Re: samba problems

[Phil Brutsche]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> Hi,
> 
>  hoping that someone really nice can lend a helping hand...with
> configuring samba...

Samba's not that hard.

>   1.  I always do an ifconfig eth0 <192.168.0.1> netmask <
> 255.255.255.0> everytime I boot to configure my network interface.  I
> want to configure the interface permanently so I do not have to
> manually specify it everytime.

One of two ways:
 * /etc/init.d/network
 * /etc/network/interfaces

> 2. do I need to do a 'route add -net <192.168.0> dev eth0' aside
> from specifying the ip add and netmask?

Depends; what kernel revision are you using?

> how about the broadcast address? do i need to configure that too?

Yep.  Same place as the ip number.

>   3.when trying to test the connection with $smbclient
> debian\\user1, it prompts me for the password, then gives the
> error..
> Password: 
> session setup failed: ERRSRV - ERRbadpw (Bad password - name/password pair in 
> a Tree Connect or Session Setup are invalid.)

You entered the wrong password, obviously.  What are the contents the
[global] section in smb.conf?  According to the log below, you're missing
the smbpasswd file (the list of encrypted NT LanMan passwords).  You
really can't use samba without it...

> ah.say what?
> 
> btw,
>  I run samba from inetd. nmblookup works..(i think, doesn't complain
> anyway) testparm also doesn't complains...but checking var/log/smb
> shows this errors...when I first installed samba it asked me if i
> wanted to make a new samba passwords file...i said no, (taking the
> default choice) perhaps that is where my problem lies?

Yes that's the problem.

> 
> [2000/08/02 20:16:56, 1] smbd/server.c:main(641)
>   smbd version 2.0.7 started.
>   Copyright Andrew Tridgell 1992-1998
> [2000/08/02 20:16:56, 1] smbd/files.c:file_init(216)
>   file_init: Information only: requested 1 open files, 1014 are available.
> [2000/08/02 20:17:11, 0] passdb/smbpass.c:startsmbfilepwent_internal(87)
>   startsmbfilepwent_internal: unable to open file /etc/samba/smbpasswd. Error 
> was No such file or directory
> [2000/08/02 20:17:11, 0] passdb/passdb.c:iterate_getsmbpwnam(149)
>   unable to open smb password database.
> [2000/08/02 20:17:11, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(500)
>   Couldn't find user 'root' in smb_passwd file.
> [2000/08/02 20:17:11, 0] passdb/smbpass.c:startsmbfilepwent_internal(87)
>   startsmbfilepwent_internal: unable to open file /etc/samba/smbpasswd. Error 
> was No such file or directory
> [2000/08/02 20:17:11, 0] passdb/passdb.c:iterate_getsmbpwnam(149)
>   unable to open smb password database.
> [2000/08/02 20:17:11, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(500)
>   Couldn't find user 'root' in smb_passwd file.
> [2000/08/02 20:17:11, 1] smbd/reply.c:reply_sesssetup_and_X(925)
>   Rejecting user 'root': authentication failed

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universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstien

Re: java

[Thomas Kirsch]

"Jens B. Jorgensen" wrote:

> Goeman Stefan wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I know, this is not really a question about Debian.
>
> You got that right.
>
> > The question is actually very simple. I want to convert a
> > string to a double.
> >
> > There is a method in the java.lang.Double named
> >  parseDouble
> >
> > When I insert a line like
> > double d = Double.parseDouble(x);
> > in my program, I get the error:
> > Method parseDouble(java.lang.String) not found in class java.lang.Double
>
> This method is only in java.lang.Double since JDK 1.2. You must have an 
> earlier
> version.
>
> > There is also another method in the java.lang.Double class that should do
> > the same,
> > i.e. method valueOf
> >
> > Now, when I insert a line like
> > double d = Double.valueOf(x);
> > in the program, i get the error:
> > Incompatible type for declaration. Can't convert java.lang.Double to double.
>
> Yup, because Double.valueOf() returns type java.lang.Double, not simply 
> double. What
> you want is:
>
> double d = Double.valueOf(x).doubleValue();
>
> > in the program,
> > (Casting does not solve this problem)
>
> Nope. There's no such thing as
>
> Double::operator double()
>
> such as there _might_ be if this were C++, which it isn't.
>
> > Does anybody know what is going wrong??
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Stefan.
>
> --
> Jens B. Jorgensen
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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You also can use the following which in my opinion is simpler:
String num = 3.4235;
double num1 = Double.parseDouble(num);

This is supported only in Java 2.

Getting debian CD to recognize SCSI disk(s)

[Ed Burke]

   I found quite by accident that I can boot from CD  but the
procedure does NOT recognize
my scsi drive(s).  According to the logon message I have two drives but
1 doesn't seem to have been recognized under MS95.
   That's another issue the primary drive was partitioned using
Partition Magic, just before
I started to load Linux.  I / we had trouble in that the boot loader
wasn't found on the CD
where the text said it would.  In fact the last two levels of directory
were missing in the path.
So, Ethan Pierce - one of you - assisted me for a couple days till we
ran into the scsi problem.

 If  one or more of you want to take a shot at this I can supply you
more definitive data
on the approach used and the warning message I got when doing an
install, using the files
Ethan provided. Waiting
with open arms, Ed

autofs question

[Brian Stults]

Hello,

I'm using the kernel-based auto mounter, autofs.  I have all my mount
points in the default /var/autofs/misc, and I have symbolic links to
them in /mnt.  However, whenever I do a listing of /mnt (either from an
xterm, or from within an application such as StarOffice), all of the
devices controlled by autofs are mounted.  Is there a way to prevent
this?  If I want to access my CD-RW from within StarOffice, I would like
to be able to go into the directory called /mnt and then go into the
directory called /mnt/cdrw.  But I would like to be able to do this
without inadvertantly automatically mounting all the devices controlled
by autofs.  Any suggestions?

Thanks.
-- 

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Doctoral Candidate
Department of Sociology
University at Albany - SUNY
Phone: (518) 442-4652  Fax: (518) 442-4936
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samba problems

[Joseph de los Santos]

Hi,

 hoping that someone really nice can lend a helping hand...with configuring 
samba...

  1.  I always do an ifconfig eth0 <192.168.0.1> netmask < 255.255.255.0>  
everytime I boot to configure my network interface. I want to configure the 
interface permanently so I do not have to manually specify it everytime.

2. do I need to do a 'route add -net <192.168.0> dev eth0' aside from 
specifying the ip add and netmask? how about the broadcast address? do i need 
to configure that too?

  3.when trying to test the connection with $smbclient debian\\user1 , it 
prompts me for the password, then gives the error..
Password: 
session setup failed: ERRSRV - ERRbadpw (Bad password - name/password pair in 
a Tree Connect or Session Setup are invalid.)
ah.say what?

btw,
 I run samba from inetd. nmblookup works..(i think, doesn't complain anyway)   
testparm also doesn't complains...but checking  var/log/smb shows this 
errors...when I first installed samba it asked me if i wanted to make a new 
samba passwords file...i said no, (taking the default choice) perhaps that is 
where my problem lies?

[2000/08/02 20:16:56, 1] smbd/server.c:main(641)
  smbd version 2.0.7 started.
  Copyright Andrew Tridgell 1992-1998
[2000/08/02 20:16:56, 1] smbd/files.c:file_init(216)
  file_init: Information only: requested 1 open files, 1014 are available.
[2000/08/02 20:17:11, 0] passdb/smbpass.c:startsmbfilepwent_internal(87)
  startsmbfilepwent_internal: unable to open file /etc/samba/smbpasswd. Error 
was No such file or directory
[2000/08/02 20:17:11, 0] passdb/passdb.c:iterate_getsmbpwnam(149)
  unable to open smb password database.
[2000/08/02 20:17:11, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(500)
  Couldn't find user 'root' in smb_passwd file.
[2000/08/02 20:17:11, 0] passdb/smbpass.c:startsmbfilepwent_internal(87)
  startsmbfilepwent_internal: unable to open file /etc/samba/smbpasswd. Error 
was No such file or directory
[2000/08/02 20:17:11, 0] passdb/passdb.c:iterate_getsmbpwnam(149)
  unable to open smb password database.
[2000/08/02 20:17:11, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(500)
  Couldn't find user 'root' in smb_passwd file.
[2000/08/02 20:17:11, 1] smbd/reply.c:reply_sesssetup_and_X(925)
  Rejecting user 'root': authentication failed



Hoping for any kind of help. 

Re: Modem driver

[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/2802a.html

has a listing of software based modems and wether or not they've been
tested some have instructions(excellent list)

also look at 

http://linmodems.org

nate

On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Michael Wagman wrote:

Dramam >Any luck on getting drivers for psuedo winmodems.
Dramam >
Dramam >Specifically
Dramam >MDP7800-U by aztec.
Dramam >
Dramam >I'm knew to Linux but very familar at fighting with computers - my
Dramam >ultimate goal is to find out what the video work potential for Linux is
Dramam >(I have a All-In-Wonder 128)
Dramam >
Dramam >
Dramam >-- 
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Modem driver

[Michael Wagman]

Any luck on getting drivers for psuedo winmodems.

Specifically
MDP7800-U by aztec.

I'm knew to Linux but very familar at fighting with computers - my
ultimate goal is to find out what the video work potential for Linux is
(I have a All-In-Wonder 128)

DPT SmartRAID V Millennium isn't detected

[arn]

Hi all,

I'm running potato, booting off an IDE drive, and I'm trying to install a
DPT SmartRAID V Millennium controller in the same box.  I've downloaded the
driver and patch from www.dpt.com, and sucessfully patched and compiled the
kernel, but when I reboot I get scsi: 0 hosts.

I use make menuconfig, and I'm selecting the DPT I2O SmartRAID V support
module.

I've tried different kernel versions (2.2.12, 2.2.14, 2.2.15, 2.2.16,
2.2.17, from debian and kernel.org), I've tried making it as a module, and
built-in to the kernel, but nothing seems to work.  Any ideas?

Aaron Glover
Data And Systems Solutions
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.dass.co.nz

Re: gnapster won't download: "fopen: No such file or directory"

[Michael Soulier]

On 2 Aug 2000, Krzys Majewski wrote:

> Anybody else have this problem with gnapster? Everything works except,
> gah, the downloading part. If I try to d/l something I get 
> 
> fopen: No such file or directory
> 
> on stderr, several times, and  nothing happens. This is Gnome gnapster
> 1.3.10

I'm using the same version. I get fopen errors, but it still
works. Are you sure that the directory you've specified it to download to
exists? I found out that it won't even tell you about the problem if
that's the case. 

Mike

Re: cos() in math.h ?

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On 03-Aug-2000 Christophe TROESTLER wrote:
> Thanks to all for answering my very simple question.  Now, how was I
> supposed to know I had to link against `m'?  I mean, given a header
> file, is the file I have to link against specified in the doc?  Is
> there any info on that subject you can refer me to?
> 
> Thanks from a C newbie,

no, wish there was.  Some libs are just "known".  Most unix programming
tutorials mention the commonly used libs.

Re: cos() in math.h ?

[Christophe TROESTLER]

Thanks to all for answering my very simple question.  Now, how was I
supposed to know I had to link against `m'?  I mean, given a header
file, is the file I have to link against specified in the doc?  Is
there any info on that subject you can refer me to?

Thanks from a C newbie,
ChriS

Re: X Problems...

[Kjetil Ødegaard]

* Troy Telford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> OK, I've been having an... interesting problem...
> 
> I'm using XF86 4.0.1, and have had no problems with it at all until
> about two days ago...  Here's the list of the symptoms:
> 
> In GNOME - desktop objects (Namely Icons) have a grey background -
> rather than showing the desktop bitmap underneath as it should.

Are you sure you have selected the `Use shaped text' option in the
desktop properties (right-click desktop -> `Desktop Properties')?

-- 
Kjetil

Re: X windows update

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

> 
> I just tested this right now, and the directory doesn't go away when X
> exits.  Also tested this with an older kernel (2.2.15), but it didn't
> make any difference.  Should I file a bug or something?
> 

I have Version: 3.3.6-10, and it does when i use startx.

Re: X windows update

[Kjetil Ødegaard]

* Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > 
> > The directory is also created when running `startx', so I don't really
> > think it is a gdm problem.
> > 
> 
> right, the directory is created, but only while X is running.  When X exits,
> the dir should go away with it.

I just tested this right now, and the directory doesn't go away when X
exits.  Also tested this with an older kernel (2.2.15), but it didn't
make any difference.  Should I file a bug or something?

-- 
Kjetil

X Problems...

[Troy Telford]

OK, I've been having an... interesting problem...

I'm using XF86 4.0.1, and have had no problems with it at all until about two 
days ago...  Here's the list of the symptoms:

In GNOME - desktop objects (Namely Icons) have a grey background - rather than 
showing the desktop bitmap underneath as it should.

Quake III Arena:  The video mode is not changing upon game launch - but rather 
running in a windowed mode.  I can manually change the vidmode (CTRL+ALT+-, 
etc), however since I can't move the Q3A window, that doesn't help too much.

And - anything that should be transparent (Window Manager borders, Icon 
backgrounds (as in GNOME), etc. is not transparent - but rather a flat grey box 
around it...

I have an nVidia TNT-based board, and I have the beta nVidia 094 drivers 
installed (properly, I might add).  - removing the driver and changing to the 
XF86 driver (rather than nVidia's) made no difference.

There is only one change that I made to the system in the time that it stopped 
working... I installed the OpenMotif Deb's.  Removing them didn't do anything 
to alleviate the problem, either.

And - on a side note, what setting in the XF86Config file do you change to 
increase the mouse sensitivity?!?

Thanks for any help you can give me.

Troy

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Pinky, are you pondering what I am pondering?

Pinky:
I think so brain, but if we were meant to fly, wouldn't we have been born
with a bag of peanuts?

RE: cos() in math.h ?

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On 03-Aug-2000 Christophe TROESTLER wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> According to the man page, if I want to use `cos' in a program, I
> simply need to include `math.h'.  However, when I compile, I got the
> error:
> 
>   /tmp/cc9WOsLC.o(.text+0x16): undefined reference to `cos'
>   collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> I got the necessary packages to compile (e.g., libc6-dev).  Any idea
> what is the cause ?
> 

when you use something from math.h you have to link with libmath, using -lm on
the command line:

gcc foo.c -lm -o foo

Re: cos() in math.h ?

[iehrenwald]

>   /tmp/cc9WOsLC.o(.text+0x16): undefined reference to `cos'
>   collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Try adding -lm to your compile command.   That tells gcc to use the math
lib.

Ian

Re: X server

[Eric G . Miller]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 07:29:16AM -0700, Nianwei Xing wrote:
> Hi, debians:
> I have a problem about X server: after I login from my
> account and type "startx", it give me the following
> error message:
> Authentication failed--cannot startx X server
> -X11 TransSocketUNIXConnect: can't connect: errno=111
> Xinit: connection refused(errno=111): unable to
> connect to server
> Xinit: No such process(errno=3):server error:
> However, when I login as root, the x server works.
> Does anybody know how to fix this problem?
> Thanks in advance!

My first guess is that only root is allowed to run X.  Try checking
/etc/X11/Xserver.  The second line should read "Console".  If it already
does, then the problem is elsewhere.

-- 
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I think a blowpipe is a marijuana cigarrette.  
It'll get you deleted!

Re: cos() in math.h ?

[Kjetil Ødegaard]

* Christophe TROESTLER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Hi all,
> 
> According to the man page, if I want to use `cos' in a program, I
> simply need to include `math.h'.  However, when I compile, I got the
> error:
> 
>   /tmp/cc9WOsLC.o(.text+0x16): undefined reference to `cos'
>   collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> I got the necessary packages to compile (e.g., libc6-dev).  Any idea
> what is the cause ?

You need to link with the math library; add -lm to your compiler command
line, ie.

gcc program.c -o program -lm

-- 
Kjetil

Re: cos() in math.h ?

[Robert Norris]

>   /tmp/cc9WOsLC.o(.text+0x16): undefined reference to `cos'
>   collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

You need to link against the math library, libm, eg.

gcc -o myprog myprog.c -lm

Regards,
Rob.


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Re: X windows update

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

> 
> The directory is also created when running `startx', so I don't really
> think it is a gdm problem.
> 

right, the directory is created, but only while X is running.  When X exits,
the dir should go away with it.

Re: OT: less v. more & CCing

[Bolan Meek]

Ben Pfaff wrote:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David N. Welton) writes:
> 
> > Edward Betts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > more offers backwards paging, it is in the man page I am suprised that you
> > > missed it.
> >
> > ps auxw | more
> >
> > How do you scroll backwards? b doesn't work.
> 
> `more' supports backward paging only for files, not for pipes.

I've noticed this, and have been irritated enough by not being
able to back-up on man pages, which are from pipes, that
I've installed less.

On topics arisen from this discussion,
Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
> ...BTW, please refrain from sending to _both_ the list and me, 
> I read the list. ...

One may assume that those whose names one sees often
are subuscribed, but how to be sure, generally?  I propose
a habit of including in the .sig a notice:
I'm on this list
And removing it when not needed.  I think that will help
newcomers, as well as those who have the habit of
leaving the poster on the To/Cc: list.

In other news, in accordance with the OT in the Subject:, I'm
sending my reply to -user...
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I'm on the list.

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cos() in math.h ?

[Christophe TROESTLER]

Hi all,

According to the man page, if I want to use `cos' in a program, I
simply need to include `math.h'.  However, when I compile, I got the
error:

/tmp/cc9WOsLC.o(.text+0x16): undefined reference to `cos'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

I got the necessary packages to compile (e.g., libc6-dev).  Any idea
what is the cause ?

ChriS

Re: X windows update

[Kjetil Ødegaard]

* Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > 
> > What seems to happen is that /tmp/.X11-unix gets group ownership from
> > the user starting X.  If the X server is started by gdm, /tmp/.X11-unix
> > is owned by the `gdm' group, if I stop gdm and do
> > 
> 
> when gdm exits, the .X11-unix dir should go away.  If not, this is a bug in 
> gdm.

The directory is also created when running `startx', so I don't really
think it is a gdm problem.

I found this in the Debian Bug Database just now:

http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=66225

This is not the same problem, but it is the same directory and also
around the time I started having my problem, so they might be related.

I run woody, by the way.  My X packages are

ii  xserver-common 3.3.6-10   files and utilities common to all X servers
ii  xserver-svga   3.3.6-10   X server for SVGA graphics cards

The system is fairly updated with all the newest packages.

-- 
Kjetil

Re: noise from monitor, HELP!

[John Pearson]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 09:57:12AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote
> On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 11:24:59PM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote:
> > On Tue, 01 Aug 2000, Ron Farrer wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I've been running Debian for years and my monitor (20" IBM P200) has
> > > been working fine with it's current setting for months. Now all of a
> > > sudden I get a VERY high pitched noise from it when in X. It does
> > > not do this on the console! It has become more and more frequent and
> > > is starting to drive me nuts (well more then usual :) I know it's
> > > the monitor because I can turn it off while it's doing it and the
> > > noise stops. Does anyone know what the problem might be? 
> > > 
> > > FYI I am running potato using a Matrox Mill. (original) with 8MB
> > > memory @ 1024 x 768. 
> > > 
> > 
> > Ron,
> > 
> > I have a 17" 'emachines' monitor. It was making some pretty heavy
> > noise too when I first fired up x after running XF86Setup.  I don't
> > know why but in windoz it was quiet but x was giving it grief.. I
> > finally tweaked the settings and cured the noise (Think I increased
> > the res)..   I'm sure it's probably unrelated, but I recall seeing
> > upgrades to x the last two times I ran the 'apt-get update/upgrade' so
> > perhaps you need to tweak things on ur end... Just a thought.
> 
> Given this, it's possible that modifications to video settings via
> xvidtune might dispose of harmonics leading to monitor hum, if the cause
> is resonance rather than failing bonds or fasteners.  Haven't tried it
> myself, but the logic seems to work mentally.
> 

Actually, the cause is usually a combination of the two.  The
yoke should be designed to provide good damping across the
usable range of the monitor, but as adhesive perishes and things
get freed up modes start appearing which may be close enough to
the scan frequencies you actually use (or a subharmonic thereof)
to cause hooting.

> While hitting a monitor may provide a short-term fix, I'd suspect it
> would compound the problem of a degrading joint.  Not generally
> recommended.

I don't know what he paid for his 20" monitor but I could take a
guess; for myself, I try to avoid thumping things that cost that
much.


John P.
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RE: Installing packages without manpages and docs

[Kenrick, Chris]

IIRC Slink minimum install is circa 30 MB

Would it be worth a try installing minimal Slink first,
then apt-get upgrade;apt-get dist-upgrade ?

- Chris

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, 2 August 2000 5:53 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Installing packages without manpages and docs


Hi,

I am using Debian on a bunch of servers with a minimal install. The
barebone install is about 80 MB for potato and I'd like to reduce it
even more.

Is there any way to make apt-get stop installing packages' man pages
and documentation? I never actually tried that, but would symlinking
/usr[/share]/{doc|man|info} to /dev/null do the job without disabling
apt updates?

I have docs and man pages on my personal work station, and having them
multiple times is a waste of disk and backup space.

Has anybody actually done something like that?

Greetings
Marc

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Re: X windows update

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

> 
> What seems to happen is that /tmp/.X11-unix gets group ownership from
> the user starting X.  If the X server is started by gdm, /tmp/.X11-unix
> is owned by the `gdm' group, if I stop gdm and do
> 

when gdm exits, the .X11-unix dir should go away.  If not, this is a bug in gdm.

Re: Lexmark 5700

[Mike Werner]

cam wrote:
> I have a Lexmark 5700 inkjet printer.  I was wondering if this printer
> works under Linux (woody version) and if it works...how might I get it
> working?  any help would be appreciated.

http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=62016
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Re: X windows update

[Kjetil Ødegaard]

* Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> 
> On 03-Aug-2000 Ed Murray wrote:
> > Can anybody help please?
> > 
> > I have an on-going problem starting my X Server each morning.
> > 
> > I get the following error:
> > 
> > X:  Server socket directory has suspicious ownership, aborting:
> > 
> > I change the ownership on the /tmp/.X11-unix directory to root.root each 
> > time
> > but
> > 
> > when I reboot the problem is back again.
> >
> 
> $ cd / 
> $ ls -al
> 
> drwxrwxrwt   11 root root 2048 Aug  2 15:28 tmp
> 
> 
> 
> make sure the perms match that.  Also, /tmp should be emptied on reboot.  If
> this is not happening, turn it back on.

I am experiencing the same problem, and I think the problem is not in
the /tmp permissions (which are correctly set on my system, anyway), nor
in the cleaning of /tmp.

What seems to happen is that /tmp/.X11-unix gets group ownership from
the user starting X.  If the X server is started by gdm, /tmp/.X11-unix
is owned by the `gdm' group, if I stop gdm and do

startx

the same directory is owned by my group.  Both result in the above error
and one has to stop the X server and change group ownership on the
directory to get it working.  I wondered if this might be a setgid
problem of some sorts, but haven't really found a solution yet.

-- 
Kjetil

RE: X windows update

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On 03-Aug-2000 Ed Murray wrote:
> Can anybody help please?
> 
> I have an on-going problem starting my X Server each morning.
> 
> I get the following error:
> 
> X:  Server socket directory has suspicious ownership, aborting:
> 
> I change the ownership on the /tmp/.X11-unix directory to root.root each time
> but
> 
> when I reboot the problem is back again.
>

$ cd / 
$ ls -al

drwxrwxrwt   11 root root 2048 Aug  2 15:28 tmp



make sure the perms match that.  Also, /tmp should be emptied on reboot.  If
this is not happening, turn it back on.

X windows update

[Ed Murray]

Can anybody help please?

I have an on-going problem starting my X Server each morning.

I get the following error:

X:  Server socket directory has suspicious ownership, aborting:

I change the ownership on the /tmp/.X11-unix directory to root.root each time but

when I reboot the problem is back again.

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X windows update

[Ed Murray]

Can anybody help please?

I have an on-going problem starting my X Server each morning.

I get the following error:

X:  Server socket directory has suspicious ownership, aborting:

I change the ownership on the /tmp/.X11-unix directory to root.root each time but

when I reboot the problem is back again.





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e-mail errors

[Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira]

Hi all,
I have a domain (domain.com) and want redirect all e-mail errors from
inexistentes e-mail ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) to my mail ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
I'm using exim and potato.
Thanks, Paulo Henrique

Re: gnapster won't download: "fopen: No such file or directory"

[Jos Lemmerling]

On 2 Aug 2000, Krzys Majewski wrote:

> Anybody else have this problem with gnapster? Everything works except,
> gah, the downloading part. If I try to d/l something I get 
> 
> fopen: No such file or directory
> 
> on stderr, several times, and  nothing happens. This is Gnome gnapster
> 1.3.10
> 
> -chris
> 

ermm

check out their site... Napster is down 


   Thanks for being a member of the Napster community and for the support
   you have shown. As you have probably heard, the RIAA won a court
   battle this week that may keep you from using Napster to share music.
   Today the court of appeals stayed the judge's order to shut down
   Napster until they consider our appeal, probably in September. 



Greetz 
Jos Lemmerling

Re: gzipped readmes in /usr/doc/*

[Kent West]

Daniel Burrows wrote:
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 09:25:25PM -0700, "S. Champ"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
> i'm admittedly frustrated at the fact that, from all i know about
it right now,
> i'll have to un-gzip any of these packages before i'm actualy able
to read
> them.  there's more to this life than computers, and there's
already too mucy
> time needing to be spent on this thing, when it's not even out of
the docks yet.
  See zmore(1)
Or zless, as in "zless DocToRead.gz", if the less package has been installed.
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Re: 3c90x woes

[Nate Duehr]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 02:06:52PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
>   eth0: Transmit error, Tx status register 82.
> 
> Anything to worry about?

We were seeing this on a RedHat 6.2 machine with an Intel EEPro100 here
at work the other day.  Changed out the cable and it stopped doing it.
(And measured throughput on that machine skyrocketed.)

Didn't have time to dig through the source and see what register 82
actually is, but it was a Layer-1 problem.  :)

Hope it helps,
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Re: mixing potato with a bit of woody...

[Nate Duehr]

On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 11:03:48AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> Sean Richardson said:
> > In the past I have typically just built these packages (again for many
> > reasons)...but seeing as they are already available under woody I would
> > like to try the packages. I am not quite ready to switch over to
> > woody as I am stuck behind a modem for another month and waiting for 200
> > meg dls
> 
> At this point, potato and woody are very similar, so it might not be as big
> of a download as you fear.  You could try pointing your sources.list at
> woody, issuing your apt-get commands (apt-get update ; apt-get install
> package1 package2... for individual package updates, apt-get update ; apt-get
> dist-upgrade to do everything), and see how much data needs to be grabbed to
> fulfill that request, then allow or cancel it.

I used another technique a while back when doing slink/potato stuff.

I put deb-src lines for potato and deb lines for slink in the
sources.list and then...

Use apt-get -b to actually BUILD the new packages from the newer
version.

Works pretty well for most packages as long as the build environment is
similar.

YMMV
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Re: gzipped readmes in /usr/doc/*

[Daniel Burrows]

On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 09:25:25PM -0700, "S. Champ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was 
heard to say:
> i'm admittedly frustrated at the fact that, from all i know about it right 
> now,
> i'll have to un-gzip any of these packages before i'm actualy able to read
> them.  there's more to this life than computers, and there's already too mucy
> time needing to be spent on this thing, when it's not even out of the docks 
> yet.

  See zmore(1)

  Daniel

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potato holding up well

[Bruce Perens]

We are running WeWantHackers.com and all of the systems of two businesses (not 
counting
Progeny) on potato. It's holding up quite well.

Bruce

Re: Help: Dselect ran out of disk space

[Heather Stern]

Tim wrote:
>>> > Bolan Meek wrote:
> What's your partitioning look like?  What's the output of `df`?
> If you use cfdisk, are there any partitions you don't see in `df`,
> i.e. not have mounted?

> > > > Tim wrote:
 I have 104MB as root and 16MB swap there is 1% unuseable, presumably
 something to do with the drive geometry.

[snip]

I (Heather) wrote:
>> I recently had a need to do the same thing (install in almost no space)...
>> in my case, because a friend is using a FlashDisk instead of a standard hard
>> drive so to have lots less power consumption for his libretto.
>> 
>> You *could* install minimum only by using the "debinst" option of the 
>> Linuxcare bootable business card.  It drops in only base for slink (well, 
>> updated kernel though) and configures the bootup.
>> 
>> However, we got a fairly usable day-to-day config by the following means.
>> If anyone wants to turn into a mini-HOWTO or add it to one, I'm cool with
>> that :)
>> Forget using the installer.
[ doing it "by hand" ellided ]

[ my own questions about minor things to chase down, ellided ]

> Wow!
> I'm quite blown away by that.
> It willtake me some time to digest.

:)

> I'm 1,00 miles from home for the next 2 weeks so have time to work
> through it.
> The laptop in question is an odd one with non-standard drive so using
> the drive on another machine is not an option.

On many laptops the allegedly proprietary interfaces to the drives are 
really in the form of a very small adapter on the pins, to transform a
2.5" style IDE pinout (in older boxes, maybe a 3.5" IDE) to match the 
inner port (which really -is- proprietary)

For instance that was true of my Sager NP3600.

It doesn't means it's not a PITA tho, or that you necessarily want to
take a system apart when you might not have to. 

> I'm thinking of simply restarting from scratch with the floppies but not
> using dselect, which seems to be a large part of your suggestion.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tim

That will probably work. 

* Heather Stern * star@ many places *

read error using cfdisk, fdisk and sfdisk

[Stephan Broennimann]

I've got a nice problem with my 10GB harddisk.
I've configured 3 primary partitions and 1 extended partition that contains 
3 logical partitions (see output of sfdisk below).
Intentionally I've left 1GB unassigned to be used either as Windows98 or 
Linux spare place.
For clean-up of the the Windows partition (/dev/hda1) I've added a new 
logical partition using all space that was left, rebooted Windows, formatted 
the (new) D drive and put my data there. Nothing went wrong until this step 
... .
Then I wanted to reboot Linux, but Windows (for unknown reasons) did not 
properly shut down. This meant: reboot Windows and let it do the automatic 
scandisk. After Windows had finally started the D drive (/dev/hda8) was lost 
... a little bit anoying for the data I still wanted to verify, but so what!


The problem I've now is that I can no more cfdisk, fdisk or sfdisk to 
reconfigure partition 8. The first two utilities simply return a read error 
on /dev/hda, fdisk in addition provides a warning about the number of 
cylinders.

sfdisk provides the following output (created with `script disk.problem'):


Script started on Wed Aug  2 21:05:51 2000
vbNtbk:~ # sfdisk -uS -d /dev/hda
read: Success

sfdisk: read error on /dev/hda - cannot read sector 4132205439
# partition table of /dev/hda
unit: sectors

/dev/hda1 : start=   63, size= 8194977, Id= b, bootable
/dev/hda2 : start=  8195040, size=  529200, Id=83
/dev/hda3 : start=  8724240, size= 4203360, Id=83
/dev/hda4 : start= 12927600, size= 6713280, Id= 5
/dev/hda5 : start= 12927663, size=  529137, Id=82
/dev/hda6 : start= 13456863, size= 1587537, Id=83
/dev/hda7 : start= 15044463, size= 2101617, Id=83
vbNtbk:~ # exit

Script done on Wed Aug  2 21:06:04 2000


I looks that the partition table is still OK (except that /dev/hda8 is 
missing). I guess that the read error of cfdisk and fdisk are due to the 
unreasonable sector number 4132205439 (compared to start sector of 
/dev/hd7). It may be that partition 8 somehow got corrupted and now has an 
unreasonable entry in the partition table.

My questions are:
1) Where does this huge sector number come from, it would be nice to know?
2) How can I correct it without recreating the partition table from scratch 
(a rather tedious approach) with e.g. `cfdisk -z'? Is there a way how I can 
just create a tiny partition 8 (and remove it afterwards)?


Your advide is very appreciated, Stephan


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Cable modem problems (hardware or software?)

[Brooks R. Robinson]

Greetings,
I am using road runner for cable modem service.  I am using pump for my
dhcp client ob a potato box (Pentium 233MMX -- 16MB RAM).  The cable modem
I've got is a SURFboard 2100.  My problem is that occasionally that my cable
modem will "lock up" -- The activity LED will light up and stay on, and I
cannot connect to the box from elsewhere (I'm using a www.dyndns.org client
to get the address).
This only seems to happen when I have the potato box going.  Anyone 
have an
idea if this is a pump problem or if it's just a hardware thing that I have
to live with?  Will it get better if I use another DHCP client?  Help!
Help!  Help!

Thanks,

Brooks

Re: Easy potato installation alternative? - errata corrige

[Francesco Bochicchio]

All true but the dounload time : I don't remember exactly, but it could not
be 3 hours only. The maximum I can do is 5.5~6kB/sec and I downloaded about
200 MB !
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gnapster won't download: "fopen: No such file or directory"

[Krzys Majewski]

Anybody else have this problem with gnapster? Everything works except,
gah, the downloading part. If I try to d/l something I get 

fopen: No such file or directory

on stderr, several times, and  nothing happens. This is Gnome gnapster
1.3.10

-chris

Re: Easy potato installation alternative?

[Francesco Bochicchio]

> 
>   I remember that someone once said in this list that installing Corel
>   and then upgrading wouldn't work well...
> 
Mmmm, I think it depends on what you want to do.
When I bought my current Desktop, an Atlon 700, I couldn't install from 
the Slink CD, bucause the kernel with it (2.0.36) was too old. So I
installed from a Corel Network Edition I found on a magazine, then
removed ALL non-standard Debian packages (Corel KDE & File Manager etc...),
then completed the install from slink CD. 
A few weeks after, I was able to upgrade
to Potato over the Net ( about three hours at 56 Kb :-( ) .
It could be that I still have fragments of Corel here and there. OTHA, I got
a nice boot manager ( Anybody knows if it is possible to change the initial
 splash screen ?  I think the file is /boot/splash.lilo, but in which formatù
 it is ? ). 

Of course, if I had wanted to keep some of the Corel special packages with
Potato, I would have been disappointed.

Again, it depends. Not sure if the saved download time is worthing the
extra configuration hassle, though.

Ciao
-- 
FB

Re: bash-"problem"

[Robert Waldner]

On Wed, 02 Aug 2000 13:51:22 PDT, "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" writes:
>> 
>> Q: Can I just go and install a user with the same UID/GID as root, but
>>  /bin/tcsh as login-shell, so I have a fallback, JIC?
>> 
>better yet, set root's shell to something like sash.

ah, perfectly ;-) "statically linked" "built-in $TOOLS"

root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
sashroot:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/sash

This will become a standard on my boxes, I think.

Tnx!

&rw

RE: bash-"problem"

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

> 
> Q: Can I just go and install a user with the same UID/GID as root, but
>  /bin/tcsh as login-shell, so I have a fallback, JIC?
> 

better yet, set root's shell to something like sash.

Re: debconf: failed to initialize frontend: Slang

[Joey Hess]

kmfmu wrote:
> With my recent potato installation, when I install a package
> that requires debconf I get these errors: 
> 
> debconf: failed to initialize frontend: Slang
> debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog

You're not going to get that message unless you are using debconf from
unstable.

> but then I'm back to the shell prompt, no debconf screen.

Perfectly normal -- debconf had no questions to ask you.

Install libterm-stool-perl, from unstable, if you want the slang
frontend to work.

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bash-"problem"

[Robert Waldner]

[Disclaimer: don´t waste your time reading if you´re not really 
interested, the "problem" is gone for now, and I´m just trying to find 
out what could have caused it.]

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here we go...

I´m unsure if the bash-maintainers would actually like to hear about
that,
as I´m pretty sure bash isn´t at fault here, but, as I don´t know what´s
wrong, let me give you a bit of background, maybe someone can shed a
little light on this:

My debian-box at home (slink, apt-get upgrade´d to potato, eg kernel
2.0.38) worked as usual, but I couldn´t login any more; ssh 
connections bombed out with the above error, ftp, sendmail etc
were running as ususal.

Now I ftp´d my mbox, read my mail, then got home; X was still running,
with ~20 xterms open, some of them with active ssh´s to other machines.
As soon as I pressed a key within the local shells it would bomb out,
whereas the ssh´s worked as ever. setiathome was running happily, I 
could even use Netscrap and gnapster, just as usual. Only bash was 
gone (and without a working shell, cron and friends won´t work :-( ).

I resetted the box, fscked (and prepared tomsrtbt, JIC), and now 
everythings back to normal.

Anybody´s got some hint? I´m running
"GNU bash, version 2.03.0(1)-release" aka "bash 2.03-6", btw.

Q: Can I just go and install a user with the same UID/GID as root, but
 /bin/tcsh as login-shell, so I have a fallback, JIC?

tia,
&rw

Re: Debian-specific HOWTOs?

[Jesús Ruiz de Infante]

El mar, 01 de ago de 2000 a las 09:50:28 +0200, Jens Müller escribió:
> Are there any HOWTOs which are specifically (re)written for the Debian
> system of config files etc.?
> 
> Jens
> 

Take a look at

http://joker.rhwd.de/doc/Securing-Debian-HOWTO

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Linux Programmer Wanted

[Jrieger]

Please contact Arco Computer Products, Inc. at (800)
458-1666.  Linux Programmer needed to port over win32
applications.





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Re: apt-get & byte compile problem

[Peter S Galbraith]

Peter Mickle wrote:

> A few weeks ago, while upgrading from slink to potato, during the
> install process, I answered "yes" to a prompt to byte compile the
> newly installed files. Since then, whenever I have installed new
> packages (apt-get -install or apt-get -update -dist-upgrade) the
> files are bytecompiled when installed. 
> 
> This is not the behavior I want from apt/dpkg, particularly since the
> installer seems to remove the (for example) *.el files after byte
> compiling, so I cannot modify the original files.

I really doubt that any files are being deleted.  Usually, .el
files stay put in someplace like 

 /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/

and byte-compiled versions go in:
 
 /usr/share/emacs/19.34/site-lisp/
 /usr/share/emacs/20.6/site-lisp/
 /usr/share/xemacs20/site-lisp/
 /usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/

Peter

Re: syslogd accept log from remote host?

[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

cool, thanks!

On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Bill Goudie wrote:

bgoudi >On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 11:19:49PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
bgoudi >> i just got a cisco675 for my dsl today and noticed it supports 
syslog, i
bgoudi >> want to get it to send log entries to one of my boxes, is there 
anything
bgoudi >> special i have to do to syslogd to allow this? i didnt see anything
bgoudi >
bgoudi >The default for for syslogd is not to accept messages from network 
hosts. 
bgoudi >Use '-r' to turn this on.
bgoudi >
bgoudi >-- 
bgoudi >A good name lost is seldom regained.  When character is gone,
bgoudi >all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost forever.
bgoudi >-- J. Hawes
bgoudi >
bgoudi >
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Re: XMovie

[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

im using the precompiled binaries, the binaries i have also have support
for DVDs(i managed to get it before the author was forced to yank it) it
has the DeCSS code in it no source is available for them if you want them
i can send em your way. requires glibc2.1 seems to work fine on potato.

nate

On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Christoph Simon wrote:

ciccio >Anybody managed to compile or package XMovie for potato?
ciccio >(http://heroine.linuxave.net/xmovie.html)
ciccio >
ciccio >Christoph Simon
ciccio >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ciccio >
ciccio >-- 
ciccio >^X^C
ciccio >q
ciccio >quit
ciccio >:q
ciccio >^C
ciccio >end
ciccio >x
ciccio >exit
ciccio >ZZ
ciccio >^D
ciccio >?
ciccio >help
ciccio >.
ciccio >
ciccio >
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Re: Fw: Free Linux Journal T-Shirt!

[Ethan Pierce]

It is the Linux Journal, but they did includ UNIX in several of the question 
answers.  They left out HP-UX too :)

>>> "Jürgen_A._Erhard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/02/00 03:14PM >>>
> "kmself" == kmself   writes:

[...]

kmself> It's also worth noting that Slackware wasn't listed, nor
kmself> were any of the *BSDs.

BSD?  Uhm, Karsten, last I checked, it was still the "Linux" journal.   >;-)

And yes, Slak should have been part of the list too...

kmself> Makes you wonder how much thought went into the survey and
kmself> whether it's just a data mining expedition.

I can't dispute this possibility.

Bye, J

PS: Strangely, the LJ uses Debian on all their (web-) servers... 8-|

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Re: can't read dselect due to background color in xterm window

[Stan Kaufman]

Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> 
> dselect was written with the assumption that your foreground color is white
> and the background color is black, just like on the console.  If you have 
> xterm
> set to not use those colors, your dselect experience will be less than good.
> 
> So, easy fix place the following in .Xdefaults and .Xresources:
> 
> XTerm*foreground: white
> XTerm*background: black
> 
> hope this helps.

It did! Beautiful! Many thanks!

Stan

Re: Fw: Free Linux Journal T-Shirt!

[Jürgen A. Erhard]

> "kmself" == kmself   writes:

[...]

kmself> It's also worth noting that Slackware wasn't listed, nor
kmself> were any of the *BSDs.

BSD?  Uhm, Karsten, last I checked, it was still the "Linux" journal.   >;-)

And yes, Slak should have been part of the list too...

kmself> Makes you wonder how much thought went into the survey and
kmself> whether it's just a data mining expedition.

I can't dispute this possibility.

Bye, J

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Re: XMovie

[Ethan Pierce]

If you want to watch movies, ie mpg, dat, avi, mp2 etc, get MpegTV.  Its very 
easy to use and compile from source.  I believe the URL is mpegtv.com.  

>>> Christoph Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/02/00 07:45AM >>>
Anybody managed to compile or package XMovie for potato?
(http://heroine.linuxave.net/xmovie.html)

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Re: xmms shared library fault

[Pollywog]

On 02-Aug-2000 Dale Morris wrote:
> Here's the error message I get when I run xmms:
> 
> [libmikmod.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory]
> 
> Any idea what causes this?

Do you have those libraries installed?  I had to install libmikmod from
source to make those errors go away.  There should be a Debian package for
libLG, I believe it is opengl.

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RE: can't read dselect due to background color in xterm window

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On 02-Aug-2000 Stan Kaufman wrote:
> When I bring up dselect in an xterm window under X+Gnome+windowmaker,
> the black background color in the Select portion of dselect make the
> text nearly illegible. The colors work fine in a non-X terminal setting,
> but what can I do to make dselect usable in xterm? 
> 

dselect was written with the assumption that your foreground color is white
and the background color is black, just like on the console.  If you have xterm
set to not use those colors, your dselect experience will be less than good.

So, easy fix place the following in .Xdefaults and .Xresources:

XTerm*foreground: white
XTerm*background: black

hope this helps.

Re: some questions

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, David Karlin wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 11:28:52AM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> > 1. When using a network adapter whose driver is compiled as a module -
> > where does this module get loaded?
> > I currently added a simple modprobe line to /etc/init.d/networking , but
> > there has to be a better way. On RedHat loading this module is done by the
> > ifup script.
> 
> Edit /etc/modules to include the name of the modules, and options;
> i.e. "parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7"(make sure you add them in the order
> they should to be loaded).Then run "update-modules" and a new
> /etc/modules.conf will be created.

This gives the options to modprobe. But when is modprobe being run?

> > 5. Single-user mode loads a whole bunch of stuff thatare not really
> > needed.
> > What is the recomended way to load "failsafe" defaults? Using a floppy?
> 
> What is the stuff that you don't need?(I'm not an expert on this).

For instance: networking. Many things can go wrong: A faulty module for
the adapter, dhcpcd hangs a bit because it can't find a server, etc.

I can alway load with init=/bin/sh, or from a floppy, but those are not
aptimal choices.

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can't read dselect due to background color in xterm window

[Stan Kaufman]

When I bring up dselect in an xterm window under X+Gnome+windowmaker,
the black background color in the Select portion of dselect make the
text nearly illegible. The colors work fine in a non-X terminal setting,
but what can I do to make dselect usable in xterm? 

Or am I the only one with this problem? Do most of you use dpkg directly
and not use dselect? (I think dselect is one the most amazingly useful
pieces of software I've seen.)

I found a short thread from last May in the debian-user archives at
Geocrawler which suggested that apps like dselect control the colors
used in xterm, and I don't find any other useful info in man pages for
dselect or xterm.

TIA for any ideas!

Stan

RE: apt-get & byte compile problem

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On 02-Aug-2000 Peter Mickle wrote:
> A few weeks ago, while upgrading from slink to potato, during the
> install process, I answered "yes" to a prompt to byte compile the
> newly installed files. Since then, whenever I have installed new
> packages (apt-get -install or apt-get -update -dist-upgrade) the
> files are bytecompiled when installed. 
> 
> This is not the behavior I want from apt/dpkg, particularly since the
> installer seems to remove the (for example) *.el files after byte
> compiling, so I cannot modify the original files.
> 
> I have not been able to figure out how to remove the instruction to
> byte compile incoming files - any help or suggestions will be
> appreciated.
> 

the package installed (I assume an emacs one) is responsible, not apt / dpkg. 
That said, you could not edit the file any way.  When a new version of the
package comes out, it will overwrite your changes.  If you have to edit them,
grab the source and make yourself a local deb.

RE: g++

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On 02-Aug-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I upgraded my machine to potato but in compiling a c++
> program which before used to work with
> 

geisha [~/testing/filebox] $ g++ -Wall -pedantic test.cc -o test
geisha [~/testing/filebox] $ ./test
I equals: 0

you *MAY* need to use -lstdc++, but that is about it.

whow could i downloud the driver for cirrus logic cl-gd5440-j-qc-b taiwan-d

[marwan]

I HOPE YOU WILL SEND ME BACK WITH THE 
ANSWER

apt-get & byte compile problem

[Peter Mickle]

A few weeks ago, while upgrading from slink to potato, during the
install process, I answered "yes" to a prompt to byte compile the
newly installed files. Since then, whenever I have installed new
packages (apt-get -install or apt-get -update -dist-upgrade) the
files are bytecompiled when installed. 

This is not the behavior I want from apt/dpkg, particularly since the
installer seems to remove the (for example) *.el files after byte
compiling, so I cannot modify the original files.

I have not been able to figure out how to remove the instruction to
byte compile incoming files - any help or suggestions will be
appreciated.

Thanks
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Re: Why not Standard, Pre-Release, and Development versions?

[montefin]

Actually,

Michael has stated the small point I was trying to make, and better than
I did in my original post.

As I said, "It's just a thought."

montefin
  

> Michalowski Thierry wrote:
> 
> I think he simply suggest to call the distributions with less
> pejorative names.
> Many users are afraid of "frozen" or "unstable" or "radioactive"
> software, so they may just lay way back in the Debian versioning
> because they are afraid of the name, not because they _do_ want the
> bullet-proof stability of the "stable" Debian version.
> 
> This would lead to these links:
> 
> standard --> slink
> prerelease   --> potato
> development  --> woody
> 
> exactly replacing these:
> 
> stable   --> slink
> frozen   --> potato
> unstable --> woody
> 
> My .02 EUR
> Thierry
> 
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Brian May [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 8:59 AM
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: Why not Standard, Pre-Release, and Development
> versions?
> >
> >
> > > "montefin" == montefin  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > montefin> Is there any requirement that Debian releases _must_
> be
> > montefin> labeled Stable, Frozen and Unstable?
> >
> > montefin> IMO, those labels are misleading and/or unnecassrily
> > montefin> pejorative.
> >
> > Not sure what the problem is...
> >
> > montefin> Certainly, today, Slink is the current Standard Debian
> 
> > montefin> version.
> >
> > so, the following symlinks are currently used:
> >
> > stable   --> slink
> > frozen   --> potato
> > unstable --> woody
> >
> > montefin> Soon it will be displaced, as the Standard version, by
> 
> > montefin> Potato, which hopefully will soon emerge from its
> > montefin> Pre-Release lockdown.
> >
> > When potato is officially released, the sym-links will change:
> >
> > stable   --> potato
> > unstable --> woody
> >
> > If I have missed the point, somebody else can fill in the details
> > I missed ;-).
> > --
> > Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> >
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I have a Lexmark 5700 inkjet printer.  I was wondering if this printer
works under Linux (woody version) and if it works...how might I get it
working?  any help would be appreciated.

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Re: Why not Standard, Pre-Release, and Development versions?

[montefin]

David,

Precisely the point I was trying to make.

Thank you,

montefin


David Karlin wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 04:53:58PM +0200, Michalowski Thierry wrote:
> > I think he simply suggest to call the distributions with less pejorative
> > names.
> > Many users are afraid of "frozen" or "unstable" or "radioactive" software,
> > so they may just lay way back in the Debian versioning because they are
> > afraid of the name, not because they _do_ want the bullet-proof stability of
> > the "stable" Debian version.
> >
> > This would lead to these links:
> >
> > standard   --> slink
> > prerelease   --> potato
> > development  --> woody
> >
> > exactly replacing these:
> >
> > stable   --> slink
> > frozen   --> potato
> > unstable --> woody
> >
> > My .02 EUR
> > Thierry
> 
> A rose (or potato) by any other name, smells just as sweet.
> 
> If someone is scared by the name "unstable" or "frozen",
> perhaps they *should* be running stable.
> 
> My .02 (US)
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cdrom

[Andy The King]

Hello!

I just recently purchased a copy of Debian GNU/Linux 2.1.  Although my
friend told me that I can just down loaded for free from the web.  So I
installed it on my machine and everything runs well except for that my
cdrom didn't recognized any of the CD-Rewritable copies that  burned.
However, the operating system able to allows me to read other CD-W
copies that are not rewritable.  I did all this with mounting the cdrom.

What is this mean?  I have most of the softwares that needed to be run
in Linux are in those CD-Rewritable.  What can I do?

Andy.

Re: 3c90x woes

[Peter S Galbraith]

Thanks guys...

"W. Paul Mills" wrote:

> Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> :   I got the 3Com 3C905C-TXM last week in
> : a new Dell computer.  
> 
> :> The 3c59x module that comes with the standard kernel did not do
> :> 100mbit/s full duplex connections for me. 3Coms own 3c90x
> :> module does, so I believe it to be better :)
> 
> : How does one find out?
> 
> The easy way is to look at the lights on your network hub/switch.

Which made me think...  There's a light indicator on the card
next to the cable connector.  It shows 100.

However, I see this occasionally in /var/log/debug :

  eth0: Transmit error, Tx status register 82.

Anything to worry about?

Thanks for the help!
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Looking for old Debian Logo Candidate (Ant)

[Kirk Hilliard]

I am trying to find one of the candidates from the Debian Logo
competition of last year.  It was an ant, was known as jeannette-0,
and used to be available at:

http://contest.gimp.org/view.cgi?month=1999-02&mode=show&graphic=jeannette-0


I am particularly looking for the ant head design, not the crawling
ant.  (I forget which was proposed as official and which as unofficial.)

Did anyone save this?  

Kirk

Re: Depmod Error on installing ALSA modules

[Bryan K. Walton]

Fixed it, just in case anybody was curious, the problem was a missing
library: libelfg0-dev

Thanks!
Bryan

-- Forwarded message --
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 07:25:00 -0500 (CDT)
From: Bryan K. Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Debian-User Mailing List ,
 Debian Laptop Mailing List 
Subject: Depmod Error on installing ALSA modules
Resent-Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 07:11:52 -0500
Resent-From: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org

Yesterday, I sent the following message to debian-user.  Still trying to
figure out how to fix this problem.  Is it possible that the error is a
result of a bug in the alsa-source package?  Or is it something else?
I am afraid I don't know much about ELF headers.

Thanks!
Bryan

Greetings!
I am running frozen on an IBM Thinkpad 390E with a 2.0.36
kernel.  This morning, I compiled a new kernel (2.2.15) using
make-kpkg.  I also built the pcmcia and ALSA modules using kpkg.  All
seems to have gone well (I have done this before on another
box).  However, when I installed the newly compiled ALSA modules deb
package, this is what happens:

work:/usr/src# dpkg -i alsa-modules-2.2.15_0.4.1i-5+2.2.15-90_i386.deb 
Selecting previously deselected package alsa-modules-2.2.15.
(Reading database ... 52672 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking alsa-modules-2.2.15 (from
alsa-modules-2.2.15_0.4.1i-5+2.2.15-90_i386.deb) ...
Setting up alsa-modules-2.2.15 (0.4.1i-5+2.2.15-90) ...
depmod: error reading ELF header: No such file or directory
depmod: error reading ELF header: No such file or directory

work:/usr/src#

Any ideas as to what this means?  How can I fix this?

Thanks!!
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Trouble at boot

[marcus]

Hello

When booting today, after doing an update on some packages (can't exactly 
remember which), I got this message:
//
RPC: sendmsg returned error 101
rpc.statd forgot to set AF_INET in udp sendmsg. Fix it!
/sbin/rpc.statd[143]: unable to register (SM_PROG, SM_VERS, udp).
RPC: sendmsg returned error 101
last message repeated 2 times
portmap: server localhost not responding, timed out
sendmsg returned error 101
last message repeated 3 times
portmap: server localhost not responding, timed out
lockd_up: makesock failed, error=-5
RPC: sendmsg returned error 101
//
(Those lines pasted from /var/log/syslog)

I'd really like to know what's the problem. I'm pretty new to linux...
Thanks in advance
/Marcus

Re: Why not Standard, Pre-Release, and Development versions?

[David Karlin]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 04:53:58PM +0200, Michalowski Thierry wrote:
> I think he simply suggest to call the distributions with less pejorative
> names.
> Many users are afraid of "frozen" or "unstable" or "radioactive" software,
> so they may just lay way back in the Debian versioning because they are
> afraid of the name, not because they _do_ want the bullet-proof stability of
> the "stable" Debian version.
> 
> This would lead to these links:
> 
> standard   --> slink
> prerelease   --> potato
> development  --> woody
> 
> exactly replacing these:
> 
> stable   --> slink
> frozen   --> potato
> unstable --> woody
> 
> My .02 EUR 
> Thierry

A rose (or potato) by any other name, smells just as sweet.

If someone is scared by the name "unstable" or "frozen",
perhaps they *should* be running stable.

My .02 (US)
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Re: newbe's question about mount points

[David Z Maze]

Ezequiel  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
E> I'm new to Debian, and I've noticed that in this distro /floppy and
E> /cdrom are not placed inside /mnt as in RedHat. Can someone explain
E> me why?

"Because" and "it's been that way historically" are probably the best
answers.  Note that this is trivial to change: create the new
mountpoints and change /etc/fstab to taste.

E> Isn't /mnt the directory for temporary mount points in most UNIX
E> systems as the Linux Filesystem Structure describes it in
E> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/1.2/fsstnd-3.7.html ?

Quite possible.  But full FHS compliance isn't in Debian yet, and I
don't think the upcoming potato release will have it either.

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Re: some questions

[David Karlin]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 11:28:52AM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> 1. When using a network adapter whose driver is compiled as a module -
> where does this module get loaded?
> I currently added a simple modprobe line to /etc/init.d/networking , but
> there has to be a better way. On RedHat loading this module is done by the
> ifup script.

Edit /etc/modules to include the name of the modules, and options;
i.e. "parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7"  (make sure you add them in the order
they should to be loaded).  Then run "update-modules" and a new
/etc/modules.conf will be created.

> 2. Queries about existing packages:
> rpm -q gives a very useful cmmand-line interface for the rpm
> system. Things like:
> rpm -qflc /usr/bin/foo 
> #lists all config file of the package to which /usr/bin/foo belongs
> 
> dpkg seems more limited here. Is there any simple way to achive similar
> goals with debian? Any way without too much shell witchcraft?

Well, all debian packages put their config files in /etc.
If you do "dpkg --help", the command options are listed.  One is:

dpkg -L|--listfiles  ...  list files `owned' by package(s)

So if you wanted to only list the config files for, e.g. exim, you
could do something like "dpkg -L exim|grep /etc".

apt-get is another, powerful, command-line package management tool.

> 3. Anything similar to "status" of init.d scripts?
> On RedHat running an init.d script with the parameter "status" gives a
> simple status of that service. On most cases it checks for a process with
> the PID listed in the /var/run file of the service, but in some cases
> (e.g. suid, IIRC) the script is a bit different, as that serivce has
> better ways to give status.
> Any debian equivalent?

I don't know about this one.

> 4. manipulating rc?.d
> On RedHat there's a simple program called chkconfig for simple
> manipulations of the symlinks in the rc?.d directories. It gets its
> default values from some lines in the init.d scrip itself and has --add
> and --remove . The update-rc.d seems to be only useful for package
> installation and package removal.
> I can always change those symlinks manually, but this can be a bit
> erro-prone.

What manipulations, exactly, are you trying to accomplish?  I have
successfully used update-rc.d to have xdm available on my system,
but not have it run on boot (this way remote machines can get an
xdm login screen, but the system defaults to a text-login).

> 5. Single-user mode loads a whole bunch of stuff that are not really
> needed.
> What is the recomended way to load "failsafe" defaults? Using a floppy?

What is the stuff that you don't need?  (I'm not an expert on this).

HTH.
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Backing up a Linux system

[bsamuels]

Debian Potato (Frozen) with Slink  KDE.

I want to be able to backup my linux system to scsi tape (nst0)
such that, if my hard drive falls into little pieces one bright
sunny day, I can boot from a rescue floppy and restore the lot
onto a new drive without having to re-install anything.

I can certainly do this with OS/2 ( I did have to do it once -
it's amazing what lightning can do) and I'm hoping it is possible
with linux.

I plan to use afio for the backup in conjunction with the
Tomsrtbt rescue floppy (an amazing piece of work).

Naturally I have some questions otherwise you wouldn't be reading
this!

Most parts of the system are straightforward and I could include
mount point directories, such as /cdrom, as long as there is
nothing actually mounted then they would, at least, be
automatically re-created.  I wouldn't need to backup /tmp.

What about /dev?  Could the device files be backed up without
backing up the contents of the said devices?  I did see once that
Midnight Commander could copy a complete linux system onto
another partition so I assume that backing up the /dev directory
could be done.

I'm assuming that the contents of /proc, including any
sub-directories, are generated each time at startup and all that
would need to be done would be to re-create the actual directory.

You are now most welcome to pick my assumptions to pieces and/or
make suggestions.

Barry Samuels

Re: special Hardware

[David Wright]

Quoting Rodenhagen, Oliver ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

> i have a compaq proliant server dl380 to install with debian 2.1 but the 
> Smart2 RAID and the Intel EthernetExpress Pro 100 is not supported by
> the resc1440tecra.bin boot image. 
> The resc1440.bin does not work either.
> 
> How can access to the scsi raid to install the base system ?
> 
> Is there a boot disk with actual 2.2.x kernel with loadable modules like 
> under SuSE ?

I think you may need to use potato, not slink (2.1).
Potato includes the following likely-looking candidates as modules
(apart from what's built-in):

-rw-r--r--1 root root24624 Jul 25 16:42 cpqarray.o
-rw-r--r--1 root root13164 Jul 25 16:42 ide-floppy.o
-rw-r--r--1 root root28460 Jul 25 16:42 ide-tape.o
-rw-r--r--1 root root 2636 Apr 25 11:20 linear.o
-rw-r--r--1 root root 8272 Jul 25 16:42 nbd.o
-rw-r--r--1 root root 3640 Jul 25 16:42 raid0.o
-rw-r--r--1 root root10224 Jul 25 16:42 raid1.o
-rw-r--r--1 root root19528 Jul 25 16:42 raid5.o
-rw-r--r--1 root root22124 Jul 25 16:42 xd.o

-rw-r--r--1 root root 6428 Jul 25 16:42 e2100.o
-rw-r--r--1 root root14564 Jul 25 16:42 eepro.o
-rw-r--r--1 root root22100 Jul 25 16:42 eepro100.o
-rw-r--r--1 root root14912 Jul 25 16:42 eexpress.o
-rw-r--r--1 root root15020 Jul 25 16:42 epic100.o
-rw-r--r--1 root root 9324 Jul 25 16:42 eql.o
-rw-r--r--1 root root 6152 Jul 25 16:42 es3210.o
-rw-r--r--1 root root14000 Jul 25 16:42 eth16i.o
-rw-r--r--1 root root 4564 Jul 25 16:42 ethertap.o
-rw-r--r--1 root root19452 Jul 25 16:42 ewrk3.o

Cheers,

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Re: noise from monitor, HELP!

[kmself]

On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 11:24:59PM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Aug 2000, Ron Farrer wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > I've been running Debian for years and my monitor (20" IBM P200) has
> > been working fine with it's current setting for months. Now all of a
> > sudden I get a VERY high pitched noise from it when in X. It does
> > not do this on the console! It has become more and more frequent and
> > is starting to drive me nuts (well more then usual :) I know it's
> > the monitor because I can turn it off while it's doing it and the
> > noise stops. Does anyone know what the problem might be? 
> > 
> > FYI I am running potato using a Matrox Mill. (original) with 8MB
> > memory @ 1024 x 768. 
> > 
> 
> Ron,
> 
> I have a 17" 'emachines' monitor. It was making some pretty heavy
> noise too when I first fired up x after running XF86Setup.  I don't
> know why but in windoz it was quiet but x was giving it grief.. I
> finally tweaked the settings and cured the noise (Think I increased
> the res)..   I'm sure it's probably unrelated, but I recall seeing
> upgrades to x the last two times I ran the 'apt-get update/upgrade' so
> perhaps you need to tweak things on ur end... Just a thought.

Given this, it's possible that modifications to video settings via
xvidtune might dispose of harmonics leading to monitor hum, if the cause
is resonance rather than failing bonds or fasteners.  Haven't tried it
myself, but the logic seems to work mentally.

While hitting a monitor may provide a short-term fix, I'd suspect it
would compound the problem of a degrading joint.  Not generally
recommended.

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newbe's question about mount points

[Ezequiel]

I'm new to Debian, and I've noticed that in this distro /floppy and /cdrom
are not placed inside /mnt as in RedHat. Can someone explain me why ? Isn't
/mnt the directory for temporary mount points in most UNIX systems as the
Linux Filesystem Structure describes it in
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/1.2/fsstnd-3.7.html ?

g++

[shashi]

I upgraded my machine to potato but in compiling a c++
program which before used to work with

g++ -lg++ filename.cc,

now I need

g++ -I/usr/include/g++-2/ -lg++ filename.cc

two questions:

1) WHy do I need the -I now and

2) The second command doesnt work. It complains

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lg++
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

though all the libraraies are in /usr/lib. Any ideas?




Shashi Kanbur  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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University of Massachusetts,
Amherst,
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USA
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NetGear ea201 card

[Arthur H. Edwards]

I'm trying to install a netgear ea201 10Mps ethernet card on a 486 using
potato. Does anyone know which driver to choose?
Art Edwards
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Re: t-dsl

[Arthur H. Edwards]

I'm a bit confused. On a normal dial-up I have been using PPP and do have
a static IP address. If ADSL is using PPP what about DSL prevents PPP from
doing the same thing?
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Re: java

[Jens B. Jorgensen]

Goeman Stefan wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I know, this is not really a question about Debian.

You got that right.

> The question is actually very simple. I want to convert a
> string to a double.
>
> There is a method in the java.lang.Double named
>  parseDouble
>
> When I insert a line like
> double d = Double.parseDouble(x);
> in my program, I get the error:
> Method parseDouble(java.lang.String) not found in class java.lang.Double

This method is only in java.lang.Double since JDK 1.2. You must have an earlier
version.

> There is also another method in the java.lang.Double class that should do
> the same,
> i.e. method valueOf
>
> Now, when I insert a line like
> double d = Double.valueOf(x);
> in the program, i get the error:
> Incompatible type for declaration. Can't convert java.lang.Double to double.

Yup, because Double.valueOf() returns type java.lang.Double, not simply double. 
What
you want is:

double d = Double.valueOf(x).doubleValue();

> in the program,
> (Casting does not solve this problem)

Nope. There's no such thing as

Double::operator double()

such as there _might_ be if this were C++, which it isn't.

> Does anybody know what is going wrong??
>
> Greetings,
>
> Stefan.

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Re: 3c90x woes

[W. Paul Mills]

Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

: "Christian Pernegger" wrote:

:> I'm running a box with a 3Com 3C905C-TXM, at the moment with
:> potato-testcycle-3 and kernel version 2.2.15.

: Same here, more or less.  I got the 3Com 3C905C-TXM last week in
: a new Dell computer.  

:> The 3c59x module that comes with the standard kernel did not do
:> 100mbit/s full duplex connections for me. 3Coms own 3c90x
:> module does, so I believe it to be better :)

: How does one find out?
: I used to use a Tulip-based card that said so on driver
: initilisation, but all I get now is:

: 3c59x.c:v0.99H 11/17/98 Donald Becker 
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
: eth0: 3Com 3c905C Tornado at 0xdc00,  00:01:03:1e:1f:e9, IRQ 11
:   8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface.
:   MII transceiver found at address 24, status 782d.
:   Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.

: It doesn't say 100Mbits...

The easy way is to look at the lights on your network hub/switch.
There are some utilities at Donald Becker's site that can also
help you figure out what is going on. (You have to compile them
yourself.) Also latest driver on his site is now 0.99Q. Or 3com
now has their own driver for the B/C versions of the card.

The message above tells you that when connection is made, the hub,
and your card will negotiate the details. If all your cabling is
good, etc, you should get 100Mbits full duplex.

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special Hardware

[Rodenhagen, Oliver]

Hi,
i have a compaq proliant server dl380 to install with debian 2.1 but the 
Smart2 RAID and the Intel EthernetExpress Pro 100 is not supported by
the resc1440tecra.bin boot image. 
The resc1440.bin does not work either.

How can access to the scsi raid to install the base system ?

Is there a boot disk with actual 2.2.x kernel with loadable modules like 
under SuSE ?

Thanks in advance,
Oliver
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Re: t-dsl

[Christian Brandt]

Stefan Nobis wrote:
> 
> Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Smart people *can* get IPs that haven't been assigned to them, and
> > it's a PITA to root them out.  PPPoE, while a hack, addresses this
> > concern for providers.  I wish we used it.
> 
> Tell me more about this. What about configuring the routers only to
> route IPs that are assigned on each connection? In the worst case you
> set for each connection a static IP. How can anyone use IPs they
> haven't been assigned to in this case?

 My dear friends, you are totally wrong. But you can learn :-)

 PPPoE is used, because that way the telco can make sure you must change
the IP-adress from time to time and therefore you are stopped from
"missusing" your "client-only-line" for "server-use", which would
question other products of the telco:

 german telekom eg. charges around 48 Euro for a flat adsl-rate
(768kbit/s down, 128 up) and you must use a dynamic ip-number.

 a comparable solution also by the german telekom is t-interconnect,
512kBit bidirectional sdsl with a fixed number and costing around 100
Euro for the line and 40 Euro per Gigabyte! You can get as many
IP-Numbers as you can explain in a ripe-141-template (dont ask :-).

 (Yes, this IS totaly, absolutly braindead, but its the truth - and
thats the reason why I get bored by the x-files, because after all the
big "truth out there" simply is "there are only idiots out there" :-)

 ah, yes, back to topic: actually chances are good that you can use a
nearly fixed ip. Last time I checked t-online, which uses the same
radius/ppp-system like t-adsl, you could NACK and SUGGEST IPs while
handshaking until you found a number fit for your purpose. Bad: If your
ip is already being used, you lost.

 I dont have t-adsl now, but as I have already worked with dsl at work I
know that t-online uses just some dozend lines per router and this
router has enough ips for all lines. So I bet a "fried pink cow on white
bread" that you can always reserve the last number of the pool. Ok, some
hacking in the pppd should do the trick...

> Do you want to tell me that for leased lines there is no way to stop
> bad people to use IPs that haven't been assigned to them? Where is the
> big difference between leased lines and DSL?

 Actually PPP makes it easier to missuse ip-adresses, because with
ppp-over-ethernet you can under some circumstances even allocate several
ips at once (which doesnt make much sense). If you give a customer a
fixed IP you need only to make sure, that his router-port uses an
algorithmus named back-route-verity - then only his official ip may pass.

> I'm a beginner in the networking section but even i know some ways to
> secure the ISP-side. I can't imagine that all those big ISP like
> Worldcom/UUnet have no idea how to secure their IPs.

 Actually those big guys do not have a clue about technology, but they
know to protect their financial assets...

Christian Brandt

Re: Network Printing, from an Apple, to Debian.

[keke abe]

Adam Scriven wrote:

> I found a website with information on how to do it, but I've since lost it 
> (stupid crashing netscape 8-( ).  Does anyone know if this remains to be 
> possible?

Since I read your post, I installed netatalk and finally made papd to
work last night. [Now my serial Epson stylus turned into a postscript
network printer! Kudos to the maintainer.]

I guess the www page you read is Ghostscript/Netatalk HOWTO.
 

This page helped me a lot but it's a little dated. I had two problems
in setting papd.conf right.

The page lists the sample entry as:

gs850c:\
:pr=lp:op=mikep:pd=/usr/local/atalk/etc/APLWNTR1.PPD:

However, it didn't work for me because:

1. :pr=lp: won't work with LPRng that I use.

  It must be :pr=|lpr:

2. The second line needs to be indented like:

gs850c:\
:pr=lp:op=mikep:pd=/usr/local/atalk/etc/APLWNTR1.PPD:


It didn't take long before I figured out (eh, found the relevant info
through Google) #1. But #2 is kinda subtle and I wasted my time trying
different ppd files in vain.

I finally settled with:

stylus800:\
:pr=|lpr -Pstylus800:\
:op=root:\
:pd=/etc/ppd/APLWNTR1.PPD:

I moved a ppd file 'LaserWriter Personal NTR' from Mac to Debian box
and renamed it to 'APLWNTR1.PPD' (a name should not matter.) CR must
be converted to LF but fetch took care of it for me.

**

regards,
abe
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Re: Man -K

[John Hasler]

Andrew Sullivan writes:
> I thought the original poster was talking about a _full body_ search of the
> man pages.  Do RH and SuSE really do that?  Certainly, apropos doesn't --
> it searches the description (at least on my system).

Which would be fine if people would write proper descriptions.
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Re: Unidentified subject! - modems

[romeu]

Valeu. Vou usar XF86config.

Eu já tinha lido a página sobre modems. E também esta:
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html.
 E cheguei à conclusão de que, se eu comprasse um modem ISA ( e paguei
caro: R$ 150,00, enquanto winmodens estão custando de R$ 50 a 60), havia
grande probabilidade de ser um hardware modem. E eu continuo convicto de
que é. http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html  diz que o Venus Chipset
está OK,  mesmo assim o sistema não detecta a placa.

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English translation, since I would like to repost the question about modems
to the list:

All right. I'm gonna use xf86config.

I've already read the page about modems. Even this one:
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html. And I concluded that if I would
buy an ISA modem (which I believe was expansive: R$ 150, against winmodem's
R$ 50 to 60), that would be a good shot that the modem would be a hardware
modem. Well, I'm still convict that the modem is really a hardware modem
(the card is s big). Actually, the page
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html says that the Venus Chipset is
OK,  but the system doesn't detect it.


So, please, if anyone know this board: Lucent Venus Voice Modem, I would
(really) appreciate some help.





  
Jeronimo
  
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<[EMAIL PROTECTED]cc:   

et.com.br>  Assunto: Re: Unidentified 
subject!

  
01/08/00 21:44  
  

  

  



:: On Tue, 1 Aug 2000 19:17:19 -0300, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

> Hi, debian users.
> I'm a newbie (mostly).
> Can someone help me?

É pra isso que estamos aí!

> I'm installing Debian (2.2, which I downloaded from the net) on my
> computer, and I have the following problems:

> 1) My monitor turns off (energy saving) when I call XF86Setup. I believe
> it's because the monitor (a LG StudioWorks 520) is Plug-and-Play, it
sends
> information to the CPU (and it is expecting some answer back) , etc. How
> can I fix that?

Use xf86config  e não o XF86Setup. o xf86config trabalha em moto
texto. :-)  Eu nunca consegui usar -- e nunca precisei -- do
XF86Setup.

> 2) After reading a lot about modems, I bought a Lucent Venus Voice Modem,
> which is ISA, which is a big card (lots of hard on it), which is a fine
> modem with Windows 98, achieving the velocity of 115 Kbps, and I believed
> it was NOT a Host Controlled Modem, WinModem and all this kind of stuff.
I
> ran pppconfig, but my modem is not detected. Is it a winmodem? Is there
> something I can do to get my modem working? Is it a REAL MODEM? Or I
> cheated myself?

Acho que informações sobre isso estão em http://www.linmodems.org

Existem drivers para winmodems (mas só uns poucos)...

Sugestão, se esse aí não funcionar mesmo: compre um modem externo (se
não for muito caro p/vc), e plugue na porta serial. Acho que não é
difícil achar um US Robotics externo por aí... Pelo menos tinha na
última vez que olhei em  http://www.awi.com.br/

> TIA,
> Gaucho.

Boa sorte!
J.

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RE: simple language for pop-up messages in X?

[Michalowski Thierry]

Title: RE: simple language for pop-up messages in X?





Last thing you could use is a nice program called "xbiff". Displays a "US-like" mailbox and raises the flag when a new mail arrives.

Pretty nice, even if the default xbiff alone is a bit ugly. There are nicer displays out there, I know of one for WindowMaker.

HTH
Thierry


> -Original Message-
> From: David Purton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 10:16 AM
> To: Debian User List
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: simple language for pop-up messages in X?
> 
> 
> If you're using Enlightenment, you can use:
> 
> eesh -e 'dialog_ok New Mail!'
> 
> 
> ---
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> 
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RE: Why not Standard, Pre-Release, and Development versions?

[Michalowski Thierry]

Title: RE: Why not Standard, Pre-Release, and Development versions?





I think he simply suggest to call the distributions with less pejorative names.
Many users are afraid of "frozen" or "unstable" or "radioactive" software, so they may just lay way back in the Debian versioning because they are afraid of the name, not because they _do_ want the bullet-proof stability of the "stable" Debian version.

This would lead to these links:


standard     --> slink
prerelease   --> potato
development  --> woody


exactly replacing these:


stable   --> slink
frozen   --> potato
unstable --> woody


My .02 € 
Thierry


> -Original Message-
> From: Brian May [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 8:59 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Why not Standard, Pre-Release, and Development versions?
> 
> 
> > "montefin" == montefin  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> montefin> Is there any requirement that Debian releases _must_ be
> montefin> labeled Stable, Frozen and Unstable?
> 
> montefin> IMO, those labels are misleading and/or unnecassrily
> montefin> pejorative.
> 
> Not sure what the problem is...
> 
> montefin> Certainly, today, Slink is the current Standard Debian
> montefin> version.
> 
> so, the following symlinks are currently used:
> 
> stable   --> slink
> frozen   --> potato
> unstable --> woody
> 
> montefin> Soon it will be displaced, as the Standard version, by
> montefin> Potato, which hopefully will soon emerge from its
> montefin> Pre-Release lockdown.
> 
> When potato is officially released, the sym-links will change:
> 
> stable   --> potato
> unstable --> woody
> 
> If I have missed the point, somebody else can fill in the details
> I missed ;-).
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> 
> 
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X server

[Nianwei Xing]

Hi, debians:
I have a problem about X server: after I login from my
account and type "startx", it give me the following
error message:
Authentication failed--cannot startx X server
-X11 TransSocketUNIXConnect: can't connect: errno=111
Xinit: connection refused(errno=111): unable to
connect to server
Xinit: No such process(errno=3):server error:
However, when I login as root, the x server works.
Does anybody know how to fix this problem?
Thanks in advance!

Nianwei


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new PC disk problem?

[Peter S Galbraith]

I received a new Dell computer last week, and after a backup of
my system tar reported problems with one file.  While trying to
read that file, I get I/O errors:

 hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
 hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=10360592, 
sector=4464737
 end_request: I/O error, dev 03:02 (hda), sector 4464737

Bad disk?
Should I contact Dell or test-torture it some more?

Re: debian rocks

[jbardin]

And Debian Still ROCKS...


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Re: how to use ae to mark blocks and copy/paste/cut?

[David Wright]

Quoting Li Wei ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

 Subject: how to use ae to mark blocks and copy/paste/cut?

Perhaps try using Ctrl-Space instead of Ctrl-@ to start a block.

Ctrl-W cuts. Ctrl-Y pastes. Ctrl-W Ctrl-Y copies (i.e. you have
to fake it.

Beware, ae still puts the cursor in the wrong position when there
are linelengths == screenwidth being displayed.

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Re: Man -K

[Andrew Sullivan]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 01:54:42PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Piotr Krukowiecki wrote:
> 
> > I wonder why debian have man without -K option (searching
> > through body of manpage, not only title), unlike RH or Suse
> > 
> This functionality is given by the "apropos(1)" command. "man man" still
> describes "man -k" though. I guess this counts as a bug...

I thought the original poster was talking about a _full body_ search
of the man pages.  Do RH and SuSE really do that?  Certainly, apropos
doesn't -- it searches the description (at least on my system).

man -k works fine here, though, on potato.

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java

[Goeman Stefan]

Hello,


I know, this is not really a question about Debian.

The question is actually very simple. I want to convert a 
string to a double.

There is a method in the java.lang.Double named 
 parseDouble

When I insert a line like 
double d = Double.parseDouble(x);
in my program, I get the error:
Method parseDouble(java.lang.String) not found in class java.lang.Double


There is also another method in the java.lang.Double class that should do
the same,
i.e. method valueOf

Now, when I insert a line like
double d = Double.valueOf(x);
in the program, i get the error:
Incompatible type for declaration. Can't convert java.lang.Double to double.

in the program, 
(Casting does not solve this problem)


Does anybody know what is going wrong??


Greetings,

Stefan.

Re: Man -K

[pseelig]

On 2 Aug 2000, John Hasler wrote:

> Paul Seelig writes:
> > This functionality is given by the "apropos(1)" command. "man man" still
> > describes "man -k" though. I guess this counts as a bug...
> 
> Why?  'man -k' works fine.
> 
You are right, i had an alias "man -P less" for man which resulted in a
not working "man -k".  Sorry for the confusion.

Cheers, P. *8^)