Re: kill: cannot kill some processes

[Nate Amsden]

Brian Stults wrote:
> 
> As the subject indicates, there are some processes that hang and cannot
> be killed.  Specifically, occasionally dselect will hang while trying to
> install a package.  After waiting for a long time, I try both Ctrl-c and
> Ctrl-z and neither will work.  Then I try to kill the process from
> another xterm.  It looks as if the kill worked, but when I do a ps, the
> job is still there.  It also just happened with df.  I use this to kill:
> 
> kill -9 [pid]
> 
> Any suggestions?

does the process list "Z" under STAT ? if it is the process has gone
zombied and i don't think there is much you can do. sometimes zombie'd
processes die on their own eventually many times they will not die until
you reboot ..

its rare..but it can happen.

nate
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Re: easy sound config ?

[Jed Strauss]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 09:00:40PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> what url did you find sndconfig on?
> 
> Thank you


I _think_ this is the one I used:

http://www.dicea.unifi.it/ftp/pub/linux/debian/pool/main/s/sndconfig/

This has the right version anyway -- sndconfig_0.57-5_i386.deb> 

Re: can you masq cable modem??

[Lance Levsen]

> Proably a stupid question since it is all really related to IP's
> 
> But do you get an IP on cable just like you do DSL???
> 

Yes, no problem. Multi-home the gateway machine and set up ipchains for 
masquerading to/from your LAN.

Cheers,
-- 
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Product Innovation
PWGroup - S'toon.
477-3166

Re: dist-upgrade badly broken-XFree86

[Ross Boylan]

Thanks for the pointer.  I've got the installs done, though there are 
definitely still some problems.

For the benefit of those who know even less than I, before you try the
dpkg you need to get or locate the corresponding .deb file.  For example,
I changed to the directory of the apt cache, and looked up the exact name
from the script:
dpkg --force-overwrite --install xbase-clients_4.0.2-1_i386.deb 

I was reluctant to do the configure without having gotten through the first 
step, so I did a series of apt-get (both -f install and dist-upgrade) 
interleaved
with dpkg --force-overwrite.  It was pretty ugly.

I filed a bug against general, which has already been closed!  Apparently xfree
has been cleaned up, but the changes haven't made it into woody.

I now have the gdm login screen showing, but every time I try to login it fails.
I haven't had a chance to look into it much--maybe my use of an X font server
is running aground on the new stricter access policies (not tcp X server) I took
as defaults.

On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 03:44:07PM -0600, Lance Levsen wrote:
> > I just rendered my system basically unusable doing an apt-get dist-upgrade.
> > I was aiming for woody; my system was potato + bits of woody.  The problem 
> > seems to be with XFree86; I was on 3.3.
> > 
> > I had debug logging enabled on apt-get, so I can provide gory details.  But 
> > here are the highlights:
> 
> > Preparing to replace xbase-clients 3.3.6-11potato15 (using 
> > .../xbase-clients_4.0.2-1_i386.deb) ...
> > Note: Removing obsolete /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit directory.
> > Unpacking replacement xbase-clients ...
> > D000400: does_replace ... found old, version 0:3.3.2.3a-9
> > dpkg: error processing /usr/var/apt/archives/xbase-clients_4.0.2-1_i386.deb 
> > (--unpack):
> >   trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config', which is also in package 
> > xserver-common
> > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> > 
> > Subsequent attempt to apt-get -f install or apt-get remove various packages 
> > fail because of dependency problems.
> > 
> > Any suggestions how to proceed?  And should I report this as a bug against 
> > apt-get, xfree, none, both?
> 
> I don't know which package to report against, but you could do 
> 
> $> dpkg --force-overwrite --install xbase-clients
> 
> That should fix that problem, then do a $> dpkg -a --configure to fix the 
> pending stuff.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
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> Product Innovation
> PWGroup - S'toon.
> 477-3166
> 
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Re: can you masq cable modem??

[Carl Fink]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 08:46:34PM -0800, Nick wrote:
 
> But do you get an IP on cable just like you do DSL???

Yes.  I have used IP Masquerade with my Cablevision service and 3Com
cable modem on occasion, though usually I only have one PC up and
running at a time.
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can you masq cable modem??

[Nick]

Proably a stupid question since it is all really 
related to IP's
 
But do you get an IP on cable just like you do 
DSL???

Re: How to install app from source code?

[Wes Wannemacher]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 03:41:39PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> I can start gnome-session, then mount CDROM #4 from 6 disk set, and then find 
> the .gz and .dsc files.  But that's as far as I can get.  Which debian 
> install untility will work with these packages?  I could try to do it from 
> command line if that would help.  If I click on a .tar.gz file the Olde M$h*t 
> way in the Gnome File Manager, the source code will display as text, but no 
> install program gets initiated.  
> 
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Normally one could just untar and unzip the file

tar -xvzf someprogramv1.2.3.tar.gz

(Be careful, the above will normally put the files contained therein in
their own subdirectory, but I have had programs that expand a bunch of
files into the current directory. There is an option that you can
specify to tar that will only show you the filenames contained in an
archive `man tar` for details)

Next you need to configure the source code to understand the platform it
will be compiled under, also you may want to override some options like
put everything in /usr instead of /usr/local. You will need to read the
docs that come with the archive but the following is usually the first
thing I try:

./configure --help

This has to be run from the top level of the uncompressed archive. 
Next you need to compile everything:

make

The configure script will detect and setup everything in the 'Makefile'.
If done properly, typing make is usually sufficient, if more is
necessary the docs with the program will indicate such.
Next you need to install the binaries in the appropriate place:

make install

Lather, rinse, repeat! As a general rule, though, use the debian package
that accomplishes whatever you are looking for. This will make your life
a lot easier. If you need more help, next time try RTFM ;)

-> Wes


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Re: pppd problems with 2.4.1

[John Hasler]

Tiarnan O Corrain writes:
> for some reason pppd doesn't work under the 2.4.1 kernel.
> ...
> Any suggestions?

Put 'kdebug 4' in /etc/ppp/options, try again, and post the result.
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Re: pppd problems with 2.4.1

[CaT]

On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 04:19:37AM +, Tiarnan O Corrain wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> for some reason pppd doesn't work under the 2.4.1 kernel. I have a
> 2.4.0 kernel installed on my computer which invokes pppd perfectly,
> but when I try pon under 2.4.1, I get the following melancholy missive
> (from watch plog)...

add a testing deb-src line in your sources.list

apt-get update

apt-get -b source pppd

dpkg --install pppd*.deb

pppd support changed in 2.4.1 and you need the latest to get things
going again. It';s back compat so don't worry and I've been running
it since 2.4.1 came out without a single hassle (current connect
is 3 days old)

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pppd problems with 2.4.1

[Tiarnan O Corrain]

Hey all,

for some reason pppd doesn't work under the 2.4.1 kernel. I have a
2.4.0 kernel installed on my computer which invokes pppd perfectly,
but when I try pon under 2.4.1, I get the following melancholy missive
(from watch plog)...

Feb 23 04:13:29 mousetrap chat[259]: ATDT1332103001235^M^M
Feb 23 04:13:29 mousetrap chat[259]: CONNECT
Feb 23 04:13:29 mousetrap chat[259]:  -- got it
Feb 23 04:13:29 mousetrap chat[259]: send (\d)
Feb 23 04:13:30 mousetrap chat[259]: send (\d)
Feb 23 04:13:31 mousetrap pppd[258]: Serial connection established.
Feb 23 04:13:31 mousetrap pppd[258]: Couldn't set tty to PPP discipline: Invalid
 argument
Feb 23 04:13:32 mousetrap pppd[258]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
Feb 23 04:13:32 mousetrap pppd[258]: Exit.

Any suggestions?

Tiarnan

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Re: Problems with loading libraries, ldconfig, etc.

[Brian May]

> "Daniel" == Daniel Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Daniel> Hello all, I am having trouble getting a commercial app
Daniel> (matlab V5.3 R11.1) to run in Debian 2.2.  Mathworks (the
Daniel> makers of matlab) do not support it on Debian 2.2 probably
Daniel> because it is a libc5 compiled app. Here is the output I
Daniel> get when attempting to run matlab:

Daniel>   $ matlab /opt/matlab/V11.1/bin/lnx86/matlab: can't load
Daniel> library 'libXt.so.6'

Daniel> Ok, so my limited understanding tells me to check ldconfig
Daniel> for libXt.so.6:

Daniel>   # ldconfig -v | grep libXt libXtst.so.6 =>
Daniel> libXtst.so.6.1 libXt.so.6 => libXt.so.6.0

Daniel> or

Daniel>   # locate libXt.so.6 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6
Daniel> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0

My guess is that this is the libc6 version of the library.

You need the libc5 version of the library.
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Re: scsi emulation

[Roberto Diaz]

Hi!

Obviously you lack some module.. what scsi modules did you compile?

> /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/scsi/sg.o: unresolved symbol scsi_command_size
> /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/scsi/sg.o: unresolved symbol scsi_dma_free_sectors
> /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/scsi/sg.o: unresolved symbol scsi_release_command
> /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/scsi/sg.o: unresolved symbol scsi_unregister_module
> /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/scsi/sg.o: unresolved symbol

Regards

Roberto


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Re: scsi emulation

[Matthew Dalton]

"Michael P. Soulier" wrote:
> 
> So I'm told I need scsi emulation for my IDE CD writer and xcdroast. So, I
> recompile 2.2.18pre21 with scsi support, emulation and scsi cdrom support.
> xcdroast still complains.

[cut]

> Help?

http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html

scsi emulation

[Michael P. Soulier]

So I'm told I need scsi emulation for my IDE CD writer and xcdroast. So, I
recompile 2.2.18pre21 with scsi support, emulation and scsi cdrom support.
xcdroast still complains. 
So, I try them as modules instead, and get this

lupus:~# depmod -a
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/scsi/scsi_mod.o
lupus:~# xcdroast
lupus:~# insmod sg
Using /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/scsi/sg.o
/lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/scsi/sg.o: unresolved symbol scsi_ioctl_send_command
/lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/scsi/sg.o: unresolved symbol scsi_command_size
/lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/scsi/sg.o: unresolved symbol scsi_dma_free_sectors
/lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/scsi/sg.o: unresolved symbol scsi_release_command
/lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/scsi/sg.o: unresolved symbol scsi_unregister_module
/lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/scsi/sg.o: unresolved symbol
scsi_block_when_processing_errors
/lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/scsi/sg.o: unresolved symbol scsi_allocate_device
/lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/scsi/sg.o: unresolved symbol scsi_do_cmd
/lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/scsi/sg.o: unresolved symbol scsi_init_free
/lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/scsi/sg.o: unresolved symbol print_sense
/lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/scsi/sg.o: unresolved symbol scsi_register_module
/lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/scsi/sg.o: unresolved symbol scsi_init_malloc
/lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/scsi/sg.o: unresolved symbol scsi_ioctl
/lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/scsi/sg.o: unresolved symbol scsi_sleep
/lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/scsi/sg.o: unresolved symbol scsi_free
/lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/scsi/sg.o: unresolved symbol scsi_malloc

Help?

Mike

Re: ldap & debian

[Andrew Wettstein]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 04:50:46PM -0800, Known Human Nick Rusnov wrote:
> 
> Well I'm having a heck of a time getting a freshly installed Potato box to
> authenticate with an openldap server. 
> 
> I'm new to this whole ldap thing, is there a guide somewhere to reconfiguring
> debian to use ldap for things? All the guides I've found just have a pam.conf
> example that I'm not sure how to translate into using with the pam.d setup...
> (I tried, for example, taking the lines that started with login in the 
> examples
> and addinf them to the login file in pam.d).

I'd probably apt-get -b source libpam-ldap from the unstable dist.  While
you're building it take a look that directory, it has a bunch of examples
for pam.d configs.

you may want libnss-ldap, too, but that means you're storing posixAccounts
in the ldap server.  

> 
> pam doesn't seem to produce much debugging inyformation, but it did produce 
> some
> lines saying incorrect (or was that insufficient?) credentials.. this is 
> wether
> I have it bind as the admin acccount or not.

yeah it doesn't.  i had a heck of a time setting it up myself.  i can help
you out if you need more help, but you probably want to CC me because I
don't keep up with list on a regular basis.

> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> I'd be really suprised if there were no debian-specific info out there, given
> that the whole debian cluster seems to use ldap for everything.

which debian cluster?

> 
> thanks
> 
> as always,
> nick
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Re: resolv.conf gets modified on boot

[Lex McPhail]

On 22 Feb 2001, at 9:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Are you using pumpd and dhcp?
> 
> Tray a /etc/pump.conf
> --
> domainsearch "host.mydhcpserver.com"
> 
> retries 3
> device eth0 {
>   nodns
> }

I'm using pumpd for dhcp. Cant seem to find much info on it and my 
system does not have a /etc/pump.conf file. Anyone know where there 
is info on setting pumpd up?

Changed the eth0 to a static IP address and all seems to be ok.

Thanks

Lex

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Re: CUPS problem

[Andrew Wettstein]

On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 03:17:44PM -0500, David Grill Watson wrote:
> I am having a very odd problem with CUPS under sid. It works fine on two 
> computers, but on another (with the same version of CUPS, installed at the 
> same time, and with nothing particularly odd about the system config) I can 
> only use the IPP backend.

this is some kind of timing issue.  keep doing a /etc/init.d/cups restart
and then look at the printing backends and they should keep changing.

you can either use version 1.1.16 off the cups web site, or go with the
other soluting mentioned and use lprng and magicfilter, which is what I did.

> 
> When I try to add a printer from the web interface, I'm not even given the 
> option of using anything besides the IPP backend (which is listed twice) or a 
> disk file. As you can guess, this makes setting up a local printer more than 
> a bit difficult.
> 
> I've tried dpkg --purge on all the CUPS packages, deleting all of the config 
> files just to be safe (well, really just the /etc/cups directory), and 
> reinstalling all the packages multiple times, but the other backends just 
> won't show up. They are there in /usr/lib/cups/backend, but for some reason 
> CUPS is not detecting them.
> 
> I can print to a network CUPS server with no problems.
> 
> I'm really at a loss as to what the problem might be.
> 
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Re: importing gnuplot eps into microsoft word

[Mark Mackenzie]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 12:48:46AM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote:
> Word is broken with eps.  If you can find an eps to wmf translator,
> that'd be your best bet (I recall someone working on one somewhere...).

Yes this did the trick. It looks like pstoedit (which is packaged for
debian) does have an eps2wmf translator, but only for the windows
version AFAICS.  

The windows version of pstoedit keeps segfaulting for me (who knows
though, it may work for others and I didn't read the docs). However, 
gsview also includes pstoedit.

So, for anyone else in this predicament, grab gs650w32.exe & gsv36w32.exe
from your local mirror. And voila, eps2wmf translations.

I'll try to work out why debian cannot pstoedit -f wmf my.ps  
The man page seems to indicate that it should work.

Regards,
Mark.

Re: easy sound config ?

[Jed Strauss]

On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 11:13:32PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> > I just recently made the switch from Red Hat 6 to Debian 2.2.
> > On RedHat there was a little program called sndconfig that did
> > a nice job of recognizing my sound card and getting sound set up
> > for my system. Is there a similar utility for Debian? Or a pointer
> > to awebsite would also be appreciated.
> 
> I'd suggest a nice little utility called "sndconfig" ;-)
> 
> Yeah, it's pretty much the same one you used with RedHat, just "ported"
> to take care of the differences in file locations, etc. Use apt-get to
> download and install it.
> 
> Hall
> 
Thanks, that worked. I couldn't find it on the official distribution.
A quick search on yahoo under 'sndconfig' found it, though (Can't remember
where, sorry!)
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kill: cannot kill some processes

[Brian Stults]

As the subject indicates, there are some processes that hang and cannot
be killed.  Specifically, occasionally dselect will hang while trying to
install a package.  After waiting for a long time, I try both Ctrl-c and
Ctrl-z and neither will work.  Then I try to kill the process from
another xterm.  It looks as if the kill worked, but when I do a ps, the
job is still there.  It also just happened with df.  I use this to kill:

kill -9 [pid]

Any suggestions?
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Re: VMware install

[Gregory T. Norris]

On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 01:48:10AM +, SamBozo Debian User wrote:
> So where are the C header files it wants?

They're part of your the kernel source tree.  If you're running one of
the Debian-supplied kernels (or using kernel-package to generate your
own kernel debs) you can probably just install the associated
kernel-headers-* package, then point vmware to
/usr/src/kernel-headers-X.X.XX/include/.  If you compile your own
kernels without using kernel-package then you need to point it to your
kernel source tree, which must already be configured... i.e.
/path/to/my/kernel/linux-X.X.XX/include/.


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Re: apt-get wants to remove gnucash!?

[Eric G. Miller]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 11:31:30AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
> gnucash does, or at least is planned to, use guile, so I'm not sure
> it's a dependency error.  You don't say what dist you are moving from
> and to.  I was able to install gnucash on my system, which is potato
> with a bit of woody.

There is a circular dependency error with libguile9 and gnucash in
unstable.  Hopefully the responsible party will get it fixed soon.

> On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 09:53:55PM +1100, Jonathan David Wheelhouse wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > Needless to say I _don't_ want gnucash removed but the following seems
> > to be a mistake in dependencies.
> > 
> > I've cut other bits out that seem to be irrelevant.
> > 
> > apt-get dist-upgrade says
> > The following packages will be REMOVED:
> >   gnucash guile1.3 libguile6 libguile6-slib libguile9-dev libguppi-dev 
> > 
> > dselect reveals
> > 
> > gnucash depends on guile1.3
> > ...
> > gnucash depends on libguile9 (>= 1.4-6)
> > 
> > guile1.3 depends on libguile6
> > 
> > libguile9 conflicts with libguile6

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booting a rescue disk

[Michael P. Soulier]

Hey people. I picked up an old Toshiba T4700CT laptop, and I'm trying to
replace win95 on it. I can't seem to get the rescue image to boot. I've tried
about 3 different boot disks, tested on my P-III, and they work, but on the
Toshiba I just get a "boot failed" error message. I've tried a win98 boot disk
and that works, but it doesn't seem to like the bootloader on the rescue disk. 

Any ideas?

Mike

Re: rpm dependencies problem (yes, rpm!)

[Eric G. Miller]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 10:13:44PM +0100, Tibor D. wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to install a software-package on Debian potato. It's "Novell 
> NDS 8.5". The good thing is, that it needs a 2.2-kernel and glibc 
> v.2.1.3, exactly what potato comes with. But: I'm unable to install that 
> program, because it's installation is really dirty. On the install-CD, 
> there are lots of *.rpms, which are installed by some obscure 
> install-script (not directly with rpm). Now the problem is, that the 
> installation breaks, because it says, some packages are not installed 
> (glibc not found, /bin/sh not found etc). But they are installed, I 

Do you have noexec or ro in your /etc/fstab entry for the CD.  I expect
you'll still have problems, since it will probably look for Redhat's
/etc/init.d/rc.d/ directory structure...

> think "rpm" is just not aware of that. Is there a way to tell rpm (maybe 
> with alien?), what packages/files are installed (eventhough they are 
> *.deb packages?).
> TIA,
> Greetings,
> Tibor
 

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Re: Woody ssh exploit

[Pollywog]

On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 18:03:53 -0700, Ray Percival said:

> To solve this issue with Woody I just leave the line for the 
>  stable security updates in my sources file. I get the security 
>  updates before they are in Woody. Is there any reason this would 
>  not be a good idea? 

That is what I do and it seems to work.  I do read the security
bulletin first though, and I look for anything along the lines of "Do
not install this update on a Woody system".

--
Andrew

Re: Confused! Confused! hotplug, kmod, kerneld, devfs, devfsd

[Chun Kit Edwin Lau]

thanx.. the reason I am asking this is that I want my Visor Deluxe work
under Debian using gnome pilot.. but I have no luck with compile in visor
code, or modules. and I just wondering if it has anything to do with
hotplug and devfsd

Edwin lau
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 18:59:48 Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 01:47:37PM -0500, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > 
> > It is strictly speaking not a Debian question, but since I am
> using
> > Debian... please help!! I am having trouble trying to sort out what
> each
> > one of these things do: hotplug, kmod, kerneld, devfs, devfsd. I know
> they
> > are not the same, but I don't know the differences. I check out the
> man,
> > howtos and various documentation and still don't know what they really
> are.
> > please help me explaining them. thanx
> 
> kmod is just an option in the kernel configuration to automatically
> load kernel modules on demand.  there is no userland daemon to worry
> about (just modutils which contains /sbin/modprobe) 
> 
> hotplug is something very similar to kmod, its new with USB, its only
> needed if you use USB extensivly and need certain actions to be
> performed whem some devices are attached to the USB bus.  
> 
> devfs is optional, you don't need it.  don't turn it on unless you
> want to break your system, you must know what your doing to mess with
> it.  
> 
> devfsd adds symlinks to the fake devfs to make it compatible with the
> standard naming convention.  you don't need it if you don't use
> devfs.  
> 
> -- 
> Ethan Benson
> http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
> 

Edwin Lau ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

VMware install

[SamBozo Debian User]

Here is the error:

-
Trying to find a suitable vmmon module for your running kernel.

None of VMware's pre-built vmmon modules is suitable for your running
kernel. Do
you want this script to try to build the vmmon module for your system
(you need 
to have a C compiler installed on your system)? [yes] 

What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your
running 
kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] 

The path "/usr/src/linux/include" is not an existing directory.

I tried:

What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your
running 
kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] /usr/include

The directory of kernel headers (version 2.2.15) does not match your
running 
kernel (version 2.2.17). Consequently, even if the compilation of the
module was
successful, the module would not load into the running kernel.

So where are the C header files it wants?

TIA,
Sam Morgan

Re: Debian or Redhat 7???

[Mike Fedyk]

Tal Danzig wrote:
> 
> There are no mirrors of security.debian.org (or shouldn't be)
> for security reasons.
> This way the authenticity of security packages can be better controlled.
> 
> - Tal
What about local mirrors?

I can imagine a company with several hundred, or maybe thousands of debian
workstations upgrading at the same time directly from the security.debian.org
site.

They could setup a caching proxy, or a mirror.  Are both available?  I know
someone could mirror with wget or some other mirror package through http, but
I'd prefer rsync...

Mike

Bluefish install

[SamBozo Debian User]

Hi all,
I want to install bluefish 0.6.1-1 however there are dependancy
problems. I might have a shot at doing this on my old Mandrake box ...
but with Debian 2.2 I have no clue. I tried looking with dselect but had
no luck. Yes I know there is an earlier version but I don't like the
features it's missing from the 0.6.1 I was using before.

Here is the feedback I got:
---
:/hold204/dl# /usr/lib/mc/extfs/deb run
/hold204/dl/bluefish_0.6.1-1_i386.deb INSTALL
Installing /hold204/dl/bluefish_0.6.1-1_i386.deb
Selecting previously deselected package bluefish.
(Reading database ... 46900 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking bluefish (from .../dl/bluefish_0.6.1-1_i386.deb) ...

dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of bluefish:
 bluefish depends on gdk-imlib1 (>= 1.9.8.1-1); however:
  Version of gdk-imlib1 on system is 1.9.8-4.
 bluefish depends on libc6 (>= 2.1.97); however:
  Version of libc6 on system is 2.1.3-15.
 bluefish depends on libgtk1.2 (>= 1.2.8-2); however:
  Version of libgtk1.2 on system is 1.2.7-1.
 bluefish depends on libgtkxmhtml1 (>= 1.2.8-3); however:
  Version of libgtkxmhtml1 on system is 1.0.56-3.
 bluefish depends on libungif4g (>= 4.1-1); however:
  Package libungif4g is not installed.
 bluefish depends on xlibs (>= 4.0.1-11); however:
  Package xlibs is not installed.
dpkg: error processing bluefish (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 bluefish
---

One other question, I ran the .deb by hitting enter, while highlighting
the file, using mc. What's the proper way?

TIA
Sam Morgan

Problems with loading libraries, ldconfig, etc.

[Daniel Hartman]

Hello all,

I am having trouble getting a commercial app (matlab V5.3 R11.1) to run
in Debian 2.2.  Mathworks (the makers of matlab) do not support it on
Debian 2.2 probably because it is a libc5 compiled app. Here is the
output I get when attempting to run matlab:

  $ matlab
  /opt/matlab/V11.1/bin/lnx86/matlab: can't load library 'libXt.so.6'

Ok, so my limited understanding tells me to check ldconfig for
libXt.so.6:

  # ldconfig -v | grep libXt
  libXtst.so.6 => libXtst.so.6.1
  libXt.so.6 => libXt.so.6.0

or

  # locate libXt.so.6
  /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6
  /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0
  
So why is it not getting loaded?  Here is my /etc/ld.so.conf:

  /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d
  /usr/X11R6/lib
  /usr/lib/libc5-compat
  /lib/libc5-compat

I tried the following:

  # cd /lib
  # ln -s ../usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 libXt.so.6
  # ldconfig
 
and then tried running matlab:

  $ matlab
  /opt/matlab/V11.1/bin/lnx86/matlab: can't load library 'libX11.so.6'

Can anyone tell me what's going on here?  Why will it load from /lib but
not /usr/X11R6/lib?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Sincerely,

Dan

ldap & debian

[Known Human Nick Rusnov]

Well I'm having a heck of a time getting a freshly installed Potato box to
authenticate with an openldap server. 

I'm new to this whole ldap thing, is there a guide somewhere to reconfiguring
debian to use ldap for things? All the guides I've found just have a pam.conf
example that I'm not sure how to translate into using with the pam.d setup...
(I tried, for example, taking the lines that started with login in the examples
and addinf them to the login file in pam.d).

pam doesn't seem to produce much debugging inyformation, but it did produce some
lines saying incorrect (or was that insufficient?) credentials.. this is wether
I have it bind as the admin acccount or not.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I'd be really suprised if there were no debian-specific info out there, given
that the whole debian cluster seems to use ldap for everything.

thanks

as always,
nick
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Re: Drivers for ASUS K7M onboard audio

[John Galt]

On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Larry Fletcher wrote:

>I would like to upgrade from a 486 to Duron based system, but I don't
>want to have to compile a kernel.  After reading the following it looks

Nothing stopping you: the Duron uses the Intel 80386 instruction set with
a LOT of additions.  Yopu just own't get some of the benefits of a Duron
is all...

>like the standard kernel would work.  Am I right or would I be better
>off with a Celeron based system?

Whichever trips your trigger

>Larry
>
>On Feb 21, 2001, studenten wg wrote:
>> hi !!
>>
>> i have a k7m and the onboard sound worked fine with the standard "potato"
>> modules...
>> it's the via68xxx and ac97 (insert them with modconf)
>>
>> i now have a 2.4.1 kernel and compiled the same modules and it still works...
>>
>> at my first install, i had in mind that the onBoard sound was complicated ( i
>> tried that with suse 6.2 one year ago ) so i first compiled the alsa-drivers
>> for the via686xxx and that worked also fine (then i just tried the kernel
>> modules and kicked alsa )...
>>
>> hope i could help...
>>
>> peter
>
>
>

-- 
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decisions.

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Re: Newbie Question - Corel and GNU/Linux Compatibility

[John Galt]

On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Shawn Urquhart wrote:

>I have a Corel distro on my laptop - it installed nicely with little
>input from me.

Unfortunately, that's true.  It just substituted it's judgement on your
hardware for yours.  That sucks when you know that yours is better...

>I have PURCHASED the Debian GNU/Linux from a store for 20 US. ( It came
>with a terrific bumper sticker!)

Ahh, the O'Reilly/SGI copy.

>I would like to replace Corel with Deb GNU and wondered if there were any
>pitfalls to be aware of.

Absolutely none.  the ORA and the Corel are based on the same libraries,
etc.  You can use packages from one in the other, assuming the
dependencies are fulfilled.  BTW, they're both one (almost two now)
distribution behind: they're both Slink (Debian 2.1) with 2.2 kernels,
Debian has since moved on to potato (2.2r2) and is in the process of
moving on again to woody.

>Please cc my address directly as well as the list - I have limited
>bandwidth for email and was overwhelmed by the list.
>
>I was not able to use apt-get with Corel - it seems to want a dedicated
>internet connect and I don't have that.

?!  The default apt configuration in Corel is the CD+the FTP site.
Comment out the "deb ftp... " line and it should work fine.  I think
you'll have the same problem with the ORA CD if the aforementioned is the
ONLY problem (the solution is similar).  Basically the reason it wants a
dedicated connection is that part of the use of apt is to efficently keep
your system updated from remote servers.  If it's simply a CD package
setup, dpkg or dselect is a much better option.

>Thanks !
>Shawn
>
>
>
>

-- 
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decisions.

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Re: QuarkExpress equivalent on Linux?

[Richard Taylor]

>   From: "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 10:26:11PM -0800, Richard  Taylor wrote:
>
>>  And... then, you got the Gnome Office stuff... www.gnome.org
>
>The most recently is at Ximian, www.ximian.com. Abiword is maturing but
>it's got a ways to go yet. 
>Staroffice 5.2 impresses me not. I still can't get it to save as word 97

 I've never had a problem with it... that surprises me.

>without crashing, and I _hate_ the virtual desktop idea.

 Have you tried the Open Office stuff? {openoffice.org} I still
 don't think it will save in word but it seems to be a bit "lighter."
 --
http://www.freespeech.org/apophysis/

Re: lprng nightmare

[Roberto Diaz]

> This is a linux box.. i386 
> vivaldi:~# lpd -F
> Fatal error - Another print spooler is using TCP printer port - not LPRng
> vivaldi:~# fuser -n tcp 515
> vivaldi:~# fuser -n udp 515

After half an hour now magically it is working.. but I am having this
problem a lot of times.. each time the lpd daemon is restarted at times it
is not able to run due to this problem..

:? 

Regards

Roberto


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Re: QuarkExpress equivalent on Linux?

[John Galt]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Michael P. Soulier wrote:

>On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 09:24:04PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote:
>> Richard  Taylor wrote:
>> >
>> >  There's Adobe's port of Framemaker or the Corel stuff... WordPerfect
>> >  and so forth.
>> >
>>
>> On Linux? I didn't know. Same name?
>
>WordPerfect, yes, but Adobe has cancelled the Beta of Frame on Linux, and
>word is that they don't plan to continue.

Additional information: Corel once (and sort of still...) did a Debian
based distribution.  The first edition included a .deb of the full version
of WP 8.  Apparently, they make a WINE-ized version of WP 2000.

BTW, the Corel debian-ish distro's apt line was:

deb ftp://ftp.corel.com/pub/linux/CorelLinux corellinux-1.0 main contrib
non-free corel corel_updates

It also had apt lines for slink, so be advised that the WP 8 deb might not
work post-potato (I used it once with plain potato).  They have since come
out with corellinux-2.0, but I don't rightly know the apt line for it (I
would assume s/1/2, but I ain't going to bet the farm on it...)

>Mike
>
>
>

-- 
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decisions.

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Re: Confused! Confused! hotplug, kmod, kerneld, devfs, devfsd

[Ethan Benson]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 01:47:37PM -0500, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
>   It is strictly speaking not a Debian question, but since I am using
> Debian... please help!! I am having trouble trying to sort out what each
> one of these things do: hotplug, kmod, kerneld, devfs, devfsd. I know they
> are not the same, but I don't know the differences. I check out the man,
> howtos and various documentation and still don't know what they really are.
> please help me explaining them. thanx

kmod is just an option in the kernel configuration to automatically
load kernel modules on demand.  there is no userland daemon to worry
about (just modutils which contains /sbin/modprobe) 

hotplug is something very similar to kmod, its new with USB, its only
needed if you use USB extensivly and need certain actions to be
performed whem some devices are attached to the USB bus.  

devfs is optional, you don't need it.  don't turn it on unless you
want to break your system, you must know what your doing to mess with
it.  

devfsd adds symlinks to the fake devfs to make it compatible with the
standard naming convention.  you don't need it if you don't use
devfs.  

-- 
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Re: How to install app from source code?

[Daniel Jones]

On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 15:41:39 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>I can start gnome-session, then mount CDROM #4 from 6 disk set, and then find 
>the .gz and .dsc files.  But that's as far as I can get.  Which debian 
>install untility will work with these packages?  I could try to do it from 
>command line if that would help.  If I click on a .tar.gz file the Olde M$h*t 
>way in the Gnome File Manager, the source code will display as text, but no 
>install program gets initiated.

Most programs distributed this way are source.  That means
you have to compile them.  TTBOMK, there is no "install
program" which will do all of the work for you.  make
handles a lot of it, but you still have to walk through the
process on the command line.

You need to copy the .gz files to your hard drive.  I
usually use /usr/src but that's optional.  Then, untar and
unzip the source using

tar -xzpvf myfile.tar.gz

This will put the source into it's own subdirectory.  Inside
that subdirectory you will usually find a README or INSTALL
file.  Sometimes it will be in a /doc directory.  This
should tell you exactly what you need to do to install the
compile and install the program.

Sometimes, it's as simple as running make with no arguments.
Sometimes, you have to run a series of "make" commands.
For example, compiling a kernel involves something along the
lines of:

make mrproper (or make clean)
make config (or menuconfig or xconfig)
make dep
make bzImage
make modules
make modules-install

And, of course, all this assumes that you have make, a
compiler and possibly various development packages
installed.  If not, you'll have to install those packages
first but they should be available via get-apt/dpkg (or the
dselect front end).  You might want to check and see if the
program you're trying to install is available as a deb
package.  Some programs, however, aren't and you either
compile them or do without them.  For better or worse,
Debian isn't Windows and you have to get at least a little
dirt on your hands.

Confused! Confused! hotplug, kmod, kerneld, devfs, devfsd

[Chun Kit Edwin Lau]

Hi everyone,

It is strictly speaking not a Debian question, but since I am using
Debian... please help!! I am having trouble trying to sort out what each
one of these things do: hotplug, kmod, kerneld, devfs, devfsd. I know they
are not the same, but I don't know the differences. I check out the man,
howtos and various documentation and still don't know what they really are.
please help me explaining them. thanx

Edwin Lau ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Wine

[debuser]

You need xlibosmesa3, perhaps only available under unstable. I believe
the wine package incorrectly does not list this as a dependency.

On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Leonard Leblanc wrote:

> Has anyone had any experience with using wine?  I am currently doing alot of
> web development at work and _really_ hate using windows.  Unfortunately, I
> don't find Gimp or any other Linux graphics alternative to match up to Adobe
> Photoshop or Imageready.  So basically what I want to know is if any has any
> success/failure stories running windows apps under linux (preferably adobe
> products)
> 
> Thanks,
> Leonard Leblanc
> Webmaster / Intranet Administrator
> Emerge Knowledge Design
> www.emergeknowledge.com
> 
> 
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Re: Dell 4200 w/perc3 raid

[Rich Puhek]

Bryan,

See the following for PERC/3 info. The first one has Debian disk images and 
kernel patches that will work great to install the PERC/3. I've never tried it 
on a 4200, but I have installed on an 2450.

http://www.merilus.com/~kevin/aacraid.html
http://domsch.com/linux/

--Rich


"Josep Llauradó Selvas" wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Bryan Hall wrote:
>
>  Upon initial setup, Debian distro doesn't appear to recognize the perc3 
> raid controller. No problem.. drivers not installed, likely.
>  Unfortunately, upon attempting to utilize the 'preload drivers' function 
> in the setup, it returns an error message stating 'Cannot mount floppy' 
> critical error, and places me at the 'configure network' screen under the 
> assumption that it's a diskless station I'm on.
>

--

_

Rich Puhek
ETN Systems Inc.
_

lprng nightmare

[Roberto Diaz]

Hi...

This is a linux box.. i386 

vivaldi:~# lpd -F
Fatal error - Another print spooler is using TCP printer port - not LPRng
vivaldi:~# fuser -n tcp 515
vivaldi:~# fuser -n udp 515



Regards

Roberto


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Re: How to get GNUCash in Sid?

[Christoph Simon]

On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 17:59:38 -0500 (EST)
Burton Windle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I know that bug reports have already been filled wrt GNUCash not being
> able to be installed in Sid. Are there any work-arounds, or other ways to
> get GNUCash usable in Sid now? Or do I just have to wait for new (guile |
> gnucash| etc) packages, and curse the day I ignored the meaning of
> unstable? ;-)

I contacted the maintainer of guile who answered that we can either
wait until the next version of gnucash is compiled with guile1.4, or
just download the sources and compile with the libraries
installed. This second option however isn't that easy because gnucash
requires a long list of things. If I didn't look too fast, gnucash in
sid is 1.4.9, while there is 1.4.10 out since little less than a
month. Maybe it'll not take too long until we get it.

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Re: rpm dependencies problem (yes, rpm!)

[Phil Brutsche]

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> Hi,
> I'm trying to install a software-package on Debian potato. It's "Novell
> NDS 8.5".

Unfortunately, Novell's NDS stuff probably won't run on Debian.  Yes, you
can debianize the .rpms, but the installer depends on glibc versions of
stuff like termcap (which debian only provides in libc5 form, a recompile
might work) and libcurses (which could probably be taken care of by a
symlink).  IIRC, of course :)  For all I know I could be getting all that
mixed up with iPlanet's (formerly Netscape's) directory server.

I'll be honest: I wouldn't trust any of that "Enterprise" stuff to run on
any distribution other than the one it was built for: RedHat 6.x.

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Mutiple X servers for login in network

[Mike G]

Hi
I'm just wonderind how can I make xdm point to a different machine. I'd 
like to have 4 xdm terminals available in my main box, I can do currently that, 
but They all point to the same (local) machine, I'd like to these xdm screens 
to let me login in a different computer in my network... 
I'm almost sure this can be done, but, anyone know how?

Thanks!

Yesterday's dist-upgrade broke qt

[Andreas Goesele]

Viktor Rosenfeld writes:
 > Hi folks,
 > 
 > I did a "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade" yesterday to the latest
 > woody tree.  IIRC, it only upgrade three libs: libmng, libqt2.2, and
 > liblcms according to /var/cache/apt/archives.
 > 
 > Well, today I log into my machine to realize that the desktop background
 > of KDE2 is broken.  When I start kdesktop from the command line, I get:
 > 
 > $ kdesktop
 > kdesktop: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/kdesktop.so:
 > undefined
 > symbol: noxim

I had the same problem and reported it to debian-kde. There I got the
following reply  from Ivan E. Moore:

"already reported on this list.  The problem was that i updated the
qt packages and forgot to update kdebase with it."

 > BTW, is there a way to down-grade via apt?

Don't know about apt. I did it with dpkg, which is easy as you have
the older deb in /var/cache/apt/archives anyway.

Andreas

Re: where to get woody iso images

[Tommi Komulainen]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 02:11:09PM -0800, Matheson Cameron wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I was wondering where I could get iso images for
> Debian woody.  I found the potato mirrors, but they
> didn't have 2.3.

AFAIK, there are no official images for woody just yet. After all, it's
still being developed and the distribution is in flux, changing weekly or
so I'd guess.

However, I happened to see someone pasting the following URL in IRC once

ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/debian-unofficial

so apparently it contains some third-party images of woody. And since it's
a third-party snapshot, use with extreme caution!


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Re: "Can't open display" problems

[Tommi Komulainen]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 04:46:27PM -0500, Trevor Wood wrote:
> 
> I just upgraded from potato to woody and found that I cannot open my
> display for X apps anymore.  My hostname is MEDESIGN, so I used to set my
> DISPLAY environment variable to MEDESIGN:0.  Now I have to set it to :0.0
> to run local X apps.

Note that when you use ssh, do *not* change the DISPLAY environment
variable once connected to the server if you wish to maintain some degree
of security with your connection. Plain X connections are plaintext and
are even vulnerable for hijacking.


> However, this won't work when I try to run an X application from a remote
> ssh connection.

You need to enable X forwarding both on the server and the client. See
/etc/ssh/ssh_config and sshd_config and look for ForwardX11 keyword.


> This sounds like an embarrassingly stupid problem, but how do I fix it?

Nothing embarassing there, your old ssh was propably replaced with OpenSSH
which has more paranoid default configuration. See above for the fix.


Note that on the contrary to the other suggestion you got, make sure that
you *do* have '-nolisten tcp' passed to your X server. There is absolutely
no need to have it enabled if you use ssh for connecting to other hosts.


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rdist as root

[Erik van der Meulen]

Hi, I would like to migrate to a new server. It seems like a good idea
to use rdist to keep the various config files in synce between the
machines. This works very well if I run rdist as ordunary user, but not
as root. This is required to be able to work with files in /etc.
I get 'Connection refused'
Can anyone please advise where to ajust those restrictions?

Thanks a lot.

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Re: rpm dependencies problem (yes, rpm!)

[John Griffiths]

>I'm trying to install a software-package on Debian potato. It's "Novell 
>NDS 8.5". The good thing is, that it needs a 2.2-kernel and glibc 
>v.2.1.3, exactly what potato comes with. But: I'm unable to install that 
>program, because it's installation is really dirty. On the install-CD, 
>there are lots of *.rpms, which are installed by some obscure 
>install-script (not directly with rpm). Now the problem is, that the 
>installation breaks, because it says, some packages are not installed 
>(glibc not found, /bin/sh not found etc). But they are installed, I 
>think "rpm" is just not aware of that. Is there a way to tell rpm (maybe 
>with alien?), what packages/files are installed (eventhough they are 
>*.deb packages?).

well what i'd do would be to copy the cd to disk, alienise the rpm's to deb 
edit the script changing .rpm to .deb and rpm -i to dpkg -i and take it for a 
spin

but i'd do a good backup first

where to get woody iso images

[Matheson Cameron]

Hey,

I was wondering where I could get iso images for
Debian woody.  I found the potato mirrors, but they
didn't have 2.3.

Thanks
Cameron Matheson


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rpm dependencies problem (yes, rpm!)

[Tibor D.]

Hi,
I'm trying to install a software-package on Debian potato. It's "Novell 
NDS 8.5". The good thing is, that it needs a 2.2-kernel and glibc 
v.2.1.3, exactly what potato comes with. But: I'm unable to install that 
program, because it's installation is really dirty. On the install-CD, 
there are lots of *.rpms, which are installed by some obscure 
install-script (not directly with rpm). Now the problem is, that the 
installation breaks, because it says, some packages are not installed 
(glibc not found, /bin/sh not found etc). But they are installed, I 
think "rpm" is just not aware of that. Is there a way to tell rpm (maybe 
with alien?), what packages/files are installed (eventhough they are 
*.deb packages?).

TIA,
Greetings,
Tibor

Re: "Can't open display" problems

[Robert L. Harris]

On your local machine you need to edit "/etc/X11/xinit/xserverc".  There's
a nice line that contains "-nolisten tcp" in it.  Remove that and restart
X.

I had the same problem.

Robert


Thus spake Trevor Wood ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

> 
> I just upgraded from potato to woody and found that I cannot open my
> display for X apps anymore.  My hostname is MEDESIGN, so I used to set my
> DISPLAY environment variable to MEDESIGN:0.  Now I have to set it to :0.0
> to run local X apps.  
> 
> However, this won't work when I try to run an X application from a remote
> ssh connection.  
> 
> This sounds like an embarrassingly stupid problem, but how do I fix it?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Trevor
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
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How to get GNUCash in Sid?

[Burton Windle]

I know that bug reports have already been filled wrt GNUCash not being
able to be installed in Sid. Are there any work-arounds, or other ways to
get GNUCash usable in Sid now? Or do I just have to wait for new (guile |
gnucash| etc) packages, and curse the day I ignored the meaning of
unstable? ;-)

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Re: IBM Thinkpad install

[jgoerz]

Cool, I thought it might be that, but I just wasn't sure. He's only got 8 MB 
?!!  Can you believe they even made computers with that much ;-).

What's the work around?  Is there any way to copy the floppies directly onto 
the hard drive without being on a network (he doesn't have a modem/nic for it) 
and then just doing it from the hard drive?  Does that even eliminate the 
memory problem or do I need to tell him to pick up some memory?  Perhaps grab 
one of my slink disks and install that then dist-upgrade?  What do you think?

TIA,
Jesse

At Thu, 22 Feb 2001 08:19:34 -0800 , Nate Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 

>Jesse Goerz wrote:
>> 
>> I'm trying to help a friend of mine install Debian 2.2r0 onto an IBM Thinkpad
>> 365XD.  It boots the rescue disk just fine using the default options, but
>> when I try to boot the second floppy (root.bin) it gives me the following
>> error:
>> 
>> VM: do_try_to_free_pages
>
>system is out of memory. known kernel bug(started in 2.2.11) how much
>memory
>do you have? the lowest end machine ive ever installed debian 2.2 on is
>a 64mb machine.
>
>nate
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Re: dist-upgrade badly broken-XFree86

[Lance Levsen]

> I just rendered my system basically unusable doing an apt-get dist-upgrade.
> I was aiming for woody; my system was potato + bits of woody.  The problem 
> seems to be with XFree86; I was on 3.3.
> 
> I had debug logging enabled on apt-get, so I can provide gory details.  But 
> here are the highlights:

> Preparing to replace xbase-clients 3.3.6-11potato15 (using 
> .../xbase-clients_4.0.2-1_i386.deb) ...
> Note: Removing obsolete /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit directory.
> Unpacking replacement xbase-clients ...
> D000400: does_replace ... found old, version 0:3.3.2.3a-9
> dpkg: error processing /usr/var/apt/archives/xbase-clients_4.0.2-1_i386.deb 
> (--unpack):
>   trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config', which is also in package 
> xserver-common
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> 
> Subsequent attempt to apt-get -f install or apt-get remove various packages 
> fail because of dependency problems.
> 
> Any suggestions how to proceed?  And should I report this as a bug against 
> apt-get, xfree, none, both?

I don't know which package to report against, but you could do 

$> dpkg --force-overwrite --install xbase-clients

That should fix that problem, then do a $> dpkg -a --configure to fix the 
pending stuff.

Cheers,
-- 
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Product Innovation
PWGroup - S'toon.
477-3166

"Can't open display" problems

[Trevor Wood]

I just upgraded from potato to woody and found that I cannot open my
display for X apps anymore.  My hostname is MEDESIGN, so I used to set my
DISPLAY environment variable to MEDESIGN:0.  Now I have to set it to :0.0
to run local X apps.  

However, this won't work when I try to run an X application from a remote
ssh connection.  

This sounds like an embarrassingly stupid problem, but how do I fix it?

Thanks in advance,

Trevor

Re: Major panic after upgrade

[Rick Rezinas]

That's kinda hectic.  Check in /var/cache/apt/archives for good apts, and 
such and dpkg -i the stuff.  That's what I did when I've blown my system in
some special way.  Perhaps someone has a better solution...

just a note, I think that when you want things like this you want to pull down 
the source with apt-get source and need to put something like 
deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib 
non-free

into sources.list.  That way you can do your own compile and you don't need the
unstable packages (hopefully;)
I've seen it in the list before, so you can probably get
more info from the archives or the usual places.

rick

On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Erik van der Meulen wrote:

> Hi. I seem to have messed up big time!
> I wanted to install onsite-timesheet on my potato box. Because this was
> in 'unstable', I edited my source.list to point to unstable.
> The installation upgraded a whole lot more than I wanted: perl,
> postgresql, and libc6.
> Now I am unable to do abount anything because apt-get breaks. I get
> errors like:
> 
>   Data::Dumper object version 2.101 does not match
>   $Data::Dumper::VERSION 2.09 at /usr/lib/perl/5.6.0/DynaLoader.pm line
>   219.
>   Compilation failed in require at
>   /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/ConfigDb.pm line 218.
>   BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
>   /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/ConfigDb.pm line 218.
>   Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 9.
>   BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line
>   9.
> 
> I am very much lost in here. Does anyone have a clue if I am lost all
> the way or if there is a chance to get things going again?
> 
> Thanks a lot!
> 
> --
>   Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> 
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dist-upgrade badly broken-XFree86

[Ross Boylan]

I just rendered my system basically unusable doing an apt-get dist-upgrade.
I was aiming for woody; my system was potato + bits of woody.  The problem 
seems to be with XFree86; I was on 3.3.


I had debug logging enabled on apt-get, so I can provide gory details.  But 
here are the highlights:
Preparing to replace xbase-clients 3.3.6-11potato15 (using 
.../xbase-clients_4.0.2-1_i386.deb) ...

Note: Removing obsolete /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit directory.
Unpacking replacement xbase-clients ...
D000400: does_replace ... found old, version 0:3.3.2.3a-9
dpkg: error processing /usr/var/apt/archives/xbase-clients_4.0.2-1_i386.deb 
(--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config', which is also in package 
xserver-common

dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)

Subsequent attempt to apt-get -f install or apt-get remove various packages 
fail because of dependency problems.


Any suggestions how to proceed?  And should I report this as a bug against 
apt-get, xfree, none, both?


Thanks.

Re: Missing C Lib man pages

[Shaul Karl]

> I don't have a file named /usr/share/man/man3/abs.3.gz ??? Do you know
> where I can get the file?  I still can't do man strcpy.  Thanks for your help.
> Thus spake Shaul Karl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):


You need to install the manpages-dev package (apt-get install manpages-dev).
You might also consider the glibc-doc package since it gives you a broader 
perspective for libc.

> 
> > > It seems like I am missing my standard C man pages.
> > > Is there a way to get these installed?? I am sure its
> > > apt-get install something, what is the something? 
> > > 
> > > Thanks for your help :-)
> > 
> > 
> > [01:15:53 /tmp]$ dpkg -S /usr/share/man/man3/abs.3.gz 
> > manpages-dev: /usr/share/man/man3/abs.3.gz
> > [01:18:03 /tmp]$ 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > -- 
> > > Todd V. Rovito
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> > > Carpe Aptenodytes!  "Seize the Penguins!" 
> > > 
> > > 
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> > 
> > 
> 
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Major panic after upgrade

[Erik van der Meulen]

Hi. I seem to have messed up big time!
I wanted to install onsite-timesheet on my potato box. Because this was
in 'unstable', I edited my source.list to point to unstable.
The installation upgraded a whole lot more than I wanted: perl,
postgresql, and libc6.
Now I am unable to do abount anything because apt-get breaks. I get
errors like:

  Data::Dumper object version 2.101 does not match
  $Data::Dumper::VERSION 2.09 at /usr/lib/perl/5.6.0/DynaLoader.pm line
  219.
  Compilation failed in require at
  /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/ConfigDb.pm line 218.
  BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
  /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/ConfigDb.pm line 218.
  Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 9.
  BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line
  9.

I am very much lost in here. Does anyone have a clue if I am lost all
the way or if there is a chance to get things going again?

Thanks a lot!

--
  Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: multiple cards in X 3.3.6

[Erik Steffl]

Igor Mozetic wrote:
> 
> I would like to use another video card instead of the
> on-board PCI Cirrus Logic GD5480. The question is:
> how to convince X (or kernel?) to use the new PCI one,
> instead of the hard-wired on-board one?

  take a look at bios settings, you might be able to disable on-board
card there (it works that way on my intel D815EEA)

erik

Kernel 2.4.1 Mis-configuring 3c509b NIC

[Mike Kuhar]

I can start up kernel 2.2.17 and the 3c509b Nic has the proper address and intr,
0210 and 03.  However, when I startup kernel 2.4.1, the NIC gets configured as
0220 12.  Am I doing something wrong here, or is this some kind of bug?

One more question, where can I find the source for getty?

Mike Kuhar
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Re: CUPS problem

[Olaf Foellinger]

* David Grill Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [22.02.01 16:48]wrote:

> I am having a very odd problem with CUPS under sid. It works fine on two 
> computers, but on another (with the same version of CUPS, installed at the 
> same time, and with nothing particularly odd about the system config) I can 
> only use the IPP backend.
> 
> When I try to add a printer from the web interface, I'm not even given the 
> option of using anything besides the IPP backend (which is listed twice) or a 
> disk file. As you can guess, this makes setting up a local printer more than 
> a bit difficult.
> 
> I've tried dpkg --purge on all the CUPS packages, deleting all of the config 
> files just to be safe (well, really just the /etc/cups directory), and 
> reinstalling all the packages multiple times, but the other backends just 
> won't show up. They are there in /usr/lib/cups/backend, but for some reason 
> CUPS is not detecting them.
> 
> I can print to a network CUPS server with no problems.
> 
> I'm really at a loss as to what the problem might be.

I did have the same problem here but didn't find a solution. Now I print
with lprng and magicfilter.

Grettings Olaf

How to install app from source code?

[DTi4565459]

I can start gnome-session, then mount CDROM #4 from 6 disk set, and then find 
the .gz and .dsc files.  But that's as far as I can get.  Which debian 
install untility will work with these packages?  I could try to do it from 
command line if that would help.  If I click on a .tar.gz file the Olde M$h*t 
way in the Gnome File Manager, the source code will display as text, but no 
install program gets initiated.  

Re: ssh doesn't stop prompting for password [SOLVED]

[Andrew Perrin]

Not necessarily - ssh often also compresses data, which means you may very
well get equal or better throughput through a secure connection.

--
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Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA - http://demog.berkeley.edu/~aperrin
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On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Vadim A Kutsyy wrote:

> But faster, right?
> 
> 
> On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> 
> > Well, not exactly 'forwarding' - setting DISPLAY that way will simply make
> > the remote machine display to your X server; it's not forwarded, just
> > directly displayed. And you're correct - it's not secure.
> >
> > --
> > Andrew J Perrin - Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Sociology
> > Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA - http://demog.berkeley.edu/~aperrin
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Vadim Kutsyy wrote:
> >
> > > Joseph Dane wrote:
> > > >  local> ssh -X remote
> > > >  remote> DISPLAY="" xlogo
> > > > If you cleared the DISPLAY variable the client ('xlogo', in this case)
> > > > won't know how to contact the X server.
> > >
> > > Correct me if I am wrong, but setting DISPLAY=your.computer.ip:0.0 will
> > > create non secure X forwarding, which is a little bit faster.  I am
> > > aware of a few ssh servers which don't alow ssh display forwarding.  So
> > > the only way there is via regular forwarding.
> > >
> > >
> > > --
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> > >
> > >
> >
> 
> --
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> http://www.umich.edu/~kutsyy
> 
> 

Re: ssh doesn't stop prompting for password [SOLVED]

[Vadim A Kutsyy]

But faster, right?


On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Andrew Perrin wrote:

> Well, not exactly 'forwarding' - setting DISPLAY that way will simply make
> the remote machine display to your X server; it's not forwarded, just
> directly displayed. And you're correct - it's not secure.
>
> --
> Andrew J Perrin - Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Sociology
> Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA - http://demog.berkeley.edu/~aperrin
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Vadim Kutsyy wrote:
>
> > Joseph Dane wrote:
> > >  local> ssh -X remote
> > >  remote> DISPLAY="" xlogo
> > > If you cleared the DISPLAY variable the client ('xlogo', in this case)
> > > won't know how to contact the X server.
> >
> > Correct me if I am wrong, but setting DISPLAY=your.computer.ip:0.0 will
> > create non secure X forwarding, which is a little bit faster.  I am
> > aware of a few ssh servers which don't alow ssh display forwarding.  So
> > the only way there is via regular forwarding.
> >
> >
> > --
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> >
> >
>

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sound in gnome-sawfish

[Marcelo Chiapparini]

 Hi to all!

 I am running potato 2.2r2 with 2.2.17 kerner and ximian-gnome. The default
 window manager is sawfish. I use the SB module in order to play CDs in 
 my system without problems. But when I enter the Gnome control center 
 and select multimidia/sound/general and "enable sound server at startup" 
 and "sounds for events" options,  nothig happens. Any event generates 
 a "plack!" sound.
 The same thing occurs when, besides the settings in the Gnome 
 Multimidia, I select "play sound effects for window events" in the 
 sawfish/sound folder.
 Any help will be very welcome!

 Regards,
 Marcelo
 

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Re: ssh doesn't stop prompting for password [SOLVED]

[Andrew Perrin]

Well, not exactly 'forwarding' - setting DISPLAY that way will simply make
the remote machine display to your X server; it's not forwarded, just
directly displayed. And you're correct - it's not secure.

--
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Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA - http://demog.berkeley.edu/~aperrin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Vadim Kutsyy wrote:

> Joseph Dane wrote:
> >  local> ssh -X remote
> >  remote> DISPLAY="" xlogo
> > If you cleared the DISPLAY variable the client ('xlogo', in this case)
> > won't know how to contact the X server.
> 
> Correct me if I am wrong, but setting DISPLAY=your.computer.ip:0.0 will
> create non secure X forwarding, which is a little bit faster.  I am
> aware of a few ssh servers which don't alow ssh display forwarding.  So
> the only way there is via regular forwarding.
> 
> 
> -- 
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> 
> 

Never mind ... RE: Where do Progeny questions/bug reports go?

[Christian Aeschliman]

Ok, I'm a dork:

http://bugs.progeny.com/
http://www.progeny.com/debian/lists/
http://www.progeny.com/debian/beta/

Thanks anyways, folks.

-Christian


> -Original Message-
> From: Christian Aeschliman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 11:17 AM
> To: Debian User
> Subject: Where do Progeny questions/bug reports go?
>
>
>
> Hello everybody.
>
> I'm having some Progeny problems and I'm wondering where to direct my
> questions to.  I looked all over their site and found a mailing
> list, but so
> far I haven't received anything but subscription confirmations from it.  I
> can't find any other information about this mailing list and I'm assuming
> that it's just a Progeny announce list or something.
>
> My problem may be a bug in their setup.  Since it's a beta, isn't there a
> bug report list or something?
>
> Thanks,
> -Christian
>
>
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Re: ssh doesn't stop prompting for password [SOLVED]

[Vadim Kutsyy]

Joseph Dane wrote:
>  local> ssh -X remote
>  remote> DISPLAY="" xlogo
> If you cleared the DISPLAY variable the client ('xlogo', in this case)
> won't know how to contact the X server.

Correct me if I am wrong, but setting DISPLAY=your.computer.ip:0.0 will
create non secure X forwarding, which is a little bit faster.  I am
aware of a few ssh servers which don't alow ssh display forwarding.  So
the only way there is via regular forwarding.

Re: resolv.conf gets modified on boot

[Frederik Vanrenterghem]

On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Gavin Hamill wrote:

> > How to pass that flag when dhcpcd is called from /etc/network/interfaces?
> 
> Ooh :/ That's a good question... Don't know, sorry.. the dhcpcd man page
> doesn't seem to suggest that dhcpcd reads a global conf-file or anything
> :(

You could do chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf, which will ensure not even root
can change it anymore (except after doing chattr -i of course).
Or you could look into /etc/dhcpc/config, which contains this:

# Add options here, examples are:
#  OPTIONS='-h "foo"'  set hostname (needed by some cablemodem
providers)
#  OPTIONS='-l 12345'  set leasetime
OPTIONS=''

The second option seems to be the most elegant.

Untested solution BTW ;-)

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  manage to drain a little more out of the pool."
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Re: Onshore TimeSheet

[Bob Hilliard]

Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi, does anyone have any experience with the Onshore Timesheet
> application? 

bob:vc-/3:bob>apt-cache show onshore-timesheet
Package: onshore-timesheet
Priority: optional
Section: web
Installed-Size: 748
Maintainer: Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Architecture: all
Version: 2.2-1
Depends: perl5 | perl, apache | apache-ssl, postgresql, postgresql-client, 
libpgperl (>= 6.4.2-5), libcgi-perl
Filename: dists/woody/main/binary-all/web/onshore-timesheet_2.2-1.deb
Size: 212860
MD5sum: 4b1812f3b70ac2b41357fc3ca32a5098
Description: A complete, Open Source, Web-based Time-Billing solution
 A commercially supported, GPL'd web application to allow for the
 collection and approval of hours via the Web.  Clients, jobs,
 personnel, and hours are modeled and managed by the system.
 Nightly reports give managers a list of their jobs and unapproved
 hours.  A flexible backend is provided for integration with billing
 systems.
 .
 See http://www.onshore-timesheet.org/ for more information and
 inquiries about commercial support, integration, or development.

 I don't know anything about the company or the package, but Adam
Di Carlo is very active in Debian, and is definitely still around.

Bob
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Re: apt-get wants to remove gnucash!?

[Ross Boylan]

gnucash does, or at least is planned to, use guile, so I'm not sure
it's a dependency error.  You don't say what dist you are moving from
and to.  I was able to install gnucash on my system, which is potato
with a bit of woody.

On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 09:53:55PM +1100, Jonathan David Wheelhouse wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Needless to say I _don't_ want gnucash removed but the following seems
> to be a mistake in dependencies.
> 
> I've cut other bits out that seem to be irrelevant.
> 
> apt-get dist-upgrade says
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   gnucash guile1.3 libguile6 libguile6-slib libguile9-dev libguppi-dev 
> 
> dselect reveals
> 
> gnucash depends on guile1.3
> ...
> gnucash depends on libguile9 (>= 1.4-6)
> 
> guile1.3 depends on libguile6
> 
> libguile9 conflicts with libguile6
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas?
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> 
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Where do Progeny questions/bug reports go?

[Christian Aeschliman]

Hello everybody.

I'm having some Progeny problems and I'm wondering where to direct my
questions to.  I looked all over their site and found a mailing list, but so
far I haven't received anything but subscription confirmations from it.  I
can't find any other information about this mailing list and I'm assuming
that it's just a Progeny announce list or something.

My problem may be a bug in their setup.  Since it's a beta, isn't there a
bug report list or something?

Thanks,
-Christian

Right mouse button.

[Lance Levsen]

X recently got updated in unstable and all of a sudden my right mouse button 
stopped working.

Attached is the relevant pointer section. If anyone has an idea why this may 
have happened TIA.

FWIW, gpm still works with the right button.

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Generic Mouse"
Driver  "mouse"
Option  "CorePointer"
Option  "Device" "/dev/gpmdata"
Option  "Protocol" "Microsoft"
Option  "Buttons" "2"
Option  "Emulate3Buttons" "On"
EndSection

Cheers,
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Product Innovation
PWGroup - S'toon.
477-3166

Re: ssh doesn't stop prompting for password [SOLVED]

[Joseph Dane]

> "Ralf" == Ralf G R Bergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

 Ralf> On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 13:22:53 +0100, Andre Berger wrote:
 >>> '-X' option.  note also that if your .bashrc (or whatever) on the
 >>> remote machine sets the DISPLAY variable, then this won't work.
 >>  So I have to stop a running X server first, then do the ssh
 >> command?

 Ralf> Nope. You can always do the following:

 local> ssh -X remote
 remote> DISPLAY="" xlogo

No, I don't think you can do that.  When you login to the remote
machine with X forwarding enabled, the DISPLAY variable gets set to
something like 'remote:12.0', which points to a 'fake' X server
running on the remote machine (it's actually the ssh daemon) which
forwards the X connection back to your local X server.

If you cleared the DISPLAY variable the client ('xlogo', in this case) 
won't know how to contact the X server.

Getting back to the original question: no, you do not have to do
anything special.  If you are running X on the local machine (which I
assume you are), then just login to the remote machine using 
'ssh -X remote' and run your X clients.

-- 

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automating updates?

[Robert L. Harris]

  I currently have a cronjob that does a "apt-get update && apt-get 
-d -y dist-upgrade" to get all the updates local to my box each night.  
Is there a way to tell apt to install any packages that won't require 
human intervention?  aka install anything that doesn't require me to 
choose a keyboard, etc?

  This way if I go a few days without doing my updates I wont miss something
critical hopefully?
 


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  These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.
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Re: hogyan kezdjek neki a debiannak?

[Glyn Millington]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 05:40:49PM +0100, thus spake Cseh Tamás:.
> Sajnos nem tudok angolul és még program nyelveket sem 
> ismerek.(de ami késeik az nem mulik)
De ez egy angol "lista".  www.debian.org - nal van egy magyar
"level (page?)  Az hasnos neki.

Minden jot

Glyn M.(Felesegem magyar!)





 

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Sendmail work as smtp server for internal private subnet

[Brian Lavender]

I have sendmail on my gateway box which has a dynamic IP. How
do I make it so it will allow the internal hosts which are
on a 192.168.1.x subnet use it as their smtp server?

brian
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apt-get, dpkg, sources lists and other exciting entities

[Matthew Sackman]

Hi,

About a week ago one of the reiserfs filing systems on my computer
decided to go pop, and wiped off /var. No backups. So I was pretty
much stumped and have spent the last week reinstalling from my
potato disks.

Last night I finally got my internet connection up and running
properly, and as I'd managed to tar up and save (into a windows
partition) a lot of other stuff (inc /home, /root, /etc), I wanted 
to get back up to potato (which I'd been previously tracking). So
my /etc/apt/sources.list file looks like this:

namkas:/home/matthew# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
# See sources.list(5) for more information, especialy
# Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs
# CDROMs are managed through the apt-cdrom tool.

deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 _Potato_ - Unofficial i386 Binary-3 
(2816)]/ unstable contrib 
main non-US/contrib non-US/main non-US/non-free non-free
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 _Potato_ - Unofficial i386 Binary-4 
(2816)]/ unstable contrib 
main non-US/contrib non-US/main non-US/non-free non-free
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 _Potato_ - Unofficial i386 Binary-2 
(2816)]/ unstable contrib 
main non-US/contrib non-US/main non-US/non-free non-free
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 _Potato_ - Unofficial i386 Binary-1 
(2816)]/ unstable contrib 
main non-US/contrib non-US/main non-US/non-free non-free

#deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
#deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free
#deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free

# Uncomment if you want the apt-get source function to work
#deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US

deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian testing contrib main non-free

deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/testing main non-free contrib
deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib 
non-free

deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian testing contrib main non-free
deb http://people.debian.org/~kitame/gnome/release ./

Now the really odd thing is that an awful lot of 'stuff' is missing: I
did an apt-get update, and then an apt-get dist-upgrade and let it get
on with stuff. But flicking through dselect reveals that the whole of
kde is not there, reiserfsprogs, iptables, the perl cdk kit etc and I'm
sure many more are not being listed. Is there something stupidly obvious
here as to why they are not being listed? What do other peoples' 
sources.list files look like, and has anyone else come across this?

I'm using mainly woody (?) with a 2.4.1 kernel on a PIII with 128Mb Ram.

Many thanks for any help you could give me.

Matthew

Re: Missing C Lib man pages

[Todd V . Rovito]

This lists all my man pages and I don't see it in the list.
Do you know where I can get the man page package for the C lib?
I can't do man strcpy. Any help would be great?

Thus spake Matthew Dalton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

> "Todd V . Rovito" wrote:
> > 
> > It seems like I am missing my standard C man pages.
> > Is there a way to get these installed?? I am sure its
> > apt-get install something, what is the something?
> 
> Have you tried looking for it with apt-cache search man?
> 
> (That's 'apt-cache search man', not 'apt-cache search, man'!)
> 
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Re: Missing C Lib man pages

[Todd V . Rovito]

I don't have a file named /usr/share/man/man3/abs.3.gz ??? Do you know
where I can get the file?  I still can't do man strcpy.  Thanks for your help.
Thus spake Shaul Karl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

> > It seems like I am missing my standard C man pages.
> > Is there a way to get these installed?? I am sure its
> > apt-get install something, what is the something? 
> > 
> > Thanks for your help :-)
> 
> 
> [01:15:53 /tmp]$ dpkg -S /usr/share/man/man3/abs.3.gz 
> manpages-dev: /usr/share/man/man3/abs.3.gz
> [01:18:03 /tmp]$ 
> 
> 
> 
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Need specialty disk for aic 7770 install, please help

[Nuhn Yobiznez]

--- Nuhn Yobiznez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all!
> I need to ask a favor of the list. A few years
> ago
> 
> I was doing an install on my Intergraph TD-3 and ran
> into a problem w/ the install freezing after SCSI
> initialization. Dave GRegory gave me the helpful
> link
> to a custom slink install disk that made it all
> possible on this machine
> But LILO didn't like my HD so i had to boot from
> boot floppy. The boot floppy no longer reads and I
> can't find (I know, I should have kept the install
> disk in a safer place) the slink install disk his
> link
> pointed me to.
> Could someone please tell me where I could find
> the customized boot/ install disk for the AIC 7770
> SCSI chipset for potato? I would GREATLY appreciate
> it
> so i can boot the machine and rescue the data!
> 
> Thank You
> 
> =
> Regards- Nuhn O.
> Yobiznez
> 
>   Licq # 14373626
>   
>Why?.Why not?..Why not try?
> 
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SSLwrap certificates

[Nate Amsden]

is there any way to get 

dpkg-reconfigure sslwrap

to generate a key for 365 days?  i can do it manually but i always
forget the commands and
am tired of having to do it 4 times a month for 4 different servers as
reconfigure only
generates a cert that is valid for 1 month.

thanks

nate

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Re: Samba &| VFS

[Rob Hudson]

Actually, I think that is what happened.

When I ran 'ps ax', I saw screenfuls of 'nmdb -a'.  I made a small
modification to the smb.conf file and they seemed to go away - so did
my VFS file-max problems.


> On 20010222.1450, F.P. Groeneveld said ...
>
> Nate Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : check ulimit. from the sounds of it your running a very busy server.
> : try ulimit -u 1024 and restart samba (from the same shell). if
> : that works i would add it to the samba scripts in /etc/init.d or
> : something
> : to make it take affect the next time you reboot.
> 
> That, or smb keeps respawning for some reason - i ran into this problem a
> good while ago. Unfortunately, I can't recall how I solved it :(
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>Derk
> 
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Re: IBM Thinkpad install

[Pollywog]

On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 08:19:34 -0800, Nate Amsden said:

>  
>  system is out of memory. known kernel bug(started in 2.2.11) how much
>  memory
>  do you have? the lowest end machine ive ever installed debian 2.2 on is
>  a 64mb machine.
>  

I installed Debian on a ThinkPad 560 with only 8MB RAM.  It ran, but
I added another 32 MB RAM (Max capacity 40MB) so it would run better.
 With 8MB RAM, it was too slow.

--
Andrew

Re: resolv.conf gets modified on boot

[Gavin Hamill]

> > I can't speak for 'pump' but if you're using dhcpcd, try 'dhcpcd -R' -
> > that'll prevent it from updating your resolv.conf :)
> 
> How to pass that flag when dhcpcd is called from /etc/network/interfaces?

Ooh :/ That's a good question... Don't know, sorry.. the dhcpcd man page
doesn't seem to suggest that dhcpcd reads a global conf-file or anything
:(

Soz :/

gdh

hogyan kezdjek neki a debiannak?

[Tamás]

Helló
Nos annyit elmondanék magamról hogy használok dos-t is és 
sajnos win-t is.
Mind két rendszert elég jól ismerem.(már a hátam mögött van 
legalább 15 win95 és 15-20 win98 telepítés, Dos-t nem 
telepítettem annyiszor mert az nem hal meg minden kis 
problémánál, de ezzel is elég jól megismerkedtem).
Sajnos nem tudok angolul és még program nyelveket sem 
ismerek.(de ami késeik az nem mulik)
De most ugy vagyok a Debiannal mint annak idején a dosal, 
hogy semmit sem tudok róla.
Nem tudom mi kell hozzá?
Kell e a Linux?
Kell e ismernem a linux parancsokat hozzá?
Esetleg vegyek egy linuxos tankönyvet és tanuljam meg, és 
majd csak ez után próbálkozzak a Debiánnal?
Vagy elfut a gépemen(van egy dosos partícióm és egy wines 
paricióm)?
Mit kell letöltenem hozzá hogy használni tudjam?
Használható e alatta X windows system?(sajnos nagyon sok 
olyan program van ami csak win alatt fut és nekem nagy 
szükségem lenne rá)
Ésa mi a legfontosabb amit sajnos nem tudok:
A linux ingyenes e?(azok a linuxok amik már felhasználóknak 
vannak és nem a fejlesztőknek)
És hol találom meg azokat a programokat amik kellenek hozzá?
Most még van internet hozzá férésem de lehet hogy jövő 
hónapban már nem lesz.
Egyenlőre ennyi is elég mert nem szeretném rabolni az 
idődet.
Válaszodat előre is köszönöm.
Tamás

Re: IBM Thinkpad install

[Nate Amsden]

Jesse Goerz wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to help a friend of mine install Debian 2.2r0 onto an IBM Thinkpad
> 365XD.  It boots the rescue disk just fine using the default options, but
> when I try to boot the second floppy (root.bin) it gives me the following
> error:
> 
> VM: do_try_to_free_pages

system is out of memory. known kernel bug(started in 2.2.11) how much
memory
do you have? the lowest end machine ive ever installed debian 2.2 on is
a 64mb machine.

nate

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Re: staroffice 5.1 german version, where?

[Sven Hoexter]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 04:55:24AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi,
you're posting without a Realname and your lines are too long. Please
fix this.

> I need staroffice 5.1 german version, but I can't find it at Sun's pages 
> anymore, and 5.2 is way to big for my harddrive. Does anyone know where I can 
> find it?
Think I've a few older Versions on my SuSE CD's the only prob is that
they're in rpm Format.

Generaly I that there's no real diference in the speed or size between
SO 5.1 and 5.2 cause 5.2 was only something like a Bugfix realese
IIRC.

CU,
Sven

BTW: If you like to test the rpm write a PM and I'll upload it for you
after "Karneval".

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Mehr als warnen können sie euch nicht. [Fefe in de.alt.sysadmin.recovery]

Uninstall, Reinstall and Reconfigure XFree86 4.0.2

[John Johnson]

Forgive the newbie question, but is there an easy way
to remove X in its entirety and reinstall it? I've
installed woody and everything but X is working like a
champ.

Thanks,
John


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Re: resolv.conf gets modified on boot

[Carel Fellinger]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 09:22:41AM +, Gavin Hamill wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Lex McPhail wrote:
> 
> > Using DHCP - will try using a static IP and see what happens. Thanks for 
> > the info.
> 
> I can't speak for 'pump' but if you're using dhcpcd, try 'dhcpcd -R' -
> that'll prevent it from updating your resolv.conf :)

How to pass that flag when dhcpcd is called from /etc/network/interfaces?

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Hiding my 2nd partition?

[C. Schanck]

As I was merrily doing a dist-upgrade this week (and go caught
in the perl mess ;-), I encountered another problem. *Something*
I upgraded this week out of unstable, my bet being lilo, keeps
hiding my second fat partition. My structure is something like
this:

/dev/hda1 NTFS, NT 4.0 SP5
/dev/hda2 FAT16, 
... linux partitions ...

No matter what happens, the second partition gets marked as
Hidden FAT16. If I fomat it NTFS, it gets marked Hidden NTFS.
Linux (Kernel 2.4.0) will still mount the partition, and the
data is there, but NT refuses to see it. NT Disk Admin sees as
an 'unknown' parition.

I should mention that this setup worked flawlessly for 3+
months, across multiple invocations of lilo and mounts & usages
of the second partition from both OS's, until this week. 

I've tries using fdisk/cfdisk to change the type of the
partition, but it doesn't persist, and I get a 'unable to reread
partition table' message when I write out the table.

Any help?

Chris

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latin2 fonts in X

[Michal F. Hanula]

Is there a way to force X to use latin2 fonts by default?
(ie. unless an application chooses to use other fonts)
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Re: resolv.conf gets modified on boot

[hanasaki]

Are you using pumpd and dhcp?

Tray a /etc/pump.conf
--
domainsearch "host.mydhcpserver.com"

retries 3
device eth0 {
nodns
}

--

On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Lex McPhail wrote:

> Hi All
> 
> I'm a newbie to Linux and trying to setup a firewall / masq system on 
> a computer with 2 ethernet cards. I have installed the 2.2.18pre21-
> compact kernel.
> 
> I modified the resolv.conf file and added our ISP's primary and 
> secondary DNS server IP so that the file now looks like:
> 
> search .co.nz co.nz
> nameserver 
> nameserver 
> 
> Ping to an ourside domain name and all is fine but whenever I reboot 
> the computer the resolv.conf file gets changed back to:
> 
> search .co.nz co.nz
> nameserver 192.168.123.1
> 
> The IP address is the address I entered when installing the system 
> orginally (before I got the second ethernet card working). Where is 
> it getting this from and how do I get it to accept the correct 
> version of resolv.conf?
> 
> I have read through lots of FAQs and HOWTOs but have not been able to 
> find the answer.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Lex
> 
> 
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Yesterday's dist-upgrade broke qt

[Viktor Rosenfeld]

Hi folks,

I did a "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade" yesterday to the latest
woody tree.  IIRC, it only upgrade three libs: libmng, libqt2.2, and
liblcms according to /var/cache/apt/archives.

Well, today I log into my machine to realize that the desktop background
of KDE2 is broken.  When I start kdesktop from the command line, I get:

$ kdesktop
kdesktop: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/kdesktop.so:
undefined
symbol: noxim

I was wondering whether this is fixed in unstable, but I am reluctant to
upgrade libqt2.2, because it will upgrade libc and libc-dev in the
process, and I don't want to make things worse.

Is there any known instability in libc, libc-dev in sid, or is it (more
or less) safe to upgrade.

BTW, is there a way to down-grade via apt?

Besides, only kdesktop is broken (desktop background and screensaving)
the rest is working without problems, so this isn't really an issue.  I
guess, it will be fixed within the next 10 days anyway.

TIA,
Viktor
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Re: Samba &| VFS

[F.P. Groeneveld]

Nate Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: check ulimit. from the sounds of it your running a very busy server.
: try ulimit -u 1024 and restart samba (from the same shell). if
: that works i would add it to the samba scripts in /etc/init.d or
: something
: to make it take affect the next time you reboot.

That, or smb keeps respawning for some reason - i ran into this problem a
good while ago. Unfortunately, I can't recall how I solved it :(

Cheers,

   Derk

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Minimal news server

[Brian McGroarty]

Which of the packaged news servers would be a good choice for a purely
internal server? I don't need to link to outside newsgroups. I just
want something that I can install on minimal hardware and walk away
from.