesystem on this particular bad-sector'ed disk, I just skipped the block, and everything was fine. Of course, about 50MB was lost on my 300MB disk. Oki -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: hard drive not found
Actually I figured this one out. The problem was my Ultra66 ATA controller. I unplugged my IDE cable from it and plugged it into the IDE on my motherboard instead. Thanks for the help. = rick __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com
Re: Setting Path ENV variable
On 7/12/99 ktb wrote: I'm by no means an expert on this but I've found that /etc/profile effects my console sessions and not my 'X' sessions. this is because xdm is broken and does not load any environment, even your .profile or .bash_profile. you have to force it by adding: set -a ## this might be wrong something like this is needed to get /etc/environment to stick source /etc/profile source /etc/environment source ~/.bash_profile to your .xsession either that or fix the global Xsession scripts to load the environment properly. redhat uses #! /bin/bash -login (bash 1 need --login for bash 2) but that does not work with bash 2 i saw a bug against bash 2 for that but have not checked to see if its fixed or not. the --login should make it load the environment like it would if you logged in on the console. your MAIL variable is never set with xdm either, bad bad bad. Ethan
Re: locking the console
On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 05:32:05PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: On 7/12/99 Rob Mahurin wrote: Is there a program that will lock my text consoles for me if I'm idle for a while? Something like: while !KeyboardInterrupt /* nobody's typing */ sleep 5m /* OK, they're really gone forever */ clear vlock --all Or something. xlock with the timer but without the X. this would be nice, but it would have to run in the background like xscreensaver xlockmore do, is what I had in mind. unattached to the tty, I don't think vlock will work properly if its started that way.. just as a quick test i tried: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ vlock Good point. Instead you can use 'openvt -sw -- vlock' (which is not really useful without the -a). (the openvt man page says that this should switch the console back when vlock is done, but it doesn't, bug 47132.) After some playing I have something that works from tty1 (would be better without the -s -w bug): 23:15 ~ $ cat t #!/bin/bash openvt -w -s -- vlock chvt 1 deallocvt 23:15 ~ $ chmod +x t 23:15 ~ $ chvt 2 ; sleep 1 ; ./t So I could scan /dev/tty[1-9]* to make sure nobody has typed anything recently, then run this from the background. Or something. If nobody else has written it I'll do it over Christmas. Rob -- Today is what happened to yesterday.
Gateway name servers IP addresses
I use Gateway.net for an ISP and have been unsuccessful in retrieving their IP addresses for their name servers. Does anyone else use gateway.net? And if so, do you know the IP addresses? = rick __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com
Re: Gateway name servers IP addresses
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... I use Gateway.net for an ISP and have been unsuccessful in retrieving their IP addresses for their name servers. Does anyone else use gateway.net? And if so, do you know the IP addresses? Alas, I do not, but how about this for a solution: * install bind * change /etc/resolv.conf to make your name server 127.0.0.1 This makes your computer a cacheing name server. All it does is look up IP#s, and remember them (hence the 'cacheing' in it's description). Very easy to manage. -- -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the universe. And I'm not sure about the universe. - Albert Einstein
Re: Gateway name servers IP addresses
Here they are. Art - From whois gateway.net|mailx -s ns [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Registrant: Gateway 2000, Inc. (GATEWAY16-DOM) [address and other impertinent info ommitted] Domain Name: GATEWAY.NET Record last updated on 04-Nov-1999. Record created on 23-Sep-1997. Database last updated on 7-Dec-1999 16:53:53 EST. Domain servers in listed order: DNS-03.NS.AOL.COM198.81.17.238 DNS-04.NS.AOL.COM205.188.157.238 - -
Re: locking the console
On 7/12/99 Rob Mahurin wrote: vlock' (which is not really useful without the -a). which is annoying since -a is not very multiuser friendly, granted this is often not to big a problem since usually there is only one person at a time using the console. (or preferably only trusted users...) it would be nice if there was a way to lock only the ttys owned by that piticular user, i think that might not be easy to implement however... it would also be nice if i could lock the console while an intereactive program is running and still switch back to X and have a pretty screensaver g (yes i know about lockvc, it just segfaults when you enter any old password on my system :( ) Ethan
Re: Debian on a 386? Unlikely. (OT)
from Marathon Man : ..is it safe?... Oleg Krivosheev wrote: ha !!! i will !!! i even compiled kernel on that monster... OK ps lousy translation from Russian: Do you feel the pain? No, doctor, i enjoy it...
A router with NAT behind a router with NAT
Hi, Quite long time ago, I post a message about a LAN that couldn't connect to the Internet via two routers. The picture was almost like the following: [Internet] | | [NAT router](1 | | LAN 1 ---+-+ | [router] (2 | |LAN 2 --+--- I have solved the problem. The solution is quite easy, just install the NAT on the second router. I use Linux from www.linuxrouter.org for router 2 and have set up the NAT; now users in LAN 2 can have Internet access. BTW, if I replace the LRP's kernel (it is 2.0.x) with Debian's (which is 2.2.13) would all the 2.0.x libraries work fine...? Oki
Re: slink-only system, kernel version ceiling?
On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 02:35:08PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote At some point in the not-too-distant future I'm going to brave the wild and wooly world of kernel recompilation. (mostly for sound card and at some point a zip drive) If my system is still slink-only is there some kernel version beyond which I should not try to go? (in other words, is slink compatible with all the recent stable kernel versions out there?) Alice M. Pinard Casco Indemnity Company [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null If you intend to use kernel version 2.2, you can find a summary page at http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/running-kernel-2.2 which sets out what you need to upgrade. For 2.3 kernels it depends on the specific version you have in mind, and you're on your own. John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything. - Bill Gates in Denmark
Re: Why
Brigette Heffner wrote: Why is it so hard to get anywhere with Linux? Hard...? Well, it depends. In the beginning, it usually is. BTW, my window manager now defaulted to Ice, and users other than root will have gdm and no more. I believe that I'm quite familiar with Linux, but problems (which I don't know how to solve yet) arise oftentimes. But those problems usually are due to misconfigured systems (as opposed to operating system crashes) or because I touch things here and there. In plain English...how do I get help with the install? Is there a book (written in HUMAN English) that I can buy? I have read all kinds of how to's and I am missing something because I have tried to install THREE versions of Linux and can't get any to work (on my new $2300 paperweight of a laptop). Just tell me what to do...or should I buy windows 98 and forget it? The laptop has no operating system...now. Well, it's up to you. But using Linux, you'd have things to talk about :-) Oki
Re: Why
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Windows 98 is not an operating system. So, what is it? System (that) operating? Oki
Re: Why
Mark Wagnon wrote: She might seek out a LUG in her area. Where I live, we have a great LUG. There are frequent install-fests where new users are helped through the installation process. What about www.linuxchix.com? Oki
Re: source build cluelessness (prc-tools pppd)
On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 07:47:07PM +1030, John Pearson wrote: On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 10:40:37PM -0500, Jonathan Lupa wrote Which kind of leaves me in a bind because it seems to me that I might need that -no-68881 flag. :) Just a wild guess, but I think this is trying to build a binary or object for the m68k-based Palm. So, you may need to install some m68k cross-development tools; try binutils-m68k-linux and gcc-m68k-linux. These are very good leads which I will look into. I would think that the rules file would excplicitely ask for them if needed, but we'll see. I looked through the debian subdirectories but didn't find any doc on build dependencies. There isn't, and this can be a problem; it's a good idea to capture the output of debian/rules to a file, so you can check for missing libraries and so on Wow. This is darned good advice and it helps. apt-get -s install blahblahblah It works. :) In this case, it looksa like you're missing a development library; # zgrep security/pam_appl.h /ftp/linux/debian/dists/slink/Contents-i386.gz usr/include/security/pam_appl.h devel/libpam0g-dev This is handy, but I don't seem to have th Contents-i386.gz file anywhere (which is, I presume, why you have it tucked under an ftp directory). I guess I can keep one of those lying around somewhere. :) It's a minor but irritating deficiency in the source packaging system. I understand that one of the goals of 'dpkg v2' is to add proper source dependencies. I for one look forward to it! Thanks for all your help! -Jonathan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG public key available from http://www.jamdata.net/~jjlupa/gpg.asc pgpBrTz5LfFC9.pgp Description: PGP signature
Mozilla
Hi, How do you run Mozilla? Typing mozilla gives me segmentation fault. I downloaded the application from www.debian.org. Does anyone have it running? Does it have a mailer with it? I have Netscape 4.7 running, but it has no mailer. Actually, what I need is an X mailer that can do threading; basically anything will do. Pointers please... Oki
More details: PDF wont work with Potato and Acrobat... Anyone?
One of the main problems I have with acroread is that fonts are not displaying correctly. That's the best I can make of it---two words are overlaid on each other; a whole line may only be an inch or two wide, but in letters 14 or 18 points high. I am now trying xpdf and gv also. Thanks for the several replies; the problems persist. Alan Davis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one non-existent.---Lord Raleigh (John William Strutt), or else his son)nn.
CD burning problems
Hi all, I'm trying to burn data CD under linux using mkhybrid (ver 1.12a4.7-3) and cdrecord (ver 1:1.6final-0.2) on Traxdata CDR4120. I have to read this CD under Win so I used the following: mkhybrid -J -v -o image path of prototype cdrecord speed=4 dev=00,03,00 -v -pad image This commands' output seems to be all right. And the disk was readable. The problem apper later (when I've burned several CDs). Each CD contain one or several small files that were unreadable! This file(s) was unreadable under Win and under Linux. More overe when I try to issue dd if=/dev/cdrom of=some file it report read error near (or at) the end of disk. My last image created with mkhybrid was still on disk and when I try to mount it through loop dev ALL files were readable. My machine is also biitable under Win98 and when I burn CD with CeQuadrat for Win9x I have no problems with CDs. can anyone tell me what I'm missing? I hope that it's possible to burn perfect CD without rebooting to Win. Alex
Re: Mozilla
On 12/08/99 02:07PM, Oki DZ wrote: Hi, How do you run Mozilla? Typing mozilla gives me segmentation fault. I downloaded the application from www.debian.org. Does anyone have it running? Does it have a mailer with it? I have Netscape 4.7 running, but it has no mailer. Actually, what I need is an X mailer that can do threading; basically anything will do. Pointers please... Lat time I checked (a few months ago) Mozilla is really buggy. I don't think they have the mail porgram running. I don't remember seeing it. I basically installed it, ran it, and decided to wait awhile on that one. If you install the communicator packages, you get the mail program in addition to navigator and some other stuff (an html editor). Netscape mail does threading. I generally use mutt (text-based) so I don't know what else is available. Anyway, look up the communicator packages on the debian site. -- ) Mark Wagnon ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ( Chula Vista, CA ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] (
Can't mount /home/kent and /usr
I've recently installed Slink and Redhat on the same HD. I've been mounting back and forth between the two and have noticed that I can't access /home/kent. I 'cd' to /home but when I 'ls' it, it shows an empty directory. /usr is also shown to be empty. This is clearly not the case. I've been mounting Redhat with the following line in /etc/fstab, /dev/hdb1 /mnt/rh ext2 noauto,rw,nouser 0 0 I've also tried, mount -a -t ext2 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/rh after looking at the 'mount' man page and that didn't change anything. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Thanks, kent
Re: apt-get
On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 09:38:41PM -0600, Nathan York wrote fixed:~# dpkg -P lm-sensors dpkg: error processing lm-sensors (--purge): Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. Errors were encountered while processing: lm-sensors and when i try to reinstall it i get the depmod: QM_MODULES: function not implemented. I had a quick look at the postinst script for lm-sensors, and all it does is depmod -a /dev/null What do you see if you run depmod -a as root? depmod: QM_MODULES: Function not implemented What do you get if you grep -4 QM_MODULES /etc/conf.modules? nothing What's in /etc/modutils/lm-sensors? file doesn't exist does anyone know what QM_MODULES is and how i can get it on my system... I think it's more likely to be a matter of getting something *off* your system; you may have a corrupted or bad module on your system, that's making depmod choke. Try issuing the command # depmod -av as root; this will list your modules as depmod process them. If there is a problem with one of them I'd be suspicious of either the last name it shows you, or perhaps one of the next few that you don't get to see... on my system, depmod seems to print out the names in reverse directoy order (i.e., exactly the opposite of ls -1U). If you can narrow down the directory in which the problem occurs, check first that it's under /lib/modules (or somewhere else that you have decided modules belong); if it isn't, then some package or some one has put an entry under /etc/modutils to tell depmod to look there, and if it doesn't contain modules then that will be a problem. Alternatively, try issuing the command # depmod -v file on files in that directory until you find the one that causes the problem. If you can't find the file this way, look in /etc/conf.modules for lines that start path[ for a list of the directories that depmod will check; if depmod has a problem with the first file in a directory then the last name you see may be from a different directory. Once you've identified the file that seems to be causing the problem, issue a $ dpkg -S file to find out which package to blame, so you can fix it properly later. Check the documentation for this package, in case it tells you how to 'properly' fix the problem. Meantime, move the file aside to some other place where depmod won't find it and try # update-modules (if the problem was somewhere in /etc/modutils/) and then # depmod -a again. If that works and you don't need whatever package owns the offending file, run # dpkg --purge badbadpackage and try apt-get install lm-sensors again. If you need the package, you may want to try re-installing it - it's possible that the file in question was OK, but became corrupted somehow (or, that a fixed version is up now). John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything. - Bill Gates in Denmark
Re: urgent
On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 08:26:58PM -0500, Evan Moore wrote this upgrade has become a disaster. dselect is trying to remove kernel-image-2.0.0 and kernel-image-2.0.6 the ouput is as follows removing kernel-image2.0.0... dpkg (subprocess):unable to execute pre-removal script: No such file or Directory dpkg: error processing kernel-image-2.0.0 (--removal) subprocess preremoval script returned error exit status 2 dpkg (subprocess):unable to execute post-removeal script: No such file or Directory dpkg: error while cleaning up subprocess postremoval script returned error exit status 2 What's on the first line of /var/lib/dpkg/info/kernel-image-2.0.0.prerm? It may be trying to run an interpreter that has been moved since kernel-image-2.0.0 was installed, or is no longer installed. If the former, you should be able to edit the path on the first line of the script to reflect its new location. John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything. - Bill Gates in Denmark
Re: emacs20 apt-get upgrde problem
I managed to solve this problem by the following link: (parts of a mail sent Dec 3 to this list. I don't know if this problem formally has been reported as a bug.) Upgrading from slink emacs or xemacs resulted in an unfinished configure phase. This was solved by: ln -s /usr/share/dpkg/site-lisp/debian-changelog-mode.el /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/dpkg-dev/ This .el file is from the dpkg-dev package. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why
On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 01:14:22PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Windows 98 is not an operating system. So, what is it? System (that) operating? Its a part-time OS. Sometimes it works half-heartedly doing a fraction of what is needed and sometimes it goes away for no apparent reason. Oki
Re:
Jason Winters wrote: does anyone know why packages would install right, then when I try to run them nothing happens? Could you be any more vague ? Paul
Re: hosts.allow and hosts.deny
[snip] this would not affect IMAP in any way. If you get connection refused that means there is no service listening on that port. check your inetd.conf if you get a connection and then it closes, then inetd is listening but there still may not be a service there, or tcp_wrappers is not allowing you in, but since you are allowing everything in, looks like the problem is in inetd.conf. It reads imap2 stream tcp nowaitroot/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/imapd POP works but imap does not. In /etc/services it says imap is on port 143. Does anyone know how I can make imap work again? Patrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 3:12pm up 110 days, 2:55, 2 users, load average: 1.56, 1.59, 1.65
dpkg doesn't work offline?
Hi, is it possible to install a package using dpkg without sitting at the console, i.e. offline? The system is stable. The problem is with a PC somewhere in the desert connected via ISDN/PPP: A friend wants to update the ISDN package. Of course, if he tries to dpkg -i isdnutils_xyz.deb, the connection to the PC would drop. He tried to use dpkg with `at' and `cron', that is firing the `at' job, logging out and logging in after the `at' job. A similar at script is: #!/bin/bash PATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:~/bin export PATH /usr/bin/dpkg -i /usr/local/archive/bsdgames_2.5-4.deb sleep 60 Unfortunately, it didn't work. There was always an error message mail: Subject: Output from your job2 dpkg-deb: wait for gzip -dc failed: No child processes dpkg: error processing /usr/local/archive/bsdgames_2.5-4.deb (--install): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: /usr/local/archive/bsdgames_2.5-4.deb What did he do wrong? Are there any chances to dpkg a new isdnutils package from remote? Note: He can't definetily not go and do anything at the console, the machine is a few hundred kilometres away... Thanks in advance, -- W. Borgert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Error messages using Iomega ZIP
| I've found that md5sum does a pretty exhaustive scan through a file | and it'll find CD write errors. I don't know if it actually searches | every byte / block though. It *does* search every byte of every file. One may safely assume that if two files md5sums the same, they're equal. x/
RE: Why
Its a part-time OS. Sometimes it works half-heartedly doing a fraction of what is needed and sometimes it goes away for no apparent reason. No thats funny :) -- Paul McHale Work: 937-253-7610 Double E Solutions Mobile: 937-371-2828 4912 Effingham Fax:413-215-3232 Dayton, Ohio 45431 --
Re: locking the console
On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 08:22:35PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: On 7/12/99 Rob Mahurin wrote: vlock' (which is not really useful without the -a). which is annoying since -a is not very multiuser friendly, granted this is often not to big a problem since usually there is only one person at a time using the console. (or preferably only trusted users...) Sorry, what I meant was that 'openvt -sw -- vlock' was not very useful without vlock -a, since that lets you switch back to your unlocked console. it would be nice if there was a way to lock only the ttys owned by that piticular user, i think that might not be easy to implement however... that could be done reading the owners of the tty devices, like reading the modified times could tell you which ones are idle. it would also be nice if i could lock the console while an intereactive program is running and still switch back to X and have a pretty screensaver g (yes i know about lockvc, it just segfaults when you enter any old password on my system :( ) Ahh, that's the program that I was looking for. Too bad about that whole segfault thing. The bug report is only a week old, though ... Rob -- The more things change, the more they stay insane.
Re: hard drive not found
On 08-Dec-1999, Oki DZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick Dunnivan wrote: I have a Gateway PC with a PIII 450 and a 9GB western digital hard drive. When I boot up with my Debian cd, my hard drive is not found. I see in the install documentation that IDE-SCSI drives are not supported. How do I know if this is what I have? Also for a gateway system you want to press the button that allows you to see the boot up messages, not the gateway splash screen.
Re: An open letter to the debian community
[lots of stuff snipped] I haven't visited www.linuxchix.com lately; I'm just wondering whether any of them runs Debian. As far as I know, there are plenty of Linuxchix members around that use Debian, myself included. I first started using Linux in 1995, mucked around with a couple of distributions and stuck with Debian. dselect took a little getting used to, but as soon as everything was up and running, it stayed that way. Nothing was installed that I didn't want, so there was none of the Oh God, what do I have to remove now? that I got with other distributions (caveat: I never tried Slackware, so my experience is limited to DLD [German distribution, my first], Caldera and SuSE. I'm not knocking other distributions, if people want to use SuSE, great). I _liked_ Debian, it seemed to like me (it never crashed or did abnormal things), simple as that. What I really want to know is: what does being female have to do with running Debian? Or is it something only men do? Oh, and there are men subscribed to Linuxchix too, so what point did you want to make? Jillian, a tad puzzled.
Re: streaming audio? (Re: wav - conversion utility)
aphro hat gesagt: // aphro wrote: On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, byoung wrote: b- i tried to get the LAME, but wasn't able to. i'll try that again. its a good player, and check into not-lame its a breakoff(?) of lame, and has a different homepage, although the lame page links to it. The fastest LAME-spinoff I know is a href=http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~shigeo/soft/gogo2/; GOGO /a, that is optimized by using 3DNow, MMX and ISSE assembler. About 4 times faster than LAME at the same quality. There is another option, ICECAST (http://icecast.linuxpower.com/) It is a open source project that aims to do the same as shoutcast i believe. Havent tried it myself yet. Icecast rules! There even is a debian package in potato, but you can easily compile this for slink from the debianized source. bye -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: Finding left-over libraries
*- On 7 Dec, peter karlsson wrote about Finding left-over libraries Is there any way in Debian to find out what packages no other packages depend on? When I install a couple of packages, all the libraries they depend on are installed as well, which is quite nice, but the reverse doesn't hold - when I remove packages, unnecessary libraries are not removed. Because of this, I would like to get a list of packages that no packages depend on (restricted, for instance, to packages starting with lib). Unforunately there is no way to do this cleanly now. There has been/is active discussion on this very subject on the the -devel list. One of the issues to be concerned with is on a machine used for development where nothing directly depends on a lib*-dev package except at build time when you need to link to the headers. There is a Debian package called cruft that can do some system searching and can give you a very rough idea of file usage. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: xconsole placement
To reply to my own message, what I figured out is I needed to move -file /dev/console to the beginning of the command like so, + I exec xconsole -file /dev/console now it's working fine. kent ktb wrote: I have a line in my ~/.fvwm2/init.hook file, + I exec xconsole -geometry 480x130+297+434 -bg gainsboro -exitOnFail -dae -notify -file /dev/console These are the permissions, ~$ l /dev/xconsole prw-rw-rw- 1 root adm 1951 Dec 7 00:10 /dev/xconsole| At any rate with this setup, xconsole appears on my screen for a second and then winks out. I've looked through the various xdm files and found a place (/etc/X11/xdm/Xresources) it looked like geometry could be controlled but when I changed the geometry nothing happened at all even when I commented out the line, XConsole.text.geometry: 480x130. The geometry I assigned xconsole and want, is 480x130+297+434. With this geometry it would stay on my screen. Otherwise the way it is it goes out of view when I deiconify it. Anyone know how to fix this? Thanks, kent -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Mozilla warnings
I just downloaded M11 last night. mike Marshal Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 12/07/99 04:13:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org (bcc: Mike Heyes/LincolnFP/BerisfordPlc) Subject: Re: Mozilla warnings I think it's expected. The Mozilla you're using is M9, which is really outdated and barely usable, in my opinion. Don't know why there aren't any new debs. Probably because the maintainer's to busy. Oh well.
ISP says bad passwd
I just bought a Jaton 56K internal modem. wvdialconf set everything up for me. When I use wvdial to attempt a connection, It says looks like a login prompt... sending login... looks like a password prompt... sending PASSWORD **BAD PASSWD** several times then gives up. I have ensured the passwd listed in /etc/wvdial.conf is the correct one. Any help? = rick __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com
help i bombed my server
i found out why telnet is not working after i upgraded from debian 1.3 ... I can't login at all anymore even on a vc. the ttys are not respawning and the available logins tell me that they are Unable to determine my tty name. i am emailing the list from some other account that i have so please reply to this message.(ps my boss is going to kill me) thanks very much Evan Moore Cooperative Work Education Student U of Regina Labour Operations Applications Development Human Resources Development Canada
Re: streaming audio? (Re: wav - conversion utility)
On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Frank Barknecht wrote: aphro hat gesagt: // aphro wrote: On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, byoung wrote: b- i tried to get the LAME, but wasn't able to. i'll try that again. its a good player, and check into not-lame its a breakoff(?) of lame, and has a different homepage, although the lame page links to it. The fastest LAME-spinoff I know is a href=http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~shigeo/soft/gogo2/; GOGO /a, that is optimized by using 3DNow, MMX and ISSE assembler. About 4 times faster than LAME at the same quality. I get a seg fault on slink with this gogo: http://ya.sakura.ne.jp/~rook/debian/ ...RickM...
Re: dpkg doesn't work offline?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is it possible to install a package using dpkg without sitting at the console, i.e. offline? The system is stable. The problem is with a PC somewhere in the desert connected via ISDN/PPP: A friend wants to update the ISDN package. Of course, if he tries to dpkg -i isdnutils_xyz.deb, the connection to the PC would drop. He tried to use dpkg with `at' and `cron', that is firing the `at' job, logging out and logging in after the `at' job. A similar at script is: [snip] My guess is that the problem is due to some subtle difference between the environment set up in the at job and the normal environment, though I'm prepared to admit I might be wrong. If that's the case, then using 'dpkg -i isdnutils_xyz.deb ' (send to background) ought to do the trick. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Trinity College, Cambridge, and Computer Science [riva.ucam.org]
Re: Joysticks
Tom Allard hat gesagt: // Tom Allard wrote: What version of xmame are you using? Here xmame 0.36b6.1-1 runs without problem, but the xmamerc has another syntax than earlier releases. Upgrading to xmame-x 0.36b6.1-1 has solved my josytick problems. Thanks to all. rgds-- TA ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) I don't speak for the Federal Reserve Board, it doesn't speak for me.
